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3 GO 0 Q O 9 GO o o o O o o I7) o o e THE EFJTSmPES! PRECOX CITY, PRECOX, SEPT. 19, 1573. Democratic State Ticket! fok t o.N'GitiissMAX, 1 rm ESIlTIlj ' OF roi K COUNTY I . -: O How the Nomination Was Received. down-trodden South, where the peo , , 7 . .t I pie are ruled bv the Federal baj-onet ment the two politie-ahyparties in this State have gone through the prelim inaries, met in Convention, adopted platforms, and made nominations. The prediction had been made by the friends of each party that important results affecting not only the present but the future of the two parties would follow from the course pursued in regard to the nature of the princi ples enuuciated and the character of the nominee. The indications at present are that the prediction will be verified. In the Democratic Con vention, though there were strong feelings of personal preferance as to the several aspirants for the nomina- tiouTyet as there were no whitewash ing or personal endorsement resolu tions to le passed, when once the balloting showed who was the choice of the majority of the delegates there seemed to be a hearty acquiescence and a general rejoicing, inspiring en thusiasm. The first act of the drama is passed, and we wait in anxious solicitude the second. The Repub lican party having the prestige and elated by the victory acheived in the last general election seemed a for midable opponent. Harmony seemed to prevail in the adoption of a plat form of political principles; but alas, in an evil moment a resoltuion en dorsing certain youthful indiscretions antVj, misfortunes being introduced proved to be a firebrand. Then fol lowed a scene so unusual, so unpre cedented as to beggar description. One after another of the greater or lesser lights of the party present w ere tendered the nomination ,ytt without avail. At this juncture some one of the wise acres present hit upon an appropriate expedient. Knowing that this campaign, on their part, would be conducted with weeping and w ailing, it was suggested that some one le placed in nomination who was skilled in making prepara tions for inflamed or granulated eye lids. Fortunately the Opthalmic Doctor at hand in the person of Hi ram Smith, who was nominated by acclamation, and who foregoing the pleasure of meeting his opponent, Col. Nesmith, in debate has repaired to his labratory to provide the needful panacea. It may be necessary for Doe Smith to forego the pleasure of a trip to "Washington City in conse quence of the continued demand for his special services among his faith ful adherents. It seems from the outlook at pres ent that the affairs of the State are left in the hands of the Democrats with their candidate alone in the po litical field, while the Republican party, with its chosen candidate, has an ojien field in which to labor for the improvement of the morals of its party of "early indiscretions and misfortunes." This we suppose is that condition af iroyress referred to in the third resolution of their plat form (which we could not compre hend until recent developments), which has been the boast of their writers and speakers, and for which 11 lovers of our common country should feel profoundly thankful. Our hearty sympathies are w ith both parties.because our political opinions place us in sympathy w ith the party that has the open political field, and our humantarian ideas place us in accord with the party seeking to alle viate the sorrows and distresses, and improve the morals of men. These few hintsTuay serve to show how the nominations are received, and as the campaign progresses w e will try and keep posted so as to keep our sympa thies alive and be prepared to chron icle the important events of this most singular and important campaign. O "Wont Svitokt Him. There are a class of men, who are not oiHee-seek-ers, in this county who will not en dorse th.' action of the Albany Con vention, and w ho will not support its nominee. " Among this class are Hon. F. O. MeCown, Mayor of this city, Hons. J. T. A p per son, W. C. John son, J. K. Wait, County Judge, C. P. Church, W. P. Burns, City Recorder, and many others whom we could mention. These gentlemen assert that to vote for the nominee of that Convention they would be virtually endorsing bigamy, adultery and li centiousness, which they are not w illing to do. Wo have made dili gent inquiry and we assert, w ithout fear of contradiction, that the nomi of the Albany Convention w ill not get ten votes in this city, an I have opin ions of leading Republicans to the effect that Hon. J. W. Nesmith will carry the county by over two hun dred" majority. We can double that ifwe try let us do it. 'Mr Nesmith is a prac tical farmer, Cfr man of unquestioned ability, a log cical thinker, a quick reasoner and ready debater. On the Stump he has not a superior in the Shite. His nomination was made unanimous, raud the most perfect harmony char acterized tlifi session of the Conven tion. Benton Democrat You will find the Radical platform on the first page of this issue. The Itadical Platform. Our readers can judge of this doc ument quite as correctly as we, but we desire to say a few words in le gard to it. The first resolution is intended for buncombe; let us exam- me it closely and see if we can "look "N'ith ltle and satisfaction upon the peaceful and prosperous condition of our country" etc. How about the if they dare to assert their freedom at the polls; we refer to North Caro lina and Louisiana in particular. We ask you to connect the fourth and second resolutions, and you will see that in one breath they affirm con fidence in, and in the either denounce the President whose salary was in creased $25,000. Comment is un necessary. The third is brag, and amounts to nothing. The fourth taken with the second is a lie. The fifth is also fabrication, as the Credit Mobilier Swindle was not ex posed, nor the participants in it pun ished by the late Congress. The Swindle was exposed by the New York Sun, and denied, as our read ers are w ell aw are, by the Radical orators and papers during the hist Presidential campaign, and the facts brought to lierht bv a suit against 'J " - o ikes Ames by one of the stock holders for his share of the dividend. Congress refused, as the records w ill show, to punish the thieves although proven guilty. Let us ask how- many defaulting paymasters has the Courts imprisoned and the President pardoned? How many Custom House thieves and defaulters have been brought to justice? The sixth favors retrenchment, etc.; we sup pose that means to "retrench" the Treasury with back-pay steals, in creased salaries, and other thieving acts perpetrated by the late Congress whom they affect to praise. Did they demand the salary bill should be repealed ? Not a bit of it. Re trenchment, did they say? The re duction of taxation is spoken of, but have they proposed any means by w hich it may be accomplished? Have they pronounced in favor of free trade, the one essential remedy? The seventh is a sominersault from their former positions, and is the doctrine always proclaimed by the Democratic party. The eighth begs of Congress means for the improvement of our harbors and rivers. The ninth asks for more of what Oregon is cursed with to-day, land giants to railroads; we favor the encouragement of rail road enterprises but oppose giving away our public lands to corpora tions of any kind. The tenth is a railroad resolution (said to have been written by Senator Alitchcll), but the author says nothing concerning the west-side road. The eleventh favors a harbor of refuge at Port Or ford. The twelfth demands the plac ing of a revenue cutter at the mouth of the Columbia to protect Ben. Hol laday's steamships, but says nothing of building locks at the Cascades. The thirteenth says the commercial and industrial interests should have the cheapest niodes of transportation but the modes of transportation should hare a reasonable remuneration ; we suppose that means the advance of three cents on the bushel, for wheat from Roseburg on account of the rise in price. Right here let us refer to the third and fourth resolu tions of the Democratic platform, just to compare them. We demand that the rates of transportation shall be fixed by law. The resolution further says that capital and labor are inseperably connected and mutually dependent upon each other, and that the best interests of all classes w ill be pro moted by mutual concessions, etc., We hold that the w ealth of the coun try is the product of labor, and that wealth will protect itself, while labor needs and must have the protection of legislation. The fourteenth reso lution is taken from the demands of Coy. Grover upon the Interior De partment for the Modoc murderers to be delivered up to the civil au thorities for trial. They endorse the damnable peace 2olicy of the present Administration as pursued toward the Indians. Wovlpx't Ratify. Hiram Smith, which is the Radical nominee for Congress, seeing, a notice to the effect that a grand patriotic ratification, in the Bulletin, would take place Satur day night in Portland, brushed him self up, pnt on a clean paper coller, and hastened to the scene of action, roor Hiram arrived at Portland, and there found that he had been victim ized. Instead of being ratified, he found his nomination was the subject of ridicule upon every street-corner, and it was with great difficulty that Mitchell and Scott kept him from declining. As the train neared this city hist Sunday morning an old man in the employ of the railroad, and who is loyal yet, caught sight of Hi. Smith on the platform and taking off his hat, he ejaculated Hip! Hip! Hip-pie! and then subsided. L A Singular Coincidence. The Pittsburgh Post remarks that it is a singular coincidence that all the predictions of the approaching dis solution of the Democratic partv and all the friendly counsel to aban don our name, which comes mulei- j our observation appears in the collar ( press of Grant's Administration. - In Memory of Radicalism. The Radical party in this State, dieel at Albany on the 12th inst. alter a long struggle, of early indiscretions. The Radical party was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in I860, and immi grated to Oregon about two years afterwards. Its course has been marked with victories and elefeats. In 18G4 it succeeded in being elected to the U. S. Senate; in 1800 to the Governorship and to Congress. In 1872 it w as again electenl to Congress antl to the U. S. Senate, where until a few months ago it reigned supreme. This is an occasion of too great sor row to write a detailed account of its career since we first became ac- quaited with it. We have always opposed it, politically, and are not sorry for having done so; believing this government was made for the people anil not the office holders, we have always and will continue to stand by the people; in the people there is virtue., in the office holders there is none; the Radical party was a personal party and when the per sonal virtue whiehsnpported it elied out, the party could not longer sur vive; the Democratic party, its an tagemist, was born of the people, is of and with the people, and will live as long as time lasts. The Radical party has elone some things that we can give it credit for; but its record, in most, is stained with corruption; it came into power from the effects of the civil war, when the great Democratic party was divided on the slavery question. Its career as a national party is ended; in Cali fornia its death was recorded on the 10th inst.; and in Washington mor tification has already taken place. As it is elead, wo are w illing that it should have a decent burial on the 13th proximo. Rev. Mr. Geary had been chosen to preach its funeral, but as his religions view s would not permit him to preach the funeral of a suicide, the Rev. Dr. II. Smith has been selected. Rest in peace and obscurity. PntENix. Fun: in Camp. Our Radical friends will pardon us for speaking of the commotions, and unusual demonstrations of elispleasure elis played hy them last Friday upon the receipt of the proceedings of the Albany Convention. Many an hon est Republican w as heard to say that he had voted his last Radical ticket; the elelegates who voteel fer the Mitchell resolution received some tolerably hard rebukes, and one of them said the reason they voteel to nominate Hi , Smith was because " they did not want to slaughter a good man," and he offered to bet 5? KM.) dollars that Nesmith would bc electcd bv a thousand majority; he afterwards offered five thousand majority, but found no one to take him up. Hon. D. P. Thompson, whom w e mentioned last w eek as the probable eamlidate, would not al low his name to go before the con vention on elisgrace. account of the Mitchell Col. Nesmith is unquestionably one of the ablest men in Oregon, as well as one of the most popular. Be ing a farmer he is theroughly prac tical in his ideas as well as scientific in the pursuit of his honored calling. He has probably the be-st cultivated and most conveniently arranged farm in Oregon, upon which lie has resided for a quarter of a century. Ready at repartee, a quick reasoner and a fluent talker, he has probably no equal in Oregon as a emvasser and debater. That he will be elected can scarcely be doubted, and that he will be an efficient, useful and able Representative his past career fully warrants. Albany Democrat. "An unnecessary furore, we think is raised about the Mitchell x-esolu-tion, passed bv the late Republican State Convention." Corralis Ga zette. You will think so on the 11th of next month, when such god-morality elevil-serving worshipers as these professed Christians who voted that Hippie was as pure as an angel. You are a U. S. Deputy Marshal accounts for your blinelness before the elec tion. Bread and butter, you know, and "everything for the cause, and nothing for the men." While the Committee on Resolu tions were out at the Albany Con vention last Thursday, Judge Kelsay was calleil for. He mounteel the stand, and squared himself for a reg ular heat. He said it would require union, harmouy and work to beat Col. Nesmith. He went back to 1802, to to prove that the Democrats, w hile claiming to be strict construction ists, ami close communion constitu tionalists, were in fact liberal, freewill fellows, after all. Attention Farmers! The other day at Roseburg, says the Corvallis Democrat, wheat went up to 75 cents per bushel. Immeeliately orders were telegraphed from Portland to the local freight agents, to aelvance the tariff on the railroad three cents per bushel. So it will be seen that the farmers are not to reap the bene fit of any advances in the price of their grain. Disgraceful. The proceedings of the Radical State Convention at Albany are the most disgraceful of any body that ever met in Oregon, the State Temperance Alliance of last year not excepted. It would have been a disgrace to the negro conventions of Mississippi or Louis iana. A synopsis of them is given on the first page of to-day's paper. Ravages of the Yellow Fever. Memphis, Sept. 15. The wildest rumors prevailed to-day with regard to the yellow fever. Trains leaving on various roads w ere crowded with persons fleeing from the scemrge. The following dispatch was re ceived here to-nisrht: To the ao-pnt of the Associated Press: The latest advices from Shreveport represent the yellow fe ver as unabated, and the distress in the city indescribable. Of six men in our telegraph office, five have taken the fever and two have died. Interment average from 30 to 40 elai ly, in a population of perhaps not over 4,000. All the physicians and nurses are worked down. The peo people of the country should know these terrible facts and send aid to this suffering citv. (Signed,) Lord C. Baker, Sup't. Cincinnati, Sept. 15. Private dis patches received here by business men, state there is terrible suffering at Shreveport, La., on account of yellow fever. The sufferers ask as sistance. The Chamber of Commerce to-day appropriated S1,00. to be elisposed of uneler the elirection of the President. Shiievki'okt, La., 15. The fever is still raging and the weather is un favorable. Sixty per cent eif those attacked die. .There is great suffer ing in all classes of society for want of 2roper nursing. Citizens are dr iug all in their power to check the disease. Interments yesterday num bered twentv-two. There; were manv deaths hist night. The Howard As sociations is greatly in need of assist ance. Geo. J. Rea, manager ef the Western Union Telegraph office here died to-day. Washington, Sept. 15. President Orton, of the Western Union TVle graph Company has issued the fol lowing oreler addressed to the Super intendents of the company through out the country. "Instruct all man agers to send free, messages relating to relief of citizens of Shreveport and at the request of the Governor or U. S. Senators of Lemisiana direct that contributions of money received and transferred by telegraph without charge." Memphis, Sept. 10. Tliore is no abatement in yellow fever in this city, though it is still confined prin cipally to the low quarter of the city where it first appeared. The city authorities to-day laoed n largo force at work burning coal-tar in the streets. Washington, Sept. 1G. Senator Vest to day received the following dispatch from the Mayor of Shreve port: " Sickness on the increase. Do all you can for us. There is no money in the city treasury. The poor ai-e on our hand., and for lack of funds we find elillieulty in bury ing them." New Orleans, Sept. 17. A Picay une special from Shreveport the 10, says the number of new eases of yel low fever to-day is less than for sev eral preceeding days, and the num ber of interments reduced from 33 to 25 to-dav. "Too Thin." The Hutcfin find pea ranees it that are vain " and tries to ing that to keep up a must resort to tricks " and ways that are dark. bring Smith into favor with the farmers' movement because Smith's grandmother's father was a farmer. Too thin Mr. Hull, -tin. Col. Nesmith owns and cultivates more land than Smith's relatives ever had. Try the patent medicine dodge. Col. Nes mitn has never invented any patent medicines, Smith has. It is really amusing to see the two wings of the Radical party exposing the villainy of each other. The Bul letin of last Tuesday publishes a let ter from Astoria charging the late Cjllector of Customs at that pUce of having built his house with Govern ment money, and taxed his employ ees 25 per cent, for his own use. We always believed "that murder will out." We believe both. Well, there is no use to " cry over spilled milk," and the best ami most consistent course for true Republi cans to do, is not to go to the pedis, but let Mr. Nesmith's election go by default, and thus maintain emr rec' ord as Republicans, rebuke Hippie anel his obseepiious convention, and allow a man to go to Congress who is not a Holladay scavenger. The above is an extract from a corresponelence from Salem to the Oregon ian. Let every true Republican go to work with a hearty good will, re ganlless of all past differences, and we will be victorious in the pres ent campaign. Otherwise, defeat and disgrace icill . be our doom. Ga zelle. Italics are ours. It costs nothing to blow, but the christian Gazette will inevitably receive its "other wise." Mr. Smith is more of a worker than talker, and if the friends of the Republican party will take hold with their accustomed spirit we can roll up such a majority for our can didate on the 13th of October as will forever utterly put to reiut and dis hearten the elemoralized Democracy , State Journal. There is nothing like keeping up appearances, you know. Naming Presidential Candidates. The New Hampshire Patriot is of the opinion that the Democracy would triumph in 1876 under the lead of Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock, of Pennsylvania, for President, and Mr. W. S. Grosbeck, of Ohio, for Vice. The Democrats had a granel ratifi cation meetiug at Salem last Friday evening, says the Statesman. Col. Nesmith aelelressed a large anel en thusiastic audience at the Opera House. The editor of the Corvallis Gazette publishes that he went to the Ya quina Bay with hia wife. Well who else should he have went with? 'COURTESY Or iJANuaur-r , UNIVERSITY OF CALITORIA, Summary of .State Xen s Items. Measles still in Lafayette. Sickness prevails in Eugene. Wheat $1 at Albany last week. Eugene has several cases of measles. Wheat market firm at DO cents in Corvallis. W heat has Lafaj-ette. advanced to $1 02 at The crops in Yamhill have nearly all been harvested. Tillamook county is assessed at $200,801, and she owes $y.S,l(K. Considerable sickness prevails in Baker county; it is not serious. The people of Mai ion oountv are worth ?5,7!)3tj!S and owe 2,415,412. It is said that 200,000 bushels of wheat wsvs sold at Albany last week at SI. Jason Owen has returned from a surveying expedition in Eastern Ore gon. Father DeCraone, pastor of the Catholic Church at Salem, died last Friday. Mr. Mc( nire was robbed of two fine gold watches worth i2(0 on the 8th inst. Rev. J. W. Van Cleve has ret i reel ! from the editorial ebuir of the Alba ny Jieffsfw. j Tillamook county has 170 tax- , payers 47 of whom are over fifty years old. ', Two ladies recently met in South i Salem, whose combined ages were 100 years. , There are now confined in the In- ! sane Asylum 183 prtie-nts male anel female inclueled. j The boys of Eugene catch young birds and offer thein for sale. A new ; business feature. The average yield of wheat per acre in Linn county this year will be . over forty bushels. Chas. Vivian writes that he will soon be in Oregon, accompanied by some star artistes, j There are in Marion county 334,- J 020 acres of land, the assessed value ' of which is $2,:J00,454. j A party of men are preparing to go on a prospecting tour to Eastern 1 Oregon from Portland. ! Wheat buyers for the past few , days have been paying 1 08 per bushel at Forest Grove. j Ret ween 25(1,00(1 ,,nd :HH,000 bush els of wheat will be shipped from Junction City this season. ; Another saloon keeper has been lined 10 for keeping open after 10 , o'clock, p. in., at Corvallis. j The grain crop of the Umpqua : Valley this year was large, farmers ; look smiling, money is plenty. I Johnatlian Card had his leg bro- j ken a short time since by the falling I ejf a tree near Toledo, Yaouina. I The Schooner John Hunter sailed from Yaipiina, Sept. 4th. loaded with lumber, for San Luis Obispo, Cal. The Raker City Saloons are now kept closed on Sundays by order of W. R. Laswell, Pre). 'en ting Attor ney. Alder wood is to be shipped from Yaquina to San Francisco, te be made into powder. It sells for lo per cord. Mrs. R. T. Smith and daughter, aged 17 years, died at Junction City on the 10th inst, within a few hours of each other. The Northwestern Stage Company will pay out in Eastern Oregon this Fall, for grain, hay and straw, about sixty thousand dollars. An Encampment of Champions of the Red Cross has been organized at Canyon City with W. R. Laswell as Eminent Commander. The editor of the Benton Donocna' was presented w ith a beautiful paint ing in water colors by J. W. May, of this county, the executor. The Albany Ji-yiser is hereafter to be issued as r. semi-weekly, and w ill be published on Wednesday and Saturday mornings of each week. Two boys in Lafayette quarreled about .partners in a croquet game, when one struck the other with a mallet, cracking the bone of his arm. The Eugene Journal says: A young woman was arrested and bound over in Springfield tho first of the week for having stolen goods in he.r pos session. The Erodelphian Society t;f the Albany Collegiate Institute have re ceived their fine new library from tho East find opened it out at their rooms. The School Superintendent ef Multnomah county apportioned 13,157 43 to the several school dis tricts of that county last Monday, which was 3 40 to the scholar. In response to a petition signeelby the required number of persons, Rrigadier General M. V. Rrowu has issued an order for the organization of a militia company at Eugene. Harry Christian, near Ruena Vis ta, has thresher! 8,250 bushels of wheat from two hundre-d and fifty acres 33 bushels per acre a re markable yield to take the field through. The Pottery at Ruena Vista, ownl by A. M. Smith & Company has turned oil' a large amount of good work this Summer. They are now filling a contract te supply the city of Portlond with pipe for sewerage. The Albany and Santiam canal is now so far advanced that the Roard of Directors are ready to sell the use of the water power to responsible parties, for manufacturing and other purposes, within sixty days from this time. The Dallas RcpnlJican learns that quite a stabbing affray occurred on the Luckiamute in Polk county last week. The trouble was between two men named respectively Alderman and Tethrow, and the latter received two cuts but was not killed. Lane county has 432,187 acres of land valued at 1,055.008; 5,401 horses; 14.784 head of cattle; 20,052 sheep; 9,(552 swine; gross value ejf property, 3t,851,S49; indebtedness, 982.783; exempt from taxation, 302,392; taxable property, 2,5(50,. 414; No. pedis, 1,343. The wheat excitement extended to Halsey" on Monday, and as high as one elollar and twe cents per bushel was offered for wheat. We are in formed that something In the neigh borhood of 50,000 bushels of w heat were purchased in IJalsey on Satur day and Monday, prices varviner from 90c to 1 02, The Territories. Salt Lakers are very proud of their Fire Department. Colorado will complete 355 miles of railroad this year. Fresh peaches in Salt Lake City sell at 1 50 per bushel. The artesian well is down at Port Townsend. about 130 feet. The Salt Lake City authcrities are making it lively for the fuit dealers. The District Fair at Gallitin City, Montana, will be opened on the 13th of October. The Salt Lake Lity muicipai au- , thorities tax billiard saloons 1,400 j a year. Ogden, Utah, is receiving the per sistent attentions of a gang of tho light-fingered gentry. straw shed at the military post at Walla Walla, caught jlro recently and was consumed. j Eighty-five fine beef cattle have just 7ome over the Siioqualmie Pass for the Victoria market. Taeoma wants a town magistrate, and the Tribute nominates Major A, G. Rrown for the position. Provo City, Utah, boasts of more frogs to the square inch than any other locality iu tho world. The annual export trade of the Pnget Sound district amounts to about three million dollars. Several fast horses are at the Wal la Walla Fair which is running this , v-eek both the Fair and the horses. The Terminus is slowly changing its appaarance, but hewing out a city in a Pugct Sound forest is slow work. One of the great att motions at the Montana Fair will be a base ball match for the championship of the Teritories. Trolling for salmon has Income a fashionable aninsonient at Seattle. Lurce numbers ef very fine fish are taken in this way. The Grand Lodge of F. and A. M. of Montanna will convene at the Masonic Temple, in Helena, on the first Monday in October. The Chinamen working in the Montana mines never labor after 4 o'clock in the afternoon, having a firm belief that at that hour the angels leave earth for heaven. The Grand Lodge F. and A. M. of Washington Territory have accept ed an invitation to attend the cere monies of laying the cennor-stoue of the new State Capitol. Rrigham City, Utah, had a hail storm, one day list week, during which chunks ef ice as larger as hen's eggs made it lively for horses, mulos. stray hogs and other Mormons. From the Taconia Tribune of Sep tember 0th: " Rev. Mr. Ronnedl re turned last evening from Pentland, aecompanh'd by his wife, to make Tacoiua their permanent home." "Honest Clmilev," the crack trott ing horse of Utah, will compete, at the Montana Fair, with the Men. tana favorite, 'Diet Ilarte," in three matched trotting races, for 1,0X10 a side, each race. The Arizona Citizen ef the1 0th says that 25 miles ea?-'t of old camp Reno, C. C. Pi-tee, packmaster, and a parly of soldiers were fired on by Apaches. One soldier, it is feared, was mortal ly wounded. Track layers on the N. P. R. R., near Nisqually, have run out of rails and suspended work until the arriv al ef the steamship Idaho, which is due from San I'rancisco with enough iron to lay five miles of track. The Grand Lodge of Good Tem plars of W. T., w hich met at Olym pia on the. 10th elected ofiicers as follows: S. 1). Maxon, G. W. C. T. ; John Webster. G. V. C ; Georgie McLain, G. W. V. T.; J. H. Munson, G. W. S. New York, Sept, 11. The North ern Pacihe Iv.vilroad Directors, at their iiKeting in this city yostorday, adopted tho following: Hfsolreif, That the Northern Pa cific Railroad fin-ate and construct its main road to a point on Puget Sound on the southerly side of Com -menceMnent Ra-, in township i'l, range 4 east of the Willamette mer idian and within the limits of the city of Taeoma, which point in said oity of Taeoma is deedared to be the western terminus of th.o n.ain line of the Northern Pacific Railroad. . The Oukgox Coxoiiessmax, Tho Democratic State Convention of Oregon, which met in Portland on tho 0th inst., was largedy attended and the tone of its published pro ceedings indicate that it. was exceed ingly harmonious. Hun. J. W. Nesmith was nominated on the fifth ballot, receiving 02 voters, his com petitors being Helm, Slater and Lane. The, nomination was subse quently made unanimous midtit the greatest enthusiasm. It is generally conceded that the nominee is the strongest man in the party, and the Republicans have virtually thrown up the sponge before the first round has fairly commenced. The plat form is built of live timber. Every plank in necessary and none are wanting, to constitute a harmonious whole. It is short, simple, terse, expressive ami easily understood. With such a candidate and platform victory is assured. Olympia Stand ard. SonthernfOregon maybe elepended upon as sure to give him a heavy vote, as the Democracy of this sec tion are fully satisfied ith the nom ination, and if the balance of the State will do only as well, and there is every indication it w ill, Hon. J. W. Nesmith's election is assured, and by the largest majority ever given any candidate in the State. Jioseb ur; Plaint lea ler. m . Hon. Hiram Smith, M. C, he will be addressed after October 13th. Jladical K.cvhanfje. We elon't know what the " M. C." it means is lor, but we Mighty Cheap. suppose Col, Nesmith will wear the honors which he is so able to achieve, with his usual grace. Mr. N. is an able man, a great man and he will, if elected, creditably represent Oregon in Congress. La Grande Sentinel, m We are thoroughly satisfied that the Republicans can ptit no candi elate in the field who can come w ithin a thousand votes of Nesmith. Mer- I cvry. DEMOCRATIC IrT The Democratic Party of tht stutc of o in Convention a.,r.o,rl d 'i-rnVbn 1. That, we recosniz.. Ur,U SlII.lMrt' legal and constitutional authori f n Federal-Oovernn,f.tf Ult. 5" ,h strict obstruction ot the l-Vd.-rai twr, " tion as necessary to the , r. St rvati.,n , "J" inhesent rights of tin- ,,, ,,. (ln ln pose centralization sis th.- ....ist 1',,'' and dagernus en. iay of ri will eontii.ueto.i:.,....,..! . n-'". and iu which it may jm.i :,r -t 1....' ,v,'rv laiis 2. That justice deinaMds a r. vici . urtar.iriuws. with m vi..... ... r' Nls"n or liue alone, and to tax iiw. 'C,1IV vvc- general iorthe bciielit 1 ,,Vn "'.""'' ests and to the d.-truuent V l ,11 ilVl,U " class, sol the community. 1iriiii; a. 1 hat the wealth ot the count rv Ut, product ol labor, and we heartily such 1 -gisiatioii as has i,,r its ol.j.J, ,"r protection and support ol the 1 r.Ml. and laboring class, s. I aj itai ,1." selt, while labor in its numerous ana sitied lorins nods, and must have it losterinjc care ol prudent and skilhul l lati ,11, and ariicularly is I his true at tms" time when the r.-litsol production arc- be ing shallowed up in extortionate rates (,f tratiS)ortatlti, 4, 'ihat hU coronations are subject to legislative control: those created bv ( ,, cress should be restricted and cotiin,l,.,i by Congress, and those laws b-subject to the control ot t lie State en at ing tin in ; and all c-oriMrat ions should be so controlled ts to 1 re vent them iron, b coming onini t..r oppn ssion ; and also the property' ot ul! corporat ions should he ass ss d and tax, u i at tne same rate as the property 01 inaiviu- ; uals. i 5. That we view v it h great apprch-ii-! M011 the widespread corruption ai.d uis j honesty that has rec. ntl marked V.'T public s. rvice, and considering us shun,!, j Iul and iniquitous the recent act 01 i ,Ml. I gress granting an increase 01 salaries, Wt. demand its immediate rej cal, and we'd' -j liounce every" lnsmlK-r ol Congress, 1 ei,ill. It-rat or lCepubliean, who suj j-on'ed ti. ' measure, aiiU also Use Presiie-nt ot n. I'n.ted states, by whose ay roval tin J inlamous act became a law. ! ti. 1 hat the act ol I lie 1 'resident in s. t ! .i..-, up lo baj.on. t government in i,i,Hjs. j ia:;a not o -s.r- d uy in r 1 -copl- and iinviii j no t it le vvnalt ver to rule them was a tl-,1 grain va.iai.on o; m r rights until r tie-i-. d' ral i,ii; a ut ion. 7. 'J hat ev r. department, of invent, (in lit ll'i ill t he bans oi the lle ul.litaii l.iy r- juMly i-r-onsib!e mrihe ev lis ana vrongsin l -gislat ion and J(uuiinistr;i;ujii oi v inch t he coui.i ry complains. . Yi- are (i, pi.., d to granting lv th-tii.-ni raliiovi rnnn nt ol su tsidies to siean, s::ip liii- to imj on ehiin se slaves to our shores, and we t-mar:d such a inoiiJim ;;oIiol til-' i urlii'i;:: Hie tr.-atv Willi ( as Will . le't-iii.-.llv cut oir this strt-ain of I bin -se nn migration. !i. W'e th-maiid of t'ongr -ss an additional appropriation lor 1 1.;- removal i obstruc tions to t ho navigat ion ; t.ie V"illai!ien r:er, and such aid by aj pne'riation or oi iier.v i.-e as will o. n the i oiuinbat ri- r to iree navigation, by means oi a canal and locks id the ascade port age, ai.ii 1 proceed.-oi tin-sales ol a i t er II a 1 1 s ( t H II s oi the ubiic lands to aid i n t In- coh.-iruc-tion ot the l'oriianu, bail- s and Salt l.aki: Kailrond. l'. 'I hat as th vast extent of our coast, em braci lig a dl.M a lice ol in a roue t bousai.. mil' s in ext- i:t, is destitute oi an place nf r'-sort lor vessels jii sir'Ssoi weather, ami vast amounts o! proj-rty are lost veariv thereby ,!og"ther with a gr-nt manx valua ble lives: tin r -lope, be i; r -solved "that w r ijuiieol our r r s ntat ives in ( ongress to us" cvry honorable elTon to secure an a ; -i ro, ri it i a i.r I h- bar or oi Port (tium; tirst, as being ado, t -d to an iniprov. in- ia oi tae kind ; and a i so lor t he in, ; rovi inert oi al! piac: s in i he s: at" that may contrii lit e to our com n iH-ic. i jm S nt y . 11. '1 bat we mo; cordially invite ail who lavor r-tr nenment and reii.rm ,n ever; de. arine nt oi the i ublic s -r ic- ami the r-'St oral ion oi the io eriini'-i.t tons ionm r purit.. .-it.it t;i-i t:c; , to ass.si us by t he ;r ,i s a nd !ht'i!h rice in t h - attaiiini'-iit o: i.i'j e:s s.. ii!i; oriat.t and d s.rabic. 1J. Ml.at the po'i'y oi t he -nerai rriiiii'-i,!,li!ci a :o li. Imii.-ui I'ejit-c fniic , by whseh Indian t n te s have be. n encmar ag d in aiaj gr.-nted immunity lor ti e w holesa I" rol l.- ry am: massacre ol h pi. s citiz- ns u;,n the ironri'T. has r "tardea t!: s ttleio. nt and development of or.runiM cupi ilt rr.ior ,:iini ha mat ri.-iil. injur d our stat" in t li .s vital nit r f t : t hat :t is a c r. ng i; ten a t r nie ami ought to I.e a! ;ui doiieu lor a po!.c. : tirhite ssand jusiit-i The Democratic State Convention of Oregon met at Portland on Wednesday last, and on the fifth ballot nominated Col. J. W. Nesniitli for Representative in Congress. It is nndoul -ji ly the best nomination that could have been made hy that party, and from present appcai-un. cos he will carry the State in. a large majority. The platform i:i very lil eral, and upon which all men who sire independent in their views aii.l not hid-bouml to the admim'str;.' tion party can stand. Considering the defection in the Republican ranks tin (Tio,0)lt the State, the pop ularity of the candidate, and the anti-railroad inei:opoly feeling', Col. Nesmith will undoubtedly be the next Congressman from Oregon. ()hjtnj it t Tcansvript. The Nor.iiN-r.n. After Rev. E. I:. Geary, Dr. J. V.. Watts. Ron. T. I Davenport. Richard Williams, Esq., and R. P Roise had successively de clintul to accept a nomination fer Congress at the hands of the Con vention, on account of the resolu tion declaring that John Mitchell, not having committed any high crimes and misdemeanors for some time, was entitled to great praise, for restraining hmiHolf so leng. the (ii ventiem nominidv-d Jlirani Smith, e Linn county, by acclamation, about ont-third of the members voting, while some of the rest were leaving the room in disgust, and others-were going through violent paroxysms of laughter at the huge joke. Oreyi. n i at . Of Mr. Nesmith personally it i unnecessary to say anything, lb history is a part of the history of the State. There are those who were opposed to his nomination by rea son of differences of ojiinion which existed during the war, but having received the? nomination upon a democratic platform we urge it upon all such as tho jiart ef wisdom to vote for him on the loth of October, and not only vote for him. but to. use all their influence to secure his election by .an overwhe-lmning ma jority. This can easily le done. Kutjene Guard. DisorsTEi). Republicans are so hugely discmsted w Jth the proceed ings of the Albany Convention, and especially with the candidate. Hi Smith, that they are already talking about an independent candidate. Salt won't save you now, gentlemen, much less an independent candidate. B'uyene Gtrartl, Rouse, then, Democrats of Ore gon! Put vour ..houhlers to the wheel and set the ball a rolling. Let "s show that to tho world that the De mocracy cf Oregon isnotyetdcM by electing tho Ron. J. W- Xcsnnt" at thp coining October election. Jjnftyeitti Cv,iritr. . - At the Democratic State Conven tion whioh convened at Portland, Mr. Nesmith was nominated f"r Congress, We know of no better man for that position.- Forest Gror Iudoptutl?itt. 3 Wheat, is ninety cents per bush?! and on the rise at Eugene. aepartincutsMU our ,,. ri -n,-,T K v' T:i1 tive, K.veiiitive ai.d Judicial ur,. ' V't'isi eutn. th. ir r svUvv ,N j.,.r, . H "i t (institution, .-iiiu anv att. n,,,. 1 ."""'''ihc oi them to u.-urji authority is ,1..'. ,:,"-v ' j thet stiti4i(iiialrigl;tsa"iuiiili1'. "Ut": 'v'-r ol the i,t ners, and should I i l.l'-nce n t TmouT