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We I Corvallis, April 18, 1879. Polk County Letter Ed. Gazette Dear Sir: After shaking hands with you, and other friends in Corvallis, on last Saturday morning, I soon found myself travel ing on fire road leading to Monmouth. As I did not fall in company with any conveyance, I had to foot it all the way, a distance of about fifteen miles, to the point where I expect to spend a few months ilrteafching school. I found the road good and the day fine for traveling, as it was cool and pleasant. It would make this article too long, to tell all I thought of on the way. As far as my eyes could see, all nature seemed to harmonize with the sublime teachings of the one hundred and forty fifth Psalm, which I reait at your house, just before starting. When we meditate on the goodness of God, until our hearts are full to overflowing with love to Him, and to all mankind, how easy, how pleasant, how happy we feel in that state of mind. We know then, by sweet experience, what is meant by the words, joy and peace. While I noticed the flocks and herds feast ing on the rich young grass that now covers the hills and valleys, and the little birds flitting about finding their food, I thought of the sixteenth verse of that beautiful Psalm, "Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing." As I looked over the promising green fields and blossoming orchards and saw that every man's labors are blessed, it brought to my mind the ninth verse, " The Lord is good to all ; and his tender mercies arc over all his works." The farmers were very busy, in the fields, on each side of the road, finishing up the putting hi of their crops. Farmers as a class of mien are worthy of the respect, honor and love of all other classes, as all are supported by the labor of their Bands. I had short and pleasant conversations with several of them On the way, and found them interest ed in every good subject that was mentioned, such as building railroads, temperance, education and religion I talked with one old gentleman, who said be had lived to become in pos session of a large tract of land, and had raised a family of ten children, but had not as yet found to his full satisfaction the way of life everlast ing. He seemed somewhat willing to know the way, so I trh-d to tell him how we are to come humbly to God, with the simplicity of little children in order to receive His rich blessings. The scripures point to Jesus as the life, the truth, and the way, and as the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin' of the world, and as the only name given under heaven whereby men can be saved, and to Him only can we safely direct those who are anxiously seeking the good and right way. I learned that the meeting recently held at the Gingle's school house, re suited in the salvation of some several precious souls, and that the 'Blue Ribbon Club is doing good work at tfiat place for the cause of temper ance. When I arrived at the house of Bro. T. C. Daughman, where I am now making my home, I received a cheerful and welcome reception. After feasting on fish and other good things for supper, and an hour of two of pleasant" conversation, we read the first chapter of Ephesians, and wor shipped God by prayer and by sing ing some of those spiritual songs found in the Gospel Hymns. I re joice to find Christians down here to associate "with and as I am closing up this piece I am thinking' of the many with whom I had the privilege of being with during the past winter, in Albany, Corvallis, Philomath, and in different parts ot the country. In conclusion I wish to say this to all that I feel as though we ought to try to keep this work of reformation going on wherever we are, from the first day of January until the last day in December, of every year. It is a life time work, and if we medi tate much on the word of God and His goodness the work will break out afresh in all our hearts and spread all over the land. J. -D. Wood. April 6; 18? 9. From Macmillan's Magazine. AMERICA REWIVIVA. The return to the specie payments, if safely effected on the 1st of Janua ry, will make an epoch in the history of the United States and a great mor al tradition for the people. The ac complished fact will enkindle belief in all reform and progress, and will fals ify the predictions of the prophets (and they were many ) who foretold that the democracy would never sub mit to the great sacrifices necessary to raise the value of all debts from thirty eight tents in 1864 to one hun dred cents to day. A recent instance will prove what a crucial test this has been. In June, 1804, an English man lent 10,0007., or its then equiva lent, $120,000, on mortgage on an American farm worth $400,000. The loan has just been repaid, and the $120,000 produces 24,500 Thus his profit has been 14,500, besides inter est during the fourteen years at the rate of six per cent, per annum to start with, increasing to fourteen and a half per cent, per annum with the rise in value ot the currency. What he, as a creditor, has gained in this way his unfortunate American debtoi has lost. There can be no doubt of the hardship of such a case. Here truly is an " unearned increment of value" almost sufficient to justify the expression " bloated capitalist!1' And this is the real nJeaningof resumption. It is of course true that derpeciation is equally hard on all creditors, and if the two processes concerned the same individuals the results might be equal ized and no great harm done. But as a matter of fact this never can be so, and I think it redounds to the ci edit of universal suffrage that each time hard or soft money has been fairly brought to a popular vote'the people have been true to themselves, notwithstanding all that the mosi skillful and unscrupulous demagogues could urge to seduce them. The hon esty evinced at the polls is the more striking when it is remembered thai one person out of every four in the United Stales has both a foreign la ther and a foreign mother, and that their patriotism therefore cannot have very deep roots. Not to mention Englishmen and Scotchmen, there are almost as many Germans as Iiishmen, and these are not always the best spec imens of their nationalities, whilea ve ry great number of them went to the country as professed socialists. The welding of this immense foreign mass into the native metal is a very trying process, and must ever be borne in mind in criticising American proceed ings. After resumption it will be very difficult even for pessimists alto gether to despair of the republic. We have known something or theWith culties of paper money in England, and so lately as 1835., Mr. Mill found it necessary to adopt very severe lan guage in denouncing the "currency juggle fiere. But the birth throes of resumption were not the only cause of the bad times and aafferilie which have been experienced in America during th last five years : and it may be useful rapidly to run over the period be tween 1862 and 1873 before proceed ing to notice the later events which have conduced to a very considerable revival of soundness and prosperity. The root of the evil was the de struction of capital during the civil war which may be measured, in some sense, by the withdrawal ot a million and a half ot soldiers from active production, and the annihilation of all industry and of a vast amount of property in the Border and Southern States. Ihese influences were not felt in their full force at the time, in the North, owing first to the issue of four hundred million dollar inconvert ible legal tender paper money, and afterwards to the extraordinary amount ot borrowing. The immedi ate effect of the large issues of paper was to make all debtors "feel good,' as they say in America. The append ea taole will show what the one hun dred dollar greenback was worth in gold on 30th June of each of the years following 1862 : Fairview correspondence of Weston Lead er : I would call the attention of land hun ters to the Cold Spring -country, .where there are hundreds of acres of as fine farming land as is to be found in Eastern Oregon. Per manent supplies of water can be obtained at depths ranging from 12 to 75 feet. The vi cinity is now partially settled. And parties desirous of further information in regard to the land would do ' well to call on Mr. Geo. Einsidler. about five miles from the head of Cold Spring canyon. The country lies about 15 miles from Weston, and is one grand, rolling prairie. A bilk, selling silverware ware of bad quality, has lately victimized a number of people at Independence, 1861 100 1870.... 85.6 1862 96 1871- 89.0 1863 76.6 1872 87.5 1864 38.7 1873 86.4 1865 70.4 1874 91.0 1866 66.0 1S75 87.2 1867 71.7 1876 89.2 1868 . 70.1 1877........... 94.5 1869 73.5 1878.. 97.3 Any statement of figures, howev er, can give but a limited idea of the bad effect on all kinds of business and the wide-spread demoralization inci dent to the violent delay and hourly fluctuations in the value of the circu lating medium. The way in which mercantile transactions were carried on in the second largest commercial city in the world, for several years after the suspension of specie pay merits,- was certainly most curious, and in looking back on it it appears already like a dream. Up to 1867, if my memory serves me right, there was no gold clearing bank in New York; and up to the end of 1865 there was no bank that would take gold on deposit and let cheques be drawn against it. The consequence was that all the gold bought and sold tor the first four years after suspen sion was delivered from office to office in bags containing 1,000 each. These used to go round and round from buyer to seller shoveled in and out again, generally in a few minute's time just sufficient to test their weight in a -very rough and ready way. It was a striking instance ot the difficulty of a community sudden ly accommodating themselves to new conditions. No city in the world had better banking accommodation than New York ; nowhere was the econo niy.of" labor by the use of cheques and clearing better understood or more fully acted on. But when business had to be done in two enrrencies in stead of one, the requisite facilities could only apparently be developed by slow and gradual stages. First, the bags of gold going round, as in primitive races; then, after some years, cheques; lastly, after some more years, clearing ; a beautiful ex ample for students of evolution ! Transactions on a large scale in gold did not besrin till about the end of July, 1862, when the pHce rose rather suddenly to one hundred and twenty. This advance made it evi dent that all mercantile operations must of necessity be kept on a specie basis, by immediate sales of gold against all produce shipped, and by purchases of gold against all sales of sioods imported. A forced paper cur rency might be a local standard of value in America, but all her external trade operations had to be finally ad justed to the world's standard. This necessitated immense dealings in gold and, speculation aiding it, the premi um advanced by leaps and bounds In June, 1864, the highest price of two hundred and eighty was touched; that is, it took two hundred and eighty paper dollars to buy one hun dred gold dollars. On the day that sales were made at two hundred and eighty, in the morning, the price fell, in one drop, to two hundred and fifty-five, and at three o'clock the same afternoon it was offered at two hundred and twenty-five. From this it will be seen at a glance that any one who borrowed $100,000 in gold in the morning and sold it at two hundred and seventy-five, could have bought it back the same evening at two hundred and twenty-five, netting $50,000 currency profit on the oper ation. This is a sample ( no doubt an extreme one) of daily fluctuations which went on for months and years. Conducting business under these cir cumstances was like driving a high nressure engine, and sittinr on the boiler without a safety valve. When money was liable to be made or lost in such amounts, in every nec essary transaction, the use of work ing become less and less obvious. How could any really legitimate mer cantile operations be entered into un der such conditions of uncertainty ? A cargo of tea or coffee might be sold at a most satisfactoay price in currency, but before the vender could get from his place of business in South Street to Exchange Place, where he had to buy his gold, a rise or fall in the premium would upset all calculations. So too with exports of produce, paid for by bills drawn on Europe. Everything depended on how the gold was sold. The un certainty was even greater in Pliila delphia, Baltimore, or St. Louis; since New York alone had a gold exchange, where all the business of the country concentrated. This being so, many merchants turned their attention totry ing what could be made by buyingaud selling gold, pure and simple, without complicating the transactions with merchandise. 1 Ins was fatal in its simplicity and in the habits it formed. For the step from gambling in gold to gambling in stocks, or anything else, is a very short one. There is, too, at all limes a peculiarly specula live element in the ordinary Aineri can man of business. He fears the ips and downs of life less than the ordinary European. Excitement is more pleasing to him than any small certainty. He is fond of exercising the sharpness of his wits, and in the fluctuations of the currency opporlu nities were boundless. The result was that gambling became a predom mating national vice, with the sure concomitants of excessive extrava gance in living and in general expen diture. New York ran riot. Rents were doubled and trebled. The num ber of private carriages increased ten fold. So morbid was the craving for perpetual excitement, that a stock and gold exchange was in active op eration" up town," at the Fifth Ave nue Hotel, then the center of what may be" called the west end of the city. Nor was the fever confined to New York. It permeated every city of the Union. The only people who really seemed to feel poor were the wealthy. It looks like a paradox, but it is a fact. The man with 80, 000. out on safe mortgages, who be fore the war got his 5,000. a year interest, and spent it, found his in come gradually going down to4,000. 3,000. 2,000. ; that was the decline if, for instance, he was living in Eu rope, and it had to be remitted ; or. what, nmniinlpfl to t.Kft anrru thinrr & the currency price ot commodities increased to that extent in America On the other hand, to make quite sure of growmg rich, it was only necessa ry to borrow currency and to buy gold, stocks, merchandise, houses, iand, any property, in short. And the more any one borrowed the richer he got. It was well, therefore, to do it en gro8. Finally it came to this, that nearly every one began to think, and to end by stating, that he was worth a million dollars ! It Was so easy to make apparently.. Thns it will be understood how, even during the existence of the civil war,- the whole mass of the people in the North wfio were debtors' felt them selves better off. The farmers got high currency pri ces for their products, and as they were mostly in debt to their mort gagees, they seemed to be coininc money. The shopkeepers whobought goods on a credit in currency found mem constantly advancing m value on their hands. And the moment the war was ended, gigantic borrowing commenced. It is estimated that be tween 1865 and 1873 America cot from Europe, between 300:000.000. and 400,00,000. from sales of gov ernment, state, city and railway bonds. This no doubt went a long way to fill np the vacuum of canital caused by the war. And in the five years ending with 1873; over twentv- eight thousand miles of net- railroad were constructed at a' coBt of 280.- 000,000, so that the demand for labor was at high pressure, and a vast mass of laborers who had been engaged in the war were quietly absorbed back into productive em ployment. This put off the day of reckoning, because it is easy to pay high wages with borrowed money. But the sudden pouring in of im mense amounts of new capital is always a very dangerous process in auy country, as we have since seen in the payment of the war indemnity to Germany. It is very apt to sap the morality of the people, and it will be understood that the morality of the American people had already been pretty well sapped. No nation could have been subjected to more demor alizing influences than those accom panying the advance in gold from par to 280 in three years, and the decline from 280 to 130 in the five following years. It was in Septem ber, 1869, that Messrs. Jay Gould and Fjsk concocted the great gold "ring," which was the dying kick of the expiring gold excitement, when in three days the price was forced np from 137 to 167, and back again to 132. This was one of the most success ful and disgraceful "concerns" ever effected in Wall Street. It came to a head on "Black Friday," the 24th September, when these stock gam biers, having all the available gold in their own hands, locked it np, and made it impossible for those who had sold to make deliveries under their contracts except at the conspirators' own price. Many an honest man was ruined by that day's work; and that so many of them should have paid out their last dollar rather than fail on their contracts shows how binding is that outside conscience, derived from a custom of trade, which will not admit that even such a conspiracy can be pleaded in bar of the fulfillment of obligations. The clearings for the three days were said to amount to one hundred millions sterling, and it took weeks to get the accounts straight. The "corner" was only broken in the afternoon by a telegram from Washington ordering the assistant treasurer to sell gold for immediate delivery. Even person ages very high in the republic were said not to be free from the complic ity in the whole transaction. If the rose itself was pure, those who dwelt very near indeed to the rose were un questionably tainted. Corruption was in the air. It grew with what it fed on. Between 1868 and 1873 there were "corners" in everything: in stocks, in grain, in cotton. There was the famous "day of the three corners" in 1872 when five-eights per cent, was paid for the loan of money, five-eights per cent, for the loan of gold, and two and one half per cent, for the lotm of Erie stock for the one day. Riches were suppos ed to be made by one man getting his profits out of another's loss. Tweed was robbing the city. Credit Mobilier scandal in connection with the Pacific railway had come to light. .The ministers ot two of the great departments of state were accused of sharing in the plunder ot contracts, and a judge in New York was issuing blank injunctions to the most notori ous stock gamblers. The money market was in a state of constant spasms. Day after day, for weeks and months together, borrowers were paying one-eighth to one-quarter per cent, commission per diem, besides interest at the rate of seven per cent, per annum for loans. This could not last. The fruit had got to "that stage which succeeds ripeness," and fell. The failure of Jay Cook and Co., on 19th September, 1873, followed by a string of houses who had been occu pied in financing the new railroads, was the point of apparent origin of the panic, but as I have endeavored briefly to point out, the whole catas trophe mas in reality a slowly pre ptred gQpvth ot the entire character of the business of the country. Fol lowing these, finance houses, railways, mercantile firms, and savings banks became bankrupt in rapid succession, and to such extent that credit may be said to have ceased to exist. Dur ing 1873 the price of gold ranged from 119 to 107. The currency price ot commodities which had followed the upward movement in the gold premium, had not kept pace with us decline. 15y the end of the year hundreds of thousands ot workmen had been thrown out of employment by the breaking of that small wheel ot credit which keeps all the big wheels of production and transporta tion turning. This of course affected the demand for every article of con sumption, and the distributing mer chants throughout the country felt the pinch, not only of this smaller ac tual demand, but also found that their stocks of goods laid in at thb high curerncy prices were constantly shrink ing in currency value owing to the appreciation ot greenbacks. Shrink ing Was universal. To add to the depression of the harvests of cereals in 1870-71 and 1871-72 had been below an average, and the- farmers felt' the growing burden of their loans. - ( 2b be Continued.) R. R. Terminus. It is quite within the range ot pottibilUies, that the western term inus of the Northern' Pacific railroad will be located at Cape Foulweather, in Benton county. Portland will simply be a way sta tion, even though the" Board of Trade has resolved that Port Orford, is the best place for a harbor of refuge. The great fight will be between the C. P. R. R. and th" If. P. R. R., as to which shall possess this "outlet to the sea. " The world motes. A Swede in Umatilla recently put house, cleared a "garden spot, dng a np a well at considerable exnense and then found that all his improvements were beyona his line and on the ground of a neighbor. Moral : ' tie sure you re ngbt, then go aneaa. The Lafavette school challenges any other school in the State to a reading match. Six persons from each school to contend for the award of merit. Clmrclt Directory. Catholic Church : Services on the 1st and last Sab bath ot each month. Han commences at 10:30 a. u. I Rev. Van Lin, Pastor. H, E. Church South : Preaching morning and even ing, "on the 1st, 3rd and 4th Sabbath ot each moi th, at 11 and 7:30 respectively. Sabbath School at 0:30 every Sabbath. Joseph Emery, Pastor. Evangelical Church': Services at 7 P. if. on the 1st and 3rd Sabbaths and at 11 a. M. and 7 p. m. , on the 4th Sabbath of each month Sabbath School at 3:30 p. m. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening of each week, at 7 p. u. W. C Kant.nek, Pastor. Presbyterian Church :. There will be preaching morning and evening at 11 and 7 o'clock, respect ively. Sabbath School Immediately after the morn ing service. H. P. Duxni.no, Pastor. Episcopal Church : The services for the month of Oct. will be as follows: Oct.. 6th and 20th at 7:30 P. H. , Oct. 13th and 27th at 11 A. with Holy Com munion. , Sunday School every Sunday, between the hours of 3 and 4 p. if. Rev. L. Stevens. CORVALLIS LODGE No. 14, F. & A. M. holds stated Communications on Wednesday on or preceding each full moon. 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