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An Assortment of Watches, Jew elry, and Seth Thomas weight Clocks, alt of which are warranted to be a represented. Repairing done on short notice, md thankful for past favors. CLAIIK GREENMAN, ts4L Cly ray man. tSS OB EG OX CITY. 3 All orders for the delivery of merchan dise or packages and freight of whatever des cription. to any part of the city, willbeexe e ite I promptly and with care. JEW YORK HOTEL, ,,t, (Dentfches Gafth Jj treet' PPs-:te the Mall steam ship landing, Portland. Oregon. H. R0THF03, J. J. WILKENS, PROPRIETORS. Board per Week o with Lodging ft . 6 00 . 1 CO Hailroad to Salt Lake. Letter from ConcpsMnau.SUtcron tic Subject. From the St. Louis .RejmUican, of Fob. 27th, we copy the following interesting letter from the Hon. James II. Slater: Washington', Feb. 20, 1 872. Editor Missouri Rei-ublican : In a recent issue of rour very ablc paper I notice, under the cap tion of "A Land Grab Killed," an unfriendly, and I think, though upon your part unintentionally so, an unjust criticism upon a measure recently before the Ilouse Commit tee on Public Lands. The measure is one of great importance to Ore iron and the Territory of Idaho. I regret it the more as we had confi dently looked for some encourage ment from that great center of the West, the city of St. Louis, with which we are seeking connection by means of the road for which the ground in question is asked. The commerce now rapidly springing into the life of the far" Northwest cannot be viewed with indifference by the city of St. Louis, if she would maintain her supremacy as the commercial center of the Mis sissippi valley. It is not large now, but twenty years may accomplish as much rel atively ior the State of Oregon. Washington and Idaho Territories as the last twenty years have ac complished lor the Mates and l or- i - - . ritories immediately west of the Mississippi river. But it is not of" these things I purposed to speak. You stigmatize the proposition to aid the construction of this road by a land grant as a "land grab," and ay that "of course, whether the railway was builL or not, the land , 1 1 " .. . T . a 1 1 . um pass into- tne nantis or a King of speculators and the pro ceeds thereof go into private pock ets," and as you have thus anahrn cd the measure, fairness would seem to require that the friends of the measure be heard in defense of it and themselves. It is but rea sonable, however, to presume that, had 3-ou fully understood the terms of the bill you would hardly have stigmatized it as a "land grab;" these you could not know, as it had never been made public. I can fully understand and appre ciate opposition to the system of reckless and almost criminally loose land grants which have so largely prevailed in the past and so far as your criticisiys refer to past grants, I do not complain; but it is the confounding of this particular measure with the past land rrant system and killing it by heaping odium of past legislation upon it, to which I object. The bill is just the reverse of what you suppose it to be. The lands proposed to be granted, or rather set apart to aid in the con struction of this road, could not bv any possibility "pass into the hands of a liing of speculators," for the reason that they were never to pass out of the hands of the Federal Government excewt as they passed to the actual bona fide set tier upon them, and then only in quantities of one hundred and 'six ty acres to each settler, and at the price of two dollars and fifty cents per acre. Tl. .. V. 11 a ne imiub arising could not pass into "private pockets," except as provided m the bill, ami as the work of construction progressed, not one dollar of which could be turned over to the company build mg the road, until twenty miles should be completed, and then an amount not exceeding $30,- 000 per mile, nor more than had been received by the United States from the sale of the lands granted. The bill provided for the sale of the alternate sections set apart to aid in the construction of the road by the United States. The settler was to deal only with the Federal Government, nml not with the company, which was to have no control whatever over these Jands. The measure was one pre-emin ently in the interest of the settler; m short, the settlement of the country through which the propos ed road was to pass was the basis of the proposition, .mrl it T;,ri. have been appropriately entitled, "A bill to facilitate the settlement, of the public lands." masmm-1, n land at -$2 50 per nrm uh!,;,, on miles of a great through line of railway, or within 20 miles of a navigable stream connecting im portant commercial points, is really ehcaper than land from 100 to 300 miles away from such facilities at Si 25 per acre, or as a rr ft. xne ciaim to aid rests upon the proposition that out of tl vni the construction of the road would practically create there onHit to be provided the means in part for its construction; and as these val ues would mure to the public lands through which it was to pass, a portion of these lands, which' in their present condition are essen tially valueless, it was asked should bo set aside in aid ot the construe- OREGON CITY, uon 01 uie road. These lands are unoccupied, the productive power of the country through which the road was to pass is undeveloped ana uie son without value. If this road were built all this would be changed. Its creative power would hx a value to the soil, the puuuc lamis would be occupied by mi hi, j rcitrs, me now dormant energies of that section would be brought into activity, and new centers ot commerce .und tiQ.L would be created. The ' objection to -past lain grants has not been so much that corporations have been enriched but that their enrichment has been at the expense and to the disadvantage of the settler by de priving him of an opportunity to . . Tl 1 secure line to me jrraniea lands at a reasonable price ; in other words, that monopoly of the lands result ,n . r. 1 .. i T r 1 .1 eu iium me jrrauis. under tne provisions of this bill such a 111011 1 l : -i t mm o )uiv wuiim ue impossible. ine settler could choose from tlu granted or ungranted lands at hi? option. lie could take a home stead upon the ungranted sections, or locate and purchase 1C0 aces of the granted lands at 2 50 pel acre, and in either case get his title di rect from the United States. With out the building of the road there is but little inducement to settle either class. It will thus be seen that the interests of the settler are fully protected, while a new section of country is opened to him by the building of the road, and is given to the construction of the road in such a manner as to serve ail inter ested, while the evils which have attended and grown out of past legislation of the kind are carefully provided against and rendered im possible under this bill. That great evils have attended and been the outgrowth of land grants in the past is not to be doubted, but the' have not been an unmixed evil in their results, as may be attested by an examination of the statistics of tlte States where they have been most thoroughly tried. On the 27th of January last I took occasion to present the claims of the Salt Lake and Oi egi.n JJaiiroad, and went into an exam ination of these statistics, the result of which is here presented: The era of land grants to aid in l - the construction of rail ways began m 1S50, the first grant bein- to tlu i.. . . , Til" . .taie 01 Illinois. .An examination of the statistics of the States in " incn tne system ot land grants has been most thoroughly tested discloses some very interesting and important facts, which demonstrate by the most incontestable data that it has been of incalculable val ue in peopling those States and developing their resources. Take sir, the States of Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, Michigan, Kansas. Nebraska' . iuiiu iim.i ii uiiicsoia. i ne grants in these States, under var ious acts of Congress to aid in the r t t Li-f i. 1 , 1 ' .-.4- ; 1 vwii.-nin.,tiuH 01 railways are as 101 lows : Illinois -Missouri Iowa Michigan Kansas Nebraska Wisconsin , Minnesota .Acres. 2,595,053 3,745,100 7,207,837 4,922,501 5,000,000 0,0 1 0,000 4,328,300 7,083,403 Total . .42,008,374 The number of miles of railway completed and in operation in these mates at tne ciose or uie, years 18a0, 1800 and 1870, are as follows : 1850. 1800. 1870. Miles. 3Ii!es. Miles Illinois Ill Missouri Iowa Michigan .... 342 XV i sconsin . . 20 Kansas Nebraska Minnesota 2,790 817 755 779 905 4,823 2,000 2,083 1,038 1,525 1,051 588 1,072 Total 473 5,940 15,380 In 1808, the tonnage upon the railways of New York, Pennsyl vania and Massachusetts averaged 9,338 tons per mile. Estimating the tonnage of railways in these States in 1SS0 at 2,500 tons per mile, it would amount to 38,350,- 000 tons: and making every allow ance for possible excess or over-estimate, their net merchandise ton nage could not have been below 25,000,000 tons. The value of this tonnage, of course, can only be approximated. I he value of railway tonnage m the State of New York in 1800, as reported in the census returns, was 10-3 per ton; but estimate the tonnage of these States for 1870 at 150 per ton, and it shows the merchandise moving upon their railways in one 3' ear to have been of the enormous value of $2,500,- 000,000. Placing the gross earn ings of railways in these States at 0 per cent, ot those of Illinois for 1808, and we have the sum of 3107,000,000 for that year. Mr. Speaker, it is estimated by statisticians that every mile of rail- j way adds to the value ot the prop-: erty of the country through which 1 OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1872. it, passes nve time me cost 01 its construction. The average cost of railroads 111 the United State is placed at 40,000 per mile: but it-ouce it 10 jj,uuu er mue, and there has been added to the prop erty values in these States, within twenty years, the sum of 2.0tf ur u.u - aimmiit Cq mi to mo.e 1,1:111 uu pei acre tor the lands granted by the Government: ami within the last ten years there ... . z mis. oeen added 10 property values m these States by the construction , - - 7 -7 1 ? Q ., . ...... r. . .11 H lauwaVS b I.bDU.iMO- pnui a - v i-t-i ku: iwi c-M-i v acre granted .I.... uiits 101 lanroau pur- l,osts- nd now. sir. does anv win doubt for a moment that these re ' suits, as demonstrated by facts and figures, flow directly from tin grants of lands in those States and is the present possible vindica tion of the wisdom of those who first inaugurated that policy? If there be such let them examine a few other facts I have to submit In 1841 Illiiu is had 22 miles of railway; m 1850 she had 111 miles of rail way, having built in nine years but 89 miles. The first year alter Congress made her grant she added 100 miles to her railways, and in ten years after sha added 2,GS!) miles. In 1811 the State of Michio-an had 138 miles of railway; In 1850 she had 342 miles, having built 203 miles m nine years. The first grant was made in this Slate in 1850, and in 1800 she had 779 miles. The State of 'Wisconsin had 20 miles of railway in 1850, and 187 miles at the end of 18p5. The in ;t grant of land in this State was made in 1850, and she had 905, nuies in operation m 1800. I he lu st grant in Missouri was in 18a2: she built the lust road the following year, and in 1800 iad in operation 817 miles. Iowa completed 08' miles of rail- vay in 18,j5; the next year grants ot land were made in that, State, and in 1800 she had 055 miles of railway. Grants were first made in Kan sas in the year 1803; the next year she appears in the list with forty miles of railway, ami in six years ater, or in 1800, had 1,051 mil eS compiet ed. The first grant of land in Ne braska was made in the year 1802, but she does not appear in the li.t with railways completed -until 1805, when she had 122 miles, and in 1870 she had 5S8 miles in op eration.' Grants Avere made in the State of Minnesota in 1S51, but she does not appear with any completed road until 18G3, and 111 1870 she had 1,525 miles. Following the inquiry into sta tistics ot population ami property A'alues, we find everywhere the fullest evidence of the same gen eral fact. Iu 1850-the population 1 in 1SG0 their population avus 5.421, - 940, and in 1S70 it was 8,018,805. Property valuations iirtl.ese States for 1S50 are not as complete in the census returns as since. In 1800 the true valuation of real and per sonal property in these States Avas estimated by the Census Pureau at 2,243,803,920 or 415 to each person. In 1870 the true value of real and personal property in these Mates, as estimated by the same department, was 0,029.072.109. r about 700 to each person, show ing that m ten years those States increased their property values at the rate ot one hundred and sixty four per cent., and increased their population at the rate of fifty-eight and six-tenths per cent. .And ducting from the gross valuation of pro pern the estimate increase f l" "..-1 .! 01 values attrihutabie to the con struction of railways in the decade, taken at five times the cost of their construction, or 1,050,950, 000 the increase of property val ues alttr such deduction, is over ninety-six per, cent m ten years and is thirty-eight and four- tenths per cent, greater than the increase of population for the same period showing beyond the possi- bility of a doubt that this great increase in population and Avealth was in the mam directly the result ot the rapid construction of rail- wavs in these States. 1 trust that you will find it con- venient to allow this communica- turn space in vour columns. It is but fair that both sides be heard. XV e are Avilling to stand or fall with the merits of our measure, and hope Ave are not to be con- demned through the press unheard, Very respectiuil v yours, Jas. 11. slater, A young lady at Council Blufls I being informed by her "feller" that he intended to cease his at tentions, cowhided him around the room, and as he sprung through the open-window, told him, with a parting lick, that that would teach him to Vie careful for the future not to trifle with a gentle and lov- ing heart. Florida's Carpet-Bag Governor. SUBSTANCE OF THE ARTICLES OF IM PEACHMENT AGAINST HIM. H e have at last the full text of the articles of impeachment exhib - itd n(Mi.ut TT.,,,;.. v i (Tiior ot 1 tonda, on the 10th of February, by the unanimous vote of the Assemble Ti. o..t;,.i 7 1 7 ui iivua are twelve in number, and, strip ped of technical phraeoloy charge as follows- Firt- ! CZ -. . till vi- ucuo .if sOQ AAA cj.... 1 -1 .-.-.v w-,vo t oiaie iuiiiis - 1 ' under act approved Januarv os itso; second a fraudulent conspii acy to issue ftl.000.000 of Sr-.t,, hmul. fm- d,n .iw.i.o.vf 1 - -- -- --- - " niv pui VII U- V vn lv 1 fl the Morula. Atlantic and Gulf Central IJailroal, with intent to profit thereby in collusion with other parties; third, an unlawful is sue of 1,000,000 in State bonds for the purpose and with the in tent recited in Article II.; fourth a fraudulent signing and issual of ! 4 AAA AAf C L?. ,-.,." 1 .1 - 1' . 1 Jackson vilIe,Pensacolla and .Mobile Hailroad Company; fifth conspiru- cy to unlawfully 'issue 1,000,000 of State bonds to David L. Yulee and other persons; sixth, unlawful issue of the amount of bondsmen- ii oiiue uuuus ior tne tioned in Article V.; seventh con spiracy with one Milton S. Little- field and other persons to embez zle the public monevs 'roceivid from the hypothecation of State bonds, and actual embezzlement of 20,000; eighth, receiving from Milton S. Littlefield a bribe of &3, 500 to sustain the claim of tlw Jacksonville Pensacolla and Mobile Railroad Company to the title of the property of the Pensacolla ami Georgia" and Tallahasse, and Honda, Atlantic and Gulf Cen tral Jiailroad Companies; ninth, conspiracy with Charles Pond and K. 11. IJulkey of the city of New York, to defraud the State of Flor ida of & 15,000 in Stat1 bonds, and actual defrauding of said Slate of said amount an arms and 'equip ment purchase; tenth, laying into the .State treasury depreciated Stale scrip to the nominal amount of 1,140 as payment for 81,140 in united Mates currency paid to him as due the State, but by him fraud- ulently retained: eleventh, attempt ing to bribe a Justice of the Peace to decide 11. his favor in a case be fore said magistrate pending; and twelfth, receiving a bribe of 10, 000 from Aaron Parnett, and for such bribe signing a con veyance to said Parnett of internal improve ment lands. Ine evidence on which these charges are bassed is not made m public, but must be ot the most convincing nature, as up on reading t he report of the Com- mittee appointed to investigate Governor lieeds official conduct every single memoeror thevssem- bly voted for impachment on the articles above snopsized. Apa'ice to Wives. We often regret that their husband do not talk Avith them. This is not the place to discuss the shortcomings of a man but sometimes Avhen I have listened to the faultfinding, the garrulous repetitions, frioIous details, the childish exactions of sympathy and attention wi tli which some women bore their hus bands when they are overburdened or anxious Avith care and work, 1 haA'e not Avondered that some men grow taciturn in their homes. But it is a great loss if a man is silent among his Avife and children. The husband and wife live so much of the time in a different world that a free intercourse can be a great help and pleasure to each of them. You will not be likely to make a man talk by telling him he ought to talk, or scolding him because he does not do so. Make it a pleasure for him to talk with you. Exercise good sense, good temper and tact in drawing him out on topics of interest to himself. Be patient un der his moods of silence. Be de serving of the companionship of a sensible man. The Peat. Gentleman. Not he who displays the latest fashion dresses in extravagance, with gold rings, and chains to display. Not tie who talks the loudest, and makes constant use ot profane lan guage and vulgar Avords. Not he who is proud and overbearing who oppresses the poor, ami looks with contempt on honest industry -Not he who cannot control his passions and humble himself as a child. No; none of these are real gentlemen. It is he avIio is kind and obliging avIio is ready to do you a lavor with no hope of a re1 ward; who visits the poor, and as sists those who are in need: who " more careful ot his heart than tne mess 01 nis person; aviio is humble and sociable not i irasci ble or revengeful; avIio always speaks the truth without resorting to profane or indecent Avords! Such a man is a real gentleman, wherever he may be found. Rich or poor, high or low, he is entitled to the appellation. .1 i . : .. -1 The Crisis Comingr. fFrom the Oregon Farmer. lhe people ot the .Willamette alley have troubled their minds much during the past ten years as to the best mode ot securim cheap or at least reasonable, rates of transportation on the vast amount of freight shipped by them down the valley and out of our river to San Francisco; and many of them hoped from promises made, that when the railroad was completed to the head of the valley, these charges would assume a shape more reasonable for the producer. In this it appears we have all been deceived. Mr. Ilolladay has ad vanced rates of freight on wheat and flour (the princpal articiles of freight), the former 5 cents per 100 pounds, the latter 10 cents per bar rel, on his steamships plying be tween Portland and San Francisco. His former rates were sufficiently highland his line of steamers avus paying him a very heavy dividend. The question arises: "What are the people of Oregon to do? Shall they remain quiet and allow Pen Ilolladay to forge fitters and rivet them upon the people, or will they rise in their might and strike down this monster monopolist ? Will they lie idle and see the result of their hard toil go to swell the cof fers of this nabob, or will they, in the' exercise of their rights, show him that they are not yet his slaves and that Oregon is not vet "Ben Ilolladav's farm"? Ti ie crisis Avhtn these questions 111 t ! win be decided is near at band, and will be reached 111 June. The boast has been made by those rev eling under Ben Ilolladav's "sane tuary" that he has enough money to buy the next Legislature, and it now becomes the duty of every man in wregou naA ing the Aveliare of the State at heart, to see to it that not a candidate for the Legis lature in any county but is pledged to icork and vote against all meas ures calculated to throw us still fur ther into this one man system, nor should they stop here. They suouid Avoiic ana vote tor meas ures that Avill get our people out from under the killing pressure of his monopolies. W ith Air. Holla day's control of the North Pacific Transportation Company and both the Fast and West Side Railroads, and the Willamette Transportation Company, he -possesses a power which, unless "checkmated" by our Legislature, will sap the prosperity 01 our Avnoie state, and leave us a ..i. 1 1 L " J Tl thousand times worse oft than whim we had no railrords. There Avill of course be no advance on freight -on-the river or railrod lines until after the election in June; af ter that date we may expect it at an' time. Ben Ilolladay has his tools in every county Avorking for the nomination to the Legisla ture of such men as he can use, or, to use plainer English, such men as he can bnj and this game is being played on both par ties. If he is successful in thrs, the acts of the next Legislature Avill be in favor of him, his steamboats, and railroads, and he will also Avalk away from our legislative hallss Avith a United States Sena tor in his pocket. Our advice to voters, those avIio Avork and pay taxes and cher ish the prosperity of our State, is to vote against any one, from Congressman to Coroner, avIio is known or suspected of being in alliance in the least with Ben Ilol laday. Jrote for no man that is not piedyed against this monopoly. If you do not, the time is not far distant Avhen yon will rue the day you failed to do so. Discrimination Agaixst For eigners. That clause in the na tional constitution which debars a foreign-born citizen from the Pres idency and Vice Presidency has excited some discussion lately, and the suggestion has been made more than once that it ought to be strick en out, in view of the constant in crease of the large share of cul ture and intelligence which it con tains. As an evidence of this foreign-born "strain" in our citizen ship, and of the prominence which it is attaining, Ave may mention that the Minnesota Legislature contains seventeen Scandinavians. It is a question whether the dis crimination against the citizen who may chance to have been born in Ireland or Germany, which consti tutionally shuts him out from the highest oflice in the land, is not an injustice Avnicn should be done away with. It is certainly an anom- olous state of things, which, while rendering it impossible for Senator Sehurz to reach the Presidency, leaves the legal Avay to the attain ment of that prize open to any plantation r, eg r o. In tdliyenccr. IIoav it Feels. Mr. Fields, in his lecture on "Cheerfulness," de scribes a man so shut in with dig nity and exclusiveness that when you shake hands with him you al ways feel as if you Avere doing it through a kaot-hoie. , NO. 22. Scandalous,' When Mr. Davis of Kentuc oflered a resolution in the Senate instructing the Whitewashing Committee to enquire into Grant's connection Avith "jobs," his present-taking and other " alleged cor rupt practicesthe President's syc ophants denounced it as "scanda lous." Upon this the Wasington Patriot remarks that -'there iscer tainly scandal in this connection, but it is not in the resolution. The scandal is that the President of the United States has laid himself open . to the accusations implied in this resolution. There is scandal in that a President meriting such a resolution should have in the Unit ed States Senate defenders of his misconduct. There is a scandal to the American people in having a President culpable to such a de gree, and so notoriously, as that such a resolution is just or possible. Herein lies the scandal, and it is striking, nay, it is astonishing. Nay, it is worse vet: it is a dark and indelible disgrace." And it adds: "Time Avas it Avas arPhonored time when public men accepted ollice not to coin it into gold, or nouses, or lands, or other things most enviable in the ejTes of the sordid and mercenary men. but with the nobler motives of doing their country some good in their day and generation. The time is when holding office from the Presidency down, is a mine of wtalth, to be Avorked sedulously Avlnle the incumbency lasts, and, when it ends, to strive by any and all means from the same motives, to have it reneAved. Let Presi dent Grant's sycophants say what they will, and effect to scout, as they may, the imputations cast ujon his honor, his uprightness, and his integrity, it is at least cer tain that when he became I 'resident he was comparatively a poor man ; he is 110AV a rich one. Let his champions in the Senate, or out of it, explain this mystery if they can. Until they do this let'them not cry out "scandalous" to a proposition to inquire how this wealth Avas ac quired in a position where no wealth is. ' Is it not "notorious that President Grant lias on every sideo "received gifts of men" houses.0 1 a n d s,eq u i pages, h orses, st ocks, etc., and that m many cases offices Avere soon conferred on the giver by the Executive? Is his name not very generally connected with jobs of : i . -1 x various kihos r is not nepotism, a Avord of unfragrant meaning, charged upon him of the most as tonishing sort, and with the plain est proof? Perhaps if these things were lookad into some explanation might be found of the process whereby the President has emass ed, during three Tcarsor less in the Presidency, quite a large for tune. Indeed, President Grant, by his own reprehensible conduct, and his pernicious example, has plung ed the civil service into utter dis grace, and done much to shield those employed in it from proper accountability and penalties. In the face of such a state of affairs, how preposterous and syCophantio it is for his companions in the Sen ate to effect horror at the idea of suspecting the President of mis conduct. They may enshrine him if they will, and call upon the corrupt horde of office-holders to fall down and worship him, but they cannot conceal the "front of brass and feet of clay." The impeachment of so many of the Southern carpet-bag Gov ernors, by Legislatures composed of the same class of people, ought to be sufficient proof of the das tardly character of those officials. Indeed they are all men of the aorst stripe and better fitted for the gallows than for governors. Thank heaen, their attrocittes are gradually opening the eyes of the people, and even at the North their true characters are beginning to be discerned. By and by, avg trust, when reason resumes her SAvay the villains and cut-throats Avill all be hurled from political po sition in the South, and a neAv era dawn for that outraged and un happy section. During the Avhole of the Franco Prussian war, and while the Grant administration was professing the warmest friendship and sympathy for Germany, it was secretly en gaged in furnishing arms to France. And yet this same administration now wants England'to pay us for damages sustained by us through her partiality for the South. This is the consistency and honor of Ulyses S., the hide scraper. Affectation. Judge Deady, in Avriting up his judicial decisions, refers to the "commercial empori um," as "Portlaud-on-the-Wallam et. I his is a degree ot affecta tion that would scarcely be pardon able in a writer of dime novels, and, when it comes to the Judge of a United States Court is simply xi diculous. W W. Statesman, o o o G O O o o o 3 o o a o