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OFFICIAL rATEK FOR CLACKAMAS COUNTY.
Or agon City, Orogon ,
Friday : : :
Oct. 6, 1871.
Referring to the Records.
o
Tbo Oregonian gave 1 as bsveek, referring
to the official figures given by the Exter
riti.SK, as a reason fur its not attempting
an answer thereto, that our "figures ex
ceeded in absurdity any fabrication ever
before put forth through your columns,
and, therefore,, beneath notice,'' and that
it wouldono mare attempt to question
thera than it would undertake "seriously
to disprove the story of the voyage to the
Honyhnhnyms." Now, all we have to
say t?the above is, that we shall compel
the Oregonian to notice some of those
'figures,'' or else suffer'under a plain and
undeniable imputation of being a malici
ous falsifier. Some of those figures allud
ed to the discrepancy between the state
ment of Boutwell, Secretary of the Treas
ury, and Spinner, Treasurer of the United
States, regarding the amount of the pub
lic debt. The Oregonian has termed the
statements made in regard to this fact as
"exploded Democratic nonsense," and we
are now in a position to make it swallow
that assertion or stand before the public
of this State as wilfully misrepresenting
facts of which it is perfectly cognizant.
In Its discussion with the Herald, it lias
referred to the Finance Reports of the
Government for dUierent years, by the
nnci's. This is rood. It exhibits the fact
t o
to us that it ha3 those reports in its pos
session, and can refer to them in refuta
tion, in case we should make any false
assertions. We, therefore, ask our neigh
bor tPmake with us a voyage, not to the
Honyhnhnyms, but to the Finance Re
ports of the Government, for the years
18GG nd 1870. in order to find out this
discrepancy regarding the public debt of
the United States. In the Finance Report
for tbO year 180G, on page 26, will be
found a statement of the public debt of
tho-United States, June 30th, 18(56, which
is givfti by Hugh McCuiiougb, Secretary
of the Treasury, as follows : Total, $2,-
783,425.879 21. On page 305, of the same
volnmeis given a .statement of the pub
lie debt, at the same date, by S. B. Coiby.
(Register of the Treasury, which is given
as follows: $2.783. -425, 79 21. To make
plain, we will place the two amouct as
follows : O
1800.
June Debt per 8eerjtai v of
Treasury '...-72,783,425,870 21
June 30 lebt per Keuistor of
Treasury .2,783, 125.87:) 21
iiFerenee Nothing.
Thus it will be seen that the statement
of the public debt by these two officers of
the Government is. as it ought to be, uni
form as to the amount at the same date.
Now let us turn to the Finance Rcoort for
the year 1870. On page 25, in the report
of, George S. Boutwell, Secretary of the
Treasury, will be found a statement of
lhe amount of the public debt of the
United States, at the date of June 30th,
1S70, which is given in amounts as fol
lows : $2,-18(),072S127 81. Ia the same
volume, on page 270, is a statement of the
public debt of the United States, at the
dale of June 30' h, 1870, given by John
Allison, Register of the Tieasurv. which
ia given in amount
follOW;
S2.3S.;.
358.590 71. To make plain, we will give
the two statements together :
1S70.
June 30- Debt per Secretary of
Tre.tMi ry " .2,4.sO,072, 127
June 30 Debt per lie risU r of
Treasury 2,38';,3,),."'.i'.)
81
'I
Difference in statements. . .4 1)1,313,828 07
CNow alter we have given the pages for
reference, in volumes which the Oregonian
Las in its own possession, (as has been
proven by its lefereuce thereto in its dis
cussion with the Jf- r ild), it will not do
f r the Oiegonian to assert, in t ie face of
the above figures, that the charge of dis
crepancy between the Secretary of Treas
cry "and the Treasurer, and Register of
t ie Treasury, regarding the public debt.
is nothing but "exploled Democratic
(jjonsense.' It will not do now, after we
have referred it to the pages of volumes
in its own possession, for it to assert that
our figures are fabrications.'' It has it
iriks power to prove them as such if they
are so, and iff must do it, or else acknowl
edge that it has misrepresented us. It can
not now be silent, for silence would be a
graven confession that it had deliberately
falsified. There are some people in Ore
gon who believe, in such matters, that the
editor of the Oiegmian is totally destitute
of honorbut weaie not yet reckoned
among them. QVe hope and believe that
when he fully ascertains, as he can in the
above caiSe, that there is a discrepancy be
tween the two officers regarding the pub
lic debt, and that Boutwell has increased
it above what is known to Allison by
some ninety-four millions of dollars, that
be will be honest enough to inform his
readers of the facts, and manly enough to
beg 0(U r pardon lor misrepresenting us.
We hope, for the honor of Oregon journ
alism, that we shall not be disappointed.
We shall see.
Stkaxgk. if Tin k. The Eugene Gunrd
Biys: "Rev. I. D. Driver has been lec
turing at the Court House during the past
week."'0ln another item the sama paper
says : " The reverend gentleman who has
been lecturing at the Court House, during
the past week, and one of our prominent
citizeus met on the street on Monday last,
and failing to properly understand each
other, engaged vigorously in a war of
words, in the course of which, we are In
formed by parties who witnessed it, the
lie was passflby both of the participants,
Tbey were both arrested for disturbing
i&a peace and quietude of this highly re
spectable old hamlet, and fined six dol
lar each." Put the two items together
And draw your own inference.
In one of th mkeegenation cases in
Q Atlanta, brought before Judge Erskine of
the United States District Court, the
Judge decided, on Friday, that the section
of the Georgia Code, forbidding whites
and negroes to intermarry is not repug
nant to the 14th Amendment of the Con-
etitution of the United States, or the Civil
Kights Bill. The parties weie therefore re
manded to the jailor.
' Charges on the Public Debt"
The Oregonian asserts that"the total ex
penditures of Buchanan's last fiscal year
ending June 30th, 18C0. were (inclusive of
charges on the public debt) $77,055,075 63.
Let us see about this. On page 275 of
the Finance Report of 1S70, we find the
following tabular statement of the ex
penses for the year ending June 30. 1SC0 :
Civil list G,077,OOS 93
Foreign intercourse 1,146,143 70
Miscellaneous 2(,7,233 43
Military 10,472, 202 72
Tensions l,lOO,H02 32
Indians 2,!'1,121 51
Naval 11,514,(34'.) 83
Net ordinary expenses, .f CO, 01 0,002 58
i'liidie ueut. interest ana principal, 17, 0-10,013 07
Total, ... $77,055,075 Co
By referring to the Finance Report of
1859-00, we find the following to be the
items composing the sum of seventeen
million and odd dollars, -which the Ore
gon'..' m calls charges on the public debt :
Vina on the. old pielie debt, - ? .W0 00
lleilenipt ion of bounty laud stock, Sl.'O 00
lti.-.leiuption of stock loan of 1842, 2,100 00
liciiuburst.-ment of Teasy notes is
sued x'Vior to iJec. 23, 1857, paid
in specie, ----- 150 00
l'uid to creditors of Texas per act
of Sept. 0th, 185(1, - - 0,503 33
Payment of Treasury "notes per
" net of Deo. 23, 1S.57," - - - 14,120,700 00
Iuteiet oa public debt, - - 3,177,314 02
Total, --- - .?17,fil3,028 00
It will be seen that the total varies from
the total given in the report of 1870,
which is owing to the habit Radical offici
als have of altering figures to suit them
selves. Thus the Oregonian can see that
what it is graciously pleased to term the
'expenses'' of Buchanan's Administration
and "charges on the public debt."-' was
nothing else fn the world than money ex
pended to pay just debts. The people
would, no doubt, be better satisfied it a
greater portion of the immense sums
raised by the present Administration were
expended for the payment of such deb's
just once, instead of being squandered
and stolen.
Profound Depths."
Mrs. Duniway, in the last issue of the'
2:ic Xorihtrest. has what she calls a ''vig
orous growl at transgressing postmasters,"
in which she makes some very queer re
marks. Hear her :
I'o.-imasters along the Columbia river,
look In-re! We have that to say to you,
from '.he profound depths of our virtuous
indignation.
wnicn oiu
to make you
ouiKe m vour boots, unrseii ami Hus
band, in company with Miss Anthony, re
cently made a lecturing tour up the Col
umbia river as far as Walla Walla.
We opine that if ehe brought up any
thing from those "profound depths." it
would be something of such a character
as to make almost any man "quake'' all
over. Again she says :
It has been our custom to write manu
script copy on our journeyings and send it
from various points along the route.
Wonder if she ever tcriles any other
kind ot "copy' than ' manuscript copy V
Nov,' for it :
Well, en Tuesday. Sept. 10th, we mailed
at The Dalles the manuscript of the chap
ter of "Judith Reid"' which slioukl have
appeared in this issue.
Then she calls the manuscript of a c.iap-
ier of "Judith Reid," "icrilten manuscript
copy " of the journeyings of "our self and
husband, in company with Miss Anthony."'
After announcing that the English lan
guage is not adequate" to express her feel
ings, she closes her "vigorous growl'" by
offering, as the most terrible punishment
she can inflict upon the poor postmaster
at whom she hulls this stull from the
'profound depths of her virtuous indig
nation." to send him a copy of the Xeic
Xrliti.cst free, if be will but give her his
name. What a glorious thing it must be
to be a woman, and especially a woman
profound depths.
A Wonderful "Life."
We have received from some benevolent
and humane individual, who is doubtless
extremely solicitous concerning our tem
poral, as well as our " spiritual " welfare,
some ' tracts,'-' numbered two, three and
four (what a pity we din't get number
one), beginning with a history of the dis
solute character of the Woman of Samaria
and culminating in a Life of Victoria C.
Woodhuli, between which two notable
personages there is shown to exist a strik
ing similarity of character. Now it may
do very well for those who have nothing
belter at which to busy themselves to read
about the angels ccraing down little Vic's
spine, and giving her renewed .strength to
rock the cradle for her mother, or of her
interviews with de-parted spirits. But we
would sa v
to Mr. Theodore Tilton. the au-
thor of
this Irulv ' Wonderful Life," that
this style of literature isn't exactly our
" affinity : "
yet we will give our readers
one extract, and then let the curtain fall,
! with the simpl
ropiest, ' put me m my
lilUe bed : "'
Engrossed in business affairs.'neverthe
less, any moment 'rs. Woodhuli would
rather die than live, such is her infinite
estimate of the other world over this ; but
hhe disdains all commonplace parleying
with the spirit realm, such as are had in
ordinary spirit manifestations. On the
other hand, she is passionately eager to
fee the spirits face to face ; to summon
them at her will, and to communicate with
them at her pleasure. Twice, as ehe un
shakingly believes, she has seen a vision
of Jesus Christ, honored thus doubly over
St. Raul, w ho saw his Master but once,
and then was overcome by the sight.
Cropping Out
In speaking of the discontent which is
manifested by many against Gen. Grant's
Administration, the S. F. Examiner says
it is not confined alone to such men as
Sumner, Schurz, Trumbull and Ferry.
They express the feeling of the most
prominent leaders of the dissatisfied Re
publicans. But there are others who,
with a less national fame, are nearly as
potent in influence. Fenlon, Logan, Tip
ton, and others, represent a different class,
and occupy another plane. Mr. Tipton
was proscribed by the Administration for
the opposing of San Domingo, and for
that reason only. Direct overtures were
made for his support of that job by the
Department of State, and when he "spum
ed the bribe," he was pursued with malice,
lie made a speech recently at Omaha,
the temper of which may be inferred
Irom the following extract : "I am un
alterably opposed to the ruinous and cor
rupting course of the present Administra
tion, and I here pledge myself to make
that opposition both open and uncompro
i misinir."
Protection and Exports-
If anything is wanting, says the S. F.
Examiner, to show how completely the
Radical party leaders and Congressmen.
Senators and Representatives, are under
control of capitalists, and work for the In
terests of the latter in preference to those
of the great masses of the people, it is
furnished in their adherence to the pres
ent swindling tariiF laws. These have
stricken a more blighting blow upon the
prosperity of the country than the four
years of war from which it emerged some
six years ago. Under the plea of pro
tection our tariff laws have been actually
robbing the people of hundreds of mil
lions annually. Did this indirect tax, in
the shape of enchanced prices of the arti
cles protected, all go into the National
Treasury, every cent of the public debt
would have been paid off before now.
But such is the iniquity of the system,
that where one dollar is collected legiti
mately for taxes, three are extracted for
the enrichment of individual and corpor
ate favorites. And it is one of the misfor
tunes connected with the system that in
genious writers and speakers can so mys
tify its operations that unlettered meu, or
those whose minds are not trained to the
investigation of subjects of political econ
omy, are misled and deceived in regard
to its operations. Tell the people that
the tariff has destroyed our commerce,
driven our steamers from the ocean, and
greatly reduced our shipping tonnage,
and we are answered that it is ail the re
mit of a Democratic war. Show them
how they are fleeced by manufacturing
nabobs, and we are answered that low
tariffs would utterly destroy our manu
factures, and deprive thousands of labor
ers of employment. We can't compete,
they Kay, with 'the pauper labor of
Europe." And so it is the game of rob
bery and plunder goes on from year to
vear and the stolid good-natured human
beasts of burden bend their backs to the
load, and as each election comes round,
march to the party which has been rob
bing them. In some portions of the coun
try people are beginning to have a vague
notion that something is wrong. They
feel that it is harder each year to make
both ends meet. They find that every
thing they cosume costs more than it did
formerly. They are consequently becom
ing restive and are looking lor relief iu a
change.
jTo show how highprotective tariffs oper
ate upon our export trade we give the fol
lowing article from the N. Y. World, and
invite particular atention to its figures:
"Why do not the upholders of monopoly
rejoice : ny are tneir organs .silent up
on a fact which should strike home, and
plead for domestic protection ? Look at
this statement of imports and exports for
the fiscal year of 1871, from the chief of
the bureau of statistics:
Of the total trade for the fiscal year
ended June 150, 1ST 1, it will be seen that
the exports exceeded the imports by $10,
308, while for the fiscal year ended June
30. 1870, the imports exceeded the ex
ports to the amount of $1 1.415.170.
Well, perhaps there is after all a good
reason for this silence. The total value of
our exports of domestic productions dur
ing the fiscal year of 1871 was $513,041.
273. eleven articles of which were valued
at $-l.S5.25.20y. Those were as follows:
Breadstuff.-; $79,370,187
Raw cotton 21S.327.1U!)
furs on the skin 1.590.193
Cold and silver bullion 84,505.256
Naval stores . 1,(59 1,135
Oil-cake -1.1(50.021
Refined and crude petroleum. 35, 959. 000
Bacon, pork and lard 22.992,003
Beef 3.825.(5(5(1
Tobacco 19.908.797
Wood and limber 12,91(5.512
Total $185,258,209
'This statement !eavs a balance of
$27,78ti.OG4: to represent all kinds of m ui-
nfuctures in cotton, woolens, iron, steel
leather, glass, chemicals, metals, etc.; in
fact, the exports of all the great manu
facturing industries of the country for
whose education, board and lodging we
have contributed f jr ten years, and which
has cost us the tritle of some $709,000,000
annually in enchanced values of all man
ufactures we consume. It seems that they
have only been able to swell the export
trade of the country about 5 percent, on
the whole aggregate.
'This is not all. Of the $27.7Sl5.0f5G
worth of manufactures exported during
1871, there is an item of $13.-1(53.9 K5 rep
reseittingjmuskets. guns and pistols, against
only $-1,000,000 of the same class of goods
exported in 1S70. That is to say that the
accident of the French war swelled this
item ten millions during 1S71, which cir
cumstance will of course not occur again
this year. Therefore, if we deduct these
ten millions of accidental exports of fire
arms, the whole manufacturing industry
of the country has only exported some
$17,700,000 worth of articles, or about 3j
per cent, ot the whole aggregate of ex
ports. In 1SG0, when we had. according
to the monopolist theory, a ruinously low
tariff, we exported nearly fifty millions or
dollars worth of the class of manufactures
of which we only exported $17,709,000
in 1871. See the one artcle of cotton
fabrics alone:
In 18(50 we exported $10,934,796
In 1871 2.501,533
which is a reduction to less than one
quarter. How will political economists
of the Tribune pattern explain this ?
There is only one observation worth mak
ing, which is: that while agriculture does
not ask for protection, it steadily in
creases its exports, and protected manu
factures are dwindling to insignificance
in the export trade."
SmauvPox. Fortlanders had a small
pox scare, the other day, caused by a
telegram that a child was on the Cascade
boat, with the disease. The Oregonian
thus eases their nerves : '"Upon the ar
rival of the boat, however, the sensation
got nipped, as it turned out that Mr . Ritz's
child had not broken out with the small
pox on the steamer, was not iick on the
steamer or elsewhere, and lastly, was not
on the steamer at all."
Its Labor and Cost. The Mont Cenis
Tunnel, nearly eight miles long, cost $13,
000,000, and employed two thousand men
for nine years. Each lineal yard cost
$1,000. and the balance of the expense is
paid by the Railway Company ot Korth
Italy.
ITorace Greeley, in his religious address
at Akron, Ohio, spoke of the Almighty as
the "Author of all things." The Louis
ville Ledger trusts that he did not design
to involve his Maker in any responsibility
for that book about Farming.
Kecruiting for the army is progressing
so slowly that the Courier-Journal thinks
that Grant will have to work hard to get
enough soldiers together to carry the elec
tions in the South.
STATE SEWS.
Money is getting plenty in Portland.
The Jackson County Fair opened yester
day. The Linn County Fair was quite an in
stitution. A. L. Stinson returned lrom the East
this week.
There are nearly 35,000 school children
in Oregon.
The Nathan Troupe will perform at the
State Fair.
The McMinnville school is said to be
flourishing.
Dr. Aborn is stopping at the Chcmeketa
Hotel, Salem.
Three Belgian noblemen are making a
tour of Oregon.
Ruling price of wheat up the valley,
$1.25 per bushel.
A post office has been established at
Canby, in this county.
The new Methodist Church in McMinn
ville is neaily completed.
C. P. Ferry, of Portland, has gone on a
vir-it to the Eastern States.
Col. A. P. Di n-tison hns resigned his
position as School -Director.
Beggars of all descriptions are already
at Salem, to attend the Fair.
A man in Yamhill county killed a regu- :
lar porcupine the other day.
The Presbyterian Synod of Oregon con
vened at Corvallis yersterCay.
Efforts are being made to resume publi
cation of the Roseburg Ensign.
An amateur minstrel troupe is to be
formed in Corvallis, this winter.
A Chinese lunatic, from Jacksonville
has been placed in the Asylum.
A deer was killed near Portland, the
other day. weighing 2G4 pounds.
The Corvallis Gazdle complaius of the
annoyance of drunken bummers.
The ship Dovenby was run aground
near St. Helens, on Tuesday last.
The lialletin reporter has been rolling
around the floor of the skating rink.
The Yaquina stage driver had a narrow
escape from a cougar, the other day.
Mr. I). Jacobi has been relieved of bis
position on the Portland Police force.
The farmers of Yamhill county are all
out of debt and have money on hand.
A gold nugget valued at $2,853. has
been found in the Baker county mines.
Chas. Uelk'nbrand. Sr., of Salem died
on Monday last, at the age of sixty-three.
Hon. J. S. Smith is spending a few days
at the Dalles for the benefit of his health.
A new sawmill. for sawing railroad lies,
is to be located at Butte Disappointment.
The Eirmer advertises for twenty thou
sand good guide boards lor Oregon roads.
A few more good carpenters could get
work, at Corvallis, at four dollars per day.
The Methodist ladies of Corvallis are in
augurating a system of weekly sociables.
The new Scandinavian Lutheran Church,
East Portland, will be consecrated next
Sunday.
The Empire Hotel, at the Dalles, has
been overhauled, enlarged and newly
furnished.
A black bear which weighed 112 pounds
win ktib'd near Sheridan, Yamhill county,
last week.
I. F. Street proposes to rstue a four
page advertising sheet on the Fair grounds
next week.
The wife of Senator Kelly, of this
State, gave birth to a boy, in Chicago, on
the 12th ult.
There have been some forty conversion's
to Methodism, at Portland during the last
two weeks.
Judge Thaper's rac'ng mare 'Snow
Flake" got badly beaten at the Linn
County Fair.
Tiie gymnasium connected with the
Bishop Scott Grammar School has been
opened for use.
The new Metropolis Ilo'el. Portland,
will be opened by Packard & Sprenger,
on Sunday next.
The National Business College of Port
land, will hold evening sessions from and
alter the l(5;h inst.
A Mrs. Nol and recently received severe
injuries from being thrown from a horse,
near Jacksonville.
A man on South Umpqua raised a cab
bage sixteen inches in diameter, weighing
twenty -three pounds.
The stage Iras again been robbed near
Cottonwood, Cab, and about $700 taken
from the Express box.
J. J. Comstock has resigned his position
as division agent of the Oregon and Cali
fornia Stage Company.
There are not house-? enough in Mc
Minnville to shelter t';e people from the
piercing wind of autumn."
John Downing, of Polk county, was
verv seriously injured, a few days since,
hv tjelri!? tiirowi). from a mule,
A team of two mules was drowned at
Harrir-burg ferry a few days ago. The
load, hides and eggs, was saved.
The water hydrant of the Oregon Dis
pensary. Portland, was recently delivered
of a snake twelve inches in length.
Mr. F. M. Bates telegraphs to Portland
that he will open Oro r bio 1 heater, with
a fuli company, ou the 23d instant.
An elaborate funeral was given the
Celestial who interfered with Marshal
Young in the discharge of his duty.
The Corvallis Gazelle boasts that twenty
dollar pieoes are as plenty in Benton
county as half dollars were last year.
A considerable grain is still uncut in
Polk county, which will probably be dam
aged, should this "wet spell" continue.
Seven thousand dollars' worth of the
stock of the Good Templar Hall Associa
tion, of Portland, has already been taken.
Joseph Boggs has become Division Agent
of the Oregon and California Stage Com
pany, in place of J. J. Comstock, resigned.
Messrs. Merchant & Steads, soap manu
facturers of Salem, will exhibit at the
State Fair, a cake of soap weighing one
ton.
The Eugene Guard says Frank Booker,
of the firm of Osborn & Booker, has ab
sconded, with $900 belonging to Mr. Os
born. It is estimated that not less than one
and a half million of dollars have been
paid out for wheat in this valley since
harvest.
W. O. Bruen has received the unani
mous nomination by his company, for
Chief Engineer of the Portland Fire De
partment. A freight tariff pamphlet, furnishing
valuable information to shippers, has been
issued by the Oregon Central Railroad
Company.
It is estimated that there are 200,000
bushels of wheat in Benton county over
and 'above what will be needed for home
consumption.
The Portland water works do not furn
ish water sufficient to sprinkle the floors
of the High School building. They have
to go unswept.
Moores. Miller & Co. have constructed
a new elevator at their mills, in South
Salem, for the purpose of hoisting wheat
from steamboats.
The Jacksonville Sentinel says the Rogue
River Wing Dam Company are taking
from their claims an average of twenty
dollars per day to the hand.
Mrs. Duniway says she got '-two half
grown, slimy, crawling, squrimingsnails,"
the other morning, from her water-hydrant.
How is that for high '?
A new town has been started, twenty
three miles from Portland, on the West
side Railroad. It is named Cornelius, in
honor of Col. T. R. Cornelius.
Readers of the Portland Herald were
served with a column-and-a-half Chinese
funeral, by the local reporter in lieu of
other local matters, on last Tuesday.
A quartz lead has been discovered
abont three mile3 from the Excelsior, in
the Bohemia District, by Cross and Wil
liams, that prospects equal to the Ex
celsior. There is a nugeet of gold in Ladd &
Tiltou"s Bank," Portland, weighing 17G
ounces, and valued at $3 000. It was
taken out by Caldwell & Co., Baker
county.
J. J. Comstock has started a saw-mill
on Pass Creek. It will cut 50.000 feet in
twenty-four hours. It is situated on the
line of the railroad in an immense body
of timber.
Rev. II. IT. Spaulding, orro of Oregon's
Pioneers, is announced to lecture on lire
subject -oT "Early Pioneers anu i resoy
terian Missions," in Portland, on Monday
evening next.
The Statesman says some newly elected
ritv official recently ran away with $300
of the funds of Gervais. He was pur
sued, overtaken, brought back, and
pleaded guilty.
Alphabetical Henderson, who once got
two years' salary forgoing to Washington
with the appellation of Congressman, con
tinues making an ass of himself by advo
cating woman suffrage.
A correspondent of the Albany Demo
crat says Hut while Mrs. Duniway has been
following Miss Anthony over the country,
her two sons were figuring in the Port
land Police Court for stealing pumpkins.
Mr. James Loton. Inspector of boilers,
and Capt. Geo. II. Flanders. Inspector of
hulls for the District of Oregon, started
on Monday last on a tour of inspection to
Umpqua and Coqr.illa rivers, and Coos
Pay.
A man in Marion county raised 30
bushels of oats, per acre, on a piece of
ground he sowed ;t June. No rain ever
fell on the field. He attributes the yield
to soaking the seed over night in salt
water, before sowing.
Eugene City will celebrate in an appro
priate manner the arrival of the first train
of cars. The track was laid across the
Ilariisburg bridge on Tuesday night, last.
and the cars are to commence running to
Eugene next Monday.
The Chinese women who was the inno
cent cause of the late '-unpleasantness" be
tween Marshal Young and one of the
moon eyed gentry, has decided to remain
with her former lord and master. Han
Que, the lover, is despondent.
The Eugene Journal says a gentleman
whose lady was in favor of woman suf
frage until she visited the Eastern States
and heard the leading lights in that move
ment explain it. is "cured' now. She
wouldn't vote if she had a chance.
The Railroad Company has resolved to
build a new ferry-boat at Poitland. on a
different plan from the one now running.
The landing on the Portland side is to be
reconstructed in such manner that the
boat will land broadside on, like any oth
er steamer.
A Mrs. J. R. Frost has been answet ing
Miss Anthony's clap-trap in Albany, in
which Mrs. F. proved herself too much
for the strong minded sisters, and we are
informed that both Mrs. Duniway and Miss
Anthony
to rather
pression
displayed their amiable tempers
bad
on
advantage, and Ieit the
mi
the audience that the poor
"brutes"' of men
need a little more pro-
tectum from yit such strong-minded
women. The taut is. these two ladies were
badly used up by Mrs F
Boxo IIoi.m:r.s. Probably nine persons
out of ten, if it could be taken out of
partisan politics, says the Cincinnati Ev
umiiwr, believe iu giving to the bond
holder what we agreed to give him, or
what he loaned us not one cent more.
He never loaned us over 50 cents on the
dollar, and he can't complain if that is
what he gets in return. To say that it is
necessary tint we should give $2 for one.
when we never agreed to. iu order to im
prove our credit, is all bosh, as it would
be the act of a fool, and would rather in
jure our credit. The financial system
that created the debt should be continued
tilt the debt is desposed of. To inflate the
currency to borrow and to contract it to
pay is not common sense. The gold pay
ment of the bonds, as we all know, has
been nothing but a huge swindle, and
those concerned iu it haye been thieves
and robbers.
"Liuiit Dawning. A Southern paper
says that the colored people of the South
are fast beginning to discover that they
have heretofore been courted and duped
by carpet-baggers and other corrupt
knaves, not from any interest ia their ele
vation or prosperity, but solely from
motives of personal gain or political am
bition. Hence, perceptible reaction is
manifest in their sentiments, and a de
cided drift towards better and closer rela
tions with their former masters. As the
scales gradually fall from their eyes, the
deception of which they have been so
long the victims, is partially realized.
This discovery provokes resentment,
which must soou end in the rupture of
those partisan bonds that have held them,
since the close of the war, in a worse con
dition of slavery than existed before
emancipation.
Neiialem Valley. From a Mr. D.
Woaster. of Lower Nehalem, the Dalles
Republican learns that there are about
forty settlers on the Lower Nehalem, con
sisting mostly of men without families.
On the Upper Nehalem there are about
forty families. Plenty of land can be ob
tained that is easily cleared, having noth
ing to clear but small brush and vine
maple. Vegetables of all descriptions
grow prolific, and fish of different kinds
are easily obtained from the waters.
That great Radical light, Theodore Til
ton, thus boldly speaketh, in his Golden
Age, of the usurper : '-Gen Grant is work
ing like a beaver for renomination. It is
his ambition night and day. He hears it
in the roar of the surf at Long Branch ;
he smokes it in his Partaga cigar ; he
cracks it in the long whip over frolicsome
colts, and he whispers it to the stone walls
of the Custom-house loud enough for
Tom ilarphy to hear and take thehint."
General News Items.
The French census is to be taken next
year.
There are 11,000,000 horses in the Uni
ted States.
The Charleston. S. C. Daily Republican
has suspended publication.
General D. II. Hill i3 to write the re
cord of North Carotin's part in the late
war.
A sharp shock of an earthquake was
felt at Santa Cruz on the morning of the
23d ult.
The people of Illinois are giving con
siderable attention to the cultivation of
lemons and oranges.
Ex-Governor W. W. Holden. of North
Carolina, is now assistant editor of the
Washington Chronicle.
The new jail in St. Louis cost that city,
$834,24(5 51, nearly $500,000 more than
the original estimate.
George Francis Train will lecture in
Kansas City during the great Exposition
in that place iu October.
Another female college is to be built at
Oakland. California. It is designed to
accommodate 200 pupils.
The man who some time ago drew $15,
000 in the Sacramento Lottery is sawing
wood for a liviug in Nevada.
It is -staled that Commissioner Douglass
will resign his position as Assistant Com
missioner of Internal Revenue.
The British citizens of Hong Kong
have memoratnted Government relative
to the insecurity of life and property.
A careful calculation foots up the num
ber of colored voters in the Union at 879,
vlO. Of these there are 11,900 in Pennsyl
lania. The total population of the United
States is 38.555.000. The total popula
tion of the States called Northern is 2 4,
235. G38.
The Massachusetts Radical Convention
nominated Win. B. Washtoirne for Govern
or. The vote stood : Washburne, 013 ;
Butler, 4G4.
The receipts of the California Stale
Fair, held at Saci amanto three weeks ago.
were $19,941. a gain of $1,859 over those
of the preceding year.
The New Orleans Picayune estimates
that the rice crop in Louisiana this year
will be about 80,000 barrels, or 17.000,
000 pounds of lire.
A terrific fire occurred in Virginia City,
Nevada, on the 19th ult.. destroying about
forty fine buildings. Loss estimated be
$1,000,000 and $2,000,000.
It is announced that the Potato Hot has
appeared in Ireland, and great alarm is
felt lest another calamity like 181ti and
'17, should fall on that country.
Chief Justice Chase's private Secretary.
Mr. J. W. Schuckers. is preparing a his
tory of the financial administration of the
Government from the beginning.
There are but thirty thousand land
owners in all England, and a hundred and
fifty of these own more than one-hilf of
the territorial surface of the kingdom.
The Chronicle foots up losses by the re
cent fire at San Francisco at S921.O00.
The insurance was $522,500. This is
tin
ha
heaviest loss by fire which that city
experienced since 1851.
Geo . II. Mumford, a frominent citizen
of Rochester. N. Y.. and for many years
crucially connected with the Western
Union Telegraph Co.. died suddenly on
the 30th ult., of auolexy.
It is reported that a corre?pondence
has been discovered in the Tuileries de
veloping a plan to put Napoleon on the
throne of Belgium, which has created
quite a sensation in Belgium circles.
Boston has 143 churches, of which 27 are
Unitarian. The Methodists come next
wiili 22. The Baptists have 17 churches
Hie same number as the Romanists:
the
Episcopalians 15, and the Presbyterian
7.
The President of the San Francisco
Benevolent Society estimates that there
are 2.400 grog shops. 3.000 thieves. 0.0 )0
lewd women, and 5,000 idlers in that city,
or 1(5.400 persons directly engaged in cre
ating poverty.
America pays France $1,000,000 a year
for sardines, and now a Brooklyn man has
found an American fish which, it is pre
dicted, will supersede the French article
entirely in delicacy, and as to expense,
they only cost half ad much.
Alexander H. Stephens, in one of his
last three column editorial paragraph,
says that the "key note"' which was sound
ed in Ohio by Vallandigbam. has lost Cal
ifornia to the Democray. and is losing the
other States as fast as possible.
Philadelphia is to be honored on No
vember 22 and 23. this year, by the sit
tings of the American Woman Suffrage
Association, the Executive Committee of
which, last week, resolved to make this
conservative city the center of its winter
campaign.
It costs seven hundred millions of dol
lars annually to keep the peace of Eu
rope, and three hundred millions more to
preserve order in the rest of the world.
More than half the money raised by taxes
in the world goes for military purposes.
And the worst of it is, the very armies
and navies maintained by such frightful
expenses to preserve peace are a con
stant temptation and incitement to war.
"Sic Semper Tyuannis." A correspon
dent of the New York World, writing
from Richmond, September 4th, upon the
situation of parties in Virginia, concludes
a very interesting letter with these en
couraging words, which all who know
anything about Virginia politics will rec
ognize as true : As for Virginia, we say
now, as heretofore, and always, that her
people will vote against the Radicals and
against the Administration forever. The
Radical party is broken here beyond all
possibility of reintegration. I have some
interesting items concerning the anteced
ents of some of their leaders which I may
hereafter submit to your readers' consid
eration. Meantime we rejoice in the con
viction that they are doomed to be routed,
horse, foot and dragoons, in the coming
canvass, and their power destroyed for
ever in the Old Dominion. All the Etrengtb
which the carpet-bag element now wields
is gotten from Grant's good favor and pat
ronage. Even that strong cement does
not keep them well welded together, and
when it shall have been withdrawn, we
may expect to see the whole edifice crum
ble and sink out of sight in the sable
wave3 of negro and Radical submersion.
Tue Goldex City. This paper ha3
been remodelled and transmogrified into
a large thirty-six column paper, and con
tains a vast amount of choice reading,
both prose and poetry, from the foremost
authors of the age. Published by Gus De
Young & Co., San Francisco.
A writer for the Aeic AoriticesLsucrgests
that the women be taken to the field of
battle, to "hold warlike men spell-bound."
We have seen one or two of these woman
suffragists ugly enough to hold the devil
"spell-bound."
The Territories.
The Walla Walla Statesman advertises
for a journeyman printer.
An anti-gambling society has been
formed in Port Townsend.
There are sixty-two school children Jh
the Kalama school district.
Kalama has had an accession to its pop
ulation of three Eastern ladies.
The Olympia Fostoffice has been made
a British international money order office.
The average of the wheat crop in Boise
Valley this year is about 20 btisheb "per
acre.
Brigham Young has been indicted for
polygamy. A fruitful field for examina
tion. The Grand Lodge of Masons of Idaho
Territory convened in Silver City on thb
2d inst.
Material for the railroad to the coaH
mines on Lake Washington has amvoj at
Seattle.
The base ball players of Olympia haro
challenged those of Victoria to play a
match game.
Gen. Cartee. formerly of Oregon, suc
cessfully raises sweet potatoes in his gar
den in Boise City.
The Avoid Courier is the name of a pa
per just started a', Bozernan, Montana,
Joseph Wright, publisher.
Tin? Union reports thirteen new cases
of small pox
at Walla Walla. One.
child of W. M
Ewing. had died.
The proprietor of the Olympa Tribune
says he is losing money in printing a daily
paper, but he proposes to continue.
Small pox-was raging at Walla Walla
last week. Sixteen cases were reported,
and many citizens were fleeing the town.
Wiiliam Lemon of Lewis county, raised
this year, on one and three-quarter acres,
eighty-four and a half bushels of wheat,
machine measure.
Gov. Potts, of Montana, has received
letters from Gen. Sherman stating that
more troops will be sent to that Territory
as soon as possible.
. The Deer Lodge papers speak in high
terms of Rev. W. II. Stoy. the Episcopal
clergyman who has recently taken up his
residence in that place.
Gen. Granville O. Hallor, was elected
Grand .Master, at the meeting of the Ma
Sonic Grand Lodge, which has jiir-t closed
IU labors at Olympia, W. T.
The fbhermer: of Port Townsend hav
commenced shipping dried herring to San
Francisco. A very excellent quality of
these fish are put up on the Sound.
The Walla Walla Statesman speaks in
the highest terms of praise of the Sister's
conduct iu caring
small-pox in that
for those aflicted
with
city.
A 'company has been formed to build
reduction works at Helena (Montana),
and the stock is all taken. Heretofore
vast quantities of ore have been sent front
the Territory for reduction.
Very many emigrants are going info
Stevens county. W. T.. and settling in the
county about Colville. A report to a,
Walla Walla paper says there is "an army
of emigrants looking lor locations."
The Vancouver Register learns that
Hon. Selucins Garficlde, through a bron
chial affection from which he has lonfr
suffered, has
lost
the command of his
speak much above a
voice, and c;
mnot
whisper.
A party of explorers announce tha
they have discovered two falls in the
region of the headwaters of the Yellow
stone. The water of one falls from a per
pend'cu'ar cliff 400 feet in height the
other 180.
Telegraphic Clippings.
EASTKKN EWSi
Lowell,
ten eases o
'ept. 30. One hundred and
small pox have been reported
in t ie last ten days.
Tae Times says that whatever is effectu
ally done fur reform in New York must
be done in co-operation Ma Democrats.
The miserable spectacle offered by the
Republican Convention at Syracuse is a
warning not to rely on that organization
alone, it" we can even rely upon it at all'.
New Yop.k, Sept. 30. The Tammany
de egates to the Rochester Convention
weie elected in this city to nig lit. Tho
list is made up mainly of Tammany
office-holders, but neither Tweed. Hall,
Sweeney nur Connolly are of the number;
CMicauo. Sept. 30. A terrible confla
gration occurred here this afternoon, de
stroying the immense warehouse on the
track of the Chicago, Burlington .t Quincy
Railroad, near Sixteenth street, with the
content?, consisting of about $850,000
worth of produce and ttierchandi.se of
various kinds stored therein and belonging
to some two hundred merchants of the
city. One man is known to have been
burned to death. Three others are miss
ing, who when last seen were in the midst
ol the names, where it seemed impossible
to escape.
RiciiMoNO, Sept. 30. A special to thtf
Enq'rurer says a riot occurred this evening
at Danville, from an attempt of a mob of
negroes to rescue a negro from arrest.
Af'ier futile efforts on the part of the May
or to disperse the mob. the military were
called out, and the riot act read twice.
Stones being thrown at the Mayor, the
military were ordered .o charge bayonets
on the mob. One of the most turbulent
of the rioters was bayoneted, and a
policeman was shot by some unknown
perscn. There is great excitement; stores
are closed and people have been order
ed to their houses.
Boston-. Oct.. 3. The American Board
of Foreign Missions held their annual
meeiing at Salem to riuy. The Secretary's
report shows that $48 201 have been ex
pended in the Sandwich Islands, China,
India, Persia and Gaboon.
Chicago. Oct. 3. The Grand Lodge of
Masons, of Illinois, commenced its annual
session here to-day. 1.500 delegates are
in attendance. The Grand Lodge of col
ored Masons held a session.
A telegram says a terrible fire is raging
in the woods north of Greenbay, Wiscon
sin, and it is reported the town of Oconto
is burning.
Washington-, Oct. 4. The Secretary of
the Treasury has called in a million and a
half of three per cent, bonds upon which
interest ceased Nov. 30th.
New York. Oct. 4. Mayor Hall ap
peared at the Yorkville Police Court this
morning, to answer the charge of signing
fraudulent warrants. IIo waived an ex
amination, and offered bail to any amount.
Barrett, connsel for the prosecution, said
there was no necessity for bail, as it was
not contemplated to bold him in durance.
CALIFORNIA NEW S.
San Francisco, Oct. i. Flour unchang
ed and dull.
Wheat Sales of 650 sks coast $2 5o;
5f5 ska choice do. $2 (55; 400 sks fair,
$2 60; 400 sks good milling, $2 70; 1.000
sks do. $2 70. The market for choice is
nominal at $2 75.
It was rumored on the streets to-day
that private telegrams quoted wheat in
Liverpool at 13s, but the general disin
clination to pnebase showed that the re
port wa3 not believed by dealers.
Wheat was offered freely on 'Change
to-day, with no takers. $2 75 is a fair
quotation. Barley was also weak at $20
2 25, and oats at $2.