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Transint"alvertisements, S2 00 1st in sertion; each udditioual insertion, $1 00. AGENT AT TORTLAND, OJEGON L. S.IMCKI.S. AGENT AT SAN FRANCISCO L.P.Fkh k, rooms 20 4fc 21,Merchant'sExchange California street. AGENTS AT NEW YORK CITY-S. M. J kttengili St Co., 37 Park Row, cor. R.'kmim at. Geo. P. Rowell St Co., 41 Park Row. AGENTS AT ST. LOUIS Rowiixrf Chehman, Cor. Third and Chestnut Sts. TO CORRESPONDENTS. All commnni ctttion intended for insertion in Tuk 1 idepkndest mnst be authenticated by fie nume and address of the writer r.ot necos-iarily for publication, but as a guaranty of good faith. OFFICE In Hillsboro in th M Court House building on the Public Square. PKOFESSIOAIi 7CARP3.7T- JOHN VITE, M. D., ' 0 -m. I . Physician and Surgeon IIILLSUViU), - - - OUEU.N. WSpecinl at'.",Jvn given f VKFORMI 7 1S; also CllTlOyiC ULCEUS. OFFICE Main street HillslK.ro. Cvron. F. A. BAilKV, 31. D. Physisian, Surgson and A533HcTieur. HIILSBOaO, - - - OREGON Ol FICE at the Drug Store. RESIDENCE Three Blocks Sonth oi Drugstore. nl:yl HI I.SOX BOWLBY, 31. D. Pujhi clan and Surgeon, FOREST GROVE, - - . - CREGOX. OFFICE--At his Residence, West of Johnson' Planing Mills. T . n40 : ij W. II. SAYLOIt, BI. !., Physician and Surgeon. FOHEST PROVE. - - - - OREGON O ! FICE At the Drug Store. R MSI DENCE Corner Second Block south of the Drug Store. ra22:ly Geo. II. Dceham. H. Y. Thompson District Attorney Durham & Thompson, ATTORXE YS-AT-L A W , No. 103 First Street, PORTLAND, ------ OREGON. C. A. BALL. BALEIGH BTOTT. BALL & STOTT, A dORNE YS-AT-L AW, PA TENTS 0 li TA IN ED. No. C Dekum's Block, PORTLAND, CREGON. n8 ly fO.IN CATLrW. B. KIXXI Catlin & KHIin, ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELOR AT LAW. lrekum's Building. First Street, . PORTLAND, OREGON. THOIXAS H. TONGUE. Att orner at -Law, Hillatwro, WasbingtooOountyi Oregon. . THOS. 0, HUAlPmiEYS. NOTARY PURL1C and CONVEYANCER LEGAL papers drawn and collections made. Business entrusted to hi cure at ended to promptly. ' OFFICE New Com t He u e : THE INDEPENDENT ELEMENT IN 76. The exutonce of an independent element in our politics strong enough, nnder. certain conditions,' to deter mine contests between the two rec ognized, parties is a fact that cannot be doubted. Democratic, and Re publican leaders may not like to ad mit it but tbe cans at nfforct to ig- flare ltl and At this xer moment. mdjt they arte cfnps without knowing it; ?s'n te'3eJeiTreonarl)emoc doing homtfge to this indcpondeht racJJ if the platforms and candidates doing homage to this inde'pon power which, while not u 'party, it eclff Way become arbitratir between the existing parties." they see the necessity for shaping the programme of the next presidential election with reference to it. Tbey cannot leave it out of the calculation, for whatev er else may. be vague and uncertain about the coming struggle, this much at least is known and 'admit ted, viz: that if the full strength of the inpependent element shall be thrown in favor of one party and agaihat the other, it will control the decision. It l-a3 already proved its power to give half a dozen Northern states to either , party and . this is enough to do the business. If the independents shall be able, as it is now almost admitted they will be, to carry New York, .Connecticut, New Jersey and Ohio, with their 73 elec toral votes, they will elect the candi date to whom they give their support; nay, even if they shall be able to carry three of these states, they may determine the result.. What tho in dependent element will do, there fore, is a question of increasing con cern. No authoritative and formal statement of their designs had been xiven till the Bchurz dinner at New lat week, and eteli on that occasion omy tneir innunture 1 :efs, rather than their settled dtsignp, were out lined in tho speech of the guest cf the evening. !lf Sclera said:: I would not at this 'moment vent ure to advise n definite policv in de tail, to bo fo'lowed with regard to the coming presidential election. For that I believe it is too" emir yet. But it docs sr em advisable to mo that the independent men of the conntrv. in ut'w ui iiju jiiaucijce iiiev win vc called upon to exert, should laj.e such initiatory etpa as will enable thei to come to an understanding among themselves, be it by the or- ganization of committees, or such other measures as the skill of organ- izers roav eui'tiost. so that when the time arrives thev mav be well nre- oared to act with united nnwer .i.r, the existing oarties bv thrlr mnml pressure, or, if necessary, withcut them. I deem it quite probable that the suggestion I venture to make will not find favor v ith the managers of either of the existing organiza tions. Ifyoil ask me, 'In hostility to which party are such steps to be taken?' I would answer: 'Net neces sarily in hostility to either. It de pends upon their own well-doihg.r Each of them will say: We are go ing to offer you all the oo& things you are aiming at. . Why, then, this preparation?' Tho answer is: 'Very well, if jou try to do so in good faith, and give the necessary guaran tees in the character of yo'ur men, we shall certainly not hinder but aid you in doing bo. ii you ner us a choice of blessings instead of a choice of evil, we shall congratfilato the county and ourselves. But if you do not, then we are jwstiaed in pre paring to act as our judgment may dictate. And if you ask us specific ally what we want, you must find it only natnral that we should prepare for the possibility ' of telling you at the approximate time with the em phasis of routed- expression.' " It is impossible that these words, coming from one whom the distin guished gentlemen at the banquet spoke of as their leader, should not nave a meaning;, add indeed they convey that meaning on their face. The independents do not form an organized party; they may' never form an organized prry; it is not ab- solutely necessary to an effective ex- f t ertion of their influence that - they f Bpring in tearcb of-disappoiut-can nccomplish rsrU without it. ! ment. Bat they rAc3paxtic- prepared to say: ' It b B'laetter Id lae efenl&i b? the aherpaxil jUprWijiJ eral courses cpen to them; tliej nf- o'P uuu ojecuonani0 utko cratk ' tic W agmcat an obnoxious Republiejtntcl ti$'jBky rapport ihe tterrmblicnri ibt Wetrbic bf of the opposing parties are both, un objectionable, they may be satisfied to disperse and vote ' as Democrats and Republicans; if both are so ob jectionable ns to leave no room fot choice between them, then, as Mr. Schurz intlcaleij, tte occasion will have arrived for the organization of a new party, and the independents will proceed to do it. It is not probable that this emergency will arise; both the existing parties nie under a wholesome fear of the ele ment which gave New Hampshire to the Republicans and Connecticut to the Democrats, and which is able to cast the electoral totes of greater states than New Hampshire and Connecticut as it may desire. It is far more probable thai both the ex isting parties will seek to propitiate the independents iu their platforms and candidates. Kseh will make their platform and nominate its tick et under the vigilant scrutiny of the waiting independents, and nnder its conditional menace of opposition. It is hardly possible that this shall not secure a platform and candidates of high character on one side at least; and if one of the opo.ing cans js shall fulfil the reasonable conditions of theoccasion.it will be the bounden duty of the independents to give it their cheerful Support. Tho politicians on both sided may as well, therefore, make this class ol detached voters,, which belongs to neither party and goes with either, accordiug to circumstances, a land maik in" the next campaign. It is not a party; it may not hold a con vention, nor nominate a ticket. It will perhaps be bettet for it not to do this, for while it is formidable as an arbitrator, it would be i!;ignif- f icant as a third combattant. Tie. 81Ut S u alreaUy possesses all tho ef- t ..I i .... ficieucy that formal organizations usnnllJ; PartJ it is animated ly a luit:k instinct which a few words rom its r?coSi representatives C4U eve uireeiion and lUe fact umi " asKS n Iftvors and rewards for its members will enable it to car ry with it no inconsiderable amount of moral and national force to the side it supports. Missouri Republi can. OREGON. Umatilla has eleven . families and three China wash-houses. There is supposed to' be 250,000 bushels of the old wheat crop iu this State unsold. Last fall Stnnlor .Tenrell. rf TTnm- 1"11 1 Ji. .l , - . , tUUUll . IJUi CUHKIfLl I1VH i-)i;itiisii ' merino bucks, which he has just i ' sheared. They vielded. in tho sr gregato, 112 pounds. Four of them were sheared about 11 months ago, and the fifth was sheared only about 9 months ago. Mi. Jewell has fin ished shearing his sheep, und the total average is pounds apiece. Mr. J. fed his sheep over 100 tons of hay during the winter. The Record learns from Mr. P. D. Hull, of Jacksonville, that cinnabar mines are being discovered constant ly in that vicinity and just before he left there a prospector brought in ore so lich that on breaking it open the native quicksilver would ooze put of it. This was found near the location of former discoveries iu Sam's valley. One prospecting par ty from Oregon has made discover ies in Siskiyou county, California, just south. of the Oregon line, and is reported to have struck some r rich cinnabar. - iii v iwf u Ttit xtni. It is estimated that over 5,000 men bcnurz niinsell i& not CPiin in tmc ectrcTnvrft ne ' f'i. f F1C& C IS ' The charges that have been pre- fy rred and published ' against Secre- teary Cfcadwwk's administration are, in ferities fallows &;.... i-' JTirst Ihftt ever . since : 1870 he ls b-?a t the rate of $4,950 n yiear.ren t Jca State LoSoes, when better accommodations might - have been had elsewhere forl.SOa Second-That having been ordered by the last Legislature to discontin tie this wasteful etravagance,he has failed to do so, ' ThirdThat he has been di awing salaries for three clerks, at the rato of $2,800 a year, when no clerk whatever was employed or required Fourth That a certain law reach ed the Governor with an important provision leit out, winch was in it ! tthen it passed the last branch of the Legislature, and that the Secretary must have been aware of and - ought to have prevented or denounced the criminal mutilation. Fifth That the Secretary accepted a tender of $500 to sign certain bonds for the Lock Company, when hia ofiicial obligation required him to perform the office without charge. To fully comprehend the. enormity of the Old State House job, it is nec essary to g back a little: The Hon. C. A. Reed and others, owners of tho. Opera House block, contracted in writing with the for mer Secretary of S (ate, Samuel K. May, to supply and f urn ten. suitable ! aPatment8 for all the State offices ior ,ouo a vear. in miraunnce with their agreement, they did ar range and adapt the first and second stories of the,. Opera Jlouse in the j most saitabcoinpletrand satisfac tory manner, thus proven: rog a State House which would have answered all reasonable purposes for twenty years to come. Th,e apartments in tended for the Governor, Adjutant F General, Supremo Court and State Library were so occupied, and were being paid for by the State when Chadwick came into office. By Borne mraus i;ot crenc a'lv known, the owners of the building then occupied by tho Legislative and State Departments, induced Secre tary May to remain there, t! us re fusing to comply . with his contract with the Opera Houso Company. When. Chadwick came into office Mr.' Reed waited on him to remove these departmes-io the places con tracted foi'buty.Chactwiek refused on the pretext that' 'his party friend would not suffer' him to doso'- meaning, of course, the particular friends who were interested ito ftie old premises. Reed then offered to lower the rent to $1,500 a year; but still Chadwick 's "friend's" were ob durate; and so, under the influence of his despotic friends, the new Sec retary continued to pay above .$4, 000 a year for State offices scattered i all over town, in Griswold'a build . m t.i . (J V . - - ..1r ... ,tvri i-nirnn a niiiiiiimr in W.il. S- T 1 t l 1 ta.iuus ot rearoorn s Duiuiinrr and in the present old State House, when better quarters, especially adapted to the purpose, could have been had all togeth6r in the Opera ! House for $1,500. In consequence of this inexcusa ble breach of coutract and mean ras cality the public spirited Mr. Reed lost some $25,000 and was uttcrlv broken up, to say nothing of the other citizens interested in the Op era House propei ty. On this point, more to tho purpose hereafter. Immediately after the adjournment of the last Legislature George, H. Jones addressed a communication to Secretary Chadwick, offering tbe use of tho Opera House for $1,000, for the two years then to precede the oc cupancy of the new Capitol. Mr. Jone reminded the Secretary that ho took into consideration the ex pense of removal, and would there fore aba' 9 $1,000 from i fee original proposition for tbe two years in quev tion. Still the fkcretarv'a friend were inexorable. . From the foregoing facts, it must be clear to every reasonable mind that in continuing to occiipy unsuit able State' buildrapi ' at : extravagant tents, when appropriate irpartiaents were offered csd bad been contracted tor' tot lees than half the money, Secretary: Chodwick wae aetln sole ly in tho interests of certaitt proper ty owners.. Whether' he did so out of disinterested benevolence toward those parties, cr whether he derived ! any individual . advantage from the , arrangement; are open questions for public discrimination. But the one question which chiefly concerns the eoplc of this Commonwealth i ful ly demonstrated; that a large amount of public money has been squandered under his administra tion, through his connivance, and which he might have' saved. Tho other propositions set forth iu tho fore part of this article, remain to bo considered hereafter. Statesman . A POINT WELL MA0E. The Rulktin says Colonel George B. Curry, of Canyon City, Grant county, writes a letter to the Joun fu'vecr, in which ho takes tho po i tion that the act of tho last - Legisla ture appropriating money in aid of a State Capitol, is an.unconstitu iona'. act. pie point he makes is, that (he act transfers fifty thousand dollars from the Soldiers' Bounty FrVrid to the Capitol Building Fund, when A 1 S it ft, i iuc vonsiuuuon oi me axaii ex- i pressly forbids the o plication of money raised by one law to the pur poses of a different law. His argu ment will appear from the following extracts from his letter: Section 1. And be il further enacted That for the purposes of providing funds for immediate use, the State Treasurer is hereby authorized and required to transfer from the Sol diers' Bounty Fund to the State I House Building Fund, the funds aruing from the one mill la . cf said Soldiers' Bounty Fund. Tho said Soldiers' Bounty Fund by the act of th"?Oregon Legislature, approved October 24, 18G4,teu years ago, and the act creating it is enti tled "An Act granting bounties to tho volunteers of this State, enlisted j in the service of tho United States, i c.nd for issuing bond to provide funds for the payment of the same, nud to levy a tax to pay such bonds." Section 8 of this act provides for issuing Stato bonds to the amount of $100,000, drawing interest at the rate of seven per cent. er annum. Section 11 of the' mine net reads as follows: "For the payment of the principal and interest of tho bonds issued under this act, there shall be collected annually, until; final pay ment or redemption of the same, and in the same manner as other revenue is or may be directed by law to be levied and collected upon all real and personal property in this State, a tax of one mill on the dollar of valuation of sucn property, in addi tion to tho taxes for general State purposes. Section 12 of this net provides for tho redemption of $10,000 worth of bonds annually. lrom tbo sections of statutes quoted it will be clear that the Sol diers' Bounty Fund was created in 18G4, for tho purpose of raising $100,000 and interest thereon atsev en per cent, per annum, and that to meet this this demand and give val ue to the bonds, a tax of one mill on the dollar ot all taxable property in the State was by law levied; that by the terms of the act, creating the fund and making the one mill levy, tbe money thus raised could be ap plied to no other purpose, under the Constitution of Oregon, than the payment of the bonds and interest thereon, and that byjthe very terms employed by the Legislature the act expended its force and ceased to be operative as soon as this object was accomplished. The Constitution of Oregon, Arti cle 0, Section 3, reads as follows: - No tax shall, be levied except" in pursuance of law, and every law im posing 4ax shall state distinctly tho object of the Pftme, to which only it I ?jbM be applied; , f;ub ei!f . i 01 the $10p4OpQ,NJnenionftiiiOr. enUictieally, in f tatnUmi.4Uftted.M y'm npep4odgCTcl!jwor 30,000, , ?aau taken, j from, ihOl diers! Bounty Fund under tbo oct of isw; r": m. . The histoj-y ot the , SlaU Bo&0 u:lJing Fund presents the. uajpoki-d for phenomenon in a f reo're; ubhe, but uc4. unknown to the daenotic rulers of medieval Europe, . that of ! fir t getting a law limited j by , 4ts terms as to time nr. a amount, per mitting a tax gathering, and then cxpedieLts, 1 no.vn in Co.irts as des potism, render them perpetual as J(o time, and illimitable as to , amount and indefinite an to application., Zhe Act of 1804. .rrovided for raiaiatr $100,000, and levied v a tax deemed sufficient to raio that sura U to;i years, tho money to bo raised for7a definite purpose and for no other. ' 7. . TIT1 The Art of lt72 takes from this fnn specifically raiped.and transfers $50, 000 to a building fund. The Act of 1874, as if encouraged by. the success of its predecessor, takrsfrom the same Soldiers' Bounty Fuud $100, 000. Thus we see an Act originally passed to raise $ 100,000 for tUo pur pose of paying enlisted soldiery Juu already, for aught the publicknow accom;.lished its original, purposey and in addition thereto has furnished J $150,0( 0 to build a State House. , If such a procedure is not a bold defi anco cf the Constitution, it is use less to conjecture a series of Legis lative nets that can bo dcem d Iu contravention of that instrument. New Mixes. Some new diggings have been found at' Cariboo. The most experienced and reliable mi ners are of opinion that the diggings will prove to be rich. Up: to "Wed; nesday, ot last week, 3.400 feet of new ground bad been stak&Vo'ff and recorded, and about two miles of tho creek is now held by four companies. Interests in the Peters Creek Com pany are held at high figures, and several interests in the Barkerville Company, adjoining their lower lines, and in which a pick has never been struck, havo changed hands at good prices. This "striko" is tho most impoitant that ha3 taken placo in Cariboo for a long time, as it will call tho attention of miners to arich bit neglected section of country A letter to tho Salem Record, from' The Dalles, says: "Si Wee I wrote1 you lost, the .Baptitt congregation have built themselves fine churchy nud, I understand, will dedicate It on tbe 27lh inst., at which time the Baptist association "asscmbJc,-in this city. The Episcopals are busily en gaged in building an edifice , for a w rshiping place, which when done,? will mako five places for public wor- skip in Tho Dalles, whose popula tion is only7 1,000 souls. Who ?can , say that its good citizens are not in . tcrcsted in 'Holy things as becomes an enlightened people?' " . A dispatch to the Pueblo Chiefs tain, from Grenada, Colorado, says that a band of about thirty buffalo hunters, under the leadership of Wro. Kirk, commonly called "Arizo-! na Bill," were attacked by about flf- ty Indians of the Comanche tribe,6n the ICth inst., at Aubrey's crossing ' on Bear creek, about fifty miles dis tant from Denver. A severe fight took place, the Indians finally being routed with a loss of more1 than half their number, while tho whites lost thirteen killed and nil more or lens -wounded. t ; ; A little girl at school read thus; ( "The widow lived on a linityacy, left , her by a relative." "What dittyou . call that word?" asked the teacher; "the word is legacy, not limbacy. 9 "But," said the little girl, Vmy bis ter says I mast say limb,1 not leg." ' Botlbn Courier, . . . "WeH, neighbor Slunimidge, how' much shall l put you down for to ' get a chandelier for tye church?"'" Neighbor S , " Shoo I what we want to git a chandyleer for? The' hain't nobody kin play on teritwhen ye git it?" J "IP