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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 :
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COUNTIES.
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lleilt n
C'lackaimis
oluini.ia
I 1 x is.
t,hltr01' 7.7
nrry
lJou;;las
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Jackson
Jos'-pluru1
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l.ane
Marion 77.
Multnomah. ...7!
5i(5
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711
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:iii
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1171)
S:t.J
lu 10
lis".
411
471
1UJ
S70
37!
711
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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
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