The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1867-09-21


time for which they have paid for the DEHocRAT
has expired, and viii govern themselves accord
ingly.
MRs. SrowE.-According to previous no.
tice, Mrs. G, Stowe, clairyoyant lecturer
and spiritualist, held forth in the Court
House last Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs.
day evenings. As the admission fee on the
first evening was fifty cents, and as the citi.
zens of Albany are proverbially slow at nib.
bling at anything new or suspicious, we are
told there was a very small turn. out; but on
Wednesday evening, being free lecture, the
hall was about one third full. We dropped
in professionally rather than from any ex-
pectation of seeing anythingstrange or hear.
ing anything new or wonderful.
Mrs. 5. is, we judge, thirty,fve or forty
years Of age, tastefully and neatly dressed,
possessing a good figure, a strong pair of
lungs for female, and a rather intellec-
tual cast of countenance. That she has once
been more than ordinarily good-looking,
none can doubt; and she possesses no mean
powers as a public lecturer.
She began BY reciting poem from some
moon.struek fellow-we have forgotten whom
and then she went into trance: that is,
she closed her eyes and delivered her lecture,
standing and gesticulating as one would if
awake. The lecture, ike all we ever heard
or read, was full of poetic expressions and
high-Rown hyperbOle, and was very severe
on sects, and ''priests," and orthodox de-
nominations generally. The Savior of the
world was considered great ,Reformer only;
his teachings had fulfilled their mission, and
mankind now yearn for something better,
viz: Spiritualism. Like Swedenborg and
Davis; she teaches that there are sevenspheres
in the next world and that the inhabitants
will all be ultimately happyvthus directly
conflicting with the doctrines of an old fash
ioned book some good folks have foolishly
endorsed for that teaches that, in the future
state, mankind are divided into two classes,
the good and the bad, the righteous and
the wicked; the former being eternally hap
py, and the latter eternallY miserable.
Spiritualism, in all It's phases, was thor
oughly examined by US some years ago. We
then arrived at clear and positive convictions
and conclusions, and we have seen nor heard
nothing since 80 change US in the least par
ticular. I" "Ephraim is joined to his idols !"
and we would ike TO be let alone.
The SANTIAx MINEs.-Somc time ago
party of our citizens went out into the Cas-
cade mountains TO examine ledge which Mr..
Brandenburg had previously discovered
and after being absent several days, they re-
turned, having with them lot of ore-a
part of which they forwarded to San Francis
CO to beassayed. By the last steamer they re-
ceived the following returns:
SAY FEAxcIsco. August 30th, 1867.
Iessrs. GOldsniiih & Co., Portland
After carefully assaying the ore left with US,
find the following results:
Gold ..............9 72f00..., $299 93
II OF: jS-I00...... IS s.
Gold value per IS
Respectively. yours,
GOLDSMITH BBo's
This is very rich, and we hope our friends
viii realize something handsome on their
discovery.
AT HIS OLD TRIcKs.-It will be recoIlec-
ted that one Leacher was, some months ago,
arrested By the Sheriff of this county, on
charge of stealing from Mr. Levy of this
city. He subsequently gave bail and was
set at liberty. Under date of September 10,
the Sheriff of Washington county writes to
Sheriff Smith that the said Leacher is in his
custody, charged with having stolen $l2s in
currency and g in coin from o firm in Hills
boro, and that he will be tried at the next
term of the Circuit Court of that county.
His sureties here are trying to get hold of
him in order to deliver him up, and save
paying handsome sum as his bondsmen.
EDUcATIoNAL.-At a late meeting of the
Board of Trustses of the Albany Collegiate
Institute, Rev. W. j. MoNTEITH was elected
President and Professor of Ancient Ian
guages and Literature, and R. K WARREN,
Professor Of the English Department. Other
teachers Will be appointed before the opening
of the Institution.
y THAT LIoN.-The Salem Record editor
says he believes all our story of the Califor-
MIA lion, of last week, except the fourteen
feet " part. We said, neighbor, that our
lion measured seven feet from the tip of his
nose to the end of his tail-and the same
distance back again-fourteen feet in all
If you disbelieve us, measure him yourself.
DEMOCRATIC MEETING.-In another column
viii be found call for Mass Meeting of
the Democracy of Benton county, at Corval-
lis, on Saturday the 18th inst. Democrats
generally, everywhere, are invited to at
tend and we hope that good time will be
had.
DR. J. P. BRYANT, now of Salem. will
be in Albany tomorrow, and will attend to
all diseased persons who will give him call.
His method of cure, if he cures at all, is by
the Laying on of Hands" He remains
one day only, at Sprenger's Hotel.
PARRISH & MESDENHALL.-Thi old and
well-known firm will shortly be in receipt of
mammoth stock of fall and winter goods.
Look out for the change in their advertise