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0-) 1t .BailB lav&tu A.STOR1 A-OREGON: TUESDAY. .-..DEC. 27, 1881 J.F IIILLOUAX .Editor, i Here Too. In" an article on the improve ment of the Mississippi river the St. Louis Globe-Democrat uses several arguments that have almost as potent an application to our case in the Northwest as to the people of that valley. The G. D., in the course of its remarks, says: "The whole matter is one which should be discussed in a broad and comprehensive spirit. The impor tance of a systematic improve ment of the great central water course of the nation should be thoroughly appreciated by Con gress. It should first make up its mind that the work is one that is to be thoroughly prosecuted, that it is no mere local affair, but one involving the main .current of the national trade, and hence af fecting largely the national pros perity. "This being understood, it would be wise to examine and review the reports of the Mississippi Eiver Commission. If the suggestions of that-body are decided to be the best attainable, with a view to permanency and effectiveness, then they should be adopted. If any doubts exist as to the advisability of following them, the matter should be settled before the ex penditures commence. This is an enterprise that should be built up on sure foundations from the bot tom. The appropriation of a little dab of money here and a. little dab there is, as a rule, sheer wasteful ness. No plan, of course, is ex pected to place the main rivers in such a condition that they will need no further attention, but there is an attainable degree of thoroughness which will greatly diminish the cost of future labor, and this is what is to be aimed at. .The general plan being decided upon, it ought to be strictly ad hered to, without reference to the cries of the member from Podunk that his 'deestrick' is in a hurrv to have some public money distribut ed within it. . The chief enemy to the proper treatment of our grand river sys tern is the pressure brousrut to bear on individual Congressmen to . -get local appropriations. It has embarrassed the prosecution of useful and necessary work, and .thrown such a discredit on the river and harbor bills, that there is a natural desire to separate the Mississippi scheme from then:. If this contemplated improvement is to be conducted on correct and economic principles, Congressmen must.rise above district and State lines and regard the country as a whole. It would be wise, unless there is plenty of money to spend, Cltojleteven the Missouri alone un til the Mi&sissippi is taken care of to the point of confidence of the two " rivers. This, regarded from the right standpoint, is as much an improvement of the Missouri as it is ,of .the Mississippi, for it is claimed that the Missouri is the main river, from its headwaters in Montana to the Gulf, and that the Upper Mississippi is the tributary. There is nothing in the names in this matter. The idea is to make thorough work from the founda tion, attend to the principal stream or main roadway first, and then to the tributaries. 'If Congress decides to spend large amounts ot money right away, well and good. Then the amount of early work may be extended; 'but the principle to be adhered to always is to put whatever money is appropriated where it will do the ' 'most good to the greatest number, be the amount great or small. Con centration at the right point is cwKat-is wanted, and no dissipation of force in the vain attempt to ebver'too -much ground. That is the way Napoleon gained his vic tories and formed his empire of kingdoms, and that is the way that the most effective improvement of our system of water-courses can be accomplished." The last paragraph of the article j quoted is particularly applicable in the matter of the proper im- j provement of the Columbia. A Denial. A Washington dispatch of the 24th says: "Congressman Curtin J and several of his Democratic col- j leagues from Pennsylvania, inclu- ! ding ex-Speaker Randall, express considerable vexation at the re ports which have gained currency and which have been specially brought to their attention by a re cent caustic editorial in the San Francisco Bulletin concerning the alleged purpose of Curtin and his friends to take revenge upon south ern claimants of seats in congress for the opposition of southern Democrats tc Curtin's admission in last congress. Governor Curtin says he has no such purpose, ami emphatically denies that he has even thought of voting on southern election cases in any spirit of re venge or otherwise than upon their merits. His Pennsylvania Demo cratic colleagues say there was never a conference among them on that subject and do not know of any such project and would not join in any if it were proposed. They also emphatically assert that so far from being snubbed, Gov ernor Curtin has been received in the house of representatives with the greatest kindness by Demo crats and Republicans." The Alta has a grand plan "Tor solving the Irish question. It is to "weed the Irish out" if they refuse to pay rent, and let their places be supplied by Scotch and English. The Alta's plan lacks the merit of originality. Cromwell "weeded them out" 240 years ago by send ing them to die by thousands in the "West Indies, but the unreason able creatures won't stay "weeded out." Reloi:ts from the various Cen tral and Southern Pacific railway stations in California and Nevada of the amount of rainfall for the twelve months ending June 30th, 1881, show various degrees of humidity, from a rainfall for the year at Cisco in the Sierra Nevada of 82.71 inches to .88 of an inch in the arid desert of the Colorado in San Diego county. The drift of Congressional opinion seems to he that Alaska is a little premature in asking for a territorial form of government, and, for the present at least, must be contented with annexation for governmental purposes to Wash ington. It is estimated that there are 1,200,000 survivors of the Union army. There were 2G8,000 pen sioners on the rolls last July, and if the present law is not repealed, it. is thought that Uncle Sam will have 180,000 more to care for by next Jul. Beeciikk's opinion of the Guiteau matter is, "he who is sane enough to organize the elements of a crime, and accomplish it, is sane enough to be hanged." Talmage thinks that the curse of this country is geniuses; the men who think themselves Lord Byrons because they have his vices. Fejluino absorption by Mexico, Guatemala has asked the protec tion of the United States which will, probably be. givon. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. STEAMER MAGNET, M.G.MOKGAN. - M.VSTEU. i Chans?- ef Time After Dec. 10th. 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