The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1886-10-01
w Washington.
tFrom our regular correspondent,
WAaaIxoros, sept. illh, 1856.

d@nt The earthquake shnok II up
little, hat nothing In comparison I,
the election If Democratic presi
dent. SInca that event nothing snr
prizes The average washlngtonIan
who lcoks upon slI subInnary ane
suhterannean disturbances with ~
Indifference which seems to say
uWIth that dire retrospectiou crus
MY only solace Is 10 know
Whaie'er betldes, I've seen The
worst.u
| What h that worst ? Why TO bel
on jlmblnlne and lose the money he
had borrowed at ten per cent Interest
Iper inonth, aud then to be dismissed
Tor offensive good for nothingness
But this, as we Democrats say of the
war, Is ancient history.
Modern or contemporary history as
viewed from this standpoint Is Aal
enough. It Will be more Interesting
when the President returns and when
Congress gets back. After the fail
elections Il viii be liveller SIN.
The Departments are moving alorg
In their old russ. In the Treasury
Department they are keeping hooks,
counting the revenue, making con-
tracts, calling Ia bonds, auditing ac-
counts, and paying the great army OF
clerks known as the civil service, as
we'll as the small but expensive army
and the formidable on the psy-roll
navy. Now that Geronin.o aud MS
hand of forty thieves are captured
the United States army viii be able
70 take rest, for II Il the Intention
Of Secretary Lamar TO shift The
Apaches from Arizona to Florida and
end Indian wars forever. All the
other warriors have either joined
Buffalo Bill's circus or are so elviliz.
ed and cowed by Government tough
beef that they are as harmless ~
their wonder efligIes IN front of t..-
bacc0 stores.
W thouf any IndIans to fight, with
diving iorpedp bo Il that can blow
np the great Irspn clads Of foreign
navIes, and with dIplanaey carried
on BY special envoy@, how much
longer will these tEiplets Il bartnsl-ln,
the army, navy, aud sham { reign
service have resson to be. Your cur
Te-p"ndent Is not quits resdy ~ an
nounce the millennium. jim Blaise q
ha- truken eus IL the old piscs., ard
the government 0f the United Si-trs
j. still msl msl.adminlsisred, Ia great
psri, by the convicis condemned by
the last Presideoiisl eleciiau in outer
darkness with wsilfDg md gna hing
OF the teeth. When will the sentence
OF that election be carried out, sud
when viii We have 10 the Depart.
ments at Washington a bo ly Of em'
plOyes placed ior some other purpose
than 20 work for the Republican
parry and who now have no dearcl
object than 10 hamstrIng tho Demo,
cratic administration.
| All tho Cabinet officers, Mr.. Lay.
ard excepted, are out Of town. Mr..
Lamar Is up Ia Vermont, wriling 4
big speech that he - expected b dc,
liver st the unwilling OF a statue d
Calhoun IN Charleston, 8 G. Yer
mont Is as near the poliIIco geograph,
icaI antipode Of the Calhoun cult a.
the eloquent MissIssippIan can get,
| but predict that his speech will bs
as far removed from sn advocacy o
disunion as the Green Mountains
are from the centre OF earthquakes
The wonder is that Mr.. Lamar takes
time 10 write his speech, for the inn
preston prevails that he can SIS
brilliant things on any subject fo
two hours watch In hand. But th'
necessity for accuracy and precision
or epIthet Is great now-a-days, ans
Mr. Lamar perhaps does not wish Il
|, have TO recant IS mad Mr.. Blaine ant
and Mr.. Frye In reference te expires
sIons In their recent speeches.
The usual summer improvements
both public and private, have besl
geiDg on In the city. Many house
have been hulit. Parks have beel
extended, treas pIt.led, sewers dug
streets paved. The great improve
ment r reclaiming the Potoma
/, Flats with view 10 the expurgaliol
Of malaria Is going IN and Il
IN. .ugIa that The ciis will De 10 trim
he.tImes for the great ceniennial Gel
ebrafIon Of ibe inauguration Of th
first President in 1889 when tn
Washington Monument ept~ines
win the natiopsl cnl,lrs will look Tx
. barber's pile, ard the Gran mem
srial fridge spaDuiag he Potams
VII. furnish az eass apptppc fr tn
Virginia trnck gstdnerz. Bu' this
~acrlIegp, and viii he discontinue
| nIl next week.
ssepheo w Dars4y announce