The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1870-01-21

OUR PORTLAND LETTER.

OUAS EUKTLAND LETTER.
PORTLAND, Jan. IA, 1870.
Editors Democrat:
The meeting and action Of the Democratic
State Committe here on the 9Th Of January
made ripple on the surface Of '.the town
up the creek, +" 90 orderly and we'll ordered
we're ell things connected with it. The at.
tendance was exceedingly full, more so than
Tor many years. Aggressive action was re.
solved on, and the 23d Of March--one week
later than last convention, 10 accommodate
sranS- mountain counties-appointsd as the
time for conysning At Albany, 10 select off
GERS Of the State, and congnessmGn.
The apPortiorment-onsd delegate fer every
ssycnty-svo electors and fraction over half
givcs Eastern Oregon tairty.six votes. They
will most lihely be cast solidly for On East.
srn man for Congress, IL Wilson, Of the
Dalles, is s.ill talked Of as stiHy as now
~ present il seems Joe Wilson will be cho-
zen as tho Republican nominee for Congress
and Geary for Governor, though there is
talk here Of Cornelius, and also Dr.. Watts.
cannot indicate who will probably bO the
Democratic nominees. Permit me 10 sug-
gest tho propriety Of our making judieious
nominations in the districts and countless
Actions Of county conventions frequently
have more to 30 in eiccting or defeating
State tickets than is generally believed.
sPIaITuAL.
sfrs. Martin, wife Of tailor or shoema.
ker, Is am told, treated the town to a
free trance lecture, under the head Of "the
glory and. ohams Of Portland" the other
evening. Sbe was Arrayed in the usual
garb Of her sex, was plainly dressed and
used fnll fine voice and bell-elapper tongue
pretty freely against Portland. She has a
sharp nose, tin lips and rather pleasant
expression. She talks with her eyes shut.
makes gestures like stumpist, and cruciaes
grammar with rsckiessness that is refresh.
ing. She 10 Of conrse Greeley Beecher.
Richardson. Republican and spoke out
strongly for Cinnamon. take her 10 be
very ignorant. She asserted that Confucius
wrote just as good philosophy as ever Christ
wrote. This is pretty safssassertion con.
stdering that Christ never wrote line In all
his thirty.threc years.
By the way, has 1t occurred to you how
singuIarly fitting it Is that Henry Ward
Beecher should be the chiefost figure in the
latest of sensational nastiness? II seems
to run in the Beecher family. His sister
Harriet had not begun to got the Byron
falsehold washed from her filthy fingers till
he steps in and champions and defends the
grossest and coarsest violation Of one Of the
Ton Commandments. And these are the
men and women who stand at the head oi
religion and literature in Americal
PERSONAL.
met on tho street this morning, followed
by crowd of boys, my childhood ideal oi
Jonah preaching the destruction of Ninevah.
On inquiry found my great fisherman tC
be one DR.. l?l Mcbride, Of liking Of Pain
fame. Whether he is continuation Of the
run Of professional, religious and theatrical
humbugs that go regularly through tht
country and pick up the peoples change, de
ponept saith not, though am strongly in
clined to the affirmative of the proposition
His hair Is dark and waving and gooC
deal longer than any Cayuse Indians tha
ever scalped missionary. lIc wears ha
with brim like an umbrella, and dress
coat that almost sweeps the pavement. Th'
depression of bis face is that Of a second
class abolition Missionary. Methodist--or
Ifirst.class Mississippi fat.boat blackleg-l
hardly know which, lie reminds me forci
bly, of Brick Pomeroy's picture of Jehia
Prayerful who went South.
RAILRoADIcAL.
The WestSide Railroad Company has hi
} on aplan for "raising the windn which
, seems practical and it is devoutIy hoped vii
: prevail. The proposition is to issue $500,
600 bonds, seven per cent, cashed at q YER,
liberal discount. If am correctly inform
ed, the discount is to be about forty per cent
and the first interest is to be paid at the enc
of two years, and in default of it, the bond
holders may foreclOse and have possession
and full title. Two-thirds Of the stock il
already taken. When all is taken the gols
paid will be about $l75, 900 which will NOR,
than complete the first twenty miles. Til,
work already done amounts to about 5000,
1000, SO that stock. k.holders undev the new
plan with first mortgage on oil this will b,
7 amply secured in their $500, 900, which Is Il
!. really cost them only sixty cents on tho dol
lar. Yours hurriedly, SMITH.