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(EljeiUcckln (Enterprise.
OFFICIAL PATER FOR CLACKAMAS COUNTY.
Oragon City, Oregon ,
Friday : :
Nov, 24, 1871.
Rather Lively "Corpse'
The Radical press at the present time
is filled with obituary notices of the Dem
ocratic party. This is nothing new. It
lias become a custom with them for the
past ten years to do this identical thing
utter any election that goes in their favor,
whether State, county or city. Yet ihev
have been forced to meet this ''corpse" at
each succeeding election, and instead of
it being dead, they find that it lives and
is powerful euough to give them much
alarm. The Radicals have no hope to re
tain power only by the death of the Dem
ocratic party. When that part' dies, the
o'Kepublic dies with it.
The Radical party to-day is nearer dead
than the Democracy ever was or will be.
Reeking with corruption in every depart
ment of the Government, it has become
obnoxious to every honest citizen. It is
held together by but one mutual tie. that
is the cohsive power of plunder. They
have but one man in their party in whom
they can Lope for success in 1872. The
nomination of this usurper and despot is
certain. With bis nomination follows the
disruption of the Radical parly. The
honest voters of the Republcan party will
no more vote for him than the honest
Democrats voted for the Tammany thieves.
The men of brains who formerly gave re
spectability and character to the Repub
lican party have left it, and the offices are
fdled by renegade Democrats men who
clid not possess brains enough to gain a
position or prominence in the Democratic
party. The Republican masses have had
enough of Grant and his relations, and
when he is renominated he and his pap
followers will not only find the lively
"corpse--" of the Democratic party on his
track, but thousands of honest licpubli
can3. When the bill of indictments is
made up againsL Grant and his Adminis
tration, thousands of honest Republicans
will forsake the criminal. lie will be held
responsible for his Administration ; for
usurpation of power, the waste of the
people's money, and the stealing of his
appointees. There will be a fearful and
black catalogue arrayed against hi;n and
his followers, and in November next
pronounce the sentence of "guilty" upon
him, and on the 1th day of March. 1873.
with the going out of the White House of
the tyrant, usurper and present-taker. U.
R Grant, the death-knell of Radicalism
will be sounded.
Demands It. The Orejonlan has finally
acknowledged that the sum of from five
to seven thousand dollars were stolen by
Radical State officials. It is very loud
now, as it knows it is bound to come out.
in demanding that the guilty should be
brought to the bar of justice. The De
mocracy are managing the affairs of State
now, and, as they will in due time, bring
not only Radical State officials to justice,
but Federal also. The Democracy are
bound to purify every avenue of cor
ruption, whether perpetrated by their own
party or Radicals. It is somewhat strange
that we have succeeded, after several
weeks, in convincing the Oreijonian that
this theft had been committed. A few
weeks ago, if we mistake not. the same
paper entered its denial Jof the charge.
How long before it will come out and tell
lis what Woods got in his Central .Military
Road speculation. You can tell the peo
ple that it was not what he asked 5. 000
but only $2,500 in the Company's
stock. Look out for more developments.
They will come iu due time, l ive to
seveu thousand, as the Orcgonian says,
won't be a circumstance. Don't hurry ou
the matter to fast. The Slate Executive
knows what he is doing, and you may rest
assured he will do the very best he can to
secure the interests of the State. Keep
cool, neighbor. Tammany lir.s had its
(urn. The little Radical Tammany "Ring"
of Oregon which is a matter of history,
will have theirs soon enough.
"Look on This Picture, Then on
This"
The Charleston Xeics is permitted to
publish the following dispatch, which was
sent from Augusta, Georgia :
Acgista (Ga.), October 13, 1871.
To the Hon. Mayor of the city of Chi
cago : Please draw on us for SI. 1)00 and
distribute it among your t-nT-cted people.
Branch, Soxs & Co.
The Savannah Xncs says that Major T.
1. Branch, the subscribing member and
leading spirit of the above-named firm,
was a gallenl officer in a prominent Vir
ginia regiment, and as a prisoner of war
was drawn as a hostage, aud finally, w ith
many others, was planted in range of the
guns of Fort Sumpter.
The Rome (Ga.) Commercial states that
in 1SG0 a gentlemen wrote from Georgia
to a minister in Chicago, requesting his
assistance iu soliciting funds in that city
to rebuild one of the Georgia churches,
burnt by Sherman's vandals, and received
the following in response :
I am at this time a minister in the Old
School Presbyterian Church, and D
sent me your petition, that I might try to
get something lor your aid in rebuilding
your church. I fear the people icould ratli
tr return you than aid you. Small, sadly
unall. is ihe Christian charity in this part
of the world. Fanaticism seems to reign
and riot, while hatred and murderous
malice would hold still their bloody car
nival. 'oo Mten. The telegraphic dispatches
have been full with accounts of the re
ception of Duke" Alexis, what lie d.d,
what he was going to do, and where he
has been and would probably go to. We
have no appreciation for such disgusting
display of toad ism to royalty. Rut it
indicates very plainly that the once great
American people are just becoming har
monized to their future Eaipire. and will
foon oe aotc to hail their "own royal high-
A"- CO.
The Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser and
Mail aptly alludes to the Washington
Chronicle as the Wading paper of the two
Administration organs at the Capital of
pf the New American Empire !
In South Carolina.
CRUEI. AND INIKMAN I5AK3ARIT Y OF THE SOL
DIERS NO REBELLION, NO RESISTANCE,
NO COLLESIONS. GRANT'S great lie.
The rallimore Snn of the 30th ult. pub
lishes the ff Rowing letter, received in
that city by IIon.Reverdy Johnson. This
iufamons Kn-K!uxism of Grant egainst
an inoffensive and helpless people, tear
ing down every principle of liberty, may
yet prove troublesome to the little tyrant
and usurper. People will no? stand every
thing. Sir. Johnson vouches for the varac
ity of the gentleman who wrote the letter,
and, although he is authorized to give the
name of the writer, he deems it proper to
withhold it from the fear that it mightjsub
ject him to the tyranny which now pre
vails in many portions of his State. After
referring to some matters of personal
business, and stating that he is deeply in
terested in the proceedings now going on
in his Stale, he writes as follows :
Rock Hill, Yokk District. S. C., (
October 2(1. 1871.
Hon. Reverdy Johnson. Baltimore, Md.
Dear Sir: One of my broth
ers has been arrested and thrown into the
common jail by United States soldiers,
without, form or warrant of law, without
the shadow of right or justice. Refove
the suspension of the writ of habeas cor
pus profound quiet prevailed in this sec
tion of the country ; men were pursuing
their business avocations in the most
peaceful manner, and a season of pros
perity was beginning to draw, upon us;
but now words are almost inadequate to
describe the reign of terror that is exist
ing among us. Rands of United States
soldiers are riding over the country, ar
resting citizens by the wholesale, tearing
them from their homes in the night-time,
terrifying women aud childien, hurrying
the prisoners off to jail and cramming
them into dungeons and filthy cells. These
arrests are made without warrant. Men
are ignoreut of the offence for which they
are thrown in jail. No explanation is
given the prisoner as to the cause of Ids
arrest, no hearing i-5 allowed him. The
innocent and tiie guilty tare anse. me
fury of the Radicals is leveled against the
best of our citizens. Old aud young,
gray-haired men incapable of committing
outrages, mere boys, innocent of crime,
are arrested. In a time of profound
peace, when farmers are engaged in gath
ering in their corn and cotton, we are
declared to be in a state of war. We are
suffering for crimes that have never been
committed. We are punished for offenses
of which we are not. guilty. We are war
red upon by the United States Govern
ment on account of a rebellion which
God save the maik has existence only
in the imagination of President Grant
and the vi'.e politicians who have poison
ed his ears with false and malicious re
ports. There is no rebellion: there iino
hostility to the United States Govern
ment; there is no resistance to lawful au
thority, either State or Federal; the re
ports of collisions between armed bands
of Ku-Klitx aud Federal troops are ut
terly false, base, and slanderous lubrica
tions, uttered for a purpose. The cruelty,
the inhuman barbarity of this most un
righteous war upon us is enough to bring
the blu.-h of shame to the cheek of a
Nero, and soften the heart of a Teberius.
Our women and children are the greatest
sufferers by this monsterous act of wanton
oppression; ihey are pale wiih alfrlght.
They are distracted with grief and an
guish; those loved ones upon whom they
lean for support are torn from them, and
they are left defenceless and at the mercy
of brutal, lawless negroes. And all this
suifering is entailed upon our people that
a few nicked politicians may continue in
power and fatten from the spoils of office.
Grant's proelamu' ion. alleging that the
upper districts of South Carolina are in a
state of Rebellion, is the most stupendous
lie that was ever promulgated to the
world the most infamous document that
ever bore an official seal. In its utter
falsehood, its cool audacity, its daring
assumption, its sublime mendacity' and its
damnable iniquity, it is without precedent
or parale'.l in history. There is no docu
ment on record comparable to it. The
cruel tyranny of the measure is only
equaled by the arbitrary despotism which
has been practiced upon a Poland or Hun
gary, a Greece or an Ireland. And the
worst of it is there is no help lor us. When
the President of a free country, in a time
of profound peace, deliberately lyrns his
-dogs of war" loose upon an unoffending,
defenceless people, and the cold eye of
the world bears in it no sympathy for us,
and little hope. Pardon me for trespas
sing upon your time, and believe me io
be. with the highest sentiment of esteem
and regard, your obedient, servant.
IPs Latest Threat.---If Grant intends,
as the telegraph as.sorts, to declare martial
law throughout the entire South, says an
exchange, it will be the resort of a des
perate man who sees the handwriting on
the wall and is resolved that the Republi
can party shall fall with him. To his nar
row vision no doubt the entire South
seems very unruly. Texas, especially,
re-re-coustructing. Democrats can af
ford to laugh at this crowning act of des
potism. -We'll stand the strom, it won't
be long, we'll anchor by and by.' Sc'uurz
has been traveling recently over a large
portion of the South, so has Blair and
other trusted leaders of both parties.
They can and will tes'ify against the
schemer. If the latter peistst in the mad
course upon which he seems bent, he will
surely work his own undoing. We have
long thought if he were given rope enough
he would hang himself and his party too.
and this is just what he seems to be doing
at present, lie and we are evidently
agreed on one Hung, and that is he will
not, get the electoral vote o a single
Southern SUte. except South Carolina,
next year hence his wish to reconvert
them all into satrapies. The game will
not win.
Coincidence. On the 7th the elections
were held in-Peuusylvania, Ohio, and other
States. Ou the 8th, when the result was
known, usurper Grant issued his infamous
South Carolina proclamation. This shows
what blessings Radical victories bring to
the country, lie would not have dared
to issue this proclamation before these
elections, nor would he had the elections
gone Democratic. Usurpation is a natur
al result of Radical success.
The Oreaonhm has not yet told its
readers the exact amount Woods got for
accepting the Oregon Central Military
Road. It probably will in course of time.
That paper is the pink of honesty and
would not for a moment conceal Radical
thievery. See how it goes after Tammany,
and any paper that will do so much to
help Democrats expose corruption will
fall in soon and help us in Oregon.
The President as a Prophet. On the
20th cf January, 1SG4, General Grant
wrote a letter to Hon. I. N. Morris, cf Illi
nois, on the subject of the Presidency, in
w hich he said : "In your letter you say
that I have it in my power to be the next
President. This is the last thing1 in the
world that I desire. I would suggest such
a consumation as being hbjhly unfortunate
for myself, if nut for the, country.''
Unblushing Hypocrites-
The New York election, says the Sacra
mento Reporter, shows plainly what un
blushing hypocrites ihe Radicals are.
They made a f.reat ado about the sins of
Tammany, and pretended to rejoice at iis
overthrow. But did ihey accomplish this?
Not at all. Tammany owes its discomfit
ure to men who have been life-long Dem
ocratssuch men as Tilden, O'Connor,
Barnard and Green. The Democrats of
the Empire State have purged their party,
and are even now preparing to go forth
conquering and to conquer. But what
have the Radicals done ? While making
Tammany the basis of the blackest lies
about the Democratic party, they were
themselves iu alliance with the denounced
clique. This is not a reckless statement,
but the solid truth. Their Senators and
Assemblymen elect are in the main friends
of Tweed. He has bought them before
and will continue to feed and fee them.
The election of such men renders it a
mockery to prate about reform. The only
reform that can be expected of such men.
is that they will reform their lines at
Albany and make repeated and determin
ed charges on the State treasury. Bah !
ye hypocrites.
"II. J. 11.," a writer , in the Cincinnati
Commercial, a Republican journal of ex
tended circulation and influence, thinks
the result of the fall elections did not
help Grant any. On the contrary, he as
serts that "if the Republicans had carried
Pennsylvania and Ohio by only a thousand
or two majority, it would have been bet
ter for Grant. He would have seen the
necessity of uniting the party,'' etc. He
thus concludes:
As it is now he will probably be big
headed, lie believes he is "sustained" by
the people, that they approve of Murphy
and the thousand relatives, and of Bel
knap, Akerman and Robeson, for Cabinet
officers; also that the people do not care
where the Government is, whether at
Long Branch or anywhere else; or wheth
er Delano, Fish and Creswell attend to
their business or not; whether the Hodges
steal money, the Prices get drunk, or cor
ruption goes on in high places. Is it not
barely possible that he will find himself
mistaken ? Because the honest Republi
cans carried the elections is no proof that
they want Murphy retained that they in
tend to wink while San Domingo is being
thrust down their throats, and veil them
selves hoarse over a man who has divided
ttie party in the most dangerous States in
the Union.
Master and Max Stokes, whom Grant
tried with all his personal and politicl in
fluence to elect Govorner of Tennessee,
and who has recently been caught in
swindling the Goernment in bounty mat
ters, is likely to present a plausible de
fense. The N. Y. Sua learns "that Stokes
stoutly denies having been paid for his
services in getting the fraudulent claims
allowed: but admits that he received a
present of .-510,000 for the assistance he
rendered to the swiudlers who concocted
the scheme. -a proceeding which lie thinks
quite legitimate and regular under the
present Administration.
"Stokes has a show of reason on his
side. Certainly it is no worse lor a mem
ber of Congress to take presents for aid
ing in the collection of fraudulent claims
againgt Ihe Treasury, than it is for Presi
dent Grant to appoint frauds to important
office in consideration of presents made
to him."
More Fraudulent War Claims. It is
believed, says the Patriot, that nearly all
the Totiues.se. cl lims which have been aud
ited and paid during the last two years
are fraudulent, and there is to be a gener
al overhauling of all these transactions.
Victor G. Powell, the clerk in the second
Auditor's office, who is charged with com
plicity with Stokes in the Realty Company
case, made overtures to claim agents here
to collect the claim before the job was un
dertaken by the Tennessee Congressman,
and supplied all the information required
in framing the bill, while Stokes engi
neered it through Congress. The Washing
ton claim agents would have nothing to
do witli the case, because of its clearly
fraudulent character, and yet it passed
the scrutiny of ihe military 'committee of
both Houses and the bill was repored by
them vvi h a recommendation for its pas
sage. Nosing run Treason. -Says the World:
Prior to slumber, the fern ib; form devine
is understood to be enveloped, in a long
white garment said to give the figure a
most ghost-like air just before the light
goes out. In attire of this description
Mr. Grant is at present up to his eyes.
He has been breaking open trunks and
searching wardrobes in York county,
South Carolina, Ku-Klux disguuos. and
the nearest approach thereto has been the
curious habiliments above no'ed. The
conqueror of Appomattox has been smel
ling out treason in bandboxes, and, not to
put too fine a point upon it. has come up
on no more dreadful raiment than a
chemise. Meanwhile, three ladies doubt
less for standing on the defense of their
bureau drawers have been put in jail,
and the entire female world in Western
South Carolina knows not at what moment
.Mr. Grant may hound his dragoons upon
them too.
Neuo Fiddled While Rome Birned.
The Chicago Times has the following:
While Chicago was burning and the
whole northwest seemed about to be con
sumed by vast armios of flame. Mr Grant
could think of nothing better to do than
to declare martial law over a large part
of South Carolina. The proclamation
was written for him In Washington on
Saturday, and signed by him on Monday,
and today South Carolina is domineeted
by "artillery and infantry,"' and those
choice spirits Federal detectives nr..
preparing fiery persecutions for the peo
ple of a State which has been plundered
and bankrupted by Radical earpet -bar-ffers.
The Last Thunderbolt. Charles Sum
ner serves a terrible notice upon Grant
in his letter to the colored convention at
Charleston. S. C., when he says : -'Thieves
and money-changers, whether Democrats
or Republicans, must de driven out of our
temple.' Again he tells the
President that, "Republican self-seekers
must be overthrown." ue
thanks God that -good men are comino
to the rescue' He implores them, -while
uuiitngagatnst corruption, to insist upon
equal rights for all. and also the suppres
sion of lawless violence wherever it show's
its head whether ia the Ku-Klux Klanout
ragmg the bouth, or illicit undertakings
outraging the B.ack republic of Hayti '
This last thunderbolt rends Grant's new
fcanto Domingo scheme.
In the trot between Goldsmith Maid
and Lucy on the 13tb inst.. for $300, Gold
smith Maid won in three straight hpat
Time-2:25i, 2:19, 2:23. Track heavy. '
COURTESY OF BANCROFT
Why Put in Charge.
The Xalion, one of the ablest Republi
can weeklies of the United States, thus
takes off Grant's pet, honest Tom Mur
phy, Collector of the great port of New
York :
Murphy, in short, was, to speak plainly
put in charge of the Custom-house of this,
great port lor no other reason than that he
was supposed to possess, in an eminent
degree, that dexterity in the handling of
base tools for base ends which has made
Tweed the lordly criminal that he is ; and
Murphy has in all respects, we must do
him the justice to say. answered the ex
pectations entertained of him by his pat
rons. He "runs" the Custom house as
Tweed and Connolly "run" the City Hall;
that is, by filling it, as far as is possible
without stopping the whole machine, with
unscrupulous and shiftless adventurers,
dependent for their bread on his will, and
ready for any dirty work he may be
pleased to assign them, and whom he
mullets unmercilully to pay the expen
ses of their own degiadation.
As soon as it was ascertained that Boss
Tweed & Co. were acting the rascals and
plundering the city, says the Ei-amlner,
the Democracy threw them off and imme
diately proceeded with all the power of
the State government to bring them to
justice and recover back the cities ' stolen
money. In all this campaign against the
thieves the Democrats take the leading
part. The result of the election in the
city shows that they are the true reform
party. How noticeably different the ac
tion of the President. Ton; Murphy, so
graphically photographed by the Xalion,
and still mote so recently by the Tribune,
still retains his pla-e. The exposures
touching his swindles serve but to attach
him s'ill more endearingly to Grant.
What a blessed thing "troo loilty"' is, and
what a multitude of stealings it coverts.
Grant's Proclamation-
The New York Sun (Radical) has the
following on Grant's Thanksgiving Proc
lainatian. We hope that the people of this State
will comply with Gov. Hodman's recom
mendation to observe Nov. 23 as the day
of annual thanksgiviug, and disregard
that of President (.'rant of the 30th. if for
no other reason, because of the clumsy
English and heathenish theology with
winch the President has disfigured his
proclamation. Perhaps it is loo much to
expect li i in to write any thing but tiioawk
wardest scho ill-oy sty le; but he ought not
to insult the Christians of the riatian by
expressing sentiments which it is the
especial mission of Christanity to combat.
It might do very well tor a Choctaw or
a Hottentot, but wo certainly have a
right to look for better things in a 1' resi
dent of the United States to advise one
portion of the people to publicly rejoice
in the misfortune of the other poition.
Yet this is what President Grant distinct
ly does. He says:
"If some of us have had calamities,
there would be an occasion for sympathy
with the sufferers, of resignation on their
part to the will ot the Most High, and of
rejoicing to the many who have been
more favored."
He "therefore'' goes on to recommend
that,
"On Thursday, the 30lh day of Novem
ber next, the people meet in their respec
tive places ot worship, and there make the
usual acknowledgements to Almighty God
for the blessings Ae has conferred upon
them, for the'r exemption from evils, and
envoke His protection and kindness for
their less fortunate brcthern. whom in His
wisdom He has decerned it best to chas
tise." The President evidently esteemes word
ly prosperity a blessing, and worldly m:s
tortu :u's a curse, lie believes the chas
tisements ot God to be proper occasions
for commiserating their objects; thus, both
contradicting the Bible, which teach
es that "whom the Lord loveth He chas
leneth."' ami in his own admission that
God. "in his wisdom, deemed it best" to
inthct the very evils he desires us to de
precate. He evidently belongs to that con
ceited class who fancy that they could
give some valuable hints to the Ruler of
the universe, if He would only consult
th-un. He seems to think, too, that unless
we invoke the Divine "protection and
kindness lor our less ordinate bre'.iiem.
il may go
h ud with them 1 God, in his
view ot :tie matter, (iocs not love an ins
children alike, and therefore those who
happen to be favorites musL intercede for
the others !
Whichever day is observed, we hope
Ihe clergy and pious people generally will
t inploy it, in praying tor the conversion
from heathen opinions of our benighted
President.
The Litigant Law.
The law of this State, probably one
most hated by most Radicals, of all laws,
is similar to the law in operation in Cali
fornia. The Examiner has the following
iu defense of the law of that State :
The purpose of the '-Litigant law' is to
prevent the courts from being used for the
swindling of non-resident parties. .This
object is accomplished by the law, by hav
ing all legal possession, affecting the per
sonal or proprietary interests of non-residents,
published in one. particular news
paper iu each county, where a paper is
published at all. or in a specified one in
she nearest countv. in which all can look
with a certainty of discovering anything
likely to affect their legal rights. As is
well known, summonses in divorce cases,
as well us in cases involving great prop
erty interests, had been frequently pub
lished iu obscure corners of papers hardly
known, where there is no likelihood of
parlies virtually interested ever seeing
them ; and in this way much swindling
had been practiced.
To stop these practices was the object
of the passage of the Litigant law. So
much for the origin of the measure.
As a matter ot fact the aggregate
amount paid by litigants for the work
done by the "litigant organs." under the
law, is full one-third less than was paid
for the same amount of service before the
law was enacted. So U can be easily
seen that while we advocate the measure,
we did so not actuated by mercenary
motives alone but because we believed it
to be an emir.euliy just one.
We may also state that the beauties of
the Litigant law, as far as we are concern
ed, cost us about $200 for the last year,
which was that much gained by the liti
gants. Good rou West Virginia. The election
held in that State on the 2Gth ultimo, was
for members ot the legislature and Dele
gates to a Constitutional Convention,
which latter body will take action on the
"Flick Amendment' removing political
disabilities. The Democrats carry ten of
the eleven Senatorial districts and sixty
seven out of seventy-eight members of the
Constitutional Convention. The State
that was maIe for the convenience of the
Radicals hag thrown the yoe pfj com-
completely.
Not So Bad. The Democracy of Cali
fornia elected twenty-four County Judges
against the Radicals seventeen.
r
LIBRARY,
Susan B. Anthony's Lecture
Written for the Enterprise.
Having heard that Miss Susas B. An
thony was to be at the Court House, in
this city, on Friday evening last, for the
purpose of hearing and refuting any ob
jections that might be urged against Wo
man's Suffrage, we resolved to give her
an audience. After waiting a few minutes,
the lady entered unattended, stepped upon
the platform, and took a seat near one of
her "right hand supporters." In person,
Miss Anthony is, to say the least, unat
tractive, possessing not the most distant
approach to beauty, variously as lasle
signifies the term. Her voice is thin and
harsh, and her gestures nervous and un
graceful. Her age. of course, we cannot
guess, but judging from the care-worn and
far away expression she carries in her
face, we should say that a long and dreary
existence had been hers ; unblest by a joy
in the past, or a hope for the future.
It is not our purpose here to treat at
length upon the points brought forward
by the speaker in vindication of her pet
theory. They were the notes that she has
constantly harped upon for the last twen
ty years, without producing the first musi
cal sound. There was no one present who
deemed the subject worthy of any notice,
so that no objections were offered for re
futation ; and those that she chose to re
fute, under the head of ' popular objec
tions." were such as her own conscience
told were too plainly apparent to every
intelligent mind, for any logic of her's to
conceal. Her interpretation of the Bible,
that book which so clearly defines the dif
ferences of men and women, in nature and
in duties, was simply blasphemous. How
Christian women can listen to and endorse
sentiments of so-called reform, proceed
ing from one who unblushingly trifles
with and tramples upon the sacred law of
God. it is difficult to imagine. She admits
that she read the Bible to gain ideas as to
the destiny of women. II she had read
it with a sincere prayer for light, the
lamentable fog that now enshrouds her
reason, would have given place to the
clearness of the noon-day sun. Back of
Time's unwritten pages, in the days when
centuries began, when Adam, lord of all
creation, sat alone, with thought and feel
ing disunited, God saw that his condition
was not good, and so gave to him a wo
man to love and cherish, and when he
gave her a title, "Eve! the mother of all
living," he prophesied her destiny. The
glory of the man, she was made, a being
for home, for love, for honor. Marriage
crowned the blest creation, and the joys
of home set a seal upon the love that was
given. Man was endued with strength to
meet t!ie cares and perplexities of the
world, to build the city, to rule the s!ate.
to wield the sword and wear the honors of
life's great battle field ; to woman was
given the blessedness of love and sympa
thy to brighten the paths of life, which,
however dark, they both must share.
Ilei'sit is to watch over and beautify the
sacred precincts of home ; to train up her
sons to be strong towers ot Christian vir
tue and manliness, and her daughters to
be as "the polished cornel s of the tem
ple. ' And to accomplish this, the very
highest qualities of the heart and intellect
must be exercised by the mother. The
moral power of our nation, over the na
tions of the Old World, can only be main
tained by preserving the sacredness of
home-lift; in the domestic virtues of Amer
ican women. What is if after all that
makes a n.ition great? Surely not its
heroes, but iis honseholds.Chrisiian homes,
where the sweet incense of prayer rises
gratefully morning and evening ; where
the mat riage bond is sacred; and where
the Sabbath of the Lord is hallowed ;
these draw down blessings on our land.
Tiie future of our country depends upon
I the traininsr of her children. How many
of them will he trained in uprightness and
Christianity? The answer to this question
is with the motheis, and in the answer lies
the fate of a great nation. Oh. Christian
in of hers see to it, that your duty is not
neglected. See that the feet of your loved
ones are tending towards the paths of pur
ity and goodness. Do this, and you are
performing a noble and Divinely appoint
ed work tor your country ; a work not
onlv lor the present jreneratiou. but for
the millions yet unborn. These duties
and privileges lie before ua, undisputed
and unclaimed by men, and surely none
can be higher or mor sacred. Lotus then
give lo these our best intelligence and
fidelity, ere we claim a wider sphere of
action or a more evident mission.
How Tiiev Ghow Rich. The Washing
ton Patrloct has ascertained that ex-Senator
E. D. Morgan, of New York, and the Hon.
Oakes Ames, a member of the house of
Representatives from Massachusetts, who
were made trustees to sign the first mort
gage bonds authorized to be issued by the
Union Pacific Railroad Company, the ulti
mate payment of which is guaranteed by
the United States, got very well paid, to
say the least, for attaching thoir signatures
to these securities. It will be remember
ed that both of these gentlemen wer mem
bers of the Pacific Railroad Committee
in their respective bodies at the time these
bonds were authorized to be issued, and
it turns out that the then Senator fcfrom
New York charged and was paid SI 50
for each bond signed by him, amounting
to the sum of $30,000 or more, while his
collogue in the other House from Massa
chusetts was content to be paid $1 for
each signature, or about $20,000 for the
same service. e give ttjese iacts ami
leave the country to jud e of (he proprie
ty of such conduct on the part of Radical
legislators.
Grant as a Traveler. The Cincinnta
ti Commercial has a good-natured article,
entitled "The Wanderings of Ulysses,
showing Grants achievments as a traveler.
Here is the grand summing up:
Since his nomination as President, he
has been absent from Washington 501
days, (not 'including the days of his re
turning.) and has traversed, as near as can
be determined 37,629 miles; or since the
surrender of Lee, he has been absent 754
days; and wandered a distance of 5.058
mjlesnoi couuuug uumoeness drives,
horseback excursions, and little trips that
have escaped telegraphic recognition.
Much indeed he has been tossed about,
both on the sea and on the land; and
think of that sixty-odd thousand-mile
trait of cigar smoke.
The Oregon City Enterprise commen
ces volume 6 with a new heading. Bro.
NoltDer makes a good paper, aud takes
no new departnse in his'n. Albany Democrat.
Telegraphic Clippings.
TiiiEvixa in south Carolina.
New Yokk. Nov. 21. A Iribune dis
patch from South Carolina confirms the re
port of fraudulent issue of ifmith Carolina
bonds. The Governor charges the Treas
urer with a fraudulent issue of bonds, or
rather of re selling bonds which had al
ready been converted into new bonds.
The State Treasurer denies this and says
the Governor is misinformed. .The result
of th.i matter is that the State Treasury is
empty and the credit of the State is below
par.
MUKDEREi: EXD ORSED.
CiucAdo Nov. 21. The grand jury of
the Criminal Court, vesterday discharged
young Treat, the patrol who killed Col.
Grosvener two weeks after the great
liie, and "passed a resolution endorsing
the action of Mayor Mason and Gen. Sher
idan. MISCELLA XEO US XEWS.
Washington. Nov. 2L Francis A.
Walker now Census Superintenuand
is appointed Commissioner of Indian Af
fairs. Col. C. Bates of Chicago, recently ap
pointed U. 3. District' Attorney for Utah,
has accepted the appoinment and will
leave here for Salt Lake a week from to
day. The total number of National Banks
June 30, 1871. was 1 ,39.
General Francis A. Walker, who was
to-day appointed Commissioner of Indian
Affairs, will continue to act as Superin
tendent of the Census until its completion.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
rules that the principal and interest on
the new bonds are exempt from taxation
in any form, and that this interest need
not be included in the amount upon whith
the dividend of other taxes are required
to be paid.
Atlanta. Nov. 21. Acting Gov. Con
oley has issued a proclamation ordering
a special election to fill the vacancy occa
sioned by Bullock's resignation.
Tekka Haute, Nov. 21. A boiler at
Cntbb's flouring Mil! at Lincoln. Indinnn,
exploded and demolished the mill and an
adjoining planing miii. One man was
killed and several others seriously in
jured. 'radicals favor repudiation.
Charleston, Nov. 1.) The Xeics prints
a report of the action of the caucus of the
colored members of the Legislature, held
last week. Ihe caucus resolved to make
no appropriation during the coming ses
sion for the payment of interest on the
Slate debt, and declared themselves-- in
favor of repudiation of the old and new
State debt.
" I XXO CEX T " TOM MURPHY.
Washington. Nov. 20. A. correspond
ence between President Grant and Collec
tor Murphy, of New York, enclosing the
resignation of the bitter is published.
Murphy refers to the psosecutions to
which he has been subjected, and which,
he says, for persistant misrepresentations
and unrelenting vindictiveaess have for
tunately few parallels iu Ihe history cf
political strifes. He says he has been sus
tained by the conciousness of his own
rectitude, that he has enjoyed nninterrup
edly and still retains the confidence of the
President undiminished by vituperation.
To his accusers, for the u:a'.r.j r in which
the duties of his office have been per.'oim
ed. he refers with pleasure lo the Secreta
ry of the Treasury and to the figures of
his records in the Treasury Department.
He says, however that he is coucious that
his continuance in office will be made the
pretext and reason tor assaults calculated
to injure the President and the Republican
party, and rather than incur such hazard,
he would relinqui.-h his position. He
concludes by reteiing to the gratifying re
sult of the recent election iu New York
Slate.
The President in reply, says it gives
him great pleasure to bear testimony to
the efficiency, honesty and zeal w ith which
Murphy has administered t he office, and
that while his peace of mind m y be en
hanced by leaving the office of Collector,
he (the Pre.-ident,) doubts whether such
a course will be beneficial to the public
service.
MURPHY'S SUCCESSOR.
Chester A. Arthur was appointed this
afternoon Collector of Customs for the
port of Njw York, vice Thorn. .Murphy, re-
signed.
TWEED WILL ESCAPE.
The Tiibune, tomorrow will have a
statement to the effect that Chas. O "Con
or is of tiie opinion t?-at through a flaw
in the indictment Tweed will escapepun
ishmeni. RECEPTION OP DUKE ALEX
5.
New Yokk. Nov. 22 The steamer Ma
ry Powell with the Reception Committee
and about 500 p:uons proceeded down
the Bay at 11 this forenoon. Broadway was
never so crowded with people in holiday
attire as this forenoon. About 10,000 troops
in iine stretched up from the Battery.
Buildings are colored wi:h fl gs Russian
and American. The entire display is
magnificent. The Orand duke landed at
1:30 p. in. After considerable ceremony,
amidst the roar of cannon and deafening
sht u s of welcome, he look a seat in a ba
rouche. He was dressed iu the magnifi
cent uniform of a General officer ot the
Russian army. His staff, the American
and Russian Admirals and other officials
followed in barouches. As the Prince
passed up Broadway he was loudly cheer
ed at every step, the military which lined
Broadway, presenting arms and dipping
colors, bauds playing and baudkei chiels
waiving from windows by ladies.
XE W YOR K M. 1 TIERS.
It is stated that fachs are ascertained of
heavv frauds in the Brooklyn Citv Treas
ury, having been perpelrated by Ihe
Ring, by which some 240.00!) have been
illegally drawn by the Fire Commission
ers. There are minora that James M. Sweeny,
brother of Peter B. Sweeny, has fled to
Europe. Evidence is iu the hands of
Charles O'Couor of frauds, committed by
him iu connection with Tweed and oth
ers, .1 MURDERER 1IUXG.
Akron. Nov. 21. John II. Hunter, who
murdered Mr. and Mrs. Targett at Rich
art, on the 21st of May. was hanged to
day. Hunter went from Gratiot county,
Michigan, to renew an engagement with
Chloe Targett, and ou the retusal of the
parents to permit him to enter the hoti.-e,
shot and killed both, and then tried to kill
Chole. Since his incarceration he has
feigned insanity, but the physicians have
declared him sane. h: tried to commit
suicide yesterday, but was discovered
and prevented. He has refused all sus
tenance since Monday last. He was en
tirely unnerved and had to be supported
to the scaffold. He made a rambling
speech, denying the premeditatioi) of the
murder.
Another. Grant has issued a procla
mation declaring Union county , S. C, in
a state of rebellion. There seems to be
no limit to the depth of the hate and mal
ice cf this vile usurper and perjured trai
tor to the Constitution and liberties ol
his country.
The Kaiama iedcon contains an account
of the murder of a Chinaman near that
place, by some drunken w hites. Also, of the
arrest of an old man named Miller, charg
ed with the crime of incest, with his own
sister, a married worn j a having several
children.
A White girl of Oiympio, has given
birth to a negro child. Strange freak ol
nature. Don't jt ?,
STATE NEWS.
There are 2.070 school children in tl.w
Portland district. "oren in tLe
Dr Paine has been sent to jail in Rai4llv,
for whipping his wife. J "aklh
J. h. llarker has started im hU lir
The railroad surveyors have reael.ph
Oakland in Douglas county. rcachetl
Patrich Walch is missing from Sa,
and his friends are anxious thereat
Mr. Caleb Antrimiving a few niilexfrom
lllsboro, was accidently killed i v.V
Hill
day.
A grand Ball will be given at the Ch
meketa House, Salem, on ThanWivin
Thanksgiving
night.
The Circuit Court is in session in Yum"
hill county, with over sixty cases on'ti 1
docket. u lLe
Fifty new buildings have been erected
in Eugene during the last four or fivi.
months.
A Fair for the benefit of Ihe St. Vincrn
de Paul Society commenced at Portland
yesterday.
The drawing of the Omaha lottery took
place on the Gth aud 7th inst. 50 0G9 jrot
the $20,000. KQl
Charles Hayden, a Penitentiary conrirt
' " a 1 ul n iiusi erred on Tuesday to
the Insane Asylum. 3
Col. Chapman has gone to Washington
in behalf of the Portland, Dalien aud
Salt Lake Railroad.
J. A. Waymire. Recorder of Salera. ha
resigned. He proposes to go to Califor
nia this winter.
R. A. Ray's store at Kola was entered
the other night and robbed of a consider
able amount of goods.
The trial of Bird, for the murder of
i.ieuf. Cowan, at Alaska, has been post
poned in the U. S. District Court at Van
couver until next april.
Wrestling Joe is beiag examined by
medical authority o see what caused the
wounds on his person.
Mr. S. G. Reed, of Portland, returned
last week from England with a large lot
of thorough bred &tock.
The California and Oregon stages now
lie over eight hours at Oakland und tea
hours at Jacksonville.
A party of prospectors have discovered
fabulously rich ore in ihe Sautiam mine,
six miles above Quarisvillc.
The propeller California will sail for
Olymphia, Puget Sound ports and Victo
ria on Tuesday the 2S:h inst.
.Mr. J. Levy died very suddenly atl'Mi"
land last Sunday, lie was u pariuer ia
the firm ol that name at Harrisburg.
Judge Upton on Wednesday sentenced
John Wilson and D. Sliinson, convicted
of grand larceny, to oue year each in the
Penitentiary.
Mrs. ILL. "Woodward, wife of Rev. L.
T. Woodward, Presiding Elder of the M.
E. Church for the Salem District,, died iu
Salem on the 20lh inst.
The remains of Mr. Thomas Atkinson,
who died last September at Eagle Creek,
in Eastern Oregon, were taken to SaU-m
last Wednesday.
Pierce Mahaffey and Jesse Albertson of
La Grand had aa unpleasant lies inst
week, during which the former was tot
through the arm.
The State Treasurer is commencing to
receive and puy out caj-h again, as con
siderable receipts are coming in Irom the
near counties.
A new schooner of fifty tons is nearly
ready lo launch at Tillamook, he be
longs to G. W. Miller, and will be sent tc
San Francisco lor liuishing.
William Sheppard has been arrested at
Salem on the charge of being cone-rtted
in the recent robbery at Gervais, and b.w
been held to answer in f500.
Th- skull of a Flat-head Indian, ex
humed ru-ar Salem, has been presented to
Professor O. C. Maih by Dr. J. T. Ghis--lin
of the L'niu-d States Anny.
1 he ghost of a woman has been dis
covered in the vicinity of Dixie Creek,
Albaiy. The young men are greatly ex
ercised to know what il all means.
J. J. Burton- ot North Yamhill, whibV
out shooting geese last week, nrl-t with a
serious accident. 1 1 is gun burst and de
al roved most of one ol his hands.
Some body has borrowed a horse fronr
! Mr. Caviues, w ho re.-ides near Albany.-
a I he is anxious i learn who has it
a? he wants his horse scut home.-
We undei stand that General Palmer
has done away wiih all modes of punish
ment at the fciletz Reservation, aud gov
erns his Indians by moral suation.-
A German named Wilhelm Roche ha.
been arrest fd at Salem for the robbery of
the store of R. Hanna at Gervais. Tim
stolen property was found in his posses
sion. Foster who it will be remembered re
duced a girl, has been found guilty and
will be making brick for the State in
few days. Hanging would be better for
him.
The P mocratic Era says : We have in'
our office a copy of the Holy Bible, bear
ing the date HA2, which we believe lo be
the oldest publication of anyiind in Ore
gon. The Jacksonville Times of the 18th init.
says : The presence of bears und cou
gars low down in the valley is thought by
the weather-wise to betoken a Winter of
unusual severity.
In Jacksonville, fhf indictment for child
murder ucrainst Sis Brown, was dismissed
on account of witnesses being absent ;
and in (he case of Joseph Wells, also in
dicted for murder, the recognizance was
forfeited.
F. M. Stow of Yamhill county was kill
ed last week by a falling tree. He was
cleajing some land by burning the trees
down. One of them falling unexpectedly,
it caught him before he could iret out of
the way.
The O. S. N. Co , says the Mountaineer,
will have taken down the Columbia river
from Wall ula. by the time the eeasop
closses, about three thousand tons of
freight, composed of wheat, barley, flour,
bran, etc.
Arthur W. PrVssly, writing from Slat
creek, Josephine county, to a friend in.
Salem, announces the late discovery of
very rich placer mines about eight miles,
below there, down Rogue river. He saya
the only claim opened had been sold for
$2,000
The Dallas R'pubhcan relates a case
where a wretch in Polk county attempted
to seduce a girl of seventeen, but was un-t
successful. He thin tried to ravish her,
but the proved more lhan a match for
him. Finally he drugged her and suc
ceeded in his purposes. The fellow in to
be prosecuted-
Messrs. Abbott, Lamb and Malthrop of
Portland have been awarded the contract
for constructing a twenty-five mile section
of the Northern Pacific Railroad, com
mencing at the end of the section now in
course of construction, or twenty-five
miles northward from Jvalama, a point a
short distance below Pumphrey's.
A dispatch from Jacksonville, under
date of the 21st, says that two young
women, named Fanny and Hannah Ralls,
walked into the dining room of the United
ed States Hotel, in that place, armed with
cowhides, and administered an unmerciful
castigation to a man named George Tribr
bie, lately arrived from Crescent city.
The girls accuse him of testifying falsely
against the character of one of item be
fore the Grand Jury, and the act was an
plauded by everyone present,
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