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MAHT. V. BROWN, EDITOK. FRIDAY ..AUGUST 29, le70. paiiiic rotsT Mnr.iT. The San Francisco Journal of Com merer, which is regarded as one of the loading commercial nnrs on the coast, says that Europe re.piirea throe hun dred million bushels of wheat the pres ent vear, but bhe will not at ways re- quire them. Wet years and tempest uous will not always destroy the lmr vest. Three hundred million bushels h more than the equivalent of a bushel for each individual of her immense population. One-half of the people of Europe, however, never use wheaten bread it is therefore the equivalent of two bushels per bead of those who use wheat. TLe average per head is four busl.e's, so that this would indicate the production of not more than half enough by Europe to supply its people. Eu rope, this year, therefore, if the three hundred millions estimated be true, re quires twice &3 much as site does in or dinary years ; her ordinary need being one hundred and fifty million bushels. Part, however, of this sixty million basbids is generally supplied as a. plus by Russia ; which the statisticians do not seem to take into account when estimating the crop of Europe. Witl: them Europe is "Western Europe. The normal needs of the world, therefore, may be estimated at 130,000,000 bush els annually, of which California has never supplied more than eighteen mil lions Uaiitorma ana Oregon never more than twenty-live. But these two States have 43,000, 000 acres of wheat lands California, 25,000,000; Oregon, 1S,000,000 .of which not more than one-seventeenth has ever been under cultivation. We, that is, California and Oregon, can therefore supply Europe with 15t,000,- 000 bushels, and the jeople of China and Central America, etc., with seven times as much flour as has ever been shipped there. That is to say, these two States of the Pacific Coast cansuj ply all the usual needs of Western Eu rope, To do this, however, would re quire an agricultural population, or one devoted to the raising of wheat, altout seven times as large as it now i&. That is, a population of 340,000 workmen. or over a million of men, women and children, and two million of general population. At a rate of increase of a hundred thousand population a year it would take ns twenty years before we reached that. But by that time the wheat eating population of the world would nigh have doubled ; while a great deal of what are now wheat lands on .this' coast, one-third of them at least, would have ceased to have been used for that purpose. It does not, there fore, seem as if we should have much cause to fear that we shall ever be able to raise too much wheat. The price may, indeed, nay, must come down will in that interval prob ably drop to a dollar a cental that is, two-thirds of what it now is. But that itself will only increase the number of wheat eaters all over the world, and the consumption per head among them, and so prevent further depreciation. It will also conduce to better farming, so that a bushel and a half w ill be pro duced where only one is now. And we will make more of our manufactured goods at home ; as cheap food will con duce to low wages and a lessened cost of production ; so that what the farmer loses in one way he will gain in anoth er. There need therefore be no fear as to the future of wbeat culture in Cali fornia and Oregon. THE KOBLE KED MAS ACAIX. Advices from Lewiston, Idaho, under date of the 22d inst., contain a full ac count of the late Indian troubles near Salmon river. On the night of August 16th, at 7 o'clock P. M.. while James Raines, James Edwards, Henry Serrin and Albert Webber, a brother-in-law of Raines, were baling bay at Raines' ranch near the mouth of the aouth fork of Salmon river, they were fired upon from" ambush by Indians. Raines was killed the "second shot and Webber was wounded in the shoulder, but managed to crawl away and conceal himself un der cover ef approaching darkness. Edwards and Serrin endeavored to reach the house, but the Indians were in advance of them and they too ran np a creek and concealed themselves in the brush The Indians rifled the house of four guns and three revolvers, and about 100 cartridges, then set fire to the house and other buildings, and to the bay in the field, and all were burned. Edwards and Serrin wan dered through the mountains in the night and reached Warren's, a distance by trail of 15 miles, at 11 A. M. on the 1 7tls. Webber, wounded, reached that place about ten hours afterwards.- A party of citizens started soon after wards for the scene of the killing. Raines' family was in Warren's at the time and so escaped. Col. Bernard was above on the east side of the south fork and making for the battle-field of Cat ley. The number of Indians who made this attack was not known, as they v. ere mostly concealed in the brush. Bishop Haven, "of the M. E: Church, carae out to Oregon and presided over the J.I. E. Conference just closed at : J ifid, and last Monday flatly told L;j bearers teat the leprous Chinese are ro v erse morally than our old pioneers ATTI-'irTI"l ASSISM iATIOV. Iiri. Ic Vimne frhnnf tel. Ir. Kl!ut, the Worklntmrn', nuillliilr liir Mayor la fan J rmul-.ro. Tho nearer the election day approach es in California tho hotter Incomes the contest and the more personal become the warfare, Since llev. Dr. Knlloch became the Workingmen's candidate for Mayor of Pan Fmncisco, the &in Fran cisco Chronicle first tried to buy him to withdraw, and, failing in that, then tried what virtue there was in tho old Chonicl style of uncovering his past bistort. The 1. Youngs sent Fast and obtained a complete biography of the reverend gentleman, anil last wet-k commenced its puh'ieation. Kalloch is of the BoocheriiUi class i f ministers, aad consequently the li Youngs hud very little trouble in obtaining t worst kind of testimony, and when it appeared in their paper it stood out in glowing colors, mid was ulxmt na filthy as anv series of articles which ever n- peared in print. He was accused with adultery, larceny, dishonesty, etc., and the worst of it was that nearly all the charges were proven. Of course Kal loch could not let this pass without taking notice cf it, and the following extract from his speech, delivered nt a large public meeting on Friday even ing, shows that bis long experience in lighting the devil has ffell qualified him for a wordy tournament with the edi tors of the Chronicle : It is not necessary to-night it may be hereafter to discuss the defiled or gan. The bawdy bouse breeding, the gutter snipe training, ot tins uclcetabl iair of moral letters who vainly strug gle for the recognition which decent so ciety denies them, and who, by a xr- sistent and damnable svstein ot black mailing, have built up a newsjaiKT which, in its every issue, is a moral vol cano an .Etna in a garden more Wan tiful than Sicilvs; opening its pags like the dark, damp, leathery leaves of the swamp, to fid the surrounding at mosphere wilh poison. I have yet to hear of the iirst man who has deserted my standard on account of its villain ous attacks, w hile hundreds of the best men of the city have said to me, " If your election means any damage to that damnable sheet, 1 in for vou. ell my election does mean just that. 1 accept the situation ; I pick up the glove. J havepledged you that 1 would break the yoke of Chinese shivery. I now put the most infamous paper ever produced this side of the infernal re gions into the same bng. and di-chiie that the Chronicle, as well as the Chi nese, must go. Loud appl.-itif.e. f the devil in hell has an organ on earth, it is the San Francisco Chronicle. Con tinued applame. The infamous hybrid vbeljni of sin and shame, who have lie come the assassins, ghouls, hyenas of society, may hear the knell of doom in the ringing bells that proclaim the H'0- les triumph on tlie ord of hptemtjer. I Applause J Whatsoever things are talse, whatsoever things are unjust, whatsoever things are impure, whatso ever tbing3 are hateful, whatsoever things are of evil repoit, if there be any vice, and if there 1 any infamy, they are all blended in the De Youngs. When you have put together everything that is the embodiment of all baseness, poltroonery, sensuality, effrontery, men dacity, barbarity, the compound would be considered a caricature in a novel, but it is a great and ghastly reality in the character of the De Youngs. I know that I am not mistaken in the opinion that I reflect the sentiment of all the respectable citizen of San I ran cisco when I declare that from the bes tial eminence on w hich I have placed this carrion it will not lxj taken down. In conclusion he said : I w ill not exhaust all my ammunition on these scoundrels to-night. Next Tuesday night, at Union Hall, I will comment on their infamous oi igin, and as many of you as can get there will bear me deal with the De Youngs as they have dealt with roe. This last threat of Kalloch 's, in rela tion to showing up the " infamous ori gin" of the De Youngs, bad the effect to fire them up. Their pedigree was written up by one Napthaly about five years ago, in consequence of which they shot at and wounded him. Kalloch gave notice that be would publicly read this same article at the Union Hall meeting, and to prevent htm from doing so Charles De Young shot him on Sat urday. At about 11 o'clock that morn ing De Young drove up in a close car riage and stopped in front of Dr. Kal locb's office. Kalloch was about to get into a carriage when De Young sent a biy to tell him that a lady wished to see mm. JNo other bait would have allured the leverend gentleman so quickly, and be at once atarted over to De Young's carriage. When be reached it De Young shot him in the breast, and be then started to run and was shot in the thigh. De Young then or dered his driver to hurry away, but be fore they could get started the alarm had been given and a lot of infuriated Workingnien assembled and stopped them, upset the carriage and would have torn De Young in pieces had not the police arrived and interfered. As it was, be and one policeman were bad ly battered, lie was then hurried away to jail. The report of the attempted assassi nation spread like wildfire, and it was not long .until thousands of the labor ing classes were marching the streets threatening to demolish the Chronicle office, and to tear down the jail and lynch De Young. Business was sus pended ; the militia was called out ; all the police were massed at the Chronicle office and the jail ; Mike De Young a brother of the assassin also took ref uge at the jail ; two batteries of light artillery were brought out, and every- thing seemed to foretell a gigantic riot. About 20,000 ot the Workingmeri as sembled at the sand-lots, all clamorous for blood, but Kearney and a few other leaders addressed them and counseled moderation, and they finally quieted, lown nnd dispersed." Tito police and militia were still kept on guard, nml the authorities did not relax their vigi lance until Monday, when it. was ascer tained that Kalloch was a great deal better and would recover, which had the etl'eot of cooling oil bis retainers. On Monday morning l Young bad his preliminary examination and was remanded bark to jail without bail, lie .'na perfectly cool and collected, and was so also v hen lie nut itio Miooung, The mobs all (JisjK'rsed Monday except at the Metropolitan Temple, where Kalloch lies. Tho military disbanded, except n detachment at the City Hall. Tho temple is still guarded by woik- ingtnoii. The military and jwlieo nn still guarding the Chronicle buildings and jail, as there is no telling what may yet happen. Kalloch 'a physicians express btrong hopes of ultimata recovery. It is re ported that the bullet lodgd near the lung is not to bo extracted, as it is too near tho heart and arterie", ami liable to cause hemorrhage. It O MIS Al BlMi. Never Is fore have we seen the sys- tem and workings of tho national banks laid so bare as in the following article taken from Column' 1,'itrol Worll, nn der the title of " The Bondholder Ex plains": "I am a bondholder. In 18C4 1 bad $20,000 in gold. 1 gave it for $50,000 in ti.20 bonds, deiHtsited them wilh the Treasurer at Washington, and be gave me $4."i,000 in blackbacks. I came home and started a national bank. loaned the blackbacks to the farmers, and of course took a mortgage on their farms. Thus in about four weeks after I sold my gold I bail $'.t5,()00 out at in terest. As tho law only allows me 10 per cent. interest on loans, I had a si lent partner who started an ollico and adveitised Eastern money to loan at 10 per cent, on farms for security, and no money lent for less than five yearn, und in sums of $5)0 and upward. Rut my partner always charged ,niu per cent. for doing business, and deposit in tnv bank generally amounted to $.'i(,tK)t) on an average, and I generally kept it loaned out , ami during all this time mv 50,0110 in Washington was draw ing t lier cent, in gold. I always con verted the gold into gn-etibacka Biid loaned them, and thus, by honesty economy and industry, on January 1 liTO, I bad mortgaged not.-s of $10-,- Coo. Since then I have be,m swindled by a gn-at many dishonest farmers, who mortgaged me land for more than it was worth, ami have been heavily as sessed by the Ranker's Union f,r money for political purpost-s. sueh as passm laws to strengthen the national credit so J have len in tutsiness eti'tit vears and have only doubled my capital which is now a little over 3o'.,0tHl. Allf.V l IIMTIO or lit 1104 B W 1. lien caueil ujoii, many years ago, to respond to a toast, William Alien paid thin glowing tribute to Ieiin:ratic principle : "Democracy is a .eutiment not to 1 appalled, corrupted or compromised. It knows no laMness, cowers- to no dan ger, oppresses no weakns. Fearless, generoiiH and humane, it lebukes the arrogant, cherishes honor, and symna thizes with the humble. It asks noth ing but what it concedes ; it concedes nothing but what it demands. litruc- tive only of drajiolijiin it is the stile conservative of liberty, labor and proj- erty ; it w the sentiment ot freedom of equal rights, of equal obligations. It is the law of nature js-rvaduig the law of the land. The stupid, tho selfish and the base in spirit may denounce it as a vulgar thing ; but in the history oi our race the Detuoii-atic principle has develoifd and illustrated the highest moral and intellectual attributes of our nature. Yes, that is a noble, magnani mous, a sublime sentiment, which ex tands our affections, enlarges the circle of our sympathies and elevates the sou of man until, claiming an equality with the lest, he rejects, as unworthy of bis dignity, any oIilical immunities over the humblest of his fellows. Yes, it is an ennobling principle ; ami may that spirit which animated our fathers in the revolutionary contest for its establish ment continue to animate us, their sons, in tho impending struggle for its preservation ! ALTOfcKTIirK TOO f'AST. The story of tho alopemcnt of Capt. li. L. Williams, of Douglas county, with the wife of a friend, is met by that gentleman with the jnost unquali fied denial. A succession of slanders for the purpose of making political cap ital have been set afloat in this State this Summer, with tho most discourag ing results to those wlio have concocted them, as complete refutation has fol lowed each one. Portland lire. Jf Mrs. Coburn will look at our ad vertising columns she will find a divorce summons published by one Daniels, and that legal document is what " sef afloat" the Williams "slander." As to whether it is a slander or not that will lie settled in our Court next month. The charges made have never been re futed simply denied. How Mr. Dan iels could make "political capital" of it we don't know. Mrs. C. has not been ponducting a political paper very long, and consequently she sees " a nigger in jibe fence" in almost every little item of news which appears in a Democratic paper. i AI'RAIM OIK 11111. Republican papers iw this State now devote about half their editorial matter to running down Mr. Tilden and bis "bar'J." The fact of it is they are very much afraid of that old gentleman, and well they may be. If he gets the nom ination for President at the next elec tion, instead of beating bis Republican opponent over a quarter of a million votes, as he did Hayes, he -will -win by such a large majority that the Radical thieves cannot keep him from occupy ing the Wfcice House. IFrum lli Ni't-fi.lk ViH;iiiin.) PT1TI.V KK.SII. Iii its "Political Notes" tho Tribune nays : "Tho Soul hern journals have shut up suddenly on the subject cf State Rights, uhirnied by tho Hhicnty with which tho Republicans rose to meet tho issue. Sileueo conies too lain to do any good. They cannot take back or de stroy what they have said, and llin Umio will be the leading one ta t he Jail eleo- tions." We have beard a teat dud of "Xorthern .f.'." about "XmWw .SVnrV Hi j h In" such as tho tibovo. The most radical of our l!fpliblican colelnporai ies are compelled to admit that there must bo some line of deman:.it loll bet ween the IVdeial and Slate authority. The Northern Strttes fie quick enough (o take care that tho (b nelul ( lovernmelil docs not iuteilVie with their rights, but the moment any of tho Republican tools who nro Kent South for the pur pose of making improper issues and disturbances w ith the State authorities are arrested or punished for lawlessness, then comes tho Republican press croak ing of the evils of "States' Rights." XSow wo are tired of this thing. From the very foundation of our Re public tho doctrine of States' rights was necessarily engrnfied in the struc tuie of our confederation. There me are so tunny different Sinle (iovein taenia that were the several and dis tinctly separate rights of each not in garded and resjiecte.! by the other, we would be in continual anarchy, and it would truly take a central government with nothing short of absolute jmwer to control the sulslivisioiis and keep the peace. It is only the rights re served by each of the ot igiiml thirteen States to govern itself by its own laws, that has perpetuated the republican form of government under which we now live. Tho Jeop!o cf the Stati-s will not brook Federal intetferencp at the polls ; they want for their repre sentatives in Congress men who know and supjKirt tho views of the majority in their resjsx'live districts, and not tools of tho administration. It is ab surd to expect a Republican represent ative where the Republican party Can not muster a corjioralU guard, and the mv).!( will not submit to United States Marshals and bayonet foicing sm-lt re sults. If this is what the stalwarts call -the heresy of States' Rights," they w ill find tjiat then h a larger States' Rights party in these United States than they ever conceived of, and that it is conijx.se! largely of men ho were lighting for the Union when these croakers were at home shaking doty and shunning bullets. There are no men more opened to this kind of thing than the aiiny, rank and f.le, and we doubt if a single offi cer, alio has dixtiuguished himself fot gallantry, can be found who would not find degraded if called on to pet form afrol duty at the JmjIU. It is worthy of nolo that never until the Republican party held Jiower was it deemed liecea sary to have any federal intef terencc at the pollrt, and it the intervention of au aimed force, no matter of what de scription, is necessary to keep that party in the ascendancy, the sooner it is swept away, and made a thing of the past, the ls-tter for our country's good. A new era is ojs-ning for our land, and one we trust fraught with proerity for all Mt-ctioiiH. Northern men and Northern capital have for several years iast lieen drawn to our sunny South, and largo industries have lieen estal lished in many sections, which being nearer the staples of production and manufacturing facilities than similar undertakings in the North, have, as a necessary result', proved more profitable, and the information from these pioneers to their friends nt home is gradually hrving its weight, and each year new industries are Wing oiK'iied up upon our Sotilliei list! earns and water-courses, Theso give employment to a class ol skilled lalior not to bo found among the blacks, who have heretofore monoo lized tho employment bureau of the South, and, unlike our tobacco factories, give preference to white over colored labor. The skilled artisan of the North finds a home in a moro genial climate, where, tho cost of taw material and its manipulation lxdng less than in the North, be can obtain better remunera tion for bis services and more home comforts for his money. Theso useful and worthy citizens have a hearty welcome from our people, and the more that come the better for them and for ourselves. Year by year the colors of Blaine's bloody shirt are grow ing fainter and fainter, and ns our Southern country is opened up to Northern capital, the Scum that the im moral influence of war has wafted to the top of tho political wave will be swept away by the all-powerful strength of public opinion, and the men of the age in which we live will como to the front. Tho day of sectionalism is draw ing to a close, tho day when it will not be asked whether a man is from the North, South, East or West, is near at hand, when every man will bo judged not by the accident of his birth, but by the merit of his life. ALMOST A KWIMII.i:. A. S. Rarnes & Co. only give six months' time for the exchange of books of tho old series for tho new, and for the introduction of tho new at the low rates. A great many of the small districts in this Stato only have one terra of school during the year, and If it js taught just after the holi days they Will lose all the benefits of tho low rates in the exchange of books. The time given should have been one year. nor i .m at r.i:iT,ti. J Tho Murk Lan E.i)rc of the 25th Haya that Iho lioavy rain storms of tho pa-d week have seriously .U1 crops in many of (bo northern nml midland eonulieM, whiles tho submpr Hionoflovv lying lands linn cutiHtHl tho wheal to rot nt the root and de velop mlhbnv in Ibo car In largo qnanlilloM. Hy Ints been washed it way in D.-rhyshlro by florali; nearly every win ro field. are choked w ith weoiN ; and Micro U (.-very sign that the present year will bn iw bml or worse for farmer tliun its predeces sors. In more Micltcrcd dUlrlHs Mimn pieces of w bent nml barley lire rendy In bo cut, but Ibis U not nt nil gciu nd. In HeothiiKl farmers during u recent short spell of flno went her secured a good deal of bay which is not so much injured ns wns feared. Ceroid crops lit Ibo north nro still quite green, nml much of tho grain on upland may never ripen nt nil, October rather than Bcptemlier will probably bo tho harvest month In Scot land. Turnips there nro linnrov Ing, nml otatoos nro (tnerally free from disease; but tho yield will lie lain und deficient. The relapse of WMlber ha caused n revival In wbut, in Homo Instance enabling c!i?r b m over tho recent decline of one shilling jnr quarter. Import have ngnln been excessive, having exceeded tho usual summer com. plcment. The strength of trado ha been marked, and higher prices wouhl doubtless have lieen obtainable, except that it I difficult to s-rsuade millers to buy except In retail, In the face of supply considerably c.vcersllng iSOOMMl quarter In threo weeks on the eve of harvest, even If tbo pros pecUofsu.h harvest nro admittedly bail. America' capacity for gigati tic shipment I also thoroughly un dcrstnod by buyer who have otiera ted cautiously, but at the uno time moro freely, during the past week at a slight advance on Monday's currcn eh'. In another mouth, more relia ble data will be obtnlnablo concerning Furoiioan crop upon which to Indi cate the further eourso of prices. Hurley ha maintained It previous prices, but cased Might ly under tho presuroof increased supplies. Ar rival at jsirt of call have been mod- crate. Wheat fluctuated with the weather; but continued shipments cabled from America prevented any advance Is-yond nhout Od pet 'uar tor. ikoi nit. iy t Aai.iv A tcil to the N. Y. JfrrtiU from Washington says llmt very great tndig nation exists among the govommen clerks toward tha President and Cabi net for w hat is considered an unwar ranUililo rvcrcisc of the executive imw r in the reorganization of tho State Republican Ashochilion at the nations capital. They amert, with much feel ing, tlist iheie never has la-en a time under a Republican administration when tbene mhihx iations actually con troib-d the patronage of tho depart mcnts in Washington. This indigua tioll has lieen renewed by tho Opin loii fxpicsscd by the President that the clerks who did their duty, and gave their work earnest at trillion, needed rest at night, instead of meeting an organization to criticise the character of apKiiulments made umh this administration ; and now the in suited clerks projH.ee to rebuke tho ad ministration and show their jsiwer by transferring the control of tho govern ment to tho Democratic party, and they are going to legin with the State of Maine, which has many able and etli cicnt men in tho departments, who have always been in tho habit of taking an influential part in the judaic of their State. IIOSTH.K ItlHASM. Indian Dick, who went ns cook with tho jiack train accompanying Catlcy's command against tho Sheep Katcrs, has returned to Lewiston, and says lio doesn't want any more of that kind of jobs. 1 fe savs the Indians drove thera about two miles on the mountain, part ly covered with timber and mostly cov ered with grass. They set fire to the grass around tho troojis and kejit them on tho mountains all day and till two o'clock next morning. Ho says that he needed no other tire to cook beans that day. They lost 15 pack animals and considerable cargo that was not packed on animals. They were 1 1 dayH from tho south fork to where they bad the fight, and but two days in getting back. Tbo Alpowa Indians, says the Lewiston Teller, had a little scare a few days ago, caused by itho appearance in their neighborhood of four or five known hostiles, some of whom were recognized, and one of them was fonnerly a herder for T. Suhench, near the mouth of As sotin creek. They stolo somo horses from tho Aljipwas and one or two from the settlers on tho Assotin. They made tlieb- exit across Snake river in the di rection of the Sjiokan country. We are having very poor crops in this valley, but still our peojde should not complain. The Eastern States have lately been visited by severe storms, England and Russia have had their grain injured in the same manner, but to a greater extent, while late in telligence from Ireland is to the eflect that a famine is in jirospect there, ow ing to tho failure of the crojis. - At many points tho farmers are unable to pay their rent, and in Mayo alone no less than 800 ejectments have been served within a few months. IT. A M'iSMORft. Tub pros)cct is now very flattering for tho election of Hugh J. Glenn to tho Governorship of California. Fit A n K P I X t.KY, of tho A rgonaut, nominates Ex -Governor Uooth, of California, for the Republican candi date for President. CkoIkik 0. GotlllAU, late Clerk of I ha Senate, is now canvassing California against the Republican -Railroad candi date f.r Governor I'inaforo Perkins. TltK Jhtilji Owjon Capital i the name of a new daily which lias made its nppent slice nt Salem. It it a small sin et, but it is fully large enough, as its propi icfoi will soon learn. Sam Caiikv, who knows moro about Greenback ism in one day than Fome roy and bis crowd find out in a year, is satisfied with Tom Ewlng and tie Democracy, and is stiimjitng Ohio for that ticket. A Com NDKtM Rishop Haven says he was surprised to find so many virtu ous Chinese women in San Francisco, How did tho old gentleman get his in formation, and by what standard docs bo judgo of their virtue 1 TifK "fur tiles" In California next Wednesday, nd we venture to tay there w ill jo moro bloodshed there than at any of the elections In the Southern State which the Radical pnjtors prate alxuit so much. Is looking at the San Francisco row from a Klilical standjoint Democrats find it i "none of their funeral." Kal loch and lsith the Do Youngs are rabid Rejiublicans, though they have all got out of the fold a short distance. Ik Kalloch recovers and he Is very snro to do sc be will lie elected Mayor of Han Francisco by ten thou sand majority. If Glenn want to Insuro hi election he had belter get shot, too, and by a Chinamen If possl ble.. Heavy French order for wbeat are said to have been lately received at New Orleans. This Indicates an Important movement, and shows something of the effect the Jetty out let will have on the commerce of the Mht-dssippl. No jwrty ought to succeed which uj- hUds the immigration of Chinese ia the way in which tho Radical orator and newssijs-rs do in California, and we think very likely the jeople down there will attend to the cam in a way which cannot be mistaken. PTr.a C.micur has come out in a let ter wrndy endorsing Gen. Tom. K wing, the Democratic candidate for Governor of Ohio; Sam. Carey, the Greenback A smile, is stumj'ing tho Stato in his behalf, and tho future begins to look very dark for tbo disciples of Ilia Fiauduh-ney in tho obi Duckeye Stato. I X accordance with tlm old lino of action of the j-arty, tho Rejiublicam in California are "championing" tho rail road rings and the Chinese, while the Democrat are in favor of carrying out tho jirovinions of the New Constitution, which would be of incalculable benefit to the State at large. Da n win regret that hi advanced ago will prevent him from doing as much more work as he might wish to do. The old man I still tall and vigorous, and he 1 writing a Ufa of hi grandfrther. Holding the doc trine that he does It would not he well for him to go much farther back In the history of hi family. One subject which we recommend for debate at the next session of the Ore gon Pioneer Association ia the state ment of Rishop Haven, at the M. E. Conference at Portland last Monday, that "there is no worse class of morals among tho Chiuese oa, this Coast now than there ieaa among the pioneers of this country." Old settlers, how do you like this! Ir is estimated that six countries in Europe will this year be compelled to buy three hundred million bushels of wheat, and that France and Eng. land will need three-fourths of this quantity, whilo France's share alone will cost her one milliard of francs, or a fifth of the sum of her famous ransom. This means prosperity for the American farmer that has a sur plus. Thk jiosition of the Republican party on the subject of secession was emphat ically indicated by Wendell Phillips, who announced at a great Republican mass meeting in 1861, where Abraham Lincoln was present, that : " We hav labored for twenty year to drive the tix eeen slave Slate ont of the Union, and thank Col it i accomplilied f And now, remarks the Charleston Xew and Courier, he would do bo again, if tho South would let him. Senator Bruce has no complaint to make of the Democracy of Mississippi, He told a Chicago interviewer the other day that during the campaign of 187G, when he made speeches in many places throughout the State, ho was "alwayi fairly treated," and "never insulted" in a single town that he visited. There is as much freedom of speech in the South, without regard to race, color, or previ ous condition, as there is in Massachu setts, but it takes a long time for some of Senator Bruce's colleagues to find it out. The Boston Journal growls about the "arrogant Democracy" Bending cam paign documents to Maine and Ohio, says the Louisville Courier-Journal, To tho, Republicans it ia "arrogance" to differ with them in their political views, and the continued and healthy exist ence of the Democratic party makes them howl with rage. They want but one party in this country, and that their own, while all ojiposition must be dealt with as " treaion." That is the tone of a large nuiubei of Stalwart or gans. It is the old talk furbished, up for new service. Tut British government is new building two steel-clad shij of war, which are to cost $5,000,000 each, without armament. They are to be luted with sixteen inches of steel, to carry four guns each, to be I v,iw tons measurement, with a speed of six teen miles an hour. No sooner were these monsters laid on the track, how ever, than it was found that one of Sir Joscjih Whitwortb's new guns was ca pable of drivings bolt of chilled steel through a steel plate 21 inches thick, and thus once more the defensive side of naval war-making is found to bo at the mercy of the offensive side. All honor to L. L. Rodger, a Meth odist minister who has been stationed at Ashland. He was the only one in the late M. E. Conference that sjxike a word in favor of our jieole, and against the treacherous Chincso heathen. He was in favor of their teveiving moral training, but he was opposed to this Chinese slave working amongst us, jirincijially because our working jieojile cannot comjiete with them in the cheap ness of manual labor. Ho said our peojde have families to ujjort, edu cats ana prepare lor useful mem bers of society, and they should be helped first ; if there is anything left let the Chinese have it. Faiae philanthropy, like false or misplaced charity, becomes Incendl ary. There are few or the criminals pardoned out of our penitentiaries who do not return adroitly to their old habits of murder, arson, burglary or as the case may be. A certain class of morbid pbllauthrophlst seize upon the criminals and make heroes of them, surround them with an at mosphere of sympathy and pity, magnify their virtues, gloss over their fclDs, and screen them from punLsbmeut The sequence Is that rascality Is at a premium, and thrives under the treatment. When the punUhment of crime Is Inevitable, sure and severe, It will da reared ac cordingly, but when crime makes he roes if will be considered heroic and profitable to commit crime. TSLEAiRATHH: SiLKAfttXfcS, Gov. Hprague repel Indignantly Inuendoes against his wife's virtue. fie will not reply to her published statement, and I more bitter against ber advisers than her. An on wen at 1'ecker, fa. . was struck by lightning on the 14th. The fiowlngoll destroyed several wells and dwellings communicating with another 5,000 barrel tank. Damage $40,000. KIngCetewayo made another ef fort on the 22d ult., to ascertain whether his liberty would be granted him if he submitted. He said that he had been cempletely deserted by his warriors. General Russe, supposed to be di rectly connected with the Russian ministry of foreign affairs, publishes an article stating that Germany has abandoned the friendship of Russia for that of Austria and England. Eighty-five thousand barrel of oil have been consumed in all by the fire occasioned by lightning at Titus- vllle. The oil running into the river became a sheet of flame. A timely change of the wind saved the town, France, having refused ex-Khedive Ismail Pasha to reside ia Algiers, the powers have Intimated to theporte that they do not object to his living In Constantinople. The Sultan, how ever. Is opposed to having Ismail in his capital. Zulu prisoners report that King Cetewayo with his army are on the marshes of UmvolosI river, where he intends fighting. Two British col umns will roadvance on tho 3d of Auguat and meet at Magnibonim on the 6 th of August. War between French Canadian ship builders and Irish ship, builders ef the Coves of Quebec has begun, Several have been wounucu and one Frenchman killed. They number over a thousand on each side and are well armed. Stores have been sack ed by the rioters for guns. The treasury agents report a great deal of illicit trade In firearms, am munition, rum, and etc., carried on by vessels from San Francisco and Honolulu at Ounalaska, and one schooner, the Soleta, was seized off St, Paul Island with contraband goad: on beard. It Is stated that King Alfonso and Archduchess Maria of Austria will have an Interview during the coming month, and that their marriage will be solemnized at the end of October. Emanuel Silola, minister of the in terlor, will be appointed ambassador extraordinary to accompany the arch duchess from Vienna to Madrid. The Uerald has another story of Stewart's body. A special from Montreal says that the city is much excited over the discovery of a body believed to be Stewart's which was brought there in a canal boat from New York November last. Tho po lice got oa tho track and notified Su perintendent "Walling-, but the lat ter discredited the report and no action was taken. theatrical troupe is In Lake connly. Ashland boys are frying toorganlze brass band. What the rust didn't destroy In Lane county the late rains did. Mr. W. S. Hite and wife, of Phil omath, elaim that the Cnuille ha libeled them. A saw mill U needed at Dallas. There la a largo and constantly grow ing demand for lumber. Self binders are said by Yoncalla Douglas county, farmers to be more economical than headers. D. M. Guthrlo of Polk county, raised this year thlrty-elx bushels of wheat for every bushel of seed sown. A mineral spring containing mag nesia, iron and sulphur has been found near Deer creek, Douglas coun ty. Notwithstanding the blight the in creased acreage in grain in Douglas county will result In largerc rnps than ever. It Is claimed that mail service i Polk county Is not certain or prompt. Monmouth girls give hazel nut pienh's. Henry F.igenbrod, the cook of an Independence hotel, has fallen heir to $10,000 by the death of an aunt at New York. Last Monday the llurvett Queen brought 437 tons of wheat to Celilo, Which Is the biggest load ever carried on the upper Columbia. Mr. Halstcad of Turner, who mys teriously diappeared some time ago, If at his old home In the east. He says that h will return soon. Harvest hands in the neighborhood of Lewiston aro at work briskly in the field under the hot son, with the thermometer at from 95 to 105 in the shade, and no perceptible weakening. The plateaus about Lewiston, which have been considered unproductive wastes heretofore, have produced good crops of wheat this year, the experiment having been made by Dr. Kelly. Mr. Stretch er has discovered rich mines on Grave creek and spring that cleans clothes of grease and tar by merely soaking them In IL Some Chinamen will start a laundry there some day. It Is not certain that the Dayton narrow-guage road will be completed to Dallas this year. If the receiver can borrow the money it will be com pleted at once and will do an im mense business this fkIL A few days since, says the Pendle ton Independent, while on a drunken spree, a soa or umaptne snot at an Indian's dog which came running out of the wigwam as he rode by, the ball passed through the wigwam and struck an Indian named Peno-le-shin-le-cutz, and made a severs wound in the thigh. The taxable nronertv in Whitman county amounts to about $1,200,000, and the population will exceed 5,500. There are In the county 1,200 men who pay poll tax. The county tax for the ensuing year is fixed at seven mills. The territorial and school tax are the same as last year, four mills each. In 1877 the population was 3,700 and taxable property, $350, 000. The Dallas Ritereide says Mr. J. S. McMurray, living near Monmouth, brought us a bunch of wheat, from one bead of which we shelled and counted one hundred and forty-five grains; Mr. David Parker of Luck iamute, brought us four beads of a new variety of wheat which weighed in the chaff, two and one-fourth: ounces, and the heads yielded from one hundred and twenty-five to one hundred and forty-eight grains to the head. THK KIAMISI. The following short extract from Voorhees' speech in the TJ. S. Senate accounts for the why, that some of the Southern brigadiers are so passionately loved while others are so cordially hated by Republican strikers : I have heard of means of grace. I used when a boy to attend campmeet inga. I heard the richest outpourings of the Gosjiel. I have heard grace de scribed as a fountain flowing iu bound less beauty and illimitable wealth. I have listened when it was claimed that this graoe washed away all stains, cleansed the murderer's soul on the gal lows, purified and gave peace to the guiltiest conscience ever called shiver ing and quaking with fear from this world to the world beyond ; but I have never before heard of a fountain of grace so wide, so deej, so exhaustless, so spontaneous in its unceasing flow, as that of the Republican party to Con federate officers if they will only vote the Republican ticket 1" HOW TO SAVE MONEY. Instead of going to a doctor for a prescription, if you have Bright's Disease, Djabetea, Pain in tbo Back and Lotus, Smarting, Inflamma tion, Calculi, Brick-dust Deposit, or any trouble of the Kidneys or Bladder, buy a bottle of Dr. Mintie'a Nephreticum, the great Buchu Compound. It ia tbe most wonderful prescription for these troubles ever compounded. Messrs. Abrams & Carroll, wholesale druggists, say : "We regard Nephreticum as the best kidney and bladder remedy in the market." Woodard, druggist, Portland, Ctr., says: ' Everybody speaks highly of it." Childsr druggist, Portland, Or., says : "Sold lots of It; it always does the work." Many have been cured of obstinate kidney com plaints after the doctors have Riven them, up. Price, ft.25. For sale by all drug Rtsta. " Comptroller Porter of the treasury department says that tbe national board of health is of the opinion that contributions for the support of the people of Memphis in camps is abso lutely necessary to prevent the spread of yellow fever ia other states. A requisition upon tbe $100,000, appro priated by congress will be honored. The Wilton