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SATURDAY, OOTOIiTCK 1 871 . U.N. OflicinI Iicr for Ortit. Too Much Kense. It would be a very wise act, in deed, tor the American people to iyate a Party to power which is so'unstable in all its ways' as to lo unable to determine, for any con secutive six- months, or less, just what its principles are, or what line iff policy it ought to pursue ! How long would a sensible farmer enter tain the proposition of employing a man to oversee his farm, whose repu tation is that of being double-tnind-ed unsettled in his opinions and ways, vacillating in his theories and actions ? Xot long, we opine. The Democratic party in this couutry is very anxious to be ele vated to power. It wants position ; it wauts office ; it wants to feed at the public crib ; it wants to supplant the Republican party, i all the of fices and positions throughout the land held by it, and entirely "squelch it. But what is the char acter of this Democratic party? Is it reliable? Does it adhere to any fixed, firmly established principles? Has it a uniform system of princi pies or policy in this State, or any other? It is consistent in but one tiling, and that is its vacillating, un "stable, uurelible course. Before the war it was pro-slavery. After the amendments were passed, it prevail cated, divided part accepting the situation, and others warring asrainst it. Negro suffrage was an aAvfui bitter pill to swallow, but it must either do that or remain in obscure uniutiuential imbecility. The party : as a whole, could not nerve itself with sufficient fortitude to swallow it. It tried, but, although some of the brain was willing, most of the stomach was weak. The writlungs twistings and gaggings were terriffic. It would hold its nose, shut its bulg ing eyes, and down would gulp the pill ; but the stomach and intestines of the party would get tip such stir as to spew it up again. The party then unjouited itself, like a snake. One fragment gets the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments down. They lay qui etly on the stomach. The Pennsyl vania Democracy felt fine in having the "new departure" secure in its paunch. But, alas ! the California md other State elections transpire, a AnoUtrr lcpirture. ' OitmMtiit;. The Eugene City Gtutrd, (Deniol cratic) heads an article with " Shall we organizer" - xne lnteiTogatory. is addressed to Democrats gener ally, and not to us; but we will risk the charge of impertinence by venturing an opinion in reference to it. . Disorganization, or an ; entire lack of uniformity of faith or , prac tice is, and has been for ten yeaiv at least, the character of the Demo cratic party. " New departures" have latterly been introduced for the purpose of concentrating these wide ly diverging elements, for the pur pose of producing order out of chaos, harmony out of disorder, consistency out of wide discrepancy, strength out of weakness, success out of in increasir.g failure.. But, alas, since the elections this fall, the ma.iy who swallowed the "departure" are now spewing it up, either in small spats or all at once, sickened nigh unto death with the conviction that or ganization, or harmony ot sentiment or principle, cither on tlie amend ments, finances or tariff, is utterly impossible. While the Vallaudighamers are for the amendments, and the Steph euses are against ; while the Pen dletons are for paying the public debt in greenbacks, the Joneses tor repudiation, and others for paying it in gold; while the Randalls are in favor of a high protective tariff, while the I Jrookses are for free trade, while these elements constitute the organism, the life, the existence of the Democratic party, we insist that it is a suicidal step for the Guard to think of organizing. It would le another "new departure." hook. md the "new departure" sours on ler stomach, and up it comes. Oth r fragments, in other States, are till holding the "departure" down, vhile still others are greasing the ' know nothing" pill preparatory to taking that. The fact is, the Democratic party is utterly conscienceless, as well as destitute of good judgment. And this could not be otherwise, so long as her leaders are so inferior in point of brains and so corrupt iu morals. Now, we ask, would it not be the height of folly and madness, on the part of the American people, to ele vate this old, decrepit, vacillating, double-minded, conscienceless, fool ish party to power? t The American people are gifted with too much good, horse sense to do that. . , In a recent issue of the Democrat ic organ in -Portland, appeared the following at facetiousuess :'"' "The latest news is, that there has been no new developments of stealing by Radical office-holders within the last twenty-four hours." The Dallas Republican, skins it to the bone in the following style : Just so. 2fr. Herald. The fact is, the great mass of stealings of itaaicai officeholders ; that rhave been developed have sprang from . the fertile brains of Democratic quill drivers, and the late elections prove lhat the people so understand them. - t A violent hurricane, in,-Carson Valley, Nevada, last week, caused , adeadtreetofalionNayerDadevn. Ramuel Tradeau and Raphael Tra- deau, who were engaged . in sawing logs. The two former were instant ly killed, and the ; latter seriously .yured. It is prophesied by competent critics that the hog crop this year will be unusually7 large. Most of the farmers in the Sate are fatten ing an increased number of hogs for the market It is thought, how. ever, that since the trans-continental railroad has been built, enabling Eastern pork to be shipped to San Francisco at moderate freights, that our farmers will have to receive smaller profits for their pork than heretofore. But, although this may be the case, the price will be high enough to make it profitable ; and as Oregon pork has always ranked high in the markets, its reputation should be kept up. At the Massachusetts Republican State Convention, which met at Worcester, September 27th, all the candidates withdrew -except Wash burn and Butler, "and Washburn was nominated on the first ballot. The vote stood 643 votes for Wash burn, and 464 votes for Butler. Butler made a speech declaring his intention to abide by the decision of the Convention. In a personal altercation between James IL Wales and John Sulu van, of Ophir City, Utah, last week, Wales shot the contents of a dou ble-barreled shotgun into Sullivan's shoulders. The latter then ran a short distance, and fell. While running two more shots were fired into him, and he died in ten minutes. Wales is under arrest. Josh Billings, in expatiating on Free "Love, ' among f other things, says: . ..--'r'-': "' .;'"" All the free love i have witnessed thus, far has existed between a vil lainous letcher on one side, and lu natic virtue on the other side, that has been deodorized out of its truth, and had lost aul of its modesty and shame, in hunting after a condishun where sin ceased to be a crime. The fust free lover we have enny akount ov was the devil, :" i The Jacksonville : Times speaks of a'r beet grown" on Mr. Lyman Chappel's farm,'6npplegaie,meas uring two feet two inches in length and one foot four inches in circum ference. I ',' 'yf ;;--' A. new device of horse thieves has been discovered in Texas. I One ot a gang pretends to be a clergy man " and makes an appointment to ' preach1 in ' some country -niorhboT. lMc4.tlWIula.'bi ' holda Vnrth ' fci confederates make n off j -with the norses ot ins listeners. T Gambling ,! is';a vile sin,-. against the indulgence of which the curses of. Ilea veil ; are . pronounced. The' destruction-? of body and . soul; it brings upon the individual who per sistently; indulges in it; the sorrow, aud .often misery and destitution, entailed upon the gambler's family ; the corrupting influence it exerts upon ''society, in enticing the youth and virtuous away from a life of honesty and sobriety, to one of dis sipation and infamy, have stamped it with a character at once destruc tive of virtue and happiness an enemy to man, and a heinous sin in God's sight. . In former years this evil was in dulged in openly, throughout the country. The mind of the youuir and growing Republic had not, as yet, beeu drawn to a full realization of its character and influence. Ev ery hotel, aiid stcamljoat,aud saloon, and public place of resort, as well as many private homes, permitted its free indulgence; but, as time swept on, and the victims of its in satiate cupidity aud dissipation were falling upon every side, spreading ruin ami desolation among the rich, as well as increasing the destitution ami misery of the poor, a demand for its expurgation arose to every lip the moral sentiment of our peo ple became arrayed against it. This sentiment assumed the form of strin gent laws, accompanied by rigorous penalties, the object of which was to punish aud restrain, and, if jios sible, entirely prevent the indulgence of this pernicious sin. In many of the older States these laws, backed by a uniform public sentiment, have had their influence for good. Gam bling can no longer be indulged in openly, but must seek for gratifica tion in the secret, midnight haunts of. the criminal and lawless. In newer States and Territories, the laws, if enacted at all, are not so rigorously- enforced, lacking the power of a uniform public senti ment of condemnation. Here, for .instance, in portions of Oregon, aud iu California, and in the Territories contiguous, this sin aud crime of gambling is indulged m most fear fully. - Men, in many instances, have staked their fortunes on the cast of a single die, or the playing of a tew games of cards, and have lost. Their money has been swept away as by the wind, and wives and chil dren, once in affluence, are now in destitution. The concomitant of gaming, too, is dissipation. Liquor keeps up ' the excitement aud strengthens the purpose. Gamblers are proverbially drunkards, sooner or later, lhe brain on fire by li quor, and driven to desperation by repeated losses, how many crimes of murder are annually committed: The dust of murdered victims might tell. The chronicler of evil can alone aggregate the vast amount of crimes that annually swell into a mighty tide from this influence and practice. f This being the fact, is it not wise in every individual, in every corpo ration, or society, to exert every pos sible influence aud agency to dis courage, and break up, if possible, the indulgence in this vice ? Should our town and city corporations show a laxity on this subject, and thus encourage the evil? Should our annual county.f airs open their gates to the admission ot games ot chance and wholesale swindling and gam- bung? Should our State give re spectability to such a course by set ting the example t We are not finding fault with any particular county fair, for, so lar as we can learn by the press, they are all alike, and equally open to criticism on this head. Too much indulgence is given to those games, which all who are informed concerning: them know We know that horse-men will turn up their nosesTwJien we say, that too much prominence is given to horse racing in our fairs. The other departments are almost neg lected for the want ot sufficient eiu couragemeut, and hundreds of men and women are kept away because of this prominence. Let them stay away, is answered. No, that is not correct. Our fairs should be man aged in such a way as to encourage everybody to come. -Every depart ment ;should be fully represented and encouraged ; and every religious man should feel that the police regu lations are such as to permit him to attend with his family, and not have his ears, and those of his sons and daughters, saluted on every hand by the most terrible oaths, blas phemies and vulgarities Every shade of opinion should inake some concession for the sake ofthe har mdny' of the whole: but that con- ; cession should not all come rrom uiic tpiaii;i. A shooting scrape occurred in San Francisco last week, in Mhich John Jordon shot James Riley, tetter known as "Burt" Riley, in the left breast, just lielow the uipple. rise wound is thought to be fatal. th were intoxicated. In the same city, an Austrian, named Giovanni lianiiaz, the keeper o''a coffee saloon, committed suicide irst week by sho itlng himsel f in the stomach. Xo cause" for the deed is PACIFIC COAST A'EWS. ft t The Jacksonville fri4ttml re ports the Rogue River' Wing Dam. Company as taking out from one oui.ee to '20 per day to the hand. The ,alcm FuriiK X says, that Messrs. Merchant & Steads of that place, will have on exhibition at the State Fair next week, a cake of Chemical Olive soap weighing one ton. The same pajK?r says that in Cox & Earhart s store in Salem, is a toniivto twig containing twenty-four tomatoes and weighing five pounds. This certainly indicates very rich soil. The farmers of John Day valley oiler a bonus of &:,0()0 to any one who will erect a tlouring mill there. Here's an excellent chance torsome- liody. The Baker City Jhn.oi-sat of Sept. 20th says : Last week J. W. Virtue, banker and broker, sold to Captain 'J. C. Amsworth, ot l'orllaud, a gold nug get taken out of the claim of Cald well & Co., at Giniletviile, Baker county, for 2,Sf3. We understand it will le on exhibition at the rotate Fair. The President of the San Fran cisco Benevolent Society estimates that there are 2,400 -grog shops, 2,000 thieves, 0,000 lewd women and 5,000 idlers in that city ; or 10,000 directly engaged in increas ing poverty. The number of schoolchildren in Oregon, as per returns by county school superintendents Curry coun ty not reported Is 34,055. A Chinaman was shot and in stantly killed by U. S. .Marshal Young, ot Portland, on the 20th, for resisting that officer while at tempting to arrest a Chinawoman. The Oroyonian of the 25th says : "We arc reliably informed that not less than a million and a quar ter of dollars have been recently sent into the Willamette Valley for the purchase of wheat. It would seem that with all that distributed among the fanners money ought to be considered plcutiful. The Portland Bulletin says : A black bear which weighed 412 pounds was killed near Sheridan, Yamhill county, last week, by Messrs Wilson and Carjr. There was five inches solid fat m the car cass. It was the largest bear ever killed iu tle neighborhood. The Corvallis' Gazette of Sep tember 30th says : Twenty-dollar pieces are as plenty this year as four-bit pieces were last. The fanners of this county have all about completed their harvest. Thursday, as Mr. Williams, the Yaquina stage driver, was crossing the Elk City mountain, a large cougar leaped at him from a tree by the roadside. Not being aimed he only escaped by whipping his team up to a 2:40 gait. . . . . f The' residence of E. Vineyard, four miles northwest of this place, was destroyed by fire last Saturday between ten and eleven o'clock a. m. The origin of the fire is un known. Loss, $1,200 ; insured for $700. A team of two mules was drown ed at Ilarrisburg ferry a few days ago. The load, of hides and eggs, was saved. 473 annually to every man, woman and child in the State. The average wheat crop in Boise county, Idaho, this year, is twenty bushels jier acre. Last year it was twenty-eight Frank Brookcr, of ti c linn of Osborne Brooker, wholesale Xm uor dealers in Eugene City, aliM-ou-ded Lately with $000 belonging to Osborne. S. G. Saxon is said to lose $250 also. r -." :.. w '. ;; The Washington Territory Leg islaUire assembled ( hi qlyinp'a la.-t Monday. The Council has live Re publicans ai id tour Democrats; the House sixteen Republicai.s and four teen Democrats. The Dallas ' JlcpuUicttn report s considerable amount of grain uncut by the lanners iu that vicinity. ' A large porcupine was killed re cently in Yamhill county by Perry harkine. This is the first instance of the kind on record, in the State. From the Dallas Jlejuthlit-at vc learn that Mr. John Downing was thrown from a fractious mule lately, and very seriously injured. It is said that the steamer -1 ?tfctf, which arrived at San Francisco last month from a voyage to China and Japan, brought a net weight of two millions of jmunds of tea. As the amount of this commodity annually consumed iu the United States is aliout fbrty-two millions of pounds, the steamer has brought almost one twentieth of the whole amount. A cub liear was killed across the river, about half a mile from the PUi imitate r office, last week. We learn from the Portland journals, that a large number of Scandinavian emigrants are coming to this State and Washington Terri tory to engage in agriculture. Also, that the surveyors are en gaged in surveying a route along B street, for the proposed street railroad. Mrs. Xoland, of Jacksonville, while taking a horse-liack ride last Saturday, was thrown violently on the bridge, receiving injuries about the head that render her condition critical, says the Time.". The Dalles Mountaineer says that there are not less than sixteen well defined cases of small pox in Walla Walla, and the disease is spreading. Business of all kinds is suspended. A hook and ladder company is to ye organized at Roseburg. "1 The other : day a stick ; of timber eighty feet long, and 25 inches square, free from knot, spot or blemish of any kind, was sawed at Seattle. 3 iTii3LXoryeay o East Port land, the great "Unk Weed" man, has been appointed Swiss Consul for Oregon. Nevada has a small population, but claims to be doing pretty well in the way of production, its gold aud silver yield alone averaging .From Loudon, Sept. 25tli, wc learn, that the brig M ntu wan wixvkod to-day on Dorgheda J ;sir -in plain sight of a lie-lioat. The men refused -to go to : their assistance during the prevalat ee of the irale. Six men, were carried oil" the lnilf and drowned. A la ly piit oil j-.,m i-hore iu a small lfint,nnd at tluj risk of her own lie, saved the mu left on board the vessel. The Boll of the Ig'onjif Ifoi.or iu Frai ce numbers 120,000. The re are, U'sidcs, 00,000 Military Knights, whose pensions vaiv "n.ni 250 to 2,000 francs jn-r annum V e total cst of the Legion 1kmi: 20 -000,000 (ras es every year. jTepull lican Frai.ce ought tlisjiei.se with' the Roll. The Encampment of Knights Templar, whiclr recently meiT at Baltimore, decided' to hold tite r next Triennial Convention at New Orleans, on the Jirst Tuesday in ccmlier, 1874. m t -n Ti e loan of the city of Paris I ns b.-en taken with subscriptions for more-than thirty times the re'ju'ivd amount. Several cooilicts have taken place in the ast few days be tween Frorch citizens and the Ger man grrimn of Dijon. The town is intensely excited. " A Polite SUy. Ex-President Johnson "is repre sented as looking better than he did when in Washington, younger and much . more placid and good humored. He says he has no polit ical aspirations, and intends soon to go abroad and remain for consider able tune. We infer from this that Demo crats in power, grow older in ap pearance and more ill-natured than is their natural wont. -Holding of fice, it would seem, has a bad influ ence on them, and certainly their in fluence on the welfare of the coun try is equally as bad. Now for their poor sakes, and for the sake of the Nation, too, let them retire into private life, where they can grow "younger and much more placid.' The editor of the Roseburg Pla in dealer tells us of a cabbage head which he received last week, meas uring sixteen inches in diameter, and weighing twenty-three pounds ; but he neglects to tell us how that "head" compares with his. The editor of the Baker City J?emocrat was the recipient recently ofv,a watermelon ' "weighing forty pounds. The thinness of the edi torial gruel furnished to the readers ot that paper is now accounted for. The meeting held in Apollo Hall, Pi ewfYork, September 30th, by the Democratic reformers, was an im mense aflair. The announcement of the chairman of the meeting that a Democratic organization had been established in opposition to Tam many- was received with tremendous cheers, as was also the reading of a letter! from John A. Dix announcing his concurrence in the movement and willingness to contribute to its success. The general committee, which had for its head- ex-Mayor Havemeyer,. is. made up of the best men in trie city, . - t -r .- j i The other day we wore ruling in a railway carriage. At one of the stations an old gentleman entered, and was looking a round him for a seat, when a lad of tea or twelve years of age rose up ai.d id : " Take my seat, sir." The oiler was gladly accepted, and the inlinn old man sat down. " Why did you give me y..ur seat?" he inquired of the boy." " Because you are old, sir, ai d I am a lioy," was the quick reply The passengers were very much pleased and gratified.. For my part, 1 wanted to seize hold of the little fellow and press him to my heart. It was a respect for. age, which is always praiseworthy. . .', Sk.nsiulk. The Kmjierorof Bra zil, Laving been interviewed by a correspondent of the New York Worlily defines his idea of educa tion as follows: ' When I talk of education, T do not refer to book learning only. There is a certain training of every citizen in the daily life of a busy nation, which nothing else can give. One of your American, or English newspapers is a whole system of teaching in itself. And those who are not yet able to read it, can not fail to be largely influenced by the immense national activity. of which it is the mirror. I sec more clearly than ever that side by side with the schoolmaster and his book must lje the .quickening influence of pros pefous manufactures and extended commerce. T):llll(l T.fvi l!ul mmmtllr Tnr- - - - - - - - - v i a.i lH'ii- town. )h1o. nf tteJi Will f'Vs7JW fit 1.1 his widow brought suit against 'a sa loon-keeper, of Whom her husband Irnd for vears ohmiiiiH court awarded $5,000 damages. A crazy man having got into the gallery of the Senate of the United rotates during a rambluigdebate, was taken out, the sergeant-at-artns tell ing hun .that ho "was out of place in that gallery." "That's so,'' said the lunatic ; "I ought to be on the floor with the Senators." Many young children and half-crown girls are afflicted with curvature of the spine, wliich is produced, the doctors affirm, by requiring them to practice several nours a tiay on the piano witli out any support for tlie back or feet. Fish have a great tenacity of life. It is believed that the carp has at- " tained the age of one hundred and fifty years, and the pike a ttill greater age. - Tlie total debt of Xew York lias lieen ascertained to be $110,769,858 01. The Sinking Fund amounts to $19,422, 3i3 4 leav:ngreal debt at $97,287, 525 K. r Tlie Grand Encampment of Knight.- Templar decided to hold their next Triennial Convocation at'Xew Orleans on the first Tuesday in December, 1874. The average weight of tlie humnn heart is 8 ounces. Its work in a day is equal to raising 124 tons ohe foot high, -v..'.' ' - -. " . y : .:, j " s Hie man cannot be upright before God who is unjust in his dealings with man. -' . ' The art of saying the right thing at the right time in the right way, is the B0ret of the beet conversation Tell not your secrets to your servant, for he will then be your master. Postofflce orders between America and England commence on tlie 2d of October. ' George Alexander Hamilton, son of the former Secretary of the Treasury, w dead. . .. - Drouyn D'Uiuys has been ap pointed . Embassador of France at Vienna. :..