The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-03-27
Marine Engineers threaten TO Strike.


engineers. The first steamer on which
orders were carried into effect was the Stat,
of California, now in this port. A meeting
of the marine engineers was held here to
day. Instructions have been issued for al
engineers Of the Oregon Railway and Navi
CATION company steamers to quit work i'm.
mediately, unless iie tEird assistant engi.
neer on the State of California be restored
to his position. The society of Marine En-
gineers embraces all certified engineers on
the Pacific coast.
| The Illinois Legislature now a Tie
SPR1NGFIELD, ILL.,, March Ex-senator
Bridges, iem cratic member of the state
senate, who has been a sufferer from a
stroke of paralysis received one month ago,
and whose condition ever ince has been
very critical, died at his home near Carol
ton this morning. This death following the
death of Representative Logan three wesks
ago leaves the Illinois legislature once more
a tie on joint ballot. The house and senate
both adjourned this morning when the an
Wars Demand.
New YORK, March 22-The rumor of =
probable war betw zen England and Russia
has tended to stimulate the the demand
from England for oats from the Atlantic
instead of the Baltic ports. The demand
has been so large in the past few weeks that
the shipments this month m. New York
alone promises to reach 100000 bushels,
which will exceed the shipments of any one
month heretofore. Engagements of berths
range from %, 900 to 1000 bushels day
General Grant.
New YORK, March 22.-Grant is reading
more about the trial James Fish than
anybody can who re es en- the published
reports, for the newspapers squeeze each
days proceedings into quarter to half
column, while he gets a stenographic verba-
tim report. This is provided to him, on
his urgent request, by order of Judge Bene-
dict, who is pr.si,ling in the United States
court where Grant & Wards silent partner
is being tried for violation cf the banking
laws Shorthand noes of the testimony
are taken to the generals house every even.
ing and read to him. 1t was through Fish's
connection with the swindle that Grant was
drawn into it. He was president of
leading bank of reputed olidity and possess
ed considerable wealth. Therefore, when
he seemed to trust young Ward implicitly
Grant blindly followed his example. 70
this day Grant is not clear in his mind
whether fish was Wards confederate or
victim, and he is a self-constituted jury,
determined to convict or acquit the prisoner
on the evidence.
A TROUBLED MIND.
General Grants inability to sleep comes
not so much from the condition of his body
as from unrest of mind. He has it firmly
rooted he ia going out in disgrace and under
cloud, and all that his friends can say to
him in no wise changes this belief. He
talks freely with certain of his intimatas on
the subject, and tells them of his mortifca-
tion and chagrin that he should have been
duped by Ward, and that so many persons
should have lost money by him. He tells
his dearest friends that the responsibilities
of battle and of leading the armies of the
nation gave no such concern as has this
Ward business-that his rest in the White
House in the crcticM period when the coun-
try was recovering from 1he effects of a
civil war was sweet compared to the rest
that has come to him in the last nine
months. He had hoped that fortune might
in some manner smile on him, so he might
return to those who had lost the money
thus wasted. He would write. he would
work. he would do anything to reuove this
stain from the family; but he was attacked
by a disease that must prove fatal, and soon
he became too weak and too sick to stir out
of the house. So he. silently and grimly.
and without word of complaint, keeps to
his couch and to his easy chair and thinks.
He knows that he must die sooD, and he is
oppressed with a fear that he is in disgrace
because of the failure of the firm of Grant
& Ward, through the dishonesty of one of the
partners. He does not seem to fear death,
his friends say, but he does desire to make
good all losses sustained by Grant & Ward.
This thought, and the idea that he is in dis
grace is fastening his death.
THE GENERALS CONDITION
General Grant slept a part of the time
last night in a chair A consultation was
had at to-day by Drs. San's Douglas and
Shrady, and it was generally considered the
patients throat looked much better. There
has been no pain or sensation of uneasiness
about the throat for a week. Gen. Grant
took some food to-day, but he has no appe-
tite, and ate only as matter of necessity.
When DIR. Douglas saw Gen. Grant tonight
he found his patient in the ,parlor. The
General Immediately walked MP stairs to
his room, and said he felt very tired, as
there has been great many visitors during
the day. He retired shortly after TO-, and
DR.. Douglas thinks he fell into refreshing