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o G G G G GO ! G O O r O r3 O e - THE ENTERPRISE. nlcOKlTl', 0BECfl"t0CT0BER 21, 1S73. The Politicians vs. The People. The people as such in their polit ical action have ever been actuated bv a desire to promote the welfare of the country giving expression by their votes" to their honest convic tions; yet it must be evident that in many Instances so blindly have they followed party leaders as to evince thb they had ceased to think for Cthemselves aud in their blind party zeal have wrought out the very meas ures which they deprecate. In a gov c ern ment where the power is vested in " the people the idea that they (the people) are incapable of deciding as to the measures proper to be adopted rfor securing their rights of person and property, is fatal, for liepublics are founded on the theory that man is capable of self-government. This theory of government is ignored by politicians (we wish to be under stood as using the term as distin guished from statesman) as shown by their actions when they assume to enact the measures of their own devising instead of seeking to carry Cout the will of the people. Admit ting the necessity for the existence of opposing political parties in a rep resentative form of government, the love of power on the one hand and the blindness of jiarty zeal on the other therein lies the weakness of our government. Usurpations occur aniV) are either obscured or palliated by the blindness of zealots. In this connection will ajpear the indispensable necessity in order to the perpetuity of our free in stitutions that our voting popula tion come up to a gien standard of intelligence ami virtue, begetting that freedom and independence which will hold in restraint the lust for power on the part of those to whom the various oflices are committed. The time was when men sought ofiiee because of the honor thereof. They used honorable means in securing them and used the oiliee honorably when secured. Latterly men seek office because of the money therein, use money in seeking and make all "the money po.-sible out of them. Tlio tables of money changers have been set up throughout the land and fraud and peculation are rife in po litical circles. Men who live ex travagantly are growing wealthy froiu small salaries; defalcations and embezzlements ave so common as not to excite comment. These re sults follow from the actions of pol iticians who are the hirelings of ! wealthy monopolists, ho are aiming at the absolute control of the entire machinery of government. Are the peole at fault in this matter? evi dently in this, that seeing the cor ruption they have stood aloof when they have had it in their power by -active participation in political mat ters to put things in proper shape. Will the people act? Have they commenced action? Le t the setting aside of the action of conventions in California and Iowa answer. It is an emphatic affirmative Most of the very large fortunes in this country have been acquired within the past 12 years. Many of them were ob tained during the civil war when the people were so taken up wilh the Mill Lll.tSUlL'5 il.-i IU OUl illlie attention to the means employed by contractors and the men in oilice, in obtaining unjust gain. Large for tunes hare rbeen made out of the various enterprises of the Govern mcnt in measures of internal im provement. Not content with these large fortunes (many of them ill gotten) theircpossessors now seek to control the entire business cf Hie country so as to enhance their for tunes at the expense of the men of moderate moans nnd the laborer. The laborer and the men of mod erate menus are taking active meas ures by organization in their respec tive vocations with a view to resist the aggressions of aggregated cap ital. We think this oil year in poli tics as it iP called by the Republi cans is developing the fact that the masses nro bestirring themselves in their defence. This should be a busv time with those who iutend to O avail themselves of the freedom of the people: from political excitement to lay broad and deep the measures to thwart the designs of the monied aristocrats we cannot help squeezing in the frank admission that as the masses begin to move they adopt as the -basis of their action, sentiments and principles which are and have boyii prominent articles in the Dem ocratic creed. The Democratic par ty is emphatical people and more iv the pnrtv of the particularly of that portion of the people who have the independence to say to those clothed with authority thus far shall thou go and no further. 44 Fterual vigil ance is the price of liberty." New Doikie. The Ra.ls in this county last Monday wee!: thought they were playing it very smart. They got up lifteen candidates against Col. Nesmith, br.t he beat them all- Now, we want to see the fair thing done, and don't want to have fifteen candidates against our one anv more. Captain Jack was suspended onthe 3d, and Hiram Smith, of Oregon, on the 13 th, Kays a Wlla Wfdla paper. Democratic Victory! Last week we spoke of the proba ble victory of the Democratic party in Ohio at the election held Oct. 15th. We now have the cheering news that the good people of Ohio have re sponded nobly to their country's call. Old party lines were broken on the part of the Republicans, and they will not be united again until this government is wrestled from the hands of the present maladmin istration party. The lesson taught by the Democracy of that State will, if followed, lead to certain victory at all future contests. When the Democralic State Convention of Ohio met it was proposed by m some of the timid leaders to join the liberal move ment and not make any party ncmi- 1 nations, but the old Banner State Democracy who stood up so nobly during the Presidential struggles of from 1SC0 to ISoG refused to surren der their grand old party, and pro mulgated a sound Democratic plat form and chose as their standard bearer the Hon. Wm. Allen, who was one of the few members of the Lower House of Congress, in 18C0, who was not afraid to face the "ter rified" and speak his sentiments. In the Ohio election we have an endorse ment of Free Trade, State Rights and Democratic rule. Let Demo crats stay with their party organiza tion and before another four years rolls around we will have an honest administration of the affairs of our government. The Radical party see where they are drifting to, and are making desperate efforts to organize a third party. It is too late; the De mocracy were willing to meet you half way last Presidential election, but you failed to come to time; now, when the prospect of certain victory is so cheering they come proposing a third party. Away with your stumbling blocks, we want none but true and tried Democrats for our standard-bearers. The people are tired of Radical mis-rule, and will come up to our help if we only show that we have back-bone enough to maintain our party organization. Let the Rads get up a third party if they choose, and we can beat both of them. Grant on I'iiiaucc. A New York dispatch says that the New York Kveniuj Post of yesterday printed a letter from President Grant to N. A. Cowdrey of the Continental Rank, dated October Gth. The Pres ident says: "My whole object in the letter to Anthony & Clatlin was to restore confidence to the public mind, and to give assurance that the I Government will crive all the aid in ,it3 keeping in view at the same tamo the solvency of the National Treasury. I alluded to the fact that the 41,000,000 reserve notes in the Treasury would be subject to de mand, for the purpose of showing that the means az-e at hand to give the relief we promise. I do not be lieve the present pauie will work to individuals half the injury it will work general good to the country at j largo. Our monetary system is the j creation of a necessity. It lias no elasticity, but in other respects it is the best that has ever been devised. No one now distrusts the value of his jiaper dollar; on the contrary, it is seized and hoarded with the same mer times. The panic will call at tention to defects in our monetary system, nd will no tloubt, lead to legislation to relieve the want of elasticity. The panic has brought greenbacks about to a par with sil ver. I wonder that silver is not al ready coming into the market to sup plant the currency as a circulating medium, and if it does come, and 1 predict it soon will, we will have made a rapid stride towards specie payments. Currency will never go below silver after that. " The remainder of the letter is de voted to the views of the President on silver as a circulating medium, which have already been made pub lic in a recent interview. tJl.'idal Vote .f the .ate. The following is the official vote, a.-i far as reported, compared with the vote of 1S72 : T- COUNTIES. isnkor lleilt n C'lackaimis oluini.ia I 1 x is. t,hltr01' 7.7 nrry lJou;;las Ur.int Jackson Jos'-pluru1 1.1 nn 7 l.ane Marion 77. Multnomah. ...7! 5i(5 tl: 711 is.) -Sii In) H'j :iii !KM lsl 1171) S:t.J lu 10 lis". 411 471 1UJ S70 37! 711 1 r. 3U7 im llrt D'M ' ; tot lv, yjs m -'Dst 5ms i.j. 4.S yj fi!t 007 771 411 .'26 130.-) 17G SOD .:U:'"----"37:777. i ' w .7.7.7.7.7.7.7.7." 5.10 I'oik..... WaslWIlirtoii. 1 UlainiKiK... lamhilt 1C9 r2 ToU1 1SS17 1.-UC3 Jamhill Mrs. luniwav. 1 I. inn Mrs. Duniwav, 1" ' T If,,,V;vo- H. II.Mm, 1; Lovi I eland 1- The Democrats of Ohio have a m-joity of 15 in Joint Convention of the State Legislature, thereby secur ing the re-election of Senator A. G. Thurman one of the ablest men in the United States Senate. D- C Ireland, of the Astorian, has been presented with a meerschaum ' I ipe. and i consequently happy. ' The Fight iu New York. The New York Democratic State Convention, says the Examiner, which met at Utica, on the lstinst., finished its work on the succeeding Qay. The proceedings were charac terized by a spirit of fairness to wards the Liberal Reiublicans which doubtless, justifies the expectation that the Liberals of the Empire State who claimed and received Democrat ic indorsement of and support for the Cincinnati platform and ticket will, in November, make common canse with the Democracy, in which event the success of the latter cannot be doubtful. The people of New York will vote next week for Secre tary of State, Comptroller, Attorney General, Treasurer, State Engineer and Surveyor, Canal Commissioner, and State Prisoner Inspector. Al though lacking the exciting elements of an election for Governor and mem bers of the Legislature, the contest will be likely to develop sufficient of the strength of each party to fairly indicate the future political domina tion of the State. Offices to be filled are of the highest local importance, and the work of the Democratic Con vention having been well done, the only possible issue to be made is one of purely political significance. The Convention acted in entire harmony with the idea of genuine civil service reform, in nominating the most com petent men for the performance of the duties of the offices to be filled. The platform deals with none of the dead issues, but squarely presents the vital questions engaging pnblie attention. The resolutions invite the co-operations of all citizens who agree with the Democracy in the fundamental principles enueiated by Jefferson; they denounce the salary grab, and all Congressmen, Demo cratic or Republican who voted for it, or who have not renouned all share in the plunder; they denounce the President for his signature of the bill which clinched the iniquity; they denounce, as utterly unworthy the people's confidence, the Republi can party for having permitted the Credit Mobilier fraud to pass unpun ished, in which its two Vice Presi dents, more than one United States Senator, and the five Chairmen of its five chief Committees of the House of Representatives were guilty par ticipants; the two foremost defend ers of which have b?en rewarded by that party's head, one with a foreign mission, and one with the use of the Federal patronage to elect him Governor of a State; they denounce the Republican party which in New York assisted a corrupt "ring" to grap without an election all the powers of the metropolis, and when the Democratic? party ha.l o.tcI ruled them from its ranks, and united to expel them from power, itself seized the occasion to create a new and more corrupt Custom-honse 4'ring on the ruins of municipal reform; thev denounce the Pu'&ident'.s bavo net government in Louisiana, as a llagrant violation of the IVderul Con stitution; they demand revenue re form that our Castom-honse reve nues shall Le obtained from lov, and therefore productive duties on a few articles; not from high and there fore less productive on two thous and articles; that the needless bur den of a high protective tarin shall no longer be added to the necessary burdens of huge public debt; and, since the power granted to Congress in the Constitution, is limited to the collection of revenue for general uses only, a revenue tariil" which shall slop enriching one section at the expense of other sections, is de manded; they demand specie pay ments, for, in the language of the Supreme Court of the United Statts, before its bench was packed to re verse a righteous decision, an act making promises to pay paper dol lars, a legal tender, in payment of debts previously contracted is pro hibited by the Constitution ; they recognize in the Liberal Republi cans worthy coadjutors, and cordial ly invito them to unite with the Dem ocra in restoring pure government in the State and National adminis tration. The platform, in fact, declares the whole Democratic doctrine of free trade, specie payments, equal taxation, official integrity, and ac countability and public economy. It is fearless in utterly repudiating and denouncing dishonest and faith less men in its own ranks, and must challenge the thoughtful considera tion of all men of independent views. The Salem Sditesman seems jubi lant over the fact that Nesmith didn't receive as many votes in Clackamas county as were given Burnett in 1572. Let that paper rejoice over the fact that Wilson received double the number of votes in this county in 1872 that were given Hi Smith, and that Nesmith had no o"position at this election. Had his opponent been a man with sense enough to have made the canvass, a larger vote would, doubtless, have been polled for either candidate; many Demo crats remarked that it was of no nse to make any exertions as Nesmith would carry the county by one hun dred majority. The Walla Walla Statesman says: "In the election of Col. Nesmith, Oregon sends the first Granger to OongTee." Words Fitly Snokeu. The voice of the New York Dem ocracy gives no uncertain sound on the financial situation, says an ex change. The convention met in the midst of the panic, and that topic i was uppermost in the minds of all. j Along side of that great monetary ! disturbance and its consequences for weal or woe, all other topics for dis cussion or rellection were dwarfed, and midst the many crimes of the Administration party, the creation of the great financial system of hol low and inflated credit throws all else in the shadow. To denounce this, its architects and engineers, was obviously the duty of a Demo cratic Convention, meeting as that ia New York did ia the midt of a fresh ruin, the trusted favorites and agents of the Government in their own me tropolis being the first to fall and to fall the lowest. . From that duty the New York Convention did net shrink, but into the broken ranks of its ad Tersaris it marched triumphantly. The earnest words of the New York Democracy e:nnot be too often re peated, until they are engraven on the heart of every voter in tin coun try. Words fitly spoken are they, like apples of gold set in pictures of silver. They hav the ring of the glorious past, of the days of 44 Old Bullion " and the Hero of New Or leans. We demand speeie payments; for in the language of the Supreme Court before its bench wan pricked to reverse a righteous decision, an act making promise! to pay paper dol lars a legal-tender in payment of debts contracted is prohibited by the Constitution, and the coinage power conferred upon Congress is an ex plicit denial of the power to curi the people with a currency incon Tertible with coin. We demand that the fiscal policy of paper ii, ration, protective taritTs, and Government subsidies shall be abandoned to the half-civilized nations and ages of which it is a relic, because it plun ders the farmers of th: United States both ia incomes and outgoes; it hamstrings our manifold indus tries; it converts our foreign corn raerc into an unsafe speculation, and our domestic trade into a game of chance; it breeds extavagance in our hoiafsund dishonesty iu iu pub lic and private trusts; it footers cor rupt combinations of seliouul inter ests, a:d is th prime twu-e of the late financial disasters in which for tunes have bjen wrecked, ciedii de stroyed, labor deprived of employ ment and its savings of security. In the midst of these widespread calamuities and this general distress, we scout the Presidtafs Pill for Panics mor: inflation, more sub sidies, more l.lixmrig ami we point the country to thwir true rem edy and cure iu the tried and historic principles of the old Democracy, iq- plicacae throughout our National, and mumciual e. vvuicu limit and localize mo.si jealously the powers entrusted to public st rvaists; which enforce honesty and frugality in public aud private alfairs; which prescribe equal taxation for ;.ll t;id, a currency us good as gold; uiul we hold out to the finiaers of the Uni ted States the right hand of hearty fellowship in their just resistance to the exactions of monopolists, ami their just demands for these great reforms. Valedictory. After occupying, for a brief period, in a timorousjjmanner, tho tripod ed itorial of the Oregon City LNTr.nrms'z, we, with tliis issue, release our sleu der hold to the edihrr proper, Mr. A. Noltner.wLo, after nearly two onths absence, has leiurued to his home, business, aud family, in good health and fine spirits. Mr. Noltner.who Las ever been a great admirer of Oregon, has had his admiration for this coun try greatly enhanced by a visit to the States on the Atlantic rdde and of course will have a new incentive to labor for the welfare and advance ment of Oregou Lis home. The period during which we have had control of the editorial depart ment of the ExTEKriMSK has not been fraught with thrilling or excitiu" events. Though a political canvass was passed through, the elements were, in the main, moving to our lik ing, we were content to let well enough alone. Our relations with the young men of the office have been agreeable and pleasant. To the pa trons of the paper, and particularly to those of who live iu Clacka mas county, we would say stand by your local paper. 44 Long may it wave." Wo bid you a friendlv adieu. G F. li. The Public Debt on the first of October, amounted to $2,i:S)7i)o,$. During September the reduction was $1,1)01,-107, and tho coin in the Treas ury was $80,2-10,757. Later news gives us to understand that since that statement was made, the Gov ernment has found it necessary, or has made it so, to issue re-issue, we believe a large portion of the forty four millions of reserve fund so lon on hand, and so ardently sought for by speculators. The crisis came in just the time to favor their plans, and so that amount has been added to our National indebtedness. The issue of that Reserve Fund does not look much like a resumption of spe cie payment, nor like tho paying off the National Debt in a hurry. At the Vienna Exposition the N. R. R. Co. received a medal of merit for geological specimens, grains, fruit, ores, wood, fte. COURTS I OF BANCROFT LIBRARY, TrTT7-m?QTTV' CVn r. AT TTOT3WTA Summary of State News Items. Wheat is worth 00 cts. at Salem. City election in Albany, Dec. 1st. J acksonvillo has got the measles. -Wheat at St. Joe is worth 95 cents. Senator Keller Las gono to Wash ington. Wheat is worth S5 cents at Mc Jlinnville. Salem barbers have taken the early closing fever. A music store will shortly be open ed in Albany. Salem wa3 overrun last week by a gang of thieves. Senator Hippie-Mitchell has gono to the National Capital. Mr. H. Hageman has purchased the Eugene Brewery. Miles JI. Miller is doing th lo ealmg for the Uullcllu. Beef retails in Baker City from two to tix cents per pound. L. Samuel is preparing a Directo ry of Portland, for 1874. The La Grande race track is said to be the bet ou tho coast. 4Te merry" burglars still trouble the good people of Salem. A slight sprinkle of snow fell at Baker City on the loth iust. The Jacksonville Sentinel has four colum.us of Government ads. The Sentinel learns that one of the stage robbers was caught near Red ding. Gen. Miehler, Major Rotxrt's suc cessor, was a passenger ou the Joh& L. Stepheus. The Insane Asylum at East Port land ha-j received a uumber of new patients recently. An attache of the Stfttesmtm was waylaid and robbed of 6 50 in Saleui lat Saturday night. The fetivi.1 at Baker Ciiy on the 10th and 11 SH inst., ia aid of the M. E. Parsonage, uetUd o. The Portland B'tUctin. got all of its State Items " in Saturday's is sue from the Emtexi'xjse. Nathan Smith, of Yamhill countv, has been adjudged insane and sent to the East Portland Asylum. An Episcopal and a MtthodNt church villi probably le built at Ba ker City within a few mouths. On Saturday last a freight train flew the track near St. J ,', and smashed one car up pretty badly. About twenty raen are employed in ihe construction of the Fariuers' Wharf and Warehouse at A:tora. Capt. J. C. Ainsworiii, of the O. S. N. Co., has bougqt out ths Star lino of steauiers oa Pugcl Sound. TimUbii h'.uJitd dollars worth of leather was snipped from the ilcia lock tannery at Astoria last Saturday. Prof. Smith of La-fay ttte Academy has secured the tier wees of Mi.ss Mary A. liobiusou as assistant teach er. Twenty-four horses &r,J ime mules bo told at auction, November 5ln, at Fort Klamath, by Lioutuo-ut Aiiuias. The Santiam and Albany Canal Company want to let the job of dig ging the canal through the city of Albany. Captain C. Crosby, of Tumwater, who is te mporarily sojourning iu As toria, received a teeie paralytic shock Tuesday. fVven hundred and twenty fec-t (12) fathoms,) of a new tvu-iueh hawser was placed ou tho ttcaiii tug Astoria LA week. R. S. Strahan has resigned the city attornevshhi of Corviillis :ir.l Mr. McFadden has Wen appointed to fill the vacancy. Col. Joe Teal has purchased cf Mr. Muuson, ,f San Francisco, 07 head of his fine Vermont arul Wis consin Mwriao ewes. Mr. J. Hall, of Belli vumi, Marion county, has just received from Kou hu-ky five he;! of thoro-.i-rlibr.! shep. They are Cots wold breed. Circuit Court convened at La Grande lant Monday. There were twenty civil cases on the dovket aud a small amount of criminal business. The house and bam of James Hoy er, of Bout ii county, was burned on Monday night. Both were insured; suppo-ied to have bt-CTi the work of an inceneiary, as the house was ra c.tnt. At the late term of Circuit Court in Baker county, four prisoners were sent to the penitentiary for one and a half years three for receiving stolen goods, the other for larceny; two others for two years, out! for robrvery and the other for burglary. William Mclntire, a life convict in the penitentiary, last Friday re ceived his pardon after having serv ed six years of Ids term, lie was convicted and sentenced to imprison ment for life for killing Mashal Keel er, of the Dalles, sometime in lb07. Elections to Cove. During No vember elections will be held for lo cal or State officers, or portions of the Legislature, in tho States of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, Texas, Virginia and Wis consin. These elections are to be held on the first Monday and second Tuesday in November. In Massa chusetts, Mississippi, Minnesota, Texas, Wisconsin and Virginia, Gov ernors, as well as Legislatures, are to hi elected. In New York one chamber and part of the State officers are to be elected. In the other States, Legislatures and county officers in part are to be elected. New Volume. The Eugene City Guard has entered upon its Gth vol ume. Tho publisher signifies his willingness to accej)t 44back-pay". The Guard is v sound . Democratic and live paper. We wish the pub lisher the lest of success. Territorial News Items. Measles are severe at Walla Walla. The Olyiupia Seminary has 70 pu- oils in attendance. The mountain route to the Sound, through Snoqualmie. is still open. Snow fell to the depth of five inch es iu the Boise Basin on the 13th. A. S. Gould has been appointed Clerk of the Supreme Court of Utah. A large train of immigrants arrived in the Walla Walla Valley last week. The O. S. N. Co. brought down 300 tons of wheat from Wallula last week. The large sawmill at Tacoma has again resumed work after a brief sus pension. Grace Greenwood is giving read ings and entertainments in southern Colorado. The artesian well at Fort Russell, Wvoming, is now bored to the depth of 20 feet. The Utah Southern railroad will l completed to Frayo by the first of November. Brigham Young was re-elected President of the Latter-Day Saints on the tSth inst. The Wyoming women are fighting hard for two Representatives in the next Legislature. Corir.ne shipped 300,000 pounds of apples to Montana letwcen the 10th ult. and the 10th inst. A dishonest negro stole $-10 from Miss Blakesly, at the Toloeca House, Idaho Springs, the other day. A new Methodist church has been dedicated at Provo, I'tah, bv Rev. C. C. Stratton, of Salt Lake City. Mr. Kribs, a wagon maker in Taco ma. cut his knee cap very severely with a broadax, last Wednesday. About fifty sea otter pelts have been obtained this season on the ocean beach north of Gray's Harbor. A comirir has been organized, wirh a capital of 1,000.000, for the erection of smelting works at or n;-r.r Fairplay. Th city government at iZ.il t Lake has disbursed $51,40i) 57 during the past quarter, and has $l,l-i3 is the Treasury. Mrs. E. M. Morgan, of Olvmnia, 1 has been elected Enrolling Clerk in the present Legislature of Washing ton Territory. On her last trip frota "!e!i:ifjham Bay the steamer J. K. Lihhy brought to Seattle forty tuns of coal, for the town grates. It is proposed to submit the ques tion of the location of the county seat of Xlikirat coui.y to Jr.dge R. S. Grttus. Dr. Wiilard has b--n elect?! a Delegate, to the American Medical SociVtv by the Medical Society of Washington Territory A coal mine has been discovered about tifttrcu liiiles f rom Walla Walla which promises t b-e of gik-at im portance to that Si-ciioa. A f.r broke out in the liverv sta ble of .Hartwell & Co., Helena, 'L T. on the :-d isst. atid destroyed ibout $li,(U) worth of properky. Thompson & Mead, of the Pnyallup Valley, l ave gathered their crop of i hops ari.'l bio iht tlirin to Tacoma I for shipment to San Francisco. Twciit v-sevcu pairs of elk horr.s were shippt d on the bark Sumo from Tacoma to San Francisco, last week. They t:e destined for Eu rope. A delegation of chiefs of Mountain Crow Indians left Iozt-ma:i oa the 10th iust. fr Washington in ehare of Major F. D. Peas, oa a i-it to the President. The total Jay Cooke " i; Pacific and il amount advanced by Co. to the Northern s connections, inelud- ing the O. S. N. Co., trul v a gigantic sum. 19 $0, 3 lvS ,2 15, Several of the buildings put up in Tacoma for business stands, in an ticipation of the trrmiaus, etc., have recently been altered, ar.d will be. oc eupied as private residences Fred Dill returned to Idaho Ter ritorv week before last with a band of 1,300 head of Texas cattle, which lie will range in the vicinity of Suck er creek, Owyhee county. rrt. t . it j-iui itrfisrtY announces mat on Friday, the 10th inst. a vein of the richest ore yet discovered in tho Colorado Terrible lode." at George town was laid bare by a blast. Several vessels in Olympia and Shoalwater Bay, have been fined $,"0 by the U. S. Treasury Department for not surrendering their coasting licenses within three days after their expiration. The bridge uniting Olympia and Swantown was broken down on Sun day by the weight of n. drove of cat- tienpon it. About fifteen heal of cattl tie received a bath and two passed ihvir checks. in Fort Yuma used to be called the hottest place, in North America. It has len excelled this season bv Fort Mol.avo, higher up the Colorado, where for many days, the mereurv rose in the shade up to 122 degrees. There were seven Salmon Fisher ies operated on the lower Columbia the past year, employing nbont ,2.000 hands, catching, curing, canning etc. The entire value of the fish caught and shipped during the season will foot up the round sum of 8050,000. The ratio of increase in the popu lation of Washington Territory dur ing the last three years hasbeeu over 30 per cent. The Territory contains 3,127 farms, of an aggregate acreage of 102,01o- aeros, -157,123 acres of un improved lands, all valued at 83 073 -341. Recent geological surveys of the new Territories reveaJ.ed the verv important fact that the known coal deposits of the Rocky Mountain re gion extend over an area of upward of 250,000 square miles, in strata va rying from five to thirty-five feet in thickness. The JSLmtnuian says none of the Crow Indians have ever been East, and fiw have seen a greater number of white men than are around the reservation, and they imagine that most of the white men have been hostile tribes, and the few and all 1 that wero not killed fled to Montana, mhisotox, October in American and Mexican ri - G-"TLe 1 mission w; AtMtan-Claims Com. TIT . AbUINGTOX. rVtrl mission TI . 0 - 111." i t . - ULEdwa-rd -1. Hum ton to act as ITir.; , "U1U accepted the nomimi; Ue basj his Government wi IT he has asked. cnsent, which Norfolk, Va.. Oct. 10 Tl,n mon and Select Councils" of t W?" have appropriated SI t-JR t C1,tv Memphis sufferers an!l I fr the the people to make iv V romnd tributions. lntl-lual con- Ykeka, October 17 Tl. of the Modocs passed LcrS tW ing on their wa- to Vy ritory, under esc--t . r 0 Xtr -tilfcy, 6X AT? 0i manding. About 30 v,T used m transporting them Minneapolis, October 17 -C Mead, General Manager of i Northern P.vcifi. R that it is proposed to operate the road as far as Jamestown this Win! ter certainly, as the rood issuppl t d with snow fences, etr- t !.' 1 . . u wri- !. ' Y ' . point. th rnwl it l. 1 and prosecuted with vigor in te Spring. uW "VicTOKw, R. C, October 17 Loth papers are filled this mornin with reports of more discoveries f f ncn gold diggings in the Cassiar country. New Yor, Oct. lT.-The K'ors t. Johns, V 1., special announces the arrival there of the steamer Ti gress frora her search for thePokris survivors. On the 1th of Oc-tober the Tigress left IviglfU, UU o:i ,,0.ird being in good spirits mul hopeful 0f finding the object.-: of ih.-ir seaivh Omaha, October 17. Ei-ht in,-1 -s ox Know iiL've :a,;ion in V yormn cr cii.l Utah. TIk r.i to-day i.; Pacific -V-.-.1 1 train due ours late ..... . v - ili-Tair.eo b" t ... aVOSTON. October li . Rr.T.w n .. jrirazihaa Cousr.l -t this port, com mitted suicide this altr-moon by shooting himself with a pistol V KiwAi li.es, Oct, LS -Private ad-vu-es received from the Fivih-'i tJement of St. P.vre. give iufonniiti.n f ths assas.-iiiutiou of Monsein,.Ur IVvere, First Pishop of tiu.t ,li,",.t.st. Nlw Yokx, Octob.-r l;s.(;t.0).f; xraiu-is Train, who arrived only kvt we,:k from Europe, h.ivi'ig b.von.o oisgusterl v.iih the couLtry, jxditica and people, sailed away agiihi to-dar leaving, Le says, forever. sir k.nii-ui jiouiiiis c.t bcu ion 1 . -.1 1 A . - , - ,(-re .uipp.e.i ior J:eY lovii. to-ilav fi-oni London and SouthamUui. San i'liANCisco. Oct. 18.- Ihu-et's K.i 1 I - 1! ; r r-iii i:p t.u.- anvniooll i,;;t D: irrt nid not (O v.-mi it. Austin " tite f. hroi,,:l, a::J L.o'.i-h. t f ti.., ( 'idi, civ the ones who uudertook to bin t -.! .r .. 1 : curr.-iit. An in con trolied the b.V.- looi I f,l-,' They found au id.- ennv: t 1,111 l" "'-oj. meia rupiiiiy 10 the liwitu : - 1 . l wet. WA-snixoTON, October p;.T!.r daily demand for postal cards is no.v about 4s'HJ,lH. Pauis, Octoln-r A:: article ia the Journal dr-t JUfbats to-dav r -gar lis the restoration of Ravsutv as certain. Makysvillk, Oct. 17.--Ti.r. L:o:i were lurre-stc-.l on the down freiH-t t-iou 01 ir-iiig a part 01 tiic s 1 : 1 f .- gang who rhtd tV-e ': ( uiiiornia a::a Or go:i ftr, .iooe Ar.-u:iJ!tj. i.ictf.1 t r ii.il;. .1. 1. hivTiLK, Octi.-t.r-r 2i. On r.i;r.i..v afternoon, about 2 o'clock. ;t ii-ht shock of artr.tpu;ke was -At ia this phi-.-e. ru-d at -1 pouring from ti.ts higher t peak .f Mount 11 1. r. 'i'i.e smoke was -ea r.ntil l-ear dark, when the clouds s'nit down upon iLi mountain, hiding it from uov. Salt Lakf, :-f:.ber 21. fn the District Court, to-day, Viiitcd .States Attorney Carey chaliengt'd t!ie (inu.i .Jury on several grounds, .vhowihfr 'r:M-iie;k:!y t;:;;t ii:i ht tr.L' present laws a le -1 Grar.d Jury ahnot he in this Territory. Th obtained C'ourt sustaii.ed the c!iaiie:;cre urn I discharged the jurv. ;Coxcvi;d, October 21. The Ier rimae river is very high and rii:ic. The country round about Plymouth is Hooded and trains li:at slopped since yesterday. e BiFi'ALo, N. Y., October 20 First snow storm of the season io- CirY or Mexico, October 13. Via Havana. OctoKr 2'.'. 'Ihe President of the Ivojuiblic, mcnibers i.f the Cabinet and .Judges wf the Supreme Court have appi-rtivd before Congress and taks-n an oath to .vuppcrt the new Constitution. Mkmiius, (),-t. 22. The vaatlier is warm, and there is no favorhle change in the di.-easo. There were thirty yellow fever deaths i:i the vast twenty -four hours. Piirsiu iu;, Oct. 22. Rev. Morgan Dix reports the n-ceijit of aduitioiial eoatributions for Memphis. Weils, Fargo v. Co. have forwarded by Ad.in.'s Exprcs.; another 81,000 col lected on t:ie Pacific Coast. Columbia, H. C, Oct. 22. Tho Legislature, met in extra session to day. (Jov. Mos-s sent in a lengthy message. lie represents the funded debt to lo 813,(827,503; iioating debt, 85,30d,307. Washington-, Oct. 22. The Treas ury Department lias received notice that fifty thousand ounces of silver have been received at the ?dint in Philadelphia, from Chicago with a request that it be coined and return ed in half an.l quarter dollars and dimes. OiAXorj Haxhs. J. II. Upton has sold his paper, the Lafayette Courier, to J. J. Ilombrec and G. F. Dorris, and upon retiring says: "Deeming journalism incompatible with the dignity of the farmer, I take leave of the former." We wish the retiring publisher suc cess in his new role, and bespeak for the new ones the hearty support of the Democrats of Yamhill county. The Courier is the only paper "print ed" in that county and should le taken by all who desire to patronize home industry. Sooxek on Latek. Tho Lancaster Pa., Litclli'jfiict r says: The Fall elec tions, while presenting no great na tional issue, are important aud inter esting, as embracing a diversity of considerations which are shaping and moulding public opinion in dif ferent parts of the country, and si lently but powerfnlly working that revulsion of sentiment which the pres- ent prevailing party, sooner or later, must awakon. G o