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The Election.
Next Monday will decide the much
debated question, which is the strong
er party in tho State, the Democratic
or Republican. The Independent
party has existence in ouy a few
counties, and from present appear- j
nnccs will work no serious change in
I he. grand result. In some counties,
Independent tickets have bwn nom
inated with the idea of splrtling .the
Democratic vote, and in one or
(wo counties in which tho Republi
cans are known to have a largo ma-
j nity of tho voters on their side,
Independent tickets have been print--'d
with a view of either dividing the
ballot or diminishing the majority.
Wo can therefore look upon theso
Independent tickets, gotten uj bl
each party, as a "-stand-off," the one
balancing tho other, and that tho
light is iu reality only between the
"two great parties."
As wo had occasion to say in a
previous article in this paper, it is
generally conceded that whichever
party carries tho Shite iu Jane will
in all probability be the victor iu
February. "Whichever way Penn
G wylvania goes so goes the Union," is
an old political adage; whichever
way Oregon goes in June so will she
go in the Presidential contest in Feb
ruary, is perhaps a newer expression,
yet scarcely less true.
It is therefore the duty of our vot
ers to get to tho polls on Monday
next at any sacrifice. Wo were op
posed to our farmers wasting time in
politics until all their grain should
bo planted, but when the day of vot
ing arrives wo ex-pect them to wil
lingly give the nation the short lime
required to deposit a ballot, even
should they sacrifice no time in see
ing that their neighbors get to the
is a great mistake for the voters
of either ticket to imagine that tho
ocoming election is of .such insigniii-
C4t.ce that it is overshadowed by tho
prospective fight for the 1 'residency
in November, and that their voles
will havo little effect on tho general
result. Thoso voters who really wish
their party to carry the Stato in No
vember, will see to it that their vote ij
dropped into the ballot box on Mon
day next. As Lord Nelson said to
his sailors at Trafalgar, vo say to
tho Oregon voters: "On tho Gth of
Jnne, America expects every
do his dutv.
son to
The Salonica Affair.
Tho reports received of tho recent
riots at Salonica aro somewhat con
flicting in details, but there seems to
bo no doubt of tho main fact that the
German and French consuls were
killed by an infuriated mob of Mus
sulmans, in a quarrel gvowing out of
tho American consular agent's 2roper
or improper interference in the case
of a girl of Christian parentage, who
was alleged to have become a convert
to Mohammedanism. At first flush
this" affair appeared to bo tho mere
uprising of an ignorant infuriated
mob that could not be controlled
until the mischief was accomplished.
Bat this viow of tho case seems dis
sipated by subsequent facts, and it is
now declared by persons near the
scene of action that the outrage was
premeditated; that some of the for
eign consuls had warned tho Gover
nor and tho Porte that a massacre of
the Christians was intended, and that
ao steps wero takon to prevent such
an occurrence. To bo suro tho Gov
ernor tried to save tho lives of tho
oonsuls, but that seems to have been
at a time whon such action was im
possible. Tho stream could not then
bo either breasted or diverted from
its channel. It is said that the great
powers havo united in a formal de
mand for tho execution of the mur
derers, indemnification of the families
of the murdered menj a salute to the
French and German Hags, and guar
antees against similar oconrrences.
Tho first part of tho programme can
bo carried out. Hut can the latter?
That is tho piuch that is the portion
of the chasm difficult if not impossi
ble to bridge while the Cross and tho
Crescent face each other in Europe.
For some time the opinion has been
growing in Europe that tho Sultan
is cpowerloss to protect Christians
against Mussulman outrages, and a
leeliug of insecurity prevails in all
countries where Turks aud Christians
como iu uaiiy contact, lhe iorraer aro
exhibiting fierce and implacable hos
tility to tho latter, while lho Chris
tians are calling upon their brethren
for protection in tones that cannot
fail to havo an effect in all Christian
lunds. It is this element of tho con
troversy that will make the Salonica
matter so difficult to adjust. Tho
murderers may bo deenpitated and
the flags properly saluted, but will
luat make Christians secure in the
future? Will this stay tho tide that
is driving toward Turkey and threat
eniog to overwhelm it? The Salonica
outrage will bo incorporated with
tho other questions of similar char
acter, now troubling the diplomats of
Eurppe, and will no doubt have an
emphatic effect on their final decision.
The Walla Walla Spirit of tl,e West
is to bo enlarged, and is to bo known
hereafter as the Wulclnnt.i,
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THE? PEST
Kelton and Dalles 2iail Kontc.
j We have been very bitterly assailed
i by several up county papers recently
J on account of our animadversions a
j few weeks ago, on the advisability of
t reducing the Kelton and Dalles daily
mail to a tri-weekly or less. Here is
what the Mountain Sentinel says of us:
Frank S. Dement is the editor of
I tho Oregon City Eider, rise. There is
j nothing singular about that, but he
makes a statement iu the Enterprise
of the 12th inst. that does sound a
j little singular. In speaking of the
j proposed reduction of mail service
j on the Kelton Dalles route, through
: Utah, Idaho and Eastern Oregon, ho
'says: "So far as we aro able to dis
I cover there is no need for move than
I a weekly mail in that direction, but
we presume the maw of the contraet
i or and politician must be appeased."
i Now, so far as we are able to discover,
! Mr. Dement knows about as much
j concerning the vast extent of conn
, try suppled by this mail route as a
j last year's hornet's nest. Here is an
; extent of country over fonr hundred
j miles in length with settlements on
! every hand and mining camps in al
most every mountain, and a country,
too, that cannot bo surjussed for fer
tility, adaptability to stock growing,
or for mining purposes, that this
young sprig, who got his start on
"the banks of the forming Willamette,
which has been locked and dammed
by money drawn from Eastern Ore
gon, conclules in his Webfoot wis
dom has no use for "more than a
weekly mail." A trip through East
ern Oregon would do that young
man much good. Ho would acquire
a practical knowledge of the State he
lives in and its surroundings, that he
will novel" be aide to see if he remains
in the fog and mist at tho fall a of the
Willamette. Come out of the wet;
take a trip through this country and
see if you don't discover that the
people of this section of country aro
as much entitled to mail service and
appreciate it as highly as in any oth
er section of the Union.
And now follows extracts from
nearly a column article in tho Idaho
Statesman on the same subject:
With all its advantages and facili
ties for knowing what is going on in
the 'world, the Enterprise lias failed
to learn important facts which have
long been made public. What Agent
Underwood recommended when he
was in Washington was, that not the
service on the routes named be re
duced to a tri-weekly, but that the
mail service between Boiso City and
Kelton be discontinued.
This was so palpably absurd and
unjust that it was evident to every
one that Uio Agent had cither com
pletely lost his head, or that ho was
moved by hostility to some interest
which lie wished to strike regardless
of tho people who would be involved
in tho consequences of the blow.
This is so true that Mr.Uuderwood
when here, voluntarily admitted his
mistake and promised to do what ho
could to correct it. If he afterward
forgot his promiso and wailed to bo
reminded of it, it only show s how
unwilling men are to go back on
what they havo once said.
Having stirred up tho mcnagorio
in Eastern Oregon and bringing
about a general chorus of vehement
abuse, it only remains for us to es
tablish our proposition first enunci
ated. It has been proven in figures
iurnisueu oy tne Aew ioik ao,
obtained from official sources, that
thero is an expenditure of SIC for
every ??1 of revenue derived by the
Government in keeping up the daily
servieo ever said route. This i3 quite
as emphatic an answer, and as con
clusive to the general mind, as is
necessary for all the parade and gush
of the aforesaid.
You aro a nice people, and your
flatteries to us aro duly appreciated;
snoop and cattle herding is a great
business, b'at at such a price yon are
decidedly too costive to Uncle Sam.
While tho Pugot Sound country,
from Olympia to Victoria, whose
aggregate population exceeds 10,000
people, is denied more than a tri
weekly mail, it doe3 not seem a
hardship that tho 10.000 or 15,000
between iho Dalles and Kelton can
bo much outraged with a weeklj-
service, while the gjaring injustice
of giving tho one tho tri-weekly and
tho other tho daily is strikingly ap-
parent.
Tho original scheme of a daily
mail over the routo referred to was
an outrage in its inception, but cre
ated to appease scheming contractors
and politicians. We believe it was
for this very routo that the present
Governor of Idaho was given a bonus
of S15.000 to withdraw his bid in
order to enable tho ring to get a bet
ter swing at the public pap. It was
born in sin and conceived in iniquity,
and the Postmaster General if he
was a true reformer would reduce
it to a weekly mail, and make it more
commensurate with the actual Avant3
of a scattered community.
The "Great Unknown."
Under this head-line, Whitelaw
Tteid has written an editorial in his
happiest strain. He says:
That wa3 altogether an effective
remark which a Trihune correspon
dent recently attributed toMr.Blaine
about his having no fear of any of
the rival candidates now named, but
being really afraid of the Great Un
kuown. There may have been some
thing of the mauner of the seer in
tho appearance of the Maine states
man as ho made this oracular remark;
possibly he glowed with prophecy as
one who had gathered all the portents
of the sky aud read them all, except
the low-down speck of cloud no big
ger that a man's hand. At any rata,
tho utterance seemed saturate! with
something that seemed like presci
ence a sort of limited foreknowl
edge that confessed its limitations,
and was all the more impressive for
the confession.
It certainly has impressed a great
many persons and relatively absurd
as it may seem, we cannot help cher
ishing the idea that the Incognita will
come from this State for are any
politicians in the country leas con
spicuous than those in Oregon? They
are tho very quintessence of "nn
knov.nncss," and on this fact we base
our future hopes. The press has
started off in all directions to find
this Great Unknown, but thus far we
fail to hear of anyone answering so
truly the desired description of the
individual looked for as some of our
Webfoot representative men. Every
corner of tho nation has been search
ed in which a Great Unknown would
be likely to hide, but as yet no paper
has cried Eureka that honor is re
served for the ExTr.r.rnsr:.
People say that tho "Great Un
known" is an impossibility, some
thing less than a figment of the in
auguration, but we say "no;" he is a
tangible stern reality. Jas. K. Polk,
Franklin Pierce, even Abraham Lin
coln, were comparatively unknown
men when elected to the Chief Majea
try of tho nation. In American poli
tics it often happens that tho more
unknown (to use a peculiar expres
sion) a person is the better are his
projects for office. It is a poor
encomium on the prominent men of
th: nation wo admit, but facts bear
us out in tho statement. Wo all
recollect the congressional campaign
in this State in Avhich one candidate
stumped Oregon "from Dan to Bee r
sheba" and made himself prominent
before the voters, while the other,
an obscure man, remained sick at
home, taking no 2art in the canvass,
and got elected for this very inactiv
ity and on account of the uncertainty
of his ability. It would seem that
American voters would rather take
an unknown man, and in their pow
erful imaginations make him an ideal
of what should constitute a President
than trust their suffrages to a man
who has been long in the public life
and 2crmitted them to discover little
discrepancies or petty personal ob
jections. Having been long promi
nent, iho public becomes acquainted
with a man's religious views, and if
they be not in accordance with their
own he is a lamb for the slaughter.
Should he drink or smoke, manv
would vote against him; should he
neither smoke nor drink, opposition
would bo taken by those who seo no
harm in these indulgences. And so
wo might go on through the whole
category of a man's daily routine,
and should he bo a prominent man,
there will always bo two sides to his
every action.
Tho "Great Unknown" escapes all
these objections, and is "sprung"
upon tho people so suddenly that
they have no time to inquire into his.
religious views or personal tastes or
peculiarities. Taking this view of
the case, wo think this corner of tho
map not improbably tLo place in
which the bonanza is now lurking.
In fact, we say, that wo feel that we
have already discovered him, that is
if he is to come from Oregon and
perfect obscurity be the White House
passjiort. For the present we will
reserve his identity, bat will in every
probability head our column after
the Cincinnati Convention with his
name. Till then he must continue
as now, tho "Great Unknown."
Letter from II r. Oft'eM.
We clip"the following sensible cor
respondence from the Orcjonian. of
tho 2fJth ult:
Caxijt, Clackamas Co.,
May 2(1, 1S7G. j
Editor Okkgoxiax: I find, on
reading the Oreyoniun of May 20th, a
letter from Oregon City in relation
to the Senatorial contest in this
county, in which tho writer reflects
on me, and also copies from an ar
ticlo in the Standard of like charac
ter. Now, Mr. Editor, allow me to
protest. In this, first, that no ring
had aught to do with my nomina
tion, as I was placed on the ticket by
the committee, one of whoiu was my
neighbor. As for fitness to repre
sent this county I claim none. This
I submit to the public; yet I protest
against such charges without point
ing to a single act of impropriety.
It has been mj- desire to do my w hole
duty without consulting party lead
ers. Neither havo I, nor do I ex
pect to, cast a voto which ought to
cause an honorable man to blush in
the presence of his God. I am not
a candidate now, nor is politics my
profession; yet why hunt all meu
with calumny without cause? why
tear down to build up? whj-lead the
jmblie mind to believe all men are
unworthy, when this sentiment will
soon react on us all? As for myself,
I shall do what seems right to me
without fear or favor, asking only
one support a clear conscience.
As for tho present candidates for
tho Senate to bear out the senti
ments already expressed I must say
Hon. F. O. McCown is a gentleman
whom I havo known from boyhood
only to respect, and a fair represen
tative of the Republican party. Tho
Hon. John Myers has been a leader
of the Democracy for years, and has
faithfully served the people in the
legislature. Either is well fitted for
tho position. The contest should
lo only as between Democrats aud
Republicans. When will men learn
to bo just? JAS, W. OFFIELD.
The Courier figures up that the
nostoBices of Washington Territory
in 18GS were 06 iu number; in 1S70,
77; in 1S72, 10;); iu 1S75, 155 an
increase in seven years of FJ5 per
cent. Tho increase in the number
of Orepron offices during the same
time was from 120 to 2'J7 10S per
cent. The Territorial mail routes
aprsregate a length of 1,017 miles in
of 1,6TS in 1870, of ,'5.020 in
1S75. Oregon's route in 1S0S ex
tended over 2,101 miles, and iu 1375
to 1,151.
Whatcom county has an indebted
ness of 0,373 17.
COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY,
TINTVTTRSTTY CW P. at t;yyomta
Koartl Of Trade: I
A special meeting of the' Portland
Board of Trado was held on tho 21th
inst., for the object of considering
the various commercial interests re
quiring Stato legislation, and tne
course to be pursued by tho board
in urging theso non-political meas
ures uoon the various candidates in
the different co-antics seeking election
to the State Legislature, andfor sim
ilar purposes.
The following preamble and reso
lutions were read win! cm, and af
ter considerable discussion,"., in
which Messrs. Kapus, Green, Gross,
Goldsmith. Dekum and Prindle par
ticipated, were adopted: .
W he it cas, This board, independ
ent of political views, recognize the
urgent necessity of the various com
mercial matters of tho Stato being
attended to at tho next legislature,
therefore havo
Jiesolred, And do hereby earnestly
recommend to the various candi
dates in every county seeking elec
tion to the State Legislature the fol
lowing important subjects for their
careful consideration, and request
them to indicate to tho secretary of
tho board whether or not they are
in favor of the following resolutions:
Dinr.cT i:aii,hoaj coxnkctios.
To accomplish which tho State
ought legislatively, for tho general
good of id 1 its citizens and without
exhibiting partiality or preference
for either one of the three proposed
railroad routes to the East, unite
upon a general bill giving to which
ever railroad company or capitalists
as shall guarantee to commence con
struction within one year and com
plete railroad connection within six
years, w hatever State assistance or
aid is in the power and ability of the
peo2ie as a State to grant, subject
always to no discrimination of fares
and freights in any locality in Ore
gon over another, and under the
farther condition that no greater
through, or Local freights or fares
shall be charged in Oregon than is
in operation in California or else
where. IMMIGRATION.
That it is the duty of tho Stato for
the development of its various re
sources in Eastern, Southerna ml
Western Oregon, to undertake like
all other Western States, the im
migration interests of the country by
appointing a non-political board of
immigration with sufficient powers
and a small annual appropriation
from thte legislature to disseminate
information, induce immigrants to
come to Oregon, and while here to
settle them in the various portions
of the State.
rinOTAOE AND TOWAGE.
That in view of the fact that the
increase of values of our agricultural
product1 depend almost entirely up
on the number of foreign vessels
which yearly enter the Columbia
river seeking freights, it is of the
utmost pecuniary importance to our
farming classes for the legislature to
pass such a bill for regulating the
piloting and towing charges over the
Columbia river bar as will incourage
competition in shipping and induce
vessels to como to Oregon in larger
numbers then at present.
SALMON" INTKliF.STS'.
Thr.t considering the large annual
exports of Oregon salmon and the
increase in the foreign demand, it is
to be regretted that the run of sal
mon is not now so plentiful as iu for
mer years; that it is therefore the
duty of the State to pass such laws
as will regulate the season, timo and
mode of conducting this enterprise
so as to increase instead of decreas
ing (as at present) the flow of sal
mon into the various rivers and trib
utaries of Oregon.
MCIiCANTILK TKAVEIEKS PKOM OTHER
STATES SOLICITING TRADE IX OREGON.
Xearl all foreign countries and
sister States on the Atlantic and Pa
ciiic coasts pass license and other
laws to protect aud developo their
internal trade and commerce, believ
ing that it is essential forevery State
to foster and build up within itself
manufacturing and commercial en
terprises. In Oregon foreign trav
elers come from California, British
Columbia and elsewhere; soiling
their proods all over the State without
contributing directly or indirectly
one dollar of taxes or revenue to the
State treasury while merchants and
traders, residents of Oregon, aro
compelled by law to pay upon their
property or goods so offered for sale,
all State, county and other taxes, as
well as high rents and other inciden
tal expenses. It is therefore the du
ty of the Stato to equalize taxation
so that such travelers soliciting trade
in Oregon shall pay equally as the
resident merchants their proportion
or share of taxes, and thus encourage
the internal commerce of Oregon.
This is best attended by the mode
adopted in other States, which this
Board of Trade recommends, of mak
ing such travelers procure an annual
license from this State.
AMENDMENT OF INCORPORATION" LAWS.
That in the judgment of this board
section 20 of the General Incorpora
tion laws should bo abolished, and
section 22 be so amended as to allow
a majority ox the stockholders of an
incorporation to tile supplemental
articles, thereby offering greater in
ducements for tho investment of
capital.
OrriCIAL WEIGHERS OF WHEAT AND
OTHER GRAIN.
That tho State Legislative assem
bly appoint, as is done by the States
of Illinois, Michigan, aud other
Eastern States, an official weigher of
wheat, whose duties shall consist of
weighing, at the request of ono or
more of the parties concerned, all
wheat and other grain sold, or to be
sold, or to bo delivered free onboard
ship or otherwise, and whose certifi
cate of weights shall be held in law
as evidence of the facts therein stated
between parties. That tho said offi
cial weigher shall reside in Port
land, aud his remuneration shall be
fixed by the State at so much per
ton. payable from the grain weighed.
lh:so!trd further. That the board
solicit the various newspapers of
Oregon to print these resolutions,
and that the secretary be and hereby
is instructed to forward copies to
every candidate in Oregon seeking
election to the next Stato legislature.
On motion tho board adjourned.
Complaint is made as to the man-
nor in which the mail service is per
: formed on the Sound. Letters from
the lower Sound arrive at Olympia
i by-way of Portland.
TELnGKAPIIIC xuivs.':
Kastern.
New York, May 20. The Inde
pendent Labor Reform party met at
Mason's Hall to-night and endorsed ',
Peter Cooper and Senator Booth, 1
Presidential nominees of the Indian-
apolis convention. Instructions were
given to delegates to urge the pas
sage of a homestead bill on each
Congressman, also amending the
tariff by taking off' duties on ship
building material.
The Herald's Washington special
says there is a report to-night of a
scandal against Speaker Kerr, which
is to be investigated' to-morrow be
foro Clymer's committee on expendi
tures in, the war department: Clymcr
having given notice to Kerr this
morning that if the witness who had
been subpoenaed and who is expect
ed to arrive in tho morning is at
hand, the matter will be opened at
10 o'clock. The story is to this ef
fect: One Augustus H. Green, of
New York, in ISGo, was made a first
lieutenant in the regular army at the
request of Kerr, and was commis
sioned by Andrew Johnson. Green
now says ho was doorkeeper of the
House, and that ho paid Harney six
hundred dollars for las aid and in
fluence. Harney who now is in tho
appraiser's office in Xew York, has,
it is alleged, said he gave the 000,
or some sum of money, to Kerr, and
this was brought to tho attention of
j the Clymer committee in such a
I shape that they determined to sum
j moil the men before them and makes
j a thorough investigation. Clymer
j accordingly, to-day notified Kerr
! that if Harney arrived as expected,
j he would open the case to-morrow.
I Kerr has been for some time threat
ened with anonymous letters about
this matter. The authors of the re
port have been looked up, and it is
believed tho whole is a scheme of re
venge. Washington, May 27. The Com
mittee of Commerce have authorized
Piper to make a strong report fav
orable to a joint resolution request
ing the President to negotiate an ad
ditional article in tho Burliugnme
treaty substantially as follows: The
United States do hereby reserve the
right to regulate, restrict and pre
vent the immigration of Chinese.sub
jects into the United States e:cept
for commercial pursuits; and, reci
procally, the Emperor of China docs
reserve the right to regulate, restrict
and prevent immigration of citizens
of the United States into China ex
cept for commercial purposes.
Tho Senate amendment to the
legislative, executive and judicial
appropriation bill increases Pacific
coast items as follows: For the sur
veyor gouoral and their clerks in
California, .-?2'i.000; Oregon, 7,500:
Nevada. s.OG'J; Washiugto:i Terri
tory, 7.500; Idaho, 80,000. All
salaries of Territorial judges and ex
ecutive officers are restored to the
present standard.
Washington, May 23. Postofuce
establishedAtlanta, Yakima couutv,
W. T: Cedar Grove, Whatcom coun
ty, Y. T. Postmaster appointed
Newton R. Barber, Corvallis, Benton
county, Oregon. Isaac N. Foster,
Jewell, Clatsop county, Oregon. S.
M. Martin, Zona. Polk county, Ore
gon. AVasiiixgton, May 20. The testi
mony of Green, taken last Satur-
j day, wa given to the public to-day.
The only new points are that he con
i fosses giving money to Harney for
i his appointment, but he never be
' lioved and does not know that Kerr
j received it.
Pn i t.'Ade i.T'hia, May SO. Wool is
j dull; iiow wool coming in freely but
slow of sale; Colorado washed,
! 20C? 22c; unwashed, lOW-bSc; extra
and merino pulled, 30(v. 32c: No 1
and superfine, o0; -3te; Texas lino
and medium, 10(7 20c; coarse,
11(7? 10c; California linn and medium
18.22c coarse, 10(;20e.
New York, May ;30. Dislrict At
torney I!iss w-ii before the Congres
sional sul-eoinTnit!ee on the adminis
tration of tho Department of Justice
yesterday. During the examination
an informal discussion took place in
which charges against Speaker Kerr
were referred to by Bliss. On being
questioned by 'Caulliehl, Bliss said
he wan supposed to be mainly re
sponsible for Harney's appearance
at Washington as a witness. lie,
Bliss, had known the facts to be in
the possession of Harney for about
two months, no had communicated
to Bass, a member ef tho committee,
that Harr.oj- was Appraiser, Dar
ling's right hand man, and that
when 3arling's connection with the
third Ave nue Savings Bank was un
der investigation an effort was made
to stop tho investigation by a threat
that if Harney's connection with the
affairs of the bank were exposed, he
would make revelations about Kerr.
Bliss said Bass told him ho would
not present any charges against Kerr
unless they seemed to be well found
ed; and that he, Bliss, had carefully
questioned Harney in regard to his
relations with Kerr. Ho was satisfi
ed that Harney was truthful and
honest.
It is stated that Kerr scoured the
desirable and much sought appoint
ment for Green, whom he did not
know; who was not in his district;
who was opposed to him in politics,
and who was introduced to him by a
man who took money from apjdicants
who had not any valid ground of in
fluence with Kerr. Why was this?
That is tho question for Kerr to an
swer. Washington, May 20. Tho Sen
ate this evening by 37 nays to 29
yeas, rejected a resolution of Pad
dogk, that Wm. W. Belknap having
ceased to be a civil officer by reason
of his resignation before tho pro
ceedings of impeachment against
him by the House of Representatives,
the Senate cannot take jurisdiction iu
this case. It was then decided by
the samo voto that the saiel Belknap
is amendable to trial and impeach
ment for acts done as Socretarv of
War notwithstanding his resigna
tion, and it was ordered that theres
pondentsand managers on the part
of the House of Representatives an-
pear on Thursday next at 1 o'clock
to hear judgment of the Senate. Fol
lowing is the voto in detail:
FewAllison, Booth, Boutwell
Bruce. Cameron, Wise, Christiancv
Clayton. Conkling, Cragin, Dorsey
Eaton, Ferry, Frelinghuysen, Ham
lin Howard. House, Ingallo, Jones
of evada, Logan, McMillan, Morrill
of Maine, Morton, Oglesby, Pad
dock, Patterson, Spencer, West and
lndora.
.Says Bayard, Bogy, Burnsido,
Cameron of Pennsylvania, Capcrton,
Coctrill, Cooper, -Davis, Davies,
Dennis. Edmunds, Goldwaite, Gor
don, Hamilton, Hitchcock, Kelly,
Kernan, Key, McCreery, McDonald,
Maxey, Mitchell,Morrill of Vermont,
Norwood, Randolph, Ransom, Rob
ertson, Sargent, Saulsbnry, Sherman
Stevenson, Thurinaii, Wadleigh,
Wallace, : Whvte, Withers and
Wright.
"The rote on the original resolution
was the same as above except revers
ed.
The Senate having decided that it
has jurisdiction in the Belknap im- j
peachinent matter, the opinion is ex
pressed,that the trial w ill, be post
poned until November next when
the Senate will reassemble for that
special purpose. Belknap has a
large number of witnesses to be ex
amined, as his counsel will, in de
fense of their client, contest every
step ef the managers on the part of
the House. There is strong probability-
that tho trial will continue
six weeks or two months.
loreIirii.
London-, May 20. On Thursday
and Friday Admiral Stark, controller
of the navy, and Barnes, surveyor of
docks and yards, made an elaborate
investigation of the work on hand at
Portsmouth yard, with a view of as
eerteininrr the time, and money it
! will require to prepare for sea the
' various ships now building there,
j This visit considerably strengthens
' the impression prevailing at Ports-
' mouth that the government purposes
I taking a bold position respecting the
Eastern question.
The Times says since Friday after
noon insurances at Loyds have been
made to cover war.
A special from Paris says there aro
some persons who maintained that
if the united power asked Turkey to
cede llcrzcgovinia' to Montenegro,
and Bosnia to Servia, charging the
nev.- principalities with a part of the
Turkish debt and settling tho inter
nal condition of theso provinces in a
manner meriting general confidence,
Turkey would not hesitate to agree.
Mar,- Lane Express says: Although
it is impossible to speak with cer
tainty, it appeal's probably that a
change ef weather w ill materially al
ter the state of the country aud
modify the surmises of disaster re
garding crops. Ordinarliy this change
would hive depressed tho wheat
market: But the operations of con
tinental buyers have counteracted
the weather and maintained fairness
of prices, which was noticeable in
the previous week. This continued
as the most prominent feat-ire ef the
trade. If it should continue in the
face of favorable growing weather
here and abroad, tho fact would in
dicate that stocks are real I v sis near- i
ly exhausted as has been represented,
and that farmers have not on hand
any wheat, which may be supposed,
was only being held back fur higher
priiies. All folding stud's havo fair
ly maintained their value. Oats, iu
the face of heavy supplies, have ad
vanced nearly a shilling per quarter.
LexDON, May 30. The following
has just been received here from
Constantinople: It is cfilcially an
nounced here that by tho unanimous
will of the people Abdul Aziz has
been dethroned and the heir pre
sumptive, Murad ElTendi, proclaim
ed Sultan.
Co nst a n ti : o p L"--i , May CO. After
uoon. The dethroned Suitan is
kept under guard iu a mosque, at
the extremity cf the seraglio. The
minister informed Murad EUciuli,
that ho was pioclaimed SuUan on
Monday night. The popular demon-
st ration took t.
oe next morning; but
i no resist:i!io
was offered to the
nc'.v
now
regime. Perfect trauquilitv
pre vails. Both Christians and Mus
sulmans express great satisfaction
at the change. The city will be il
luminated to night, and tho festii
ties will cemtinue three dava.
The
Pall Mall Gazette says a priviiio
telegram
ates that tne revolution
in Constantinople was ejected
out the disturbance of public
quility.
Wllii-
tvan-
Pacilic C;;ast.
Sax Francisco, May 20. Judge
Sawyer, of the U. S. circuit court,
rendered a decision this forenoon in
the case of Green vs. Maguiro, the
plant hT being the colored man who
vas refused admission by .Maguire
into his theater some months ago.
and who brought suit under the civil
lights act in consequence. The de
cision was oral, and in it Judge
Sawyer declared thiit tho portion cf
the act of Congress providing that
any manager of a theater or similar
institution shonhVbe guilty of misde
meanor, who should refuse admis
ssion to any colored persons, was un
constitutional aud void. The Judge
quoted and read at some length su
preme actions in similar cases, in
which opinions were expressed coin
ciding with his own. Assistant dis
trict Attorney Van Buren, for
plaintiff, gave notice of appeal of the
case.
A child was born a few weeks since
in the valley back cf tho Mission,
whoso head was tho exact counter
part of that of an ox. The child died
on tho third day after its birth. It
survived its mother nearly two days,
however; for when she was injudi
ciously shown her offspring, she was
so shocked that she was seized with
convulsions which terminated fatally
a few hours afterward.
Steamboat 'Combination.
Not long since we published, says
Willamette Farmer, the formation
the
of
Willamette transportation and Loci
Company, which was really a conso
lidation of the Goldsmith and Teal
company, (which controlled the
locks and owned the line of steamers
running in connection with them)
with the O. S. N. Co., which has
always controlled steamboat naviga
tion on tho Columbia and now as
pires to c'antrol the Willamette also.
It is now asserted, and is perhaps
true, that this corporation has ob
tained by lease or purchase,control of
the Basin and the steamers common
ly known as the Holladay line. This
line passed the ownership to tho
Gorman bondholders, aud they, find
ing that tho river boats -were and
had been a losing business (so it is
fcaid) have disposed of that interest,
on tha most favorable terms to be
secured. Of course they are not to
bo blamed for so doing, and neither
tho Transportation and Locks Com
pany to be blamed for consolidating
the business, and wo may anticipate
that tho next move will bo to dhp-
chase the two independent steamers, i
tho Ohio and City of Salem, and so i
t
possess an actual monopoly cf an
the navigable waters in Oregon.
- The people aro interested in tkb
matter because the consolidation of
all the lines means advance in rates
and that will be heavy tax upon the
people. We still have the two In.
dependent steamers, owned by U. j
Scott fc Co., whose enterprise ami
fair dealing have von them re.--.pc.ct
and popularity, aud if they shonki
resist all overtures to sell out we feel
conlident they can depend on a good
' support Irom the people, at lair pay
ing prices, so long as hum ure satis
fied to continue.
This matter of transportation ia
one that touches the producer. Let
it bo k no ;n that any single corpora
tion has entire control of the river
trade and we feel conlident that it
-would result in a popular feeling
that would sieedily induce the for
mation of an inelepeuelent line owned
by parties interested iu maintaining
a reasonable freight tariii'. If driven
to the wall the producers of Oregon
will most certainly build and run
their own steamers but they would
much prefer freights and fares regu
lated by a fair competition. It is
true that some lines engaged in tt0
river trade have perhaps lost money,
but wo aro reliably informed that Tj!
B. Scott & Co., have done a thriving
business, even at the low rate of
freights prevailing, and are willing
to extend their operations if they
-can have the same encouragement.
In view of this fact they may decline
to sell their interests and continue
tho independent line as befeu-e.
It is very important that the Canal
and Locks at Oregon City should be
maintained and operated in the inter
ests of the people; and if any legisla
tion is required to perfect aud insure
their usefulness to the public,
and place it beyond the power
of any controlling corporation to
thwart the intention of the law as
sisting their construction, v.e hope
that legislation will be carefully per
fected during the next session of the
legislature. As tho session is short,
it will be a good idea for all persons
interested to examine this subject to
ascertain what may need doing in
this respect and how it can be best
accomplished. Astorutn.
Tiu m:vs.
Lu
uca
re fashionable
The next Oregon State
Fair
coin-
mences Oct. Vth, 1S70.
Strawberries word worth six bits a
gallon at Salem last week.
The body of John Dick, who
drowned at LinkviUo recently,
was
has
been recovered.
ji.ugene has
a Bo
or and Til ton
scandal. The
the case under
c.iurch enters have
dvisemtnt.
The largest train ever
Roscburg consisted. ef
arriving at
seven cars.
and it happened the other day.
The liver is so high at Portland
that the Tvater is flooding cellars
First street above "Washington.
oa
It is said that Jive men in San
Francisco have agreed to build a
$12,000 tug boat for Yaquiua Bay.
An old lady seventy-live years of
age was iuhumanlv beaten at Port
land tl;
wile.
e either day bv her brother's
-i c ;
: mitt
a i : 1 1 J i i
to the
m Yainh
;:mv Elmore
lave been sent
pcuitentiarv
for ono vear
CO till i
Ecr
larceny.
An institutieui to be know
i as
tl
:e
enx-'-o:i ALenagerie is bein.
at Corvallis. The unci
collecLiou is a pair of Elk.
collci
us of
Any person
abouts of J. M.
knowing the where
ll.tr, will confer a
favor bv
Gardner
writing to
Cltv, Doug
John A. Ray,
is countv.
Judge Boiiham refuses to comruit
prisoners to the thing they call a jail
in Yamhill, and sentences them to be
contined in the Marion county jail.,
Dmir.g the funeral of Mrs. I. W.
Case at Astoria, ot Monday after
noon, business was entirely suspend
ed, bv roquet:! uf the common council-
" :
i?loO reward is offered for tho ap
prehension of the erso:i or persons
who burglarized the store of II. L.
Marsion at Gaston, about the 12th of
May.
Peter Johnson, fishing for Booth
A Co., of Astoria is reported to bare
caught the largest and smallest sal
mon of thestason. The former weigh
ed 02 pounds and the latter 7.
J. II. Maynard, of Umatilla county.-was
thrown- f rem a horse r..I
fell on las head. The accident
produced concussion of the brain,
and it is feared that it will prove
fatal.
A terrible tragedy occurred on the
Coquillo river recently, in which a
man named Lewis shot his brother
three times, killing him almost in
stantly. The murderer is still at
large.
The following medical students
comprise the graduating class at tho
Willamette University this year:
Thos. Mann. J. D. Dow, Jno. II.
Irvine, L. W. and A. R. Brown, and
Harry Lane.
The acting commissioner of the
land oflice at Washington, in a case
sent from Rosebuvg, decides that no
title in mining claims can be held
by aliens prior to the issuance of
patents therefor.
Tho Jacksonville Times says: We
were shown one day last week a fine
gold nugget recently purchased -by
C. C. Beekman. It is entirely free
from blemish and worth 510. The
lucky tinder refused to repeal the
locality in which it was found and
also requested that his name be kept
secret.
A gentleman named A. Griener,
residing on Howell prairie, met with
a painful accident while en route
from Salem tho other day. When
near the Fair Grounds the horse
which he was riding stumbled and
fell. Tho rider's right leg being be
neath the horse, both bones were
broken above the ankle.
Maj. James Bruce, who is at the
Centennial Exposition, writes to T.
J. Matlock, of Portland, as follows:
"The Oregon produce is atcav ahead
of anything in its line ou exhibition
here, and attracts a larger ciowd
than any other space in tho agricul
tural hall. Mr. Dufnr is perfectly
ueiigniea
with tbfl sneeess that Is
crowning his efforts to make a good
showing for our fair voting State."
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