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THE .EHTEBPR1SE.
OBECO.V CITY, OKEGi).Y,"Tfr?L 2i, 1?76.
The Proposed Kailroad.
The most absorbing subject at 25res
ent, to Ore gonians, seems to bo how
we can conueit ourselves with the
F,ast,-or rather in which direction
we shall build a railroad to give U3
the best inlet for population and out
let for produce.
, The Portland Board of Trade, feel
ing the necessity of some connection
of this kind, addressed a letter on
the oth of February to Vice President
Huntington of the Central Pacific
Railroad Company. The gist of that
letter was that Oregon needs a rail
croad connection with tho traffic of
the East, and is willing to bear her
share of the expense if the Central
Pacific Company will build a road
0 TT" i -ri
Horn w mneniuoca to uugene or
Portland, thus effecting the desired
communication. A3 an additional
incentive to the Central Pacific to
take the job in hand, tho Board of
Trade writes that Mr. Pengra, to
whom, and his associates, called the
"Oregon Central Railroad Company,"
the Legislature of Oregon has donat
ed the right of way and transference
to the bondholders of tho Winne
inucca Kail road all taxes of whatever
nature collected within 20 years, in
formed tho Board that he and his
nmiMmr niv TviUmr to aSsiiTU to
whoever will bnild the Winncmucca
Railroad, the legal rights conferred
on that company by the Legislature
and others.
In answer to this communication,
Mr. Huntington sends a long letter,
out of which we are unable to get
any satisfaction or see one ray of
hope. -The surveyors that his com
pany has had employed looking for a
fusible route from Eugene to Win
nemucca havo evidently met with
little success, as tha following from
the letter will show: "The only cer
tain result thus far obtained is that
from which, ever direction we ap- J
proacli, wo are met by tho back-bone
-range of the Cascade mountains, and
one or more of its spurs or outlying
ridges. The latest survey, made last
season, I regret to say, does not prove
an exception to tho rest, nor materi
ally improve the prospect of finding
a practicablo route, the cost of which
can bo brought within reasonable
limits. We had been led to believe
that tho lino which by the map forms
the shortest connection to and from
the East, intersecting tho Central
Pacific at Winncmucca, and the in
Complete Oregon roads at or near
Eugene City wo aid be found avaihv
bio as it involved but a single moun
tain crossing.-that of the Cascades.
It is not an uncommon experience
to find that the report of routes, to
tho unaided cyo apparently quite
practicablo, aro not found to be such
when tested by instrumental obser
vations. A reconnoissaaco on this
route, mode by a strong force last
autumn, was cut short by the early
and severe winter, but had proceeded
far enough to demonstrates that no
very direct or practicablo railroad
route was to be found in that quarter.
Tho eugineer in charge, after availing
himself of the best information of
residents and officers of military
EQsta, and sending men right and
left (for long distances) to verify
them, reports that the first 135 miles
of tho route between, Wiunemucca
and Goose Lake presents no serious
difficulties, but most of the ground
is quito favorable to a railroad. But
here, he says, 'the difficulties
tuenced and kept increasing
proceeded Westward.' Ho
narrates tho features of
com
as I
then
the
country onward to LassensTass and
Goose Lake, and adds: 'All these
obstacles combined will mako tho
construction of a railroad next to
impossible.' QHe insists further that
ethers 13 no other route practicable
between. the two lines mainly explor
ed. The elevation ran up to and
exceeded 0,000 fett, and involve
extensive removals of rock and high
ridges and trestles, which amount to
fatal Objections." Mr. Huntington
then says, with a feeble kind of en-
pvuiviurm, nut n 13 pOSSlUlO a
better ronto can bo found in a more
southerly direction, and with this
flighted gram of hope we are ex
pected to regale ourselves or cUn
plunge into debt for tho construction
cpf a road over a route which even he
fiays is next to impossible. Hear the
dignitary of tho Central Tacific fur
ther: "This," (building of the road
."however, it should bo understood.
is conditional upon the discovery of
eonio more feasible route than Ave
have thus fr examined, inasmuch as
we would not tako tho responsibility
of auy route we Lave acquainted
Ti Tl rcnl i-rtc 11 j - '
i,u meso terms, nor
upon any conditions which would be
admissable to your people, if
YOU
correctly reflect their views "
. O
vs a necessary preliminary this
jainoaa magnate demands that the
people of Oregon be taxed 7 per cent
on 93,000,000, or in other words pay
out 10 uonahoiuers every twelve
months $21Qr000. The tax is prepos
terous! It is almost 82 per capita for
each man, woman and child in the
entire State. What if Multnomah
county does pay one fourth the taxe
onue entire commonwealth tW
13 rc?on vt'it
fl-,f should dictiii
j a--.! X 73
ts
O
o
connties which pay the other three
fourths! Fortunately our Constitu
tion presents a very serious obstacle
to the saddling of this debt upon the
people, the Evening Journal to the
contrary, notwithstanding. Tho key
stone of our State law forbids tho
creation of any State debt beyond a
certain trifling sum, except in cases
of. repelling invasion, suppressing
insurrection, relieving wide spread
distress from plague, famine or othei;
calamity. To overcome this, then,
a special session of the Legislature
will have to be held and the Consti
tution amended, neither of which
we feel very confident will occur.
We might continue to show how
inherently antagonistic are the Cen
tral Pacific's interests with ours, how
completely this State would be in
the clutches of that corporation, how
unjust it is to talk of taxing the
whole State for a road that will only
benefit the Willamette valley, and of
how much greater advantage to the
whole State would be the building of
the Portland, Dalles and Salt Lake
rond, but we have already consumed
sufficient space, we feel, and we hope
have shown to the satisfaction of our
readers tho improbability of the
Winncmucca railroad ever being
built under the present conditions.
Tho Passive Democrats
Until New Hampshire, had voted,
tho Democrats had hoped to win by
mere exposure of corruption in the
civil service, not by their own
strength, but by Republican weak
ness. Since that election, we take it
for granted that the more sensible of
the Democrats begin to realize that
something injures that party even
more than any exposures injure the
Republican party, and the explana
tion which none of them mako to the
public nevertheless starts unbidde
to their thoughts, and inr private
conferences with each other is some
times confessed. In New Hampshire
at least, tho voters are quite as much
disappointed in the inactivity of the
Democrats on the financial question
as the Republicans are with the cor
ruption in the Republican adminis
tration. The Democrats of New
Hampshire, like those of Xew York,
Pennsylvania and Connecticut, ba
lieve in honest money. The conduct
of tho representatives of their party
lias filled them with distrust and
alarm; and, just as many Republicans
voted with their party cnoe more
becauvo they could boo little differ
ence between active rascality and
failure to do right, and because they
hoped that a thorough purification
would follow the exposure of Bel
knap; and reauy Democrats refused,
we have no doubt, to vote with their
party .and many Independents against
it, because they feared tho worse
dements of the party were gaining
tho mastery. That this fear was not
groundless, the vote only too 2lainly
shows, and it will determine tho vote
of thousands of honest Democrats
throughout the country, unless the
nominations should be such as to
remove all apprehension. It is no
trillo to find that over two thirds of
a great party, but lately flushed with
the assurance of victory, are led by
tho nose by the other third, the
politicians and inflationists. Expos
ures of crime compel the Republican
party to tumble Giantism overboard.
Tho inflation gabble of certain high
minded Democrats may compel that
party to tumble overboard every man
who yields to their heresies.
A Good Lesson From a Heathen.
The average United States Senator
would probably feel personally ag
grieved if told that he was not as
iberul and as progressive as a heathen
ruler clothed with despotic powers.
Yet no less experienced a member of
Congress than tho Hon. Hannibal
Hamlin, of Maine, who, by the waj',
is also an ex-Vice President of the
United States has had a valuable
lesson taught him the science of free
government by tho Mikado of Japan.
Tho benighted Asiatic, we learn from
an exchange, has just decreed that
journalists in his domain shall not
be required to pay any postago on
their papers. Tho enlightened ben-
ator and ex-Vice l'resitient 01 tne
model Republic misused his experi
ence and influence to lay an extra
postage tax on the newspapers of the
United States, an impost on current
knowledge and on general intelli
gence that is still exacted from pub
lishers and readers in this country.
If tho excellent heathen custom of
"Hari-Kari" prevailed in Washing
ton as it should in these investiga
tion times tho oppressor of the
American press, Senator Hamlin, of
Maine, might be expected to make a
voluntary exit from public and pri
vate life when ho learned of the
abolition of postage on newspapers
in Japan by the command of a Con
gressless tvrant.
Lincoln's statue was unveiled at
Washington on the 11th. The Presi
dent pulled tho starry banner from
the statue amid tho deafening cheers
of the multitude, the playing of
music and the booming of cannon.
A poem, composed by Miss Cornelia
Ray, colored, was tead, and Freder
ick Douglass delivered an oration.
The original cost of tho monument,
817,000, and other incidental ex
penses, were all paid by subscrip
J lions by colored people.
The Centennial,
' The news from the Centennial is
both encouraging and motifyiug.
The buildings have been bractically
finished for sometime. All the work
which fell to the share of the com
missioners vvas begun in good season
and pushed forward with admirable
energy and system, so that long be
fore the exhibitors began to arrive,
the authorities were ready to receive
them, and the most perfect arrange
ments for the distribution of the
goods were in order. For several
weeks cargoes from the most distant
parts of the world have arrived at
Philadelphia. Europe, Asia, and
Africa are unpacking their wares,
fitting up their show cases, decorat
ing their alloted space. All the
world, in fact, is ready; except
America. The commissioners have
sent out circulars to exhibitors, urg
ing them to waste no more time. In
the last weeks of this month, the
transportation facilities, excellent as
they may be. will certainly be taxed
to their fullest extent, and there is
danger now that they will break
down. At Vienna there were scan
dalous delays and disorders, and tho
opening was ruined because the
buildings were not ready and the
railways- inadequate to the task re
quired of them, and many of the
exhibitors, especially those in tho
United' States, were tardy. The
greatest efforts have been made to
avoid a similar disaster at Philadel
phia. The officials have done their
part; private citizens must do the
rest. Those who found it impossible
to give their wares or products into
the keeping of Mr. Dufur should
mako haste in forwarding to his ad
dress any things they may deem
worthy of exhibition or likely to
draw immigration to our State. Ore
gonians should not imagine that they
can wait till tho last week or two,
and then find the road to Philadel
phia open before them. The delay
and confusion of a late arrival will
cost them more than they seem to
imagine, to say nothing of the dis
credit which a meagre opening dis
play must inevitably reflect upon our
State, and the country.
A Dark Si'.lo of Women's Uights.
Woman's Rights move on at a rapid
pace, though not in the right direc
tion. Indeed, the more practically
progressive of the fair sex, while
abandoning the modest retirement
that befits them so well, enter upon
careers that disgrace and injure men.
Instead of setting good examples to
the sterner sex showing them how
much better females can control the
active affairs of the world than can
men they make bad worse. For
instance, we read in tho news of the
day that two young ladies, ut good
connection, got into a veritable bloody
fight at Lafa3-ctte, and that now the
carrying of pistols is the common
practice among gentle sex of that
burg. If these things exist in the
green tree, what arc we to expect in
tho dry? If women fight and shoot
one another as they aro stepping 011
the threshold of the portal that is to
lead to entire emancipation from the
restraints under which the sex has so
long existed, how will tho enfran
chised women demean themselves
when they get into political conven
tions, become a power at the polls,
run for office and figure as legislators
at Salem and Washington ? Instead
of the present lamentable state of
public affairs, as managed by men,
getting better with the assistance of
women, there are good grounds for
fear that they may grow worse.
There is enough of stabbing and pis
toling among men without calling in
the aid of women to wield daggers
and brandish revolvers.
Homestead ami Prc-oinplion
Entries.
The following is tho full text of
the Senate bill relative to homestead
and pre-emptiou entries which pass
ed the House, and now awaits the
President's signature to become a
law:
Re enacted, etc., That all pre-emption
and homestead entries-, in com
pliance with any law of the United
States, of public land made in good
faith by actual settlers, when in tracts
of land of no more than 100 acres
each, within the limits. of any land
grant, prior to the time when notice
of the withdrawal of tho lands em
braced in such grant was received
at the local laud office in tho district
in which such lands are situated, or
after their restoration to market by
order of the general land oilice, and
where preemption and homestead
laws have been complied with and
proper proofs thereof have been
made by parties holdiug such tracts,
they shall be confirmed and patents
for the same shall issue to parties
entitled thereto.
Section 2. That when, at the time
of such withdrawal as aforesaid, valid
pre-emptions or homestead claims
existed upon any lands within the
limits of any such grants, which
afterwards were abandd, and un
der the decisions and ruling of the
land department, where re-entered
by pre-emption or homestead clai
mants, who have complied with the
laws govering pre-emption or home
stead entries, and shall make the
proper proofs required under such
laws, such entries shall be deemed
valid and patents shall be issued to
the persons entitled thereto.
Section 3, That all such pre-emption
and homestead entries, which
may have been made by permission
of the land department, or in pursu
ance of the rules and instructions
thereof, within the limits of any
laml grant at the time subsequent
to the expiration of such grant, shall
be deemed valid and in compliance
with the laws, and the making of the
proofs required shall entitle the
holder of the claim to patent therefor.
COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY,
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA,
BFiRKF.T.F.Y. C aT.TEYIRMTA
CONGRESSIONAL
!
SENATE.
Washington, April
17. There
was
t,,,,,,! activity long u
the Senate met preparatory to the
impeachment trial of he lknap, 1
sued'on the 5th
iUVl AV
reu ru ujl wiu- . ,
l r -m-xffrCkCi-s. IRS
inst,
requiring hma 10 ixVy
answer the articles 01
presented by the House. In the
area in front of the presiding ofhcex
of the Senate, tables were placed
for the counsel of Belknap and the
managers. In the space in the rear
of tho Senators seats chairs weio
placed for the members of the
House. The galleries were well
filled before 11:30 o'clock, and when
the Senate was called to order at
noon there was not a seat to be had,
A large portion of the gentlemen
flrallerv. on the leu 01 wie u.iy""
cralerv. was reserved
for lailies in
addition to their regu ar ganei j 0,1
the right of the chamber, a iarfc,
majority of the audience was com
posed of ladies. After the Journal oj
Thursday's proceedings had been
readjvarioiis petitions and memorials-were
presented, but at 12:.3(J
legislative business was suspended
and the Senate proceeded to tho con
sideration of the articles of impeach
ment against Belknap.
On motion of Edmunds, it was or
dered that the secretary notify the
House that the Senate was ready to
proceed with the trial. At i'M'J. ex
Secretary Belknap appeared with his
counsel, Carpenter, BJack and Jiair
Ho appeared very nervous, and be
rr.qn read in cr as soon as seated, but
soon dropped the pamphlet and con
conversed with his counsel.
The managers of tho impeachment
and the members of the House ap
peared at 1 o'clock: but a quarter of
an hour had elapsed before all were
seated. When tho minutes of the
court of impeachment held on Wed
nesday, the 5th inst., and the return
on the writ served upon'the ex-secretary
had been read , and the sergeant-at-arm's
having called upon him to
answer, Carpenter, of counsel for
the ex-secretary, read 'and had filed
a plea denying tho jurisdiction of
the Senate to try Belknap on the ar
ticles of impeachment as he was not
an officer of the United States at the
time such articles were found and
presented to the Senate; that he has
not since been, nor is now an officer
of tho United States; but was and is
a private citizen of the United States
and of the State of Iowa. Lord on
the part of the managers asked that
time ho allowed them until Wcdnes-
nay, inc iutn, to consider what repli
cation shall be made to tht plea of
Belknap and it was so ordered.
The Senate sitting as a court of im
poachmcnt adjouned till Wednesday,
the l'.Hb, and resumed the considera
tion of legislative businci'i. .
April 18. Merrimon substituted
a resolutioo instructing the judiciary
committee to inquire into the expe
diency of providing a reasonable
statute of limitations bearing 0:1 the
part of the United States to sue upon
olfieial boi ds, with leave to report
by bill or otherwise; agreed to.
Anthony introduced a bill relating
to the sale of Congressional Records
and other public documents. It au
thorizes the congressional printer to
furnish copies cf the Record, and j
extracts therefrom, to members of
vjoiiix'ss sit c;osr, ana owieir pnniu:
documents with 10 per cent, addi
tional thereon, and to eolloet. After
debate the resolution panned.
Adjourned.
norst:.
WA.sin.voTov, April 15. White of
Kentucky, sent to tho ck-rk's desk
ami had read an article from tho
Concord (X. 11.) jr,ior. printing
a circular, signed by C. 11. Smith,
Journal clerk of the'llouse, offering
to act in the prosecution of additional
bounty claims for a commission of
25 per cent. The article also speaks
of Smith as being the confidential
friend of Representative Jones of
New ITarnpshor, and describes the
proposition as a nice laid scheme to
mako a' few perquisites by an ambi
tious young man who holds an office
disqualifying him from openly acting
as an attorney before the 'depart
ments. He also offered a resolution
instructing the judiciary committee
to require into the matter. Smith
handed an explanatory Jotter to tiie
Speaker, which was read to the
House, in whie h states that being
at home in New Hampshire at the
recent election there, he saw in the
telegraphic dispatches that an ad
dit ion d bounty bill was before the
House, and that he then made up his
mind if the bill should pass to resign
his official position and follow his
profession as attorney, and in that
view he had prepared and issued tho
circular referred to.
Morrison offered an amendment to
White's resolution referring Smith's
communication to the committee on
rules, with instructions to ascertain
whether Smith had violated any
law or done any act inconsistent with
his position as an employe of the
House. After discussion, the ques
tion was referred to the committee
on rules.
Knott, chairman of the judiciary
committee, reported back the Senate
bill to provide for the administering
of oaths in impeachmonfc trials; pass
ed. Adjourned.
April 17. The debate on the Kil
bourn habeas corpus case was inter
rupted by the-House proceeding in a
body to the Senate to the attend the
impeachment trial of the late Secre
tary of War. On returning there
from the discussion was resumed.
Randall offered a resolution that
in further proceedings in tho im
peashment case the House shall ap
pear before the Senate only by its
managers; adopted.
April IS. The contested election
case of Walls, of Florida, was taken
up. Several speeches were made but
no vote reached.
Soon after, the House took a recess
until evening, when the bill to trans
fer tho Indian bureau to the War
Department will bo considered.
Speeches favoring the transfer were
mado by Culbertson, Hooker and
Banning
Adjourned.
We have received the first number
of tho Oregon Revehr, published at
La Grande, by S. G. Mahafiey. In
politics, it is Democratic; its typo
graphical appearance is good, and
we don't see any reason why it should
not succeed.
The farmers on the Columbia river
.re putting in large crops of potatoes.
TELEGKAIMIIC MjW.
Eastern.
Xew Yokk. April 11. Tho will of
the late A. T. Stewart has been filed
in the Surrogate's office. In it he
bequeaths all his property and estate
to his wife, Cornelia M. Stewart, and
appoints Henry Hilton to act in be
half of the estate and in managing
his affairs. As a mark of regard,
Mr. Stewart bequeaths to Mr. Hilton
the sum of 31,000,0000. He appoints
his wife, Judge Hilton and William
Libby is executors,- The will bears
date of 27th of March, 1S73. Ho al
so directs his executors to pay a
number of bequests, ranging from
$2,000 to $5,000. To the employes
who havo been iii his service over
twenty years he leaves $1,000, and
those over ten years 500.
New Y'ouk, April 15. It is charg
ed that ex-Attorney General Wil
liams furnished his r residence here
with funds from the Secret Bureau.
This is not proven, but it is known
that his office was so furnished.
Tho 'World's Philadelphia special
says the Americans are the furthest
behind of all exhibitors at tho Cen
tennial. A Times Washington special say
attempts are made to fasten on the
friends of Bristow and' Morton the
recent charge against Blaine. This
is probably incorrect. Democrats
had the story a week ago, calculat
ing to keep it in tho hope that
Blaine would be nominated at Cin
cinnati. Tho affair is yet a mys
tery. The Union Pacific certainly
paid somebody 301,000 for Arkansas
bonds. How Blaiuo's name became
associated with the transaction is
yet uuknown. The publication upset
tho Democratic plans, and Blaine
ought to be thankful. The question
of President is responsible for it all.
If Blaine were not a prominent can
didate the story would havo been
printed.
St. Louis, April 15. The follow
ing sentences were passed to-day by
Judge Krekel of the district court,
at Jefl'erson city, on the persons con
victed in this court of connection
with the whisky frauds; John L,
Bittinger, ex-ganger, St. Joseph,
two years in tho penitentiary, 32,000
one.' Simon Adler and Abraham
Furst, distillers and rectifiers, St.
Josph, each one rear in the county
jail, and 310,000 line; John C. Sho
han, distiller, eight months in the
county jail, from September last,
and 31,000 line; Henry Rr Hart wig
and Ernest F. Hartwig, brothers, St.
Joseph, each three months in the
x'onnty jril and $2,500 line. James
F. Marsh, ev guagor, Kansas City,
six months in the county jail and
$1,000 line.
Washington, April 17. Belknap's
counsel lias formerly agreed to deny
tho jurisdiction of the impeachment
court.
Every day's investigation by the
special committee into the doings of
ex-Attorney General Williams, de
velops fresh infamies on his part,
during his official life. Two of tho
latest things
will be called
discovered ,
upon to e;
which he
)!,".: n, are
;n to what became of
70. .(0i) v Iiich
appears upon the record.-; of the de
partment to have been drawn by
him, and concerning the deposit. n
of which l).') vouchers can be found;
and second, whv $5.00' of covert.
inent money was issued to run Mr.
Williams' f-on out of the country.
Nr.w Y ':;:
Washington
April 17. The 7!
r-pecial declares
testimony has
that
been
indisputabl
produced to show that the -torv that
the President
was ignorant of the j
corruption
d soandulsof Ikiheoek,
Lucky and others are false. The
President was earnestly warned, five
years ago, by his most intimate and
trusted friend, the late Collector
Ford, of St. Louis, and prints Ford's
letter dated May 30, LS70.
Official dispatches received yester
day show that England declined to
surrender Winsiow, the Boston for
ger. New and additional facts, said
to have t ran -pi rod to day, will be
decided.
The Il--dd, to-morrow, will
pub-
lisii a special tl ispatch from Augu.sta,
Mo. giving tho statement of Jas M.
Hager, of Riohmend, Me., to the
effect that in lb'(5 lie purchased $lo,
000 of stock and bonds of the Little
Hock and Fort Smith railroad on
the recommendation of Blaine that
it
was a good investment, paving
0,000 for them. In 1S72, on" his
$10
telling Jjlaino tho investment had
turned out badly, ho (Blaine) offered
to take them of his hands, and did
so, paying him $10,000. Hager
.ays there was not tho slightest po
litical significance in j10 transaction.
Tho rlrlhK)tti Washington spcehl
says Grant is understood to have lost
faith in Babcock finally, and thrown
liim overboard. One of the first re
sults is said-to bo request by the
President to Bristow to discharge all
clerks in the treasury department
appointed at Babcock's request.
Washington, Apnil 18. Blaine's
hard money utterances do not
give the Democrats ground to mako
points against him.
. Judge Davis looks promising as a
Democratic candidate for President,
if the Republicans nominate some
body who is not inden titled, with the
Administration.
An immense number of letters
were received at the treasury to-day,
accompanying packages of money
sent for redemption, and requesting
remittance of silver in return for the
respective amounts sent. These let
ters are from all classes of the busi
ness community. Many of the sen
ders do not seem to understand that
silver will not be exchanged for le
gal tender notes, but only for cur
rency. There will be a "conference
at the treasury to-day for the ex
change of currency.
New Yohk, April 18. A Washing
ton special says Sargent's bill grant
ing a site for the Lick astronomical,
observatory on Mount Hamilton,
Santa Clara county, was reported
favorably by Booth, from the Senate
public lands committee, y.ith an
amendment providing merely 'that
the land shall revert to the United
States if used for any other purpose.
The President vetoed the Presidents
salary bill. The message was not re
ceived to-day.
Congressman Pratt recommends
that the powers heretofore' vested
in the supervisors of internal revenue
be given to revenue agents, and the
services of supervisors dispensed
wiin, which, won!. 1 save the govern-
men 1 aoout one hundred and thirty
thousand yearly.
To-day the Commissioner of the
General Land Office, at the instiga
tion of Sor.ator Mitchell, canceled
.i.mjjuiIMimi'ii rfi unfiTjnmrnnrmrn ! inn huiim iHiiih'
the order of that office of May 23,
1873. which withheld from disposal
as agricultural land all public lands
in Oregon lying west of range 10
west, between township 18 south
and 40 south, inclusive, until the
non-mineral character of the same
should be established. Tho cancel
lation applies to all the above desig
nated lands except townships 2G and
27 south, range 13 west.
Toledo, Ohio, April IS Tho
Blade publishes this afternoon com
prehensive crop reports from over
200 points in Ohio, Michigan, Indi
ana and Illinois. These indicate
the prospects of wheat in the princi
pal wheat producing regions of these
States. In Southern and Central
Michigan the farmers are sanguine
of having better crops than for years.
The same is true of the great - wheat
fields of Western and Northern Illi
nois and Northern Missouri. The
average in corn and oats will 'proba
bly bo greater than ever.
, Ircigii. .
Hull, England, April 15. The
American brig Mar3' M. Francis,
Portland, struck on Dndgeon shoal
yesterday and sank. The captain,
two sailors and the cook were drown
ed. The rest of the crew landed
here.
New Y'ouk, April 15. The World
thinks the Eastern cloud is growing,
and thinks it is becoming verv warm
on the eastern frontiers of Austria.
If the Austria forces once come into
serious collision with the Sclaves on
the Danube, the Eastern question
will bo precipitated on Europe in
the most uncanny fashion. It begins
to look as if - the entente cordiale of
Germany and Austria for the control
of the Eastern question cannot much
longer be maintained.
Athens, April 15. A Russia cor
vette, while entering Perracus to
day foundered, and all on board were
drowned.
Loxpon, April 15. An Austrian
officer of rank recently scandalized
Vienna by selling to theltussian em
bassy there the military plans of the
Lower Danube from the Austrian
-war oilice, together with tho plans
for the mobilization of the army and
concentration of troops at certain
points of the frontier, as well in the
event of the occupation of Bosnia
and Herzegovina as of a war with
Russia- The officer was led into the
crime by the extravagance of his
mistress, Countess Straehwitz.
Ni;w Yor.rc, April 17. A dispatsh
dated Alexandria, Saturday eavs re
ports have been received here that
tho Egyptian army has been sur
rounded by the Abyssjnians, and
that its situation is critical. The
Abyssinians demand indemnity for
expenses of the war.
Ottawa, April 17. The countrv
on both sides of the Rideau river,
between the city and Hogsback, is
inundated. The St. Lawrence and
Ottawa railroad track has been
torn up by tho freshet in many di
ces near here, and the trains are ini
abh? to pass over it. In Jonesville
and Newsberg some of the inhabi
tant have been compelled to leave
their houses. The Montreal road is
impassal.de, there being five feet of
water on it in places. The water
subsided some this evening and the
railway bridge-; are no longer en
dangered .
Lonpox, April 17. The Victory,
from Shields for Stm Francisco. ha'j
undoubtedly been lost with all on
board. Capt. Joins' body has been
found, also much wreckpfi stuff.
Lonpox, April 18. There has been
further fighting, and the Abyssinians
have. been victoi iov.s.
I'acific Coast.
Sax Fi:axci.S' (), April
more's band arrived here
ing.
Most of the fast horses
the East to-morrow.
15. Gil
thi.s even-
k
cave xor
V illard Cross shot
and fatally
wounded" Frank Steele at
jjive Oak
station, 12 :
the 15th."
quarrel by
ii!es from Marysville, on
Steele commenced the
using abusive laniruare
and striking Cro.s on tho
face, when cross shot him
head and
Cross is
under arrest,
to live.
Faro banks
again runnincr.
icelc is not expected
recently closed, are
Sax Fiiaxcj.sco, April 10. Another
lot of Chinamen arived to-dav bv the
British steamer Crocus. It had been
given oat here that they Avere to be
mobbed and a strong police force
escorted them to Chinatown, but no
disturbance occurred.
Sax Francisco, April 18. This
afternoon as Capt. II. A. Burns, of
the Sumner Guards, Avas shooting at
the thousand yards distance, at the
Bay View rifle range the disc, which
Avas attached to the target to mark
the list shot fell off. Tho marker, a
young man named Henry Graves,
jumped from tho pit to readjust it
without hoisting the danger flag.
Captain Burns fired the instant be
fore he' emerged from the shelter,
and Graves received the ball through
the arm and head, killing him in
stantly. Burns cams into town in
custody of an officer, but was releas
ed on his own recognizance, pend
ing the result of tho inquest to
morroAV. The schooner Albert Edward cap
sized while crossing Humboldt bar
on the 18th inst. one man Avas saved;
the captain and -i men Avere droAv'ned.
1,000 Chinese arrfved at San Fran
cisco on the 18th by tho Great Re
public. Don Pedro, Emperor of Brazil, is
on his Avay to California.
The revivalist Hammond has been
laboring in Washington with all his
energy for two or three months past;
but he moots with no success in his
efforts to regenerate Congresmen.
His converts are numbered by the
thousand, according to the reports,
and include some very, hard cases'
but not a single member of either
House. How can this state of things
be accounted for? Congressmen
have souls, like other people, and
they have certainly no immunity
from the penalties of there misdeeds.
Brother Hammond ought to 'make a
special study of the mential con
dition of some of the more notorious
sinners among them, and find out
why it is that the revival can get no
foothold among them, and avIiv the
arguments which have reached thou
sands of the ordinary people of
Washington fail to reach tho Con
gressional mind. JVT. 1". Sun.
The Washington Territory insane
asylum has 58 patients. '
TEHIUTORI AL MiVYS ITEMS
The assessable property of Soitn
amounts to 31,220,057. Uq-
S. D. Howe has resigned Lis ofW
as inspector at Whatcom,.
Fifty dollars is the cost of ROm
from Victoria to the Cassiar mines
British Columbia is to be larel
represented at the Centennial. 0 y
W. II. Smallwood, the long looked
for register at Vancouver, arrived bv
tho last steamer. l-
C. R
R. R.
Tyler, cashier of the TJ. p
Co., at Junction. TTfili " 1 .
been arrested for embezzling 25;000.'
Dr. F. W. Sparling has been ap.
pointed U. S. pension agent al
Seattle.
C. C. Knhn, who lives onthe Cala
pooia, lost IS Angora goats, valued
at $200, last Monday by high -water.
$22 was the amount cleared from a
lettuce bed 40 feet square, by a little
girl at Olympia last week.
Tho population of Washington
Territory is estimated at 40,000. ita
taxable property at $1G,000.000.
Idaho delegates to the National Re
publican Convention are reported to
favor the nomination of Blaine, but
are unpledged.
A company has been organized to
build a large hotel at Seattle, on the
site of the old United States, noy
removed. " 1
Dabney Jones, who was under sen
tence for murder, and who escaped
from the jail at Olyrnpia, has been
caught at Victoria and extradited.
Tho arrival of Gov. Thompson at
Boiso City was announced by a
salute of seventeen guns from'Fort
Boise. ' ' ' '
The McKennon & Goodwill mbo
on the War .agic ledge, Arizona,
has been sold to parties in San Fran
cisco for $15,000.
The board of trustees of the Wash
ington Territory hospital for the in
sane, at Steilacoom, has fixed the
salary of ,the physician at $2,000.
The ap2licants for the position are
numerous.
Tho missing steamer Sir James
Douglas arrived at Victoria on the
10th, having been detained in Gardi
ner Inlet by ice and bad weather.
Nothing was seen of the Otter which
left two weeks ago in search of her.
A gentleman engaged in the dairy
business, a few miles from' Vancou
ver, says that the net profit from one
hundred cows that will give throe
gallons ot niiJlc each for one
yea;
will be over $11,000.
In the Republican convention for
Idaho Territory, recently held at
Boise City, Gov. D. 1. Tompson and
Austian Savage Avere elected delegats
and Mpssi-s. James A. Pinney and
Tiios. Donaldson Avere elected alter
nates to the National Republican
Convention.
It seems that according to tlia
statutes of Washington Territory in
private residences, us well as saloons,
card playing in which minors take1
part, is a transgression of the law.
Under that restriction, householders
are responsible for the conduct' of
minors in their houses.
In 1575, according to a speech in
the Doininian parliament, from Ore
gon and Washington Territory, thev-b
was "sent into British Columbia 728
horses and 1,181 Lead of cattle,
which Aveie entered at loss than half
their value on bogus invoices. Ther
Avero also sent 1,151 'swine, 8,40t)
sheep, ami other things in
tion."
propor-.
IJrHGiv"s ('i renin r.
BristoAv has issued the following
circular as instructions concerning
the issue of the silver coin in tho
place of fractional currency.
TiriZASt-ny Dev't, I
Wasiiixotox, April 18.
By virtue of the authority vested
in the Secretary of the Treasury by
the 2d section of the act entitled
an act to provide for tho deficiency
in the printing and engraving bureau
of the treasury dejartment, and for
the issue of silver coin of the United
States iu place of the fractional cur
rency, approA-ed April 17, lS7tf, ibo
several officers below named are here
by authorized, upon presentation
at there respective offices, for redemp
tion of fractional currency in sums
of five dollars, or mully thereof,
assorted by denominations and iji
amounts not to exceed $100, to issue
therefor a like amount of silver coin
of the United States, of tho denomi
nation of ten, twenty, twenty fivo
and fifty cents; and furthermore
ripon the presentation for redemption
at the office of the Secretary 'of the
Treasury of tho United States, in
this city, of any moment of such
currency, properly assorted; and in
sums of not less than five dollars,
the treasurer is authorised to issue
silver coin therefor payable in sil
ver, at either of the offices herein
aner nameu at the option of
tho
1'u.ny presenting the
As far
currency.
as
may be practicable from
time to time, the fractional currency
redeemed in silver under these in
structions by any of the assistant
treasurers or any of the designated
depositors of the United States, will
be sent in sums of $1,000 or multi
ples thereof to the treasurer's general
coin account as a transfer of funds,
and any amount of such currency
for which silver has been paid re
maining at any time in the cash of
several officers Avill be treated as coin
assets, and in no other case will'sucli
fractional currency be re-issued.
Fractional currency sent by express,
or othei-Avise, to the officers below
named for redemption in silver un
der the provision of this circular,
should bo accompanied by a letter of
advice stating full the address of the
sender and hoAv the remittanoo ' in
payment thereof is desired, and if by
treasurer's cheek, tho office at which
the check should be made payable.
The government will not pay express
charges on si her issued, or frac
tional currency presented for re
demption under the provision of
this circular.
The office herein referred to or as
follows; the Treasurer of the United
States at Washington:' the assistant
treasurer at Boston, NeAV York,
Philadelphia, St. Louis, Charleston,
Ncav Orleans, Cincinnati, Chicago,
San Francisco and Baltimore.
f Signed) B. II. Bkistoav Secretary.