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OFFICIAL PVPCK FO CLACKAMAS COUNTT.
Oreoo City, Oregon ,
April 12, 1872.
Friday
DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET.
Presidential Electors,
GEO. It. HELM, of Linn County.
N. II. GATES, of Wasco County.
L. F. LAXE, of Dougl.19 County.
lor Congress,
JOHE BURNETT, of Benton.
I'or Judge of First District,
P. P. PRIM, of Jackson County
District Attorneys,
1st. District J. It. Xirl, of Jackson.
21. District C. AV. KMch, of Lane.
Sd. District J. J. Shaw.
4th. Dist. C. 15. Bellinger, of Portland.
5th. District IV. B. L.Hwtll, of Grant.
Clackamas County Ticket.
For State Senrtor,
J o n X M Y E R a.
For Representatives,
R. SHIPLE
J. II. MART IX, JOSEPH
LINGO.
Sheriff A. F. HEDGES.
County Clerk ROBERT F. CAUFIEI.D.
Cotintv Commissioners WM. SHARP,
TOIIX SAW TELL.
Treasurer T. J. McCAKVER-
School Superintendent A. NOLTXER.
Assessor R. X. WORSII AM.
Surveyor JOSEPH A. BURNETT.
Coroner DR. II. .VAFFARRAXS.
Our Candidates.
The nominations made by the Pemo-
cratic convention are at our masthead.
I faving; received them by telegraph just
prior to gotrg to press we are precluded
fromQiny lengthy comments. The ticket
is a good one, and it is the duty of every
Democrat to do his utmost to secure its
triumphant election.
What it Cost.
The election of tlic Radical tick
et in tl lis county two years ago
cost the tax-payers about six thous
and dollars. Mr. Ilnlladny was
assessed so that his taxes amounted
to a little over six thousand dollars,
but the generosity of our county
officials, and probably as an ac
knowledgement for his past favors,
they set aside his assessment and
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ordered a new one. Iy this his
assessment was so reduced that in
stead of paying over six thous
and dollars, he paid about tico
hundred. This, we presume, was
done to repay him for the money
he advanced to carry the county.
"Will the tax-payers now endorse
the party which took from the
county treasury this sum? The
tax on the present year's assess
ment not yet paid, and as Mr.
Ilolladay owns the Radical party,
and they are relying on him to fur
nish the means coin to carry
this county with next June, the
people may rest assured he will
never be required to pay the tax.
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"We are informed that he has refus
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ed to pay it. Why has there been
no effort made to collect it? The
thing is plain. It never will be
done as long as the Radicals hold
power in the count-. lie owns
them and they do his bidding.
Do other tax-payers propose to
pay the expenses of the Radical
party in elections? This they do
when they vote the Radical ticket.
3Ir. Ilolladay only advances the
money, and when his taxes become
due, it is generously given back to
him, and the other tax-payers are
called upon to make up the amount.
Are the people of Clackamas coun
ty SomrC L endorse such outrages
upon them by voting the Ben.
Ilolladay ticket next June? From
the head to the bottom of the Rad
ical ticket they belong to him, and
they are to do his will when they
are; elected. Let the voters look
at the past acts of the Radicals in
this county and if they do not wish
longer to pay the taxes for the
Railroad King, vote against even
man on his ticket.
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Tax ox Tvpk and Papki:. One
third of the present price of paper
and type is for protection. Paper
was worth ten years ago one-third
less than to-day, and so was type.
And this one-third is for protection,
or taxes as it is called. The news
paper press should keep a look-out
for the gentlemen in Congress who
oppose the bill of lion. Daniel W.
Voorhees, ot Indiana, to place type
and printing) material on the Tariff!
free list. The People of this conn-
try are not in favor ot putting high
taxes upon education.
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A Probable Kxplanation.
It is a well known fact that Mr.
Ilolladay lias purchased the con
trolling interest in the Radical
party of Oregon, and has taken
formal possession of the concern,
and proposes to run it to suit him
self this spring. He has made
his boasts that he will carry the
State, and it is charged that the
Radical nominee for Congress had
to give side pledges to hira before
he was nominated. Mr. Ilolladay
has nothing to ask of Oregon t
justify him to expend the largt
sums necessary to carry this State,
but he has a higher and greatc
scheme to accomplish. lie hay
favors to ask of Congress and
these he cannot get unless he
shows a record of his "loyalty" to
the party in power. lie wants ad
ditional subsidies for his mail
steamships from San Francisco to
Japan, to enable him to bring to
our shores more "heathen Chinee"
to compete with and under-work
our white laborers. This little
scheme has been pending in the
present Congress, but it was de
feated. He will now make a des
perate effort to can y Oregon, and
then demand his price. The fol
lowing dispatch to the Xew York
World, from "Washington, under
date of the 20th of March, explains
this matter; and the voters of Ore
gon t-hould consider well before
they cast their votes for men who
are known to belong to him, and
who are pledged before their elec
tion to advance his personal inter
ests. It is a well-known fact that
the Radicals have no hope of suc
cess without the railroad and
steamship King, and hence they
have given him a bill of sale of the
party organization. The dispatch
says :
The protracted struggle in the House
over the inauguration of a subsidiary pol
icy for steamship lines was brought to an
end in committee of the whole to-day, and
the amendment, to the postal bill to in
crease the subsidy to $1,000,000 per an
num for the Pacific mail steamship line
between Cal'fornia and Japan was voted
down by yeas S7, njs 92 a sharp, close
vote; but nevertheless a victory against
the scheme that brought down the Demo
cratic side in applause. Not only the
floor ot the House, but the galleries, the
lobbies, and the telegraph offices manifest
ed the greatet possible interest and excite
ment as the vcte progressed, and when it
was over the telegraph was exceedingly
busy for fifteen or twenty minutes with
dispatches for Wall 'street announcing the
result. It was evidently the most exciting
vote taken this session, as the votes taken
in committee of the whole are taken by
tellers instead of by yeaVand nays. It is
quite impossible to give an analysts of the
vote, but The count shows that fourteen
Democrats voted for the subsidy and
about twenty Republicans against it.
Those Democrats who voted tor it are as
follows: Messrs. Potter. Brooks. Perry,
Carroll, Townsend, Warren, and Willi ur.s.
of New York ; Sloss, of Alabama; Ken
dall, of Nevada; Wad Jell, of North Caro
lina ; Connor, of Texas; Swann o! Mary
land; Sutherland, of Michigan; and Bar
nnm. of Connecticut. Theoniv Democratic
member from the Pacific Coast Slater, 4k
( )regon--gave a plucky role against it.
The total number of members absent,
paired, and not voting was sixty-four,
from which fact the friends of the subsidy
reason that they will be abl to win when
the question comes up again in the House
on a yea and nay vote. The next move
ment in its support is to be made in the
Senate, where land grabs and subsidies go
through with great ease.
Ocn Fkk. Our worthy Radical
County Court appropriated the
moneys on hand at the close of
last year by some of the road su
pervisors to pay them for extra la
bor, while they made these very
districts pay a tax to the county
fund to pay for road work in other
districts, which had no surplus on
hand. To this kind of work we
entered our objections, and we
have the satisfaction of knowing
that they have been heeded, and
at the last term of Court the follow
in order was entered :
"The Supervisors of Road Districts Nos.
1. S and 38 having been lieretofore at the
Feb. term. 1872. ordered to retain surplus
money collected by them to pav them for
extra labor performed during the year for
said districts, and the Court being satis
fied that said funds so collected by said
supervisors belonged to the districts res
pectively as per amount reported. It is
therefore ordered and adjudged that the
Clerk issue orders on the Treasurer in fa
vor of the said districts respectively for
the amounts allowed to be retained for
extra Tabor.'
Road districts Xo. 1, S and 33,
may consider themselves in our
debt for getting this money back
for them. "We ask no fee, but sim
ply hope these road districts will
acknowledge our services in the
case in their behalf.
AYnx Canvass. The Jfercuri
states npon the authority of Gov
ernor G rover, that he will stump
the entire State between this and
the election, lie will make it
mighty warm for the Radicals,
having in his possession, and com
prehending the magnitude of Rad
ical rascalities in our own State
affairs, and ho is fully competent
to explain them to the full compre
hension of our citizens. JIe will
give a good account of his? stew
ardship, and show the malicious
assaults which have bren
against his administration to be
more than false. The Radicals
iiuvi
fear him, hence, their dogged and
malignant assault on him.
Our Special Washington Letter.
Washington-, March, 23. 1872.
EniTon Enterprise : It iu to be hoped
that in future there will be no further in
lermption by snow blockades, and that
you will receive yotir correspondence reg
ularly. The past week baa been devoted
by Congress to business, and a Rood deal
of legislation has beta accomplished. By
a very close Tote lb steamship subsidy
to the line from San Francisco to China
ind Japan has been defeated. Tie amount
of the present subsidy is a half million of
dollars for monthly s?rvic. The bill
which was lost, proposed to increase tte
ubsidy to one million and providing for
emi monthly servie. The Tote was very
lose for the bill 85 ; against it D2. The
riends of the measure do not despair of
et getting the bill through this session,
i he Senate will yote for it. and if the two
Houses should disagree, it Ls believed a
committee of conl'trrnce will iv the mil
lion. Thus exists much diftereac of
opinion ia Congress as to th propriety
of voting this mon?y fof ?uch a purpose,
whilst the taxes are so burdensome. Oth
ers think the commerce of the country
would be promoted to an increased ex
tent by this aid to the Pacific 11 ail line,
and in the end the Treasury would be re
imbursed more than the outlay. It crea
ted much excitement, and a great deal of
debate.. Scarcely any question in the
House this winter was so warmly contested
as this. If this subsidy stood entirely on
its own merits.it would pass, but it was
opening the dcor to a large number of
similar schemes, involving an expenditure
ol about thirty millions of dollars
Tea and coffee will be put on the free
list on aud after the 1st of July, 1S72.
The Senate on yesterday so decided by a
vote of S4 ayes to 13 nays. The House
had voted by a large majority previously
for the importation of tea and coffee free
of duty, and that matter may be consider
ed as settled, and the business men of the
country may make their calculations ac
cordingly. OA-" effort will be made, also,
to provide for a reduction of ten per cent
in the duties on "cotton and silk manu
factures, earthenware, glassware, leather
and India rubber tnanu'actuis.v Sena
tor Sherman, of Ohio. Chairman of the
Committee on Finance, suggested that
putting tea and coffee on the free list
would reduce the revenue some twenty
five millions, and that this sum was as
much of a reduction as could now be
made, in view of the amount nrces..arj to
pay the expenses of the government and
the interest on the public debt, and fifty
millions torrards ths annual reduction
of the public d--bt. But his attention was
called to the fact that there was a surplus
of over one hundred millions in the Treas
ury unemployed. There is a strong dis
position in both Houses to further reduce
tat iff rates, and there is no doubt that the
reduction on the goods named above will
become a law.
The split ia the 'Republican party be
comes wider every day. and the .Missouri
movement has developed more strength
than-was first anticipated. There is to be
a State convention in New York, com
posed of delegates from all the counties,
to appoint delegates to attend the Cincin
nali Convention, which meels on the firs',
day of .May. Whether or not every coun
ty in the State will be represented at Al
bany, there is no doubt it will be a large
body of Anti-Grant Republicans, and who
are for reform and wfco agree wi:h the
views of the Liberal R"publican,anl IhU
movement will be followed in otherStatcs
The Liberal Republicans are not idle.
They are making tremendous efforts to
secure a lare attendance of influential
Republicans at Cincinnati, and make their
action as impressive as possible. This
they consider ol vital impoitatice. with a
view to convince the democracy that they
constitute a power in the bind, and there
by induce th democrats to pretermit the
nomination of a regular democratic tick
et. There is no question, however, that
the Liberal Republicans constitute a larg
er body than was first supposed, their
strength has increased in numbers very
rapidly in the last two months, and are
obtaining accessions daily of dissatisfied
Republicans. The party is gaining in
strength both in P"nnsy Ivania and Ohio.
In the former Slate Gov. Curtin"s friends
who hate Grunt cordially, tire at- work in
his interest, and want tl.eir favorite nom
inated at Cincinnati. Gov. Cur'in is now
on his w,y home, having resigned h:s po
sition as Miuister to Russia, and his return
will promote the activity of his friends in
Pennsylvania. In Ohio, the late Secreta
ry of the Interior. Gov. Cox. has a host, ol
friends, and they hope the Liberal Repub
licans will take him tip. and therefore
they are doing all they can to mnke the
Cincinnati convention a success. The
friends of Judge Davis ol Illinois, recent
ly nominated by the Labor Reformers. are
also working for the nomination tit the
hands of the Liberal Republicans. So that
there are a great, many circumstances
working in favor of a large attendance at
Cincinnati. Here at Washington, the
Liberal Republicans, have some of their
most influential friends laboring with the
Democrats to convince that Grant will be
defeated "horse, foot, and dragoons." if
they will give the leadership in this tight
to the Liberal Republicans. These cir
cumstances are chronicled to show your
leaders that there is a powerful element
of opposition composed of Republicans
banded together to defeat the re-election
ol (Jen. Grant, and the accomplishment of
so desirable a result is not at all improb
able. 1 he folks at the White House be
gin to feel the neeef-sity for actual work
and labor to preserve their positions.
Within a few days, the name of Dan.
Sickles has been introduced for the Vice
Presidency on the ticket wish Grant, in
order to carry the Stater ol New York. and
if Sickles' friends press his claims Cullax
will have to subside. It is understood
That Gen. Grant prefers Sickles, beeause
he likes the man and thinks he can carry
New York.
The various investigations ordered by
Congress are going on and when their re
sults are pub.islied the people will open
their eyes in astonishment at the numer
ous abuses perpetrated by those in posv
er.
Another defalcation amounting to twen
ty thousand dollars has oecuned in the
accounts of Col. Stanton. Collector of In
ternal Revenue in the Dab into re Disirict.
The principal portion of the deficit devel
oped in the tax lis;, whereia he had re
turned to the Revenue Rureau amounts of
uncollected taxes, marked as collectable,
which had already been collected and the
money pocketed by the defaulter. Col-
iin.-
pens'eui atrent, was defaulter lor over
i70.0oO. aud nothing was done with him
aud Stanton will receive the same kind
usage at the band of this administration.
The harmonious action of your conven
tion wiircontribu'.e much to tlx' confidence
felt here for the success of the Democrats
at the election i l June. When ttx nom-
inations are made, let every feeling of rl-
vairy generated for the success of favor-
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ites in the Convention, subside into an
energetic support of the nominees, and
-a pull, a strong pull, and a pnll altogether,-
be made by every true democrat and
conservative in Oregon. Acting thus,
success will be the sure reward.
The troublous state ol affairs in Mexico,
is aftradiag attention here, and a power
tul interest is at work to induce our gov
eminent to interfere and ultimately to an
nex that country to ours. The democrat-,
ic organ here, the " Patriot," has -an edit
orial m its eolumns this morning looking
in that direction strongly b w believed
by many that President Juarez himself
favors the scheme of Protectorate, and
possibly -annexation. You need not be
surprised, if some important step in re
gard to Mexico should be taken uou.
The article from the PalrkU:' is enclos
ed, to use, if you deem It of sufficient m
terest to your readers.
There is a general inquiry just now as
to hat bas become of tlie iuouy derived
frori the sale of supplies of provisions,
clothiug aud arms on hand at the close
of thy war. It is known that a large
amount of goven"aut property waiSold.
but it Ls staled th.H Dot a dollar of the
money derived from thK great sales wad
wvwr paid into tUw Treasury. Tu House
hart adoptwd resolutions calling ou ihm
War aud Nvy Dprioaect3 for uiloima
tiou ou this subject, but have been unable
to get an answer from them. The appro
priation bills for thw Army aud Navy are
soon to be considered, and thw democrats
mean to vote against all approut lawous
lor that service until answers are render
ed to the resolutions ot inquiry. When
these bills come up. you may look lor a
lively time in the House"' of Representa
tives, for several geutleiueu ate well for
tified with facts aud figures, of a very
damagiug character a'decting the War and
Nn-vy Departments.
The Committee on Public Lands in the
House report the Salt Lake and Oregon
Railroad bill on Tuesday next.
VNCLK S.V'j'.S CASH.
The balances in the Treasury Depart
ment at the close ot business March 23.
1872. were
Coin $110,042,747 95.
Currency 10 S33.07G Of!.
Coin certificates 3!).2Jd.o0l) 00.
$KiO.KiB.33 71
Over one hundred and sixty millions of
dollars unemployed and locked up in
boutwelPs vaults pet National Ranks.
PfBLICCS.
Ovek-rat,ancei. The Radicals
seem to have much to say about
the increase of salaries for State
officers, yet they never have any
thing to say in favor of the biil
passed by the Legislature in re
gard to the reduction made by
them on the fees ot County Clerks
and Sheriffs. The fees of these
officers were reduced about one
third, which will be nearly equal
to the entire expenses of our State
administration. Clackamas county
alone will save over three thou
sand dollars per annum in conse
quence of this reduction. Had the
Radicals been in power this .bill
would not have been passed, or if
it had, it would have been stolen
before it would have become a law,
as owe was in 1SG2. This matter
of increase has been overbalanced
by the reduction and there will be
a large balance in favor of the I
people.
That's So. The East Portland
Jji'a has the following in relation
to the Clackamas county carpet
bag, Good Temp4ar ticket :'
From a re'i .ble source we learn that
the Radicals of Cluckamat county are not
so well pleaded with their county nomina
tions as they might bf It appears that a
certain unpopular f:ction in the p-rty.
which has heretofore hcn kept in obey
ance because of r. firing in the minority,
combined with the Good Ternrdars. and
thus en:: bird to
as was desired.
nu the lute Convention
This had the effect to
make the old ' regular."' ill-humored, and
in revenge for the defeat they were made
suffer in the conversion they propose to
defeat the ticket, made up of carpet-baggers
and men who are in no wav identified
wi'.h the interests of ie people of" that,
county. .In this it is to be hoped they
will fie sneeesstul. The Democratic ticket
comprises some of the best men in Clack
amas county, and its election for this rea
son, if for no other, is a consummation to
be wished.
He Owxs Ihir.-Wc lind the
following in the Jfertdd of last
Saturday. It is another evidence
of the fact that Air. Ilolladay owns
the Radical party, soul, breeches
and body. It says:
That Orm-at Pi.a tkoiim. Will the public
ever be permitted to see the letter, written
by the Radical candidate for Congress, to
the Lord Patamount, in order to secure
the Salter's support? Is not the said can
didate running on two platforms? One
made by his party in State Convention
Assembled, and the other a pi i Kte pledge,
io a certain .Money King, which the people
are not permitted to see? One platform
is published ; will the people be permitted
to have a sight at the other?
That's Him. The Herald of the
10th inst. has the following:
If we are not mistaken we have heard
of their Radical candid it for Senator
in Clackamas before Cochran! Hiram
Cochran! There are some people over
in Washington Territory who know a man
of that name, it is said. Does the Clack
amas Hiram hail from that region? Is
this Uiraiif in the employ cf the railroad?
Does he think the Locks improvement a
swindle?''
Thf. Lahoii Candioatk. A correspond
ent of the Memphis Appecl says of Judge
Davis, that he has a broad and catholic
feeling for the whole pecple. a reverence
for the law. and a desire to see the Consti
tution recommitted to the repect and hon
or of the people.
Our "bnzzunv" friend. A. Noltner, of
the Oregon City Entkh'.'iusi- is lliu-Derno-crat'c
candidate for School Superintend
ent of. Clackamas county. Who dare now
uert. that the editorial fraternity are not
appreciated by a grateful world? We
congratulate lJro. N., and are satisfied that
the people of Clackamas county will not
regret electing him to that responsible
posisli". Albany Democrat.
T'.m Most Infamous. The Portsmouth
(N. 11.) Patriot ; declares the result ia- that
Sate was produced by the most infamous
means ever employed in a popular elec
tion, and is a triumph of fraud, bribery
and coercion, alike disgraceful to the vi.
tors and to ile State. J?y such means an
endorsement of Gen. Grant and his ad
ministration was obtained. In the South
j oayoneis prouuee uaoica. utriwmm
I in ,ho cri. "'auds are suostuuted.
State Jiew3.
The Masonic Fraternity at the Dalles
are going to build a hall.
Burglars are beginning to trouble the
people of Portland.
Willie Rice has been appointed ticket
lgent at the Albany depot.
U. S. Marshal Young has caught, at San
Francisco. M. S. Hart, defaulting railroad
contractor.
The farmers in the vicinity of Monmouth
are complaining of the re-appearance of
the caterpillars.
One hundred logs bored endwise and
called water pipes were lately shipped
from Tumwater, W. T.. to Salem.
An Italian dred suddenly at the New
Orleans hotel in Portland last Saturday
night, by the name ot Jean IJelhomme.
A rumor is afloat that the O. S. N. Co.
ha sold out their lines of steamers to the
Northern Pacific Railroad Company'
The Odd Fellows are preparing to cele
brate the 53rd anuiversary of the estab
lishment of the Order, on the 2tth inst.,
by a pic nic at Aurora.
The Register speaks of a grand excur
sion to coma off in a few months. We
suppose it means the excursion of the
Radicals of Oregon up Salt River iaJuue.
Elder K Fisher and. wife, old residents
of Wasco county, formely of Oregon City,
are about to visit California, with a view
to finding a home in a more genial cli
mate. Excavating was commenced lat Satur
day for the contemplated new Episcopal
church. The new churoh is to stand on
the Southwest corner of the block on
which the present church is situated.
Deeds were made out for 8.0'HJ acres of
school lands by the Board ot Land Com
missioners at Salem, during the month of
March. These deeds were for vaiiom
quantities in different parts of the State.
An attempt -ww tnaVie Last Saturday
night to burn the St. Charles hotel at Al
bany. The incendiary poured kerosen
oil through the parlor window upon the
carpet and tried to st fire to it.
A Roseburg paper says Mr. Sackett
commenced work on last Tuesday, near
th Whitmore gap, with a larsre force of
Chinamen. We have no i.otice of any
contract having been lei south of Wilbur.
Farmers, says the Monmouth Messenjer,
are now receiving fifty-two and a half
cents per pound for wool, and think the
price will soon be higher. Those who
were so fortunate as to keep their wind,
instead of selling it in the fall, will realize
a handsome profit thereby.
A Salem paper says a resident living
about nine miles out on the Albany road
brings us cheering reports from that sec
tion ot the country. The crops never
looked a-s promising as they do to day. -Farmers
are nearly through planting on
the hills, but in the valleys ami more moist
places they have but just commenced.
The Territories.
The Kalama Beacon has closed its firat
volume.
The Odd Fellows of Vancouver propose
to celebrate f3rd Anniversary of the or
der in the United States, on the 26th inst.
Mr. Ilallett has completed three miles
of grading near Hodjdjn's, aud is pro
gressing rapidiy southward.
Hash f.ou.-es in Montana charg $20 a
week, the boarders furnishing thvir own
blankets, during the past winter.
A lrge -?eam saw mill is being erected
at. W.i lnlu by the Walla Walla' and Co
lumbia River Railroad Company, and will
be tiiiish.'d by the In of May.
Hallett. the contractor on the N. I. R.
R. Co's track between the Columbii river
and Olympia. wants five hundred white
men and a thousand Chinese to work on
his contract.
A Mortt.ina woman. who imagined some
body was seeking her life, rose one bitter
cold night recently, ran out on the open
praitir over a mite, trampled the snow to
m i!te herself a bed. in which she was
found soon after half frozen.
The following is a summary of the busi
ness transacted at llie United States Land
Office at Vancouver for the month end
ing March 31 1872 : Original homestead
entries. 2.101 acres; final homestead en
tries. 320 acres ; pre-emprion entries.
3.000 acres ; laud sold for cash. acres;
total number of acres disposed of. 4.()1.
The Vancouver Iivcjisler says : "A slight
tbock or an earthquake visited th'n town
at 10 minutes past four p. rn.. on the 27lh
inst. It lasted about, four seconds, and
seemed to he more severely felt near ihe
liver. The inmates of the Quartermas
ter's warehouse, situated on the Govern
ment wharf, rushed outside, supposing
thU a large steamer under full headway,
bad collided with the wharf."
The Vancouver Register says: The
railroad survey i being prosecuted with
energy by Capt. Biiney and his party
along the bank of the- Columbia. We
are given to understand that the l;ne now
being surveyed will be ;i4hered to on the
final location of the road, with perhaps
very slight deviations. The camp is now
established about five miles above this
place on the river. The line as surveyed
eastward from Kalama keeps close along
the north bank of the Columbia.
The Kalama Jiftcon says : A well
known and prominent railroad bovs at
Pumphrey's undertook to chastise a Chi
nese cook. fut John was equal to the
emergency, and. catching tits would-be
master by the hair, at the same time bran
dishing a hatchet over his head, eaid :
Meiican man no sabe me. you bet! Me
make hashee you velly soon !' A third
party stepped between the combatants
and postponed results, or by this time we
would have a gravestone marked. 'Sacred
to the memory of Captain Torn . who
was foully murdered by a Heathen Chi
nee.' Telegraphic Clippings-
N;:w YortK. April 4. Arrangements for
the funeral of Prof. Morse are completed,
and it wiil take place ut 10 A. M. to
morrow from Mulison Square Pres bv'
terian Church. The Assembly to -day
adopted appropriate resolut ions in re
gard to the death ol Prof. Morse, and ap
pointed a committee to attend the funeral.
Nfc.w Yoiik. April o Mayor Hull, it is
said, will be a witness in his own behalf
when the case comes to trial.
STOKKS TRIAL.
New Youk. April 6. The District At
torney says it will be some time, owing lo
the pressure of busines. before it will be
ready lo bring I be Stoke's case to trial.
Tlie voluminous bill of exceptions put in
by counsel for the prisoner has hardly
yet been digested by the District Attor
ney. Miss Mansfield has not visited Stokes
since his arrest and will appear as a wit
ness on the trial. Stokes is said to be
anxious to have the trial brought on.
when he claims that startling revelations
will be made in Krie rascality and mat
ters connected therewith.
A dispatch fr m Yeddo. of March 2Gth,
announces that an attempt has been made
by a party of twelve persons to assasinate
the Mikado of Japan. The efforts of the
would be murderers proved unsuccessful.
The guard of the Mikado captured two
ot the party the other ien escaped. This
attempted assassination caused great un
easiness on Ihe part of Government- Or
ders have been issued forbidding foreign
ers to go beyond the city limits, of Yeddo.
General New3 Items.
A civil was is raging in Mexico.
Prussia is enlarging her standing army.
The Emperor of Brazil's European tour
has already cost him $'J00,000.
Railroad accidents continue to enrich
the undertakers of Eastern cities.
Mrs. Fair's new trial was set in the Fif
teenth District Court for June 24th.
Foreign advices state that Prussia is for
tifying iletz with enormous cannon of steel.
Tom Fitch was elected second United
States Senator by the Utah Legislature.
Wm. B. Astor has given 5100.000 to the
Astor Library to relieve its preaeut needs.
. A London dispatch of the 7th inst. says
the Queen returned from her visit to Ger
many to-day.
It is now definitely settled that the au
thor of the Radical Platform got his start
in Yamhill.
Mrs. Grant and her daughter Nettie,and
ex-Secretary Borie and family, sailed April
4th for Europe.
A Laramie special ay4.the road is bad
ly blockaded east. Two pasenger trains
are held there.
It is understood that the port of Mazat
lau is already in the bands of the Federal
authorities of Mexico.
Work on the light-house at Cape Foul
weather. Yaquina Bay, will be resumed
about the 1st of May.
A London dispatch of April 3rd says
the Prince and Princess of Wales will re
turn from the continent soon.
Hugh Logan, a young Oregonian, re
cently graduated from the St. Louis Medi
cal College wi'h high honors.
The office of the County Treasurer of
Walla Walla county vas entered a few
evenings since nd robbed of 520,000.
The central of.ice of the Western Union
Telegraph Company is elaborately draped
in inourutr.g in memory of Prof, iiore.
Prince Arthur, says a London dispatch,
will shortly be promoted to the rank of
in ijor, and will go to India for two years.
Theirs and Count Von Armin will soon
commence negotiations for the complete
evacuation of French towns by German
troops.
Voluntary subscriptions of French resi
dents in Mexico towards the payment rf
the 1" rnch Indemnity now amount to
541,000.
A Brownsville, Texas, dispatch says
Texan rangers are preparing to retaliate
and rescue their caltie from Mexico, on
the Rio Grande.
The Ways and Means Committee, in
Congress, voted to fix the tax at t5 cents
per gallon en whisky, and a uniform tax
of 20 cell's per pound on tobacco.
Signers call upon the Utah Democratic
Convention to assert the theory that it is
their purpose solely to endorse Judge Mo
Rean aud oppose admission as a State.
In the Senate April "th. on motion of
Poineroy from the Committee on Public
Lands, the bill granting the right of way
to a railroad froia Salt Lake to Portland
Oregon, passml.
Kexico-
We here prtblish the article on Mexico,
llrom the Washington J'ofrfo referred to
by our correspondent from the Capital.
It is an abuse of language to spealt of
the situation of Mexico as a problem.
That cumot be a problem which admits
of but one snlu-ion. and that one which is
perlectly well known to everybody. The
only indefinite quantity in the whole mat
ter has been the question of time, and that
element seems now to be no longer indefi
nite. When neighborly comi'y gives way
to the more supreme, neeessides of self de
fence, the time for action has certainly
come. There must be an international as
well as a municipal law of nuisances. If
the man and wife of tlie family next door
to us choose to quarrel and -fiiiht.it is none
of our business, no matter how disagreea
ble it may be. but when the missiles of
I" their warfare are so loosely Hung about
as to smash our windows, and endanger
our pates, it is time to send fjr the police.
The situation of Mexico has got to be just
so dangerous to onrborders. and. being such
h is become a nuisance', and intolerable.
Her son libre is a harbor of thieves and
smugglers, who feed npon our revenues
like leeches upon stock goiny; to water.
Her defenceless borders are the resort of
ruffians and marauders, who shelter there
to makeyaids 11,1011 our people, and go
back, after murder and robbery, to enjoy
their plunder with impunity. There is
no question here of Mexico's interests and
welfare, but of the peace and safety of our
own citizens, frequently outraged, and
constantly menaced. It. was welt enough
for us to offset our superior and stronger
forces, and civilization, as a reason for
not interfering to save Ihe richest country
on the globe from chronic anarchy, pov
erty, and ruin. It wa- wellenongh to say
we would not interlere in Mexico's do
mestic concerns, even to save hrr from
herself, jusi because we wer her n"iith
b or. and ber superior, in strength. But
the present question, we repeat, is not
one to be determined by the interests ot
Mexico. It is a question the sole measure
of which is our own capacity for enduring
a state of things which must. Very short'y
become insufferable. Shall our own line
mansion be in perpetual danger of confla
gration, bewail e the nud. drunken people
next door choose to burn tar barrels, aud
set fire to the fences in their back yard ?
Shall they be suffered to spread abroad
contagions that may strike us all down,
because they like fiub. and bid smells,
and have ignorant prejudices about vac
cination ? lhmeMc rights n;in be sa
cred, domestic nliosyncr.tsies are no more
than matters of taste, but domestic nui
sances that spread cosmrrpolitan stenches
must be abated, and when not checked
from within, must be dedt with ah extra.
And. practically, this is the sum of the
whole question with regard tj Mexico.
Sai.kof Arms In vkstioatiox. Notwith
standing that nn Administration Senator.
Patterson, according to Lis own testimony
brought to Grant's attention, over a 7ea"r
ago, the matter of tlve fraudulent and il
legal sale of arms lo- the agents of the
French Government, in which Ibese
agents had. according 1r the sta'ement. of
one of the parties implicated, the highest
governmental influences to assist them,
and in which, as the Marquis.de Cham
bnn says, three or foisr million dollars
had Doen "droppvd into somebody's
hands, and notwithstanding the notoriety
of the whole transactions ami the clear
evidence of the use for which the arms
were intended. Mr. Grant never made ibe
slightest effort to pause an investigation
or put a stop to the outrageous business,
and declared his ignorance of the whole
affair, and. when at last an investigation
wis forced by the boldness and pertinac
ity of Schurz and Sumner and Trumbull,
he procured Ihe packing of a Committee!
00-lavorabU? to the discovery of truth, ity
siifl-; the facts; a proceeding not only
morally wrong but, as Sumner says, at
war with all parliamentary law. In spite
of threats anl all nianner'of intimidation
the truth is coming out. showing the worst
exhibit yet, for that Administration which
some one of its defenders has corrrnared
in purity to the Administration of Presi
dent ashington .
Married Our Triend W. B. Lasswell.
of Canyon City, was married last week to
Miss McFarlan I. of the Dalles. May hap
piness and prosperity attend them.
Some Sense-
George Fraoci3 Train is certainly the
most intelligent buffoon and humbug who
has appxiared during the present century.
Amid a vast mass of chaff, which he offers
to the public in bis peecbes and lectures,
there are some grains of wheat. Recent
ly in one of his windy harangues he de
clared there were only two men in tho
field as candidates for the Presidency:
'Grant and the Dent family, and the Peo
ple's Champion, the Fenian Chief, Com
mune Organizer, Presidential Head of In
ternationale. Workingmen's Leader, Labor
Union Commander. Woman Suffrage Ora
tor who now demands your co-operation.
After this ridiculous declaration he ut
tered the following remarks, which con
tain a considerable leaven of common
sense and political sagacity :
Can the king of the Dent tribe stand fen
months of hurrahs? He passes from city
to town like a ghost. Nobody cheers. -Nobody
speaks to him. Nobody hisses
when I denounce his nepotism. Every
body cheers when I expose his thieving
association in Ihe General Order swindle.
(Applause.) The ord party nauseate
the people. 1 hey are sick unto death
with politicians. (That's so.) Colfax
beats Seymour on resignation, giving him
fifty on a string. (Laughter.) Iam.no
guch a woman, and this is not a proper
place if I was. (Loud langbter.) .
Colfax, the honest resiguer finally ac
cepts. You can't make me Vice-President,
says Smiler. the Baptist, unless yon
tie me. and there is a rope on the shelf!
(Laughter.) So it is all settled. Tbesu
Cheville Brothers, to oblige a grateful
people, will consent, to run the St. Domingo-Seneca
Stone-Corbin Dent -Gift Enter
prise four years longer, to the campaign
cry of: Fatten the Alabama bondholders
and starve the people.
w If the present taker has a dead sur
thing why axe-grind Worcester. Syracuse,
Connecticut and Albany through official
-rings' and National Bank money? (That s
so.) Why pack committee in Congress,
head off investigations in the Senate, and
try so bard to wriggle out of the Lert
General Order swindle? (Exactly.) If
he is certain of his position, why back out
id" St. Domingo and tho Carter-Casey
fraud in New Orleans? (He isn't sure,
and that's what's the matter.) Why feel
so shaky about Babcock. Porter and the
Russia complication ? If Grant is so pop
ular, how happens it that all his Senator
ial friends get pushed into the cold? Thay
er by Hitchcock, in Nebraska? Butler
smashed in Massachusetts? Logan in Illi
nois, beating Grant's friend? and Sar
gent in California, upsetting Cole? (Ap
plause.) How is it the Methodist Ring''
could not save Harlan ? and Sherman wihs
iuOuio? Grant's interference in Louis
iana makes Warmoth a success, and tho
same policy in Missouri put Carl Schurz.
and Biair into the Senate.
Receipts and. Erpenditures.
The recent speech of Mr. Dawes, says
the Patriot, taken together with the open
tactics of the Protectionists, and other in
dications that have crumped out during
ihe session, discover to us a good oVal of
the strategy which the Administration
forces intend to use in the coming cam
paign. Ordinarily tne Congress before a
Presidential election is eminent tor econ
omy. It resorts to cheese-paring, it
pinches the budget, and clips its issues in
every direction. But the present Con
gress evidently intends to fly in the face
of tradition and precedent, and to resort
to a deliberate system of extravagance,
instead of one of thrift. True tolls in
stincts, it depends for success rather upon
multiplying trie Government's means of
corruption than upon increasing its claims
to popular favor. The immediate exigen
cy that drives it is the necessity of doing
baule against Revenue Reform Reduce
the tariff, and Pennsylvania and Ohio.
Connecticut and Maiue. are .surely lost u
Grant, and wilh these all of Grant's
chances are lost. But Revenue Reform
cannot be combatted face to face without
disastrous losses in the West. Conse
quently, h must be stabbed in the back,
and that is the secret of the controlling
impulses.of immediate Congressional ac
tion. Expenses are to be increased,
through the easy process of multifarious
appropriations, until ; hey are equalized!
bykreceipts. Then. in order to escape a de
ficit, the tariff most be kept where it
now is. in th light ot these facts, Mr,
i""'s concern aimnt tn.. w...- .,..1
means is very much like the old Post Cap
tain's respect tor the exact time of day.
"What's o'clo'ck?" he asked or his Lieu
tenant. "Couldn't get an obsvrvation.sir."
-Make it eight bells, and set the clock
accordingly." So Mr. Boutwell and Mr.
Dawes and their allies, unwilling to alter
the clock of the tariff, hare set the dial of
expenditures to suit it. But the people
will require a .more satisfactory explana
tion than this for the numerous extrava
gant appropriations which are boiix con
tinually made. The demand Tor Reemi
Reform is not to be quieted by the subter
fuge of an inordinate budge'. The peo
ple will onjy scrutinize the bills the mom
closely because they disapprove the.
mens employed to procuie their liquid
ation. 1
Cost of our Paper Currency.
On the 31st or March. 1871. nays the New
1 ork World, the House of Representatives
adopted a Resolut in calling on the Sec
retary or the Treasury to lurnisli an esti
mate of the number of pounds of paper
that would be required to replace the na
tional bank circulation; also the number
of pounds made up into greenbacks, frac
tional currency, and bonds, with the coS
thereof. The report of the Secretary in
response to this inquiry has just been
made public. It stales that "it would re
place the present national hank circula
tion, which at 18 pounds per 1,000 sheets,
the weight heretotore used, would be 100.
S08 pounds. The average cost of the pa
per used Jor the circulation of national
banks is 78 cen's per pound," or a total
cost of S78.(;; 21. Tbr number of
pounds of paper manufactured into legal
lenders or greenback notes is given as
2()j;:V.) pounds, costing SI75.3JI.45; man
ufactured into fractional currency. 31S,
17G pounds, co-sun" 2 -I3.4(n;.!i- mmJ
factored into bonds. 110,873 pounds, cost
ing $3C.GSJ.14. The account then stands:
. Pounds. Gsl..
National b,nk notes loosrw $7H.6M 2-f
greenbacks .w.) 175,341.4.-V
t "actional currency 316r17j 243,40f,.94
"ond.. llo,s73 91,.137.3
Internal revenue stamps 78,062 3J,6S9.14r
T?.V .' "'-8l2'5"8 23,494.4 ft
But this is not all. There is a reserve
of paper, to be manufactured into green
backs, fractional currency, bonds, and
revenue stamps, amounting to 257,18.3
pounds, costing S201.812.3f5; so that the
grand total of paper used or to be used
in onr paper money U 1 Ofi9.7fJl pounds,
costing $830 30f.7tt. It will give the read
er some idea of the amazinsr bulk of onr
paper money, bonds, ic, to know that
;3.j tons of paper are required for its pro
duction. Could the outlay for engraving,
printing ink. coloring matter, press work,
labor, salaries, and oilier items oT pre
paration be ascertained the grand agggre
gate would be enormous.
Sick. Joe Wilson the Radical
eatrdidate for Congress from Ore
gon goes into the canvass sick,
and it is not hazarding much to
say that he will come out of it
sicker. W. V. Statesman,
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