The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-09-19
TELEcRApHlc SUMMARY.

TELEGRAPHIc SUMMARY.
Washington, Sept. 8.-Most of the men,
bers of the labor committee have returned.
A gentleman who accompanied the commit
tee states that the depression OF labor and
business, into the causes OF and remedies for
which the committee was to inquire, was
not very perceptible anywhere on the route,
and the further west the committee travel
ed the more difficult it became to discover
any traces of such depression. At Chicago
there were communionists, socialists, labor
reformers, greenback theorists and unfor-
tunate real estate speculators, who had their
various opinions on the way to improve So
ciety and to bring about the millenlum for
the working classes but their views, if
they ever make part of the committees re-
| port will not add much to the stock of the
worlds wisdom. At San Francisco the
principal topic of inquiry was as to the ef-
feet of Chinese immigration. Farmers,
tradesmen, mechanics, peddlers, miners and
workmen all agreed that they could not
hold their own against Cinnamon, and with
out intending anything of the sort they
| bore the strongest testimony to the skill,
business capacity, industry, patience, endu-
rance and frugality of that race There is
certainly little doubt that the feeling against
the Chinese among the working classes in
California is very bitter and very general.
The committee paid a short visit to Salt
axe City, and seemed to be very favorably
impressed with the results achieved by the
latter day saints in building up cities, towns,
agricultural and other industries in region
which except for them might have remained
for ages the desert which they found it.
Baltimore, Sept. l2.-The republican
state convention was held to-day in Concor-
dia Hall. There was an unusually full at
tendance and Milton G. Urner was made
president.
x-Postmaster-General Cresswell was
nominated for governor, but he declined as
his private affairs require his entire time
and attention, and named James A. Gray of
Howard county for governor.
The nomination of Gray was received
with the widest applause and he was made
the candidate for governor by acclamation.
Samue. Mollaber was nominated for comp
troller Francis M. Darby, for attorney
general md ]. L. Mccullough for clerk of
| the court of appeals.
Mr.. Gray, in brief speech, said that he
| was member of the committee on platform
and endorsed every word in it, and in the
coming campaign would make it hot for the
democrats of Maryland. Adjourned.
Boston, Sept. 1.-THE state convention
of the national greenback labor party as
sembled at Faneuil Hsll to-day. Israel w.
Andrews was elected temporary chairman
and Gen. Horace Binney Sargent, perma-
| nent chairman.
Gen. Sargent's address was in favor of fiat
money, attributing all the business distress
of the last six years to contraction, and ac-
cused both the press and public of want of
| fidelity to the public interests.
| Solon Chase was received with great ap-
| plause. He counseledssth party to act..with
prudence.
Committees were appointed and an angry
dispute arose on motion for recess, which
was carried.
After recess the following ticket was plac-
ed in nomination For governor, Benjamin
+: Butler; lieutenant governor, Wendell
/ Phillips secretary of state, Jonathan Ar
nold treasurer Wilbur F. Whitney; au-
ditor, Davis J. King; attorney general,
Horace B. Sargent.
New York, Sept 13-The Tribune says
If there were any way of getting facts con-
cerning the assassination of Alexander Brice,
republican politician, killed by unknown
men near Walthalla South Carolina, few
days since, it would probal ly turn out a po-
litical murder of the Yazoo variety. Letters
received in Washington show that Brice had
/ begun reorganizing the republican party in
the county short time before his death.
He had been illegally imprisoned, and a
/ Judge of the u s. court issued a mandamus
ordering Brice brought before him, and that
was the last seen of him.
The Herald says: The acquital of the
Gullys of the charge of numbering the
/ Chisholms in Mississippi, is one of those
trials by jury which puzzle admirers of that
institution. By the light of this verdict we
may however interpret the Indifference OF
representative Mississippians when asked il
/ they approve the Yazoo plan.
Victoria, Sept. l4-The coast trade is
rapidly extending, and, under proper re-
strictions, it would all belong to British
Columbia. But American goods smuggled
in from Wrangel are retailed to the Indians
and o.hers at prices lower than our own
/ dealers can possibly purchase for wholesale
in this market. The Colonist says: "That
/ this contraband trade is certain to expand
rapidly, under the present tariff offering
such a high premium for smuggling, cannot
admit of the slightest doubt, unless indeed
some energetic and practical measures be
taken to repress it; and our object in di-
recting attention to the subject is that the
authorities may be induced to adopt some
repressiye measures.
A short time ago an American schooner
ran into Knights Inlet on the British Col
umbia coast, filled up with halibut, which
the crew packed in ice, and then stood away
for San Francisco. As British Columbia
has not been admitted to the benefits of the
Washington treaty, in shore fishing by
American vessels in these waters is viola
tion of international law, and cannot be
permitted.