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VOL. 6.
OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1872.
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of First siml Aid. r Strrc ts, Co- ' ls i .
The patronise of thoe destrins superior
ope-Atio is is in special reqnet. Nitmusox
id - 'o- th n iin'ess extraction of teeth,
"5fA' ti icial teeth -better than the best,'
lid ''';: -1 p as t'tr ?htltft.
Will tie in Oregon City on Saturdays.
Nov. 5:'f
J. M. Til " FSON,
C W. FITCH.
TH 3SOr & FITCH,
AND
Real Estate Agents,
EUGSK I CiTY, OREGON,
OFFICE TWO DOORS NORTH OF THE POSTOFFICE.
REAL ESTATE BOUGHT AND SOLD.
LOANS NEGOTIATED, AND AB
STRACT OF TITLES FURNI5IIED.
WE II AYE A COMPLETE A DETRACT
of Title of all property in Eugene
City, an 1 perfect plats of the same, prepared
witb reat care. We will practice in the
different Courts of the Stat-. Special -attention
eiven to the collection of all claims
that niav be placed in our hands. Leeal
Tenders by-rH i;d ,.Id.
GAZETTED,
The type setter stands before hi.s case
1 1n- gas burns low and the night is deep:
And over the slavering chimney stacks
Darkness and shadows creen."
And the city is lost in sleep'.'
Tha type-setter standa there gaunt and
lib dim old eyes and a weary brain ;
Ami he sighs -d cadence solemn and low.
To the beat of bitter rain
On the rattling casement and pane.
Tiemble the rafters, roof, and Moors.
As he fingers the tvoes (in his desolate
v-iy);
And he hears tli? music faintly Lome
From the Iheatroovei the. way.
At some strange old tragedy play.
The old man sings, and tremble the floors
Willi the bellowing engine down below.
And the crash oi the whirling axle bars.
And the thunders that from them grow,
Echoing to and fro.
As he fingers the types (in his detolate
way)
He ?e:s them tip wtih a heavy lead ;
And a marge of black encircles his work
The niime of the man just dead :
A soul in the battle sped.
And he sihs as he thinks, this man so
"Winking and blinking before his case,
How. out in the dark and desolate night,
home loim oi womanly grace
Is weeping upon her lace.
Lower and lower the gas lights burn,
And grow the shadows duUy and gray;
And the storm is hushed and the music's
swell
And the theatre over the way,
And fi fished the tragedy play.
And the type-setter wipes his dim old
eyes ;
The types no more wilh Lis fingers
move ;
And he smiies that while setting the name
below.
The angels, in tender love.
Were setting it up above.
Grroit's familiars-.
It is a painfully interesting p;roup
of familiars that surround and con
trol Gen. Grant. Look at them,
as they are set out by the Xew
York Sun :
There is brother-in-law Dent,
who tends the door of the White
House, and peddles patronage on
d u e e o n s i d e t a t i o 1 1 .
There is brother-in-law Casey,
who runs the Custom House at
Xew Orleans, and tried to break
up the State Government of Louis
iaua because he could not control
1 1 ,
There is brother-in-law Corbin.
the central figure of the Black Fri
day goid conspiracy, who contrived
to make 25,000 out of it for one
of the members of the White
House family, and who would have
made all of them rich, perhaps, it
another of the family had not got
frightened at Washington and
backed out and leit poor Corbin in
the lurch.
There is the fattier of this inter
esting group, cunning old Jesse
himself, who bargained with Stoms
for 500 to keep the latter in the
enjoyment of a gaugersbip in the
Cincinnati Custom House.
There is Gen. Babcoek, who un
dertook to engineer the San Do
mingo job in contravention of in
ternational law, .and dailv violates
a law of Congress by acting as
Grant's private secret a 1-3-.
There is young Col. Leet, who
with Gen. Grant's letter in his
pocket, made a good thing out of
the order business, and still linger
in that rich pie, and a warm place
in the affections and the interests
of his great patron.
There is Hobeson, Grant's right
bower ii the Cabinet who thinks it
a small consideration to pa a con
tractor 08,000 in violation of the
law, provided the contractor knows
how to make Christmas presents in
a graceful way to the right person.
There is Choi-penning Creswell,
who thinks a half million or so not
too much for a mail contractor,
provided lie appreciates addition,
division and silence.
There is Bancroft Davis, who
made out out "case" for Geneva,
and concerning whom it would be
interesting to know precisely how
much lie personally is to get out of
the Alabama claims. "
There is the whole carpet-bag
throng, who have run the Southern
States in debt to the amount oi'
nearly three hundred millions of
dollars, and have not a shadow of
doubt that the preservation of the
three amendments depends upon
keeping the patron saint of these
cormorants in power for another
four 3-ears.
There is W. II. Kcmble, a lead
ing member of Grant's National
Lommittee, who wrote that now
notorious Addition, Division, and
Silence letter.
We might extend this catalogue
of Grant's friends. But this will
suuice lor the present.
Rough ov -LtTTt.B Ruonr." T!;-
Louisville JonrnaK referring to the fa
that a party is to build a hotel in Rhode
Island 92 feet long, by CO feet wide. Jx
presses astonishnu-nt that the authorities
would '-permit anybody to put the S;ate
all under one roof in that way" Tt j
expected to be finished in September.
Rob says : "Horace Greeley will have an
opporti::..:;. ui auurcssin
01 auurcssincr the u-tiAta
i,1 .c
;;i tne Cin:;g ro-sm, o-
e t:!f-?f!or."
A Contrast.
DAVIS AND LEE AND THE GREAT
UNITED STATES GIFT-TAKER.
As a specimen of the differeut
stuff that public men may be made
of, we copy the following pointed
contrast. It is from the Richmond
correspondence of the Cincinnati
Commercial. It leaves no little
room for the reader, as the letter
writer suggests, to draw the con
trast for himself. Through every
line about the refusal of Lee and
Davis to take gifts, stands out the
base contrast of the Seneca-Gift-Enterpriser
:
Back of the Capital, on Marshal
street, stands a large residence, one
of the finest in Virginia,. It oc
cupies a commanding position,
known as President hill. This
house was built man' years ago
y a wealth' gentleman named
Brockenbrough. He aspired to
have the most costly and beautiful
residence and surroundings in
Richmond, and to that end spared
neither money nor pains. The
grounds were laid out in beaut ful
style, traversed by gravel walks
and adorned by statuary and foun
tains. When the capital of the Confed
eracy was removed from Mont
gomery to Richmond, the City
Council here proposed to do some
thing handsome for "President
Davis;" so they bought the Brock
enbrough residence, with the in
tention of presenting it to him.
When he arrived here from Mont
gomery the city authorities had
gone so far as to pay for the prop
erty, and had the title vested in
Mr. Davis. A formal presentation
of the property was then made by
the City Council, when much to
their surprise and mortiiication,
he respectfully 'et firmly refused
lh. present. He warml thanked
the city authorities in this behalf,
yet he could not, consistent with
his own self-respect and the digni
ty of his office, accept the gift.
The city, however, refused to take
the property back, and for a time
there was a quandary. Mr. Davis,
however, held out lirmly, and. at
last the matter was compromised
by an agreement onthepartof the
city to become the owner oi' the
property, and an agreement by
Davis to live on it during his term
of oliice. His term was cut off by
the operations of the Federal army,
and has never been f iled out. The
property now belongs to the city,
and is used for school purposes.
I don't wish to draw any con
trast between the canducl of Jeif.
Davis and Grant in the matter of
acce pting houses and lots .as gifts,
but the reader can do so tor him
s If.
.Alter trazma:
tne rect:
ar.
turee stoned, stuccoed pile be lore
mentioned, thinking of the hopes
ami ears, disappointments, sor
rows, and joys that must have suc
cessively inhabited the breast of
the rebel president while he inhab
ited the city's three story house.
I passed on to take a look at the
residence occupied by General Lee
during the war, and yet known as
the "Lee house." It is a plain un
pretending three story brick build
ing. Xo. 707 Franklin street and
is now occupied by Mrs. George
Davis. Whether it was the prop
erty of Lee or not, I don't know,
but at all events he occupied it.
At the beginning of the war a
number of wealth' citizens of
Richmond made up a handsome
sum of money to buy General Lee
a house suited to his station and
raid-;. But he refused to accept
the proffered present, and the mon
ey was refunded to the subscribers.
Here we have two instances of the
most prominent men in the late
Confederacy. In the light of our
President's conduct, these two old
Confederates were great fools.
The Cotton Crop of IS 72.
The. report of the Department of
Agriculture on the cotton crop of
this year is encouraging. The av
erage increase of the area in acres
planted throughout the cotton
States over that of last vear
amounts to about thirteen p:r cent.
The condition of the plant isabout
as favorable as at the correspond
ing period of last year. If there
fore, nothing unusual occurs to
damage the crop between this
time and the time of gathering the
yield will be probably thirteen per
cent greater than last year. This
increase is not likely to affect the
market price much, for the increas
ed demand keeps fully up to the
augmented supply. When the
Sotitii recovers entirely from the
war, its labor becomes well organ
ized again, and a flow of immigra
tion sets in there, we shall have a
greater cotton product and cheap
er cotton
This is what happened to the
man who refused to buy his wife a
Dolly Varden :
His wife, she k-ft a note behind.
V tiich read. "I bej; your pardon.
Cut I'v run away wilh a nice vouhsr man
Who bough; m? a Dol'y Vsr'lei.-'"
Corpses in Hum.
A IIORniDLE RUMOR.
N. Y. Sun, June 2oth.
Pale consternation was seated on
the face of every Brooklyn poli
tician yesterday. The saloons
were deserted, and the barkeepers
employed themselves in chasing
flies from the counter, and boot
blacks from the doors. " Every
thing looked melancholy. A Sihi
reporter heard a "gentleman" in
vite an Alderman, a Supervisor, a
Commissioner, and a prominent
heeler to take su'thin'- They all
refused except the heeler, who said:
"Now dei e's notion' in dem bottles
what's got de seal on, 'case yer
can't get notion' in after the wax
is 1 mt on."
The others however, persisted in
their refusal. Unable to account
for this strange phenomenon, which
the reporter saw three different
times during the afternoon, lie in
terviewed a barkeeper.
"I don't know what's der mat
ter," said the barkeeper. "Some
bloke is injuring business, and if
der Board don't take action dere's
no protection. Xow, as far as I'se
concerned, all our liquors are gen
uine, and have been in the house
long before that dam vessel came
to port. Outside of sasparilly and
sich we haven't taken liquors in
since last Wednesday, and der
boat only come in Friday night."
"Ah !" said the reporter, as he
finished drinking the small bottle
of soda he had ordered, "then you
are all right."
"Why, uv corse I is, but will
you believe me, de Alderman and
do rest won't believe a word I say.
Dey think dat we've got some of
de "spirits which dose fellers were
in dat were fetched from Cubv on
de vessel."
At this point a couple of strang
ers entered and interrupted the
talkative barkeeper. They called
tor whisky. As they drank it the
barkeeper whispered, "This is the
iirst glass of hard stuff I've sold
to-dav, and I wouldn't hev sold
that if these fellers weren't country
men. '
Still mystified, yet having a
slight idea of the trouble from
what he had heard, the reporter
made father inquiry, ami learned
that last Friday a vessel arrived
from Cuba or some of the islands
contiguous thereto. On Saturday
eight large casks were removed
from her hold. Each of those
casks contained a dead body, and
the liquor which preserved them
on the voyage was sold to a whole
sale dealer, and by him it is said
was distributed all over the city.
All attempts to discover what par
ticular kind of liquor it was that
filled those eight ca-ks proved un
successful. The few who tire aware
of the fact are sedulously endeav
oring to keep the matter secret.
One of the politicians said:
"If they would tell us whether
it was rum or gin, why we could
shake that particular drink until
we knew the d n stuff was till
consumed, but as we don't know
anything about it, why we got to
sheer clear of everything until we
are worn out. I understand," he
continued, as he looked wistfully
toward a neighboring bar-room,
"that the Board are to send a com
munication to the Common Coun
cil of New York, and I wish them
luck."
At the meeting of the Board a
resolution was ordered to be sent
to the Xew York Board that the
shed around Fulton Market in Ful
ton street, from Front to Water and
from Beckman to Burling Slip in
South street be removed. It is
hoped that the Xew York Com
mon Council will take immediate
action, if this will re-establish
confidence .and good feeling, al
though the reporter was unable to
understand what connection the
streets in Xew York have with the
eight casks containing an unknown
brand of liquor and the dead
bodies.
A London, Ontario, paper has
the following among its "scientific
discoveries:" A new fashioned
buste was found in the cricket
field yesterday, which consisted of
several newspapers, three pairs of
hose, two "quilted" petticoats
(nearly worn out), two old slouch
hats, a pair of top boots, a bunch
of hay. a piece of stair carpet, and
a cord about three feet long.
.
A Louisville man, says the In
dianapolis Ecenimj Journal, very
drunk, fooled a rattlesnake, winch
he found on the common, by letting
it bite him fifty times. A snake is
fooling away its time in bitting a
Louisville man. They are not
afraid of snakes down theie until
they get into their boots.
They have a precise young man
in the office of the Worcester Ga
zette who never goes to bed or gets
up. ' He "retires" to the arms of
Morpheus, and ttarisesM when the
br'n-'ht aurora gilds the eastern hor
izon. An ! heV a printer.
Carl cliurz.
The following letter from Carl
Schurz, to Governor Palmer, of Ill
inois, in reply to an invitation to
attend the Liberal Republican Con
vention of that State, will explain
his position in regard to the ap
proaching Presidential contest :
St. Louis, June 25th.
31 y Dear Sir: I regret to say
that it will be impossible for me
to attend the Convention of Liber
als of Illinois to-morrow. I arrived
here last nigh from the East, and
find an accumulation of business
which demands my immediate at
tention, besides I desire to address
my constituents here before taking
part in the campaign elsewhere.
You have my earnest wishes in
your endeavors to rally for united
action all the elements in opposi
tion to that system of policy which
is now controlling the Government
and the people of this Republic,
and which has not inappropriately
been called Grant ism. It is time
that the people of the Xortli and
South be once more bound togeth
er by inspiring consciousness of.
common nationality, common
rights, common duties ; and to this
end it is necessary that the tradi
tional barriers be broken down and
that the policy of force by which
the embers of civil strife are assid
uously fanned, and bitter feelings
of the past are kept alive for parti
san advantages, give way in those
moral agencies to conciliation and
fraternal intercourse,withotit which
our Republican system cannot long
endure. It is time that despotism
of party spirit be broken, which
rules our national legislation. The
past organization of office-holders,
debauched with corruption, demor
alizes and subjugates public opin
ion, and stands in the way of every
true, and thorough reform, and to
this end it is necessary that the
embodiment of that despotism, the
present administration, be defeated
in its efforts to continue in power,
and that thus a free field be opened
for the reformatory movement, nn
trammeled by selfish partisan con
trol, whether we be able to accom
plish till we desire or not. We
certainly can accomplish this if
for that purpose we unite in an
energetic effort, and our success
will be a great step in the right
direction. Although I cannot be
with you to-morrow, I hope to be
able to co-operate with you to that
end in the cause of the Liberal
movement.
Very respectfully, etc.,
Oak 1. Sciiurz.
Gov. Yarmouth on Grant.
Governor War.moutii, of Lou
isiana, has declined a nomination
for the Governorship, for the rea
son that the Convention nominat
ing him was favorable to the re
election of Grant In his letter of
declination he says :
"The success of Gen. Grant at
the ensuing Presidential election
would be a calamity such as can
not be contemplated without
alarm. It would be the perpetua
tion, perhaps the permanent estab
lishment of personal government
in its worst form. It would be the
commencement of imperialism in
politics, and the utter and hopeless
degredalion of political morality.
It would be the coutinuence of an
odious executive and legislative
tyranny which tramples with equal
indifference upon the rights of per
sons and communities; which over
turns all the inanities of public lib
erty, and drags thousands of peace
able citizens to the common jail on
the false pretense of secret conspir
acy; which uses the bayonets of
its'soldiery to overawe a conven
tion of the people, and prostitutes
the courts of the country and the
officers of the law to the service of
an audacious attempt to overthrow
the government of a State.
"It was in order to avert these
evils and to join in the general pro
test against these infamous acts, as
well as to save this State from the
further depredations of the
ring of Federal ofiicials who
have persistently used their per
sonal and political power to suborn
and corrupt the Legislature, that I
went to Cincinnati and partici
pated in the nomination of Gree
ley and Brown. It is with the
view of assisting to prevent the
triumph in this State, of a party
whose success would fill the Leg
islature with the representatives of
organized ignorance and unblush
ing venality, would cause irrepara
ble injury to our commerce, would
irretrievably ruin our credit, and
bring contempt and scorn upon
even the beneficial results of Re
publican policy, and upon the
whole scheme of Republican re
construction, that I have resolved
to devote all my energies to the
service of the Liberal Republican
party. and the allies who may act
with it in this contest.
Sub-cribe for the EsTzrp.iSE.
Changing Front Without Cause.
The Xew York 3Tation, an able
Republican journal and one of the
leading spirits of the Liberal move
ment, now seems determined to
support Grant. It has a bitter
feeling against Greeley and without
the slightest cause for its political
change. It would have been satis
fied with Adams, but cannot sup
port the white-hatted philosopher.
The JSation is an advocate of Free
Trade, and with the two platforms
before it that of Cincinnati and
the office-holders' declaration at
Philadelphia it declares its prefer
ence for Grant over Greeley.
The tariff question as agreed
upon at Cincinnati was left to be
decided by Congressional action,
and must be regarded by those m
favor of a pure revenue tariff as far
superior to the declarations made
at 1 niiadelphia. liio iccniny
lost, also a i'ree lraue organ
which favored the Liberal Repub
lican movementjis not satisfied with
Horace Greeley, but it does not
quite agree with the Kaftan in its
views. It cherishes the hope that
hope that Grant's Administration
may be improved by the riddance
of the Senate from corrupt advisers
who have directed the President's
policy. These are slight chances
and too desperate to be taken in
an election to secure a chief magis
tral". The probabilities of Grant's
re-election producing an amend
ment of conduct in respect to his
public or private life are very re
mote. His re-election would con
firm him in the ways and practices
which have excited so muca just
censure ot his conduct. Even
while the approaching his intimacy
with the vicious characters who
visit Lon Bianch while he is there
is very unseemingly in a man in his
exalted position.
Greeley would have no such sur
roundings in public or private life
His knowledge of men must be
- j
very extensive, for his long career
as iournalist has afforded hint the
best school for learing human na
ture. Even the faults alleged
against him are. virtues in the sta
tion to which he aspires, compared
with the notorious rival. It is bet
ter to be economical than sordid:
better abstemious than intemperate;
better be homely in attire, than
gorgeous and magnificent by parad-
ing tne gins received irom present
makers. In every moral respect
the sage will be better than the
soldier.
" Iead Letters.'
Tiro Million Dollars Risked in Misdirected
and Unraa'd 'o--e Envelopes.
The aggregate carelessness of
the American people is strikingly
shown by a statistical statement in
the lstal Record of 'the number of
letters sent to the Dead Letter Of
fice during a single year. It ap
pears that during last year nearly
three millions of letters were re
ceived at that office, of which sixty- j
eight could not be forwarded for
the reason that the county and
State were left off the direction;
four hundred thousand were un
stamped, and more than three
thousand were mailed with" no di
rection at all.
Some of the unstamped letters
may have lost their miniature por
traits of American statesmen
through the non-adhesiveness of
Uncle Samuel's mucilage, but how
three thousand persons could mail
simply blank envelopes passes our
comprehension. It must be that
they were bound to write a letter
mi
to some disagreeable acquaintance,
to fulfill the letter of the law of
correspondence, and thus deliver
themselves from the burden of "ow
a letter" a letter without the cor
responding obligation of receiving
an answer, or else the American
people are wonderfully careless.
The strangest part of this state
ment is that there were found in
these letters money orders to the
amount of two millions of dollars.
That a tired lover or a cold friend
should write a tender epistle and
trust it to the hands of a post-office
clerk, in an envelope innocent of
even a single line of direction, is
perhaps possible; but that old
John Casiidown should send off
letters to his business correspond
ents in the same fashion is hard to
be believed.
An amusing story is told of an
old lady, who having been seen to
study a dictionary for a very con
siderable time, was asked what she
thought of it, when, with great
simplicity, she answered that she
thought it would be very nice
reading if it were divided into
chapters.
Anything. A waiter at a res
turant going over this formula,
"What will you have, sir, roast
beef, roast mutton, roast veal,
roast chicken," was interrupt
ed by the hungry Democrat saying,
"I don't care, hurry up; anything
to beat Grant."
Facts and Fancies.
A rare flower
liteness. The pink of po-
o
Cash advances Attention to a
rich widow.
What goes most against a farm
er's grain? His mowing machine.
When is a lady's hair like news ?
When it is found in the morning
papers.
A rattlesnake informally adjourn
ed a colored Radical meeting at
Mobile, recently.
There is not one Democratic
newspaper in the State of Mississip
pi that opposes Greeley.
Some of the largest steamships
burn eight hundred tons of coal
crossing the Atlantic Ocean.
One of the candidates for the
llawaiinan Legislature is in favor
of the repeal of the kanawaihook-
amakama.
Prisoners in the David county,
Florida, jail, are farmed out to any
responsible person who will pay
heir lines.
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There is a man in Illinois Judge
Treat who pretends that he b.as
read the Alabama claims corrrko
pondence.
Yvhen a young lady offers to
hem a cambric handkerchief for a
rich bachelor she rnean to sew in
order that she may reap.
An Iceland judge, we are told,
asked it all the jury were united
"Yes, judge," was the reply, "we'r
re
an irozen together'
Ilenan, who has been lecturing
in Paris on the "Book oi Job," is
advised to come to Washington
and lecture on the "book of jobs."
Some one says that a strongr
gument against suicide is, that it is
the height of impoliteness to go
anywhere until you arc sent for.
A man who has traveled through
Xew Jersey says he saw some land
t n ere so poor that you couldn't
raise a disturbance on it.
The name "grass widovv' is,of
French origin. It is derived from
th French grace, and originally
meant a widow by courtesy.
The way of the World When
the world has once got hold of an
untruth, it is astonishing how hard
it is to tret it out of the world.
1 tiere
are
but three farms in
Massachusetts having over 1,000
acres of land one of them is in
Bristol, one in Dukes and one in
Xorfolk countv.
The duty on strychnine has re
cently been reduced to 30 cents,
Tii is places this popular mode of
exit from this mundane sphere
within the reach of all.
An Iowa nper says the grass
hoppers and potatoe bugs met in
joint convention at Council BJuffs
the other day. They decided to
reject the one term principle.
The Japanese girls at Washing- 0
ton are getting along finely in
their English. They have already
mastered " Dolly Varden" and
"How is that for High ?"
A Xew Orleans thief lately sent
back the stolen clothes of an under
sized citizen, with a note saying
that he would wait for his victim
lo grow.
The oldest Postmaster in the
country is John Seiberling,ot Lynn
ville, Pa.; he has held his office
continuously for fifty-two and a
quarter years.
Xew Jersey, which does more
hanging and has more hanging to
do than any other State in the
Union, will hang a woman on the
10th of July.
In 1702 was built the first Epis
copal church in Xorth Carolina.
In 1700 the first Episcopalclergy
man, the Rev. Daniel BretT, went
to the province.
"The whole thing has gone to
the devil," said a gentleman of
some unfortunate speculation.
"X'ever mind," said Jerrold,
"you'll get all back when you die."
An attorney observed to a broth
er in Court that he thought whis
kers very unprofessional. "You
are right," replied his friend, "a
lawyer cannot be too barefaced!"
One reason why the Philadelphia
Inquirer, (Rep.) is opposed to
Greeley is because he has but two
brothers-in-law. That paper thinks
that the idea of running this great?
government with but two brothers-in-law
is absurd.
"Why is dat hat like the United
States?" said Pompey to Sqaush,
holding up his delapidated beaver.
"Cos cos dunno, niggar."
"Well, cos t's not subject to a
crown."
The Woman's Club in Boston
are to form a preparatory class of
girls, fit them for college, and then
make a formal demand for the ad
mission to the colleges of the conn-
try.
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