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O O G ) o O: o o o o &3 o o o O o o o 0 o o o o -': SljelDeckln (Enterprise. OWOIVbL PAPER FOR CLACKAMAS COUNTY. Oregon City, Oregon , Frifey Sept. 15, 1871. Slight Difference- The Democratic paper at Oregon City begins on editorial with these statements: The Radicals have much to pay about Democratic extravagance. Now let us Fee who and what party is extravagant. The last year of Mr. Buchanan's adminis tration, which cost move than any r re gions year, $77.4G2.M2 72. In contrast to tbi. the expenses for the ri?cal year ending June 30. 1871. were $482,257,971 56. or a nice little difference of $41)1.995. 888 84 in one )ear as against Democratic expenditures for the same .period. All Democratic papers seem to presume on the ignorance ot' their readers and their incapacity to analyze statements and detect errors. Just see how plain a state ment will put this fabrication down, lhe amount charged as '-Radical expenses"' for the last fiscal year, as above, includes the entire amount paid during the year on the principal and interest of the public debt, and the amount paiu lor pensions. Tv; mmint.4 constituted bv far the iarger portion of the ' expenses." Cut off the extraordinary expenditures re Kulling directly Irom the war. and it will be found that the National Government now costs the people les-s per capita than it did when Buchanan was l'resident. There ii. Democratic parly does If y'tlU II Vt W - - ft W not prosper when its organs can better than the above to find cutn- . 0 mend it to the people. The above is from the Orcgonian of the 9t'j inst. and may well be said to be the most kaeTa-ced misrepresentation of facts on record. To make the matter more plain to the obtuse visions of the Ore gonian alitor, we will give him further figures and ask him to deny the truth of our statements. These figures show that the government expenses, independent ol the public debt, or expenses which are oiore than .k;vx times what they were un der Democratic rule. There are now collected from the people annually taxes toChe amount of 425 millions of dollars. cOf that sum about 120 millions go to pay the iaterest on the National debt, 30 mil lions for pensions, making together 15U millions. Deduct this sum from 425 mil lions, the amount collected from the peo ple, and there are left 275 millions to be accounted for. $100,000,000 to buy up bonds for the sinking fund, and there si ill remains $175,000,000 to carry on the Government against $00,000,000 under Buchanan. 'Why is this? What excuse id there for it? Why does it requite three dollars now where it only took one in 18G0 for ordinary expenses? The country is no longer involved in war. We have no other exraordinary expenses. We have the same Departments of Gov ernmentState, War and Navy. An exchange, speaking on this finan cial question very truthfully and ably eavs : The Radicate make a great show a - of having paid off so much of the na tional debt. They take credit that they have not stolen all the surplus funds which came to the Treasury. But. giving them credit for all they claim on this O score, and there still remains an enormous Btirplfis over and above the legitimate re quirements of the Goverrimen more than 100 millions of dollars in excess of the expenses under Mr. Buchanan's ad ministration. And yec Radical editors and speakers boast of what ttiey have done in the way of paying the national debt, and contrast the economy of Grant's administration with that of Johnson's just as though their party were not equally resnonsible for both. But let us look at this claim. In a speech recently delivered in Louisville, Kentucky, Hon. I). W Voorhees, fine of the most brilliant lights that ever illuminated the Halls of Con gressa man of impeachable veracity, and who commands the respect of the Radical Congress for his unsurpassed tal ents and unswerving integrity, made this damarinir statement, which has never been and cannot be sueces-fully contra dieted : At the close of the first year of Grant's adminiMraticn, Heney C. Dawes, Chair man of the Committee on Appropriations, a Republican leader in the House, longer a member of Congress than any member now in it. stood in his place on the floor aud asked every member, before he com menced his speech, to send and get his book of estimates, and follow him figure by figure, and see whether he told the truth. ; and having done that, he said in the "most deliberate and solemn form, that the first year ot Grant's Administration had cost the people $42,000,000 more than did the last year of President Johnson's Administration. I stake all the reputa tion I have, let it be little or much, upon the statement. The (J lube is open to every body, and there is the recorded testimony standing as a monument against thm. When he made that comparison, he made every Radical within his hearing h;tng his head, lie might have compared him with anybody else but that hated Johnson ; that was tLe climax. Can it be true that expenses are going tip. not down, in this country? Bui thy say. they have re duced taxation. The truth is. that wher ever taxes have been taken off, double the amount has been bud upon some other article, and thus the revenue is kept up to this enormous amount' And this is the party which dare ar raign the Democracy for extravagance and waste of the public funds! Why there has beeu more money actually Btolen from the national treasury by the trooly loil" thieves who have run it, in the past ten years, than it took to con duct the Government in the first fifty years of the present century. And then look at the black-and tan, carpet-bag ad ministrations of the South, fastened upon a down-trodden and oppressed people by Federal bayonets, and what a stupendous monument of infamy and plunder we find! And then their reckless squander ing of the national domain to their own enrichment and that of their '-rings" of political favorites. Take the Northern Pacific Railroad alone : We have before us a pamphlet issued by Jay Cooke & Co., the agents for the" Company, and we de rive our figures from it. The land granted the Company by its charter, original and amended, exceeds 50 millions of acres larger by 10,000 square miles than the eix New England State. There is room tail for ten Slates as large as Massa chusetts, each of them, says the Company, ltb cmcavc, eon resources of coal, J timber, ores of metals and perpetual water-power, altogether superior to those upon which Massachusetts has become populous, rich and politically powerful. The grant is more than seven times as large as Belgium, tmd more than three and a-half times a3 large as Holland. And new. asks fbe company'a pamphlet, what is this great landed empire -of fifty millions of acres "worth? If t Sells for only the low price per acre at which the Kansas Pacific road forced off its lands. while it ran through and stopped in a wilderness of buffalo grass, the proceeds will be over $105,000,000. If nursed and sold on judicious credits, as were the lands ot the Illinois Central, the proceed would be on the basis of that road's sale $550, 000.000. If sold at the average price of the Minnesota school laml3 the proceeds will be $350.600,-OOQ. Here alone is more money given away than it cost to run the Government from its commencement, in cluding the Revolutionary war, up to the time when the Radicals obtained posses sion of it in 18(51- Will the people longer trust a party of this character ? Not un less they wish to see the Government bankrupted and the entire national do main squandered. The Eoad Across the River. Last week we made a note of the fact that the County Court had retained three attorneys to commence an action of dam ages against the Lock and Canal Company for trespass. Below we publish the order which gave the Company the right to use the road, which order was made at the August term, and also the order made at the last session. We are not in favor of the Lock Company having anything but justice, and do not desire that the rights of a single individual shail be disturbed, but. this attempt on the part of certain persons to create law suits at the expense of tiro County, cannot and should not be countenanced by the lax-payers. We were over the river osetime since, in company with two old residents cf this place, and look a look at the road made by the Lock Company on the bill, and these gentlemen informed us that the road was better than the county ever bad on that side of the river. Besides, it looks to us, had the Court desired to do what was right between man and man, after giving the Company the use of the road, that they had notified them of the damage, and sought a settlement without hastening into a suit for damages. We publish both orders made by this wise body of Solomons, and ask the people to judge as to the justice of their acts. Besides, we are informed, that the County Judge him self viewed the road as it now is, and de clared that he was well pleased with it. There is something strange about the action oi me uouri, in iuis ciairer. Here is the order made at the August terra : The County Court ordered and adjudged and decreed that the said Willamette Falls Canal and Lock Company are hereby given and granted permission to take and use such part or parts ot the county roads as said Corapanv may desire, or be con venient to said Company in the construe tion of said canal and lock thereon be tween the Ferry landing, opposite Oregon Oily, uregon, at, or near tinn oity, on the west side of said river and the mouth of the Tualatin river, or any and all coun ty roads leading from ttie west side ot the Willamette river, at or near the Willam ette Falls, where said canal and locks are proposed to be constructed into the ad jacent county, to have the use of said roads not longer than three yeats. and at the end of said time to give up said roads to the county in as good a condition as they found them ; provided, however, tint said Company shall construct or cause to be constructed at their own expense and cost, a good and sate road bed or tract as may be taken, whereby and whereon all persons, their stock and vehicles who desire to travel the same may safely ar conveniently pass : and that the travel from the west side of said river to the mouth of the Tualatin river and all other portions of county roads as are necessarily used, should not be impeded or obstruct ed by said Lock Company. At the September term, the County Court made the following order : On this da (September term) cumo the supervisor of Road District No. 2o end presented a petition showing that the Willamette Falls Canal and Lock Com pany by its agents and servants had de stroyed p .rU:ns of the above designated county load, and thereby obstructed travel over a:rd along the same. The Court, after being fully advised in the premises, and making a personal inspec tion of the portions of said road destroy ed, ordered and adjudged that an action for damages be at once commenced against any m i all persons who have ob structed the public highways of this coun ty, and that Messrs. Johnson i McCown, and A. F. Forbes be and hereby are re tained as attorneys for the count' In said action. Lady Like. A tew days ago, a Mrs. J. B. Frost, a lady who evidently has go d sense, published a communication in the Statesman in which she showed up the folly of woman's suffrage. Mrs. Duni way, being unable to answer the argu ment of Mrs. Frost, devoted about a half a column to her abuse last week. Sister Duniway should be more gentle to her own sex ; let her treat them as she does the "brutes of men" who abuse the dear creatures so horribly because "they don't vote' A person who reads Mrs. Duni way "s paper, would naturally come to the conclusion that when women shall have the right to vote, men will be brought down and their hearts will be melted and become a3 soft and plyable as may be desired. We thought women long since possessed a stronger power to saften men, and mould them as they wish. We prefer the good old way. independent of the ballot. The Govenok's Adprkss. We this week publish the address made by Gov.Grover on the occasion of the laying of the cor ner stone of the penitentiary. According to our arrangements when in Salem, we should have had a copy of the address three weeks ago. But it is never too late to publish a good thing. It was deliver ed In the presence of a large number of citizens from Salem and surrounding country, and not, as some narrow-minded bigots have stated, to '-a few faithfuls." A Letter from Mator Goldsmith. Elsewhere we publish an interesting letter from Mr. Goldsmith, the President of the W. F. Lock &, Canal Company. We ask our readers to give it a careful persuai. It give an insight, to the order passed by the County Court. Portland Correspondence. Poktlaxd, Sept. 12, 1871. Editor Enterprise. This city has been thrown into a perfecturore for the past week oyer the lectures of Miss Susan B. Anthony, a most horribly ugly advocate of Woman s Rights. Her lectures are well attended, a? she distributes free tickets with a lavish "hand, and there are many in Portland who never let a free fight go by default. As your readers may doubtless desire to know something more of this wonderful creature, I will give a brief sketch of the personage and her lectures. MISS AXTIIOXT Is a tall, angular woman, perhaps fifty years of age, with glassy gray ees.-gray hair.wears spectacles.and one look into her connlenance would Brighten a young child into convulsions. She speaks with precision at times becoming quite serious, and again bringing down the house with applause at some humorous and amusiDg sentence. Her logic is that of all women -because' She makes wild assertions, and takes it for granted that her auditors are con vinced, and then passes on to something else. She -advocates woman suffrage, as she believes it will elevate woman in the scale of humanity, and enable her. by her ballot, to rid the world of many of the evils with which it is now cursed. Her lecture on Saturday afternoon, to women only, on the " SOCIAL EVII.,, Was largely attended, by both old and young, but we trust, lor the sake ot the virtue and morality of Portland, that a large majority went more from sheer cur iosity than with any expectation of being edified bv her remarks. She laid stress on the women paving heed to the moral purity of those they would take for their husbands, as the iniquities of the fathers, fcc. She strongly reprobated women for degrading themselves by marrying for mere support. She did not think legislation would remove the -social evil," as it did not remove intemperence; but women must recognize the power of the ballot, help each other in getting an honest livelihood and thus eradicate tne '-social evil. - as none would follow such a life from mere choice. Many objections had been made to wo man suffrage, whicli Miss Anthony pro nosed to answer on Monday evening. How she answered them, we shall-now very briefly endeavor to show, lhe first ob jection noticed was "THE I5IBI,K IS AGAINST THE BALLOT." She said this had always been a stumbling block in the way of progress ! She re verted to that injunction of Holy Wrrit Servants obey your roasters," and de ehueuV that '-lime and progress had laid that Scriptural injunction aside, as it was out of da'e ! lhis of course silenced the first objection. The second was 'POLITICS WILL DEGRADE WOMAN' To this objection she replied that men ' did not believe it." This war certainly a crusher, and she having so thoroughly answered it in this expression, we will proeeed to the third objection, which was "woman does not want to vote." To this she said: "1 don t believe it Lverv woman here to-night wants to vote Men don't fence a corn field because the pigs don't want the corn. But because themselves do. they fence the field to keep lhe pigs out7 Can more sound logic than this be advanced ? The next objection wa3 "MAN REPRESENTS WOMAN ' To this the logic of her answer is truly characteristic of woman: "No such thing-" But we must hasten, for we fear We are becoming too tedious. The next objection was 'IT WOULD MAKE DISCORD IN" THE FAMILY." She had "seen two dogs fighting over a bone ; throw them another bone, and they would cease fighting." From this where is the man who will deny that wo man is the -under-dog 'WOMAN CONTROLS MAN'S VOTE NOW." Yes; the courtesan could by lobbying in Congress, control the vote of a man more surety than his half million constituents. Thus she answered the objections inter posed against this doctrine ; but in so do ing, she must declare the Bible and the teachings of Christ's Apostles out of date I When a Christian people can sit and listen with patience to such stuff a3 this, we are almost prepared for negro-equality, Chin ese suffrage, and woman's rights. But Heaven forbid! Citizen". A Letter from Mayor Goldsmith. Portland, Sept. S, 1871. A. Noltxkr. Es., Editor Enterprise Dear Sir ; In the issue of your valuable paper of Sept. 8th, I was glad to notice your remarks about your County Court making an order to commence an action of trespass against our Company, employ ing three attorneys (one of which, I un derstand, is the business partner of your County Judge). 1, think the people of Clackamas county do not wish to place any obstacles in the way of having the canal and locks finished at the time speci fied, as it certainly is of as much import ance to your county as to the whole State to have that important work finished and opened to the public at the earliest date. Why then the action of your County Court? Our Company will do anything fair which is asked of them. Why then this haste to commence suit without giv ing our Company notice ? Is it to get a fee out of the tax-payers, or is it to haul chestnuts out of the fire for somebody who wishes to delay the work, or to black mail us ? I am sure nobody interested on either side of the river has any reason to com plain about our Company. We acquired, by paying for it, the right of way ; have not knowingly damaged anybody ; do not intend to do so, but will resist to the bitter end any and nil kinds of blackmail, and think that your county ought not to lend its aid tohave any levied on us, nor ought your county lend its aid to have the work delayed by any frivolous com plaints. Our Company has pledged to the people of this Slate to finish the work so important to the State, and so much more important to your county, and we hope that all well-meaning citizens of Clackamas county will frown down any and alt efforts of attorneys seeking to se cure a fee. and of broken down" estate hunters attempting to blackmail, and thereby delay the work. Very respectfully, your ob'd serv't, B. Goldsmith. President W F. C. & L, Co. The Difference. The old wooden per itentiary. erected at Salem in 1866. which is now totally useless and insecure, cost the State under Radical rule, the nice lit tle sum oi $32,000. The present fine brick structure will not cost the State more than the appropriaf.on. $50,000. and is more than twice a i large, besides it will be secure for generations to come. COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Remarks of Govenor Grover on Lay ing the Corner Stone of the New Penitentiary. Fellow Citizens : We come here to day to lav the corner stone of the firt permauent public building oi a""1 the Penitentiary. Before yon are rising the walls of a structure, palatial m ap pearance. . Its architectural designs its ooen portals and wmdows, its wings ana J ..... , e it.:., drwk angles, and its coming aome. s' as a work of be ant v and a place of cheer fulness and voir ask. can this be a pris on? . Perhaps the progress of society can vc no better judged than by oDservmg iue course of public law for the punishment cf crime and the modes of lntuctiug mt i i !i i;ir hest tunes mere IfltlJICllILJlll. ill lU- . were no prison. The iaw im , was executed and retributive justice w as meted out a lifi eye and a tooth for a lite an eye lor an fcr a tooth. For theft and other minor offences the death penal ty was often awarded, and vinaictive pun ishment, graduated by different modes of torture, were inflicted according to the character of the offence. Since the times of written law ana iue adjudications of organized conns. - read of the cross, the giooer, iue, uum- ing state, ana me suuuwmii, attainder of'blocd and the forfeiture of estate often following capital convictions. as though the sufferings ot the convict in person could not expiate his crime. The first prisons were oniy utiugeoun dismal dens ot solitary exclusron irom me world, in which the victims olten preier- red starvation and added torture. But the world's progress has changed penal laws as well as the modes ana pur poses of punishment. Under our institutions no auaini oi blood is allowed, and forfeiture of estate does not follow ordinary crime, ilie death penalty is imposed in but few cases, and torture in executions is a thing of the past. For a large class of offences, labor, reform, and iestoration to society are, in the purpose of the law, substituted for ig uominous death and disgrace of family. We build in isoiis and workshops suita ble to this change. We make them aud airv. We let in the same light of heaven as a preserver of health and a co- laborer in reform. We provide for the unfortunate prisoner all the aid3 of re formation. They are treated with kindness and are furnished with moral and relig ious instruction. We enforce cleanly habits. We teaeh mechanical trades, ag riculture and sometimes tetters. We try to raise up and reclaim a man, instead of brutalizing and destroying a human be ins. This is the leading policy, and we work to it as nearly as possible. The building before you is to be com pleted to these ends, and will bear all the improvements of modern prison structure, the llolunda vlan. bavins: a central sec tion, generally octagonal, from which four wings project at right angles with each ether. This structure, will when complete, be in the shape of a Human cross the front, projection represent in the head of the cross; the two broad wings which you see in your front, repre senting the arms, which now extend two hnndered and twelve feet from end to cud, while a rear wing to be built in fu ture, as the requirements of the State sug gest, Will represent the main standard ol the cross. For economy and security in management, considered best. An appropriation of $50,000 wa3 made at the last ses.' ion of the Legbdatme for the erection of this building; and we have authority to use couvict labor in addition to this amount of money, to such extent as can be made, available. At this time $30 000 of the appropriation has been expended, and one million and a half ot brick have been laid in these walls. The brick work will be completed by the use of about two and a half millions of brick. We expect the building will be enclosed this season and outline the expenditure of lhe appropriation. As you see, the work is of the most durable character. The style U good. The whole job is a credit lo the commissioners, the supervis ing architect and the workmen. Aud us for the success of the whole undertaking, private enterprise has not dune a better thing in the t-laie lor tne same outlay. 1 can congratulate you. fellow citizens, that the great woik of constructing one public building is creditably begun. A Little trick. The following order was made at the last term of the County Court: In the matter of the moneys hi the County Treasury belonging to the school fund: Jt appearing from the report of the Treasurer that there i? now in the County Treasury as surplus school fur.d remaining over from last year, and the Court being satisfied that said money can not be by law used for school purposes un til after" the collection of the tax for this year shall be almost or quite completed, and deeming it for the best interest of all concerned, that as said money caunot be loaned out at interest, there being no law governing such cause or disposition or said school fund; It is ordered and ad judged (hat the County Treasurer pay the said school land out on county warrants as though it was county funds that liKiy be in the Treasury, the amount so, used, dollar for dollar used. This money, transferred, we think, by doubtful authority, was immediately gob bled up by some of the ring, as the Asses sor received his warrant and was paid the money on Tuesday morning, before the Court adjourned, while it is imial for orders not to be drawn until after the business of the session is over. "on tickle me and I'll tickle you" is the motto. Outsiders can wait for their money until the taxes are collected or sell their orders at a discount. Lrxx County Faiu. We acknowledge the receipt of a complimentary ticket to attend the Linn County Fair, which is to be held on the Society's grounds near Al bany, commencing on the 26th inst., and continuing five days. The premiums awarded are most liberal, and the Fair cannot fail to be a grand success, as ihe managers spare no trouble or expense to make it so. Tue California Election. The Radi cals carried everything before them in California. They elect a majority of the Legislature, which gives them the U. S. Senator, and the three Congressman. Haight is defeated by about 6.000 majori ty. This resu It does not surprise us much, yet we had hoped the disaffections in the Democratic ranks would not have led to such an overwhelming defeat. It was the result of a division in the party, and does by no means indicate that California will not give her electoral vote for the Democratic nominee for President. The Good Templar. We have received the first two numbers the Good Templar, published at Albany by Col. Van Cleave, and edited by the Secretary of the Grand Lodge. Mr. George. The paper is much improved both typographically and edi torially, and is well worthy of support by the order. Thanks Hon. Jas. II. Slater has our tbaDks for publio documents. STATE NEWS. The Plainealer reports Oakland consid erable excited over the discovery of a quartz ledge on Callapooia Creek which prospects very rich. The Dallas Repnhlican has the follow ing : At the races Wednesday. Whitley's horse was the winner by about twenty feet. Both parties were very panguine in the xrntset, and some bet all the money they had, and all tbey could borrow. We understand Whitley won about fourteen" hundred dollars, and didn't run much either. Delashmutts, after betting all their money, bet "Portland" against what they supposed an equivalent in coin. Af ter the race, the -Portland" which was bet proved not to be the city, but a favorite hunting hound which belonged to Jack Delashmutt. Mr. William Tatem. who lives about four miles east of town, informs us that on Thursday afternoon of last week, his barn, together with its contents about twenty tons of hay, nearly seven hun dred bushels of oats, seventy bushels of wheal, and a considerable amount of other property, was entirely destroyed by fire. Mr. William McCune, of this county, thrashed twelve hundred and forty bush els of good clean wheat from twenty-five acres of land. That is the best yield we have to report yet. If anybody in the county can beat it, let us hear from them, and see if Polk county cannot furnish the highest yield of the State. The Statesman says : Again we are called upon to publish the occurrence of a very sad event, the result of a careless use of firearms. On Yesterday morning two boys, Ollie Monroe and Charlie Mc Phillips, residing near Amity, started out with their guns to shoot some birds. They had not proceeded far. when by some means the gun in the hands of the former was discharged, taking effect in his com rade's head just behind the ear, causing death immediately. The two boys were eight and ten years of age. The Eugene Gaurd says that Chinaman have beeu going through to the front on the Oregon and Califuruia Railroad at the rate of one hundred a day since Thurs day. The instalment to-morrow disposes of the last importation to Portland four hundred. The same paper says : Sheriff Palmer, of Benton 'county, telegraphed to Sheriff Poindexter a day or two since to look out for three Indians, charged with horse stealing, it being supposed they bad start ed for this place. The whereabouts of two of them was discovered on Wednes day, and in the evening Messrs. Poindex ter and William Thompson went to their retreat, an old house near town. The Sheriff secured one but the other succeed -in making his escape, in a struggle willi Mr. Thompson this one was shot and then knocked down with a revolver, and yet had strength and energy enough left to get away, lhompson says he would have saved any fur ther trouble, other than a burying, had not his revolver been ren dered ie-eler-s by coming in contact with the head of the Siwaih. Sheritf Palmer left lor home with the one captured terday morning. yes- Governor Grover has pardoned Eii Mason of Philomath. Benton county, who was sent to the Penitentiary lor killing Silas White. Tile forms Ihrald says that Judge McCoy in it that he can furnish employment to 1000 roads. men to woik on the different rail- Two horse thieves who give tli ir names as David and Geortre I'piou were arrest ed ta.-t week by oilioer Brannan near As toria. The Portland county jail contains twenty-six prisoners. The HcraM gives a two column account of a confidence man mimed II. P. Boy lan, who forged a draft o:i a merchant in Port land. The Qrcgnnian says that Messrs. Stitzel it Upton. Jveai Estate Agents of this city, have recently made an extensive pur phase of hum i:i Washington county, on their own account. They had. before, a farm ot one thousand acres, and their late purchase makes it 2.1 00 ail in urn? They have several Scandinavian tract, im mi- grauts on it. From lhe Bed Bock Democrat we learn that the Academy building was destroyed at Baker City by lire on the :d in-t. The loss to the contractor, Mr. Twiggs, is esti mated at about $1,000. The Supreme Court has sustained the d-.-cision of Judge Thayer in the contest lor the Flecoi dersliip of CorViMlis. We hope our Baaical friends are satisfied. Mr. Jacob StiizH, who was out in Wash ington county, a f-v days since, says that he saw about twenty-five families en route for Tillamook, with a view of taking farms and settling there. 1 hey were irom CaltJornia. Wheat has advanced at Salem lo $1 10.- Mother of A. A. McCully her residence in llarrisburp , Ksq.. died at lasi Saiurdav. She was 81 years of age. The editor of the Albany Democrat has gone li ieud time. to tne mountains. e hone our Brown will have a pretty good The Jacksonville Times says that a company of capitalists Irom San Francis co have taken the copper mine of Smith, Bigsby &, Co.. on Fall creek, near the Il linois river. The company are sanquine of being able to reduce the ore. so that it will bear transportation, and. in view of that, have a large force of men now em ployed in cutting a trail from the mine through to the mouth of Cbetso river, at which point the company propose to ship their ore. The successful working of those mines will be of immense service to Josephine county and Southern Oregon. The Republicans of Portland fired a salute of one hundred guns in honor of the recent Republican victory in Cali fornia, on the 12th. The Bulletin says that Portland appears to be at present the rendezvous of a gang of swindlers and -congdeuce operators' II. Kelly, Esq., the law partner of B. F. Dowell, Esx.. has assumed editorial con trol of the Jacksonville Sentinel. Many settlers have gone into the Ya quina Bay country. F. Tierce, late Capt. IT. S. A., has been appointed light house keeper at Yaquina. The home of J. France at Yaquina was destroyed by fire a few days since. Loss $600. Complimentary. We return our thanks to the Managers of the Walla Walla Agri cultural Society for a complimentary tick et to attend tbeir Fair, which takes place on the 20th inst.. and continues four days. We regret that it i3 out of our power to attend. Rejoicing. The Radical-- have a spell of rejoicing on. They now even rejoice that tbey didn't loae Maine. What an as tonishing fact. Maine has gone Radical. Who would have thought it. The nigger vote even increased their former majority a little. That is astonishing too. Won der if they won't rejoice when they carry Massachusetts ? Telegraphic Clippings. PonTLAxr, September 11. Returns from 128 towns give lerham 30.327 ; Kimball, 24.015 ; making the Republican majorltg fi.427. Last yea'r the same towns gave a Republican majority of 5. 3S2, being a Republican gain of 1,045 The Legislature will show a slight Demo cratic gain over last year -the Senate stood twenty-eight Republicans to three Democrats ; the House stocd one hundred and thirteen Republicans to thirty-eight Democrats. Augusta, September 12. The indica tions derived from a careful footing up of the returns leceived to-day at noon are that Governor Perham's majority is nearly 11,000. The official majority last year was 8.238. New York. Sept. 11. The injunction case against the city officials came up this morning. The defendants all appeared by counsel, and announced their readiness to proceed. The Controller's office this morning wa3 round to have beeu entered by burglars, and a number of vouchers aud bills paid in 1S70, stolen. Lexington, Ky.. Sept. 11. Jacob Har per and Betsy Harper, brother and sister of John Harper, the well known turfman, were found murdered in the hitter's bouse. Several negroes living near the place have been arrested on suspicion, blood having been found on their clothes. The evidence is strong against them. Tbeir object was money. New York, Sept. 10. One hundred guns were fired from the Government barge office, at the Battery, yesterday in honor of the Republican victory in Cali fornia. It is expected that ten thousand trades unionists will take part sn the working men's demonstration next Wednesday. Comptroller Connelly yesterday in formed a reporter that he bad no intention of resigning, and Mayor Hall said that he had not heard that any city officials de sired to do so. The Corporation counsel will reply to-morrow, before Judge Barn ard, to tut; application for a perpetual in junction against the city officials. Mayor Hall having decided to take no part in ihe case. IIvpson. Sept. 10. The meeting of the members of St. Mary's parish was largely attended, and the action ot the Vigilance Committee of Friday, in resolving to re sist to the last extremity the reinstatement of Father O'Sullivan over the church, was unanimously indorsed, and a strong guard was placed around the church lat night. This fornoon Father O'Sullivan did not appear, and no services were held to day. Great crowds were collected around the church this afternoon, but per fect order prevailed. The rebels are firm and united iu the determination to pre vent O'Sullivan or his adherents entering the church at all hazards, and say they are prepared for any emergency. It is said two companies of infantry and one of cavalry will remain in Raleigh. North Carolina, during the Ku Klnx trials, which commence this week. More "-iislical Ilont-sty. New York. Sept. 13. A morning paper h.sthe statement that Johu W. Noiton. Superintendent of the Money Department of the City Postoflice, is a defaulter lo the extent of Irom $100,000 to 55150.000. He drew on the L S. Treasury at the Sub Treasury for S142.000 ostensibly lor use in the PostoGice Department. This money he is known lo have used in speculations in Wall street. He has compromised with the Government and resigned his posi tion. Other employes are said lo be sus pected of similar crimes; Baltimore. Sept. 12. The Republican State Convention for the nomination of candidates for Governor and State officers, met to day. All the counties except Tal bot were represented. Among the dele gates were twenty colored nin. Hon. Jacob Towne, of Creil, was nomi nated for Governor by acclamation. Alex ander Ramsdell for Attorney-General and Lawrence J. Brengle, of Frederick, lor Controller. California Ekillon Xtws. San Fkaxctsco. Sept. 11. The whole Republican State ticket is elected includ ing the three Congressmen with the ex ception of McGlynn. for Harbor Commis sioner, who is probably beaten by a scratch. Booth's majority in San Francisco is 2,875: majority in the State is probably from 5.000 to 7,000. A number of out side counties are yet to be heaed from. The taxpayers of San Francisco elect the Mayor and all the other candidates except Badlam for Assessor, who is beat en by nearly 300 ; Higgins for Recorder, who is beateu by llynes. the Supervisor of the Fourth Ward, who is beaten bv Tim McCarthy, independent candidate; Justice ot one School Director aud one the Peace. The steamers Constantine, for Portland, and Win. Taber, for San Diego, have both hauled off. having been sold to Ilolladay i Brenham. This is positive. The Ajax takes the place of the John L. Stephens in the Portland line. Sax Fkaxcisco, Sept. 13. The wheat market is ra.her quiet. Flour Three thousand bbls Eldorado and Golden Age. superfine, for China. The export demand is quiet, the Ring leader for Hongkong being the only ves sel loading. Wheat The market is from 10 to 15 cents higher than it was a week ago. Sales of '500 ska coast S2 45; 250 sks good milling $2 C8i : 300 sks choice $2 52i2 85. Oats Are measureably neglected at $1 85 1 95. Wool The market is duller than at any previous time this year. Shippers are not buying at all. and only one of the lo Cil mills is purchasing. Sales for the week barely reach 50.000 lbs. all by one house. The price for choice is from 1 to I3C. lower than last week and quite nom inal at that. Inferior descriptions are un saleable and slock very large; indeed, the supply of all kinds is heavier than for sometime. We quote clear fall at 28 31c. Hides Sales 1,830 California 1.926 salted during the week at and 1910&c. respectively. dry and 1819c. Sax Fkaxcisco. Sept. 13. The owners ot the steamer Constantine state that she has simply been hauled off for repairs, and not sold out to Ilolladay & Brenham. as reported. "All fortuk People." It appears that Mr. Ilolladay now is complete master of the situation. He has the transporting in terests on both sides of the river and the river itself, and now comes this little piece of news, and all this is for the -good of Oregon.r? (so we are told) and not to build up a gigantic monopoly. Strange that every body can't see it in that light. The Oregonian of the 14lh says: The news current yesterday that the 6teamship Constantine had been withdrawn from the San Francisco and Portland route, is true. Capt. Flanders, the agent at this ciiy, showed us a telegram, last evening, from the company announcing the withdrawal. The New York Citizen, which is edited by a Democratic member of Congress, comes out unequivocally in condemnation of the city gove-nineDt. Oregonixm. We are glad the Oregonian. acknowl edges the fact that Democrats and Demo cratic papers denounce fraud wherever it is perpetrated, whether by Radicals or their own party. Halls egetable Sicilian Hair Renew i? cleanses the head from dandruff. Oiv i trial. 11 Oregon City Prices Current. The following are the prices paid for produce, and the prices at which other n. ciclea are selling, in this market WHEAT Wbitep) bushel, $1 lo OATS bushel. 60 cts. POTATOES bushel. 75 ct. ONIONS bushel. $1 00 1 50 FLOUR y bbl. S7 0C$6 50. BEANS W hite. fl.. 4 5 cts. DRIED FRUIT Apples, a., 6 CU Peaches. r$ lb., lfifc: I'lnms, 16 cts.; Currants. lb.. 1020 cts. BUTTER- lb.. 2530cts. EGGS dozen. 25 cts-. CHICKENS dozen. $34. SUGAR Crushed. &., 20 cts.; Inland B., 1012i cts.; N. O.. lb., 15 ct. San Francisco refined, B . I6i cts. 1 TEA Young Hyson, lb., $1 50- Ja pan, -ft fo., 90c$l 25 ; Black, a ft SI 00. ' '' r COFFEE Jb.. 2022 cts SALT lb., 142 4 cts. SYRUP Heavy Golden, tgall., $ qq . Ex. Heavy Golden, pt gall., $1 ' BACON-Hams, lb., 14 ct gj, 14 cts. lb.; Shoulders, 7 ct ' LARD "t lb.. 14 cts. UIIj Uevoe s Kerosene, Linseed oil. raw. 1 .rail' gall. 75. 50 ; $1 Linseed oil.'boiled. gall., $1 50 wool--i if., a.) cts. BEEF On foot, 7 S cts. "H 2 10 UK On foot. 67cts. ft, SHEEP Per hea.l.S2 00,$'50 HIDES Green, ft lb., 5c. : I)rj. ft . 2i cU ; Salted, 8c ' J tf D" Tlie Cosmopolitan Drawing. The Manasrera ar nttiin. . and the Committee is making everr prenaV ation for the drawing. The day wilt bhurtW be announced to the public. 7 Eiubtiant t'eultli. Is a blessing vouchsafed to few. Sren those who have been favored by nature with strong constitutions and vigorous frames ttt apt to neglect the precautions necessary to preserve these precious endowments. In deed, as a rule, the more healthy and robust a man 13, the more liberties he hi inclircd to take with his own physique. It is BOme coti solution to the naturally weak and feeble to know that they can be so invigorated and built up, by a proper use of the means which science has placed at their disposal, as to have a much better chance of long life, and exemptions from disease and pain, than the most athletic of their fellows who are foohsh enough to suppose themselves invul nerable, and act accordingly. It is not t.o much to safrhat more than half the people of the civilized world need an occasional tonic, to enable them to sup port the .strain upon their bodies and mind which the fa.st te of this restless age 0?-' sions. In fact, a pure, wholesome, unexcit ing tonic is the grand desideratum of tht busy millions, and they have the article in Hostetter'd .Stonmeh Hitters. It is a stam ina! medicine, i. e. it imparts permanent strength to weak systems mid invigorates delicate constitutions. Its reputation and its s iles have steadily incieased. Curnpeti live preparations have bee;i ii.troduced ad hhiium, and as f; r as the public is coucerhrd, admmxtiun, in the hipe of rivaling it; but they all either perished in the attempt, or been Jet fir in the rear. It has been the great niedic.il success of the present centurr, and it is qui fe certain that no proprietary medicine in this country is as widely known, or as generally used. Ten lightning presses, running incessant! (Sundays excepted.) the whole vear through', barely supply the .lemand for the Illustrated Almanac, in which the nature and use of the preparation are set forth, the circulation now being over eight miPions a year. Saturday Evenir g, Sept. 15, 1871. STEPHENMASSETT WILL GIVE HIS BUDGET OF Sentiment and Fun TO THE CITIZENS ON OREGON CITY At the above time and place. PART . .SEKIOCS. 1. The Vagabonds Recitation. 2. Wounded on the Battle Field. 3. The Mothers Prayer, I. Learning to Walk. 5. -'The Death of Poor Joe." From "Bleak House," with a brief sketch of Dickeu. y. The Cripples Story. PART II. COMIC. 1. Scene in Chinese Theater at Foo Choo. Chinese Opera. 2. The Artificial Man. 3. Comic Scene at a Camp Meeting. 4. Lecture ou Woman's Rights. 5. Scene in Hong Kong Imitation of a Chinaman, Acotchmau, Englishman, Nwrvous Man, &c. G. The Charge of the Light Brigade. To conclude with a comic sketch, GLOV ERSON" THE MORMON, by the late ArtP mus Ward. ADMISSION 50 cents Door open at T. Begin at S. Summons. In the Circuit Court for the County of Clwl-a- mas, State of Oregon. rilEUE 11. WELDj plaintiff, ) Suit for dissoln vs. J tion of marriago ABNEIt WEED, Defendant. J contract 1 X THE XAMEOFTHE STATE OF OltE pom, you are hereby required to appear and answer the complaint of the tiled aguinot yw in the above entitled suit Within ten days froia the date of the service of this summons upoa you, if served in said eountv, or if served in any other county of this State," then within twenty days from the date of the service of this su mons upon you ; or if served bv publication, by the first day of the next term of said Court, winch shall be held after six weeks from the pub lication of this summons, said Hrst publication bein?ieptembcTl;, 1S71. And if you fail so to answer, lor want thereof, the plaintiff will ap ply to the Court for the relief demanded in saul complaint, -which is, that the bonds of matrimony existing between plaintitf and defendant herein, be dissolved, and that plaintiff have the custody ot the children of said marriafre. By ordr of Hon. V, W. Upton, Judge of said Court. 7 Hated Sept. 11, 1871. . , I ORBES & W"AItREJ Sept. 1jw6 Attorneys for Plainti. NEW HARDWARE STORE, CORXET PROM S; STARK STS., PORTLAND, OREGON. .IOIIT It. FOSTER Is now receiving aud offers for sale, at the lowest rates, a full stock of SHELF JviVX BUILDERS3 HARDWARE, Mechanics' Tools, Table and Pocket Cutlery, MINERS' GOODS, EMails, Ropes, Shovels, Anvils, Axes, Etc., Which he invites buyers to call aDd examine before purchasing el-ewhere. Would invite particular attention of buy ers of Bu;Iiers' Hardware and Honpe Trim minffs, either at WHOLESALE or R ETA lb May 2?,1871:m3 JOHN II. FOSTER. TVT7TTT.-T-1T TTTTT