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o G o 0 VOL. 5. ORJEGOjY CITY, OBEGOiT, AY, APRIIi M, 5.871. o jVO. 23te O 0 eljc'lUcckln Enterprise. DEMOCRATIC PAPER, FOB THE Businessman, the Farmer And the FAMILY UKLisM,. ISSUED EVERT FRIDAY BY A. NOLTNERi EDITOR AND .PUBLISHER. OFFUJUln Dr. Thesbiiifa Brkk Building. -( 7' A' It MS of S UB SCRIP TIOX Single Copy one year, in adraDce, .12 50 TERMS of AD VERTISIXG Transient advertisements, including all hval notices, y sp of I '2 lines, I w.$ 2 50 For each sub.-,eiut;itin.seii,ion One Culuitin, one year Half " ' I,) i.trter " " Badness Card, 1 square one year. . 1 00 $10 00 GO 40 12 . &TS Remittance to be made at the risk o Subscribers, and at the expense of Agents. BOO A' AXD JOB FUIXTIXG. tt- vhf Pr.tf.n.risf office is supplied with J- o ,,.tifnl annniiw! stvll'H of tVUC. Hlld 1110(1- m HcilIVF, I'RKSE. which will enable the l'ropi letor to do Job Punting at all times Neat, Quick and Cheap ! fi- Work solicited. AH Il't-tine tt-u.txuctins upon a Specie baxte. B USIXESS OA 11 D S. CI1AUL.CS i:. WAUIMSN, Attorney at Law, Oregon City, Oregon Sept.lf:ly. ; TOIIX M. BACON, Importer and Dealer in O S CI IS CTI S5 9 STATIONERY", PERFUMERY, &c, Ac, Orrgon City, Oregon. At CharmaoS,- ll'arnrr'i old ."tat, d, lately oc cai'ud bj S. Acker man, Main street. lutf JOHN FLEMING, DEALER IN BOOKS AND STATIONERY, IX MYERS' FIRE-PROOF BRICK, tIN" ST It K FT, ORFCJOV CITY. OREfiOX. MACK & WELCH, Tx - . DBMISTS. OFFICK-Iu Odd Fellows' Temple, corner of First and Aider Streets, Portland. The patrfnajr of tlio-e desiring superior operations is in special request. Nitrous ox-idr- lor the painless extraction of teeth. I'f" Ai tilicial teeth "better thau the best," ami a cheap as the cheapest. Dec. 20: tf Dr. J, H. HATCH, DENTIST, The patronage of those desiring first Class Vyerat'fns, is respectfully solicited. Satisfaction in all cases ruaranteed. X. U. Xitrvus Oxyde administered for the Painless Extraction of Teeth. Office In Weitjant's new building, west side of First street, between Alder and Mor rison streets, Portlaud, Oregon. "Live and Let Live." TflELDS & STRICKLE!!, DEALERS IX Pflfl VISIONS, GROCERIES, COLIXTRV PRODUCE, ic, CHOICE WINES AXI) LIQUORS. Oiegon Cit , Oregon. 13tf r II. W ATKINS, M.D., SURGEON'. Portland, Oregi n. OFFICE Odd Fellows' Temple, corner First and Mder streets Residence corner of Main and Seventh streets. ALAfiSOM SMITH, Attorney and Counselor at Law, l'ROCTOU AXD SOLICITOR. AVOCAT. Practices in State and Xj. S. Courts. O Vice X. 108 Front Street. Portland. Oregon. 0;:p site MoCormick's liook Stoaa W. F. HIGHFIELD, Established since lS4!,atthe old stand, Miin Streit, Oregon City, Vmjon. An Assortment ot n ateties. Jew elry, and Seth Thomas' weight Clocks, all of which are warranted to be as represented. Repairing done on short notice, ind thankful for past favors. CLAUK GHEENIklAtt City Drayman, OR EG OX CITY. All orders for the delivery of merchan dise or packa-zes and freight of -whatever des Vsription. to any part of the city, will be ese V; itel promptly and with care. EW YORK HOTEL. ( DeHtfehes Gafthaus. &o. 17 Front Street, opposite the Mail steam ship landing, Portland. Oregon. H. E0THF0S, J. J. WILXENS, PROPRIETORS. o Board per Week 5 00 " with Lodging 6 on " " Dav 1 00 A. NOLTNER, KOTARY PUBLIC, EXTERP SE 1 FICE re-on City, Jan. 13:tf mm Eastern Oregon- We take the followinjr doscriptire sketches of Union and Umatilla counties from the Jlouidain Democrat ot the 22d ult. uxiox COUXTY, Although much has been said of the re sources of other counties east of the Cas cade Mountains, great injustice has been done to Union county. Even in the re port o! the L ruled teta'es L--mrniasionjrs ol il ninx Statistfcs. west of the Rocky Motm tains, we find that it has claimed but a small portion of bis atlention. lie merely mentions the lact that such a county, of considerable mineral ana agricultural re sources, exists east of the Cas'caOe Moun tains. That LTnion county is one of the most productive counties of Oregon will be established beyond the shadow of a doubt. He!- chief source of wealth is of an agricultural nature. There exists how ever, quite an extensive auriferous dis trict in this county. The principal mining camps are located in the Eagle Creek Mountains. Metals of various kinds namely, gold, silver and copper - abound in these mountains. When these nines become opened and developed they will perform no inadequate part of advancing the interests of the people. Notwithstanding the mineral resources of Union county are very extorsive, her agricultural facilities lar exceed them, llcr pasturing lands are simply imperial in area, and the grass growing upon these lands is of the most riutricions quality. Horses and cattle will fatten upon it in an incredible short time. The soil of the farming lands is of the most prolific char acter. Vegetables of every variety are cultivated, and fruit also has been culti vated with considerable success. The United Staes has yet to produce a better country for raising grain. Water lacili ties are of an extensive nature, and timber is in great abundance. Mountain streams come rushing from dark ravines, bearing with them alluvial washings which help to increase the fertility of the soil. The clim ate, which is an important feature, is sa lubrious and healthy. The population of Union county at pres ent is not so numerous as it will be as soon as its vast agricultural and mineral resources become belter known. It is moving steadily on in the path of progress to wealth and prostvnty. 1 he slumber ing 'resources of mountain and valley will awaken, union county wan its uense for ests ana picturesque mountains, its ue lighttul valleys and fertile plains, is des tined to become the banner county of Oregon. The time will come when its vast extent of pasturing lands will be cov ered with herds of horses and cattle, feed ing upon the far famed bunch grass; when its remarkable water facilities will furn- sh power for manufactories of all kinds. ind when many wealthy and populous cities will spring up. t'MA T1I.I.A COUXTY". In the point ot natural resources, there is no county in the Ea.tern portion of the 5tate more wealthy than Lmatilla county. The extent of its agricuhurl land is nearly unlimited, and in the event of the Umatil la Indian Reservation being thrown open for settlement, it will boast of an extent of farming land lliat would sustain a irge population. The soil is very rich. and of the character that will last forever. l'he amount of small grain it will produce to the acre is about : Wheat, forty bush els; oats, seventy-five; bailey, eight'. Vegetables grow well, and all varieties flourish in a manner that speaks loud iu its ivo; Desides, it presents many lin.e op portunities to stock-raisers, and its endless roiling hills furnish abundant pasturage for innumerable herds of cattle and horses. At the present time this branch of industry is very profitable to those that engage in it, and it will continue so for many years. The climate is very fine and healthy, and sickness very rare. Many immigrants that have settled in the county, who were afflicted with disease cf the lungs previous to their locating, have been cured by the climate, and now advise others ill with' lung affections to visit their country and find relief. I Hut Umatilla needs population, and like i the other counties of Eastern Oregon has many resources undeveloped, that, put in operation would increase its wealth to a great extent. Though the likelihood of an outlet by railroad in a few years is growing stronger each day, and it is thought that, in i:self, it will bring the re lief j) rayed for. it has an outlet at the pres ent time sufficient to satisfy all demands, in the Columbia river, if it bad lie popul -tiou to develop its wealth. It needs pop ulation as much as a raiuoad. for a rail road would only bring that, in the end that would add to its prosperity. Popu lation would come faster by railroad, but it is no: the lacking of a railtoad that pre vents the county from rapidly increasing in wealth. It has a natural outlet, bat not the people to build up a flourishing trade with the outside wor ld. Too Poor- Moore, of the J lured Xew- ITorJc cr, was sitting in his oiTiee, one afternoon some years ago, when a tanner friend came in and said : "Air. Moore, I like your paper, but times are so hard I cannot pay for it." "Is that so, friend Jones ? Ptn vtry sorry to hear that you are so poor. If you are so hard" run I will give you mv paner." "Oh, no! 1 can't gift." take it as a 'Well, then , let's see how we can fix it. lwdL,.-.. You raise chickens, I lit V. "Yes, a few, "but they bring anj-thing, hardlv." " don't Don t they ? Neither does my paper cost anything, hardly. Xow I have a proposition to make to you. I will continue your paper, and when you go home you may select from your lot one hen and call her mine. Take good care of her and bring me the proceeds, whether in eggs or chickens, and' we will call it square." "All right, brother Moore;" and the old fellow chuckled at what he thought a capital bargain. Ho kept the contract strict fy, and at the end ot the year found that he paid about four prices for his pa per. He often tells the joke on himself, and says he never has had the lace to say he was too poor to take a paper since that day." Modd Farmer. Bontwell Refuses to Pay his Income Tax in Groton. From the Grotnn .Mass.; Public Spirit. I Many of Secretary Uout well's neighbors and townsmen have been SURPRISED at the course he has taken on the repeal of the income tax law. lie has opposed it persistently and ob stantly. Now nobody who knows Mr. Uoutwell bcl ieves that any thing but pure selfishness, and not public spirit, lies at the bottom of this movement on his part. He undoubtedly thinks, that by pay ing 'off largely the public debt, he will so engraft himself into pop ular favor, so as to by and by be able to ride successfully the presidential horse. Would" that we could believe that our old townsman was animated by a high er motive; but we connot. And no man in Groton, who knows Mr. Eontwell well, will ever be made to believe that he ever acts, except as influenced by selfish motives. At home Mr. Eoutwell has had an opportunity to pay a State and town tax on his income as Secre tary of the Treasury; but has he done it? Tl i e la w rep u i res t h e A s sessors to assess a tax on the in comes of the citizens : and our phy sicians, lawyers and others have been assessed this tax and paid it. Hut when the assessors called, Mr. lioutwell, who was in the receipt of an income of EIGHT THOUSAND DOLLARS A YEAR as Secretary of the Treasury, and asked him if they should tax him on his income, replied "No!" and they did not tax him- Now, sauce tor the goose is sauce for the gan- ler. Air. IJoutwell likes to have everybody else taxed, but he don't want to be taxed himself This is one ot the wrongs ot taxation which the "Junction" has hereto fore submitted to. Let it be right ed in our town. Let there be no respect of persons. What is right, is right. It as a printer, we nay a tax on an income ot one thousand dollars a year, to support Town, County and State, why, as Secre tary of the Treasury, should not Mr. lioutwell pay on his income of eight thousand? A grievous wrong has been done to the poor; and he who is champion of a Gov ernment income tax, dodges the tax tinder the Statute law of his own State. Mote's the pity. A Reconstructed Court. The Savannah. (Ga.) 1l:puLUrtn thus describes the opening of the District Court down there, of which one Jim Simms, a mulatto fiddler, is Judge : At the hour named, Jim took his A. 1 . 1 scat on me west enu or a very large table in the grand jury room of the Superior Court, which had been placed at his disposal by the ordinary. On his right sat in solemn and satyr dignity and beauty, KIXG SOLOMON' THOMAS, black as Erebus and loud as fish guano. Several other darkies cau tiously gathered about the door to see how the thing would be "did," and opened their eyes and ears as if to catch the mysteries of the law as promulgated by the immaculate Simms, who sat, and sat (waiting for the appearance of the Sheriff and Clerk and District Attorney), until 1 he "purty nigh took root," no Sheriff or Clerk or District At torney appearing. Jim looked in to the code, which (a brand new volume) lay before him, then into the recent Acts of the Legislature, which he held before him. Having become satisfied upon the legal points in the case, he directed a yellow negro to open the Court, who proceeded to the grave task, saving : 'Oh. yes o h yes di: honerbel Distrik Court am now open ; God sabe dis honerbel Dis trik Court." Court being thus formally opened, Jim AGAIN" LOOKED AT THE CODE, at the Acts, at King Thomas and at the Deputy Constable, and then commenced writing, as we after ward learned, orders to the Sheriff, Clerk and other officTs to appear, produce the jury-box on to-day, the Sth instant, or showing cause; why they should not be attached for "contempt. The Court t hen ad journed, and Jim took up his code and his Acts, and vacated the seat with the dignity which would have graced a Kichefieu. Judge Schley had refused to grant an injunction, to which the bar resorted as a legal restrainer upon Jim Simms. The officers, however, having taken legal advice,will act upon that ad vice, and thus bring the matter to au issue direct. Good Counsel. In any busi nessj never wade into water where you cannot see the bottom. Put no dependence upon the label of a bag ; and count money before you receipt for it. See the" sack opened before you buy what is in it; for he who trades in the dark asks to be cheated. Mark Twain's Trials and Tribulations- I arrived in New York a few days ago, and instinctively took rooms at the Astor House. To be sure, I had no money to pay for them; but why think of pay if we are only good? I have always made it a rule to have the best of everything, even it I am obliged to get trusted for it. This sterling maxim was instilled into my mind by a kind father; and who shall say that gray-haireu old man is not proud of his orphan boy ? BUT Til E TIMES A EE SO HARD now that I find it very difficult to make b.oth ends meet and lav up money besides. I had not been at the Astor more than one day, when the clerk brought me my bill. "Is it customary," said I, "to pay by the day ?" "It is with men of vour stamp," he replied. "What "kind of stamp do you take me for ?" said l. ion looiv like a two-cent stamp." he replied, "mighty thin. v anvnouy snouiu wet it once you'd stick like thunder. lint we don't propose to try it. You either pay this bill or get out! Have you got the money? "My estim able young friend," I replied, "you have probably heard of Dr. lienj. Franklin LONG SINCE DICEASED. That eminent physician was atone time in the proverb business, and did a good thing. He said among other things, that 'time is money.' Now, I hav'nt got any money, but as regards time, I am in affluent circumstances, and if you will re ceipt that bill, I will give you a check for as much time as you think equivalent, and throw you in a couple of hours for your trouble." HE it A DE NO REPLY, but from the lact of a poiter com ing up immediately thereafter, re moving my trunk to the sidewalk, and hustling me out after it, I in ferred that I wasn't considered a financial success. "Say, Mister," said a small boy with a v ery long coat, and cap with considerable visor, "don't tear yourself away." "Oh you let him alone," said anothet sent for him." Oh, cruel. lis mothei i w o 1 Id thou art I immediately called a hackman, and told him to take me to a cheap but repectable hotel. "And the cheaper it is the more respectable 1 shall consider it," I added. lie drove me to the Excelsior House, and I told him I was under A GREAT OBI, It; A 'I'll N to him, and if at any time I could do him a favor, I should feel grieved if he didn't speak to me about it, tor mv proud snirit snurns an obligation. "If you don't fork over that dol lar," said he "there'll be a funeral in your family, and it won't be your wife, nor none of your chil dren !" "lint I'm busted". If meeting-houses were selling for two cents I couldn't buy the handle of a contribution box." lie swore at me awfully, and said lit; would have it out" of my trunk-so he bursted it open. lint the contents of that trunk are far from valuable, for I carry it tilled with sawdust. It looks just as respectable, and in an emergency of this kind is valuable. I will not say this hackman looked daggers at me. HE LOOKED A WHOLE ARSENAL, with a backroom full of bayonets; and as he mounted his box and drove away the air was fully blue with oaths. He got off string af ter string without making a single mistake, and he must have had the devil's dictionary at his tongue's end. It fairly curdled my blood to heir him swear such awful swears. I afterwards heard that this hackman was always very wicked and would not go to Sunday School when he was a little boy; but when his mother put on his cap with a tassel on it and gave him a cent to put in the contribution box, he would go otf with the other bad boys and pitch pennies. Is i: any wonder that he is a great horrid thing and uses oaths when he swears ? Character. The differences of charactrr are never more distinctly seen thau in times when they are surrouded by difficulties and mis fortunes. There are some who, when disappointed by the failure of an undertaking from which thev had expected great things, make up their minds at once to exert themselves upon fate ; others grow desponding and hopeless; but a third class of men will rouse them selves just at such moments, and say to themselves, "the more hon orable it will be," and this is a maxim which every one should im press upon himself as a law. Some of those who are guided by U, prosecute their plans with obstin acy, and so perish; others ho are more practical men, it they have failed in one way will try another. COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRART, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA. A Ci. ila Falls Six Stories. The Louisville (Ky.) Xedycr of March 14th relates this remarkable incident : Yesterday afternoon between 1 and 2 o'clock a number of small children were playing upon the fourth floor of the Gait House, and one cf them, Freddy Giles', A BRIGHT INTERESTING BOY, of about nine years, son of J. Giles, of the linn of "S. T. Suit & Co.. Mam siicvf. ?ct vMi Second and Third, taking advantage of the remporary absence or his nurse, ! dimled upon the hand-rail of the staircase and attempted to slide down, but lost his balance and fell to the floor of the laundry room, six stories below, had a distance of between 90 and 100 feet. The stairway is in the northwest- i teni '-' r of the building, and is , il windirg stairway, built lor the ! u.muhujuo m- wvmu ana aiso as a means ot escape in case of fire, additional to the broad flight of stairs an elevator in front of the building. There is a space of four feet in width and ten feet in length between the railings of the stairway, extending from the roof to the ground floor,and through this narrow, deep well the body of young Giles DASHED WITH ERIGHTLUL SPEED. An examination showed that on the staircase of the second floor, a distance of about thirty feet from the point from which the lad fell, his body first struck, breaking off a portion of the molding of the step over an inch in thickness. The fall was then unbroken untill the floor of the laundry room, TO feet below, was reached, where it seems that Ins head struck one of the bannisters.Jwhich are nearly two inches in diameter and of hart wood, breaking it in two. The children whoalone witnessed .1" f-t, tins ingnuui rail, ran screaming for assistance to the nurse. Col Johnson, the manager of the Gait House, was the first to hear of tin. MM . 1 occurrence. l ue parents or the unfortunate boy were seated in the dining-room which was filled with guests, and Col. Johnson, WITH RARE PRESENCE OF MIND, succeeded in getting them out of the room without creating a scene. A physician was immediately sum moned, and with Col. .Johnson pro ceeded to the laundry room, which is two floors below the office. I here at the foot of the railing was found the bruised and mangled body of little Freddy. lie was uncon scious, but strange to say, still breathed. Upon examination it was found that both ankles were broken, and that one arm was broken in five places, and that he had received a severe cut m the back part of his head. His injuries were dressed as speedily as possi ble, and in a few hours he recovered his consciousness, and last night at a late hour was still alive, with a possibility of ultimate recovery. Another Radical Row -Disgraceful Scenes in Congress. lien liutler and Speaker Blaine had a terrible row in Congress last Thursday. lien, it appears, had written a letter in which he alleged certain reasons why he refused to serve on the "Committee on Southern Inves tigation," and not content with this, he fiercely assailed lilaine the Speaker of the House. A. Mr. Kellv, in rising to explain, referred to this letter and the ball opened. The Speaker descended from his chair and gave liutler a terrible scoring. He denounced lien, as not only indolent, but guilty of falsehood, treachery, deceit utteiiy unworthy of the confidence of gen tlemen, "liy and by the gentle liutler got the floor, and for a short time was unable to speak so great ly was he enraged. His- face was livid; he champed his bits like a horse and foamed at the mouth like a mad dog. So soon as he could command the language he opened out on lilaine in his usual beastly manner, but it was evident that the Speaker had sunk his ar rows deep and the great monster writhed in agony. It was a disgraceful scene from all accounts, and has no parallel in the annals of this country. The decent Kepublieans who witnessed it were overwhelmed with shame and begged the gladiators to desist, but thev were determined to light the battle out. The result of the fight will be to widen the breach between the Grant and Sumner factions. The cry now is "war to the knife and the knife to the hilt !" Let them ovi it ! T-l.r. In the Sulks. Chicago is in the Milks because a young ladv has presumed to lecture it on marria'T and divorce, when she has tried i neither. She is told that there are any number of people in Chicago who have tried both. Voice from Washington- From the Daily Patriot. It is with no assumption of au thority that we claim to have the ability from this central point, whence certainly much politcal suggestion radiates, of ascertain ing the prevalent Democratic sen timents of the land. That senti ment, shaping the hopes and the fears, the 'plans and .policy of the future, we strive honestly to rep resent It is entitled at least to this eoniderajLi, that it is tinged by no personar or local influences, and free from that bias which often, in the most innocuous form, mere neighborhood creates. Never, in our judgment, was the future of the Democratic party, comprising in that organization all the ele ments of discontent with Radical misrule, brighter or more, assured than now. It has thus far been the result of extremely judicious conduct, as well as of causes, out side its strategy, for which adver- ml saries deserve the credit. The utter and blank disappointment of the popular confidence in an Ad ministration which came into power with such pretensions, is, of course, one large element of pub lic feeling just now. As a mere machine of party, it is a dead fail ure, and the shrewd men of the Republican organization not only have no faith iu it, but stand off at a distance, as if not sure what mis chief the ill-regulated, dislocated contrivance may do. Presidents freaks cannot lead parties'. Presi dents with passions such as was Andrew Jackson may, for they were noble infirmaties. I jut, when the dull, impassive nature of a man in high executive station seems to make no ripple, no motion, but such as a paltry -personal prefer ence implies, it is not to be won dered at that he has no influence with masses, or, outside a narrow circle, with men. When, too, it is seen that the circle of favoritism becomes smaller and smaller every day, and the agents within it are compacted in a sort of military and family gray, a dark suspicion ; enters the minds, even of professing friends, reluctant to admit mere in tellectual torpor, that the intensity or seinsnness wnicn sacrinces party may ripen into something that will sacrifice the country. At this moment there is a dark sus picion in hi ore hearts or brains than one, that ir me ivxecuuve nas ins way the means are blindly sup plied him such as bayonet elec tion laws and the machinery of coercion he means "to certify himself again," at any cost. lie .-,'.1 T ' I" 1- this as it may, there is discontent and .alienation and suspicion, all conglomerating in the one word " disappointment." Then, too, aside from the short comings of what may be termed jcrson)(d of Republicanism, there is an enormous accretion of strength in the disgust and weari ness of the general mind at the per sistence ot certain men and factions to whom the President gives countenance in a policy of intol erance and proscription to the South. This is operating with effect, not only on the intelligence ot the North, out on the bouth itself. When they. Radical South ern Senators and Representatives,, not sure of their places, but heart sick at the thought of the actual misery around them in their, adopted or native homes, come to 1 Northern men and ask, as in the case of the impoverished "loyal ists," for succor and sympathy, and ire coldly repelled with the asser tion of some fanatical or economi cal dogma, whither can they, or if not they, their constituencies, drift but into opposition? Thus is it throughout, and thus is the Democ racy invigorated by an actual ab sorption of the strength and nerv ous force which, as it were, is ex uding and ethereahzing from, morbid, demoralized Republican ism. This being so, what is obviously the policy, and is the policy, the duty of Democracy ? Its duty, in the first place, is its discipline. We are encamped before an in trenched enemy, and must make our approaches the more cautiously since there is mutiny, or, at least, murmuring within. A strict in vestment, a moderate famine, such as even an economical minority m 1 1 Congress can apply, and shells. lextrously thrown at some weak salient, is our strategy ; but no rushing forward of restless, ambi tious leaders; no hoisting of Presi- lential flags on our ramparts for the enemy to fire at; no explosions of impracticable ultraisms; no Dutch Gaps or Petersburg mines monuments ot maiviuuai auiu.- tion and no wasting ot resources in attacking an impregnable po sition ; no biunaermg ami .-..j n-ty Cold (Coal?) Harbors. Drooping these military and un rrino - enial ilIusiraiiou, we seek from this center, in plain English, to impress upon our friends, near and at a distance, the necessity of toleration as well as vigor ' of con certed action everywhere, which can only be attained by avoiding extremes; the obvious policy of, keeping wide open the doors, of party organization, and showing to the disorganized, discontented masses of our o'p'p'onenjs.. outside that within, there is not only iVa mony, as there is, but magnanim ity, and generosity, and welcome. But, aboyell, to bring these generalizations to a point, let uk avoid not only any committals pf the pfrty to preferences for the Presidency, but for a time the dis cussion of individual merits. .it can do no good. It may do infin ite harm.. This we say, who are", literally and accurately speaking, conscious of no preference. .We have no candidate, and intend, -to have none, but the nominecof the National Democratic and Conser vative Convention, whoever he may be. Let us first direct our energies to the great work of organ ization, and of exposing to th,e country the usurpations and cor1 ruptions of the present party in power. Strong as our ranks are with men lit to be leaders and worthy to carry the flag forward to victory, this is not the opporturte moment to consider their claims'. It may be prudent, perhaps, in view of events to be developed between t'ns time and the meeting of the C n vent ion, to postpone the well-recoghized merits pf men who now occupy much of the pub lic thought. Who can venture to predict what events will happen within the. iiext year ? Impro vised candidates are sometimes de manded by a public necessity, and it may be that the name is not yet breathed of him who, in 1872; is to lead the willing and co-opera-O tive array of a Democratic organi zation into tlje conquered or aban doned stronghold of the enemy. Trimming. One of the most un mistakable indications that the Democratic party is soon to be re stored to power is the fact that the so-called independent napers are assuming a decidedly Democratic tone'. For the past ten years the0 "independent papers" have beeifciri active sympathy with the Radicals; but now we find them changing front, and charging all the ills of the nation upon the party they have so long championed. The Sacrarn.ento Union. a representa tive of this class of journals, and has a record for thorough-paced Radicalism that will compare with any avowedly Radical paper on the coast. Lately, however, .the tone of the Union is changed, and so decidedly Democratic is it in its ut terances that it is a common thing for Radicals to denounce the Union as an apostate and convert to Dem ocracy. In the same lead weP find the San Francisco JJulletin formerly an ultra-loyal sheet, but now strongly tinctured with Dem ocracy., These papers are the "straws which show which w,ay the wind blows." Their editors o have no fixed principles, but trim their sails to catch the popular breeze, and seeing the Radical ship o hard aground, they veer about and. hitch on to the good, old ship Democracy'. Their trimming is an unerring sign that the Democratic; party is "soon to sei'ze the helm of government, and so, like the rats0 they are, they desert the sinking hull of Radicalism- W. W. States man. . D Why this Secrecy ? The Treas ury Department, in Democratic days, published an "annual account of the receipts jfnd disbursements of the Government, and gave the name of each person who received public money and for what pur1 pose the money was expended: This custom wns itrauurated ill 1791 and continued until 1866: Since then it has been discontinued: There can be no reason assigned for this, unless it be that the Radi cals dare hot let the people know" what has become of the immense sums of money that has been year ly wrung from them by the tax gatherer; So much for the party of progress; thev dare hot expose their villainy to the public eye. Particular. A beggar who asked for a coat at a. clergyman's house handed back One slightly worn which was offered him spy ing "Madam, I want a coat that I should not be ashamed to wear iri the daytime. , Geo. II. Pendleton is named by a number of Ohio papers as the next Democratic candidate fot Governor of Ohio. It is stated that he will accept the nomination! and that his election is certain. Gushing Description. A poet describes ladies' lips as "the glow ing gateways of pork and potd- toes. May Be. Cabbages are saia1 td act on the brain. On the princi ple, my be, that one head aHecU another. O - o O o 0 o o o o o 0 o o 0 G