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CREGflX CUT, TIIIKSDAY, 31JRCH 1. l77.
The Latest.
Of course the trivial objection to Sla
ter, the Republican elector from Rhode
Island vr&s ridden over with scarcely a
pause by the House and Senate. We
are glad to note the honorable course
pursued by many Democrats in stand
ing nobly by their agreement and the
utter detestation they manifest at the
little handful of hot-heads who seek to
filibuster, and by trickery too shallow
for a Tombs lawyer, def rand Hayes of
his justly wou fruits. Honth Carolina
has gone to the Commission, but as
even Wade Hampton never claimed that
State for Tilden, the votes of Secession's
cradle may safely be put down for the
Republican candidate for the. Presiden
cy. The next "striking point" will be
Vermont, but as the '-'Cronin" of that
State has not even had a Governor's
certificate to back him, little apprehen
8ion is felt by Republicans.
Growing lieautifuHy Loss.
Retrenchment, like chickens and
curses, i3 coming home to roost. The
Democrats raised an Ebenezer at the
close of the last session of Congress in
view of the fact that the expenses of
the Government had been reduced bv
their efforts about SG0,r00,000 and
every party choir in the country gather
ed round, and began the Presidential
campaign with a full chorus Te Deum
that their eyes had been permitted to
see the beginning of an economical
reform. It must, therefore, have been
somewhat of a vexation to the righteous
epirit of Mr. Sam Randall to bo
obliged to confess that the reduction
after all was but 30,000,000. Rut how
he must have groaued in spirit when a
Tlepublican member, Foster wo think,
showed that the actual reduction was
but 23,000,000, from which at the first
bite must be taken 0,000,000, which
we believe has been appropriated by a
deficiency bill. It is also intimated
that the residue of 817,000,000 is to be
still further reduced by other deficiency
bills, and the Democratic face would
lengthen at the prospect were it not for
the breadth and exceeding hardness of
the Democratic che k.
Hayes and the Contesting Gov
ernors. We hope none of our Democratic
friends are so foolishly sanguine as to
lay the flattering n.etion to their souls
that Hayes will recognize the Hampton
and Nicholls governments. We do not
say whether or not the Democratic
Governors are entiled in justice to
Recognition, but maintain that the con-
summation nopoa lor iy Democrats is
as impossible as the meeting of the
poles. . Should Hayes atttcmj.t to make
such a faux pas there arc v. ise heads
near enough to instruct hiia that it
would be suicide, nend ricks himself
expresses our opinion of the impossi
bilitv of such action on the part of
Hayea, in the following words:
"The statement that Hayes will re
cognize the Nieholls government in
Louisiana is absurd. He could not do
so without stultifying the methods to
which he will owe his place. To recog
nize Nicholls would bo to say that
Packard is not elected by the votes in
Louisiana, and yet he himself, Hayes,
was."
County Court House.
The Clackamas county croakers, who
are continually speaking of hard times
and who invariably predict worse in the
future when the subject of a new court
house is broached, can learn something,
perhaps, from the following little item
clipped from the Union County Sentinel:
Whoa the question of building a fine
brick court house for Union county was
being discussed, we kuow a number of
men, long headed men, wise men, in
fact, (in their own opinion) "nail-driving"
smart men, who boldly asserted
that county warrants would "depreciate
in value to forty or fifty cents on the
dollar. Union connty lias a fine brick
court house almost completed; one that
will answer tho demands for the next
half century, the finest court house
east of the Cascades; one of which the
citizens of Union county may well feel
proud. County orders aro selling at
ninety cents, coin, and Union county is
in better financial circumstance than
.any county in Eastern Oregon.
Mr. Randall and Mr. Cox will not
ceaso harping on the reduction in ex
penditures which have been effected by
their patriotism, but we should liko to
have some explanat;on made to show us
where the saving comes iu, when mil
lions of dollars have been expended in
uncompleted public buildings which are
allowed to lie idle for the want of an
appropriation. Reducing the expenses
by impairing the efficiency of the Gov
ernment is easy enough, but wo should
be willing to sacrifice some of tho re
duction in order to secure a little more
efficiency.
Hill of the high-priced journal, made
a fierce charge upon us a couple of
weeks since and with a grand flouris
of trumpets announced in a quotation
from Macbeth that it was to be war to
the knife. Last week we "let loose the
dogs of war" and immediately the val
iant Lair hunted his hole and pulled it
in after him, calling names and making
metaphorical faces at a third and inno
cent party. "Our voiee is still for
war." Cock-a-doodle-doo!
Week before last a man named Cro
nin attempted to rob a stage coach in
California. Take them all through
they are what our merchants might cad
a "job lot."
...
Nearer Resumption.
It has been some four years since the
decline in the gold premium stimulated
a well meaning, but misguided, Secre
tary of the Treasury to attempt re
sumption in silver, in lots not to ex
ceed five dollars. Since then, as before
our opinion has been that the resources
of the Government from taxation were
insufficient to enable us to resume
specie payment and that aa issue of
bonds for the purchase of gold and the
redemption of greenbacks was the in
dispensable condition to resumption.
President Grant now comes to the re
lief of the country with precisely this
scheme. Our gratification to find offi
cial coincidence with our humble
opinions is enhanced by the reflection
that the idle clamor against the bonds
and in favor of greenbacks has almost
wholly died away, its echoes lingering
yet only in the brains of a few dement
ed and visionary statesman of a very
obsolete pattern. Few who have
watched the course of the financial
question can forget how strong the in
flation cause was at one time, and how
persistent it has been at all times. As
soon as the defeat of Liberalism wa3 an
accomplished fact, the uneasy spirits of
politics, who are now metamorphosed
into Reformers, took up the greenback
question with unshaken confidence, and
actually succeeded in conveying the
impression of a strength they have
never been able to use. Eat their
cause never had any real power, they
have dispersed, or rather abandoned
the field of finance to join the Tilden
crowd, and to-day the coast is clear and
the path unobstructed for tho real and
final solution suggested by the Presi
dent in his message.
We regret to hear that Congress is
too busy to attend to the affairs of the
country, and that the men whom we
send to make our laws are so ignorant
of the merits of a question which has
been before the public for ten years,
that they will not bo able to form an
opinion on tho message during a
whole month. This, however, is some
thing which is the act of Providence,
and offers cause for no repining. But
what we regret more deeply to notice is
tho news that the worst enemies of
specie payment are trying to persuade
themselves that if they let things alone
and take no risks, specie payment will
come of itself. If these gentlemen are
sincere they cannot object to making a
trifling effort iu the'same direction. If
specie payment is inevitable such an
effort can notsprevcnt it, and if specie
payment needs assistance such an effort
would be of the highest value to the
country. If resumption is likely to
come from natural causes and without
the need of legislation, it must be in ac
cordance with a sound finance and so is
entitled to support, and support could
not be given better than in the mauner
advocated by tho President.
Letter from Portland.
Portland, Feb. 2G, 1877.
Editor Extektkise: Feeling that
perhaps you are in need of a few words
of sympathy and consolation from your
friends, I offer you my few words of
comfort. I see that you are still unable
to convince that honorable and distin
guished gentleman (?) , the editor of
the Oregonian, that you are owner and
editor of the Enterprise. You are in
a worse predicament than that celebrat
ed boy who paid too much for his whis
tle, inasmuch as you are not allowed to
blow your whistle after you hve paid
for it. Perhaps, if the honor was worth
the money, a small retaining fee. say of
a few thousand dollars, might be an
effectual eye-opener. Such things have
happened in this sinful world, you
know. But pluck up courage, my dear
fellow; doubtless, by the time you ar
rive at the mature age of either of the
honorble gentlemen (the one who will
not permit you to own a newspaper and
the one wtio is obliged to own it against
his wishes) you may be cons dered
worthy of the honor, but I fear you
will have to cultivate a good crop of
wrinkles, a few gray hairs, a careworn
appearance, or even, perhaps, a little
bald spot on the top of your head might
do tho work for you. 1 am sincerely
sorry for the Hon. W. C. Johnson, as
it is not every man that is afflicted with
so terrible a misfortune as owning a
newspaper. But console yourself, Mr.
Editor, by thinking that Oregon Hills
are not unchangeable, as Democratic
friends can testify, and Hills are much
less formidable obstacles to overcome
than mountains might be. If at any
timo you become faint hearted, or your
purse grows lean, just look forward
four years, to the next Presidential
election, when, perhaps, others beside
the "principal newspaper of Oregon"
will receive a back still'ener of a few
thousand dollars, particularlv as that
very unwilling member of your firm is
a legal gentleman. You are aware I
presume, that the latest discovery in
medical science is a plaster composed
of a mixture of gold and silver for
strengthening weak backs, ami bright
ening obtrnse intellects; its effect on
the undersjanding is almost magical, as
it has been known to change a Hill
Dei Fremiti. C. D. J
"Professional honor" is good; we ad
mire it. It is charming; the editor of
the "leading paper" has exhibited him
self as one of its great champions. So
likewise did Judas Iscariot.
David Dudley Field's name was
stricken from the roll of the New York
Lar Association a couple of years ao
for conduct unbecoming a gentlemSn
and a lawyer.
Badly irtruped, the stillhunter that
would a wooing go, who lit oa "emi
nent .counsel with a hand organ.
Tho Count.
The two" houses of Congress met in
joint convention on Saturday at noon,
and the decision of tlie electoral com
mission touching the votes of OregoD,
was read. The grounds of the decision
which is in favor of the Hayes electors,
i3 that said electors appear to have been
lawfully appointed, and they voted as
such at the time and in the manner pro
vided by tho constitution of the United
States and the law; and the commission
are further of opinion that by the laws
of Oregon the duty of tho canvass of all
the votes given at the election of Presi
dent and Vice President was imposed
upon the Secretary of State, and that
the Secretary of State did canvass these
returns, and ascertained that J. C. Cart
wright, W. H. Odell and J. W. Watts
received a majority of all the votes for
electors, and had the highest number of
votes for that office; and by the express
ed language of the statute those persons
are deemed elected. That in obedience
to his duty the Secretary of State made
a canvass and tabulated statement of
the votes showing this result, which,
according to law, he placed on file in
his office on the 4th of December, 1S76.
All this appears by the official certifi
cates, under seal of the Secretary of
State, and was signed and delivered by
him to the electors, and forwarded by
them to the President of the Senate,
with other States. That refusal of the
Governor of Oregon to sign the certifi
cate of election of persons so elected
doe3 not have the effect of defeating
their appointment for such electors.
That tho act of the Governor of Oregon
in giving to E. A. Cronin a certificate
of election, though he received one
thousand votes less than J. W. Watts,
on the ground tho latter was ineligible,
was without authority of law and there
fore void. That although evidence
shows that Watts was postmaster at tho
time of his election, that fact is render
ed immaterial by his resignation both
as postmaster and elector, and his sub
sequent appointment to fill the vacancy
in the electoral college; that in conse
quence of the foregoing, and upon
grouuds before stated, the paper pur
porting to be the certiScato of tho elec
tDral vote of Oregon, signed by E. A.
Cronin, J. X. T. Miller and Jno Parker,
is not the certificate of the votes pro
vided for by the Constitution of the
United States, and ought not to be
counted as such. The members of the
Commission agreeing to and approving
of the decision are S. F. Miller, Jos. P.
Bradley, W. Strong, G. F. Edmunds.
O. P. Morton, F. T. Frelinghnysan, J.
A. Garfield and G. F. Hoar.
The presiding ofiicer asked whetker
there were any objections to the decis
ion. Senator Kelly objected to this de
cision on the following gro-.uuls: First,
that Watts was not elected; second, that
he was net appoiuted; ttiird, that he
was disqualified to receive an appoint
ment as Pr sidential elector, or to sit as
such, as he held an office of trust and
profit nnder the United States; fourth,
that Cronin was elected Presidential
elector for Oregon, and in accordance
with law cast the legal vote as such
elector, and that such vote shouhi be
counted. The objection was signed by
Senators Kelly, Wyte, Cooper, Maxey,
Norwood and Hereford, and Represen
tatives Lane, Poppleton, Jencks, Vance,
Throckmorton, Wike, Wiggintou and
Luttrell.
The presiding ofiicer asked whether
there were any further objections to the
decision, and there being none, he an
nounced the Senate would withdraw to
its chamber.
After considerable discussion, the
Senato adopted tho decision of the
Commission, and tho House rejected it.
When the Senate returned, objection
was made to the electoral vote of Mor
rill, of Pennsylvania. The objection
was overruled as invalid, and a recess
was taken until Monday.
Pennsylvania has been counted by
the two houses in joint convention for
Hayes and Wheeler, and Rhode Island,
coming as next in the list, was objected
to.
There teemed to be a certaia amount
of speculation among Democrats as to
whether Judge Bradley would give a
decision against his party, but no such
suggestion was ever made with regard
to Judge Clifford or Judge Field. It
seems to have been taken for granted
that these "two eminent and nnpartisan
ornaments of tho judicial bench would
give an ojjinion in favor of their party
every time, and tho event has confirmed
their impressions.
W. Lair Hill, editor of the "only
paper," when proved to have tendered
his services to the Joe Thomas party,
assumes tho role of high-toned profes
sional honor, and still denies the fact,
because forsooth, "he never" (he says),
"tendered his services in any case."
But poor Hill has sadly degenerated,
since his professional tone and honor
could not prevent him from being
bought with $3,000 from Tilden's 'barV
and we think, as the sequel has proved,
that Tilden paid very dearly for the
Oregonlan whistle.
In the language of the day, Demo
crats, "the jig is up;" or as a certain
Portland editor would term it, jacta est
aha. Hayes and Wheeler will be
peaceably inaugurated on the 5th of
March, and if yon wish to elect your
man four years hence, commence now
to lay your snares, for in the time of
peace there i3 nothing like preparing
for war.
The talk of the Democrats that the
eight RepubUcans of the electoral com
mission voted a3 partisans, reminds us
forcibly of the solitary juror who spoke
of the obstinacy of the other eleven.
What it costs to go through an elec
toral college, $8,000. Up-Hill business,
Sammy says.
Watts on the mind; heavy reading
for Democrats.
COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY,
UNIVERSITY CF CALIFORNIA,
BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA.
The Blue-Glass Cure.
General Pleasauton is one of those
well-to-do fossils who exist in Phila
delphia and who would never be heard
of beyond his own pale, except by some
peculiar windfall or blind-lack discov
ery. Although we cannot make the
General exactly the Christopher Colum
bus of our pubject-head, he is still a
kind of Amerigo Vespucci. Others be
fore the corpulent Philadelphian found
the curative properties of blue glass,
but he, we understand, is the first to
write a book on the subject, and attract
general attention all over the world.
Newspaper wits and paragraphists fling
a good deaPof fun at the old Quaker,
but he has indisputable evidences of
the good effect of the azure glass cure,
and will not be laughed down.
As to the exact effect of blue light,
the orinions of scientific men differ.and
it is too early now to discuss the sub
ject from a scientific point of view. It
is certain that many physicians of New
York City and elsewhere are now giving
their attention to the subject, and that
the demand for blue glass is increaoing
every day. One of the Chicago hospit
als, we are informed, has one of its
wards fitted np with blue window panes;
and a shipment of one hundred cases
was lately made in one day from New
York to that city, where the physicians
have been studying the effect of blue
light for some time past. The matter
is under discussion also in New York
hospitals.
As we understand it, sunlight jjasses
dereetly through colorless glass, having
no effect whatever upon it, but blue
glass catches and retaius heat, and a
room lighted by blue panes is said to
be warmer than one with windows of
ordinary glass. General Pleasanton
thinks the bluo light imparts curative
qualities to the atmosphere, therefore;
and that it acts upon the health of the
patient in that way, as well as directly
upon the nerves.
Professor Butler, who has several
aquaria in New York, writes to one of
the japers of that city that his fish have
been noticeably livelier since ho has
encased them in blue glass. In hot
houses its effect is .very marked; the
part of General Pleasantou's grapery
under bine glass far outstripping in
productiveness the vines left under the
plain white panes. In regard to the
effect upon the human system we are
told that in diseases of the eye it is
very useful, which appears to be natur
al. It is also used for nervous diseases,
including nemalgia and nervous head
ache. General Pleasanton tells, in a
letter to a Chicago paper, how he cured
himself by a sun bath ia a blue lighted
room from the effects cf a severe fall
from his carriage, and how at the same
time he converted his physician so that
lie now acknowledges the merits of blue
glass. Taking a serio-comic view cf
the question, why would it Dot be t
good idoa for persona afflicted witl
headache.3 and nervous cornvlaints to
carry a piece of glass with them large
enough to cover the effected part, and
wheu in pain to simply (if the sun be
shining) lay on the panacea ? A man
traveling from here to Portland could
put his blue 'glass against the car win
dow and be cured of his headache in a
"jiffy." It is not said whether it pro
vides or strengthens tho brain, so we
do not as yet recommend it to our Dem
ocratic confreres.
Ptddlers in the principal eastern cities
are said to doing an immense business
just now in this g ass, and we daro say
the excitement will run so high that
bald-headed men will imagine they cau
make their hair grow by simply insert
ing a piece of it in their hats. In case
any of our people should like to experi
ment on this subject, which is cow ex
citing so many people, wo herewith give
a "boiled down" interview held by a
New York newspaper reporter with
General Pleasanton: Any one suffering
from local disease is simply to obtain
window'panes of dark Mazarine blue,
French the best; place it in front of the
ordinary window glass, so that the light
will pass through the blue immediately
upon coming from the ordinary glass,
the diseased part to bo exposed to the
blue rays. The treatment is particularly
efficacious in all diseases of the spine
Any one using this cure will not be in
ueotea to tue uencral in a pecuniary
sense, he only asking that those attempt
ing this method will give him a full
account of the experiment whether
successful or otherwise.
The N. Y. Times of the 24th nit. says:
It is hoped after the vote on the Oregon
case we shall hear no more about the
partisanship of the Republican mem
bers of the electoral commission. In
this decision the partisanship is all on
the Democratic side, and the law and
facts with the Republicans. That the
three electoral votes of Oregon were
legally cast for Hayes and justice, a
"wayfaring man, though a fool," can
appreciate; and it may 6afely be left
with the people to judge of the impar
tiality of the seven Democrats who in
sisted only two of these votes should be
so counted. It was a cheap display oi
virtue to refuse to recognize the vote of
Cronin. It was a very discreditable
display of partisanship to hold' the
Grover conspiracy had succoeded in
cheating the State out of one electoral
vote, and counting out of its choice for
President.
The modest Miss (?) Emma Abbott
will not finger a piano in public if it
stands bare legged.
Mr. Moody, says the Boston journal
ists, bears a remarkable resemblance to
President Grant.
A case of petty Laircenj $3,000.
Traced to its Lair 3,000.
Telegraphic News.
Eastern.
Washington, Feb. 23. At 3 o'clock
the commission took a recess of half an
hour to allow time for Senator Thur
man to be sent for prior to taking a vote
upon the question whether the Repub
lican votes of Oregcn should be count
ed. All the members of the commission
stato the decision is already virtually
decided, as eight of the members, in
cluding Bradley, have announced their
opinion in favcr of counting the three
Republican votes.
The Electoral Commission proceeded
to the residence of Senator Thurmau,
who was .very ill, and there adopted by
strict vote of eight against seven a reso
lution offered by Senator Morton, de
claring that the votes of W. H. Odell,
John C. Cartwright, and John W.
Watts, the Hayes electors for Oregon,
should be counted. The commission
previously voted on the question of the
admissibility of Cronin's vote, and re
jected it unanimously.
New York, Feb. 24. The Herald's
Indianapolis correspondent interviewed
Hendricks to-day. The latter give up
the election as a defeat. He' continued,
very decidedly: "The Commission, hav
ing gone according to law, the result
will be the election of Hayes. I do not
think they acted according to the spirit
of the law. Their decision will not be
satisfactory to the country, and the
longer this people think upon it the
more they will bo condemned. But for
the Commission bill the Senate would
have elected Hayes and the House Til
den. Both would have been inaugurat
ed. Hayes would have had the support
of an army of office-holders, and other
resources of tho government, leaving
Tilden nothing to fight with, had a fight
been deemed advisable. The statement
that Hayes will recognize the Nicholls
government in Louisiana is absurd. He
could not do so without stultifying the
methods to which he will owe his place.
To recognize Nicholls would be to say
that Packard was not elected by the
votes in Louisiana, and yet that he him
self, Hayes, was."
The Times' Columbus special says:
The people of Fremont, Ohio, regard
less of party, will give Hayes a grand
send-off for Washington next week.
Postmasters appointed A. J. Lang
worthy, Aumsville, Marion county, Or.;
Jas. Laird, Sitkum, Coos county, Or.;
J. B. Morris. Snmmerville, Union Co.,
Or.; W. L. R. Monroe, Whittle's Ferry,
Lake Co., Or.; Win. Farrant, Bay Cen
ter, Pacific Co., W. T. ; D.N.Taylor,
Fall City. King Co., W. T.
New York, Feb. 27. Tho World's
Washington special
Hayes, perhaps, will
office Sunday noon
tive mansion, in the
and the cabinet and
says: It is said
take the oath of
next in the execu
presence of Grant
the Chief Justice
who will administer it. It is net Ins
present intention to arrive here until
the count is completed, but if it delays
until Friday he will leave Columbus on
that day for Washington and become
the guest of Sherman until he takes
possession of the executive mansion.
The Herald's Washington special says:
The filibustered have made up their
minds to do the worst they can. They
have been visited and argued with to
day by tho moderate and prominent
Democrats. They say they will have
their way and will obstruct and delay
the count of the eight States which re
main as much as they can. If the fili
bustered carry out their purpose, the
result will be the whole country will be
kept in a state of suspense and anxiety,
and business will be deraDged for no
reason whatever. Tilden has not even
a ghost of a claim to a single State yet
to be counted, tue JJemocratie commit
tee having declared that South Carolina
went for Hayes on the face of the re
turns.
Pacific Coast.
San Francisco, Feb. 27. The Call
this morning publishes a detailed ac
count of the circumstances connected
with the recent burning of the court
house at Salinas, at which it appears
that a defalcation of 15,000 to 2U,000
has been discovered in the accounts o
the tax collector, and that the deputy
collector, m. ii. Kumsey, is supposed
to have gambled off most of it, losing a
portion of the amount with faro dealers,
but to a great extent in poker games
Willi a number of prominent citizens,
including several connty officials. It is
also intimated that a close ring exists,
wuicn uas been plundering the counts'
for years, and detective officers from
Sail Francisco have been workincr up
the ease, and stato that the affair is the
worst that has ever came under their
notice, even the courts seeming to con
siderable extent to be disposed to afford
the ring every opportunity to make out
a good case. Popular indignation is
very high and the citizens of the better
class avow a determination to sift the
affair to the bottom. There is a hone
that Rnuisey may be induced to turn
states evidence. Tho ring has money
aud a lot of desperadoes in its interest.
who can be hired to commit perjury or
acts of violence in defense of their em-
ployers.
Profits of a Paper Currency.
The Government is likely to make a
large profit by the loss and destruction
of fractional currency. During the last
two months, nearly 2,000.000 of this
paper currency has been withdrawn
from circulation and silver coin substi
tuted. The withdrawals have been en
tirely confined to the last three issues,
there having been scarcely a dollar sent
in from the first and second issues, al
though the government report shows
7,400,000 of these issues still outstand
ing. It i3 more than likely that the
greater portion of this amount has been
worn out or destroyed. It is not the
kind of money that people would be
likely to hoard, and if it had been in
the bands of .bankers or brokers it un
doubtedly would have been presented
for exchange. In this country of a
metallic currency, people can hardly
comprehend the amount of hard usage
that the fractional paper currency re
ceives, it is crumpiea into vest pock
ets, allowed to become wet, is handled
roughly, torn and defaced to an almost
incredible extent. Seven millions of
dollars seems a large amount to waste
in this manner, but we have no doubt
it has been done. Nobody feels the
poorer for it, and it goes some distance
toward paying the public debt.
Eminent counsel with an oreran at
their baoks are worth S3.000 to thos
who have "bar'ls" of money at their
command. i
Territorial News.
Herring fisheries are attracting atten
tion on the Sound.
Seattle is reducing expenses by dis
charging police and putting out lights.
Sixty head of sheep have lately beep
killed near Olympia by dogs.
Messrs. Kelly & Co., of Seattle, are
putting up large quantities of cod liver
oil.
Each resident of Ada county, Idaho,
has been taxed 2 for the support of a
hospital.
About twenty five have thus far been
converted at the Methodist revival in
Olympia.
Walla Walla has a revenue of nearly
15,000 and still keeps head over heels
in debt.
A petition is in circulation to have a
daily mail lino between Waitsburg and
Spokane falls.
It ia a fixed fact that Walla Walla
county's wheat crop will far exceed any
ever produced there.
Over one thousand families have set
tled in Stephens and Whitman counties
during thn past year.
The Indians at Walla Walla have
broken up their winter quarters and
silently slipped away.
The Grangers around Olympia are
erecting a commodious warehouse at
the Marsh ville bridge.
The coming season bids fair to be
come one of universal activity among
the loggers on the Sound.
A boy named Frost was crushed to
deatli by a falling fir tree on the Upper
Skookum Chuck last week.
The Olympia Transcript says N. H.
O wings, the new secretary of Washing
ton Territory, is a Colorado man.
W. H. Borr. a Seattle juror, invalid
ated the virdict by taking supper at a
hotel. He will be imprisoned and fined
350.
William Law, a pioneer on this coast,
and a resident of Clalam county, W. T.,
for twenty years or more, died in Vic
toria, B. C, on the 7th ult.
The Olympian says: At LaConner.W.
T., five children died recently from tho
spotted fever in one family alone. Sev
eral more are ill from the same malady.
The government authorities at Vic
toria have dispotched the gunboat Rock
et to Bella Bolla to institute further in
quiries concerning the step.mer George
S. Wright.
As soon as the weather will permit,
two companies will leave the garrison
at Walla Walla for the Wallowa conn
try to keep out Joseph and his band
and keep white settlers iu.
Death Warrant of Christ.
The Courier des Etats Unis says: Chance
has put into our hands the most impos
ing and interesting judicial document,
to all Christians, that has ever been re
corded in human annals; that is, the
identical death warrant of our Lord
Jesus Christ. We' t ranserilw the docu
ment from a copy of the translation:
SEXTKNCK
Ri-ndt rrd bv Pontius Pilate, nctins: (Jov-
ernor of Lower ialshe. that Jtsu.s of
Nazeretii shall sutlV'r death on the (,'ro.s-.
In the year seventeen of the Kmpire of
Tiberius t'avsar, and the Uh of Maivh, 'he
city of the holy .Icrusalciii : Aneas and
CuiapUas hein priests, sv.'-i ilia: toi s of the
peoi.L of iod, I, Pontius i'il.Ue, io t t noy
of the pra.-ory .condi'inn .i s:is of Na-.ai---th
to diu us the cross bet wet !: i ; ; thi.-ves
the great and notorious evidence of the
people saying
1 . lie is a sed ucer.
Id. lie is seditious.
3.
4.
5.
lie is the enemy of the I;iv.
Hec;dls himself'falsly.thesortorOod.
1 le cal is himself the Kiogof Israel.
He entered into the tei;;i le. followed
by a multitude bearing palm branches in
t'aeir hands.
Order the centurion Qunitus Comeiiua
to lead him to the place of execution.
Forbid anv person, whomsoever, poor
or rich, to oppose the death of Jesus.
Tho witnesses that signed tho death
warrant ot Jesus are:
1. Daniel Hobani, a Pharisee.
2. Janmis llorrobable.
3. Capet, a citizen.
Jesus will go out of the city by Lhc gifc
Streneous.
The above sentences are engraved c;i a
copper plate. On one side are written
these words :
"A similar plate is sent to each one of
these tribes."
It was found in an antique vase of white
marble, while excavating in the city of
Aquila, in the kingdom of Nanles. in th.fi
.year 10, ana was mseovereu rjv the Com
missariat of Arts attached to the French
armies. At the excavation of Naples it
vim louiiu enciosea m a uox o: ebony, in
uib sacristy oi t.iurrem.
Nl I Dpnimn nf thA Cnmtnlabin nf Affo
caused a model to be made of the nlate.on
which he had engraved the above sen
tence. At the sale of his collection of cur
iosities it was bou'ht by .Lord Howard
iui iJ;i irancs.
The Mormons, animated by the ex
ample of Moody and Sankey, ar6 pre-
pariugto commence a work of evangel
ization in Now York and Brooklyn. The
Herald declares that only churches that
are as earnest as the Mormons can do
anything to arrest the movement. Brig
ham Young's religion is a captivating
one to the sensual and the ignorant.and
when he begins to drag his nets in tho o
two wicked cities they will take in thou
sands of fish whose moral utility has al-waj-s
been doubted, and whose absence
will leave the waters of life in a much
better condition cf purity than ever be
fore. An Armenian has arrived in London
with power from the Turkish govern
ment to sell the Holy Land.
Market Keport.
Portland Market.
Iegal tenders, 94 buying. S5 selling.
Flour Extra, $! 25; superfine. $o 00.
Wheat f 1 9) cental.
Oats U0e.fcj,ti5c. lj bushel.
Barley $1 25 i cental.
IfclCOIl Siflos 1 if l-iomo lt.lfi. -1 1 i
1(X10J4. ' -"vumers,
Irfird In kegs, loc. ; in 101b tins, 15c
Butter Fiesh roll, 20&2c.
Fruits Lried annles in caoi-c c . .
7; plums, nitless. 12ffil4, T V1S'
prunes. 17c. ' i
f.gKS iUC.
Chickens-Full grown. $3 00J 00 dozen
ffifStv18 6alted-6fcs cul,s- olf-
Wool 2trq,-Z2c.
Feed Rran JIK.tio si , . .
oil cake, $3 50. ."on.8. SKofffi ;
tay-naied. f!7f 18 U ton ; loose, $U(3,$15
Potatoes &x34iie. bushel
Onions l(qil if,.
Mutton Sheep $2(J2 50.
Oregon City Market.
Wheat- 1 ro busnei.
Oats-o0sifi!)c. 0 bushel!
Potatoes 50c. bushel.
Onions $1 50 bushel.
fd? l?1 I52 9 sack or 6 00 bbl.
Kutrie8" : P1UW8
Eggs-lSc. dozen.'
Chickens-Grown, $3 SO dozen.
Bacon Sides, 14c. $ ft ; hams Pie
I;ard-15(16c. t lb. ' nams 15c
Hayrju ton.
Wool 22c. $ ft.
One Kind for the Human Family.
The Other for Horses and Anlmalj.
These Liniments are simply tho wonder of
the world. Their effects are little ltss thn
anirvelous. a
The White Liniment is for the human
family. It will drive Rheumatism, Sciatica
and Neuralgia from the system ; cures Lum
bagro, Chillblains, Lock-jaw, Palsy, Itch and
most cutaneous eruptions; it extracts frost
from frozen hands and feet, and the poison of
bites and stings of venomous reptiles ; it sub
dues swelling and alleviates pain of every
kind. When pains or bruises occur, itisth
most potent remedy ever discovered to heal
the injured parts. The Centaur Liniment ia
used with great efficacy for Sore Throat, Tooth
ache. Caked Kreafits, Earache and weak Back.
The following is but a sample of numtu
testimonials :
"Indiana Horn, Jeff. Co.. May 38, 1878.
"I think is my duly to inform you that I
have u0rcl much with inollta ft a4
chord. A few bottles of Centaur Llnimtat
has done the wrk for me. I have not bn
free from these swellings in eiht years.
ow I am perfectly well. The Liniment
ought to be applied warm. B. BROWN,"
The proof is in the trial. It is reliable, It Is
handy, it is cheap, and every family should
have the White Centaur Ianirnent.
The Yellow Centaur Liniment is adapt
ed to the tough muscles, cords and flesh o
horses and animals. It has ierformed mors
wonderful cures, in three years, of Spavin,
Strain, Wind-galls, Scratches, Sweeny, and
general Lameness,' than all other remedies
in existence. liead what the great Express
men say of it :
"New Yosk, January, 1S7L
"Every owner of horsi-s should qpve tho
Cextacr Liniment a trial. We consider it
the best article ever used in our stables.
"II. MARSH, Supt. Adams Ex. Stables.N.Y.
"E. PULTZ. Sui t. U. S. 1.x. Stables, N. Y.
"AL S. ULIS, Supt. Nat. Ex. Stables, N.Y."
The best Patrons of this Liniment are Far
riers and Veterinary Surgeons, who are
continually usinir some liniment. It heals
ti lis. Wounds, Poll-evil, removes Swellings,
and is wort n millions oi aoiiars annual ly 10
Fanners. Liverv-men. Stock-jrrowers, Sheep-
raisers, and those having horseii or cattle.
What a Farrier cannot do for $20, the Cen
taur Liniment will do at a trifling cot.
These Liniments aro sola uy an aeaien
throughout the country. '1 hey are warranted
by the proprietors, anu a oome win oe givn
to anv larrier or Physician who desires to
test them.
Labratory of J. E. Ilose k Co.,
46 Ley St., N kw York.
HoiiEY.
Pltrhtr's Cas'oria is a complete substi
tute lor Castor Oil, nni is as pleasant to take
as ho:ity. it is particularly adapted to Teeth
ing and irritable children. It destroys worms,
assimilates the food, rviruhites theVtomach,
and cures Wind-i.'oUe. Few remedies are ag
efficacious for Feverish ness. Croup, Worm,
and Whooping t 'ougli. Castoria is a scii ntiflo
and purely vegetable preparation, more efft'O
tiv tlian Castor Oil, and neither gags nor
trrip'S. Prepsir.-'l by Messrs. J. H. Itos A Co..
4t 1 ey St., New York, from tiie recipe of Jiaiu
nel Pitcher, M. D., of Barnstable, Mass.
T. SEL LING
H
AS JCST RECEIVED TIIE LARGEST
Jt stock of
FALL AMD WINTER GDOO
ever imported to Oregon City, which he oG n
At greatly reduced prices. My stock of
CLOTHIN"G-
Has been largely increased and I can show
as h s:;. ;.-!. i.-' a line of ready-made goods in
Mvii and Boys' Business and Lress Suits,
(.'oats, etc., as can be found In the country ,and
at rivcs.t hat cannot fail to satisfy. My
DRESS CCGDS CEPAHTMEHT
Is fined wiih a splendid assortment of all th
leading stj lea and fashionable sbaUeeof good
Lot press "!( !,
X.Itjairs, French cnii
Aiwriran Ores Utxwls
1Z La f li Alpncciv,
Viriiliii lit cues,
CiiKliuvervs, r.
1 X, A :fNT ELS,
PlttiT, rtain ami Opera Flannels, o' all colors,
Bloaehed and Unbleaehc-d C ottoa Flannels
Ladies'' ante CJeiita' rndrmar Q
Shards and Scai-fp,
Vi.K.i Blanket,
Trunks u;wl
Traveling Satchels,
liuU it rid Caps,
Oil Cloth for
frloorid. Tabic
BOOTS and SHOES,
I troald call speeiRl af.terdior to my stock cf
!en'and Hoys' San Francisco BootsH which I
have srld for anirmbe of years past with irei-
oral satisfaction. Every pair warranted. A
omplete stock of
HARDWARE & ?ARIfi3 UTENSIL&
Choice Teas, Canned Goods, sad mil ebV
Family Groceries,
All at Lo.v Prices. A5o,
L1YEKT00L AND CABM 1SIA5B SALT.
Highest Price paid for all binds of
CJossKtry Produce
200,000 lbs. of WOOL IVanted,
for which I shall pay the highest cash price.
I. SELLING.
Oregon City, .Nov. 1, IS75-tf.
J. P. WABn.
OEORGS A, BAttDIKQ.
WARD & HARDING,
PRiGGlSTS AND APOTHECARIES.
KEEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND A?GEN
eral assortment of w
Drugs and Chemicals, -
Perfumery, Soaps,
lombaaml Brushes,,
Trusses, Supporter..
6"J",1,ler Braces Fancy and
Toilet Article.,
.ALSO.,
Kerosene OH. tj.m r
CilasH, Putty, Paint, Oili, c
amines a. 1 ' D, st-ff.
ri RE M IXES AXD Liai ORS FOR MEDICINAL
PURPOSES.
PATENT MEDICINES, ETC., ETC
pounueti, and all orders correctly answered.
J Yl7 "ours oi tne nighi.
AUnccpunts must be paid monthly.
novl,l87atf WA11D & HAKDlIG-
GEORGE THOMAS,
BOOT AS1D SHOEMAKER,
OREGON CITY,
One door north of Haas' Saloon.
ALL KINDS OF BOOTS AND SHOES
made to order on t he shortest. nnti a
Tfii i no Bale' Repairing neatly done,
lermscash. iQvL,
4 .M . .
NEW BLAGKSMITH SHOP,
John Lewis' niri
0.thT:nSA-G A OPENED AT
doanything in his line."" " to
" enoeinga sneelalv
Oregon City, May 263m y
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