' o o o o o o 0 o . 0 t i i i ; THE WEEKtY ENTERPRISE 0 " VOL. The VImcuj Enterprise. j DEMOCRATIC PAPER, FOR THE 'rusinCSSan, me rarmer j FAMILY CIRCLE. ISSUED feVEUt FRIDAY EY A. NOLTJ1ER, EDITOR GVNT PUBLISHER. nvPlcE Coruerof Fifth and Main stress Orejon City, Oregon. TERMS of S UBSCRIPTIOK: Single Copy one year, in advance, $2 50 TEX -V of A J) YE R TISIXG : O .i.rbtu'mnt. including: all O.eUlu uii.oue year ';"uu j.!ie Card, I nqnare one year. . ... 12 $ H-mift inees to be made at the risk o sJj;rlbtri, and at the expense of Agents. OtOOK AND JOB I' HINTING. tr The Enterprise office is supplied with k4iiiifuf?aoproved styles of typa, and mod ' m iriflVK Plf ES:SICS. w hich will enable the i'ruprietor to do J"b Panting at all times. Xrtit, Qnick an Cheap ! gg- '.V.irk nilicited. f7 lltuif.ii trimictims upon a Specie basin CHARLES JC. WAUUEN, Attorney at Law, Oregon City, Oregon. Seut.P'ily. AW BABTXEliSIIIP. J.VS.K. KELLY, Evidence, C'oiuiiihia st M. - 1 ami 31 t. J. II. REED, Resilience corner of Columbia and 7th sts. in. K. Kelly and J. II. R-.e 1, under the firm name ot KELLY & KEEP, practice law in the C uiiIh of Oregon Oilioe oa First street, near Alder, over the Kir IVst ulike room, I'ort.and. (40tl J AXSIXG STOUT. Attorney and Counselor at Law, " POllTL NP, OREGON. Ofli'-p Under the United States District Out It mm. Front street. aj.'tf J)AGE & THAYER, ATTORNEYS AT. LAW. OFt'lCE lncr e s liuildina, corner of Fiunt and Stark streets, Portland. 3'2:tf l.T. C.VPl.E". J. C. MOKELAND. I'Al'LES & MORELANP, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, (V. FIION21 and WASHINGTON Sts., y PORTLAND, OREGON. j v. noss, 3i. d., Physician and Surgeon, S70dwe on Mam Street, opposite Mason- it 1I!1, Oregott City. IStf If SAFFARRAXS, Physician and Surgeon, rjr- Office at his Drug Stoi c, near Post Ofif, Oivjinn City, Orejj'Hi. 13tl J. WELCH, DENTIST. l'trinjiMdly Located at Oregon, City, Oregon ROOMSWWh Pr.S-.ffarrans.on'Main st. O W ATKINS, M. D , SURGEON. Portland, Oueg( n. OFFICE-Oifi Fellows'. Temple, corner Fir.it and Vlder streets Residence corner of Min and SK.-nth streets. Attorney and Counselor at Law, PROCTOR AXD SOLICITOR. AVOCAT. PraeUces in Sta'e and U. S. Ccnrts. X. I front Seet. Portland, Oregon, Opposite McConnick's IJook Stoaj- . F. HIGHFIELD, tihli-Jied since 1849, at the old stand, Vu"n Street, Oregon City, Orejon. O An Assortment of Watches. Jew elry, and Seth Thomas' weight Clocks, all of which are warranted to he as represented. Repairing done on short notice, nd thankful for past favors. g CLAUK GREENMAK, SyK2 City Orayman, 5WT-5 OliEGOX CITY. i -Ml orders for the delivery of merchan-j-'ir p icka.cres and freieht of whatever des j1!''!-to any part of the city, willbeexe- v' i'rotnpiiy ana with care. EW YORK HOTEL, xj - (DeHtfches Oafthans, Front Street, opposite the Mail steam t ship landing, Portland. Oregon. H. ROTHFOS, J. J. WILKENS, PROPRIETORS. ird per Week $5 00 " ' with Lodging 6 00 " Dir 1 00 : Imperial mills. o Savier, LaRoque & Co., eep constantly on hand for sale, flour v' "n"?' and Chicken Feed. Parties ''UlsliTfan.l t,,., ,tr : i ii.. i I 1 JOHN FLEMING, DEALER IN BOOKS AND STATIONERY, IN MYERS' FIRE-PROOF BRICK, MAIN STREET, OKEGOX CITY, OREGON. Live and Let Live." JTIELDS & STKICKLER, DEALERS IN PROVISIONS, groceries: COUNTRY PRODUCE, &c, -CHOICE AVIXES AND LIQUORS. 5F"At the old ftand of Wottmau & Fields Oregon Cit , Oregun. I3tf joiix ii. sen ii am. Manufacturer and Dealer in &0 SADDL&S, HARNESS, Ss3 etc., etc., Main Street, Oregon City, 3-Wi.shes to represent that he is now as well prepared to furnish any article In his line as the largest establishment in the State. He particularly requests that an examination ot hisstock be made before buying elsewhere. GEO. NOAH. JAM KS MORRISON. INTERNATIONAL HOTEL, Formerly New Columbian, Corner Front and Morrison Streets, POU.TJL.AXI, O UK GOV. NOAH & MORRISON, PROPRIETORS. Free Coach to im; j.u July loth tf House. OEEGOH CITY BREWERY! QEMIYI1UMBEL, Ilaviricr purchased the ahovs Rrewerv wish es to inform tlip riiililir Mint h is now niiia.r- ed to manufacture a No. I quality of As srood as can be obtained anvwhere in the Stale. Orders solicited and uronmtly tilled. Patronize Home industry. THE PIONEElTcURLED HAIR MANUFACTORY TS NOW PREPARED TO Ft'PPLY THE X market with a No. 1 jirtiile of Curled Hair tor Upholstery work, which will com pile with any impoited article In quality or price. I p iv the highest t rice for Manc'and Tails of Horses and Tails of" Cows at my store, corner Front and Salmon streets. D. MLTZuI R, Portland, Oregon. JOIIX M. BACOX, ID 23 rp.-g STATIONERY, PERFUMERY, Ac, &c, Oregon City, Oregon. At Charman Warners old ttand, lately oc copied by S. Avkerman, Juii street. 10 tf STEERS & rr3Sr4DE7 Wholesale Dealers in FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC IVines, Jj randies, SVhi$7:ies, Ec No. 40, Front Street, Portland, Oregon. Constantly on hand a genuiue article of Cuttei Whisky. HOWS THIS FOR HIGH ? PAUL. CRIS3ER i Having thoroughly reconstructed inside and out, Logus building, formerly occupied by Chas. Freidenrich, has opened the same, where the best of Wine, J jeer and Cigars, can be had. A share of public patronage is respectfully solicited. Auir. t20:mJ CHAS. HODGE. .CHAS. E. CALEF. . GEO. W. SNELL. HODGE, CALEF & Co., DEALERS IX DRUGS and MEDICINES, PAINTS, OILS, AND WINDOW GLASS, VARNISHES, BRUSHES. PAINTERS Materials, ana urugnUW Sundries. 97 Front Street, Portland, Oregon. Jacob Stitzel. James B. Upton. STITZEL & UPTON, Heal Estate Brokers and General Agents, Corner of Front and Washington streets, PORTLAND, OREGON. 2f VCill attend to the sale and purchase of Real Estate in all parts of the City and State. Special attention given to the sale of East Portland property. Address P. 0. Pox 412. Portland. Oregon. STITZEL k UPTON, j)tf. Real Estate Brokers. r OREGON CITY, OREGON FRIDAY, DECEMBER S, Letter from JohnQnincy Adams. Quixcy, October 13. 1870 lion, j as. M. Iveitli, President of the Convention : Dear Sir Presuming that my tied a red desire to withdraw from the candidacy would, have insured the disniisal of my name from the midst of the convention at Fitcli- burg, the nomination announced by you in your favor of this date, which I have.the honor to acknowl edge, wasamewhat unexpected to me. . Differing in that respect from my eloquent competitor, 1 have for three years past wished very much, to be Governor of Massachusetts, but having failed to discover the reciprocity of sentiment among a majority of my fellow citizens, which is so desirable in such cases, I thought it would be wise for the democracy to select a more attrac tive candidate. Rut the Conven tion having apparently detected a value in my services, which had escaped my observation, it would be arrogating an absurd import ance to my individual preferences to persist in an obstinate and un gracious refusal of so small a sac rifice, to a body of citizens from whom I have accepted such flat tering favors. I therefore under take the duties imposed. The only real claim of the republican party, of late, to public confidence, is by a parade of trophies, with out head, or system, or principles, it isjield together only by the life of decay corruption. Its system of taxation is the most burden some, and the least democratic in the world ; its currency is the rob beiy of the poor, while its vaunt ed reduction of the debt lias only been accomplished by a cruel tax ation, which doubles the burden by taking two dollars from the people for each one dollar paid to the public creditor. This scheme j of imposts is - deliberately and craftily organized in the interests of associated capital alone, and is as certainly, if not as palpably, a violation of every principle of equal democratic government as was the cogxatu policy of the same partj, by which two hundred mil lions of acres of the people's home stead lands have been given away to railroad corporations. This cunningly devised scheme will this year take five or six hundred mil iions of-dollars- from the people, and pay it over to the capitalists who own your mines ana miiisana furnaces and salt works, to allevi ate their unprofitable labors, as if the tax was openly levied and the bounty as avowedly paid. Under the same system our ocean shipping is broken up and our shipyards are closed, and the farm ing lands of Xew England no longer fetches the cost of the build ings upon it. And that its con--cious merit in affording protec tion to the American laborer from the pauper labor of Europe may be apparent to the meanest capa city, almost the only article which it admits duty free is an unlimited supply of cheap Chinese, imported to suit capitalists. The democracy, on the contrary, accepting the past and frankly recurring to the prin ciples of Jefferson, hold out the hand to all who long for reform, and press forward to redeem the future. To that end they call on men who are for a moderate and equal tariff, conceived in no inter est less universal than that ot the whole people, on all who know that a depreciated currency is a tmrse to every one out utter per dition to the poor and on those men who sec how corruption is sapping the foundation of the Government, to maintain by their votes the truly democratic meas ures of Hard "Money, a Revenue Tariff, and a radical reduction and reform in the Civil Service. In State affairs the success of the de mocracy would mean the absolute cessation of grants of public funds or credit to local or partial uses. The sturdy beggars who infest the State House need no longer doubt whether the Executive can be screwed up to forbid their plans of plunder. Democratic economy will not mean a crowded lobby and a swelling debt. Special legisla tion shall no longer draw out the sessions of your Legislature to midsummer; and the democracy dare trust the people to buy their food and drink, ua watched by an odious andjexpensvie corps of infor mers. Above all', sir, the demo cracy intend to try for a new Union, under what a radical Sena tor of the United States has called that "decayed and worm-eaten be quest of the fathers of the Repub lic" the Constitution of the United States. And in success, the democratic party at least, will "vi, mien y iorgei mar, a uovern- ment, no matter wdiat title it mav assume, is truly democratic onlv m so iar as the guiding will of most permits the free develope- ments of each in every attitude of independent manhood. V cry truly, Your obedient servant. John Q. Adams. Hurrah for West Virginia. ' " " - The Democratic triumph in v cii v irgmia is cotinrmed, savs the 72rami7ier. Twenty-tivo cotm ties heard from with large Demo cratic gams. The Legislature is Dmoci atic, insuring a Democrcatic Senaton The last dispatch does not mention members of Congress, but no doubt Democrats are elected in all the Districts. In this, we have made a clean sweep in that Radical-ridden fragment of the Old Dominion. This is the most significant election since the war. One-half of the white men of that State are disfranchised under its reconstructed ' Constitution, and had no voice in the election. All the negroes, for the first time, were admitted to the polls. Notwith standing this, the Democrats have carried everthing before them. Two years ago the radicals elected all three Con fjressmen, and 40 or 50 members of the House of Dele gates. Grants majority over Sey mour was 8,485. Now, with the assistance of the negro vote, this "trooly loil" State has repudiated Grant and his party. The enfran chisement of the non-voting whites being one of the issues in the can- vass, Ave take it for granted that their disabilities w ill be removed. When this is done the radicals will no longer have an abiding place in Yv est irginia. W ho says the work does not go bravely on ? Indiana, West Virginia and Penn sylvania on the popular vote these are tne latest accessions to ueino cracy. Next will come Nevada, and then the gaeat Empire State will speak out. Yes, Democracy is dead very dead, but somehow it has mighty capacities for resurrec tion. Iy news of a later date than the above, we learn that all three of the Congressmen have been elected, and that the Democratic State majority is 8,000. The ball is rolling, and can' be stopped. A Loyalist Outrage Call out the military ! Open the doors of bastiles and close them upon innocent persons! Rring ropes ! Inaugurate mobs for a loyalist, a pet of the Admin istration, has come to grief. Ex-Mayor Cahoon of Richmond was on last Thursday sentenced to four years imprisonment for fogery, and defrauding the State of $7,000 Mr. Cahoon was as loyal a man as "ever rose, ffiigned or fell." He is the one who was bv Gen eral Schofield, three years since, ap pointed Mayor of Richmond, lie is the one who was kept, in that po sition by Federal bayonets. He is the one who was placed there to aid Grant's administration to rob the people. He is the one who a few months since claimed the right, by Federal appointment, to bold the offceof Mayor of the city of Rich mond against the wish of the peo ple, expressed at the ballot-box. lie is the oi.e w ho called upon the United States courts and the United States troops to defend him in his demand to override the wishes of the citizens, and was only ousted after a long, tedious, exciting, and expensive trial, which, "with its surroundings, cost the cit' of Richmond many thou sands of dollars for courf expenses, payment of a lagrearmy of police, tc., &c. Rut it is hardly fair to send him to State Prison ! He forged a note for seven thousand dollars, and de frauded the State of that amount. Simply this and nothing more that is, hothing more has been heard from to this date. Once upon a time, in the back woods of Michagan, a young sister of the church, before marriage, be came the mother of a child. A church meeting was called, the ob ject being to try and to turn out from church care and protection, the poor girl who had been taken in and done for by a brother of the same church. The offense was clearly proven against her. Before a meeting of the church the mother and babe were brought. On being asked if she had any thing to say why she should not be turned out into the cold wrorld from which the church rescued her, she held up her infant, then nearly three weeks of age, and weighing about five pounds and said : "Please, good sirs, be not toose- tint ..4 i' . . , . " vcre when the offense is such a little thing!" our years m State Prison for lorging a seven thousand dollar note Why did not Cahoon steal half a million and become a patri ot! Cahoon, you area disgrace to your party. Pomeroy's Democrat. A Calcitm Light for the Democracy. When the Abolitionists first ap peared in this country the instinct of self-preservation prompted the people to silence them, aiid if they had not been deluded by Demo cratic politicians into the belief that they were foolish and vision ary "fanatics," that 'only needed to be let alone to die out, alto get her, the masses, no doubt, would have utterly exterminated them. As they were restrained, however, they showed their utter contempt and abhorence of Garri son and his traitorous gang, and under the lead of Dan. Sickles, Dick Busteedi Captain Rhinders, &c, pelted them with rotten eggs, and broke up their filthy and ac cursed gatherings in this and other cities. Rut amazing and disgust- ing transformation! getting into power through fraud unp'aralleled in human annals, this once despised Abolitian gang have ruled the country for the years past, and though they have trampled on all law, human and divine, and paid no more regard to even the organ ic law itself, framed by Washing ton and the men of IV 70, than those of Confucius there have been but two instances where there was sufficient sense and manhood in tne iSortnern states to resist these lawless villains. In 1S03, when they attempted to tear the laboring men of the' North from their families and hurl them on the bayonets and cannon of the South, to work out their beastly and accursed crimes of amalgamation with negroes, there was, thank God, sufficient manhood left in the Democratic masses to resist this impious and hellish work, and if they had not ceased their gross and brutal disregard of State laws and personal liberty, and accom plish their objects through fraud and trickery, their leaders, no doubt, would have suffered a fear ful though just penalty for their audacious crimes. And now we have another instance of Demo cratic sense and manliness at Day ton, Ohio, where, when it was found that the Abolitian leaders were to vote the six hundred bro ken down soldiers in a military asylum the miserable victims as well as tools of the villains and thus, despite the rulings of the Su preme Court of that State, cheat the Democratic candidate out of his election, the Democratic Coun ty Committee gave notice that they would forcibly resist the scoundrels at the polls. And this was sufficient to stop their villainy just as the manly and patriotic re sistance of a score or two of brave men in 18G3 stopped the draft, and just as courage and manliness al ways will intimidate cowards and villains. JT. 1. I)ay liooJc. Dox Piatt on His Ruetiikkx. Don Piatt is the Washington cor respondent of the Cincinnati Com mercial. In a recent speech he thus exposes to the atmosphere the radical party, of which he is a leader : "Rut, my friends, as the sun breeds nuggots in a dead dog, the sun of our republicanism seems to have called up from the bogs and fens and swamps all the vile things that crawl, and hiss, and fatten on the public weal. There never was a period in the history of this or any other people that foul corrup tion so poisoned humanity. It is no longer hidden in dark places, as if ashamed or afraid. It stalks abroad in t he noonday sun, making days itself hideous; While trade is prostrated, and profits grow lessor disappear, while taxation grinds us down, thcives, with brassy faces and greedy hands, fill our offices and fatten on the spoils. Rings sur round every departmcnt,coirupting the ballot box and 'debasing the trusts, while all over the land the poison extends, until peace in pri vate life has disappeared and rogues hold high carnival." The Agricultural Report for No vember esti mates the crop of wheat in Oregon this year at three per cent, less than last. We estimate the crop as ten per cent, more the present'year than last. Farmer A Dutch judge on conviction of a culprit for having four wives, de cided. "He hash bunishment blenty ; J lifs mit one I" liro7 What Means it? The Sonoma Democrat, one of the most fearless and outspoken Democratic papers, in California, in its last issue contained the follow ing truthful article under the above head For vcars this great and glorious Republic ot America has been rut ed by a despotism more grinding and outrageous than anr that has ever existed in the history of man. 1 ror years the people of tins land have been groaning beneath a mighty debt, contracted in their enslavement. For years we have been taxed, taxed, faxed. laxed, to support and maintain a despotism. Taxed, to retain power in the hands of a party that misrules and impoverishes us. laxed, to pay the interest on the debt already contracted. laxed, to pay the. debts now be ing contracted. i Taxed, to fill the coffers of the chartered banks that benefit only the rich. Taxed, to make richer the mon opolists who discharge the white man, and permit Ids family and himself o starve to death, and then employ the Chinaman because he will work for smaller wages. Taxed, to fill the pockets of de. fan Iters. Taxed, to support a large army in times of peace. Taxed, to govern the people of the Southern portion of the. United Slates by military rule. Taxed, to elevate the negro and sacrifice the liberties of American oorn and naturalized wmte men Taxed, for the benefit of rogues and bars. Taxed, to raise corruption funds to be used in elections. Taxed, to hire men to commit perjury, and to become the tools of rascals in power. Taxed, to buy votes, and to elect the Butlers, Whittemores "and Drakes to office. Taxed- yes, taxed, for every thing that will tend to demoralize and enslave a once free people. Taxed great God! whrft are we not taxed for? lut the people cannot stand such a constant drain on their strength and pockets. They are beginning to find out how oppres sive is radical rule, and, as might have been expected, they are de termined to throw off" the yoke of tyranny, and again proclaim them selves free men. They have spoken in thunder tones in many ot the States. They have fought against money and the shoddyites, against the monopolists and high-tariftites against the dictatorial spirit as dis played by Grant and his toadies, against the miserable, unprincipled mongrels, their poor, dupeu follow ers .and the ignorant negroes. Everywhere, noble, gallant de termined resistance has been made to further misrule, and in every in stance a glorious victory has been seemed, or great advance made in the right direction. Now, we hear that the party in power is enforcing the "Enforce ment Act" in New York, that troops have been forwarded to that State, that whole regiments of Marshals are being appointed to take charge of and look after the polls that the people are to be intimidated at the coming election, that a "free ballot" is to be no longer a recognized right in that State. We know that the Grant guillo. tine is at work in Missouri nnil that none but the Hateites arc per mitted to hold office under the pres ent dynasty; that registrars refuse to rocognize the right of loyal soldiers to vote unless they arc known to be in favor of the Grant candidate, McClurg. We know that the almost cer tain uprising of the people though out the length and breadth of the land is enough to cause the traitors and scoundrels in office to tremble with fear. We know that a better day for the country must and will come, and that it is now dawnino-. - , We know that there is a remedy for every evil, and to cure the dis ease the proper remedy must be administered. v .We know that Xew York is Democatic, 'and that there is no war going on in that State which is necessary for the Federal Gov ernment to station troops within its borders. Now, if these soldiers are not placed there to enable the radicals to rule by the bayonet, what means it. 1VO. 4U- Honor versus Itascality. The correspondence between President Grant and Secretary Cox, in reference to the hitter's resignation of the office of Secre tary of the Interior, is remarkable inasmuch as it reveals the strug gles of an honest man to keep his department free from the corrupt-; ing influences of political despera does, on the one hand, and the un blushing effrontery of au Execu-, tive in endeavoring to force a cab--f inet minister into compliance with the unjust and outrageous demands -which would have taxed the sal aries of his clerks and employees ' for the purpose of carrying on a , wicked and fraudulent political." campaign. Gen. C ox emerges from tins cor respondence covered with honor, leaving the conviction on every mind that he is a man of principle and conscious rectitude, while President -'Grant has gained for himself the contempt of every ' lover of fair and honest dealing Mr. Cox goes out of the Cabinet' because he was too honest and just to permit his poor clerks to bv i l robbed at the behest and for the benefit of a parcel of nolitic.-ri speculators; while the President m forcing and accepting his resig- nation for this reason, lias proved that which has Jong been 'charged upon, him, namely, that his own personal interests and that of his party friends overlap every consid- eration of right and justice for the ; people.' But if Grant can stand this, the people can. To-day is his to morrow is theirs. "Whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad " and a day of-righto- , ous retribution for the President and his advisers is near at hand. If they think that honor and pro bity are no longer needed in the administration of the Government, the people do not, and when the hour of reckoning comes these nbusers of the trusts confided to them will be taught the severest lessons of their lives. Hurled from the high places which they have prostituted to their own base and ignoble purposes, they will find in the scorn of the country they have betrayed, the fitting re- -ward which their infamous eon duct has merited. V, W. States man. According to the so called Demo cratic organs, it is a cause for gen eral congratulation that the Port land Railroad subsidy was vetoed. Then it is a cause for congratula tion, we suppose, that the prospects of the West side road are seriously clouded, if not wholly defeated. Oreyonian. That is right ; we love to see you own the corn, and gracefully ac knowledge that we M ere right in -our warnings of the West Side. What now about Ilolladay's build ing the road sooner than any man or company would hjjve done. The people will now See that itethe Philadelphia Company had not been elbowed out by Benjamin, we should have some prospect of a road, whereas now, the Orcgoniau admits we-are sold out. How long will the people submit to the -per--, petration of such infamous out- rages upon their rights? and who turns out to be the friend of the people of the West Side, Ilolladav and the Oreyonian or the Ilepubli can ? JlejndfUcan. He who thinks better of "his ' neighbors than they deserve cannot be a bad man, for the standard by which his judgment is Termed is the goodness of his own heart. It is the base only who believe all men base, or ii. other words like themselves. Few, however, are all evil. Even Nero did a good turn to somebody for when Rome, was rejoiced over his death, schie o loving hand covered his grave, with flowers. Public men are sel dom or never fairly judged while living. However pure, they can not escape calumny ; however in correct they are sure to find eulo gists. History may do them jus tice, but they rarely get it while alive, from either friend or foe. Negroes in Cong mess. South Carolina and Louisiana, and per haps one or two other States w ill be represented in the next Con gress by negroes. Certainl y three, and possibly five or six genuine darkeys will sit side by side with those white niggers, Ben. Lutttr and John A. Logan, but - which Will be most degraded by the as sociation a question that is easily settled. Beyond a doubt the o-enuine darkeys will be found O . . "l 1 . , t. . 4 1 more honest ana uenei mtu iuuu the white niggers 0 o 0 o O O o o G G O O o o o O . i I i o o o O G O : n 1 1 ( o o o O o O o o o 0 G 0 O o o O K r '-" f. am- PATTDT't'C V rT7 T) iron r-rvr t -rnn .