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0 e BESS HBS33BKS2! G O o C - o 3 o o o AY- THE ENTERPRIi OREGON hit, precox: FEB, C, 171. DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION. A Democratic State Convention for the Qstate of Oregon, is hereby called by the Democratic State Central Committee, con vened in Portland, Oregon, this, the 22d day of January, A. D., 1ST I, to meet at the city of Albany, Oregon, on ll'etlnesMlii Hie 1MH tiny of Marth, H71, for the purpose ofiominating candi dates to be voted for at the general election In' June next, for Congr-'-ss and the various State and District oftiecs then to be filled, and for the transact ion of any other busi ness that may properly come before it. The apportionment of member of said Convention among the counties is based upon the Democratic vote cast for Hon. John Rurnett for Congress in 1372, allowing one delegate in said Convention for each one hundred or fraction of fiity, so cast. The several counties of the .State will be entitled to delegates in said Convention as follows : Raker Renton 'latsop Clackamas.... Columbia Curry kjs Douglas Orant Jos phi ne Jackson..... Tatal Linn Lane Murion Multnomah Polk I'nk.n rmatilht Ti 1 la monk Wasco Washiimtna ... Yamhill . 12 .. !) .. in .. 1: .. 1 .. ti .121 It is suggest -d by t he ( oni ni ii tee t hat f to several counties liolil t lieir Primary "on vent ions on Saturday, the :;s; h.day of Feb ruary, at 1 o'clock I', m., and their t ouitty Conventions on Saturday, the Tt 1 day of March, at tlie saie hour, in t lios 'contiti' S whurj these apioiiit meiit.3 do not nie.-t the convenience of tic Demm-racy, it j.s expec ted that they will make the n-cessary chan""s through their County 'ommittee. W. I,. WJIITK. Chairman Dm. State Central Com. J. J. Walton, JR., Secretary. Democratic Cmmty Convention. TIlO Democratic voters of Clackamas county arc requested to meet at thoir usual places, of voting, on Sat unlay, I'cbruary 2-th, 171, i'.r the purj oso of electing delegates; to the County Con vention, which will be hel l at Oregon City; March 7th, 1-71, at 11 o'clock a. in., for tin; purpose of selecting seven dele gates to attend the State Convention, which will meet at Albany on the lMh day of March next.and to transact such other business as may properly come liel'ore the Convention. The various precincts are entitled to delegates in the Convention as follows: Oregon City.... T.inn City ID 1 Canemah 1 Cascades 2 Cutting's Tualatin 1 I "nner Molalla 4 Harding's Lower Molalla Marouam's 1 ' nion Pleasant Hill Marsh th Id ltock Creek Reaver Creek.... 1 I Canbv 1 Milwaukie 1 ! Ds.vego 2 I s. ringwiit-r 3 Fagie ( r-i-k e Total IS The Committee reinnnned that the Democracy turn out in full force and attend the primaries. JJy order of tic ( Viitunittcc. A. NOILN!!;. Cliairman. Radical I'.xtrat agisnce. The people of our country can hardly realize the immense expenses of the Government at present as com pared with those under lemoeratic rule.- In 1SG0, the expenses were 359,81S,17.S. Such was the cost cf Government thirteen years ago. The country has been at peace for the past nine years, yet we rind that dur ing this entire time, instead of going back to a peace expenditure, it is in creasing annually its appropriations. The present expenses of the Govern ment, exclusive of interest on the public debt, are $210,000,000. The interest on the debt is a little less than $100,000,000. The estimates call for 31 0,(100,000, and for the fis cal year of 1871-75, i:319,19S,73f.. Deducting 30,000,000 for pensions and 29,000,000 for a sinking fund to liquidate the debt in all .7.) ,000,000 which is an expenditure growing out of the late war, we still have cur rent expenses amounting to $157, 000,000. The civil, foreign and mis cellaneous services call for $00, 577, 293? a sum in itself over $0,000,000 more than the whole government cost in 1800. For the War Depart ment the amount is $17,795,053. In 18GU it was a little over $10,000,0 0. The Navy expenditure has gone up for the period from $11,513,150 to $27,792,151. Tor the Indians we have $8,50S,71."j, while in 100 the sum was $3,"55,Gss. The civil, for eign and miscellaneous item has jumped from $27,9G'.),!S70 to $00,500, 293. This increase in expenditure is far in excess of the proportionate in- crease m population. I he increase . .; , . , , . in population has been about tlnrtv 1 1 , , it ,. per cent., and the expenditures in . , , the same t:me have been nearlv (hn e , . . . . hundred pjr cent, lhecountry can t stand this outrageous extravagance, and the sooner the people o back to the better days of the ltepublie. the it will be. There is no reason why the expenses should be there than ,, . , , ., . one-third, exclusive tue interest on n,, i . - , , , , lir .U.llT IM'lWlil'W : I Till 11L-T-w f.,.-. 1 greater now than they were thirteen ' ti... 1. ' v curs aiju. x hi - i'jii;i.Hieu ua ing increased one-fourth the expense i would naturally be more, but by no means in proportion to the increase of population should the expense-she. In the matter of ' Indian appropria tions alone, the people must know there is pure stealing being done. ii.tre , ., While the savages are d;wly decreas- ning. the expense of maintaining tlieni . - . , , ., 4 -i 4. has increased from three to eight millions. In the other branches of our Government wo may reasonably suppose the same process of stealing is carried on. If the present Con gress will onlv go to work and show the thieves that they cannot longer sqaunder the people's money, it w ill be a step in the right 'direction. congress insieau ui u.ou mate made by the various Depart- ments, should have ability enough in it to determine what the expenses should be, and make the appropria tions accordinglv, and let the plun derers know that they will get no more, and that the Department ' , v must be run with the appropriations made, and no deficiency bills shall be passed for their benefit. Cut down the extravagance, and reduce the expenses, and we can run the gov ernment on the present revenue, or less, and instead of adding taxation, be able to reduce it. The various expenses in 18G0 were: For civil, foreign and miscellaneous services, 27,900,870; for InteriorDepartment, including Indians and pensions, $3,9o",G80; for "War Department, 8 10 ,109,707; for the Navy, $11, 513, 150. Now let us come back to these appro priations and the people will no longer have grounds for forming themselves into secret organizations to oust the Radical party from power. Let voters look at the picture of 1SC0 and then take a look at 187-4. Arc they not prepared for a change? The Farmer's Movemenl. The Eugene Guard, in speaking of the Grange movement after citing that a certain Radical politician in Lane county is Master of one of the Granges in that county, and that a petition for the organization of a lodge at Corvallis had been rejected, says: "We believe that loading " re publicans in this State have taken hold of this thing with the sole view of enhancing their prospects for political preferment. That there are a large number of these "time honored" 2oliticians within the Or der there can be no doubt. "We have even heard it hinted that Mr. Daniel Clark, Master of .the State Grange-, is working in the interest of the Or egon and California Railroad. It is a well estal dished fact that certain democrats have been unable to ob- taiiFadmission, and among them are men who are far from being broken down politicians. An application was recently made for a charter for a Grange at Corvallis. The applica tion was returned, with the objection that lion. J. C. Avery and Green bury Smith were not elligible, by reason of being politicians. This must have been done by recommen dation of Mr. Clark, and we ask, can didly, ate either of these men politi cians more than John Kelly? We presume no one acquainted witli the men will answer in the ailirmative. It is well known in this vicinity that the Land Oilice here is making it self particularly busy in procuring the organization of Granges, and it is no drawback to any person in re publican neighborhoods that he is a "time-honored republican politcian. We say these things in all kindness toward the Order. We would not knowingly place the least obstacle m the way of its success, and only speak now for its own good. If any polit) ci in is to be kept out, keep them out." I.am'aulet Williams. dl The New York lfcrald gives us some of the items which caused the "lloodgates of calumny" to open on Williams. One of these which open ed on "Landaulet Williams had for its keeper the First Comptroller of the Currency. It seems that a Con gressional spy an M. C. went up to the Treasury Building to find out something about the expenses of the Department of Justice. The keeper opened the floodgate and the dark stream floated out some vouchers which cover that mysterious and ex pensive piece of a Iministration paid for under the bill of "contingent ex penses." Our Landaulet jurist did not think that tlio Comptroller had any business to open tho floodgate, and went to him and complained of the proceeding, whereupon the Comptroller hinted to Mr. Williams that the public representatives, as well as other people, were interested in knowing how the public money is disbursed. The Comptroller could not therefore, refrain from opening the floodgate, as he was paid to del uge the people Avith information as I.!.. .,.nn.li,,ng TTT Victim , , , , v of slander and popular prejudice, I , T , . - . , ..i , i i who had his intellect disparaged and i . . . . .. , . i his integrity called m question, has. ! , ' t i probablv, like JVizame, resolved to j ,ommit-hi s n-putation to the cool judgment of posteritv and to the ! better appreciation of the great poo- pie that never errs. Happy man! j As Oixiru.-The insincerity of ' .-,.. - . . , ' the Administration in its professions r of reform are proven dailv bv its I Our readers will remember i one jl nomas Nan Jinren. who was - mi t - - one of Grant's Vienna Commisionrrs and whose conduct was such that in order to protect what good name we had abroad he was removed, and most damaging charges were proven j against him. The President,, as a ; reward for his Hit Jenn,l 1..-. - 1 i pointed this same an Ihiren as Con- nml th , ., , .v. oupunauc ioreign mission i cuuurme.i tne aiv ; llointmcnt. Tho Allmini,ration , truly a rewardei of dishonestv and . rascality .Ax Important Election. The first general State election in Penn- sylvania, under the rew Constitution, , -day, Govern- will take place on Tues lwi- !t-l 1 ST A U il- i .- . . lUis election a Trj i nit-uieiiiiiii-uovernor. Secretarv rf Internal Afiairs and a full Hon so of j representatives, are to be elected according to the division of the pop ulation of the State by two hun- dred. which will give a few over i two hundred members; also, State Senators in all the districts in which 1 there shall be vacancies Our Special Washington tetter. Washington, Jau. 19, 1874. The past fortnight has been one of great importance in the National Cap ital. During this short period of time the President has successively appointed three persons to occupy the position of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and such displeas ure has been evinced by the promi nent politicians and adherent. of the party in power, that two nominations have been withdrawn and a third ap pointed. The first appointment was that of George II. Williams of Or egon. This was met with cries of incompetency, and insinuations of his being open to bribery, in fact these both were in part true. Such great opposition was shown that Mr. Williams requested the withdrawal of his name, citing for his reason that he was thus held in a continual state of suspense, his hands were tied and his month closed, which was not only vexations but annoying. There is however A" report that he will retire from the Cabinet and be ten dered an important foreign mission. The next nomination was that of Caleb Cashing of Virginia, this took everybody by surprise, and caused a large amount of speculation as to the probable result of the matter. On the iir:-.t intimation of the Presi dent's second choice, a general at tack was opened by a large number of the press, and by some prosecu ted with great vigor and severity. The- representatives of the Republi can press, to the greater number, were obliged to sustain the action of the President. Some spoke of it as an "olive lr:meh" extended by the President to heal the breach caused by the late war, though some boldly opposed this act of the Administra tion. Some of the leading Demo cratic journals advanced the opinion that Grant's reason for appointing Mr. Gushing, was, that In;, being an old man, would probably resign be fore the end of the Presidential term and thus make way for Grant's favo riteWilliams. It is doubtful it' the "olive-branch" excuse is the correct solution of the problem; more like ly it is the result of some sinister motive on the part of th.i Adminis tration. The opposition to this nom ination was indeed so violent that Grant has withdrawn it. and for warded that of Hon. M. II. Waite of Ohio. As in the former cases specu lation is busy the general conclu sion, however, is that the Senate will probably contirm this appointment. Congress his transacted much more business than it was expected it would in so short a time. The Sal ary Dill has passed both Houses, by huge majorities. The bill, as it now is, provides for the repeal of all in creased compensation (except in the eases of the President and Judges of the Supreme Court), and tixing the sihi'ies a - thov were prior to the act of March 3d," 1873. And that all money received as 1aek-pay shall be returned and covered into the Treas ury. The election contests for tho States of Arkansas and West Virginia have had a hearing before the Committee on Flections. Neither ease was, how ever. Anally settled, though the gen eral opinion is that a new election will be ordered on the latter, if not on the former. There were no bills o He red which had any direct bearing on the State of Oregon, though two were present ed which bore indirectly on the in terests of the Pacific Coa'st. The first is that of Mr. Duttrell of California, who introduced a pream ble, and resolution in the House, con cerning the Central Pacific ltailro.id and its connections on the Pacific Coast, in which he recites the various amounts of aid which t ' i t Company has received from the United States Government, and the governments of '.the Pacific States, towns and coun ties, .md that the director of the Companv h ive converted the same to their own personal profit, at the ex pense of the stockholders, therein defrauding them. It also provides for the appointment of a committee to inquire into their aflairs and the manner in which the directors have managed them. Mt Clayton, of California, has un der consideration tlio introduction of a bill providing that oar Govern ment shall assume the important work of opening the Darien Sin') Canal. If this should be passed it will doubtless he of incalculable ben efit to the development of the inte rests of the Pacific Coast. '!"!... T,v.i IV, -..'Co lllVC ill. V . V ( l , I. . . 111 . - - - - not as yet made any active movement toward" obtaining Congres- nal aid. Col. Tom Seott desires to obtain the loan of bonds bearing a low rate of interest and convertible into curren cy; to be issued as the road progres ses, and to be secured on those por tions of the road as are completed. This plan does not seem to meet the approbation of all, for many of the Senators advise him to abandon the idea, in part. A few strong lobby ists are at work endeavoring to ascer tain the public sentimenton the sub ject. Among the nominations of the President are those of Messrs. E. Pi. Gerry of Albany, and S. P. Dee of Damascus. Oregon, who, in connec tion with G. A. Hurlburt of Illinois, form a committee to examine the Northern Pacific Hail road from Te nino to Tacoma, W. T. A Convention of the Veterans of the Mexican War lias been in session in this city, composed of delegates from all parts of the Union, the ob ject of which is to prepare a memo rial to Congress asking for a pension to the survivors of the Mexican W ar, at he same rate as is allowed to the icVT, f T i Also to adopt measures for the j formation of a National Brotherhood. and provide for a general assemblage on the occasion of the Centennial an niversary, in Philadelphia. Under the auspices of the Convention the bronze statue of General Scott will be unveiled during the coming week. The Pacific States were well repre sented: California sent five dele gates; Oregon and Washington Ter ritory sent two Gen. James Tilton, and Maj. G. O. Haller. In addition to the above the Na- COURTESY CF BANCROFT iTRY'" UNIVERSITY OF CALEOHNI? ' tional "Woman's Rights Convention has also been in session. Speeches were made by Mrs. Stanton, and Miss Anthony, as well as many oth ers. A bill of rights were adopted and resolutions decided upon to be forwarded to Congress, praying for admission to all Colleges, JLaw, and ieuicui ocnoois, ana, m iaet, 10 ou , entitled to all the privileges of male ! f tt.,;.i i Resides the Oregonians w ho are in the city, and, as so being, were men tioned in a former letter, there are now Messrs. Stitzel and Underwood of Portland, and Moody, of the Dalles. Mr. D. P. Thompson is very busy in the Departments, but as yet seems not to have accomplished much toward the advancement of his railroading interests in Oregon. The other members of the Webfoot dele gation appear to be deep into the business relating to their plans and enterprises which brought, them to this city. Rut as to the result of their labors, I cannot with any cer tainty predict, yet expect before another fortnight has rolled around, to be able to give a better account of them. An recoir, II. D. M. ' Summary of Slate New s Items. -The Court House bell at Salem is cracked. The Rrownsville woolen factory is rushing out fabrics. The Albany llfjl.tter will be an eight page sheet after its next issue. The Albany city authorities have done away with the police depart ment. The silver wedding of S. N. Arri goni was celebrated at Astoria last week. Mumps is tho prevailing disease at Jacksonville. Nearly evervbodv has them. The boats -will make regular trips hereafter between Eugene City and Portland. Oapt. W. 11. Cussans, of Empire City, died at that place on the l'Jth ult., of dropsy. With the issue of the 31st ult. the Jacksonville Sentinel celebrated its eigthteonth anniversary. Reports from Hubbard say that the fall wheat sown on French Prairie is growing finely. Latest advir cs report two feet of snow in tho Klamath R.isin, and some stock ui having perished. A case of "crim. con." at Jefferson has created a good deal of excite ment at that burg recently. Richard "Williams has sold the Fairmont farm in Ronton county, bought of Judge Thornton, for the sum of $'..). 5('0. Umatilla county is said to owe $10.0 )0 and makes a tax levy of 2G mills. The debt was considerahly l evinced in 1873. The Oregon Pioneers expect to have a very interesting time at Astoria on the occasion of the annual meet ing, February 22d. Mrs. Duniway's C..ntenn?.d Tea Party, according to the Portland pa pers, was nearly a total failure, finan cially and otherwise. Sheriff" Parch, of Polk county, has done a driving business at tax col lecting this week, having taken in $-i,G00 in Dallas precinct alone. Articles .f incorporation of the Albany Manufacturing Company were tiled last Tuesday week. Capi tal stock, i(;0,O)0; shares, $! id. Clatsop County Circuit Court sent two men to the Perdt -nt i.iry last week for highway robbery. M:ir phy fo three years, and Kelly for for tvvo years. The Simpson Pros. .at North Rend, are building a large full-rigged, double-deck clipper .ship, to run in the grain trade between Poitland and Liverpool. A grand reception was held at the residence of Mr. R. C. Kinney, in Salem, a few days since, by Dr. Al fred Kinney and wife, the newly married couple of Portland. M. II. Abbott, former editor of tho ILvirocc ij)iorr", has canvassed Pendleton for subscriptions, and 'pro poses to bring a press and start a pa per at that place at an early day. Inaac Vadoran had Ids right hand crushed so badly, a few days ago. while mining. on Little Apploguto, in Jackson county, that it was neces sary to amputate one of his fingers. Schooner Laura May was wrecked six miles north of Coos Ray bar on the 10th, on her way up from San Francisco, and little hope of saving her. No lives lost and little insur ance. A Roseburger was stopped in the road one night not long ago. by two foot pads, who demanded fifty "cents to buy whisky with. He thinks they are two of the men who robbed the stage at Redding, Cal.. a few weeks ago. The Ladies' Mite Society of the Episcopal Church, at La" Grande, has been organized just one year; and after making a final settlement the. other day, there was five hundred dollars in the treasury. Pretty good. Ry order of the State Superinten dent of public instruction, Syl. C. Simpson, and in accordance with the school law, a Teachers' Institute, in and for Douglas county, will be held at Oakland on the 27th and 2Sth of February, 187L In relation to a . , . ' telegraph from' Portland to Astoria, the W. U. T. Co. offer to build it and turn it over to the citizens of those places at cost. Dr. Plummer will examine the com pany's routes at an early day, and report hi? findings to Mr. Gamble, Superintendent of the company. "Mr. Gaston discharged last week all the employes. says the' Independent, on the westside railroad, exeopt the engineer. The reason w hy was that they had been charging passing pass engers two and four bits for small packages, valises, umbrellas, etc., which they had no right to." Excitement exists at Portland over the report of a case of small pox on oiaease oi sman pox ou board the schooner Hera, from San , ' Francisco. The vessel. is partly dis-j ing its honorable rewards for sub charged, but the rest of the cargo servient incapacity, the country will will have to wait awhile. She las ! T)repare for a change, and there is no of the wav1 bClOW bne'yard Ut I help for it. The day is at hand when Tlieman who was arrested for 1 temporary party can no longer sub horse stealing and broke out of the . sist upon the hallelujahs of the past, Dallas jail some time since to find ' -with a President who, when sober some one to go security for his ap- busie8 himself in appointing Shen pearance at court, has decamped and ueP left his surety to settle the bond of heril Williarases, and defying a hundred nd fifty dollar. i the rulos he ha pretended to adopt Its Occupation Cioue. The San Francisco Examiner is of the opinion that Grant's, as well as the Radical party's, occupation is about gone, and that Grant and the Radical party are becoming disgust- eu witn each other. It says that "it ir. . , . " seems to be understood that the President and some of his kite chief advisers in the dominent party are at irreconcilable variance; and that the Executive is beginning to repent of some of the acts that have brought into odium, acts which were done at the instigation of such men as the malignant Morton, the corrupt Cam eron, and other .chieftains of the Radical organization; acts the evil mischievous import of which Mr. Grant, in the innocency of his nature and the bareness of his intellect, did not at once apprehend. Rut seeing what effect many of these measures have had upon the popular mind, Mr. Grant, suffering poignantly from unjust personal aspersions which at tribute all the blame to him, instead of to "his wicked partrers," is pre paring to sunder his relations with the latter. We hail indications of this in his message.- In a mild way, he alluded to the approaching disso lution into its original elements of the Republican party. The note worthy 'passage to the" effect .that "political partisanship has almost ceased to exist, especially in the ag ricultural regions," is a smooth way of owning that the Radical party is gradually going back into chaos. If the symptoms of decay were confined to the "agricultural regions" the prophecy of the disintegration of the party that now misrules the country would have less foundation than is now apparent. Take, the State of New York, which is not notoriously an agricultural region, and it has been a Republican State, but the last election there revealed a tenden cy not altogether bucolic to wrest the control of affairs from the domi nant party. Ohio is not pre-eminently an agricultural region, and the Cincinnati Enquirer says the great Republican party is dethroned in that State. As that enlightened journal remarks, we must go beyond the ag ricultural regions for the philovopliy which is to determine the duration of life of the Republican party. The party was originally composed of elements the most dissimilar save on one question. It was built on one issue. Its whole life has been nour ished by the existence of one dis turbing element in American polities. It was made up of men who differed on every public question save one. That question dead and hurried, the disintegration of ihe party is only a question of time. The colie.-ive power of tho public spoils is the only force that has held the party together for the last three vears. That the IV publican party should dissolve or pass from power is in pursuance of the inevitable logic of events a nec essary consequence of the fact that the principle on which it was found ed has passed from under it. Rut there are not wanting causes to has ten its downfall. The Credit Mobil ier business was one nail in its coffin. The salary-grab was another. The handling of the Virginins question has secured for it wide condemna tion. The party has been repudiated within the last few months by almost the entire Northwest, and sii ce the assembling. of the Forty -Third Con gress it has done nothing toward its redemption. What party ever cured ih'e'f of corruption? The Radical-Republicans spread financial panic over the the country and straightway asked for twenty per cent, move money for the running expenses of the Govern ment machine. Without the Credit Mobilier swindle; without the salary grab; without the financial distress which its monetary policy brought upon the country; without the dis satisfaction which is peculiar to the agricultural regions; without its bungling of the delicate matters that belonged to the Virginins question; without its tariff sins and extrava gance, the Radical-Republican party, the creature of exceptional conditions, would certainly pass from power. It is divided against itself .on all the questions that will prominently com mand public attention for the next decade. It 'is not alone the President that acknowledges the nearness of the collapse of the party that has ruled the county for a dozen years. Tl.o l.i.-.l iiirr A .1 ivdrdstrnt ion ortran in A 1 1 , X y till-. .1111".." - f . . , T.t. .i JSew jngianoL, me jjMtm mtc .....' , recently male this cofession: The events in Washington since Congress assembled have not tended to quiet apprehensions that the Re publican organization is drifting to the bad. No department of the pub- j jc service is in a satisfactory condi- tion, and, worst of all, there seems to be an indisposition to work a re formation. There is everywhere in difference to the suggestions of wis dom and common sense. When an Administration ceases to trust the , , -, rt.anrT. 'A - for the better management of the civil service. The Northwest has spoken. New Hampsire will have something to say in March, and Con necticut in April. Republicanism in the South has apparently weaken ed of late, the Administration policy in the Virginins affair being one pro voking cause. The defection of the farmers will prove, doubtless, the decisive fact, and, as most of them were Republicans, they must affiliate with the Democratic party in the next National election. If the Dem ocratic party is wise and prudent, it will shortly and easily rule the conn try. The occupation of the Repub lican party is gone." Congressional News. Washington, Jan. 31. C!en. Sher man was atrain before the House Mili tary Committee to-day, and gave his views with regard to the army in con nection with Indian affairs. He point ed out on the map a region of country in Texas, loo miles wide and l.UUO miles long, comprising halt-dozen organized counties, which, when he passed through two years ago, was entirely de populated, the inhaliitantsdiaving had to abandon their homes on account of constant incursions of Indians. He said he had been led to the belief that these Indians were Comanches, but it was prett well understood that they were Ki.iwas, Chevennes, and A ra pa hoes, who rai.led from Fort Sdl reser vation. Mimilesoil', pent -tratinsr through the military posts and helping them selves to the horses and stock of their Mexican friends rather than be to the trouble ol raising them themselves. 1 le gave a graphic account of his interview with S witanta. at Fort Sill, w hen he had S.oitanka, Santanta, and l'.igTree arrested, double-ironed and. sent back to Texas to be tried for an attack upon a wagon train and the murder of twelve out of seventeen teamsters, one of whom vas bound to a wagon and burned. S.intanka was killed in an :tt temiit to escape, hut the other two were tried, convicted, and sentenced to be hanged, but certain fi umatdlarians.w ho regarded murder, on the part of the Indians as mere exhibitions of (-motional insanity, had induced (lovernor h.ivis, who ought to have known bet ter, to commute thcirs-esitciice, and the same iniluenees at Washington had fi lially restored them to freedom, and they were now on a reservation again ready to move on their murderous rai ls. If they should scalp CJovernor D ivis next time, General Sherman in timated that he should not shed many lb reviewed the Modoe dilii- eu 1 1 yand gave his oj in ion t hat lei i era 1 Canbv was the victim of a temporizing Quaker policy applied to Indians. He favored a transfer of the 'control of In dians front the Interior I siat t merit to the War Department, and expressed the conviction that the army was more kindly disposed to the Indians than citizens generally, and that if the coun try demanded "extremely charitable treatment for the Indians" it could be accomplished by and through the agen cy of the army better than by and through the agency of those persons who professed " more charity than the soldier, I .ut who did not practice so much. W.xsinxoioN, Feb. K -presenta-tive T.vuor i ep wled a bill in the I b-use to-day, amendatory of the postal laws, which provides for the free carriage of weekly newspapers to subscribers in the counties where published, also for the free -arri.t.e oi exchanges, and lix 1 . i e i a!e o f po ge o u wici-lv a.Ts outside the counties wheie published, at l.wo edits for every oaiiitr of a pouiid, and on papers .:: .1 ,iM ei 1 s: times a w eck. IS cents : ia il ies, -1 c n ts : lni-e,!l .UK lis i ; i.i 1 1 ' l of t ! ic 1 1 ii rd class, including books, patterns, samples, car N. te.. to be charged at the rate of one cent for each two ounces, or part ot two ounce, and fixes the maximum weight of such parcels at four ounces. ( 'lucAiid. .bin.:. A Times' Washing, loti special says when the 1 b ti.e J udi ciary Committee is next called, an im portant t ill will be reported., the object of which is to regulate relations be tween the t iovernment and the Pacific K iih-oa'ls. !t is well known that those 'ompanics arc in default of payment of the interest to the amount of several million dollars, buttrell has already introduced a bill authorizing and re ipiiriiu: the Attorney ! encrul to b:i;,g Mills ag iinsl these v 'eiiip;1 nics to obtain the NlolleV. Croiin., of Nebraska, lias Introduced a bill to declare all lands granted to railroad companies, liable to Suite tax at ion. Wilson, of Indiana, introduced a bill hist Monday, amending the Pacini 1 tail road Act of I-01, so us to compel t he I'nion I'.iciho Company and Us branch es to charge tmi form rates for freights tin passengers per tune, v -bother local or through t rathe. The bill makes it unlawful f r any olhoer or agent of the Company to gra"nt special rates, privi leges r "drawbacks, or to disci immaio in any way in the trans action of busi ness. All these provisions are to be combined in one bill, which the Judi ciary Committee will report next week and' w hich will undoubtedly become a law. In the debate on tho army appropria tion bill in the House to-d'y, Nesmith protested against tho proposition for tho reduction of the army, which, he said, was gotten up in accordance with tie- views of a s-. t of humbug peace commissioners, whose idea of mana ging Indians was by preaching to thi m Christ and 1 1 im criiciiied. lie said that if Cod Almighty had gone preaching in that wibb ine.-s, lie would not have kent Ids hair on his head for twenty four hours. 1 Laughter. I Iodetetided frontiersmen against the aspersions usually made against them, and de-el.n-od'the first ; lfeclivo missionary the Indians ever had wa.s Miles Stan dish, and that his missionary work had been continued by .Jai-kson. Sheridan, and others. Congress might save a few mil lion of dollars by reducing the army, but every dollar saved would be re sponded to hv tlio blood of frontiers men, and by the wail of their widows and orphans. jror.r. Rascality. A Washington dispatch under date of the 21 iust., to the New York Tribune, says that the scandalous developments threat ened by a New York paper, have come to light through a quarrel be tween the stockholders of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, the doc uments referred to being letters and extracts from the company's tiles and books. Rumor " assigns to nearly every prominent man in and out of Congress a place in these records, which show them to be guilty of re ceiving bribes from the company for their efforts to secure the subsidy in which that corporation has rejoiced for some years. There has been an unflagging interest displayed all day in all circles here in regard to the matter. The Ways and Means Com mittee commenced an investigation of the matter with closed doors in the last Congress, but soon gave it up. As far as it was carried, how ever, it disclosed something very rich. Washington, Jan. 30. The Pres ident has sent the following nomina tions to the Senate: D. J. Curtis, of Idaho, for Secretarv of the Territory of Idaho: Jos. Pinkham, United stofo Af-ir hnl for Idaho; Jos. VY . Hunston, U. S. Attorney for Idaho. Telegraphic Xewst St. Loris. Jan. 31. A daring and successful robery of a railroad train was committed at Gadshill station on the Iron Mountain Railroad, ten. miles below here, at 4.30 this after noon. As the train which left here at 9.45 A. M. came in sight it was sig naled to stop. The switch was turn ed and the train ran on the switch track. As the conductor stepped off to ascertain the cause of stoppage he was met by a masked man, a pistol was placed at his head, and he was marched oil' and placed under gaurd. The engineer, fireman, mail and ex press messengers and other train men were then seized by live masked and heavilly armed men. and also" placed under "guard. The robbers then went through the entire train and took from the passengers about S3.. 000 and a large amount of jewelry, from Adams express messenger over S1.000, and rilled the mail. The rob bers then left in a southerly-i direc tion, and after the release of the train men, the train started south. Omaha, Jan. 31. Great apprehen sions are expressed by owners of large herds of cattle which range be tween the North and South Platte, and settlers who live near the Union Pacific Railroad and on the Republi can river, of a general raid from Red Cloud's iind Spotted Tail's bands of Sioux, and from the Chevennes, Da kotalis, Arapahoes and others com bined. The supply of beef furnished these Indians bekig nearly or quite exhau-t. d, and there being no money with which to purchase more, they must depredate on the settlements or starve. These bands number 30, 000, and would laugh at the hand full of cavalry at Fort' Fetterman and Fort Laramie. Large cattle owners :ul eontracters here now corroborate the report that the Indians' supplies will soon be exhausted. The Roard appointed by the Secre tary of tlie'Treusury recmomend life saving stations at the following points on the Pacific coast; Wash ington Territory Neuh Vny, Shoal water Ray" and Cape Disapointment, life-boat station: Oregon Capo Ara go, Reyes, and between Point Lobon and Point San Pedro, life bout bt tions. New York, Jan. 00. The second game of billiards for $2,000 and the championship of the world was play ed to-night between A. Garnier and Francois Ubassy. The former won by 000 to -17(5. 'CmAKbANo, ()., Jan. 31. -Tim great tire in snbdn..d Wurthington Block i St. Loris, February 2. The en tire , mount of money secured by tha rubbers of the train on the Iron Moark t .in Railroad last eiening was SI, 40O, besides a number of gold watches. Vigorous efforts are being made to capture the gang. Wasuinoton, February 3. Tho following postal changes have been ordered for the Pacific Coast: Cilice established -Camas Valley, Dougbin County, O.egon : J. L. Coon, Post master. West I'nion, Washington County, Oregon; S. L. Ilolcomb, Postmaster. Alpinera, Walla AValla County, W. T. ; Daniel Favor. lMt- masier. jsaine changed 1A Humboldt County, California. OM, to Rohrorvilie. Washington. February 1. Mr. Luti" roll yesterday laid before tho Committee on Indian Affairs sundry letters jest ieceitl by Jiim from Special Agent Steele, County Phytd eian Ream and other citizens, stating that in Siskiyou County the Indians are hilling the settlers' cattle in order to save themselves from starvation. He was assured that the Indian Rn rcau had given instructions author izing Steele to alford necessary relief, and that every effort would be mado :o carry out Luttrell's recommend vd ion to collect all the Indians of Si kiyou County on a reservation early in the Spring. Roston, January 20. The Com mittee on Federal Relation in the Massachusetts Senate to-day report ed in favor of recinding the resolu tion censuring Sr.mmer. Washington, January 30. A Bpee- ial from New Orleans, dated yester day, gives a report that Governer Kedogg has issued a requisition upon the Governor of District of Columbia for the person of ex-Goveruer War moth. It is said the case grows out of transactions connected with the Treasury when Warmoth was Got- , erner of Louisiana. Warmoth's friends have heard nothing of such a requisition, nor did Governer War moth yesterday know of it prior to his departure for New York, en route for New Orleans. Sr. Loris, January 30 The sev enth annual Convention of National Granges of the Patrons of Husband ry meets here Wednesday. Dudley W. Adams, President of the National Grange, has already arrived. The 3 principle business of the Convention0 will bo the revision of the ritual and "effecting the organization of the Grange. President Adams states that there are between 11,000 and 12,-0-0 Granges in the country, with nearly one million members. The sessions of the Convention w ill prob ably be private. Top uk a. Kansas. February 2. Ex- Go v. James II. Harvey was elected U. S. Senator to-day. Harvey was born in Virginia, and lived in Adams, 111., from boyhood to 1S57, when he went to Kansas. He served through the war, and was elected Governor in 1S0.S. m He is a practical farmer and a straight Republican, but favors re form. The election is regarded as a triumph for farmers and reformers. Jackson, February 3. The Legis lature to-dav, in joint session, elected R. L. Bruce" (collored) United States Senator for the long term, and H.R. Pease, late Supreintendent of Ixlu cation, for the short term. Both nominees Republican. rw Havkn. February 3. The Democratic State Convention have adopted a platform reaffirming devo tion to the Constitution, denouncing oftieial corruption, extravagence, sal-nrv-rabbers, land monopolists and the present Administration, to whose financial policy it attributes the pan ic demanding retrenchment and re form, a speedy' resumption of specie pavnient and legislation for the ben itit of the industrial classes, and for the control of corporations and stock gamblers, and expressing sympathy with all people struggling for freedom. o Philomath Grange initiated a class of 1-t members in the fourth degree on the 24th inst., on which occasion there were present some 40 members; also quite a mi tuber of visiting broth ers and 8ibter8. O. 3 - O o o O o O 0 o c- o o o o o c o O c 0 O o o G o o O o O o c C