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o n o 9 o o o c o ' nM ' If, 1 o O o c O o O . - - i i THE ENTERPRISE. OKECniTmrOliEGOX, JILT 4, 1S71. o To Our "Exchanges. CWe shall pay the postage on all our exchanges, find Khali forward the Entkwrisb to them in return, ex pecting all to pay at the ollice where it is received. If there are any who do not desire to pay the postage, the postmaster can notify us that the pa per is uncalled for and we shall dis continue sending it. O Fourth of July. O Death of Hon. J. G. Wilson. To-dav is the Ninety-Seventh An niversary of American Independence It marks' the occurrence of the most important eventrwhich has been re corded since the opening of the Christian Era. It ought to be ob served by every dweller in the land, and in a manner appropriate to the great occasion. On this day Amer ican.- ought to live, as it were in the past, recalling th heroic deeds and might-achievements of the patriot hosts who proclaimed, battled for, and established the independence ant liberties which wo have enjoyed The day ought to be sacred to the cause of American Impendence, as declared bv the founders who met in -pi.ni.1eb.hia. on the ever memora ble Fourth day of July, 1770. "With the domestic trials of latter periods as an issue to be joined with our ob- prvMiicn of this anniversary, we should have nothing to do. It is lav for all to meet together, without reference to creeds, sentiments, or conditions as did the jatriot band who made'' the day the occasion for the most glorious jubilee ever par ticipated in by man and to do full honor to the thrilling traditions with C which it has descended to us. "We hope and trust it will be celebrated according to tnis proper rule in Ore gon as in every other State, and by eVery other community. Let us re call the history of ltevolutionary days; remember the trials and sacri fices of ltevolutionary sires; and, re ceiving inspiration from the glowing theme, become animated by the same pure unquenchable patriotic ardor which so gloriously carried them through the darkest days of their eventful, Cproiracted struggle, to a triumph, the parallel of which was never before realized. From the story of their lives Ave can extract much that deeply concerns us at this juncture to know r.rid p-aetice for ourselves. lnt if for no other pur pose than the. simpln observance of this a miver. a;v in a becoming man ner, we ought to devote ourselves to a contemplation of the events and scenes and eminent characters of the 1 efiod vve commemorate, and it is only by pursuing this course that we are likely to give it tone and sem blance of a National holiday on which, rejoicings and hosannas should resound and commingle from one end of the Republic to the other. The dispatches yesterday morning ing ns the sad news of the death of Hon. Joseph Wilson, Represent ative in Conjrress from our State. He died at the home of his aged mother, in Marietta, Ohio, on the morning of July 2d. Judge Wilson was born in New Hampshire, in the year 1S28. At an early acre he removed with his parents to Ohio, where a colony of New Hampshire jieople had settled, and founded the town of Marietta and the institution of learning which bears its name. Of this institution Mr. Wilson was an alumnus. At the age of twenty he commenced the study of law. In the fall of 1852, lie removed to Oregon and settled in Salem, where he first began practice lefore the courts of the Territory. In the same year he received the ap pointment of Clerk of the Supreme Court, which ofliee he held for sev eral years. In 1854 he was married to Miss Lizzie Miller, the estimable lady who now survives him. From this time forward until 1800, Mr. Wilson was engaged in the practice of his profession as an attorney and counselor. In 1S0O he was appointed Dsitrict Attorney for the Third Ju dicial District. The legislature of 18G2 cre .ted a fifth district compris ing all that portion of Oregon lying east of the Cascade mountains. To the office of Judge by this act creat ed Mr. Wilson was appointed by his Excellency Governor Whiteaker. In 1805 the degree of JLLi. JJ. was -it :f erred unon him by his Alma Mater. At the regular election in 1804 he was elected to the same po sition. holdins: his ollice until the summer of 1S00, when he resigned. On retiring from the bench, Judge Wilson resumed a lucrative practice In 1S70, he was the candidate of the Reimblican iartv for Congress, but X A. - ' Takes Care ot his i rienus. What a degradation for Massachu setts, which has always prided her self on a long line of illustrious Chief Magistrates, of irreproachable character and -stainless reputation, lf. nMimllv contemplating the possibility of making " Beast" But ler her Governor. Says an ex change, there is not a politi vi.n in the country who has had more uncanny things said of him than this man. He has-been accused cf being a common thief, as well as a rascal on a stupendous scale. In his own State we do not know of a single newspaper that will demean itself by advertising his claims. He has declared his utter contempt for newspaper praise or abuse; and will go ahead in their despite. He has innumerable per sonal as well as political enemies. The dignity and high-toned respect ability of his State are up in arms against him. Yet he laughs them to scorn, and the Cincinnati Enquir er says there is hardly a doubt that he will be the next Governor of Massachusetts. And why? Ben Butler takes care of his friends. He does this in the face of all opposi tion. The country may talk as it will about his nephew, for example; his nephew is cared for. Last No vember the country beheld the melancholly spectacle of the re-election of General Grant to the Pres idency. His first election was in obedience to a custom which has well nigh become a law of taking a President from the latest and blood iest battle-field. But why was he elected the second time? lie had shown his unfitness. Three Repub licans of intelligence out of four know this. Not one citizen in a hundred who ever saw him hut -was ashamed to acknowledge him to be the President of the United States. Tho Truth Will Come. ! An Dfficient Free Trade Document. was defeated by Hon. Jas. H. Slater. He had usurped the Constitution, made the high oflice a personal per- 0 O In 1872, he again received the Be publican nomination and was elect ed to Congress, his term commenc ing on the 4th of last March. Politically, Mr. Wilson was always a strong and persistent partisan, but on the bench as a public officer, he was faithful, honest and just. Few men were held higher m the esteem of bis fellow-citizens than he, and the people of Oregon have lost in deed a true man, a worthy public -mm -1 . 1 ofheer, and an aile advocate; nis friends, which are numerous all over the State, have lost a warm-hearted and gn al companion. line nis death is a State loss, it is far greater to the bereaved wife and children who survive him, and in their loss tliev will have the sympathy of our A. V people. We have always been opposed to Judire Wilson in politics, but have always found in him a warm-hearted personal friend. Peace be to his honored remains. A Sensible View. The 31o!oc Q,ticstion. c The telegraph tells us that the President and Secretary of the Inte rior have under consideration and will probably adopt, as a means of settling the Modoc question, the en tire breaking up of the tribe, bring ing all belonging to it east of the mountains and distributing them by families among other tribes and na tions. None will be informed as to where the rest have gone, and the object will be to separate them wide ly care leing taken that families are not divided. Means will be taken, if this plan is carried out, to have the knowledge of thb punishment in flicted well circulated among all the Indians, and it is believed it will have the most salutary influence, and es pecially cause chiefs and those who hold positions among them to main tain peace, lest their tribes be broken up in the same manner. This appears to us as a ridiculous farce, and as we anticipated, a virtual triumph for the murderers. We have not the slightest idea that anv one of the Mo- The New York Herald, in comment ing on the assassination of the Modoc prisoners, takes a most sensible view of the matter, and says that the sto ries received are "unquestionable ev idence of the excited feelings of the settlers against the red-skinned assas sins by those who suffered at their lioiiilo o-rwl 4lo -fool- l.Kif -frlltf no-v criminal philanthropy at Washington, may succeed in saving Captain Jack and his brother cutthroats from the gallows. Had General Davis been allowed to mete out swift justice to these wretches the present massacre would not have occurred. We are also told that the arch-murderers Captain Jack and Sehonchin, declare their innocence of the death of Gen eral Canby, but lay the blame on the " boys" and on some mythical Klam il i -t I 1 . -r . atn cmei who led them astray. lt is not unlikely that they may find pow erful advocates in Washington, ready to testify to their previous good char acter and to excuse the late undeas antness. When all these things are considered it is not surprising that the settlers should be very much in clined to take the law into their own qnisite and plaything and brought it into disgrace. But he took care of his friends. The only President, so far as we remember, whose par ents, both of them, lived to see their son crowned with the highest honors in the gift of the people of forty millions, he passed beyond the prop er limits of his ollice to remember them. His father holds an ollice for which he is notoriously unfit, and continues to hold it in the face of a l l 1 . "I A ' " 1 . i 1.' siorm oi ueserveu criticism wuilii would compel many another man to remove all his relatives from office. The old gentleman is pleased with the office, and we are not sure that the tenacious, obstinate Ulysses, i assured that his re-election depend ed upon his removal, would have removed him. With equal tenaeity has he upheld his numerous rela tives and his more numerous friends No criticism of truth-telling coulc shake his determination. The fri nds that gave him money m' lands, and the friends that ga. e him political support, were alike reinem bered. The Conklings and the Mor tons and the Siokkses and the Schancks and the Binghams believe in Grant. It was this fact that con tributed more than any thing else to his re-election. Our readers are aware that no ef forts were spared by the California, and many Eastern papers to lay the blame of the Indian war upon our citizens. The creation of this im pression was aided by a dirty, lying telegraphic reporter, probably in with the thieves. But it appears that the truth is about to come out, and instead of Oregon being the guilty party, our neighbors have been using the cry of " stop thief," and they are being branded by one of its own members in Congress a being the cause of the trouble. We here append a Washington dispatch, dated June 28th. It does not look very flattering for our California neighbors. It says: Hon. J. K. Luttrell, Congressman elect from the third California Dis trict, sends to Secretary Delano an account of his recent visit to the scene of the Modoc war. He says he has been able to arrive at only one conclusion in reference to it, namely: That it was a war caused by the wrotfful acts of California tcfitte -w-r m 1 1 j men. fie is mlormea on what seems to him reliable authority that the Modocs were compelled to slaughter their horses for food on Klamath Reservation and having exhausted this means oi subsistence were com piled by hunger to seek fishing and nmtiug grounds on their old lles- ervation on Lost river. He rcgr to sav that never was there a time since the organization of the Gov eminent when there was so much swindling, not only upon the Gov- rnment and people but upon the ndians, as is to-day being practiced m Indian lieservations on the i a- ifio Coast. He concludes as fol- ows: Air. Aleacham and Air. ftteele managed the anairs to the satistac tion of the people and the Indians, (?) md I regret that they were not re tained as Superintendents. I do not know who is to blame n n do 1 ac cuse any particular Agent of corrup tion, but we know much has been perpetrated and before launching these Indian chiefs into eternity let their testimony be taken in order that the guilty parties may be found. We have lost many valuable men in this war. Justice demands if any person or persons have been guilty of inciting the Modocs to war lie or they should be punished. I am w il lin; if you can delegate the author ity to aid and assist in the investiga tion of all canses and charges which may be found or brought before Court-martial, as a representative of the people immediately concerned, and who have sufi'ered most by rea son of the war. I feel that justice demands a thorugh investigation and if I can in any way serve the Government and the people in aid ing or assisting in investigation command my service by telegraph at r ort Jones. Summary of State Xews Items. In'the opinion of the New York World the last census report is the best free trade document in existence. After an elaborate review of its indus trial table, that able journal says: We have now a total of 12,505,923 persons engaged in labors of differ ent kinds, of whom only 1,554,500 are claimed to come within the scope of the pseudo benefits of protective tariff legislation. If it could be prov ed conclusively that the country at large would derive ultimate advan tages from special legislation that tended to erect these 1,554,500 per sons into a privileged class at the ex pense of all other classes in the com munity, that might still be no good reason (did our Constitution give Congress the power) for the adoption of a protective tariff in a republic. But when it is shown, as these tables show conclusively first, that the 1, 554,500 persons so legislated for are those who receive the least wages of any class of skilled laborers; second, that the natural tendency of the de velopment of mechanical invention is to reduce at once the number of em ployes, the quality of the employ ment, and in ratio, the per capita of wages; third, that the net contribu tion of indutries to the resources of the country- is reduced in proportion as the value of materials and capital preponderates over the value of the labor in making up the sum of gross roducts; and lastly, when it is Known, through data embodied in this same census, that the entire body of capitalists, the proprietary class, who are the only real beneficiaries of special tariff legislation, number only 42,877 when all these facts are col- ectively considered, Protection as a mm.' . t i means ot lostermg the interests oi a republic does seem to be the wicked est absurdity of a not very wise age. And it is for the reason that the in dustrial tables of the ninth or nsus enable us to arrive at these facts con clusively and bring them out in the m st conspicuous mannt r, that we pronounce that publication one of the most efficient free trade docu ments ever issued from the press. Ah Independent Viewing. A Solution of the Chinese Problem. ilu"i will rvpr be Diinished for their crimes. Should the court -martial I han,ls AvLen opportunity offers. They find them guilty of murder, the Pres- j ident will commute their sentence j from death to a peaceful and happy j reservation, to be f t d and clothed at ! the expense of the people. This, we ln'lieve is a formal announcement thafono Modoc shall be hung for mur der. If these Indians should happen to have been Southern people, and only guilty of scaring some Yankee carpet bagger, the President and the Badieal party would have been prompt in visiting punishment upon them, even to the death penalty. Let the people of Oregon remember these facts in the future. New Book. We have received a copy of a new Look entitled The Men and Memories of San Francisco in the Spriag of 70, by L. A. Barry and P. A. Patton, published by the nomilar house of Bancroft S: Co. look upon the captive Modocs as a set of incarnate fiends for whom death is but a mild punishment, and forget entirely the feelings of those tender-hearted advisers of the gov ernment who regard the savages only as erring children. The massacre is both lamentable and disgraceful; but the responsibility for it rests in great part with the government, which pursues such a puerile policy in deal ing with Indian murderers. The speedy execution of the ringleaders in the lava bed tragedies will tend to allay the angry passions of the Ore gon settlers. Should that not take place we would not be surprised to hear of a general massacre of red skins in that region ere many days pass over." Definition' of a Pakty. The New York Xatlon, a newspaper that genei- The book is neatly gotten up and j allv knows what it is talking about, o splendidly bound, in morroeeo. It is replete with interesting sketches and anecdotes of San Francisco in that early day and is very pleasant Greading 'for "all the old settlers on this coast. The amount of pleas ure derived, from reading it is well worth the cost, and a great deal of information can be gleaned from its pp.ges. thus defines the IteinihliVan x x "It is held together as an organiza tion solely by the possession of the Government offices. This makes it a real business concern, with ac counts to keep, earnings to make, dividends to distribute, and claims to adjust. It consequently does not need opinions, and, to do it justice, makes no pretense of having any." In discussing the evils of Chinese migration and the existing depression of business, consequent upon the displacement of white labor by the Chinese in the workshops, and other places, the San Francisco Golden Era hits the matter on the head in the following : "The only measure of redress which holds out any promise of relief is the formation of anti-Chinese soci eties all over, the Coast, the members of which shall be pledged not to em ploy Chinese, not to purchase goods of those who do employ them, nor to purchase goods of Chinese manufac turers. They first propose these anti- Chinese societies should be to make themselves felt in the character of purchasers. If one thousand men in this city should effect an organization under a solemn pledge not to employ Chinese nor to purchase goods of in dividuals of firms who might employ them, it would greatly strengthen the hands of such of our local manu facturers as are now engaged in the experiment of competing with Chi nese manufacturers. If this one thousand was multiplied by ten, as it soon might be, the success of the experiment would be assured. These societies must be organized without the aid of law, as vo law would be constitutional that discriminated against Chinese residents. Such or ganizations could only be carried out where the community is nearly unan imous in favor of the object to be at tained; but such unanimity, it is be lieved, prevails in this State. The experiment has been tried by at least one man in San Francisco, says the Examiner. We allude to Mr. H. Sutliff, who is proprietor of two large stores, 330 and 832 Kearny street. As long ago as I860, Mr. Sutliff, knowing what the results of Chinese labor would be, formed the resolution to neither employ Chinese workmen, nor sell, nor purchase cigars made by Chinese, and ho has carried out this resolution to the present day, and will continue to ad here to it as long as he remains in business. Many of his friends thought it impossible for him to stem the current of opposition to those in the same trade who employed Chi nese workmen, but he has done so successfully, and instead of the one small establishment which he com menced with at the time of forming this resolution, he now has two of the largest in the city. Postal Itcgulalionc. The following brief postal items should be preserved: CHANGES AFTEK JUNE 30, 1873. 1. Franking privilege abolished. supplied with le unuer this neaa the Jitirh-Je, published at Eugene City, goes after Surveyor General Odell and the Bad ieal clique of Oregon in good style It appears that other members of the Legislature got surveying contracts Our statesman from Clackamas was not the only one. The Hawk-Eye says : We started out on an independent platform and promised the exposition of fraud and corruption wherever we louna it. An independent paper is to its community what gas is to dark alley. As it is now, politiea theives and punderers have subsidiz ed the press and placed in charge bohemian writers to such an exten that it is alarming to contemplate the future. . We have no personal axe to grind, or any personal animosity- to satisfy, but we have a consciousness of a power exerted by a corrupt ring in Oregon, to which the Head of the Land Office in Kugehe City belongs, and we feel it a duty to the honest voter, to let him see the actions of this portion of this ring, and warn him of their evil tendencies. ' This galvanizing and whitewashing process of party papers on party office-holders is ruinous to our Itepublic, virtu ally licensing crime, it tends to de grade the nation. Public men require public scrutiny, and if they are willing to submit to it, or their friends unwilling to have them publicly examined, it is evidence that there is a wrong covered up in their actions, and they deserve pub lic censure. We are warranted by the popular voice of the people in asserting that the political conduct of Surveyor General Odell deserves a rigid public analysis. These are in part the questions we have been ask ed, and we propose to answer them truthfully. How is it that Hon. N. Martin and Hon. A. AV. Powers members of the last Legislature, from this county, and avowed supporters of Corbett for Senator, betrayed their constituents, voted for Mitchell, and now receive fat contracts of Govern ment surveying? How is it that J. H. Evan's, who possesses no practical or civil engineering ability, was taken off a cobbler's bench in a shoe shop and theneefrom given a yearly con tract of the best land in the State to survey? Under what specific head claim do H. C. and J. Owen get, a fat contract to speculate upon ? What suddenly caused Mr. Handley to cease urging Gen. Odell's removal ? Under what regulation can Mr. Byars and Mr. Kelly le awarded a contract and proceed to work before thu Sur veyor General receives his annual instructions? What regard is paid to the Commissioner's instructions to let contracts only to practical survey ors? How Mas Odell's survey, refus ed bv Applegate, worked in under Odell ? Bv what process of economy are Land Office elerks,bankmpts two or three years ago, enabled to now own fine city residences and 810,000 farms? Why don't Washburn, who was elected a Mitchell man and voted for him honestly, get a contract? What does the Ha irk-Eye know of documents extant in regard to Land Office affairs. 2. Postmasters ollici.al stamps. 3. Official stamps must not used except for official business. 4. Stamp of one department can not Im? used for correspondence of another. 5. No matter can pass through the mails frt-e. 0. Postage must be collected on newspapers published in the county where delivered. 7. Exchanges not free. Publish ers must pay postage on each tx change received. 8. Postal cards uncalled for are not sent to the dead-letter office. 1). Postal cards cannot be sent a second time. 10. Ordinary cards can be trans mitted through the mails by affixing one-cent stamp, provided the entire message is printed. The address may be written. POSTAGE. Letters Three cents for each half on ice or fraction thereof. Drop Letters Where delivered by carriers, two cents for each half o nice or fraction thereof. At other offices, one cent for each half ounce or fraction thereof. Printed Matter One cent for each two ounces or fraction thereof. Seeds, bulbs, cuttings, roots, scions chromos and engravings are classed with printed matter. Merchandise Two cents for each two ounces or a fraction thereof, limited to twelve ounces. "When any of the above matter Is mailed wholly unpaid and by inadvertanee reaches its destination double rates will be charged and collected. State news on fourth page. Celebrations in Oregon general to day. Wheat is worth 70 cents in Yam hill. Corvallis has a new fire bell weigh ing 458 pounds. There are 94 convicts in the Oregon Penitentiary all males. The hav crop this vear is the heaviest ever known in Oregon. The City Fathers of Forest Grove are talking of naming the streets. Hon. It. P- Boise is to deliver the oration at Junction City to-day. Both the flouring mills at MtvMinn ville have shut down till after har vest. A Grange was organized at Gingle's school house, on Soap Creek, last Monday. It is estimated that not less than five hundred men have gone to the new Ochoco mines. Gen. Mart. Y. Brown is to deliver the oration at Jefferson to-day. It will be a good one. A "Progress Club" has been incor porated at Portland. The incorpora tors are Germans. Hacks will start in a few days on a line to be established between La fayette and Portland. An assessment of forty per cent, has been levied upon the capital of the Albany Farmers 'Company. The brick work on the State Uni versity is progressing finely, several feet having already been laid. Seven thousand dollars in currency was jrnid to the Warm Spring Indian scouts at the Dalles last week. Mrs. F. F. Victor is traveling in Southern Oregon collecting material for further literary works. Bev. Thos. Condon, cf the Dalles, has accepted the invitation to deliver the annual address at the next State Fair. It is reported that Biley Thorpe, who was said to have been drowned i l the Santiam last winter, has been seen at Omaha. Dr. B. C. Hill of Albany, will shortly start for a trip to his old Ten nessee home. We wish him a safe voyage and a pleasant visit. The big cut in the Santiam Canal is completed and is full of water. Work on other portions of the Canal is being vigorously pushed. The Corvallis College has just closed a most prosperous year, and will open the next collegiate year with a still more flattering patronage. Friday, over fifty Chinamen were arraigned in the Police Court at Portland for hiving thicker than allowed by the "Cubic air" ordinance. 4 ay X! SeIlins at EuSene City at s7 50 per ton. D. Lowry who we last w-eek stated had the small-pox at Portland has since died of the disease. ' Janies Whitney, of the Dalles was thrown from his horse last week, and had one of his legs broken. The celebration of the Masonic fraternity at Baker City, on the 24th ult., was largely attended by breth ren from a distance. Last week a man by the name of V Uliam iradiey was lulled by a bank caving m while ne was at work in Bye Valley, Baker county. M. M. Brown, of Douglas connfr has been taken to the insane asvluro l'eter. Kx. ivol-ii, an attorney oi Port land, has been taken to the peniten tiary for appropriating his clients money, for one year. The Executive Committee of the. Jackson county Agricultural Society have fixed upon Wednesday, Septem ber 24th, as the day for opening tho annual fair of the Society. The fair will continue four days. The w heat fields about the Dalles present quite a contrast to those of the Willamette Valley. Many fields in that region are now about ready for the reaper, "while in this valley but few fields have fairly begun to turn. The graduating class at St. Helens' Hall this year were Miss Laura P.. Adair, of Astoria; Mi Iola Bristow of Eugene, City, and Miss Hortense Van Fridagh.. We learn that the ex ercises were very interesting and that the examination w.as an honor to buth teachers and pupils. Frank Powers, of Springfield, last w eek sheared 800 head of half-breed cotswold sheep, the whole lot aver aging over 8J pounds per head Fifteen averaged 12 pounds apiece; thirty-one averaged 11 pounds; forty six averaged 10 pounds; sixty -seven, averaged 0 pounds. Considerable talk is going on in Liun county concerning the sudden departure of Martin Lwper, an old. well known and respectable citizt-n of that county. He closed up his business m a business way, left am ple provision for his children, came to Portland and took the steamer for San Francisco, sending word honitt that he was going 'but not telling w The Grange of Patrons of Husban dry, organized at Tangent a few weeks since. Lave decided to build a hall 20x40 feet, two stories in bight. The wheat fields of Washington county now present an appearance that would strike the eastern wheat grower with admiration and wonder. Lafayette just now presents a lively appearance. Carpenters are at work in different portions of the town put t'n j up new dwelling houses, burns, Sec. There will be a basket meeting at the camp-ground of the M. E. Church South, near Dixie, Polk county, on Saturday flth. Two and Sunday, July 5th and Important to Teachers. Orator. General Joseph Lane is to deliver the 4th of July oration at Myrtle Creek,Douglas ceunty,to-day. Though over 75 years of age, he is still hail and hearty.and w ill gladden the hearts of many listeners to-day with his eloquence and patriotism. " Office State Scp. Prnmc In- ) si'iu-fTiox, June 28, 1873. f The first Semi Annual Session of the State Board of Examination will be held at Salem, at the ollice of the Superintendent of Public Instruc tion on the 7th day of July, 1873, beginning at 10 o'clock a. m. Can didates for Life Diplomas, State Diplomas and State Certificates, will then be examined in the studies hertofore agreed upon and an nounced by the State Board. Applicants must report to the State Superintendent promptly at the hour named. As this will be the only- State ex amination held this year, all teach ers who are desirous of obtaining State Certificates of any grade, will do well to avail themselves of this opportunity by doing so. Svl. C. Simpson, State Supt. Public Instruction. New Readers. We have received a copy of the first reader of a series being published by A. L. Bancroft & Co., of San Francisco, by A. W. Patterson, M. D., of Eugene City, Oregon. The Book is well adapted for the new beginner, and it being a home production, no doubt will re ceive a favorable consideration from those who have the selecting of the text books for our State. Should the remaining numbers of the series be equal to this volume, they will le equal in every respect to any readers now in use. In-creasixo. ithin the past month our subscription list has ma terially increased. We are pleased to add new subscribers to our list, and hope that the Enterprise may be taken by every family in the coun ty.. It is the cheapest weekly pa-er m Oregon for the amount of readin matter it contains. Sub: ?2 50 per annum. criptions young Japanese, Mingoree and Cameejio, arrived at Forest Grove last Wednesday, from San Francisco. They are going to school in that place. John Dupont was sentenced to the Penitentiary for two years and Wil liam Simpson was sentenced for four years at the Dalles last week. Both were convicted of larceny. The peach crop usually so abund ant about Walla Walla and the Dalles, is this year almost a failure from late frosts. The same is true h Unipqna and Rogue river valleys. The wagon road from Corvallis to the beach at Yaquina, which has been under way for live years past, is at last finished, except the bridges on some important streams and sloughs. Bev. Thomas Navlor died in Lon don, Eng., on last Friday afternoon. and his son Richard Naylor, residing in Cornelius, was apprised of the fact at 2 o clock the same day. The Pioneers of Portland were beaten 14 runs by the Colho-f flnl of Salem last Saturday. The score stood: Pioneers, 4fj; College Club,C0. Good for the College boys. The horse men of Albany will match three carriage teams of that city against any other three teams in the State for (speed and style), at the approaching .Linn County Fair. A runaway at Salem last Thursday resulted in throwing Dr. Jossup and wife and Mrs. W. W. Martin out of a buggy, bruising all of them and dislocating trs. Jessup's shoulder. At a meeting of the Albany Farm ers' ComiKuiy on Saturday, the 22d, 1 ),v unanimous vote of the shareholders the capital stock of the Company was increased from 10,000 to o0,(J0. The graduates of tho Albany Col lege this year were Miss. Corn',!. Ir vine, Miss Maria G. Irvine. Miss Mary J. Hannon, and Mis-s Weltha M. Young, all of wl themselves w ith honor. At a regular meeting of Spencer Butte Lodgo. No. 9, I. O. O. F., the following officers were elected to serve for the ensuing six months: J. J. Walton. Jr.,.N. G. ; Wm. Kilings worth, V. O.; Joel Ware, 11. S.; B. F. Dorris, Tresis. Mrs. Sutton, wife of the late- John Sutton, of Portland, who was lost with the ill-fated Wright, has peti t oued the Government to send a vessel in search of some remnant of the lost steamer, or any definite evi dence concerning her loss. Mr. Goldsmith, President of tho W. R. T. Co., has kindly tendered the use of one of the Company's steamboats to Albany Engine No. 1, for an excursion on the 4th of July. The boys .have accepted the tender and will exewrsh up the Willamette i on that day. here to or why. He took about 10,000 with him. The Dalles municipal election re sulted as follows : Mayor, R. Grant; Reorder, James A. Campbell; Mar shal, Samuel Klein; Treasurer, E. Wingate; Counciluieu, F. Dehm, W. French, Geo. A. Lit be and John Morun. For the fifth Coaiu-iluiuii the following gentlemen received the same number of votes: N. II. Gates. A. C Pht-lps, L. Newman and J. M. Peail,and the matter is t-till unileciu ed. An exhibition by the pupils of the School for the Blind, &t Salem, was givt n last Wednesday. The exvrt ises commenced with an address by Mi. Simpson, the blind teacher, to the memlers of the Board of Education, expressing in wry appropriate terms her gratitude for favors so f;ir shown to her pupils and herself, solicitii g the future exertions of the saute, ;.nd on their and her own behalf, promis ing their utmost cf Torts to promote, the best interests of the institution. The Jacksonville Sentinel of Sat urday last has news from the fn ir. that eleven of the worst Modocs, in cluding Captain Jack, are securely ironed and lu-ed in the blockhouse, w hile the others are kept in barracks enclosed by pickets 20 feet high. A strong guard is kept up, night ar.d day. The Commission is not yet or ganized; cause too much red tape. No fault, however, of (ien. Dais. As soon as the Commission is organ ized, which will be completed in a few days, the General will start with a large forje on his contemplated tour north. Isaac Henshaw, of Polk county, drowned himself on Friday of last week in Goose Creek, lie is the same man who, a year ago last spring, went into the mountains and remained until he was nearly starved and his feet so badly frozen that they had to be amputated. His object then was to die of starvation. This time he adopted the surer, quicker and less painful way of dying by drowning. No cause is known why he should wish to end his life. lh is supposed to have been partiaby insane at the time. He was well off in this world's goads, and leaves a children; some of Go After Them. The- llt,rk-Ee published at Eugene City, by the. Gale- Bros.., Ixb. good Radicals, i evidently goi;g after tho x-htial head of Surveyor- 5??neral Ghil. Elsewhere will V found an article taken ivop$ tha,t paper, which indi cates that, like our statesman from tls county, members, of the last log-, islativre were gentlly to be iaid oil with surveying contracts if they were. Corbett men when elected, if tbS xofed for Mitchell. Sjf-it v.ilibesetu that the people are eventually to. pay for his election, after all. A New Political Ihea. A curious, proportion has been introduced lut'1 the Ohio Constitutional Convention It is to establish what is called tlK principle of "tecaH" in case of nieiu-. lie.rs.of the Legislature; that is, f'1" mitt ing the juniority of any constitu ency to recall and dismiss their l'V rescntativc from the service whenever they get tired of him,, whether hi term has, expired or not. The death of Judge Wilson vi'd necessitate a special election ff Congressman lefore the. first of iixt December. No Change. We have no thi'1p to note in 'our market reports fro those published last week. wife and seven them married. The graduating exercises of the Academy of the Sacred Heart, locat ed at Salem, and under the auspices, of Most Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, took place, last Monday, siul the Annual Commencement on the following day. Six young ladies Misses Maggie McManus, Margaret Cosper, Zella Savage, Dora Havden. Estelle Hayden and Ella Honlt have completed tho curriculum of studies whieh entitles them to grad uating honors with the diploma ami gold medal tf tue Academy. Tin other exercises will comprise essay on interesting topics, together whh vocal and instrumental musical selections. ... '"'- - - -?.'. " 1 11 mill II ll iMaMMUllMI UNIVERSITY CF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA o