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r 1 ' 5 - a Br r i if n T" 31)c (Enterprise. OREGON CUT, TilFESDAV, 31 ARCK 59, h77. Future American Vol i tics. The cry kept up by Democrats over since tbeir drubbing in the civil conflict "the vm.t 13 over," is at last listened to with some (?gro of crotTrtlity. Tho political aspect of tho country nov; ap pears more favorable than at any time sinco the war. For tho Drst time since Fort Sampler vras fired nport there are signs of a fraternal foiling 'between the North and the South which cannot ba smothered by the machinations of ruck loss politicians. This feeling sliowa it self in the advances made by the .Ad ministration toward a roal political fel lowship with the Sonthfand the manner in which that advance has been met. The nomination of ex-Senator Key to a place in President Haye3' Cabinet ia a crossing of sectional and political lino3 irhieh cannot be mistaken. Mr. Hayes wonld not have invited Mr. Key to his family council if he did not intend to pnrsne aconrae toward the South which- a man of Mr. Key's antecedents conld approve. We do not moan bv this that Mr. Key will dictate Mr. Hayes South ern policy, bnt between the two a policy "will be shaped that a Northern Repub lican and a Southern Democrat can work together in carrying ont. Tho Southern Democrats who look with dis favor upon Jlr. Key's acceptance of a place in President Hayes' Cabinet, are looking rather to the partisan than to the national resnlt of the act. The South claims equality with the North in the councils of tho nation; and tho nomina tion of Mr. Key is a atop in this direc tion, which will donbtleps bo followed by others if this is received in a proper spirit. The South claims to bo loyal to the Union if tho Union will bo just to her; and the nomination of Mr. Key is a guarantee that no injustice is in tended. The South claims to want sec tional lines obliterated, and the Presi dent in seeking Mr. Key has disregard ed them. It is not probable, therefore, that the Sonth will maintain an attitude of re sentment because its salvation does not fiome through the channels it was ex pected to take. It docs not follow that the Democratic party will go to pieces in tho South; bnt if the policy of Presi dent Hayes is cairied out, parties will assume in that section tho relation tho old Whig and Democratic parties main tained toward each other. There will be parties and political contests; but Totb. will be socially respectable and politically patriotic. The whites will -attach themselves to either party, as formerly in the South and as at present in the North, and neither association will be regarded as a porsonal reproach. When the whites deride, the blacks will, and tho color lino will disappear. In a word, tho Administration has aftr-rapted the herculean task of naturalizing a party born and matured on sectional issues. It is not for a moment to be supposed that this work will go on unopposed. There are men now in public life, who have risen to eminence as sectional dic tators. They have fought, in a political sense, so long at the South, that they re impregnated with the idea that tho South is a public enemy. When these men see a Republican Administration .moving over in that direction, not with .a purpose to figlft, they assume that it 18 with a purposo to surrender. They cannot quite comprehend the grand idea of our American Republic, in which lit erally there shall be no North nor South. . fThese men were useful in their day, and -are honored for their services, but if they wish to retain their present influ ence, they must move with the times. The representatives of the South have ehown, thia past winter, that the dis trust with which many of their political opponents have regarded them, was not Reserved. Thoy have now one Presi dent Instead of two, and a certainty of peace in place of a prospect of war, is due to a very great extent to the loyal attitude of these Southern representa tives. What mora fittiDg time could be chosen, then, for a policy of concili ation than the present? Mr. Hayes, though not the choice of the South, be came President through its forbearance, and may thus become, in an especial i sense, the President of the whole coun try. As for parties, they will take care of themselves. Names are nothing. If the Democrats accomplish through Mr. Hayes that thorough pacification and .rehabilitation of tho South, which was the base of their last platform, why need they turn away from a good offer because it comes from an unexpected hand ? Our own Senators, Kelly and Mitch ell, have been ornaments to our State. The Charges against Senator Kelly were empty, and Mitchell magnanimously expressed himself as bo believing. O. J. Enterprise. If the charges referred to were known to be empty, why was it magnanimous in Mitchell to sc oxpresa himself?-Mercury. Because, as politicians run now-a- .days, false charges against opponents are maintained by the slanderers, and their injustice never admitted. Would Grover have acted in this way had equally groundless charges been made against Senator Mitchell. ? A dispatch from Columbus, Ohio, of the 27th inst., says the temperance movement is sproading rapidly in that vicinity. Over a thousand have signed the pled go at Newark alone, saloons are leing closed, and the former proprie tors engaging m the temperance work. v. , V Keep Up Your Totui. We cannot understand tho lethargy of our people concerning their own best interests. With an immense water power running uselessly by, they seem a3 indifferent as if it were of no more importance than a passing cloud. Ia tho East such a natural advantage would be eagerly lought after, and busy mills would line the river bank from the Imperial Mills to the "Dry House." We warn our capitalists in time that their unconcern is suicidal, and even now citizens of this place are preparing to leave for more enterprising towns. The bridge so much needed, and the Court House of such necessity, are not even considered worthy of thought by our taxpayers, and the result is that our town, once holding to its heart the brightest prospects in Oregon, is on the down grade, amd it is for our Rip Van Winkle capitalists to "put on the brakes." It is bettor to leave the town than oppose every scheme of improve ment. Men who are all the time wait ing for a chance to get ont of business or out of town will never build up either. One of two things should be done; Push things; find a way or make a way to put some "go" into business, run the town for all there is in it, get up steam and keep it up, or else leave the whole thing untouched, naif-way measures will not do. Do you want trade ? Bid for it. Do you want busi ness to come to this town ? Eucourage those who do come. Do you want to have a prosperous town, where people can come disposed to make it their home? Then bury from sight all local differences, and do not run up the price of yonr real estate the moment a buyer i3 seen in the horizon; work no more for a few individuals, but all work together for a common prosperity and for a mutual benefit. Wake up, wipe your eyes, roll up your sleeves and go to work. Dont go to work with fear and trembling, but take it for granted that work will toll. Leave results to them selves, borrow no trouble, but all united make tho biggest kind of a try. Poor Paris News. In view of tho present ticklish con dition of European politics, and the fact that every nation on the continent ia in daily expectation of being called on to bear a lively part at the "wake" of the "Sick Man," it may be readily be lieved that the news from so important a capital as Paris would be of very great political interest. The truth is, however, that politics seem to play an unimportant part in tho affairs of the gay capital, and the correspondents of the various Eastern papers hardly al lude to tho share of France in the great 6uarl, hourly growing more difficult to unravel. Instead of news of political movements we have accounts of the petty wrangles between the Right and Left, the Right Center and Left Cen ter, ith insignificant particulars of local squabbles among politicians of whom nobody outside of France, much less in Oregon, ever heard. Paris news is eminently characteristic. Rapes, duels, intrigues, seductions, arsons, the rogueries of actors aud the scandal of primme donne are tho standard mat ter in which tho correspondent deals. He knows little more; ho looks no higher. Yet he keeps pace with the people of the liveliest city of Christen dom. Monsieur and madame in their gayety, look no further than the present moment, and though all Europe, is trembling with anxiety, they dance as cheerfully as if the wased floor did cot cover a magaaine ready to explode with the dropping of the faintest Fpark. Their life is a prolonged "Ball at Brussels" notwithstanding the threat ening Waterloo. The Chinese Report. The report of the joint committee on the Chinese question may be called "a double header." While admitting that Chinese immigration has .contributed largely to the development of this Coast it dwells with much force on the arguments of cheap labor, disease, im morality aud political indifference, and sensibly winds up with advocating the abrogation of our treaty with China and the making of another which shall reduce tho quantity and improve the quality of the immigrants. Senator Morton and Representative, Meade, we think dissent from the report, and the former has promised to give his views on the subject at an early day. Meanwhile, we have to patiently wait until the next session of Congress for some definite action. We trust that when this matter comes before the Na tional Legislature for final decision it will be discussed and settled on the basis of reason and in favor of the own ers of the land. It involves an exceed ingly important question, and should that-question be answered in the spirit of the report it will be at least one step in the direction of liberating the white laboring men of this State from the thralldom of an oppressive immigra tion. The Oregonian fails to see how Jones managed to spend $30,000 in getting re-elected to Congress from the first district of New Hampshire, and justly claims that the legitimate and proper ex penses should not be over a few hun dred dollars at the most. Correct, Mr. Oregonian, but probably in that State as well as m Oregon, there were Hills Cromns, etc., who had a piece out of Jones bar 1. . A Hring cedar tree twenty-seven feet snots: h bMa Cuban blatters. We had almost forgotten the exist ence of the Cigar Island find its re bellion, when we were reminded of affairs there by a dispatch that General Martinez Campos, commander of the Spanish troops in Cuba, with much bluster reports to the Crown at Madrid that he has completely snrronrided the poor rebels and it is bnt for him to nod his head to see them-all hewn to pieces. There are two sides to every question, and this one of the Antilles is no exception. This wonderful Captain General on his arrival at Havana promised to pnt down the rebellion by February. Within a year regular troops have arrived at Cuba by thousands to aid in the suppression, but like a brook that babbles on its course till it reaches the sea, where it is absorbed and looses its identity, so these recruiting armies melt away and disappear. Still the re bellion goes on, gaining confidenco and victory as it proceeds. Another Feb ruary will come and pass before the Captain-General can redeem his prom ise, if he continues to make it contin gent upon his boast while first entering upon the duties of his offlco. Of course Spain can not bear to face tho idea of losing her best, and almost last colony, and has consequently held on through year after year of almost continual defeat and disaster, sending army after army to be swept away by the yellow fever and be buried in the trenches around Havana, and expend ing with a lavish hand millions borrow ed from European capitalists, extorted from the already depleted coffers of the LTavana merchants, or wrung from the toil-hardened hands of Cuban laborers. Every effort has been in vain, sound your trumpet as you may, Goneral Mar tinez Campos! Little by little the island has been wrested from the Span ish grasp, until now the ground they stand upon and the graves they fill are the only parts of Cuba that the Span iards can justly claim as their own. An Impartial President. The southern Democrats who aro eternally howling for justice and eqnal rights have no cause to coraplaiu of President Hayes. In his management of Southern affairs he is most scrupu lously impartial, and we defy Demo crat or Republican to find a flaw in his policy. For tho settlement of tho Louisiana dispute he appointed a com mitteo to look into the affairs minutely and give a moral common-sense de cision, nis method of pfop2ing the absurdity of a d;;al government in South Carolina is by inviting the rival Governors to a conference with" him at Washington, that he m:iy himself, after hearing both sides in detail, urrive at an honest decision. C;in any Demo cratic wiseacres or Radical "bmarties improve cn these plans for an impartial hearing of the rival claims of the Louisiana and South Carolina Gov ernors? If they can, we have no doubt that Mr. Hayes will adopt them, for, to all honest men, he has made it appar ent that his highest ambition is to deal out justice to all, and will mete it out always on the most feasible plans. The Portland Democratic paper which calls its adulation to the Orcgonian "journalistic courtesy," would do well to practice some of the genuine article on soma of it less pretentious neigh bors. "Courteous" papers do not oJsarge others with admitting the folly of wading through labyrinths of words on "Republican Principles," when such was not admitted; nor do they, on being worsted in pleasant repartee, discern to the childishness of calling their victors ungentlemanly. Such is the conduct of "toady" papers, of papers which have to empty the Italic font into their columns to make their points have any strength; courteous papers never show their teeth, nor fall to a fkhinonger's level by calling names. The New York Times, in a review of the Oregon infamy tonches up our friend Hill: Patrick explains that it will take $3, 000 to buy up tlso Republican Elector, and that S3, 000 must be paid as a re taining fee to the editor of "tho only Republican paper as a lawyer." Here let us say that no bribe could move a Republican elector. The "only Repub lican paper" wa3 the (Jrcgoman, the mercenary editor of which appeared in the mock proceedings before the Gov ernor, and in his paper, as a defender of Cronin's right to a certificate. There must be no "contingent fee" in this case, says Patrick; terms cash. And the "mercenary editor" fails to see how Jones could expend $30,000. How far would that amount go with a few grabbers like the editor of the "only pajier" terms cash? Of Senator Sherman as Secrotary of the Treasury the Springfield Republican says: "The enthusiasm over the selection will not be very likely to disturb any body's sleep, yet it is a very fair clfoice. Mr. Sherman has a great deal of knowl edge and experience in public affairs. Few men have been in Congress so long without more damage to their personal character. He has wobbled a good deal on the currency question, but has come at last to sound views and con sistent votes; and now that it is the fashion to be for reform and economy, we count on his proving an efficient in strumentality in bringing his party and its administration up to the new standards." - Rapid Increase. From 1850 to 1870 the value of church property in tho United States has increased from $7, 328,500 to 354,482,580. Of the 72,458 churches, 69,332 are Protestant. The membership of these churches is about 7,000.000, COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Bloody and Saukey. The Moody and Sankey meetings in Boston have resulted already in many conversions, according to the corres pondent of the Independent. This cor respondent writes: "The sermon in Zaccheus continues to bring forth fruit. One of my dea cons had a young man in his employ whom he entirely trusted. The day after that sermon he was astounded to have that young man come to his desk with five dollars, which he said he had stolen. Two days later he called on the good man again to say that he had found his Savior, and was on his way home to Maine to make a confession and restitution there. Among several cases of the kind reported none ia more touching than that of an old lady of seventy. She wrote a letter to Mr. Moody, inclosing seventy -five cents, which she had stolen when a child. The woman from whom she took it and all the family had died. She hoped God had long ago forgiven her; but she wanted to make restitution. Tho money was for the Lord." The rivival is also having its effect on the liquor trade. "Drunkards and rum sellers have been converted. A friend of mine went into an eating house the day before yesterday. The proprietor wanted to talk with him. 'You notice a change here.' he said. 'No liquor about. There's been a change. We don't sell any more liquor. I've been to the Tabernacle. I've changed front. I haven't a long time to live. Rumsell ing is a poor business for a man who is going to die by and by. This is the business I'm in now.' As ho spoke be drew from his pocketBook a list of names. It was his prayer list. Ho had at least a hundred names. It took an hour for him to go over the list and speak of each case. 'I don't care for anything elsefc' he said, folding it and returning it to his pocket. 'How is it with you?' My friend is a Christian; but that question searched him. Di rectly and indirectly, it is going from the Tabernacle to thousands of hearts." The Rev. John Weiss and other clergy men have expressed themselves recently as strongly opposed to Mr. Moody and his services. Mr. Weiss, in his sermon at the Parker Memorial Church last Sunday, said that he considered the present age one of sensation and fraud, and classed the present revival at the Tabernacle in the latter category. Moody and Sankey, he said, were welcomed by the sentimental and ignorant, who wero ever ready for sensations, and not by the people of culture, whom they naver would catch. The Liquor (Question. At a regular meeting of Butte Grange No. 148, P. of H., held March 21.1S77, the following preamble and resolutions wero unanimously adopted: Whereas, Tho evils that flow from the use of alcoholic drinks are daily increasing, as is plainly to bo seen ia the increase of crime, especially among the youth of our fair young State; and Whereas, It lias beoora? an impera tive necessity that some means be de vised whereby this growing evil can be checked and in time wholly destroyed. Therefore, be it liesolred, By Bntte Grange No. 148, of the Patrons of Husbandry, that wo are in favor of a license law requiring each person who buys, sells or disposes of in any manner whatever, any wines, npiriiunus or malt liquors, to first pro cure a license from the county clerk of the county in which he or she resides, said license to be cot less than five dol lars per annum. Jirsolrcd, That it bo mad; the duty of the county clerk to publish semi-annually irr the ofiicia.1 paper of the county a list of the names of all persons who have taken out such license. llesoh'cd, That all moneys arising from the sale of such license, as well as all moneys collected as fines for the violation of snch license law, be paid into the common school fund of said county. Henolreil, That the above preamble and resolutions be spread on the miu utes of the Grange, and a copy signed by the Master and Secretary be sent to the different newspapers of tho State with the request that they publish the amo. J. RICHARDSON, Master. M. Richarisox, Secretary. At a lecture a few days ago in Chicago a letter was read from John G. Whittier who, speaking of the advance of modern science, said: "Admitting the theory of evolution to be true, I do not see that it need dis turb the feelings or faith of the religious world. No deductions of science can change the facts of sin and holiness. We know that something calls upon us to be pure, true, merciful and just that something holds us to the great idea of duty. This to mo is God speak ing directly to me. as He does to all; and because He asks me to be good I know that he is good. Here is a rock with which geology Las nothing to do." Texas has not been regarded as the place where temperance work could be gin very actively or auspiciously, but the following paragraph from the New Orleans Times conveys a different im pression: "In Rockwell county, Texas, when the local option was voted on, only seventeen men went up and voted for whisky, while the temperance men poll ed a heavy vote and cleaned out the whisky shops." Gen. Jubal Early, the ex-Coufederate, when passing through Toledo, O., the other day, speaking of the Presidential count, said: "Our Southern people don't care much about it ', all we want is peace. We didn't care two jSrs whether Hayes or Tilden went in, but we were deter mined to carrv our own Suite tickets." The muteness of tho Oregonnzn re minds us of the following from Sidney Smith to Harriet Martineau: "Macaulay is improving! I have observed in him of late flashes of silence!" Says tho Bedrock Democrat: Baker City is rapidly improving. Our citi zens are taking a lively interest in the future prosperity of our city; they are beautifying their city residences by putting out fruit and shade trees and shrubbery around and about their nromispa iha Mtr "dads" are havine good gravel and plank walks built ; across our principal streets ami thor- : oughfares. Take the city altogether it i presents a liyely appearance. j Telegraphic News. liastern. Colttmivus, O., March 22. The spe cial legislative committee, appointed to investigate the late Ashtabula disaster, submitted their report to-day. accom panied by a vast amount of testimony, which was ordered priurfed. The com mittee, after going into details showing the imperfections in the bridge, report the following.conclu?ions: First, there were from 80 to 100 lives lost; second, the bridge went down under an ordin ary load by reason of defects in its orig inal construction; third, the defects could have been discovered at any time after its erection by careful and anna lytical inspection, such as the import ance of the Ptructure demanded, and thus the sacrifice of life and property prevented. The truth is, the bridge was liable to go down at any time dur ing the last 10 or 11 years under load that might at any time be brought upon it in the ordinary course of the com pany's business, and it is most remark able that it did not sooner occur. It would be needless saying the engineer would be derelict in his duty who did not provide, in the construction of a bridge, against wind, snow, ice and the vibration of a rolling load. They are as much to be anticipated and provided against as the law of gravity. This re port is accompanied by a bill specifying how bridges of different spans should be constructed. New York, March 23. The Tribune's Washington special pays the board of army engineers ordered to examine the Washington monument foundation made a careful examination yesterday and or dered further work to cease. All agreed that the monument could not be com pleted according to the original design , because the foundation will not admit of more weight. Tho foundation, orig inally eight feet below the surface, has settled inches. The settling begun when the monument was in process of building. In settling, the shaft turned north, and the builders still built ac cording to a plumb line, and the whole pile is crooked. This confirms the re port of Supervising Architect Mullet. Concord, March 23. Tabulated re turns from kll but twenty towns and wards show nearly all the constitutional amendments adopted, including one abolishing religious test as a qualifica tion for office. One, which proposes to strike out the word "Protestant" from the bill of rights, is probably defeated by a few hundred votes. " Washington, March 2G. Postmasters appointed: S. H. Abbott, Alvord, Giant county, Oregon; Peter B. Settle, Belknap Springs. Lane county, Oregon; Chas. Dewey, Ellen.sbnrg. Currv coun ty, Oregon; Jnmes L. Kelt;.-, Lafiiye te, Yamhill county, Oregon; Leroy Starr, Monroe, Benton county, Oregon; Geo. E. Cole, Portland, Oregon. Marcli 27 Gov. Chamlw-rlaiu, accom panied by Senator Patterson and Mr. Corbin, Senator-elect of South Carolina, made a short call on the President to day. Fifteen thousand applications for office have been received bv the Post master Geiier.il during Lis brief incum bency and filed away for possible future reference. Stafiori, Conn, March 27. The dam of the Staffordville reservoir gave way this morning, causing in this vii lage fearful damage. The railroad freight house and ail the cars were washed away, leaving only the passen ger depot. The Stafford National B.nk, Congregational church and about fif teen othfr bnildi-igs have been washed away. The flood came upon the village suddenly, and its effects have been vc-rv disastrous; three miles of railroad track aro washed away, also two Howe triiss bridge between Stafford snd Towland. The flood lias caused trouble nil along the line of the telegraph, which was promptly brought into requisition, and Dfigh boring towns warned of tho mighty rush of waters that was cauging great destruction of property and threatening the loss 'of life. Hartford, March 27. The flood dis aster at StafTordville is not so destruc tive as at first reported. A later estimate puts the actual present los at less than 8350,000. A leak was discovered on Monday. Mjn were busy nil day filling in about the waste pipe, but their efforts were useless. A' 5:30 o'clock this morn ing the work was abandoned. The water then- gained so rapidly that in a few minutes the dam opened. Ed. Pennev, of tho Glenvill Manufacturing Co.) mounted a horse at the head of the flood to warn the inhabitants in the val ley. The water, which grew greater by the absorption of successive ponds, as each lower dam was carried off, moved at the rate of five miles an hour, and though from the. time of Penney's warn ing up to the arrival of the water, peo ple were busy moving their property, bnt little was rescued. Amidond's ma chine shop, several tenements and the honso of Parley Howe and the dams of the Thcenix Co., and Howe & Yalloy Co., were destroyed. The accident is a terrible blow upon the valley. About 1,000 bands are thrown out of work, Industries are sadly crippled. The loss as far as Staf ford Springs is estimated at from half a million to a million dollars. Much of this is in small sums. The damage be low Stafford Springs is not easy to get. It consists of injury to bridges and roads, bnt no other mills are thought to be destroyed. The superintendent of the New London and Northern road states that the track is all gone from the Stafford passenger depot half a mile South, and with the track went the freight cars, freight house and two Howe truss bridges. Two miles south of Tolland the track is washed away. Wellington bridge i3 probably under mined. South of that another piece of track is washed and another bridge is endangered. Tho water is now up to the floor and is reported still rising. No damage is reported on other rail roads in the State. Washington, March 27. The Secre tarv of tho Treasury to-day issued the forty-fourth call for the redemption of the 5-20 bonds of 18G5.Mav and Novem ber. The call is for ? 10,000,000. Nine and a half million are coupon and half a million of registered bonds, principal and interest will be paid at the treasury on and after the 27th day of June next, and interest will cease on that day. The following is a description of the bonds, coupon bonds S500 Nos. 42,301 to 40,000 both inclusive, 1,000 No. 121,001 to 132.000 both inclusive; registered bonds of 500 No.7,4SA to 7,000 both inclusive. Foreign. Berlin, March 20 Private intelli gence comes from Vienna that Ignatieff is now trying to revive the alliance of the three Emperors, and induce them to solve the question of the protocol without the assent of England, and that thia is the reason for his -unexpected re solve to return via Berlin. Andrassy proposes that Russia and Turkey demobilize simultaneously. The Turkish Redits are all under arms and the militia have Snider riHes. The Montenegro Envoys say that ne gotiations have closed and they will leave Constantinople. The Archbishop of Naples and Peru gia, and the Vicar of Rome are confi dently talked of as candidates for the Papacy. The British war steamer Avon de stroyed seven villages and killed three natives on the Congo river, Africa, for plundering the American schooner, Thomas Nickerson. The Pope is very sick. His advisers are endeavoring to get France and Aus tria to revive the Roman question, so that Italy will cede to the church the Leonine City, where all religious orders from Rome may find an asylum. It is denied that preparations are being made for a conclave. Pacific Coast. Cedar Cttt, Utah, March 23. Lee made a short speech, in which he ex pressed hie confidence in the Mormon religion as revealed to Joseph Smith. He denounced Brigham Young in severe terms, and said he had never intention ally done wrong, and was prepared to die. His language was evasive and contradictory to what ho had previously said and written. He died as he had lived, a religious frantic. The marshal with the soldiers and Lee, District As torney Howard and Rev. Mr. Stokes arrived at Mountain Meadows about 8 o'clock Thursday evening. After eating and stationing guards, ail retired round the camp fire, except Lee and Rev. Stokes, who slept together in a wagon. Lee slept all night and took a light meal. He gave directions as to the disposition of his property to Attorney Howard, dividing it equally between three of his wives and their children. He requested the marshal to deliver his body to his wife Rachel, and also requested that he might be shot at short range, and that they would aim at his heart. lie knelt down on his coGjii, and was requested to sit there while a photographer pres ent took his picture. Lee called the artist to him and requested that each of his wives should be forwarded a. copy. After, his remarks Rev. Stokes offered prayer. Lee kneeling on his cofiin, a bandage was placed on his eyes. He sat on his coffin, took off his foat and bat, handed them to an oflicer, held up his hands and said he was -ready. The marshal gave the word and three shots went through his heart. He fell back npon his cof!in and died without a struggle. Quite a number of spectators were present. The best of order pre vailed. The body was immediately placed in a co;n and Rent to his wife Rachel. During the past few days Lee has had some hopes of executive inter ference in respond to a petition recent ly presented iv hi s children. W. F. Rus?e"l, alitor of the Weekly Santa Barbary Jnd?.c, was found dead in his bed on the 2t'th. A large reward will be offered for the arrest of the murderers of T. W. Moore at San Buenaventura. Rev. Wra. Taylor opened a largo re vival meeting on the 20th at the pavil ion at San Francisco. Most of the Chi-'-o Chinese murderers were members of the Laborers" Union. Conway and Wright hav made a full cojiession, throwing all the blame on Ro'oprt and John Sla-.jht.-T. TIjpv con fess to incendiaries in C'r.ir.rCTrn. Territorial :?eir.. The Olympia Echo and Tacoma Herald have consolidated. The old coal bunkera at Seattle have been aold and will be torn down. The bilk Suwtelle and his troupe are playing in Washington Territory. Good pay dirt ha bpen struck on Rock Creek on the Overland Road, Idaho. Stowaway from San Francisco for Seattle aro almost as common as regular passengers. By the upsetting of a canoe at Sea 'tie last- week, a squaw was sent to the other side of Jordan. The lime kiln on Orcas Island, which ban been shut down all winter, has re sumed operations. Mr. Lassraore, of Idaho City, and aa Indian have discovered a rich ledge of quarts on Willow creek, six miles from Horseshoe Bend. Woodham's milldam on Cedar creek, Clark county, W. T., washed out in the late high water. Henry P. Thompson, of Whidby Is land, has had 816,000 left him by a rel ative who died recently in Ohio. The bark Osmyn recently loaded 800 tons of coal in twenty-three hours at Seattle, said to ho the fastest loading ever done on this Coast. James Irvoson of Oakley Station, Idaho, has been arrested for trying to shoot Mrs. R. Hudson, on account of trouble growing out of stock. Capt. Wm. Turnbull is lying danger ously ill at Vancouver, with but little hope of permanent recovery. Track laying ha3 begun on the Pu yallnp and Tacoma railway, aud it is expected that tho road will be finished by the 4th of July. A man named Russian George is es tablishing a halibut fishery at Crescent, near Port Angeles. He proposes to smoke all the halibut he catches except what he can ship to San Francisco by steamer. There are 52 males and 13 females at the Steilaeoom insane asylum; 37 Amer icans, 10 Irish and 9 Germans. The expenses of the institution were $3,SS4 last year, in Territorial scrip. While a lot of printing material be longing to the Tacoma Tlernld was being hauled from the wharf to the office the other day, three cases containing about 35.000 types were dumped into the sand and mud, making a huge lot of niud"pi." The Seattle Dispatch has been shown some specimens of copper taken from Gnomes Island, now in the possession of Dr. G. V. Calhoun. The ore is just rick enough to quarry with ease, for when it goes above 00 per cent, expen sive machinery is needed to cut it out. The size and extent of the ledges are not known, but if they are over three feet wide the discoverer has found his fortune. The Plummer Fruit Dryer, at East Portland, is drying about one thousand pounds of potatoes per day for the European market. They aro pro nounced k) be a superior article. Astoria has ordered a steam fire en gine from the East, and it is reported" that a citizen who has too much bullion will present her with another. Tho Greenback party is alive and kicking in Harrisburg, and they threat en to organize a club, and print a pap,." too, if the Nucleus does not act as their mouthpiece. A little fellow named Bishops, last week, at Ashland, fell from a fence' and ran a splinter completely through ihe apple of his eye, and, it is feared, has also fractured his skull. Tho following persona have been ap pointed Notaries Public, by Governor Chadwick, since the 15th: Henry Maver and George Getchell, Yamhill county; A. J. Sturtevant and Stephen V. Knox' Umatilla county; H. D. Graden and s! A. Seymour, Multnomah county; C.W. Fitch, Lano county. Austin Howell, of Alsea valley, Ben ton county, attempted to cross the swollen Alsea river in a two horse wag on, on the 17th inst., with his wife and two children. The vehicle npset abont half way across, and his little baby was drowned, the body not being recovered until the next day. The wife floated down the stream and fortunately caught on some drift wood before life was extinct. c L One Kind for the Human Family. The Other for Horses aud Animals. These Liiniments are simplr tfae wonder of tbc world. Their effects are liulo less than a n.rvoloiis. Tle Vlilt Linlnirnt is for tbe human family. It will drivo Khrumatisra, 8eiatio and Nouralsria from t lie system : cuivs I.uta baro, Chillblains, Ixx-k-jiv, Palsy, I:ch, and Lm.st cutaneous eruptions; it extracts frosi Irom frozen hands find feet, and the poison of bites and st itifis of venomous re tiles ; it sub- ' clues sveiiit;r and ail'-viaies pain of every kind. When .a:ns t,r brtiis'-s occur, itistb most vot-nt remedy ever discovered to heal the injured parts. The O-ntaur L.ininitriil it used wii h n-.-a efiieaey ftr iore Throat, Toolh nchu. Caked I.reasts, Karache and eakBac&. The fol lowing is but a sample of cunu ruui testimonials : "I.MHANA Home, JciT. Co.. Hay e. iTT "I think is my duty to interm you that I l ave MifiVreil mue;i with s-.voiieiL fi-t &ad -l.orits. .View bottl' s of Centaur I.inmc-Bl lias !i!- t!ie Avrii for me. I have not beta IVi-c; from these swellings i n ele-Iit years. Now 1 it) ;erfect!y i eil. The Liiiii.ieu oujiht to be ape,',),. j warm. B. r.RuW The proof is in tiie trial. It is reliable, it it handy, it is eh -;i o, ai;i every family shoaldV have th V. Jiito ;,t;;ur l.inihiett. '1 iie Yellow ( ciitanr J.in inic j: t is adapt ed to th-s touirh muscles, cords and rlesh o horses and animals. It has perioriued moro wonderful c::r-s, in three years, of Spavin, strain. Wind-'xds, Scratches, Sweeny, and jreneral Lameness, than ail other reiuedien in existence. Read w hat t he fcreat Express men say of it : "Xew Yoik, January, ISTi. "Kv' ry o-vner of horses should frive tho CKNT.-vi.it Liniment a trial. We consider it th1 'vsr art ! ?!" ever used in our stables. "II. MAliSll.Su:.;. Adams F.s. s; abies.X.Y. "K. ITl.TZ, SU t. IT. S. i;. stables. N. Y. "Ah S. LiN, rupt. Nat. Kx. Slabies, N.Y."' The best Patrons of this I. ir.iment r Far riers j'.nd Veterinary M:r-. ot.s, who r continually usinr some litiimetit. It hnx la lis. Wounds, poll-evil, removes Swellings, r. nd is wort h millions of d:inrs usiomt'iy 10 Farmers, Liv.-r -men, sjoeii-siro-v.-crs. Su-ei--rais- rs, and thos - havin g iiors -.? or cattle. W'lvu. a l-'arrior canrutt do ;..r $-a, t lv Cn tuttr r.iai'iiet will do tit a tnti-Hir est. These Liniments are s-Li t. ail d;tr t hr-e'.hout the e.nmtry. Th- y :.r- warr.i'TUii bv tiie proprietors, and a ho;:ie will be :iv u to any farrier or Ph siciati who desires to test t ae:n. Labratory cf J. E. Rose & Go., It. Ijky St., N j:v Yokk. HOIfEY. o Pitcher's Cnstori.i is sx eompl-to substi tute for Castor Oil. ami is as pleasant to t:ikj as honey. It is particularly adapted toTeetu iii and irritable children. It d-'stroys worms, assimilates the food, regulates t he stomach, and cures Wind-Colic. fVw remedies uro us eti:e:ici.us for Feverish ness. Croup, Vrrnnu, and Whooping Coush. Castoria is a scier:f 't? " and ptsrely vejret able preparation, mor cCVe tive than Castor Oil, and neither ir.is nor irripos. Prei ated by Messrs. .1. Jt. Re.se tv Co., -to I ley St.. New York, from the recipe of aaia uel Pitcher, M. L., of iiarnsla.ble, Haw. I. SELLTISTG- II S JUST RECEIVED THE LAP.GK.ST stock of FALL AND WINTER GOODS ever imported to Orejron City, which he ofl rr at greatly reduced prices. My stock of CLOTHING ITas been largely increased and I can show as handsome a line of ready-made goods ia Men and Roys' Rusiness and Lress Suits, Coats, etc., as can bo found in the countrv.aud at prices that cannot fail to sat isfy. My " CRESS GCCDS DEPARTMENT e Is filled with a splendid assortment of all th leadinjr styles and fashionable shadesof good Empress ( lolli. "lohnirs, Frencli anrt America t Orcus (Woods 0 iiiuck Alpacca, Krilliu ii tines, Caslimf rvA, sc. FLA isflsr ELS. Plaid, Plain and Opera Flannels, of 1I colors. Rlcached and Unbleached Cotton Flannels. Ladies' and Gents'' Indrraan Miawl and Scarfs, Wool liia llUets, Trunks and Traveling: Satchels, Hats aiitl C'n ps. Oil Cloth, for Floor a nd Tbl. BOOTS and GHOSS, I would call special attention to my stock of Men's and Roys' San Francisco Boots, which I have sold for anumbe of years past with sreu oral satisfaction. F.vrrv nair warranted. A omplete stock of HARDWARE & FARM1?JS UTEKSILS Choice Tens,' Canned Cioods, aodall choio Family Gi-oceries, All at Low Prices! Also, LIVERPOOL AND CARMAN ISLAND SALT. Highest Trice paid for all hinds of Cous2t?0y fiB"od3zc?. 200,000 lbs. of WOOL Wanted, for which I shall pay the highest cash price. I. SUliW-'" Oregon City, 'ov. 1, 1875-tf. SINGER SEWING EIACHIHES! SOLD ON THE MOSTFAVOR.Vr.T.ETEnMS Small MOXTUtY PVYMKTS. V1"-?- MDOIIK, at Casedy's Store, Oregon t lty, "J send to t he subscriber for terms. K. F. Hero. Canvassing Agent, Box 3T-i, Portland, Oregon- I ) 1 -