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Year: 1876

wAsHNGroS, March 4, 1876
WARM DIFFERENCES IN THE DEMOCRATIC


CAUCUS ON THE MONEY QUESTION.
The democratic caucus met at the Capitol tonight
and remained In session until halfpast eleven o'clock
The proceedings were excited and speeches were
made for and against soft money The advocates OF the
policy Of repeating the Resumption act endeavored to
force VOTE but the hard money nlbustered and
forced adjournment
Year: 1876

face OF all honest Americans and to make countless
friends Of the Republic in this country silent and
rowfuI when its enemies rejoice these recurring
revelations"


The Standard says:-"Happily the countries are few
where SO gross abuse Of trust would be possible"
Year: 1876

The following record will show the changes In the
temperature for the past twenty four hours, com.
parson with the corresponding date OF last year,
d,catcd BY the Thermometer at Hudnurs pharmacy
Year: 1876




About the centre of the city front, there
is an area of about 400 feet square, south
ward from and including the Oregon
Steam Navigation Company's wharf and
warehouse, where last June there was not
single structure of any kind, and no
labor exhibited other than the driving
of piles, and that work only just com
menced. Upon that same AGO feet square
to-day, there are now going forward ten
buildings, none of which are yet finished
and only three have roofs on, which three
have only advanced that far within ten
days, Of these ten, there is warehouse
and wharf 200 feet in length, three story
hotel, fifty feet front, two story board
ing house OF the same front, beautiful
$4,000 dwelling, Il two story saloon and
boarding house, two story beer hall
with rooms and offices in second story
and the foundations are laid and material
now being hauled for store to be occupi.
ed by n clothing merchant, two story
building which is already rented to a
party in Portland for restaurant; besides
a cellar foundation on the bank for a
house, the material Of which is just being
hauled. All these structures are to be
hard finished, and will cost from $500
to $4,000 each, not including the Oregon
Steam Navigation Company property,
which OF course is to be estimated more
than all the rest in outlay. Not bad for
400 icet square that was vacant less than
three months since.
Year: 1876

Owing to the exactions of unfeel-
ing paper dealers and the infexibil-
ity of the postal laws, in order to
keep this Great Family Journal 60
ing We shall hereafter be obliged to
adhere strictly to the announcement
which we fly at the head Of our
columns, viz: "s2 per year, IN ad-
Uance." To this end, We wish to
give notice that all subscriptions
not paid by the lst of July will be
striken from the list. Within the
next two weeks we shall present
each subscriber with the amount of
his indebtedness to which we hope
each one will respond with prompt
ness. We need the money, are en-
titled to it and ought to have it.
No money, no paper!
Year: 1876

We commend careful perusal Of
the following to our many delin
quents:


A printer sat in his office chair,
his boots " ere patched and his coat
threadbare, while his face looked
weary and worn with care while
sadly thinking of business debt, old
Morpheus slowly round him crept
and before he knew it he soundly
slept; and, sleeping, he dreamed
that he was dead, from trouble and
toll his spirit had fled, and that not
even a COW bell tolled, forthe peace
ful rest of his cow hide sole. AS
he wandered among the shades,
that smoke and scorch in lower
Hades, he shortly observed an iron
door, that creakingiy swung on
hinges ajar, but the entrance was
closed by red-hot bar, and Satan
himself stood peeping out, and
watching for travellers thereabout,
and thus to the passing printer
spoke: "Come in my dear, it shall
cost you nothing and never tear :;
this is the place where | cook the
ones, who never pay their sub, Grip
ton sums, for though in life they
may escape, they will find when
dead it is too late; / will show the
place where | melt them thin, with
red-hot chains and scraps of tin,
and also where | comb their heads
with broken glass and melted
lead, and if of refreshments they
only think, there's boiling water for
them to drink; there's the red-hot
grindstone to grind down his nose,
and red-hot rings to wear on his
toes, and if they mention they don't
like fire, I'll sew up their mouths
with red-hot wire; and then, dear
sir, you should see them sQuirm
while [ roll them over and cook to
a turn" With these last words the
printer awoke, aud thought it all a
practical joke but still at times SO
real did it seem, that be cannot be-
lieve it was all dream and often
he thinks with a chuckle and grin,
of the fate of those who save their
tin, and never pay the printer.
Year: 1876

Very trustworthy authority here
is responsible for the intelligence
that documentary evidence appar-
on.ly duplicating Fred Grant aud
Orville Grant in the whisky fauds
has been concluded and forwarded
to st. Louis for the use of the grand
jury. Dilligent inquiry and com
parison from all sources likely to
be Informed confirm this point
The documents in the case have
been under examination for weeks,
in skillful hands, and the result is
said to be the implication of the
two Grants. 1t is further avowed
that the authorities who are prose
cutting the whisky cases hastened
this evidence outof the city, lest
the effort of Mrs. Joyce, in behalf
OF her husband, through the instru-
mentality of the Babcock letters,
should impede the cause of justice,
in order that just one guilty man
may be permitted to escape
Fletcber's influence at the White
House is said to be so great that
he will be able to do more even than
the original ring in the suppression
Of evidence, should the appeal be
made directly to the President
Mrs. Joyce will not appeal to the
President IN VAN from any lack of
cogent arguments or strong friends
to enforce them. Mr.. Bristow has
repeated his assurance that no
guilty man is too escape, and that
confession isn't to be considered %
combination of crime.
Year: 1876

WADE HAMPTON is the democratic
candidate for governor of South
Carolina. If Hampton is elected he
will make ii hot for the carpet baggers
who have controlled the State since
the close Of the war.
Year: 1876

Louisiana, Arkansas and Misaissippi
may be interested in this bill. we cannot
overlook the fact that the whole Repub.
lie is Interested in the restoration Of
constitutional government, and to the
amount Of billions of dollars In the
re-establisment, through the triumph
OF the National Democratic partv
OF an honest and economical
administration. Many Northern Dem
ocrats favorable to this bill would.
on the eve OF the Presidential cam
paign, comprehending the fierce hostil-
ity of large class Of the Northern peo-
pie OF both parties to national aid for
Southern enterprises, feel under an OBJ
legation to the country to vote down the
bill. And even were it to pass the
House there is an absolute cer-
tainty of its defeat In the SEN
ate. We presume, therefore, that
Mr.. Ellis and other Southern men,
bers, realizing the impossibility Of
making the bill q success, have wisely
thought 1t best to let it go before the
next Congress. Then, it is hoped and
believed. that the better feeling growing
out OF the election OF Tilden and the
organization OF a Democratic Admins
tration. with the strong Democratic
support the bill now has, will insure its
passage.


We believe our friends Of the Bulletin
are disposed to be just to all men, and
that after weighing all the circum-
stances and facts they will see as little
hope for the South in the Republican
record as we do, and that they will con-
cede that there Is much wisdom in the
course of the friends OF the levee bill.
Year: 1876




Our illustrious President who was so
sparingiy and yet so carefully indorsed
and certified to future generations by
the Cincinnati Convention, has evil
IDENTIFY made up his mind that he is an
i'll used man. He made a great sacrifice
in order to be President, and here the
people do not care for him more than
two terms, and are on the point OF for
getting himl SO he is going out with q
sore head. He is mad eighteen hours
day. Owing to the treachery OF Secre :
tary Bristow he has personal friends In
the Penitentiary, and Belknap was feel
enough to be found out.
Year: 1876

columbus (Ga.) Timesl


Gen. Custer was young and brave
officer. ever ready to engage in real war,
but with no liking for the military
.yrappy in time Of peace, in which such
party instruments as Sheridan and Mer-
rill took so much delight. 1t is the gen
eral belief that lie lately offended the
Administration by his testimony against
the rascalities Of its post-traders, and
that therefore he was not placed In a
subordinate position, but sent off on
erduo,ls service. Be this as it may, he
has made hero Of himself by his brave
though fruitless endeavor to accomplish
the object OF his expedition with INSULT
cient troops, and by the unllinching
fortitude with which he met death in
the discharge of his duty. The country
will ever honor his memory and that OF
his brave officers and troops, while the
Administration to which 50 much re-
sponsibility attaches will go out of office
more generally detested than any in our
history.


[Courier-Journal.l


The only way to prevent further
disasters is to place other officers IN
command. 1t would seem possible for q
General in that country to keep himself
fully advised as to the whereabouts OF
the Sioux, and to run into an ambush
has the aspect of an inexcusable blum
der There is Sheridan. who has been
frolicking at Philadelphia. He has q
fine reputation as a destroyer OF red
skins, and he should now exhibit his
patriotism by taking the field IN person.
He displayed great courage in the city
of New Orleans when he swore that
"banditti'' lurked in every doorway and
on every highway throughout Louisiana:
These red banditti afford him u fine field
for the immediate exercise of his mill
tary talents.
Year: 1876

A poor, weak thing is the body of an
oyster, apparently incapable of doing
anything at all. Yet what a marvellous
house he builds around his delicate
frame. When an oyster is first born, he
is very simple, delicate dot, as it we're,
ard vet he is born with two shells upon
him. For some unknown reasons he al
ways fixes himself on his round shell,
never by his flat shell, and, being once
fixed, he begins to grow-but he only
grows in summer. Inspect an oyster
closely, and it viii be seen that 1t is
marked with distinct lines. AS the rings
we observe in the section OF trunk OF
tree denote years of growth, so do the
markings on an oyster shell tell us how
many wears he has passed in his "bed
at the bottom of the sea. The way in
which an oyster grows bis shell is
pretty sight. / have watched itfrequent-
iv The beard of an oyster is not only
his breathing organ, i. e., his lungs: but
also his feeding organ, by which he con-
vevs his food to his complicated mouth,
with IT'S four lips. When the warm,
calm days of June come, the oyster opens
his shell. and, by means of his beard,
begins building an additional story to his
house. This he does by depositing very,
very fine PARTICLES of carbonate of lime.
till at last they form substance as thin
as silver paper, and exceedingly fragile.
Then he adds more and more, till at last
the new shell is as hard as the old shell.
When oysters are growing their shells,
they must be handled very carefully, as
the new growth of shell will cut like
broken glass, and a wound on the finger
from an oyster shell is often very
] poisonous.
Year: 1876

flying! 1t is her nature to "suffer
and be strong" to tire herself with
much serving, to give largely out of
the great income Of love. There
is a strength of far greater value
than that of bone and muscle or
even of brain, it is the strength Of
a woman's love which will survive
shame, sorrow, neglect and death;
for she will leave it as a legacy to
her children. This weakness is
the heroism that brightens the
pages of history and the hearth Of
the humblest home, and will out
last the mental force and physical
caliber Of the strongest man.


Circumstances have made it
necessary to hedge women in with
a thousand conventionalities. They
do not prove her weakness or the
need of barriers, for she can over
leap them all if one she loves is OH
the other side and sends up a cry
for help; but it would be well for
her did her duties lie serenely with
in their circumscribed limits. The
world is full of cheap protection
for woman which does not tighten
one actual load; and this sentimental
moralizing over her weakness is the
cheapest and poorest of all. It is
base disloyalty. too; for has she
not proved herself, from remote
ages, a patient and faithful yoke
fellow, strong to do, to suffer, or to
die for those she loves.
Year: 1876




There is a pleasant fiction ABOUT
the ideal woman that invests her
with an unreal and intangible pres
ence as II she we're the creation Of
some higher sphere, borrowed into
this mundane life for a transitory,
charmed existence. To this end
poets chant her praise in immortal
verse; sculptors give her fame in
life-like marble; artists work their
souls into the canvas on which
ttoT Tecreate her, and the highest
skin Of the civilized world is evoked
in costly laces and fabrics that will
add to her loyeliness. To all this
is added a mysterious charm Of
weakness, dependence; as if this
beautiful pink k-qnd-whita dol were
a pnppet, to be moved only at an
owners willj or a dainty keepsake,
to be guarded under glass case Of
conservative possession. A splendid
atonement for the enforced seryi-
tude Of long past generations!


The weakness of women is fl,
yorite theme with men who are not
thoroughly conscious Of their own
strength. They turn contempta-
ously from tho advice Of wife OF
sister, and keep all th0iF business
and plans to themselves, until a
crash comes, Then they settle
back on that "weakness to help
bear the burden, and even conde-
scend to listen to some plans fol
the future, and receive sympathy
and help from those weak members
Of the family who work all day
and lie awake all night thinking,
planning and helping, while the
strong man breaks down. There
is no indication Of weakness then.
Some one has truly said that wo.
mans instinct is bctter than a
mans reason!, and when she sees
her dear ones threatened with
disaster she knows no weakness
but comes up with ali her colori
Year: 1876

Mrs. NJ. A. v, gives in the Coun-
try Gentleman, this process for cur
ing cancer A sticking plaster is
put over the cancer, with a circular
piece cut out of the center a little
larger than the cancer, and small
circular rim of healthy skin next to
il is exposed. Then a plaster, made
of chloride Of zinc, blood root, and
wheat -four, is spread on piece Of
muslin of the size of the circular
opening and is applied 10 the cancer
for twenty-four hours. On removing
it the cancer will be found as thoHgh
burned into it, appearing Of the col
or and hardness of an old shoe, and
the circular rim outside Of it viii ap-
pear white and parboiled as if scald


ed hy hot steam. The wound Is now
dressed, and the outside rim suppu-
rates, and the cancer comes out a
hard lump, and the place heals up.


The plaster kills the cancer, so
that il sloughs out like dead flesh
and never grows again. The apph-
cation is painful, but the pain is OF
comparatively brief duration, which
anv one so affected cheerfuily en-
dures. Not case has been known
of the temperance Of the cancer
where this remedy has been applied
This cure for cancer was published
/ in 1870. Perhaps there are many
who can tell more about It
Year: 1876

in a recent issue of your paper l
noticed an article appealing for the
recognition of talent and worth in
young men. I fully agree with the
writer in the idea that the many
changes produced by the late civil
war in the political affairs of our
country, renders, to a considerable
entent, the Old time politician unfit
for the emergencies of the times.
When they were educated the gov
ernmental machinery was moved
with : different ln.,Ltve power, to
that of the present DAY. Then the
rulers and men in high places en-
deavored to secure to the sovereign
people such a code of laws as would
produce the greatest amount of
good to all classes of citizens; then
salary grabbing, whiskey rings, and
various other kinds of rings familiar
to every school boy of to day, were
unknown. For the last ten years
the cry of corruption has been heard
from north to south, from east to
west, and it has gone on until it is
only necessary for a man to hold an
Office to make honest people distrust
him. When the Chief Magistrate
and many of his appointees are ac-
cused, an d some of them convicted,
of the most outrageous frauds and
plundering OF the public treasury,
how are we to know who is. honest2
But there is light dawning in the
political horizon that promises to
reveal to the honest, suffering peo-
pie the cause Of the oppressive
times and burdensome taxation that
they have been forced to bear, for 1
believe that if the immense amount
Of public money chat has been
squandered by officials in high
places and invested in magnificent
palaces to shelter robbers Of the
national Golfers had been properly
applied to the payment Of the ma
tional debt the rate Of taxation
would be considerably less than it
is to-day Tilden, he who dried up
the great cesspooI of corruption In
New York City-the Tammany
ring-is now moving on with the
tread of a conqueror towards the
National Capitol, and when he ar
rives there in March he will say to
Mr.. Grant and his crew who have
so long and foully abused the trusts
reposed in them by the people,
'step down and off to the quiet
shades of retirement"


Now, would ask, who are better
suited for the arduous labors and
immense responsibilities that will
devolve upon the successors of
Grantism, than the active, energetic,
intellectual and honest young men
of our country? For it requires
physical as well as mental strength
to undergo the labor and cares of
political life. When I say young
men 1 do not mean beardless boys,
nor the giddy fashionables who are
up with the times only in regard to
the latest styles Of parting the hair
in the middle and wearing a cane,
but l mean young men who are in
formed, and who investigate and
sre prepared and willing to aid in
running the machinery Of our Ma
tional and State governments.


l am full of veneration for old
age and gray hairs-our fathers are
all old men, and we viii all be some


day (if We live long enough yet


am opposed to the almost universa


disposition to keep young men il


obscurity who are ambitious anC
i deserving. I am not an aspiran


for any office, nor do I write this il


the interest of any individual. B.
Year: 1876

Somebody says that an orange
eaten every morning one-haif hour
before breakfast Will cure the cray
ing for liquors. After persevering
in the recipe and by regularity, re-
formed drunkard states that the
taste of liquor has become repulsive
to him. As the same prescription
is often given for a common disor
dered stomach, it will do no harm
for any one to try it who is striving
to get the better of his diseased ap-
Detite.
Year: 1876

No thoughtful man can be indif-
ferent to the spectacle presented at
the gatherings, in some of the large
cities, of thousands of men willing
to work, but who have no notion
when or where it is to be had. When
men get up before assemblies of this
kind and boldly say, "If we can not
find work, let us take what we need,
it is high time the people should
begin to inquire into the cause of
this crisis, and to apply a remedy
for the evil.
Year: 1876

It is said that If a man is walking
for health and enjoyment four miles
an hour is the best gait. This may
be true as regards health, but for
enjoyment We remember one night
when it took as four hours TO walk
a mile. It happened, however. that
the old folks had gone 20 camp
meeting, and she had the night key,
and. as far rs health was concerned
We didn't really care if il took ell
night
Year: 1876

Republican papers call Gen. Hayes
''our next President" We warn
them not to be over confident, lest
their disappointment be too great.
1t would take an enormous sum Of
money to induce us TO use such Ian
guage as we think some of the Re
publicans will employ in expressing
themselves this fall, when the cleo
ton returns come in.
Year: 1876

When you reflect that at picnics
a hundred years ago it was the Gus
tom for the girls TO stand up in a
row and let the men kiss them all
good bye. all this enthusiasm about
national progress seems to be a
grave mistake.
Year: 1876

1t is quite in accord with the
taste of che Radical press TO ridieule
Tilden because he has lost an eye.
He can, however, see more out Of
his one eye than Hayes can out Of
his two, and could afford to give
Hayes an eye in the middle OF his
forehead 70 boot.
Year: 1876

Republican journalists of the
carpet bag persuasion seem to think
''the war against the Union" is still
going on. Nothing short of a
Democratic victory this fall will
convince them that the war Is over.
Then their occupation viii be like
unto that of Othello.
Year: 1876

The declaration of the New York
Commercial advertiser that ''if such
a calamity as Tilden's election
should happen, there would be civil
war again within a year" is 50 ri
diculously absurd that nobody in
his right mind can attach any inn
portance to it. Yet Republican
journals.copy it as a warning to the
country. It is time for the fool
killer to resume the pursuit of his
profession.
Year: 1876

CHILDREN CRY FOR CAsToR1A. It is as pleasant to take as honey, and IS absolute. ly harmless. It Is sure to expel worms cure wind collie, regulate the bowels and stomach, overcome lrritability caused by rash or cutting teeth. It is perfect sub stltute for Castor Oil, and for Cositiveness In young or old there is nothing in exist ence so effective and reliable.
Year: 1876

There seems to be quite a revival of temperance feeling in various parts of the country. Eastern Massachusetts is much aroused and we see newspaper comments on the gradual growth in that direction, on the Pacific coast.
Year: 1876

The bill which passed the House. Mon- day, recognizing the Feberal judiciary is one of considerable practical importance, It will enable the Supreme Court to make speedy decision of all cases before it; the new Court of appeals provided in each circuit will make final disposition of all cases involving less than s1O,OOO; a Cir cult Court will then be held in every place where the District Court is now held and the expense of iuries will be material ly lessened. The Supreme Court docke is now so large that some suofr measure ii imperatively needed for its relief.
Year: 1876

Over two thousand bills have been in- troduced in the House of Representatives, this session. Most of these are of the especial Legislation" class. and they great ly obstruct the real public business of the country. An amendment of the national constitution prohibiting special legisla tion has become as necessary and would doubtless prove as useful as similar pro. visions recently added to several State constitutions are said to have done.
Year: 1876

The extension Of the old contract this one month OF the
present year was done by resolution ana COST the state
good round sum. o.


The total debt OF the State year ago 3o4
The bounty debt however has since been cxtingushed
decreasing this amount by ss,0s7746 The contingent
debt Of ring amount has also beea wiped out leaving