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OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 1874.
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Report on the P., I), and s. r,. Rail
road Bill.
Following we publish, the report
made by Senator Kelly in the Senate
of the United States on May 4th,
which was ordered printed, on the
bill providing for aid to construct
the Portland, Dalles and Salt Lake
Railroad. The report gives such
facts and figures as show plainly the
need of the road, and the benefit it
would be to this coast and the Gen
eral Government. The report says :
The United States are now paying
224,000 per annum for carrying a
daily United States mail, in four
horse coaches, each way, between
Kelton, in Salt Lake Yalley, and tiie
Dalles, in Oregon, a distance of about
six hundred miles; and $18,000 for
carrying it by steamboat (and over a
short portage by railroad) six times
a week, each way, between the Dalles
ana Jortland, a distance of about .
one hundred miles; thus making the :
sum of $242,000 which the Govern- j
ment is annually paying simply for '
the transportation of the mails '
between Keltou ami Portland. The
schedule time for performing this j
luty between these ports is seven
days in summer, and nine in the
winter. If, therefore, by changing
au appropriation of money for the
performance of an inferior and in
efficient service to a vastly superior
one, without greatly increasing the
cost to the Government, the closest
stickler for retrenchment and reform
could but regard the measure as a
wise one. That is the object sought
to be accomplished by the bill re
ported by the committee, and if, by
its passage, it can be shown that even
in the period of twenty years the
Government will save from one to
four million dollars, it may with rea
son be expected that the most rigid
economist will yield it his hearty
support. And when, in addition to
this economical expenditure of the
public money, and wise arrangement
of the public service, it is made to
appear that a series of benefits will
be conferred, not only upon the peo
ple of that vast extent of country
through which the road passes, but
upon the whole Union, there ought
to be no hesitation in adopting the
measure proposed.
These are the general features of
the bill. Whenever the Portland,
Dalles and Salt Lake Hail road Com
pany shall complete a section of its
road, of twenty-five miles in length,
the United States will guarantee and
pay interest at the rate of five per
centum per annum, for ten years, on
$8,000 of the construction bonds of
the company, for every mile of com
pleted road, not, however, exceeding
in the whole, seven hundred miles,
between Ogden or Kelton and Port
land, whatever the actual distance
between those points may be. In
consideration of their payment of
interest, the railroad company obli
gates itself, its successors and assigns,
to carry the United States mails,
Army and Indian supplies, troops,
and munitions of war of every kind,
and transmit all telegraph messages
for the Government free of charge
forever.
"Whenever the entire line of rail
way shall be completed, then the
interest required to be paid by the
United States will be the sum of
$20,00() annually for ten years. On
the other side, the Government will
save the cost of carrying the mails,
which, as before stated, amounts to
$242,000 per annum; Army supplies,
which, during the year 1873,
amounted to $20,029.49, and which
doubtless will be greatly increased
upon the completion of the road;
telegraphic and signal services from
Salt Lake to Portland, which
amounted during the vear 18y to
$1,085. Beside all thisthe Govern
ment could well dispense with mail
service on the route from Winne
mucca to Boise City, now necessary
for the transportation of the mails
between San Francisco and Boise
Valley, and which at the present time
costs" the Government $72,000 per
annum.
Arranged in tabular form, the
account stands thus:
Mail-service from Kelton to
Portland 1242,000 00
Trans ortrt ion or military sup
plies 20,629 40
T'-leraphic and signal service... 1.0S5 00
Winneniucea mail-service dis
pensed with...: 72,000 00
Total for services 3H.7H 00
Annual interest to be paid by
the United States 2S0.000 00
Annual saving to the Govern
ment 61,714 49
Thus for services performed during
the past year the Government lias
actually paid $01,714 49 more than
it would be required to pay for in
terest as proposed in the bill which
the committee has reported, a saving,
in ten years, of $017,144 90 over and
above the whole amount of money
which the United States would pay
to the company for constructing the
road.
On the basis of compensation al
lowed by act of Congress for carry
ing the mails on railroads, at the rate
of S2(Xj per miie tjje company, after
the completion of its road, would be
entitled to 8140,000 per annum for
transporting the mails from Salt
ijKe alley to Portland. Add to
mis for the annual transportation of
military supplies, &c, the same as
paid last year, and the account would
stand thus for a neriod of twenty
years.
Ca,ryinr malls on 700 miles
Trnr.'lmiul $140,000 00
irantjKjrtatlon of military sup-
plies og g-9 49
Telegraphic and sign a7Ve'r vice.'. "l,'085 00
V j ' uut ra ai i-service on it-
ted.
72,000 00
Annual amount for services 239,714 49
Amount for twenty years 4,794,289 80
Deduct Interest iaid by the
L nited States 2,800,000 00
Saving to the Government In
twenty yenra ..... 1 ,001,289 fp
The foregoing statements, it will
nVontflt: d not te into account
the cost of transporting Indian sup
p les and annuity goods, for the rea
son that no reliable data have been
obtained on which to base an esti
mate. And yet it must be manifest
to every one at all acquainted with
the nature ol this service that the
amount would be no inconsiderable
item in a country dotted over as that
is with Indian reservations.
Every precaution has lieen taken
by the committee to guard the rights
and interest of the United States, and
secure the performance . of the ser
vices to be rendered by the railroad
company for the Government. The
bill provides that the Secretary of
tliTreasury shall not guarantee the
payment of interest on the bonds of
the company uutil the road shall be
completed in sections of twenty-five
miles; nor even then until it shall
be made to appear to him that there
are no liens of any kind having pri
ority to that of the United States to
have tho.'-e services performed. The
road is declared to be a military and
post road for governmental purposes;
and the right to have the mails, mil
itary and Indian supplies, and troops
transported over it made to adhere in
and become a part of the corporate
existence of the company and be a
lien upon the road and its equip
ments of every kind, whether the same
be in the possession and control of
the Portland. Dalles and Salt Lake
Railroad Company, or of its succes
sors or assigns. In addition to all
this, a section in the bill makes it a
penal ofience for any officer, agent, or
employe of the railroad company, its
successors or assigns, to willfully
refuse to transport the mails or sup
plies specified in the bill after the
United States are entitled to have
the services performed. In short,
every precaution has been taken to
protect the Government against loss,
ami to secure its rights in perpetuity.
What has heretofore been said re
lates to the interest which the United
States have in the construction of
the road in their governmental ca
pacity. That, however, is but an
insignificant matter compared with
the benefits which would result to
the people at large from its comple
tion, and especially to the people of
that widely-extended regiou through
which the road will go the valleys
drained by the. Columbia River, and
its tribntraies,the great northwestern
portion of the ly public. The State
of Oregon and the Territories of
Washing: on and Idaho embrace an
area of 200,000 square miles, and are
greater in territorial extent than all
the New England States, New York.
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware,
Maryland, Ohio, and Indiana, com
bined. And yet this vast region is
wholly disconnected by railroad com
munication with the other States and
Territories of the Union, and almost
inaccessible to the emigrant who may
desire to make it his home; indeed,
it can only be reached by the long
circuitous sea-voyage from San Fran
cisco to Portland, eight hundred
miles out of the way; or by the tire
some stage-coach ride of three hun
dred miles from the present terminus
of the California and Oregon Rail
road, and over a lofty mountain
range; or by the still more weari
some way, bp wagons or stage-coach
from the valley of Salt Lake.
This explains the reason why the
State of Oregon and the Territories
of Washington and Idaho, with such
boundless resources of natural
wealth, and of such ample territorial
domain, are yet so sparsely popula
ted that all combined had not, at the
time of the last census, a sufficient
number of inhabitants for a congres
sional district under the present
apportionment for members of Con
gress, although settlements were
commenced there as early as 184U.
There seems to be at the present
time, an earnest spirit of inquiry
abroad among the people of the
United States, and especially those
Jiving in the valley of the Missis
sippi, how to obtain cheaper modes
of transportation to the great centres
of trade, and particularly on the out
lets to the sea. Railroad charges for
the transportation of freight on the
leading routes, although not aver
aging more than $2 per ton for every
one huncred miles, are yet consid
ered excessive and exorbitant. Per
haps this is so; but how insignificant
the cost appears to be when com
pared with that which the people
living along the line of the proposed
railway are compelled to bear. The
charges made for carrying freight
from different points to Boise City
may be taken for example, to illus
trate how great is the difference in
the cost to the people living here
and those living there. This place
is selected because it is the capital of
Idaho, and the radiating point for
the trade and transportation of that
Territory, and because it is on the
line of the contemplated railroad,
and nearly midway between Salt
Lake nd the navigable waters of
the Columbia River.
Kelton to Roise City, distance in miles 2-50
Kelton to Roise City, charges for
freight per ton 5100
Kelton to Boise City, passenger-fare on
stage-coach
Winnemucea to Roise City, distance
in miles --
Winnemucea to Roie City, charges
for freight per ton
Winnemucea to Boise City, passenger
fare on stage
Columbia River to Roise City, dis-
tance in miles
Columbia River to Boisa City, charges
for freight per ton
Columbia Ri ver to Hoise City, passen-
gerfareon stage "
From Portland to Umatilla, the
point of departure on the Columbia
River for Boise City, the distance is
about two hundred and forty miles
and the cost of transporting freight
bv steamboat and railway around the
portages of the Cascades and Dalles
to that place is $25 per ton, making
the total amount from. Portland to
Boise City 3135 per ton. The prices
specified aboyo are all payable in
COURTESY
gold coin. When it is known that
the transportation of goods and mer
chandise , on the above mentioned
routes, excepting on the Columbia
River, is made in "wagons, drawn
sometimes by horses or mules, but
more frequently by oxen, traveling
on an average, about ten miles a day)
some conception may be had of the
wearisome delays, as well as the bur
densome charges which the people
of the Pacific Northwest are com
pelled to endure. Having suffered
for years all these vexations and ex
actions, is it a matter of any special
wonder that the Legislatures of Ore
gon, Washington, and Idaho have
memorialized Congress to give some
relief by aiding in the construction
of the road? All political parties
there have passed resolutions in favor
of the project, and the petitions on
file from the people, presented to
Congress, and referred to the com
mittee, attest how earnest they have
become in this matter, and how hope
ful they are that Congress will give
them relief.
This road once completed, itwould
from that time become the leading,
indeed the only, traveled route from
the East to the great Northwest, a
country richly endowed with natural
resources of wealth of almost every
kind, agricultural, commercial, and
mineral, but the greater portion of
which is now only a magnificent un
peopled waste. Once completed, it
would be to Oregon what the Cen
tral Pacific is to California, the great
artery of commerce, conveying health
and vigor into every channel of
trade, and awakening into activity
every dormant industry in the land.
The enhanced value it would give to
the. unoccupied public lands would,
of itself, more than compensate the
United States for any outlay, if such
it may be called, which is asked for
in the bill reported to the Senate.
And there is its great mineral wealth;
mines of silver and of gold, almost
countless in number and of exhaust
less value, in Idaho and Eastern
Oregon, now lying neglected and
unwrought because it is impossible,
except at a ruinous cost, to trans
port thither the expensive machinery
required for their development, and
the supplies necessary for the sub
sistence of the miners. Were the
road constructed, this industry would
at once revive throughout Idaho, and
develop mines already discovered as
rich, perhaps, as any in Nevada, and
certainly greater in number.
It would prolong this report,
already exteuded, farther than was
contemplated, to advert to all the
benefits which would result from the
construction of the road, but refer
ence to one matter ought not to be
omitted. It is the duty which the
Government owes to the early
pioneers who, thirty years ago,
passed over an almost trackless way
from the Missouri River to the sea,
braving alike the dangers from hos
tile Indians and the weariness of a
six months' journey across the plains.
They are the men who occupied Ore
gon Territory in behalf of the Uni
ted States, when occupancy was nec
essary to maintain our right to it
against the claims and aggressions of
Great Britain, before the treaty of
June 15, 1840. They and those who
followed in their footstejis are tire
men who carried our laws and insti
tutions there, and laid the founda
tions of great commonwealths on the
Pacific coast; and to them surely
something is due from the Govern
ment, in order to facilitate their
intercourse with other portions of
the Union.
How Gkx. Forrest Likki to be
Shaved. The civil rights bill may
enable the colored gentleman to en
joy all the privileges of soda-water
fountains, ice-eream saloons and bil
liard rooms but we should like to
see him subject his visage to the ma
nipulation of a white barber. He
would find himself in as dangerous a
position as Gen. Forrest. It is said
that Forrest went into a barber shop
on Broadway to be shaved. The col
ored gentleman who officiated was
voluble. Forrest was in a good hu
mor and disposed to be talkative.
At last it came out that the gentle
man who was being shaved was call
ed Gen. Forrest, whereupon the col
ored gentleman wanted to know if he
was having the honor to shave Gen.
Forrest of the late confederate caval
ry. Gen. Forrest mildly assented.
Whereupon the barber remarked that
he was glad to make the general's
acquaintance, as his brother was a
soldier in the federal army. "Where
is your brother?" asked the general,
"lie was killed at Fort Pillow!" an
swered the barber. Silently and gen
tly as the fall of the snow-flake but
accurately and without hesitation
the general slid from beneath the ra
zor of the barber, gained his feet,
and with a face bare as to one sido,
and lather as to the other, he remark
ed: "You cant shave me this morn
ing!" A friend who met him a mo
ment later, remarked the singular
appearance of his face. The general
merely observed: "I like to have half
my face shaved at a time." Mobile
Register.
Never Dreamed It. It is rumor
ed that Henry Ward Beecher is going
to retire from the pulpit and become
the editor of the new Republican pa
per which is about to be started in
New Yrork. Whereupon the Louis
ville Courier -Journal remarks: We
have been apprehensive from the
start that Tilton's charges, if proven
to be true, would sink Beecher very
low, but that they could by any pos
sibility sink him to the level of a
Radical newspaper editor is a thing
of which we never even dreamed.
His Retort. Said Young America
to his papa: "Pa, be you a Britisher?"
"Yes, mv son, I was born in Eng
land." " Well, we whipped you'.re
tortcl tlie voungsterv
OF BANCROFT LIBRARY,
A Court that Knew Herself.
A funny affair in a court of law
lately came off at Chicgo. One Ame
lia Donerschlog brought suit against
Augustus Behrens, who had promis
ed to marry her, but had failed to
keep his word. The lady demanded
only $200 in damages, not an exorbi
tant price for her disappointment in
being obliged to retain so cumbrous
a name as Donerschlog. The suit
came to trial before Justice Banyon,
Mr. Behrens, not denying the princi
pal fact alleged against him, excused
himself by saying that Amelia insist
ed as a condition of the marriage that
her mother should keep house for
the young couple, and this Augustus
could not consent to. "I told her,"
said he, "that I loved her deeply,
and was readto marry her, but did
not wish to marry her mother also,
a woman of lordly and unpleasant
habits, and who insisted on feeding
me too much cabbage, a vegetable I
always disliked."
After this frank avowal of his pur
pose and his un-Teutonic distaste for
the national vegetable, Justice Ban
yon said, "Which would you rather
do, marry the lady and take her
mother to live with you, or pay $200?"
Augustus answered firmly, "I will
pay the $200." Whereupon the wor
thy and enlightened magistrate de
livered the following judgment: Al
low me to shake hands with you. I
envy your firmness. There was a
period in the life of this court, when
it was in circumstances somewhat
similar to your own. If it had had
the moral courage which you possess
it would have saved about twenty
five years of misery and unhappiness.
The alternative was presented to this
court whether it would marry a
young lady and her mother or wheth
er it would pay $125 in gold. The
court was poor at that time. It was
earning an unsatisfactory living at
the restaurant business. It yielded.
It took the young woman and
mother-in-law and kept the $125.
For a quarter of a century this court
regretted its hasty action. It is glad
to meet a man who cherishes happi
ness more than he does money. The
order of the court is that the defend
ant stand discharged, and that the
complaintant, who has been trying
to bring a man to slavery to a mother-in-law,
be fined ten dollars and
costs." Legal Intelligencer.
The Contest lu Alabama.
The character of the approaching
political contest in Alabama is clear
ly foreshadowed in the address of
the chairman of the Democratic and
Conservative State Convention re
cently held at Montgomery. The
New York World, in commenting on
the current news from the South,
calls attention to the fact that the
uncompromising attitude assumed
by the negroes in view of the Civil
Rights bill is daily tending to make
the political division between the
whites and. the blacks complete.
Practically, political contests at the
South since the war have been be
tween the mass of blacks on the one
side and the mass of whites on the
other, but except in Virginia and one
or two other States the question of
race has not been made a direct po
litiealissne. The Radical platforms,
the speeches of negro orators, and
the addresses which have recently
emanated from Radical conventions
at the South have ut length convinc
ed the whites of Alabama, and indeed
of other southern States, that the
race issue which has been thrust up
on them must be squarely met at the
polls. It is an issue of which the
negroes of Alabama would not be
unmindful whatever the whites might
do. The white people, in taking up
the gauntlet insolently thrown down
by the negroes, deliberately disclaim
all intention to use their victory for
interfering in any way with the
rights of the negroes. The coming
elections in Alabama will be merely
a contest to decide, and they will de
cide only whether the whites or the
blacks of Alabama shall control the
State Government. Contrasting Vir
ginia under the control of the whites
with South Carolinia under the con
trol of the negroes and their knavish
leaders, no friend of civilization can
hesitate where to bestow his sympa
thies. It Should be Buried. In the con
cluding portion of Mr. Beecher's
statement, after declaring that he
had used no influence whatever with
the committee to direct their deliber
ations, and denying that he had any
thing to gain by a compromise, and
authorizing any living person to pro
duce aud print forthwith whatever
writings of his they have of any sort
whatever, he very truly says, and all
decent people will agree with him:
It is time for the sake of decency
and public morals that this matter
be brought to an end. It is an open
pool of corruption exhaling deadly
vapors. For six weeks the nation
has risen up and sat down on a scan
dal. Neither a great war nor a revo
lution could more have filled the
newspapers than this question of do
mestic trouble magnified a thousand
fold, and, like a sore spot on the hu
man body, drawing to itself every
morbid humor in the blood. Who
ever is bnried with it, it is time this
abomination be buried below all
touch or power of resuscitation.
We often hear of people who are
too poor to marry; but a California
couple, who had been engaged for
some time, married because they
could not afford to keep two sepa
rate rooms in a boarding house.
Why will America's emblem out
live those of England, France, Ire
land and Scotland? Because the
rose must fade the lily droop, the
shamrock die, the thistle wither, but
the stars are eternal.
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" Oregon as It Is.
The land in which we live has
become to us an every day affair.
Its beauties have become familiar
and we notice them no more. A
slight shower causes murmuring
against the land of Webfoot. The
following is what Crofutt's Western
World for August says :
The atmosphere of Oregon is pure
and cheerful, warm and balmy; life
is longer, health is better and more
enjoyable, when the ordinary laws of
such are attended to, than any State
in the Union, or any country in
Europe In Oregon the soil is
so rich and mouldy that the average
of thirty bushels of wheat to the acre
can be raised with half the labor
than the average of seventeen bush
els can in the Mississippi Valley. . . .
The soil of the Mississippi Valley is
gradually wasting, the soil of Ore-,
gon is continually improving; and
as scientific farming takes the place
of much of the present careless cul
tivation, it will improve it- a great
deal more. The soil of the foot-hills
of Oregon, and hills five hundred
feet above the level of the sea, is
more productive than the average
valleys of Mississippi. The soil and
climate of Oregon are pledges and
guarantees that it will be, in the
language of the Hon. V. H. Seward,
" The future granary of the Pacific
Coast " Oregon the Queen
State of the Northwest, holds in her
right hand long life and unusual
health, and in her left, great wealth
and power, and invites the indus
trious from all parts of the world to
come and partake of them. The
State is protected on the West by
the Coast Range from the strong
gales of the Pacific Ocean, and on
the east from snow storms and cold
wind by the Cascade Range. The
trade winds of the Pacific, from the
northwest, keep the summer months
of Oregon sufficiently cool to impart
vigor and energy to body and mind.
The trade winds from the southwest
in winter, and the warm currents of
the Pacific Ocean, are sufficient to
keep the winter months mild, com
fortable and healthy; the one pro
tects from extreme heat, the other
from extreme cold. The magnificent
snow peaks of Mount Hood, Mount
Jefferson, and their companions,
stand as faithful sentinels 'on the
Cascade Range, ready, as soon as the
sun goes down, to cool the air and
secure delightful leep to the sons
and daughters of toil and labor.
The Negro Vote in Kentucky.
Commenting upon the recent elec
tions in Kentucky, the Frankfort
Yeoman s&ys that it marks an epoch
of no small significance in the history
of colored suffrage in that State. The
manner in' which that vote was split
up and scattered, the animus with
which it was cast and the palpable
effects it had on the results in Fayette
Franklin, Jassamine and other conn
ties of Central Kentucky, plainly pre
sage that the Radical party can never
again calculate on wielding it as a
uuit, as they have done hitherto. On
the contrary, the dumb, driven cattle
seem to have broken away from their
keepers, and, having tasted the sweets
in politics and in political action,
will not be likely again to submit
themselves body and soul to such ig
noble and utterly selfish tyrants as
have ruled them for the last four
years. In fact, it mav well be hoped.
from present appearances hereabouts, j
that many of the more intelligent col
ored people are at last beginning to
find out that their real and bestfriends
are their former owners and present
proprietors of the soil, the Democrats,
who tell plain unvarnished truth,
and not the Radicals who deceive
them continually ,and who natter and
cajole them for their votes,but to be
tray and throw them off when their
sordid object is attained.
Treated With Contempt. The
Cincinnati Commercial shows that
Congress has universally treated the
recommendations of President Grant
with contempt. He has advised the
passage of a general amnesty bill ; he
has asked for the establishment of a
postal telegraph; he has recommend
ed post-office savings banks; he has
proposed that Congress should build
mansions for the members of the
Cabinet, and that a national univers
ity be established; he has asked for a
law defining expatriation; for a con
stitutional amendment by which the
President can approve part of a bill
and veto the rest; for another amend
ment limiting the powers of extra
sessions of Congress to subjects spe
cified in the call under which they
are assembled; he has advised legis"
lation to restore American ship-building;
he has recommended the explor
ation of the Amazon river; he has
asked for new legislation respecting
claims against the government; he
has proposed a census in 1875; he
has recommended an enabling Act to
admit Colorado, and the construction
of a great canal to irrigate the eastern
slope of the Rocky mountains; and
he has asked for a law securing the
civil rights of negroes. All of these
important measures Congress, with
an overwhelming Radical majority
in both Houses, has steadily ignored
with sympathetic scorn.
The French Government has de
cided to raise a monument in Swit
zerland, not far from the French
frontier, to commemorate the frater
nal conduct of the Swiss toward the
French army during the Franco
Prussian War.
Gone for Good. A man and his
wife both eloped from Kearnv Citv.
! Nebraska, on the same night, a short
time ago, each leaving a note for the
other saying they had gone for good.
i "Two souls with but a single
J thought' et
Luckless Louisiana.
From the San Francisco Examiner.
As was remarked in debate during ;
the late session of of Congress, by a
United States Senator, "Louisiana r
was acquired from France bv the :
treaty of . 1803," and! that treaty con- ;
tained the following provision in tho
third article :
" The inhabitants of the ceded
territory shall be incorporated in the
Union of the United States, and ad
mitted as. soon as possible, according
to the principles of the Federal Con
stitution, to the enjoyment of all '
rights, advantages, and immunities
of the United States."
That is a treat y stipulation.. The
faith of this nation3 was solemnly
pledged to the Republic of Franco
that the inhabitants of that Territory
should for all time to come, at least
during the existence of this Govern
ment, enjoy the rights, advantages,
and immunities of citizens of the
United States. Are we redeeming
this treaty stipulation at the present
time ?
Have the citizens of Louisiana the
same rights which they possessed at
the time of solemnizing this treaty ?
By no means. They then had tho
power to regulate their own domes
tic affairs in such wa- as best suited
their interests. Do they have that
power still? Far from it. Tho
original white inhabitants, in whose
favor this treaty stipulation was made,
have been completely overpowered
by a servile race, and the former
proprietors are now virtually the
slaves.
The historic fact cannot be forgot
ten that the Louisiana thus acquired
by treaty embraced a vast territory,
stretching from the oRio Grande in
the south, to the forty-ninth parallel
in the north, and from the Missis
sippi on the eastfar a way through the
Territories of Montana, Idaho, Wy
oming, Washington and the State of
Oregon. It constitutes now the
grandest industrial empire in Amer
ici5 and may soon become the domi
nating power in the civilized world..
Its climate ranges from the semi
arctic Winters of the extreme north
to the eternal Spring and Summer
on the shores of the tropical Gulf.
Its rivers are inland seas; its fruitful
plains can fill the granaries of the
world; its mountains are bulwarks of
defense and treasure-houses filled
with gold and silver. In fact, tho
sixteen great States and Territories
that have been carved from the
Louisiana, for which we paid a
bagatelle offifteen millions of dolT
lars, have within their borders
wealth enough to purchase whole
kingdoms and principalities in
Europe. And yet what is the de
plorable condition of our sister State
of that name to-day? A full appre
ciation of it, as it is, should cause
the blush of shame and indignation
to mantle the cheek of every liberty
loving and true American citizen.
Foreiox-Born Citizens. The Sac
ramento Union has been examining
the census report and has collated
some interesting statistics in regard
to our foreign-born population. It
has ascertained that th.3 State of Ne
vada contains a greater proportion
of foreign-born residents than any
other State in the Union. That is
to say, 42 per cent, of the whole
number, Indians included. Califor
nia and Wisconsin each contains 2G
per cent., Minnesota 85, New York
and Rhode Island each 25, Massachu
setts and Nebraska each 24, Michigan
23, Conneticut 21, New Jersey and
Illinois each 20, and Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Kansas and Vermont each 14
per cent. The southern States have
the smallest per cent, of foreign-born
residents. Tennessee South Carolina
Alabama Georgia and Arkansas are
all below 2 per cent., and North Car
olina has but the one-third of one
per cent. Statistics sliow0a decline
in the Irish and Germariimmigra
tion, and a marked increase in the
English, Scotch and Scandinavian.
There are now nearly 115,000 Scan
dinavians in tho country nearly all
of them in the Northwest. Minneso
ta has 37,450; Wisconsin 45,258; Il
linois 15,591; Iowa 14,707; and Da
kota 1,294.
It is stated that the Illinois Cen
tral Railroad cost $34,001,333 56.
The lands donated to that corpora
tion yielded by sales to settlers and
others the aggregate sum of $24,825,
333 33 and it still holds bonds re
maining unsold to the value of $3?
105,520. There has been a stock
dividend declared of $5,773,301.
This statement shows that the com
pany has received the sum of $1,701,
957 in excess of the entire cost of
the road, which is a pretty good
thing for the stockholders.
Beauty. After all, the truest
beauty is not that which suddenly
dazzles and fascinates, but ihat which
steals upon us insensibly. Let us
each call up to memory the faces that
have been, tho most pleasant to us
those that we have loved best to look
upon, that now rise most vividly be
fore us in solitude, and oftenest haunt
our slumbers and we shall usually
.find them not the most perfect in
form, but the sweetest in expression.
" I fear," said an Aberdeen minis
ter to his flock, " when I explained
to you in my last charity sermon,
that philanthrophy was the love of
our species you must have under
stood me t8 say specie, which may
account for the smallness of the
collection. You will prove, I
hope, by your present contribution,
that you are no longer laboring under
the same mistake."
Judging from the number of
drowning accidents this year, says
the New York Commerceal, there are
fewer people born to be hung than
T6 haJ.sui?poE6d.
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