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ffieefefg g)regon gtaf tsmcn. SLEI. WDa8SDAT IAY 1, U71 C APITA!. AM ULBOR. John Burnett is still demngoguing on tto natural Antagonism ot capital :arrd labor. We lettrnthatat Engene "and 6tber potoMa south, he repeated the 'illy,. assertion with which he eom lmericed tire campaign, that there Is and always has teen a war between capital ind labor for Uie mastery of the world. Bilrtiett, of course, announces himseli as tlie champion of tbe laborer, and goes on n crusade against the capital wind-mill. The effort is to create a lirejndice against monied men, which U as unjust toward them and their wealth as it is false to tbe best interests of the laborer. Let ns suppose that la bor should get the upper hand and gov ern with a single view to the interests of the laborer, what would it do? Would it invite or repel capital? Would it take steps' to abut capital up in buik vaults or drive it to other parts of the world ; or would It, with a lib eral and enlightened policy, so legls . Lite as to make capital feel secure, to make it advantageous tor men of weal th to come among as, reside with us and launch their money out among us In business enterprises ? Common sense - can make but one answer. Apply John Burnet's nonsense to affairs in tills State and what would be the result? Every dollar Invested in railroads, in manu factures, in costly buildings, in steam boats and steamships, in trade and in public and private Improvements of . whatever nature depending on money for their execution, would be with drawn and the country would be left entirely in the hands of the laborer laborers without employers. Then John Burnett's millennium would be gin ; but it requires neither philosophy nor wisdom to sec at once that it would not long be either popular, profitable or comfortable. There would be no gains for capital nor rewards for labor, nnd both would, as a logical result,suf- The fact Is that it is only through the accord of capital and labor that either can maintain " an existence. Ther must be capital to give the la borer! em ploy ment, and laborers to give capital the means of increase. It is false that there is any natural antago nism between the two. There may be exceptional 'aggressions by one upon the other labor against capital as well as capital against labor but these must in the nature of things, be temporary in their operation, because an injury inflicted by one upon the otlier invari ably reacts and the aggressor becomes an final sufferer with the other. To illustrate : Suppose all the laborers of Oregon were to "strike." and say we will have no more fellowship with cap ital is it not clear that the railroads tlie steamboats, the manufactories, and all the enterprises that arc now awak ening the State Into vigorous life, must stop? These having ceased, what Is CJ o there left for labor to subsist upon, and what remains for the laborer to do but go back to primitive barbanlsm? or what for capital to do but to retire from the state and go where It may find its natural alliance with labor? Suppo-, on the other hand, capital should re solve to employ no more labor is It not equally clear that while liirmrirQ tvnnli 1 1m tliniwn Inln flisrwa apilal mnt also begin at once tn waste and Anally cease to exist? There is not such a. thins in political econo my as tlie possibility of capital and la bor getting alotig, the one without the other; and it Ls Blmply the most Illogical nonsense to say, where any two things are thus vitally dependent on each oth er, that they are naturally antagonistic. The attempt to create enmity or jeal ousies of tills sort by deceit or practices upon ignorance, is the most reprehen sible sort of folly, and the most dis gusting kind of demagoguism. and es- ' pedally so when the effort is made against any single interest, as in the case of John Burnett's tirades. ir ". r t ..it . t! i ai .r. J Jit-ara, ui uie Jjiiiieuil. is sur fing Hp with a long pole, one B. Gold smith who, while Mayor of Portland, elected by Republican votes, was a con spicuous lobbyist in the last Legisla ture in favor of the $75,000 Democrat- " io steal from' the school fund for the "Willamette Falls Canal and Lock Co., and tlie infamous foreign Police bill for Portland. Goldsmith Is mnby Teal The pair of them probably smell t mice in regard to what may come out of the next election, and are preparing for emergencies. While Jo. Teal re main steadfast as a rock to his cardin al Democratic article of fiilth look out for the main chanee he instructs his ' man to wheel about, and "jump Jim Crow" Into the very center of Repub lican politics. Joe's idea unquestiona bly Is, that in case of a Repulican ma jority in the House,. B, G. can lobby there while he will continue to run the ' ' Democratic Senate. A "friend at court," you see, in any event. The local affairs of Multnomah county may . be none of our business, but we object, after what happened in 1870, to tlie recognition, of either Joe. Teal or B Goldsmith as a leader in the Republi can party of the State. In his speech last night, Xesmlth neglected to abuse. Ben Holladay. This was inexplicable to Democratic minds, and Xesmtth will will proba bly have to do some strong explaining before he will stand well with his par- ty again, wo can nowever, tell our ' Democratic friends wliat was the mat ter:" The people on the West Side haven't got auy railroad yet, nnd they ; waut Ilclladay to build them one, be fore they venture to launch their than- derbolts of abuse at him. The Cock-a- doodle-doo of Linn was not embar rassed by such considerations, and be went after Ben Holladay with such a medley of abusive epithets 'as dls- : gusted his entire audience.- We do not, however, expect to hear that Mr. IIol- . laday has left the State, on account of Helm's hostility. Brick Pomeroy has all along been , the idol and die oracle of the Democ racy of Oregon. Brick is a shrewder man than Grovcr and pretty near as sbrevd as John F. Miller or Jo. Teal. .1 He seems to know very well what's -' the matter with the Democracy In ' these latter days, as may be seen in the following quotation. He says: The Democracy is damned. There u-,i rkimik-mfln nflrfv Anni tint tfr has been opiated, drugged, poisoned, emascnL-itmk dishonored, by tbe very men it helped frWmake. It lias re- treated from every held sought refuge in every hiding place slept in every outltouse, turned its back upon princi ple, played with poppies and eaten the culm, passive , sleep ! ' -I,, i - i i f - "Broi lko" is indignant iiml sor- ' rowful became a political clu i i Port land has declared Itself opposed to tlie . ... ....... . .. 1 1 nl 1 ..in iwt !-, nfl.KV . ; flu:iecs In electlous. The influence Is I at "i; j. lie " li i l counted on being 'iipt(.'J souir. POLITIOAI. CIIAFF. Hie Lion of Linn was a lyin' at the Opera House, last night, and no mis take The Canal. Lock and Dam job is sometimes called the Dam swindle for short. John Burnett cairns from Missouri in an ox-cart and is going to Congress in a horn. ' A convict running away from Bill Watkinds is a scamp and Bill running after birr, is a scamper. The Albany Democrat in a lauda tory notice of John Burnett tails him a well re(a)d man. How can John lielp the tint of his Visage and the color of his hair? The Yreka Union says that Burnett Is a young man of " plain " appear ance. That's so; and, he is further more the dea'dest flat that ever got on tlie political stump in Oregon. At the close of our last Legislature a Democratic member paid his whisky bill at Plum's out of his salary, and had just ten cents left. He took just one more of tbe same." C. G. Curl bored the people of Sclo with silly twaddle last night. If Curl undertakes to tell what he doesn't know he will not visit Salem again during the present century. Some of. our good Republican friends, blinded by the dust of the po litical highway, have inadvertently got into the Democratic hearse. Beware, gentlemen, some of you may be bvried bp mistake ! The military looby who quills for tlie Herald has been filling the col umns ot that paper for two weeks with Incoherent bosh about Republican af fairs in Multnomah. He acknowl edges In yesterday's Issue that lie hvfi made a fool of himself. The dispatches say that tlie cliair in which John Adams sat when he signed the Declaration of Independence, will be sent to Cincinnati for the use of the preskling officer of the Liberal Con vention. The plate and spoon that Oliver Twist had in the poor house would have been more appropriate. Like little Oliver the instigators of that conference are hungry for "uiore.'' Everybody knows that tliere is to be a Convention In the porcine city of Cincinnati in the month of May, but few are aware of its true object. The object of the Convention is to make preparations for celebrating tlie ob sequies of the late Democratic parry. A few Republicans will fall in line with tlie Democratic mourners In order to make tlie procession respectable in point of numbers. Gen. Xesmlth once said that, when he walked up for the first time to the Capitol at Washington and stood with in it vestibule, he fell to wondering how it had ever happened that lie had been elected U. 8. Senator. Nesmith is not the only man In whose mind such a wonder has arisen. A' gentle man who sat beside as at the Opera House Friday evening, queried, " Is it possible that Oregon ever sent that man to reprpent tis In the Senate of the United States?" The hollow- ne, shallowness nnd sham of the ex- Senator's argument prompted and jus tified the query. ' Minor politicians in Linn are, in a Pickwician sense, pugnacious. The other day we had tlie information that the rival candidates for Justice of the Pence In Harrlsburg prednct, ' had made appointments to bang each other argumentatlvely. at various and -win- dry points In their precinct. Now we have the announcement that one of the candidates for coronet has thrown down the gauntlet to opponent. chivalrously daring sakl adversary to come out and show forth his claim to tbe offlee of coroner. Visions of pis tols, coffee,, etc., for two. Ben Hayden celebrated the Fourth of July and St. Patrick's Day In the most unique and novel manner at Dai la last week. He tied a lighted can dle to a dog's tail and let him loose upon that pastoral village. This, we infer, is Ben's methot1 of making it warm for his political enemies, and he has an illustrious precedent in Samp son's firing the tails of foxes and turn ing them out among the Philistines Ben feels good and has a right to his Democratic torch-light processions. Jo. Teal has informed the Albany Democrat and tlie Democrat has in formed tbe pnbllc (by request) that the Willamette Falls Canal and Locks will certainly be finished by the 1st of Jan uary next, and that the Company will Immediately offer to turn the works over to the State, for tlie cost ol con struction. This is the key note to an other huge jobbing swindle. The Mercury of this week makes an officious effort to appear to be the cliampion and organ of the recalcitrant Republicans of Marion county. We should really like to know if it speaks : "by authority." .The Mercury's con duct is no more nor less than we had expected, but it strikes to It places somebody in rather a humiliating , position. The Herald beiDg driven to tbe wall iu the discussion of tbe Lock and Dam swindle has abandoned Its defence of . that plundering job .and., now asserts tliat It was n ItepMica measure. Why, it will be claiming next that there is no Willamette river and no such organization as the Democratic party! . n ii ii - Black Joe has been too rough with Sorrel Top. He siloed him deeper than he inteuded during the discussion , here, and it is now feared that tbe Hon. John will prematurely yield the ghost and that his remains will become offensive before Joe can plant him un der the bunch grass of Eastern Ore gon. Ben Hayden is not a candidate for Congress, as some have supposed. He will start East within a short time on buslucsi connected with a new patent for buzzard rooste. Tlie roosts, we may remark, are Ingeniously construct ed of Democratic arms and legs , protruding from Federal prisons. The Oregoulan says it is reported that the Jasper Johnson has gone to Cincinnati, and wants somebody to answer the conundrum, "Who sent Mid?" We don't know posltlvle, but the last time we saw tlte aforasaid Jas nr, he was talking confidentially with Gov. Miller Tbe Lion C) t Linn appeared at the Opera limM but evening In his great In.'jclr1iT of tbe Wliangdoodle. The ywrjsman really gives some proroUe ot watu as a Whangdood-li-4. - At tbe Kat, the Cincinnati Repub licans are called " Assistant Demo crats." Truthfully dewipttvo. ' 5 Xeinltu'f siieoch at tlie Opera House, la t evening was largely "characteristic." . ABOUT IT TAXES. Gov. Millers GroVer organ wails dolorously about tile announcement that tlie city government of Salem will cost this year $1 4,000. When people fall to wailing, they always have a ten dency to Indulge in much hyperbole; and tlhat's what's tbe matter with Gov. Miller's G rover organ. It supposes, for instance, that the county levy will be 22 mills. We are at a loss to know why it did not say 62 mills, and thus make the case of grievance a strong one. As tlie levy lias not yet been made, one figure at a rjues is pretty near as good as another, Tlie organ exclaims witb dramatic horror, "eight mills and fourteen thousand dollars, city tax !" And says : " A few years ago when Messrs. Gray, Holman and Miller were In the Council, our city tax was only 3l. or four mills." It, however, omits to state that the Coun cil of last year, of which Miller and three otlier Democrats were members, left-a debt of $2,500 entirely unprovid ed for, and that the increased levy of this year was made to defray tlie usual city expenses and pay off that debt. Tlie estimates ot the Councd for regu lar and unavoidable expenses, are the same, precisely, as those of tlie preceding year. The levy on the as sessed property will raise only about $10,000 ; the balance to lie raised upon licenses nnd fines. . If we are not wrongly informed, the Council ot "a tew years ago," when Messrs. Miller, Holman and Gray were members, left also a debt to tlielr successors, if the present Council were disposed lo make a good show ing, in the same way, they could levy 3 mills nnd let. tlie future pay the debt But they have acted upon the princi ple tliat li is better to meet the old Council's responsibilities and pay the debt. "That's what's the matter with the higher rate of levy tills year. If the indebtedness inherited from the last Council be taken from the total ex penses of this year. $14,000, the actual expenditures of the year will be less by $1,000 than the actual expenditures of 1871 ; and less bv over $000 than the actual expenditures of 1870. Had the old Councils paid their own debts, the showing iu favor of the present ad ministration would have been still bet ter, the expenditures for the first quarter of this year foot up $3,179 24, of which about $2,000 have been ex pended for water, gas, police and city officers, under the regular workings ot the city laws, while the balance has been paid tor incidental and not recur ring expenses improvement of streets and public property. Since the Mercury has chosen to mention the names of Messrs. Gray, Holman and Miller In favorable con trast with the present City Couneilmen. as administrators of public affairs and as tax-payers, we propose to show how justly and well it sounds for that paper to say : "Our case is all the more des perate from the fact that, with few ex- i-eptions, the men who govern us pay no tax themselves. They keep their proerty In the name of another or set up humbug orrealiiidebtednessagainst the valuation and leave others to pay the taxes they vote." Last year, the men above mentioned as hearing so lilierally the public burden, paid taxes as follows : John F. Miller, on $3,400 worth of property, amounting to $23 80c tax; Joseph Holman paid on $3. 800, tax amounting to $26 (0. How ls that for high? How about the "humbug or real indebtedness" set up in these cases against the valuation of property? A LOOK A1IF.AO. Time speeds along, and the porten tous first Monday in June will soon be here. The two opposing parties are gathering their strength for tlie final onset. Tbe contestants are so equally matched in point of numbers that tliey are closing upon each otlier this year with unusual wariness, and every re source will be employed, every energy expended, to win the victor-. ' Tbe respective candklates must necessarily, as tlie standard bearers of their par- tics, move in the thickest of tlie fight They will be covered with wounds, and stained with the smoke and grime of battle. Obloquy will rain upon them, and scandal sting them with its enven omed darts. When we have said, however, that the contestants are fairly matched in respect to numbers, we have exhausted the comparison, for the Democratic party of Oregon was never in a worse condition to offer battle than it is to day. Whatever pluck or spirit It may have retained by reason of its isolated position, must be driven out and utter ly overcome as it looks abroad upon ,tle disasters that have fallen upon tlie party in the East, Deserted by its leaders, betrayed by false lights and distraced by opposing counsels, its weak and wavering hosts can make no stand against the enthusiasm and val or of its enemies. There is nothing to hold its broken ranks together, not even tlie prospect of plunder. It has nothing to stand upon. It blindly op poses what tbe people are determined to sustain, and its offensive policy is too reckless and Inconsiderate to create alarm In the breasts of Its enemies, or animate its friends with hoi. New York, the once mighty stronghold of Democracy, has fallen, and Tammany, its treasury, is bankrupt. . The country is prosicrous beyond all precedent, under Grant, and with that the people are content. The ef forts of Democratic orators and of the Democratic press to convince them that they are most unhappy and tbe victims of every species of tyranny are worse tlian futile. Atid as for the Republican party it has simply to go for ward in tbe work nobly begun and thus far well sustained. . It has confidence in itself and cannot go far astray while it is true to the patriotic impulses by whose inspiration its first victories were won. Its "own firmament shines upon Its path." In Oregon we have much in our fa vor. The Democratic administration of State affairs lias been so marked by corruption, and reckless disregard of the rights and interests of the people that it constitutes a "burden intolera ble to be borne" by the faltering party upon which it has been saddled. When Mr. Burnett has damaged his pros pects materially by bis inconsiderate opposition to further railroad subsidies, and wliat Ls every where acknowledged to be a weak and inefficient canvass. Tlieu a great disadvantage to tlie Republican cause in Oregon lias been removed. It is a well-known fact that the Democratic vote Ea3t of the moun tains has been in all prior elections, bloated by wholesale importations from the Territories. Judge Williams procured the passage of a law fixing the elections in Idaho and Washing ton Territories on the first Monday In June the time tliat ours is held, aud hence the portable patriots of tbe Democratic irty . intbose embryo States will find their occupation gone. Altogether the. outlook is most en couraging for the success of the Re publican party. All that is needed, in torn judgment, to secure a triumph on .the first JSonday in June is for tlie Re publicans !n nil parts of the State to harness ihemselves in for the campaign -work utifi go at it with a steady deter auiimtiotto win. Mr. 3r?sniith recited. In a wonder fnTryOrainatic manner, tlie other night an wenously constructed list of arti cles t'hst are taxed by the United 5iStes; as though taxes were souie Onngjist introduced into this world rvfooTS. by the Republican party ; and asttlifingh it were an unheard of and piwcniitrnge upon the people that the Government is not carried on without levying any tax whatever. Tlie point f bis objection to the manner of col leeJiig the taxes was that they are Ildcted by indirection through the sneaas of a tariff, and the people didn't iiwur what they were and what not taxed njion. There Is not a political wmionilst in the world, however, who vould not tell you tliat Indirect taxes aw the lightest and most clieerfiilly Iwrne forms of taxation. Mr. Xes inith's party has always heretofore ;laniored for free trade and direct tax es tlie most odious and burdensome of all tho forms of taxation. But Mr. Xesmith, for himself aud his party, was iu favor now of a tariff for revenue only, laying the Impost duties chiefly upon such articles as are not produced in the United States, thus subjecting our own products to unequal competi tion with the non-duty-paying products of foreign countries. By his plan he would cheapen the products we raise and upon which we inut depend for support, while such foreign articles as coffee, tea, sugars, to some extent, rice, etc., staple articles of consump tion, would be raised In price by rea son of the impost duties. There is no man so dull as not to be able to see that this would work disadvantageous- ly to the middle and poorer classes of the American people. As the tariff now stands, the principal taxes are laid upon articles of luxury or such as do not necessarily enter into every day consumption. The rich pay the great er burden ot all the taxation, as now levied by tariff and the Internal Reve nue taxes fall altogether upon the classes best able to pay. There is not one laborer In ten thousand who now pays one cent of income tax. Tlie Mercury talks about increased taxation in the city of .Salem under Republican administration. Let u see how it is over in Polk, where tliere is a Democratic county administration We know of an owner of. a little real state in tliat county who paid last year taxes amounting to between nine and ten dollars. This year his tax on precisely the same property, is over fuxnty-foitr dullnrx more than doubled In one year. Another person who has real estate in Dallas informs us that his tax this year is more than twice as large as it was last year, inese in stances could hardly have occurred by accident, .and we presume they but il lustrate the general rule. The Demi cratic legislature imposed upon Port land a foreign police, which costs that city twice as much as the old one, and it is not a whit more efficient. It don't look well for tlie Mereur' to make so much fuss about the mote iu the Republican eye when tlie Democratic eye has such a beam in it. Some people can be wonderful sly. The other day a prominent Republican of an adjoining precinct received a let ter lrom Salem proposing that if he would go iu for a People's Ticket mat ters would Ixs so arranged as to be for the inlcrrxt of the said Republican tliereby meaning, of course, a promi nent nomination. The writer was ashamed to sijn his name to the base offer; by which it is seen how very sly some men can be when engaged hi very dirty work. PERSONAL. The Brooklyn Daily Union of April 11th, says Gen. Joseph Hooker intend to start for California and Oregon about tlie 1st of May. Attorney General Williams passed Ogden Saturday night, bound west. He will arrive in Oregon about the first of next week. The Republicans of Marion wont "Cayuse" with the Miller-Watkinds-G rover Democrats worth a cent; and we learn tliat having failed to make terms by which to elect two Keprescn tatives by means of Republican votes. the Democratic leaders have given or ders for a straight iip-and-up Demo cratic ticket. " Democratic war-horse " Is what the Mercury calls John Burnett de risively, of course. These stabs at John, from Grover's own organ, are tne unkiiuicst cuts oi an. The Enterprise comes also and wants to embrace with joy and glad ness, tins Laughead wing of the Re publican party of Marion county. " REMUIOVft IXTEIXItiEXCE. The anniversary meeting of the Ore gon Branch or the American Bible So ciety will be hekl at Portland May 7th. Rev. Mr. Izer will preach the anniver sary sermon. Tlie M. E. General Conference, com posed of delegates from the Annual Conferences of the M. E. Church In all part of the world, will convene at Brooklyn. Wednesday, May 1st. Ore gon Is represented by Revs. J. F. Ie Voreand O. C Stratton, Ministerial delegates, and by Ex-Gov. Geo. Aber dethy, Lay Delegate. The Advacafe says : The Executive Committee of the Oregon State Sunday School Convention met in the Presby terian Church in Portland, on Tues day evening, April 23d, 1872. Pres ent ur Ai. a. Atkinson. Kev V . li, Butcher, Gen. E. B. Babbitt, Dr. J. G. Glenn, Judge C. N, Terry and Rev, Wm. Roberts. On motion, it was re solved, that the State tmnday School Convention for the present year be licld, commencing ou Tuesday even ing, may zstn at 7)3 odock, and ex tending through Wedndsday, 2!th.and niursdiiy, 30th, at tbe option of tbe Convention, in the Congregational Church in Albany. , A visitor to the United States Su preme Court writes : "Facing the door as you enter, on a raised platform, hi silken robes sit tlie nine judges sup posed to be the most dignified tribunal in America and I have no doubt It Is notwithstanding I have seen one of the Judges cat an apple with great gusto while seated on tlie bench, aud another partake of molasses candy, and after tlie repast lick every one of his ten lingers with great satisfaction." The Cincinnati Commercial, here tofore strongly anti-Grant, appears to 'ee in tlie Xew Hampshire election straws which ludicale the direction of tlie popular current. As that Journal is one of the so-called independent newspapers, of course it is ready to fol low where tlie people lead. According Iv. in a lata Issim wa tlnrl thn follow ing: "Grant is rather a safe so it of President. , The worst of his blundtT inglsover. Hs has learned and will improve." Xew York people of fashion are startled when they visit one of their number, by the apparition of a Chinese footman clad in gorgeous array and with pis tail braided five feet down ward toward his two feet. STATE SEWS. From Daily of Saturday, Apr. 27. Hon. II. Cranor of Albany ls dangerous- oiisly 111. Caterpillars bavc carried Yamhill by a large majority. Shyster Xewby will (mallpraotlce law In Portland. A man named Jones broke an arm in Port land on the 25th. Oregon City will have a municipal election on the 6th of May. Ankney's new market at Portland Is a mag nificent structure. Capt. EastwVk, of the N. P. R. R. Co.'s sur veying corps, Is In Portland. Col. Joe. Meek 1 selling Mrs. Victor's "All over Oregon and Washington." A Portlander has brought a uouple of var. rier pigeons from San Fmixiisoo. The Odd Fellows pkmic at Portland was postponed on account of bail weather. Orepon City did Fellows had a basket pic nic, all by themselves, yesterday. The Cnmlierland Presbyterians are build ing a new church at Lebanon, Linn county. Dr. A. M. Loryea and family reached San Francisco the 25th, en route lor Portland. Impostors are going about Portland repre senting themselves us census takers. Bur glar?. Up to date there has been paid Into the city treasury of Portland, 6,17J 11,000 still un paid. The Lnrk J. A. Falkhiburg, fnuii Honolulu, with sugar, molasses and tropi.-al fruits, has arrived In Portland. A man named Hart went crazy at Oregon City, a few days since. Wife and two chil dren at San Francisco. Alfred C. Kinney, of Salem, and a son of Judge Strong, of Portland, graduated at tbe Itcllcvne medicine school recently. .A ''fencing" club is to be started In Port land. We would explain lo the country boys that a fencing club Is not a maul for splitting rail timber. From Daily of Sunday Apr. 2S. Improvements are going on In Corvallis. The Circuit Court or Lane is in session. Wll.ou and Itumett speak at Yaqulna May 7lh. Ijine county claims Ihe oldest girl In Uie State. Iiallas Is preparing for a grand May-Dny 111. A lady in Portland threatens to write a se rial storylf Caterpillars are interviewing the rosebush es in Benton. Circuit Court for Polk In session last week. Thirty cases disposed of. Kelsay and Curl spoke last Tuesday even ing at Pallas. The Odd Fellows' celebration at Dallas w.is a success. A Mr. Ilenshaw of Polk county is reported to have disappeared. Pick Williams speech at Eugene is highly spoken of by the press. The bridge across the Willamette at Port land will cost no,UO0. A police officer in Portland was fined 10 and costs for assault and battery. The Oriflamine brought twenty-five emi grant Eimllies toOrc-on. The alitor of the Pallas Republican has had a iMiggy ride, and feels proud of It. A man named Anderson was flnod $25 In Portland for stealing whisky. Gen. K L. Applugate delivered a powerful Republican speech at Eugene City last Satur day. Joe Teal is proving 1'ai win's theory by ex hibiting a-iulne proclivities in his speeches alonj the valley. "A nii'road hand In Kngenewas a year ag, the pn-prfetor of one of the rincil hotels in Portland. Thirty-seven cases on the Lane 'iivult Court dk-kot last week. Only three divorce suits, for a wonder. The Marshal and Kocnrdernf Corvnlllsarc ,-andt'lates lor othVc, and don't arrest Ihclr "tired " constituents. The students of the forvallls Agricultural Co'leeare purling onions, beets, etc., in their little beds. C. H. James has retired from the Orvallls Gazette. W. B. Carter is sole proprietor. Abraham Rand was sentenced to throe years In the Penitentiary, in Lane, last week, Sr forgery. Hon. I). P. Thompson was only ten days In going from Oregon City to Washington. Mrs. Phoebe J. Wilson, of Keokuk, Iowa, wants lo bear of Samuel Wilson who came to Oregon years ago. r A Chk-ajro dealer has contracted forS,ffii0 bushels of Maryland oysters to plant in 8. Y. bay. A San Francisco detv.tlve was sent for to work up the Walla Walla treasury robbery. He , awn, and nfler surveying the field, hail the trrvtirer him-vlf arrested. P. B. Stnnnt, Esq., of the Grand Rondo Agency. Is dtvhhng the Reservation lands into forty acre lots, preparatory to distrilHithig the same among the Indian. Fnmt Daily of Tuesday April 30. WisjI buyers are bearing the market just now. Yamhill Republican Convention will take place next Monday. Wm. Mk-liell, W. M. Hand and K. SV-hnti have been elected Representatives to tlie Grand Lodge, LUu ., from the Dalles Lodge. Mr. Isaac Ifenshaw of Polk county is mys teriously missing. Grading on the Oregrm Central Railroad, south of Cornelius, has been commenced. The people of Monmouth have decided upon a May-Day picnic, to take place on the 4th. The Ensign says bn.-incw In the Vmpipia is Improving. The approach of the railroad the cause of It. Last week Umpnua valley bad hall, frost and Ice as thick as a pane of window glikss. Icev. Thos. Condon, of the Dalles, was se verely hurt last week, by the runaway of a stage team. Lord Walsinghnm, ofXorfoIk, Eng!and,with a party of friends. Is a visitor to Oregon. Mr. Meldrum of Oregon City to engaged in surveying the Grand Hondo ImUau Reserva tion. The stockholder of (he Ashlauxf Woolen Factory have authorized the Direct ors to offer it for sale. It has one set ol first-class ma chinery and a lino water power. The Indians of the Suutce Agency, Nebras ka, are contributing to the Episcopal mission work in Oregon. Trinity Church, Portland, Is to have a $3,00(1 organ. It Is reported that fruit has been injured In Lane county by the late frosts. The West Side Railroad Is to be finished to the Yamhill river by the 1st of July. The municipality of Astoria has ordered piles driven by Capt. Flavel fjr a wharf lo be pulled out. One-tltird more wheat than nsual has been own this season In Yamhill county. McCormick and Engle are to be tried this week at Oregon City both for murder. We w by the Oregonian that the editor of the Albany Democrat has been acting as chap lain for a Chinese funeral at Portland. Mr. L. Samuel of Portland has Issued a lit tle volume called the Travelers Guide and Oregon Railroad Gazetteer." A dispatch of tho 27lh Inst., from Ashland, Jackson county, says: Wilson and Burnett lutd an animated discussion on tlie political Issues here to-day. Both parties are enthusi ast and confident of success. Tlie West 8ldo rays the surveying party of the West Side Railroad, having completed the location of a permanent line from Cornelius vis Laughlin'g Gap and Xorlh Yamhill to the main river at the A. C Martin place, bare crossed the river and are now camped at Mrs. Armstrong's farm. They expect to continue a trial line south to Junction City before re turning. Tlie Pioneer denies tliat the Califor nia utfragi.t-j Jiave asked George W. Julian to oc a candidate for President. The Pioneer also informs tw tliat iti Xew York correspondent "graphically sketches tbe jealousies, splits aud cross purposes of the suffragists " of that city. i A call is issued, signed by Elizabeth Cady Stauton, Isabella Hooker, Susan Anthony and Matilda Gage, for a Con vention of all citizens at Steinway HalL New York, May 9th and lOtb, for a new political party, to "demand hon admtnlsttation, reform of social and political abn-es the emancipation of labor, and the enfranchisement of wo men." Xext party? THE TERRITORIES. Burglaries thicken at Walla Walla. YaMma is to have a flouring mill. . Walla Wallseounty Republicans instructed for Garflekle. Brtghara Y oung baa been released from cus tody. Golconda mine, I. T., was sold recenilv for $-200,000. The Mermon Convention passed resolutions approving Grant. Frnlt In Boise valley has not been injured by the late frosts. A most prosperous mining season Is expect ed In Owyhee. The placer dlarglngs on the Colorado are now pronounced a humbug. Col. Ijirrabee, of Seattle, has renounced Democracy ami come out lor Grant. Austin Yonng, of Cheballs, W. T., killed twenty-live hears during Ihe winter. The Presbyterian Synod for Oregon and Washington will meet at Olympin May 10. Freights between San Francisco and Olym pia, have been reduced to Hi 50 per ton. Ten counties in Washington Territory have elected Garflelde delegates. Mastndon bones have boon found In exttova tloiui on the Wulla Walla railroad. Beef cattle, on the hoof. In the Montana market, are worth ten cent per pound. There Is a woman In Washing-ton Territory who tuts killed eight Indians. 'Olynipia, W.T., has nohcarse,and respect able people refuse to die on that account. Wyoming ls languishing for female society. Their sullnige law is a bid lor that kind of im luiration, eh? The Canadian Government will send a sur veyor to survev a coast route from Victoria to Btite Inlet, and tiience intO(the interior. Two hundred and forty Chinamen are min ing on Newsoine Creek,' I. T., aud arc doing well. The Owyhee Avalanche reports the discov ery of tlrst-clitss mines. A prosperous season is "anticipated, Lt. V. M. C. Silva, of tlie 21st l S. Inf., has been ordered to tbe cmimand of Fort Van couver, in place of Lt. Pollock, ordered to Man Francisco. The N. P. R. R. Co. Is organizing jiartles to survey tlie Skagit Pass, and tiieuce to tlie Cu-ur d' Aleue. A railroad companv Is orjranizlngat Ienver for the purpose of building a mllnwl to Salt Lake fr'lty by way of Georgetown and the North Park. OK EGO .HATTKRM ion. A T W A M I i:G- AVe clip the following paragraph from tlie Wa-Jiinioii corresoiulence, Apiil . of the Eugene Journal. : THE l'Oim.AND. PAI.I.ES AND SALT LAKE RAILROAD. The bill whieh passed the House to day merely jrives the Hjrht ot way and lands lor depots, materials lrom tlie pulilie lands for construction etc.. for a railroad from (.Jieut tNilt I,.-'ke to I'di'tlo nil flroomi I 'id ( 'lioini!in i consideralily eiiited over the passage of tlie lull even in tins form, oeeatise he believes that, with the arrangements he has already completed and such a can he made hen-alter, the road will he built. If a laud grant can hereafter lie obtained there, will he no (lillieulty iu obtaining means to luiild the road. It will be rememliered that Judge Will'uim secured tlie passage through the Senate some years ago of a bill granting lands to aid m the eonstrue tionofa railroad from Salt Lake to Portland, but it failed in the House. CITIZENS IS OREGON. The bill introduced by Senator Cor- lx-tt to make citizens of all persons, horn In Oregon previous to the treatv of ISM," whose fathers were KritUh Mibjects and whose' mothers were In dians, was retiorted last week Iioni tlie ftmmittee on the judiciary, by striking out the preamble and original bill, and inserting the following In lieu thereof : "That all person bom in the district of country formerly known as the Ter ritory of Oregon, and iili)eet to the jurisdiction of the I'nited State at this time, an-citizen" of the I'jiited Slate iu the same manner a if born else where iu the United States." TIIK SAN JT AN ICMAltV. On Tuesday, the 3d. a bill was intp duced iu the Senate by Mr. Corln-tt to pay II. K. Crosbie the sum of $-.(ki for services rendered in procuring and laying before the lioveniinent informa tion iu regard to the disputed nortli west boundary ,tlie Island of San-luan lietween the United States and Great Ih'it.iin. It is accompanied by a re port from the House committee ou claims, which state that Croshio lived in the vicinity of Vancouver's Island many years, and journeyed from there to Washington In lsilt). at the solicita tion of some of our military officers, to Jay important information belore the Government in relation to the disputed boundary, which was tlicn a subject of sliarp controversy. (Jens, rlcusontnn nut! Casey, former commanders of the Oregon military department. Iear tes timony to the value of his services. PKllSOXAL. W. J. Suod:ras. E.i., of Oro Dell, Union count v. arrived here this morn ing, having left Oregon on the 27th of February, aud spent the time since on the way. He exect. to start north to morrow, and will return home in a lew days. Mr. Uockwood exiiects to return home to the Ikilles during tho latter part of this mouth or the rirst ot May. SAKItAIH READ I Mi. llenutiful Thought of Eminent Peo ple. Music, says Auerbach. washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. Zeno asked the oracle how he should live, and was told to impure of the dead. There is no fal-e religion which thx's not contain some elements of truth. St. A'OjHxtille. Perfect valor is to do without, wit nesses what one would do before all t he world. .Vwi efo ncaulil. He that i i)oseed with a prejudice is w.sesscd with Ihe devil, and one of the worst kind. Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joy, and dividing our grief. Addison. The besetting evil ot our age is tlie temptation to squander and dilute thought. on a thousand different lines ot inipiiry. John imvV7. A ju-t and reasonable modesty does not only recommend elo inenee, but set oil' every great talent which a man tan be possessed of. Addison. Praise never gives u much pleasure unless it concur with our own opinion, aud extols us for those qualities in which we chiefly oxeel. Itr,ie. Friendship requires action ; love re quires not so much proofs its expres sions of love. Love demands litlle -lso than the power to feel and to re quite love. di-nn I'anl. When the thief tauuot break in at the door himself, he find a child, and put him through the little window, and then the great door is speedily eied. Thus do little sins ojien the door for a great sin. Spnryeou. The buckling on of the knight's ar mor by hi lady's hand was no mere caprice of romantic fashion. It is tlie t'e of an eternal truth, that the soul's armor Is never well set to the heart unless a woman's hand ha braced It ; and It Is only when slie braces It loosely tliat the honor of man hood fails. Jluskin. I swnetimcs go juuing along the street to see how few iieojlle there are whose faces look as though any joy bail come down and sung in "their souls. I eiim-c the lines of tliouglit, and of care, and of money liiies, shrewd, grasping lines but how few liappy lines! 'Hie rarest feeling that ever lights the human face Is the con tentment of a loving soul. Sit for an hour on tlie steps of the exclmnge in Wall street, and you will behold a dm ma, which is better than a thousand theatres, for all the actors are real. Jieecher. There are in this world two kinds of natures those tliat have wings aud thoe tliat have feet tlie winged and the walking spirits. Tlie walking are the logicians : the winged are tlie in stinctive and jvietic. Natures that mint always walk find many u bog. many a thicket, many a tangled brake, which God's happy little winged birds flit over by one noiseless flight. Nay. when a man has colled till his feet weigh too heavily with tlie mud of earth to enable him to walk another step, these little birds will often cleave the air in a right line towards the bosom of God, and show tlie way where be could never have found It. .Vr. Stove. A couple in New York recently cel hrited the seventieth anniversary of their wedding day, which is called the "pearl wedding.'"' CAMPAIGX TATESMAT. There are many who would like to have tlie campaign and election news, yet who do not care to subscribe for a newspaper for a year. We have, therefore, concluded to offer the WEEKLY STATESMAN AT CAMPAIGN KATES, and will send it to all names ordered," till the second lsne after tlie election, for FIFTY CEXTS per each wibscrlber. This Is just about our yearly sut scription rate'payment in advance. The time offered will cover the cam paign and, as it includes two issues af ter the election. aulxrrOirrx trill iji-.t all the ehxtion return. We ask our Republican Mends everywhere to Interest themselves In the matter of obtaining campaign or yearly subscribers. Send in names and address, with fifty cents for each name, fortheC'AM PAIOX STATESM AN. THE I.KFEEL Tl'KHIXE M HtKI.. It I iimiI Everywhere -Is Every wliore SihttssIiiI Introduce! Into the ituartx Mill of .cvIm, Mr. A. Myers, the owner of the Kitent right for the Pacific States and Territories to manufacture and sell the Lcffel Turbine Water Wlieel, has the foundations laid at Salem for an Im mense; manufactory of machinery, intending to make these now favorite water-wheels a speciality. They have been, within the last live or six years, introduced into almost every lumber, milling, manufacturing, and mining neighborhood on tlie Pacific coast; and everywhere, they have triumphantly vindicated the claim that they are the rery lrt water-wheel in use,' for driv ing heavy or light machinery and at high or low rates of speed. Within the last lew months Mr. Myer has sold a number of them to the great mining couqianics of Nevada, to lie used in driving tlie ponderous machinery of the quartz mills. There, a elsewhere, they have already proved their superiority over any and' nil other motive powers, by their power, steadi ness of motion and easy susceptibility to control. A 5-2-hich Lefl'ei wheel re cently put into the immense new iniil erected by the Eureka Co., on Carson river, having been thoroughly tested under circumstances of the .evkit thiau became one ot the leading sub jects of an extended article in the Ter ritorial Enterprise of Virginia City. April nth. This article dcscrilies in detail all the va-t machinery of a (JO -tamp mill. Each stamp weighs 040 pounds, and drops ninety times per minute, a velocity which was perhaps never attained by any of the old mo tive powers. The mill has 21 pans lor grinding the sand, the capacity of each lieing eight ton every 24 hour, run ning at the rate of 05 revolutions ier minute, mere are, aio, (i "settlers ' ot feet diameter to each row of ans ; two "agitators" and a "clean-up" au. IJcside all the immense weight of this machinery together with the ponderon gearing necessary to drive it. the .")2-iucli Turbine wheel, runs the dump cars up an inclined tramway 2"0 leet long and oO leet elevation; the -ars carrying aliout 4 tons each. This description ol the weight to be driven by the wlieel conveys only very im-perlW-tly an idea of the vast power re quired. The following i an extrait from the Enterprise's article, decrii tive of "THK WATEM WIIKKL. The whole immense mass of m hin- ! cry of which we liave Ix-cn -nkitig Is j driven by a I-ell'el turbine w ln-el. but hit-he in diameter. The fall of the water is .'('J f-ct. and Und r this he.-nl tlie wheel lake through It (J.sik.) cubic leet per minute, givijjg out over 400 horse power. Tlie wlieel I put in in a manner never In-tore attempted. In stead ol being fastened to tlie bottom of the ensfock, a i generally the case, thereby milking it necessary to transmit tlie jiower at right angles" by uieaus of bevel gearing, this wheel is boiled directly to tin' side'of the tiei - ; stock, so that the maiji shaft runs hori zontally through the opposite side of the penstock and carries the two main driving pulleys. These pulleys tire ten feet iu diameter and run at the sieedof l.lo revolutions per minute. Overthec pulleys run belts 30 inches in width, which transmit tlie power lioth ways to the line shaft, under each row of pans. Alter passing through the wheel, tbe water is discharged through the side of the peiiTock and down through a large draft tube made of lioilcr iron, and in the shajie ot an dhow, into the tail-nice Im-Iow, whence it runs into the river." TIIK GOVKKXMKXT OK TIIK WIIKKL. Those who liave seen the Lellel wheel in operation, know that it has a "Gov ernor" attachment by which the speed is regulated, and made uniform, no matter what weight of machinery may lie suddenly attaclied or detached. Aside from the wonderful power the wheel exerts. thiGovernor constitutes one of the principal points of Its supe riority over all other water wheels. An illustration of the perfect, manner iu which the wheel, with it Governor, acts, is afforded also by the Territorial Enterprise, of a date subsequent to the one from which the above extract was taken. The stamps of tho Eureka Mill are driven by two six-inch shafts, one on either side of tbe mill, each drivhi" 30 stamp. One of tlicse shafts broke j short oil', thus relieving the wlieel of! half its work. Instantly the Gover- j nor shut oil" a corresponding supply ol j water, anil rue remaining ;td stamps went on with their work without any appreciahlo increase of speed.aud with out the least derangement or confusion ill any part of all tlie complicated ma chinery of the niill or hoisting works. Such an example of the perfect control of an aliuo-t inconceivable power, is worth volumes of scientilic essays and lln orizing ; and attests lieyond Ihe (os sibility of argument, the vast superior ity of" the Lellel Turbine W heel as a motor. Ill lti: AM) TIIEKF. The death penalty has been abollslied in Kansas. Mrs. J. H. Frost is chilling Woman Sell rage in California. liana, of the Sun, is called the Hye na of the Press. The passjiort is! icd in Fiance. system has been ubol- lltmgary is threatened with another revolution. Opium eating is the favorite dissipa tion of Xew York ladies. Women may practice as lawyers in 111. after July 1st. Tliere are 142 German newspapers published in the United States. The Iron exports of Great Britain to the U. S. in 1S71 amounted to $38, 0X),000. I'he highest offlee hi the gift of tlie nation Is that of Surveyor on Mount Washington. The cry of the English workmen is "no more debt for war purposes," and they mean it. too. The stock ol short horn cattle has much improved in America, and Eng lish breeders now purchase of us. A Kusian printer has invented a tyjw-setliug machine that eelipes any thing of the kind hitherto produced. Tlie new apportionment ofRenrc senLitive will add lorty cadets each to the military and naval academies. When the Constitution was adopted tliere were seventy-five po-t -offices in the Union ; now there are 30.000. An Alabama lien has laid several black eggs, causing consternation. They say It Is tlie sign of a coming ne gro war. The proper authorities In New York register about 200 marriages each week. Deaths in that city average over 700 at present weekly. Tlie Rev. Mr. Alnslee Is the owner of Tom Paine's skull. If Gabriel's trumpet were suddenly to sound just now, and the ghost of ThomM were to return to readjust Itself to his .body, wouldn't Rev. Mr. Alnslee find that skull a rather awkward piece of pro erty to liave about the house. Miscellaneous. ESTABLISHED IN 1857. J.. W. SOTJTHEE, Moorcs' Ilrltk Riot-It, Salem, Druggist and jVpotliecary, HEALKR IX Drugs and Chemicals, WINDOW-GLASS, PAINTS, OILS AND VARNISHES, FANCY V TOILKT A lt Tie IlZf R rushes of all Kind. PATENT MEDIOI1VES. Prescriptions Carefull) Compounded. Customer! will flml my Sto.-.k complete. Coinirislnp mnv articles It Is linixssiMe liere In enumerate, and also Mt the Lowest ash Prices. All iiie.li.-im WAItll ANTKD CEM'lXt, Salem, Kebrnry Tib, l7i. w UNRIVALED AS A 3IOW K 1.1 UNEQUALED AS A REAPER. III i KKVE OX &0 ffl fa'teS ttefzasf desirable, jf&zfrires SOLE ACENTS FOR THE VIBRATOR THRESHER, SOMKT AIXi NrV-LATr.sT IMPRi VEMKXT IN I H.RKSIIINU MACJUXKS MMl'I A Y.VYVX Tl VE AND I OMl'LKTk. IKLNT FAIL TO SEE IT IlEFOKE PUIUHAMMi AM" OTHER KIND t fatter IN , (ffU& SO Td fast the MITCHELL WAGON. -fcapKactoawfedted JyfillfafcfAe, Jest X - M M W XI fi S M April III JOHN HUGHES STATE STREET, SALEJI, ORECO.V, -DE ALE It IN GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS -AND ALL KINDS OF DOMESTIC PRODUCE ! ALSO ' PAINTM, OILS, AVI IV DOW GLAHH, Varnihrs, Brushes, Colors, Potty, &c, AND A FITX ASSORTMENT OF UBE COLORS, ARTISTS' TOOLS AND MATERIALS, rurcli.vel illnvtly from the ManuCnUiircnt and Regular Paint and OU House In NEW YORK AND 8AN FRANCISCO. A FITTINU. The uoderrigned hereby give notice that er have transferred the GanFlttlnjr buaincw Memira. ANDERSON A EIIAWL, who .111 promptly attend to all btutnena In that ' ne. Orders left at onr offce or at their ertabUnh - tent will be attended to without delay. SALEM GAS LIGHT CO. Salem. Jan. 20. 172. d f 1 aim of the U-sl .jiialilT. J, W. MIl'T IIIR. 5,000 ALREADY IN USE ON THIS i mm- p n n 5 t I THE ROAI. MM 172. iv UNION HOTEL, m Salem,- : : : i x Oregon. THIS IS TO INFORM THE TRAVEL, ins public that Ihavu refilled and fur. nlshcd thl honsr Ihnmirhont wtth new Furnl ture. Bed and Redding, mcond to no bourn in Salem, and my tanks will be impelled wilh thebext the counrrr afford. Call and by me. Free hark to the Honxe. WEMLY GRAVES, Prop. M.nvb23d,tr o