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OKEGON'CITY, OI5JECSOX, SATUIiDAY, OCTOISEK- , 1867.
Vo. 50.
Oregon City Enterprise
l)6ll)cdiln Enterprise.
PlI.MlM'KrKUr!.ATCRATMORXXO
By 0. IRELAND,
r- tli eat comer of Fifth ami
rKFier--:;"" e ,HI;M.n- lately known
l'llw&U Oregon City, Oregon.
Term ofSuL-crlptlon.
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i:;yrav,-rti,inRat the established rates.
Book" and Job Printing !
rpiBKXTKKPKISK OFFICE
.. , -.1. ,.,-A,r .-emiisite for doing
n
1 Slipi'iK't ..,,,1 U wlnnt- ,
a sup.-. .... iinHfiilstvlos
v u in oii."- x-
i run :1I 1L-
,;f materia!, and is prepaieu 101
.iiactv of
HOOK AMI J"I!
AT SATISFACTOUY I'KH'KS.
-rr Tlx- Public an- invito.l to call anl
f wroin- b.ftli our ppecimens: ami facilities
O for .loinp: work-
BC SIX ESS CARDS
"c. JO..N-OS. F-v'fCOW--.
p- Joflr J nlltC.
JOHNSON & EIcCOWN,
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OUKUOX CITY, OllFGON.
I t . -. . . i r.
O ' ?" Will attend to all business entrusted
..V.ur ere in anv of the Courts of the State,
P.llect money, negotiate loans, sell real t-s-
t tr. etc. . . 4i
.-"Particular attention "ivi'ii to contested
uul casts. . .. . -
er. nrssKixT" "
RUSSELL & DALTON,
JlfHririj.! and Counselors at Law,
Solicitors in Chancery, and
Real Klile Ayuts.
Will practice in the Courts of the second,
third an. i fourth .Ju.iie.ial Districts, and in the
.supreme ('"'irt iff Oremui.
IfT Speei.il attention civou to the collec
tion of clainii atall poiuts in the above nam
rlJblricts. n
ot!i,-e in I'aritih's brick building. Albany,
OlT-.'.ill.
:
J. B. UPTON,
Attuknfy ksu Coi sski.or-at-Law',
Oregon CV'y, Orcjon.
oii;.-o
Jhuii meet.
tie store of V
tpe Si Co.,
U.'..tf
D. LI. BIcKENJVEY,
Attorney and Counsellor at Lair.
uui ixxyv O.Mm-A'Ji'a.icfa
I'ras Mre, Oregon City, Oregon. nily
JAMES i'M. M00BE,
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rdcr. I
Justice Of the Pt acr din Ilrrnrdr
j
id Cit" I
I'l tlie Court. Uous-f nth.
Council Ilootii, Oregon City.
attv):I to the aek imu ledVinent of
If'li. ami all other dutie uppet taininir to
t.i-:lici- of Justice of the Peace. L'ilv
Dr. F. Barclay, EI. R. fj. L. j
i Formerly .Surgeon to the Hon. H. It. Co. i
ii f'i ':.-
M.iin Street
-At R.xi.l.
i . . . .Oregon Cit v.
J. WELCH.
DENTIST.
id'r.u'7 at 0,-con Cit', Ortaon.
&'onn over Cliannau i JJro.'s store. Main
.. " ( l -J.lv-
John Flemirij,
I'lAlKK in IlOOh'S ,ml ST A Tl OX 11 11 Y.
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to the Masonic building, oi Main
street, opposite the EntkupimsIj ofliee
( )iiKt;.X Cn y OliKUON.
Th
Tlnr.kfulfo.-tho pi.o,.&, a;-(. heretofore
a'-.. rcsjK'i-ttully sobers a continual
re I
of til
i nee i
tvuff of a generous public.
JOHH H. SCHEAI,
Manufacturer and Dealer in
felv SADDLES, JfAIiXESS,
ii , '-', etc--,
-or i een inira ana rourin,
i'r-'ir . V-?!?on City.
p, I or. ata-nhoi) of parties desirintr nnvthing
f. ,- . !"v hl1'- directed to my stock, be-
t i !w ..uses eisi-wnere.
O JOHN H.SCIIItAM.
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William Brou srht.nn.
b -OXTJUCTOR and BUILDER.
vvti,''' .U,"J to all work in his line, enn--f'-i'ni,'1
of Carieuter and Joiner work
ii,i,i'l ,' ,,uUUno etc- Jobbing prompdv
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A. PAItR ER.
R T3 TI - .
I -tJ J- J. ft T 4T)T?nj
11 JLk J.. XJ
'l MvW.KlH IX
Ch!'cr'h, Patent Medicine a. Paints.
"Vot'trypOils, Varnishes, j
ro
pt in
a Drug Store. !
na:i,T. Oukoo.y C'itv.
pZlGLER & SON.,
PllF i-v.': w Oregon
f . -m:-.
t"S"KI) NOW PRE-
,,f .. '" 0e a m:mnF :.. .1...
IVuii
I. "f b
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-f'J nuuJ , straight work I or
- "1; an.! av , "v fas(nablc l ate 1
s:"nples of our work, as !
'outmiation. !
l" ZICLER A SON
Ut!.
JlnO J- GRAHAM.
ami !... , '
. -lL enuers.
l!'Wlkfl e ..
u'ors ff the communitv 1
f , ' , "Vi I;) "ill 1. Ull
r 1: uul. ,,l'-lr Parous, from the!
i, 1 l" U.n-..- " " mat th..v -;n
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NV'rny'Xrc?-f-Ucet' Muon, Vind!
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BUSINESS CARDS.
CLIFF HOUSE.
Main Street,
Xmrhj Opposite 'Acn- Factory.
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T. W. KHOAllKS. f l ropnetors.
Oregon City. Orerron.
We invite the citizens of Oregon Citr, and
the traveling public, to nive us a sliare of
their patronage. Meals can be had at all
hours, to please the H ost fastidious. f I.r,
Notice to the Public.
I HAVE this day closed the Barlow House
in favor of the Cliff House. Hope niv
old customers will give thuir liberal patron
age to the above well kept house. They
will find Messrs. W bite & U hoades always
on hand to make guests comfortable.
WM. 15AIU.OW.
Oregon City, August 1, l-si;7.
os w ego h 6 iTse!
OSWKttO, OKKGON.
JOHN SCHADK.
Proprietor,
to receive ttnd entertain
I now prepared to receive
J. all wli
u may favor him with their oatron-
'4'
The House is New and the Rooms are
Newlv and Xeat'v Kiiiiiishc.I Tli T:.lil..
will be supplied with all the fle'.ieaeies of
the season. The House is situated near the
steamer landing. The proprietor will at all
times endeavor to give entire satisfaction to
all who may favor him with a, call, and
would respectful I v solicit the patronage of
the Traveling Public. -il:tf.
Hoard per week $" 0o
Hoard and Lodging 6 oo
Sinule Meals r0
DAVID SBIITH,
(o H Mini d- MARSHALL,
Black Smith and Waynn J faker,
Corner of Main and Third streets,
Oregon City Oregon.
P.lacksmithing in all Its brandies. Wagon
making and repairing. All work warranted
to give satisfaction. (o'.i
W. F. HIGHFIELDj
F.stablislied since lsl;. at the old stand,
Main Stkki.t, Ouicrm.v Cnv.
An assortment ot atelies. Jew
ell v, and Seth Thomas' weight
Clocks, nil of which are warranted
to be as rep resented.
Uepaii iiiirs done on short notico,
and tnankful for past favors. i :J7
OKKtiO.V ( ITV.
KEEP COXSTANTbV ON HAND KOIl SALE
3
JJR A X A XI) CII1CKEX FEED !
Parties wantimr feed must furnish
their sacks.
f
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i CAN EM AH STORE!
! JAMES M0RFITT & CO.,
j ATTOUI.D INFORM THE PUP.EIC -F.S-
: V peciallv of Can' mall, t hat they have
! establihe.l a Stoi c at that place, where they
j will 'keep on hand a well assorted stock os
; Merchandise and Groceries.
1 ,-, mi . i -f)n:if'h r:.tes, for the
i which wul he somI , ,(i;lnc.fiiJy such a
j necessity'
" Fashion Eilliard Saloan.
t ' " R"-(l Third,
Oreijon City.
J- C. T;T ?.rr Tfn-.,-"
TIir ..i , ' -
I L - .move loin established and popular
-r ' j'1""!! is y -t a favorite resort, and as
i J. oi iC lux .
' "' tlie choicest brands ot Wmes. Inpiors
ws'irs are mspcnseu to customers a
shar- ' .1 public patronage is solicited.
! r) J. c. MANN.
SHADES SALOON.
Thi,-'L Or,
( 'ill.
GEORGE A. HAAS Proprietor.
The proprietor bee:
friends and the pub
s leave to inform bis
ic generally that the
a oov
'e named in.iiiibr saloon iso-in-n for their
accomniodatioi!, w ith a new and well assort
ed supply of the finest brands, of wines,
lienors and cigavr .".-J
OREGON CITY
B 11 E W E II Y !
)-.. III'MiY III 'Il!i:i.,
Having purchased the above tJre.verv,
wishes to inform the piibiic that be is now
prepared to manufacture n Xo. 1 quality of
LAGER UEEll!
As good as can be obtained anywhere in the
State. Orders solicited and promptly tilled, j
Oregon City, December I'sth, lMiii. .uf
O ti L" S Ni A I IS II I ti II T,
EXCELSIOR
MARKET !
Corner of Fourth a nd Jfin Sts.,
Oreyon City Oregon.
T
WKK THIS METHOD OF INFORMING-
the public that iiiev keep constantly on
hand all kinds lresh and salt meats, such as
BEEF, PORK.
MUTTON, VEAL,
CORNKD BEEF, HAMS,
PICK FEED PORK, LARD,
And everything else to be found m their line
of business. ' LOGL'S &. AL1JR1GHT.
Oregon City. April lioth, 107. -'Ay
jTa. RlacDOWALD,
Green Street Oswego, Oregon.
J'ost Afasfer and Dealer in
G E N E RA L MERCHANDISE,
C.ruct rice, AVines ami Iiquois I
ioTICE TO ALL
V HO WANT V-
lurst Class Line or Coarse
Made or Uepaired. Especial care and at
tention paid to orders for fine work, such as
Ladies' and Misses Fine Gaiters, Gents' Fine
French Calf Itoots. etc.
Z:-?y Orders solicited from abroad will be
executed with neatness and dispatr-h.
TEUWILLlGEIi A SMITH,
40. tf Green st Oswego. Ortgon.
CLARK GREENMAN,
T.TVlt. City Drayman,
Oil EG OX CITY.
K !1 ri ilii I r nrr fif nifr. n!tnrli?n
packages and Ir.'iirht of whatever descrip-
promptly and with ca'ro.
lion, to anv pare 01 iiietav. v, in uc cArcwic-i
1 rt.tf m
DRAY FOR SALE CHEAP !
A FIRST KATE HEAVY DIl.VV, IN
1 good order, will be sold cheap for cash
upon application to
:l.tf )
GUI-; EN MAX
Oregon Cit v.
Sunday School and Gift Books !
TpiiO.M THE AMERICAN TRACT SOCIE
J. ty and Massachusetts Sunday School
Society. For sale ut Messrs. Hnrirren &
Khindier's. First street, corner of Salmon,
Portland. Oregon. G. H. ATKINSON,
Sec.'v and Treas. Oregon Tract Soe.'r.
S. Slil.N'PLbR, DepcMtair. tT
LEO.VORA.
These lines were suggested by the death
of a young lady not yet sixteen, gifted be
yond her years with rare force aud genius,
but who died suddenly without apparent
cause. She sought immortality among the
living mid only found it among the dead.
She was buried on a bleak December day, in
the midst of storms of snow ; in the heart of
the Sieira Nevada Mountains, in California,
where no less than six mountain summits
were visible, whose peaks are capped with ;
eternal snows. j
Death comes to all. He stills alike the j
tremulous
Voice of age, and childhood's gladness. If he
5ut touch the manliest form, the firm step
Falters, and the glorious eye grows di n
It calls the young and on, through ranks
of parting friends,
O'er broken promises, and faded hopes,
O, how reluctant to the call they come !
Death called on the fair daughter of the
Khinc,
While morn was waiting oti thine hour of
prime,
And friendly voices kindly said, ' How
bright the day
That follows such auspicious daWn !"
Ah, yes ; thou didst receive the fatal boon,
Heaven grants its favorites early death
How well thou struglest with thy lot,
Or calmly met thy early doom, they best
can tell
Who saw thee die. I saw thee not, but yet,
Methinks just ere thy lingering light of life
Went out, one earnest prayer thy parting
lips
Expressed "Could I but live?"
more
Earth's shadow Hits, and all is o'er.
i
And O, triumphant death, why strikest thus '
The young and lovely low, while sorrowing j
age stands by, j
And vainly prays the averted blow. " It is I
My sovereign will puts out the vital spark, j
Cease, -stricken mother, mourning sister j
' peace, be still '.' j
Death loves a shining; mark." i
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And vet once more upon the shore, wnere
1
Adds a pang of sorrow, farewell, Lconore !
A more than friendly voice would fain
Have Ming a sweeter strain and paid its
tribute
To th" memory living ; but alas! in vain !
Karth claims its dust and heaven its firm.
Thy hand hath struck a loftier lyre!
j Ye wintry w'nds that erst have hurled
: Yot r terrors round the darkening world,
More kindly send the drifting snow,
; And milder let your breathings low
Sine; a reijiiiem o'er the form
That sleep's too well beneath the storm.
Soon sprint; shall leave her snowy nest
Kern-alb f lit; moiintuiu's rugged crest,
And opeuimr buds and gushing bloom,
And (lowers eternal deck thy tomb '.
IXKUEME.
I Wan't'-riiij once aton tlie s.a,
A sudden impulse came to me.
A little stone so rerv small
That it scarce seemed to have weight at aP,
!
T seized with open baud and threw
j lute, the waters deep and blue.
The ripples outward and outward spread
i As the stone sank down to the ocean's bed,
j
Circling ever far and w ide
On the rugged n aves of the flowing tide.
; Quoth I f-o myself, " There's a lesson here
That may w l-U be learned with lov ing fear.
"Every man, and woman and child,
Is a pebble thrown into the waters wild;
Every stone some motion imparts
In this turbulent sea o.f human hearts ;
For nothing there is -so weak and small
As to leave no traco uf pow er at all.
" And the r,;-jpji'cd waves of this troubled sea
Will be seen and felt in Eternitv."
" John
ai arching
Brown's Soul
On." There is
Kkets :
a deep i
significance in the fact that in all the :
late revolutionary eruptions in Enr '
and, the surging masses chant the
! striking battle lyric of our army.
j "John Brown's Soul is Marclu,:if '
' On." All the recent uprisings in tlte '
I British empire, no matter what their
immediate cause, are at bottom a pro- i
I test of the people against the class
' government which has so long de-
prived them of their natural and in-!
alienable rights, and this spontaneous ;
adoption of tho hymn of our latest j
struggle for freedom is an uncon- j
scions and instinctive acknowledg. !
ment of our leadership in the cause
of human liberty. ;
J
True Worth ix IIuMri.nv. See !
how in the fanning of this wheat, the !
fullest and greatest grains lie ever
the lowest ; and the lightest lake up
the highest place.
It
is not other
w lse m rnorality ; those w hich are
most humble are fullest of grace ;
and oft-times those are the most con
spicuous which have the least sub
stance. To affect obscurity or sub
mission, is base and suspicious ; but
that man whose modesty presents
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nun meau luins e.. fJW) 'J-
,uuii.s, i..nu.'.Mj """'J
in virtue, drive me rather a low
fullness, than an empty advancement.
""
" LiAsses. V7ue evening wnen
the congregation of one of the up town
churches were leaving the house, it
commenced raining. A lady said to
the gentleman who accompanied her
and her sister, " Why, it rains send '.
and get an umbrella. " hy my j
dear, " said the gentleman, " you are j to continue to be so. It requires
you are neither sugar nor salt, and the j quite a fortune for laboring men to
rain will not hurt you." " No," said ; make the journey from E-irope to
the lady, " but we are lusi.es.1' It is j California. It takes as much to pay
needless to say lie sent for an um-i for the passage of a single man from
brella immediately. j New York to San Francisco as it
. . j does to purchase a farm of 100 acre
Why are sh.eep the most dissipated i from the. Government of the United
and unfortunate of animals! Be' j States after he gets here. It there
cause they gambol in their youth,; js any legitimate remedy for tlie ob
frequetit the turf, aud alwavs get ! stacles in the way of immigration it
fleeced, ! should be sought for and applied.
Tin- California. Stale Fair.
Tho fourteenth an u 1 fair of the
Ca'fioruhi State Agricultural Society,
held ai Sacramento, beginning on
the first week in September, owing to
the Jate great political excitement
was not as fui! of interest as some of
the proceeding exhibitions have been.
i There were but few
contributors in
the departments of Agriculture,
Horticulture, and Fiortieu'.t tire, lie
iqarking of this the Fanner truly
says:
This neglect to exhibit these proofs
of the wonderful fertility of our soil
and excellence of our clini.ite, has no
excuse, for our Annual Fairs are the
means if making known to strangers
Hon. every part of the world the ca
paeity of our glorious State, and those
who could, but do not, make an ef
fort to uphold these exhibitions, do ;i
great wrong to the State as well as
themselves.
The annual address was delivered
by Gen. John Uidweil. It was a
most admirable production, from
L '
j which we quote, remarking that the
i statements made therein are efjuallv
! as applicable to Oregon as to Caii
j forma:
I Our resources agricultural and
! mineral are literal! v boundless.
alas' no i Five millions of people can be sus
j taitied and all find enough todovvith
j in the limits of this Slate alone.
1'opulation is what we want, to carrv
this State forward in a career of
progress and prosperity unknown
even in the brightest periods of our
brilliant history. We want common
labor and sdcilled labor, and all kinds
of labor exc-'pt slave la' or. We
have beautiful plains to cultivate.
, ma arion.c marches to drain water
j . . ' , ,, ,
; less mils and vudevs tout slopes to
irrigate, cotl
s and tiomis ami
stat'. !v ed fiees to build, l oads and
canals to constrart, forests t subdue
and forests to create, institutions to
establish and build no, huu'seapes to
embel!i-h, and a thous.nd other
things to do in order to untold the
varied capabilities of this new but
most interesting region-. .Population
is the great dt sideta1 m:i. W hati Vt-r
may promote, the iin ndgrat io:i nf an
induct rious and useful iim fill is the
cry term I tleire to t iuploy it
tut fionulatioti, and
tin
u vestment
of capita! in lam'tiMe tntiipris. s i-
worthy of tin; attention of shis So-,
eiety, and should have the earnest
and act ive con-iilerat ion of the State.
We ought to encourage hither the
best cl ssses from loreign countries,
and we want them as fast as they
can become as.si in i 'a ted to us in lan
guage, ru-ionis, intelligence ant love
ot republican freedom. The wealth
creatine; class the laborer is what
I mean. It makes no dfi'erenec
whether .the man labors with his
hands or his. brain, or both. Kach
is ns. ful in his place useful, os I
said before, is the term t hat xpresscs
my meaning-. This term wi'I include
the farmer, the gardt net, the stmk
raiser, the mechanic, the engineer,
the mihis'vr of the gospel, the school
teacher and all the learned prufes
sions, and all who are willing to
wotk and are capable of earning an
honest, living. It would not include
the drones of the political and social
hive gamblers, impecunious specu
lators, professional politicians all
those w ho aie too lazy too work and
too proud to brg nor would it in
clude those who have beer brought
up to lubor, and through a false
pride, have become ashamed in .-ie.
knowledge that ilVv have ever la-
bored or
that tliev know how to
work, tor tear, perhaps,
not be thought to have
they ni:lV
descended
from a rich ancestry. It
would 'ex-
elude tlie v hole ,; shoddy tribe" by
this I do not mean those who hae
become wealthy suddenly or other
wise and still retain their sens'-? but
that giddy, reckless class which can
riot bear prosperity, those who, upon
the sudden acquisition of wealth,
start olF on the road to ruin, affect
aristocracy, wonder how bread and
pics are made, and a:-k how turnips
look when they arc growing. It
will not include those w ho loiter
from day (G day, and fioru month to
month around grogshops, setting
baneful examples to the young, who
are soon to be tlie men and rulers ot
the land. None but the useful should
ever be encouraged to come to our
shores. The A llantic States and the
principal countries of Europe swarm
with the very people we want, and
they are doubtless willing to come,
or would be so if they knew the (acts
and had the means to enable them to
get here. What we want to do is to
disstmicate reliable information, as to
this ooyntry and its advantage
anil
'then Jevi.se sotne feasible
luevise some feasible way lor
' tile neoii.'e tn enriin Iipi p ( )ni- o-rp it
; ll0pe is 'cejlterd on lh(, completion of
iih, fonti-.ii !:. ;r,. i. ..;!,-.,.., i i'.t
if possible lo avoid it, we ought not
to be obliged to wait for that event,
or be entirely dependent upon it
when it shall be completed. The
difficulty lies in this, that all the
principal channels of travel are in the
hands of monopolies, and are likely
Agricultural and all our industrial
interests are involved in this vital
question. Hence it is proper to
make this inquiry upon the present
occasion. We know that monopo
lies are always onerous and danger
ous to best interests of a people.
They may be less dangerous, perhaps,
in a tree country like ours, where
exorbitant charges will in most oases
diminish the patronage, beget oppo
si'ion, curtail resources, and thus
wound, in the most vital part, soul
less corporations Excessive pros
perity may produce extravagance,
extravagance, beget indebtedness, and
indebtedness dissolution. lkit the
prosperity of a State a great coun
try like ours ought not to be de
pendent on these fortuitous or capri
cious remedies. I believe there is a
remedy If the people but will it a
legal remedy w it bin the just scope
ami meaning of our national organic
law. lJut what right does Congress
regulate the carrying of passengers
and commerce on the ocean? I do
not pretend to lie a constitutional ex-
pounder l nave no claim to leai ;
learning and consequently no repu- j
t-.t ion as a lawyer to lose. I profess j
simply to leel, in common with other j
citizens, a deep and abiding interest j
in ail that concerns the prosperity of!
r i . , i
liie Commonwealth. There is but
one clause in the Constitution ihieh
covers the cas.v but that clause is,
in my judgn'tnt, ample for all pur
poses domes' ic as well as loreign.
in connection uitn uie clause " tt
. rnvi lo fr-- tbo o-em ral widf:i!-e" t bo
power is certainly, in my judgment,
, .....
unquest ion;.o e. Congress bus power
"To regulate coiume'ce with foreign
nations, and among the several
States, and with the Indian tribes."
What regulation, I ask, can be
more important to commerce among
the several Siatts than to fix a reas
onable limit, be ond which even ex
tortion cannot go, to the charges for
freight and travel? Our country is
expanding into wonderful propor
tions. S rapid is our advancement,
that manv who passed the meridian
of life, in. d are now witnessing this
interesting scene, may live to see the
I'hited States the third nation of the
,-arih in population and territorial
e.Ntent, and the first in power, inteU
iigeece, goofjtif-ss, and having all the
nit t ibutest m ad i-d to make us a great,
uo'o, mdrpeiah i.t ami happy people-.
We are abea-'y tin- first nation in the
e.-:iie of freedom and the defense of
human rigliis. The t ravel, corn mcrce
and fee and tint ran; me led inter
communication between the States
ci rnposii g this vast nation of ours are
of vital importance, in order to dissi
pate prijudice mid bind till its wiem
bets into one innissoluble and har
monious whole. The prosperity of
agricultural, of mining, of manufac
lures, in ti word, of all interests,
hinges on the proper regulation of
commcrc? among th
sevciiil States.
How important, then, it becomes,
that these regulations OwiU?,t l.n nn.
that the.-e regulations shnuid be en
acted and subject, from time tf time,
to amendment I y the representatives
of the w hole people. A hd, thanks to
tlie wisdom of (Mir forefathers, Con
gress has ample power for this duty,
soon to be the imperative necessity,
to meet the growing wants of the en
tire country, implanted in the very
foundation of our governmental fab
ric. That the power now claimed
may not have been exercised is prob
ably true, 1 ut that is no argument
.against its cxi-tnce. Many provi
sions in the Constitution have been
permitted to lie dormant, because
Congress has not seen proper to pro
vnle tt r carrying them into ( fleet.
Ti
us oncst ion does not concern
California alorn; the States upon the
Atlantic slope wiil soon demand it.
lhe monopolies so combine to fix the
prices of fn-ight and the travel is
inseparable connected with commerce
that the farmer of Illinois is often
obliged to sell his corn at a mere
nominal price for fuel, when it would
firing seventy-five ct nts to one dollar
pi r bushel in New Voik.
The States sometimes violr.te the
CousCtuliou by imposing burdens on
the trawl aud commerce passing
through them. The State of Illinois,
for instance, charges seven per cent,
on the gross earnings of the Illinois
Central Railroad, thereby taxing the
commerce ani travel of all the States
to the extent of about half a million
of dollars per annum. New Jersey
and Maryland also raise large sums
of money to support their Stale Gov
ernments from taxing the travel pass
ing throughout them, a vast majc rity
of which comes from other States.
All public highways must be
siibjict to regulations under the pro
vision quoted, f r they are all but
links of highways passing through all
the States. It was once said that all
roads led to Romp. We can say that I
all roads lead to New York and San j
r rancisco now.
It is therefore, undeniably wrong
for the States to tax the commerce
and travel passing through them. It
is wrong for monopolies to do the
same thing by unrestricted chartered
privileges. Congress can never al
ienate the right to regulate commerce
among the several States. Agricul
ture and all the industrial interests of
.a I ; It I tt 1 :1 fin nf t 1 1 I in Sf-ifoc n vn. f
, j
fower having competent authority to
doit, namtly, the Congress of the
United States. Unless this be so
they must all, for an indefinite future,
if net fur all time, lie at the- mercy of
formidable monopolies. Even after
th-. Racibi, Railio.id eha'I h.ve
bt-tn ;
ueep.y concerned m seeing commerce Hons if the laborers be intelligent, for ! boring upon a few rods of terraced I try so prolific in the precious meals
among the several States freed from they themselves are the real rulers, j cliffs overlooking the Rhine, or any ! . - '
all oditjus and unjust obstructions, j Let us look, for a moment, at some j of the intelligent laboring clashes in j Gextiutv Now- Day An Iri h
and Kroner Iv rpnriihitpfl liv flip nnlv interesfinrr fi rnres to illiistrnt tbic ; otfipr Ftirnnnon .nnt-;.,c- ...1.1 i '
completed aye, and after the North
ern Pacific and Southern Pacific
Railroads shall span, as they surely
will, the continent and bo cotermin
ous with the Northern and Southern
bottlers of this great country, from
the Mississippi valley to the Pacific
ocean the danger will still remain.
The railroad and steom-ihip companies
can and wiil combine to gunge their
tariffs of charges by their own I was
going to say consciences, but corpo
rations have no consciences 1 will
say, by their will, limited only by
their love of money and their ability
to extort it from the people at the
expense of the prosperity and all the
materia! interests of the whole coun
try. The carrying business between
the Atlantic States and the Pacific
Coast is destined to bo immense be
vond computation. Shall it be suf
fered to permanently go into the
grasp of unrestricted monopolies'? In
view of the facts of the case, it must
be patent to every one, that Congress
alone can remove the obstacles in
the wav of immigration. The earlier
i . i 1 . ... I . . 1 . ,1 . . . 1 1 1
me pcopie maie me uum.mu,
sooner will Congress obey their wiil.
The policy of granting subsides in
order to encourage the establishment
of ocean steamship lines t.o important
points in foreign countries , I be-
lieve, a good one a necessity
a necessity in
order to enable us to compete with
the formidable steam marine of Great
Britain. We must either do this or
remain a second power upon the
ocean. nenmi n ntx-rM.u o.w,llt
! nid to o-reat enterprises, even within
i o . ' . .
our borders,
Where subsidies are
granted and accepted, the Govern
ment can make all proper restrictions
and regulations. Of course no one
will deny that, 1 hope, but it ought
to lie done with caution and discrim
ination, for it would be buying the
very right which already belongs to
the Government and paying for it
with large sums of the public money.
Just and'libera! encouragement ought
to be given to laudab.e enterprises
and investment of cipital. It is
necessary, every one will admit, that
there should lie accumulations of
capital. I am in iavor of them; we
are all in favor of them. W ithout
them no great undertakings could be
licgun and executtd. But we cannot
favor the building up, at the expense
of the people and the prosperity of
the whole country, monstrous monicd
oligarchies, powerful enough to con-
trol Conventions, legislatures, and
even Congress, and contaminate our
whole political system. Human ; place w here men obey the commands
laws limit the interest on money ! of their Creator, and eat their bread
w hy not limits to the earnings of cap- j in the sweat of their face. But these
ital invested upon the highways of ! were omitted in making the foregoing
commerce under the express authori j computations: merchants, physicians,
ty given to regulate commerce among i teachers and many other useful yes,
the several Slates. In a word, the j indispensable occupations and pro
channel of commerce among the i fessions, amounting in the aggregate
several States ought to be redeemed
Horn the grasp ol the grandest nions
opohes, perhaps, the world has ever
seen, and be regu latcd wit h an eye,
! dnrrlo f, tl,n nnl-.lt f., ! Kr.r.,-..
single to the public welfare before
they become so potential as to virtu
ally own trie Government itself.
Agricultural, mining, manufactures,
in a word all industrial pursuits, are
o dependent upon and so intimately
connnectcd with the labor of a conn
try, I hope to be pardoned for the al
lusions I am about to make. While
agriculture stands, by common con-
sent, tirst m importance, because it is
the true source and foundation of a
nation's wealth and prosperity, all
branches of human industry, each in
Us place, are equally important, and i
the whole rest upon a common founs
da! ion labor. We are but one
among many nation?, and, in a de
gree, ve have to compete with all
nations. Our necessities must be
supplied, and to do this we must
produce and manufacture, or become
dependent on other nations for what
we eat and what we wear. I speak
of productive labor. Nothing can
be done without labor. If our moun
tains were all gold and silver like the
fabled isles of Chrvse and Aro-yre
they would be valueless without labor, j destiny, the momentous futute, of this
The price in money of a day's wages Republic pregnant with coming
is no just unit of inensure as to rr events too grand and too brilliant,
numeration for services performed, ! let us hope, to fade away,
so far as the laborer himself is con- J We wish especially to direct attem
cerned. The question of greatest i tion to the subjoined concluding par
moment with hini is, as to the amount I , ... ,
rr t ,i , ,, , c . agn.phs, which are almost an exact
ot rood ana clothing, and comforts 1 '
and conveniences of life, to maintain j description of Oregon :
himself and fimity he may be able to j No State in the sisterhood of the
purchase for the price of a day's I Unionoe-cnpiesgeographieally a more
labor. But the case is different w ith J important position. With many dis
the manufacturer or producer of com-! ad vantages, on account of want of
uiuu Hies nun ii mivc iu lino ii in. ii i.cl
in foreign countries. In order to en- I
able him to compete successfully he !
desires labor to be cheap that is, j
. ..-1 i w.r. ..'l.T.U 4 ...3 n .!'.. ;
have a low money value. Rut when
it is dear, as in our own country, the
manufacturer is continually crying
for protection for protection to his
capita!. Now labor being the wealth
producing element, not only cf cqrs
but of all countries, ought to be as
free, untrammeled, respected and j
amply remunerated ns circumstances ,
will warrant. It ought to be pro- j
tected, if anything should be, but
wuuout mscnunuauou uie uirmer, j
-.1 . ,i- :.:':. r I I
as n.ucn as me manuiacturer, is en ,
titled to regard, as long as we deem j
it indispensable to resort to a protec- j
five tariff. Rut there is no real dan
is' - ' ""j - -- - i
ernr ft 1 1 n 1 1 1 c t i til rr.i I 1 nrr ii!i-ri mino !
most significant fact.
By tlie census of iSaO there were
in tne h ntted States, of male persons t
twenty years of age, and upward, j
8,100.G-j'J. There were classed as j
having occupations. S,237.043. Now. !
lrt ii e:ideavor to arrive at the real
voting population among the produc
tive laborers of the country. .In
order Jo do this let us deduct all fe
males and those who, in the accepta
tion of the term, may not be said to
labor, namely :
Bar keepers. 13.263; agents, 16,
478 ; brokers, 4,907; grocers, 40,070;
innkeepers, 25,818; merchants. 123,
378 ; milliners, 25,7-22 ; public ofii
cers, 24,003 ; peddlers, U5,594; seam
stresses, 90,108; teachers. 110,409;
United States officers, 7,097 ; tailors
and tailoresses, 33,900; actors, 1,
49f ; auctioneers, 1.34S; bankers,
2,753 ; bank officers, 2.99- ; house
keepers, 22,393; lawyers, 33,193;
music teachers, 5,025 ; nurses, 3,132;
overseers, 37.883 ; physicians, 54,
543; students, 49,993; traders, 11,
l'J5; planters, 85.501 ; unknown,
02,872. Total 912.503.
Among the occupations are : Car
penters, 242.953 deduct 42.95S;
farmers, 2.423,95 deduct 423 695;
firm laborers, 795,079 deduct 95,
079 ; common laborers, 909,301
deduct 109,301 ; servants, 559.903--deduct
159,903. Total, 891,741.
Some of these, however, may not be
worthy of the honorable occupations
with which th-y are classed. I want
these calculations to be below rather
than above the truth. Some may
not actually labor; some may be
only jack-knife carpenters; some who
profess to be servants may be eye
servants. Hence, to be entirely on
the safe side, the above liberal des
ductions are made. There are 104,
008 shoemakers, some of whom may
Ge cobblers let us deduct 40,000.
To make sure that we cover every
thing and leave the number 'of pro
ductive laborers the bone and sinew
and hope of the country who are
American male citizens and entitled
to vote, let us make the further al
lowance for foreigners and all others,
say 1,442,739. Total deduction,
3.287,043. Balance, in round num.
bers, of 5,000,000 of wealth pro-
duemg citizen voters. All other
voters could not possibly exceed
1,000,000. The Piesidential election
oflSGO the same year of the census
from which the above conclusions
have been drawn was as follows :
l or Lincoln, 1,857,010; Douglas,
1 ,305,970 ; Breck nridge, 847,953;
j Boll, 59l,031. Total, 4,002,170.
j These figures are irresistible, and
j demonstrate that five-sixths of the
j voters in the United States are the
: laborer- yes, the active workers on
the farms, in manutactorie
every
j to hundreds of thousands, a majority
; or wnom must of necessity be in
i "vmpathy with the laboring and
j we dth. producing classes, and easen-
I li.-ll tn thtr Tr. ...-,-,.-; .. TT
! ia 1 to their prosperity. Hence our
1 calculations are, beyond all question,
I within the truth. From data found
! in the same census report theevidence
i is conclusive that more than four-
in ins ot the entire population of the
United States are the laboring men
and women and their dependent fam
ilies, thereby showing the important
fact that the producers tin ITlsipJ VP
i are tne principal consumers. Toe
! same rule obtains here as well as in
j other States. Who, then, I ask, are
j tbe rulers of the laud ? Who most
interested in reasonable prices for all
the necessaries and comforts of life ?
Who so desirous to see economy in
tho administration of public affairs,
as those who pay all the taxes and
bear all the buidens? aye, and who
so responsible? Oh that the labor
ers and producers of all that the
country can boast of all .hat has
made its name great among the na
tionsmay appreciate the magnitude
of their responsibility ! May they
always be intelligent, for in their
keeping arc committed the hope, the
)viuuu'uu "iiu o.li uisiuiiLi; iioiji lue '
great markets of the world, our State j
has still so many other ad vantages j
and so many attractive features, that j
r.iMiUllAn nrtrl ntip A-n... C t. t
it seems .imaging to those who have
seen and known the fact's, that the peo
pie from the Atlantic States and from
the overcrowded populations of Eu
rope do not rush here by countless
thousands. The reason must be that
they have not the necessary informa-
tion, or the means to reach here, or
both, fto nr as mteliigcnoo is con j
cerned, it is only necessary to state i
the naked truth: but truth, in h i-l i
- i
S, of beauty and of '
.....u u nouueis, oi oeauty and of ;
I.t a
rrmuumess, seems to the people of
other lands I.ke fiction. You must !
show them that the truth is the truth, j
Do you think the peasant farmer
At liorn-i a n v ai 4Ii Ii t 1
.........j, u. illc vwtcuuunst ii-
. j,, uuiiiiii,-, "Willi If !
main where they are were they able :
to reach California, and knew the 1
real facts, the naked truth ?
If they knew that wages are higher
hre than iu any other part of the j
known world ?
That here a common laborer can
earn, over and abovhis own boardj
from four to six barrels of flour in &
single month 1
That bread ant nearly all the nec
essaries of life are cheaper here thaft
in an)' other country upotl the globe1?
That there is room for raillioi s to
come here and cultivate the vine, the
fig, the olive, and all the cereal arid
vegetables known to warm and tem
perate climates ?
That the climate here is actually
one of indescribable loveliness 1
That weare blessed with the ''early
and the latter rain," which makes
California a land of almost never-
failing haivest and fruilfulness 1
That winter, except in the motili
tains, is hardly known no ra:ns in
summer to blight or destroy harvests;
that for six months of the year tlie
sky bends over this land of hills ,
and valleys" with almost unclouded
serenity ?
That fruits cf nearly all kinds, such
as peaches, apples, pears and grnpe,
are so abundant as to be literally al
most without rice.
That while incorresponding lati
tudes upon the Atlantic slope of the
continent, the States are buried in
snow and ice and chilled by piercing
blasts from the frozen z me ; here
our hills and valleys and mountain
slopes, refreshed and fructified by
generous rains, rejoice in robes of
living green ?
Eoitou ProTem. We judge from
the following paragraph that friend
Reynolds has gone oia trip via Cisco
to the Btv, and left our old case
mate Jud. Boyakin, to run the States
man during his absence :
Just before the editorQtarfjFd awny
we asked him how the paper should
be conducted during his absence. He
said he didn't care a tinker's adjec
tive how " she wtnt only keep her
going!" Leaving a republican paper
to be run by " the boys in the ffice,''
v ho are democrats, is rather ti klish
business ; but as the Statesman has
been issued regularly three times ft
week for the last three years, we
suppose that the force of habit will
riot allow it to fail now, though an
occasional number may be character
ized by what the editor would term a
" little looseness." Last spring a re
porter was sent from this office tore
port the prize fight between Jimmy
Dwyer and Jack Redmond. It is a
, strict rule of the prize ring to allow
j no person lo carry concealed weapons
inside the enclosure, but it was not
enforced on mar occasion, and Ae re
porer received a terrific sho in he
nock Irom some unkrown sun-of a
gun, which knocked him out of time
for abon three weiks. The report
of the figh was never publ's'ied.
The editor to krdvar.ae oe he si
uaion and polished off his repor.'er
! hrou-di h n-rr n .i-
i mpm.mnom ;t tl .:m- ,.e
j he gods grind slow hut W rr:nd
! - - ' lJ fc1'"
exceeding fine." New, "old man.'
we believe your ime has come! We
have been waiing his biased op
poruniy for many long monh-; and
if you don7 reurn ha whie 6hir
and hair oil which in the hurry of
yourdeparure you inadveren'y 7oc k
out of our ruiik inseid of y urs
by reurn tage from Owyhee, and
send u tha " nice preset frcm San
-trancisco" w hi. h you promised ns if
we wouldn't do so," why, we will
" go for" you I.ke a house afin !
Guess weal have h dish up some
hing savory for the boys, occasion
ally, anyhow. Q '
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J oi-RSAUsTic Enterprise. Ever
mindful of the interests of our pat
rons says the S. F. Dramatic Chron
icle, and fully resolved to distance all
competition in the way of journalistic
enterprise, we have achieved a stroEe
of business which quite throws our
old fogy cotemporaries into the shade,
In this new movement we are not
or.lv ahead of the Bulletin, Alta and
Union, lull of the New Yoik J Ft raid
itself. We have, in short, secured
the services of a " nn ditim," a regu
lar, first-class trance"aud-speakimi-medium,
who will act as a spiritual
telegraph between the Chronicle of
fice and the Spirit World, furnishing
us with such intelligence from the up
per and lower spheres ag the epiriu
may from time to time cotnHiutiicatc,
The first dispatch that conies tdoijj
shall be promptly laid before our
readers.
O i
&"UT." li0,'iE-- 'A correspondent of
1 e B'se Statesman says: I have just
returned from Atlanta City, where
I witnessed unmistakable evidence of
the richness of the Atlanta ledge.
Sacked up and stowed in one corner
of the IJ reenback mill are two hun
dred pounds of bullion, where it. has
remained for several days. Jt was a
portion of the fpst ten tons. To day
has been added to the above one.
hundred and twenty pounds, the pro,
ewib .if rim Lt( i,...i,a . ti ;
licf -.1.r, .,.v ...til 1 . l . T
i"n orii'i up win pieuauiy assay
twice or three fimpst as much an n
twice or three times as much as tie
forn,er. To see so much bullion
at one sigh and know that it was the
result of about twenty or twenty-two
r ,.r, .,,," ...t
one feel proud ha he ives nacVrir
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- lf, JL IP i
g" !' wh PIumed herse,f uPn be,"S
employed in a "genteel family," was
asked a defirdtion of the term-
" Where they have two or three
kinds of wine, and the pent lem-n
swear." was the hmhlv satisfactory
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