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The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-03-21
THE DIRECT VOTE FOR PRESIDENT.

The proposed Amendment to the
Constitution, by which it is intended
to abolish the present system Of vot-
ing for President and Vice President
through the medium Of College of
Electors, and to substitute instead
thereof the direct vote Of the citizens,
will give a far fairer representation to
the whole body of the people than
they at present possess, TO say moth
ing Of the advantages Of abolisbing
the employment of Presidential Elcc-
tors, who, under the present order Of
things, merely follow the instructions
laid down in the party conventions,
and vote solely according to order
To prove that the presen. system is
not equitable and just, we have bnt TO
show that the four and half millions
OF population of the State of New
York have no larger representation in
the Electoral College than considera-
bly, under two millions of population
than are contained in nine of the
smaller States, from which it is evi-
dent that every citizen in each of these
minor States has, in the choice OF the
President, two and half times the
voting power that is possessed by a
citizen of the Empire State. The fol-
lowing table exhibits the fact pretty
PLAINLY:
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-03-21

WHAT are known as the Spring
elections in New York have shown
heavy gains in favor of the Demo-
cratic party. A late number of the
Buffalo Courier says: I'VE have
already chronicled the election Of the
Democratic tickets in Palmyra,
Wayne county. and Dansville. Liv-
ingston county. Now we have to
announce q Democratic victory in the
city of Binghamton, Broome county,
which has been Republican since its
incorporation. Judge Loomis, Dem
,ocrat, is elected Mayor by twenty
seven majority, and the Liberal
Republican candidate for Justice is
also chosen over his Credit Mobilier
competitor. And, still further q
dispatch from G. G. B. Walker. at
Corning, says: 'Steuben county
stands by the old flag. Twenty-Five
Democratic Supervisors elected. The
Credit Mobelier elected ten. Demo-
cratic gain of four. Ames' memo
random book is doing the country
more good than all the shovels he
ever made. Colfax's moral ta cities
are no go here In Otsego county.
also, large Democratic gains are
shown. Unless this nation has
reached point of moral degrada-
ton unknown in the annals of the
world, the Credit Mobilier and
other Investigations must drive from
power the men now occupying high
places, and end the career OF the
Radical party.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-03-21
ONES HAND.

It is profound study. No instru-
ment devised by man compares with
it for complication. 1t is hammer,
o vice, a forceps. hook, aspiring. a
weight; it pushes, draws in, and the
fingers alone contain elements of
chisels, gouges, and all the tools o
sculptor requires in modelling
From the elbow to the digital ex-
tremities its movements are produced
by nearly fifty muscles. So compli-
Gated is the cordage Of o human hand
expert anatomists can hardly keep in
remembrance its intricate mechan-
ism. With it all the emotions of the
mind may be both manifested and
intensified. How could French
man talk with his hand tied7 The
hand is the prime minister of the
brain. It is.the souls agent in the
accomplishment of its designs. 1t
is q wonder of wonders.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-03-21
A PLEASANT IDEA.

There are no more admirable
pictures in history than Cincinn atus
going frop, the plow to the dictator
ship, and Marion welcoming the
English emissaries to his dinner of
roasted potatoes. What would
Marion have though could he have
foreseen that within century the
President of the American Republic
would declare himsslf unable to live
on s25, 900 a year and free lodgings?
Yet, remarks the New York Sun, this
is the picture now presented for the
consideration of American tag payers
Theoretically the President is but
the equal of the humble.t citizen of
the United States. The great ma
jority of the people are living onless
than 81 900 a year. Why cannot
the elected head of the nation
manage to get along comfortable on
twenty five times that amountf
The tendency of wages in ordinary
life is downward instead OF upward.
1t is true that many of the sub
ordinate officers Of the Government
are paid at low rates; or, to speak
more correct, their pay would be but
pittance for men competent to
perform their duties. But as yet
there has never been any difficulty in
finding persons ready to take any
place that becomes vacant.
But the Presidents salary is large.
It is more thau triple the compensa-
ton allowed the Governor of the
Golden State of California, more
than five times the salary of the
executive officer of this great Com
monwealth, and twenty five times
the yearly stipend of the Governor
of Rhode Island, com paratively the
richest State in the Union.
The idea that the nation is served
for honor and not for mere money Is
pleasant one. 1t is still lingering
in many minds. Perhaps it should
not be too rudely dispelled.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-03-21
WHY WAS THE moBILIER STOCK COR
RUPTt

The Hartford Times, in reply to a
correspondent asking for informa-
ton as to why the holding Of the
Credit Mobilier stock by Congress-
men was corrupt, makes the follow
ing reply which covers the whole
ground:
/. The Pacific railroad directors
formed themselves into the Credit
Mobilier Company. The Mobilier
Office was in the same room with the
Pacific Railroad Directors.
2. The Railroad directors con-
tracted with the Mobilier Company
TO build the road, that is, they in
fact contracted with themselves.
3. The company Of course made q
favorable contract.
A. The directors represented to
Congress that the Rockey Mountain
section was very difficult part of
the road to build, when ia fact it was
q very easy section, being merely q
level plain, with a very slight and
gradual rise-almost imperceptible,
and looking like dead level for
nearly 1,OOO miles from the Mis-
souri, River to the Black Ridge;
but they got an appropriation for q
largely increased sum per mile for
that section. knowing that this would
add largely to Mobilier profits.
s. They got Congress to appropri-
ate TO them alternate sections of
public lands, forty miles in width,
through the whole line OF the road
land enough to make ten good
Sized States.
6. Shey got Congress to loan them
sixty-fve million of dollars, and to
take a first mortgage upon the road
and also to give them outright an
average of abont s30,000 per mile
for the entire road.
7. They then procured an act OF
Congress giving up the FIRST mortgage,
which was thken by their own friends
so that they got the money and
the road too; the second mortgage
being worthless.
8. They also procured an act oi
Congress forbidding the Secretary oi
the Treasury from withholding the
pay for carrying mails and United
States troops, in order to cover the
interest due on the government loan
so that the government should pay
the interest on its own bonds, when
the railroad company TO whom they
were loaned should pay it in full to
| the government.
o. The Credit Mobilier being own
ed or controlled by the Pacific
Union Raidroad Directors got the
benefit of these acts, and when they
so literally distributed their shares
on which immense dividends were
paid TO Congressman, the logic oi
the argument led to the conclusion
that some of these extraordinary acts
by which about ninty- FIVE millions OF
dollars, in gifts and loans, were taken
from the United States Treasury,
were got through hy the aid of the
Congressman who received the stock
From this brief and general state.
ment. our correspondent will see why
Senator Wilson exclaims. when q
prosecution in the courts threatenel
TO expose these transantions, "take
back my stock-let no suspicion resi-
upon me-" and why Oakes Ames
testifies that "when the McComb suit
was brought. there didn't any of them
congressman want to hold the
stock"
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-03-21
ANTIQUITY OF THE sCnrprUREs.

Few OF us ever stop 10 think how
old the Bible is. Yet "the Scrip
lures are believed by candid critics
to contain the most ancient forms Of
truth now known TO men," With the
aid of chronological tables any one
may easily make profitable compari-
soDs between the Antiquity OF the
books and that of other writings and
events. The Scriptures contains the
only authentic history of the world
before the food. We find in the
Pentateuch one or two stanzas OF
poetry composed in the antediluv-
ian period. The Hebrew statutes
were enacted q thousand years be-
fore Justinian reformed the Roman
Jurisprudence. In the Bible we have
the record Of chartered rights secured
to the people more than two thous-
and years before the Magma Charter.
What q sensation would be produced
if the first chapter Of Genesis should
appear for the first time IL one Of
The newspapers tomorrow. Yet
there can be no doubt that chapter
contains the oldest writing twenty,
five hundred years before the inven
ton of printing. Xenophou's record
of the conversations of Socrates, in
his Memorable, were discussed in
Ecclesiastes six hundred years be-
fore. The works OF Tacitus, Plu-
tarch and Quintilian are not modern,
yet the book of the new Testament
are older han they. As to the book of
Job, its age is beyond conjecture.
Those who make it as modern as
they can are compelled to place its
origin at least one thousand years
before Homer. When Priam was
King of Troy, Job was of remote
antiquity. The name of Alexander
has no modern sound for us, yet
when Alexander invaded Syria the
book of Job might bave been read
before him as the work of an author
more timehonored then than the name
of Alexander is now. The writings
of Confucius are modern when COM
pared with the most of the Bible,
and the most that the Hindoos can
Justly claim for their sacred books,
the Yedas, is that they were written
five hundred years after the death Of
Moses. The Koran is fresh from the
press compared with the Scriptures.
-fDr. Upson.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-03-21

a comparison OF these figures un-
mistakably indicates that a popular
vote will be far more equitable ex-
preston of the will of the people
than the present cumbrous system,
besides which il will be far more dem
ocratic ia principle. It was original.
ly the case for Presidential Electors
TO be chosen by the Legislatures in.
stead of by the people, SO that at that
time the citizens may almost be said
TO have been denied the ballot 10 gil
the highest Office in the nation, and in
which they are interested above all
others. The system which We have
followed of late has been certainly a
step in advance, but it Is still unsatis.
factory, while it is unfair that the
more populous States should have
such an unequal voice when compared
with the lesser ones. The smaller
States are fully protected in the legis-
latiye branch of the Government by
their equal representation in the Sem
ate with the larger States. a safe.
guard which the Republicans have
shamefnlly abused and made available
for their purposes by the admission OF
rot,en-borough States. The Chief
Magistrate of the nation should, above
all others, be chosen by a popular
vote, and by fair expression of the
will of the entire people.
Beyond this, he should only be
elected for a single term, 80 as TO be
placed above the temptation of seek.
ing reelection, and the nation would
thus be enabled to command his ser.
sices and the impartial administration
of his office. The Constitution of the
late Confederacy, which was modelled
after that OF the United States, con.
tanned this Improvement, which expe
rience had dictated as being necessa.
ry, aid which the framing of a new
Constitution offered an opportunity oi
putting into force; the tenure of Office
was, however, extended TO six years
an amendment which it might be ad
yantageous to adopt.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-03-21
HOW TO CURE A COLD.

We do not know how we can ever
express our gratitude to the Danbnry
News for furnishing us with a
panacea for all the coughs and lung
complaints that we may be subject
to this winter. In the language of
the virtuous father of the melo-drama
we can only say: Heaven bless you
my che-ildr' Listen TO his solid
chunks of wisdom: One of our
citizens who has been troubled with
q severe cold on the lungs effected
his recovery in the following simple
manner. He boiled little boneset
and hoarhound together, and drank
freely of the tea before going to bed.
The next day he took five pills, put
one kind Of plaster on his breast,
another under his arms, and still
another on his back. Under advice
from an experienced old lady he took
all these off which an oyster knife
in the afternoon, and slapped on a
mustard paste instead. His mother
put some onion drafts on his feet and
gave him lump of tar to swallow.
Then be put some hot bricks to his
feet and went to bed. Next morn
ing, another old lady came in with
bottle of goose oil, and gave him
dose of it on quill, and an aunt
arrived about the same time from
Bethel, with bundle of sweet fern
which she made into tar, and gave
him every half hour until noon, when
he took big dose of salts. After
dinner his wife who had seen q fine
old lady of great experience in doc
toring on Franklin street.. gave him
two pills of her make, about the
size of an English walnut and OF
similar shape, and two tablespoon
fulls of home made balsam to keep
them down. Then be took a hall
pint of hot rum at the suggestion
of an old sea captain in the next
house, and steamed his legs with an
alcohol;bath. At this crisis two oi
the neighbors arrived who saw at
once that his blood was out of order,
and gave him half gallon of. spear.
mint tea. and big dose of castor oil
Before going to bed he took eight oi
a new kind of pills, wrapped about
bis neck a flannel soaked in hot
vinegar and salt, and had feathers
burnt on shovel in his room. He
is now thoroughly cured, and full Of
gratitude. We advise our readers te
cut this out and keep it where it car
be readily found where danger
threatens.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-03-21
HOW THE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN
ROBBED.

It should be remembered that
every cent James W. Patterson,
Vice-President Colfax and their as
sociates received from the Credit
Mobilier dividends, came directly
from The treasury Of die United STATES,
and added just so much to the debt
of the country. 1t was no "slave-
holders rebellion" that made that
portion of the debt. 1t was a raid
by Radical ofice-holders, who stole
more than one hopdred million dol
lars of the peoples money, and for
which they are now taxed TO pay the
interest. The $40, 900 paid to Sc
cure the election of the notorious
Harlan to the Senate, added so much
to the public debt. The SIS, 900
paid to secure the election of Senator
Thayer, the 50, 900 spent by e. II.
Rollins in this State in his efforts to
secure a senatorship, the S25 900
paid to Commissioners Wendall, and
the immense sums paid to Congress
men and other Radical officials On
the Pacific Railroad aud Credit Mo-
bilier account,-all of which sums
came from the United States treasury
and go to help make up the public
debt. 1t is thus that our rulers have
been robb;ng Us. And when some
honest soul has complained that the
burdens of government were un-
equally borne, and that government
bonds ought to be taxed, these same
very loyal office-holders held up their
hands in holy horror and exclaim ed
''repudiation" "A dig at the public
credit etc., etc. What an outrage
it would be to tax the bonds stolen
by Oakes Ames, Patterson. Colfax
and the rest of them! That would
be violation of the public faith.
The farmers and the mechanics
should pay the taxes, while thieves
and robbers go free!
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-03-21

PRESIDENT AND SrocKHoLpEa.- Two
newsboys, says the Commercial Bul-
letin. were standing before cigar
store, when one asked the other,
"Have you got three cents?" Eyes"
"Well, have got two cents; give
me your three cents, and I will buy
a fvo-center." "All right" says
No. 2. handing out the money. No.
/ enters the store, procures the cigar,
lights it, and putfs with great deal
of satisfaction. "Come, now, give
us pull" says No. q; IT furnished
more than half the money! 81
know that" says the smoker; tbut
then I'm president. and you being
only stockholder, you can spit.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-03-21
WHAT A BOZ KNOWS ABOUT GIRLS.

Girls are the most unaccountablest
things in the world-except women.
Like the wicked flea, when you have
them they amt there. I can cipher
clean over the improper fractions, and
the teacher says l do it first-rate; but
I cant cipher out girl, proper or i'm
proper, and you can't either. The
only rule in arithmetic that hits their
case is the double rule of two. They
are as full of old Nick as their skin
can hold, and they would die if they
couldn't torment somebody. When
they try to be mean they are as mean
as pusley, though they amt SO mean
as they let on, except somtimes, and
then they are good deal meaner.
The only way to get along with =
girl when she comes to you with her
nonsense, is to give her tit for tat, and
that will fiummix her. and when you
get a girl filummixed she is as nice as
q new pin. A girl can SOW more wild
oats in day than a boy can SOW in a
year, but girls get their wild oats
sowed after while, boys never do.
and then they settle down as calm
and placid as rnud-pnddle. But ]
like girls first rate, and gueas the
boys all do. / don't care how many
tricks they play on me, and they don't
care either. The hoitytoityst girls in
the world can ALWAYS boil over like a
glass of soda. By-and-by they get
into the traces with somebody they
like, and pull as steady as an old stage
horse. That is the beauty of them
So let them waye, ] say; they will
pay for 1t some day, sewing on but
tons and trying to make decent man
Of the fellow they have spliced on to,
and ten chances to OF g if they don't
get the worst of it.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-03-21

.sWhat are you believing abouta'
cried an irate mother at the foot OF
the stairs one evening. after her two
boys had been put to bed. Please
mother" said believing Bill, Jim
wants half of the bed" Well, !"
says she, s'let him have it, and you
take the other half" Eyes, mother, "
said Bill, ssbut he wants to have his
half out of the middle, and make me
sleep on both sides Of him.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-03-21
THE GUARDIAN ANGEL.

There are thousand little things
necessary to the general comfort
which no one but q mother thinks of
doing-a thousand such little things
which no one ever do just as she does
them. You thought it was Mary"
who kept the children quiet, but you
will find out your mistake if mother
goes away. Poor little things! They
wander about the house calling out,
"Where's mother?" 81 want moth
er!" "Why doesn't mother come
homer" And then they get into some
hitherto unknown mischief, and do
all sorts of wrong things, and make
themselves and everybody around
them neutrality-suspicious.
torn and dirty, and their faces, too,
and by the fact of their heads being
in state of permanent uncombedness,
as to hair, you may know that "moth-
er" is away from home. And the
baby! Did you ever see or hear of a
baby that wouldn't cry all day-and
all night, too-when mothers gone
away? l don't care if it is the brag
baby of the world, and o big two
year-old at that, it cannot get along
without mother; and it has too much
sense to try to do so. Very, very
dreary is the family hearthstone
when her place is untitled! Very
dismal are the rooms of the house.
hold when she moves not through
them with her matronly step and air,
unconsciously dispensing cheerful
ness and light. and beautifying the
humblest duties by the sweet, wo.
manly way, in which she peforms
them. Bear in mind that speak al.
ways of the home-mother. Il Howard
Glyndon.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-03-21
THE EPrZOOTIcs.

A San Francisco paper of q recent
date, has the following, concerning
the spread of the raging horse di-
sease which is sweeping off SO many
horses.
The horse distemper is slowly but
surely working its way in this direc-
ton. 1t has made its appearance in
the State of Nevada, and has been
reported for several days in Salt
Lake City. We have reason to hope
that the mildness of our coast eli
mate will rob the disease of its ma
lignant features; but no effort should
be spared on that presumption, to
meet and, if possible. overcome it.
Stable-Keepers should lose no time
in resorting to free ventilation of
their barns. and the adoption of such
other sanitary regulations as are
likely to secure exemption from the
disease. Gamaliel Scott, writing
from Columbus, Ohio, to the St.
Louis Republican, recommends. when
horse is attacked by the distemper,
that his food should be continued as
usual; that he should in addition
have handful of faxseed meal two
or three times a week; that he should
have plenty of salt. and water placed
where he can drink it as often as he
pleases; that he should be moderately
exercised every day, without wearing
blanket; that he should not stand
in open air without blanket, and
that in the meantime he should be
properly groomed. These atten-
tions he thinks are sufficient to effect
q cure.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-03-21

The following is said to be an au-
thentic copy of circular issued by a
commercial firm in Bombay: "Gen-
tlemen: We have the pleasure to
inform you that our respected father
departed this life on the--inst.
His business will be continued by
his beloved sons. whose names are
stated below. The opium market il
quiet, and Malwa 1900 rs. per chest
'Oh, grave, where is thy sting? Oh,
death, where is thy yictoryP' We
are yours truly"
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-03-21

The monument in Greenwood
Cemetry. Brooklyn, to the memory
of Alice and Phoebe Cary, has been
completed. It is simple base, with
die. cap and polished shields OF
Quincy granite. The memory Of .
third sister, Mrs. Almira Cary Swift,
is also perpetuated on the monu-
ment.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-03-21

A Danburian who was in New
York, Saturday, came up with the
wild statement that he had seen a
hotel clerk with side whiskers. That
is more of lie than one man should
undertake to tell. Hair growing on
the cheek OF o hotel clerkl Scat. 4
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-03-21
DENTISTRY.
GEO. W GRAY, d. D. s.

nOEE ALL WORK IN THE -
II line of his profession in the M - 9
latest. best and most approved IID
methods.
Anesthetie agents used for the painless ex-
traction of teeth if desired
Particular attention given to the regulation Of
ehiidren,s teeth.
Dental consultations and examinations free.
Satisfaction guaranteed in every case. Call
ct his ONCE and examine specimens Of his work.
Charges moderate. Office in Psrrish's Brick
Bleck. up-stairs. vsnItf.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-03-21
ALBANY BATH HOUSE!

"HE UNDERSIGNED WOULD RESPECT
fully inform the citizens Of Albany and vi
cinity that be has taken charge of this Establish
ment, and, by keeping clean rooms and paying
strict attention to business, expects to suit all
those who may favor him with their patronage.
Having heretofore carried on nothing but
First-Class Hair Dressing Saloons,
he expects to give entire satisfaction to all.
@Childien and Ladies' Hair neatly cut
and shampooed JOSEPH WEBER.
y3u33tf
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-03-21

A wretched old bachelor says;
''After all. a woman's heart is the
sweetest thing in the world; it's a
perfect honeycomb-full Of sells. .