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The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1865-10-28

from it the thousands Of honest, firm,
sincere Democrats, who will Y resort
to di~screditable or dishonorable means,
to win success. Here, the civilians,
the people, not the soldiers, not the pol
i~ticians, hold the sway and control the
organization of cur party, 1t is to the
good sense. the honest convictions and
patriotism of the people, that the Democ-
racy of Oregon appeal for the support
which shall yield them 4 triumph. They
will use only honorable means to obtain,
they will be wiling to accept and enjoy
only an honorable victory. 1t is not for
Offices and spoils they battle, but for prin-
ciples and right, and to see that these
are maintained through the period of
control, they mean to select only the best
and truest men for the positions to be fill
ed. They have no pet Generals, ready
to turn their backs on their own conduct
during a four years war to enjoy a civil
position in future; they have no need to
bait their platform with something which
may catch soldiers votes; they do not
propose to take to their arms the apostate
johnson, and excuse all his past excuses
by approving his present policy, merely
because he simply does his sworn duty ii
obeying a very few provisions of the Con
stitution MOI dothey propose to purchas,
success at the sacrifice of principle o.
party faith and duty in every manner
whatsoever. They will not fall into a pi
ike hat which the Democrats of Penn
~sylvania and Ohio dug for themselves, b,
aYowing certain cardinal principles il
their State platform, and nominating can
didatcs who have most damagingly assail
ed those principles. The evil exampl
of those States they will shun, let victor
or no victory be the consequence.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1865-10-28

MASSACHUSETTS PHILANTHROPY
are about 700 orphan girls and
grown young women soon to arrive on
upper coast-at Olympia and Port
|land-from Massachusetts,. They come
to find employment and homes. They
have been sent from Massachusetts,. 1t is
singular, if not discreditable, that while
50 much care and 50 much money are de-
voted to indOlent negroes in that Puritan
State, by the patent-right philanthrOpists
of the Equality AhOcl, these poor white
girls and young are shipped away
like so many slaves, to be apprenticed out
TO any who win purchase their services.
on this coast,
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1865-10-28
European Intelligence.
General News.

Liverpool, Oct. 2.-At Dublin yesterday O'Bran-
nan of the Connaught Patriot was committed for
trial on a double charge of treason and felony.
The Pope has again pronounced an alIocution !.
which is making some stir in Europe This timn'
be Eliminates against the Freemasons, reminding
them that several of his predecessors have pro-
scribed and reproyed that sect, entrance into which.
they declared, should entail accommodation
which the Pope alone could remove. The Pope
denounees Freemasons as instigstors of revolutions,
and calls on secular governments to suppress them.
The Steele. of Paris, says in Europe more than
two millions Of Catholics are Freemasons. The
Pope condemns al other societies of a similar kind.
A Corknewspaper says: ssThe British Govern
ment, having received information from the British
Minister at Washington thatlarge parties of armed
men were coming to Ireland in the steamships
City of Dublin and City of New York. the former
was overhauled at Cork Haven, bat nothing of .
suspicious character appeared on board.
The examination of the Fenians at Dublin was
concluded October I'd. The additional evidence
developed nothing new. Five prisoners were COM
mittcd for trial for high treason. The prisoners
denied the imputations that an indiseriminatc
slaughter of the sristoeraeic class was ever medi-
tatcd. Arrests continue in various parts Of the
interior.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1865-10-28
Pacific Coast Dispatches.

San Francisco, Oct. 21-Priyate dispatches
quote gold in New York on the 2eth inst. at I464
and 147. The following dispatch was received in
San Francisco to-day:
New York, Oct. l5-To W. C. Ralston: The
credit of California is being injured here by exag-
Grated accounts Of the e~al1hqaake. 1t Is reported
to have been something alarming. Please have q
correct statement forwarded TO me for publication.
lSignedl H. W. CARPENTER.
On the strength of this dispatch. the President
of the Chamber of Commerce was authorized to
communicate with the New York Chamber Of Conn.
meree an official account of the shock. A tele-
gram containing full accounts of the shock was
forwarded to-day. II is said that $1,000 viii cover
the greatest amount of damage done to any one
building.
Adviccs from the Russian Telegraph Expedi-
ton, just received here, report the steamer Wright
ut PIover Bay, Sept, Esd. The work was slowly
progressing. The expedition learned from the In
dams that a few days before their arrival the rebel
Shenandoah had made its ppearanco in those wa
tiers, and had destroyed several vessels. The last
seen of her she was heading south.
4 special order has been issued from headquar-
tiers for the arrest of Capt. John I. Hill, Of the 9th
Infantry, California Volunteers, who is on trial
before a Military Court Martial on the charge of
murder. afedged to have been committed in Neya-
da. Hill claims he is in the hands of the civil au-
thorities of Sonoma eonety, subject to . reqaisition
from the Governor of Nevads, where he claims the
right to be tgied before a civil cours 0mceTs and
lso1u4eIS dAS ofuc{SA 10 a1u IN securing MS arrest
1t is charged that when his company was on the
way through Nevada, they found the dead body
of an Indian woman with . living child elinging
to ii. Captain Hill ordere1thc dead woman to 30
scalped, and not satisfied with this cold bIooded
act, ordered the infant to be torn from the bosom
of its dead mother and dashed over . p~recipicss.
The fall not completely killing the child, its bFaina
were dashed out with stones by the order Of Capt
Hill.
San Francisco, Dot. 25.-The Pacikc Mail
Steamship Company promise to shorten the sched-
ule time Of their through line between san Fran
cisco and New York to twenty-one or twenty-one
and a half days, under the new arrangement which
goes into effect the first of November. The time
between this port and Panama is not to.bs lessen
ed. Reduction in the through trip is to be effected
by making the time on the Atlantic side inside Of
eight days.
A meeting of workmen engaged in different
branches Of manufacturing machinery, have called
a meeting for Friday evening next, at Dashaway
Hall, to protest against a repeal of the specific con-
tract law and endorses the report Of the Chamber
of Commerce on the same.
Legal Tenders, 704@T04.
We have Honolulu dates to the Esd Of Septem-
Der. Private letters report the sugar season at an
end, and a scarcity Of the article at Honolulu.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1865-10-28

STATE RIGHTs.-The present Chief
Justice of the United States, Salmon 7.
Chase, made a speech in Ohio in 1857, in
which he said:
We 1.-THE people of Ohio) have rights which
the Federal Government must not invade
rights superior to lis power. on which eur
sovereignty depends. and we do mean to as
sert those rights against all %tyrannical usur-
pations of authority
Great principles. ike truths, never die.
Certainly the same principles which stood
cardinal and paramount at the time of the
foundation of our Government, exist with
equal force IN this days they did also
in 1857. There has been no change in
the Constitution, no alteration of its real
meaning, by any competent authority 1t
is plain, then, that State Rights are the
same to-day that they were in 1857, Yet
Chief Justice Chase and his whole party
now say that the doctrine of State Rights
is a reasonable heresy. Then it was so
in 1857. IF the reverse of what Mr..
Chase declared in 1857 was a reasonable
heresy, it must be so still. Therefore,
take either horn of the dilemma he and
they please, it simply conyicts him and
his party of having been h%eretics and
traitors in 1857, or they are SO now. The
Democracy has a clear record in the mat
ter-it has always stood by State Rights.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1865-10-28
The State Fair Election.


The Statesman copies the following
from an article we printed about the
State Fair some weeks ago;
Around the polls, busily ~electiopeering,
were some of the owners and employees of
the Salem Statesman. They all appeared to
mainly direct their energies TO procure the
defeat of Jas. II. Douthit, a farmer, but a
Democrat, of Linn county, for President.
And adds:
There is not a word of truth in the state
ment.
Now, why did not the Statesman, in
quoting from us, copy exactly what we
said, as follows:
Around the polls, busily e~lectioneerins,
were some of the owners and employees Of
the Salem Statesman. They all appeared
to mainly direct their energies to procure
the defeat of Jas. II. Douthit, a farmer, but
a Democrat, of Linn county, for President,
and of E. VI. Waite, of their own party, but
who proposes to publish the Plowman, for
Corresponding Secretary.
This shows hat paper to be guilty of
garbling and misrepresentation to make
out its own case. Now, we viii provo Its
denial as it quoted US, of what we stated,
to be false. We saw the tickets which
came from the Statesman Office at that
election, and which some of the owners
and employees of that paper most indus
%triously fnot impertinently e~lectioneered
On these tickets we're printed, for Presi-
dent, the names of Mr.. Eddy, Ralph
Geer, or Joel Palmer, respectively. But
not on a single one Of them scas printed
the name of Jas. II. Douthit. This must
satisfy uniformed and impartial persons
that the Statesman Office was inimieal to
Mr.. Douthit's election. But we have
stronger proof still. We saw and heard
"some of the owners and employees Of
the Statesman Office" offer to voters, and
beg of them to vote, tickets with the
name of some other candidate than Mr.
Douthit, for President. And yet strong
er proof: Two well known citizens Of
Linn county had their membership tick
cts paid for BY an employee of the States
man Office, 3 that they might vote, and
unexpectedly they voted the ticket he
gave them-a ticket which had not the
name of Jas. FL. Douthit on it, but thai
of another candidate for the Presidency
of the Society. OF these two votes We
have information-there might have beer
other votes similarly obtained, of which
no information has reached US. But Ger
tainly we have adduced proof enough tt
establish the correctness of our charges
The S~tatesman's object is apparent
It knows We stated the truth it ais,
knows that many of its readers never SCI
our paper And in giving the denial i
did, it knew that our proofs of its owl
falsity would never fall under the eyes o
hundreds of its readers. Therefore, tina
denial would answer its purpose bad
though they were. But there are plenty
besides US who were present at the cleo
ton, and who equally well know tina
some of the owners and employees of tina
paper did oppose Mr.. Douthits election
To come at the thing directly, however
can it name q mar connected With tn,
Statesman Office who did vote for4Jas. Il
Douthit for President? Now, show you
hand.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1865-10-28
T TO 2s,
From The South.

New York, Oct 23..The Herald's Raleigh cor
respondent says of the North Carolina Convention
that a singular announcement was made by the
Chairman to the effect that after a diligent search
he was unable to procure a national flag to place
over the Capitol, and had to send to New York
for one.
Nothing but the timely receipt of a telegram
from President johnson saying that North Carroll
ma should ut once and forever repudiate every dol
lar of indebtedness contracted to assist the rebellion,
prevented the staving off by the secession members
of a vote on the ordinance completely ignoring
that debt.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1865-10-28
DATES TO OCTOBER 90.
JeE: Davis asks Trial.

New York, Oct. 2O.-A Washington dispatch
says the counsel for JEFF. Davis have expressed a
desire that his client be accorded an immediate
trial. The desire comes originally from Davis,
who, it is said, has declared that be has no fears for
the issue, and that therefore the Government will
do him a great favor by arraigning him at the
earliest possible moment. The recent favorable
change in his every day life is mainly the work of
the President, and at this hour has about every
thing he could ask, save liberty itself and the pres
ence of his family.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1865-10-28

SoLD OUT.-Ths Statesman says the Cal
ifornia Stage Company has sold out their
Oregon route, stages, horses and property,
to the Pioneer Company, of which Louis Nc
Lane, Chief Superintendent of Wells, Fargo
& Co.'s Express Company on this coast, is
President.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1865-10-28

New CoLLEeE.-The members Of the re-
ligious denomination of United Brethren in
Oregon propose to erect and found a College
on Mary's river, five miles from Corvallis,
the ensuing ummer, to be called fhilo-
math College" The Gazette says over Sl8,-
900 are already subscribed for that purpose.
The building is to be of brick, sixty by one
hundred feet, and two stories.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1865-10-28

Mon ExRcUTIoNs.-Fiye men we're recent
Iy hung by the Vigilance Committee in Mon
tana Territory. The names of four are CIV
en-, as follows: jackson alias Jones, Nor
gan alias Collins, Cooke and Cam Kirby
(brother of Billy Kirby but the name of
the other one is not included in the account.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1865-10-28

SNuBBED.-Wc see in late State papers
that Horace Greeley recently called at
the White House to see President john
son, and after dancing attendance for an
hour or two was obliged to leave without
being admitted 10 3 the presence" Hor-
ace is a radical-the President is trying
to build up q conservative" party. The
two WON'T hitch.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1865-10-28

MENAcIEG.-The Monntaineer assaiIs Gov.
Gibbs for having called for a special election
to elect a Representative in Grant county,
and argues that the call ought to be for the
election Of . Representative for Wasco
ty. Borland, whose vacancy is to be filed.
was a resident Of GranA county. But the
M~ountaineer contends this is no reason why
the election should be called in that county.
In conclusion it says
But if it l. really the intention to disfran.
|chise Wasco county approximation, the Ex-
%ecutive may possibly find that his power in
this State has limits, and means viii NOT be
wanting to show him where those limits be.
gin and end.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1865-10-28

GoLD DUsT PKIcEs.-At a meeting held at
Silver City, Idaho, the following rates were
fixed for gold dust Battery dust S. per
ounce Greek dust (clean) So; Bannock
dust ~(clean) $14. A motion to repudi-
ate battery dust as a currency prevailed.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1865-10-28
A Vacancy IN Rcntou Coun,v.

We call the attention of Gov. Gibbs to
another vacancy in the Legislative As
sembly, which he seems to have overlook
cd when he issued his ordcrfor special cleo
tons to fill vacancies in that body, in the
counties of Polk, Yamhill, Clackamas and
Grant. There is a vacancy in Benton
county. Senator Hovey is no longer a
resident of that county. Ills case is made
perfectly clear upon another score how
ever. The Constitution of Oregon says,
Art. ii, See. 10:
No person holding n lucrative Office or
appointment under the United States, or I'M
der this State, shall be eligible to a seat in
the Legislative Assembly"
The only exceptions to this provision
are fer officers in the militia" who have
no annual salary, and postmasters whose
compensation does not exceed one hund,
red dollars per annum. Mr.. Hoyey Is
now holding an Office in the Surveyor
Generals ofkee in Eugene City. This
disqualifies him for the position of State
Senator. He holds a salaried Lucrative
Office, under the United States by appoint
ment- Besides, he has removed from
Benton county, from which he was elect
ed, into Lane county, which is a distinct
and separate SRnatorialdistrict. A strong
er case, save it would be one of death
could not be presented. Therefore, it mus
have been an oversight in Gov. Gibbs
the failure to order a special election ii
Benton to fill the vacancy caused in tn,
Senate by Mr.. IIovcy's disqualification
The people look for his Excellency to cor
rect his error, and issue the order for
special election in Benton. So do the,
in Linn, to fill DR.. Billiards. vacancy ii
the same body. The time for the Gov
ernor to act isrshort, yet it is not too late
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1865-10-28

GETTISq Enthusiastically and adul-
terating gold dust are becoming prevalent in
The citizens mean to stop both
erils if possible.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1865-10-28
SPECULATE A LIrrLE."-The Re

"~SPEcULATE A LITTLE."-The Rev.
Granville Moody of the Methodist Church
is a shining light among his class at the
East. 1t was he that in the National
Conference a year or so ago launched such
terrible anathemas against all Roman
Catholics, and asserted that the negroes
were far superior to the Irish, and more
worthy the right of suffrage. OF course
his reverence must be a very pious, ex-
%cellent, godly man. We propose to show
that he is from his own sanctimonioqs lips.
A loyal paper of Cincinnati gives an~ae-
count of a meeting of preachers recently
held in Troy, Miami county, Ohio, from
which it appears that
The Rev. Granville Moody advised his
brethren to speculate a little now and then
if they could do it honestly. and thus lay
something away for future use. There was
no harm in it, he had doneit before and still
intended to.
By counselling them to speculate a
~little," it must not be inferred, as a mat
ter Of course, that the reverend man in
tended that they should turn horse jock
eys, stock brokers, or real estate sharpers.
Nothing of the kind certainly not. Eve
rybody knows the advice the Quaker
gave to his son :."Get money, Obadiah
honestly if thee can; bRt get money
The pure Moody didn't exactly say this,
but he did say all that there was need Of
saying. There are not a few of Brother
Moody's pious calling in the country who
have, during the wal particularly, "spec-
ulated a little and a good deal more SO.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1865-10-28

CONDEMNS ITsELF.-The Abolition San
Francisco Flag says:
The Stockton Independent states the case
quite strong enough when it says that the
tyranny Of England over Ireland is such as
tends might be ashamed of.
Eugland's tyranny owe Ireland has
been execrable, but at its worst it was mild
in comparison to the tyranny exercised by
the party in power not only over the South,
butoyer Democrats in the Northern States.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1865-10-28

No NEGRO SuFFRAGE.-The Constitution
of Colorado, now about to assume Statehood,
forbids negro suffrage.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1865-10-28
From Mexico.

New York, Oct. 20.-The Herald's correspon-
dent on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande states
that q confused condition of affairs prevails. Cor
tinas and other Republican leaders are still hover
ing in mall bands in the vicinity of MatamQras,
and ~skirmishes between them and the Imperials
are still occurring, though not frequently. Some
of the Liberal leaders in that region are remaining
in a comparatively quiet state, awaiting the result
of Gen. CarvajaFs mission to the United States
They are confident the result will be the furnishing
them with all the men, money and material neces-
sary to rid the country Of Imperialists within the
next eight months. They have already received
reinforeements from some quarters.
Prisoners taken on either side in these border
contests have little chance oflife. Generally after
being subjected to a mock trial they arc taken out
and shot.
The reported defeat of Imperialists by Republi-
cans at Ell Haryel is confirmed.
Six thousand Imperial troops were expected at
Monterey on the 25th of September to reinforce
those on the Rio Grande.
Macmillan, it is said, has issued q decree direct
ing that no vessel be admitted into Mexican ports
which cannot show proper papers from the Consul
of his Empire in the port from which they sail.
General News
Nashville, October 20.-The notorious guerilla
Champ Ferguson was hanged to-day. The execu-
ton was strictly p~rivate.
New York, Oct. 20.-The Hefald's correspondent
from Brownsville, Texas, and New Orleans, states
that considerable sensation and apparently little
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1865-10-28
Another Negro Church.


The Congregational Church Association
of California have adopted resolutions in
favor ofthc
Immediate acknowledgements of all men of
full age without respect to color, birth or
other circumstance who are not now voters,
as have served in our armies during the late
war, and all other men without distinction,
as are able 10 write their names and to read
the Consultation of the country in English.
Mark, the negro is to vote whether he
can read or write or not, "all other men
without distinction provided they care
able to write their names and to read the
Constitution of the country in English"
This is a persimmon above the ordinary
Radical gooseberry. But we cannot inn
|agine why the Association ~stipulates that
all other men" shall be able to read the
Constitution, unless it be to instruct them
how to violate it, or at least inform them
of its provisions SO that they may regard
the whole thing as forbidden fruit. Sure
ly, the men who pass this sort of resolu-
lions pay no heed to the Constitution
save to spurn and deridc it.
The Association goes on to request the
Legislature
At its next session to ratify the proposed
Amendment to the National Constitution
abolishing Slavery, and to adopt such meas
ures as shall give to all citizenspf the State,
without respect 10 color or other circum-
stances not involving crime, the right to vote
and all other rights of freemen.
To escape the anathemas and inaledic-
dictions of the Church, no doubt the Leg
stature will at once pass the proposed
Acts. Or, if they cannot do better, tbs
majority might frame aud pass a bill
which shall declare any member of the
Congregational Church of California en-
titled to all the rights, immunities, ant
privileges enjoyed by the negroes-pro
yided, the aforesaid members are able t.
write tbs II names and read the Constitu
tion in English. They certainly coult
not grumble at such terms and conditions
it is thei own pilldone up in their own box