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The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-09-12
JOURNALISM.

Newspapers are getting to be much
more than mere transcripts of the
news and gossip of the day. They
are pioneers in learned exploration -
they are foremost in geographical and
historical discovery; they are teach
ers of social science. They are no
longer satisfed;with disseminating the
knowledge laboriously collected by
savants, by travellers, by experiment
ers in natural philosophy; they must
pursue their own Investigations, and
send their agents into all the halfex-
plored fields of science and adventure.
The reporter of to-day is the adven-
turer who penetrates the desert and
the jungle, the scholar who searches
for relics of the forgotten past, the
courier who bears the news Of victory
to courts and Congress across a will
derness and through hostile armies,
the detective who prizes into public
abuse and discovers hidden wrongs,
the pioneer who throws new countries
open to the world, the philanthropist
who unbars the door Of the torture
chamber, the chemist who detects
adulteration in the spice-box, the in
spector who seizes false weights and
measures, the Auditor who exposes a
theft in the public treasury Journal
ism busies itself now with everything
that affects the public welfare, II
trenches upon the province once sa-
cred to the scholar, and supplies the
defects OF an inefficient government.
Year by year its ambition becomes
larger, its purposes more benefcient
and its means more abundant; and
we can hardly doubt that it is destined
in short time to be the foremost OF
all the secular Iprofessions-the most
brilliant in It's rewards, and The most
useful to mankind. ~ Y. Tribune.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-09-12
Written for the Democrat
EMMA.
by AMOS K. JONES.

She lived Till the beauty of youth was around
her,
She lived Till the roses Of life were in bloom
Then died, and the hearts that so lovingly
crowned her
with truest affection, are shadowedin in gloom
You tell me, my friend, at my sorrow and sigh
ing;
To wish her not back to this cold world again
That she Is now blest, and she found but in
dying
All no. Is rose which the feverish summer
Has scorched from existence, more blest than
the one
That lived, and with beauty delighted each
conner,
And budded, and bloomed in the showers
and sun?
That hourlshed and grew, that was fair. and
and with never
scent but of balm in Its eloquent breathi
That blossomed to age, was Joy forever,
And langulshed, at last, in the pleasure Of
death?
Yet-it may be all well-and her young dreams
thus broken
Be finished in Heaven,-yet my grief is SO
deep,
That though angels exult in treasure un.
spoken
Imust turn with regret, must deplore 1t and
weep,
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-09-12


AFFECTION OF MONKEYS From
James Forbes's Oriental Memoirs,
the following interesting account is
extracted: One Of a shooting party,
under q bannan- tree, killed female
monkey and carried it to his tent,
which was soon surrounded by forty
or fifty of the tribe, who made great
noise, and seemed disposed to attack
their aggressor, Tbeyretreated when
he presented his fowling-piece, the
dreadful effect of which they had wit
messed and appeared perfectly to un-
derstand. The head Of the troop,
however, stood his ground, Ohattering
furiously; the sportsman, who per-
haps felt some little degree of com
Function for having killed one of the
family, did not like TO Ere al the crea-
ture, and nothing short Of firing would
suffice to drive him of. At length he
came to the door Of the tent and find
ing threats Of no avail, and the
most expressive gesture seemed to
beg for the dead body. It was given
to him; be took il sorrowfully in his
arms, and bore IL away TO his expect
ing companions. They who were
witnesses Of this extraordinary scene
resolved never again 10 fire at one Of
the monkey race.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-09-12
DEAD sTATEsnrEN.

Austrelitz killed Pitt as surely as
Trafalgar killed Nelson. Each died
for his country, but thst country
mourned more deeply for the great
admiral, stricken down in the battle
where he was the victor, than it did
for the great minister who died Of a
broken heart. The last book he read
at Bath, was Miss Owenson's (Lady
Morgan's) "Novice of ST. Dominic" p
That now unreadable romance, Pitt
said, he could not lay down till he
had finished it, and thence did "No-
vice" come to be rage for time
People almost fought to obtain it at
the libraries, and nothing in literature
was talked of but book which has
long since fallen out OF literature and
Of memory altogether. People, too,
fought for another novel, "A Winter
in London" in which fashionable life
was illustrated by an incapable whose
name and whose works are equally
wrapt in oblivion.
Fox did not long survive his great
rival, Pitt. He died on the 18th Of
September, 1906. A week previously,
when he was already dying, he trans.
acted public business. He gave an
audience in his bedroom to George
Jackson, with instructions as to how
the latter was to act on his new mis-
sion to Germany. There was a mix
ture of the solemn and the ludicrous
in the scene. When Jackson was an
nounoed, Mrs. Fox, in complete dis
hGbiIle, was in the room. In her
furry she slipped into closet, and,
as the interview was prolonged, the
lightly draped lady kept signaling to
Mr.. Fox, as if he alone could hear her,
by little coughs and murmurs, to warn
him not to over-exert himself, or to
dismiss the envoy, that she might be
set free. At moment when there
was pause in the conversation be-
tween the minister and his agent, the
fair captive tapped at the panel, and
asked if the young gentleman was not
gone, and complained OF being cold
The dying statesman looked at Jack
son with languid smile, and with
friendly wishes bade him farewell-as
it proved, forever.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-09-12
TERRIBLE STORM ON THp ATLANTIC
COAST.

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| Mail and telegraphic details Of the
storm on the night of the I'd inst.
are being constantly received at Hal
flax. The destruction Of life and
property on land and sea was fright
full, and far exceeds the estimates
given. From all sections there comes
reports of houses and barns being
blown down, crops destroyed and cat
tie killed. Such fearful havoc has not
been known in Nova Scotia and Cape
Breton for the past thirty years. At
present no accurate idea of the loss
both to land, property and shipping
eau be found, but will in all proba-
bility reach several million Of dollars.
Already many lives are reported lost.
but there is too many reasons to be-
lieve that many vessels are lost, to-
gether with all hands. The fisher
men on the Eastern coast have suf-
fered severely, all having lost their
boats, fishing tackle, ETC., from Guy
boro to Cape Canso.
A dispatch from Sydney, Cape
Breton, states that the schooner Eu-
ropa was capsized in the galeon Sun
day last and all hands lost. Over
one hundred vessels are ashore at
Cape Breton and eighteen ashore at
Louisburg. The schooner Ocean
Wave dragged her anchor and went
to pieces on Cape Hogan, all hands
perishing. Another schooner was
lost with two men. A brig went
down at her anchorage in Caribou
Cove, with all on board. Other ves-
sells and crews are known to be lost.
Over one hundred buildings were
destroyed in Canso and vicinity, en-
failing loss of 100000. At Canso
every ship in the harbor is high and
dry. Every wharf and fishing estab-
lishment has been swept away, and
the debris lines the entire shore. The
public hall there is heap of splin-
ters, in which is buried splendid
organ. All the buildings, public and
private, are more or less injured.
The Catholic Chapel is ruined. The
fishermen have lost their all, and
many of them had to fee from their
dwellings with their children, naked,
into the pitiless storm. Out of a
fleet of three hundred fishing vessels
only twenty remain. Several fisher
men lost in fish and gear upward of
$40, 900 each. rr -
It is said that forty dead bodies
have drifted ashore, and on the north
side of Prince Edwards Island and
at other points bodies are washing
upon the beach. ra-
The steamship Saltwell, Captain
Mace, from London for Sydney, foun-
dered off Scatterie on Sunday night.
The lifeboat, with the Captain and
twenty four of the crew, landed at
Forshie, Cape Breton. On Monday
morning one boat with six men was
lost alongside the steamer. Another
boat with nine men is missing, but is
supposed to be at Louisburg. .y
It is ascertained that thirty-two
Gloucester vessels went ashore at
Magdalen Islands in the gale of Sun
day.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-09-12
AN OVER TRUE TALE.
The sad, sad story or a Dubuquo Clsl.
and his bride NJ Davennort.

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The Davenport Gazeiie Of Thurs.
day vouches for the absolute truth
of the following, though from OBJ
yious reasons all names are suppress
ed; One Of the leading citizens OF
North Davenport had an only daugh-
ter who was betrothed to q young
man of fair promise, clerk in q
leading commercial house at Ou-
buque.
His visits to that city were regular,
and arrangements had been made
for an immediate union, when the
bride elect was stricken down by
typhoid fever, and in spite Of all
which medical skill and care could
do, died. The Gazette reporter says,
"We saw her in her coffin, dressed
for the burial Of death, not for the
consummation Of an earthly love.
We witnessed the agony Of her lover
as he bent in speechless, fearless abb
Estraction over the satin lined burial
case"
After the melancholy journey to
Oakdale, the young man returned to
Dubuque. Nervous fever set in and
peculiar hallucination seized him,
that his lost one was present in the
same room, ever present, draped in
the same garb which had enveloped
her in her clay. All remonstrance
was in vain. He minutely described
her dress, her appearance and her
position in his chamber, even when
his parents or friends would sit or
stand where he declared her to be,
he saw her glide away and take an
other place. This went on for weeks,
and the patient was gradually sink
ing under physical and nervous ex-
citement, when a friendly ruse was
tried to cure him of his ecstacy.
Coming to Davenport, his mother
found that the funeral garments were
purchased at the store Of @. & M.
and made by Mrs. B. She purchas-
ed the material, had it made up in
fac simile and returning, a young la
dy as near in height and appearance
as could be found, was dressed to
resemble his deceased love, and dur
ing one of his fevered and brief
slumbers was introduced into the
room, quietly taking her seat in Q
shaded corner,
His awakening was anxiously
watched, and sanguine hopes of re-
moving his hallucination were ia.
dulged in. He woke at length, and
turning his eyes in the direction of
the pious fraud, stared with fixed
eyeballs for few seconds, then rais-
ing himself almost upright in his bed,
flung his arms aloft, and shrieking in
an unearthly voice. "My God, there
are tsco Of them" fell back and ex-
pired.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-09-12
THE VIENNA sCANDAI.-oFF1C1AL


The Investigations of Minister Jay
and Mr.. McElrath, into the Vienna
Exposition scandal, have been con-
cluded, and their report to Sec
retary Fish brings this disgraceful
affair once again into prominence.
They find that the charges of corrup-
ton made against both General Van
Buren and General Mayer are true.
These Commissioners, says the re-
port, made considerable sums of
money out of their positions, by SELL
ing "concessions" for the keeping
of bars and restaurants, etc., and for
such other business as might be
pro6tably carried on in the American
division Of the great exposition. So
shameless and open did these specu-
lations grow before any complaint
was lodged against the corrupt Com
missioners, that it was subject of
common scandal throughout Vienna
and among the representatives of
other nations who were present.
Americans Of character and pride
Stunned the Commissioners from
very shame, and such remarks were
frequently made by American visitors
when talking among themselves, as
II wish some Commissioners would
come that man would not be
shamed to give his hand to-" "our
Commission is nothing but pool Of
corruption" and others Of like
character. The report also states
that General Mayer received $50, 900
for single contract in connection
with the American section of the
building. 3H.aat
If we at home feel so keenly the
disgrace of those transactions, how
must Americans in Vienna feelP
What with our Credit Mobilier and
salary steals at home, and the cor
ruption of our representatives abroad,
our country's fame is certainly in q
fair way to be made finally and for
ever secure. f...4
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-09-12

BUFFERS CHANoEs.--A Tribune
special from Springfield, Massachu-
setts, says Butler is developing more
strength in some quarters than was
expected. His chances of carrying
the Convention have improved within
few days; still no intelligent and
partial canvass has yet been made
that does not leave him in minority
Of at least 100. His friends did not
do so well in Boston as then expected,
nor in Newburyport. Their caucus
in Lowell and Lynn was conceded
The result now chiefly depends on
Buffers success in getting any con.
siderable portion OF the rural dis
tricts. He has been manipulating
them very industriously, though So
cretly, through the State-house lobby
and Federal office-holders, but there
is no reason yet to believe that be can
carry enough of them to give him q
majority. The contest is growing
very warm, aud there is much excite
ment throughout the State. There
certainly will be a bolt if Butler car
ries the Convention, and another Re.
publican candidate run. If he is
beaten his boiling is doubtful, but be
is evidently making ready to do SO If
he dares.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-09-12
HOW TO BRING BAsHFUL MEN TO
TERMS. tn ..t

A broken.hearted young girl writes
as follows:
"About three years ago I became
acquainted with young gentleman,
and, although he never paid me any
particular attention, he would often
accompany me to and from church,
&c. But lately / noticed a great
change in him, He avoids me as
much as possible, and starts if / ad-
dress him. Can he have ceased to
love me ?-for l know he did, though
he never said SO, If l thought he
had it would break my heart"
Perhaps we ought not to interfere
in this matter; but as we know ex-
actly what should be done with the
young man, we feel as if we ought to
speak out. Do not attempt to reason
with him, or oajole him, or pacify him.
The next time be calls take a monkey.
wrench, fasten it securely upon his
nose, lead him off to the dining.room,
and ask him in firm voice what he
means If he won't answer, twist the
wrench three or four times, and butt
his head against the stove or mantel-
piece until his gloom is dispelled. If
he says he has ceased to love you, let
your fingers daily with his ringlets
lovingly for few minutes, and then
suddenly lift out couple of hand
fuls, and have an Irishman at hand to
come in and sit on him awhile, and
knock out his teeth, and jump up and
down on him, and be sociable. Then
let him go and commence your ar
rangements to rope in a fresh man.
You cannot afford to waste your
young life upon such wretch as this;
and where heart will not throb to
heart, or soul respond to soul, the best
thing to do is to confuse the nose at
once. s..-
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-09-12
MILITARY EDUCATION.

1t is, we believe, remarkable fact
that there seems more youths in the
southern states receiving military edu-
cations than in the northern states.
There are very few private military
institutions in the northern states.
West Point, therefore, embraces a
large number OF the youth who re-
ceive a military education at the
north. We see in an account of the
proceedings which took place at West
Point (graced with the President and
the Secretary of War; there were but
forty-one graduates, We are satisfied
that there are several times as many
graduates this year from the different
military institutions in the southern
states. The military institution at
Lexington, Virginia, alone vies with
West Point in the number of its grad
yates. 3.
There always has been in our south
ern youth greater propensity for
military education than in the youths
of the north. The reason might be,
that the northern people cherished
most, trade and commerce but the
southern people, being almost agri-
cultural in their pursuits--raised to
the horse and gun-looked to military
life as most congenialto their pursuits
and tastes. Hence, before the late
war, almost every state in the south
had a military institution; whilst there
were a great number of private insti-
tutions of similar character. Recon.
struction wiped them out, but we are
glad to see that in all the southern
states military schools are re-estab-
lished. In our judgment, they train
a youth for the battle Of life far better
than any other method OF education.
For scholarship and general literature,
our civil universities and colleges may
be the most efficient; bat very few in
the world are men of scholarship or
literature, or appertaining to the
learned professions. They are the ex-
ceptioDs. The great mass of man
kind, to whom the world belongs, are
the practical men of action, and whom
thought is seldom abstract, but the
will rules Such men best find their
educations in military schools. s.-NesO
Orleans -PicGyu,1e
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-09-12

When 3 Irishmen dug ditch for
which they were to receive four dol
lars, the trouble was how to diYide
four among three and have it equal
One of them remained quiet and the
other two at last deferred to bis judg-
ment, as he had been to school and
knew arithmetic, to make the the di.
vision. He did it at once, saying -
"It's aisy enoughl Shure there's two
for you and two for me, too" "Be,
gorra," said one of his co-laborers,
0What a great thing it is to have
learning" "And,p said the other, al
he pocketed his single dollar, "tc
know arithmetic, tool It's the like
of US towe'd never divided them -four
dollars aqually."
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-09-12
Al this moment Ada opeped bel

At this moment Ada opened he
eyes again, and faint blush struggled
with the paleness in her cheeks, al
her gaze fell upon the count. A beau
tiful smile played on her trembling
lips, and she reached her hand toward
him. "Oh, my love-" she said in {
low whisper-a whisper which first
sent the blood mantling INTO Dora'l
face and then left it paler than snow
"you are near and l."
Something in the counts face stopped
her words.
"The girl is wandering" he said
coldly. "She does not know what
she is saying"
She bad tainted again. "Go, count,
said Dora, hastily. "Your presence is
not wanted here" Her manner was
decided and even imperious, and the
count did not venture to disobey but
as he left he cast upon Ada a look
which caught the others eye, and
from the expression that came into her
face knew-knew even then, chat he
would never more hold place in her
heart.
We carried Ada home, and through
the long illness which followed, Dora
was her constant nurse and compan-
ion To this dear friend was conGded
with many tears the secret of her
heart. The count had won her love,
and had promised to ask my consent
TO their union. Unsuspecting and
confding, she knew nothing of his at
Ientions to Dora, and it was by his
wish that she had never mentioned his
name to me- l heard afterward, that
he and Dora met but once after the
accident, and that he endeavored to
defend bis perfidy on the plea that he
was only amusing himself with Ada,
and never had seriously thought of
making her his wife. $50 much the
worse for you, count" said the true
hearted woman. al shall never be
your wife, and never want to see your
face again"
We are married now, Dora and /.
From loving Ada she learned in time
TO love me, and the sweet and gentle
invalid, who never again will walk
until she steps upon the heavenly
shore, is happy in our love. No muir
mur ever escapes her lips. Hersweet
face is never clouded. Since Dora
learned her sad story, the counts
name has never passed my sisters lips,
nor has she ever in any way alluded
to him. But Dora found her one day
weeping silently over picture which
she put away without its being seen.
I have not told how the accident
happened. The master machinist,
himself in love with Dora, had cut
several strands of the. cords by which
the car was secured. He openly
avowed his crime, and only regretted
that Dora had not been killed. "She
rejected me with scorn," he said on his
trial II was resolved she should
never give her hand to another" He
was manifestly a maniac. l can never
forgive myself for not watching him
more closely after that encounter un-
der the stage.-FFona the AIdi'ae for
September.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-09-12
A TERRIBLn TRAGEDY IN BELGIUM


The Belgium newspapers give the
following account Of dreadful trag-
edy that occurred three weeks ago in
little village near Brussels. A
farmer and his wife had plotted to
murder their neice during her sleep,
to rob her of 1.S00 francs that she
was taking'to her sick mother. In
order to foil the future search of the
police, they, previously to perpetrat-
ing the crime, were engaged in dig
ging large hole in their garden, SO
as to bury the body in it, when the
young girl, who, not being asleep,
had heard her terrible sentence,
rushed out by the window and ran to
the police station, distant one mile
only. But as soon as she was out
the daughter Of the wicked farmer,
who was not expected home that
night, came back, and, not wishing
to awaken anybody in the house, went
noiselessly into the bed where her
cousin had been lying few minutes
ago. She soon fell asleep, and thus
her mother, not being aware of the
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-09-12

DANISH PRovERBs. All wish to live
long, but none to be called old.
Take help from many, advice from
few,
He who builds according to every
mans advice will have q crooked
house.
God gives every bird its food, but
does not throw it into the nest.
He who says what he likes must
hear what he does not like.
Empty wagons make the most
noise. @ al
If God bids thee draw, He will
find thee a rope; if he bids thee ride,
He will find thee q horse.
Better suffer for truth than pros
per by falsehood. y
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-09-12

A PAPER published at BonhaIn,
Texas, says that a few days ago, and
short distance from that place, q
man "saw something resembling an
enormous serpent floating in a cloud
that was floating over his farm Sew
eral parties OF men and boys, at work
in the fields, observed the sarno thing,
and were seriously frightened II
seemed to be as large and long as 8
telegraph pole, and was of a striped
yellow color, and seemed to float
along without any effort They could
see it coil itself up, turn over, and
thrust forward its huge head ss If
striking at something It is a pity
that lager beer or some other mild
liquid could not be substituted for tho
beverage now in use at that place.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-09-12

The "India-rubber bustle"is is again
heard from. This time it was q
Brooklyn young lady who was thrown
from her carriage coming down the
hill from Prospect Park. She made
ninety-seven and half bounces in
all, and was finally rescued by ahook
and ladder company from tho top Of
telegraph pole, where she had stuck
in attempting to complete the ninety.
eighth bounce.