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STATE OF JOHN s1LvERTHoRN.


r THE COUNTY COURT, OF UMATILLA
lCoupty, State Of Oregon, in the matter of the
este Of JOHN SlLVERrH0RN, deceased: MARY
ASILVERTHORN, Adninistratrix, having fled
heinal accoun: Of her administration of the estate
OF ohn Silverthorp, deceased, in this Court, and
reered the same for settlement, and having made
cln to the residue of the property, on the ground
I'll she is the only surviving heir of the deceased,
it ordered that the 9Th day of April, 1869, being
dSof term of this Court Be appointed for the set
tltent of said account and the bearing Of said claim
arthat duo notice thereof be given by publication
inle Walla Walla SGtesrpGn once week for four
coecutive weeks. G. W, BAILEY,
inuary 8, 1869. County Judge.
NOTICE rs HEBEBY GIVEN. that in pursuance
l of the foregoing order tho application Of MARY
AHLVERTH0RN, Adminstratrix Of JOHN SILL
VkTHORN, deceased, for q fnsi settlement Of her
aount as Administrative, and 70 have the property
one estate turned oyer to her as the heir OF the
deased, will be heard before the County Court of
JAtilla County, the6tb day of April, 1859. when
al where al persons Interested may be heard.
). D. MIX & l.. A. MULLAN
Attorneys for Administratrix.
Auuary %, 1869. 74w
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FALSE ALARM A young man named J. Car
roll, just down from Florence, was taken sick ia
the early part of the week, and from the synpA
toms was supposed to have the small pox. He
was at once removed to the City Hospital, but
after being there day or two recovered his
health, and on Thursday morning left the HosI
ptal, NCfectiy we'll We have here an illustra'
ton of how needessy people become alarmed,
and rush from safety into danger, In San Fran
cisco there has been quite a number OF eases
where parties taken sick with other diseases
were removed to the pest house and there cou~
tracted the small pox. Great care should be
taken to avoid mistakes of this kind.
, 1869-02-05

BILL FOR BUCEETs.-At a meeting of the City
Council, held on Friday evening, the following
communication was presented:
To the Hon. Common Council Of The City of
WaHa Waila-Geniemen Enclosed please fud
a bill which was presented to me for payment, by
D. ) Baker Co, for one dozen buckets. The
buckets were used at the Fourth of July FIRE,
1866, and were stolen after the fire was extn-
guished I had to leave the Ere before it was
out, and instructed Sheriff Seitel to see that the
buckets were returned to D. S Baker Co., but
be failed to do so-tberefore, l ask your Hon.
Body to take the matter into consideration and
relieve me of the same. A. FRANK.
After hearing the communication read, Mr.. ].
F. Abbott moved that the amount be paid by
contribution from the Mayor and members of the
Council. The motion was carried, and the sum
paid by donation, when the Clerk was instructed
to have the bill paid and receipt placed on file.
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KEEPING UP APPEARANCES.

The chief occupation of one-half the world,
some cynic has observed, is to keep up ap-
pearances so as to deceive the other half.
This is the endless labor to which the hypo-
critic, in all his types and varieties, is self
doomed. Of all industries it is, perhaps, the
most grievous. The social imposter, the
moral imposter, the religious imposter, the
political imposter are forever toiling in the
task of drawing water from the well of truth
with bottomless buckets They know. of
course, that their vessels invariably come up
empty. Indeed, it is their business TO make
the empty vessel the equivalent of full one.
But to do this they must never cease from
the routine of letting down and hauling up.
The lie which they began with as a servicea-
BILE minion becomes the most exacting and
inexorable of masters. The oftener it renews
its protecting guise, the more profoundly it
enslaves them.
The politicians in Washington city, whose
career consists in an alienation of breaking
and amending the constitution, are slaves of
the political lie under cover of which they
have been furiously pursuing power and plum
der. With the cry of freedom, of equality, of
impartial suffrage on their lips, they were des-
pots in heart from the beginning. and have
practiced more oppression, more prescription,
more disfranchisementtha than were before known
throughout Christendom in the nineteenth
century. And protesting the utmost zeal for
peace and fraternal union, they have engen-
dered an amount of distraction, and of tumult
and violence without parallel on this continent,
except in those semi barbarous republics of
Central or, South America which are shaken
by revolution or an earthquake every day
and between the two sink lower every day in
the abyss Of perdition. But they must
keep up appearances. The proposed
fifteenth amendment of the Constitution
passed by the House of Representatives, and
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designed to ratify and perpetuate that system
of acknowledgements which is an essential part
of the policy of the faction in power. was
worded to look like a protection of the cleo
tive franchise simply to keep up appearances.
Now the Senate rewords the amendment in
order to make its phraseology still better sub
serve the purpose of keeping up appearances.
"No discrimination thus reads this pre-
cious rag for patching a tsttered Constitution
shall be made in the United States in the
exercise of the elective franchise, or in the
right to hold Office in any State, on account of
race, color, nativity, property, education or
creed" An examination of these terms will
show that there is nothing in them to pro-
hibit the Acknowledgement of individuals
or of classes on account of their
previous political or national affiliations. Ma
tionality is not identical with nativity, nor
political association with creed Hence,
whenever an INSCRIPTIONS faction, with the
law-making machinery in its hands, might
desire to strengthen itself by ostracisiug its
opponents, it would find in this amendments
door wide open for the desired disfranchise-
ment. But the real animus of the men en-
gagged in deyising the proposed fifteenth arti-
Gle was exhibited most plainly in their
prompt rejection of the proposition offered
by Mr.. Vickers in the Senate, that the principle
of Impartial suffrage should be extended to
cover those who are now DISTINGUISHED by
reason of their adhesion to the losing side
in the late sectional war. If they deny that
this adhesion was political act, they must
concede that it was national act On
the other hand, if they deny that it
was national act, they must concede
that it was a political act But whether
they regard it in one or the other
aspect, it is clear that the same rule which
would Justify the exclusion from the elective
franchise of former adherents to the cause OF
Southern Independence. now protesting ale
glance to the supreme authority of the United
States, and recognized as citizens or subjects
under that authority, would equally justify
the exclusion of Irishmen in a like position
because they had adhered to the cause Of Irish
independence, or of Cubans in a like position
because they had adhered to the cause of
Cuban independence, or of Germans, or
Frenchmen, or Italians in like position
because they had participated in some strug-
gle or some project for the establishment of a
republican government in Germany, France,
or Italy. For the rest, the purpose of both
forms of the proposed amendment is to con-
stitutionalize negro-Radical suffrage and the
infection of political disabilities for partisan
purposes, and yet to impose upon public
opinion with the pretense ofprotecting impair
tial suffrage. This complex game of despo-
tism and imposture becomes constantly
harder to play. 1t is like carrying an increas-
ing weight up hill whose top is unattainable.
The men engaged in the task are losing breath,
and the country is losing patience. Their
ultimate doom is to be crushed beneath the
opprobrious burden.
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A RAILROAD COLLISION.

The modern dramatist, not content with
introducing his characters in the drawing
room, garden, woodland or landscape scenes,
which, novel and interesting to our grand
parents, have come in these later days to be
stale, fiat and improbable to us, has of late
wandered into the realms of elaborate me-
chanism in search of a frame work for the
pictures which he draws, and to-day favors
us with steamboats,, telegraphic apparatus,
and whizzing locomotives life-size upon the
stage. Whittier, having exhausted this class
of novelties, he will, goaded on by the popu-
lar craving for sensation, impel his footsteps,
we are left to speculate. For the present it
is enough for us to know, that upon the stages
of two of our theaters there nightly appear
sbrieking kissing, Gathering locomotives,
startling in their resemblance to reality, and
that, horrible to relate, a collision has taken
place between them.
Mr.. Augustin DAILY wrote ''Under the Gas
light" and in it introduced the express train
scene with man bound down upon the track
and rescued apparently at imminent peril.
The idea was hit, and the piece drew i'm
mense crowds. By and by, Mr.. Boucicault
came out with "After Dark" which in due
time was produced at Niblo's, and was up
roariously applauded by spectators who saw
before them also a railroad scene with the ac-
companying rescue. MIR. DAILY, claiming the
idea as exclusively his own, enjoined the
scene in ''After Dark" as an Infringement, and,
after. considerable litigation was awarded fifty
dollfs a night from the Niblo receipts SO
long as the scene was played. There the
matter, as far as New York was concerned,
ended. Now, however, the trains arrive in
New Orleans and here again collide.
Manager Floyd, of the Varieties, claims to
have purchased from Mr.. DAILY, the author,
the right to produce "Under the Gaslight,"
railroad, rescue and all; and, as we all know,
ran it successfully early in the season. Now,
with the return of Miss Price to the st.
Charles, Mr.. DeBar. its manager, announced
the production of "After Dark" thus bring
ing up anew the question which, for while,
had agitated New York theatrical circles Mr..
Floyd, on the day preceding the evening for
which the latter had been announced asks
for and obtains from the Fifth District Court
an injunction, substantially upon the grounds
already mentioned. In response, Mr. DeBar
appears and shows that he has purchased
from Mr.. DAILY the right to represent railroad
scene with this peculiar feature. He waves
triumphantly aloft telegram from Mr.. DAILY,
stating his figures, and with equal gusto
certified copy of his telegraphic reply thereto,
accepting the terms. He deposits five thou
sand dollars as security and receives disso-
luton of the injunction in the form of an order
upon the sheriff to permit the representation
of the scene in question. Thus the case at
present stands, and nightly now, Mr.. DAILY,
were he in New Orleans, might complacently
listen to the plaudits of two audiences be-
slowed upon the novel feature which he has
initiated in the modern drama.
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1t is impossible to look on with patience
and see the progress of the deplorable con-
fict now waging in Cuba. The Spanish au-
they are demented by vindictive frenzy, or
blinded by more than Bourbon infatuation,
that the utmost which they can accomplish,
even by prosecuting the war against the insur-
gents to successful conclusion, is the ruin
of the island. Do they want to ruin it If
so, they are not worthy to rule it, and every
sincere friend of justice, of liberty, and of
civilization must indignantly protest against
their policy and give all his sympathies,
and in every legitimate way personal service
or material aid, to the struggling Cubans. But
they will never be able to permanently subdue
to the Spanish yoke those people after they
have risen almost in mass, as they are I'M
questionably now rising. to throw it of
Such news as we can get from the interior of
Cuba, fragmentary as it is, leaves no doubt
that the instruction has spread from the
eastern half of the island, where it COM
menced, into the western department, and
that its spirit is everywhere. Only the fact
that the island has been kept for years in
state of quasi-siege which maintained a gene
raj disarmament of the people, prevented
universal uprising against the Spanish domin-
ion at the outset of the contest. But I'M
armed as nearly all the Cubans were, the
revolutionary leaders have put force in the
field which defes all the troops which the
Spanish government can send against them,
and threatens some of its strongest positions
in the island. Surely such front as the
Cuban patriots are making for independence
ought to convince the statesmen of Spain, if
there are any, of the hopelessness of retain
ing the island as conquest worth the hav-
irg.
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The conduct of the House of Represents
tives yesterday with reference to the count Of
the electoral votes was in keeping with the
spirit of usurpation which has SO long been
rampant. 1t is true that one house had as
much right to decide separately whether the
vote of Georgia should be cast, as both houses
had to do the same thing by concurrent reso-
luton. But the effect of the position first
taken by the House of Representatives, il
sustained, would be to give that body, whom
ever it should choose to take it, the plenary
control over the electoral votes and the final
decision of their result The struggle to carry
this pretension seems to have ended in a sort
of drawn battle. Had the President elect
been the Democratic candidate, the issue
would doubtless have been different.
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The Rogers murder in New York has led TO
g good many extraordinary incidents. The
police seem to have made up their mind that
the crime was committed by somebody
named Logan, and they Immediately set
about arresting everybody bearing that sus-
pected patronymic. After bagging four, and
keeping these unhappy Logans incarcerated
for more or less time, they discovered that
the real criminal was still at large. So the
imprisoned Logans were thrust out of their
cells with much contumely, as guilty, at least
of false pretence, and the name of Logan
was returned immaculate to its owners; and
the police grabbed a man named Maher, whom
they now declare to be the murderer
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A free lecture on the subject of education
will be delivered at Lyceum Hall this Thurs
day. evening, at o'clock, by the Rev. DR..
Waddel, chancellor of the University of Mis-
sissippi. The particular subject of this lee
ture will be the discussion of the prevalent
systems of education and the kind of culture
which is demanded by the age in which we
live. No topic of greater practical impor-
lance can be brought before our people at
this juncture Of their history, and none of
our public men can bring to its discussion a
larger experience, as practical educator,
than the gentleman who is here announced.
We ask, in his behalf, generous attendance.
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The Cuban instruction seems to gain
ground rapidly. According to the last &C
counts q body of 'rebels" had appeared on
the railroad between Villa.Clara and Glen
fuegos. The latter place is an important port
saso es.sh eeast. and Villa-Clara is large
interior town. Both of them are far west Of
any point that the revolt was previously re-
ported to have reached. Much alarm exists
among the authorities at this new and alarm
ing manifestation of the development of the
revolutionary feeling, and this extension of
the area covered by the revolt. The insur-
, the island, and, probably it cannot much
longer be kept from spreading to the vuelta
de Abajo and the region Immediately sur
rounding the city of Havana
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The hierarchy, or new city charter bill, is
made the special order of the day in the Senate
for Friday next We take occasion to repeat
the demand which we have, heretofore, made
in the name of the people of New Orleans,
that if this violent revolution in our municipal
system is to be made, it shall, at least, be
made with the concurrence of the people, ex-
pressed at the ballot-box.
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The House was yesterday engaged in the
discussion of the bill to take the appointment
of school directors from the representatives
of the people of New Orleans, and to confer it
on the governor. This is one of the most
fagitious of the many nefarious schemes of
the Radicals to deprive New Orleans of the
sort Of thing are we to submit to- How long
Is our patience to be abused?
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Laborers have been standing around the corners
during the week seeking employment. Some are
on suike for higher wages. others are enjoying
that exotic happiness, supposed to consist in
waiting for something to turn up" Most of our
planters have secured the services Of large pro.
portion OF the required labor and it Is believed
that ell will shortly be supplied. We hear Of
large numbers of freedmen returning to the homes
Of their old masters, and hiring themselves to
those who formerly owned them, and generally
they are welcomed back 10 the old homesteads. -
[Thibodsux Sentinel, 6.
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Editorial Paragraphs, City Topics, Auction
Sales To-Day, A Wedding Party Poisoned, a
Boy Murderer, A Bal at the Iuileries, General
Neucs Rems, Tsras Rems, Mr.. Punch and Gen.
Grant, Chattanooga Railroad. Third Page :
Louisiana Legislature, Political Items. Sixth
Pace: Council Resolutions, Etc. Seventh
Page: Financial, Commercial! and Rirer Re-
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Buy your cigars at the premium mandatory
Of Geo. Alces, ls5 Rampant street, below Canal,
New Orleans. Address lock box 24S, postofice.
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Joseph hetcslf, Esq.,. Of Erie, Pa, the oldest
Mason IN the United States, died IN that city on
Wednesday last. ~
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CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE AMERICAN CONSUL,
THE CAPTAIN GENERAL AND CITIZENS OF TIE
UNIrkD STATES. na
On the 26th ult. Q number of citizens of the
United States in Havana, addressed the United
States consul at that port, concerning scandslous
abuses on the part Of the volunteer militia against
such citizens. They say this" militia stops all pas.
sengers en- the streets, whether natives or for
eigners, and obliges them to cry out Long live
Spainv killing those who refuse to do go. This
militia commits all kinds of depredatons; enter.
ing into the domicils Of respectable citizens and
destroying their furniture. The militia has killed
on the night of the oath the American citizen M.
Conner, who was going quietly to his home.
members of that militia are entering into public
saloons and at the point of the bayonet COMPEL
ing people to cry, Viva Espsna.' Therefore
the undersigned appeal to you, sir, 30 that by
every available means you may guarantee their
lives, their families and their sacred interests"
The consul accordingly addressed note to Gen.
Dulce, in which he said
Ihave likewise to call your excellency's atten-
ton to the following occurrences Mr.. w. G.
Tucker, citizen of the United States Of America,
on his way home, between and 10 O'Clock last
night, vas attacked Ia Consulate street by some
armed volunteers of this city, who fred on him
with their guns twice. though fortunately be was
not wounded. Don Jose Na5quez, another citizen
Of the United States, was mstreated yesterday in
Corales street. Don Marcos Cabrera, also q citi-
zen OF the United States, was chale nged while on
his way homeward last night, at 10 o'clock BY
some volunteers, In the Galiano causeway, They
cried out to him, "Quien viva!, He replied.
"Espana." They then asked, "Whst nstioag''
and be answered, american citizen" He had
scarcely pronounced these words when they dis.
charged their guns at him.
The consul concluded by asking the captain
general to stop these outrages.
The captain general replied by promising that
such events should not happen again, and con.
cluded as follows:
For the better security of American citizsns
your excellency can Immediately send to the sec.
retsry'sl Office a list of all, and they will
then be furnished with a document which will
guarantee their safety on any Of those occasions,
truly unfortunate. but Of frequent occurrence in
Europe, especially when suddenly a regime of
violent repression succeeds another Of strict le-
galiiy.
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O. RPUs CHRIsTI-rhe fast and beautiful iron
steamship Alabama will leave her wharf to-mor.
row morning ct Brashear City Immediately after
the arrival of the Opelousas morning train. The
Alabama will carry freight and passenger 8. For
further particulars consult advertisement.
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