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o o o o o o o o O O O O o o G O (E!)C tUccSiln enterprise. O 'VtClXh P.VrEl: OF .21 VCKAM A S COCMV. toiEliON (TIT, OREGON, AUGUST 30,172. Q I'OR IMiKSIDRVT, HORACE GREELEY, OF NEW YOUK. I'or Vice President, f V2 a T ffc ?, i Vc fc i o.- Missouri. Irssi Jential rileetors, CJr.O. It. IIKLM, of Linn County. N. It. O.YTKS, of Wasco County. I,. P. LAXE, of Douglas Count-. o Democratic State Central Committee. T 1 1 K MEMBERS OF THE DEMOCRATIC State Central Committee of Oregon are requested to be present in person, or by proxy, at a meeting r.f a:d Committe" to be held in the City of Portland on Monday, September 2nd, 172, at 10 o'clock, a. in., at the office of Judge Page. Ii v 01 dor of the Chairman, j . A. CHAPMAN. Portland, August 10th, $72. The following are the nan.es of thcgentle ln. j a c imposing the above Committee : County. . .Multnomah Jackson ...... Douglas Coos Curry .. .Josephine . . . . . . Henton Marion Linn . Wa-hington . . . .Columbia Clatsop , Wasco Umatilla , Union Raker (Ii ant Polk Yamhill Lane . . Clackamas . . .Tillamook J. A. Chapman . . . . Renj. Raymond. . . , Aaron Ilo.se W. II. ,;lcks n Win. Tii henor A. L. Waldron. . . . J. C. Avery 11. W.Gray X. II. Cratior V- A. Bailey V. A. M usgrove. . A. Van Dusen Yie. Ticvitt M. C Paige A. C. Crarg J. I). Haines J. W. Baldwin JI. X. V. Holmes. . . J. II. Upton J. J. Walton, jr W. L. Wli'te W. II. Fauoette I i i got e d P r ej 1 1 tl i o e s . oth I". S. ( Irant (li'ts Hiram 1". (irant) candidate for President, and Henry Wilson iiiis Jeremiah Colbaith) candidate for Vice I'resi o dent on the Uadical ticket, have placed themselves upon record as beinp; men of narrow souls and bigoted prejudices. Henry Wilson was a notorious Know Nothing, while Grant, though lie may never have entered a wigwam of that order, is a Know Nothing, both in the natural and political sense of the term. Without further elab orating, we will at once produce the proof from record of their nar row prejudices against one certain class of our fellow-citizens. Be cause one single firm (Mark Brothers) was supposed to interfere with the profits of his father, who was engaged in the same business, (len. Grant issued the following order against the Jews as a class, . the wording and tenor of which exhibited hd extreme narrowness of soul : Ili:.v!(r,u;TF.i;s Thiktkkxt;! Aumv Cokps Dei wktmkxt of the Tkxxi:s.kk. Oxroitn, Mis.-;.. December 17. 1SG2. Tiik Jkw.s as a class, violating every regulation of trade established by the Treasury Department, also department eiders, are hereby expellod from the de partment within twenty tour bonis from t he receipt of this order by post com manders. They will see that .all Tins class oKirr.oH.K arc furnished with passes and required to leave, and any one re- O turning alter such notification will bo ar rested and held in confinement until an opportunity occurs of sending them out as prisoners, unless furnished with permits from the-io headquarters. No passes will be given tiiestc peoi'LK to visit foimhpmr rVr.s for tli"-purpose of uvikinj persona' xip !!''.' it l.oa fur trwle permits. O By order of Major General Grant. And Henry Wilson, in open Senate, replying to Senator Benja min of Louisiana, made the follow ing0coarse and ungenerous allusion to the same race of people : ' His bearing, the tone of his voice, his words, all gave evidence that the spark ol patriotism, if it ever existed, was extinct in his bosom; that his heart was in this loul and wicked plot to dismember the Union, to overthrow the Government of his adopted Country, which gives equality of rights even to that race that stoned the cJ'rophel-s and crucified the Redeemer of the world." The Lk),jresslonal Globe, J-lb. 22. The above documents show that both these men are fitting expon ents of the illiberal Kadieal party, O which legitimately sprung from the Tories of the old Know Noth ing party, and which is even now paving the way in public sentiment for the commencement of a relig ious crusade, so soon as it succeeds O in completely subjecting the white people, of the South. The Kadieal pap:rs have made great ado over the fact that Stan lyMatthews, temporary chairman of the Cincinnati Convention, has announced his support for Grant. The milk in the cocoa-nut has been analyzed, and it has been ascertain ed that the Government has given him a $5,000 fee in a "Distillery case." That's what's the matter with Matthews. A story is told that a prominent Grant politician ol Uugene subscribed for twen ty copien of the Day Book for gratuitous distribution among Democrats, not doubt ing but that that sheet would continue its opposition to Greeley. When the first copies came to hand he was surprised and chagrined tofind the name of Greeley and TVovvr. ns hs e-.ac'.Hatcs for President ice PresH-.cnt Evidence of Treasury frauds. Instead of going to North Caro lina and instigating the brutal ne gro population of that State to kick wide open "the bloody chasm," Secretary Boutwell had much better have staid at home and endeavored to close up the "chasms" that exists in the reports of his own Department. Notwith standing Congress has allowed the Treasury Department to tinker with old accounts, dating back to the formation of the Government, for the purpose, of covering up frauds and discrepancies, yet, in spite of ail the tinkering, fraud is written as plainly in the official re ports of the Government as villiany was ever written on the visage of a scoundrel. By the figures of its own officers, officially given and published to the world, the have been unable to conceal all the frauds perpetrated. Public atten tion has been repeatedly called to these glaring discrepancies in the Treasury accounts, which the offi cers making them have been utter ly unable to explain or refute. And recently an able writer on finance, has been looking up the treasury statement in relation to the live twentv bonds and the conversion of a portion of them into the new loan of five per cent, bonds, au thorized by the Act of July 14th, 18 70, (called the funded loan of 1881), which furnishes some rich developments, from which we gath er the following items, taken by the writer aforesaid from the offi cial reports of Treasury officers : 1872. June 1st. Five-twenties drawing interest... $1,097.1:53 1100 Five-twenties draw ing no interest 9.0(53.300 ' Five-twenties pur- cba.-ed on bids 203,733.-100 " Five - twenties re deemed on call 130.903.700 Total 302 917.700 This total represents all the five twenty bonds outstanding and re tired on account of other than the loan of 1881. Now Ictus compare this statement with the statement of the five-twenties outstanding June 30th, 1809 : IS til). June 30th. Five twenties ou's'y riding $1,002 OSlUOO 1S72. June 1st. Five-twenties re deemed and outstand ing $1.302 917.70") Leaving five twenties avail able for funded loan oflsSl ..$ 99.7 1G. 100 Thus we have the above amount available for conversion into the five per cent, bonds of the loan of 1881, as provided by Congress. But in the Boutwell statement for June 1st, 1872, we find that the whole of the $200,000,000 of the five per cent, of 18S1 had been ex changed for, or sold, to redeem the live-twenties, and that such whole amount was then incorporated in the bonded debt. This brings matters into the following predica ment : S72. June 1. Amount issued of loan o! 1S8 1 $200,000,000 " Five-twenties availa ble for said loan 99.710.100 Excess of conversion . . $100.283 900 These figures will very naturally suggest the inquiry where that $100,233,000 of the five-twenties came from which the above state ments show were necessary under the law to be retired in order to put, out the $200,000,000 of the new five per cents. If that amount of five-twenties never existed, then to whom and for what purpose was the $100,283,000 of five per cents, issued in violation of law ? An explanation from Boutwell is now in order. As one other proof, added to the score of other instances, all go ing to show that no reliance can be placed on the statements of the Treasury Department, we will re fer to the conflicting statements as to the amount of the issue of these new five per cent, bonds, at a cer tain date. On page 04 1 of the Finance Keport of 1871, the Treas urer states the issue to July 1st, 1871, to have been $00,002,230. On page r,u, of the same book, the Secretary states that the issue to the same date was $50,009,150. We will place the statements to gether : 1871. July. 1. Issue of five per cents, per Treasurer $00,002,250 1871. July 1. Issue of five per cents. per Secretary $39,009,130 Difference $ fi 933 100 With such discrepancies in the Treasury reports,, who can place any reliance whatever upon any statement from that department ? And with such discrepancies, who can doubt that frauds of the most gigantic character, and stealing of the most huge proportions, have been committed. Shrewd men nave preuicieu mat in case vireeiev I , . .. .... is elected, a sudden fire will br reaki out in the Treasury building prior to the fourth of March next. We would not be one whit surprised. A sweeping tire might destroy some verv uglv evidence of"offieial rascality, Williams for the Senate. A Washington dispatch to the St. L ouis Jicruli-ican, of August 14th, states : There is no question now but that At torney General Williams is a candidate for the United States Senate in Oregon, to succeed Corbatt, whose term expires this winter. Whatever of patronage the ad ministration has is promised to bo thrown in Williams' behalf, notwithstanding the fact that none have proved more subser vient in this direction than the sitting Sen ator Corbett. One of the Attorney Gen eral's representatives left here to day for Oregon, to make all sors of promises in Wi'liair.s' behalf, and to make the neces sary combination to elect him. The At torney General is one of those who are fearful of a change in the administration, and being a poor man as well as a saga cious polilieian. wishes to provide a place for himself beyond the reach of the next presidential election. It is thoroughly believed by sailors that rats have the sagacity to leave a sinking ship just prior to its last fatal voyage. The venera ble old political rat spoken of in the above dispatch, evinces the same kind of sagacity. Flaxbrake, at Washington, has been watching the political currents, and having become convinced that the Grant dynasty is to be swept away in November, he lias determined to ensconse himself, if possible, for six years in the Senate. This action on the part of Williams is one of the most significant straws of the campaign. How 3!itchcll, who is an aspirant, will receive this news, it is not hard to tell. But, then, a simple order from his "distinguish ed client" to retire in good order, and leave the field open for Wil liams, will have to be implicitly obeyed. I'laxbrake on 3iuSes. A telegraphic dispatch of the 22d ult., says that "some time ago Gen. Pillow, late of the Confederate armv, sent a letter to the Secretary of War, asking the value of 200 mules seized by the Union troops at Helena Arkansas. The letter was referred to Attorney General Williams, who has given an opinion holding the claim not good, the property having been seized in a State which attempted to withdraw from the Union and belonging to a party not loyal to the govern ment." The express stipulation in the Constitution of the United States that "nor shall private property be taken for the public use without just compensation," is most happily evaded by the as sumption on the part of tiiC lea rue.'! Attorney General, that the party owning the mules was not loyal, and belonged to a State that at tempted to withdraw from the Union. "What is the use of hold ing courts after this? This diction by Old Flaxbrake on the mule question shows that the whole machinery of the courts might be dispensed with, and that the solemn old ass who pronounced it, could dispense law by dispensing with the Constitution in the most rapid manner. The Multnomah Tammany. It has been recently made public by the Portland papers, that a ro u'ar little Tammany Pin exists in Multnomah county. Dr. Watkins has a 'contract with the County Commissioners as physician for the county at -75G per annum, which does not expire until December, and yet the County Commissioners, at their last meeting removed him and appointed Dr. Giltner, at a salary of -s, 200 per year, alt hough they could have employed the best physicians in the county for the stipend paid to Dr. Watkins. The secret of this move is the fact that Dr. Watkins favored Corbett as United States Senator, while Gilt ner, while pretending to favor him, was secretly working for Mitchell. The Mitchell clique of Multnomah county is patterned after Tarn many exactly. Pvery Republican that does not bow down and worship when the clique commands, is pun ished while its tools are fattened at the expense of the people. Williams or Corbett. The Republican members of the Legislature will now have to enrol themselves under the banner of one or the other of these gentlemen, who Ave now learn are both candi dates for the United States Senate. If the Republican members have the interest of the State .in view, they will vote for Corbett, who has labored faithfully in the Senate for such interests. If, however, they have the interest of a large private corporation m this State only in view, they will vote for Williams, as during the last session he was in Congress he labored almost exclu sively in behalf of the leading man f t . -.- , . Ot tli.it. enrnnrn t rnti sno-mimm- 1,;.- .. , . 1 ; ' i - time and large talents in trying to get him a $o 00,000 steamship sub sidy. We -will see, -when the Leg islature meets, just how many Republican members have been V' ked and branded. Rlanton Duncan. e have been at a loss for some time to know who and what this individual was The Chicago Tribune has iuruished s the following sketch of him, which we ac our patrons to read. U e now propose to draw a picture of Llanton Duncan durin- the war.thatDem ociats may know whaf sort ot a man he is who design.? selling them out. and that, hepublicaus may know the character of Ons silent partner in the firm of Grant, Cameron, Morton & Co. When the war broke out. Mr. Bianlon Duncan after fail ing to force his Slate Kentnckv into secession, offered Lis services to Jefferson Davis, with the expectation of receiving a nigh commission. He was made only Colonel and Aide de Camp, and after a short time resigned, and took a contract with the Treasury Department for print ing and engraving Confederate notes. His contract, after the space of six months was forfeited by the discovery that he had over issued several millions of dol lars more than he had delivered to the Treasury Department. For this he was arrested. Wealth and intluence secured his release, and he left Richmond in dis grace. He next turns up in Wilmington. X. C, as a blockade runner, owning sev eral vessels, and amassing a large amount of money ih this lucrative business. At last, however, the Confederate conscrip lion laws grew so rigorous that either Mr. Dlanton Duncan must enter into active service or give up a considerable portion of his property. lie concluded to do neither, and. getting his means into port able shape, ran through the Union block ading fleet and escaped to Nassau. whence after some time, he makes his appearance in the Northern States in time to save his immense Kentucky estates from confisca tion, which he does by showing thai he had always been a staunch Union man! This is M r. Dlanton Duncan's record, as furnished to us upon good authority. As a tire-eater, he ended in di "grace. Asa dirt-eater he ended in success. lie now once more re appears i i pubi'C life as iho manager of the sideshow to the Philadel phia Convention, wherein he propose s to sign, seal, and deliver iver to Grant such Democrats r.s he may catch with his spec ious presences. We have supplemented his circular with his record, and submit them both to honest democrats. With this loiter of credit he is at liberty to open shop at once for the sale of Democrats to (J rant. We have also been of the opinion that this person is the instrument in lie Rad ical hands to endeavor to break up the i solid column against Grant. :md the fol- ! lowi ig dispatch will substantiate cur I views on this subject : j brrn.K Mock. August 12. The fullow j ing letter was received to-day by a prom inent. Republican of tins place. J. M. Ed mund. Ihe man who sent it. is Grant's Postmaster si t Washington, and is Secre tary of the (irant Congress campaign Com mittee. His s:gnature to the letter has been compared with that to o'her letters in possessh n of persons here, and is un quesiionably genuine. The circular he incloses is a Hinted cony ol i5!antm Dun can's call for the Louisville Bourbon Con vention. The letter raid circular came inclosed in an envelope on the outside of which is printed. "l.'.-iion R.efoiui Con gressional Fxeculive Commit lee, Washing ton. D. ('.'' The letter reads ;,s foMows : Washington-. D. C. July r.0. 1n72. Dkau Sni : Please send the inclosed circular to active Democrats in your d'n trict who do not support Mr. Greeley .and will co operate in the Louisville Con ven- lion, ."-end mo a list of : uc:i men m eacn coun'y immediately. J. M. Karvryns. Secretary This loiter completely proves the chat ge that i!' Bourbon movement is managed in the I.:'o!vst ol' Grant by the Adminis tration Cunn.k'i' Co;,;mil'.cc at Washing top.. Will Dcmocr its be so in"!'.rl. 'e-t as to follow such a movcimnt Grant ? We think not. in L Frauds in Twi'.h Carolina. That Caldwell, the Radical can didate for Governor in North Car olina, obtained his majority only by the most transparent frauds, there is no earthly doubt. A Ra leigh correspondent of the Xew York Jli rul'J, of August Kuh,savs that the provision of lhe State law that the Sheriffs of the precincts and townships should publicly an nounce the votes for all candidates within a certain speeiiied time after the day of election, was not com plied with in several counties, but that such votes were withheld in order to ascertain how large ma jorities were needed, in order that they might be given. The corres pondent gives the following list of counties in which the votes said to have been cast exceeded the voting population of the counties, estab lished by the census of 1870: In Pdaden county the voting strength is put down at 2. CD;' t,(. niini!o-r of "votes actually cast is 2. ;.";. In Cumberland county the voting strength is put down at o.2.V2jthe number of votes actually rr.st is :'. 77:!. In Duplin countv the voting population is put down at 2.O.V.). the num ber of votes actually cast is a.lS.V In Franklin county lhe voting strength is put down at 2.270; the number of "votes actually cast is 3.n.;.-,. jn Halifax countv the voting strength is put d iwn at -l.-l.vi; the actual number of votes cast for Gov ernor in the late election is ,")..-,07. In this county the registered books are said to have been lost. In Lenoir county the voting strength is put down at 2.0si: the number of votes cast was 2.20 1. Iti Nash coun'y the voting s'rengh is put down at, 2.181; the number of votes cast is 2..V77. This increase is, in part however, account ed for by the recent annexation of a patt Edgecombe county to Nash. In North ampton county the voting strength is put down at 2.001: the number of votes actu ally cast is IS OS"). I Robeson county the voting strength is put down at a.ORj; the number of votes actually east is ;j.21 1. In S impson county the voting strenght is put down at 2.9SK; the vote acluallv cast is :.i:u. The following are the appointments of the M. E. Church. South, for the present year : Umatilla Disfiict To b" supplied. Walla Walla Circuit do. Powder and Grand Rondo (J. II. E. Newton. Roise and Payette Cr-f;. Curtis. Umatilla In dians to be supplied. Willamette Dis trict B. R. Baxter. P. E. Corval lis and Junction City James Kelsey. Dallas J. M. Lovell. La Faveite and Tillamook R. T. Weatherby. ' Salem and E. Port land!:. J. Do.vne. Oregon Citv To be supplied. Albany Circuit D. C. McFar land. Brownsville R. C. Oglesbv. Coast. Fork E. G. Michael. Jos. Pinery. Professor in Corvahis College ; A. E. Sears. College Agent. Jacksonville Dis trict B. R. Johnson. Jacksonville Cir cuir J. W. Stahl. Roseburg Circuit P. R. Johnson. Oakland Circuit To be sup plied (J. W. Starr.) Josephine Circuit to be supplied. Transferred to Pacific Conference W. A. Finlcy. Located by their own request It. C. 'Martin and P. F. Burch. Discontinued at their own re-quest--J. W. Starr and T. V. B. Embrec. Important tetter from Hon. Jas. II. Plater. RAILROAD MATTERS IISCCSSEO. La Graxde, Aur. 12th 1572. En. Sentinel Sir: Through the columns of your paper I desire to say a few words to the people of Eastern Oregon upon the subject of Ruil iead communication. I am fully aware of the anxiety of the people upon this subject, and ke.ow that they ars earnestly hoping that nt an early day provisions wilt be made for the construction of a railroad from Portland to Salt Lake. And right here 1 de sire to say that I have no sort of doubt but that this road will be built, and is only a que.-tion of time; but this is altogether too indefinite. The great questions are When? How soon? These questions are easily ask ed but r.re most difficult to answer. The lirst step towaid meeting the wants and necesitics of our people is the construc tion of a narrow gauge road fotim the Col umbia river to Baker City. This is the first link to be built iu the Portland, Dalles and Salt Lake road. How shad it, or can it be built ? Congress has given a right of way, but at its last session refused to give other aid. It is hoped fiat future ac tion may be more favorable and some assistance yet be secured; but this at best is uncertain and rnav entirely fail us, and in the end we niay be forced to try other means. Tins is too plainly the present outhx-k of Eastern Oregon ns regards the construction of rail roads. It is then the part of wisdom to look squarely at these matters, and n.it rest supinely upon hopes that may prove illusory. The distance by the most feasible route from the Columbia liver to Biker City can not exceed 1 In m.les. The cost of construc tion of a narrow gnaged road upon this route woidd not exee-d ?ln,Ooo per mile, or say one and a half million of dollars. Now the line of this road would pierce settlements ugiireiratinsj, at the present time, 12,ooo, and would secure the trade and support of 15,o(M more. The results can best be sug gested by reference to the well etaba-hel iai-t that the creative power of railroads is such that their construction through agricul tural districts adds to property vnbies five times the cost of their con-ti uction. The assessments of the three counties of Uma tilla, Union and Ilakcr will ablegate at present not more than three millions. Ap ply the r u'e stilted C the construct on of a road from the Columbia liver t Haker City, at a cost of one and a half million dollars, and there will be ad. led to the assessed val ues in those c 'unties the sum of seven and one-half millions. This increase will not of course come all at once, but in the course of a few years after the completion of the r oad. There is then a very great Indu -'c merit to make extraordinary effort to secure its con struction at an early day- That the road wid pay from irs completion I have u doubt. It might not if there were n') incrcasj over present resources; but it wid require at least three yea; s to construct it, and within that time, without reference to any nccch -ration by reason - f its cottruc lioti, we may reasonably calculated upon :a' percent, increase in our population, and with the impetus the coii-truction of the road would give, we will double our popula tion in less t! an live years. That U to say, by the time the road can be constructed and out in operation, if we were nov oiv to e: tcrV.pon the enterprise there would be trib utary to its support a population scarcely le-s than fifty thousand l.oople. My o'.vn convictions are that it would be jrreatcr rath er than loss, for the reason that there is a very large district f country adjacent to the line of this Haul whi'di is s'iil subject to Si ttlc nieiit. The prac' inability of the route is not questioned, ::nd that the resources of ii e country will sast lin a railroad cannot, in view of these fa. ts, be que.-tioned. And this brings us to the consideration of the means for i s construe! ion. In theolderStat.es, whenever the resour ces of a section will insure a pavimr letmn equal to running expenses and seven per cent, interest upon the cost of const uciiotu there ts 110 diilicu'.ty in securing capital. It is generally ready to seize every snei'i op portunity without delav. P,ut here the cap ital in tin main must come from abroad. Ie most of the Western St it-s where roads are being built without the aid of C vetnmcnt subsidies, the mode of seruiing the ne.tes.-ary funds is generally by voting aid by towas jiinl counties along the line In lids way fsbout ten pi-r cent is us-tally ni-ed or loan ed t the company, or the i;;t- rest on the bonds of the eaqany, are gnat anti 'd fir a given period; but here, under the form of our Slate Cor.s'i'.ufuei, we nra denied resort l(, ' "-o insirnmviitahties and are thrown upon indu.'.1"!1! enterprise a id liberality for any a:;l a I loc-w " - --"i-vl oapi its to make in.',!v-nts bere tinier siUie e nee ot local eonii ana inter C: t 1 m necssa; .i,:!,-i- d Be-i.h l.se betw ; some C n the c : must 1 uience i meat and com; 1 10:1 of the road, duri the mo-t of which time, ami por-siioy a baiger period. h ea: if.d invested will be idle, not even paving odere.-t. engage in laulc ing i a And .'.gun. men woo n.ads ai e like men in I olhrn- business thev doit lur the mo:;ev Jicy I make or peet to make. Au-i we mav as well make up our moots that whoever builds this much-n.-eded road of ours will make just as much out !' it as is possible to be made that is to sa" , will make just as much out of the peopU- as thev can. This is the history of railroads wherever they have b.--e:i built, and our experience will not be differ cut from the experience of other people. The question then is, are w-2 prepare I to put our shoulders to this work, and from our own pockets .subsidize ties roud ? Or, will we wait until lhe growth of lhe country will oiler Mich inducements that, capitalists either at home or aim) id will build tiie road with out leal did or until (' oigre-s shall become more liberal and grant (J ivernaieat aid in some form? It has been a-cerfained that Eastern cap ital can be procured to fur nish the iron and rolling stock, now cin local aid be had cuf fieunt to grade a ill lay down the ties? If this can be done we can proceed wtihoat .much d day in the const rue t ion of our road. I am not able to estimate the cot of grad ing and put ing down tha tics, but after very careful consideration I have become con vioced that it will be necessary to seen -e aid along the i : : 1 of rho road equal to S I oi),oi o; and ihat wi'b this r. mount pledged and se cured work u ight be c mimenced in b-ss than twelvemonths. Can this amount be secur ed '1 It is certainly large for lhe three cum t'es dlie.-tly upon the line oS' the road. That the contribution of this sum would in the end prove profitable by the onto neat of property values, I think: will not be question ed in view of the facts already stated ; pro vioed the road is constructed. It is certain, however, that so hu ge an amount cannot be seru'ed without great effort on the part ol the people ; nor can it be secured upon any oth er condition than the certainty ol the road being buiit. lint few would be willing to coat ri'oute in any other way than upon the cmdition that their eoutrioution was pava ble upon eotnpletiovi ot the road. If this amount was cootrib ited in land, or 111 nicy secured by mortgage upon finds, the e nti b itlons of each county to be paid when fie road should be built to a given point in such county, s these sub-idles eou'd be regarded as contingent funds that might be realized as the road progressed, the end would b'i gained, and the company have a local b isis cpon which to negotiate its bonds for funds to begin the work. To make the proposi tion as plain as possible, suppose that thiee men, A, 15 and C, living in several counties named, have each ltio acres ot land, and each proposes to co.itribute loo towards the cost ruction of tho road, to be paid when the road shall be constructed through the respective counties, and to make the com pany know that that sum will be paid, gives a mortgage up .n forty or eighty acres of their laud. This tlon becomes fixed when t'ne road is built, and the money is secured under the mortgage. These suggestions are made for the pur pose of drawing attention to, and discus sion of, the wavs 'and means to secure the building of thissecti m of road. 1 think every intelligent person will at once admit that it this be done, it will not be long until it would reach oa to Boise Citv, and from thence to Salt Lake; and finally to Portland. Let the people talk over this matter, and make up their minds as to the course they will pursue. Whether they wi.l rest upon tae uncertam t.es of Congressional action, or put their own shoulders to the wheel and make a cer tainty of an eariv completion of the roai. Jas. 11. Slaieb. Lane county puts in its claim for pos session of -the meanest woman in the State. Although rich, she charged her sister who came to see her from a distance J an d staid a week, fc-r her boa rd daring j i stav. State Items. There are no vacant houses in Salem. Senator Corbett is making a visit up tie valley. There is a natural bridge on the ruck real in Folk county. The Catholics will erect a new church at Astoria, 20x50, this season. Mis. Duniway lias got heme and taken the slump from the Grant speakers. A smart little village is spririginrr up at Drain's Station on the O. fc C. Railroad. R. J. Pengra. the Surveyor General of Oregon under Lincoln, is out for Greeley. Saddle Mountain, near Astoria, is re ported as exhibiting symptoms of volcan ic action. The Chemekafa Hotel at Sales! will probably be open on Monday, Septem ber 2nd. The Wasco county Fair commences on the 17th of September, and contiuues four days. The Jackson county Agricultural Fair will commence October 23rd, and contin ue four days. J unes Barclay was found guilty of sell ing liquor to Indians in Judge Deady s Court last Wednesday. It is slated that Jesse Applegate, the ablest original Republican in tins ttaie, is for Greeley and Drown. About seven hundred dollars in pre miums will be distributed at the Jackson county fair in October. The Odd Fellows of Silverton in Ma rion county, have receuily erected and furnished a Cue hall. The Legislative halls have been clean ed and fitted up preparatory to the meet ng of that body. An examination of the Slate Treasur er's Report shows the fuuded debt of the State to be 200.177. The two vessels FJecira and Navigator will most probably load with wheat at Portland for Liverpool. W. F. Trimble and Then. Wygant of Portland, have been appointed Notaries Public for Multnomah coun'y. The Wallowa Valley Indians are threat ening lhe settlers wiih the scalpel, etc.. but the settlers keep pouring in. Wm. Smith of Lane county, has two heii'ei calves four months old. that weigh respectively, 1213 and 420 pounds. stv iiuiiiri'i 11 is ic s or noouoes are The dogs bred Merit killed eight head of thorough- hoop no- Minto. of Mai ,n county, one mgoi last v.eeK. It Washington county has sold his famous two h Ge ed calf to a showman for $100. en. W. Ballard cf Benton county was ar es'ed last Tuesday for a f -lonious as- ault on E. A. Mi'iner. and he'd to bail. Tl icre was a case 01 srnaW pox at St. much excitement Helens lat week and was caused by it. JAerybody vaccinated. Salem is making preparations for thous ands of visitors at the coining St and for a g odly number at the tin''. Fair, .egisla- Tn C mbii coun'v the mi' all r- I'linuing oil full time with plentv of d J rs . "1 he logging business is iiourn t, 1: Four new arr'rals wore rents' ore, at the II 'el de Wat kinds at Salem last Sunday. I T."y will remain 20 years in the aggre gate. A fiae. fat deer s rayed in'o Koseburg last week. The nimrod- all ran for their guns but his deership sun. got' It a mice" and ! Tiieb .dv (,f a halfbreed Indian was ! biunu in tiii' liver at 1 ornano 1,1.-1 u eo- ne., 1-iv, Judications are that he had been murdei ed- Farmer.'? id Yamhill ennnfy pay the yield of .vheat w'ul be greater than was expected and will nearly pqual that of last year. Clark Smith of Washington coun'y. re ports having found cxten-ive deposits of stone coal about twenty two miles from Cornelius. A large band of sheep were recently purchased in Benton county, for the Vic toria market, at an average price of three dollars per head. Somebody tried to set Jacksonville on fire l ist week, but fortunately failed. Sup posed to have been an outsider trying to get his friends out of j Til. Another one of an alleged band of horse thieves infesting Sotrhern Oregon, has been arrested by Siiorilf of Jackson coun ty. His name is Criekett. The Annual Convocation of the Oregon nnd Washington MisMon of the Protestant Episcopal Church metal Portland at Trin ity Church, Thursday last. A meeting is called at Lebanon. Linn county, tor Seotember .". to take aciion in regard to obtaining a branch or switch ol the railroad to that place. To concadict the stories circulated by the (irant papers that there is but one Greolev Republican in Polk lhe llrpuhllc an publishes a list of half a dozen. Mr. J. M. M'-lviile, a Scotch emigrant aent. arrived in Oregon by the la.-d steamer. He will remain several weeks, and mike an examination of the State. Harvest is about over in Jack f on coun ty, the crops -are very poor, yielding not more than lilt eon bushel? per acre. Wheat is dull at $1 00 per bushel ; oats. 15 cts. The M Pinluinetr says that S. Ellsworth. Esq.. an old citizen of Eugene city, and one of the ablest lawyers in the Slate, has d'Oermined to make his future home at Walla Walla. The Albany J):mocrrit says : 'Large quantities of wheat aro now pouring into this market. But little has been sold and no price can really be said to have been settled upon by buyers. Petitions are being circulated all over the State for signatures, asking the Legis lature to make an apgropriation for the support and maintenance of a Board of Immigration in the State. A half-breed boy named Bain, residing at Oakland, undertook to ascertrin wheth er a gun was loaded by blowing down the barrel. The guri went ofF and Mow ed out the boy's brains. The Salem statesman says John Minto, of Salem, lately sold twenty head of sheep to Joseph Beeziey. of Wasco county, f r the good price of $21 25 per head. They were Merinos. The mail robbers were found guilty last Saturday, the jury being out but a few moments. The counsel for the rrDoner moved for a new trial, which motion ii to argued to morrow. The penapy for the o'fcniC is imprisonment for life. , , , , , , ; ior norse-sicuur.g. 10 iiuiku uiick hi diii expected to be dug out of one and a Inuf ; Wl,(kiml-S !;(,.(q.nd Thos Barber for lar aciesof ground on laqaumhay. Ceny in a dwelling house, three years in Oakland merchants are making arrange- the same place, moots to 1. -reive freight from San Fran- j scrctar Chad wick has the list of se cisco via. 1 oi lland and me ranroad. ; j .j pu..Jnip ,ui(s rn:l(le out. an,j ready Duncan M. Wilson has been appointed i to send on to the Surveyor General at Commissioner nT Deeds for the State of Washington. Maps, field notes, etc.. will Oregon, to reside in San Francisco. j be sent on with the list, that there may " . -, ! be 110 difficulty in comparing the State 1 he attempt to organize a Grant and . rt.corU:; willl ji,OSo furnished by the Gov Ui'.son Club at Portland last Saturday j enwrit s.irvevora. The list comprises evening is said to have been a failure. 1 ..or, 00a Jr,.s Telegraph wire took the stage driver's bat oft and came near, taking his head with it as he was driving rapidly ia ;t: dark between Winchester and Rosefcv-; one night last week. " Dr Belt, the physician to the pe-i'iea-, liary, Convicts, will recommend the abol i.shm"Ut of the shackle to a great degree He says its constant use is bringing tio disease on many of the prisoners. Gov. Grover has just received a peti tion with an extensive list of signers, for the pardon of one Saxe, wbo was convict ed of assault with deadly weapon in Lua county, nearly a year ago. Two men have been arrested lytha citizens of Wallowa for selling liquor ic the Indians. At last accounts the selltrs were debating whether to send tbaLi iz La Grande or bang "em to the neirest, tree. The proprietors of tLe Willamette Vj't-j!-cn Mills are having gas fixtures p . ia through the entire building. It wil over 2.000 feet of pipe to comple job. The University is to be li'uteJ the same main er. Quite .1 number of fast Lorseg cis training for the racts at tho Linn ecte'v? fair. It is said that Wm. Ten neat hisi , it in his statdes ; Mr. Ross, four ; Wm. 2u t five ; Wm. White, two ; and Mr, Baskdi of Polk county, four or five. The penitentiary at Salem had a narrow escape from fire last week. A cbandt litr containing four large lamps filled with coal oil fell, and the fi imes instantly filled the building. Prisoners smothered tb.w flames with their blankets. We have received a large fair poster for 1872, jointed by PI M. Wait, of Salem. It is the best poster ever printed in Oregon, and shows ihat Oregon is not behind any other Stale in producing fine colored printing. The fair eommenci s on the 30th of September. Mr. T. Patterson, who has the manage ment of Leonard's Balance Wrench in the East, is having great success. Arrange ments have lo-en made with the firm of Hewes and Phillips of Newark. N. J., for the manufacture of machines, and a large lot are nearly ready for delivery. The Benton Democrat says : "Most of the fall grain has been garnered, but the spring crop in many localities, is yet un cut, the cool damp weather preventing it from ripening. Very little rain has fall en in this vicinity, while over toward Ya quina heavy showers Lave been experi enced. On FrM a? l.-isf JnIcre Prim, of the 1'irst ! Judicial District, sentenced W. B. Dear i berry. Charles Wilson and Thos. J. Allen , ,- , . i : urn over 2Uti,uuo acres. j ry, ir,o;,1("., ' Wo learn that tl ie O. S. N. Co. will soon commence tl ie conMrudion of several large barges one ; pose ot carrying rauroa-t mm. rui.noi 1 savsinai ine .ompanv 1 ui.-o going us 1 build a new bridge across Mill creek.. 1 The Albany Ihmocrat says :. -C. F Barkhitrdt, Esq.. informs us lhat he lias received n order to furnish the New York City Board of Ex-change with specimen of all the different kinds of grain produced in Oregon the amount t;j consist of three bushels of each variety. He wilt semi birley.rye. pa's, wheat, and all other kinds of eoreaks-piroduced in this latitude.'7' Th" O Id Fellow's celebration at Jack sonville 0:1 lhe 10:h is spoken of in the local papers as ;i very p!eaant and inter esting occasion. T. B. Uandley. Eq ,. late of the )Vts! S:h. has gone on a sur veying tour in Nehah-m valley. The par ty will probably be absent ail summer. He probably gets a good price for his co iiract. in consideration of his services as a Radical editor. The Greeley and Brown club at Eu gene has 7") members. Following are tilt officers of the club : President. A. A. Smith ; Yie IVe.-idents. I. F. Davis. J. F. Brown. J. D. Kinsey. H. C. Owen. W. Os borne. Treasurer, T. G. Hendricks. Cor responding Secretary. C. W. Fitch ; Asst. Secretary. Frank Coleman ; Recording Secretary. G W. Kinsay ; Executive Com mittee. J. J. Walton. Jr.. Geo. Mar.-halL Dr. A. Foley. A. W. Patterson. A terrible shooting affray occurred at Dallas. Polk countv. last Saturday, be- tween A. H. Whitley and son. on one side and Gl izeaml Frank McCann 011 the other. ) The t-.iU:-invtn sams up the result as fol low;, : 'ihrce men shot ; one kil e.i : one badly Cut : one with a badly broken head, the town vor much excited ; MeCann and Glaze have. 01W informant says, beeu arrested to await the inquest 00 young Wbittloy. A Hilisboro correspondent of thff Ore uonian savs : "The Tualatin Navigation Company have let the contract for the erection of six warehouses on the Tuala tin river. One of these buildings is to be erected at the Hilisboro Landing, about a half mile south of the town. These houses are to be completed within the next ten or twelve days;so as to be ready to receive grain for shipment. These ar -rangemen's come just in the nick of time. The farmers in the Hilisboro Plain and those along the river of the South Tuala tin Plains will find a means of cheap and! ens' trans ortation for their grain. It necessitates a little farther hauling, but the reduction on tonnage will compensate' for the trouble, end in tact as it is the on ly present means of shipment other- than by wagons, from these points, the farm ers should make free use of it. Quite a number of farmers say they will com mence delivering grain as soon as tbe ' houses can be got ready. The opening ot the Oswego Canal, and also a projected canal, connecting the lake and river at Hilisboro, will insure a cheap and quick means of getting grain into market, an grain can be delivered on board of ships without further expense or unnecessary handling. "- Tut: Noutii Cakoijna Fkaud. A c!? patch f.iom North Carolina! under dafi ji 10th inst. has the following". TheCsC rctary of State is a Radical, and' '-C frauds must therefore be most app.vcXi" A report has been current here t-i evening that the Secretary of Stat: f. North Carolina would give the certif ' of election to Merriman instead of L well. on account of gross irregularis the returns from some counties repOi. -large majorities tor Caldwell. Tlieb;c quarters of the Liberal Republicans wGC thronged to learn it the report had be s-p. verified. Dispatches received from fcai eigh at a late bonr do not confirm tte statemov The Greeley Club is making extends preparations for the celebration on I'. day night. It will be celebrated V-U much enthusiasm. Wiix Stlmi' roit Greeley. The Een'C. Democrat says that lion. B F. HayCsn will stump the State for Greeley eiC: Brown. As Mr. Hayden was at Corva'i recently we presume that tbe stateiui is made on his authority. Ox A Yisrr. Gen. Geo. B. McClelv and family are on a visit to California, G O