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OXLliON I.OiHii: NO. 3, I. I.
Meets everv Thursday $ju
-viiiii -i 7 oVlork, iii the jff'S
(J Id l-y.V Hall. Mam 7jt"
street. M t.-ini mm s id" IheOr
Mor aril invilt-1 to a'.U-u 1. By order
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s!.-...ii I an. I Fourth Tin's- AiJ4lW
Uav cv. nin-ir ar!i month, T:T-Sr
at V o". i..-i. in the Odd
F?!k.vs' I! ill. M cinbersof tlio loreo
nr.- i;i c iu ! to attend.
it ; hm a :i joix;i: no. i, a.i
A. M.. 1 1 1 i its regular com- t
u! - i r i i - - it oa the Fir.-t and
T.iird S -i in each month.
wl 7 o'eloj.i tV'.'iii th'Vj'iili ot'Sjp.
Ij.,, Kr I . i. l uIi of March; aii'I
'.-! :1. iV.: n th'J U'Uh of March to tho
IIK.'j d'S - '!c' I'.tethien in good
fc'.inlw: aV j in . it-d to attend.
ll .- i : of W. M.
e; M -S f: Oil Fellows J3
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t . :-;M-JJ.ii-:r no. c.
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s.V" '. i.Jp-rj.A.rs in Charman's Brick,
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Orojor. -Ciity, Oregon.
n.7- ill I'rafii'-.; in all tlm Courts of t he
Mt . S; oial :'.:t "nlioii civcil to caS''S ill
tbr IT. r. Land :',ij- at i ipr-'m t.'it v.
ja:rlo7J-tf.
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ATTOR L5 ZY-AT-LAW,
OU&.iOy CITY, : : OREGON.
tiFFICcl Over Tope's Tin Store, Main
iitrect. -lniar. J-tr.
Dr. S. PARKER,
fATK OF i'dltTiAMP, OKFEIIS HIS
srviivs a l'hysician and Surgeon to
th-.1 ji.v);I-? of t 'laoka mas county, who may
t anv tiTiif i m nct'd ot a physician. II
has op -ii'-il an oitio at Ward A- Hardinjr's
Irir s:or wlirr h' can i? found at all
tirivs ot tli day when not'nuraired in pro
f.'siotiHl calls. It -sid'-nee, Alain Street
nxt. d or hut one above K. t.'autlc-ld's store
oeto'j. r i" !, H7i. tf
OREGON CITY BREWERY.
in, PrnoiiAs-Miym
WINi; ITIiCHAS-
cd t lie a 'lovt- l'.rew- "
ry wishes to inform the public that, he is
now prepared to ni iiuuacture a -No. 1 qual
ity of
, . t n j-: n nun n,
n "vid ai can bp olifained anvwliere in
th state. Orders! Sflicited and prompt ly
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AV. II. IlI(illFIELl).
i:stabli;i-,l sin V l.l, at tlie old hOuiiI.
Main Strret.l 12011 City, Oregon.
,2 An ais .ent of Wat hes. Jewel
. 7v ry.ands.-ih f nomas' Voij;ht Clocks
.'.'T,- n " 01 which are warranted to bo as
reprcseiifd.
n"i: pairinz done on short notice, and
ankful for jiast patronage.
LIVERY, FEED, AND SALE
r r u k r x 1 1 k n s 1 ; n i: i r 1 1 o r n 1 kto k o f
I- tie- lav. rv Statdeon Fift h st reet .Oregon
'it j". Or. on.'kni'ps constantly on hand
sadllo and Bag'y Horses,
Hiirjjii-x, t'iirriarsnml Hacks.
IVitMs Iica.soiia"ble.
n ill al v run a hack to and from the
WILHQiT SODA SPRINGS
d'lntii; the summer season, with Rood
norsris.com potent and gentlemanly drivers.
FAKE AT LIVING RATES.
n J- M. I KAZER, Proprietor.
Orp:on City, M.ly -7, 173.
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A'Fine Picture of fYillianis.
A reccent number of the New York
Tribune says that Attorney-General
Williams has done more than all the
rest of the Cabinent combined to
make Grant's administration odious,
lie has been the instrument of all
the -worst schemes by which the
South has been robbed of the right
of self-government and the passions
and perils of the war have been re
vived for partisan advantage. It was
he who concocted with Packard, Ca
sey, and Durell the plot for the for
cible seating of Kellogg in the Gov
ernorship of Louisiana; and when
the investigation of that shameful
affair was taken up by Congress, the
Attorney-General, as Kellogg's cap
tured correspondence revealed, was
the most active agent and counsel of
the usurpers. The wicked campaign
of Hester, Beach, Hays and Ileal y in
Alabama was conducted under his
personal direction. Tlio operations
of Major Merrill were guided by his
instructions. It was he who distort
ed the Enforcement and K uKlux
acts to vulgar electioneering pitr
poscs, and made the United States
Government during a few months of
last year one of the worst despotisms
ever maintained under constitutional
forms. The result of his prostitution
of the law to personal and party ends
was to bring the Administration into
discredit all over the world, and de
stroy the confidence of the entire
peo2le in the integrity of his depart
ment. It is the gravest misfortune
for a country when the citizens learn
to distrust the chief officer of justice,
and an instinctive popular concious
ness of the mischief Avhich Mr. Wil
liams was doing was one of the prin
cipal causes of the demoralization of
the Itopublicau party.
The Attorney-General probably
persuaded himself that in all of these
measures he did no more than his
duty. He is a man of narrow mind
and low conceptions, and lie looked
upon his office from a purely partisan
point of view. He regarded himself
not as the legal and constitutional
adviser of the President so much as
an attorney engaged for political
work. He took no responsibility for
the soundness of his opinion, or the
justice of his client's cause, and we
must presume that he cared very
little for his professional reputation
The President gave orders, and the
Attorney-General made it his busi
ness to devise some way of reconcil
ing them with the statutes. He asked
no questions and obtruded no coun
sel. If he had been instructed to
apply the Ku-Klux act to New York
and Connecticut or to seat Piuchback
in the Senate under the provisions of
the Civil llights bill, he would have
tried his best to obey. Ho might
have professed his devotion to the
President as Pistol proclaimed his
loyalty to the King:
"I kiss his dirty shoe, and from heart-
string
I love thee lovely bully."
He has been a faithful but damaging
friend; a stanch but dangerous sup
porter.
Gen. Grant has so long exacted
and received the sort of unreasoning
service rendered by Mr. Williams
that we cannot anticipate from this
change in the Cabinet any important
change in the Federal policy. The
new Attorney-General will probably
be expected to follow in the foot
steps of his predecessor. There are
quite a number of more or less learn
ed lawyers ready to undertake the
work, and the President will no
doubt hnd one suited to his mind.
How the Press Stands on Grant
ism. The reform sentiment of the coun
try is at present undoubtedly stron
ger than any time since the war. This
fact is shown from time to time in a
variety of ways, but perhaps as well
as anywhere in the condition of
the press of this city. Whatever
else may be said of the press here,
no one ever denied but it represents
the public opinion of the most im
portant city in the Union very fairly.
Xow it is a singular fact that there
is not now one daily newspaper of
any importance published in New
York, of a political character, which
can be called a regular Republican
paper. To select the typical New
York papers the papers which we
mean when we speak of the New
York press is easy enough. They
are Herald, Tribune, Time, World
and Sun, and of the evening parsers
the Post. You may search the col
umns of these papers for a good
many days vithout finding anythinj
but the most open opposition to the
party in power, or else the most pre
functory expressions of loyalty to it,
tempered by the most active criticism
of the particular acts to which the
party from time to time commits
itself. It is only a few years, how
ever, since , the hostile Tribune the
luke-warm Times, and the critical
Post were all strenuous expounders
of the Republican faith. A". Y. Cor.
Pall Mall Gazette.
The spelling schools that are
spreading all over Ohio are said to
have demonstrated the, fact that a
woman can spell five times better
than a man.
How the Women Organized.
From the Detroit Free Tress.
It is a sad thing to see ten or twelve
women get together and attempt to
organize a "society to aid the deserv
ing poor." They tried in Ninth ave
nue the other afternoon, after having
talked up tho matter for three or
four weeks. Thirteen or fourteen of
them met by appointment, and after
some skirmishing one of tho number
called the meeting to" order and said
that the flrst duty would bo to elect
a President.
A sharp-faced woman got up and
said that she didn't want the position
but if it was tho wish of the meeting
that she should take it, why, she
would. There was a painful pause,
and a fat woman arose and raid that
she had had considerable experience
with such societies, and she thought
she could render greater personal aid
if made President. There was anoth
er painful pause, and a little woman
rose up and squeaked:
"I move to lay the subject on tho
table!"
The other women looked at her in
a freezing way, and it was suggested
that a ballot be taken. All readily
agreed to this, and ballots were pro
pared and a bonnet passed around.
When tho votes were counted it was
found that each woman had put in at
least one for herself and three of
them had put in two or three. The
President pro tern looked very grave
as she stood up and remarked:
"Ladies, I trust that this error
may not occur again."
It did, however, or at least each
one cast a vote for herself, but on
the third ballot a choice was made
and the lucky woman took her seat,
smoothed out tho folds of her dress
and remarked:
"The next tiling in order is the
the next tiling!"
A woman with a wart on her nose
then made a speech, saying that she
had been treasurer of several similar
associations, and that if it was the
wish of the convention she would
accept the office. It didn't seem to
be the wish, however.
"I move to adjourn!" solemnly ex
claimed a woman with a large back
comb. "The motion is not in order," re
plied a woman across the room.
"Am I in the chair or are you?"'
demanded the President.
"I move to reconsider the motion!"
squeaked the littlo woman.
"I support the question!" put in
the fat woman.
The President wiped her specta
cles, rapped on the stovepipe and
replied:
"Ladies and gentlemen, there is
no motion before the house, and the
question to adjourn is out of order."
"Not much!" exclaimed a woman
nearly six feet high, drawing herself
up. I've seen more meetings of this
kind than the President ever heard
of, and I know that an order to ad
journ is always in motion!"
"So is your tongue!" said someone
on tho lounge, and tho President
knocked on tho stovepipe and said:
"The chair believes she knows her
business as well as any woman wear
ing plated jewelry, or as well as if
she had a wart on her nose! Wo will
now proceed to elect a Secretary and
Treasurer. How shall they be elect
ed ?"
"Yiver voicer!" cried one.
"I motion by ballot!" added a sec
ond. "Py exclamation!" shouted a third.
"You mean by acclamation ," ex
plained tho President, looking at the
last speaker.
"I don't wear an Alaska diamond,"
was the reply, "but I know as much
as some folks that do!"
"Less 'journ!" shouted a female
who was born in 1810.
"I move the previous motion," put
in the fat woman.
"Will some one nominate a candi
date ?" asked tho President.
A painful silence ensued.
The fall of a hair-pin would have
sounded like a crow-bar falling over
into a stove-boiler. Each hoped to
have some one nominate her, and all,
therefore breathed hard and kept
silence.
"I nominate Mrs. ," finally
said the President, seeing there was
a dead lock.
"You can't nominate and put the
motion too!" squeaked an old lady
with beau-catchers.
"I order the previous motion,"
said a woman with a red shawl.
"And I'm going hum!" added the
fat woman.
"Soam I!"
"Soaral!"
"Soam I!"
And they stalked out, leaving the
President tying up her left shoo and
her eyes Hashing wild-cats. And all
this is why Detroit hasn't another
"society to aid the deserving poor."
CoxxrniAT, Feticity ix Washington-.
Mrs. Williams is regarded by
many as the handsomest lady in the
Cabinet, being tall and stately, with
most remarkable physique. She
chats as pleasantly of her house, her
maid, the weather, tho opera, as
though only her own family were
present. In telling me that she had
gained forty pounds in weight dur
ing the last year, she added with a
merry laugh, "Though I do not like
being so stout, it does not trouble
me except when the Judge tells me,
'I wish I had a nice little wife.'"
The Judge and Mrs. Williams ap
pear to be perfectly devoted to each
other, showing great regard for each
other's opinion, in conversation,
looking each to the other with a kind
of satisfaction and pride that is very
pleasant to see among married folks,
when the first romance of wedded
life and the honeymoon have passed.
Roch ester Express.
Home stretch the stretch across
the maternal knee.
COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY,
UNIVERSITY CF CALIFORNIA,
The Man Who Swore Off.
He had been in the habit of taking
three or four "nips" per day for the
last fifteen years, but on New Year's
morning he arose and said to his
wife:
"Mary Jane Shiner, here I've been
squandering at least a dollar per
week for more than a dozen years!"
"15ut I thought you said a glass
now and then aided your digestion,"
she replied.
"All fudge and nonsense," ho con
tinued; "that was only an excuse to
satisfy my own conscience."
"And I've heard 3-011 say that it
made you sleep better helped you
to have a clear head," she said.
"Nonsense worst kind of bosh!
I've drank up $800 in the last dozen
years, and it hasn't benefited me one
cent."
"Well!"
"Well, I'm going to quit. I'm
going to commence now. No more
drinks for Shiner after this!"
"Good boy noble husband," she
said patting him on the chin; "now
you begin to talk like a Roman now
you are going to test your stamina!"
Shiner felt puffed up with pride for
an hour or two, and then began to
feel a goodness along down his
throat, lie drank water, cold coffee
and milk, and got through with tho
day; although ho went to bed he
dreamed ho was a flask of brandy
and that a member of Congress was
carrying him in his coat-tail pocket.
At midnight lie awoke with 'his
thumb in his month, just on the
point of taking a ten cent drink, and
at daylight he inquired of his wife
whether it was the year 1S75 or 1S7(J.
That forenoon, while in his of
fice, a meek looking stranger entered
and took a paper from his pocket,
and said that he was soliciting aid
for the Kansas grasshopper sufferers.
"Grasshoppers he hanged!" ex
claimed Shiner. "The next fraud
who comes in here will get his neck
broken!"
His chief clerk spoke to him about
ordering some goods, and he whirled
around and said he wouldn't order
another dollar's worth of goods for
ten years. A young man called to
secure a place, and Shiner threw the
coal-stove shaker and hit him on the
ear.
When he went to dinner he flatter
ed himself a little that he had suc
ceeded in curbing his inclination to
drink, and his wife patted him on
the shoulder and whispered:
"Samuel, you have got morcstam
ina than the Czar of Russia!"
Going down town again he entered
a saloon ami asked the saloon-keeper
if ho hone.stlv thought that a mod
erate amount of brandy would affect
the health. The saloon-keeper was
sure it wouldn t. I he bottle looked
good to Shiner, and there was a
pleasant smell as he leaned over the
bar.
When he reached his oHico he
kicked a ch.iir over, hoisted a spit
toon across tho room, and sat down
and dated a letter 1S77. A lady call
ed to have him subscribe something
for a new Sunday-school, and he
bristled up and yelled:
"No sir, not a red! Sunday-schools
are killing the busines interests of
the country!"
After about an hour ho went out
and asked a doctor if three drinks of
gin per day would hurt any one.
The doctor thought not, if they were
light drinks. Returning to the of
fice. Shiner 5i tinted up an old brandy
! bottle and sat and held it for a long
time, and wondered how they were
made, and then threw it in the coal
box and went out on the street, and
asked a life insurance agent if two or
three drinks a day would hurt a man.
"Of course they wouldn't," replied
the agent. Going homo to supper,
Shiner asked three more men, and
they all replied "no." When ho
reached home he said the biscuits
wern't fit for cannibals, gave the
girl warning to leave, and called his
wife's brother, who was there on a
visit, a humpbacked, willful liar.
When Shiner went down in town
in the evening ho asked three more
doctors if a little brandy was hurtful.
Then he went into a saloon and ask
ed for some pop. Ho was a good
while in drinking it, and then ho
asked to look at the label on a bran
dy bottle. When ho had read it he
looked to see if the cork Avas in very
tight, and asked the saloon-keeper
if lie thought brandy would hurt any
one.
When Shiner reached home that
night he threw his wallet at his wife
tofd the hired girl she might stop
there 5,000 years, begged his wife's
brother's pardon, and as ho turned a
hand spring in tho parlor, he broke,
out with:
"So farewell, my Mary Ann,
You must do tho best you can."
Shiner was tight. M. Quad.
The Avekagk Ex-Congressmax.
The New York Times, in accounting
for the large number of office-seekers
among the retiring Congressmen,
says: "To an average ex-Congressman,
life among his constituents is
simply intolerable. He is no longer
the magnate of his district to whom
flock suitors, hat in hand, and eager
for favors. With human fickleness,
his old admirers turn their faces to
ward the new representative; they
are no longer his constituents, of
whom he spoke proudly when he ad
dressed the nation through the col
umns of the Congressional Recoril,
and another man supplies them pub
lic documents and garden seeds. He
would like to be "let down easy." if
he must return to the dullness of his
own place."
There is a couple at Syracuse,
New York, who have thirteen chil
dren, the eldest of whom is ten years
old. Six pair of twins among the
number, and all thirteen girls.
Hard drinking chewing ice.
How the Money Goes.
There are only sixty-four marshals
in the different States and Territories
of tho United States, including the
district of Columbia. Yet by collu
sion with corrupt carpet-baggers in
and out of Congress, and Judges ap
pointed by their influence, these
marshals have contrived to obtain
from the Treasury an amount of
money that seems astounding, when
measured by their service and duties.
According to the report of tho
Attorney-General, therfollowing sums
are charged to the marshals for the
last three years.
1S72 Paid toIT. P. Marshals 2,C"d,7sO r,fi
1ST:'. Paid to IT. S. Marshals , ITJ.tWUj 13
1ST! Paid to U. -S. Marshals iVCl.-Wl IS
Three years....
SG.TfVi.TSG S7
Averae per year ?2,'Jt5,L(J2 211
These enormous expenditures rep
resent the annual interest on more
than $4.1,000,000 of principal at 5 per
cent. It may therefore be said that
this amount of public debt has been
created to support these marshals,
for appropriations have been as reg
ularly made from the Treasury for
that object as for the interest oa the
standing National debt or pensions.
The exposures already made in Ar
kansas, Mississippi, Alabama, North
Carolina, and other Southern States,
prove conclusively that the greater
part of these millions was stolen and
squandered by collusion between the
marshals, judges and commissioners,
under protection of the President,
who appointed and retained them in
office, with a full knowledge of the
frauds and forgeries which they had
perpetrated.
It is wholly impossible that such
systematized robbery could have
gone on year after year, until these
vast proportions have been readied,
without the connivance of the Attorney-General
and tho accounting offi
cers of the Treasury. The fabricated
vouchers and fiagrant violations of
law are so palpable, that nothing like
scrutiny is needed to detect them.
They were ordered to bo passed in
this form, and a share of the spoils
was paid for the influence which gave
the command.
Not a finger has been lifted to stop
this plunder. Right in the teeth of
all the dcvelopements, Mr. Garfield
and his associates in Congress voted
more than three millions of dollars
at the last session, ostensibly in the
name of the Judiciary, but really to
continue the profligacy by which the
marshals and their confederates will
be able to divide two and a quarter
millions among them next year.
The cost of all this rascality falls
mainly upon tho people of theNorth.
The South has been crushed down,
spoliated and impoverished to such a
degree that she is not able to bear
her just proportion of the general
burdens. So that tho carpet-baggers
have not only eaten up the substance
of these Southern communities, but
they have inflicted an enormous debt
upon tho North, the interest of which
is paid in the form of annual appro
priations for a ring of thieves.
And 111 order to make sure 01 a
sufficient revenuo to maintain this
iniquitous system, the Republicans
laid new taxes in the last Congress
to tho extent of thirty-five or forty
millions of dollars. While every
branch of business is depressed, tens
of thousands of laborers anxious to
work are idle, imports are falling oil'
and stagnation in trade is universal,
tho Treasury is robbed to support
rogues in office, whose only recom
mendation is that they are friends of
the President and third-termers.
Demagogues are now stumping
the State of Connecticut in favor of
candidates who sustain these outrages
and justify all the excesses of the
Administration. They seek to revive
the bad passions of the Avar, and
flaunt the bloody shirt before the
eyes of a people whoso prosperity
has been materially damaged by sec
tional strife and partisan agitation.
How
to Calculate Interest
What it will Do.
and
Tho following rules are so simple
and so true according to all business
usage, that every banker, broker,
merchant or clerk should post tli'em
up for reference. There being no
such thing as a fraction in it, there
is scarcely any liability to error or
mistake. By no other arithmetical
process can the desired information
be obtained by so few figures:
Six per cent. Multiply any given
number of dollars by tho number of
days of interest desired; separate the
right hand figure and divide by six;
the result is the true interest for such
number of days at six per cent.
Light per cent. Multiply any giv
en amount for the number of days
upon which it is desired to ascertain
the interest, and divide by forty-five.
and the result will be the interest of
such sum for tho time required, at
eight per cent.
hat it will do. If a mechanic or
clerk saves only 2 cents a day,
from the time he is twenty-one until
ue is threescore and ten, tho aggre
gate, with interest, will amount to
2,'JOO; and a daily saving of '21 H
cents reaches tho important sum of
850,000. A six-pence saved daily
will provide a sum of $7,000 suffi
cient to purchase a good farm. There
are few employes who cannot save
daily, by abstaining from the use of
cigars, tobacco, liquor, etc., twice or
ten times the six-cent piece. Every
person should provide for old age,
and a man in business who can save
a dollar a day will eventually find
himself possessed of over $100,000.
A country youth who desired to
know how to become rich, sent a
quarter in answer to an advertise
ment, and received tho following val
uable receipe: "Id crease your re
ceipts and decrease your expendi
tures. Work 18 hours a day, and
live on hash and oatmeal gruel."
II adieal Ext ra valance.
No wonder the tax-burdened peo
ple of the land are arriving at tho
conclusion that there must bo a
change in the management of public
affairs or tho country will be ruin
od. One of the latest instances of
Radical extravagance brought to
our attention, as in the case of tho
burial expenses of Charles Sumner.
Comment upon it is needless; it
speaks for itself. Tho statement of
facts is due to the Boston correspon
dent of the Sacramento Record-Union
and reads as follows:
One of the most popular topics of
conversation lately has been the ex
penditures in receiving and entomb
ing the remains of Chas. Sumner by a
committee of the last Legislature. " A
few days ago an enterprising reporter
got sight of the State Auditor's books
and copied the items of the commit
tee's bill, which amounted to more
than $20,000. These items were print
ed and forthwith arose a great scan
dal. One item was $1,000 paid Geo.
William Curtis for delivering a eulo
gy on Sumner. Another was a like
amount paid William Howell Reed
for "editing" a memorial volume;
$200 paid a professor of elocution
for selecting a poem, etc. etc. Somo
of Curtis' friends at once wrote to
inquire if it was true that he had re
ceived $1,000 for his eulogy. Here
plied that tho committee had offered
it to him and ho had emphatically
refused it. This put the committee
in the attitude of having pocketed
the amount and forced them to ox
plain. They said that on Mr. Cur-0
tis' refusal of tho $1,000 they order
ed a bust of Mr. Sumner to cost that
amount, which they intended to pre
sent to him. intending the gift as a
surprise. Tho editorial labor for
which $1 ,000 was paid would have
been fairly remunerated by $100;
and the payment of $200 to a person
for reciting a short poem was simply
ridiculous. The public is naturally
indignant at such extravagant ex
penditure at the funeral of a man
who was simplicity itself. The com
mittee do not attempt to defend their
action; though one of them J. B.
Smith tho colored caterer, and Sum
ner's close friend, writes a funny let
ter to the papers, saying that ho
believes the committee have been
charged with extravagance, and pro
ceeds to say that "Mr. Sumner had
no faults to hide; but we asked Geo.
William Curtis to uncover him,
which he did as no other man could.
To be great we must be honest and
just." Not a word does he say about
the expenditures of the committee.
The best people among us are hearti
ly ashamed of the matter.
"5 o e
Pinchbaek on the lYar-Path.
From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
A political mine has been laid in
Louisiana, and Mr. Pinchbacic, with
stern determination marked upon his
sable brow, is grimly standing near,
match in hand, ready to touch it off
when the fatal moment arrives. Mr.
Piuchback learned while in Wash
ington, according to his own confes
sion, that tho shining lights of tho
Republican liarty loved him not as a
man and Senator, but as a voter. He
suspects that several Republican
statesmen would have voted against
him merely to relieve themselves of
the embarrassment of asking a "cul
led pusson" to dinner. Grant wants
him out of tho way to make room
for Casey. Kellogg wants him out
of the way in order that ho himself
may step down and out of thcthorny
Gubernatorial seat into tho. primrose
path of Senatorial existence. Sad
experience has taught Mr. Pinchback
that his doll is stuffed with sawdust.
He is tired of life'and disgusted with
its hollow mockeries. lie is ready
to go anywhere, and anywhere out
of the world, provided he can take a
crowd of his enemies and rivals with
him. In this state of revengeful de
spondency he has about concluded
to teli all ho knows and then "bust
tho whole concern." Spurning tho
ignoble office of Postmaster with a
guaranteed tenure for the remainder
of the second term, and a promise of
holding through the third term, if it
comes to ihat, he has his lighted
match, and is crowding his victims
upon the mine. Soon, in the words
of the celebrated poet who enlivens
our river column, and like the appre
hensive passengers of the Handy,
they will
Gral) tho rail,
And all look at each other,
As if to say, "If she blows up
We'll go to well, together.
A dispatch from Montgomery, Al
abama, May 5th, says: J. S. Perrin,
late Radical member of the Legisla
ture from Wilcox county, testified as
follows before the committee now in
vestigating tho means by which
Spencer secured his f lection to tho
United States Senate: Troops wero
retained in Alabama before the elec
tion on a requisition by myself and
others, it having been understood
that Spencer had arranged for troops
to be put at the disposal of tlio reve
nue officers. Where intimidation was
necessary these troops, accompanied
by United States Marshals, who had
fictitious warrants with citizens'
names prominently displayed, and
shown to persons who would inform
them, were paraded and in various
counties. I shot a hole in my hat,
and reported I had been attacked by
Ku-Klux, and I sent troops to arrest
niy mythical assailants. I kept tho
troops as long as I could use them
as a political machine. Our purpose
was to secure tho Legislatnre at all
hazards, and elect Spencer.
A number of witnesses testify to
the same effect.
Tilton expects to keep on lectur
ing after tho trial is over, and is ar-rannn-
with the Americau literary
bureau" of New York for an extended
tour, nest reason. . . . .
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