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O i r o O Q o O 0 ..J O o O o -0 o o o 8 O O 0 vEI)c Ukekin Enterprise. OFFICIAL PAPER OF CLACKAMAS COUNTY. OREGON CITT. 0REG0, -llGlST 16. 1S72. FOR PliKSIDFNT, HORACE CREELE OF NEW YORK. O For Vice President, B. GRATZ BP Of MISSOURI. Presidential lileetors, GEO. U. HELM, of Linn County. N. II. Ci.VTES, of Wasco Connty. L. V. LAXE, of Douglas County. Democratic State Central Committee. THE MEMBERS OF THE DEMOCRATIC State Central Committee of Oregon are requested to be present in .person, or by proxy, at a meeting (if sa d Committee to be held in the City of Portland on Monday, September 2nd, "1ST 2, at 10 o'clock, a. m., at tue office of Judge Page. By order of the Chairman, J . A. CHAPMAN. Portland, August 10th, 1S72. The follow ing are the namts of the gentle men composing the above Committee : Atom?. J. A. Chapman 1'enj. HaymoiiJ Aaron Rose W. II. Jacks ,n Win. Tichenor A. L. Waldron J. C. Avery . W.Cray N IJ. Crauor F A. Bailey W. A. Musgrove A. Van Dustn Vic. Tievitt 11. C. Paie A. C. Crafg J. D. Haines J. W. Baldwin o H. NT. V. Holmes County. . .Multnomah Jackson Dou-'Ias Co s Curry . . Josephine Benton Marion Linn . Washington . . . . Columbia Clatsop W'a-co Umatilla Union Maker Grant Polk Yamhill Lane . . Clackamas . . .Tillamook J. II. Upton... J. J . Walton, jr. . W. L. White W. H. Faucet te. . A Campaign Roorback. Secretary Bout well paid out of the United States Treasury the snug .little sum of seventy-five thousand dollars, to one Pickett, for what purported to be a portion of the archives of the Confederate Government. This sum was paid with the hope of finding documents which might be used in the Presi dential campaign for electioneering, but in this, in all probability, Bout well will come out of the specula tion as poorly as he did out of that infamous syndicate of Ids. lie has undoubtedly paid seventy-five thousand dollars for a first-class mare's nest0 The Xevv York limes, tlu chief organ of Grantism in the United States, has commenced the publication of a portion of these documents pertaining to the sup posed rebel plot to burn the leading cities in the United States, and although, from those documents it finds no warrant therefor, it at tempts to implicate Horace Greeley in the plot,; This shows the straits to which that party is driven. It unscrupulously uses the people's money to buy what are supposed by many to be forged and fictitious documents for base parry purposes, and when it fails to find anvthing therein of particular benefit to its waning cause, it coolly fabricates o charges, unsupported by any writ ten evidence whatever. In fact, the idea of the Times, in charging "Old Honesty" with being a par ticipant in any plot to burn north ern cities is ludicrous in the ex treme. Now all that, perhaps, is needed "to fire the Northern heart," is for Nast, fn. Harpers Weekly, to port raj- the old man, with a flaming torch in his nand, heading a band of those " indespcnsible and uncouth Irishmen and Catholic Priests with like torches, running about the streets in their work of arsen. If this will not suffice, we surest to the Kadical journals, that they charge Greeley with burning up Chicago last fall. They- can get just exactly as good proof that he was instrumental in burning Chi . ss cago as they can that he was in any supposed rebel plot tOj to bum the northern cities during I - s the war. Ami besides, Chicago was really burned and millions of I property was destroyed. Now, what right has this old city burner, Greeley, to compete for the Presi dency with Grant, who never burned anything else than his stomach with bad whisky and fine Havana cigars, smuggled into the Kxeeutive mansion without duty paid? The idea is preposterous. We, therefore, suggest to the Times and other Radical journals, that they fight the canvass out on that line, "if it takes all summer," seeing they have got nothing else in the world with which to stay the progress of Greele who- now appears to be t: firing" not only cities, but the whole Union with an enthusiasm unpalleled in the politi cal history of the country. -Cannot Forget. The Israelite, the leading Hebrew Organ in this country, is an earnest supporter of Mr. Greeley. It cannot forget that mean special order, which stigmatized the Jews "as a class." and banished them irotu a department which Grant wanted to monopolize whol ly to hiaiselt and his coRSociato thieve?. Stealing's Under Grant. Tlie New York Tribune of the 27th ult. contains a three column list, comprising nearly a hundred cases of robbery and defalcations by office-holders under Grant. Nor is it a complete list, either, as no man is officially reckoned a defaulter until suit has been brought against him by the Government for the recovery of the stolen mon ey. The names of the several par ties are given, but the amount in all cases is not exactly known, and will, undoubtedly, greatly exceed the figures given. These figures of frauds and robberies in the several departments put up as follows: Internal Revenue. Pensions Post -Oflice Treasury State Department Department of Justice Customs Navy War ;i.'5!)2.!)5S 278.001) 212.000 90.500 500 121.000 147.000 47 c; 88:; 445.100 Total Thus, in three $3,1114.217 years, three millions of dollars have been stolen from the Treasury. While the President is off at the sea-side, the plunderers are robbing from the people, and when caught, as some of them are, they are punished in the following manner, as told by the Tribune: Reed, defaulting Postmaster at Jackson ville. Fla.. was merely dismissed from of fice ; he is the fon ot a Governor; Edwins, convicted of embezzlement in the Treas ury Department, has been pardoned by the President alter a. few months' eonfine ment : Hulburd was re-appointed Con troller of t he Currency while he was on trial for taking bribes, and on conviction he was merely requested to resign ; Rrit ton. defaulting United Suites Marshal in Arkansas, al'ier defrauding the Govern ment of S121.O0O. was dismissed and rein stated ; Palfrey. Ogden "and Merrick, dis honest -Custom officers, were simply re moved. And so with others. A change in the Administration is not only politic, when viewed from ever" conceivable stand-point, but it is an absolute necessity, in order to prevent such wholesale plunder of the people's money. William S. Ciroesljeck Declares For Greeley. Hi: ITtEFERS ASXrRF.I) KKFOKM AM) RKCOXCU. I.l'noX TO A CONTINUANCE Ob' TUB PRESENT ADM INISTKATIOX. The Hon. Vv". S. Groesbeck has written the following letter, defining his position in the Presidential campaign. It is ad dressed to the lion. Amos G. Thompson and General Robert Brinkerhotf. chairmen of the State committees of Ohio : Gentlemen : I have your note, inviting me to prohle at a mass meeting of Demo crats and Liberal Republicans, which will be held at Coin tubus oti the 3t)th instant, to ratify the nominations best suited to heal all animosities and restore good-will between all sections of our country and all our people I differ in politics with Mr. Greeiey. who was not my choice, but he has been chosen, and with extraordin ary unamity. and is now before us as the oniy representative of roconci.iaiion. and is under pledges for important reform. His great ability, courage, and patriotism art: unquestioned, and it he is selected we have good reason to believe we will get reconciliation and reform. If lie is defeat ed, we already know we will not get them, but the Administration now closing will be repealed. It should not be repeated, nor should we make it an example for im i'atiou by the endorsement of a re-election. As a soldier General Grant has been just ly distinguished. His war services were great, and should be acknowledged by all. i hey have been, and ever generously ac knowledged, and we shall never forget them. Hut he is not suited for the Civil Magistracy, and we should allow his Ad ministration to close with the pending term. I intended to write at more length and more in detail, but what I have alref.dy said is a fair reply to your note. Thanking you for your flattering invita tion, I ai!t, very respectfully. W. S. Cito.sr.nc-i. V'uo Cakuieo The News. The Suns Washington correspondent, telling how Union secrets were made known to the Confederates, says : "When the rebellion was in its early stage, no less a person than General Thomas Jordan, of Cuban notoriety, but then a rebel officer made an arrangement wlih the noioriou Mrs. G reenhow. who was afterward arrested. whereby she was to forward to the head quarters of the Southern army such facts as would be important for them to know. Mrs. (J reenhow proceeded to becom iiti mate with the Hon. Henry Wilson, then chairman of the Military Committee. This she. confessedly accomplished, and the Hon. Henry was so thoroughly manipula ted that, every plan and projected move ment, was known by her. The design of the advance of the troops to the battle of Hull Rim was got by her from him before the fact, and forwarded to the rebel head quarters through the agcucv of Tom I Hewitt."' A new Republican paper is projected at lVj;,in Ci,y- :ike u hot- Tony. Dento Democrat. Let 'em come. But this item is news to the people of this sec tion. The first heard of this pro ject was from the Oreyonian, and we have been anxiously looking for the individual who has this "project" in view. A Change. The Dallas lltjnib Ilcein, heretofore a Grant orau, has taken down his name and hoist ed Greeley and Brown. 1. C. Sullivan, Esq., is to be the editor of the paper in the futuie. He will do effective service for the people's candidates. Air. S. has heretofore been a strong and consistent Re publican. State Cextual Committee. A call for a meeting of the Demo cratic State Centrat Committer is published to-day. The meeting i to take place at Portland on the 2d of September. Let there be a full representation present. The Difference. The old Satyr that expelled the traveler from his care, because he blowed on his benumbed fingers to warm them, and in his mulled wine to cool it, lor the reason that he would have nothing to do with a man that blowed hot and cold at the same time, would have much jrreater" occasion for anger at the Radical journalists of to-day than at the poor benumbed traveler, who, unfortunely for his own com fort, blowed once too often. The modern Radical newspaper writers are thorough adepts at this trick of blowing hot and cold with the same breath, and at no time have they showed their adeptibility at performing this trick at better ad vantage than during the present Presidential canvass. Addressing Democrats, they will say, " How can you vote for Greeley, tvho is now, as he always has been, a dyed-in-the-wool Republican?" And then, addressing Republicans, they will say, "How can you vote for Greeley,who has gone, body, boots, old hat, and all over to the Demo crats?" We have lately felt like asking them to be somewhat con sistent in their statements, but after reflecting that consistency is a thing they never followed, either in as sertions or exemplified in practice, we have quietly forborn. In re spect to such charges, however,they have infinitely the advantage over us. We cannot, with any show of truth whatever, say of Grant that he is either tiiis or that, for the people all understand, that, so far as political opinions are concerned, he is a mere nonentity. All that we can assert with truth (which Democratic papers rigidly adhere to) is, that Grant is a wooden-head, without any opinions whatever. Greeley holds opinions, and may therefore change them. Grant don't have any, and there fore can't change. That is the difference. ic Tidal Wave. The Greeley wave is sweeping over Wiseonr-in with irresistible force. The Milwaukee JV ir.9 says : From every di rection intelligence is being received of a general stampede from the Administra tion party, not merely of the rank and file, but of those who have been promin ent organizers and leaders even. Old Rock, t he banner Republican count of the Slate, is feeling the effect of the ad vancing tide, and the Republican ranks are becoming broken and decimated to an extent that is realty alarming to the office-holding Administration men. In the northwestern counties 1he acquisitions to the L'beral ranks are numbered by thous ands, while along the lake shore, north of Milwaukee, the stampede is equally great. A letter from Sheboygan county states that Gen. Conrad Krez. one of the alternate delegates to the Philadelphia Convention, has resigned his position on Guv. Washbnrne's staff and espoused ihe Liberal Democratic cause. Cuny Jnoge Gilman. Mayor El well ex-State Prise n Commissioner. Edward Megraw. and hun dreds of other Republicans, are out, for Greeley. The correspondent writes that it is no longer a defection, it is a stamp ede in the countv. which will trive a larg- or majority for Greeley, than it lias t ver ixiven for any candidate before. He says he does not know of a single German Re publican who will vote for Grant. News similar to the above is being received from Manitowoc and other Lake Shore counties. Wisconsin can be set down for Greeley by not less than 5.000 majority. - "Lliithusiasm of the While Republicans. Frcm the X. Y. Day-Hook. So far. all the enthusiasm is confined to the White or so-called Liberal Republi cans. The Grant or Black Republicans proper are as stolid and silent as their own chief, and seem incapable of enthu siasm or excitement of any kind. But the White Republicans, the crowd following the old white hat. as their banner, are all alive and ready for the fray. After all. it is the enthusiasm that tells, and in the present abnormal and anarchical condi tion of the American mind, anything be comes possible, and it is quite on the cards that Greeley will carry the day. Thing- cannot be worse, and may be bet tor ; indeed anything, monarch'. Czarism. wore better than Mongrelistn, propped up by bayonets under Grant. The Reward of Merit. The one "bright particular star'" of the War De partment appears to have been Mr. .John Potts, for thirteen years its chief cleik. but now gathered to his fathers. "He was a perfectly incorruptible man," says Secretary Belknap, in a biographical no tice of the deceased. '-He disbursed mil lions without an error.'" During the war he undertook delicate and important du ties, and always ably. Yet. says an ex change, he lived &nddiei a clerk. Fitted tor the highest stations and the irravesl i esjiousibilities ; trusted when others were suspected ; clean handed when some were plundering arid others deceiving the Depai itni'iii-as in the French arms busi ness this man of sterling integrity was fixed to h's clerkship during i te. and his only reward is an empty panegyric, now that he is gone. Stkange. It is remarkable to see what a bad man Horace Gree ley has become since lie has re ceived the nomination at Baltimore in the estimation of the Grantites. It is but a few week since he was regarded as the purest and best anions the Radicals. The Atchison (Kansas) Patr'iol says : There is more of a stampede going on in Kansas from the Republican party than any other State in the Union. There is no doubt that Southern Kansas will go for Greett y and Brown. If the northern j part of the State does half so well. Grant j ill be beaten by ten thousand majority." How Grant Re-elects Himself. THE GOVERNMENT OFFICIATE AND DEPART MENTS TCIINEI) INTO EEKCrrONEEUINO A CHIXKS "BUT. NO MATTEIV IT IS ONLY THE PEOPLE W HO PA Y t'OIt IT ! From the Washington Patriot. The following officers of the Govern ment are now abseut from their duties : Hon. U. S. Grant. President. Hon. Mr. Boutwell. Secretary of the Treasury. Hon. "Mr. Robeson, Secretary of the Navy. Hon. Mr. Delano, Secretary of the Inte rior. Hon. Mr. Creswell. Postmaster General. General Baker. Commissioner of Pen sions. Hon. E. B. French. Second Auditor. Hon. Allen Rutherford, Third Auditor. Hon. J. Martin. Sixth Auditor. Besides a large number of clerks de tailed to do election duty in Maine. North Carolina, and Georgia. The Pennsylvania Republican Associa tion are occupying the room of the Com mittee on Mili!aryfTiirs in the Capitol, and. with several clerks detailed from the Departments, are sending out documents in favor of the re-election of General Grant. To further this object they are diligently engaged in -imitating' the names of Senators and Representatives, in order to -frank'' their documents through the United States Post. Oflice. Some of the documents franked. are the New York Times of June 12. containing the proceed' inirs of the Philadelphia Convention. i.bout 50.000 copies of them have been and are being sent every d iv ; and during the last week 50.000 copies of the Bingham ton. (N. Y.) Jimrruil have been folded and put in envelopes, and are now being franked. ATnong the franks most used are those of Hon. John A. Logan. Senator Harlan. J. C. Piatt. Z. Chandler, and many others. Most of these are franked by ladies. The person in charge of the document room of the Grant headquarters is a clerk in the Treasury Department, and who draws his pav monfhlv as such c'eik In the Land Office. Mr. Lines, acieik is daily franking documents to Ohio-; this seems to bo his fmly occupation, and in the Pension Oflice Mr. Harding is doing the same thing. A large number of clerks are writing editor ials (such as they are) for country sheets, which are sent under frank to all parts of the United States, and. last, though not least, (as we before noticed.) Major Stan ton. Paymaster United States Army, is de tailed as assistant edi or of an Adminis t rat ion paper. The business of the Pen sion Office is entirely neglected, and dur ing the last week. General B iker. Com rnissioner of Pensions has been with his superior. Secretary Delano, electioneer ing in North Carolina, and during the course of this week intends to go to Min nesota to speak in behalf of his - Ring Master Grunt."'" An nppropi iat ion o f s.jt,': 000 was obtained during the last winter from Congress by Genera! Baker, and out of this bind, c dled '-special service." is supposed to come the expenses of the Commissioner. A NelJe "Position. The Gulden -b? estimates that over sev en hundred papers are either owned cr edited by office-holders, or supported in part by Government patronage. Even the poor little St'i'alttd in New York eiry drew most of it.; support from the Cus torn House, ami died the day after that full udder was taken away from its hun gry mouth. 'Ihe people did not care for its S"cond -hand opinions, and did not be lieve its fiction, and refused to give it support; and when Grant's Own. the Times, retnsed to divide the Government spiis v.i'h it- any longer and ins.sted that i' should be cut oTilie pen-ion roll, it sank to rise no more. That is the way the Grata Administrator tries to manufac ture public opinion. bi tin- oilier hand, this is (he way Mr. Greeley frowns upon and snubs all effort!, to erea'e a tieliii ;is public sentiment . the Liberal side. When asked to give his intl'ience in sop port id" a new Liberal p iper in Washing ton. I c replied as follows: Trihntif olli'je. July 17. I decline decidedly to ask my friends to lurnish money to sustain a newspaper in Washington. F do not con sider this a legitimate political expend iture. If the people will noi. snopori newspapers that bivor my clectjoii, thoy must get along without tio'in as feey may. Horace Greeiey."' This is u noble posi tion, and a step toward a much needed reform. A subsidized press is one of the woist curses that can fail upon a country: and when a leader of .i great party bold ly retnses to sanction the support of an unneeded organ in his own in'erest. and trusts his cause to the advocacy of such journals as an honest and intelli gent public will support, it shows that a new era in our political life has dawned. Preparing for the Fight. The Washington Patriot says : "A full meeting of the Democratic Congressional Executive Committee was held at the Cap itol. July 12th. lion. Samuel J.Randall, who was recently elected Chairman of the Pennsylvania Democratic State C inmit tee. resigned his position as Chairman of this Committee, and Gen. II. W. S!o cum. of New York was chosen to fill the vacancy. The Committee was visited during the session by Messrs. Casseriy. Heck, Marshall.tml other prominent Dem ocrats. A conference took place bit ween this Committee and that of the Liberal Republicans, headed by Senator Fenton. Preparations were made for the imme diate publication of documents for distri bution, and a resolution passed asking the Chairman of the Democratic Central Committee of each Slate and of each county in all the States to forward at once the names and Post oflk-o address o! the members of iheir respective commit tees, for the purpose of en aiding the Co:i gressional Committee to forward docu ments to them for distribution. On July '20ih. a second meeting of the Democratic Congressional Executive Com mittee was held at the Capitol. Present : General II. W. Siocum. M. C. Chairm-ui of the Executive Committee, ami Senator Ca-serly, Chairman of the Joint Congres sional Committee, with the working stuff of the Executive Committee. Arrange ments were considered and some of them concluded for the printing and circulation o! documents on the most extensive scale. Ax Imperfect Memory. The New York Kcpres proposes to be charitable totbe President and attribute to his im perfect memory the denial by him of the truth of the statement m ule by Senator Schurz. Imperfection o i memory is some times a convenient plea urged to escape the charge of deliberate falsehood But admitting the plea, will not the American people seriously pause before they again intrust, the high "oflice of President to one who first publicly denies what is subse quently proven to" be true. and h then pcr mitted'to escape the unpleasant dilemma in which he is placed by the charitable assumption that his memory is imperfect and not to be depended upon? It is about time tha' we should have a states man, and not an imbecile, at the bead of public affairs. A Southeren editor promises with his wife's assistance, to name a baby each year after the person who shall furnish the largest club if suscribers to his paper ORtSSSBSSt State Items. The Wasco county corn crop is fine. Senator Kelly arrived at Portland last Wednesday. Old u-heat is bringing 70 cents per bushel in Salem. The Washington county Fair begins on the 14th of October. Governor Grover is recovering from his recent attack of illness. Salem has not yet got the Chief Enain eer question settled. The railroad depot at St Joseph will be completed this week. The name of the Wtsfside has been changed to the Yamhill Importer. The Rosebnrg land oflice disposed of 23 0S2 acres of land in July. Forty thousand acres of swamp lands have been located in Coos county. General Lane is robust and healthy. He is over 70 years of age. The Phillips family, of Lane county, have all recovered from the small pox." A m;n nam,ed W. F. Mansfield came 1 near dying at Salem .vhile on a drunk. The stampede from the old town of Oakland to the new site, continues. A festive Dalles party recently ascend ed to the topmost top of Mount Hood. Col. Ber. Stark lias presented Trinity Church with a 2.000 pound bell. Jackson county expects to make a con siderable quantity of wine this year. It is said that Walter MofTif, of Port land, is going to build a 1.500 ton bark. Hon. B. R. Riddle, of Corvallis. an orig inal Republican, h is come out for Gree Icy. The oldest Republican in Lane county has come out for Greeley George Mar shall. Business at Canyon City this year is very dull. The mines are gradually fail ing Dalles Fife Department has elected F. Dehm. Chief Engineer and N. W. Wallace Assistant. The Salem Statesman is informed that there are two cases of small-pox at St. Helens. The Baker City Academy which wa burned down some months ago, is nearly rebuilt. The Oregon &.. California Railroad is completed to a point within five miles of Roseburg. The Fair Ground is being thoroughly overhauled in anticipation of the coming State Fair. The residence of Mr. Smith war the Dalles, was totally destroyed by fire last Wednesday. Five hundred thousand brick have been used in the first slory th e new court house at Salem. Fred Ilanuon. of Linn county, is held to answer for obtaining money under false pretences. Farmers of Washington county refuse to take 55 cents for wheat delivered at stations. Be.i Head is making a good paper out of the Benton Deaiocrat . Give hiiu a lib eral support. A Greeley and Brown Club has been organized at Eugene city, composed of old Republicans. Hon. J. D. Fay returned fiornSan Fran cisco this week. He is stopping at Asto ria for a few day s. Snug pulling is in operation on the Willamette river at Bower's bar, a few miles below Corvaii is. Indian Superintendent Odeneal was at Canyon City, on the (Ith. and started on the 7th for Camp Harney. The deaf mute school will reopen in Salem on September l-o. under the .super intendence of Prof. Smith. Tfios. Ceroy was sentenced to four years in the peni'.einiary from Yamhiil county for highway robbery. M.-ssrs. Beard 4Cc Co. have erected a warehouse at Tangent. Linn county .which wi!' hold (to. 0O0 bushels of grain. ' Wostey Graves lias leaded theChemeke ta Hotel. Mr. G. is an experienced land lord and will keep a good house. A miner at Auburn. Baker coun'y. the other day jacked up a nugget of gold weighing forty-five ounces. L. White ,y Co.. wholesale dealers of Portland, have removed their quarters to Nos 1) and II Front street. (.has. Roebuck was sentenced Thursday at Portland, to three years in the Peniten tiary, for pei jury. East Portland is getting excited now about the location of the bridge to be built across the Willamette. Members of the M. E. Annual Confer ence, and their wives will be carried by the O. & C. R R. at reduced rates. The Eugene Jimrnal says that wheat dealers are not disposed to offer more than fifty cents for wheat at that place. A two legged calf is the wonder in Washington county. The owner contem plates exhibiting him at the State Fair. Bishop Morris will add seven new teach ers to the various schools established by him in Oregon and Washington Territory. W. L. Adams, a leading Rejiublican of this State, anil Lincoln's Collector of Cus toms at Astoria. has come out for Greeley. Colonel Joe Teal bought fOO head of sheep from Martyn Payne, of Linn coun ty. They are of the Cotswold and Merino breed. R. II. Tyson, late of the Dallas PrpJ,!;. i can. has gone to Roseburg and will revive the E&hjn. under the name of the Panla frnph . Willowa valley, lying east of Grande RonuV. Union county, has been taken pos session of by whites and about one hund red homesteads located. A little child of Mr. Christian, nged IS months, residing in Union county, was poisoned l is- week by di inking a quanti ty of concentrated lye. The ITrroid pronounce! the report that ?.!r. W. II. Newell, one of the best, news paper men on the coast, was about to buy that japer, as false. Dr. C. C Strong. f Portland, has been anjiointed as physician to the Home of the Friendless under the auspices of the Ladies" Relief Society. Judge Trvin. livirg on Beaver about 14 rni'es trom Corvallis fell from the roof of his lam breaking several libs and re ceiving other severe injuries. Mr. P. Shul'.e of the Oregon Deutsche Zrfhm.j. is making in examination of the southern part of Oregon, with a riew to planting German settlers there. W. L Iliggin's has been appointed Su perintendent of Construction of the United States Postofiice and Custom House at Portland, vice E. St. John, resigned. A Umatilla farmer, who is also a warm supporter of Old Honesty." has raised a beef weighing five and three quarter pound: and a radish weighing two and a half pounds. Information is wanted of John McCol lingan. whose mother resides in Lockport. N. Y. He can get some important inform ation by writing to the postmaster at Jacksonville. Oregon. The Statesman rays : The large building now in course oreonsrucston by the Sis ters ff Chartly. and to be used as a school building when completed is to have a Fpire fifty feet in height, finished at the top with a large cross. It will be one of the most conspicuous buildings in the citv. ztsassz The Farmer says : "The farmers who are hauling their wheat to market, report that the yield for the present harvest runs from 25 to 37 bushels per acre for fall wheat, and averages belter than in 1871. The spring grown grain yields less, but is .still better than last year. The Statesman says : '"The Chemeketa Hotel has been leased af last to a comre tent hotel-keeper. Mr. Bush will start for San Francisco immediately, we are in formed, for the purpose of purchasing fur niture, etc. It will be in readiness before the Legislature convenes, so our private families need not fear being compelled to take boarders, during the Legislature or State Fair. The Dallas Republican says : "The woods around town are on fire in several places and we learn that the families of B. F. Nichols and S. Coad. while out on a ber rying excursion, were compelled to aban don camp and leave all their . provisions: and equipments behind them in order to escape being overtaken by the fire. Par ties camping out should be careful how they set out fire." William Hill, of McMinnville, on Mon day last, in company with his wife and children. while ou their way to the Grande Ronde Reservation, came near perishing by the burning woods with which they were surrounded He managed to make his way (o a creek. where"he family were Compelled lo remain two days. The wind changed, w hich gave the family an oppor tunity to make th'eir escape. An act of Congress provides that col leges which have capacity to educate 150 students may have a department of mili tary sciences under charge of an officer of the army. President Gatcfi. of Willam ette University, will ask that Lieutenant. Fred. Sehwatka. now of the Fifth Cavaliy s'ationed on the North Platte, may be de tailed to act as such Professor fit Military Science at that j.laee. The number of in stitutions so favored is limited to twenty. The Mountain Seutlnel (La Grande.) says : "It is reported that David Henry one of the financially ho ivy men of this valley is reported to have been killed by if e Indians somewhere between Boise and Salt Lake, while in charge of a band ot Texan cattle. The report is believed by his most intimate liiends. but from whence the report emanated we could not learn. John Creighton and young Tom B tird were in company with him." The Oreaonian says : Two boxes of what was supposed to be rich copper ore. were brought to this city by trie last steam er from Sitka. One of the boxes was sent below to be assayed, and i fie other was snbmi ted to Mr. J. H. Fisk. of this city. to havr its contents tested. After a thorough examination ol the ore Mr. risk informs us that it Jiroves to be the richest copper bearing ore yet discovered on the coast being 'lit er cent, copper. 20 per cent, lead and also contains seven dollars silver per ton. The fire engine recently bought for Corvallis is the old Momum-mul. brought to San Francisco in IS50 and used for ov er fifteen years in that city. She got the name of "man killer" there, on account of running down Clay street several times on her own responsibility and killing per sons. The juice paid for her was $2,000. If' our Corvaliis friends expect to use her much they had better imjort more men. for the entile jxqmlation of that place can't "work her ' nfteen minutes. She is an elephant. We know the machine of old. A Palpable Fraud. From the facts communicated to us by Judge Hardy, wiio has juet returned from the Atlantic Stales, says the San Francis co llc-imiiwr. we are convinced that the announced result of the election in North Carolina was and is a palpable fraud. Through the central part of the State, the ballot-boxes were in the hands of white :-ien. and in those counties where the white men had control of the polls, the Conservatives were triumphant. Away from the railroads and telegrajdi lines in sparely settled counties. Ihe ballot boxes were under the control of negroes, and from those counties immense majorities were reported for the Republicans. To-a man of fair judgment the fraudu lent character of the result announced must be apjiarent when it is considered that in every county where the result was first made known the Conservatives gain ed largely, while in every county where the result was held back the Radicals made extraordinary gains. The Conser vatives announced their vote in -ill instan ces without delay. The Radicals waited to see bow many votes tbey would need. It was known in the office of the Mis souri licpubhcan n$ early as the 2d of Au gust that messengers had been sent, trom Raleigh to the western counties of North Carolina to endeavor to swefl the majori ties, and that Sena' or Pool refused to sanction the fraud. This manly honesty cost him the Legislature and secured us a United States Senator who will truly rep resent the voting jiopnlation of that State. If Pool had joined the swindlers we should not. have had the Legislature. As it is. the election will be contested, and as a conservative Legislature is to juiss ujion the frauds perpetrated, we have an assurance of a fair and honest deciioii. The evidence of fraud in Rockingham and two other counties will be conclusive and even honest Radicals will refuse to accept the returns from those counties. At the East the facts are understood, and the result is hailed with actual triumph. We retain our Congressional representa tion and gain a Senator of the United States. Well done, North Carolina! A Gkekley Cia-jj. One hun dred and seventy-five printers, in S;in Francisco, signed the call for the organization of a Greeley Club in that city. In their call, they sav : ml Horace Gueei.ev has always nobly stood by the Printers in iheir efforts to ad vance ihe soci.'d and pecuniary interests of the Craft, and now that we have a chance to repay in a measure our debt of graiit tide to a fellow pi inter who hastiseu from the Case' to Ins present exalted jiosttion. it Is hoped that every member of the Craft v.ili cheerfully respond. Will Canvass. Hon. Jas. II. Slater, member of Congress, will stamp the State for Greeley and Brown. Mr. Slater is one of the ablest speakers on this coast, and we predict that he will make it warm for the " Bread-and-Butter Brigade" attached to Grant. The. late duty on cotton goods, now re duced about 10 per cent, was laid when cotton was selling at 70 cents per pound, and then amounted to a protection of 40 per cent. At present prices it is equiva lent to a protection of 150 per cent. And yet. even under all this stimulous. the New England manufacturers have never leen able to lake up an annual million of bales, and muslins are so high that half the ne gro field-hands who pick cotton have not a shirt to their backs ! Political News. The Winchester (Ohio) Timis has da- seated Grant and flies the Greeley flag. Judge W. J. Groo. one of the most prom inent temperance advocates In New York has announced himself for Dr. Greeley. Magttmist. Democratic candidate for Delegate to Cori ress, frcni Montana, is elected by an Immense majority. The Union, published at Grand Haven, Michigan, and a Grant organ heretofore has signified its intention to support Gree- ley. The Hon. E. P. Wheeler, Grant elector of the Orange and Sullivan district, of New York, declared for Greelejr and Brown. The New Orleans Picayune, which op--posed Greeley even after his nomination at Baltimore, has finally hoisted the Lil eral fl g. Hendricks, it is thought by shrewd and well informed politicians of that Slat will be elected Governor of Indiana by 30.000 majority. Fifty Republicans in South Bend. Ind , the home of Schuyler Colfax, are in oppo sition to the Ge'ena tanyard bore and Presidential ho rse-j o c k ey . A late attempt to get. up an enthusiastic Grant meeting in San Francisco, is report ed by a Grant organ in that city.as havino1 resulted in a miserable failure. The Auburn Xccs says a voe taken in the manufacturing establishments nt Hartford, resulted in 290 for Horace, and G for Ulysses. How high is that? Orvil Grant, arrived in Portsmouth, Ohio recently, lie roamed around thi city inquiring for the best cigars, and was verv anxious to bet $15,000 on Hiram's election. A call for a meeting o form the St. Paul (Minn.) Greeley and Brown Clab. on the 23d of July, received over 400 signatures, equally divided between Re publicans and Democrats. Hiram Green. Esq. on "What 1 know abount conundrums:" "To what age will future hisforiars ascribe the downfall of Grantism. nepotism, and scalawagism ? This 'age of Chappaqua." Judge Charles T. Sherman of Cleve land. Ohio, b-other of Gen. Win. T.. and of Senator John Sherman, writes to a Re publican friend in Mansfield. Ohio, advis ing him to work and vote for Greeley. Ex senator George E. Pugh is out for Greeley. lie will stump Ohio, and will shake up the dry bones of the Grant corruptionists in a way that will draw howls of dismay from the officeholders. The Democrats and Liberals of Arkan sas are united and working together har moniously, while the Radicals are quarrel ing and divided. Greeley's majority in that State will be from 20,000 to 30.000. Dr. II. C. Fessenden, brother of the late Senator Fessenden. and a prominent Republican, pronounces for Greeley and Brown, and was one of the officers at a ratification uyeetHMr at East port. Me.. A letter received in San Francisco from Jack Balltnger, Esq.. who is considered to hnow whereof he sjieaks. from the Lore Star State, asserts that Greeley and Brown will carry Texas in November by -iO.OOf. Mr. George Vf. Walker of Jefferson, Texas, writing to- the President of the New York Manufacturing Company says: "Everybody here for Greeley and Brown. This State them.' will give 50.000- majority fi ? The Cincinnati Enquirer says : "If $75. 000 were paid to Grant's friend Badeau, perhaps the stolen 'archives.' which con stitute the history of the war on this side of Mason and Dixon's line, might be turned in." The campaign in Missouri is progress ing very encouragingly. Liberal Rejuibli- cans nre forming clubs all over the Stair. Pi Minnea jiolis five hundred llejmbiicatis have signed a call for a Greeley club. Only five hundred more. Uucle Hoiace! The merchant prince of New York. A T. Stew.-irt. gives an evidence of his desire of see Grant defeated. lie has sect a check $25,000 to Hon. Eathan Allen to ",e used to aid in the election if Greley and Brown, and authorized that gentleman to draw ok him for $75,000 more should it be needed. The Democratic State Conren tion of Georgia met at Atlanta, on the 24th of July, and renominated Gov. Smith b" ac clamation. The platform of 1870 was adopted with an additional resolution in dorsing Baltimore and Greeley and Brown. The Liberal Republicans, in Convention at the same jdace. agreed to support the Democratic Greeley Election ticket. The delegates to the National Labor Convention held a meeting in New York ci'y last Tuesday. After a stormy session they adjourned, deciding to hold an other convention at Philadelphia some time next month to nominate candidates for the Presidency and Vice-Presidency. The President. Secretary . and others of the National Executive bolted from th party and announced themselves in favor of Greeley and Brown. Pkoscku'tive The Hartford Evening Post, the same journal in which a large interest was lately purchased by Gov. J well, in order to convert it into a Grant organ, gives notice that the Hon. Francis Kernan cannot be a candidate for Gov ernor ol New York because he is a Cathu olic! Gov. Jewell, we believe, has also been identified wi;b the movement to change the Constitution of the United State so as to obliterate the principle o universal religious toleration which now forms one of iis foundations. As yet.how ever.that movement has not been siicc-ss-ftil. and neither in the Constitution of the Union nor in that of New York is it laid flown that a man who professes any par ticular religious belief is thereby disqual ified frora election lo office. We presume that the Gram men will be q-uiteas-unsuccessful in proscribing any class of unbe lievers or believers as they have- been the application of their unconstitutional Ku-Klux and bayonet election laws. Francis Kernan is a sincere Catholic, and he is an able, high-minded, nprigfe' stmesman. who will administer with fidel ity, impartiality, and dignity any ofSce to which he may be assigned. Means Business. The Boston Post says: "The rapid formation of Greeley clubs, by Liberal Republicans, shows the tone of public sentiment. In all the New Eng land town3 these associations are being organized, and with a zeal (bat astonishes Uucle Horace's opponents. In the prin cipal cities and villages in Connecticut, New Hampshire and Maine the Republi can friends of Greeley and Brown are combining for a work which will aston ish confident Administration men in No vember. This action of the reformers means business business by the people, for the people.''