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Are AVe in Our Decline?
Oregon City lias sustained another
blow aimed at her material prosperity,
by tho taking off of the steamer E.
., N". Cooke, which has plied between
, hox and0 Portland. Almost from
"'"'.tijae initneniorial our citizens have
had daily1 connection with tho me
tropolis by boat, which has been of
great benefit to tlio community and
has been exclusive patronized by our
freighters, while tho travel has been
more evenly divided between the
railroad and steamboat. It behooves
us as citizens to see to it immediately
that a boat built by tho citizens for
this trade shall atbnce be commenced
and sustained, as the convenience of
shippers not to say the danger of
being harmed by inimical freight
tariffs by the powerful corporations
that are seemingly to control tho
transportation rontes hereafter do
mand that each business man and
property holder shall conjointly take
steps to protect these interests now
seemingly in peril. Wo understand
it is tho intention that tho boats of
the O. S. N. Co. lino will touch here
occasionally when they aro hailed,
but no spasmodic service every sec
ond or third day will answer.
Hero is a town with two of the
largest llouring mills in the State,
haying a capacity of CO tons of freight
per day. A Woolen Mill, whose
freightage will also count considera
ble; tho Tub Factory, and the Alden
Fruit Drying Company, all adding
their quota to business, besides tho
numerous extensive orchards between
hero and Portland, and the Oswego
Iron Works, whose manufacture acr
grogatcs ten tons per day, counting
eoll these streams of commerce, it
appears plain to us that there would
be no difficulty in sustaining a daily
service between here and Portland;
the interests of our city demands it,
and a little conjoint effort on the part
of our citizens will seenro it for us,
beyond a doubt. Tho Centennial year
must not usher in tho era of Ore
gon City retrocession and decay, un
less it is confessed that all ambition
and enterprise havo died out from
among her citizens.
Clymcr and Belknap.
The defense offered by Belknap is
generally regarded as not ovr strong
In ono part it look3 like a substantia
confession of wrong doing. In an
other part it is a rather feeble am'
not very creditable attempt to throw
the responsibility upon another per
son. There is one assertion in the
defense, however, which deserves a
cood deal more attention than it
fleems yet to have received. Bolknav
Bays that Clymer, tho chairman o
the investigating committee, toll
him that it would bo necessary to
report in favor of his impeachment
unless ho resigned his office; ant"
therefore Belknap did resign, believ
ing, ho says, that tho warning was,
in effect, an agreement not to msh
proceedings in tho event of his resig
nation. Of course this is dd defense
for Belknap, even if Clymer intended
to make such an agreement. Ho had
no authority to make it. Assuming,
however, that Belknap tells the truth
and attaching tho least importance
to Clymer's intimation interpreting
it simply as a timely warning what
excuse has Clymer to offer for point
ing out a way of escape to the guilty
Secretary? Supposing that tho Sen
ate decides that an officer cannot be
impeached after he has resigned, who
tben will appear to hare obstructed
justice and defeated the prosecution?
Were we a Democrat of tho most
ultra stripe, we could not do else
than ask that Clymcr be investigated
by his own committees. If he has
cheated tho Democrats of their just
prey, be should suffer for it.
Farming and Politics.
o
Oar farmers need not bo told by
us that this is a very backward sea
son; but we do feel that a little ad
vice from us, on the eve of elections,
jnay not be misplaced. A day's work
flow is worth more to our farmers
than all the ideas or satisfaction that
ihey may get from a hundred stump
speeches. We advise them therefore
to speed the plow and stick to the
work until tho last handful of wheat
is scattered. It is true, Cincinnatus
of Rome and our own Minute Men
left their plows in tho unfinished
farrow for tho public good, but this
was done only on grave occasions,
when war threatened the welfare of
fhair country; no stump speeches or
puparatively trivial election would
have lured them off. Tho same we
hope jfc be with our farmers.
Furthermore, as there undoubtedly
will not be as much grain raised in
Oregon this year as usual, those who
now work and succeed in getting
good crops will get all tho better
prices; let politics alone until all
your wheat is under ground, and
oiben run for President of the United
States if you wish.
Mr Villard, president of the O. C.
R. R. has agreed to build the road
to Amity f in time for the next crop,
providing tho farmers in that vicini
ty will furnish him with 300,000
frushels of wheat and pay 12 cents
per bushel for freighting it.
The Hawaiian Treaty.
Tho recent treaty ratified by tho
Senate and the House of Representa
tives, between the United States and
tho Hawaiian Islands, by which in
consideration of our admitting their
productions, notably sugar and rice,
duty free into tho United States, we
aro to enjoy the same hospitable dis
tinction with our productions from
his sable majesty King Lnnalilo, in
his imperial dominions. By this
treaty the Sandwich Islands will be
greatly enriched while the United
States will lose not less than one
million dollars per annum in duties;
it will not cheapen sugar in the
minutest degree here, but the tariff
difference will go to swell tho coffers
of the Cannibal Islanders. It is the
biggest fraud that has been perpe
trated for many a day, and Senator
Booth of California, who fonght it
long and persistently, is entitled to
great credit for his position on the
question, which will shine brighter
in contrast when tho transparent
fraud becomes moro apparent.
The secret of the whole affair is
that plantation properties have been
much depressed for several years
past in the Sandwich Islands; ob
serving this some long-headed ring
capitalists conceived tho plan which
has now been consummated, and
bonded tho said properties for
small consideration in conqjarison to
their actual value with the project a
fixed fact, and have awaited the
grand climacteric to bring out a
huge speculation. It erds in adding
another disgrace to a Democratic
House and a Republican Senate to
bo approved by our dolt of a Presi
dent and Undo Sam must raise a
million dollars in revenue from somo
other sources.
There can bo no reciprocity with
the Islands to confer a similar benefit
to the United States, as they only
take from us the baro necessities of
life which from our contiguity, they
were obliged to order from us, willing
or unwilling; but our solons who
descant so eloquently on protection
to homo interests are now trying
their hand at protecting the Congoes,
Kanakas and Cannibals,at the expense
of our own tax-ridden communities,
who must bo further burdened m
consequence. Vive la Humbio.
Slandering
Presidential
rant.
Aspi-
It is always a sign of political ex
citement when tho leaders of both
parties aro made targets for venom
ous shafts, and the subjects of slan
ders. Half a dozen distinct efforts
havo been made to fasten some stig
ma upon Secretary Bristow. Two or
threo virulent charges of misconduct
are maliciously pressed against Gov
Tilden. A transaction between Geo
II. Pendleton and his nephews, in
which the worst that can bo said is
that tho uncle received large fees in
attending to tho nephews' business
while the nephews themselves pro
test that they would havo been glai
to double them if they could, has
been distorted into somo monstrous
wrong upon plundered orphans and
a plundered government. Newspa
pers havo been making charges for
weeks past against Mr. Blaine, with
as iittlo loundation in iact as the
crime attributed to Pendleton. The
people who start these stories mistake
the character of the American people
and the possibilities of a Presidential
campaign. One distinct charge of
corruption clearly proved may ruin
tho best candidate, but clouds of
uusustainod calumnies never hurt,
and are often a positive help. The
Republicans have been busy pushing
tho stones against Governor Tilden
Thev have not as yet damapred him
an iota. The Democrats are doin
themselves no credit by their obvious
efforts to spread a drag net which
may possibly lisn up sometumg
asrainst '.Bristow. Mr. Bristow has
shown himself to be too good a man
o deserve such treatment, and it will
bo an advantage not only to Bristow
but to tho Democratic party when
hese investigation committees find
out that charges which end only in
honorable acquital are a humiliation
and a defeat to the prosecutors.
The Indians and the War Iepartment.
The agent manner of mismanaging
the Indians has been dealt a stagger-
ng blow by the recent bill passed
jy the House. This so-called "peace
policy," independent of the outrage-
1 I 1 1 1 J. ' A .
ous irauds luac uaa crept imo us
system, has been proved a failure.
Tho wily red man was as gentle as
tho proverbial lamb during the blasts
of winter, when game and ammuni
tion were equally scarce; but with
the buds and sunshine of spring has
he not invariably dug up his buried
tomahawk and with a "whoop" start
ed for tho immigrant trails and the
scattered settlements of tho frontiers
men ?
In spite of the wit of Democratic
Cox and tho beautiful sentiments of
Republicans the House has passed,
by a large majority, the bill to trans
fer tho Indian bureau to the War
Department. This is perhaps the
wisest act of tho session. The Gov
ernment will save half the appropria
tions, peace will bo restored to the
frontiers, and the welfare of the In
dians themselves will be promoted.
S"-iUi -nt SeUat0 venture to defeat
this bill
CONGKESSIOXAL.
! SENATE.
i Washington. May 15, During
j the morning hour a number of rc-
ports of an unimportant character
1 were made from various committees.
! The Senate then went into session to
j deliberate on the question of juris
diction of the Belknap impeachment.
When tho doors re-opencd, the
Senate, after some unimportant leg
islative business had been transacted,
adjourned.
May 10. Sherman from tho fi
nance committee reported adversely
on the Senate bill reduceiug the in
terest on public debt; to provide for
a safe and elastic currency; for tho
speedy appreciation of the value of
treasury notes and national bank
notes to that of coin, and to guard
against panics and inllation of bank
credits. The committee was dis
charged from its further considera
tion. Kelly, of Oregon from tho com
mitteo on public lands, reported an
amendment to tho Senate bill relating
to pre-emption claims. Placed on
tho calendar. Also, favorably on the
bill to create an additional land office
at Colfax, W. T. Placed on the calen
dar. Mitchell of Oregon, called up the
bill introduced by Sargent yesterday
to rostrict immigration of the Chi
nese to the United States, and also
the. resolution recently submitted by
that Senator ia favor of certain mod
ifications of the treaty witli China,
etc. He said the importance of this
question and the magnitude of the
evil sought to be remedied had in
dnced him to vary from his conrse
of keeping silent in the Senate. The
Pacific States and Territories more
than any other portion of our coun
try, were tho theater in which this
evil, dangerous and threatening to
our moral, social and intellectual
status was exhibited in all its terri
ble aspects. No more important
subject could be presented to Con
gress than that of Chinese immigra
tion. It was one which Congress could
not evade or ignore. The alarming
inllnence of the Mongolian race to
our shores menaced the stability,
purity and integrity of onr morals.
Tho 2eople of the Pacific Coast were
being injured by this species of im
migration, and was it strange that
tfcey appealed to Congress for relief.
He referred to the remarks of Sargent,
delivered a few days ago, and the
testimony produced by him. and
said it showed that the effect of Chi
nese immigration was to degrade tho
institutions of 07. r country, establish
within our borders a system of serf
life. The people of the United States
should have somo regard for them
selves. The question now was wheth
er our civilization, strong and pure
as it is, can afford to stand tho dead
ly vices which necessarily result from
flooding onr land with these base
and degrading pagans. It was a
question whether our land should be
overrun by pagan people, uneducat
ed and guided by neither God nor
conscience, but only to the gratifica
tion of their lust. Tho Chinese
would never become attached to the
constitution of the United States
nor tho peace and good order or our
country. He read various extracts
to show the evils of Chinese immi
gration, and said the question o
welcoming those from Christian
countries to onr shores was ono
thincr. and throwing open our doors
to thispajran Asiatic race was another.
Could Congress, upon the ground of
humanity, upon tho doctrines cf ex
patriation, upon the principles of the
Christian relicrion. a I ford to have our
land deluged by an in fin x of the pa
gan race? It had been said that there
was no danger; that but fow would
come, and there was no cause for
alarm. But statesmen who believe
this would believe a lie. Already
the tide of emigration across the
Pacific had commenced in China,
and to-day the Chinese are coming
bv thousands into California, Oregon
and Washington Territory. They
brought with them proverty, disease,
crimo and pestilence in their worst
forms. He read from papers show
ing that 2,l.rS Chinese had recently
arrived at San Francisco in threo
days, and argued that they wero com
ing to this country at the rate of 50,
000 yearly. The man who said that
this flood would not increase in vol
ume and power mistook the signs of
the times and failed to correctly trace
tho inevitable logic of events. Some
thing must be done to restrict im
migration. The general doctrine that
the subject of any country had a
right to abjure his allegiance to his
own ruler and acknowledge allegi
ance to another country is proper;
but there arc exceptions to all rnles.
Tho Chinese do not want to become
citizens of the United States. Ask
them if they desire to better their
condition, and they will answer m
broken English, "Me nolikee Melican
man." He argued that they did not
add to tho wealth, prosperity or dig
nity of tho United States. If tho
Chinese wore allowed to come here.
tlm neonle of the second Centennial
would eat of bitter fruits, and drink
of poisoned waters.
Mr. Merrimon inquired 11 any por
tion of the Chinese on our western
coast were naturalized and if o, did
they belong to the voting population.
Mr. Mitchell replied they were not
n nfn ml i zed and did not desire to be,
and therefore the doctrine of expatri
ation would never apply to them.
Sargent said the people ot the 1 a-
cific coast do not want to have them
naturalized. If they should be, forty
or fifty thousand of them would be
taken to the polls ny iuer masis,
tho companies owning mem. ine
peoplo of that section would soon
have no voico in their affairs.
Mitchell resuming, argued tuat
negotiations should ne commenced
tho Secretary of Stato with the
Chinese government to havo some
modification of the Burlingame
rpntv. He (Mitchell would ap
proach any legislation by Congress
to remedy the evil with extreme can-Hrm-
lm't If the evil could not be
abated without such legislation, then
etitbamade. Ho hoped the reso-
nflons snbmitted by hargent to
effect some modification in the treaty
would bo agreed to. The people ot
he Pacific coast were discontented
on account of this matter, and it was
the duty of the government to in-
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and apply a remedv. rie appe.nen
to Congress, to tho President, to tho
Secretary of State, and to the people
of the whole country to come to the
rescue and crush these terrible eviis.
Sargent's bill, introduced by him
COURTESY OF
UNIVERSITY
3-esterday, to restrict immigration of
the Chinese to the United States,
was referred to tho committee on
commerce.
Subsequently Conkling, with tho
consent of Sargent, moved that it bo
referred to the committeo on foreign
relations.
A sharp debate ensued between
Conkling and Edmunds as to which
committee it was proper to refer the
the bill, and it was finally referred
to the committee on foreign relations.
At 1:45 P. M. legislative business
was suspended and the consideration
of the articles cf impeachment against
Belknap resumed.
On motion of Edmunds, the gal
leries were cleared and the doors
closed.
kocse.
May 12. Luttrell introduced a
joint resolution authorizing the aj
pointment of commissioners to asscr
tain on what terms a mutual bene
ficial treaty of commorce with Mex
ico can be arranged.
Glover introduced a resolution
setting forth that L. H. Fitzhugh
doorkeeper of the House is not a fit
person to hold the position of docr
keeir and that he be dismissed; re
ferred to the committee on rules
with instructions to report as early
as possible.
May 15. The House passed the
bill under a suspension of the rules
allowing Mrs. Fitch to receive her
diamonds free of duty, and soon af
ter adjourned.
TEI.EGAI1JIC 'KVT..
Eastern.
Washtn-oton, May 13. Tho House
committee on judiciary have not yet
perfected the bill recommended to
the committee two months ago by
Representatives Lawrence and Knott,
to secure indemnity to the United
States from the Pacific railroads, by
retaining in tho Treasury all tho
money which is or may be owincr to
them and applying it forthe payment
of money due the government.
Theso gentlemen say that if the bill
shall pass it will save to the govern
ment $150,000,000 or more, which,
would otherwise be forever lost,
while it would invade io lights of
property or priviles secured by
law. Tho proposition of Sydney
Dillon, in behalf of tho Union Pacific
Railroad" Company, to retain the lands
at o-i 50 per acre as payment for the
indebtedness, was considered by the
committee impracticable.
Although tho Morison tariff bill
is among the special orders, it is
not likely to be reached for several
weeks, as the general appropriation
bz ! Is take precedence. ' Xono cf tho
members who converse about ad
journment say that Congress can ad
journ before the middle of July, ac
cording to the present prospect.
The total payments of silver up to
Saturday were about 1,423,000.
There ia no doubt that Richard
Harrington, under indictment in the
safe-burglary case, has tied the
country. It is thought he is in
Canada. Tho extradition treaty with
England does not apply.
A larger number of counterfeit
notes have recently been received at
the redemption division of tho treas
ury than ever before within tho
same length of time.
Washington, May 11. Offices
established Albina, Multnomah Co..
Oregon, W. D. Walsh. P. M. ; Gal
ice, Josephine county , Oregon, Geo.
F. Green, P. M.; Dairy, Eake coun
ty, Oregon, Wm. Roberts, P. M.;
Sietkam, Coos count-, Oregon, Wm
F. Flook, P. M -Mill Plain, Clarke
county, W. T. Lewis McLane, P. M
Postmasters appointed F. Craft
Brownsville, Linn countv, Oregon
Martin V. lloontz, Ha'.sey, Lii
county, Oregon; Charles 11. joxter
Unity, Pacific county, W. T.
At a meeting of the stockholders
of the Texas Pacific Railroad Com
panv, held in Philadelphia a few
days ago, two million dollars were
subscribed to eloso the gap between
Dallas and Fort Worth, and from
Sherman to Paris. It is expectei
to nave trains running on theso por
tions of the road within six months
Throckmorton's bill for extending
the time for the completion of the
main lino will be reported on favor
ably by the House committee soon
and a very cheerful feeling prevails
among the friends of the enterprise
Chicago, iuay 10. me jmtes
Clinton, Iowa, special says: Millar
D. Groat passed here yesterday en
route homo from the Black Hills,
and tells a graphic story of tho dan
gers and privations of life at Custer
City. Ho says he and four others
dug faithfully for seventeen days
and got six dollars in specie apiece.
That was the average luck in that
vicinity. He says people are coming
awav from tho Hills, as the Indians
are getting more troublesome
While returning, his party was at
tacked by Indians at Indian creek
and lost their horses and all their
valuables, one man was wounded and
his comrades earned him on then-
backs to Fort Laramie. He believes
thero i.s gold in paying quantiti
there, but there can be no profitable
mining until the country gets set
tied, better transportation facilities
and the Indians quieter.
New Yokk, May 12. Reports
from various places in Maine and
New Hampshire announce very do
structivo rloods in the rivers, and the
tho waters stul rising. Great excite
ment prevails. No loss of life has
thus far occurred, but tho destruc
tion of property is immense.
New xoek, May LJ. Ihe execu
tive committee of the Now York Lib
eral Republican last night passed a
resolution that inasmuch as no liber-
al organization is Known 10 exist in
any State except New York, they fail
to recognize tho organized existence
of the Liberal Republicans whom in
their national capacity recently issu
ed a call for a National Convention
of the party they claim to represent.
They therefore advise tho liberals of
New York to await tho action of tho
conventions at Cincinnati and St.
Louis, with a view of supporting the
least objectionable candidate thereby
nominated.
Charleston, May 15. Nearly the
whole of the business portion, of the
town of Darlington, in this State,
was burned this morning. Whole
blocks were destroyed, and the. loss
is estimated at upwards of $1,000,000;
only partially insured. '
New Yokk, May 15. Some of tho
delegates to the Inflation Convention
say the Convention at Indianapolis
will probably nominate General
Butler for President and George W.
Julian for Vice President,
BANCROFT LIBRARY,
OF CALIFORNIA,
Indianapolis, Ind., May 15. The
National Convention convenes in this
city next Wednesday for the nomi
nation of a national ticket. The
names of Judge Davis, B. F. Butler,
ex-Treasurer Spinner, and Senator
Booth, of California, are prominently
mentioned in connection with the
nomination for President. Repre
sentatives will be present from near
ly every Stato in the Union.
CocNcin Bluffs, May 15. The
Un ion Pacific run its first through
train over the Missouri bridge to-day
to its eastern terminus at Council
Bluffs, in obedience to tho writ of
mandamus ordered by the supreme
court of the United States.
New Orleans, May 15. A Times
special dated Summitt, Miss., 15th,
says information was received here
last night of a row between tho ne
groes and Whites at Laurel Hill, West
Feliciana parish, near the Mississppi
line. On Friday night about thirty
negroes went to the store of a white
man in tho vicinity and called him to
the door and riddled him with bul
lets. A posse from Bayou Sara went
out Saturday for the body. The ne
groes would not give it up and a
fight ensued and three negroes were
killed. Two white men are missing.
The negroes are gathered together
and 1,100 are said to bo in arms. The
whites are going down from the
neighboring counties into Mississip
pi. A serious fight is expected.
A special to tho Republican dated
Bayou Sara, La., May 15, says: Eight
colored men have been shot dead, 4
hanged, and abont 20 wounded. No
whites were killed. Persons just
from scene report sixty blacks
killed, but this statement
is considered as exaggerated.
Twenty colored men are reported as
being held as hostages. Their fate is
uncertain, but tho supposition is they
will bo killed; also that the number
of negroes killed willrever be known,
precautions having been f.ken to
remove the dead secretly. The num
ber of regulators under arms is said
to bo 500 from east Baton Rouge and
East and West Filiciana and Wilkin
son county, Mississippi. Tho color
ed people are said to be arming for
self defense. On Saturday and
Sunday night numbers of colored
men crossed to Point Coupco to es
cape thoso who aro hunting them.
Washington, Ma' 15. The Attor
ney General declines to interfere in
tho matter of tho sentences of Ma
guire and McKee, cither by pardon or
modification of sentence.
New Yokk, May 15. The JWJ'.v
Washington special says. Blaine's
frionds p.re jubilant because he is
completely exonerated. This does
not end jjiaine s trouoies however.
There is another vagr.o charge after
it that he was given land grant bonds
of the Little Rock road to influence
tho making up of the House com
mittees in 1872, while he was speaker;
but the committee to-day very prop
erly declined to hear the testimony.
By the report of the Naval Investi
gating Committee, toon to 1 made,
it appears that at the sale of the
Philadelphia Navy Yard to the
Pennsylvania Railroad Comnanv, last
Fall, instead of tho land alone were
hundreds of thousands of dollar's
worth of half dismantled buildings,
naval stores, etc., left on the grounds,
and which the purchase; of the rail
road company did not include. This
report will reileet severely on Robe
son and possibly deem his removal
from ofh'ee necessary.
New Yoi;K, May K'k The Ih ruhUx
Philadelphia special predicts a
change in the Contenm-vl manage
ment. General ILiwlev's re-election
pre.-
n means eerru:
Cleveland, of Jersey
fit;
, now first
is his antag-
vice prs
onist.
sident, is named
I'oreign.
Paiuh, Mav
13. At the recent
sitting of tin;
Council General of the
department -f Vancluse.
member
spoke in opposition to the proposed
suhserihtioTi for the monument to bo
erected by the Franco-American
Union, asserting that tho Americans
showed ingratitude toward the
French during the late war, The
Prefect refuted this assertion, and
recalled the fact that during the late
war he was Prefect of Dijon and in
presence of tho invasion tho delega
tions of Americans brought him ad
ditional subscriptions altogether
mor than 200,000 francs. Tho re
marks of the Prefect were received
with applause by tho citizens present
at the discussion.
Lonixn, May 12. Oxford has
finally decided not to send a crew to
America.
Madrid, May 14. The Spanish
Congress has passed a clause of the
constitution providing for religious
liberty, by a vote of 220 against SI.
Kagcs.v, May 13. Late disjiatch
es from Athena say a vessel which
arrived from Salonica brings news
that the American Consul was not in
Salonica at tho time of tho murder.
Tho Christians took his carriage
which chanced to bo at tho railroad
station, put the girl in it and drove
her to consulate provisional council,
and the mob met in tho mosque. The
governor was present when tho con
suls were murdered. He merely
protested and treated tho matter
lightly. The Turks lied past the
corpses and spat upon them. The
body of the French consul had
thirty-four wounds.
It is reported that tho bodies of
tho murdered consuls remain unbur-
ied at Constantinople. The excite
ment is so great that it would be dan
gerous to attempt a funeral until
reinforcements arrive. A general
panic prevails. The lower classes of
Mohammedans are purchasing dag
gers and revolvers witli money sup
plied by thoso hoping for the mas
sacre and plunder of Christians.
Travlers are leaving en masse. Eu
ropean residents aro sending away
their families. Tho Bulgarian in
surrection is extending.
Pauis, May ld.-Fiqaro asserts that
at a councils of minister yesterday it
was decided to propose to President
MacMahyn the name of M. D. Mar-
cere, Republican under secretary
of state, as successor of tho late M.
Ricard, minister of the interior.
Queer, radical Senator from Mar
seilles, is dead.
London, May 15. The Mark Lane
Jwjircss savs vegetation has made
ittle progress since last week's report
n consequence of the continued low-
ness of temperature. Autumn sown
wheat is stronrr enoutrh to withstand
the cold, but barley and oats are suf
fering considerably. Thousands of
acres in Essex have been sown with
barley and other crops, the condition
of the soil rendering it impossible
to sow wheat. Tho backwardness
of cereals, however, is not itself
cause for alarm, and the chances of
disastrous frosts are daily becoming
more remote. There is little change
in local trade, somo cargoes of foreign
as well as some English wheat have
been taken for contract, but the ex
port demand is generaly confined to
these transactions, and Holland,
France, Belgium are buying direct
from New York, Odessa and other
shipping ports. Supplies of foreign
lately have been inconsiderable, but
with the opening of navigation at
St. Petersburg, we may expect an
increase, although it is propable that
tho earlier shipments thence will bo
mainly for Germany which has
brought a considerable quantity
there. Maize has been freely taken
for summer shipment, the very mod
erate prices tempting buyers.
Pacific Coast.
San FiiANcrsco. May 13. Another
assessment of 8130,000 has been levi
ed on Chas. Jost, proprietor of An
tioch distillery, for spirits alleged to
have been illicitly, distilled in 1874
and 1875. Jost claims that tho as
sessment is made so as to compel
him to confess the unlawful proceed
ing on the part of distillers and
government officials of which he
knows nothing. He will'memorial
ize Congress to that effect.
San Fkanctsco. May 15. As the
steamer City of Panama, which
arrived last night, entered her berth
at the Mail dock, she ran into the
Austrian steamer Zelandia, damaging
her so that one of her water-tight
compartments filled, and her stern
sank in the mud. She will be raised
and repaired in a few days.
Santa Baudaka, May "lG. At the
anti-Chinese meeting held in this
city last evening, resolutions were
unanimously adopted by thoso pre
sent, who pledged themselves not to
patronize any person using capital
as means of making a livelihood,
who gives preference to Chinese la
bor over that of white.
SUMMARY OF STATE NEWS.
Tho sawmill at Albina is in
tion.
opera-
Tho Lane county jail is without a
tenant.
Tho O.
to Amitv.
C. R. R. is to bo extended
Harrisburg
with flour.
is supplying Eugene
The Lewis Brothers are doing
Southern Oregon.
Malicious persons are shooting
horses in Wasco county.
Tiie woolen mills at Ashland aro
doing a good business.
The Eugene City flour mills re
sumed work List Monday.
J. J. Comstock is to build the new
hotel at tho Albany depot.
Every team and plow in tho vicini
ty of liaise y is in tho field.
Beef cattle aro worth -4 cents
pound on foot at the Dalles.
Samuel Allen, an eld resident
pr
of
Marion county, died last week.
The public schools of Eugene have
closed until the 1st of October.
A Iittlo son of II. White, of Union
county, was drowned last wot k.
A i:w schooner is being
De.'.n it Co.'s vard.s on Coos
built
B.iv.
at
l he machinery i.s being placed
the new revenue cutter at Albina.
m
Boys still continue to frequent the
dnnese opium house at Portland.
(3,000 eases of salmon were shipped
on tho John L. Stephens last week.
iiie iemocranc county conven
tion of Multnomah meets to-morrow
lamhiil county is making ranid
strides in tho way of clearing brush
land.
Tho stores of McGosney and Davis
at Ilillsboro wero burglarized last
week.
Tho Democrat don't want Linn
county divided, as thero is somo talk
of doing.
Sheep raisers of Wasco county
have formed a Wool-growers' Asso
ciation. Grangers of Yamhill connty pro
pose to celebrate the Ith of July in
grand stylo.
Sherry Corbyn will havo a theatri
cal troupe in Portland during the
Jubilee week.
The residence of Mr. F. Rosen
crants at Salem was destroyed by
fire last Sunday.
Three Chinamen wero arrested at
Marsh field last week for fighting alle
same 'Melican man.
Largo flocks of sheep aro being
taken from Umatilla county for the
Victoria market.
The steamer Welcome broke her
shaft, last week while cn route from
Kalama to Portland.
An insane
young man
in East
to choke
Portland has been trj'ing
some of the little boys.
A boat puller, name unknown, was
drowned at Tongue Point, down the
Columbia, last week.
Tho city council of Albany have
voted the Chief Engineer (Joe Web
ber) a salary of $1(X) per annum.
Prof. T. M. Gatch will retain his
position as president of tho Willam
ette University for another year.
Rev. Mr. Stratton's (of Albany)
physician has forbidden his preach
ing in his present stao of health.
Marston's store, at Gaston, was
burglarized last Friday night, and
$300 in clothing, jewelry, etc., taken.
The lans are completed for the
O. S. N. Co. improvements at As
toria, and work is to be commenced
soon.
Tho City of Salem is tho only stea
mer on either the Columbia or Wil-
lameiro river mat lias a piano
board.
on
Another unknown wreck has drift
ed ashore at Yaqnina Bay. It is a
vessel of about 100 tons; new or near
ly new.
Rev. R. Bentley, B. D., will de
liver the university sermon at the
Willamette University on the 2Sth of
this month.
ism lennent, a horse train
jtat 1 uruaiui, was Kicked lval.
at
jast ounuay and nad one of lu"j
broken.
orS()
rib
The Methodist minister
at
Grove had a donation party last wpaI
and netted S8t. Wl
VIVJC'J Orty
turn come ? r
The parties to the Astoria abortion
case were James W. Eaton and Nelli
Poland, both of Portland. So sav
the Astorian.
Norton Wcisner was drowned near
Canyon ville on the 20th ult., in the
South Umpqua, by the upsetting 0;
a small boat. "
A new townis to bo laid out no the
north fork of the Santiam, atSmith'a
ferry, which will probably be call
"Weatherford." .
The new steam engine at. Albany
works to a charm. The firemen aro
so proud of it that they had a parade
and a photograph thereof taken.
Rev. Mr. Ellis, pastor of the Con
gregational church at Forest Gro?
has asked to bo released from his en
gagement, which has been granUd
At the last session of the district
court at Pendleton, James C. Maxon
and Benjamin Berry were convicted
of robbing the mail.and sentenced to
ten years' imprisonment.
The O. & C. R. R. will issne half
fare tickets to persons attending the
Pioneer's Reunion at the Salem Fair
Grounds next month. Tickets will
be good from the 11th to the 17th of
June.
A. Cantrell, of Benton county, has
sold the fleece from his ilock of An
gora goats, aggregating 1.C00 pounds
of very fine mohair. The yield of
wool is equal in weight to that from
sheep, and is more valuable.
The annual meeting of the Univer
salist Convention for tho State of
Oregon, will meet at the town of Ze
na on the 8th of June next. Teams
will be waiting at Salem and Lincoln
to carry visitors to that place.
Wm. Montgomery and T. J. .Neff,
late of Platte Co. Mo., have purchas
ed a largo farm in Marion countvaml
will soon have in operation a distil
lery, to convert much of our waste
fruit into brandy. The machinery
has already arrived in Portland.
The commencement exercises of
the Pacific University, at Forest
Grove, will commence on Monday
the 5th of Juno and close on the 7th.
Tho graduating class for this year is
as follows: Miss Ella Watt, H. Ta
miro, J. T. Martin, KinSaito, Agero,
and Nosoa. Edward Atkinson com
pleted his course but will not be
present, havinggonc East.
The Jackson county Democrats
met on the 13th and nominated tho
following ticket: Representatives, T.
F. Beall, Thos. Wright; county
judge, Silas J. Day; commissioners,
Samuel Furrv and A. Miller; countv
clerk. E. D. Fond ray; sheriff, J. W.
Manning; treasurer, John Orth; as
sessor, O. N. Anderson; school
superintendent, E. J. Farlow; sur
veyor, J. JeflVies; coroner; Dr. Cal
lender. Tho following is the Republican
ticket for Multnomah county, nomi
nated 011 the Kith: For senators, M.
C. George, Wm. Barnes; representa
tives, G. Tibbetts, T. J. Matlock, J.
B. Huberts, D. Goodsell, W. S.
Newbury and Isaac Blum; sheriff,
W. W. Spanhling; clerk, Jas. A.
Smith; commissioners, T. Wood
ward and P. Kellv; treasurer, F.
Harbongh; assessor. O. M. Barnard;
surveyor, (J. . Jim-rage; school
superintendent, II. II. Northrup;
coroner, A. P. DeLiu.
Onr Road Tax.
We think it would bo an improve
ment on the present way of leaving
it optional to pay the road tax or
work it out to make the payment
compulsory and then hire men to do
tho labor. In this way the work
would go on steadily and be done in
a much better way, for the men could
bo "bossed" to a better advantage
and by tho practice of constant em
ployment would learn to accomplish
much moro in the same time allowed
the "green" hands under the present
system. Wo will not speak of the
appearance of the thing, for that of
course has very Iittlo weight, but wo
cannot help thinking that when for
tho same price our country can regu
larly hire tho work to bo done well,
we do very foolishly to go out our
selves, like members of a chain-gang,
only to make a botch of the work.
-o- -
Col Forney does not confirm Brick
Pomeroy's story that Booth was mov
ed in part to his assassination of
Lincoln by his failure to get his
friend Beal's sentence of death by a
military court changed. Tho story,
it will bo remembered, included the
statement that Col. Forney accom
panied Booth and Senator Halo in a
visit of appeal to tho White House.
Yet there is other evidence that thero
may bo something in the story.
Speaker Kerr seems to realize that
his ill health forbids his continuance
in public life, certainly to the ex
tent of declining re-election to Con
gress, this year. His retirement will
bo a great loss to his party, his state
and the country. He is one of the
ablest and purest men now in pnbl tc
life, and if tho Democratic party had
the sense, the virtue and the courage
which he possesses, it could not long
bo kept out of power, ne is now on
a vacation from the speaker's chair.
It is said that Dr. Nichols, of the
Government Lunatic Asylum and
Boss Shepherd's Ring, whoso invest
tigation in Washington is yielding
such shocking disclosures of cruelty,
calls himself a Democrat. This is
an additional reason for making tuo
inquiry intohis misdeeds as searching
as possible. Ring Democrats, either
in or out of Congress, should receive
no mercy from the honest repvesen:
tatives of the people.
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