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AEljelUcckln Enterprise.
OFFICIAL FirtU OF CLACKAMAS COCNII.
OREGON' CITV, OREGO.V, AUGUST 1873.
FOR PKESIDEXT,
HORACE GREELEY,
OF NEW YORK.
For Vice President,
J3. CRATZ BROWN5
OF MISSOURI.
"Presidential Electors,
KO. R. IIEi-M, of Linn County.
N. II. GATES, of Wasco County.
L.. F. LAXE, of Douglas County.
The True Basis of Union.
The Grant journals are now as
Rkliiously at work reviving 3Ir.
Greeley's sayings in the past, in
order to prejudice Democrats
atrainst his support, but there is
one subject upon which they have
been most remarkablv silent. They
have failed to call the attention of
Democrats to the fact that Mr.
Greeley, prior to the breaking out
of the rebcIl'o:i announced, the
doctrine that " if -the Cotton States
united and earnestly wished to
withdraw peacefully from the Un
ion, they should m allowed to do
so," and that "any attempt to
compel them to remain by force
would Ik? contrary to the jirinciples
enunciated in the immortal Declar
ation of Independence, contrary to
the fundamental ideas on which
human liberty is based." These
sentiments, sound and patriotic,
were enunciated by 3Ir. Gretley in
November, 1860, and unmistakably
show that m the present earnest
canvass of 18V2, when the people
of the United States are ftruxrliny
to withdraw themselves from the
coils of a threatened military des
potism, there is not one other man
in the United States, who presents
a better claim to their leadership,
by the enunciation of correct fun
damental truths pertaining to the
present great issues, than Horace
Greeley. Th foregoing sentiments
deliberately enunciated by him at
the time stated, and re-affirmed
repeatedly, are, however, no loun-
elation for the assertion that Mr.
Greeley desired a dissolution of
the Union. This he deprecated, as
who of the North or South did
not; but as much as he deprecated
it, he did not consider it as a thing
to be averted at the expense of
popular liberty and free govern
ment. And in this regard Mr.
Greeley is right. He well knew
that the genius of the American
people would never tolerate a gov
ernment pinned together with bay
onets, lie knew that the Union
was only formed with the consent
of the governed, and that it could
permanently endure only with such
consent. Here then is the great
fundamental reason why Horace
Greeley is acting with the Demo
cratic party to overthrow the at
tempt now being made by Grant
to subvert popular liberty.
In October, J60., in reply to
charges made by Senator Doolittle,
he reiterated the same sublime sen
timents in the following language;
' Bui Senator Doolittle says I was lb'
letting tbem (the Suuthe i n States,) secede
in the beginning.' I wish be bus always
to near the truth. Please look again at
whit he sava above in deprecation of
holding the Southern States, u Hi their ten
millions of people as conquered provinces,
then weigh well my political platform as
Bel forth in the preamble to our forefa'h
or's Declaration of Independence: -We
hold these truths lo be -.ell-evident, that
all men are created equal ; that they are
endowed by their Creator with certain m
ali. -liable rights; that among Hies; rights
are life, liberty and the pur-nit of happi
uess; 'hat to secure these rights, govern
cvnls are institute 1 among men. dericina
thir just pincers fnm the consent f Hit
(joceruol that whenever any government
becomes destructive ol these ends ii is the
right of the people to al'er or , bolish it.
and to institute a new government, laving
it foundations on such pr nciples. and or
gtriizing its powers in such form as to Ikptn
Khali seem most likely lo effect their safe
ty and happiness.'
"This satement. though its precise
words are Jefferson"., endorsed by John
AiliiiH. Franklin Hancock, and their
compeers, is a condensation ol the politi
cal laith of John Hampden Algernon Sid
ney. Milton. Locke, and all ihe great con
fessors and martvis of Anglo Saxon liber
ty, as reproduced in the fervid eloquence
of James Otis. Warren. Patrick Henry ind
their compatriots. If it is not sound and
just, then my gr-nd-fathors were both
foresworn rebels and traitors .and the Am
erican Revolution a successful crime. Jt
it is true, who shall say that ten millions
of people inhabiting the eleven Southern
SMS 8 may not invoke it as rightfully as
three million of people, inhabiting thirteen
colonies? For my part. I stand by ihe
faith and the 'a ue of my ancestors."
These sentiments find a response
in every Democratic heart. They
are germane to the present issue.
Nor can they be distorted to coun
tenance secession and rebellion, as
the whole history of the Anglo
Saxon race, attests to the fact that
it is only in governments, controll
cd as Grant attempts to control
this, by military rule, that we may
look for discontent and rebellion.
Our people will not tolerate a bayonet-fastened
srovernment, but will
never rebel against one based on
the consent of the governed. The
policy of Grant is fruitful of rebel
lion; the policy of Greeley is sub
kcrviejit only ot enduring peace,
The Withdrawal of Mr. tane.
We regret to see that Hon. La
fayette Lane, candidate on the
Democratic ticket for Presidential
Elector, has assumed the great re
sponsibility of withdrawing there
from, and sincerely hope that this
declination will not be accepted by
tne Central Committee, and that
Mr. Lane will reconsider his action
and remain in the field as a candi
date. And we must be allowed to
say that we deny the right, as well
as the expediency of such with
drawal. Mr. Lane accepted the
nomination as Elector. From that
time his name is the proper
ty of the party, and so long
as he remains and acts in con
cert with that party, he is compell
ed to abide its decisions. Mr. Lane
as an individual, has no more right
of party control over Mr. Lane the
Elector, than has Mr. Smith over
Mr. Jones. His declination for the
reasons given, is unwarranted and
unjustifiable, and we again express
the hope that the Democratic Cen
tral Committee reluse to receive it,
and that he will remain in the
field.
From our intercourse with Lib
eral Republicans in Oregon, we are
convinced that they will cheerfully
support our Electoral ticket, pro
vided it supports Greeley and
Drown, as it is compelled to do by
strict party rules, as well as by
broad feelings of patriotism.
Woman's Iirhts
The following was the statute of
Virginia in 177C, aimed to suppress
tattling in women. The very same
disease has broken out in a new
form ami more malsnant type,
and is now known as woman's
rights. Women allected with the
mania go about the country slan
dering any and all who are opposed
to their wearing breeches. We
don't know but if this old statute
was re-enacted and strictly enforc
ed, it would be about as effective
a way, to abate a nuisance as any
that could bo invented. Every
body knows that ducking is good
for clucking hens. The following
CJ w
is the statute:
"Weereas oftentimes many babbling
women often slander and scandalize their
neighbors for which their poore husbands
are often brought into chargeable in 1
vexatious suites, and caste in gn-ate dam
ages: Bee it tm-refore enacted by th
iiuthori'y aforesaid, that in actions of si. n
der. occ iioned by the wile as aforesaid
alter lgntent passed for thedunagis
ihe woman shall be punished by (lucking
and if the slander be so enormous s S to be
adjudged at a greater damage than fi.e
hundred pou ids of tobacco, then the wo
rn a io aniier a ducking 'or each five fun
dre I pounds of tobacco adjudged against
the ho- b u.d. if he refuse lo pay the to
baeco."
JLctier trout Senator Kelly.
The Courier publishes the following let
ter from Senator Kelly, written at Wash
ington, under date of June 17;h.
Every thing now indicates the nomina
tion of Greeley and brown by National
I)ein"cra-ic Convention which meets in
Baltimore on the 9th of July. or rather.
I should say. the endorsement of the Cin
cinnati nominees. Indeed I scarcely ihink
there is any doubt oj it now; and much
as I regret what, seems to be inevitable. I
am going to yield obedience to the de
cries of that body, and support its nom
intes. It. is indeed pas-dug strange that
our bitter ememy of two years ago
should be the g'ambird bearer ol our party
now. lint fate, or destiny seems to have
decreed that it should be so; we ought, to
submit with the best grace we may to that
which we cannot avoid with success if we
would. If Greeley and Brown shall be
endorsed by the Baltimore Convention
theie -hould be a universal acquiescence
by Democrats in the result fr wj.hout
this, defeat is certain; and the re-election
of Grant is sure. Do not then let us di
vide or become indifferent, even if we
eannot get one of our own choice for our
nominee. Distasteful and undesirable as
the nomination of Greeley may be to us.
indeed it is to me. yet. I can see how
much good may come to our cause by ac
cepMng the nomination in good faith, and
giving a beany support to it
i expect to be in Oregon in the course
of five or six weeks to take part in the
Presidential campaign: and hope there
will be no divided Democratic party, or j
hi. i iin-i t-iiur niiiun ineuiners III Hie
great contest which comes off in No vein
ber next. Very Truly Yours.
J.VMKS K IvKU.EX.
Senator Bavai:i). This gentleman,
whose name has become familiar to the
country through his services on the In
vestigating Committee to examine into the
frauds in the New York Custom House,
and who so earnesly protested against the
nomination of Horace Greeley, has writ
ten a letter, which he closes as follows :
Events as they now confront ns were
shaped in opposition to our efforts, and a
ihey are we are not responsible for them;
but we ere responsible tor our mode of
dealing with them now ; and I hope our
Slate Convention will promptly and decid
edly nominate an electoral ticket in oppo
sition to Grant and Wilson, and in favor
ol the only candidates who. as matters
now stand, can be hopefully expected to
defeat them I mean Greeley and Brown,
for whom I expect to vote on the filth d iy
of November a -xt. I hope to return home
by the middle of September, with mv
health restored, and enabled to take part
in i lie political canvass. The subjeci 'o
which ibis letter relates h;is given me a
great deal of anxiety and distress, which
I know is shared by thousands of true
men of the same political party in this
State: but I believe that my decision is
the right one. and I know thai it is found
ed upon honet motives. This only alier
nasive to a whole or half-way "aid to
Grant's re election may be hard for ns to
adopt, but I ihink ii is our duty, and so I
trust will you and the eutire Democracy
of Delaware.
Hoisted. The Democratic lira
i . i a . -i i
1
ias noisieu tne names oi vireeiey
and. lirown and gives them
ty support..
hear-
Evils of Radicalism.
huyler Conax, tte -"smiler.
made a Fourth of July speech at
Kalamazoo, Michigan, in which he
enumerated the perils of the Repub
lic. Iy reference to these perils,
as reported in the New York Iler
ald, it will be seen that nearly
every one of them are the legiti
mate result of Radical rule for the
last twelve years, and it was emi
nently proper for Mr. Colfax, on
the Fourth of July, to remind the
people of the dangers that beset
them, so that they might abandon
the party which precipitated them
upon the country. The Herald
report is as follows:
Mr. Colfax enumerated as some of these
possible perils of the republic : First.
overtrading abroad, now settled by gov
ernment. State and railroad bonds, ulti
maiely. however, to be paid, principal
and interest, in American gold ; and in
sisted that nations, like individuals, should
live within their means. Second. Un
building of and cing " ub! "h.1
fur too manv railroads. Third, increasing
.he State and municipal debt, rendering
local taxation far more burdensome ,han
,i ii!iiandiiitr our heavy
war debt. For.rih. increasing the power
of -real corporations, which should be
wiseiy limited, especially as to -water ng
stock except by express legislative author
ity as it rendered higher charges on the
public necessary to make dividends.
Fifth that corruption, whenever clearly
discovered in national. State or mumcipa
government, should be sternly punished
a greater crime than private embezzle
ment or theft. Sixth, the expansion of
area if it brings with it unwilling people
or national hostilities, and unless like
marriage with the hearty assent of both
peoples. Seventh, war. except as a last,
resort, and he meant by that not the
avenginf of some fancied wrong, but the
pri'servafion of the national lite, as blood
shed b justified by the preservation indi
vidual lile.
Greeley on Carpet-Hangers.
On hi return from a visit to the South
about a year ago. Mr. Greeley, not then
anticipating his position. mad a speech
t the Lincoln Club room, in New York
Citv. in which he expressed himself as fol
lows in regard to these disreputable cor
morants ;
I allude to what are kown aa the
thieving carpet baggers. Applause. The
thieving cat pet baggers are a mournful
fact; they do exist there, and I have seen
them. They are lellows who crawled
down South in track of our armies, gener
ally at a very sale distance in the rear ;
some of them on sul tiers' wagons; some
bearing coiton permits; some of then
looking sharply to see what intght turn
up, and they remain there. They at once
ingratiated themselves with the blacks,
simple, credulous, ignorant men. very
glad to welcome and to follow any whites
who professed to be the champions of
their rights. Some of them got elected
S'-na'otv, others Represeiuatives. some
Sherdl's. some Judges and so on And
there ihey stand, right in the public ee.
s-ealing and plundering, many of ihem
wiili both arms around negro-s. and theii
nands in 'heir rear pockets, seeing if ihey
cannot pick a paltry dollar out of ihem;
and ihe public lonks at ihem. does noi re
gard ihe honest Northern man. who calls
every carpet b igger a thief, which is noi
the truth by a good deal. But these tel
lows many of them long faced and with
eves roiled up are greatiy concerned lor
Ihe education of the blacks and for the
salvation of iheir souls Great laughter
Let us pray.' they say; but they spell
pray with. an 'e.' and thus spelled, they
obey the Apostolic injunction to 'pray
without ceasing.' They got into the Leg
i-la'ures; Ihey went to issuing Stale bonds;
they preiended to use them in aid ot rail
roads and oMier improvements, lint ihe
improvements were not made, and the
h mds stuck in the issuers" pockets. Thai
is the pity of it. What ihe Southern peo
ple see ot us are these thieves, who repre
sent the North to iheir jaundiced vi-ion
and lepresenting it. ihey disgrace it. They
are the greatest obstacle to Ihe triumph
and permanent ascendancy of Republican
piinciples at. the South, and a such I
denounce them."' Great Applause.
That is strongly and succinctly put. No
Democrat has ever stated the case belter,
and no Democrat could pursue a better
course adapted to conciliate the country
iban that given above.
Changed Hands. The last is
sue of the 'Willamette lrarmer
comes to us with Messrs. Clarke
$c Craig as proprietors, Mr. A. L.
Stinson having sold out to them.
They are both old newspaper men,
and we have no doubt but what
they will make the Farmer in
every respect worthy of the sup
port of the people. We wish
them abundant success. Mr. Stin
son, on account of ill-health, pro
poses to engage m other business.
May the best of prosperity attend
him m his retired life,
Mi:. Matlock, of Itoseburg, an
old Kepublican soldier in the war,
has announced himself lor Greeley
and Drown, whereupon all the
Radical inkslingers pitch into him,
especially the Federal office-holders
of Portland and Koseburg. Their
narrow mind would prevent a man
from saying anything but the
despot and tyrant who gives
ihem their bread and butter. Mr.
Matlock can stand all such abuse.
About All. Out side of the
Bread-and-Butter ligade, Grant
has but little support in Oregon.
His nomination was received with
almost cold indifference and no en
thusiasm has been engendered
since. Every day he is losing
strength, and the people who are
not recipients of crumbs from his
table, are working for the election
of the honest Farmer Horace
Greeley.
A California paper pronounces
the "Champions of Red Cross," a
humbug, rotten up by men who
won't work for a living.
PorciTtox -Of our city rapidly increas
ing, and prospects for further additions
never so promising. Albany Register.
The editor of tho Ke.jister ha3been mar
ried one sjoatb. Frettv giotL
Y nOTTRTSSY Oif BANCROFT
Greeley's formal Acceptance of the
"Baltimore XomiuaUoiu
The official notification of Greeley's
nomination at Baltimore, with his response,
are published. The notification is quite
brief". It merely announces his unani
mous nomination and the adoption of ibe
Cincinnati plattorm. as strengthened by
the endorsement contained in Greeley's
letter of acceptance of the Cincinnati
nomination, adding that, in tendering the
nomination, they lay aside the difference
of the past, abandon all purposes of mere
partisan advantages, and ask of him no
pledge other than lhat of fidelity to the
platform. Greeley's response is dated
Jnlv LSth. and reads as follows :
Ni;w Yoi-K. Ju.t 18th.
Gentlemen' ? Upon mature deliberation
it seems fit that I should give to your let
ler of the 10'h fuller response than the
hastv unpremeditated words in which I
acknowledged your nomination at our
meeting on the 12th. That many of you
originally preferred that ihe Liberal Re-
publicans slionin pit-smi auomer canm
date for the Presidency, and would have
more readily united with us in the support
of Adams or Trumbull, Davis or Brown,
is well known. .
I owe my adoption at Baltimore wholly
to the fact that I had already been nom
inated at Cincinnati, and that, a concen
tration of forces upon any new ticket had
been proved unacceptable. Gratified as
I am at your concurrence in uie Cincin
nati nominations, cerlain as I am that you
would not have Ihus concurred had you
not deemed me upright anil capable. I
find nothing in (he circumstances calcu
lated lo inflimme anv vanity. But that
vour Committee saw fit in adopting ihe
Cincinnati ticket, to re-affirm the Cincin
nati platform, is to ine a source of pro
found satisfaction, lhat body was con
strained to take this important step by no
party necessity, real or supposed. It
might have accepted the cmdidales of
(he Liberal Republicans on grounds en
tirely its own. or it might, have presented
them as 'he first whig National Conven
lion did Harrison and Tyler, whithou'
adopting any platform whatever. That it
choose to plant itself deliberately, by a
vole nearly unanimous, upon the fullest
and clearest enunciation of principles,
which are at once incontesiibly Repub
lican, gives trustworthy assurance lhat a
new and more auspic'ous era is dawn ng
upon our long distracted coun'ry. Some
of ihe best years and best endeavors of
my life were devoted to a struggle against
chattel slavery a struggle none the less
earnes' or arduous because cons'iiiitional
obligations constrained tne lo act for ihe
most part-on ihe defensive, in resistence
to ihe diffusion, rather than the direct ef
forts for the ext motion, of human bond
age. Throughout the most of these years
my vision was uncheered. my exeriions
were rarely animated, by even so much
as a hope .that I should live to see my
country peopled by freemen alone.
The ufiirmance by your Convention of
the Cincinnati Platform is a most conclu
sive proof, not merely that sbivery is
abolished, but that its spirit is extinct.
Despite the protests of a 'espec'able bur
isolaied few there remains among us no
party nor formidable interest which re
grets its overt brow, or desires the r--estah'ishment
ol human bondage, wheth
er iti leter or in spiti'. I am, then-fere
justified in my hope and trust lhat the
first century of Americ in independence
will not close before the great truths on
which i's rightfulness was based ly
Jeffeison and the Continental Congress of
"7(. will no longer be regarded as glitter
ing generalities, but will have become ihe
ii' tveisilly accepted ntid honored fonn
datious of our political fabric. I demand
ed the prompt application of those prin
ciples to our ceiidiiion. Having done
what I could f r the cmplete emancip a
Hon of the blacks. I now insist on fu i en
ft anchHemeni of all my white coun'ry
rneri Let none say that the ban has j-ist
b'jen removed from all but a few hun
dred elderly gentlemen, to whom eb-gi-bility
lo office can be i.i little conse
qnence. My view contemplates n it the
Sew hundred- prosorilied but ihe millions
who are desiring rite right lo be ruled
by men of iheir unfettered eh ice.
I have a profound regard 'or the' pen
! pie of New Lngland wherein I was born
in whose common xchools I was brought
up. I rank no o-her people ab ive ihem
! in intelligence; but while ihey do many
! tilings well, and some adtnirab'. v. there is
ne tiling which I am -ore they cannot
wisely and sa'ely undertake, and that is
the selection for tsta'es r mo'e ft om and
unlike iheir own of ihe persons by whom
those States shall be represented in Con
gress. If they could do litis lo good pur
pose, the Republican institutions were
unfit, and aristocracy would be Ihe onlv
rue poli ic a! sy-tem. Vet what have we
recm Iy witnessed'.' Zehulon B. Vance
ihe unquestioned choice of a large ma
jority of the Legislature of North Caro
lina, backed by a majority of the people
who voted at. its election refused a seal
in ihe Federal Senate lo which he was
fairly chosen, and the Legislature thus
constrained to choose another in his stead
or leave the Slate unrepresented for years
The vote of New England thus deprived
North Carolina of the Sena'or of her
choice, and compelled her to send another
in his stead; another, who. in our late
contest, was. like Vance, a rebel, and a
fighting rebel, bu who had not served in
Congress before the war as Vance had.
thongh ih. lat'er had remained as faith
ful to the Cnion until after his term.
I protest against the disfranchisement
of a State, presumptuously of a number
ot States, on grounds so narrow and
technical as thK The fact lhat the same
Senate which refused Vance his seat pro
ceeded to remove his disabilities after
'hat seat had been filled by another, only
serves to place in stronger light the in
dignity to North Carolina, and the arbi
trary, capricious tyranny which dictated
it.
I thank you that my name is fo be con
spicuously associated with yours in a de
t rmined effort to render amnesty complete
and universal, in spirit as well as in letter.
Even defeat in such a yne would leave
no s ing, w hile victory would rank with
those victories which no blood reddens,
and which evoke no rears but those of
gratitude and joy. Gentlemen, your
platform, which is also mine, assures me
that Democracy is not henceforth to stand
for one thing and Republicanism another:
but that these ternn are to mean in poli
tics, as they always have meant in Ihe
dictionary, substantially one and the same
thing namely, equal rights to all. re
gardless of creed or clime or color. I
bail this as a genuine New Departure,
from outworn feuds and meaningless
contentions in tl e direction of progress
and reform. Whether I shall be found
W'Tlhv to bear the standard of ihe great
movement which the American people
have inaugurated, is to be determined,
not by words, but bv deeds. I's grand
array moves on to achieve for our conn
try ber glorious, benificent destiny.
I remain, gentlemen, yours.
IIortAC Gkkeley.
A NcrSANCE. We are constantly in re
ceipt of advertisements with requests that
we publish the same and take our pav in
the ar'icle advertised. We wish it under
stood that we do not advertise for any
other consideration than cash. We pay
cash for everything we use in publishing
our paper, and cannot afford to advertise
and take pay in things of no use in our
business. It is useless for advertisers- to
send us any patronage of this kind. We
don't do business in that wav.
A Georgia editor refuses to support
Greeley oa the ground that it is as much
aa he can do to support himself.
LlbdAhl ,
State Items.
Umatilla cotanty has 1.GG7 ecfaoel child
ren.
Jacksonville jaila are filled to overflow-
The new State Penitentiary was opened
last Wednesday.
M. P Berry has been appointed agent
for (he Flatheads.
Haying and harvesting id in full blast
in Eastern Oregon.
The Canyon City mail robbers have
been indicted.
Baker county reduced her indebtedness
about S 4.000 last year.
Six brick buildings are in coarse of
erection at Eugene.
Geo. Fleidner. of Portland ha3 received
a patent for a mop.
W. C. Hull, of La Grande, recently sold
three chickens tor $35.
The Christian denomination is erecting
a church house at Springfield.
Gen. Hooker will leave Portland on
the J. L. Stephens for the East.
Mr. Hank Reed of Salem, was badly
hurt by being kicked by a colt.
Twelve more Boston excursionists ar
rived in Portland last Wednesday.
A band of Cashmere goats will soon ar
rive in Oregon from California.
Washington Pearce. a vagabond miner
ot Idaho, has Ullen heir te $100,000.
Mr. Rhodes of Baker Citv. offers to bet
$10,000 on the election of Greeley.
It is calculated that the Astoria Custom
House will be completed this year.
The Roseburg Ensign has died. It died
with too much Grant on the brain.
A quartz mill was badly damaged by
fire at Baker city on (he 22nd instant.
Jackson county is now rejoicing in
green corn, plums and cholera morbus.
Cascade ice is being sold in Salem, the
home supply having become exhausted.
A Wasco county man has nine head of
cattle, all from one cow in lesg than four
years.
Jacksonville Lodge. Odd Fellows will
eeb-brate its twelfth anniversary, August
19th.
One of the prisoners confined in the
Lane county jail escaped hist Saturday
night.
The Burnt River difch. in Baker conntv
i ndvTli-ed for sale by the Sheriff for
ftiOO taxes.
J. T Apperson Grand Master of the
L O. O. F. is in Eastern Oregon on an of
ficial visit.
O'lfoy, fried at Portland for murder,
has been convicted of murder in the 2nd
degree.
Eugene is moving for a joint stock com
pany to improve the McKenzie Salt
Springs.
A hunting party of four persons recent
ly killed 80 sage hens in one day near
Baker City.
The mail robhor were admitted to bail
in the sum of twenty and ten thousand
dollars each.
The Eastern miils for Oregon are to
come by way of Sacrament 3 hereafter. A
good move.
Texas cattle are being driven from
Eastern Oregon to supply ihe Willamette
beef marke's.
J. J. Hncbenv. of Portland, is collecting
specimens of wheal to send to Eastern Ag
ricultural fairs.
E. S. McCornas of La Grande, relurned
home hist week from attending the Balti
more Convention. i
The Statesman predicts that farmers will
be ah e to get moe than fi5 or 7o cents
a bushel for iheir wheat. j
Pev. Win. Adams ha been appointed
Colporteur of the Oregon Bible Society
to canvass Southern Oregon.
Ben Ifoiladny is making extensive im
provements in and about the Summer
House at Clatsop Beach.
Mrs. Sarah J. Borden, of Perrwille.
Boyle county Kentucky, wants infor ma
lion of Daniel Y. Borden.
J. J. Whi'ney of Albany, and James TI.
Frush of East Portland, have been ap
pointed notaries public.
The Ca'holic holies of Astoria will hold
a grand festival this week, in aid of a
church building in that town.
A number of emigran's. direct from
Germany, have lately arrived in Jackson
couniy, ami will settle there.
The funeral sermon in memory of Ihe
late Jas. B. Newby was preached in Me
Minnville on the 21st of July.
The parents of Lafayelte A. Williams.of
Salem, desire information of his w herea
bouts. He was last at Amity.
On Wednesday William Jolly's team
ran away, just below Ilillsboro, tearing
the wagon all to smash.
Ilillsboro needs a harness shop badly
a good chance for some one to get into a
good pttying business.
The Crystal Palace Circus is now on
the way overland to this State and will be
here about the last of next month.
A Salem party lately returned from
Clear Lake, where they caught, 400 fine
trout ami killed three large backs.
Mr. E. L. Alexander, special postal
agent, arrived in Portland. Wednesd ir,
on business connected with tLePostoffice.
The Eugene Gu ird says : The genuine
small pox has been developed in a settle
men.' on Long Tom near the Benton conn
ty line.
The cops in Marion and Linn counties
are very fair. Oats in many places will
turn out from CO to 7o bushels to the
acre.
Wm. Bryant stole $27.5 from a mm
named Henry Brown in Portland. Bryant
is in jail awaiting the action of the Grand
Jury.
The Bed Rock Democrat says : ' The
reported killing of Wells and Goodwin
by ihe Indians on the Malheur, is a false
report.
The leader of the 21st Infan'ry band, at
Vancouver, was robbed of about S7.50 on
a recent passage from San Francisco to
this port.
A Mr. lla'e. of J ickson county, had a
fight with a bear last week, in which the
bear was killed and Hale seriously
wounded.
They want a preacher at Turner's
school house, in Linn coun'y. No refer
ence required as to denominational ten
lien ties.
A new addition lo the town of Ilalsey
has been laid ofT. and many of Ihe-lots ar.J
already sold to parties woo contemplate
building on tbem.
Two men. arrested for stealing horseg
in Jacksnn county, hare confessed the
crimes, and rheir confession implicates a
number of others.
T vo Indians a buck and his wife
were arrested at Corvallis last Sunday,
and held to answer for threateaing to kill'
a white man.
The stage between Koseburg and Oak
land made the trip in rw bor and forty
five minutes one day last wcefc. distance
twenty miles.
Major M. P. Berry is now making great
preparations to go on a prospecting tour
on the beadwaiers of Clackamas, Molalla
and Santiam rivers.
Johnny Dougherty, a deserter, sen
fenced to wear a ball and chain at AIca
traz for one year, was sent down on th
Ajax which sailed rnday.
A United States snag puller has been
taken to Albany, and will from that point
commence and pull all the snags out of
the river down to the falls.
The Mirant'U"er says that Tomphins.
one of he men arrested on rhe charge of
robbing the Canyon city mail, has always
sustained a good character.
James F. Smith has been creating quite
a sensation in Portland by running away
with a l old man's daughter an I getting
married. He has been arrested lor ab
duction and released since.
The Slate Journal says : Rev. E. P.
Henderson has abandoned the suit against
Harris Dent, for ihe possession of ihe of
fice of County Treasurer.
We received the West Side of July 2G'h
on the 1st of August. Fast time. Five
days from McMinuville. a distance of
about forty milei by the mail route.
A Miss Daw. just arrived from San
Francisco, took the small-pox at Corvallis
a few days ago. out tne tiease is or a
mild form, and she is out of danger.
A special term of the Circuit Court-, be
ginning August 12:h. at Lafayette, has
been ordered by Judge Bonbam for the
trial of Geroy and Thomas for robbery.
The editor of the Journal, at Eugene,
has been presented with a plum seven
inches in circumterence. a tiimuhy stalk
six feet high, and a turnip weighing ten
pounds.
A party of five Germans arrive.! at the
Dalles during the last week from the East
in search of a place to found a colony
who wilt arrive here as soon as the loca
tion is made.
Hon. T. B. Odeneal. Superintendent of
Indian Afturs has received instruction
from Washington to proceed to the Mai
heur country and select a reservation for
the Stiake Indians.
A young man whose girl lives in South
Silem says that during the five years lie
has waited on h"r he has traveled by ex
act measurement lo.oo miles, up lo last
Sunday night.
The Baker City Academy building
which about a year ago was burnt to the
ground is nuw up weather-boarded,
painted, etc.. and will be completed on or
before the next term ol school commences.
As near as can be ascertained the total
loss by the Canyon City mail robbery,
amounts to abcut $.4U0. MeOullough &
Hitman Io-t G ounce dust ; Messinger &
Co. 41 ounces, and W. F. Rinehart Co
ounces.
A man named Harmon stabbed another
man named llazlett in the shoulder quite
seriously, in Benton county, four miles
west of Albany. The aff air grew nr of
an old grudge, and occurred on last Mon
day. 'But" Mealy, a diminutive lad. was
caught by the bell of some machinery at
Albany, on Wednesday of last week, and
whit led around so fast lhat it made his
head swim, but for'unately the belt broke
and let him drop before he was very much
hurt. ,
D. B. Hannah publishes a card in which
he states that much of bis evidence in ihe
Carruthers' ca.-e was ruled out. and that,
he had plenty ol' evidence to prove that
the reported Wrestling Joe"' was none
other iha.i James W. Davidson. The case
will be appealed.
A few persons only have visited the
McKen.ie Falls this summer. These falls
are about fifteen miles above the Hot
Springs ; are three in number ttie high
est being about 1.5') feet. Very few per
sons have ever vi-ited these falls, there
being not, even a friil to them.
The Jacksonville Hmf.t says : Wilson
and Allen, ihe horse thieves arrested by
E. D Foudray in Shasta couniy. Cal.. had
a preliminary examination before Justice
Wade hist Monday. They plead guilty to
the charge, and were bound fiver in the
sum of S2.000 each, in default of which
they were sent to jail.
A man named Ilnntly came from Indi
ana lately in scorch of his sou. who was
stolen from him when an infant, toil ix
months old. The perpetrator of the act
confessed the deed on his death-bed which
led the fa" her lo the discovery of the
child. The people who had raised him
resided near Salem and rhe father left last
Sunday with his long-lost son for his
home.
From Ihe Benton Democrat : "Eugene
Millener. George MiMener. A. Millener.
Charles Millener. A. Hogan. and D. IIo
gau were arrested on last Sunday, charg
ed wirh assault with intent to kill George
Ballard, by firing into his house one night
last week. The parties were discharged,
the evidence being insufficient to convict
them.
A young man named George Burchard.
about 17 years of age. was .aketi down at
St. Helens a few days ago w th l lie suiall
pox. No one is able to tell by what
means he contracted Ihe disease. "lie has
been placed in the school hoti-e and is
under the care of Dr. Henderson, with
whose family he was stopping when he
became sick
Mr. Lane Withdraws.
The following letter explains itself.
Mr. Lane, we are informed, gives his
hearty snpport to the nominees of the
Baltimore Convention, but as the candi
dates of that convention are expected to
gain many votes in our State from the
Liberal Republicans, he thinks it but just
that a n::T."Jjer of that element of our
citizens should be represented. He with
draws in the hope that it may strengthen
the ticket. Following is the le'ter.
RaSEUL-K:-. July 12. 187?,.
Dr. J. A. Chapman. Chairman- Democratic
Central Committee.
Dtir Sir: Relieving hat it would con
tr.b ne soinewua'. to the success. u, tt,js
o.ate. ol the Presidfnikl Humiliations
made at Cincinnati and B.ltiniore, thai
the Liberal Republicans of whom I am
convinced there are m-auy. should be
represented ott Ihe electoral ticket, E re-.-pectlully
tender my resignaiion as a can
didate for elector.
In this connection it may not be im
proper lor me to say that in the choice
beiweeuTrn-eley and Grant I apprehend
Democrats of Oregon cannot hesitate. It
is quite evident itj.it Ihe people without
d.siiuc ion of paity demand a change and
a state-man and honest c-i viiian. "what
ever his former political affiliations may
have been, is su ely preleruble u, Gen.
.Grant.
I am Iruly grateful to the Democracy
of Oregon for ihe honor their late con
ferred! upon me.
Yours respectfully,
I- I'. LANE.
Will Mrs. Dumway please pub
lish thu editorial which recently
appeared in her paper about Grant
while stationed at Vancouver? It
! would be so'iutercEtiuc: hist now
Telegraphic News.
hr. Loris, July 2tI.An-.cn Ua,
who murdered hits wife lasttnii-, "&V
ed hi crime. ' ouf(
Ci.vci.VNA.ri. Sulj 26. -la tjj. t.
race to day Del ween Goldsntitb V i t
Ian!
Lucy, tne former won three
Time. Z:VJ. 2:1 7 and 2:21
Niagara Falls. Ju.r 26. -a 1
i- taming a boy and ffirl. children A
e Lescor, drifted over Ihe tails i a. ".
a boat containing an old flsherWan ' Sl,li
Barney and an unknown inm, p.
not recovered. '
Schurz in a letfer to the Tribun
the letter quoted in his St. Louis e'thJt
was writlen by General Allred i,leaaSpf'ec!,
late Commissioner of Internal l tQt0l!.
and gives a letter from l'Ieasanton'VInU'''
the 25-h instant, saying he did conv d
proposition to Schurz. as a friend nt
self and the President, desiring
dial relation between them Th
President did waat SchurzV
ihe San Dorxingo scheme, and IhatSch "
could have patronage for giving it r '
a distinct impression made upon Pi
ontorrs mind by the President's con'
lion with him, and if the President
tively denies such conversation ,v
Pieasanton regrets it. he consoles him, !.
with the reflection tht .... ? n,n,r,tf
.i.. "".in: nr.Sl tm
that anv statement of his. mm ,u"
has been questioned, while the Pre-M "
had before had occasion to disiru.t th
accuracy of his reco' lection
St. Loirs. July 27.-A Jefferson Cii,
dispatch reports ihe perpetration of hnV
frauds on the State and county by CircuU
r i . ii i plot? I v . . . -
ueiiy. or UtVingHon.
county Lew Go.dsby, former Cleik h
absconded. '
Dkikoit. 27.-Governor Baldwin cV
clmes the re-nominaiion. and Spauliin
having w.thdrawn. the coast in clear &J
John J. Bagley. the tobacco king.
August Belmont's name is proij,inrnt
mentioned as Democratic Candida fjV
Mayor.
Greeley has engaged quarter for tla
season ar East IIamP:on. Long Island.
1). C rornev. late of th- ir.i,:
UtiomrJe. Pas a lengihy communication
in the Jlrrald. reviewing the past career
of Senaior Cameron, and bh responsibil
ity lor- the present difficulty in ih
at Pennsylvania. Fomev sU re"
aliens to th.. -'") in which h
was arfackeJ y Cameron, were purely
of a legitimate character
Toi'kka, Kansas. July 27. Mrs. Thom
as Mauiitgly drowned herself and a ihrrr
year old child in the river here to-dy.
Domestic unhappiness the rause.
The Atchison. Topeka 4 Santa Fe Rail
road was completed to Fort Lurried to
day. Kansas Citv, July 27. James Sharpe.
who murdered John Erskine a we-k or
two since, was rakeu from the jail at
Wai relishin g. Missouri, early yesierduy
morning and hanged
CiiAKi.o-rn-:. July 27. Curl Schnra
speaks here on Monday iJgbf.
Ttie reperted oiiirages on the occasion
of Governor Harriman's speech here ure
untitle. There were no serious diatutli
auces occurred.
Chicacio. July 3t). Great interest ii
felt in poliicai circles over the election iu
Nin th (Jacolina on Thursday next. Front
the reports of special Correspondents and
other recounts, it would appear that
while both piriies are di.-poned to claim
the election, neither is over c-mfideiL and
I fie result w ill prohab. be very close.
All accounts agree thai the canvass is oni
ot unustiil warmth and that the aggre
gate vote wiil probably be many tu'on
sands larger than lor years pa-t.
The weather lliioughotit the Wet h-u
been hot for ihe pasi lew days. The 1;-t-l
crop report is favorable, showing that
the yield ot wheat wiil be fully an arer
age. while the oat crop will lie unusually
iarge. Corn promises to be as latgn t
ever know n. A
Chicauo July 2!).- The Liberal Repub
licans held their first mass meeting ot iho
campaign in ihis city this evening.
Speeches were made by Senator Trum
bull, ex Governor Ki;i"inir. Liberal can
didate for Governor ol Illirnu. and by
ex Governor Blair of Michigan, from the
stand erected iu the open air on Market
street.
Savannah. Georgia. July 3i). The riot
yesterday was occasioned by rhe continu
al attempt of negroes ro ride in the white
cars. Several negroes had Tjeen ejected
by some young men. and at 1 o'clock in
the afternoon two negroes were expelW
from the cars. The excitement increa.-,.d
reward nighr. Two thousand neuron
lined the street, and many white people
were also out. About 8o"ctoek acarw
fired intj by negroes and the white men
in ihe car returned the fire. Every car
which passed alter that was fired into.
1 he firing along rhe road became general
for about an hour, the negroes tdiootiritf
in all directions. About 11 o'clock two
ladies and two children were shot by the
rioting negroes while standing on the
steps iu fronl of their house.
Washington, July 30. A letter from
Senator Palmer to the colored citizens of
the United Slates is publishhd. Ir it writ
ten reply to a communication. Spr..kin
tor himself, he says his vole will be given
for Horace Greeley, and in giving it Lb
does not go for the Democratic par'.y. nor
is he any less a Republican; and in con
clusion he unhesitatingly advises hi col
ored lellow citizens to support Greek t
and Brown, as tine Republican unit
friends of iheir race.
Hlxtinhpon-. Pa.. July 30. The GU. If.
an old Republican journal of this plart,
lakes down the names of Grant and Wil
son and hoists these of Greeley nd
Brown.
A Times Raleigh. North Carolina, dif
patch s.ys no one expects eleciion day
to pass without bloodshed. It ia eelitiiat
ed there will be ahuudred serious aifraj
iu the State.
The Two Bayakp-s. Our Radical friend
are consantly referring to the sayings and
doings of a Bayard, w ho is trying to bring
Iiiinself into notoriety, by favurmar l;
Louisville Convention and stating thut
Ihey are the expressions of Senator Bayard
from Delaware. This is a mistake. Sena
tor Bayard supports the nominees of lh
Convention of which he was a delegate.
The S. J. Bayard, of New Jersey, we be
lieve, is entirely a different person, and
was not a delegate in the Baltimore Con
vention, and is probably an employee of
the Grant party to get up another ticket.
This Grant's only hope for re election.and
if he can find tools enough he may be suc
cessful. The renown in irouists nave been boast
ing of the economy of Grant's Adminis
tration. This has been one of 'heir trump
cards, which they have brought out in eT'
ery emergency. But the figures wliicb
the reports of ihe departments present
flatly cotitradict this claim of economy
and prove that the present Administration
has been enormously expensive. The ex
pense of ihe executive department dur
ing th- first two yearn of Grant's term
were S18 709.472. against S12.85C.220 for
the last two yejfrs of Johnson' Admit' i
tration. Here is an increase of nearly t!
millions instead of a reenc;ion.
much economv is there in that!
The Washington Chronicle (Grant's bum
organ) announces that -f ince the cloeo f
the rebellion not less thau 23.000 persooi
black and white, have been scourged ban
ished, or murdered by Ku Kfux Elans
of tba South.' Won't it cou&at tJ tak
oil cue aad call it 22 000 ?
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