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I 1 , MBS. A. J. 1HJ.WWAT, Editor nnl Proprietor OrriOK-Cor. Front mul Stnrk Streets. A Journal for the People. j Dovotcd to tho Interests of ITaiaaaity. Independent in PoUt!3 and TTslhjua. AIlvo to jail- Live Issues, and Thnismhlj Radical in Opposing and Exposing tba Wresjgs of the Masses. TEP.MS, IN ADVANCE: One year Six month. .$3 00 Three wmlht. 1 00 Free Speech, Fkke Tress, Free People. Correspondents writing overt tares must raako kiioAi their names te the Editor, or no attention will he given to their ADVRRXISE M ENTS Inserted on Reasonable VOLUME II. 3? OTtTJC AJiVD , OREGON, FKIDAY, .TAVIST! AJRY 1, 1873. ISTTMBEIt 3C. xerms. communications. In the IVood. The son Is savage in sultry Irollows, Tlie liill-lde qui vera with pulsing heat; With dnwy winirs the drooping swallow Are dotting the fence that lines the afreet. I leave ih town villi IU hundred noises. It clatter and whU of wheel and steam, For woodland quiet and silvery voices. With a forest camp hy a crystal ktreum. O, shrewd are the ways or town and ctty. Canning in commerce and worldly wHe; liut hearts urow hanlened to human pily, And tongue are given to thrifty lies. The feathery arms of Srs and spruces Bend oir the waters that glide beneath, And them:irh Bowers by the quiet sluices Infold their sweets In a golden aheath. And a lltt l- caiuw of fairy Ughtnewi Floats silently down the limpid Mream Where the Norland birch, In its futowy wlitte- nes", O'erluuigv the ripples that glance and gleam. O, peaceful and sweet areferett slumbers, The fragrant couch with the stars above, As the free soul marches to duteet numbers Through dreamland valleys of songand love. Forever at nijjht a Dorian Goddess Glides into my camp with bird-like song; In loosened tr-sNea and starry boillee She rests by my side lite whole night long. She cool., my forehead with dainty fingers. And smooth the wrinkles from brow and face With a gentle palm, whose memory lingers About my spirit in every place. On emerald luniks thick strewn with ponsles We tolt-r away the dreary time. And site dowers my soul with wooJIand fan cles That sprout and blomom In rustic rhyme. Why should I covet the laureate guinea, Or envy t he muse that is held In fief? I sing the ballads she prompts within me. And havi no spite for the "greener leaf." With the loftier bards I have no quarrel, I envy no brow its wreath of bays; I know it is mine to miss tlt laurel, And the -'greener leaf that bangg-nd pays. Toor ? Iam poor as the mice in churches, And cramped aud ha rawed by want and debt, Dreading the chill cast wind that searches My tattered clothing In cold and wet. But well content if the golden hours And the H Ivan pleasures will only lurid. For if wealth were the highest of earthly dowers, I think I should have more land and gold. And I rest in the faith that each good fellow Will sometimes dwell in another land. Where hearts that are generous, true and mel low. Will know each other, and understand. (The AMIne. S0H0BA HEWITT. XT MBS. SCKtK WITMKKm.r- Enleted.aoeordlag to the Aet ef Onngress, In the yew W, hy Mra.8aate WHbereJl.tfi the Of flee of the librarian of Oonaree at AVashlngton City. C1IAITER XXXVIII. CONTIXCATHMf OP THE I.IPK OP MAGGIE Htcwrrr. "i was aoout sixteen years or age when Samite was called to his fore fathers. Although an Indian and no friend to the pale-faces, still I loved him as well as though he had been ray own father; aud though he often made me tremble with fear when he uttered the wriT-whoop or wielded his tomahawk, yet I always loved him for his kindness to me. He was proud of my skill in the use of the bow and arrow, aud took great pains in teaching me. I grieved in reality when I lost him. His place was soon supplied by another, but by one who held no place in my affection. On the contrary, I not only feared him, but I hated him. Think not my lan guage too harsh, but consider my In dian training, to cither love or hate, which passions I fully lived up to, and which caused me much unhappincss and a great deal of yours, for it was through my aid that Souora, my own beloved niece, became the, captive of Hard Heart. "You recollect," turning towards So uora, "how Sanutee was killed by a wild beast, and how my own life was saved by the timely interference of a handsome young stranger, whoso name was Leuardo, and whom I learned to love. Yes, for two mouths after my supposed father's death I was perfectly happy, Avith but one exception, and that was the presence of my step-father, as I called him, for I hated hitn on ac count of his passion for me, for, though the husband of her I called mother, he confessed that it was only to gain nearer access to me. His presence to nic was odious enough, but doubly so when I learned of his duplicity towards Patty. I will not repeat the joy I felt in Len- ardo's presence; suflice to saj' those were the happiest days of my life. "Eagle Eye, which was the name of my tormentor, was cruel in the ex treme, and often threatened me with his vengeance if I did not return his love. This troubled me but little, as I always felt secure under Tatty's protec tion, who was one of the kindest of mother's to her 'piccaninny,' as she al ways called me. "Soon after Lenardo's departure Ea gle Eye removed with us to Kentucky. Here I soon became a great favorite with the Indians on account of my singing, which was a favorite amuse-1 ment when I was young. "I had not been long in my new home before Goodspeed, a young chief, fell in love with me. Although for a long time unknown to me, it served only the more to embitter Eagle Eye, who, as his name indicated, took in everything at a glance. Patty fa vored Goodspeed, aud would have been glad to have seen us married, as she toltLmc when dyiug. Her greatest wor riment was that some time, truo to the instinct of nature, I would meet with some ono among the pale-facus who might win the love of the handsomo Indian girl, as I was supposed to be. Tenderly she watched over me, and dearly did she love me, fearing lest T should sometime wish to leave her anil despise my forest home, but this sorrow she was spared from beholding. My time was often spent in company with Goodspeed, whom I liked very much; but after my unhappy termination with Lenardo I never could love another. We often roamed the forest together in search of game, and would try to excel each other in bringing down tlio first prize. Then again we would rulllo the waters of the bright Tennessee, as we paddled our canoes over iU smooth sur face ; and it was on one of these excur sions that I first learned the story of his love. Kcver shall I forget that night. The moon never shone as bright since, nor the stars never seemed so brilliant in the heavens. Scarcely a leaf moved as the sweet breeze of a July evening swept over our brows. I listened to his tale, how ho had loved me, fearing to breathe it, scarcely daring to hope; how his loved ones had all gone, and lastly how he had once loved a bright Iuiiiau maid, whom he had loved in vain. To this last I listened ntteutively, and wheirhe at last asked me to be the light of his wigwam, I buried my face within my hands as I was about to answer him, when suddenly an arrow came whizzing through the air, and my. lover dropped over the side of the canoe. Most maidens would have screamed at the suddenness of the frightful act, which to thoso brought up in civiliza tion would have seemed more delicate aud refined than sitting statute-like, gazing into the gurgling waters as his body sank to rise no more. t " 'Ha! ha! ha! Bright squaw mine at last!' yelled the demoniacal voice of Eagle Eye as I n eared the shore, and leaping into the boat, he grasped my arm until I screamed with pain. Really fearing him, whose countenance might have made stouter hearts quail. I dis guised my feelings by a strong effort and looked at him defiantly till he re laxed his hold, as he sarcastically hissed, '.Grave!' " 'What means tlicgre.it chief ? Why pursue the young squaw, whom you know lias done no harm? You know I hate you! What wrong did the young chief do you? I abhor your hated pres ence! Leave me and return to vour wigwam to Patty, who has the misfor tune to be your wife.' " 'Leave you, hey, when I have pierced the heart of the young chief to gain you? 2o! You are mine! There is none on these lone waters to take you from me,' and he yelled like a fiend as lie lifted me from the boat like ho would a baby. " 'Ah, one is near who will protect her child!' exclaimed a voice from the thick brush, and in an instant Patty stood revealed to view. "With one bound I fell weeping upon her breast. 'Patty! Patty!' screamed I, 'kill that hateful Indian! He is not worthy to occuppy the place of the good Sanutee! Or, stop! Give me this!' and I grasped a pistol from her belt. 'I will see that he troubles you nor me no more!' and without any conscientious scruples I would have shot the wretch at my feet, had he not quicker than thought grasped the uplifted arm and took the weapon from me, and before I could even suspect his design, Patty fell bleeding at my feet " 'Oh, Patty ! my mother !' screamed I as I lifted her head to revive her, but alas! though it was the first time the cruel monster had ever handled fire arms, yet he had not missed his aim, her heart. Though she could scarcely articulate, she told me in a few words what little I know concerning my birth and so ou, and told me by all mcaus to keep that locket and the pistol, which had belonged to my father; but the lat tcr I could never obtain, for Eagle Eye, in his superstition, thought that as its owner was dead it was of no account, and consequently threw it into the river. I thought as I knelt hesido her in the still lone night, and heard her dying prayers to the Good Spirit to for give her the wrongs she had done, that my ieacon of light had gone out, and niai x was juuecti a child of misfortune. Heaven only knows the agony I en dured, alone and unprotected, In the presence of that fearful man, but whom I heeded not He stood with arms folded, gazing upon me with grim satis faction. He suffered me to give full vent to my feelings unmolested, a boon I little expected. As Patty breathed her last a sort of supernatural strength seemed to pervade my whole body, and I raised my now tearless eyes to those of my tormentor. 'Let us bury her,' said I in a voice so hoarse that he fairly started. Obeying my request, he helped to remove her body to a place which I pointed out; and there, bcneatli a large tree, did I cover her grave with flowers and leaves; aud there, for the second there, for the second time, did I kneel down in my wild grief and moisten the grave of a loved one with tears. "With the knowledge of my strange history came bitter feelings, and a new hatred seemed to spring up within my heart. There are some dispositions that troubles and sorrows only seem to ren der more sour and wicked, and far more capable of doing wrong thau ever. Such was mine, and then and there did I re- solve to have some rerengo for all the misfortunes which had rendered me so miserable; and to wreak vengeance upon the white daughters was my first aim for usurpiiag my place, as I unjust ly imagined, in Lenardo's afiectlons. Rising to my feet, I turned to Eagle Eye, saying, 'Come, I am ready.' Ho now thinking me perfectly secure, suf fered me to walk on in silence to our wigwam, a distance of two miles. "It was nearly midnight when we entered our homeland both went to our pallets without as much as exchanging a word. Being tired out, as old age was creeping over him, and deeming Iiis bird safe, ho was soon snoring lus tily. Creeping along carefully, I was soon out in the darkness without even the moon (which had gone down) to guide inc. " In my uncouth breast I prayed as I knew how to tho Good Spirit to bear me awayfrom Eagle Eye. Willi the blood of my native soil cours ing through my veins, intermingled with the fierce Egyptian, together with my Indian training, I made a fit subject for all that was evil. I fled along the well kuown forest with tho swiftness of a deer, never stopping till I was several miles from home, which I determined to leave or die in the attempt. Coming out on an open plain, I stretched my eyes as far as I could, trying to peer through the darkness for some direct though obscure way to the nearest vil lage, whither I determined to go, and from there make my way ' back to Louisiana, which seemed more like home to me. As I stood thinking which way to go to elude tho search which I feared would be made for me, I thought I espied a form crouching down as if afraid of detection. Had it been behind me I should have feared my pursuers, but as it was some distance ahead, I had no fear whatever, but resolved to find out who or what it was immediate ly. Bounding lightly over tho green grass, I was soon beside it. Bising with a sort of chuckle an athletic Indian stood beforo me, surrounded by six brave warriors. Grasping my arm, he gruflly inquired 'what business squaw had to find him.' "Eearing that my captor might prove to be a friend to Eaglo Eye, I at first hesitated what to reply, but, concluding to take tho chances at all hazards, even though my life might pay tho forfeit, I told him I was flying from Eagle Eye, whom I hated. " Ha ! Eagle Eye, tho coward chief, has my hate also! I will be a friend to his squaw if she seeks for revenge. To night Hard Heart witii his bravo fol lowers would have laid waste tho en campment of Eagle Eye and his men. It gives us joy to protect the squaw who would flee from hint. So you come with us we go no farther. What say you?' " 'Anywhere, so I am far away from one I loathe.' " "Tis enough! Be true to tho inter est of Hard Heart and his followers, who love to wreak vengeance on the pale-faces. Tho brave chief fears none ! He will lead you to tho camp of Natch itoches, where you will bo safe,' and taking my hand, wo strode along, fol lowed by the six ferocious red men. "After a long and weary travel we at Liengtn arrival at tuc spot wuerc my dear niece was iescued from her sad fate, and where I passed twenty-six years of my life. "I feci that the hand of God led mc to become acquainted witii Kbrnian Burke, that by complying with his dia bolical plans I was restored to thoso dear ones through whose means I have found forgiveness at tne throne of grace; and protected by friends who arc near to me by the ties of blood, I will hope to spend my few remaining days in praise to that God who can 'forgive us our trespasses' even the sins of poor Loili" As she finished her narrative it was with difllculy that she could restrain her feelings sufficiently to keep from weeping aloud, as the past years swept in sad remembrance beforo her. For a few minutes a complete silence reigned within that circle. Soqora arose, aud (.,i-:.,,r i, l.,. m, i....i ..ii.. i.i J her from the room to her own cozy lit tie apartment, whore, kneeling side by side, they invoked the blessings and protection of the Almighty. The rest of the family soon followed their exam ple, for in tho multitude of their joys they had forgotten the hours, which were fast waning towards morning. To be continued. Mrs. Minnio Myrtle Miller is creating a literary sensation bv lecturing on her illvorceti husband, Joaquin Miller, the hard of Oregon. Khe Is tints honorably SUES0 'VP I,CISSlf' 1,cr children and her aged mother. The idea that Mrs. Miller is trading upon the reputation of er Mi 1 u mibyr 1,U9!Jand of the lt must be d spelled, for she has established a fnS'0,liOI1,1,er 0wn account a lecturess she is a success, she unmer cifully lashes the great American poet from the wilds of Oreiron: nn.i .1. I I sKiliruliy, so judiciously, that her uralso i ia '"l" """""."i?. - woman's wit is like a tailor's needle, not vorv nonilornns. lnit it twrrnrnJ i.. V nmnn'o i ------- i . i ..-.-j wiu iiiue wltlt a vicious smarting. As to Joa- quin, we say tms wiinout wincing: A miclutr: A man wno win ticscrt ins wue anu loving children, leaving them helpless and iu poverty, is a tiling whom wc would not dignify with the title of a Christian dog. Pioneer. Half the depositors in tho Massachus etts savings bank aro women, and $26, 000,000 is the sum total of the amount deposited by these delightful darlings. Pinmce and Ship Building. THE WAV TO ItESTORE OUR GREAT LOST INDUSTRY THE FINANCIAL DE 3IORAI.IZATION. BY HORACE II. DAY. The great want of this country to-day is cheap money, a low rato of interest to thoso obliged to borrow for all the de veloping industries of the land. You know England pays on her consols threo per cent, interest, and has thirty-seven hundred millions in these consols, held almost exclusively by her citizens at home, affording a circulating medium, being readily convertible into money and also into consols, thus aflording al most an unlimited circulation, supply ing every want of the people for money at very low rates; while this nation has only snch quantity of circulating me dium left to it as will keep tho rate of interest, which the present very limited developing interests of the country must pay, at from twelve to ono hunndred per cent., whereas to enable us to produce fabrics to compete, witii other nations and find a foreign market, we require such an abundance of money, accessible to tho people, as will bring the rate of interest for all that class of the commu nity engaged in production, nearly as cheap as Great Britain supplies to her artisans. We contend that the Go'crn mcnt has no right to deny her industrial citizens the use of money at as cheap rates as do the governments of those countries who compete with us in the markets of the world. To-day no civilized nation bases its circulation upon gold alone, aud tho old Benton Bullion ago is past beyond re turn. Hence, ltorc is England, that has its consols all the while floating at home, Government not paying over three per cent. These are in reality cir culating currency (under another name), antl everywhere seeking to cam a bet ter, higher interest In operations with and through the people than they could in iudleuess, DRAWING ONIA THREE 1EK CENT. from the nation's treasury. We should have, to raako us equal to Great Britain in financial advantage, at least -1,000,-000,000 of United States bonds drawing only three per cent, these with the abil ity to convert them at will into smaller non-interest bearing greenbacks not bank notes. Under this system we might easliy optfh' our ports to free trade with all the world, and this cheap and abundant money would stimulate nro- duction and then find in foreign mar- Kets an outlet lor our surplus produc tions, a3 do England, Germany, France aud all our intelligent competing na tions. Nations are competitors as well as individuals, and if one nation has a system of production twenty per cent, cheaper than another, then she can sup ply the world. Our tarill laws can roach no further than the territory of our own nation. Hero then is just our difficulty. The rate of inteel which the legal currency of a nation bears determines the value in thai nation of everything iucas uretl by thai money bonds are In fact a currency. To illustrate: Before our late war a house aud lot was salable at say, $0,500, which to-day sells for $14,000, and could be originally mortgaged for two-thirds its value. To-day the same house will not bo accepted by a money lender as security for much over $0,000. Here is a great change. What is the cause of this change ? THE HONEY LENDER before tho war, was glatl to take C per cent, and even then had to pay 1J State tax ou his bond and mortgage and the idle money thus secured aud invested to him netted only 41 per cent. To-day under tho operation of our existing sys tem his money invested in United States bonds at 5 per ceut. aud free from taxa tion, gives in cflcct 9 per cent, or double that which ho could receive under our old system, besides bonds are in effect ready money convertible in an hour, while a niortgago might taKe six months to foreclose, hence tho advan tage is not alodc in the double, rate. Tho average annual incrcaso of the nation's wealth has never readied 3pcr cent. No nation on cartli ever increased its wealth as much as 4 per cent. Tho case of ono illustrates the whole. The rate of futercst determines the value, and Government determines the rate of in terest. Let us take for further Illustra tion SHIP IJl'ILMXO, and it would seem that there was no subject In which there was such an al most unanimous determination to mis lead or refuse to fiud the truo remedy, for its loss in our country. Ships ou the ocean cannot bo affected by our tariil laws, and no nation will allow us to in terfere with its prosperity. Tm c-rw- m itin rl(fn 5 Vtlfrln till 1UII 0tU - t,IV V-IJUU JsSfjas-ssMS ships arc built aud fitted out, with this inihspcnsiblc tool, (money) to work with, at three percent, and sometimes 2i per cent., while in this country, as I have said before, everything measured by money is a much higher in value as tne ' difference in the lcsal rates established i lr flirt iwn f2nvnriimnnfa ,n tlio ennnl.4 of theone, audbondsof the other. And if a ship-bu'ldor to-day, iu Maine most of them arc in moderate circumstances (say he is a farm owner worth tliirty thousand dollars,) wishes to build a five hundred ton vessel, ho must begiu by navinir Hist, at least fifteen per cent, an nual interest on the mortgage of his farm to cct the ready cash with which to commence his ship, and as he is not a merchant, keeps no bank balance, and henco cannot borrow at banks as he proceeds will pay TWENTY PER CENT. PER ANNUM for the balanco of the funds before tho ship is paid for, (I know this exact case to be the fact in Maine,) aud this is not all, for by reason of the general system of high prices for everything in this country, (due wholly to the high rates upon money j) the material and wages, are found to-tlav, so much higher in the U. S., than Su'England, that the busi ness is a losinir one. and henco we can no longer build ships while all the reme- (lira timv ImlnnnmiuHnil in f'in rtmaa nn I i "-'"q iiM-ix.. v.it,..-J- ...... cls.cwl'cre would only fall in producing a healthy result, and ultimately create , . , , r , , i . 7 ' rwX u,an existing cvns. it is tins i t. "uaciai system uorn oi war, es- tablialifMl sinrw. -.,.1 i..:. ,,1 l... l.n Republican party, which dopri ves the Peoplo tO-dav Of tlinir rveanrv innl (money) to work with, and the whole country or iu rightful inheritauco of It is claimrwl Hiif tlmm I. r i .m,y - . " i iuur Hun dred mil ions of tho national debt lias been paid si urn Mm wnr m,,l- We claim this is in one sense a great mistake, for at the close of the war, wo did not owe abroad five hundred million dollars, whereas their claims of every kind against us to-day exceeds 2,500,000, 000. This is getting out of debt witii a vengeance; pay oft 300 or 400 millions at ono end and add five times as much at the other. And yet great as this increasing debt is, there would be nothing alarming in its aggregate, if there was any hope of the Bepublican party changing its pol icy, to give promiseof arresting the evil. There is ONLY ONE WAY OUT OF THIS. that Is, in cheap money, plentiful, to stimulate production,. and over produc tion, and forcing us to sell abroad our surplus, and at as cheap rate as our com petitors, aud thus turn tho balance of trade in our favor, and stop this increase of debt. There is no other way to save our country and restore a Republic, now destroyed aud swallowed up in the mer ciless embrace of a money oligarchy. Tho financial platform of tho labor re formers will accomplish just this result; it is also a practical balance wheel, which in its very nature prevents fluctuation in values, for no matter how much the country called for, it could use no more than to keep the rate of interest to 3 per cent, or 03-100. If the Government wanted specie, buy it as it would timber to build a ship, until the balance of trade brought it back. It is and must, in the naturoof things, be a fatal policy, which operates to seud all of gold, or any other commodity, out of a couutry. Let us therefore, stimulate production and send products abroad to pay not only for what we want to import, hut by cheap money KEEP DOWN EVERY THING AT HOME to so low rates that other countries can no. longer supply our inflated markets with their products from cheaper money and cheaper labor, and the reign of gold will be forever gone, so far as wc are concerned. Now what have wc against this sys tem? Answer, just one thing, only one, aud this ono thing is not a Demo cratic principle. 'Tis 12 to 100 per cent, interest to the ricii money-lender and usurer! Can we ston this monopoly and national ruin, now upheld and main tained by tne capitalists operating m both parties who controlled our late election, and seek in the future, as in the past, to control the Government re gardless of all consequences; aye, they would practically take the nation's life, rather thau forego this usury aud monopoly. Here is the wholo case. This blight ing curse, the heaviest which ever rested upon our country, must bo removed. Under this terrible curse all our indus tries except the few which are PROTECTED BY SPECIAL LEGISLATION arc dwarfed, our ship building isstopped, our foreign carrying trade nearly gone. our lands on the sea-board no longer worth cultivation, except the cotton lands in the South. All our enterprises are centering iu corporations and combinations, to be followed by every species of antagonism and ultimate overwhelming ruin. The old Democratic idea the gold fallacy of to-day must be wholly aban doned, whether old fogyism would hold onto itor not. With over two thousand million of foreign indebtedness on which the simple interest exceeds 100,000,000, wc cannot with our annual production of i 50,000,000 to 00,000,000 of bullion ever expect to regulate either our circulation or domestic values. 'Tis simply an im possibility. All the attempts to do so have again and again overwhelmed, aud placed merican interests at the mercy of other nations. THE ENGLISH SYSTEM is adapted to England, whose principle commerce necessity extends far away over tho world. Requiring a mixed currency and situated as she is, some gold is a necessity, nnd yet the secret of England's present power aud prosperity is in the vast amount or Her circulation at home, in the form of consols and the low rate of interest they bear. If we lnnV fnr fktlllmritx. nnrl roTiiCrt in frllfthi either our own experience or judgment, men let us auopt all mat we can maue available or this English system, and if wo insist upon her gold, give us ncr low rate or interest on bonds. Remember, too, notwithstanding England has a large debt, it is not felt, as it practically forms a circulating aud investing me dium for home use. She is a creditor country. Wcro she like us, a debtor country, her gold, large as-it is, would give it no power, at home or abroad, to regulate prices or support circulation. Let us further prove the advantage to Eugland due to this plentiful use of cheap money and ourgrcat disadvantage under the opposite system. Take to il lustrate the trade with the nations south of us including tho southern portion of our own continent aud the adjacent islands. This is our nearest foreign trade our next door neighbor. Examine tne ngures ot tins traue ten years ago, tlien to-ilay, annrtiic correct ness oi my premises is entirely estab lished. OUR IMPORTATIONS from these countries last year were in round numbers about one hundred and fifty million dollars and our exporta tions fifty millions. We pay tins ono hundred millions difference iu gold and in bills on London. England, during this same period, exported four times moro to these countries than she im ported in merchandise from them. Why is this? Simply that by plenty antl cheap mouey and consequently cheap rents and corresponding prices of labor, everything which goes to make up the mauuiaciureu coi""i"uiies required in these countries which manufacture so little themselves, Eugland has produced and thereby gains from us our natural inheritance of this near-by trade. Had the United States precisely the same abundance of cheap consols, and conse quently low rate or interest, this whole trade would bo ours with even greater profit. The best tarifi system possible for the United States is to have this abundance anil cheapness or money. With it wo could challenge aud defy the world. In tlie absence or our power to control other nations how can we expect to build structures at war, with the inter est, wishes and policy or the majority. Wc know the late war overturned and revolutionized many things, but uolh ing so much as OUR FINANCIAL SYSTEM. Tills was emphatically bom or war: a necessary shift, pressing for the moment when the voico or criticism was practically silenced, and the slimy folds or avarice aud sellishness, and tho op posites of all true patriotism enveloped the majority, counselling only for itself, and has since, till this day, overshad owed all other voices nnd control. To-ilay we seo the legitimate conse quences; every mire strained, the ver nation iremuting anu no visible sarety in tlin fiifiirp. Till fntirtilflttnn linl.w. wrong and wholly unsound, all tho dif ferent parts and outgrowths are unfitted, unsuitable nnd unbalanced raakinc certain that In the absence of a Hadical change tho whole structure must come tumbling down, canying THE REPUBLIC WITH IT. Wo find the Government groping In the dark, guessing aud gambling, to-tlay expanding, to-morrow contracting; one Congress increasing the tariil", another decreasing. Again exempting ship building materials from taxation, to find that scheme utterly useless. Ono set clamoring for steamship subsidies to no supplied by tne sweat antl tou oi ine laboring masses. AH business enter prises subject to be legislated to ruin, or inflated for the bc-ncfll of the few. Again, because of this HIGH RATE FOR MONEY, established by the Federal Government, Sovereign States are compelled to revise tneir laws, aiieciing tne relations or borrower aud lender, while railroads are constructed with money aud loans at ten to fifteen per cent., thereby entail ing corresponding higher rates for the transporting of raeu and merchandise, thus clothing our very highways with oppression. unese tilings are educating the masses, anil not only mnmr them with dissatisfaction, but permanently alien ating mat wnoiesome reverence anil respect for our Government and institu tions liuiisponsiuie to tuc peaco aud prosperity aud existence of free Govern ment itself. The present individual aud collective sulleriii"- of the moderately noor. to snv nulling ui mo vuj j icvuie, uus nan no i .u.a.u.-. i., lu c ...iu ou.ua tor twenty- . ?! T n,;.i n.V i-K frm i 'T '"hdod had left their trace iu quer Mnn TPii tiflrnr1 ,?"al- ulous- lamentable, hopeless tone offel- 'e fell upon any little S nhn t? f 3,rJv n 1 ?'V lab0r t misfortune or disappointment, and ax n1 1? ar&-,2 d,c ",a,tIliscou ?w older he began to laek hop." agement, desperation, starvation, sui- tUt thel, is tite secret of htaSeaUi. Ciue, rouuery, munier ami arson are so common, or that plague aud pestilence snouiu iouow . THE REMEDY. Do you ask what can, what ought we to do? I answer again, begin with the finances. Here is our first and greatest evil. Let Congress pass a law creating two thousand millions of 3 per . ..OUT inn l , 1 cent., or a oo-iuu per cent, consols, or, as we call them, bonds, convertable and reconvertable into legal tender certifi cates of value, stamped, coined money, made of paper, corresponding in denom- 1 .1 ...!.!. , . II ination with our greenbacks. Sell these bonds, and pay off in this money lor as best we can. no matter how. so kecp faith with our original contract) all other United States bonds. Here, meet tlio usurers squarely go to the usurers, give them the true arguments to prove tne absolute justice aim true wisdom of it, and the party which leads in tliis direction will be the real Demo cratic party, whoso power in and con trol over the Government will come just as fast as come the elections to make opportunity for change. And to stay any further false step, we should by all means prevent Boutwell from selling or converting any more of our existing bonds for idle hoarding in Europe. We require them and many; more at home for our own use when ex changed into tite 3 per cents. Important and True. The following from tho pen of a lady correspondent of the Portland Tramcript Is well worth the attention of hotel keepers everywhere: It Is a notable fact that strangers will inquire of hackmen and expressmen "which is the highest-priced hotel," and that seems to establish the fact that it must be tlio most desirable, anil find later that they reckoned without their J,ost- First-class hotels charge five dol i1' ;"' '""s swumi uiuss, uirco uonars ami a nan. it seems to me that one dollar per day for fire is enormous, and I wonder how long the traveling public will allow themselves to be swindled in this manner. There is always a protest against it, but liow does it end "What is everybody's business is nobody's." In a second class hotel there is greater sutcitiiou pain to uic comiort or tlie guests, fewer subordinates coming be tween them and the powers that be. A great deal of false pride is manifested among travelers in this matter, and it seems mat tv protest uy tlio public in general to the hotel proprietors, would reduce the enormous rates, and would bo better for the whole community; for itiousaiuis oi pcopie arc Kept rrom trav eling for that very reason. While I am on the subiect I would suggest to hotol proprietors, that a little more attention be paid to the comfort of l...lr t. : 1 1 luuii-s. at is very provoKing to want into tlio Ladies' Barlor and find nothing but a photographic book of advertise ments, as the only alluring bait held out to keep one from dying from ennui. It matters not how many ladies congregate In this room day after day, they sit looking at each other with that in describable woman look of half con temptuous inquiry, and the close criti cism from head to foot which follows, may serve to amuse some women, but not all. The peep that one gets into the "Gon tlemen's Beading Room" is Paradise with Eve kept out. All the newspapers of the day, accommodations for writing, comfortablo easy chairs, etc all this for the stronger sex. but the weaker are supposed to bo strong enough to be above being entertained. Any lady friend will agree with me when they recall hours spent at hotel windows reading the sign-boards in view, or walking up and down tho parlors, bored to death for want of something to do. I have never found one exception to this general want, from Maine to Texas. Mrs. Sands is a bright littlo widow who lives near Oil City, l'a., and has made a comfortable fortune in a specu latiou in oil lands. Representing her seiras a poor woman, as she was, with a Tatnily to support, she induced a New York company owning lands near her residence, to sen ueraw acres for Sl,S0O, paying a small sum down. She imme diately sold a part interest for $10,000, put down with the proceeds what has proved one of the most successful oil wells in the oil territory, and now asks for the property a round hair million or dollars. Horace Greeley. tVmong the thousands of items going tlio rounds of the press in reference to Mr. Greeley, wc select the following as coming from a source far more worthy of consideration than tho usual chat of Irresponsible newspaper correspondents: .ur. nana had better opportunities of knowing Mr. Greoley than almost any other man, and the sagacious ami all observant assistant doubtless employed much or his time in tryiiig to unnivel tlie strange enigma of tho Greeley braiu and purposes. It must also 1 remem bered that Mr. Dana was the originator or the Greeley nomination for tuePresl dency, and was tlie most able and vuei lant editor connected with that ptiaje of Republican enterprise and ambition. Mr. Dana denies that Mr. Greeley was a philanthropist, and asserts that Mr. Greeley always hooted tlie idea of be ing one. Tho basis or all Mr. Greeley's philanthrophy was, aeeoixilng to Mr. Dana, tiie promotion or the Tribune rfnd the concentration of free labor against slave labor. He says Mr. Greeley was an abolition ist, not because lie liked tlie nogro, for he disliked him, but that he felt that men liko himself self-made could never reach position as long as the so called aristocracy of theSouth controlled public a flairs. Iu other words, Mr. Greeley was determined to break down slavery at all cost, iu order to prepon derate the North in the councils and benefits of the Union. Mr. Dana says Mr. Greeley was a Fourierite, aBrisbanite, and a Graltam brcadite, but as he had no mental ten acity to tenets, lie gave them up after they had sufficiently amused him. Tlie Tribune soon gained the repnta tiou of being the origin of every sort of ism and fanatie hobby. x-artiier ou -Mr. liana says tnat "a moral unsteadiness diminished his (Greeley's) power. The miseries of his ror be who b andied at th rout of Bull Run, was overwhelmed by that greater route which came to him personally in November last. Mr. Dana, who was in tho Tribute of fice at the time, says that Mr. Greeley abstained from taking any-part iu the great Kansas-Nebraska contest, bnt left 1,10 "Eht to be waged by other writers i. tl.. ,!...,,.,,. C !. f.7...,.., TJs .l.n in tlie columns of tlie Tribune. He also says that Mr. Greeley was an advocate of the Temperance cause, not for a hope of curing intemperance or reclaiming drunkards, whom lie hated personally, but because he saw in tlie movement a political hygiene, calculated to promote ! tho wealth and happiness of the eont- I munity, "and the views," according to Mr. Dana, "were similar in respect or every reform and every philanthropic cause which he advocated." Mr. Dana confirms tlie general belief in Mr. Greeley's hatred orMr. Lincoln, and asserts farther that Mr. Lincoln knew it, aud always looked upon Mr. Greeley as a "foe." That Mr. Greeley was generous to his friends Mr. Dana declares with empha sis and by citation or illustrations. He would have died a rich man had lie limn a less open-handed one. mo article concludes with a strkirtf parallel between the founders of three great newspapers in the country, Ben nett, itaymonu ami Ureefey, placing Mr. Greeley at the head of the list as a vig orous writer of political newspaper leaders. Aud singular eitoueh. tha deaths of these three men were accom panied by strange circumstances of pathos. Mr. Bennett died without a relative by kindred side, comparatively deserted in his extremity; Mr. Raymond, after midnight, was found dead in his hall way, and Mr. Greeley, sadder than all, went to his final account front the deso latcness of a private mad-house. N. Y. Argus. A Nice Bit of Irony. Here la a nicely prepared little cap, that many a man could wear with perfect impunity: "The iouesomcness of some married men when their wives are away," said a simple-minded lady, speaking of the summer fights, "is awful. There now is Mr. Jimmeny. He is so east down that lie never comes home except with a latch-key, and then he pounds his poor lone hands on tlie gate for an lioor be fore he can get in, nnd his voice is so lost in the gloom that all his words run together, aud nobody can understand what lie says this time o night. Ami then, too, he goes down to the lake with a lady in tho buggy, to console him for tlie absence of his wife, antl he don't get back it takoa so long to mollify a lono husband you know until the soda water shops are all shut. Then, too, he comes home with three or four married men whoso wives are gone snmmerin', and he turns ou tlie gas in his house, to make it iook cneerlul, ami they all put their legs over the front of the gallery, just to cure their terrible loneliness, and tlien tney sing O, such song It 1 didn't know their wives were gone, ami that they were really a tryin' to kill melancholy, I should think they had drank a drop too much. But I know that can't be so, for their wives don't like it, aud they wouldn't do anything when their wives are gone, that they scorned to do when they were here." Ono or the saddest instances of wom an's faithlessness with which we liave ever met was that of the wife of a man in Syracuse. It seems that the couple had arranged that for six months the husband was to get up iu the morning and make the kitchen fire, and that tile wife was to perform the task for the succeeding six months. Tlie man's half year expired on the2d,and the morning of tlie 3d tho woman suddenly died. He is nearly brpken-hearted over his aflliction. He says if he could only have foreseen this bereavement he would havo shullled her oat of bed' at daylight every morning since January. And to think that she lay there snow ing all that time in comfort, when she wasn't going to take her turn, mR him feel as ir he woukl eitlier Imve to wrapaboutslxteeu yards of erapearouttu his Sunday hat, or burst. And ( jet there aro people who say that ttiese women haven't their rights fortootm At the competitive examination be r ii. T TTnivorsitV for tlio Ricardo scholarship for M""1 it:,, n-ri.n ,rnn the prize, mere 1UIU L11U iUHUUH four young wcro seven conuu"ii men, antl three young womcu.