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$2.50 por Yuar, in Ailviinee. SALEMREGON, JULY li), 1873. Volume V. -Number 22, NOTICIC TO KI'IISCltlltCIIN. The datonpprnrln-iRfti-r lite printed name on tlio pnper U ilir dnlc of the EXI'lllATION ol subscription. KEWS BY YEX.EOIIAPH. 'I rm Kir- .-r Philadelphia, July II. A most hor rible murder luisjust cmu to light in JennersvUle, Chester county, one mllo north of tho linn of tho Halt I moro Central Kullroad. On tliu 13th of Juno lust a strange innn arrived at the hotel In thu village, saying he enmo from Baltimore, wns nil agent, but gnvo no name, lie was In nppenr ancc, n young inun, not over thirty, with blnck whiskers. On the follow ing tiny a team driven by Win. K. Uuderscok stopped nt tho tavern nml the agent nud Uddcrsook went nwny together. The team had been hired by Uddcrsook nt Parkcrsburg, nud when he returned it in the evening tho person who took ehnrge of it re marked thnt there was blood on the wngon. Uddertsook made n pmuslhle explanation of the circumstances nud immediately left the neighborhood. The strange man was never wen niter. Friday liiHt u large numberof bti.nnls were noticed hovering about tho woods near Newport and .Teimenville. Investigation showed the head and trunk of u man with uruiH nud legs dctnclicd, which wiih recognized as the body of the stranger who had ueen slopping nt .ichhcrsvinc. 1110 murdered man wiih stubbed In three or four places, tluoat cut, both arm and lees fevered close to the body. The object of tho murder wiih untpies tionnbly plunder. It is reMirted t lint ' tlie man was Known to nave nau coi eidcrablc money on his person Tl Hovered limbs were hurried In a cpit ate piaeo irom mu iiouy, not Mr i thunousuof one Ithodcs, u brot in-law of the supposed miinlo New York. July ir. An Injunction wns yesterday served on Ihotlnutic and Pacific Hallway I'ompany, lea training It from nnvlnir the dividend" due to-day on thu stock of tho l'nclllc Hallroad of Missouri, whloii road it has leased in perpeluily. , Thirty-six trunks and ease belong--Ingto Thus. C. Dursnt, Kx-I'u-Hldciit of tile Union Pacific Itailioad and one of tho Credit Mobilier defendant, wero released fniiu custody yetei day I on a bond being given for their npprls-1 ed value. It required three large-" truckti to remove the goods fioui the Custom House tothcowuci's inm-Jon ' in Ilrooklyn. ' New York, July 1(1. Tin re Is still , much mystery surrounding tlie lined-1 rich murder. The police nro all ' doing their bint to secure the Bpnulrnl Itmcoe. l-'ull reliane I not placed on tile Htory of l.lzle, King that she had no accomplice, , nover knew Hoseoc, and don't believe there Is any such man. .She explains the fact of the four chnmheis of tho pistol found by (iondilch's body being discharged, that the threo shots In Ooodilch's head wire from her pistol, nud tht uftcr he win ile.ul she took Ills pistol, and discharged four shots down cellar. Mls rainier, the be trothed of (loodrlch, reiuulucd witli Lizzie King until u late hour Inst evening. J lev object wax not a-cer-tuined. ltaltlmnVc, July 15. Win. V.. IMiler took, charged with the murder ot a btrnngo uuiu mar Jennerville, I'.i., was arretted In this city thitoicuoou. The mtinlerecl man is believed to have been one (jos, wlio wax said to have been burned to death in n shop in this city last winter, nml wIiomj w ilo oh. talncdn venllct for $5,000 limn the Mutual l.lfo Insurance Company for the amount of his life iiMiiaiicc. Uddcrsook was tho chief witness In the trial, in which the company in serted tho belief that Uo-oi was still alive. Claim had been made :iguiut the Continental, Knickerbocker mid Travelers' Companies for the recovery of policies to an additional amount of $20,000. New York, July Ki. About two thirds of thu Mormon who arrived to-day are from Denmark, Kueden and Norway, und thu remainder from England, Scotlund nud Wales. The , latter nro in charge of "Elder Calilcr, formerly Chief Heoretary of Jlrighnm ' Young, wlio lias been laboring nuvenil years as a Mormon missionary i Kurope. The Scandinavians aro sj laiiy in charge or i.liicr rattcrsoir, a fellow-countryman. The cmiginuts will start lor Utah to-morrow Iter noon. Cleveland, July To. The Industrial Congress of the United States, compo sed' of delegates from the various Trades Unions throughout the country, commenced Its session In this city this morning. About 70 dclcgntcs were present, representing 12 States. The Congress was called to order by tin President of tho Coopers' Internation al Union. He stated the object of the session wits to form n new political party. Permanent o Ulcers were elect ed, a committee on rules appointed, und thu congress adjourned until to morrow. New York, July IB. Senator Mor rill, of Maine, It is understood, is pre paring n speech for delivery next win ter In support of the retroactive salary bill. Senators Edmund of Vermont and Schurz of Missouri are the only Senators who have not drawn regular ly since thu .Id of Mureh tholr month ly salary, based upon tho new salary bill. Itoth are in Kuropo. Port Klamath, July 11. Miller's CharleyfCaptaln Jack's fatlier-ln-law) came to Doris' ranch on tho third. Long Jim and his father havo been captured by Kiddle. They will he brought hero to-day, under the charge of Sconehln, brother of thu chlif of me same name, now couiineii with Cuataln Jack. These arc thu last id Cyftituln Jnck's band. (ort of t tic Chamber ol Coiucicicc ui'i intra. ' POI.TI.ANI), July Ki, 1ST.), i Editor jvillamtlte Karmrn , Tho Report of it self constituted Committee of Astoiinns to simythi-! cal Atirlu Clinnibcr of Commerce, uftor having been published in the' Wii.i...Mi:rri: Fah.mi:ii and most of1 tho papers In Oregon, is continued in ' tho Tri'W cclUj Aftnrian liken .;; story. It is so full of mlsreprescnta-' lion nud Inaccuracy of statement und tiguic.-', tluit ono with n reiiMinahlo mod leu in of sono isnble, ns lie rend., ' to detect them; mid thus thenntidnle ! necompanlcs the Iwue, und m the Ho i tluit usually " trnveh u thousand miles while Truth is putting on its: hoots," by the sluplility of It au- thor", Is escorted by theKS lnkllngsof, trut)ifiilues that eountenicts tho ov- ident Intention of thu publication, j Let us brielly review the report: First statement: "Xo storms havo yet vlstcd tho harbor that eirucled , any itamaue to shipping riding at an-, chorln tliu hay or nt thu wluirl." The Committee forgot the fact that n i sudden Mpudl tlirow the large ship Wiudwaril on her beam enda u year ago, and her iiiii-tsninl rlBglug wero cut away liefore sho was righted. Second: "Hog's Hack" formed by annual freshets, at lower end of Cat h laiuet Hay;" "Dredging uscless,"vc. i Tlio explanation given of tho bltua tlon of air.ilr.s hero aviumc that there Is nil annual mud rieMtit, ami these wiseacres nr hasty to proiinno that dredging will do no good j let them wait a few week until Undo Saul's '21 foot dredger proven tho falsity of their statement ; in well for this as all tho other luirs named from there to Portland. It is Indl-, eating nothing to tho Ulpnnigoincut of the Columbia JUver, thai tho gov-' eminent is called upon to do annual ' improvements thereon; there Is not a harbor or river of commercial im portance in tho United. Btutes, but t that the government makes annual appropriations for tho Improvement of. Ami I am sorry to see that ourj representatives do not exert them selves for treble tliu amount that Is so sparingly voted out to us. Call for n Inn's share of appropriation for various governmental improvements was ten times greater than was la-t year voted to Oregon. Tliu veracious Committee next set to work to find out how much more it costs n vessel to got to Portland than to stop at Astoria. They as sume that n 000 ton vovsel draws 10 feet, which is nine times in ten in correct. Pilotage J I per ft. each way, $128; tonage, which for both ways overstates tho net mil charges by $100, $1100. This makes $V28, which including tho mis-statement as to draft is nt least $V2o exaggera ted; hut to tho $123 they linvu con cocted, wli Ich did not sooni very large to them, they havo added an Item of .six (lays' demurrage $00, total $!!G0. Thero is not n man on the Comuiitteo that can givo any In telligent reason why that item was ad ded except that they wanted to reach n charge of four cents per bushel on that ship's cargo outward bound, which is manifestly unfair, us the same ship ought to ho presumed to bring us in a cargo of COO tons which would leave hut two cents per bushel for wiieat from Portland to Astoria, hut by llgiirlng as they honestly should, It would iiiako hut ono cent per bu-hel, of difference. This may nil be summed up In theso few words: The cost of shipping from Poitland Is ono cent greater per bu-lii'l, than If the same wheat (As tot la facilities pre-uuied to be equal) was put on board at Astoria, but the cost of getting the said wheat from Portland to Astoria by other means than lu tho ship's hold could not by any means bo less than four ceutn per bushel (tho t). K. X. C.'ii.'m charges aro double that); so Portland has an ad vantage of tlireo cents per bushel, figure It us you may. The committee then go on to say that a .'1,000 ton ship can always go to Astoria, while u 1000-ton ship now tliidsdllllcultyiu gutting to Portland. Whatever has been in relation to tho dilllculty of navigating to Portland does not signify that It shall always be; it Is stilted confidently by engi neers and olUecrs in chargo of tho now dredger now almost ready for work, that they will dredge out and maintain twenty-one feet of water to Portland the year louiid. This will knock into a cocked hat all the hom ily ofits committee. Thu Middlesex is now at Portland, nud will hud on 1,100 tons wheat before dropping be low to finish her cargo, as I nm in formed by the consignees. And I will impart tliN informatioir to the Astoria Committee: Tho Middlesex of 1.S00 tons register, belongs to tluit clas of larger vessels, plying on this side of tho Pacific waters, of which thero aro not twenty in the service. The average ship of commerce the world over Is le-s than one thousand tons rcgUtor. So that the ;),!o0 ton ships the committee fondly see lying at their wharves, are only " painted ships tijton tho painted ocean" of their imagination, nud urn in actual ity ns scarco n- lien's teeth. That process of manipulation which ena bled the committee to add nn Imag inary Item to an already overbur dened truth-sum, w as also invoked to ! prove that a .'1,000 ton ship could car ry wheat from Astoria to Liverpool i for '20 cents per bushel chenpor than from Portland; by the same applica tion of rules a 0,000 ton ship could I carry for lOconts less per bushel; and it signifies nothing. A !t,000 ton ship , would doubtless he towed to Portland , and loaded to that depth of water) winch would enablo her to get out, and finish loading below, just as all of tho largerclassof vessels have dono heretofore. 1 now copy from their 1 manifesto tho following choice gems of thought: "Again, deep-sen ves sels uuverllko to leave the salt water; coa&ters aro willing to steamboat it, hut largo vessels nvoid steamboat grouipls. in fact tho underwriters , do not allow deep-sea vessels to veil I tore from their natural element nt will." If a ship's natural element is 1 water, It Is too truo that they nover ; like to have a ship leave It, as then they always havo insurance losses to meet but the statement in gross 'tihovo extracted, is iintruo in every 'particular. I have it from many an " old salt" that It Is much to the bene j fit of u ship to take it into fresh wa- 1 1 er. as iiicrenyaii uiosaii sciiuiiimins and vegetation that attach to the ves sel's bottom, aio killed and , fall oil'. ' i This is n perfectly natural u'xiilauu-j , tlou, and the reason is good. Again, I iiote: "Tho striking of a vessel on nny of the barsof tho river, even Ifi ' no immediate damago is discovered. , is sutllclont cause to render null ami i void the policy of insurance, should she tako lu cargo and pioceed to sea Matters In I'olk Coiuil). without belmr nut on tliu dry-dock ! . r . . . . . : ami Having uer noiiom examined Should a ship lie lost under such eir cumstaiices not u dollar of insurance 'could ho collected on the vessel," Ac. The above I deem to bo untrue in every particular, as tho cases are numberless where ships and steam-1 ers have stuck on our mud and sand I bars and no such formula was reipilr-1 , ed of them, as I know to u certainty, und having pointed out so many mis-1 nillluillviHilHI HIV 4nir,, UIIJ I llllli free to doubt this lu toto. ' Tliu last matter in their manifesto 1 1 have to criticise Is lu attempting to j prove tlio safety of tho Columbia' river bar, which really needs no hoi-, i storing, us It Is tiuipiestioiiably safer ' than any other bar on tliu coast; but thu statement or calculation made that tliu number id' ves-els that, havo crossed tho bar (Inward ami , outward for charity I will say); for the last twenty-one yours nv-l er.iges liOU per year, Is as wild nml reckless us all tliu other statements in thu Mine article. I doubt very much If we can safely say the whole number during that Unit) averages one-fifth of that number, but the ' number given by them Is certainly a ' huge fabrication, and those old set tiers, wlio havo for so many years eat claiiisand waited at Astoria for some- thing to (urn up ought not to turn up figures in this styie.but It is only in keeping wiih thu tenor of the whole in tide, which I think I have demonstrated as wo went along. Let the A-torians he sure of this, that whenever it is better and cheaper for vessels to load at Astoria, tho inex orable claim of tho almighty dollar will havo It so beyond all that any of us may say or do. Until then, Yours, for Portland, n. ( uiMV-K Minkih, Mr. Allen I'.irU slicrill uf I. inn cuiiiil, InCurim u Unit ubiu ISO Uilm-Mj.-irilml nl Allmny l.i.t lutrliy, on tlx-lr vuy t'i tlie feiiiitluiii inliiii. Inn-w' mini- urn limited In tlie Cnseadu iiioiimulus, ' iilniiitSO mild from Albany, on mnull j slit-Mil eallml llrtt-fi IJorn, whlrti t'inptir In-' In ll- ft'iiiih h'urk j( tlio haiithun river. 'J liew iHiiptd yu prrpunxl Willi ppti Wo.i., Ac., in lat nil MiniiiH-r. Mtruir). Jt l nnii'ircil tliat partic In lln- VaUiiui j lia will Eint lor it lately lnnilnl ItorliiKl nppumlii-, In at thrni in proullii; for ; I ci.j, wlili li, It U ronflili-iitly Is-tlevrd, llr III1 , rich ik pulu nloii tlw Yukliua luy mul rlur I IrtlwM Hit vlrr lil-. i Dixit:, July lit, IS7il. I'.ttlliir WlllniiH'ttn Curiiii-r: Wo of Polk aro now Just In the middle of hay harvest, and this rain has put a ".damper" on our hay and a stop to our haying operations. Early sown oats and barley are being cut and bound and shocked In n great many places In fact, thero scorns to bo a reaction taking place in tho mode of harvesting grain. Men that a few years ago laid aside the reaper and bought a header, havo now laid aside the header and tiro again rub bing up tho old reapers. Tho reason of this, or the argument brought to bear, is that to head grain you will havo to let it stand until It is "dead" ripe, and this gives all tho foul growth ample opportunity to ninturu and thu seed to fall out, thereby bo unding the laud worse ami worso every year. Another argument is, that you have to cut thu grain when it Is very dry, and that tlio reel of tho header knocks out a great deal of it, so much so that a field onco in wheat must either remain in wheat for nil time or else go through n reg ular course of summer fallow, entail ing an expense and a loss upon tho land which should ho regularly pro ducing its annual crop. There It a good deal of good practical sense in either or both arguments', hut tho Inducement held out by the header in the way of quicker and cheaper performance of u given amount of labor, causes the great majority to cling to that method of harvesting. Hut other things besides despatch and ease will have to be taken into consideration ere long, as our thous ands of acres of wild oats which Is now being cut for 'hay shows. Tho yield of this county will lie at tho least calculation a fourth inoro than was evfr produced hero befote, nud of u (piallty iiuequaled, If thu dark, luxuriant appearance of tho fields at this time Is uuy criterion to go by. There aro several "Oranges" lu working order in till county, and tlio general Impression Is that It is a good thing, and tliat it wilt work great benefit in favor of tlio pi educ ing classes. Draining Is receiving a due share of consideration, and in a few years laud that was considered swamp and worthless, will he producing inoro per acre than the dry land, because generally of a much richer soil. Political matters aro being calmly discussed amongst the farmers, party strifes do not seem to havo its wonted hold upon then. Kveryono seems to wish to find souiu one capable of fill ing the place of the lamented Wilson In Congress. More anon. It. Cl.AltK. (il. Mi 'l. San-Mians. Sajri l!ii atnnmn: " l.urgi- iiMiitllii' uf wool luvi hii M'lit iIuhii tin rUrmiiU tiy Urn railroad to Portland during lln- limt week. Tlio aalei utl'iirllandtlisljhl kururiitlinntnltuaRjro gntc lint lent Hull li'i.OOO, 01 at IS lu 'J.1 cent. Tlio Iti'poitrrotiliiiiti-s tlmt tliu total clip or llila year will cmtisI Hat ol ll rnr liy 7S0, 000 pound, nullnt; tlio tnlul clip nut fir fium 2,0XI,000 pi.1ll.ll- fur tliu SUU-. Tliri Portland market li n-pmtrd tliii werk: C'llpi Irom i-J.l or I lie I'uMauYii rleun long ami frc from allull IKdtil rcnU) Inferior aud ordi nary, I(X;1S cent. Clip Wet uf lb Cm cadet clean, onh' ttiipli-J SUtC'J-lJf rent", olhtr jjradei UGtlH u-nti r Si, -w. 'J