The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-03-09

vate building in this city. The lower or
ground floor, which fronts on three
streets, will be used as store-rooms, and
it is thought the upper stores will be Oc-
cupied by some of the bureaus of the
Treasury Department now overcrowded.
SMUGGLING.
The conspiracy by which extensive
smuggling of goods from Canada has
been carried on, recently discovered,
will lead to the arrest of many promi
.nent merchants, u. S. Inspectors, and
others. The plot has been one of the
deepest and best laid ever discovered.
The government has been defrauded out
of vast sums by the smugglers for sew
eral years.
TEEsILYEB COMMISSION
Has received new lease of life by
the Senate extending the time for their
report until the oath of February, and
like resolution passed the House this
forenoon.
UNITED STATES BONDS.
The collection of unclaimed interest,
whereby the exaction of heavy fees was
imposed by clerks in the Treasury De-
partment, and which eliminated in the
arrest of Douglass, will lead to the still
further arrest of prominent parties in
New York who have been in collusion
with Douglass. Some $50, 600 have been
collected through the connivance of this
official and the New York agent. The
Department does not consider it advisa-
BILE to give their names, but it is almost
certain the arrest will be made this
evening or tomorrow.
WATTS,
The alleged ineligible Oregon elector,
is still here basking in the warm SUM-
light of our city, patiently awaiting to
testify before the electoral commission
when the Oregon case shall be called be-
fore that BODY.
NAVAL.
Rear Admiral Goldsborough is seri-
ously i'll with typhoid malaria at his
residence in this city. Secretary Nor
rill, at noon, was slowly but steadily
improving.
LENT,
! With all its ObserVances, is now upon
US, and has affected a great change in
our social matters. The official and
fashionable receptions of the President,
members of the Cabinet, and our
wealthy citizens and office-holders are
at an end for the season, and whatever
we may have in the line of such sociali-
ties will partake of the informal and
private nature, and do not include the
general public, as they did prior to this
week.
GENERAL GRANT
Is busted in bis preparations for exit
from the White House, and will soon
be ready for his campaign in civil life,
to which he returns after an absence oil
sixteen years. He puts aside affairs oi
State with great qualification, for he is
weary of the constant strife and annoy
anee Of politics, and as he expressed
himself when calling on Mr.. Stephens
he is anxious for the 4th of March to ar.
rive that he may retire to private life
1t is pleasant to note that the acri.
mony of politics has never reached anC
attacked Mrs. Grant, and that she will
surrender her post as mistress of thu
White House without an enemy, anC
with warmest remembranees from al
who have ever met or known her. Sh,
has taught as that a devoted wife ant
mother can be thrown into daily ant
hourly contact with fashion, display
and extravaganza, and yet avoid thei
extremes by remaining as subject to tn
requirements of true domestieitya as wer
she of poverty's walk. The Whit
House has had in it, in the past, thos
who seemed to ignore the true sphere O
wife and mother. But in Mrs. Gran
we have one of whom every American
can well be proud, for there has neve
been an action in her twelve years @
, residence here which would make tn
most sensitive blush. Prudent and sen
sible to the highest degree, she has eve
protected herself and household from tn
mire and calumny of the bitterest polit
ical villifier. The members of the Cab
met are also preparing to vacate thei
comfortable positions. But, strange t
say, SO busy have our politicians been
the matter of determining who the mex
! President shall be, that providing fc
3 successors to the present Cabinet ha
D been wholly neglected, and we are CON
8 pletely ignorant as to whom we ma
s look to be our future heads of society
: Mrs. Fish, as leader of the fashionabl
q and polite circles by virtue of her pos
s tion as Mrs. Secretary of State, hs
performed her allotted part with rarei
grace and tact. She will long be II
: membered here. FELIX.
+ Washington, D. c., Feb. 16, 1876.
4 Mr. Glover hv unanimous cODsan