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THEMQEDsG OaGjMN. MOIJDAY, AUGUST 10, 1885 ' Jt 1 i-T. PORTLAND, ilOMJAT, AUGUST 10, 1885: TRADE INTERESTS. Some two yean? as:o The Obegosiak pub lished an article predicting that demoralization, of business throughout the Northwest would follow the completion of the Northern Pacific railway. It foretold what has since resulted, that the Northwest would be overrun with rep resentatives of all classes of eastern establish ments, tempting the interior merchants to giro the East a trial; and this has been done on a large and expensive scale. Numerous dealers have ordered heavily, and in many instances ex cessively, overstocking themselves with com modities which they really did not require and -which never can beeold; and more than this, not a few of -them have left Portland jobbers to carry 1 ong overdue accounts, using the money which 8honldbae cleared off these debts to "honor" sight drafts from the East. A goodly number of the failures in Oregon and Washington dur ing the past two years is traceable to this cause. We are informed by a trustworthy traveling salesman that tlie country from Spokane Falls to Ashland, and from Baker City to Victoria is flooded with goods of uniform inferior quality, pnrchased from self-styled "manufacturers' scents," many of them purchased from one to two years ago, and of course unsalable; and we have before us the card of one or these irrespon sible 'agents," purporting to represent Eastern manufacturers, together with proor from the manufacturers themselves that the claim it ut terly false. This is a fair sample of the "intro duction" used by this class of "agents" or "rep resentatives," whose offices are ia their hats and whose claims are wholly unworthy of cre dence. It is well known that no legitimate manufacturer, who has any regard for his standing, will "peddle" the output of his basi dces, and it behooves our merchants to put a quietuB ou such fraudulent practices. Other wise jobbing houses, thus undormined, will be compelled to become active competitors with those who hhould be customers. Complaint 1b made, and justly too, that job bers.here do a retail business. But careful in quiry proves this to be the exception rather than the rule, and it is very easy for the cus tomers of such firms to suppress this business b withholding their orders from those who are knortn to practice it There are houses hero that operate only in le gitimate channels, whose business is suffering from patronage ghen to the East through itin erant salesmen who misrepresent their own po rtion by claiming to be representatives of first class eastern manufacturers, when they are in reality only the agents of inferior eastern job bing houses, scarcely recognized in the regular trade. If goods are ordered from the actual manufacturers they must be ordered in the full packages only, which in nine cases out of ten will overstock any one but a jobber; and this surplus must be carried over month after month and eventually be sold at a sacrifice; whereas by buying at home and selecting both quantity and quality stocks may be replenished oltener and to tho best iKssille advantage. Too little attention is given to this, as also to" other fea tures, such as freight expense, cost of package, . eta, when ordering from the eastern houses. Merchants or the interior might profitably consider this whole subject. Jobbers are oper ating on a close basis all over tho Pacific coast, and to Invito their competition may result in se rious injury to the couutry merchants. The policy of taking orders from salesmen falsely claiming to be representatives of eastern manu facturers doesn't give the country cheaper goods, but does in many instances give it infe rior goods. Moreover, it disturbs tho legitimate business arrangements or the couutry in a va riety of ways, aud especially by producing mis understandings and estrangements among those whose legitimate business Interests are closely linked together. THE SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY "We rise," says the democratic paper at Pen dleton, "to request The Orego.vian to iuform an anxious public what has become of the south ern confederacy lately." The southern confed eracy, The OitEfiONiAN regrets to say, is still doing business at the old stand, as it has done during nearly forty years past It is not to be supposed, because prominent men of the South have been speaking kind words about Gen. Grant, that the southern confederacy is at last dissolved. Sixteen states are still solidly united on the principles of "Jeffersonian democracy." They plump all their votes that way still, and will keep on doing it. What is called the rebel lion was only an incident of this system of politics. The Etatcs that constitute the confederacy, standing by this system of politics, are merely voting as they fought, and the confederacy never can bo said to have dissolved till those Ftatcs gie up their solid political combination. "What is meant by the southern confederacy, therefore, is this combination of sixteen states, naturally adhering to the democratic party through affinity with the same principles that produced tho rebellion, and casting their votes tolidly iu every election with a certainty counted on for an indefinite time to come, as it has been counted on for a long time past. For many years the democratic party of the North has rested Its hopes chielly oa the solid South, and its hopes rest there still. There is no cerlaiuty at auy time that that party can curry a tingle northern state, but holding the tixtein t-tateeof the South as a compact political confederacy upon which tho democratic party can ter rely, there is a vast force always securely in hand which gives a basis for a con test; and then the problem is to get a little ad ditional strength from the North, and win and bold tho goiernmeut through a scheme in which tho confederacy, or the solid South, is the chief factor. This southern confederacy the democratic party wants to see maintained. It has cultivated this solid sectionalism for many years. It began it long bofore the war, and after lb war took it up where it had boen in terrupted by tho war. The kind words of Fouthern generals and of southern newspipets towards Gen. Grant though everybody receives theui gladly certainly do not indicate a dissolu tion of that solid political combination of the sixteen btates, thnt constitute the southern contederacy. Those btates, if they can't vote directly as they fought, will continue to vota iu toMd combination as nearly as possibly that way; and to make the matter certain, tliey will continue to employ the old methods of fraud and vioJeuce that thoy began away back before the rebellion. The democratic party of the North knows this, and bauks on it as its prin cipal capital. The immediate financial troubles of the Ore gon Pacific railroad have been disposed of aad trains are running regularly between CorvalUs and Yaquina bay. The line is enjoying a fecal traffic which, wo are told, more than pay th"e charges of operation. An attempt will be made to ship the grain of Benton county, via Yaqntua toy to San Francisco, but it must fail from tho satire of the situation; and for the )resttt at least the road will have to draw its Income rrom Its local busine It is stated by a London journal, wh:ci quotes statistics to establish its statements, titut the rtwsi poorly paid working girls iu tb iswtroo Ms are those engaged in the work of svrra and binding libfee. It wakes tho assertion also that lor era heathen abroad who can be indue! to ttce the & cred volume for anything else than uh wadding, a dazea of these girls are driwa to perdition at home. Ia order to present a continuous accovat of the f aoeral of Gca. Grant w reprint tttie uara iDg that portion which came is time for The Swp Ork.-oman, and to this are added to-day several columns of new matter by .airgraph, completing tho recital of the event la oom ptfaaee with a general demand, we also repent Judge Williams's excellent oration la falL An Iowa paper reports that a cttheaorits town, vrUa was recently In Bichmoad, VIrgiais, ssked a confederate democrat a question or two about politics. "ObJ" sai he, "wo democrats vote the democratic ticket first; and attend to re ligion aad prohibition afterward." A LOCAL- HARDSHIP. The. Willamette river baa two mouths. Ita main channel connects with the Columbia river twelve miles below Portland, but a side channel pastes down west of Sauvie's island and enters the Columbia at St. Helens. This side channel, known as the Willamette slough, is deep and navigable for steamboats for its whole length of twenty miles. The country Is fertile on both sides, contains a population of many hundreds, and is the seat of a large productive industry. The situation is favorable for supply farming for the Portland market, and the peo ple are largely engaged in this kind of business. Proximity to Portland and cheap transportation by water have been the main advantages of the country. Its industry has grown up under these advantages; is, in fact, an outgrowth of them, and If they are destroyed, It will languish and fail. The farmers of this lower river are suffering under a singular hardship. Two or three years ago the government engineers, with the idea of directing the natural current of the slough or the greater part of it through the upper and main outlet to the Columbia, and so, by an in creased flow of water to scour out obstructive shoals at that point, built a dam across tho upper end where the water enters. A narrow steamboat passage was left in this dam, but the water rushes through it with such force that during most of the time it is not sate nor even possible for the smaller boats, such as ply tho slough, to make tho passage. It is now iho rule for boats to enter and pas3 from the slough at its lower end. The detour is long, a boat often having to travel forty miles to reach Portland from a point naturally and actually distant only fifteen or twenty miles. It makes navigation long and expensive where before it was Bhort and cheap. It pre vents the fanners from getting their perishable products to markot while they are fresh. It has destroyed the competition between boats which formerly kept rates down. Many of the farmers of the mainland have given up shipping by river and send their stuff at much greater ex pense than formerly by railroad. Tho people feel that they are outraged. They feel that there is great injustice in taking from thorn an important natural ad vantage to create an artificial benefit some where else. The last legislature was appealed to in the hope of getting an order from the gov ernment to tear out the obstructive dam but the petition was killed by tho adverse report of a committee which regarded the "interests of slough navigation as trilling compared wiUi the interests of commerce." This may be true, but the natural and first richt belonged to the smaller interest It is thought by the farmers that all the benefits to tho ship-channel now re sulting from the dam could be secured by a guiding wall extending into the channel from the upper point of Sauvie's island. However this may be engineers will know best but there should if possible be some change that will leave the slough open as formerly to navigation. This is a case where a general and great in terest stands opposed to a special and limited interest The objectionable dam is the chief feature of a work which has developed channels through two bad bars, permitting deep ocean ships to pass up and down on their way to and from Portland at all times. To tear out this dam would cause a return of the old deposits and the old troubles, unless the same results could be decured by other means. The people of Co lumbia slough should bear in mind that the commerce which their local interests is compell ed to givo way to, is an essential condition of the state of things in Portland which makes it desirable for them to reach here with then: stuff. If there were no commerce there would bo no city, and so no market and so, to follow the il lustration another stage, no need of a steamboat passage at the upper end of the slough. These general considerations must prevail, but we hope that the engineers will find a way of giv ing the people a convenient channel and at the same time of maintaining the good results on the river bars. REAL -AND IMAGINARY LAND UES. VALr One effect of the hard times has been to re duce the price of farming lands all over the state, and particularly in the Willamette valley. Farms which have been sold in past years for twenty dollars and upwards per acre, are in the market at ten, and lands recently valued at forty and fifty dollars are row claimed to be worth not more than twenty-five and thirty. These figures represent actual cases coming under our observation, but it is fair to say that they apply only to special instances of decline, and exaggerate the average, which is In the neighborhood of 20 per cent Land has fallen in price, not from any general blight or loss of productive power, nor through any decline in actual value, but from the general depressed circumstances of tho country. The pressure of hard times has forced a vast amount of land on the market Many a farmer Is eager to sell part of his farm to pay off the mortgage which is eating up his earnings, and others who hold farming lands upon investment are eager to con vert into money property which now yields no revenue. The stress of the times Is, unquestionably, the chief cause of tho decline, but it is partly due tr the discovery by land-holders that land is not worth the amounts they have imagined, and in deed, in many cases, actually paid or received for it Land is worth what it will earn interest upon and nothing more. There is not a farm in the Willamette valley that ever paid or ever can pay, under our present pystem of farming, inde pendent of the labor of its owner, 8 per cent on the common estimate of it3 value a year ago". Land has been held too high. A good deal of loss has resulted to farmers from fancied notions of wealth through an unreasonable estimate of the value of their land. A man who thinks he is worth thirty or forty thousand dollars, no matter what his actual income, will indulge extravagances which he would not think of if he thoughthim self worth only half as much. He will not hesitate to incur obligations that he would avoid as he would avoid a pestilence, if he did not imagine himself amply able to pay several times over. Fine houses and barns built during the flush times when farmers thought their land woitli double what they can now get for it are scattered all over the country. At last the "rub" has come, and many are being rubbed pretty hard. One false notion the country is getting over, and that is that it is very rich. The extravagant valuation of lmds in years past has seriously hindered the progress of the country by keeping out immigration from the best regions. A newcomer upon being told that he can have a certain tract for a certain sum begins to figure on the probable return from the investment, and when ho "sees noth ing in it" he passes on. Many instances of this kind have come to our knowledge. The country will be better off with cheap land, simply as an attraction to immigration. If the Willamette valley had five times its present population It would have none too many people. The division of the large farms and the opening up of the rougher parts of the land heretofore untitled will naturally follow the decline in prices and the country will profit by it The fact that an unusual amount of land is in the market is the result of a general effort to pay up. Never before has there been such a general squaring of accounts. We have always been a borrowing people. Till now it has been easy to borrow, but the conditions of lending have become so severe under onr new mortgage tax law that capitalists are drawing in their raonej. The effect is a terrible pressure on the country which has through long years ot in dulgence learned the practice of putting or! tho day of accounting year after yoar. It is a new and a harsh experience, but the end is whole some. . Every now and then we are favored by tele graph with a "conversation" somebody has had witli the president in which the latter delivers a lecture on civil service reform, declaring that neither removals nor appointments should be made for partisan reasons. And yet who does not know that thousands, of removals and ap pointments have been made by President Cleve land expressly on partisan grounds and no other? And who does not know that the thing is going on all tho time? It Is not going on go rapidly, indeed, as the president's party-desires, bat it Is going on all the Bame;-aml It ought to be done with honest avowal that its object is to gel the offices Into the hands of the democrats. Then nobody oonld complain. The study seems to be how to get the offices into democratic hands as fast as possible, and at the same time keep up a show of "reforming" the service and escape the criticism of the mugwumps. There are 550 butter factories in Iowa, 497 in Illinois, ISO In Wisconsin, 1G0 in Kansas, 100 in Minnesota, 61 In Missouri, 50 in Indiana, and 40 in Netraska a total of 1788 in eight states. The value of the dairy products In Iowa alone in 1S84 was 50,000,000, and that of the United States was $500,000,000. The value of the milch cows of the United States is put at 700, 000,000 to excess of the entire capital stock of all the national banks and trust companies of the country. We should have "creameries" in Oregon, like those of Iowa, only like everything else, they "wouldn't pay." The oration by Judge Williams on Gen. Grant is judicious and discriminating. To many speakers on such an occasion there Is a tempta tion to use only the language of lofty panegyric; and not infrequently the effort is so poorly sus tained as to make a sorry effect But Judge Williams has too practical and too sound a judgment to make such a mistake. His oration is like himself calm, impartial and solid, and theretore a valuable contribution to the materi als from which, history will make up its judg ment upon Gen. Grant (.BAXl'd BUBlAIi PLACE. Chicago Tribune. In reply to an article In the Tribune a few days ago-pointing ont that New York city was not entitled to the honor of being the receptacle and custodian of Gen. Grmt's remains, the press of that city have teemed with vituperative afsaults upon the Tribune, but they do not attempt to answer the real objection contained In the original article. The manner in which they squirm, however, and the rage which they exhibit show that the shot hit and hurt. The reason assigned by the Tribune why New York is not entitled to the honor of keeping the Old Commander's ashes is, because from the time Gen. Grant drew his sword in defense of the Union to the day he died it has opposed the principles which he represented. In 18(51. when McClellan was nominated upon a platform that declared the war a failure and the Union dissolved, and Abraham Lincoln and Gen. Grant were struggling to save the nation. New York city voted against Lincoln and Union by over 47,000 majority. In those dark hours of the nation's peril it was the controlling men of New York that broke down the selling price of S-per-cent (5-20) coin bonds of the Union below fifty cents on the dollar, and of legal-tender green backs to alike level, thereby doubling the cost of the war on the taxpayers of the nation. While Grant was fighting before Richmond, New York city opened a fire in the rear and did all it could to paralyze his efforts. It fought against him during the war for the Union. What did it do for him after tho war? When Gen. Grant in spite of New York city's aid to the rebel South, had accomplished his great and glorious task and sheathed his sword, the loyal people called him to be their chief ex ecutive. 1 n that contest New York city declared against him by 60,578 majority, which was suffi cient to give the empire state to his anti-union. 6tate-supreinacy opponent Let it always be rememberea tnat this city wmen claims tne re mains of Gen. Grant gave the largest anti-union majority which it ever cast against the Old Com mander. For these reasons the Chicago Tribune denies that New York city has any claim to the honor of furnishing the last resting place for the soldier with whose enemies it sided during the war and whom it strove to defeat for president after the war, and whoso national principles it has bitterly opposed from first to last The Union people of this country aro both disappointed and mortified, not alone that Gen. Grant should be buried in a pleasure park, but that he should be buried In the city of New York at all. It is an undeserved distinction for a city which was never friendly to what he fought for and labored for. We do not question but what there are some patriotic men and some men who were liberal to Gen. Grant mostly born elsewhere, who now reside in New York. It would be strange in bo largo a city it there were not Eome such men. In speaking of the city we had in mind the dominating elements of its people. Perhaps the New York Tribune, one of the principal squirmers, will understand us when we say that we mean the kind of people who tried to burn its office and murder its ed itor because he was loyal to the cause Gen. Grant was fighting for. From the day that Gen. Grant drew his sword to the day he died Now York city has been ready to give from 50,000 to 60,000 majority against the national principle for which he stood. When he went to New York to reside it made merchandise of bis reputation and traded upon his private character, finally ruining him in for tune, smirching his name, and, as Gen. Sherman says, preparing the way for the disease to which he has succumbed in short, breaking his heart Since his death the rulers of New York have seized upon his ashes to enhance the value of unsalable real estate in the vicinity ot an in choate pleasure park. This is the estimate in which New York has held him, and the base uses to which she has put him. Does this consti tute a valid or decent title to the honor of fur nishing his last resting place? WASHl>OJl'S fUEIUL. St Paul Daily Globe. The Ulster Gazette, published at Kingston, Ulster county, N. Y., January 4, 1800, contains a description of the funeral services of Gen."Wash ington at Mt Vernon, which receive additional interest at this time by being brought in com parison with the funeral services of Gen. Grant now in progress. A large number of persons assembled on that December day from many miles around lit Vernon to pay the last tribute of respect to the father of his country. At that day a person who went twenty miles in mid winter to attend a funeral had an ardu ous journey to perform. Now there will be thousands and tens ot thou srnds going from the Pacific slope and the shores of the Gulf of Mexico to New York to witness and participate in the imposing pa geantry of (Jen. Grant's funcraL The corre spondent of the Ulster Gazette, describing the eceneatllt Vernon, says: "In the long and lofty portico, whereon the hero walked in glory, now lay the shrouded corpse. The countenance, still composed and serene, seemed to express the dignity of the spirit which lately dwelt in that lifeless form. There those who paid the last sad honors to the benefactor of his country took an impressive a farewell view." On the ornament at the head of the coffin was inscribed "Surge ad Judicium;" about the middle of the coffin "Gloria Deo," and on. the silver plate the name, age and date of death. Between 3 and 4 o'clock in the afternoon minutogunscommenced firing from a vessel on the river, when the corpse was removed and carried toward the grave. The procession formed as folio (vs: Cav alry and infantry with arms reversed, a band of music and the clergy. Next came the general's horse, with his saddle, holsters and pistols. Then the remains, carried by the sir pall bear ers. These were followed by the mourners, Masonic brethren and citizens. "When the pro cession had arrived at the bottom of the elevated lawn on the bank of the Potomac river, where the family vault was placed, the cavalry halted, the infantry marched toward the mount aud formed their lines the clergy, the Masonic brethren and the citizens descended to the vault and the burial service of the Episcopal church was read. At the conclusion of the re ligious service three general discharges from the infantry, the cavalry and a battery of eleven pieces of artillery, which lined the banks of the Potomac back of the vault paid the last tribute to the entombed commander-in-chief of the ar mies of the United States, the ex-president and the nation's hero. The Ex-Confederate Pall-Bearers. Chicago Eeuins Journat In selecting ex-confederate generals to a:t j with the pall-bearers at Gen. Grant's funeral, in accordance with Mrs. Grant's request, there would have been an evident propriety in select ing such ex-rebels as have acknowledged that the war for the Union was right and that the war against it was wrong, as it was unsuccess ful. Longstreet and Mahone would, as among the ex-rebel generals, have faithfully represented such Union sentiment as exists at the South. Jcseph E. Johnston and Simon Buckner repre sent simply "the lost cause," as Jeff Davis repiesents it Their appointment by President Cleveland to represent tho South at Gen. Grant's funeral may be appropriate, if the relics of the rebellion simply are to be represented on that occasion. But as to the new South, the Union South, the loyal South. If there is such a thing, (hey do notrepreeent it THE BILIOUS, dyspeptic or constipated, shouM-address, with two stamps for pamphlet. World's Dispensary Uedical Association, BuCalo, X. Y. GRANT-AS THE SII,ENT MA2T. General Grant was a man who could be be intimately known to no great number. He had a reserve that olten was so icy as to forbid access, and he never sought pop ularity by the cheap method of flat tering people into the opportunity to form his acquaintance. During the active period ot hia life he appeared to most persons as impassive as marble in the quarry, and, therefore, was al most unapproachable. Yet to the limited number who really knew him intimately he was an agreeable and often vivacious companion. He was one ot the few eminent men who never talked too freely. In this he resembled Coesar more than any other very eminent man in his tory. Washington had the same quality to an extent, but he sometimes grew excited and ut tered passionate words. Cromwell was not pro fuse ot speech, though he talked ot public affairs habitually In a tone that would now be characterized as that of religious cant Napo lecn was a man of rapid utterance, and talked usually with sense and spirit in the early part of his career, but during the latter part of it be came merely garrulous or irascible in speech as in temper, and often talked like a fooL In all history thero is not another such record as that of his talk to an Austrian official after his escape into Germany from the disastrous Rus sian campaign. That speech, in which he ran on glibly for an hour or more, was an effort to make the appalling disaster that had overtaken him aj pear a mere joke, a trivial thing; and yet at every expression the effort betrayed him. Grant's habit of silence on tho whole may have been wise, for it kept him out of many embarrassments into which freer speech might have led him; yet to a well-balanced man an impenetrable silence ought not to be necessary. So far as could be observed, Grant never got into-an excited mood, never showed anger, and hardly ever annoyance or vexation. To a man so thoroughly self-possessed, silence should not be necessary as a protection against mistakes. Grant never talked brilliantly, and in this fact there was safety; but he could talk with direct ness and good sense on any subject that claimed his attention. But it is always better for a man to say too little than to say too much. A man often "gives himself away," as the expressive slang ot the present day has it, by incontinence of speech. Manymen have a fatal facility in the use of their words. Seldom is the best talker the best man of affairs. This has been noted always in the case of our most remarkable orators. Men who move popular assemblies most never do much else. And it is singular, too, that this same pop ular judgment usually holds them to be of little account. EARTH-BURIAL. In the preparation of the body of Gen. Grant for burial, and In its interment, every effort has been made for its preservation; and yet it will not long be preserved. Nor is there need. "Dust to dust" is the simple order of nature. These our bodies, as the poet Waller expresses it, are but the cottages we inhabit By time they get bo" battered and decayed that we can inhabit them no longer, and then even our dear est friends must put them out of sight "Why arrest that natural return to dust which may be delayed, indeed, but not prevented, and which, if prevented, would serve no purpose? Ancient Egypt embalmed the dead as a means of preserving the body for return ot the soul, and even buried a pieco of money with it as a fee to the Elysian ferryman. So well was the embalmer's work done that mummies, kept six thousand years, have been used to boil the pot of the Arab, or, converted into nostrums of quackery, have been sold in the ends of the earth. Or, as Sir Thomas Browne says: "The Egyptian mummies which Cambyses or time hath spared, avarice now consumeth. Mummy is becoino merchandise, Mizraim cures wounds and Pharoah is sold for balsams." "Why, as the same eloquent writer expresses it, should, men "deceive even! their flatteries above Bun, and study conceits to perpetuate their names in heaven ?" , 'Hut liTe," says the samenvriter, "is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun withiu us." Among men fame is thaonly immortality. "The earth can have but earth.which is its due," says Shakespeare in one of his greatest sonnets a line in its simple monosyllables worth all the obituary sermons ever spoken. In a fragment of Ennius, father of Boman poetry, we read: Nemo me lachrymis decoret, nee funeni fletu Faxit cur? volito vivus per ora vlrum. JIv fate let no lament nor tears deplore, I live in fame, although I breathe no more. Literally, "I fly about, living, through the mouths of men." This is the only way that men's names may be perpet uated on earth, though tombs and monu ments are welL enough; but why try to preserve the lifeless body, or why think of it? At best it can be'preserved only a littlo season; for what is even a thousand years in the march of time? Neither to embalm bodies for preservation after the Egyptian method, nor to burn them after the Bomn, Is conformable to what most think is the Christian way of obse quies, which is to turn to dust again, in obedi ence to the sentence of the Maker of man. RICH, SORDID, MEAN. Our telegrams yesterday said that les3 than S25.C0O had been subscribed in New York so far towards the Grant monument Chicago has already raised 840,000 for a cenotaph to Grant in that city. The Boston Herald predicts that ten years hence the body of General Grant will be lying under a monument at "Washington, erected by a willing popular subscription; while New York, for all its wealth, will be scouring the country for money, which will not be obtained, to build a monument in the great and stingy metropolis. The Philadelphia Telegraph also rises to re mark: "While the nation mourns for Grant, Ferdinand "Ward enjoys his luxurious apartments, smokes Ms Iteinas Victorias, sins his iced champagne and laughs in his sleeo at the ease with which he swindled the Grants aud other Uctims. Is it not time that the public should know by what means this rascal has stopped the wheels ol justice? Whom has he bribed with the millions which he made .away with ? The city of New York, instead of outraging tho feelings of the country by its In decent haste In bidding lor General Grant's re mains, ought to be ashamed of itself that it has allowed Ferdinand Ward to go unpunished for fourteen months. All of which is very much to the purpose. New York is not getting any compliments these days from tho country at large. Distressing Death ot a Child. At r. coroner's inquest in Philadelphia recently over the body of a child, the jur returned a ver dict that death was caused by the administration of a patent cough syrup, containing morphia. Dr. Samuel .1C Cox, of Washington, states that not one cough medicine in ten is free from this objection. Alter careful analvses and practical tests he en dorses Eed Star Cough Cure as being purely vege table, absolutely free from opiates, poisons and narcotics. He regards It as a moit happy and valuable discovery. Dr. Henley's Celery Beef and Iron Is a hne appetizer and promoter of digestion. NEW TO-DAY. rpHE CRITERION" IS JL trade: a&k your neighb": THE PLACE TO . 1C5 Third St. 7atf PORTLAND MECHANICS' FAIR Octobers to M. A.S. WHITING, up':. lCjy LADIES' BATHIN& SUITS. Tonr" c:RAjr s co. OAK WOOD S-tTS F-JEK COB1), loot or SlorrUon St. ljP TV. 11AXTES & CO.. PRINTh.ES. 11 0 ront Bt.. formerly U. C.Xrefcmd & Co.) Lar;:ext Ho -sc. in tlie yoTthu-est. Harris' Trnnts t&retbeSest 49 First st. CHANGED UASOS. CAM PI EE8TATJKAXX. SO rirt 8t. YANEOIT ERNOCLT, SUCCESSORS TO B. Rcsst. Finest meals in Oregon. Private rooms for ladies. Regular French. Dinner 00c. SalcU BOASD OF TEADE. rr"BE REGULAR MONTHLY HEETINa OP THE -1 Beard of Trade will be held at lis rooms In. New Market block on Monday evening, thelcthiaau&t S o'clock. ja$6afcm?) F.X.ABNOLD, Sec. Attention. Furttter. a rtcalar mcetmsr- ot CoujtMcrantiioctJtaJEesplice thiaev-ninsats o'clock, sharp. Business of importance. Sojournmr brethren cordally invited. By onler S WEBSTE . C P. If. "W. Stbakax. Becvec Harmony tode Xo. 13, F. A A. T. Thera wM be a meeting this (Monday) evening; Aug: l.th, at licit hall, corner Tnlrd sad Aider. Sojourning oreth ren are fraternally invited to attend. By order WOX. 1HU. July 3isr, to the wife of T. A. Stewart, a daughter. San Francisco papers please copy. SilSZB. In this city, Aug. 9, Lottie Ethel Carr, aged 3 years and 11 month. Funeral wD take place at 10 A. 51. Tuesday ironi residence, &s Fourth st. Friends respectfully mTitcd to attend. CUT A. IVass, Artistic TFIj liUlsfc. Special prices. Maker, 83 Yam- W TO-BAY. rjlili. CRITERION DHYGOODS STORE -LOW-JL st prices. 165 Third st. 7att "VIEW JIAN08 FOR KENT XX CHAnK-S. 71 Morrison st. AT EOHLEIt & "TT7 ANTED COOK AND STEWABD FOB, If liver steamer. P O. UnxTSS lfta.1 "VTT ANTED G. Hi. FOB, OKNKRAl, HOUrfE TT work. Call at 7 Eait fartc head of C ak it lQ-3 X) EABEBCbYFORTH&BfiSrOK KEASONS. f t lau- XHE CRrTEKIOJT 7 AlKbT STYI.K fcUrTS AND WttAPS AT JLu grat!y leouced prices at PILGER'S. 15.1 Third street. S.vtf TVRtbii MAKING IX EVEftVBRASCrl AKXIS JLf Ucally executed by MISS 1'ILGER, at 153 Third street. 5atf XT ANTEDAX INDC&TRrOTJS YOUNG MAN. Vt with good education. Apply at-rom 8, 212 Firsr st. IQaS- Wp. beRueb; stgn painter, if as re- moved to ISO first St., up-stairs, with Jesse "Wmldell. :tat JVET YOUR MEDICINES TN QUANTITIES AT XX" a bljr redaction. HanicEpnth!c Pharmacy. Room 20. Council Bnilulns. 6Jttf ORDER YOUR WINTER SUPPLY OF GREEN or dead finvoodfrom "W. G. JENNE, at Asy office. No. 5 "Washington st. lOitf FOR ait. WOOL READY-MADE DRESSES BeDd to H. B. UTT, The Leader, Third S Alder. Also Dolmans and line Dressmaking. 10Jy TJlOR SALE FINE, DECKER BROS., UPRIGHT piano: used only 3 months; at great bargain on account of leaving city. 123 Grant st. Ga3P "TXT -ANTED A NO. I FURRIER AT THE TT Willamette Tannery, Eugene C.ty; or, for par ticulars, apply at UieOregonian once. lOal CLOCKS CAREFULLY REPAIRED AT SEV sonable rates; sent for and delivered free of charge to any part of the city. HENRICIISEN & GREENBEKG, H'J Flrat street. 9ml TT'OR BENT A LARGE WELL-FURNISHED X: front room with alcove, bay window, hot and cald water, etc.; a!so a smaller one: location ceotr 1; terms moderate. For particulars, call at 117 Third st. 103 "VTV "O A T XT no bad effects. Breathe vltal 0 J JT jMl I IN ized air for pa!nles3 extrac tion of teeth. Bets of teeth J10 to ?1S. FUlIm; at east ern prices. All work warranted. PREHN BROS., graduates Phila. Dental Cnl. Room 54. Union Block. "VJOTICE.-TO THE TAXPAYERS OS" MULT JiS nomahCount3.Oreson Notice is hereby Riven that on the 31st day ol August, 1S33, the Board of J-qualizationwiU attend at the office of tho County Cleik cf Multnomah County and publicly examine the assessment roll aud correct aU errors in valua tion, description of lauds, lots or other pro pe ty. GEOKGE HAROLD. Portland. Auk. to. Assessor Multnomah Co., Or. TO MERCHANTS AND BUSINESS 1IES-THE underpinned, thoroughly potted and ao.uaintd iu every detail, would like to secure the busi ess uf at tending to collection of bill and accounts for this city and state: also to post books, make out bills; weekly or monthly; bill-? coUected by the month or on com mission, or would like to represent wmcio. 1 house on the road: had experience; first clas3 references and security given. Address V.R.,careO-e!rnnlin.(0-2 "XT OTICEIO CONTRACTORS. CAPITOL BUILD JLX irp, Boise CItv 1 he Commissioners for the erec tion of the Capitol BnildJnij at Boise City, Idaho, will xectKe sealed nropo-als until 1- o'clock noon, of Aucust "R, 1SS3, for ftirnlshloE th materia's, except ing brick fwhieh wilt be furnished by the Commission). and tbf completion otsaid bmldicg, above the base ment by the first day of November, liS, according to ttc plans, details and spccUlcatlous on file at thsouice of the Territorial Secretary In Boise City. Also sepa rate scaled proposals lor materials and work,usII lows: First, for irect mpletlon by the fifteenth day ot Nov nibtr, 1So5. of all the mason work with thJjlst. wlrdowframessnd all uthr wood and all Iron wort re quited ourlBg tiifpr ffrcssof tii" mason work, iuclud lug all Ihe mateiUls required, excepting b-ick. Sec ond, for the remplni g materials and the completion of the bPileinjj by the ii'&t day of November, 1S56. Ai a guaranty of Rood faith all bids must be accompanied by a ccitfi d check cf a National Bank for ten (in) percent. o( the bid. or tem 10) per cent, of the prl oi pal bid of tli bidder, payab;e to the undersigned, to be forfeited it the bidder shall fall to execute a contract with bono with approved sureties in half the amount of the icccptcd bid for the faithful peifo-mance of his contract. Ihe Commission will, if desired, make ad vene s on material delivered on the ground. The Comniistlon resn-ves the right to reject any and all bids. VM. Jl.RXDENBAUGH, Secret ry. Boie City. Arg fi. 16S5. Mali DIV1DI3NII NO. 119. tpilE HOMESUiTtIAIJINbDltANOK COMPANY A. will pay its regular monthly dividend or one dollar (SD per share upon its capital stock on Augnst in, 1855. The Oregon stockholders will receive their divi dends at the onice or this company, southeast corner of First and Stark streets. Portland, Or. ICa3 J. A. 11KU31SEY. Manager Oregon Branch. TO WATER CONSUMERS. WATER NOTICE IN OBDER TO FURNISH water to poopie living iu the most elevated part of the city, the following rule ot the company will be strictly enforced: Section 19. rules and regulations, reads as f oiler: "Street sprinkling not allowed o ider any cirtomstances; the use of water for irrigation M prohibited, except between the hours of 6 and 8 o'clock A.M.. and 5 and 9 o'clock P. M.; persons known to violate this rule will be charged double rates, and the water will be shut oft from said premises until the amount is paid, and 2 additional for cutting off tae enmn iniirn vnnTr.vn watei m (SOjytf) PORTI.AND WATER CO. Grist Mill, Saw Mill and Farm Property AT VIOLA, CLACKAMAS CO, P0R SALE AT A BIG BARGAIN. IOOE HERB! LARGE COUNTRY GRIST MILL, built by compe tent millwrights 3 run of burrs, large warooouse. The whole of Clear creek for a water power, with 11 feetfalL Mill In good condition. Splendid tributary farming community. SASH SAWMILL on the other side or thecrtes; can be enlarged to any capacity. Eight acres or ground for mTI sites. 14a ACRES OF FARMING LAND adjoining, with Cleark creek running through it: 30 acre; of line bot tom soil in cultivation. Fair house, with living spring. Twelve miles to Oregon City. Tltlo perfect; warranty deed given. Price, only SiOOO for the whole or lt-SZOOO down, balance In one to five years at 8 per cent. The mill Is worth more than the money. Apply at once or jou will lose it, to H. E. CROSS, 25jtft Attorney and Real Estate Agent. Oregon City; ASSIGNEE'S SALE Elegant insloli Mm, Oil Paintings, Library, ETC. ETC., ETC. We will sell, by ortler of JOHN D. DEMENT, As signee of the estate of DAMEL HOLTON. at public auction, on the premises, No. 331 Fourth st. (ui stairs) Let. "Washington and Alder tts., com. mencing on MGXDAY, AUG. 10, 1SS5, At 10 o'clock A. M., ELEGANT FURNITURE & FITTINGS Comprising in part Very Elegant ana Elaborately Carved Solid Walnu Bedroom Suit, lull marble top; Elegant full s'.zeand v Solid WalnntBedstcads,carvea; Fine Clipper Spring and full curled llalr Mattresses; Elegant Solid "Walnut "Wardrobe; Blankets; Feather Pillows, etc. Elegant Parlor Suit finely upholstered, including! pieces and fine Boston Rocker a very handsome suit; Center Table, walnnt and full marble top; Fine Lace Curtains and Cornices; 7 VKRY FINE OIL PAINTINGS, to which we Invite particular attention; Elegant Brussels Ctrpcts; Hall and Stair Carpets: '2 FiLe "Walnut Bookcases; also choice collection of Standard Books, Including American Cjclopfedla. Picturesque America, In lng's "Works, Chambers' Ciclopcedia, Rollins' Ulstory, Dickens. Tennyson, eta, etc. Clock. Bed Lounce: also Solid Extension Table. Dining Chairs, Crocker-, Plated "Ware, Ula'ssware, Linoleum, Ice Box, Cooking Stove, Kitchen Furniture. ALSO The Furniture, Carpets, Stoves, Bedding. Hall Carpet's, Bedroom Suits. Shades, Mattresses, etc, eta. con tained in rooms over the Baldwin Restaurant, and rooms known as the PROGRESS CLUB TtOOMS. up stairs, on the south side or Alder st. between First and Front sts. The sale will be commenced at No. 131 Fourth st, rp stairs, promptly at 10 o'clock A.M. N. B. Buyers of furniture will do we'l to attend this sale, as most of the goods are very handsome and almost new. OILMAJTACO,, Auctioneers. Tlie household furniture or the rooms at 131 Fourth t.. and of the rooms on Alder ttreet, will be sold at 10 o'clock A. M. COISSTJIVI' HE. YAKMOlsnSCAK "WITH STRICT PRIVACY UPON ALL PRIVATE AND CHRONIC DISEASES. NXRVOUS Debility, Spermatorrhoea. Seminal" Losses, Sexual Decay, Falling Memory, Weak Eyes. Stunted development, LacK or energv, Impoverished Blood. Pimples, Impediment to Marriage; also Blood and Skin Diseases, Syph'ii, Ernptions. Hair Falling. Bune Pain, Swelling. Sore Throat, Ulcers. Effects or Mercury. Kidney and Bladder Trouble, Weaic Bak, Burning Urine, incontinence. Gonorrhea. Gleet. Stric ture, receives searching treatment, prompt relier and cured for life. SEBVOl'S DUeases (with or without dreims) Diseased Discharges cured promptly without hindrance to business. BOTH. SKXES consult confidentially. IMa trouble call or write. Desajs are dangerous. INFLAMMATION or the Ear, Ulceration or Catarrh. Internal or External, Deafness or Paralysis, Singing or RoarlugNolses. ahickened Dram, etc 3IJUT.CINESrn'nilhedrrom, my own labratory for all cases. Private rooms for ladies. OFFICE No. 1 3 and 1 3 Third street. City. Office hours O-A. 31. to 9 P. 31. GREAT OFFER ! -THE- WEEKLY -uVIVI- 60NIAN ! ITrom this time to the first of January, 1S86, IE SHAY OREGONIAN "Will be sent as a PREMIUM to every new subscriber, and to every person renewing his sub scription for one year to Ail Unexampled Offer! THE WEEKLY OREGOIUAN consists of twelve pages, and contains more matter than any other three weekly papers in the State. THE SUSDAY OSEGOBIAH contains eight pages, nearly all original matter, prepared expressly for it, purchasing articles devoted to the Early Histor3' of Ore gon, to Reminiscences of the War, to Travel in our own and Foreign Countries, and to Tales and Stories by writers in Oregon, California and the Eastern States. It contains, besides, Full, Telegraphic and Local News. The con tents of The Sunday Ore gonlvn that comprise the great features of the paper do not appear either in the Daily or Weekly editions, and there fore can be had only in the Sunda A SPLEHD1D SEMI-WEEKLY. The "Weekly and Sunday togeth er make a splendid Semi Weekly. Subscribers will re ceive the two papers from three to four days apart in all places that have more than a weekly mail. TAKE MICE. From this time till Jan. i, 1 886, Two Dollars and Fifty Cents will buy the Weekly for one year and Sunday for six months; or For THREE DOLLARS The Sunday and Weekly will both be sent to very new subscriber for one year, and to every person renewing his subscription for that period. Established 1857. J. C. CARSON, Manufacturer of and Dealer In Sash, Doors, Blinds, Window and Plate Glass and General Euilding Supplies. Estimates and. Price Lists on application. Country or ders a specialty. Factory at Weldlers' MM. Salesroom cor. Third ana E sts. SMOKE THE Unsurpassed for its fine and delicate I rsjrrance. Pro nounced by all connoisseurs. The Most Mlclons Key West Havana Cigar In tie world. SUNDAY ORE r or oe fiaaria Jircxrouv.-i.vo CQzririssrox. i S. X. N. GIL3IAX i". M. STEVE '. Auctioneers and Commllon Merchant, "o.42 Fikstst., est. Piss AAD ASH. AUCTION SALES of Real Estate. Fondtura (-cera Merchandise. Horses, Cattle; Bugjjes. etc ItccnlarsiL days Tuesdays Fridays at lO o'clock A. M nEGilUn AUCTION SALE OF HOUSEHOLD FUSOTTUKB At Salesroom, No. -13 Tint St., ON TUESDAY, AUG. lltU, AtlO o'clock. A. M. GIX-AtAX Jt Co., .AAietioneors, SPECIAL AUCTION SALE OF HOUSEHOLD FUENTTURE At Residence in East Portland. We will sell at the residence on E st.. bet Third anl Fourth sts, next to cor. Third, Ea Portland. Thursday, An?. 13, 18S5,at lO o'clock A. M., The entire furniture or Residence, coniprblng almost new furniture. 'Ine Hoey Bert Lounge. Parlor Dek. Folding Chairs. Rockers. Arm Chairs, Brackets. Ornaments, Rusts. EooSs. Fine Oil Painting by Stuart. Picturesque Eu rore (finely bound), StoTCs. Dining-room Furniture. Dining-chalrs, Table, Elccant sideboard, a largo ami excellent assortment of Crockery. Gla&warc .Elated ware, Granite-ware. Cloclts. Castor, trait Jars and. Preserves, Shades; Wardrobe, fine Ash Bedroom Salts with Wire Spring and Corled Ratr Mattresses, Totiet Set?, Blankets, Kitchen Safe; also a fine GoadspeeU Coot Stqvo (compIete and a largo line of Kitchen Furniture, etc CIXMAJT fe CO., AacUoaeen. AJTUSE3IEXTS. J. P.Howb. Lessee and Manager. Monday, An;. 10 First production in Portland of the Most Notabla Success, trom the iSW TOUrC MADISON SQUARE THEATER, entitled tegs :ra.jajei:! Infinitely Bright Merrj and Charmingly Unlime. A Delightful Combination of Humor, a Few Tears, an I Brilliant Scenic Display. H) CousecutlvoRepreseut v tlons at tho Madison Square Theater, and over JJ times in every part of the Vnlted States, from't'i Atlantic to the Pacific Most Successrul Play of t:io Epoch! MADISON SQUARE COMPAN T! FAMOUS MADISON SQUARE PLAY' Only Rajah" Matinee, "Wednesday, Aug. is. fceats now on sale at Prentice's. B. HARTMM & 35 AM) 57 WASHINGTON ST., Corner Tlilrd. TAKE NOTICE .AJSID BTJ3Z- German Knitting i 25c per Hank. $1 per lb. BELDING BROS' Knitting Sil 30 cts. per.&alls -$2 40 per box. COUNTRY ORDERS A SPECIALTY. Take notice of above prices ami send for -wholesale price list. EYERITHIKG ELSE IN PROPORTION. B. HARTMAN & CO.s P. O. BOX 3GO, WHITMAN GOLLBBB HAS TWO NEW BUILDINGS, a. LARGE LIBRA ry, a completo supply or apparatus, an able rac ulty, and gives thorough Instruction in three College Courses Classical, Scientific and Literary: and in. three Academic Courses Coll cge-Preparatury, Nor mal and Commercial. Instruction In Modern Languages. Instrumental and Vocal Music, Painting and Drawing Ample boarding accommodations at reduced iates. Winter climate dry and Invigorating. Fall Term Begins September 1st. Send ror catalogue to the president, A. J. ANDERSON; Ph. D , Walla Walla W. T. BE NOT DECEIVED! Peoria fill Stoneware Is not offered under any other brand, nor is It approached in quality, shape, durabil ity, capacity, or in any other respect, by Imitations forced upon tho market. It is the only ware made In PILASTER OF PARIS MOULDS, Insuring uniformity or shape and thickness, and perfect fitting of covers. ASK TOU.a DEALER FOE "PEORIA" WARE And do not be Imposed upon by lulerlor articles. See that each piece is stamped ''PEORIA POTTERY." If you fall to find It come to us and get the genuine only. EEGELE, CROWELL & CO., SOLE AGENTS, '52 and 54 Front Street, Portland, Or. mz (M0-0l&? Private and class instruction, day and cveairjj, in arithmetic, vr!t.ngp, correspondence, book-kecpinff, business and Ieirl forms, at Portland Business Col lege, Second t Yamhill. Visiters always welcome' Circulars on app.iotucn. A.P.Armstronjf, Prinapal.l Willamette Ciller and luiesar Work?, 4T THIP.D ST. SELLING OCT BELOW COST ON ACCOUNT OS" change in 'business my entire stock ot WInei, Ci der, and Wine anil Cider Vinegar, Tanfcs, Barrel;, Cider and Wine Presses. Those wishing bargains i these articles, calf at once. Wine 50c to l 50 per gal.; Cider tSc per gal.; Vinegar, i and 3 years old. Soz an l 50c per gallon. II. METZGAK. 47 Third St., Portland, Or. N.B. Special Inducements given to parties wtihlng; to continue business 25jyfnl HiMESl Guco Hirii THE PRINTER, nirciK9. rorcesrwonc, vs Legal JBlanTcsJBest Stocls, 5 and 7 Washington St., PORTLAND. STAGE TT EAVES HOOD B1"VER STATION POB Itr XA Hood every Honday, Vfn n -scay and 8atnrdvy at 4 o'clock A. if. EoriartteJ-'ariaddresaH.CCO'o Traident Stage Co. 6 v sTY'ZZA