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o o eljciUcckln enterprise. OFFICIAL PAPeR '0 CLACKAMAS COUNTY Q ' z Otqsob City, Oregon , March 8, 1372. Friday Clackamas County Democratic Convention- The Democratic Convention for Clacka mas county will be held ia Oregon City. Oregon, on Saturday, March 23, 1S72. for the purpose of selecting seven dele gates to attend the State Convention; and to place in nomination a county ticket to &e supported at the ensufug election, arl transact such other business as may come before the Convention. The County Com mittee recommend that the primary meet ings be held on Saturday, March lfi, 1S72. at the usual places of voting. The follow ing is the representation to which, each precinct is entitled, in said Convention : Oregon City,.. 8 I Springwater .. . . 3 Cutting's, 4 Upper Molalla,, . . .3 Cascades .2 Rock Creek, Canemah Tualatin Pleasant Hill... Beaver Creek, . . Lower Molalla,. . Marsbfield, Oswego Milwaukee Marqnauvs, ....... .3 .2 ,2 .2 .4 Young's 3 Harding's 2 Union 3 Total, Grant Stock on the Pecline. From our "Washington corres pondent we learn that Congress lias fairly entered on the Presiden tial campaign,, and that the United States Senate is ihe arena. In that body, day alter day arc arguments and debates which will form the principal material for the approach ing canvas?. The opponents of the Administration keep up a spirited -warfare, and give the defenders no peace or rest. They keep up the fire and pour hot shot into the ene my. These attacks on Grant and his friends cmcnate entirely from Iicpublican Senators, and are a source of much vexation to Mor ton, Conkling & Co., the special champions of Gen. Grant. They demonstrate the vulnerability of the Grant Administration, and every day shows how corrupt those in ofiicc have become in, the last few years.' The develonements in the Senate from time to time since it met till the present, have been most damaging on Grant's pros pects for a re-nomination, and if he continues to lose strength during the next fwo months as he has in the past few weeks, his defeat at the .Philadelphia Convention will be certain. There is no question that there is a large division in the liadical party, and this fact must bo apparent to every thinking and observing politician. As evidence in part of this, we find the folio w cing in the Cincinnati Cojiunercial, a leading Ohio liadical paper, and we invite attention to the language. The views expressed in this extract are very generally entertained by ao large and respectable class of liepnblicans throughout the en tire country. It says : The call tor the Cincinnati Convention lias a tendency to divide the party. Thou sands of liepnblicans, all over the coun try, who did jiot just exactly like Grant, but did not know where else to iook for a President, are now anxiously looking to the Cincinnati Convention tosnpply their wants? In view of this division in ihe Repub lican ranks, what is the duty of the Phila delphia Convention '! In face of the great dissatisfaction, which finds expression all vr Ihe eountry, with the present Ad ministration, and with positive evidence that Grant's nomination will divide the party, and seriously jeopardize the re.-nlt of the election, wlil the Convention be blind enough to nominate him? We think not. We think it will take Into nccount the momentous importance of keeping the party united, and will nominate some man ho will be satisfac tory to both wings. Let them nominate Schuyler Col fox. General Cox or Judge Trumbull either ot these gentlemen, and many others, would unite the party, and the latter might draw many Democratic votes, while his long ane consistent career in Congress would be sufficient guarantee of his loy alty to Republican principles. Six weeks or two months ago Grant's nomination was considered almost a fixed fact, but to day nothing is more uncertain. Thousands have changed their minds since the New York Custom ll&use investiga tion commenced, aud their will be contin ual charging as it becomes more clearly apparent that Grant's nomination, will di vide the party. Democrats Remember Your primary conventions on the IGth inst. Let every Democrat at tend and see that good aud trust wort y Democrats are selected as delegates. Organize Democratic Clubs in every precinct, and keep the fire of Democracy burning brightly uutil the day of election. With nuked action and a rood ticket, we will march on to victorv. The people have weighed the Rad icals in the scales and have found o them sadly wanting. Work and stteeess will crown your efforts. To Tiikow TiiKii Porn. The contest between Dave Thompson and W. A. Starkweather's friends for State Senator, is becoming so warm that it is rumored that they arebothtobe thrown overboard, and a new candidate taken up. Our Radical friends may as well give up the contest if they do not have Dave Thompson's trickery in the campaign. A Partial Telegraph- While the rascality of the Xew York thieves was being unearthed, the telegraphic dispatches contain ed scarcely anything else, Recent ly a most important and damaging investigation has been going on by the Senate Committee in the affairs of the New York Custom House. Our eastern exchanges are filled with gross outrages perpetrated by the Administration thieves, yet we find scarcely the subject ever men tioned by the telegraph. The rea son of thus is apparent to every one. The manager of the telegraph is one of the proprietors of the Xew York 2yites, a Grant organ, and has no doubt received large sums to defend the Administration. While the Times and Simmonton, the manager of the Associate Press, were ever anxious to expose Tam many rascalitjT, we find them now defending aud screening a more outrageous fraud upon the people. The motives which actuated these fanatical and dishonest partisans were political and not for any good they were intended to do the peo ple. If they were honest, they would expose corruption wherever found. There is no reliance to be placed in the telegraph, and the' truth of the enormous Radical steal ings has come by way of our East papers and correspondence. TVe long since learned not to rely on anything the dispatches say on po litical matters, and this last bare faced rascality of its manager is so palpable that we hope no one will hereafter be deceived. Xo wonder Grant wants the Government to buy the telegraph. He know to what base uses it can be put. A Shaki' Thick. Some time since a little Radical rascality was discovered over in Washington Territory, in which the Governor had a hand. The appropriation of Government funds by him was so plain that the people would not rest until he Mas removed, and loud were the demands for it. In compliance with this, a nomination was made by the President for his successor, but, notwithstanding, this was several months since, no confirmation has has taken place, and Salomon still is Governor. We are reliably informed that this was all a "blind" as Garfielde is good on "blinds"' and that it is the purpose not to have the ap pointment confirmed, so that Salo mon will retain his position. This is a nice little game to deceive the t . people, and keep a proven eorrup tionist in place. CoXO KJiSSI O X A I- E I.K.CT10 X. It will be observed by our Washing ton letter of the 3d tilt., that Con gress has passed the Apportion ment bill and also the bill provid ing for a uniform election in No vember, throughout the country. This bill docs not take effect, how ever, until 1S7G, consequently all the talk of au extra session to change our mode of voting has been useless, as Oregon is in the same condition as she has hereto fore been. Wash rxorox Li;n.-Er:s. We publish to-day, to the exclusion of much other matter, three Washing ton letters, which have accumulat ed in consequence of the blockade. They are highly interesting, and will well pay a careful reading. These letters are written expressly for the Extkkckisk by a gentle man of experience. We hope they may be more regular hereafter. Waioi. The contest for the nomination of Clerk and Sheriff on the liadical ticket is rather warm. There are something less than a half a dozen candidates for each position, and each one of them thinks that he will get the nomin ation. They may as well keep cool and not hurt themselves. The peo ple of the county will have a ypice in the matter, and they don't pro pose to elect any of the Republi can nominees not this time. Pamial. Senator Corbett has introduced a bill to make appropri ations for the improvement of the Willamette below Portland and the Columbia. Why did he not make an effort to procure a little assist ance for the upper Willamette, which needs it badly? Hon. J. S. Smith secured a small appropria tion for this purpose, and that is all that has ever been obtained. Ixdvstkioi's. There is consid erable industry displayed by the Radical candidates for office. We learn that every aspirant has been through the county, " interview ing" the delegates. A rather in teresting time may be expected tomorrow. 335S Our Special Washington Letter. Washington. Feb. 3, 1S72. Editor Entkiu'kisK : 1 fear that the constant interruptions in mail communica tion to Oregon this winter, will tend to lessen the interest in a regular correspond ence from here. Since my former letter was written, the Apportionment Bill has passed both Houses, fixing the number of members of the House of Representatives at 283. and making the provision for a uniform elec tion in November 187C, and not Scvernler 1872. as yeportevl by the Judiciary Com mittee of the Senate. This bill as passed leaves your State just as it was. I do not know ii Congress will change the time of holding your Congressional election or not, for this year. Your Senators and Representative are devoting all their en ergies to get the Portland and Salt Lake Railroad Rill through. They have much to contend with. Roth parties seem dis posed '-to lock the stable dorr after the most valuable horses have vamoosed." The speech of Mr. Slater, in the House, last Saturday, was one of the ablest deliv ered on the railroad question for years in Congress, a copy of which you no doubt received. The statistics contained in his speech, should have the effect to remove the. prejudices of all thinking men. lie shows the wonderful increase in the wealth and population of the district of country where laud grants have been made since the era of aid to railroads was inaugura ted, and it seeuis to me hH yoskieu. are unanswerable. His remarks appear in full in the Globe, and members of Congress will have opportunity of reading them in full. Resides the speech, Mr. Slater is a.-sidious in his efforts with members in dividually, and as you know, he is a gen uine worker, industrious and persevering, and I hope success will crown his exer tions, because no bill has been presented to Congress for aid stronger than the Tort land and Salt Lake Railroad. It is well guarded, and presents strong claims. It is of national importance, and will bring into the Treasury in a very shun period, from a touree that now yields nothing, a very large amount of money, whereas, ii this measure is rejected and no road built the Government will not, perhaps, get one hundred thousand dollars iu the next twen'y years from the sales of public lands, Pass this bill and the settlement of that section of country is a fixed fact, and all the public lands now unoccupied and unsnrveyed. will be sold and the net proceed-i go iuto the Treasury to assist in pajingolfthe present bonds aud public debt. The people of Oregon may rest as sured that all that can be done for this railroad measure in which they are so vi tally interest, will be accomplished by their Senators and Representative. Roth the Republican and Democratic parties are getting iu. earnest for the next Presidential cainpaigne. The truth is, the fight has begun, and the belligerents are throwing hot steal into each other every d iv. As in a former letter I stated that the Democrats had gotten the Republicans on the defensive, yet their adversary is in disposed to yield any ground, and light with vigor, winding off the assaults with considerable skill. It is in the Senate where the Republicans have the most ob stinate defenders. Willi such bold and unscrupulous leaders as Morton and Conk ling it is difficult to get javelins through their tough hides, and they withstand at tacks with stubborn obstinacy. Not so in the House. Daws, the ostensible leader there, has neither a tough hide nor a di lapidated conscience, and therefore is very vulnerable, and lA-mocrals iu the House have been able to make greater headway against Grant and his partners than has been affected in the Senate. There was a time when Ren Rutler stood up for the great present-laker, but there being a screw loose between the two lately. Ben does not feel under any obligation to de fend hiin. The trouble with Gen. Duller. I believe, was that he did not secure from Grant one of the appointments as Counsel to Geneva to settle up tiie busi ness growing out of the Treaty of Washing ton. Every day's occurrences strengthen the hopes of the Democrats. Tbss week an election was held in Philadelphia to fill the vacancy created by the death of a Senator. The Senate of Pennsylvania is tied, and much interest was felt in the re sult both in the State and here at the Capital. The majority of the Republican Senator who died was something over 7,000 votes. The Republican elected this week has a majority less than one thousand. This is very significant, when the fact is considered, that the difference in 1870 be tween the Republicans and Democrats in Pennsylvania was less than 2.000 votes, and this race was a contest between the Grant and anti Grant Republicans. Col. McCuse. the defeated candidate is out with a card charging that - repeating" to the amount of 1JJ00 votes was done in this election, by which he was deleated. He contests the election. The Liberal Reform movement is at tracting much attention. The National Convention meets at Cincinnati, May oth. 1S72. The impression gainsground every day. that this proposed Convention is to have a controlling influence in the Presi dential election, that whether the Demo ciats unite on their candidate or not. that as a third p-irty they are a potter, and will by no force of circumstances be driven iuto the support of I'lyses S. Grant for a second term of the Pres-ideury. The Custom House investigation in New York by the Senate Committee is still progressing, and the developments are damaging Gen. Grant's prospects for a re noniination. and here and there you hear the observation dropping lrom Republi cans that the reuomination of Grant will generate more opposition than any other Republican, and some of the leaders are looking around for another probable can didate that can be run without so much severe opposition. Rut the office -holders are too near Philadelphia to permit Grant to be overslaughed. Senator Sumner presses his Supplemen tal Civil Rights bill with his usual perti nacity, and insists upon it as aa amend ment to the Amnesty bill. This action of Sumner is a little bitter pill to his Radical associates. Yesterday be told the Senate that the negro voters in the United Statt-s had become e. poiccr, and he warned the friends of Grant, that if they failed to pass, his bill giving the negroes free ingress to the hotels, railroads, theatres. Ac. that they would bolt the party, ami set up for them selves. Sumner is an unrelenting and bit ter hater. He never forgives. Grant he hates and dispises. He will stop at noth ing to defeat him. His object is to alien ate the large negro vote lrom Grant, and he thinks that by the refusal of Grant's j SS2Z35S5SSEES special friends in the Senate to vote for his amendment or Civil Rights Bill, he can get the ne-ro vote polled against Grant. 1 am convinced that such is the wbo.e an imus of his present nction. Chas. Sumner would like to be run for President, and. ll a candidate, will receive the entire negro vote. He will be content, if his running will defeat Grant. Congrt-ss will adjourn on the z9th of May. It is a party necessity, and there fore will take place on the dy named. The House is showing commendable in dustry by getting the various appropria tion bills through much earlier than here tofore. Whilst, the Committee on Vv ays aud Means is die most important commit tee in the House, they will do next (o nothing this session. The Committee on Pension has become a very important one. and has au immense amount of labor to perform. Thfie never has been a more liberal Conmittce on Pensions than the present one, and it is dealing with liberal ity and justice to the soldiers and their survivors. The red tape about the Pen sion Rureau disgusts the conniry. The truth is. since Grant has come into oflice there is less attention paid to public busi uess than has existed in any Administra tion in my experience. The officials are most incompetent, und ignorant of their duties, and hence have no politeness. They are -puffed up by their brief au thority." aud make asses and fables of themselves. Priu.KTS. W-vsuiNo ton, Veil 10, IS72. Editor Exteupki.-k : Yery little of gen eral interest has taken p'ace in Congress since my last, except the passage of the "Education Bill," which provides 'that the net proceeds of the Public Lands are forever consecrated and set apart for the education of the people." I enclose you a text of the bill, by which you can see most of its provisions, and judge of its merits. If properly carried out with honest inten tions, free from political interference on the part of the General Government, it will be of great advantage to the States and Territories. This disposition of the sales of the Public lands in no wise re stricts the right, of Congress to donate any portion of them to aid railroad enterprises. The Senate Las been engaged during the past week in diseussing Sumner's amendment to the General Amnesty Rill, and severed Republican Senators hive dealt Senator Sumner heavy Wows. The opinion is being entertained that the ne groes now have about as many privileges as' white men, and that Sumner's bill, if passed, would confer greater privileges than the superior race ever asked or en j yed. The iiegroes- are bold and threat ening in their demands, and utter loud complaints against Grant and his friends, and if Sumner's amendment does not pass a large number of the colored brethren will bolt the Republican nomination. As before suggested, this is what Sumner is after. There is some excitement here over the dissatisfaction in England in regard to the American demands growing ont of the treaty of Washington. The question may become a complicated one between our government and Great Britain. War. just now would be into Grant's hand. Daily he is becoming weaker and his opponents stronger nod more determined iu their hostility. The democrats are in improved .spirits, and mean to make the fight with a confident hope or success. The party here are gratified with the encouraging intel ligence the receive lrom Oregon. The harmonious action of the democracy of your State, and the firmness they display, gives evidence of success to your ticket iu June. The organization of Ihe party in every county as suggested, is highly important, and should net be neglected. Let it be thorough and complete. The next Presidential election is of moment ous importance to the democrats, and a lew votes may determine the result. Let Oregon in June next roll up a rousing majority for the demotratie State, ticket and such a good result will encourage and animate their political brethren throughout the nation. Let the Democrats of Oregon buckle on their armor, and go into the fight to win. They have only to will it, and victory is theirs. The Repub licans of your Slate go iuto the contest with great confidence incited by their success last September in California, but I feel that the Democrats are made of sterner stuff than the gutter-snipe:" along the streets of San Francisco. The honest yeomanry, of which Oregon mostly Con sists, form opiuions deliberately, and maintain them. The Republicans will be disappointed in the calculation that out lays of money and promises of govern ment patronage can buy up the ptKjple of your State when an important election comes off. There is no question that a strong effoil will be made by Attorney General Williams and his friends to re store him to the Senate, and the Adminis tration will wield all of its patronage in your section ia his favor. This you inav expect, and therefore prepare for it. The indications here point to the re nommaliou of Grant and Colfax at Philadelphia- in June, by the Republican con vention. Senator Wilson of Massachu setts would like to be Vice President, and a strong etlort will be made in his favor. The Liberal Republicans will undoubted ly make nominations at Cincinnati in May. The nominees will probably be Trumbull of Illinois, for President, and Gov. Curtin of Pennsylvania, Tor Vice President. The Democrats will hold a convention and make nomination. St. Louis is the place as most probable where the convention will be held. Public ooinion is fast set tling down on Thomas A. Hendricks of Indiana, as the Democratic candidate for the Piesideticy, and no one is named as yet as (he man for the Vice Presidency. It is believed some prominent democrat from Pennsylvania or New Jersey will be selected. Senator Hendricks j3 ia ;,e city at present, and there is quite a large num ber of prominent democrats from all parts of the country at the Arlington, and it is believed that they are in consultation ov er the Presidential question. We may be able to ascertain in a few days wish some define eness. what conclusions they arrive at. The prospect is certainly belter than in ten years for the success of the demo crats, and the Republican papers iu all sections veo;inize the danger their party stands in of defeat. Washington just now is decidedly the gayest city in the Uuion. Receptions and brilliant parties come off every night of the week, save on Sunday. Never was extravagance so much indulged in. and the wonder is. where does all the money come from to keep up such large outlays. Some attribute the source of the funds to some such operations as the --syndicate,"' which Secretary Routwell so highly favor ed in the negotiation of the recent loan. The Secretary's action received a pretty severe riddline from several gentlemen in the House, prominent among whom were T- . - - ... r 1 - . 1 ,- Karr of Indiana, Beck, of Kentucky, and j Cox of New York. In transactions of this kind, the Secretary of th Treasury has it in his power to make till of his immediate friends rich, and in turn when he goes out of oflice, they make him rich also. This was the case with Secretary McCullough, who went into the Treasury a poor man and came out a millioniare, from opera tion? in the sale f gold and confiscated cotton. He is now a banker in London and a prominent "syndic. ' Boutwell has kept one hundred millions of gold in the Treasury unemployed for about three years, and the people having been taxed to pay interest on that sum all these years, when the money ought to have been used in extinguishing so much of the public deb, and thereby lesseu the bur dens of the people. But he preferred to place it in the National Ranks, run by his favorites and friends, where it is operated on by them. That Routwell has given these favors, there is no dispute, and by that 'means, he is laying upe trasures for a rainy day aud himself. It is an outrage ous abuse, and should be corrected at once. All cl these abuses will receive a severe overhauling in the approaching canvass, and the people certainly will un derstand how those in power have abused their trusts, aud will hurl them back to obscurity from which they sprung. PlHI.lCUS. More Land Approvals. Inportant ; to Settlers on Link River Southern Oregon. There was received at the Executive Oflice Salem, last Thursday says the Her akl. the following telegram, from Mr Gil fry, who is now at Washington: All the State lands (500.000 frant) in Oregon City Land District, except one list, approved. In Rosburg District, lists 4i and 51. and Township 38 South. Range 1) Last, approved. Balance sus pended for short time, but not on on ac count of conflict with lands withdrawn for railroad. This information is most important, as it evidences a decision in favor of the State locations of lands for rail roads; and shows that our Executive will secure the full right of the State to ull ehe has located under the several grants. The approved lists 4i and 51 are, we learn, State lands in Lane county : and T. 38 S. R: 'J E. is the very important township, embracing the Link River Set tlement in ths Klamath Lake oountry. The Oregon anil Califuittki Railroad sur vey lasses directly through this township, and crosses Link River, near lower Klam ath Lake; so that the approval of this township was a test tpiestion. as to wheth er Railroad withdrawals would carry away State locations. This region was set tled upon by parlies claiming under the State, and consequently, this approval will be hailed by them with gratification, as now their titles are secure. What Nov? Some time since we statcil upon the authority of a gentleman who had been at Wash ington, that the liadical party in all probability would "plit" up. Some of our cotemporaries ridicul ed the idea, and considered such an event impossible. How does it look to them now since the call of the Liberal Iicpublican Conven tion at Cincinnati? It appears to us as though there was a "split" and that events have proved the correctness of the statement. A i j o u i : x m n x t. Latest a d v i ees from Washington state that Con gress will adjourn cn the 29th of May. This has been found to be a party necessity with the Iiadi cals, as the anti-Administration ele ment in Congress is daily bringing to light some damaging disclosures of corrupt ion. The GVrsrrt dynasty is doomed to an early death. IV XX. From all parts cf the county we learn that the liadical primary conventions were anything but harmonious. In some of the precincts the "set up" was so ap parent that many concluded that they had no business in such company, and took their hats and went home. The cliuqe has the in side on the delegates. Rkmock.ytic Ticket. The Democracy of Baker county placed in nomination on the 20th ult., the following excellent ticket for the ensuing election : Representative, J. R. Ostein; Sheriff, J. II. Shinn; Clerk, L. B. Ison ; Commissioners, II. W. Estes and D. R. Schofield; Assessor, William Quirir; Treasurer, G. W. Parker; Coroner, Dr. Snow ; Superintendent Schools. James Wisdom. The following delegates to the State Convention were elected: U. W Lake, J. B. Griffin, C. G. Chandler, A. IL Brown, 11. B C. Burch and James Odell. Ax Aulk Sr-KKcn. Hon. J. H. Slater de lived a most masterly speech in Congress on the 27th of January, on the importance of the Salt Lake and Portland Railroad. We regret that we are unable to publish it entire. We shall probably m ke ex tracts from it hereafter. Mr. S. is paying especial attention to this important subject, and it success is possible, he will attaia it. Modkst. We have received a pamphlet of aboot thirty pages, containing the argu ments of Victoria Woodhull, Mrs. Stanton. Miss Susan B. Anthony, and other he-hensr in regard to their right to wear the mentionables, with a request that we pub lish the same. We are always willing to comply with the requests of females when they are reasonable, but this is rather too much for us, and wc are forced to decline. Fic;i:kks. At the last election for mem bers of Congress, the Radicals had 2,799, 775 voles, and the Democracy 2,780,501. Radical majority, 13.201. This shows a rather formidable strength, and with the disaffections existing and daily growing wider in the Radical ranks, this small ma jority will be easily overcome. The Dem ocracy will have a complete triumph this fall if tbey but act the part of true men. Make ui CVuns. Wc have put the price of subscription to the ExTEnr'Kisi-: from the IGth inst. to June 11th, at fifty cents. We hope our friends throughout the State, and especially in this county, will make up clubs for the campaign. State Hews. Corvallis has 400 school children. The number of school children at Dal las, Polk county, is 232. The wife of Sheriff Matheny of Marion county, died on Sunday last. Two hundred and fifty bags of mail were received by the Idaho. A new Encampment is to bo instituted at Albany this evening. The Postoffice at Salt Creek, Polkcouu ty has been discontinued. The Democrats of Luckiamute precinct. Poik county, have organized a club. Seed oafs and potatoes throughout the Wallamet Valley are very scarce. John L. Starkey, an old citizen of Sa lem, died in that city Sunday evening last The Oriflamme is advertised to sail foi San Francisco to-morrow at -1 o'clock. Petersburg is the name of a new towi. just laid off six miles east of Roseburg. Geo. E. Cole is at work ia Douglas county securing the rights of way for the railroad. i C. II. Smith, of Salem, died very sud denly of heart disease cn Wednesday eve ning last. Governor A. C. Gibbs has received his commission as L'. S. District Attorney for this State. The mill of the Virtue Gold Mining Company near Baker City is running day aud night. Messrs. Elkins have their splendid flouring about completed mill at Lebanon. on the Santiam river. J. Raxter, of Independence, Polk coun ty, lost 200,000 feet of logs during the late freshet. Mining prospects in Eastern Oregon for the com'.ng season are of the most flatter ing character. Iloppy, convicted of rop hy Portland, was sentenced, by Judge Upton, to the Penitentiary for five years. Merchants in the mining Districts of Eastern Oregon expect a good trade this year, as water will be abundant. Julius Caldwell, the man stabbed by James Weaver on the 21st of D.-eetwber, died at Oakland last Friday evening. The Statesman learn a that a s-toi e was lately broken into at Monmouth ami par ! lies are under arrest charged with the act. The ewKtrael for carrying the m-vif be tween the Dalles and Upper Oebwco val ley has been let to D. P. Thompson,-ot this city. The residence of John Stewart, one mile north of Corvallis, was destroyed by tire on the 5th. Losss $G,O0a; histued lor .5-L00O.. Three prisoners confined in the Albany County Jail made their escape from '.hat instituiion on Friday morning. One was : recaptured. Messrs. R. F. Dowell and Jesse Apple gate. Sara J!;iy's bondsmen, have been sued by the State to rcovcr the sum of 10,000. J. C. C rouse Las leased the linn- Cwm ty Fair grounds for one year. a;d de signs offering some haniiso:ie purses for the J une races, In the suit of D. J. JacroM against A. B. llnllock, for $10,000 damages, the jury, after an absence of a few minutes, return ed a verdict i& favor of plain-till for $'.$2. The lady managers of the First Ladies Hebrew Benevolent Society, of Portland, are making arrangements for a grand cal ico ball toVeheld about the 2.3i'h ia-t. A little daughter of John Corrmngham. who lives near Brownsville, fell into a pool of water in the yard a few days fin.e and was drowned. She was three years of age. Frank Anderson, charged with murder, and Joe Brannan, oi a charge of arson, arrested in Portland on a requisition from the Governor of California, weie taken buck to California on the steamer Idaho. In Dougla 3 county last week. Layfay ette Mi'ih'r. n youth of I( or 17 years, who has been in poor health, attempted 'recent ly to shuffle off Ins mortal coil by taking a dose of strychnine. ILs recovery is doubtful. Several young men residing at ?5i-iisa-mute, were arrested for larceny a few days ago nn! taken to Benton for trial. They had stolen a quantity of bridles and halters, and turned horses loose lor the purpose of playing a joke on some neigh bors, who returned the joke by causing their arrest. One of the ar res-ted parlies paid a fine of $25. after which a com promise was effected. Apportionment. Following is the apportionment of Dele gates to which each county is err-titled in the Democratic State Convention, which meets ftt the Dalles, on April 10th : Baker . Benton Clackamas. . . Clatsop ...... Cobjmbia. . . . Coos Curry Douglas Grant Jack sen Josephine Lane Linn Marion Multnomah . . . Polk Tillamook Umatilla Union Washington . . . Wasco Yamhill ..." . . . 7 . ..1 2 . -. ...I .. .8 ...4 ...8 ...2 . . .8 ..12 .11 .10 . . .7 ...1 . . .5 . .4 . .: . .6 Commissi ox IiEPO-kt. We have received a copy of the report of the Committee which was appoint ed bv the last Legislature to ex amine into the management of our State affairs by the late liadical administration. The report makes 100 pages. We have not yet had time to read it, but judging from the way the liadical press assail it, it must contain some damaging ex posures of corruption. We shall in all probability have occasion to re refer to it before Ionr. WiTiimtAwx-. J. M. Frazcr, the present County Clerk lias with drawn from the field for re-nomination, and left it clear for some half a dozen other aspirants. The Corvallis Gazette has called three times on the Radicals of Ben ton county to organize, yet they don't organize. There are not enough in the county to organize. E8S2BB5BE8Z2 BSJ,IJ-M'rCTOTBl General News Items. Governor Ilolden, the North p,Pnr Radical thief, declines the M7nLefp Ex-Jndge Terry, of Brooklyn, has sued the Brooklyn Evjle for $10,000, for alleg ed libel. JThere is fonnd a deficiency of about SS00.OOO in the general fund account ot the city or Brooklyn. New York Fish Commissioners aro stocking the streams of the whole State with Salmon trout. During tbe past eighteen years fifty-four boats have blown iid on Western river killing 3,083 people. " ' Judge Joseph Cnr-Lman, a resident of Olympia since 1852. died at that place last week at the age of 65. Whisky, beer, and tobacco paid $1,315 08 SG United States revenue iu the Fourth District of Illinois last year. A Richmond dispatch states that John T. W. Haley, collector of taxes and ubout f C.0OO, are mining. James Risk's horses,, carriage, etc., were sold at auction recently. The total amount received from the sale was $50,000. Devine, alias "Chicken,"' was sentence to be hung on the 2(Uh of April, in San Francisco, for the murder of August Kamp. Colonel Lotham, a prominent lawer of Paris. Tennessee, was shot and instantly killed in a difficulty at Henry Station, Tennessee, on the 5th. Ex-Congressnan Stokes was sentenced to pay a fine uf fifieen hundred dollars and costs, for having prosecuted a clainj against the Government while a member of Congress. Hon Thoman M. Brown, a distinguiuh d attorney of New Albany j Indiana, re turning home from his affic on the 5iu, suddenly fell upon the pavement and ex pired almost immediately. The Kuropeon powers now having com mercial treaties with France, will sdiortly send to the Government at Varaailles protest against the imposition of a tax upon raw material. The Agricultural Convention held re cently in Washington, ad op-ted resolution that Board of Agriculture hv rstablished by th Legislature, in the State wbere they tJo njt already exist. In the ease of Jamn) B. Newby. atfor ney from Oregon held to- answer, in S.mr Francisco, ou a charge of risdemeanoi by obtaining money from a clitma on false pretence, the Grand. Jury igifored tho bill. A Cln-cinnatf E)ipflx?r special of th "ih says eleven busituhoHit';iml dwell ings at Mason Siation, ou the Miirfreesbro arid Louisville railroad, were- Jt-rffroToI bv tire Yesterday, The loss will reach $'70 00v0-." A Raleigh, N. C. dispatch says intelli gence is received of the killing of Henry Berry Lowery, chief of the outlaws, by his brother Stephen Lowery. one of the gang. Stephen confesses to the deed and reports ia pe-rstvn to- the atrthotities tvS Roanoke. A telegram from Medicine Row says train No. 3, of March 1st i at Sherman now audi. rot much prospect of tln'irgt-t-ting thfough for u day or two. No. 4, of t!ie 1-t. went east last night and is at R ek ereek. Snow iu the cuts there is worse t uin ever. A dispnch from- Sioux city, dated Marc fr oth, says that there is a great e.vcite herk here over the reported discovery of im mensely rich gold fields in the Black Hill. Dakota Territory. Many fine specimen, h ive been brought here which were o! iained from the digging. Horace Greeley says in the Tribune of the 2d. in coimn-nting upon the conduct of memb-ers of Congress in the case of CJtrk. of Texas, that he regards the nomination- of Grant unad visable. for the rea son that he is invested with such barna cles as Clark and Leet. and is responsible for the corruptions. The Iribune a' leges that some merchant who are criminated wiih the Governmvnt o-1iei;!s by their testimony in chc- CusUxu House Investigation Committee, are now being subjected to vexations suits fur tei zure. The firm of Clark l Shultz. who are of this class had their books overhaul ed in a manner which the Tribune aaj was outrageous. Two girls, each sixteen years of nfT were arrested in Chicago on the .Mb. charged with highway robbery, having garroted ami robbed, of money and jew elry, on Sunday last, Catherine Rwrns. : The young exponents of woman's rights held her up and went through her in reg ular fo4p:t H.ylt and tiartutened hT with death if she squealed. A letter from Scnffletown, N. C. give a fill account of the Lowry gang of outlaws and desperadoes. Sixteen murders h.-v ben committed and over three hundred robberies, atrd not a man lost to the band. They live in swamps and rea mongrel race, being a mixture of Indiana, negroes and low whites. The leader of the band can neither read nor write. A New OrTean-s drspateh f .rth nnrn : The Legislature has adjourned sine rfiVJ Several plundering schi-ems passed, and but very little was done in way of reform before the Senate adjourned. Lieutenant Goverenor Pinchbeck, was called on for speech. In response he took occasion to say tint the Legislature wns. in bin opin ion, the worst rver assembled, and ex pressed satisfaction at its final termina tion. rreseofr, Arizona, dates in the 24th nit , say Ibat. the Appache3 have been very ac tive. A cattle raid was made in Chico Valley, and another within nine miles of I'reseoH. At Masso Tampo Creek a largn band of warriors stole live horses. Two Indians were killed and wounded. Twen ty savasres- attacked some hunters return ing Bradshaw's Creek one was killed and two wounded. Soon alter the Indians stole all thp horses and stock on Brad shaw and Walnut Park. A Washington dispatch of the 2d says : The war excitement over the Alabama treaty has subsided. The English mail to day carries out the answer of the Amer. can Government to the British objections. While it is known to be concilatory in tone, it firmly holds that the interpreta tion of the treaty is a question for the Ge neva arbitrators, who become judges of both law and facts. The American Gov ernment withdraws nothing of Its case, but will accept the arbitrators" judgment on all points, including the question of in direct damages. Otj mammy Revels, old mammy Dunn and several other distinguished nigger wenches, mothers and wives of the pres ent race of statesmen ore all understood to be in favor of Woman's Rights, aa preached and prayed for by Victoria Woodhull, Mother Liver more and sister Duniway. Senator. W. R- Allison has been elect ed to the V. S. Senate from Iowa in the place of the hypocritical scoundrel Har lan. It is said that this breaks the back bone of a corrupt clique in that State.