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OFFICIAL PAPER FO CLACKAMAS COUNTY.
Ore-jois City, Oregon ,
Friday T : T May 10, 1S72.
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DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET.
Presidential Electors,
OEO. It. IIKiM, of Linn County.
X. II. Ci.VIKS, of Wasco Comity.
ij. V. LAXE, of Douglas County.
For Congress,
JOHN BURNETT, of Benton.
For Judge of First District,
P. P- PRIM, of Jackson County-
District Attorneys,
1st. District T. It. Mel, of Jackson.
2d. District C. AV. Fitt-li, of Lane.
;'d. District J. -T. Sliav.
4th. Dit.C. II. litllingev. of Portland.
;th. District "W. IS. I.aswtll, of Grant-
Clackamas County Ticket.
Tor State Sent tor,
JOHN" M V E R S.
For Representative.,
A R SHIPLEY. J. n. MARTIN", JOSEPH
RING).
Sheriff -A. F. HEDGES.
County Clerk ROBERT F. CAUEIELD.
County Commissioners WM. 511 ARP,
-JOHN SAWTELL.
Treasurer T. J. Mc CARVER
School Superintendent A. ?'OLTNER.
Assessor R. N. WORSIIAM.
Surveyor JOSEPH A. BURNETT.
Coroner DR. IE .V A F F A B R A N S .
Public Speaking.
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HON. JOHN BURNETT and HON. JOS.
G. WILSON will iindrt'ss their fellow cili
Zens as follows :
Hi'i'.slioni. Saturday M ay 11. at 1 o'clock
Astoria. Monday. ".Ma v Dih, evening.
Si. Helens. Tuesday. .May 1-lth.
Portland, Wednesday. May loth,
The Dalles. Friday. '.May 17ih.
UrnatiUtf. Saiurday. May lSih, '
Pendleton. .Monday May 20 h. at 1 o'clock
La Grande. Wednesday. May 22,
Laker City. Thursday. May 23d. "
Gem City. Friday. May 2i h. evening.
Eldorado. Monday. M ay 27. 11 o'clock a. m.
Canyon City, Wednesday. May 20, evening
C. B. P!:i.t.ino:;r and Geo. II. Durham,
Democratic and Republican candidates
for the office of Prosecuting Attorney .will
address the citizens of the Fourth Judicial
District ol this S a'e. atihe following nam
ed places and times:
At ria. Clatsop county, May 13th. at 8
o'clock p. m.
St. Helens, Columbia county. May ll:h.
at 8 p. m.
Ames' Chapel. Washington county, May
It! iti. at "J p. rn.
lliilsboro, Washington county, May IS,
at 1 p. m.
($egon City, Clackamas county, May
'22.1, at 8 p.m."
HON. GEO,. R. HELM, of Linn county,
will adddiess the citizens of Oregon on
the politicl issues of the day at the follow
ing times and places, to wit :
Lafayette. Saturday . . " 1 1 th. 1 o'clock
Mc.Minnville. Monday ' Pith.
Dallas. Tuesday ". " 1 Mi, "
Independence. Wed. . . " loth, "
Junction City, Friday " 17th. "
Crfcssweli, Saturday.. . LSui. "
(Oakland. Mond iv " 20th, "
Roseburg Tuesday. . . " 21t.
Canyon ville. Wed" " 22nd, "
Hock Point. Friday. . . " 24th, "
A-diland. Monday " 27th.
Kerbvville.Wednesday ' 2!);h,
QWaIdo. Thursday " 3)th,
QJacksonvilI. Saturday June 1st,
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Governor Grover will speak on the
pending issues at the following times and
places :
Eugene May 11th
Oakland ; Liifi
Eos t org " l-ith
Ashland " 7th
Jacksonville " lHh
Public Speaking.
Gov. Grover will address the
citizens of this county, at Stipp's
School House, near Harrison
Wright's, on Saturday, May 25th,
at one o'clock p. in.
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Oregon City has usually chosen Repub
licans in her municipal elections, hut has
occasionally chosen Democrats. A Detno
cratie Mayor was elected .it that pi ice
three or four years ago. and the same
tiling is repeated now. Toe result has no
special political significance.
The above is from the Oregon
itn, and is about as cool as any
thing we have ever witnessed. It
would give the impression that the
Mayor was all that was elected.
It is the second instance in ticdee
years that the Democrats elected
their Mayor, and during that entire
time they have not had any other
city officer. This time they elected
not only the Mayor, but Recorder,
Assessor and Collector, Marshal,
City Attorney, and live Council
men. It has a political significance.
The poeple demand a change, and
thev will have it in the county as
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they declared in the city last Mon
day. C a f.k ri ng Pnosr kcts. From
all parts of our State encouraging
news reaches us of the prospects
of our party. Judge Burnett is
making an effective campaign, and
everywhere he has spoken made a
good impression. In every count v
throughout the Slate harmony ex
ists, and an overwhelming triumph
will be had in June.
The Cincinnati Convention.
Horace Greeley, of Xew York,
and Gov. 15. Gralz Brown, of
Missouri, were nominated at Cin
cinnati by flu-Liberal Republicans
as their candidates for President
and Vice President. In the result
of the action of this Convention
we have no further interest than as
to the effect it will have on the de
feat of II. S. Grant. The Conven
tion was controlled and composed
of Republicans, and the nominees
are Republicans, and whatever ef
fect it may have on the Republican
party, it can have none whatever
on the success and future course of
the Democracy. While in times
past there might have been a proba
bility or possibility, in the De
mocracy uniting with this move
ment for the defeat of Grant, the
action of the Convention in select
ing these standard bearers lias
forever precluded any such a possi
bility, and the plain duty of Demo
crats is, to await the action of their
own Convention. If these Liberal
Republicans are in earnest in their
professions to defeat Grant, and
will place in the field electors in
the various States, the result can
not be questioned next November.
The Democracy will elect their
nominees, by an overwhelming
majority, and Grant and Greeley
111 . 1 T t T
win tie notn tJeieateu. in any
event, the split which is so thorough
in the Radical party, can never be
healed so as to elect Grant and he
must either be thrown out at
Philadelphia or the Radical party
will meet wih defeat before the
people. As the Democracy have,
up to this time hail nothing to do
in the family matters of the Radi
cal party, and the split is one of
their own creation, let them main
tain their neutral position on this
question until the National Demo
cratic Convention, which is the
chosen representative body of our
party, acts. We are of the opin
ion that Greeley will eventually
backdown from his opposition, and
if it is necessary to cause his with
drawal to secure a Radical victory
at the expense of throwing Grant
overboard, it will be done. Should
the Philadelphia Convention do so,
Greeley will withdraw and sup
port the nominee. Whatever ma)
be the result of the action of this
Convention, it cannot but be of
great benefit to the Democracy.
To show that Greeley is still a
Radical, and will do his utmost to
secure the success of his party, we
publish the following, which ap
peared in the New York Tribune
a short time since, and which
should commend itself to the con
sideration of every Democrat :
If the contest be between a Democrat
and two Radicals I would support that
Radical which gave the greater promise
of success, no matter how able and incor
ruptible the Democrat, or how weak and
purchase-.ible the Radical even though
it be grant himself.
Whatever may be the future
action of the disorganized and
broken fragments of tlie Radical
party, it is not at all probable that
the Democracy with her three mil
lion of votes, a majority of the
entire white vote of the country,
will submit to anything but a par
ty nomination, and if Republicans
are honestly in favor of the'reform
they profess, the results of the
next November elections are fore
gone conclusions. It is a Radical
quarel, and should the Democracy
attempt to interfere in it, they will
only aid them in uniting their
broken forces. Let Democrats
have nothing to do it, and our suc
cess over the two Radical Condi
dates U. S. Grant and Horace
Greeley will be a most glorious
victory. Tlie Cincinnati Conven
tion is a Radical funeral, and Dem
ocrats are not called upon to be
mourners. Let our friends remem
ber how the Radical party came
into power, and they will readily
see what this split will do for the
Democracy. The Radicals are
very anxious to have the people
believe that this is a Democratic
movement, but no man of common
sense is so blind as not to see that
it is the entering wedge, made
and placed at the head of the
Radical party to accomplish its de
feat by themselves. Democrats
have only to wait, thu nmnor ..,.
and all will be well.
A Noblk CiiAMnox. By pri
vate letter we learn that Hon. Geo.
R. Helm has made his campaign a
complete success so far, and wher
ever he has spoken, left a good im
pression. At Astoria he had the
largest audience of ladies and
gentlemen ever assembled to listen
to a political speaker, and also at
St. Helens. He is one of our best
speakers, and will do our cause
much good wherever he speaks.
Give him crowded houses.
The Result of the City Election.
Oregon Ciy Dtmocrnt Ic I
The result of the election last
Monday was a complete Democrat
ic triumph. . Tlie contest was
quietly, yet warmly carried on by
the friends .of both parties, and a
full vote was polled. The . Demo
crats elected their Mayor, Record
er, Assessor and Collector, Marshal,
City Attorney, and five out of the
seven Councilmcn. This is the
second time in twelve years that a
Democrat has been elected Mayor
of the city, and not a Councilman
or other officer of the city has been
Democratic during the entire
twelve 3 ears. No wonder that
the few Democrats who have stood
firm during these many years had
become disheartened and discour
aged, and further, it had become
regarded as a mere foil) for Dem
ocrats to attempt to carry the
city while all the judges of election
were Republicans and some of
them were regarded as unscrupu
lous partisans. Yet true and tried
Democrats have finally achieved
a most glorious victory, and as may
be anticipated, feel justly proud
of it. While we have gained the
city, it is not our purpose to
strike a defeated opponent, but, as
the election is over, now view the
ground and cause of this glorious
victory, this was not the result ot
any new Democrats coming into
the city, but the result of an honest
and desired change, of administra
tion of affairs from the hands in
which it had been so long, and
from whom the people were receiv
ing no good. They desired a change
and voted with the Democracy to
secure the long-promised reforms
which the people demanded.
As we said before, the contest
was active, and it was more so by
those who had heretofore voted
and acted with the .Republican
party. They saw no hope in their
former associates giving the relief,
and hence took an active part in
favor of those who had not yet
betrayed them, and in whom they
could trust. It was an honest wish
for a change which caused this re
sult, and one which will be follow
ed by an equal triumph in the June
election. The people feci, and
justly too, that their interests have
been neglected, and that a change
cannot be made for the worse, but
must be for the better. The hearts
of the people are yet right, and
when they know what they ought
to do for their good, and the good
of their fellow-men, they will do it.
Oregon City is Democratic, made
so by honest Republicans coming
from the party which has proved
unworthy of their trust. This elec
tion has a deep-signification. It is
this, that the people of Clackamas
county are determined to have a
change, and they will have it after
the J une election. The people of
Oregon City have spoken. So will
the people of the county speak
next June.
How. Does He Like It? The
question has frequently been asked
us, how our friend Dave Thompson
likes the way the Radicals charge
him with being a "school fund
theif?" It is a strange thing to us
how a man can act with a party
which denounce him so bitterly for
taking that two hundred thousand
dollars from the school fund for
the benefit of the Lock bill, and
calling him a ''school fund thief."
We can account for Dave's associ
ation with that party in this wise,
that no matter how badly they
abuse him, or what hard names
they call him by, he is better than
a majority of the -members of his
party. He gets all he can when
an opportunity is offered, and the
rest of the Radicals get mad at him
because he does not divide. That,
we presume, is about the true state
of facts. Dave saw a good thing
in the Lock bill; got it passed;
sold out while it was at its highest,
and put the money in his pockets,
and now he cries with the rest
against the "school fund swindle."
There is a. degree of consistency
in all things, but we fail to observe
where Dave's consistency comes in.
Speaking. Gen. Nesmith has
agreed to canvass the State with
Geo. II. Williams, and left for
southern Oregon last Monday.
They propose to speak in the prin
cipal towns of the State. Gen.
Nesmith will make it warm for
Flaxbrake and his Radical crew
before the election is over.
The finances' of Union county are, in
good condition at the present time, conn
ty warrants are worth 97 i cents on the
dollar. Hut few are now out standing.
This is a new county, and under Demo
cra ic rule. Clackamas is an old county
under Radical rule, and county warrants
are worth 90 cents. Can the voters of
this county see the difference?
A letter in the Albany Democrat says
that Governor Grover saved two hundred
thousand dollars to Portland exactly the
total amount voted to aid in constructing
the Locks and Canal. And this accounts
for the Balltlin's denunciation of our I
state Eiecntlvf.
COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRArll,
ttv TMma tw rvn pat TriT
Our County in Dett.
Through the management of
Radical officials, our county is
argain in debt; and orders are now
worth 'ninety cents on the dollar.
How, or why this is, is a question
we are not able to answer. At
the commencement of the present
year, the" finanancial exhibit, as
published, showed that the county
was out of debt, and a surplus on
hand of over one thousand dollars.
No extraordinary expenses have
been incurred during the year, no
bridges built nor other permanent
or expensive improvements made,
yet we find the money all gone,
and at the close of the present year
a debt will be hanging over the
people equal to that of two years
ago. The amount of revenue
raised this year is equal to that of
1869-70, if not more, yet the coun
ty indebtedness during that year
was reduced nearly five thousand
dollars, and instead of having
cash on hand at the close of this
year, we again find our county
paper down to ninety cents on the
dollar, and it will probably be less.
We do not reilect on the honesty
or integrity of the members of the
Countv Court, but it is a matter
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which the people are interested in,
and they cannot comprehend why
such a state of affairs should exist.
The Board must, or ought to have
known what it would cost to meet
the ordinary expenses, and as we
have incurred no extraordinary
outlays, why should we be in debt
two months before the close of the
present fiscal .year? This is a
question which requires an answer,
and the voters of our overtaxed
county should consider these facts
before the next election. It is for
them to say whether they will
again vote for the party which has
in the past proven itself so incom
petent to administer their affairs or
not. It is a question on which
the tax-payers those who have to
bear the burden to say whether
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thev do not want a change in our
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county affairs. Let them follow
the example of the voters of this
city, and try another party. It is
a noteworthy fact that while two
Democrats, Judge McCown and
John Myers, were in office, the
county raised only &'i'3,000
through taxation, and with that
paid off near five thousand dollars
indebtedness. Yet, with more
money this year, the coun.'y has
gone into debt. Will not the peo
ple say on the fust Monday in
June next, we have tried to find
relief in the Republican party long
enough, but have not found it, and
turn in masse and vote for a new
set of men, and give them a trial.
It cannot be for the worse but must
be for the better. We hope our
tax-payers will consider these mat.
ters before they cast their votes
next June, and not allow the hol
low and unmeaning promises of
the Radical party again to per
suade them into trusting the party
which has so often and repeatedly
betrayed them. Let no party lash
force them to support a ticket
which comes to you responsible
for the terrible condition of our
county, and thus vote against your
and your children's good. The
farmer and tax-paver should not
regard the appeals of politicians
who have been anxiously laying
in wait and intriguing for nomina
tion to office, for their votes, but
place in office men of known in
tegrity and ability and we know
a change for the better must come.
You have tried the Radical party
for the last ten years; what have
they done for you? The question
is answered by saying: They have
taxed us to death and have nothing
to show for it. We hope the
voters will consider these matters.
It. is for them to say whether they
wish this state of affairs to con
tinue or not. If you do, stay with
the Radical party. They will tax
yon until vou will eventually be
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ready to come to the Democracy.
It is only a question of time, and
the sooner the change is made, the
better it will be for the good of
the people.
Got 'Km. The primary conven
tions were carried last Tuesday, at
Portland, by Ben Ilolladay & Co.,
by overwhelming majorities, the
Corbett men . evidently staying
away from the polls, as their
strength does not appear from the
result of the votes cast. It is
stated that money was freely spent.
It is reported as a humiliating dis
grase and farce on the name of a
free ballot. He has now got 'em;
it remains to be seen whether lie
will be able to elect his ticket in
June.
, Graut. Jr.. proposes to spend bis vaca
tion in Europe, lie goes thither in order
to learn etiquette which prevails under
despotism, so' that when his illustrious
progenitor dons the purple, the son may
appear at home.
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Oar Special Washington Letter-
Washington. April 20th, 1872.
Editor ExTEr.PKrsrs : In imitative of
the large Liberal Republican meeting
held in the Cooper Institute New York,
which was addressed , by Senators
Trumbull and Schurz the offlce holders
got up one also, on Wednesday night last
at same place, at which the celebrated
)tn Sickles was . the principal speaker.
Let it be borne in raind that Sickles is at
present our Minister to Spain, and still
retains his position in the army, of Major
General. He was a very appropriate rep
resentative of the cilice-holders meeting.
One par! of the programme signally failed.
The day previous to the meeting a paper
was started in the House of Representa
tives to obtain the signatures of the Repub
lican members to an endorsement of
Graut and an expression in favor of his
re-electicn. This movement ilevelooed
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the fact that some seventy Republican
members did not sign the paper. The
purpose was to telegraph the endorsement
so as to have it read at the meeting. The
getters up of this movement an; greatly
chagrined and disappointed, and the effect
has demonstrated what was only suspect
ed before, that there exists in the House a
very wide-spread opposition to Grant on
the part of Republican Representatives.
Every day there is some new element of
antagonism to Graut. Gov. Palmer of
Illinois is out with a strong indictment the
office holders candid ite, and the Govern
or declares :.n favor of the Liberal Repub
licans and the Cincinna'i Convention.
The excitement here is intense over the
Cincinnati movement, and the occupants
at the White House are waking up at last
to the danger which threatens them. The
friends of Grant, believing that the nom
inees of the Cincinnati Convention will be
supported by the Democrats and that the
latter will not present candidates of their
o wn, are bidding for the liourbon Demo
cr.its. They say Grant never has been a
Republicans pi'rsc thai he voted for
Buchanan in 18GD, and Democrats are in
vited to vote for him in preference to the
nominee of the Liberals. They will open
the doors very wide now. they sav. for
dissatisfied Democrats, and promise a
fair division of spoils for Democratic aid
in this hour of tribulation. Poiiiies make
strange bedfellows sometimes, and it will
not be a nutter of surprise to see some
Democrats go over to Grant but. they
belong to the class of place hunters and
impractical.-.
In view of the probability that the
Democrats do not nominate candidates of
their own. the question will be involved
in great perplexity, and no one can pre
dict the result of the campaign. The re
sult of the action at Cincinnati will be
known to your readers as socn as this
letter is pub!ih. and indulgence in any
speculations will be time thrown away.
The committee raised to investigate
some irregularities in the Navy Depart
ment have been quite bu--y duiii-gthe
pat week in the examination of witnesses,
and have brought out some d imaging
transactions in tlie conduct of the present
Secretary. The Sewer claim, which had
been closed and paid during the previous
administration, was reopened by Secre
tary Robeson by the efforts of attorneys,
and the Sinn of allowed, and it
was in proof that the claimant received
$2t.or,;J of the same, arid the attorneys got
S2C..O00, l!ie. other half. One of thiWb -gal
gentleman was Evart of New York,
now one of the Conn.; selected by Grant
to attend the Geneva t ribunal that de
cides on the Alabama claims, u.d another
is Chipman. the present (ielgate iu Con
gress Irotn the District of Columbia. Th
is give:: as a specimen of how the people's
money is used to keep nt party lavoiites.
It has always been the practice of the
Government from its foundation, to regard
the action of a previous adminstraiion on
a claim to be conclusive, unless re-opened
by (lie of action Congress. This, auminis
tiation disregards all precedents, when
they conflict with the interests of its
particular partisan friends.
The session will not last longer than the
1st of June. The tariff question is now
the only remaining important measure to
be disposed of. and the opinion is, that the
House will make shoit work of the whole
question. Those iu favor of the reduction
will not be seduced into a discription ot
detailed reductions, but by some sweeping
measure, reduce the rates at a single blow
This is the only way to bring down the
duties. Long winded discussions of tariff
measures, dealing in mere details, has
heretofore defeated needful reforms. The
people demand lower duties, and the abo
lition of Internal taxes on every thins: ex
cept such articles as whisky and tobacco
and the Income tax. The latter only taxes
incomes of $2.00;) and over, and those
who are so fortunate as to have such in
comes can afford to support the Govern
ment, and help pay olf the National debt.
Congress is making very liberal appro
priations to the various public improve
inents around the Capitol, and to the ciiv
of Washington. The argument in favor of
these large outlays of money is that the
United States is a great country its citi
zens are a proud race, and that the sur
roundings of the seat of Government ought
to correspond. Well.no donbi. those who
come here like to see magnificent build
ings and beautiful grounds, and that class
will not grumble, but to the farmers in
Oregon, and elsewhere, at the tail of their
plows, think very often upon the fact as
they are toiling, how many bit-diels of our
wheal will all these large sums for Seuace
Stone buildings take from ns.
The condition of the Southern States is
great I3- improved, and Southerners now
coming here have a more cheerful appear
ance. They are getting fine prices , for
their tobacco and cotton, and a genera!
prosperity now prevails throughout the
South, and if it had no', been for the terri
ble debts put upon hem by the Legisla
tion of carpet-baggers and ignorant ne
groes, they would be the most prosperous
people in the Union.
Col. Chapman is still here, and is in
most excellent spirits since the pa-sage of
the Portland and Salt Lake Railroad bill.
What particular negotiations he bison
hand. 1 am not advised of. but am ?atish-d
he is at work for the prosecution of the
work on his road.
The Democracy of your State held their
Convention on the 10th instant. Up
to this time n ) report of what was done
has reached here by telegraph or by the
newspapers, though there is a rumor that
Judge Burnett has been nominated for
Congress. He has a good record, and will
make an excellent member, and his nom
ination or that of any other sterling Dem
ocrat, will receive the cordial support of
your present Representative. lie always
so expressed himself to the writer of this.
But. it is to be regreted that the policy of
Oregon to change her Representative
every term, was not abandoned. The ex
perience gained by your present
Representative would have been vury
useful to the interests of Oregon in anoth
er two years in Congress.
Spring has fairly opened here, and veg
etation is putting out freely. The season,
however, has heen. a month later here
than usual. PtUf.iccs.
Just So. While some of our
Radical friends claim that they
made no effort to carry the City
last Monday, we hope they have
not forgotten the urgent appeal
made by Mayor Charman after he
received his nomination, for the
Republicans to "work and secure
the election of the ticket, as, it
would have a strong influence in
the June election." We think
every effort the Republicans could
bring to bear last Monday was
brought into requisition, and their
defeat is but a forerunner of what
is to follow on the 3d of June.
They were as well aware of the in
fluence the result would have as
the Democrats, and both parties
fought hard for success. It was
quietly done, yet.no vote was lost
on either side which could be se
cured. Mayor Charman was right
when he said it would have a great
weight in the June election. Te
are willing to take his won! for it,
and so will the people every where.
Ju-t think a town going Republi
can twelve years and turning over
just, before an important election,
and then think it will have no in
fluence. We think it will.
OuTiiAOEors. J. M. Moore, one
of the Judges of election ruled out
a number of legal voters last Mon
day, some who had voted here for
years, and others who had just as
much of a legal vote as him or any
other citizen. The entire crew of
the K. N. Cooke was deprived of
their votes, and they all had the
required qualification according to
the law. The lock hands, who
have had their families here for
over:a year, and who had been in
the county and city for over the
required time, were also refused
their votes. The agent of the
Railroad Company, who has been
a citizen here for nearly two years,
was denied the right of suffrage.
We notify this expounder of the
law in time, as he is one of the
Judges in June, that such rulings
will not be tolerated 0:1 the 3d of
June, by a free people who know
their lights and dare maintain
them. It is simply an outrage on
the right of suffrage, and will not
bear repeating.
Deceptive. We learn that the
candidates on the Good Templars
ticket which was placed in nomin
ation by the Radical county con
vention agreed to allow (as a paci
fier) the defeated candidates and
their friends to nominate the City
ticket ami they would give it
their hearty support. Instead of
that, they quietly voted the ticket
last Monday, and left, leaving their
friends to light it out as best they
could. It was ungrateful in these
fellows to do so, but they will
orobablv cct their reward in" June.
It is stated that the arrival of
Geo. II. Williams has made the
old line Republicans "let go" en
tirely, and they declare that they
will vote for no man who is so
grasping as to demand a seat in
the Senate and surrender the At
torney General's place. It is stated
that he desires to either get out of
his present place on account of in
competency, or ho can make it pay
better to be in the Senate. Prob
ably both.
Ratiieu Eaulv. A correspond
ent writing to the OregO)iian,
from St. Helens, under date of the
7th, speaks of the speech delivered
at that place last night by Hon.
Geo. R. Helm. Considering that
that was a day before Mr. Helm
spoke there, it is safe to presume
that correspondence was written
in the Oregonian office.
Wim. Nor SumuT. We learn
from Portland that the Republicans
of that city will not submit to the
outrageous manner by which the
Railroad King carried the prima
ries, and that they propose to run
another ticket. The fight has by
no means subsided, but is hotter
than ever. Let the fight go on.
Attorney General Williams is
staying in Southern Oregon await
ing his orders. Probably if his
master succeeds in carrying Mult
namah county for him he will be
ordered to come further north. He
is a pliant instrument in the hands
of Ben Ilolladay.
S. L &. P. R. R. The Idaho Statesman.
last Saturday, speaking of our fellow
townsman, says: -Col. Chapman, Presi
dent of the Salt Lake and Portland Rail
road, arrived in Boise City by yesterday's
Overland stage, direct from Washington,
and will leave for Portland this morning.
He reports that arrangements have been
made to comrnenc work on the Portland
and Silt Lake Railroad immediately.
The company liav already made ample
arrangements to build one hundred miles
of road, and it will be pushed through to
this place as fast as possible. TheCol
onel is in the best of spirits, and feels that
he is accomplishing a great work, and so
do we. and we w ish him continued success
and health." Oregonian.
Er.FCTrox Prkcincts. We hope our
friends in the various precincts which
have been recently changed, will bear in
mind the changes made, and be careful
to vote in their proper precinc. We
shall republish the changes in our next
issue, and hope all who are interested
will take due notice, so they do not Ioso j
their volt I
State News.
The Weekly Mercury is to be enlarged,
Owen Kellogg of Portland 13 the oldest
man in Oregon.
Petty burglaries have been very nnraer
0U3 in Salem of late.
A new pump factory is to be establish
ed at Salem .
Mail? are carried thirty-five miles be
yond Eugene by rail.
Eastern Oregon is sending fat beef cat
tie to the Willamette valley.
Parties are examining for a loeition for
the Willamette bridge at Portland.
. A man in Wasco county caught seventy
skunks during the past six months.
John Baker, of Salem, proposes to turn
out 8,000 bricks per day after Monday.
The Monmouth Base Ball Club beat thd
Athletics of Corvallis in a recent game.
A line of tri weekly stages has been
dut on between Albany and Yaqnina Bur, t
Rumors are afloat again that the O. S
N. Co. has sold out to the N. P. R. R. Co"
The Yamhill county Democratic Con
vention will meet next Saturday. 1 1th
hist.
Ephraim IT. Day. well-known by many"
OregonianSj died at Portland, od the bM
ir.st.
Rev. Mr. Condon, of the Dalles, is slow
ly recovering from the results of bis Into
mishap.
The Se-.n!e has confirmed the appoint
ment of E. C. Watson as Register at Link
ton. Oregon.
Mrs Jonathan Moar. of San vies Island,
said to be the oldest white pioneec woman
in Oregon, died last week.
The Oregon it California Railroad has
been completed to Pastes' Station, forty
miles beyond Eugene.
A man named Sidney Ilenston commit
ted Suicide near Harrisburg, Monday,
May Cth. by cutting tiis throat.
James Hendershot has been renominat
ed bv the Democrats for State Senator in
Union county. O. D. Andrews for Joint
Representative.
The Oregon Deutsche Ze-lllnj published
at Portland, has been enlarged and much
improved, and is now run in the interest
of Ben Ilolladay.
Two valuable horses belonging to G. S.
Whitney, of Canyon City, were run over
and killed by a train of cars at the Dallrs
last Tuesday afternoon.
Wtn. Chit wood, a young man of seven
teen, accidentally shot himself, at Sam"
valley. Jaek-on county, a few day since,
and died next day.
Samuel Wilson, who came to Oregon
several years ago, is requested to step to
the front. Mrs Phoebe J. Wihson, of
Keokuk. Iowa, wants him.
The Journal tells of a calf owned by
Mr. II. G. Hadley. of Lane county, which
lias neither eyes nor tail. It is a perfect
calf in every other respect.
The Htrahi says that the Liberal Re
publicans of Portland are making ar
rangements to receive Jasper Johnson on
his viimi from the Cincinnati Conven
tion. -The Salem Mercury say : There i an
atder tree across the river, in Polk county,
that is fix feet and eight inches in circum
ference. Probably the largest alder trre
in Oregon.
Governor Grover has appointed Com
missioner of Deeds, for Oregon, J. II.
Woodward, to reside in Louisville. Ken
tucky, and Oren D. Bragdou. to reside at
New Orleans, Louisiana.
We notice that P. C. Sullivan, or Polk
county. petti!ojjer. received a mast un
merciful flogging t DalUs during
the session of the Circuit Court, lat
week, by a client of bw.
J. W. Johnson, of Appleg;r'e. fed from
his wagon on Sunday while in a !ate of
intoxication, fracturing bis Pkull nnd re
ceiving other injuries, from the effects of
j vvii:cb " ,Iu'(1 0,1 Tuesday.
The 3erwry say.: UV urc informed
I that our fellow citizen. Ben Simpson, ha
Sone; difficulty 11; explaining to the Benton
county voters how to reside in Marion
and run for tbe Legislature iu IL'iitoo.
Mr. Sellv. of Polk countv. has a Terr
ornary" looking hen which lavs two egg
a day. Tlie htst ejjg she laid measured
(5 by !) inches and weighed five ounces,
A wfiopper. but very light. So say th
3Irrcn.
A correspondent of the Albany Dem
crut. writing from Scio, say that th
Hpeech delivered at that place by Mr. C.
G. Gutl. of Salem, was well received, and,
pronounces him one of the ablest speak
ers in theSlalc.
Gov. Grover made the following arv
pointments of Notaries Public on Thurs
day last: L. O. Stearns. Baker City; A.
Weller. Sparta. Union county; Samuel O.
L. Potter. Portland, and Charles Knight,
Cariby. Clackamas county.
There are 3.000 Indians on the Lapwal
Agency. La st year they raised 10.000
bushels of corn and 10.000 bushels of oats.
O ie Indian on this reservation has fonx
hnndreil head of cattle and a considerable
amount of personal property.
A lady, the wife of a prominent citizen
of Sab m. left her children with ft neigh
bor, and went to Portland, where she tools
pasoTCe on the Oriffamrne for San Fraiv-cisc-t.
without bidding her Lre-bund
goodbye or letting birn know that &b
was "going away to leave biro.7'
Isiac Hi:t.?haw, fhe missing rn in In Polk
county, has bee.n foutr?, lie bad gom? in
to the mountains to die. but before fw
could freeze, repented of hi.4 foBjr and at
tempted to return home. He was found:
with his feet frozen and nearly p'arTKl,
having been seven days without food.
On the 12th of April a Mr. William A.
Turner was drowned, while engaged in
floating logs down a tributary ot Smith
river, about twenty miles from Gardner
City. Mr. Turner was a natjvo of Scot
land, about twenty-eight years of
He is supposed to have relatives in lh
vicinity of Astoria.
The Dallas Depuhlican Fays:' The survey
ors are at work running a line through
Polk county, for the Oregon Central Rail
road. We understand they cross the Rio
real near Hon J. W. Nesmith's. The lin
is permanently located to the crossing of
the Yamhill, one and a half miles abor
Lafayette, South of that point the lines
now being run are temporary."
The following is the Democratic ticket
for Clatsop county : Joint Representative,
G. Davidson ; Representative, John Hob-'
son ; County Commissioners. R. W. Mor
rison and W. W. Cole ; Sheriff, J. F. Bar
rows ; County Clerk. 11. S. Aiken ; Coun
ty Treasurer, Geo. Flavel ; School Super
intendent. T. A. llvland ; Assessor, J. F.
Nowlen : Surveyor. S. D. Adair.
The stockholders of the Tnalitan River
Navigation and Manufacturing Company,
on the 2d inst. elected Directors for the
ensuing year as follows ; Geo. L. Curry.
Joseph Kellogg, W. D. Hare. A. F. Hedgen,
J. 1). Merryman. These gentlemen met
last evening and elected Geo. L. Curry,
President : Wr. D. Hare, Vice President";
Joseph Kellogg. General Sup't, aud R. B.
Curry, Secretary.
The Corvallis (Benton county) Demo
crat, is responsible for tbis : Here is the
Drecious morceau that was stuck, up- at
the Posloffice at Newport :
Any person employed on- ths WDrfe -Caoe
Fouhveather Light-house who
sha'l speak disrespectfully, on or off duty,
of t ie President, of the United States, of
any member of the Cabinetr or any supe
rior fficer of the Government, will be
iramidiately discharged.
Henry M Robert.
Major of Engineers U. S. Army.