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The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1868-03-14
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A fair swindler-A dam.sel.
A maiden speech--Ask papa.
An imperious Cesar-Tho sheriff.
Fancy dress-The mantle Of night.
Fayarite game Of fblacksmiths--O sledge.
Dyed in the wool-Thousand of sheep
last winter.
Our good actions are often worth more
than their motives.
1t is the attribute Of art to suggest moro
than it expresses.
The palmy season of life-The time for
squeezing girls hands.
Without grand words how many people
would say little things,
There is no dungeon so dark and dismal
as the mean mans mind.
Taking good second. hand article-Em-
bracing handsome widow.
A pleasant waist of misunderstanding q
plump damsel who likes it.
Intuition is the attendant of genius grad.
ual improvement that of talent
If our future life were not better than this
it would be less promise than threat.
Dangerous relaxation -Fooling with a
married lady who has a red headed husband.
Weigh others as you would weigh your
selves, and the scales would have asinecure.
A tight squeeze-Something that always
follows the making up Of lovers who have
quarreled.
Extraordinary virtues are ever DETAINED
by those who want the courage to initiate
them. faf
man below his real worth in the estimation
of others.
Many man, full of excellent qualities,
wants the particular one which brings them
all into play,
Melting demonstrating ice-cream with
gushing young beauty behind window
curtain at party. a
In most discussions we love ourselves bet
ter than our cause and seek less to have I
valued than ourselves.
A good place to get blank deeds and mort
gages-At the Estate Rights Democrat" jot
printing establishment.
By constantly refusing required services
with the extreme of grace, some people real
~ acquire quite reputation for amiability
A sweet thing on ice-Teaching sixteer
year old bundle of calico how to skate, espe
cially when you have to pick her up prett,
often.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1868-03-14

4 LosG TELEGRAPHIc CIRcuIT.-
The Chicago Tribune Of December 18th
says:
An unbroken circuit was made, and
messages sent without repeating, between
Houston, Texas, and Salt Lake City, ria
New York. The Houston operator sent: /:
+" Houston sends greeting TO Salt Lake
We sit with coats of and windows open"
Salt Lake promptly replied weather
beautiful here, but have snow storm in
Montana Brigham Young has just
married another heifer" Houston re-
piled " Don't touch The brass in your
key or you'll get yellow fever" After
this, Helena, Montana, $50 miles north
Of Salt Lake, was "put on" and convers-
cd few moments The Circuit worked
over the following route Houston, New
Orleans, Mobile, Knoxville, Washington,
New York, Chicago and Salt Lake. Had
the San Francisco operator not been out
of the Office, he would have been drawn
into the circuit, and the length extended
one thousand miles more. This is rath-
or remarkable performance, since Hous.
ton is one thousand eight hundred miles
from New York, which is also two thou
sand four hundred and thirty-six miles
from Salt Lake City. The weather was
very favorable and the wires In good con-
dition.
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THE WOMEN OF THE SoUTH-If ask
ed for my sublimest idea Of what women
should be in time of war, | would point
to the dear women of my people, as
have seen them during the recent strug-
gle. The Spartan mother sent forth her
boy bidding him return with honor-ei-
ther carrying his shield or on it. The
women of the South sent forth their sons,
directing them to return with victory, TO-
return with wounds disabling them from
further service. or never to return at all.
All they had was flung to the conflict
beauty, grace, passion, refinement, the
exquisite frivolties so dear TO the sex,
were cast aside; their songs, if they had
any heart to sing, were patriotic. Their
trinkets were flung into the public cruci-
bic; the carpets of their floors were por-
toned out as blankets to the suffering
soldiers of their country. Women bred
TO every refinement of luxury wore home
spun made by their own hands. As nur-
ses of the sick, as angels of charity, as
patient and beautiful household deities,
accepting every sacrifice with unconcern,
and tightening the burden ofwar by their
art and Establishment, and labor proper to
their sphere, the dear women of the
South deserve to rank with the highest
heroes of the grandest days of the great
est countries.-Jeferson D0Uis.
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How Negroes Vote in the south.
A Letter from Beaufort, South Carolln

A Letter from Beaufort, South Carolina,
under date of Nov. 27, 1867, to the Charles
ton Ne.os and Herald, says:
"The election in this district was not o
very quiet affair. In this town the colored
population were rather noisy, and inclined
to be riotous. In the country the negroes
went to the polls armed to the teeth, to pre-.
vent any ticket being used except the red.
"0n st. Helena Island they succeeded in
keeping away the whites, with one excep-
ton, Captain Sam Dennett, who fought his
way through the sable crowd, regardless Of
their firearms, and polled his vote.p s9
That is the way negro suffrage works in
the South How do the white people in the
North like it?
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A JERsEYMAN 0UTwITTED.-A cum
ming trick was performed at Newark, N !.
j., one day last week. A stranger, who
pretended to be tipsy, slipped on the step
in front of machinery wareroom near
Market street depot, and broke large
plate glass window. The proprietors de-
manded payment; but tho man pretend
ed that he had no money. Ono of the
partners then proposed that the culprit
should be searched This was done, and
the ownerof the window was rewarded
by finding one hundred dollar bill in
his pocket He Immediately changed
the bill, and, after taking out twelve dol
lars for damages, handed the inebriate
eighty-eight dollars. To this the stranger
made no objection, but staggered off, and
was soon lost to sight. In short time
the machinist had occasion to make de.
posit, and the one hundred dollar was
sent to the bank. 1t was returned as
counterteit. The stranger has not been
seen since and if arrested he could mol
be prosecuted, as he did not attempt tc
pass the bill. This is a new dodge"
|
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SPOONS.
M DAVID PAUL JONES.

As the moon went down one wintry night,
A blear-eyed monster hove in sight
OF fine old mansion in the South,
Croaking aloud with open mouth
"spoonsl"
With an eye asquint; with pockets wide;
With steady look and stsalthier stride;
With visage dark. whereon was wrote
Tie motto which beneath we quote
''spoons"'
'whence eomest tboa? the good host said;
What do you scek--our gold and bread
Or do you from the night air fy?'
The strange Beast made but one reply
spoons
''ob. rob US not e. the good wifs cried,
sThese heirloouas are our family pridei
Oh. take whatever else you will"
But the blue-eaa. thandered still
Spoons"
'sThen take tY watch and chain aud so :"
The old man said, in accents lows
The watch was gobbled in trice,
But still was heard that strange de.lce-
"spooas =
''Foul fend, would's; rob the old and weak
Ny sons are soldiers; them 90 seek;
Alas, thou art too base 10 ignt,
Thou coward that dos, howl in night
spoons"
4 guard Of soldiers, dressed IN blue,
Soon sacke1 the household through and through
Until at last the prize espied-
With one loud voice the robbers cried
"spoons!"
The spoils secured, on plumber bent.
These villains to the neighbors went;
In every house defenseless nigh,
Was heard that strange, ungOdiy cry
"spoons "
And when at last, at dawn Of day,
The cocli-eyed monster knclt-to pray!
Bsa Buffers servant swears he heard
Him mutteI that accursed word
..spOons !"
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1868-03-14

WHAT IS NOT CHARITY.-It is not
charity to give penny to street beggar
of whom nothing is known while we bag.
gle with poor man out of employment
for a miserable dime. 1t is not charity
to beat down a seamstress to a starvation
price, to let her sit in wet clothing; sew
ing all day; to deduct from her pitiful
remuneration, if the storm delays her
prompt arrival. It is not charity to take
a poor relative into your family and make
her slave to all your whims, and taunt
her continually with her dependent situa-
ton. 1t is not charity to turn a man in,
to the street with his family, because he
cannot pay his rent. 1t is not charity to
give up with supercilious air any patron
age, as if God made you rich man, of
different blood from the shivering recipi-
ent, whose only crime is that he is poor.
1t is not charity to be an extorhoner-
not though you bestow your aims by thou,
sands.
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POETRY.
GOING AWAY.

You arc going away to leave us, Nelly,
Going away in the morn,
Away from the homo you have loved,
The village whore you were born;
Away from the fields and the flowers,
The friends who have loved you here
Your white-haired father aud all.
All that the heart holds dear.
New faces and friends you win SEQ,
To think of by night and day,
And you soon will forget the old,
Forget when you are far away.
Another your beauty will praise,
Your dimples and eyes of brown,
And happy hope you will be,
Afar in the dnsky town.
Look, there is the school on the hill,
We went to rs girl and boy,
And the woods in the evening of gold,
That rang with our shouts Of joy;
And here is the lane where wesat,
How often when school was n'er,
And you're going to leave them all.
And maybe come back no more.
I'll be down in the morning soon,
To bid you the last goodbye,
Though know when see your face,
The tear viii be in your eye;
But I'll give my hand for all,
I'll give you my blessing, too.
And pray, though another's you'll be,
That heaven may smile on you.
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white is the word.

While the niggers are raising such
decided rumpus with the assistance of
their miscegenation allies, and clamoring
for hand in the government, and before
the chains are too securely bound about
the people, let US look at some things:
White men were those who discovered
America.
White men were those who first found
cd colonies in America.
White men were those who threw the
British tea into Boston Harbor.
White men were those who first dis
puted the rights of George the III to
rule America.
White men were these who promulgated
the Declaration Of Independence.
White men were those who fought so
successfully in the battles of the Ameri.
can revolution
White men were those who founded
the government Of the United States.
White men were those for whose benc-
fit the government was established.
White men were those who originated
the Constitution or the United States.
White men were elected by free peo-
pie to administer the government for the
benefit of the governed.
White mon were those who brought
the American flag to be respected every
where, as an emblem of power abroad
and protection at home
White men were those who handled
the government for fifty years and made
ours such prosperous Republic.
The Puritanical ancestors Of Massa-
chusetts miscegenationists were those who
first introduced and traficked in African
slavery. They conducted the business as
long as it was profitable, and then aban-
donod it,
White men arc those who comprise the
earnest, true men of the country who
contribute to its wealth, who push into
the Western wilds to settle it, and white
men should be permitted TO enjoy the
fruit of white labor.
White is the word for Americans and
Puritaus, Abolitionists, Loyalists, Rump-
ties, cannot displace it for another,
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1868-03-14
Gen. Grant as ss q RehIe Sympathf.
ZeF.se

We congratulate the Radical politicians
in this locality on the attitude in which
their favorite candidate for the Presiden-
cy has left them bis testimony before the
impeachment committee. He turns out
to be "a rebel sympathizer" Of no ordina-
Ty character. When johnson proposed
to bring the rebel leaders TO trial, Gen.
Grant opposed it and vigorously "insist-
ed" that he had secured the whole rebel
army from arrest and punishment for
treason. When the rebel Gen. Lee de-
sired TO be restored to citizenship. Gen.
Grant was prompt to urge his pardon.
When the rebel Gen. LoDgstreet wanted
similar favor, Gen. Grant was equally
generous and prompt in seeking to wipe
out the consequences of his crime. With
equal alacritary he sought pardon for the
rebel brigadier generals French, Stuart,
Beall, Roddy and others. The most mo-
torious rebels were special objects of Gen.
eral Grants efforts for mercy, and the
most notorious rebels undoubtedly owe to
General Grants disintcrested interference.
in their behalf the immunity from punish
ment which they and their companions in
arms have since enjoyed. So
Nor is this all which established the
character Of the Radical candidate for the
presidency as "rebel sympathizer." He
AYERS that he was one of the original few
who were honored with President Lin
coins confidence in which originated John
sons plan OF reconstruction. He thought
the North Carolina proclamation establish
ed provisional state government just the
thing for the times, and it perfectly ac-
corded with his opinions of negro suffrage
as subsequently expressed to senator DoO-
little.
We earnestly hope that the Radical
politicians viii stand by their candidate
as enthusiastically now as they did before
the publication Of this testimony. This
course may indicate some inconsistency
and very decided absence of principle
on their part, but it viii afford some evil
dence of an attempted repentance and re-
form in future Nilcaukee Nescs.
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UrTERLY DEFENoELEss-ATT TrMEs.-

UTTERLY DEFENcELEss-ATT TINES
Mr.. J. P. Fagin, who, at times as occur
rences warrantit, fixes up our police items,
is not, as many persons suppose, always
armed. When he goes to his meals he
carries nothing but small Derringer, an
!" Aliens pepper box" Navy shooter,
small poignard, sword cane, a two pound
slung-shot and pair of brass knuckles.
In the office he is generally defenceless,
writing with nothing in his reach except
an old smooth-bore Belgium musket, an
iron poker, an air gun, loaded whip
stalk and an Arkansas toothpick, which
he holds in his teeth. After night, how
ever, he gees we'll armed Cairo Dem.
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SUMNER AND GRANT. Charles Sun

SUMNER AND GRANT -C Charles Sum-
ner expressed candid opinion of Grant
when be said 5a
He considered him good soldier and
nothing more. There was no political
record of his ever having expressed a
political axiom or an idea which could af,
ford the people an insight for his. eapaci-
ty for craftsmanship, or of the course he
would be likely to pursue if he wore
elected President. He was therefore op.
posed to endorsing him as a candidate
for the highest Office in the gift Of the
people.
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legally expressed public will. Tho net of
reconstruction is unconstitutional, il there liz
q Constitution in the land it is fraud on
the purposes and objects Of the war, if that
word has not lost all its meaning IL is up.
held by perjury and duress, If there be such
crimes and yet We are expected TO quietly
yield to its claim, that tho negro shall make
the noXl Presidont.n y
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B~ A very smart boy on his return
from college, attempted to prove that TOO
we're equal to three Pointing to roast
ed chicken on tho table he said &" s Is not
that one ? And then pointing to an
other: g Is not that too And do not
one and two mako three s's Whereupon
his old Dad said: Wife you take one.
and I'll take the other, and our smart boy
can have the third
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1868-03-14
The Technicalitlcs of the Turf:

The Fat Contributor !" gives the fol-
lowing definition of the jargon of the
turf:
A "hurdle race" is where man has
heard all about how it is to come out,
and therefore knows just how to bet If
the horse stumbles and breaks his riders
neck, the rider is liable to be discharged.
Handicap" When rider is thrown
and his cap saves him from a broken
head, that is handy-cap. 1t is expects
cd that the Handy Opera House will cap
the climax of the Opera Houses. That
is another variety of handy cap.
A s'steeple chase" is race to church on
Sunday morning.
A 'swaep stakes" is where a thief
picks the Shareholders pocket and makes
clean sweep of the stakes.
"No entrance fee" applies to dead
heads and boys who climb the fence.
The letters ''g. c. signify gin cocktail;
"b. h." beer ball; "hlk. m" blk the
manager; sb. Co." bunch of celery; "ch.
f." charge it to Ferguson.
Nursery stakes" are tender, cut thin
and we'll done for the nursery. No other
kind Of steaks receive any consideration
from the children. $50. .e84 sa g
."Selling race is where everybody il
sold who oattends-foot-races at the rink,
for example.
"Premium of $500 for all ages, with
allowance to beaten horses" This pre-
MUM remains the same during all ages
The allowance to beaten horses is small
pension allowed to unfortunate cquines
that are numerically beaten by theil
masters.
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Beg A lady advertises for sale. one
baboon, three tabby cats and a parrot
She states that, being married she has
no further use for them, because their
amiable qualities are all combined in her
husband
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Bag- A father Of three sons and FIVE
daughters was asked how many children
he had. The answer was, 81 have three
sons and they each have FIVE sisters.''--
"Mercyw replied the interrogator, "what
a family ye maun have"
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are the figures:

On these bonds interest has been paid
to the amount of sS52,S68. The bonds
of the Treasury also show that the vari-
Gus roads have been allowed 1922, ,909
for army transportation, aud S45, lS0 for
carrying mails.
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An exchange was considerably amused,

An exchange was considerabIy amused,
the other evening, at the little girls play
ing among the sage-brush in the back
yard. Two of them were s'making be-
lieve keep house few yards distant
from each other -neighbors, as it were.
One of them says to third little girl -
"There, now Nelly, you go to Sarah's
house, and stop a little while and talk, and
then come back and tell me what she
says about mo; aud then I'll talk about
her; then you goand tell her all say,
and then ven get mad and won't speak
to each other, just ike our mothers do.
you know. o, that'll be such funP'
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}. F. MCCOY,

"ILL PRACTICE IN THE SEVERAL
w Courts of this City and State, and Of Wash
dugton Territory. All kinds ofclaims md demands,
notes, bills, book accounts, subscriptions, etc..
collected on commission, by suit or solicitation.
Real Estate bought and sold. Taxes paid
Buildings rented, and rents collected on commits
sion.s r sf
Titles to Real Estate searched, and abstracts
made.
AGENT for the principal daily and weekly news
papers on the Pacific coast. Subscriptions and ad-
Tertissments solicited
larAll collections promptly remitted.
oFFlGE-No. 95 Front street. Portland.
V2n27g
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A Washington telegram to the N. Y.
Tribune says an official document gives a
statement Of the amount of United States
bonds issued under the act of Congress
to the Pacific Railroad. The following
are the fionres.
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u "A French wit says that the gibhet is spes
cies of hattsry to the humanrace Three or
four persons are hung from time to time for
the sake of making the rest believe that they
re Yirtuous.
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RATES OF ADVERTISING, PER rrAH; Ono
column, $10o; Half Column, $50 Quarter Col-
umn, $35.
or less, first insertion 50 each subsequent inser-
tion, 81. H66
square is one inch in space down the column,
counting cuts, display lines, blanks, &C., as solid
matter. No advertisement TO be considered
than square, and all fractions counted ful
square. All advertisements inserted for . less
period than three months to be regarded as tram
sient.
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A NEW BARBER SHOP IN ALBANY!
On Main st., Adjoining Irying's Saddlery Shop

~ GORGE ANTEMIRE WILL BE GLAD TO
N hold the public by the nose and exercise his
bGrberOus skill upon them.
He has the fittings of the tonsoriaI profession in
every detail-good razors, easy chair. and all the
usual cosmetics used in frst-elass shops. v3n9
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/. 0. o. +.
z. r. RUSSELL,

ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR At LAW.
Solicitors in Caancery and Real Estate Agents,
Will practice in the Courts of the Second, Third,
and Fourth Judicial Districts, and in the Supreme
Court Of Oregon.
Gfice in Parrish's Brick Building, Albany, Ore
gon.
lection of Claims at all points in the above named
Districts v2n46yI
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] A poet, discoursing Of the eyes of rival la
dY loves, exclaims:
ssThe bright black eye, the melting blue,
Icannoi choose betWixt the two t's
- A right amart blow betwixt the two,
Will quickly make them black and blue.
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TERMS, IN ADVANCE; One year, So; Six Months
50; One Month, so cts; Single Copies, l2a cts
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EuGENE sEMPLE,
G. w. GRAY, d. D. s..
I. O. g. T.

eWEsTERN STAR" LODGE No. 10, meets
a4 Masonic Hall every Tuesday evening.
F. n WADSWoRTH, w. @. T:
B. 8. MARKHAM, ". s..
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PUBLISHED Every SATURDAY, nr

ABBOTT &c BROWN
N. n. ABBOTT NJ. '. BROWN
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OFFICE IN LANNON'S BUILDING, FIRST STREET,
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True words EloquentIy spoken.

We make the following extracts from tho
speech of Hon. D. W. Voorhees,, lately delis.
cred before the Democratic State Convention
Of Indiana