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of profound though smothered indignation, because it
was believed that thin young merchant'! yacht was
wrecked designedly; that he was assassinated with his
wife and friends. And for what? Because he had es
tablished an opposition ferry to relieve from a ferry
boat monopoly the people who pass daily between Stat
en island and Mew York. The suspicion that this mo
nojxjly resorted to such a criminal outrage to maintain
itself wu probably false; but the astonishing thing is
that it could be harborod, that the public had reasons
for deeming it not improbable. Sinoe that time a tele
graph monopoly has been compelled to pay a rival com
pany half a million dollars in damages for cutting down
and destroying its wires in the same city. To crush a
rival with pitiless disregard of consoquonoes, to attempt
with oapiUl and a certain knowledge to rob those who
have capital but not that knowledge, a transaction which
is called a " oornor," if not recognized as entirely legiti
mate transactions, are acknowledged to be " business."
The sixty-eight thousand votes caHt for the election
of Henry George, as mayor of New York, are admitted
by his successful rival to signify that something besides
the application of physical force and the laws of trade is
required to make our civili.atiou, not satisfactory, indeed,
but endurable At the beginning of the wonderful de
velopment which I have briefly outlined, our progres
sive Aryan race erected a banner of " rights," and un
der that sign we conquered. To convert our achieve
ments into blessings, we now need to inscribe " duty "
and " twlihutui obi " upon our banner, and with those
as our waUihworda we shall advance to nobler issues.
We have derived all the beuefit that is possible from
crossing the continent in six days, if our object be only
selfish and greedy. In the Christinas tido, upon which
we are now entering, there are many who will share the
spirit of the occasion without acknowledging it as the
anniversary of the birth of the true Messiah. In a cer
tain real sense, it must be admitted by theme who cele
brate His birth, that He is yet to ootue, and all who ap
preciate what His coming moans, " when all men's good
shall be each man's rule," will say, with the poor and
suffering woman a child, rather, of sixteoo years a
" craxy " pootom who had looked deep into the heart of
Christ, ami thou beou fronxied by the cold selushnossof
C'hrintomloin:
OK.IUI II aroald mmI W want In CkrM!
W mat ftud la bam In train
Aim k (ha furaWl of in wurld!
W nal Ma to milk oac anus ukw
TW mailing Itvun, to drira la tmwU
And BUM raan tnm la aoariat
T Win In (hiatal bark aaaia, aad prur
, lluw all aalik Ik ckaroha an la (trial.
W vaat liial CarU la toll aaata U aaiato
Tbalr ata,- 01 Iboj wn ami la bUai U poor,
Aad Uwr bam auld ihammlw auto U rich
Ta 1i Uw awM a aaKtoa lot Uw tralk,
T. k( r. a. itk l4,. kaataalota,
Ta awka a at laat r a aua aa ba
A aalal, b tm aiaat b a awa.
8. D. Pkttknuilu
THE OOQUILLB bar.
A retrospective view of the condition of the bar at
the mouth of the Coquille river will surprise the major
ity of our people. The work of improvement has, of
course, been conducted slowly, but nevertheless surely,
and few are, perhaps, aware of the extent and value of
the labor already performed. Since the commencement
of the work, the channel has been forced northward sev
eral hundred feet away from the" dangerous reef through
which the channol formerly passed. It now sweeps
straight out to sea, in a direction almost due west,
through a space entirely free from troublesome rocks,
with one exception, and that lies some distance inside
the mouth of the river. That obstruction, however,
will shortly be no more, for Capt Littlefield has been
drilling the rock preparatory to blowing it to pieces,
and before long the only dangerous obstruction to the
present channel will be removed.
Since the work of improvement was inaugurated,
there has been an increase in the depth of water on the
bar, that has materially affected our shipping interests,
and as a standing proof of the benefit derived from the
money and labor expended, the carrying capaoity of the
vessels coming into our port has been doubled that is,
vessels can cross our bar now with twice the cargo they
formerly carried.
The jetty has been extended about fifteen hundred
feet, and the abutment now stands squarely out into the
sea. This withstood the terrific battery of breakers and
drift during the whole of last winter, and particularly
the terrible storm in mid winter, successfully resisting
the immense power brought to bear against it, with the
exception of about sixty feet in the middle, where a few
loose piles were knocked away from the top of the jetty..
The ballast, however, was not disturbed, and the great
stories that were circulated at that time about the chan
nel forcing its way through the breakwater, were untrue.
The work being done at present is prudently confined
to strengthening the part already built, to make a surer
safe-guard against the storms of the coming winter.
CoquiUe HvruhL
Foil the first time in its history, Oregon has a State
Printer in fact, as well as in name. Since his election
to that office, Mr. Frank C Baker has purchased a large
outfit, consisting of three presses and a groat quantity
and assortment of type, which ho has placed in position
in the new quarters assigned him in one wing of the
capitol building. Although his term of office does not
begin until January, he is already doing all the state
work under contract with W. H. Byars, the retiring of
ficial He employs twenty-two men, and has one of the
largest and most complete offices north of San Francis
co. His facilities admit of a large increase of this foroe
whenever the exigences of the service require it There
is every prospect now of having our statutes issued be
fore they are totally forgotten.