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I -.'it ii HiT. ! n i Hr il ii n 4a timm Wt o o o o o o o o O o o o o o o I o VP o o VOL. 8. OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10,. 1873. NO. 8. ii &Lrf lJ ii iif O o o o G o C G C n O O CD 9 e o 0 O O "Till-: OM,OLI IIOMH. I k A igel troops they come, lf I f..l lir.v arms to pooler Where inf-in'-y was sheltered I ike rose-buds from the blast. Wiu re girlhood's l.rief elvMinn In i.vouness was iissed ; To thai sweet spot fore ver, s to son.e hallowed dome, T if.'.'s pilgrim Ih-iu1s her vision-''nru-roldollionie. fVher sat, how proudly, i;V that hearthstone s rays, MulloU his eluldreii stones nf his carl V manhood days, , ,1 ,.ne soil eye was iieaniing, ' ll.nn.chddtochild 'twould roam; Thus a mother counts her treasures la the ok!, olJ home. The l.irth-d:v gifts and festivals, The M- n .ed vesper hymn, is .in.- dear one who was swelling it i - u itli the .Seraphim). Tl.eri.n5 - oMdnUhts"at bed-time, iC-.w -Pi"t sll,l would come, V V fold ,i all together w" Ju t lipoid, old home. Like a wreath of scenlcd llowers i-l.,se int rtwined eaeli heart. l'.nt tim" aud eh luge in eoncert 0 ,11 ,ve iJ. vn the wmitli apart. n.,t drad aa.l sainted memories hike anv' ls ever com", I i. Id in v arms auo . If On the old, okl home. soxr.. o When "Vr the hill the sun appears, And kiss. s every tlow r : And when with neams uc mu i.i- T.r'iMarls fair Flora's how'r, I'll think of thee. When Autumn's l.reat'a the tlowers sear, , , n I tliev wither and decay; Win ii rain-drops scatter tinted leaves, W'liil- thou-irt far away, .. I'll think of thee. When I the s .; -ains of muu; hear, u,i eelming notes prolong: I'll sing the t..)ii.'s that tliou hast sunir, nd think of thee in som;. I'll ever think ot thee. MlNSTIlEI-. i)ur ;ir'.s." Dr. Dio Tiewis leetured aliont "Our Oii-ls" Poliilidelphia reeenlly. There ned said, to '- sojnettuii se. t.ie. el (luces in p .. ...... tu-it. Kil.tte ol .-vmern a uitu j-.v. a Iii 'lu r and raivr type of l.e-ritv.uiore clearly o'.ninieu icauiies :,'id exoivssiw eyes than aru fo.md anvv!ii-ni els' in "the world. It was u.i lo.ildeaiy the fact, however, that A- vMiean women l:ivc l-vn uegep.cr-a:in-,' in vital 'iie.-y of late, more ilarl v w iiiiin tin' last ne umij., i have Uhs ar.nii il stixi),i;t.t and s.) o i.ealth genera ily as for-rV.-." II -' a erdiod this to the "iu lif.i w'ieh has generally kce:i 1 i hv w .nien."'iiieeti.c waresneciaay. V-a' c-e::e;-al thing, thy are taller aad of what is e.alled ":iin)or frirms." n ijovity nf them if:, w ar Iiton", says li e-sixths of them in that city are alH:c.ed wstii curvature of the spine, which, how ever, is hi.l hi the art of the dr ss-niMkc-r. a id it has hc.cn found that the lungs are small and tho chest flat. These -..ee lliarities of the American -a o-.iu'i are c!ii .'il V due to her carriage a.id divss. He advised that every vo .n r : ,.iv should make it a rule a ; n' m t h it Xr rep, o "vhen in th? le-nse to walk an hour a dav with a wight-say a hag of Veins ihir.-ht-r) ui.on her head, and she would thus easily acquire an erect 1 ..4nr: which would throw her chet f .r.vard :'.!id ivo. her a graceful atti tude, lie lu-li.-ved that in.the matter of dress women were crazy. (Laugh ter and aphiuse.) They could never be health'v wliile they went around with their feet almost unprotected from the damp earth and under a big b dloon. He advised woolen covering for the legs atu. feet, and short dresses except in a ball-room or on a state occasion; and. unequivocally con demned the u-e of corsets which, he said should be'donc away with entire ly, in order tint women might have the fvrrc and appearance which God originallv intended they should have. O A Prri'Y Answei:i:i. Several con ceited young men were assembled on a street conn r, when a poor Dutch man approachrd. One of them said to his companions: ' Boys, I'm going to have some fun. dust watch me .fool this Dutch man !q He went up o the German and ad dressed him thiis: " Kaiser, don't you want to buy a tlog?" "Yaw, I vant',s to buy von little pup like you. Is von for sale?" The puppy ; "slunk tft amid the jeers and lau.rhter of his comrades. TitK Good of the Panic. The New Orleans Times thinks that the late ianic in the North will serve to break up that dangerous concentra tion of buh;ess which placed in a few hands trade and capital which cdionld be di-Hributed among hun dreds. Immense fortunes have just shrunk into comparative nothingness In our new t'jeparture people will occupv more nearly a practical plane of eqiialitv. Contrasts will be less sharplv deiined, and moderate suc cesses," it is hoped, will be more gen eral. ; V youth and : a maiden were danc inJo'the lanceis. In the course of tUo conversation which the dance necessitates, he took to questioning her as to hfr accomplishments. "Do von paint?" he asked. He wonders what "on earth she got mad History Repeated, Our Radical friends, says an ex change, must bear with us if -our exultation over the series of recent splendid victories tends to their an noyance. In the hour of rrreat tri umph our heart is not altogether steeled against them, and we can look back over the years of pitiless persecution to which they subjected our party and the remorseless, ridi cule which they cast upon sanguine anticipations of final success in the teeth of what appeared to their delud ed vision to be irredeemable disaster and irretrievable ruin. "We arose after every cruel reverse with a brow of adamant and a heart of oak refus ing to strike our colors while a man was left alive to bear them bravely forward to another battle. Our sub lime faith in the restorative power of truth has been justihed in the glor ious achievements of the present mo mentous montu. I he result of the State elections of 1S73 may be set down as a crushing defeat of the Kadical party and as an ever memor able victory of the Democracy. There is much in it that recalls the political "history of the past. The Cincinnati Enquirer says it seems as if 1837 was come again; and by an extraordinary coincidence the same figures denote it, except that the last two are trans posed. In 1S37 the downfall of the Democracy, who had been in power for eight years, was simultaneous with a liuancial panic that overspread the country, depressing business and throwing hundreds of thousands of people out of employment. For this the Administration was held respon sible. States which had been the most reliable for General Jackson, and for his then just inaugurated successor, Martin Van Daren, were carried by the Whigs, by large ma jorities. New York, which had given Van JSnreii in the preceding fall 2S, '.)00 majority, elected one hundred Whigs to the House of Assembly to eight Democrats. The reaction was complete. Jnt toe lemocrats en deavored to console themselves by the reflection that the vote was light, and that thousands of Democrats stayed at home from disaffection, who, when a Presideut or Governor was chosen, would again come out and vote the ticket. The result proved the vanitv of the delusion. It was the " off-year' just after a Presiden tial contest. Three years past away, and the Presidential "election took place. The opposition to the Demo cratic Administion of Martin Van Ihirc-n -consited of several organiza tions, North and South, but by far the most important of them was known as Whigs. Under that name everything rallied in VSIO, and although the vote was a half million larger than ever before known, Mr. Van Duron was voted out by an un precedented majority, receiving but sixtv electoral votes out of two hun dred and ninety-four, and carrying seven States out of the twenty-six which then composed the Union. Then the Democracy, for the first time, perceived that the results of 1S3 were not mo.nentary, but they expressed the full and deep-settled convictions of the people. In 1S73, thirty-six years thereafter, withou the change of a figure, we find a similar state of things. A Na tional Administration, elected a year before by an enormous majority, is everywhere condemned. Willi this change comes a financial panic, almost evactlv like 187. Strike out the name of ('riant and insert M il tin i Van Ihiren, and it is history repeat ing itself. Iy the defeated party the same ideas are advanced, that the reverses are but temporary. What a delusion they are laboring under the course of events will tell. The peo ple are going to combine in lo, as , V . . . , 111 kl they did in to vote out tneaa- ministration. Now, as then, they will seize hold of that organization which is the most conspicuous, and could do the most in the egecting ot the great purpose of the opposition. It was then tne nig pari. Now it is the Democi-atie party. Hundreds of thousands who had never been Whigs, who had runked themselves as State's Plights Demo crats, supported the Whig nominee in the Presidential election of 1H-10. There is a supreme absurdity m the idea that people are willing to vote with men who are and have been Democrats for years, but will not do so if they call themselves Democrats. There is no such prejudice existing against names. People look at things rather than names. They are down upon the existing Administration, and will favor that winch gives them the best opportunity of rectifying it. It is folly to say that they will sub mit to everything rather than to be Democrats. That is morail cowardice of the worst character. There is nothing in the word Democrat of which anybody need be afraid. Principle vs. Expediency. It is with political parties as, with individuals, when they sacrifice prin ciple for expediency, their useful ness and prospects of ultimate suc cess are gone. This is the severe les son the Democratic partv learned in the national campaign of 1K72. Al ways eminently catholic and patri otic, the party which had ruled the country in peace and properitv for over fifty years, was seduced bv the blandishments of apparent success, and the appeals of those who had 1 1 -i once ueen i:s honored leaders, to temporarily abandon its cardinal principles anil adopt the heresies of expediency. There could be but one result of such an experiment, and that was defeat; and success, by such means, would have been even worse than defeat, so far as its demorali zing influence upon the party and the people was concerned. Every party must, in the nature of things, make mistakes; and the gravest mistake, and one that would have utterly ru ined any other party that the Dem ocratic party made, was its abandon ment of the political field in the last campaign, and the support it gave Mr. Greeley upon a platform that was essentially of his own dictation, except in regard to the question of tariff. The party was able and will ing to make sacn'iees for the good of the country, but it was not able to utterly abandon its time-honored principles, and the result of the elec tion demonstrates this. But the result has not been with- Conimon Sense vs. Wildeatism. Among the sensible and practical members of the Grangers's Conven tion in this city, is a gentleman by the name of Bishop, of Kane county. After listening to some of the crazy projectors of wild goose canal and railroad schemes, to be carried out by public taxation, Mr. Bishop re marked that he was tired of working fifteen hours a day. giving half his earnings 'to tax-eaters, and finding nothing to take from him the rc?nt burdens of oppression. These gov ernmental canal scheinesand railroad schemes were simply propositions to add still other burdens to the loads under which the people already groaned. It was proposed that, in order to relieve the western produ cer from the burdens that were oppressing- him sorely, the federal gov ernment should engage in a vast system of canal digging, in which it would consume twenty years, and more than twenty millions of dollars which the farmers must earn by hard oortatntv of relief in Senate Standing Committees. out good effect, listen to the soiii closes its ears to work, with no the end. The scheme was a decep tion and a fraud. He did not want any additions to present- burdens; he preferred that present burdens should be made lighter. Instead of working fifteen hours a day for twen ty years, under increased burdens laid on so that lie or his childien might get a little better price for his corn fifteen or twenty years hence, lie would prefer a reform of tne pat ent laws, and. tariff laws, and banking laws, lightening present loads, and It will no longer i enabling him to get more money for Republican Indignation. O The Chiel Justiceship. of the syren. It the anpoals of the weak and the treacherous. It no lon ger looks to victory for the fatness of olliee and the prestige of power. To day it regards principle as para mount to success, and understands that success is the only ultimate re ward of principle. Such was the les son that was taught by the Libonil Itepublican fiasco. Therefore, after shrouding itself in sa'-k-cloth. and Imrvintr itself in the ashes of humiliation, for its well meaning but debusing subservience of principle to expediency, it stands erect with a firm resolve, henceforth, to battle for the right, whether vic tory is assured or defeat is inevita ble. Ile-.viiiLr straight to the line, his lii'teen hours labor imir. He did not ask Government to dig him a ea- abundoning nothing, ami nojhing, it has made the patriotic re solve never again to compromise it self or clothe itself in a garb that does not lit. Thus it went into tlr? struggle that lias just closed in a number of States. It has triumphed, and the bugles of the old party rin' j m -nt o I out elearlv and defiantly the notes of Goven victory. Thus Kittling on, unav.ed by defeat, waiting with patience for its laurels, it is bound to succeed. Democratic principles are as certain to triumph in the end, as they are imperish ihly and imniu'ably im planted in the hearts of the people. It is no wonder, then, that the grand old Democratic party turns a deaf ear to the wiles of the seducer, and spurns the blandishments of the tempter. It will make no more sac rifices upon the 'altar of expediency, but with drums bcutiirg, and colors living it will fight on, patiently ard hopefully, until the "good time" comes, when the bays of vie.ory will crown its brows, it may not come soon. It makes no difference. But it will come and the faithful shall be re w a r d e d . Ltunlma.-k. rial, nor build him a railroad, be cause he well knew that the canal must be dug or the railroad be built with his own hard earning-., ami he had none to spare after pavim' the tax-gatherer and the (overnnrnt protccted monopolist. What he asked Government to do was to stoj taking away his earnings and giving them to s m -body that had i:o earned. He aked that the ports of the country 'be thrown open, and that the farmer be allowed the freedom of the world's markets for what he had to scdl ami for wlia't his need re quired him to buy. Deduction of the cost of living and the cost of production would be the same t.hing as reduction in ihe cost of transpor tation, and cheaper transportation would inevitably follow such reduc tion of cost by the removal of the present burdens that increased cost. This would involve no increase of present burdens, and no postpone- f relief tor twenty years, -while linent, or more likely some Ci'edit-Mobiiior ring, was engaged in taxing him to carrv out some ques tionable 7 I '.Hi .'. The following is a list of the Stand ing Committees of the U. S. Senate, as recently appointed : , Pririlroet tinl Erfucotton Morton, Chairman, Carpenter, Logan, Antho ny, Alcorn, Mitchell, Sumner, Ham ilton, of Maryland, and SauLdmry. ' Fitrei'iit lleltititi Cameron, Chair man, Morton, Hamilton, Howe, Fre linghuysen, Conkling, Schurz, Mc Creery, and Stockton. Finance Sherman, Morrill, of Vermont, Scott, Wright, Ferry, of Michigan, Denton and Bayard. AiJproi'i'intiOitx Morrill, of Maine, Spragne, Win-torn, W-st, Ames, Sar gent, Allison, Stevenson anil Davis. Ctunm'.rccC handler, Spencer, Conkling, Buckingham, Boutwell, Gordon and Dennis. M. 1 1 1 tctnwi 11 o be r t so n , Lewis, Dennis and Gordon. M'Ut'n-'t Affairs Logan, Canvron, Spencer, Clayton, Wadleigh, Kelly and H.insom. Xarul Affairs Cragin, Anthony, Morrill, of Maine, Sargent, Canover, Stockton aud Norwood. Jtnh-iarj Edmunds Conkling, ( hn en ter." Fr din;?! i u vsen , Wright , Thurman and Stevenson. Pot-tofiii-es ami J'osf Ro 'ih Dam soy, Hamlin, Ferry, of Michigan, Fhmagan. Dorsey, .loe.es, Saulsbury, Merriman, and Hamilton, of Mary land. Public Laml-t Sprague, Windom, Stewart. Pratt, Ogh-sby, WaJleigh, Boutwrll, Kelly and Tipton. Print!,' Laiitl Cltints Thurman, Ferry, of Connecticut, Fenton, Bay ard and Bogy. Ltd i tit Affair.-, , u ckin gl i am. , Alli son, Ogles1. y, Morrill, of Maine, In galls. Bogy and MoCreory. Pensions Ppatt, Ferry, of Conn. O 'lesbv', Ingalls, Patterson. Ilamil- I toti, of Texas, and Norwood. ! 'laiis Scot!, Pratt, Boreman, ! Wright. Mitchell. B utvel, Davis. Merriman and' Goldthwaite. i lH. lri' l j' i.'n! it:u'la Dewis. Spen cer, iiitcuoocK, JioDcrtson, .Junes, Dorsey and Johnson. Public J!ni!dins al (1 ro' nd Morrill, Gilbert, Cameron, Stockton and Cooper. The Orejouiau, commenting on the removal of Hon. A. C. Gibbs, has this to say on the subject : Having reported the circumstan ces of the case to the Attorney-General, as directed by the telegram of that officer, and receiving no further direction in the premises, Mr. Gibbs proceeded with his business. His conduct was approved by the better class of citizens. The corruptions were notorious and most ilagrant, and he has been officially and direct ly vindicated by tile fact that, not withstanding the ring of corruption ists have left no stone unturned to prevent indictments, and have run off some of the most important wit nesses, indictments have been found against some of the parties accused. Mr. Gibbs has the hearty thanks of the entire community, excepting only the bribers' ring, for the manly course he has pursued. But when neither persuasiou nor threat could swervoliun from the line of hisdutv, and give the criminals security from the consequences of their crimes, they appeal to the administration to have him displaced. A man whose history is summed up in the few words, seducer, sorter of wife and O o 7 wiie-neaxer, i children, embez canal project . CI, ic tja The D.-.ver s S:ory. From the New Vor.c Kvi'nii;c Post. "Ali, sir, this is going to be a hard Wint; r," said a great burly car driver to rs the other evening "and I saw yesterday wh.it such as you can't see very of. en, and. hardly believe when it's t Id to .you. One of the i men tiiut drove on tins line nigh j three' years sent his little gal to usk me to come ana see him, and I iant od last evening and went. Now I hoard how he was s'ck with consumption, but I didn't know how Tcrril.i irs Boreman, llitc oci: Cragin, Clinton, Patterson, Cooper ami MeCreerv. zler of money collected for his clients, keeper of a mistress, whom he passes oil" in society for his wife, bigamist for over seven years, and United. States Senator under a false name, is the person by w hom and in who.se interest this appeal is tuken. This man is John Hippie alias J. JI. Mitchell, Senator from Oregon. His application is heard, and a man who has long and faithfully served the public in various capacities, upon whose public and private life there rests no stain, is degraded from of fice, not only while' in the faithful discharge c.f his duties, but because he is di-cliarging tliem faithfully. There is a nature of this cae that ought not to be parsed over without mention. Attorney General V il liams has, il is supposed, practically m jus own nanus tne power oi le movfd from, and snip ointment to, this ofilee of District Attorney. It is true the Piv.mlcnt might " take this bit in his mouth," and exercise this the wish of the J'ailroad Ste ,-arl c-tt, at: O When- a Chlistian man rinds the times too hard to give a dollar for re ligious purposes, and spends three dollars for a gallon of brandy next da.v you can just depend upon it that the devil :is satisfied with the canvass. A Household Blotted Out. As a part of the history of the ravages of the scourge iu North Memphis, we place on record the fate of the in mates of the boarding-house known as me -Mississippi nouse, corner of Market and Front streets. The landlord is Joe Sanford. whose family consisted of a wife and two children. In his house were eighteen boarders. Of all these there were only Sanford and one boarder who survived; all the rest, twenty, died. Aralonche. A man at Trenton, who found sev eral thousand dollars over two years ago, and has advertised it every day since tnai time, gets great credit for his honest v. Any other man would have quit looking for an owner long ago, yet this Trenton man keeps on advertising. The reason is plain, he owns the paper in which it is adver tised, and pa-s at full rates out of the money found. After three years more of advertising the whole amount will have been absorbed. Theiu: is a Justice of the Peace in Iowa, before whom a citizen had presented his daughter's lover for ejecting him from his own parlor the Sunday evening previous, who sol emnly decided as follows: "It 'pars thf t t Ins young felly was courtin' the plain fiTTs gal in plaintiff's parler, and that plaintiff entruded and was put out by defendant. Courtin' is si ne cessity, and must not be interrupted. Therefore the laws of Iowa wif! hold thsit si parent has no legal right in a room where courtin' is afoot, and so the defendant is discharged and the plaintiff must pay costs." A Washington letter about Treasury clerks has the following bit of infor mation : "Dadie.s have their pay de ducted for every day's loss of time. One receiving a telegram announcing her mothers death. She had the ex pense of the journey to ami from the funeral and was docked six days. And ho this Ad ininist rsiition that is perioa theticand votes an ineresise for its mem bers whenever it feels pinched lor money does what w.is never before done In the history of the Govennient, stop the salaries of under paid clerks for sickness and for death of relatives. Ifonlv Secretaries and heads of bureaus cut off t heir own salaries for absence, their clerks would not complain." How Haiu) Ir Is. Texns vigilance committees ride up to a house and shout, "Is Mr. Smith in?" Mrs. Smith conies to the door and replies in the negative, when the leader con tinues, "I knew he wasn't; he's hanging to a black-jack over thar !" Then Mrs. Smith goes in, gathers her boys on her knees, and tells them how hard it is to steal a horse in Texas and escape punishment. Ml .1- until I got there. West, l'amsey, Hitchcock, Cragin, Howe, Fivlinghuysen, Hamilton, of Texas, II, ins-.. m ssu.l K' lly. Mines and M'nin'i Hamlin. Chan dler. Sarg.-nt, Crocker, Tipton and ( Jold lh wuiie. llrisi:),, 1 up. L.-:,rs of On: United St-d.-s Conkling, Carpenter, Stew art. A Irmrn and Hansom. Kim-diuu and Labor Flanagan, Patterson, Ingalls, Sumner. Morton, Bogy and Gordon. f'iril .'r"',, and lr,i,i:hni'itt Wri cht, B -utwell, Thurman. Ham lin, Howe, Hamlin of Maryland, and McCivtrv. iiowor contrary to Attorr.ey General, who is the chief oliicer of tlm department of justice, but it is nut likely that he has done so. If he would do so in any case, ho would hardly do so in this, as the matter relates to Oregon, the home of the Attorney General. Now At torney General William- is nomina ted for Chief Justice of the United States, but his nomination as not been confirmed. Can it be possible that for the iniluohoe ami vote of the Oregon Senator, who carries ;i repu tation beside which the worst name that ever disgraced Congress, is as from the Saft Francisco Examiner. A Washington dispatch savs tliat the nomination of Geo. II. WilHs-ms as Chief Justice w yesterday re ferred to the Committee on Judieisi rv, but no further action was taken on the subject in Executive session. It is stated that the President ten dered the appoiutinent to Senator Conkling, who declined. He then wished to appoint Caleb dishing, and retain Attorney-General Wil liams in the Cabinet until near ihe expiration his Presidential term, cal culating that by that time Cushing would retire bv reason of ne and in that event he would appoint Wil liams. The proposed appointment of Cushing wsis not considered expe dient by the Cabinet, and the Presi dent then appointed Williams. In tliis connection we observe that the Territorial Enterprise (Radical) is displeased sit Grant's action. That journal says: In characterizing this nomination as "one not fit to bo made," we believe that we but give expression to that which will provo to be the pu2ular voiee of the coun try. The position of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is the highest to which human ambition may as pire in this country, and no man whose abilities are not of the highest order and whose character is not above suspicion should be allowed-) to till it. That Geo. H. Williams possesses abilities of a lair order is admitted; but that thev are of the- highest order we denv. His nomi nation to tho Chief Justiceship will noi inspire such conhdence as would the noniinsdion of Caleb Cushing, Benjamin 11. Curtis. Charles Francis Adams, or Charles Summ r, of Mas sachusetts; or of Charles O Conor or William M. Evarts of New York; or of William M. Groe&beek of Ohio, or of numerous other great lawyers who might be namei. Mr. Wil liams has held a brief Senatorial term and displayed more than aver age sibility among such Senators as Cameron". Stewart- and Cole; but nothing to assure the country that he would ably ami worthily wear the highes t judicial ermine the country has to bestow. On the contrary tLe name of Mr. Williams whether truthfully or not, we cjinnot say ha b"en mentioned in connection with certain "rings" in a manner not at sill complimentary to him. We are. therefore, not favorably impressedQ with the announcement of the ap pointment of Mr. Williams, and re gret that the President should hava declared that he would make it. O o o Mill They Co. lisnv Daniel Drew Shells i-.or. Rather Mixed. A reporter, not good at puuetuation, in describing a fashionable wedding, got things mix ed up some, as follows: " She stood before the altar on her head, a fair wreath of orange blossoms on her daintv feet, lovely white satin shoes on her rosv lips, "a confiding happy smile as she gazed upon him who stood by her aide. An Alabama paper advises the white men of that State who have been training with the scallawags, carpetbaggers and negroes, to "sell out their interest in Radicalism for a sheep-killing dog, and then to kill the dog and join the Conservative party." As suro as I live, sir! there was that fellow what one year ago w.is as strong and hearty a young man as you ever saw, with his legs no big ger than my wrist and him Ivin7 on the iloor and heavin' and choking all the d;iy and night. He told me he hadn't sent for me till he had to, and on looking round, sir, I saw there wasn't any furniture left; and although a yesir sigo he had his little room lilted up comfortable like, he had sold even the straw in his tick and wsis a lyin on the Hour. 'I wouldn't care to live, Jim,' said he (speakin' very hoarse and troublesome-like), 'but for my pour wife aud children; for siltho" I am only in their wsiy I like to see 'em around, and Ishant trouble 'em much longer. And here he looked at his wife, and smiled, when she cum up and takin' hold of his hand, told him not to talk like thsit, but to pluck up Lope for her sake and the little ones. live and bye, after looking at her and then round the room at the chil dren, his lip commenced to tremble and the tears to fill his eyes, in spite of his tryin' to smile; and altho' I think I m as hard-hearted as any man, I couldn't stsind it and just burst out cryin'. Well, it seems he hadn't anything to eat that day, so I gave him $2 (all I had) and sent for some bresul and si bundle of straw, and best of all for him, I do believe I got his ba bies a stick of candy and a whistle, and left 'em almost happy. My old woman has been over to-dsiy to tsike 'em an old bedstead we siin't usin' and we collected 8 for 'em from the drivers, and we were thinkin' of get ting up a. ball, hoping to make enough to send him to a hospital and to give his wife a start. So they're not so bad off now as they might be. But there's lots just like 'em, sir, lots just like 'em and there's going to be more afore the Winter's through. Hold on till I slow up a bit sir. There! Good night, sir; good night." And we walked away pondering on the terrible words of that kind hearted man: "There's lots just like 'em." The Chicago Post ouches the fol lowing story: A good story is told by a friend of Daniel Drew, which the news of Lis illness calls up. Hem lining; one e veiling, Into in the otlice, ami having occasion lo use the safe, he permitted the cashier to go home, remarking that he would close the safe and fix the combination on the word "door." But when the c sshier undertook to open the safe in the morning he found the lock refus- staink as Diana's rob th ney General has made himself to this la:,t mfamv? Vio have Attor i iiart v d- the iioor. el to yield to IF; tried and tried again, but without success. Finally, happening to re member that Daniel's early education had been neglected, he attributes, his ill luck to poor orthography. He, therefore tried the lock upon "dure." Still no success; and then upon "doar," with no better fortune. Finally, becoming disgusted, he pro ceeded to Sr. Nicholhs, routed "Duii'l" out of his choicest morning nap, and as he stuck his night-cap out f the door.ithe colloquy ensued: "Mr. Drew, I can't open the safe on 'door.' You must concluded to change the ... . . s t il It-';!'. word. inange tne worn : -ouiin-o' the kind. I shut it" on 'door.'" "Are yon sure, sir?" "Sure sir. you ternal ape; of course I'm sure ! Go back to your work, and don't c line foolin' roun' here this time o' tho mornin'." " Well, perhaps, Mr. Drew. I don't spell the word right. How do you spell it?" "Spell it I Any fool can spell door. D-o-a-r e, doare, of course, sir. If you can't spell door, sir, you're no cashier for me. Pack up your duds smd go out the 'door.' " And shutting the "door" in the cashier's lace Daniel returned to bod j,a passion, and the clerk to his safe. Armed with the open sesame of "doare," however, the safe tlew open without further trouble, and when Daniel arrived, mollified by si good breakfast, and his morning prayer, he advised his cashier that he might keep his place provided he would improve his time and "go to spellin' skool in the evenin'." mired Attorney General Williams, and have rejoiced sit every step - of his promotion through which he reached the high position he now oc cupies; and we were glad to see the announcement of his proluible exalt ation to the first pla -'-iii the national judiciary. But we do nut hesitate to say that, unless he can explain awsiy his apparent complicity in the most nefarious transaction of the long se ri.s of outrages porpet rsited by the ring of corrnptionists, he is unlit and a dangerous man to hold the po sition of Chief Justice of the United States; and his confirmation by the Semite would be a positive calamity and a menace to civil liberty through out the country. Ousted. - The "Off Year." The "off year" explanation of ihe Republican disas ter is not thick enough. In Wiscon sin 1807 was an "off year," when the Republicans had nesirly 5,000 major ity; 18C9 was an "off year," when the Republicans had 9,o'Jl majority. So the loss of the State this year cannot be put down to the "off year." To i:e Restored. It is ssiid that Secretary Boutwell will recommend the restoration of the duty on tea and coffee, w hich were placed on the free list by the Congress. The Wash ingtun correspondent of the Chicago Tribune says that Bf.'utwell's annual report will show that placing those articles on the f ree list has not reduc ed the price to consumers, and that the Congress cry of cheapening the poor man s beverages, and making a free breakfast table, has not proved a success; whereas these articles for merly brought twenty millions of revenue every vear. From the Ilawk-Eye, (Kadical.) Hon. A. C. Gibbs, United States Di.-triet Attorney for Oregon, has Ixh'u removed, aud Rnf u Msdlory, a "Ring-tool," appointed in his phiee. Gibbs was removed because he would not submit to having tho U. S. Grslml .Jurors selected by Custom House bribers, the very persons whom he w is after, and would undoubtedly have brought to justice and the pen itentiary, had ho boon let alone. Geo. II. Williams, and .the notorious poe- uhitor, wile-liealer, Siml llgami.-.t, Hippie-Mitchell, are responsible for tins a-t of murdering ins.tioe and nsting fraud and infamv over us. Maliorv is fully qualified, legally, as the (jreoouiau ssiys, to nil the osi t;on. lis, and he is fully qualified o get a surveying contract under Surveyor General Odell. m another man s mime, too. That is one of his qualifications, and perhaps he will just oblige us by denying that he en gaged in any such unlawful transac tion with the Surveyor General? Odell is, and has been kept in otlice by Willisims, when he was inside fully aware of the fact that such was the line of action of Odell. And Goo. H. Williams is nominated for Chief Justice of the United States, but he lms not been confirmed yet, thank God, and there is pleasure in the hope that he will not be. Mrs. Bigler, widow of the late ex- Gov. John Bigler, of California, died suddenly in Sacramento on the 22nd ult. The entire family husband wife and daughter have all, within a period of about two rears, died. OuEfsoN Railroad. We are in formed, credible authority, says the S;ui Francisco Llramincr, thsit the history of the Construction and Fi nance Company of the railroads in our sister State will afford interesting material for investigation at the next session of Congress. The question of conllict of title between the Ore gon and California Rinlroad and the Oregon Central Railroad Company (of prior date) , will lie a collateral subject of inquiry. The bond-holders will doubtless be glad to see any light thrown on the matter, and to know thsit there is the slightest jiros pect of obtaining their rights in the premises. New York City consumes 750.000 hogs'. 520,000 sheep, and 47,000 bul locks annnallv. - . From the Yanihill Kci. orter, (Radical). The telegraph yesterday announced the continuation of the appointment of Hon. Rufus Mai lory as U. S. At torney for Oregon, to supersede Hon. A. C Gibbs. Mr. Mallory is well known to be simply competent to fill the p isitior , and is probably able to do tae dunes of his new otlice as well as the man just removed. We hiive no idea he will do any beth r, and consequently can see no ordina ry reason lor the change. The onlv txrdanation cf the event 'seems to be thsit Mr. Gibbs wsinted to l.ae justice done. When the triidoftl eilhg.il voters was about coming into the Court at Portland, some lime since, he believed that justice wouiii not ie done with the jury which hsid been rewo for tho occasion, and 1 e asked for a new (hand Jury, which was granted by the Judge. The calling of a new- jury gave rise to correspondence be tween Attorney-General llliams and District Attorney Gibbs. in which the latter was instructed not to take siction before such jury until lie had reported to the former the necessity of such proceeding. The true state of affairs Mr. Gibbs did report to the Attorney-General, just as he had been directed to do, but the only w ord he has received is his removsil from otlice. Of course this sublime piece of meanness was the work of our Tam-msuiy-on-thc-Wilh'.mette, who have no power to do anything with the agreomoiit of their people, but havo treacherously come in control of tho Federal appointments f r the State. The ring evinces a determination to rule, even at my cost, and it is sel-O dom we f-ee such high-handed acts of knavery, or. such petty, vengeful, mean little tricks as it has resorted to, .against tliose who refuse to bed bridled and rode in its course. There is but one expression the citizens of this section, and that is a unanimous expression of indig nation and disgust. Men who the rav before wo e proud of the naire 0 oi uoo. 11. Williams, ami wisueu him speed in the exalted position he seemed to be about gaining, were abashed and hurt to see the part he is phiying, wl ere!n he displays so plainly tlie quality of a truckling, selfish politician. They have placed him abuve this, and now feel that they hae been deceived. We fear tho" people of his own State to-day would reject him were he dependent upon their votes for the position he seeks, or for any other position. But we suppose there is no use of complaining against the "powers that bo," for the people of this State are represented a,s a "small factious set" and the time has not yet come for us to prove to the contrary. The testimony we will give next June, con j iled with that of .last October, will be apt to be conclusive. from O O The Executive Committee of the State Grange of the Parous of Hus bandry, recommend to the subordi nate granges in the jurisdiction that thev elect their officers at the last reg ular meeting of Jlpranhe1 December, a. d., 18.3, and the offi cers then elected be installed r the first-regular meeting held by suca Granges in January, a. i.. 1874.. - O COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY, O il o o o o o o e o o O O o o 5 o o o O O O n O O o o O O G