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OFFICIAL PUT. 11 OF OL CKAMAS BOUNTY.
OREGON CI TV, CRESOX, 51 ARCH 11, 1S7J.
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Central izatiuii.
Ex-Governor Palmer (Kadical,)
of Illinois, told some home truths
in his valedictory IIessage. After
discussing aLly the rights of the
general government and of the
States, lie concludes:
(X do not , as may he inferred, at
tribute unpatriotic purposes to anv
department of the government of
tlie United States, but I do declare
my belief that as the result of the
new and dangerous views enter
tained by many in authority under
that government, from vicious and
dangerous alterations which our po
litical system has undergone from
th j ambition of some, the corrup
tions of others, and by the combi
nations of all these causes, the har
mony of our systems and the au
thority of the laws and the purity
of the government, and the liber
ties of the people are in danger.
My belief that these causes and
dangers exist, has the support of
many facts. The Congress of the
United .States is assuming to itself
O the entire domain of legislation,
and to draw under its control every
interest of the country, and to en
large and extend the jurisdiction
of the courts of the United States,
and to increase the mere discretion
' ary powers of the President.
There are few subjects that are not
now claimed to be within the con
trol of "the government of the
United States, and with the sup
port of the doctrine that the au
thority of the Federal Government
over subjects within the scope of
its, .power is exclusive of that of the
Slates, the day is not far distant
when the right of the Slates to in
terfere in the control of the sub
jects of education, elections, man
agement of railways and telegraphs
and others of like importance, and
their powers to enforce justice in
their courts will be denied or great
ly abridged.
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IortIantl I'osUaasli r.
From the J!uU tin of last Tues
O
day we learn that Geo. E. Cole has
been appointed Postmaster at Port
land, and T. G. Young has. been
re-appointed U. S. 2Marshr.ll. This
would indicate that Mr. "Wakefield
Pwho was re-appointed ami confirm
ed last December, has been remov
ed. "We have our doubts about the
new appointee giving such general
sutisfacth u as Mr. Wakefield has
during' his term. We presume the
cause of his removal is, that he
worked hard for Corbet t, while
Cole worked for Mitchell. Xot
much attention paid to the Civil
Service reform in the Oregon ap
pointments. O
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Com in c r-L i ;i 1 ft v o r t c r.
This paper, published by Col.
Jas.QA. Fari.di, at Portland, does
credit to that city. It is full of
statistical information in regard. to
the produce .shipments, imports
and vessels on their way to and
from that port. The paper is in
valuable to the merchant, and is
calculated to bring Portland into
notice abroad as a commercial me
tropolis. We are glad to see that
it is meeting with a liberal support.
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To School ClCl iiS.
Under the present school law,
the. time fixed to apportion the
school money is on the 17th inst.
(next Monday). The orders will
le ready any time after that date,
and clerks of the various districts
are requited to call at the office of
the Superintendent fur them as
soon as possible after the lTth.
.
Advance rvew Dress.
o
In Order to give us sufficient time
required to c hange our dress for
the next issue, this number of the
paper is issued in advance of our
regular day of publication. We
shall be out m full new dress next
week, and hope to present such an
appearance that our friends will
Lurd.lv recognize us.
Mr. W. II. Xewell advertises the
Wa 1 1 aW alia ,SJ t ( tcsn tan es t abl i sh
ment for sale. Mr. Xeweli lias
made the Matt s.n in the best paper
published in Washington Territo
ry, and the Democracy of that
Territory will seriously miss him
shtuld he retire from the business.
Piously I.nvi.ixi:i. The church
es in piehmonl, Virginia, says an
exchange, number forty-seven
ants on religious worishp, which is
more than can be said of any other
of its size in the world.
They make, in California, a fair
O
piauty ot printing paper out of
btraw
O
r
ibu Presbyterian, ten Methodist, tions of pretended
eight Episcopalian three Catholic, ailll sshVlV thev are d '
seven white and eight colored Pan- or ;.,oded, will be productive of
hereof'- afC-at. .?Cm.S.i anoyance and of much posi
neiaaipot A majority ol j , iV- i , , ,
the inhabitants are regular attend- ( V "lL. NN C h:lVe no tloubl '.i
A Charlatan Attempt at Ilcfuriu.
The last Congress passed an act
repealing the privilege heretofore
extended to newspapers, allowing
them to exchange with each other,
and sending papers to subscribers
to be paid for at the ofiice where
delivered. After the Itt of next
January, pre-paid postage will be
required of publishers on either ex
changes or papers sent to regular
subscriber?, unless it be in the
county where the paper is publish
ed. This will prove very burden
some to many papers, and will
result in destroving the general
interest in newrpapers heretofore
established by the free and liberal
exchange lists. There are many of
our leading papers that will not
exchange with a country weekly
and pre-pay postage, and there are
many weeklies which will not ex
change with each other at such an
expense. It is virtually making
papers subscribe and pay so much.
A country weekly, generally, con
tains :i carefully selected summary
of all events which transpire in the
different parts of the country.
These items and selections are. the
labor and search of hundreds of
papers. There are some papers
from which they do not select an
item once in cix months, yet that
paper is as valuable to them as any
one on the list, and the one item
may be of great importance to the
patrons, yet if they are compelled
to pay for such an exchange, they
cannot afford to take it. Hence it
will force every publisher to select
such papers as he may actually
need, and as few as possible, and
pay for them. This will detract
greatly from the interest of the
paper, as it will necessarily have to
be made up from selections of but
few, while now it is the embodi
ment of many. Were it so that
publishers could pay at the ofiice
of delivery, it would net be so ob
jectionable, but under the present
law, it is an outrage and imposition,
not only on the publishers, but on
the people. The subscribers of a
paper were indirectly benefitted by
this free exchange system, and it
was of great benefit to the publish
ers, while the repeal of the act will
woik hard on ail. The price of
subscription in Oregon has been
reduced to the very lowest rates at
which a respectable paper can be
printed, and it is hard for publish
ers to raise on the subscription
ra: s. Yet under this law, they
wiil be compelled to add the price
of postage, besides the labor and
inconvenience of pi e-pa ving id!
their mail matter.
The repeal of the flanking privi
lege is claimed as an evidence of
Padical economy. When we take
into consideration the stealings per
petrated by tills same Congress,
the people will be astonished at the
ridiculousness of this claim, it is
true that this privilege has been
most grossly abused in late years.
During the last election it v.-as used
exciussively as a means of circulat
ing Padical electioneering docu
ments, and many of the attaches
of the postoilice department were
employed at the expense of the
Government in mailing and circu
lating thuo documents. This
was a gross violation of the intent
of the law, and some guards
should have been thrown around it.
Hut while the press, almost uuar.i-niouslj-,
demanded a law against
such violations, none demanded
the repeal of a law which has been
so beneficial to the country geuer
ally. If Congressmen have to pay
for their correspondence, they will
find some means by which they
will steal enough during their term
of office to make them even, and
the people will have to foot the
bills, it will be no loss to them.
The repeal of this act, and the re
quirement of pre-pavment on news
papers from the publishers, is very
justly meeting with a general oppo
sition and protest. Willi subscrip
tion rates reduced to the very low
est price, the placing of such a
burden upon the shoulders of pub
lishers is not only unjust, but will
necessitate an amount of labor ami
unless expense fur which there can
be found no possible reason or
justification. And of a piece with
this, is the kindred plan of requiring
postage on exchanges. puth are
t. i.-f ttiic Put- i- l.n.l. . i
" ..; on.e.t is io laue
effect on the" 1st of January next,
will be amended by the next Con
gress, and it certainly should.
Tlio 1!7.';' n.i-.iie laii.nr is to Lave a ne.v
p wer prigs.
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Letter t-'roni Chcwacan Valley.
From a piivate letter to us from
Chewacan Valley, Jackson -county,
a section of our State which has
been but little noticed, we make
the following extracts:
The writer states that the winter
up to the 20th uit. had been very
pleasant; that there hael been but
little snow and that stock had done
well ami was in gooel conelition.
The valley is about 70 miles long
anel about ten in width. It is com
posed of one-fourth good land ; one
fourth marsh and lake, two-fourths
sage and waste lands. The marsh
and lake lauels are dry in the sum
mer and produce an abunelanee of
grass. The valley is easily supplied
with timber, not requiring hauling
over two to six miles. The valley
abounds in plenty of good springs
and creeks, .supplying ;nod and
I i e a I tli y w a t e v. G a r d en v .? i e t ab I e s j
were raised last year and matured
well and equal to any produced in
the Ywllamette Valley. There are
at present ten families in the valley,
ami 50 men, scattered along the
whole length of . The nearest
j.o.-tohice to any of them is GO miles
and the farthest 110, and our cor
respondent thinks that our Postal
Agent should t;ee that they are
better accommodated with both
mail facilities anel postof.ices. He
thinks thai they faiiould at least
have a weekly mail from Hot
Sorint-s once a week. Xow the
settlers have to scud eut their mail
matter and receive it by a private
carrier. The mall is carried once
every two weeks, and each time
there is at least a fifty pound sack
full of matter for the valley settlers.
"We hope the Postal Aireat will
look into this matter, and make it
his especial duty to supply these
pioneers with such mail facilities
as are within his power.
Our correspondent states that
the settlers rppreheud trouble with
the Indians, and unless there are
some steps taken to protect settlers,
he feels satisfied that a repetma of
the Modoc massacre will occur. He
;tcs that nu
oi
the Indians
nave leil their reservation si ace the
war and they may be seen linking
around in the hills in the neighbor
hood of the settlers, lie and a
party of settlers weie out in search
of stock recently when they came
across a band of these savages, who
were well armed and appeared to
mean mischief. As they approach
ed these Indians, they skulked be
hind the rocks and probably intend
ed to shoot the settlers had they
oom within reach of them. They
belonged to the Piutes. and Snakes.
Jack's success has emboldened
these Indian, and when they were
told that they would send soldiers
after them if thoy did not leave the
valley, they said "let them come,
we can whip the F.oldieis. C'j.t.
Tack could whip th-:n, and they
could,! on." These Indians all claim
to be "Applcgate Indians." The
writer states that lie does not de
sire to create anv excitement, but
! that they are CO mihs iVom Camp
U arner, ami there are no troops at
that place, and that it is not con
venient for settlers to move their
families over the mountain:; in the
winter. Wc hope the authorities
of our State will look into thia mat
ter, especially the Indian Superin
tendent, and return those wandering
savages to their reservations before
they enact a similar bloody tragedy
to that of Link Pivcr.
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Tin: Ci:k:it MumiaKia The X.
York .77.' t'tc, commenting on the
'Maine daeksof the Credit Mobilier
broadside, says: "One would have
supnosed that me:: of inlh.icneo in
the Senate and House could ahbrd
to tell the whole truth about the
matter so far as it concerned them,
leav:nr the county to judge of the
purity of their motives. As things
turned out, they might have made
their dealings in Credit Mobilier
stock one of the issues ot' the cam
paign. There would be plenty of
obsequious newspapers ready to
claim that one of the things indors
ed by the people and established
by the election of Gen. Grant was
the inalienable right cjf every Con
gressmen to speculate in stocks
more or less affected by their votes
in the House or Semite'. They
missed that chance; and what a
pit mb!e show is this which follow
ed"' Fp.om the ZIoik'C Wak.
The following is the latest dispatch
from Capt. Jack. Whether he will
refuse the terms again we are un
able to state :
IIeaiujuakteiis Pu.u e Commis
sion", March 7, via Yeeka, March
Marv a sister of Captain Jack
j came in last night and reported I
that Jack accepted the terms of
surrender ohered by the Comrnis- !
sioiurs. General Caaby sent word j
back by her this morning that
Captain Jack or some of the chief
men of the tribe must lie in before
to-morrow evening or the troops un
der his command would move im
mediately against them. It is ex-iu'i-tiil
tli.it ii.n.. ...:n ..
i morrow; if not "war is inevitable.
UUllrlTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA,
Letter From IJaker City.
IJaker City, Feb. 28, IS 70.
Editok of the En-teht-iuse :
Dear Sir: As often as I have
seen vour paper I elo not think I
have ever noticed anything in its
columns from Paker City; yet it
cannot be that IJaker is of so little
importance as not to be noticeel at
all by those journals of our State
devoted to either literature, science
or politics. Although we are not
of a very ferocious disposition, and
cannot furnish to the world start
ling iacidefits of murder, robbery,
and the like, but hope to show to
that portion of Oregon, which is
styled as a civilized country, that
there are not one-half the crimes
committed in Eastern Oregon as
there are among themselves with
all their churches, ilc. I have been
in
this place for nearly eighteen .
months anel have seen but one I
fm-ht during the said lime, and
that was on election day when
seme of the boys got helei of some
fighting whisky anel took a 'Si rap"
or two too much; so a couple of
the said boys got to amusing
themselves by playing "knock-about;"'
one of them came out (a
gentleman was a retail liquor deal
er,) with a bloody nose and a
chatted up finger that happened
last Spring; ever since, the town
has been very quiet, with the ex
ception of the clattering noise of
wagons, utc, which founds much
pleasanter to our merchants than i
, , , . .
the harsa and pro.anc language oi j
men umier the intiuence ot intoxi
cating drinks.
Perhaps there is no one outside
of the editor of the Jh'ocf: D-.mo-crat
capable of letting the world
know that ::uch a place as Maker is
still in existence; but in anwer to
such a though I will refer you to
the Portland JlcntU , v:-.o savs "the
great portion of the inhabitants and
members of the Literary Society of
this town can re a el without spell
ing." Put if we are not heard
from, through the columns of all
the papers iu the State, there
are as blight prospects ahead, and
as good at bane! as any town of its
size in Oregon can boast of; lieh
mines are being developeei in its
vicinity. Snow is deep o:i the
mountain;. Our valley is last set
tling up with persons from nearly
every Slate and Territory in the
Union, and as a general thing there
are favorable r.igns fur good times
this year. The young folks of
oeuii sexes nave about
.v a
time as they do in most anv o
Iher
town of this si;
Vv e have, been
having constant sleigh mg tor about
six veei-;3, waring whicn time thuv
has been no less than fifty enter
tainments. S!eighi.:g is abo indulg
ed in to a great extent notwith
standing the frequent runaways
and upsets they have had. Abo", t
three or four weeks ago there was
iriy ot seven or eight e-.
io en
young ladies and gentlemen who
attended a dance about tlfiei : miles
from town, and when the dance
broke up they s-tnrted home very i
much pleased with the eutertam-
meat ci the mght ; but b
around them they
frnnd out that
ihey wert) ail dim
was 1 oon l know v
-. s , . t la-
(the driver) savs they w
ere all
d i link but him, and they sr.v thev
were all sober but him, at any rate
he cap:ih:cd the : leigh, and I heard
a lady say who was along, that
they were so mixed no it was a
long time and then wi;h dlfieukv,
before she could tell whether she
was herself or one of the boys.
Tie.
,.U,
y 'persons of t'd.s iilace
seem to have quite a pleasant time
too, especially the ladies, who meet
two or three timed a week at some
ol their respective houses and spend
the day. I have never attended
any of these meetings (as all gentle
men are from attending, except
such as are about on a pair with
those "old cocks" that attended
the "Hen Convention," (an account
of which I saw in your paper, dat
ed I b. -J Pst.) so I cannot s:iy posi
tively whether they are dinner
parlies (as they t all them), conven
tions or a legular session of the'
Legislature, but at any rate they
come homo in very good humor,
whether this is the eflbe t of their
dinne r or their success as law-makers,.
1 cannot say.
'i he whistle of the Virtue Gobi
Mining Co.'s mill is now notifying
us that it is six o'clock, and as I
have business to attend to this
evening, I submit myself
Very Truly Yours.
M Acnii'ni.
'i;:;i'V M't;
The improvements in our paner
has necessitated heavy expense cm
us, and there are many of our pa
trons who owe us for subscription,
advertising and job work. qj such
we would say that now is the time
we would gladly receive all such
sum? as are due, ami we must have
it. Don't think because thogum is
ii ,i . , to, . ,
smad that we do not miss it Ml '
il. -hi ;
onr accounts are small, yet they a-'
gregate several hundreds of dol- i
lars. When von read this noMeo '
it you owe us anything, take it to
mean you. and call and settle.
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Woman's IU;rhts in Illinois.
TTIE "WEAKEIt SEX IX THE liEST
POSITION.
From the .St. Louis Republican.
The rights of married women
under the recent statute of Illinois
supposed to be quite formidable,
even before the full extent of their
departure from the old common
lav standard was revealed, in the
decision of Plodgett. In that State,
at least, the tyrant man has taken
the whole burden of mariiage on
his own shoulders and relieved his
helpmate from all of its pecuniary
responsibilities. If they both own
property at the time of marriage,
vvery cent he has becomes liable
for her clefts, including even those
contracted by her before marriage;
but not one farthing of her money
can be touched for any of his
debts. In fact, his property can
be taken for her antc-nunlial debts,
anel she yet retain her own prop
ertv. What in hi:; is hers, anel
v,-h"at is hers is hers, sure, and not
his at all. Si;e is complete mis-
trw r vn 1 nne, can engage
in any business sue pleases ami col
lect and control her own earnings.
Anl not a cent of these earnings,
or ox any property she may maer
it after marriage, can be taken for
the support of her children, her
husband, or herself, wh'le the last
cent (if his earnings and every dol
lar he may inherit is p'edued by
lav.- io feed and olcthc ids wife and
children, no matter how poor he
may be or how rich they may be.
When the wife dies the husband
does not get a farthing at' the wife's
property, though it be worth mil
lions. When the husband dies,aml
there are children, the widow gets
"l u:iV 01 int property, oesa.es a
variabie speciae allowance, and d
i)lovc ;ire lJO ts
o:u:.ei v
wife cannot be
pnnis'ied for any crime committed
by her at the command of her hus
band, while he is punished for any
crime he mav commit by her e-oni-
mam i, a:, well
.s ior
those she mav
commit bv his command..
These and many oilier inoouali
s, all inueiug to the advantage
ti
m the matte:
ot i-i-
vorce,
civil
perate maintenance, and
s and rospoissib' at u s,
make
a pretty formidable catalogue
or woman s rights au-t immunities
under the gallant legislation of Il
linois. Put, as if another feature
were lived ed to break the back of
the kneeling Benedict, Judge Plod
gett decided, last week, that, under
these laws, the wife may enter into
pa:
e-a:
mership with her husband and
on
usmess viln
:;n ior ner
1 with anv
own sepcraiV mteix
other v.'o::ums husband who
wav
ot doing things she may like bet
ter. She is mistress of her own
time and means, while her "ne'er
W I v t 11
iauu is rt'sp.onsi iJif for
the
ca i
wl
n
::co oi her
self and the children. If she choos
es to plead pressing .business eon
fining her to her distant counting
room and the society of tier busi-
ness !iart!;e.
the
r.a::Iso:n
j o :
until midnight, her own "old man"
ha no alternative but to mind the
children at boms', arid wait patient
ly till she LPs herself in with the
night key. His consent to the ar-
.i.;.-...e:.L is uoi ai an necessary
not
! 1
and the law jealously guards her
against Ids Lte; fercaee, and pro-
n. . 1 . .
c re Is
1 1 :
unmanner.y espemmge
1 ler inter-
est in -his estate is such that sin
can
ove
tiis accounts, ami
cross-examine hna upon every sus
picious item of expenditure ; but
woe to the brut i' if lie dare invade
toe sac re
1 privacy of lies
qierate
ousuuss. p.
lawful right;
a vie
:o:i oi her
eel woman
a ma i
is cause lor oivcrce, ail the. expen
ses of which, o:i both sid.es, will
coma out ot his j.r-ckol.
- .eve.- before since Eve became
n purveyor of forbiddin fruit have
her married daughters enjoyed
such prerogatives. Why, even her
elders born the suffrage martvr,
Susan, must regard the ballot box
as a hollow mockery, compared to
the stern joys of an liiinois mother-in
law this legislation.
o -o- o-
Xews fko:.i An::e).i. Wo find
the following "news" from Oregon
in one of our Eastern exchanges :
'The people of Yaquima, South
ern Oregon, are greatly alarmed
and apprehensive of Indian raids
and massacres at Elk City. The wo
men and chihlivu were taken on
board the steamer Onetta for safe
ty. The men have picketed the
town, and are now building a block
house. Many families have left
the place ami gone to Pentou coun
ty for safety."
All of the above is news extraor
dinary to our friends in Penton
county, wherein this terrible
trouble is to have occurred.
Ax Euuon. The Jl:rah7y Or
t 'Jou hut and I-L rcnru coppied a
premature item from the Jhdror!:
J 'iaocrii that the eenmty seat of
Union county had been removed
to the town of Union. The same
week the JJetnocrat published the
the item alluded to, the fr-nttntl
contained the precise vote and
other information necessary to an
uiuleistanding of the situation,
but not a word appeared in the pa
peis alluded contradicting their
former statement. The county
scat of Union county is at La Gran
de, and will probably remain there
uiiiii iie eiiuis uae oeiermineel
,i .- i - ,
the question and we ask the pa-
pers above named to correct the
c'n'or which they have nublished.
:l . l . . l i . -i
'Al' rai"lies in this countv desire
the truth and nothing but "the truth
to be given to the world. La
Grande fantind.
Something about lJjys.
The Alta has a very sensible ar
ticle on the question of "what
about our boys," from which we
make the following extract, and
comment it to the careful consid
eiation of those of our .readers who
have boys. It says :
"The remedy for the Hoodlum
element is not iu compelling them,
after they have grown up in an
out-door scheo! of vice, to learn a
trade. It is rather in making Ids
home too pleasant for outside in
lluence to prevail. If parents would
teach their children to remain at
home from the beginning, and de
vote a very little time toward
their pleasure and comfort, and
spend a little money in providing
their sons with material for amuse
ment at home, they would not care
fo go abroad. There is no boy
born into the world who docs not,
before lie is five years old exhibit
the natural bent of his mind. Let
the parents then understand that,
and provide him with books or
tools, as the case may be. If boys
were rightly understood while very
small, and the ir natural inclinations
fostered, we should not have to
make the great mistake of placing
them to learn a trade for which
they were utterly unsuited, and at
which they would not work. Their
choice would be made, and they
unconsciously acquire a certain de
gree of knowledge of what they
would like before they were placed
as apprentices to something which,
when understood, would be dis
tastfYd. Every boy ought to have
a chance to barn a trade no pre
fers, and for
'.. wit .i i.e u...- i iw.tt-
iste.
no matter what the con-
dition of his parents,
This remedy
is not. for the boys of to-day, who
are almost men, but for those of to
morrow who are still under their
mother s iui isou lioii.
A few dol
lars, more or less, a little more
noise about the hoi
is all the
price she has to oav for the future
years of happiness with her grewn
up boys. With the mother rest
the largest share of the responsibil
ity for the character of her chil
dren. Home influences, when goed,
are more powerful tie
n
r-very woman
as u in ner pe;we
to make home an a bo in oi pu:e
delight to her boys, and to keep
toem tiiere awav from li.e evils ot
the street. In that, ah.no rests
sohition of tlie (jns-rv of "Vf
shall we do with our bovs V"
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Dawks,
vestetl iu
Oi
aciiusetts, m-
Credit -lobiher stock,
the corruptions of the
but wh
eoru'io-fj
en
eca:::e a theme of sliea-t
on i. in ios testimony
a
lion
th
Committee of invesliga-
h(
"I told him Oakes Ames that
i unl i:et want a
lock;
re
1
d not tal
I will pay you back your money
ana ten per cent micro.-: ii von ore-
ten pi-r ce
ler;' 1 told him thai Idi
he there
upon set t h
with mo in that wav.
alt.
ov. s:g me intercoi ami r.avmg
me back the money. In the mean
time, ami before I went to Ih'tts
feld, b.e had pa:d me a iiivi-.b-ndi
once; I do not know how much it
W
but 1 think it was about :."
p recti!; whatever it was I allow
eel him in the s. ;;le r.cut, he pay
ing me over the balance only.'"
The :" per cent dividend did
not strike the
! r
honest Dawes
swindle in th
e Kience oi a swiuuie n lue c-oi
eern,aml it is piite plain that tin
only consideration that induced j
him to ilisgorge so rich a
was the fear of exposure.
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KNTI.Ki'KIsIN'i Jot'KXAI.ISM.
The Jacksonville 7 ' says that
the eTew York JLral it seems,
considered the Modoc imbroglio
ol suiiicient importance to justify
the expenditure of considerable
money to enable it to obtain reliable
information on the condition of af
fairs, and evidently having but
little faith in the enterprise and
ability of the California reporters,
sent out one of its ablest men to
give them lessons ami show them
how te do it. rr s-ome time
alter his arrival Jdr. Fox the JLr-
.; icporier, attracted little alte ti
l:on, but was evidently finding out
lie-.v the ground lay and preparing
for his oportunity which came with
the Peace Commission. This not
able body, for reasons known emly
to its sell, 'refused to divulge any
thing more of what the Indians had
to say than suited its convenience.
Mr. Fox preferred to get his news
direct, and in utter disregard of the
authority aforesaid went into the
lava beds and had a talk with Jack 1
ami his generals, found out all that
was worth knowing, and the next
day telegraphed it to his paper, to
the chagrin of the other reporters,
who would like to have done like
wise but were timid as to risking
their scalps.
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The Albany Jl"jlsfcr is anxious
to become the de fender of the Cred
it Mobilier thieves. It is the only
F.a lical organ which has thus far
even hinted a defense in behalf of
the convicted scoundrel-:. The
Committee did find evidence lo
convict, but there were euo.igh in
both houses interested to clear even
those who were reported "guilt-."
The committee itself was nothing
but a Kadical whitewashing ma
chine. The llt(ifita is the IT. S.
official organ for Oregon. That
may account, ior il .uiuiiiia -
i "it .i v , r i i i
shoulder the odium of this cabal of
mav account lor its attempt to
thieves.
Come to Oregon.
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An exctianye says: " Better come to
Otvgon.coM e'linrtU'S have nothing to rec
ommend them, ihey are dit agreeable eTery
way." Disagreeable every wjiy, ju3. H0
but we suppose there is no otf-agreeablts
weather in Oregon. O no! six montis
constant rain and mad aul tlx wo mi's
drouihs consiitu'e the seasons. ro disa
greeable weather here! no sir-t-e. Llltral
Dallas) publican.
The above wouhl be a fitting slur
for one of our California exchaiwreg
but what the editor of the Hpi(t
Ilcan means by it we areat a loss
to conjecture. We have rain in,
Oregon, and consequently mud,"
but such a thing as a "drouth" was
never known. The climate is warm
and agreeable1, and if the editor of
the Liberal llcp'd'Ilcun can't stand
Oregon he is at liberty to leave it.
We will take the rain all the time
in prefi-rence of In ing frozen to
death. A country in which over
coats are not needled ; where cattle
keep fat out doors in pastures and
where grass is green ami growing
all winter; where there is never a
failure in crops, is Zi gooil enough
country for us, anel we propose to
stand by it. Such insinuations as
the above illy becomes a p.Tji2r
that professes to be laboring lhr
the interests of Oregon, and her
advancement:
latest I'roui t!ie 3Io;iec War.
Y;:::k .
j'irch ,11. p. jji. p u-;,
Horn has just :u rive.1 m.m I aii i iii!.!
bavissg !eft there this morning, and bin-us
the lol'owing: Yesterday he went with
Steele to l!ie r pnoir.ted place at tin; Point
of Rorks. on Lit'le ivi;un.itn lake, ten
miles from .lack s c-imi, for the piirpn-.,.
of bringing J;-.ck and party to he;n3(pi;ir
'rs. At: t-r waning lmr horns he fa- n,
s:gns of It.iliatis and reliiin.-d. A force
o! cavalry would recunrioi-'e" the hiv.t-
in ..s to d -.v and t. morrow to see w
. .t
had become of the Mod'-es. Ai!e"
h ie resigned from tht Peace Coiimi!s.-;.in
and gone off ui-gii-lel. lios-lf'irKijli
a-.u .-ieeie ni l o. in j-not.iy. I i.eQvlu
thing has probab!y beow taraed ov-r
(Jenerul C:tt:hy by this tlaie. S..m-. thi.
;lt. JatK tins a, c:i l.ianeiiveruer t i T
time to get away hum wio re he is i::'o a
eoactry t-j-st of him. w here for itiiitidn !
niiles no cavalry could follow f;"i tr i
in so-ai ;is he gc;s info the river
co in try he will ibul plenty of Lo.v.-s .1
caii ie.
O
T.ik Cost. It is stated that tT.o
expenses thus far incurred by the
i .-tat
on account ot tue Modoc war
amounts to -oG,000. This amour.t
the b'tate wijl 1-ave to p-ay, a:al
then the Crucial Oevernment will
have to refund the amount to the
State It will piwhably le as it lias
been heretofore wKhour Indian
loving Administration. They will
claim that the- trouble was made by
the mean whites, and poor Lo
baol'y mistreated, ami refuse to py
the 'mil. Time will tell, as it has in
other war claims held by. tuir citi
zens against our dear ohl Uncic.
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VI. !.':. y.;.
:. V AT Jii-;.)NVfl.t.K. Jacksox-
e!i 7. Ati APei caiio-- jo. i;
; ! eriio-'a in 'ront o Wi.it.i
re. b. ivo.-fii Horace L. 1-h t
oa,-e
t
.J.:S. I '
the h i:
d w,!V.-,u'
w.i o:d. a
tii i s t.i a-
At.otL,'
s :vs :
To ' V
!-. in wi.ioli 1
' of :'a i o-e. th'.!
i was shot oi
ba' 1 !
ioj :.i.pM-! l i !i;e iito!t". iti
:. r.i.': d in ver. .11.-. is put likt-Iv
i ay ts not ll.jarcd.
of t tie same
T T
:0
t.. r-
Ktv
ted .r. r.
1
ilrew i.
.... i .ae.i ; t .e. rti-u:y woj.da
te a. Jacob i-y a bro in- th-n ran in
iia ! di-: iia - i i' -v. and ht-ld hisn h w-i
n "'.' o o'. II. ! ! r.p.ii'bi-r of th.- b'i
't-oOhts shol at him. A :,u 'Uet.Ttoo
! co'- brt'irU jv;..-k..i sav,-d i, is life. H..r
j ace I-o in ai a ct i'.ioul :i:uli.i,)n.
Jami s 1!i:ov. a notorious c!
ciiar-
ncter in Philadelphia, says an ex
change, was tried before the Fed
eral Court in that city for the crime
of 'repeating" and perjury, of wTiich
he was com ictod, and sentenced to
the itate Prison for eighteen
mouths. After he had passed three
weeks iu confinement, President
Grant pardoned him, and the. good
people- of the Ouaker City are huge
ly disgusted there at. IfroWJi was
serviceable to Ilartranfth, Cameron
and Grant, and of course that was
a stand-off against his outrage on
the ballot.
Xi-:v Fiu.m. In the last issue of
the L' 'a rj we are informed that
Mr. Thompson has sold one-half
interest in the establishment to
John W. Kelly, Esq. Mr. Kelly
has had a great deal of newspaper
experience, is a brilliant and spicy
writer, and will make the A rctiryt
in conjunction with Mr. Thompson
tin excellent paper
them.
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The
lnoSKt-LTIOX OP OTllT-
PniKsrs ix Iuki.axp. Uev0 Mr.
Loft us, one of the Galway (Ireland)
priests who were indicted by the
Crown for the exercise of spiritual
intimidation over voters during tho
Parliamentary election, has "been
temporarily acquitted in the Court
ofOiieeifs Pencil. The result of
the trial was received with tumult;
nous applause by the people.
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A witty boy, suffering from the
application of the birch, saiel; "For
ty rods are said to be a furlong. I
know better. Let any boely o-et
such a plaguy licking as I've had,
i i. v.i ii.. i . : .
aim nc n nnei out, that one rod
makes an acher!"
Who is He The telegraph informs us O
that the Senate has confirmed A. M. Hugh
us U- S. Attorney for the middle district o
!., - . . . . m. . ,
! nf Oregon. This i31he first time we hare
)f , 1Inh nr n, inM .,A
trict.
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