The new Northwest. (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, July 10, 1879, Image 2

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Newspaper Page Texti Wli lAHIt I- -M -rr- . , if THE BPEIHGEB EEIE8 tb.r s any other wrong existing HiUiV law :-- l n America tn-dav that U rrsater than -v Jf I. Y 10, 1879. the political disfranchisement and ' ! consequent wholesale legal robbery of u i. liKuLUi 8 JLHlXIi. lit Mrnlnn ii,. ikoitAiin. ' 1 - - u g MIO OT 1 1 ! Wl I VI uc h"uuuu.trtett ees to I lri ht wrong He, in the chimerical i 1 - " - lldea nuil II ii i ii f t Hint tWereJrfti Intrinsic, rti, persou! xlgb; inherent la the'WVa W toe Mwr-mpoi WllMl t Ue moral or social which 1 Is kind aie su' cornea a eorcenn w ho DJU! pall fcera'" fh A HOXE TOR INEBRIATES On of Portland's needs la a home for inebriate. ch an Institution can fee maintained at a medium expense, and will aaly eonpenaate ute oumy uy 4, iauiiBi-Har ' S Suted jOE. or the 2lb ult., after '? i sleepless night the re- truage premonition afterward for in a sail bereavement In a i, at eipeiwi i m ogeraUco W lie wosrhj re lease eiTnmrBM aud thereby place Wru.mayltriS wliere tn lia miv be ultimately cured of n clironle malady. VteafetftklHo tbis re mark through reading the "proof" of Mrs. Duuiway's vigorous editorial let ters, wherein she spares neithor high nor lowly, friend nor foe, kith nor kin dred, ami least of all her own indomita ble self, if by so doing she can probe an ulcer of oppression, or extract a barb of tyranny from the Bide of any patient who baa sutlered from injustice under the law or custom wbieb she Is pleased to eall the "aristocracy of sex." Some time! some of her best friends, equally in earnest with herself in the cause for whleh she is laboring, but more timid thau she, and consequently less able to use the scalped have criticised her quite severe! for ber thorough work aud fearteas speech. But time has generally proved ber decisions correct. She claims that she is working for a princi ple, and mast make effective work of ber endeavors or forego mem alto gether. Or one thing ber opponents may rest assured: She is working to win, and is winning her way wherever she goes; and the greater the opposition, the greater ber triumph everywhere, as is proven by the long subscription lists she is now sending every week from Southern Oregon, where, from her pub lished correspond ence ami tlio notioesof the press, we jndge that much effort has been made to check the progress of her mission among the masses, to whom uer views were eituer entirely new or wholly misunderstood prior to her visit. But as a political missionary she is Irrepressible. She will not leave any community where she begins her work till the backbone of opposition Is broken and this object once accomplished, her way is easy ever after in that locality. The amount of ignorance with which the world is governed is absolutely amazing. Especially Is it astonishing to note the errors afloat and the popular idea upon the Woman Suffrage quea tion wherever the movement has not been agitated. Mennd women make wild, extravagant theories upon the subject, and then organize themselves into a social element for the purpose of fighting their own mistaken fancies. It seems to be Mrs. Duuiway's mission to care them of their mistakes; and, though some of her surgical operations are painful, they are sale and effective, and we do not agree witli those who imag ine that her incisive methods are not necessary. In many cases the core must come through the pain of the pa tient whose disorder is being destroyed; but the ftain will soon be over It if it be but borne with fortitude. A wound al ways "feels good after It quits hurting," and the individual wounds she makes in earing the fallacies of the age, being ers- wttlcb atrsncli person , are nop- Hand thai one passes -ucb.aii objeot of pity wltuout tbeslirute. surprise or a thought of his condition without com-1 passion or an Idea of assistance. Occa sionally a womau is found staggering along, and attention is accorded ber im mediatelynot because she has com mitted a worse sin against society and morality, but because it is uncommon to see a womau who has fallen to such a depth of degradation. The latter sight is likely to cause one to think there is a necessity for some asylum for theno vie tints of tlioir depraved appetites, ami the remark is probably passed that It is bad ouough to see a man drunk, but iufiu Itely worse for a woman to be In the same condition. Why worse? Does not man commit as great a crime against the laws of God as does woman when ho controls his appetite to poorly as to get himself In a state of intoxica tion ? When a woman is found drunk In the streets, notice of her disgrace Is heralded through the newsnaners : if a . Sa. T theslgni mv-auy vise, nwjWS heed is hfg to. jVA rwttog-rffuMb,,,, jg , BurrodEHBut on th? streets of Port- tneatfcto iHmr iflvioeK. or at least ighteously, entitled to the ownersnip of our common mother, the terrestrial earth. Centuries ago, when William Penn was a living resldeut of the colo nies of tbe Xew World, that Illustrious philanthropist received a grant from the Knglish orown fur the State or Dela warea grant whleh the crown had no other right than the power of might to bestow. William Penn sold twelve square miles or tins lanil to one Law rence Springer fur twenty pounds ster ling. Springer then leased the laud to another party for a period of ninety- nine years. This lease, says the Truckee Jicpubliean, has now expired, and the property reverts to the Springers. An association of the Springer heirs has been formed, and legal steps are being taken to recover the land, upon which a city has been erected and stationary property placed that Is at present worth eighty milliou dollars. Xow, In the name of common justice, we beg leave to ask the law-makers of this nation to Inform us by what moral right these Spriuger heirs claim these possessions. What will they attempt to rouder as an equivalent for the outlay of $80,000,000 by the toil of more than twenty thou sand persons who have never heard of them, and to whose prosperity they have never coutributedonecent for the property which they now propose to confiscate? How many lessons like this must the people be compelled to learn through tbe bitterest experience before they will realise that it Is not tbe laud, but the improvements upon or adjacent to It, which constitute the basis of realty ? No doubt there are all kinds of people amorg the Springers good, bad and In different. They wouldn't be like other heirs If there were not. We suppose they will realise their golden dream. We have little doubt that the Springer heirs will form an extensive aristocracy by the confiscation of this $80,000,000 that really belongs to nobody except those who have tolled and bought and paid for tt. Hut where is the justice of this thing? And bow Is it all to end? The Springer heirs were born as such to quote an idea of Joslah Allen's wife, "unbeknown' to 'em." There are doubtless many thousands of heirs to the twenty thousand reat owners of the eighty million dollars' worth of labor and coin which has been expended on that tract of twelve square miles of hu manity's footstool to whicli they now lay claim. What is to be the heritage of thote heirs? what the fate of their progenitors ? By what principle of jus tice are tbe bony Angers of tbe dead an cestor of all the Springers galvanized into the power to re-lease for all time to come seven thousand six hundred aud eighty acres of the soil of Delaware, with all tbe appurtenances of tbe toll of his heirs and O, Jus tice ! what robberies are perpetrated In j 1,1 1 " ' " the wheelers know . a u'a loose aud on ber, and who finally allowed ber to i.i i.aeir." hp said, re-esslv. as. read- i come back to him for her children's JHg the hooka, mounting to his sane ana uis own convenience, i .cep- mmIi. m vtmr.iuelv damnlnfr tue ing a very nice nun prosperous uiiii.ub.j Mb that wouldn't hold the whip store, aud is wise enougli to buy her kseulns from lb taw of oor youth vie- sec Urns ol "ahrooic atottottsm." ThaWgiati ve'a household, the news of whleh more fsartlRir the young oeoomew-j reached us four days later In the shape of an obituary In tut) columns of the New 2JortTittVH6T of the same date we were roused from a couch of restless ness to try the realities of a huml red- mile journey by stege-coacbi our decli nation Jacksonville. When you go by rail or steamer you cannot possibly realize oue-half of tbe Incidents of your journey. The fatigue Is too slight, the transit too rapid, the comforts too many. In such cases you grow indolent as you travel, and if your way Is long you will unconsciously for got lo look about you. Very diilerent are your sensations when you mount tho box above tho stage-coach boot. and, seated behind the prancing six- horse team, suffer yourself to be strapped upon your precarious perch beside the obligiug driver, your main business for the next twenty-four hours being nn at tempt to hold your place aud ease, as well as maybe, thecoustnutly recurring jolts that shake you to a jelly and bruise you to a pulp. All day long the patient horses pur sue their winding way, In diligent obe dience to tbe driver's whip. The stage SEbJT3f8. HTATK A3 D TBHUTOBIAli. A great deal of hav is beinir satin eastern Oregon. The west side railroad grade is finished r - - . - . , - v., .mo iBIIIIWI IB UUIBII properly, Itf hubed the team to a tight goods In Portland and patronizo her to within a few miles of Corvallls. nin.WMloa weeraafeod at a fearful rate, own State, Instead of California. We're Weston Is building up rapidly. X obliged to make op for lost time. Horning, and break fast at Rock Point, fourteeu mile from Jacksonville, a pic turesque spot to which wo shall again allude before returuiog home. Then a throe hours' ride brin, us to Jaokfcou- ville, our place of present destination and we give a sigh of relief at the pros pect of speedy rest, as we look abroad over the landscape aud tbiuk of the near-by hotel. Away, away to the left, as the stage bounds, bumps and crashes along, we seo tho broad and ucauiuul valley oi Jtoguo Itiver, looking in the uncertain haze of the Summer morning like a vis- Ion of Paradise. Tho valleys are so level, the trees su graceful, and the whole so vastly magnificent that it would seem impossible that waut or greed or turmoil or politics or drunken- glad we've heard the other side of the sldewalfcsare among the improvements. she happens to be a mother, the head- road winds nlong through the laby Ing to the item recounting her shame is "ntiune mazes or narrow valleys mat probably "A Drunken Mother." If the torul "miles net ween the zigzag ueiguts husband of tho same woman were found wllicl stretch themselves away upon In the same condition, with his children ellher ham, ns though, sometime dur- roamiug the streets,. no notice would be a Ereat internal rupture in tue ages taken of him. The uext duv's miners Kone' luelr cl09eU Bi,,8 ,iaa P0"1! would not be horror-stricken because a leaving all exposed and drunken father had been found ou the streets "in a beastly state of intoxica tion, unable to take care of JUimself, much less his oflsprlng." If the news papers were to commence heralding the doings of drunken fathers, it is barely possible thure would be room lu their local columns for nothing else. bare the ere- while hidden rivers that come tearing down the gorges to form a patch of earth upon either bank, upon which men have founded farms and stock ranches, leav Ing only room between their borders for tho tortuous river and the winding road xVnd sucli ranches! Tho alluvial depos its of centuries of mountain side abra- We need an asylum where drunkards aIon ,lave 80 prodigally enriched them can bo kept from the public caze aud '' aimust wimoui numau euon, ine their depraved appetites recorded as 801 1 produces with amazing power and diseases. "Alcoholism" is a malady it requires careful treatment. We hope the friends of temperance in this city will give this matter their atteution. HYDEA.ULI0 MINING. Of nil tho great evils that have over cursed California, perhaps hydraulic mining has been productive of the worst results. The bays have been filled up goes barefoot. regularity. One old man occupies, or, rather, claims several thousand acres in oue locality, who has raised a bountiful crop of wheat every season for thirty years, without rotation or the idea of it upon a single field. Of course this man is rish: that is, as men count riches. But ho lives in a tumble-down old shanty aud dresses in patched butter nut, and his equally ragged old wife They have raised some- THE PUZZLED MARSHALS. The Confederates in Congress have thy name! What fools we are, aud motto in mprrv. are never lone in heal ing, and they always leave tbe patient f fr a oeotury to his well who is willing to be healed. U i9 their a-slgnees? O, Equity tbe opposition she meets that makes her campaign vigorous. The enemy will capitulate in Jackson county, as else where, before her work is finished there, and it is almost as pleasing to contemplate the fact that everybody will be happy after they are cured as it is to realise that she will eueeesefully extract tbe barbed arrows of prejudice from tbe ulcers of Ignorance. accomplished something by their care ful legislation during the last session. Their endeavors to save the country are already bearing fruit. As brilliant a move as tbey have made on the Con- creaeioual checkerboard was the refusal lo appropriate funds for the payment of the U. S. marshals. Commissioner Hanoi, of tbe Internal Revenue, says of the measure : I The failure to provide for the deputy mar shals In a virtual repeal nf tbecrimtnal portion of the law relating to Illicit distilling. Deputy collectors of Internal revenne have power to make seizures or properly for violations ol tbe law, but have not power to make arrests. If a person is delected In illicit distilling, he can not prevent the officers from seising the distil lery, hut be can stand still and defy arrest. By next Sunday every distiller In the country will know what the effect will be of having no deputy marshals to aid revenue officers, and I suppose the dishonest ones will seek to take advantage ol the crippled condition of the office. Attorney-General Deveas has advised the .U. S. marshal at Detroit, who wrote to him for Inetraetions, to perform the usual duties of his office, which he is In no way forbidden to do, to the ex tent of his power. Tbe law prescribes the duties and affixes certain fees, and, although no appropriation has been made for payment of tbe fees, Devens thinks there is good ground of obligation against tbe United Stoles where services of deputies are required and expendi tures are to be made. The marshals will have to rely on future legislation by Coup. re. ii be jaat to them. A post office agent has arrested a mail robber belonging to a gang of Texan highwaymen in Sew Mexleo, but can get no U. S. marshal to take him to iexas, where he was ordered removed for trial, as the marshals have no money to pay expenses. The agent has had to j provide provisions for the 800-mile jour ney and accompany and guard the pris oner night aud day himself. Tbe pris oner will probably eseape or be rescued before the long Journey is finished. When the country next selects repre sentatives from its recognized citizens to legislate for the public weal, tbe now dominant party will discover, to its re gret, the full significance of this rneas blind ! And bow like the living ghost of departed slavery does this phantom of landed property rise up to shako Its fossil hands In tbe face of humanity, and damp the iron chains of ideal own ership upon tbe accumulated toll of a departed century It is little wonder that eotnmuutsm Is gainiug power. This phantasy Is only the other extreme of a mighty wrong. The middle line encircles Justice, who recognises no individual ownership in air or earth or water, and protects no realty save that which is rendered just by occupancy, use, buildings, mining, roanufaeturiee, or other industries, In the meantime, while the world Is learning this important lesson, it would be well for everybody to overlook the musty records of tbe by-gone century and see whether or not a vandal horde of the greedy heirs of some departed an uestor have not a legat claim upon their homes and buildings, with "tailings" until, with the excep tion of Sau Francisco, there is scarcely a good harbor in the Golden State. The many millions of dollars of gold rescued by the hydraulic process are no compen sation for tho Incalculable damage done by filling up the rivers with sediment until every year the agricultural dls tricts are overflowed. The Sacramento was a fine river once ; but now It is a muddy, shallow stream, liable at any time to overllow the surrounding conn try, and almost unfit for steamboating purposes. Levees have been built at great expense, but are inadequate to keep the valley from being Hooded whenever there is high water. The levees aro liable atnny time to break' ages, and the consequences aro very dis astrous. The deposit of sediment dumped into the rivers by hydraulic miners was so great that tho-farmers of California were forced to take legal Judge's well-known domestic story. While men only had control of news papers, such men could pass for angels of mercy, no mutter how tyrannical liuil lim-n. But a better nay is dawning, and justice will yet assert her- 1 self everywhere, uot even exceptiug in season isxnress xuncii, in Baker eount. will be hereafter known as Weatherby. J. II. Volliner lias been appointed agent of the O. S. r. Co. at Lewistoo, Idaho. . Over $10,000 will lie taken from tho Hamilton diggings near Uniontown this the men's rights courts. But, to return to the men who run at our approach. They remind us of the old school-day rhvme. which, with a little variation, rends as follows: " WV've charged upon a flock of gees And put them all to night, Ami not one sturdy gander Has thought to show ns flghL" We bear letters of introduction from various lower valley digni taries to various masculine nabobs in this beautiful region, and, after we've had timo to see what we can do on our ,l,nl,t r anl.r Af ... I iicus, ui suuuuu, i own resDousl ui 1 1 ty, just as we useu to oe of salmon on tbe head of the valley. hemmsd in by COmpelled to do everywhere, we'll pre- tbe season jui an ampliitueaier oi niuowy inns, sua ... the letters, and then, dear, oonfi- The fruit c Jacksonville, in solitary state, like a ..,,. ,,- mi toil vnn oil nimnt land will bei reigning queen who scorns to hold com- u fun- Tuere are a would-be prominent men in tbis place who have tried their best, because of their ignoranco of our position, to snub and ignore aud ridicule us, who, did they but know what their impudence will cost them, would bow like moukeys and chatter Ilko magpies. It's too jolly foranythiug. On the Fourth we are to orate by special invitation at Willow Springs, although tbe regular order of business was arranged before our arrival. We also acknowledge a like invitation from The Fourth was enthusiastically cele brated all over the State where the rain would allow. - - Sumner Barker, of Yakima Citv, W T., died on U- 50th ult. of apoptety, aged 85 years. Over sixty of moaalnn vtrr n ported on Myrtle Creek, Hovtberii On- gon, last weea. One tlHina)-Ucr o&cood land on tbe North Uopqua Rijnarwere sold '-t week for SIOJOOO. P A IhiI named IOOg Ih drowo. fa Lapwai CreelridrnkOL font week. Ph body was reeo' Hume Cannes muuion with her surrounding subjects. The little wooden hotel, in which we find cosy quarters, Is a model of neat ness and comfort, and is kept by Mr. and Mrs. Savage, who certainly deserve the patronage they get. There nre ever so many well-filled stores, aud a bank, of which C. C. Beekman is president. There are two churches, three livery stables, three hotels, three millinery stores, aud more lady clerks thau in any other town on the coast. There is a notable lady here, Mrs. P. J. Byan, who ' I n.l.nl.l,. A miner on picked up a together weig Grain and Silver Lake, W, and promise an The Comstoe destroyed by fi S5.000. It will nes- Mm wmtjBier uur. . rojgeHNHlWnUrof At,- ManeLUkarriea are n il Hi an saageMKHaUaA I 'Vicinity of Jy we!! arrest. iy was iDBuran jo reboilt. was editor of a newspaper in Indiana at JacksonviIIe( though ,t came too late for whero about a dozen sous, who will In herlt these possessions some day, and will, It Is to be hoped, prove leas greedy than their parents, and enjoy a little more of life than tho bare, comfortless idea of struggling through a chequered existence for the sole purpose of ascer taining how much they can accumulate and how little they can use with benefit to tliemseives. Xoou, and Canyonville. Here we en counter an intelligent landlady, an hour's rest, and a good dlunor. Then we jouruey on, sometimes passing for miles through a tree-studded gulch, sometimes slowly climbing great moun tains and again rapidly dashing down them, and at suudown we reaoh a beau tiful and fertile valley where there is a store and stage station: and here we halt for supper, to be met by genial Mrs. Kitchen aud her amiable daugh ter, Mrs. .Levins, the latter a whilom the opening of the rebellion, who Is now heavily engaged with her husbaud in the dry goods business. Mrs. Plymale, estimable wife of Hon. W. J. Plymale, who was once a member of tbe Legisla ture, is one of tbe most active workers in tbe Woman Suflrage field whom we havo met anywhere. She Is sharper than lightning, and it is little wonder that evil-doers fear her. In addition to the care of her family of eight children, she is a high o nicer among the Odd Fel lows aud in tbe Grange, is a writer for the newspapers, and a good public speaker. We had crept, more dead than alive. to our room at tue hotel, ami, after a bath and Iuucheou, had spent several hours in a vain attempt to coax jaded nature into a tranquil slumber, when, to our great delight, Mrs. Plymale, ac companied by Mrs. McDouougb, of Willow Springs, was shown to the room, where we plaunetl for a campaign, which began on Sunday evening, the 29th ult., in tbe Methodist Church, be fore a large aud, for the most part happy audience, though the subject, "woman and tue Jilbie," proveu so clearly tbe palpable fallacy of the "one sided curse" theory that several man's rights fogies got awfully scared to think we'd knocked their Bible pins from un der 'em, and they have since ondeav ored to move heaven and earth to pre- acceptance, and we are physically uu able to do the necessary traveling and make the two addresses in the heat of one tropical day. A. S. D. July 2d, 1S70. EE0ENTEVEKTS. Bennett's yacht Jeannette sailed on the Sth for the Arctic seas. Mortis won the professional scullers' race of three miles near lioston. The telegraph reports the usual quota of wtfe-muruers auu suloltles mis weeK, 900 bales of In Boar- la all in .i. Grain crops r'- JBity of Alaea never looked bilt,i. "alt crop . a g od average., Jj0W are not extra good. ' The Ancient Order i t Hibernians, of the State of Oregon, ill bold tbeir an nual convention at f aleaa daring the latter part of this l The Grangers ! wool stored in thetrj burg. As soon aa I will be offered fori Colonel T. Edg Ittorian tbat tiia en route lo Astoria for tbe aquina Bay j A corresuonden t of I Oreaonian states thaltne boaw of Myers and Smith, who were killed' fey the In dians last Summer, are lying anlraried iu full view of tbe roKU. , Geowe Lone stabhec 8. Farrelt. a sec tion boss on the O. C. R. B , at Com- A Boston dispatch says the Unitarian i,cannot possibly live. The cause I . . m 1 . .., Clfimt. ifn n htiritoil in Mini - . . . . of the artray is not Known. Tbe "Columbia. Riv-r Fishermen's Protective Union" bas been .uenrpo- rated. The object is to sueare uniform, action on tbe part of the flaheroen on matters aUeeting tbeir interests. Efforts are betas aaaoa to secure a raja ai mm? iiwgmfMraark teMawthe entioes of iron Eat methods to abate the nuisance. The schoolmate of our younger brothers and matter was finally decided iu their fa- sisters at Forest Grove, and the formor vor, after a hard struggle. The trouble a specially wide-awake Woman Suflra is all to be experienced over again In gist. After a supper fit for a king, aud Oregon. Some of the rivers in tbis a change of drivers as well as horses, wo State are beginning to show the effect of Journey on and ou, Into the heart of the the constant acumulalioti of settlings, night, luto the heart of the mountains, It appears that nothing Is to be gained over zigzag roads aud past many wind- by the experience of California iu tbis ing turns of tho busy Rogue Itiver, our Church at Scituate was burned on tbe 4th. The American Hebrew Union of Con- irrecatious is lu convention in 2sew lork. It has been decided that tobacco can go through tbe mails as fourth-class matter. Prudent for Pacific TJidvenK at Foresw nv rr-i tt I r, . . . , I r- . , t M .u I . i me neurew unvenuuu is euucatvui-i tjrove. to suimiv us durjw oi iu ibv- ing to interest Israelites iu agricultural Dr. Marsh, ami in in meantime ail tn pursuits. regular classes win be pcovwea tor. Burglars got $700 from the safe iu the Walla Walla Watcfmum: The western post office at Marysvllle, Cal., on Mon- extension of oer loe railroad la pro day night. . pressing finely. July let they drove the Rev. Herman liisbee. nastor of Haves first spike. TWO BOoarM ana any me;i Place Unitarian Cuurob, Boelou, died are now at work on It, and lalli and ties are moving raptaiy to toe trot i. On the 20th hist. (b w1f Bridge across Salmon itiver was lues. A band of aud tbeir weight an. Utbe .force of the current broke one of tb 'mala cables. Several bead of cattle alid one horse were drowned. last Sunday. Spatlenbuber, who killed Ivison at Lebanon, Pa., tn December last, was hanged on tbe 3d. In many places trrowinjr crops In Wisconsin aud Minnesota have been damaged by storms. The Third Presbyterian Church in vent the men from attending other lec- Trenton, X. J., was destroyed by fire ou tures. The masses of women nnd the u,e evening oi menu. smartest men will attend, in snite of ew York dispatches say the Orange- , .i i r. .. , i uieu uave ueoiueu in ceieuruie tue iwi mem, nowever, uiougu tue oewwei, iu by excur80ns aud picnics. tryiug to carry water ou ootn suouiaers, Tue Altornev-General has decided gave a very flattering and yet altogether that Captain Fades is entitled to $500, Mr. Edwin Cartwribt, through his attorneys, Messrs, Jahmmm, MeCown A Maerum, bas onw anted miu aginst the Oregon r.od CaJttaniia Rail road Company to recover M 1,500 for tbe loss of bis right arm, laoonoeqneoce of injuries received, when tlw Albaaj ex press train was wreeKeo ai toe rjortb. line unfair account of the first lecture, iu the 000 for a 26-foot channel at the Missis- of Clackamas county, in April, 1878. matter. Southern Oregon is just now making complaint. That section, be- iug the great mlnlug section of the State, is the first to feel the result. Hydraulic companies should be restrained from j depositing "tailings" in streams. The bed of Scott Itiver is filling up more every year, and, If the evil Is not retne- companions for miles the beautiful deer, that are so little afraid of the coach and team that they amble gracefully up to us In tho waning twilight and gaze wistfully Into our faces, regardless of tho murderous wishes of the driver, who vainly swears for a revolver. Then, as darkness takes the place of twilight, the died, much of the most fertile land of glorious stars come out in myriads and the valley will be rendered worthless. Tbe following dispatch appeared in the Oregtmian of tbe 4th Inst., headed "Outrages by Indians:" "The Indian Department announces that 700 horses have been run oil by white men from tbe Red Cloud agency, and the military authorities cannot interfere on account of the oe eomUaius law of last year, although the stolen horses are driven past Camps Sheridan and Robinson." Your Eastern exchanges, not knowing that your telegraph editor was anxious to commence celebrating, will consider you so blinded by prejudice against the red men that you cannot understand English. Justice Field, of the U. S. Supreme Court, has decided in the U. S. Circuit Court at San Francisco that the ordi nance providing for the cutting ofi of queues of Chinamen sent to the county jail, is 6peoiaI legislation of the charac ter prohibited by the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and oonsequeutly Invalid. Judge Sawyer, of the Circuit Court, .nncurretl in the deolslon. Mr. Picker ing, of the Call, will now have another opportunity to mourn that LUinese criminals may use their queues to make ropes and escape from their prisons. The 1'hr etiological Journal opens Its sixty-ninth volume with a variety of themes which must please every reader. A sketch aud excellent portrait of Dean Stanley first attract the eye. Next we find a seasonable artlele entitled "Fire Flies," In tbe course of wblch these brilliant objects of the summer evening aro well described. Place Is given to Mrs. Lock wood, tbe Washington law yer. Tbe portrait certainly indicates a woman of marked intellectual ability. There are other articles upon a variety of subjects. The departments headed "Science and Agriculture Mentorlal," "Editorial," etc., appear to be more crowded than usual, and treat of their several themes In a very direct and In- Salaries of school teachers are being reduced all over the State. Of course this is proper, for a great majority of them are ladies, and have no polltloal Influence. When you are voters, you oan select your school directors, and man you win nave your services as welt ure, as well as those it failed to engraft i remunerated as those who nownse the nn rhncffltiifA linnUft I hnllnt. Iiang their flaming jewels iu the limpid heavens, fit monarchs of the mighty solitude. Sometime after midnight, we reached a way station, where we changed horses, and, after driving onward for a mile or so, discovered that the whip, that Indispensable weapon without which uo driver could think of hazard ing his reputation as a modern Jehu, had been lost or left behind. The driver suddenly gave us the lines, and, alight Ing, loosened the off tug of the off wheeler, so that the coach might not run many yards without a complete smash-up if the team should get fright ened, and, leaving us there alone In tho darkness, so securely strapped In the perch behind tho apron tbat we couldu't extricate ourself from the buckles, though we tore our gloves to shreds in the attempt, hurried back with a lamp, evident hope to aid the opposition and mollify us. But tbe editor really meant to compliment us, and it isn't his fault that, after we had given him arguments, wo couldn't give him brains to compre hend them. The Times, tho other news paper here, has not, at this writing, spokeu, though the editor Is an able young man, and we look for courtesy from him when be does speak. lie is a financial success, and is consequently above being a hack for weak-minded mau's rights simpletons. One peculiar ity of the men has amused us grently. Quite a number of them have run like Turks or turkeys at our approach One, a merchant, who Is a commis sioned Brigadier-General of tbe borne guards under Governor Thayer, scooted structive manner. The macaziue is now published at $2 a year or 20 cents a ,, . trlfla ..... ,.... ml single numDer, oy man, post-paiu. au- t though to the solitary wanderer It ., C? T -fl t. r .iil.llalia -97 iiresso. o. w, ,wwh., opempj nearer twentv hours. Once. liroauway, ow iorK. while the stillness was so profound that we fancied we could almost hear the J. A. Druramond, Supervising In- twinkling of the distant stars, we were spcctor-General at Washiugton, has en- startled by a sudden "loo" from some dorsed tbe decision of Cbas. C. Bemls, awakening cow in ambush, which so Supervising Inspector of the First Dis- frightened the near leader that he trlct, who reversed the decision of the danced an equine hornpipe. Maybe we local Inspectors of Portland. Captain didn't pull the ribbons and say "Whoa, Carroll Is now relieved of all ceusure. beauties!" and "Oh, mercy!" aud "Why did the driver cripple the coach Tho Albany Democrat puts forth its beforo he left it?" aud many other things rooster in its issue on the Fourth, re- which can't now oe remeniDereu. nut questing its subscribers to consider itan that oil wheeler proved a veritable eagle. Are you tired of waiting for an orfci. Ho acted as though he was onnortuultv to show your bird in jubi- fully aware of the situation, and felt latlnc over a Democratic victory, that the entire responsiuiiuy oi tue Ttrn,rTirnu-n? safeiv of the United States mall was resting on his tug-burdeneil shoulders, Another woman has crowded some "Why uia you unuueu iue iug, iurow worthy tax-paying brother out of an I off the brake, and leave me wholly at office, and one more person may be the mercy or tue uoreesr- ve asueu, forced to till the soil. Mrs. Meuama nervously, as tue anver came pauuug Smith has been appointed postmaster! up, at Mehama, Marion county. "The bones won't start when one-of slppi passes, The wheat harvest in the Middle States has beeu very large, fully fifteen percent greater than lust year, winch was also a heavy year. A man and wife named Blake have beeu charged with having beaten an adopted girl, twelve years old, to death, in unelua county, is. 1 The following post offices have been added to the list of money order offices Iu Oregon: lake View, Unkville, Jlou mouth, Prlnevilfe, Weston. A Xew York dispatch of the 7th stated that the advance iu the price of wheat is attributed to unfavorable advices of the condition of European crops. A Miss Horton, of Washiugton, has sued John II. Morgan, son of Senator Morgan, of Alabama, for breach of promise and $20,000 damages. Miss Jesoio Dunbar, aced 22 years, was burned to death at Poughkeepsle, The directors of the . out at tho back door of his store as we N. Y., on the 4th, boys having ignited entered, and we could easily have cap- her clothes witu nre-crach.ers. tured tbe wholo concern with a single A ,re . ' , , , , , , . , , b morning of the 4th, destroyed the post blank cartridge if his younger brother m he AtnUerjt House, Amherst liaun't nelil tne fort like a man. in this s vines Bank, a instance, the Governor, who is usually correct in his conclusions, gave the commission to the wrong person. Surely he could not have been personally ac quainted with little Tommy Ream, or Savings Bank, and other buildiugs. When an excursion boat lauded at Trentou, K. J., on the 4lh, the wharf gave way, throwing some seventy-five persons into the river. Three were drowned and several injured. A cyclone In Goodhue county, Minne- be would not have removed a veteran of gotai on the nlcht of the 3d and morn thirty years' standing like General Ross ing of the 4th, destroyed an immense to make room for a brigadier who amount of property, including ; the or- would run Irom a lady whom everybody . mb fZrL v I knows bad no evil designs upon him The deputy eherifl was another protector of the public interests who deserted bis post at our approach, although our old friend McPherson bad come along to in troduce and protect him, and, even if we had had any evil designs upon him or bis office, would not have permitted us to Injure a single hair of his cowardly bead. Every city has Its dignitaries, and prominent among those of Jacksonville is Madame Jane Holt, who keeps a famous aud well-regulated hotel, and who Is granddaughter to the French Duke de la Ro Boam, whose family was one of the most powerful in France dur ing the palmy days of the Bourbon dy nasty. This (Wednesday) evening is lo be the fourth occasion of our protracted meet ings. The audiences on week nights are not large, as it Is near the glorious Fourth. Tbe evenings are short and everybody is busy. We forgot to say that Judge Prim Is another protector of the people's Interests who ducks his head nnd runs when he sees us. His protected and supported wife, whom he once banished from her homo and chil dren for two years because he was weak enough to permit somebody to slander There has been a steady decrease In the number of lives lost by accidents on steamboats during several years, whicli Is attributable to tbe increasing effi ciency of steamboat inspection. But 105 lives were lostou steamboats during tbe past year. Laborers on Lone Wharf at Oakland. Cal., have struck for $2 instead of $1 60 per day. All Chinamen were recently uiscnargeu ana wuite laborers em ployed. Trouble Is feared should the contractor attempt to substitute Chinese in place or tne strikers. W. L Moore, sheriff of Inyo county. Cal., was instantly killed on the 3d while performing his duty as an officer. by a shot received from one of two men engaged In an altercatiou. Both men, Michael Welch and Henry Tessler, are under arrest. It is uot known which one tired tbe shot. AtLnkeQuinsecnamond on tbe after noon of tbe Sth, the steamer Isaac Da vis, loaded with passeucers, careened. and tbe hurricane deck broke off. Scores of passengers were thrown into the lake. There were about two hundred passen gers on the boat one hundred on the hurricane deck and as tbey pressed to one side the boat careeued over away from the wharf and caused the crowd to rush to that side, and threw the strug gling mass luto the water. As the boat gave way, the roof of the upper deck came crashing down on the eugiueand broke of!" the safety valve, causing the steam to rush out, tbe fearful noise ad ding new terror. Ten persons were killed and five injured. Aatorfa and Win- nemucca ltaliroaa aiuisa loiiowa: u. Leinenweber, W. D. Ifare, Col. James Taylor, T. Bailey, J. H. P. Gray, James W. Welch, J. l A. Bowlhy. At a meeting of the ilireeCeri ea the d, offi cers were elected aa-fbttovs;: C. Lein-i weber, President; J. Q ABowlby, Vic President; E. E. Holiieo, Secretary W. Case, Treasurer. It is said that, osaiorltv of the i ma- tilla Indians, while oot altogtn'er a'. isfied with the Government' de..'it with them, will accept tbe terms airti j u non. All the older aad more civilized of the tribe are dipoeaCe take land u severalty as ottered, while tbe of',e. - will prefer to co on otnes reeer ,-iiti - or wander off among U wild tr l. None of these Indiana like-the idea ' recognizing Moses aa tbeht chief, or : -ing upon a reservation with him. The following explanation is given by a Salem correspondent of tbe Orry- nian concerning the closing of the deaf mute school : "Tbe appropriation la oot exhausted, although there la aa Insuffi ciency to run the school daring tbe ! years, as I utemied by tne iaa L,ectaiatre. Teachers having resbzned, bowaver. the board took tbe opportunity of elos- ine; the school UBtn anew organisation can be eflected, when) It will Probably ue reopeueu auu cerrinu uu pum tne appropriation is exhausted." r It tbe nMitki r0BEIH pws. Grant arrived at Yoboh&ma 6th from China. Rio Janiero is tbe aperrr of- riots almost daily. Prospects fdr th eeeaatioa of the fam ine in Cashmere improve. Tile West Indian sugar crop- this year will reach lu.uuu nopnaaoa. Baron Rnthschtld'a boefueak carried on by his three son. The recent eleetioHk show that tbe liberals are losing grafted lo Aaatria. Marshal Mao Mbhomvrlll aat be per mitted to attend Lbe Triooe iMfariai'- funeral. A banquet in celebration of Independ ence Day was given at Wietaainister Palace Hotel, LflBOOnX ht Fourth. Reports of negotiation vbr peacr between the British and th Zajae a' conflictiug and contradictory tbJiwee- The industrial exhihitloa coggeti) plated iu Moseowtti 18& baa boeo kos -poned a year, incofieequeni'aof MlW' of trade and a .K&nerai feedaf of inse curity. JhLjS' Mr. Lepere, UHgFSilKich. Miojptar a the Interior, esiJlnVtaa that, lR aoor quonce of a bad'erap, urciiaeeaaof fo. eign grain will amount to twaat B31 lion pounds sterling. War news from South AaMfte -vague aud indefinite. However, It. is known that tbe Chilian Ironcladaneo Euculada was much daaiagod liteoilest with the Peruvian' ram H.iittear and suffered considerable loss of 1 f recently It is reported that CSoloms hss been cap tured by the allied futs. A Bolivia', captain is a prisoner ' r t-.v'ng beeo r a conspiracy to assa&.uaU-tLfe aeuetM-in-chlef of Bolivia.