, 1881-02-25

tors from that state, and one of its gov
ernors away back in the 'fiities wants Il
be the successor of Judge Wingard in tht
first district of this Territory.
THE Baltimore ''Gazette'' says: The
south is on the highway to prosperity
sure enough. Six million bales OF cotton
is the estimate for this years crop, which
is almost million in advance of last year.
and more than a million greater than the
crop of 1879.
OPIUM is smuggled into the Sandwich
Islands in tin cans labeled Boston baked
beans. Another method of introducing
the prohibited article is to bore cedar fence
posts and pack the holes with it. The
Chinese arc adopts in this kind Of trickery
and they ella ndestinely peddle large guam
titles of opium and rum among the ma
tiYeS.
Gov. Long of Massachusetts,, President
ChadDourne and Theodore Woolsey OF
Yale College, Judge jeremiah Smith OF
doin College, and other prominent men
met in Boston on the 2Sth ultimo, and Or
ganized the New England Divorce Re
form League, to labor for wholesome
changes in the present divorce laws.
JEFFERSON Davis is to publish a book
entitled The Rise and Fall of the Con-
federate Government" Davis has suffer
ed much con ederate criticism; he is enti-
tied to his defense. The confederate gov
ernment created very thorough military
system. which used the military streng. ii
till it was exhausted. They had to admit
that it was unconstitutional, and obliter-
ated state rights.
The commissioner of patents reports
that the receipts the past year were $780,
600, and the expenditures $500, coo. The
total amount to the credit of the patent
fund Is now 81 ,632, 900. The patent Office
is the only bureau of the government that
pays profit. Number OF patents issued
last year, 13,441. of which 2SO2 were to
citizens of New York, the largest number
credited to any state.
1.-The people OF Port Townsend are
making a laudable effort to secure the To-
cation within their midst OF U. S. Land
Office. We should have been better pleas
ed to have seen the effort made in Seattle,
but failing in that we will rejoice in the
success OF cur friends of the port OF entry.
A bill is already in Congress ordering its
establishment, which Mr.. Brents is push
ing with all his known ''Intelli-
genccr."
THOMAS Carlyle, the flmous English
essayiSt, historian and philosopher, died
at Chelsea, U.ondoni on Saturday. Fcbru-
AIRY 9th. He WAS born ut Ecclefechan,
Scotland, in 1895, and was therefore In his
Seth year. Few men of this century have
made 40 deep an impression upon litera-
ture and thought. In every work that
proceeded from his pen lie appears as the
sturdy opponent OF every description of
sham, cant, show, assimilation and hy-
pocrisy.
TUAT BAR.-The Historian" walls out
in this wise: by examining our tele-
graphic dispatches this morning. our read
crs will notice that we have the same old
old story to tell in reference to the at
ton of Congress with regard to the im-
provement of the Columbia river bar
Every creek and mud fiat OF the United
States, discernablc by the aid of magni-
flying glass, has its appropriation for i'm
provement; but nothing il allowed-aD-
solutely nothing-for the Columbia river
BAR
EVERY day brings some new develop
mcnt in railroad matters, and it now seems
try is soon to have two grand trunk lines
to the eastward. Tile Union Pacific sees
that 1t is soon to be hemmed i'm Oh all
sides unless it opens for Itself new out
let. The Central Pacific has the western
en6 of the old transcontinental route; the
Southern Pacific will have eastern COM
municatiOn in few days and our own
Northern Pacific is making emo. NOUS
strides in closing the gaps in its line The
Union Pacific will seek its own western
outlet by a line from the present road,
near Green river, in Utah, up through
Oregon to intersect the o. X. & n. Co. S
line at Baker City, and predictions are
made that all this great work will be done
the coming summer. No doubt much OF
it will be accomplished but all the feats OF
railroad building In the past will be
eclipsed il completion is reached in one
Seas01.
THE MALHEUR REsERvARIoN.-Ab bill
has passed the Senate and will doubtless
become a law, giving the Indians who
formerly occupied the Malheur reserva-
tion $4,000 in lieu of their rights to that
tract OF land, and throwing the same
open to settlers. This will give Eastern
Oregon another large slice OF excellent
land upon which thousands of farmers
and stock-raisers can find homes. It COM
prises some of the finest land In the north
west, we'll watered and timbered, and des-
tined to form one Of the most populous
sections Of Oregon. If the bill becomes
law a considerable settlement will spring
uO within its limits this war rpha T.,