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IIIlKliliN ( 1TV, OREGON, OCT. 11, lS7fi.
The Lock Swindle.
Our representative Hirarn Straight
introduced the following Resolution
ip tbo House last Friday:
'Whereas we are informed by the
Governor in his message to this
body that our State indebtedness is
0 in excess of $700,000, and arc en
joined by him to provide means by
taxation to liquidate this sum, and
to keep -within the constitutional
limitation in) our future expendi
tures; therefore we are opposed to
the purchase of the Canal and Locks
at Oregon City, or any other meas
ures likely to swell our State iudebt
edness or increase the already oner
ous burden of taxation."
This Resolution, which certainly
echoes the sentiment of ninctcen
twentieths of the .taxpayers in the
State, was incontinently tabled, and
unfortunately the yeas and nays
were not called, to enable us to iind
out who have been struck with the
mildew of the lobby. The people
of Oregon are in great danger of be
ing sold ont by their representatives,
Jind in the meanwhile the organs,
which from their standing and circu
olation should bo foremost to rush to
the defense of the public, are as mute
as owls over the attempted outrage
of legislation. The Orej,'f,t is
wasting its energies on subjects that
are as ancient as the rtolcmys, but
for the present crisis lias never a
word to say in the interest of the
taxpayers. Nothing more could be
expected from the Standard than wo
see exhibited. The Statesman per
mits this scheme- to grow under its
no3e, but has never informed us that
it has snuffed of tho carrion which
smells to heaven in tho noses of
honest people, whilo tho more disin
genuous and impressionable Farmer
man comes out more openly for tho
purchase of tho Locks, but conceal
ed somewhat uuder a thin disguise
of subterfuge.
Tho Resolution of Mr. Straight,
which hits to the mark, was tabled
and tho newspapers reporters to tho
papers named suppress it in their
press despatches as effectually as
they can in the following way:
"Straight of Clackamas introduced
a resolution with reference to the
Locks; tabled."
If tho people will use but a little
sagacity they will discover, that the
most of their trusted orgaus are show
ing the white feather and do not dare
tako ; a position on tho proposed
swindlo of purchasing the Canal and
Locks at nearly double their cost,
and while tho Legislature is dally
ing and Hying like moths around tho
central sum of $000,000 (being at
tracted thereto by its glitter), legis
lation that should be had at once to
protect tho intere.it of tho State iu
Iho Canal and Locks is left to moul
der on the table. The thanks of tho
farmers of Oregon are duo to Mr.
Straight, who has the sagacity to tee
w hat tho sentiment of tho county is,
and cannot bo stayed from proclaim
ing it.
I'lielaiul's I miction.
In England, tho current of feeling
sets strongly in the direction of in
tervention in3 tho Eastern difficulty.
The action of England has very nat
urally been interpreted by Turkey
as a moral supyiort, to bo supple
mented, if need be by a material one;
and tho confessed ignoranco of tho I
Government in regard to the horrors
in Bulgaria wears almost tho aspect
of indifference. Nov that it is en
lightened it will be compelled to
adopt a new policy, with as little de
lay as possible. The London Spec
tator urges an immediate diplomatic
o intervention of the European powers,
headed Uy England, and adds:
"If Lord Derby refuses to do this
and refuses, further, to indicate that
be will consider the only terms which
can securo peace even for three years
namely, the emancipation of tho
Northern provinces from the Pashas
the tempoiary destruction of Ser
via will be certain, and with it Euro
o iean war."
But this would be giving up the
diplomatic triumph over Russia,
Germany and Austria ! llenco Lord
Derby's hesitation, we presume.
o
Jlis War Kccortl.
Of course a person of Governor
Tilden's largo experience expects
that the course pursued by him dur
ing tho war will bo now publicly dis
cussed. His position during the
war was that of his party. Ho is
really responsible for it so far as ho
assisted in molding it. We sum it
up brielly when we say that ho
cthought the South partly in tho right
and not without injuries; that lie be
lieved tho course of the North to
have been aggravating; that he did
not approve of making emancipation
A condition of peace; that he did not
accept as vise the war measures of
tho Lincoln administration; and that
he considered concession right and
necessary,
m -
Gen. L. W. Thajer of Wyoming
Co., X. Y. prominent local demo
crat, can't abide Tilden, ami goes
for Hayes. As he puts it, Belknap
sold his store licenses for money to
please his wife, and Tilden sold his
appointments for political service to
himself, and is just as bad.
'1
The Ilefbrm Leader.
Under any circumstances it would
be hard to account for the difficulty
Mr. Tilden experiences in explaining ( fully begun. Two weeks ago Dick
the income tax return, which he did j Williams and Lafayette Lino coni
not make, and it is especially hard, i menced their joint canvass in South
in view of the facility with which jern Oregon; on the 3d Senator
Mr. Tilden's friends tackle the ques- , Mitchell spoke in Portland; on Sept.
tion. There is Mr. Tilden's private i .'JOth Governor Grover addressed
secretary, for instance, who has ex- i the Democracy, and "lesser lights"
plained that Mr. Tilden did not pay i have been speaking in different parts
taxes on his income because ho loan- j of Oregon for weeks pa. -t. Theques
ed his income to his brother; and tiou naturally arises, how do wo, as
t 1 . ' . T r7 1 i -1 i ... , .. . .
mere is -ir. iiKicns mimarv secre-
tary, who has explained that Uncle
Sammy did not pay taxes on his in-
come becan.se he had no income to
no income to
pay taxes on
while Sinnott savs that
he left tho
assessing of his income
entirely in the hands of the revenue
officer, making no returns personally.
This method of explanation has,
cf course, the immense advantage
that when it mioses it is of no conse
quence and when it hits it counts
for a vindication. But when Mr.
Hewitt was so anxious to clear Mr.
Tilden of all suspicion, why did he
not write to tho person charged, and
j ot to the clerk Sinnott? Of course
if Mr. Sinnott knew more about Mr.
Tilden's income thnn Mr. Tilden
himself, his explanation has a great
deal morn authority than if it came
from Mr. Tilden himself, and so we
are delighted to hear from Mr. Sin
nott tho true state of the case. The
explanation looks to us like a piece
of agile pettyfogging. He says, "In
respect to the allegation that after
two years of income tax Mr. Tilden
mado no return, the answer is simple.
The State gave tho tax-raver tho
option to take that course, and good
and honorable reas:n.s existed why
a scrupulous man should accept that
option. Mr. Tilden received no favor
from Government ofiicers,aud sought
none. He believed at tho time that,
instead of less, ho oftener jaid more
than would have been the result of
full but troublesome accounting."
(Oh, Sinnott, Sinnott, do you ask
us to believe this ?) and finnally ho,
S. J., "preferred in that way to be
exempted from tho difficulties inci
dent to attempting a specific state
ment of affairs in which ho was inter
ested, and of corporations and busi
ness in which he was an investor,
and also to bo exempted from the
responsibility of adjudicating upon
fact and law, applicable- to uncertain
and fluctuating elements during the
rapid and violent changes of ficti
tious values," etc., etc., etc.
That will do, Mr. Sinnott; you
may step down; such stories may do
in New York, but like ambition, to
suit Oregon, they "should bo made
of sterner stuff'." You have declared
that you know more of Mr. Tilden's
affairs than Mr. Tilden himself, and
you havo declared that Mr. Tilden's
best defense is precisely the argu
ment of -the gambler, the smuggler,
aud even tho burglar. "1 ask no
favor of the law, and I tako none. If
tho law can find "out that I havo con
traband goods or a little game, I
take tho responsibility. I stand tho
punishment." Under this reforming
view, a man who claims to be the
purest of tho pure, to bo raised al
most above the lead of humanity by
his purity of character, may use his
character to swindle the government,
and then plead that if the govern
ment cannot collect its taxes it is the
fault of tho government. We have
heard more gushing explanations
than Mr. Sinuott's, but wo hardly
think that in tho wav of convicting
his client he has left any room for
his successors to improve on, and we
trust that tho friends of reform will
ajpreciato tho reasons why Mr. Til
den did not pay his income tax.
Constitutional Convent ion.
Thero arc more bills now introduc
ed into tho Legislature than our
Solons will bo able to attend to in a
month of Sundays. Wo have no
fault to find with them on this scote,
but it shows tho wretched condition
of our laws when so many additions
and improvements are deemed neces
sary. Wo think a constitutional con
vention is the only way out of the
labyrinth, and hope our legislators
will bear tins in mind.
--
The Democratic journals are very
much impressed with the "lofty in
difference" of Tilden ia refusing to
take any notice of tho allegations in
regard to his tax deficiencies. This
is a case in which indifference, either
lofty or otherwise is not tho thing
needed. The people of this countj
are not tc be conciliated by loftiness
of anykind; a little humility with
some explanation attached would be
vastly more to their tastes. Besides
to endeavor to reconcile tho expense
of loftiness and interest in the can
vass by keeping silence himself,
while his private Secretary slipped
round among tho reporters and ex
plained, is a spectacle not without its
moral benefits.
If rebellion and Democracy are
not the same thing, how comes it
that all the Democratic States were
originally slave-owning States? Ala
bama, Arkansas, Delaware, Georgia
Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi
Missouri, Tennessee, Texas, Virgin
ia they are all there, not one is
missing; not one is recreant to tho
traditions of the Democratic faith
The Democrats claim West Vi
lr-
"V. '
Affff restive Democrats.
The Congressional and Presiden
tial campaign may be said to have
N-nn ip.-.tv nr l.rtorft tho v'o-
i.h-
Is it with a bold front and a;
j gicr-sive determination, or with sin-
: frl hands and defensive armor? Tor
S'iir,o time n.ist the Democrats !i iva
been laboring strenuously to make
j the present campaign a grand scries
! of figurative bayonet charges, on the
j redoubts of the Republicans, but
i sine tho
grand ti.ink move
ment and counter charge of
tho "boys in blue," which cloarly
make Tilden'3 honesty a subject of
grave doubt, tho Democrat: have be
come demoralized and are hurriedly
i building breastworks for their own
defence. The cry of "dclema ct Ca
ihnrjo .'" has given place to an omin
ous silence, and the "whiskered pan
doors and tierce hussars" of the De
mocracy are a thing of thepast. The
onus, if ever cn Republican shoul
ders has shifted, and it devolves up
on tho Democrats to assnruo "the
burdcu of proof" and show cause
why they should not be defeated.
The tactics of the Democrats have
failed them, and are now being used
by Republicans with marked success.
The llepublicans having fairly met
all charges and having made some of
a most destructive character against
the Democrats, we may safely say
that they come before the people
with heads erect and a consciousness
of right and victory. In the past
month, the tide of popular sentiment,
once turned in Tilden's favor and
sham reform, has changed its course
and is now ready to carry in its cur
rent tho ltepublican nominees to
their assigned destination at Wash
ington. Capital Punishment.
Wo see that a bill has besn intro
duced at Salem to do away with the
death penalty. While we do not
wish to take decided ground in favor
of this bill, there are yet neverthe
less many things that may be said
in its favor. In the first place the
old Mosaic law of "an eye for an
eye and a tooth for a tooth," long
since was considered a piece of bar
barism, and by hanging a man who
had killed another no satisfaction is
surely given to the man murdered.
If punishment bo tho aim of the :u
thorities why not sentence the mur
derers to imprisonment for lifo and
prolong their agony, and not bo so
merciful as to put them out of pain
asa hunter a wounded bird, by stran
gulation. Again, we know what
great rejoicing thero is iu Heaven
over the return of one lost sheep,
and we feel that the grief is eoivimeu
suiate when the lifo of an innocent
man is taken. This is tho great
point. The hangiug of but one in
nocent man and who will say it
has not been done? is enough to
ruin tho whole practice of hanging.
One of God's creatures robbed of a
life that only belonged to his Maker,
by a human method of revenge," and
being human liable to err, is u out
rage on mankind, and we feel that
Oregon will follow the lead of those
States which have abolished capital
punishment as a relic of barbarism.
I aMern ICicctlui!
Tho returns from Ohio and Indi
ana are rather meagre, and an accu
rate statement cannot bo made. Tho
returns show that the llepublicans
have carried Ohio by about seven to
ten thousand majority. Indiana has
gone Democratic by about three
thousand majority.
If we mistake not it was the Port
land Standard which announced that
Republicans are organizing the ne
groes into bands called "Councils
of Freedom," and that quantities of
arms and ammunition had been or
dered from the North. This looks
very much as if wo were to have
some more of that "negro terrorism"
in which an average of thirteen col
ored men are killed whilo tho unre
sisting, lamb-like chivalry 2roviden
tially escape without a wound.
Tim McMinnville Reporter informs
us that tho Democracy of Yamhill
county are very much dissatisfied
with Gov. G rover's election. And
why not ? AVas he the choice of the
people? No! merely the favorite of
King Caucus, before whom the Dem
ocrats are forced to bow as to the
juggernaut that crushes out life and
honor.
----.
Senate Biil No. 9. which wo print
ed a few weeks ago, has passed tho
Senate.
Sam Ferguson and Sam Percival
wen the half mile foot races at the
Olympian fair on the Cth, and
Chambers' Dandy won tho half-mile
race on tho same day.
The Walla Walla county agricul
tural society paid out 81,452 in pre
miums. 61,015 of which went as
premiums on horses. The fair was
a success and tho society have about
$100,
UU'JRTix ur JttAJYUriurx ujaliuuu,
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA,
BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA
I'll I L ADELPJi IA Lfc J
PiiiLABELriiTsept. 20th, 1S7C.
It is difficult to say which depart
ment of this vast exposition possesses
the most absorbing interest for the
average Centennial visitor so varied
and diverse are the tastes And tem
peraments to be pleased; bat, cer
tainly it is, the mammoth Carhss
engiiie iu Machinery Hall, exercises
upon the majority of tourists a truly
potent and magnetic influence. Un
consciously their foot-steps lead
thither, and great is tho bewilder
ment at the perfection of human me
chanical skill evidenced in this one
object.
Swiftly and noiselessly tho massive
leviathan moves the enormous rly
wheel whirls ronnd and round; the
giant "elbows" at the side bend and
straighten with mathematical precis
ion, and every part, from tho least
to the greatest, moves iu strict ac
cordance with tho requirements of
its being.
Hundreds of curious persons watch
its every movement: the most garrif
lop.s are enforced to silence by the
sublimity of conception, and the
vainest egotist leaves its presenco
profoundly conscious of its immensi
ty and his own insignificance.
Near the main entrance to the hall,
and in a strikingly prominent posi
tion, is Prussia's famous Krupj steel
gnu. WTeighing (53 tons, resting on
a carriage equally as heavy, and
possessing a motive distance power,
for rifled projectiles, computed at
ten miles it exists a3 the most effec
tive of known instruments for the
prosecution of modern warefare.
Across the aisle, and in direct
range with this terrible piece of ord
nance, floats the blood-red banner of
France. Though accidental, tho po
sition points a moral of unusual force
and siguificancy. Time, however, is
a great leader; and tha wily Bismaick
and bluff oil German Emperor may,
ere long, appreciate tho full force of
Burn's couplet:
"The best laid schemesof mice and men
(Jang oit agley."
Passing to the mechanical depart
ment of cur own country, we find
the Fast and West striving in a gen
erous rivalry in a raultitndo of ways,
but nono more noticeable than over
an article peculiarly indigenous to
this eontineut.
The history ct mechanics tells us
that scales and pumps are ours only
as we have improved them; sewing
machines were known in England
long 2rior to our Howe invention;
the origin of steamboats is enveloped
in doubt; and even our form of gov
ernment, we are informed, had root
in other climes long ero the advent
of the year 1770. Thus many of our
fancied achievements and great pos
sessions fade away before resoluto
assertions of other claimants; but
the "soda-fountain" great American
invention that it is remains uudis
putably our own.
How tho refreshing liquid foams
aud bubbles in tho tumbler; how
sweet and cold it is; and how deeply
ono can imbibe without danger, oth
er than that of explosion. Not so
wicked as whisky; not so unpleasant
as mineral drinks; and yet foaming
poetically above the prosy common
place of water. Over it the American
eagle may soar on extended wing,
and safely scream its paeans of boast
ful joy.
The Centennial Exhibition has
raised these fountains in monumental
splendor; and they dazzle with tho
meretricious brilliancy of polished
nickel and colored marble, till tho
whole aisle they occupy shines with
effulgent rays of a metallic fairy
land all foam, and iizz, and glitter.
The Sewing Machine erection is
exceptionally line and rich in articles
displayed. England, France and
Germany send a few patents, but tho
grandest and only complete aggrega
tion of these useful mechanical aids,
is found in tho U. S. department.
Two instances havo, in themselves,
a peculiar interest as indicative of
progress. Tho ono shows a machine
operated by electricity, and the other
one wherein a current of water is
utilized as a motor. Both of these
ideas combine much of practical val
ue, and it will be strange if they are
not appreciated in forthcoming im
provements. The interiors of the
thirty sewing machine parlors are
but reproductions of the great agen
cies throughout tho country com
posed of elegant cabinet work,
abounding in luxurious ujiholslery,
and presided over by remarkably
good-looking young women many
of whom aro adepts in machine orna
mentation; making, without visible
pattern, and yet stitching, with ra
pidity, the most intricate designs.
Printers, and, for that matter, all
persons wrho are interested in tho
"art preservative of all arts," will
find much to captivate the eye in the
department of Printing Presses, Tho
number exposed for examination is
exceedingly large, and such a variety
was, doubtless, nevercollected under
one roof. Many aro running, but
tho majority are motionless, serving
in that way to best illustrate the
principles of their construction or
advertise their inventors and build
ers. Thus far, I have not been able
to critically examine more than a
small number, and ehall not attempt
to describe even the very few to
which that attention has been given.
Indeed, I may admit that being un
familiar with the technical language
of mechanical science, thoroughness
of description is impossible. Of the
three presses on exhibition, worthy
of notice, the Hoe and Bullock are
American conceptions, while the
Walter is the product of laborious
study on the part of the proprietor
of the London Times whose name
it bears, and who by the needs of his
great journal, was driven into the
domain of practical mechanics. With
the progressive printer, the great
disideratuni has ever been tho union
in one press of the maximum speed
with the minimum of expenditure.
Throughout the several competitive
trials made by the presses named,
the records have been remarkably
good and something heretofore unex
celled in the history of printing. The
Walter, within the allotted hour,
turned out 10,155 complete and well
printed (S-page) copies of the N. Y.
Times being detained during the
same six and one-half minutes to
supply a new roll of paper. In tho
same time, the Bullock printed and
delivered 11,310 complete copies of
theN. Y. Herald 8 pages, likewise.
Eight minutes were required to make
tho paper shift, and about ten min
utes consumed in substituting a new
roller for a melted one; but as the
latter seemed a legitimate contingen
cy, it is doubtful if a reduction from
running
timo should bo made. The
press, being of double sizo,
used two full sets of forms, whereas
the Walter employed but one so
that the actual running capacity of
tho former, as compared with that of
the latter, is as 7,420 is to, 10,455.
One hundred and seventy-five perfect
newspapers in a minute, or three
with every tick of your watch! The
temptation is here strong to dilate
upon the bewildering contrast be
tween one of these powerful and al
most conscious machines and the
frail little hand press near by, which
Franklin employed when a journey
man printer; but this sort of thing
has been overdone, so, for the pres
ent, I resist the inclination.
The official test of the noe pro
duced 10.500 perfect copies from a
sickle set oftforms,in tho given hour.
Far greater and more surprising
things are promised for the Campbell
press, of whose powers no public
exhibition has 3-et been given.
Tho question of merit places the
Walter ahead, notwithstanding the
slight odds in favor of the Hoe, in
point of speed. Price being equal
which, owing to existing duties on
imported machinery, is tho caso the
controlling considerations with the
purchaser are those of capacity, com
paciness, simplicity aud durability;
and these requisites aro seemingly
combined iu a more eminent degreo
in the English press than iu its
American rivals although tho un
qualified praise of one machine must
not bo construed to the entire dis
paragement of the merits possessed
by others.
From tho foregoing, the reader is
not expected to infer that Machinery
Hall is devoted entirely to printing
2rcsses, sewing machines, and soda
water fountains; for, on the contrary,
every variety of human mechanism
here receives jiractieal working illus
tration. Itubber goods of every kind
are manufactured in your 2resence;
wall paper of varied hues, and fre.-h
from t lie press, aro hanging before
you; watches are in all stages of cre
ation; eliroiaos are being printed;
glass ware of all stylos made; blan
kets woven, socks knit, and a thou
sand and 0110 articles of all patterns
and intended for all purjmses, are
furnished as if direct from tho man
ufactory. The railroad exhibit is another
2oint of interest; and the j'alatial cars
and powerful engines present a strik
ing contrast to the old Conestoga
wagons and lumbering stage-coaches,
once so familiar to tho travelling
public throughout the Eastern States.
Forty years have worked a revolution
iu traveling facilities. When we
reilect how space his been annihilat
ed by an immense saving of time,
how the accessions of comfort have
usurped the former discomforts, it
would seem as if wo had readied tho
very acme of safe and rapid locomo
tion. Time, however, will demand
increased celerity of movement-such
inventions as the Keely motor may
yet jirove a success; 2neumat:c tubes
ma3r be brought into requisition for
short distances; and we may bo shot
from immense cannons at a much
greater speed than lias yet been at
tained. Flying machines may, per
haps, be introduced; and ballooning
brought to the perfection requisite
for travel.
Not hin
seems too ex-
travagant, when viewing
tuo aeeom-
2lishments of a century.
To us tho thin veil of futurity may
hide many grand achievements. The
crude efforts of the present may be
construed into the first faint whis
erings of an era of wonderful iossi
bilities or as the index fingers,
which ioint out a mechanical destiny
yet to bo accomplished. It. M. D.
Fair Items.
MONDAY
The Fair ojiened with good atten
dance. Tom Merry won the freo for all
race: purse 200.
Gate and other receives amounted
to $5,00) greater than any other
year for the first day.
TUESDAY
The exhibit of stock is better than
last year.
Tho attendance about the same as
yesterday.
In the race for Oregon and Wash
ington 3-year olds, Sank Owens
won in two straight heats. Time
1,52 i and 1:52 . Purse $500.
The trotting race for same was
won by Lute Lindsey's Ida. Time
2:5G
Purse same as above.
The Seattle Coal Company, during
the month of September, shipped
three thousand nine hundred and
ninety five tons of coal, tho smallest
shi2ment of any month for more
than a years past.
Mr. Yestler contemplates building
a new theatre at Seattle,
King county, Wr. T. got $10,000
from whisky licenses last year.
Miss. Ella Madden is now matron
of the Territorial Insane Asylum.
Walla Walla is to havo a new firo
engine.
Vancouver has a small-pox case.
TIZS.iiCiKAlMIIC NliYV.
Eastern.
Boston, Oct. 7. Ben. Butler's oj)
2onents claim the 2'OssllL)dity of
Judge Hoar's election against both
Buttler and Tar box. In any event
Butler's defeat is certain unless lie
can draw heavily from the Democrat
ic vote. The "claim of regularity
will not work favorably for Butler
among the Massachusetts Be2ubli
cans The Times of New Y'ork juiblishes
a statement charging Gen. Geo. B.
McClellan with being subsidized by
by Georgo A. Gowels & Co. Tho
firm denies the charges but admits
having 2aid the General money for
services rendered in Euro2e.
New Youk. Oct. '.). The $1,000,000
suit against Wm. 31. Tweed and the
81,000,000suit against Peter Sweeney
wero called to-day and adjourned
until November 13th. no judge being
ready to try tho case.
Tho Tribune's Indianapolis special
says: Y'esterday the Democrats 2ro
cured the arrest of 21 of the city
2olicernen on a charge of assault and
battery. Their offense was airehend
ing, under the vagrancy laws, a
number of tho worst characters left
iu the wake of tho Democratic de
monstrations of last Thursday
bruisers and repeaters from Phil
adelphia and Baltimore, boarding at
hotels and dead, beats from 110 one
knows where, who were hanging
about railway stations, sleepiug in
enqty freight cars and waiting for
the election. The policeman wero
2ro:iptly bailed and are on duty
again. Their arrest was a very fool
ish move; and has had no effect ex
cept to credit a good deal of indig
nation against tho jiarty managers
who are at the bottom of it. The
2oiiee have kept on with their work
of making Indianapolis an uncom
fortable 2iCe fr tho Democratic
veterans w ho havo come to take a
hand in the election, and most of
them have left town, going, it is be
lieved to Fort Wayne, Logansport
and other ilaces. The Democratic
leaders appear to be losing their
heads, and the need for coolness and
good judgment becomes greater.
They have jrepared affidavits charg
ing Coionel Friedly, chairman of the
llepublicans, with conspiring to
commit felony, in arranging for the
inqortion of voters. They have no
evidence, and the only thing calcu
lated to arouse their suspicions is
the 2resence here of three or four
men from Now Y'ork and Baltimore,
who are in reality dead beats sent to
look after Democratic roughs and
Baltimore box-smashers. It is not
believed at Republican headquarters
to-night that the matter will be 2ro"
ceeded with or warrants taken out.
If arrests are made on these manu
factured affidavits, Col. Friedly in
tends to swear out warrants prompt
ly for half a dozen jiromineut Dem
ocrats, along with Hendricks him
self. Biciimoxd, Oct. 9. Gov. Kemper
has refused to name Virginia's day
at the Centennial by proclamation.
His chief reasons are the 2overt3' of
the 2eo!e, and that it is not custo
mary in Virginia to the official 2roc
lamations for such purpose.
BaN(;ok, Me., Oct. 0. The official
.statement of the Secretary of State
shows that the majority for Gov.
Conner (lte;.) Talbot (Dem. i is Io-
037.
Ciii:vi,N-xr., Oct. 9. News from
t ort iotierman state that on the liih
iust. a haying 2arty of twelve men
and seven ox teams were attacked by
a band of 20 or 30 Indians 25 miles
from the abovo 2,0M,at'ly wounding
John Ottns, wagon master, and
killing one horse. Two of the party
were out hunting, and about ri
o'clock heard :i war song and has
tened to the traiu, which was im
mediately prejxirod for defense.
Four of the men started to find the
Indians, which they did, and mado
a lively retreat hotly jmrsucd by In
dians to within 50 yards of the train,
when eight men sent a volly into the
reds, who retreated to tho shelter
of the bluffs, and commenced firing
on the train, which was at a disad-
vango, and compelled it to move
2 00 yards. The fight continued
nearly four hours. The number of
reds killed is unknown; two were
seen to drop. Mr. Powell, the con
tractor, states that the Indians show
ed great courage and were stronglv
armed with Winchesters and army
rities. Tho tule 'iaph lino between
Fetterman and Cheyenne was cu
about that time, and it is thought
by some of the same
is doing well, but he
band. Ottens
will uudoubt-
ly lose his right arm.
ilie J riltitue $ luiuanapolis special
says: Fears of a serious outbreak
at the ns produced unexfectod
and remarkable results to-day
Numbers of the repeaters aud
roughs imported by the Democrats
from the East, who left town Satur
day, returned again last evening and
others who it was supposed had also
been frightened away come out of
their retreats. This information ex
cited the Bejmblicans to such frenzy
that it seemed impossible to avoid
a collision with imixirted roughs
should they show themselves at the
voting places. This afternoon the
Democrats wero sensible enough to
hold out the olive branch. Tho
overture 2'ro2erly came from them,
as they had brought in the Eastern
bruisers and caused.the arrests of the
2)olice force- for interfearing with
them. Governor Hendricks came
forward in the role of ieacemaker.
lie iiroposed an armistic and xace,
which the Ilexiublicans 2irom23tly ac
cepted, and at 4 o'clock eleven lead
ing Republicans met tho same num
ber of Democrats in tho governor's
office. After a session of one hour
a treaty was agreed on, and to night
it is being rmnted in a circular for
distribution in tho morning. Tho
notice declares that any interference
by 2arties to leave. Tho chalengers
of both parties shall have equal
chance, and the courts will be kcqjt
open to 2Junish offenders whoever
they may bo. Two hundred citizens
from both 2arties are to bo enrolled
as S2ecial constables to prservo or
der. Pacilic Coast.
San Francisco, Oct. 7.--There ex
ists a suspicion that fraudulent at
tempts are being made to be 2Jlaced
on the Great Register for the jur
2?ose of voting at the election im
2ending. It is even asserted that
within a short time two or three
thousand names have been illegally
entered on the register, and Nath
aniel Holland, U. S. supervisor of
elections, is engaged in anTrivTZM
tion of the matter Ti, , "
tion of the matter.
Tl ,
a-
perpetrated by parties
who
are
that they have been naturalized lb?
have lost their 21apers. Tim
assert
men
hidk Biit-siwi cuared
frauds of this nature.
Jay Gould and Sidney Dillon
visit this coast in a few Vroi-..
with
will
George Q Cannon was no'minate(l
as Deleerato to Congress from T7 T
Salt Lake, Oct. 10. At Beat
Utah, to-einy Judge Boreraan pasS
sentence upon John D. Lee for
ticipating in the Mountain Meado"
massacre 19 years ago, In doinc
he called attention to the atrocity t
the crime; the inability, heretofore
of the authorities to procure
dence; that the conspiracy to ran1
der was widespread; that Lee wa
finally offered up as a saerifica to
popular indignation, but that other,
equally guilty might expect punish
ment. Tho prisoner havino- ti,
1. 1 11 lu
nyut uuuci tuu i4vs ui iuo Territorv
to'choose death by hanging, shooting
or beheading, and having chosen t
be shot, was sentenced to bo shot t,.
ueaiu o ixu. --o, ot t ,
I'oreiirn.
Shanghai, Oct. 7. An imperial
edict has been published expressing
regret for Margary's murder and al
firming the right of foreigners to
travel through the country and enjoy
tiic 2rotection of the authorities.
An envoy with a lettter of apology
for the Yunnan outrage is to go to
England at once.
London, Oct. 9. Disjatch to tha
Standard from Ragusa rejiorts that
JVicukutar 1 asha surimsed the
Montenegrins on Saturday and car
ried their entrenched 2ositions, but
the Turkish tro02s were subsequent
ly driven back. Tho Montenegrins
have burned Lubinje and other Tur
kish villages, and cut the telegraph
wires betweeen Trebinje aud Mostar.
At a 2'nblic meeting held in St.
James" Hall last night to consider
tho Eastern question, a letter from
Gladstone was read. Gladstone sever
ly attacks the administration for what
ho calls iiersisting in a oliey con
demned by the nation and supported
by the Parliament. He exjiresses the
conviction that making Bosina, Her
zegovinia, Bulgaria independent of
the Ottoman Euqnre, would end tbo
controversy; but he declares he has
exhausted all I102H1 that the govern
ment will see the true merit of the
case.
London, Oct. 10. A dispatch
dated Constantino2le October 10th
says at the sitting of the extraordi
nary council to-day it was decided
that Turkey should grant an armis
tics for six months, viz.; until tho
end of March, 1877. This decision
and its condition will be communi
cated to the Eurojiean 210wcr3 to
morrow. The Port is now 2repared
to carry out the jiromised reforms.
It remains to be seen what Servia
will say to tho unexoKtedly long
armistice, but Minister Kistics said
only to-day, according to a telegram
from Belgrade, that the Servian
government had for some time decid
ed on an armistice for a month or
longer, aud would doubtles accept.
.
SL'3i:IAi;V OI' STATL MIWS.
Wheat 70 centi
Stute University will open mxt
Mond iy.
Dr. Carpenter is building a tew
house at Salem.
Several new canneries aro to be
up ia the vicinity of Astoria all on
an elaborate scale.
Senator Kelly addressed the Til
den and Hendricks club at Portland
last Saturday night.
Mitchell addressed tho largest
audience ever assembled at a political
meeting in Astoria la&t Saturday
evening.
At the Roseburg city election ou
the 2d inst A. Jones was elected Re
corder; John P. Sheridan, Treasurer;
Peter Lerns, Marshal; John Rust,
W. I. Friedlander, James Wright
and Georgo Hayns, Trustees.
Mr. J. Wisecarver, living near
McMinnville, sowed a bushel and
three peeks of the French wheat,
from which ho harvested fifty-six
bushels.
R. N. Baker, of Roseburg, was ar
rested and put under bonds of 8100
on the 4th, to wait the action of 'tbo
grand jury, for striking J. C. Ulam
over the head with an iron 2oker.
E. D. Faundray, clerk for Jackson
county has taken" the following sta
tistics from the assessor's books:
Number and horses aud mules, 3,
M5. cattle, 10,172; sheep and goats,
27.411; swine, 11,058; acres of land,
175,912; improved land, 1-2,000
acres; unimproved land, 53,913
acres.
On the evening of the 13th of Sep
tember, 1S7G, at the residence of Mr.
John II. Cameron, in the city ol
St. Louis. Mo., bv the Rev. Ed. F.
Berkley, D. J).. 'Mr. William, M.
Hand, 'of the Dalles. Oregon, editor
of the Mountaineer, to Miss Violetta
B. Arnold, of St. Louis. Hand, put
it thero, old man.
The residence of Geo. B. Miller, of
Gervais, was burglarized last Friday
aud clGO in coin and a note 2vauld
to G. B. Miller for 250 taken.
non. Enoch Hoult of Linn coun
ty, has from less than two pounds
,.f t oo Kins ot
t-'i -'uiiiio seen, tuunn . - ,
T-i: :4. Iftfl nnnndS 01
-Liciuiea variety, iaiot.ii i .
fine large potatoes. Who can growl
at such a 2Jrolihc country.'
The Congressional Committee to
investigate the Chinese question has
started for San Francisco from Cbi-
It seems that nearly all pian0
manufacturers were awarded medals
by the Centennial Committee,
through fear of giving onense.
m . p '
Viciors Youths. The San Fran
cisco Chronicle says that tne gr"
social problem for its city is not so
much concerning tho male as the ie
1 l..ll,,,,, I,-! con. Is of whOE0
IXitllO UUUU1UUO, iuuw"" .
in short dresses, brazenly walk me
gas-lit streets and run wild at subur
ban picnics, of which every Sunday
there are nianj.
Mrs. Shephard, the temperance
lecturer, has swooped down on
frightened Albanians.
Snohomish is dotted all over witji
new
buildings.