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LAFAYETTE COURIER. FRIDAY... SEPT. 5...1873*. t- [From thè li, Y. Sun.) .During the last fifty years the controversy respecting free trade and protcctiou has been an active NOTICE. and a bitter one in our politics. Henceforward, until further notice. The cause of protection lips gen Frank C. Withers and Frank Owen are erally triumphed; but free trade, authorized to collect and recplpt for sub has once or twice got into power script kmc and advertisements and other business of this office. Other duties call for a short period. There can lie no doubt that' as ink I shall devote but little attenton to the an abstract question free trade is paper in the future, for some time at least. the true doctrine, just ns pearo is April M, 1873. J. H. UPTON. the true doctrine in international relations. Like war, protection Writ of Special Election. is exceptional, and even those who Nherlffs of the Mvesal C obu - advocate it most zealously will ad JKr ti«s within the Stat« of Oregon« mit, when the question is brought At a general election held on the third day of luue. A. D., 1«72, the Hon. down tfl ite «elementary analysis, Joseph. Q. Wilson was duly elected b'epre- that tho principle of the future, wntative of the State of Oregon iu the For ty third VongreM of the United States; and the principle which is to govern Whereas. Since the said election, said the world when the permanent or office has become vacant <by the death of ganization of society is reached, said incumbent: and . IIThreas, By provision of the Constitution will be tree trade; and that in * of the United States, and the laws of this State.it has become the duty of the Gov that Utopian condition protection ernor thereof to issue his writ of election to I will be uuknown except—like war, fill such vacancy; Now. the re forty, I, L. F. Gnovra. Gover prisons, and pauperism—ns an in nor of the State of Oregon, do hereby com- cident in the early, rudimentary, mand-voti and each of you to notify the sev eral Judges of Election within and for yonr transitional phases of society. several Counties, to hold a special election In this country the controversy of Representative in Congress to fill the va upon this great subject has pretty cancy aforesaid, on Monday the (13) thir teenth day of October. W3. and that you much died away in consequence of cause all ¡»roper notices to be given thereof the enormous taxes shat we are according to law. IGiven under mv hand and the compelled to levy upon every tax ¿US.?’ aaal of the State of Oregon, nt able thing. As articles imported » —) Salem, this tenth day of July, from abroad are very convenient A. D.. 1>73. • L. F. GROVER. for the tax gatherer to deal with, A tts ^ t ; S. F. CHADWICK. a heavy proportion of the inevitable Secretciry p/ the St-He of Oregon burden lias been levied upon them, THE COCKIER FOR THE CAM- and will continue to be. 'l’he av- PAWN. erage rate of duties exacted on imported goods is forty per cent, T he C ourier will take a lively upon their value; and while this hand in the special campaign naw exaction is made primarily with a opening, and it is our puqiose to view to revenue, it answers every purpose that the protectionist has give it the broadest jx>ssiUIe cir- ever contemplated. For this rea V- ft dilution. To this end a campaign son there has been for the last ten years comparatively little debate subscription book has been opened, either in the press or in Congress and the paper will be furnished to upon the theories of free trade or new subscribers until after the Oc protection, and it has made very little difference whether the rates tober election for FIFTY CENTS. of duties were levied by oue school To clubs of ten the paper will be of statesmen or the other. A free trader in the Treasury Depart furnished for $4 00. Send in ment could not propose to collect your orders accompanied with the less than forty per cent, and |»av the interest on the public debt and price. the regular expenses of the Gov ernment; while a protectionist at t t Another Offer. i > i “ the head of our finances could not undertake to exact any more than T he C ourier will be furnished that average. The only differ during the campaign to any Re ence of opinion has been respect publican and all Republicans who ing the details of duties; and while in this respect great injustice has will pay double the campaign doubtless been practice iu levying price in the event of the election exaagerafed duties upon some ar ticles. there has been no great, of a Democratic Congressman, the glaring, palpable ground of c< np same to have it gratis in the event plaint concerning tho whole tariff, of the election of a Republican. for the reason that it has not pro duced any more revenue than has Who will take a chance ? been necessary. And so the controversy Ims died R epudiate H im .—The County out, or rather has gone to sleep. Republican Convention of Wash Zealous theorists upon the side of ington county, the old time strong free trade have continually main bold of Republicanism in this State tained their propositions with their wonted ability and cogency; while passed a resolution denouncing zealous advocates of protectiou, Hippie alias Mitchell as unmorthv like the late Mr. Greeley for in the confidence and countenance of stance. have urged their proposi a virtuous constituency. The tions upon the public, in season Bulletin floats to the surface on and out of season, with admirable earnestness and interesting force. the Hippie questiou, and, as might And yet neither one party nor the be supposed, on the side of the other of these expounders has pro great Bigamist. ‘ duced any perceptible practical ef fect, for the reason that there wus i-A Washington dispatch says none to be produced, The duties that the Manitoba question is to must be levied and the revenue be brought before a British Tri must be had; and it will be for many years to cornel bunal. It is said that the Britis/h Meanwhile changes nave taken Government is firm in its conujc- place in foreign countries that seem tion that the officials acted strict likely to settle the question for us, ly iu accordance with law. The not merely for the time being, but court will be held at Fort Garry permanently. The heavy increase in the price of coal and in the or Winnepcg. Bail lias been re wages of labor have resulted not fused for the American prssoners. merely m. putting our industry and that of Europe upon a level, but in The Oregonian arraigns the some respects in giving us the ad Statesman for stealing its leading vantage. Under the operation of editorials bodily and without al* these causes it is not too much teration from eastern papers. Its say that we are already inf a con dition, or soon will be so, to com leader under the head of “Chaff pete with England and every oth* for the Farmers” was stolen out er country in the manufacture of right from the New York Times. iron, and indeed in the manufac Crandall, that has a* bad look ture of everything into which coal enters as a necessary eiement about it One striking effect of this condi tion is seen in the revival of our Counterfeit $500 greenbacks shipping interestjy All the ships are in circulation. It is said that that we have remaining are prof they are so near perfect that it is itably employed, and our ship impossible to tell them from the builders are going to work to make new ones; while we are in genuine. The Secretary of the formed by do less an authority Treasury, it is thought, will call than Col. Scott, of the Pennsylva nia railroad, th$t iron ships can in all notes of that issue. now bo be built on the Delaware Delaware as cheaply as upon ihe Clyde. And we hear of extensive movemàits movem among European manufacturer! in various branches of industri to bring their capital ;and t|eir skilled workmen to this couitry in order to take advantage ofjthe cheap coal and cheap iron thajwe are able to supply. | In fact ’ were not necessary for the of revenue the duty upon foreign iron might bei ^emoted without injuring the iron interests oflthis country a dollar, l’he doubtless true respecting cotton mannfaetures; nnd thè proerre^ of the woollen trade toward .the tune state is visible nnd constant. ( IijkShort, Irkshoirt. the counjtry country jkub|tan- subitati- tiallv readied tially reached that stijge stage ip it.4 in^ in- L . M dusti ial progrès which llfepiyiec- tioni.4s I have ___ always} Jichl J j. tò -- un as the mast desirable object to > it which oijir statesmen eóuld a.4pire. It is indiiMrlally independent if and protective duties, even according to the dretriue of thb protêt“ lon- *“ ists thcmselve?, are nb ldnge| in- dispensable to our safety- oii our growth. And while the nefo hity i of /* J raising * J a great Irevenuef will long continue’to affect our hala tion /I -upon thfej subject t. iflie prob- lcm is exceedingly simplified by we have pointed 'out the (acte fa cte wp —— j It will be remem bered thak me months ago tive men were dri off tlie Irish coast by, the stri dggles af a sun fish to escape, An «i nter- esting aftbrw- wg discussion afterward fo jrosc as to . the size of this kind 00 fish. ___ Mr. Walpole, one of the • Jhspec- tors of Salmon Fisheries: in |Eng land,iulimated that Mt. Brady, Inspector of Irish Fisheries, had grossly exaggerated f. heir size, Mr. Brady, however, come off victori ous in the controversy. Tip’s fish takes its name from) its Ifo^it of remaining almost motionless at tho surface of the water as en joying the influence, of th4| sun’s rays. Cuvier says jt is tlfe. larg est of the true tislfes, Ji—~ re, ~ misusing is of so.netimes 36 feet. Its li veil, ____ laigesize, generally i two tons in weight, and yields from [six to eight berrels of oil. r The wjn fish are very powerful ïo the ■ water, and, if harjM)oned in the shoulder, ai;e very hard to kill, ofteniicarry- off the whole barpobn line, t They 0(1 fa fath- sometimes run off with 200J th onia of liuc and twb h,ai[ popns in them, and witl employ the ¿fisher men twenty-four hours be befóse fosse they are subdued. ubdoed. Greet cautiofr cautioh must be used in striking them, aiiwith aéjwith a blow of the tail they will stave in i the : boat if it is within reaali| reaalfj From 60 to 100 lOO of them may sometimes Of Ireland be seen off the coast bf basking ikiDi in the morning sunjin the ¡□tier part of June. June, latter j 1 I! K LI d _! I . t : . . IJ n. I w * ritorrial . |r {JM h fl STATE NEWS, . ----------F ! Walla Walla wants water works. 4 , A boat builder is about to open a shop at 1111 Tacofoa. J | Ifi •»■fl nF Ji : i | | , '• • • I ight deeds record in Marion < Aaugust.. J There is but one ) Union county jail, an| man, well contented. ' r !- - . for during I i 1 > ! 119 I e r j J -IM I !« * ~~ • '!'. ’-.¿H [ irge A veryfoi o rich vein of silver and >pper ore has recently been discov- Ï Ì •ted fifty foiles south of Beaver, end of a book ? ah. i II u ; Three wagons, with: err IHi 1 It III n I'« the way across the plains onth ago for a The tent pfit up souri, passed through? Baker Cil ity last. is to be re- . i y heading room at T week. I the same use placed by a build! Two men bought^ 2,500 sheep thd vicinity of Pendleton last weei and started with th< I for Burnt riv- i Montana ilfos this slimmer experi* more continued hot Weather I er.ll ! ■ M ly y season for the past eight or' than an -J f. Jones and Mary KJng were in tan years. ■ • i J, • r ‘»ill p 1 ■ ,jli 1 '■! I ,| J Pepdleton last week.j at ’t ek,l putting up ai Deputy, i county jail. Mary is another ' N. W. Garetson, 8 • during the Arrived at Walla Wa 4 ♦p’s wifç. ¡1 I !| • , i ; and is now New oats and bar] fey are selling in g Farmers’ GfondRonde vrilej ifat 3-4ths of a ghoot the county . cent per pound, and ^rheat ait 50 bents was $t At Walla Wai Wal- per bnsheL j L H , B j J . I [ ■ a I Week; and now the soldier boys It is said that about ninet; iy thous- afe in fundal. Some of >f them had not , store at received anjf pay since going and bushels of grain are 5» „ „ into the ' • Junction City, and the crop is not yet wa|, j ‘ I . J • F 1 • half harvested. • L ' : i A homestee association, with a Republicans of McMinnville pre- Capital of $$00,000, has been organ- cihct, Yamhill county, adopted a res ke City to lay out and olution in favor of Judge Boise for iposite stde of on the oppos' Congress. ™ J; ‘ j tjalt Lake City. í ! I e 1 i j i ?. ■■ «»ri '-j,. ■ ' Tlie . California eleci n held on the 3d inif It ÿ though that the Anti-Monopoly ^cket hai ■ KHr J™ been successful. 1 I ■ ’ '' ? ' 1 î M I I I M S BL.JMWW The fin-is. T Gov. Dix thinks Wall street fast enough without a railroad. . ... - - « • • . r • A man dresses the fashionable ladies’ heads at Saratoga/ Long-handed reporters make - ■' ■«-. L.. -_-H ........ the most satisfactory report?. i r! ’ ' / «Av «v a Z ’ a New York kid glove smugglers will be handled with a pair. Why is | a thriving (tradesman tike ice ? Because he is solvent 6 _4^ Can « butaher’s be said to be • joint stock business ? , Keeping steady company— Enter taining clergymen. * The Lisbon, N. H., gold miner yielded $50 to the ton of ore. Texas having settled the Kick- i II ■ apoos, has gone to picking grapes/ Hetehy-Hetchv valley consider» itself ahead of Yosemite. Milwaukee has a regularly or ' i’ ' H' I * ganized band of harnnss thieves. A ledge of pnre( ¡chalk has been «salary t »ws begia to Warm up. Hay is reported to be selling f found in the vicinity ■ of Latta creek» lOilJL'r r !■ Clatsop plains. Itis It is said said-to equal for twice as much as corn |t Birf» The Butlerites _ _ a jnd the anti-But- why in the Portland market. » falo. ’ -J i ....... ,■ ■ b’ll ■ ■ 1 I !' e faifiy locked horns in Salem has the champion in the way The annual shower, of frogs aits over the "salary- of mean men. He makes his wife cut i happened this year th i •<Kansas » ^rab quéstjon, and,, 1 from a Repub atl the firewood, and then fiogs her if City. - . dinner is not ready in time. - lican stand-point/tne former have Everv • road from Murfrees- Mr. E. Crandall, of Lg i Grande,j| decidedly the bestnfit. -For in- I, Stance. the Massachusetts Chroni- boro goes through a disman tied failed to take his ankle from under fort '■ ¡1 1 I . i, /. pump log last week with requisite ce cfe-(Butler Republican), replying i lerity, and the bone was DrokejQ in to some of the assqnlts upon But- Savannah prohibits rice cul consequence. ture within one mile of het city er for taking back pay, says: >L ■ Henry Myers, ofj ' pPolk county, has , . Ji ‘|If any man shall 4ie stomped limits. threshed s field of wheat containing with the infamy of it [the salary Maine ha» caught a lobster 60 acres, and thei, average was 46 grab]. staifrp Gyant. then. If measuring four feet from claw to bushels to the acreJ Who can beat there is .any one person responsi this handsome yiel$ ? I H i I I I Hi JI | ble abovbjall otlfers for that meaa- claw. 9 . Aquarial gardens without beer r_______ > _____ Rumors of rich _ Lscoveries of gold orej let those prejachera of right The fact is melan aasd quartz on the head waters of the eousness shout Aloud and spare don’t pay. choly. fowyuee, having reached Baker City, not, “ Then art thè man, Mr. Pres « large prospecting party.has gone to idetit.” ' fili sórti one must be - Clear Creek, Cat, ha» a race see wnat there is in them. ¡Htiwrtí to the ytffek, let President course 10,000 feet aoove the level n A little daughter of J. J; M. Bently, Grant be cbc:?r 7” ’ It * of the sea. osen as die victim. of Pendleton xm met With a sever accir acci Ladies eirjoy pari lor hops, while Hej has oí earned the dent the other day by a window fall- » is his right. Hrt gentlemen take the eira , in » bar* fog on her head . while looking out, honor of the martyrdom. He got '9* cutting a very ba<| gash thjereon. the chief benefit the bill, and he room. alone con| eoi Id havej defeated it, and . Arrack punch, warranted . io •J Bob Roberts found a nugget of gold refjii ire is its best repreron- give a racking headache, is an- Weighing <84 in his placer clam, 30 , foiles from Baktyr City! last week- tattve. I It was a Republican nnunced. Large chunks aresthe order of the day measure, passed by Republican A Georgia youth objects tu in tne mines of Eastern Oregon. mjÄ/And approved by a Repnbli- postal cards because* they arc so ¿ev. P. S. Knight, of Salam, ha|j-l ûdent. j party. as hard to open. n; ing enjoyed his y; acation. notifies his such, is as much responsible for'it A Cincinnati breweria , jpdd» parishouers of 1 the reopenin of his as for any act they may claim the church by sendin ig them postal cards credit ojbassinb since Lincoln was wife papered her twnk with kieg • | Containing a statement aent to that effect. elected. ! Face the music, gentle stamps. ¡ ■ & l >11 c 4-î FI . I - .’J an Virginia pa pew think men! Only—if you are too cow ardly |fo do so- don’t imagine that end lias been put on I dnelli ii / you can I swim Grant and sink that State. Bit n q Ulu Batler. J They are in ihe same boat—nfid sb is the Republican Heaotation »He Wcultinjrtcm c ty ftopulilioan Convention. id _____ -r The following resolution was adopt ather xb hot enough to melt ed» nd proceeding had thereon in tba obdurate. County Republican Convention iu * J»wir. e little bey with his first se* Washington County. AikkBREAS, Yfetue asfo honMfyfM md the truckman with ph« the cardinal principles at the founds- > jnute both tried to back tion of all true ]_ prosperity, both, pri- ber n<f couldE’t. t. • » ▼ate and public; ÎÇ and, • • ar I W ms be as , The virtue and honesty» Brougham says Pocahon- of a people in a Republic are rightly - tag ie game of poker, judged of by that of their « Reresenta-» em red distinctly that tive; and W people—especially W hereas , No p lied Her on a bluff. Sm wing j people—can no young and growing — Bfc ii ' afford to lose or jeopardize • their good lore ook once said to a names; and, <• table a publisher whe man W hereas , Facts .have recently ly, “ you appear to come to light in with the bare en plied your wine cellar in- history of John M. pie, alias John, him unfit to H. Mitchell, that ren to your bookseller. be the representative of any people having the least regard for tfieir good « ¿ A bo ine-sick San Francisooan, name or the public interest, and more who is; feitii i ng the east, finds oc- especially to be the Ropreaeatativt; • of casianal relipf by having sand a State having the personal record Mjpiirted in his face and down his and the bright future th#!, Oregon boasts and fondly hopes. bpek with a * ------ . .... U Tfere/wv, is it rwsofead That the Re publicans Washington countjf, in nal-meningitis is a Convention of assembled, knowing that [h; word for telegraphers i tp it is idle to ask such a man to msign six inches in fiem. VI old of o the wires. A Sioux a position he wrongfully holds, here add that this elk When ' _ killed fast by hiajhorng his J] -the bushes, and Jityli, rker wrote it out, by wash their hands of auch a man aa John M. Hippie as an alien and an that’s, why he wfo I ’s Menagerie. » n “Caraboi f enemy. S if] Ji • /' 1 ?. Thia gave occasion to considerable h • young man from the country discussion, during which Mr. " Bjornrin, the iioviliat, is coming to V live America! Ipped^a big copper cent under supported the resolution in * < of die ** stamp , clerk 11 at • the speech, reviewing feoto BullwiS ™ Troy pojtaffipe the other day, say- » length the course die and the bow.! 'i »nd s' ingb “ I gu I’ll take one fog: “c of ?r Mitchell, discretions of his you r» Cutting a stick them ere pastoral cards, mister I ly of a piece of his subsequent career. 'll M. * ' ■ safe acquaint ’ Mr. Thomas H, Tongue, Han? A. Hinman, and others addressedfthe rtisement of a la- . In tl When is a w Convention pro and oon. Washington, refer dies’ scl When shj is a Mr. Tongi to several defunct onces ate gi lution and ;S?«-Äeta»d A foiser ha gentlemen a d ladies, but do in- which was I< Iowa, leaving formation is ivon through what resolution ware Ö then adopted by a be vote of 18 to 0—just three-fourths references Can a man 1 majority goes if he sleeps m ■t I iW*’ A String ban^—TheVigilanee mittee. Twins, like misfortunes, come singly. It is said that there was never an hottest redbreast: he fe alwsysTrobin. Can an edifice that weighs two hundred and fifty tons be proper 1/ called a light-house. A Second Advent ivent preacher has been preaching in Junction < City during the past week to crowded houses. small island namec, Hicarfp, near i The County Clerk of Marion ooun- the Panama coast. Jdijjl Diego i&enty*-four°p^o^| Briggs, BrigjgS a citizen of ©f Panaipa. was ty, issued last moihth twelve man bcenoes, and tprenty^four Xu wrecked on the island, which tfhich t.~ is were consequent scarcely more than a detached Marion county during the month of I rock. He found signs of of1 Indian August—so we Apposé. t if i i- I i graves. A large earthenware jar mill in Baker county The Virtue i_ had been buried in (he;surface ran day and mgl fight from ___ the 14th of • a I w leaving ' • • 1 _11 _ -«a . '■» ' A J • A i ' X 1 J • XJ I ■ . roil, the riiri .expired. It * August till the jl&st without los contained fragments ph bones an hour, workman thé time on | among the earthy^ earthy' contents, and rich quartz. Thé clean up is li In i |w>nCM»th it YArimra* inm of nf to develop sometl^ing handsome. II beneath it wprA were various'jar» pottery of a different shape shap and of ; st the loss finished make than those e ‘stallion for .................... ro dis- been of- covered in Peru, He also found 1 living in gold leaf, thin as pa papeH rtone the Eastern Statas. The name of the hatchets, and a ertrious sp ell-like : horse Knv*ar> is ia yet imVvirrtim unknown, substance highly • polished,, rapj wa, Umatilla posed to be the joint of the tail of A man at county, was ne day last some fossil fish or trilobite, and week, and after | the stack, which had been worn aropftd the slid, down the , » coming iii contact neck as j au amujet. .[ There is with a pitch- handle which ran abundant evidence that fte IsthJ into his kody, a very serious _ w . | | ; I r if not fatal w mus of Panama was peopled I by lately ¡rilled J» the C m An elk was race of Indians almost as id vanee 5 mountaii in civilization as the Mexlca ins an cade ■ “ z" .... of Salem, which Peruvians. I i 'B of tallow. The next the t wants, above all things J for exhibitions, concert, » houses in Salt Lake City are to inhered,, and the system of free esti ' ' of 1 the mails ' established. Í i . 'dii I I The only Indian Reservation in the ; United States that can boast of hav hair « ing a newspaper printed thereon, is Interesting Indian relic® have the Umatilla Reservation. Accord to the last survey, the Pen Etonian recently been discovert on a ing office is on the Reservation. it • MISCELLANMOUH. ■ • I ■ ' '■ J ■ ] 1 I . A man with a long head is not very apt to be headlong.,' j - n a A uiau man who ;to be wuu wanted wuuicujttu wc a minister said he believe# he had been called “to labor in the Lord barnyard.” ’ J I ;. . # 1 S ■ 1 ki >hy*'1 "■ ‘WWW . j * fl it Fairfield A faithful brother in .7 f vOhu., vuurvu. recentljl rrwuiijs prayed piajcw nnj church, for the absent mem bora ^whoriverè P »rostrate on beds of siefcnera and kaiwi nF chairs of wallnooa wellness ir |MM yr • n— I r * * ; ■ i