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THE ENTERPRISE.
ORECO.X flTY, 0SI:G0, NOV. 7, 1ST3.
ThcKuIcrs of the Radical Partj-.
The
Tlvlical ii:irfcv is controlled
and manipulated by, and to all pur
poses, exists for the uso of three
classes, to-wit: ibeggars, gamblers
and robbers. The description of
each of these classes is a very easy
job. There are tire subsidy beggars;
the credit, or confidence, gamblers;
and the tariff robbers. This makes
up the three classics. The first carry
on their operation: entirely, and the
Beond clais largoly. through the
agencies of large incorporated mon
oplies. The third class, and a por-tion-of
the second, operate by the
means of the pretective tariff, given
to concentrated capital and to "rings''
or individuals. The late financial
panic,vhich affected the whole nation,
was produced by the "operations of
the first two of these non-producing
classes the snbsidv beggars and the
credit ramblers. At a receut meeting
of tlie western farmers the following
resolution was adopted, which is fully
justified in the face of facts as they
exist:
" The present financial troubles they (the
laboring men) readily trace to a It--pu bliean
stock-jobbing Congress, and fjeni-ral mal
feasance and misfeasance on tie part of
the K-piibliean party elsewhen. They see
that it is iniossiblf for a party which Iwis
prwn wctriMii'-ly corrupt through theiin
bridleilTfianagemerit of I he machinery and
wealth of this tfrmt n ition, and actinic
without principle, to enact and administer
laws in a manner that shall prove benefi
cial to th" great mass of workinirmen. It is
Idle to talk about what t hi' K-'publioan
party lias don-. for the country; rather
talk about what the country has clone for
that party, or its many iucmbcrs who have
acquired sudden wealth tn its service. The
country has been rosp thus, not because
of tie- it'- ublican party, but In s; ite of it."
(The prosperity of the country is in
no wise due to the Radical beggars,
gamblers and robbers, but in spite of
their' efforts to destroy its prosperity
3 and success. T5ut the recent financial
panic has had a tendency to open the
eyes of many th a very. 'important fact,
from whose perception it has hither
to been obscured, but .are now begin
ning to perceive, is that a large part
o of what has heretofore been mistaken
for prosperity, is not; prosperity at
all, but a mere fictitiouseitifiation of
nothing by a process of speculation
Or gambling. The measure of our
prosperity and its real strength lies
in the proportion which its capital
bears to its other property, the great
er this proportion is, the more the
nation can produce, atd the more it
can consume. But the system inaug
urated by the Radical? of beggary,
D gambling and robbing produce noth
ing and employ no capital of any
kind to increase the productions of a
nation. They are simply modes of
transferring products from the pro
ducers of them to the non-producers.
How is it that tho beggar, the
robber and gambler become wealthy?
It is not because there is prosperity,
but it is because the producers of
the wealth which they acquire become
poor, by being robbed of what they
0 have produced without getting an
equivalent for it. Those who say
that the country has enjoyed a time
of prosperity, only look on the side
o of the beggars,robbersand gamblers.
The reverse side, which many of our
producers aro beginning to soe to
their sorrow, tells a very different
story. Tho recent citations in the
great West show most jlainl v that
the farmers desire no moreprosperity
ofthe kind our Radical friends have
been boasting for years past, and the
beggars, gamblers and robbers are
fast meeting their deserved fate.
Rates Fixed by the Hoard r Kqnall
O zation.
The following rates of valuation of
the property described, says the
2Teir, a; fixed .by the St ate Board of
Equalization, wilI;bo fo-.md of verv
general interest. The f.otion of the
Board in the equalization of the as
sessment of agricultural lands has
been as follows: a
An addition of 2- per cent, was
made to the assessment of such lands
in Linn and Lane counties: An ad
dition of 2 per cent, in lVntrm
Clackamas, Clatsop, Columbia, Ma
rion, Polk and Yamhill: An addi
tion of 15 per cent. in Douglas, Union
Wasco and Washington: An addi
tion of 10 per cent, in A'urry, Coos
and Jackson; and an audition of live
percent, in Josephine. The lands of
the European -and OVegon Land
Company were equalized at ??1 50 per
acre in the counties of Benton, Lane
Linn, Polk and Yamhill; at .-?1 :5(J iu
Washington; and at $1 25 in the
counties of Clackamas, Marion and
Multnomah. The Western Union
and p. S. X. Co's telegraph lines
were Equalized throughout the State
at -SI' per mile. Railroads were
equalized at 5,S0:l.s.s per iuiie
throughout the State. The lands of
Wagon Rrtiid Companies were ooual-
O ze I at 1 2t per acre, except in Was
cp County, and there at JO cents per
acre. The assessment of horses was
equalized at 11 per cent, additional
in ltenton, 12 in Claciamos, 15 in
Clatsop, Josephine and lillamook,
17 in Coos, Linn and Marion, 27 in
Jackson, 2 in Curry and Wasco,
in Columbia and Unutilla, Mi in
Lane, 10 in Douglas an. I 3 in Yam
hill. Cattle at 2 per cent, in Clacka
mas, 'I in Curry and Union, 71; in
Umatilla, 13 in Marion, 15 in Yam
hill, If in Douglas, 37 in Coos, o'.)
in Lane, 43 in l'olk, 43 in Linn, and
7S in Benton; Sheep, etc., at 12 in
Yamhill, 13 in Multnomah and Wasco,
O 1J in Lane, 2i in Columbia, 25 in
Coos and Jackson, 2t in Linn, Cv) in
Marion, 78 in Tillamook: Swine at
4 per cent, in asco, 15 m Clacka
mas. 10 in Jackson, 20 .in Josephine.
40 in Colnmoia, i- in i.)ugias, 44 in
Union, 47 in Coos, 43 hv, Umatilla,
50 in Tillamook, 53 in Polk, 58 in
Lane, 07 in Washington, 70 in Ben
ton, 10S in Yamhill, 192 in Linn.
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Hoard of Equalization.
The last Democratic Legislature, in addi
tion to increasing the fees of .State and
county officials, and creating new offices
with fat salaries, made provisions lor a
"Board of Equalization," which under this
present management is about as necessary
as the " fifth wheel to a wairon." The
lJoard has been In session occasionally for
a month or so. and bo von d an occasional
newspaper squib, no one knows what they
are doing.
The above extract is from the Cor
vallis Gazette. Whether we should
attribute its statement to ignorance
or wilful and malicious lying, we
are at a loss to know. But every
reader knows that the charge therein
contained is false, and the editor of
the Gazette, if he has any sense what
pvpr wfis aware he was writing a lie
when he nenned the above. There is
not a school boy but what is wel
aware that the last legislature was
Tln.iTiV.al iv a larce maioritv. Had it
not been, the John Ilipple-Mitchel
disgrace would never have been con
summated on our State. There were,
out. of 40 members in the Lower
House, 15 Democrats and 34 Repub
licans; the Senate was a tie, there
lt'ing 12 Democrats and 12 Republi
cans. This much for the last Demo
cratic Legislature. Now, if the editor
of the Gazette knows anything at all,
he certainly must be aware of this
fact. Yet lie says the last Democratic
Legislature is responsible for the
infamous acts of its own party. This
is cither the essence of cheek, or the
most barefaced lying we have ever
seen in even a Radical paper. The
editor of the Gazette professes to be
a good christian, but ho forgets the
commandment which says "Thou
shalt not bear false witness against
it . IT t TT
my neignoor. in the commence
ment of this article, we were willing
to bo charitable enough to attribute
the assertion to ignorance, but upon
mature consideration we have con
eluded that the editor intended to
tell a barefaced lie, and we apprehend
that our readers will agree with us
iii that conclusion.
It is true that the last Legislature
did increase certain salaries and create
some new ofiices. but they did it for
the benefit of Radical officials and
not ior juemocrats. At tlie proper
A. P I" I . .
time the public will hold the party
responsible for this outrage upon
them. We believe that the salaries
of certain officers wero properly in
creased, and for this we do not pro
pose to find fault; but when the bur
dens of the tax-payers were unneces
sarily increased, the Radical party
will be held responsible, and the ed
itor of the Gazette cannot lie out ef it.
The sins of tho last Legislature are
the history of tho Radical liarty of
this State, and they will be enough
to consign it to everlasting defeat
next June. Radical editors cannot
lie out of the responsibility.
Live Stork of C)rcr-t.'i.
Table showing the number and th gross
ami average values of stock in each county
in the .State of Orr;;on, as shown by the
assessment rolls for th? voar lT.'l:
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A Termble Outkauk. Dr. (ilass
of Portland, and C. Mealy of Albany
were arrested last week on a charge
of manslaughter, in causing the
death of Miss llardman, of Albany.
It appears that the girl had been se
duced by the son of Mealv, and in
order to hide the disgrace, the father
of Mealy took the girl to this man
(lass for the purpose of nrndneino-
an abortion, for which he was to pay
him S2o0. He succeeded in his dia
bolical purpose, but it was at the
cost of the girls life. The tief
have each been held to bail in the
sum of 85,000 to appear before the
Orand Jury of Multnomah county.
W e cannot conceive any punishment
which woulu be adequate for these
parties if they are found guilty of
the charge preferred against them
and as far as we have seen the evi
dence, there appears but little doubt
of their guilt. The death penalty
would not be too severe for both the
; professional scoundrel and the man
! who put the girl into his charge.
e nope the law will be
forced upon both.
fully
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Editorial Paragraphs.
Senator Corbett and family arrived
in New York last week from Europe.
At a municipal election on the 22d
ult. the Democrats carried Baltimore
by 11,000 majority.
The repeater Bruce was sentenced
last Monday to pay a fine of $400 for
voting live times for Hiram bmith.
Ex-Governor Bibb of Ohio, died at
Rockford, Illinois, a few days since
He was Governor of Ohio near thirty
year ago.
H. B. Luce, formerly of Olympia
is to take the editorial and business
management of the Forest Grove
Independent.
A meeting of journalists is to be
held in St. Louis, Nov. 2G, for the
organization of National Press As
sociation.
A. S. Mercer is shortly to start a
paper at Albany in the interest of
the Grangers. It is to be free from
politics. We wish it success.
Postmaster Cresswell is preparing
an argument before the Next Con
gress in favor of the theiving job for
the government to purchase the tel
egraplis.
Stokes, the murderer of Jim Fiske,
has been found guilty of manslaugh
ter and sent to Sing Sing for four
years. ery little lianging in .New-
York for murder.
Radical editors say that the New-
York Sun's charges against Flax
brake arc slanders. Why do they
not give some evidence against their
truth? They can't do it.
Even the Radical papers agree that
Frank Myers deserved the Hogging
Bud Thompson gave him, but their
hatred lor Air. ihompson prompts
them to throw slurs at him.
F. Steers and seven thousand other
creditors liled a petition in the Unit
ed District Court at Philadelphia,
October 21th, for the adjudication of
Jay Cooke tfc Co., as bankrupts.
Mr. Shanks, city editor of the New
Nork Tribune, has been thrown into
jail in Brooklyn for refusing in his
examination before a grand inrv. to
give the name of the author of an
article in that paper.
Col. Nesmith leaves Portland on
the steamer to-day for Washington.
The well-known energy of Col. Nes
mith is sufficient assurance to the
peojde of Oregan that he will make a
good and faithful Representative.
-L ne Atauieai emtors who wear
pants, have secured the services of
that estimable old lady of the JVW
ytjrilncext, to malign and slander Mr.
Thompson. She is probably secure
from harm, being an " unprotected "
female
The Radical papers aro already
engaged in making the next Demo
cratic candidate for the Presidency.
They argue that the Democratic suc
cess in Ohio gives Senator Thurman
the inside track. Democrats would
desire no better man.
The Astoria), published by D. C.
Ireland, has entered its second vol
ume. Mr. Ireland makes a good lo
cal paper, and is deserving the pat
ronage of the people of Clatsop coun
ty. We w ish him that success his
efforts so richly merit.
Col. B. B. Taylor has retired from
the editorial charge of the Jlercury,
and Mr. Thompson is now sole pro-
rietor of the paper. Mr. Taylor is
a gentleman, and we regret his with-
lrawal from newspaper business.
May success attend him.
Tho San Francisco Examiner is
after Gov. Booth of that State, and
if it does not make his best friends
sick of him before ihe Legislature
meets we are sauly mistaken. His
record as Chief Executive of that
State is anything but flattering to
nm.
Ex-President Andrew Johnson was
serenaded by friends in Washington
on the evening of October 22d, on
which occasion he made a speech,
giving his views at iengui on me
condition of the country. Although
growing old, Andy has lost none of
as mental vigor or eombativcness.
The Oregon Radical papers have it
hat Senator Sherman, owing to the
Democratic success in Ohio, will be
a prominent candidate, for the Dem
ocracy for the Presidency in 187G.
Will theso Radical organs tell us
what Senator Sherman did to gain
this success to entitle him to Demo
cratic favors?
I. W. Mayfield, an old Oregon
printer, has purchased an interest in
the Spirit of the Went, published at
Walla Walla. It is a patent outside
institution, for which we have but
little sympathy. If the local pat
ronage will not sustain a paper set
up and printed at home, the concern
is not worth having.
Mr. J. W. Henderson who was
Representative in Congress from
Oregon when the increased and
back-pay bill of 1806, was passed.
Statesman.
It will bo a matter of news to the
people of Oregon to learn that Mr.
J. '. Henderson ever represented
the people of this State in Congress.
At least it is to us. Will the States
uian give us information?
A special to New York says: There
are the strongest reasons for believ
ing that there will, without much
longer delay, be a change in the
Secretaryship of the Treasury by the
retirement of Mr. Richardson. The
change would have been made dur
ing the Summer, but the President
w as unable to decide upon a succes
sor. Ex-Senator Morgan, of New
lork will probably his successor.
I"or Our Atlantic Readers.
Our friends concluded that we
told some pretty tough stories while
we were east lately, in behalf of Or
egon ; but we do not remember any
to equal the facts that we raise two
crops of pears in one season on
the
x rri, ;a ;a n e.nt lmwflvpr
same trees. This is a fact, however,
Mr. Partlow residing near Portland
has raised two full crops of Bartlett
pears this season, and the following
item from the Oregonian of last Mon
day shows that we can raise two
crops of strawberries:
The present season appears unusu
ally propitious to the production
of second crops. Only a day or two
since we noticed the fact of a sec
ond crop of pears near the city, and
now comes Mr. D. L. Prettyman
with a fine cluster cf ripe strawber
ries, the same which he deposited on
our table, and vereth that these
said strawberries grew on his farm
two and one half miles east of Port
land. Having "sampled" several of
these berries we can safely vouch
for their superior quality, size, fla
vor, etc. The same vines produced
a full crop last summer. This is
certainly a rather uncommon occur
rence. Ripe strawberries from the
vines, in the month of November,
ure not to be sneered at.
Here is another item which will as
tonish our Eastern friends, taken
from the Jacksonville Times:
Our exchanges, with a grand flour
ish of trumpets a few weeks ago an
nounced that Arthur Dennig. of Ba
ker county, had raised 1,408 bushels
of oats on fourteen acres of land.
Jackson count', however, affords an
instance that heats this yield consid
erably, enormous as it is. Mr. Ja
cob Ish, on the same number of acres
this year raised 1,493 bushels of oats
just eighty five bushels more than
Dennig, did and it wasn't an extra
ordinary year for oats either. We
would like to hear from our neigh
bors again on this subject.
And here we append a synopsis
of the report from the Agricultural
Department at Washington, which
we presume will be taken for good
authority. It gives statistics on the
products of the different States, and
Oregon holds a position high up in
figures, as compared with the rest.
Below we give the rank which Ore
gon holds in the different classes of
produce :
Wheat Oregon stands second on
ly to Minnesota. Minnesota, 100;
Oregon 107.
Corn Oregon ranks fourth in this
product, being 102, while the higher
grade is 105.
Rye Oregon is second; Nebraska
coming first at 104, while Oregon is
10:3.
Oats Oregon stands highest 110;
Also Oregon ranks first in Barley,
100; in Hay, 108; in Beans, 10,5; and
Wool 107.
Potatoes Oregon comes in the
fourth rank, being 100, while the
highest is 104, belonging to Califor
nia and Florida.
Hogs Oregon takes the third
grrdo in hogs. Nebraska lirst at 105;
Oregon stands 103.
Apples There is no verv close
competitor with our State in this
fruit. She holds the top ranic, 102.
Next in order comes California- with
88. and little Rhode Island brings it
down nearly to a point, with 28.
Peaches Oregon ahead again,
ranking 122 against tlie next highest,
California, 85.
ICmphatic Dcr.l.il.
Tho Bulletin having made the
statement that the repeater Bruce
had voted for Col. Nesmith, the Or
egonian gives the following emphatic
denial, and gives Judge Uoton the
righteous and pure man on the
bench" a slight touch:
The r.ulletin savs. moreover, that
Mrucc voted the "Democratic ticket.
We can't admit the plea of cheek on
that offense. It is pure, unadulterated.
vicious lying. .Bruce was bribed to
vote tor Hiram Smith. He has con
fessed to this, and tlie r.ulletin knows
it. Some of these (lavs and fl-efore lontr
too,) tho public will hear the whole
story as related by I nice in his volun
tary confession, ft would have heard
it lon.ir since hut for this incident to the
truth of which we are witness: when a
prominent citizen was under examina
tion in the trial of young Hruce, and
when he was relating tlie repeater's
confession as it was made to him in
person, just as he reached that part in
which hruce told who had brihed him
he was suddenly checked by his Jlon-
or, Juilge Upton, with: "ou needn't
tell the names of the person who lu ih-
d him!" We do not sav there was
iinything remarkable in "this judicial
uiiei penauon. e nave iieam ot such
tilings before on the vairue authoi-it-
f tradition aniomr attorneys., lint onV
t hing we have never been able to un
derstand : why this witness was not
allowed to tell his story in full. Surely
the course of justice' could not have
been impeded. Might it not, rather,
have been facilitated. We are conii
dent that the judicial ermine can never
shield a criminal without taking on
some stain. Why was the mouth of
tli is witness closed? Tell us that Mr.
Hulletin. If you really desire the pros
ecution and conviction of all concerned
in this nefarious business of buying
and selling "the inestimable right
you will demand that tho whole de
tective machinery of the Courts be
brought in play to ferret out and bring
t punishment the iniquitous scoun
drels who plied this boy, Druce, and
nis comrade with liquor until they
were stupefied, and then placed in
their hands tin; bribes, with which
in his hands, he voted for Hi. Smith.
If the whole truth were to be divulged
it might apjiear that after they drugged
these boys with liquor they "roiled"
them, stole the money with which the
unfortunate fellows "were bribed and
appropriated it to their own use.
Modesty of Multnomah. The
Xeirs gives the following as the Rad
ical State ticket made up by the Cus
tom House clique for June. For
Congress, J. I Caples of Multno
mah; for Governor, J. N. Dolph of
Multnomah; for Judge, W.W.Upton,
of same ; for State Printer, T. B.
Odeneal of the Bulletii Establish
ment. Rather modest for Multno
mah. Not Mitch. We have received a
copy of the Woman s Journal con
taining resolutions of a recent con
vention in Boston, with a request to
publish a portion of the same. As
we can find matter of more interest
besides more profitable to our read
ers, we must decline to conmlv
with the request.
r.nTTOTSY OF BANCROFT T.TPYRARY.
Judge Ieady's Charge to the U. JS.
Cirand Jury.
The following is an extract -from the
charge delivered to the U. S. Grand Jury
by Judge Deady, in the U. S. District Court.
Gentlemen of the Jury: ' Since the
discharge ot the last Grand Jury that
sat in this district an election has been
held herein lor a Kcprv-sentative in Con
gress.
I 11 ls publicly charged that numbers of
f 1ersons voted at such election illegally.
and that others aided, counseled, t rocured
or advised such votes to lw so iriven.
This beirifr arl election for anotfieerof
me National Government, Congress nas
me power to make such laws to secure a
fair and honest vote as mav be necessary
and convenient. Con. IT. S. Art. I. Sec. 4.
In pursuance of this power Congress en
acted Sec. 19 of the act of May M, 1S70 (lti
fttat. Hi).
l?y this section it is provided
'that if any election for Itepresentative
or Delegate in the Congress of the United
States any nerson shall knoWimdy
1. Personate ami vote, or attempt to
vote, in the name of any other person,
whether hvine. dead or fictitious -.
J. Vote inor( than once at the same
election for any candidate for the same
orlice ;
4. Vote at a place where he may not be
lawfully entitled to vote .
4. Vote without having a lawful right to
voie.
5. Do any unlawful act to secure a right
or opportunity to vote lor hnuseii or any
other ih-rson :
t. J!y lorce. thr?at. menace, intimida
tion, bribery , reward, or otftT, or promise
thereof, or otherwise unlawiully prevent
any qualified voter of ouy State ot the
United !States of America, or any Territory
thereof, Irom lreely exercising the right ol
sunrage, or by any such means muuee any
voter to rofuse to exercise such right.
7. Coniel or induce by uny such means
(se clause i) or otherwise, any oil'ieer ol
any election in such state or Territory to
receive a vote lrom any person not legally
qualilir-d or entitled to vote.
S. Interfere in any manner with any
olllcor ol said elections in the discharge oi
his duties ;
9. liy any of such means (see clause !)
or other unlawful means, induct; any otli-
cer of an election, or oilicer hose duty it
is to ascertain, announce, or declare the
result of any such election, or give or make
any certificate, document, or evidence in
relation thereto, to violate or reluse to
comply with his duty orany law regulating
the same ;
K. Knowingly and willfully receive the
vote of any person not entitled to vote, or
reluse to receive tlie vote ol any person
ent ltled to vote :
11. Aid, counsel, procure or advise any
such voter, person or oilier to any act
hereby made a crime or to omit or do an v
duty the omission of which is hereby made
a crime or attempt to do ko ;
Kvery sucli person shall be deemed guil
t v of a crime, a ml shall for such crime In
liable to i roseeution in any court of tin
United States of competent jurisdiction.
anil, on conviction thereo!, shall be pun
ished bv a line not exceeding J-VKI, or by
imprisonment for a term not exceeding
thr-'e years, or both, in the discretion of the
court, and shall pay the costs ot the pros
eeut ion."
Hy section 21 of the same act, to vote or
oir.-r to vot a ballot at. any election when
a rei res -ntative in Congress is to be chos
en, is prima lacie evidence that the person
voted or attemj ted to vote lor such rej r-
sentative. In this case, sneli would ue lie
reasonable inlereiice, in tic absence ol
any such i-rcsumption of law. from tlie
fact that no votes wire authorized to Ik
given or received for any other person
than a candidate tor representative.
The success of a Uovt rn incut based upon
universal sulfrage and frequent elections.
presupposes that the elector will give his
vote upon considerations ot public polic
and the fitness ot t he candidate lor tin
otliee to b filled, and not otherwise.
When this condition ol t hings ceases to
be the rule and voles are given or with
lieM bv reason ot " furee, rintit, meiHic.
timitlntvm, brilirru, meant, or ttffer or prom
t'-tc thrrrnf." t lie das of the Kcpublic aw
number "d. :i ml it will not be long ere it
dies in its own stench.
A representative- government., selected
ami sustained by th" Ire' and urifur
chased votes of honest and intelligent cit
izens, is prohablv the most desirable state
of civil society known to man; while on
t he ot her hand such a government, rest ing
upon and rellxting the result ol corrupt
and dishonest elections, is an organized
anarchy, more intolerabl" and unjust t ban
nnv other. It is tie- triumph ot vice over
virtue tin- means by which "evil men
bear sway."
To pr s '.rve th purity of elections, and
thereby secure the integrity of Congress,
this law has been rnacted. You have been
ciios-'ii and sworn to inquire, among other
tilings, if there has hern -any violation of
it m this district, inn cannot keep your
oaths and neglect or overlook this duty
It you find tliat any one lias voted more
than one. or in the name (r another, or
at a j lace where he was not cut it led to, or
anywhere without having a lawful right
to do so, it Is vour dut v to present him lor
trial. Anil further, if you find that anv
one has uiilttl, -innifl' tt, jtroriirctl or tulristxl
any one to do any ot t lies; unlaulul aetf
it is your duty to present such person for
trial. The persons w ho procure or aid ot h
ers to vote illegally are generally the worse
of the two, and alwavs the most dangerous
to societ y.
To bring a cas" within the 11th clause of
this section as I have subdivided if, it is
not n'cessary that the party should have
hired or bribed another to vote illegally.
It is equally a crime to counsel or advise
the commission of such an act, or in an v
way to procure or aid it. to le done.
Hut illegal votes ar seldom given inten
tionalty without a money consideration or
its equivalent being at the bottom of t he
transact ion.
The use of money in elections particu
larly in the large towns and cities is fast
becoming a dangerous evil. II not pre
vented, our elections will in eireet soon be
come what the election for an Kmperor
was in tie.' decline ot Home a sale of the
Umpire by t he mercenaries of the Preto
ria n Ciuard to the highest bidder.
The us of money in elections, besides
being In nin casus out of ten radically
wrong and corrupt. Impose in the ond a
heavy and unjust tax upon the property
and industry of th country.
liy one indirection and another, through
the acts and intluenees of those who are
elected bv t his money, t he public ire com
pelled to return it wit h interest. often an
hundred fold to the persons who furnish
ed if.
It may be said that this evil is confined
to a few great cities where ignorance, ov
erty and vice are used and abused lor po
litical urpos's by rapacious and unscru
pulous wealth.
Hut, judging from t h" statement s of t he
press and the common speech of men,
there is ground to believe, that, for some
years past the elections in port ions of t his
State, and j articularly in this city, have
heen materially Influenced it not actually
controlled by the use of money, expended
to iromote and produce illegal and dis
honest voting. So late as t he last session
(if t h( legislature, a distinguished mem
ber of that body w as reported as saying on
the floor of the House, that elections in
Portland were controlled by the purchas-d
votes of a rabble who could be bought at.
-j per head.
You, gentlemen, are supposed to repre
sent the honest, law-abiding portion of the
community, who only desire that our elec
tions should be, what t he lounders of the
commonwealth intended an authorized
process of ascertaining the unbiassed ami
honest opinion of all the voters in relation
to public men and measures.
To this end, this law has loen enacted
by Congress, and you are called hereto
aid in its enforcement by present ing all
persons for trial whom you may find
to have violated it.
Present, no person through envy, hatred,
or malice. Weigh well the evidence pro
duced before vou. I o not allow yourselves
to be made the means of accusing t he in
nocent or sett ing on loot a public prosecu
tion in aid of one side or the other of a
mere political or personal controversy.
Neither should you leave any inrson
unpresented t hrough fear, favor or affec
tion. You should be vigilant and patient
in your enquiries and let no man escape a
trial who is shoAii to have voted illegally,
or counseled or procured another to do so.
Do justlv, let the conscqueness e what
they may, and you have discharged your
duty.
Objects. The Yamliill Reporter
objects to our statement that the
Caurier is the only paper "printed"
in that county. If the "printing" of
one-half a paper in San Francisco
and the other half in Yamhill is
"printing" a paper, why there are
two "printed" in that county. Rut
as one-half the Reporter is "printed"
outside of the State, we shall insist
that the Courier is the only paper
"printed" in that county, notwith
standing the statement of the Re
pot ter to the contrary.
E. D. Towl, proprietor of Ried's
panorama of Oregon scenery, expects
to start with, that magnificent work
for the Atlantic States in a few days.
Summary of State News Items.
The Jat-ksonville 3oungsters have all
got the measles.
The Yakima crold minins excitement
is felt very extensively at the Dalles.
Supreme Court meets in Salem the
second Monday in December the 8th.
About lotj pupils aro now in attend
ance at the Albany Collegiate Insti
tute.
Charles Barret. Sr., an old resident of
Portland, died last Saturday, of apo
plexy. The Cornelius Academy is completed
and school will be opened in a few
weeks.
Alxnit 100.000 bushels of wheat have
been stored at Dayton since the first of
vugusi.
M. P. Bull has resigned the office of
Deputy District Attorney for Union
county.
There were 10.000 bushels ofwlioat
raised on the Siletz Indian Reservation
this year.
Coll. Vancleve, of the Albany Regis
ter and family have gone to Baker City
on a visit.
The Odd Fellows of Junction Citv
propose to give a ball in the course of
a few weeks.
James Williams of Douglas county,
has been sent to the penitentiary for
two years, for larceny.
Cornelius has more new babies than
any other town in Oregon, considering
the number of inhabitants.
A man named Richard M. Moore,
had his; hand sawed off by accident, in
Smith Bro.s' saw mill, Monday.
Tlie stage from Corvallis to Newport
now imikos only one trip a week leav
ing Corvallis .Monday morning
Mr. R
R. R. Thompson's steam plow
rived in Portland, and Heen for-
has art
warded to his farm in "Yamhill.
There is a woman in Yamhill county
who it is said to know what it is to He
the, mother of twenty-four children.
V F. Hill, of Fmpire City, has been
appointed ' Deputy U. S. Marshal,
and David Morse", Jr., U. S. Commis
sioner. Thos. Tieall, of Jackson county, the
past season raised .OTti bushels of wheat
on S acres of land, being 72 bushels to
the acre
Sealed proposals will be received bv
Ti. S. Dvaratthe Klamith Agency, for
the delivery of 70,HX) pounds of lirst
class neci.
A snot gun and a bed blanket were
stolen from Mr. lilnir's resilience at
Kugene last week. The thief took to
the woods.
Several gentlemen from C:diforni
and the Fust an; examining lands in
Lnno county with a view to making
large purchases.
J. Jj. Henderson, of Fmpiro City, has
been arrested on a charge ot perjury,
preferred by H. Luse, in Judge Deady 's
court at I'ortiand.
H. S. Sale, of Astoria, has received
request to furnish grasses, etc.. to
New York linn, to be transmitted as
plants through the mails
A school teacher named Rice at Rose
burg. whiptod a pupil last week, w
arrested and held to bail in the sum of
iroOO, for assault and battery.
1 lie . J-. Chronicle ot the ;0tli. savs
that the ship David Drown, of 5M).- tons
burden has been ordered to I'ortiand
to load with wheat for Cork.
Col. Saxo has ordered to this State
forty head of Krerlish and Iventm-k v-
bred Cotswold sheep. Thev will ar
rive in two or three weeks.
Win. Cosgorvc died very suddenly
near Miicm last Mimtav. a coroner s
inquest was held and the verdict was
that he died from the use of alchoholic
liquors.
lion. Daniel Clarke, who has been
ibsent for some weeks in California. at
tending the meeting of the Delegates of
the I'nciiie coast i ranges, returned to
Salem last week.
The Dalles Mountaineer learns that
a company is about to be incorporated
in that city for the purpose of building
a wagon "road through the Canvon of
Yakima Mountains.
A Teacher's Institute for Marion
county will be held fit Salem shortly.
A preliminary meeting will be held in
the Superintendent's ollice on Friday
evening, ihe 7th inst.
Captain Corno, owner of the schoon
er .M:la l.oiid, now aground at Tilla
mook Day, has moved her about half a
mile on drv land to get her out of the
way ol the breakers.
1 ho Fanners warehouse at Astoria
is to have capacity ot !K).000 bushels.
The building for which the contract
has been let, will be 132 feet front, 4"
leet deep and I( icet walls.
On Saturday. Oct. liith, at 7 A.M.. the
mercury at laker Litv stood IS degrees
below the freezing print, or 14 degrees
above zero. 1 hat would be considered
terrible weather in cbfoot.
The Register says; "The little differ
ence ot opinion on t he question ot lo
c uing t:ie .ioanv-auii ramiani v o. s
ditch has been amicably settled to the
satisfactii n of
Fanners of Yamhill county have
about all of their fall wheat sown al
ready. 'i!:ere has lieen a verv large
utimint of wheat sown some sav
about four times as much as usuallv-
II. C.rnahan, of Clatsop Plains, liar-
vests a huge crop or potatoes this fall
Nineteen hills turned out over four
bushels and a hal f N.Uurdav. and one
potatoe was weighed that brought nn
the 21i pound notch.
The proposed incorporators of the
blue Mountain University (the name
of tho institution of learning to be lo
cated at La (Itaiide) are S. O. Swhack
Iiiminer. I. Chaplin. F. A. Wallace
M. Raker, J. A. Childers.
C. C. Chandler. Fsq.. of Wimrvillo.
Maker County, lost about sixty tons of
hay by lire not long since. Dut her 15.
Ison. also lost by tire, on last Mnnd.iv
week, one hundred tons of hay in the
valley below 15akcr Citv.
Frank Starr, convicted of larceny at
the late term of the Circuit Court in
Yamhill county, and sentenced to one
year's imprisonment in the Penitentia
ry, was taken up and given in chare-e
of Superintendent Watkinds, Sunday.
The Astorian regrets exceedinlv to
hear about dull times existing in'Til
lamook county. Potatoes rot there by
the acre this season, and the settlers do
not appear to havcanvcommoditv that.
thev can realize cash "from.
The Bulletin of the 31st says: "The
steam ploWof Mr. Thompson was dis
charged from the Vesta yesterday and
mimcdiaieiy loaned on a ireightcar of
the Oregon Central Railroad for trans
portation to his farm in Yamhill coun
ty."
Shurts, the young man bound over
last week at Allmiv in the sum of
$2,000, to appear before the Orand Jurv
to answer the charge of manslaughter
in the matter of the Sweet II
edy has been released by giving bonds
L llllll illllOlllll.
A few davs
days since, as some voum?
men were running horses. John I lul-
ery, a young man living at Davton,
was thrown from his horse, and in
some way tlie horse stepped upon one
of his feet, mashing it so that amputa
tion was necessary.
James C. Parker, who was stnlilwri
by August Walters on the 3oth ult.. at
Ashland, died Monday mornincr. His
name was given as James C. Perry in
the lirst report, by mistake. Walters
was held to bail in So.OOO. in default of
which he was sent to jail.
The Oregonian says : We learn from
a an l rancisco exchancrr? that, two
more vessels are on the way from that
port bound for Portland, to carry to
Furope a load of grain. These vessels
are the Akbar, of JXH) tons burden and
the Cutwater, of tteb tons burden.
Mr. Finlavson. of Raker Citv. re
cently met with a severe loss by fire.
It liegan in his hay stack, adjoining the
stable, and 1 f f'o rc it. wmlrl c subdued
leveled both to the ground. The loss
i A 1 l.'. M 4: : 1 na tr.1.
lows: Tlie line horse "Tiger," $1,200;
hay and straw, $sn0; grain $200, stables
harness, saddles, etc., $800 or $1,000,
Making a total of over S3.000
Territorial Xews ltems
Kalama consumed two
strawberries last season tODs of
Dawnson Bros, of To.
failed for a large iZt '
m The Utah Northern is re
immense amount of freight 102 aa
Millions of prairie eld. i
found in the vlcinSy o f U
All the men in KHtiUit n '
two have gone to the
on the Yakima. goIJ "neS
J. ne road fri tc.
road from
Walla n
."u"llia 1S said to be in
bad condition.
a terriabU
The Sioux Indians are d;,--.
and subdivide into 13 )L i '1
number in all about 39,000 Z U
The Idaho World givec n '
Shanks a pretty tou-h n ,li tr.enal
ribsaboutisLiCin
policy. c1 -ndjan
The Yakima gold few v
the Tacomansf nf l a3
stares the enibr'io coSaf
in the face. '"ercul center
Two hudred dollar i.
fered by the Sherift-V tt.' v
been
of-
for the apprehension of St "J
Quite a number of iwrs,,,..
Sound, includimr n. for T.w.
are already on the way to the
J-ultima gold mines.
Over in Wyoming they predict
open winter, because tlie W
haven t laid in a day's rations, anj
the women have quit pjiintin".
Coin minis Walker arrived at Lew
ilou nisi weeic with a band of 1 qq
sheep which he had bought df ft
farmer on Wild Horse creek i!
Umatilla county. '
The movements to annex Wall.
Walla county toOrecron, and to annex
.Northern Idaho to Washington Ter
ntory, will be properly presented to
Congress at the coming session.
Corinne is to have another railroad
that is the Utah Northern is to be
extended to Corinne from Ogden
and the same is to be comidVtei
within six weeks from this time.
The Grand Lodge, I. p. 0. F. 0f
Colorado, met at Pueblo on tlie 'sth
A1; BraalfiV, cf Black Hauk
is Grand Master, and F. J. Srunton'
of Denver, Deputy Grand Muster. '
The Walla Walla Statesman savv
"Three steamers are now constantly
plying between Wallula and fVin.I
carrying down full cargoes each trii.'
-.-.r. K 1 1 . .
.ini yTL tuc-v uie unaiue to take away
pin liisi .is ii oilers.
John Hailcy, member of Con
re.ii.
sneep-raiscr, packer and miner
bought three hundred suits of o!J
military clothes at a sale orderoj W
the Government, at Fort Boise, lt
week, lie is going to give each of
his constituents a suit.
An Im;8rta:.t Letter.
On tho Gth of December, 1S72,
says the Salem Mercury, General
Can by, after having telegraphed to
Governor Grover for assistance ia
removing the Hot Creek Indians t
the Klamath Reservation, so that
they might not join the hostiles, ar..l
having referred to other matter con
nected with the subject wrote as fal
lows: "It has been well understood that
the feeling of hostility manifested hy
the Modoes for several years past
has been confined in great measures
to that part of the tribe which is un
der the influence and control of Cap
tain Jack, and the operations against
these will be prosecuted as vigoroim
ly as possible until they are destroy
ed or captured ; and alt that may be
captured irill le turned over tn the civil
authorities for trial and pxinishmer.i.
Aside from the abstract 'injustice of
making the Indians referred to in
these dispatches responsible for the
sins of others, tlie only result that
will attend tlie threatened attack up
on them will be to increase the diih
culties and probably add to the de
plorable loss of life that has alrradj
been incurred by making active -ce-
mies of those who have been and ar
still disposed to bo friendly.
b nder ordmarv circumstances thei
-vrould have been, of course, no ne
cessity for troubling your Excellen
cy; but in view of the great and nat
ural excitement in that part of ihe
country, and the possibility thst it
mar induce acts that are neither hu
mane nor wise, I have thought it not
improper to ask your aid, if yon
think it necessarv, in securing pro
tection to those Indians until they
reach some point where they can be
turned over to the custody of tho
troops.
Of course if any of these Indians
are found to have been in any way
implicated in the murders that have
been committed theu irill be turned
orer to the clril authorities for trial and
punishment. Yery Respectfully,
lour Obedient Servaut,
Ed. Ii. S. Casbt,
Brigadier General U. S. A.,
Commanding."
This letter was written with a fall
knowledge of the premises, and fud
and complete reports of the massacre
of the 27th and 30th of November.
It is a clear and definite statement of
the sttitus of the Lost River murder
ers by the highest military authority
of the United States then on tho Pa
cific Coast; and that of an officer as
skilled as any other in tlie Gov
ernment, in the learning of military
aw. The Modoc outlaws were "mur
derers." and were to be "turned oer
to the civil authorities for trial ana
junishment."
The weekly bulletin issued by the
Secretary cf the National Grange, ftt
Washington, shows that there are in
operation throughout the United
States, seven thousand and eighty
subordinate granges. There were
organized since the 1st of January
187. It is expected that the ntim-
ber oi Li-ranges oryuuiieu iuw mu-
will exceed 1,000. There are oran
ges in every State except Maine and
Delaware.
The following is a statement of the
transactions in the Land Office at Rof e
burg for the month of Octoler: Fur
cash entries embracing 31S acres;
Homestead entries embracing -
acres: 15 Final llomsestead entric.
embracing ltJO acres: lti declarator
statements filed; 4 a. C. Scrip
tions.
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