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The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1867-03-02
THE RAILROAD.

The telegraphic and other news this
week is very meagre, owing to the storms
all over the country; but there is one
item that has managed to get over the
wires which we are glad to see. 1t is to
the effect that the Commissioner of the
General Land Office has recently submit
ted to the Secretary of the Interior, two
lists of selections of land in Oregon, IN
der the SOC, 900 grantof 1864, amounting
to about 116, 1884 in the Oregon City Dis
trict, and 1854 acres in the Roseburg
District.
This looks ike business. ItshOws that
those engaged in the Oregon Railroad en-
terprise are not idle.
A law has been passed by Congress
which grants to the California and Ore
gon Railroad Company the right of way
for a railroad and telegraph line bstween
the city of Portland and the Central Pa
.ci6c Railroad IN California. The Califor-
mia Company is to begin its end of the
road at such point on the Central Pacific
Railroad, in the Sacramento Valley, as it
may select, and run it thence nOrtherly
through the Sacramento and Shasta val
,leys to the northern boundary Of the
State /; and the Oregon Company is re-
.quired to begin its end of the line at
Portland, and run thence southerly
through the Willamette, Umpqua and
Rogue River valleys to the southern
boundary of Oregon, connecting with the
California road. Sections of at least twenty
miles are required to be completed every
year, and the whole road to be done by
July l, 1875. The gauge must be the
same as that of the Pacific Railroad, and
the companies arc required, in c~onsidera-
.tion of the liberal grants made, to traps
port the mails at all times at reasonable
rates, and to convey, free of charge, the
troops and property of the United
States.
1t is now certain that if the people of
Oregon viii give it the encouragement
and assistance which the interest Of every
person in the State imperatively demands
it should have, the road viii be speedily
commenced and pushed On to final COM
pletion. Construct this road and the
whole amount of taxable property in the
State viii be doubled; the cost of the
transportation of goods and produce will be
lessened at least one-half, and the rate of
State taxes will be very materially de-
creased. Let every one who can put his
shoulder to tie wheel.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1867-03-02
TIE GREAT PEDEsrRIAN OF THE AGE

The GREAT PEDESTRIAN OF THE AGE.
We, says the Alta Californian of recent
date, have received a call FROM C. F.
Schaefer, the famous German traveller,
who is making a tour of the world, SO far
as practicable, on foot, and is now in this
city in route for Mexico, Central America,
South America, as far down as Chile aud
ultimately China, japan, and the .eoun-
tries of the East generally. He has al
ready travelled on foot over a large part Of
Europe, Africa, and Eastern Asia, and
during the nineteen months he has been
an America, has crossed the Cont
nent ON foot, and visited tw~entyithree
States and Territories. Mr.. Schaefer, who
is deformcd from an injury to the spine
received in carly youth, and is not over
four feet eight inches in height, has tray.
,eled already seVenty-fVe thousand miles
of which forty-fve thousand were accom-
,plished on foot. He is often indebted to
the generosity Of the proprletors of public
conveyance for a ride by stage; railroad
or steamboat, and having, no funds of his
own, depends on the public for such small
pecuniary assistance as he may need from
time to time. When he completes the
The tour Of the world, he will return to
Germany and publish the result of his OBJ
serYations in all countries. He has col.
ilected, during his Eanderings, an immense
number Ofautographs ofnotabIe men, seals
of different societies, etc, etc, which will
be of rare interest hereafter.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1867-03-02

Our OF THE DEPTHs.-Wonder will
never cease. Lovers of natural history
were in extacies not long since, in view
of the discovery of the eyeless ish--fat,
frisky fellows-fresh from the under
ground streams of the Mammoth Cave
This morning we were presented with a
number of lively little fish by our friend,
Joseph Winch, Esq, which were thrown
up from a depth of some thirty feet below
the in Bryan, Ohio. In boring for water
in the locality mentioned, the anger, after
penetrating a depth of twenty-eight or
thirty feet, haYing evidently encountered
a subterranean canal of some description
containing water; a strong and continu-
Gus stream of which has continued to be
thrown out at the surface eyer since
The water is very cold, and is strongly
~impregnated with sulphur. Immense
quantitiesof these little fish are forced
up along with the water, and, on being
placed in vases supplied with water from
almost any section of the country, contin-
ued as lively and vigorous as when first
making their appearance on terra frma,
They seem to belong to the "chub" fam,
lily, are beautifully variegated, have been
bright eyes, and seem to live and grow
fat on nothing !-[Pittsburg Chronicle
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1867-03-02
THE sTAMP TAX.

Historians tell US that our forefathers
went to war with Great Britain chiefly on
account of a stamp tax on tea. They spit
upon it aud deGed the government and
tyrant under whose auspices it was issued.
Comparing the present generation with
those who preceded them, one cannot but
arrive at the conclusion that we have sad
ly degenerated. We have before us the
"Laws of the United States relating to
Internal Revenue, in force August l,
1866" and from it we have CLEANED the fol-
lowing relative to the Stamp Tax
Through those laws it is made the duty of
every American citizen to stamp his deeds;
stamp his ~afidavits stamp his contracts ;
stamp c%onvcyances; stamp entries ; stamp
assurances; stamp his leases; stamp legal
documents stamp letters ofcredit; stamp
letters of administration stamp his man
ifests 5 stamp his mortgages stamp his
pension papers and passage tickets; stamp
his photographic messages stamp hismateh-
es; stamp his cigars stamp his medi-
cines, perfumeries, cosmetics; stamp his
powers of attorney; stamp his photo
graphs; stamp his agreements and ap-
praisements; stamp his assignments /;
stamp his bank checks and bills of ex-
change; stamp his bills Of lading aud
bills of sale; stamp his bonds stamp his
cards; stamp his clearances ; stamp his
charters /; stamp his certificates Of loan /;
stamp his certificates of deposit; stamp
his certificates Of stock stamp his certi-
fcates of profit, certificates of record, GER
ti6oates of weight and certificates o fevery
kind stamp his probates of will stamp
his bonds Of executors, letters of appoint
ment and certificates of appointment
stamp his protests and promissory notes F.;
stamp his quit claim deeds; stamp his
releases and discharges; stamp his re-
ceipts; stamp his returns stamp his
deeds of trust; stamp the entire contents
of his warehouses.
Indeed, there are few things Of any
value whatever that are not either stamp
ed or taxed in some other manner. We
have sometimes wondered why our pres
ent wise Congress have not enacted that
every infant should be stamped. A stamp
of So could be placed on every n and it
would not in any wise serve to stop the
increase of population but on the con-
trary rather to augment it; because peO-
pie would Yant thus to shoE their indie
peudenoe aud hurl defiance at the Gov
erpment. Surprising that our natural in
crease is one million annually, n revenue
would thus be derived of $4,000, 900 ;
and this would pay about one-fourth of
what the Niger Bureau costs the nation
annually. 1t would help to feed, and
clothe, and educate several thousands Of
big, lazy and greasy niggers, and thus to
elevate, and refine, and ennoble the ebony
pets of this great Nation.
We trust our delegation in Congress
Fill take this scheme into serious consid-
Grafton. Our wisest statesmen are at their
yit's-end to devise SOM means by which
70 raise more revenue; and we have sub
mitted one that is perfectly feasible aud
practicable.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1867-03-02

The MOngrels are full of troubles.
They dare not try Jefferson Davis. The
late division of the Supreme Court shows
that the Incarceration Of DR.. Mudd and
Others, at the dry tortugas, is illegal.
Surratt is also likely to prove a very big
elephant on their hands, for they cannot
now try him BY military commission, and
his trial in a court of law will very likely
disclose the fact that his mother had nc
more to do with the killing of Lincoln
han Charles Sumner had. They are
therefore, in a fair way to become murder
ers themselves in the eye of the law.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1867-03-02
.TELEGRAMs TO THE SUx.-The wa

KILOGRAMS TO THE SUN.-The waves
of sound go only 377 yards in the second,
while the earth itself goes 49, miles, and
light 10000 Zines faster than that; while
electricity(which again is probably another
kind of vibration of the solid atoms of
bodies, and certainly not a iuid,) runs
along the wire about half as fast again as
light. So, if the earth>were a cannon ball
shot at the sun from its present distance,
9th the velocity it now travels with, and
the moment of explosion telegraphed to
sae sun, they would get the telegram there
in about FIVE minutes, and see the earth
coming in about eight minutes, and would
have nearly two months to prepare for the
blow which they would receive about IF
teen years before they heard the original
explosion. This is merely taking the sun
as a target to be shot at without regard to
his power of attracting the earth at the
finale Of 296 miles a second.-Dennison's
Astronomy Without Mathematics.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1867-03-02

DoUTHIF's GANG PLow.-Mr. j.. II.
Douthit, of Linn County, patentee of a
new gang pillow, has one of them doW at
the Oregon Iron works in this city.
Negotiations are in progress between the
company and Mr.. Douthit for the manu-
facture of these plows at the Oregon Iron
Works. A trial Of it OH the farm of Mr..
Coffin, on Thursday, was eminently salts
factory, DIR. G ~pronouncing it in every re-
spect superior to any gang pillow now in
use. Anybody, boy or man, who can
drive a team, can manage it easily. It is
provided with a continuance for raising
the gang out of the ground. one for hold
ing it in the ground when disposed to run
out; another for running deep or shallow at
wilAall worked by merely depressing
levers with the foot. It has also a con-
triyance for gauging the QUITO land or
to furrow; and another to regulate the
standard depth. Provision is made
against accident by running against stone
or other DISTINCTIONS under ground.
There are two plows capable of cutting IL
inches each, but which may be set to cut
half that. The whole machine is rugged
for three horses, but four may be used at
pIeasure.IOregonian.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1867-03-02

KENTUCKY FINANcEs.-The finances
of Kentucky, as is reported by papers of
that State, is certainly very encouraging.
The debt is said to be between FIVE and
six million dollars. The quartermaster
general has just been notified that $780,
600 have been made subject his late draft
by the proper national authorities. and
between one and two million dollars addi-
tlonal is expected within a few weeks
The assets are therefore enough to liqui-
date all the liabilities and to enable the
State to begin a new year free from debt.
The total population ofthe State in
1860 was l,155,6S4, of whom 9l9, 4S4
were whites. In October, 1862, the debt
was S6,205, 234. The assessed valuation
was $277 ,925,O54 on real estate in 1860;
ank s250.2S7 ,639 on personal, or $685.
FL ,693 in the gross. These facts carry
their own comments, and enable every
one to judge what the condition of the
State really is.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1867-03-02

AN AGED WoMAN.-There is now liv-
ing on the premises of Mr.. H. Blanton,
Richmond, a negress who is one hundred
and eight years old. She was a mother
with an infant in her arms at the surren-
der of CORVALLIS, was raised in Culpeper
county, Virginia. She retains her men
tai faculties to a remarkable degree;
speaks freely Of the incidents of "that
war" meaning the revolutionary struggle,
Years ago from old age she lost her sight
entirely, and within the last four years
has quite recovered it, and can now sec
as well as in the days of her youth.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1867-03-02
determination Necessary.

Our blood curdles in u veins when
We look over our exchanges and read
accounts offurther Indian depredations.
When shall itbe no longer a common oc-
curence upon our lonely trails, reaching
from the Missouri to the Columbia riyers2
shall it have an end or shall our mineral
resources remain a mystery to u enter
prising people? From a private letter
dated 1T. Phil Kearney, Dec. cath 1866,
published in the Idaho Statesman of the
I'd inst, we take the following:
FoRT PHIL KEAREY, d. T. Dec. 90.
= L have Just returned
from Laramie with The mails. #
II This fort Is 10 a very precar-
ious situation. Just at present the In
dams seem to mean mischief. On or
about the 10th Of this month they at
tackled the wood train. / was in advance
of the main train with four wagons and
ten men to load some logs that had been
capsized. On the road We were set upon
by about forty Indians. We got our
four wagons corralled and fought them
nearly an hour, when we were relieved by
the cavalry from the fort. No one Of
our party was hurt though over eighty
shots were dred at US and many arrows
thrown. The cavalry were drawn into a
skirmish and lost two men-Lieut. Bing-
ham, Of the I'd u. s. cavalry, and q SER
gcant. There were from three to Eve
hundred Indians.
And now for the massacre. I was not
here at the time, being on the road back
from Laramie. / give you the particulars
as j get them here. The 18th Of Deceni.
Der the Indians corralled the wood train
long enough to draw the troops from the
fort. They would allow thetroops to ap.
proach within gun-shot, and then retreat
In this way our men were drawn into an
ambuscade, some three miles from the
fort. The whole command Of 81 men
we're thus surrounded and killed. Not
one escaped. They were stripped
scalpcd, aud horribly mutliated. Some
had powder poured in their ears and
burnt. OF some the hearts were cut out;
aud somc-but ! spare you the painful
recital. We estimate the number Of In.
dams at from two to four thousand
We do not know now many Indians were
killed, put many. / should think, from the
poolsof blood We found. Some of our
men were armed with Spencer rifles, re-
yolvers and sabcrs, and some only with
muslcts. Each man had thirty or forty
rounds Of ammunition. One citizen went
out in the excitement armed with a Hen.
r. rife and two reviewers. lie was found
half u mile from the rest of our men with
ca arrows and one spear in his body
Near him were six dead ponies and ff.
teen or eighteen pools of blood.
We have stopped the wood trains, sent
for feinforcenGnts, and are putting the
fort in condition TO stand a siege. ,
We have several pieces Of ar.
tillery, aud three hundred rounds of am.
munition for each gun.
These Indians are the Arapahoes and
SIOUX. Their chief, Red Cloud, has q
good English education. lie is the In.
dian who met the commissioners at Lara
mic with a pipe of peace in one hand and
j culver of arrows in the other, which
meant, "peace on his " " terms
or not at all"
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1867-03-02

Booths pistol avenged the rebellion for
the arbitrary and lawless usurpation of
President Lincoln and therefore that
pure martyr of freedom cannot be brought
before any earthly tribunal Washington
City Chronicle.
That is singular for so eminently loyal
sheetasth the Chronicle. TO admit that the
President was guilty Of arbitrary and law
less %usurpations is the first step toward
the justification of his assassination for
Booth was taught, as have been all the
American people, that resistance to
tyrants isobedience to God.-Cincinnatti
Enquirer.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1867-03-02
me First Kentucky Resolution OF 1898.

Resolred, That the several States composing the
United States. are not united on the principle Of
nnlim ted submission to their General Government,
but Ii at by a compact, under the style and title of
n Constitution for the United States, and Of amend
ments thereto, they constituted a General Govern
ment, for special pu~rposes-delegated to that Gov
eminent certain definite powers, reserving, eaeh
State to itself, the residuary mass Of right to their
self-government and that whenever the General
Government assumes undelegated power, its acts
areunauthoritative, void, and Of no force; that TO
this compact each State aeeeded as a State, and Is
an integral party, its eo-States forming, rs to it
self, the other party that the Government Great
ed by this compact was not made the exclusive
or final jndge Of the extent Of the powers delegated
10 itself since that would hays made its discretion,
and not the Constitution, the measure of its pow
ers but that, as in oil other cases of compact
am0ng porers hariBg no eomHaoa judge, each party
has an equal risLf 70 judge for Itself as cell Of IN
f~ractioas az II he Raode and measure Of redress.
Henry Gays Predietion.-''The slavery
aaestion in the Free States will destroy all har-
mony, and finally lead to disunion. The cOnse-
quences of disnnion are-perpetual war--thO ex-
tinction Of the African race-ultimate military dcs-
pOtism."-Cay's Letter TO CohtOH, Sept. :, 1913.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1867-03-02

PuRGATIvE PILLS have become a set
tied necessity with the American people.
Indeed, cathartics always have been and
always must be used, in some form, by all
mankind. In this country, the pilular
form of administration has been growing
in favor since pills were first made of
Aloes and Rhubarb, rolled intoa BALI
Their high position in the public conf
dence has finally been secured aud fasten-
ed into permanency, by AYERS CATHAR4
TIC Pulls, the most skilful combination
of medicine for the diseases they are in
tended to cure, that science can devise or
art produce. Those who need pills, no
longer hesitate what pills to take if they
can get AYERS ~AILLs.J[Wheeling(Va.9
Press.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1867-03-02

OCEAN TELEGRAPHY.-The contents
of a lady's thimble would hardly be ex-
pected to constitute a very powerful ms
rument. They would hardly have been
thought capable of ne of the most aston
ishing feats ever performed by science.
The Chairman however of the Atlantic
Telegraph Company informs US that this
little instrument has actually achieved
such q feat. By way of experiment, the
engineer Of the company Joined the ex-
termities Of the two cables which now
stretches across the Atlantic, thus form
ing an immense loop line offs 800 miles.
He then put some acid in a lady's silver
tbimble, with bits Of zipc and copper, and
by this supple agency he succeeded in
passing signals through the whole length
in little more than a second Of time. 4
few years ago how incredible such a state
ment would have sounded 1t seems,
indeed, that the simplicity of the facts
has taken even electricians by surprise
When a cable was first laid across the
whole breadth of the Atlantic, it was an
ticipated than an unusually high power
would be sequisite to drive the current in
sufficient force through such a length.
In the first instance, therefore, they used
a battery with 80 cells, and afterwards
employed 500 cells. But this extraordi-
nary power only injured the cable, and
the company are now working between
Valentia and Hearts Content with g bat
terry of only 20 cells. It is, in fact, re-
markable how greatly the success of the
present year has dissipated the supposed
difficulties of distant or deep sea tele-
graphy.-CLondon Times.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1867-03-02

WATERPROOF BooTs.-A correspon-
dent writes that six years experience has
convinced him that a coat of gum copal
varnish applied to the soles of boots and
shoes, and repeated as it dries until the
pores are filed and the surface shines like
polished mahogany, will make the soles
waterproof and also cause them to last
three times as long as ordinary ones
Northwest, Freeport, Illinois.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1867-03-02

BETTER OFR.-Brick Pomeroy says:
The poor Of the West are nabobs in COM
parison to the poor Of NV York. We
would not exchange our cMce-horseback
rides over the prairies-our earnest
friends and good fellows of the West for
all the wealth Of Astor or Stewart, and be
forced to live in New Nork The man
who is earning two dollars a day in La
Crosse is better off than one who earns
ten in New York. Here one cannot turn
round without paying for the privilege.
The payements are hot, hard, and crowd
cd. The air comes thick With offensive
vapors, laden with death, and seems to
gum the lungs with an invisible coating
of filth. The parks are not the groves of
the west-the water is not like that of
our country-ths vegetables are wiltcd-
the meat cooked By s'machinery"-the
food tastes more like .'nations" than a re-
past-the air is filed with dust-the
hearses go BY continually, bearing the
dead to the quiet cities over the river. /,
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1867-03-02

OYSTERS, FRoGs, AND SNAILs.-The
daily consumption of oysters in Paris
amounts to upward of three quarters Of q
million. The number of snails-now SO
fayorite an edible with the Partisan
gourmands as to have thrown the frog, the
national delicacy par erceHence completely
into the shade-brought daily to the
Paris market is not SO easily ascertained:
all one knows is that from Burgundy and
Champagne, the great snailproducing dis
tricts, upward of one hundred thousand
are dispatched to Paris every day.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1867-03-02
The Impress oran Hour.

Marie CarIotta, daughter of Leopold I,
of Belgium, and Louise, daughter of Louis
Philippe, of France. and first cousin to
Victoria, and wife of Macmillan, Arch
duke OF Austria, died at Mirqmar, near
Trieste, on the 18th of this month. She
was born in June, 1910, and married in
1857. In June, 1864, she accompanied
her husband to Mexico. In July Of the
current year she returned to Europe to
obtain aid from Napoleon and the Pope
for her husband whose power was growing
less and promising to be lost. She failed
in her demand on Napoleon, and showed
signs Of insanity while visiting the Pope
subsequently. Her brother took her 10
Miramar, where, after additional eyiden-
ces OF insanity, she died. 1t Is reported
that she was occupied to the last with
schemes for supporting and sustaining I
Power which has lost its cbiefprop in her.
Carlotta seems to have been the con-
trolling and ordering intellect Of the royal
family Of modern Mexico. She brought
youth, wealth, beauty, influence, and abil-
lty to the discharge Of the duties of her
position, and as much of MaximiliaD's
small success as is attributable to any
cagse belongs to her as Napoleon or her
husband. She was wise, though impetu-
Gus in COUNCIL, and brave of heart. Po-
Gtically, her death has significance only
in its effects on Mexico, and it is hardly
possible that it will not weigh heavily in
influencing that abdication Of the emperor
which has been some ting atud5ncibe
and that return to Europe which appears
to be so Observation-Disclosures North
American.