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PRECOX CITY, PRECOX, SEPT. 19, 1573.
Democratic State Ticket!
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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.
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"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
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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.
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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.
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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