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o O O o V THE ENTERPRISE. OREGON CITT, OREGON, SOV. 21, 1S73. The Dead Democracy. For the past ten or twelvo years, we have been constantly amused af ter each successive defeat of the faithful few who cou aid not do sway- ed from their faith, that the good old Democratic party was dead, wond resurrection, lint it appears now that its opponent Radicalism -has finally met its fall an.l wilted before the early frosts of the North west. Radical editors and speakers have suns and preached the obituary of the Democratic party, but the ominous sounds which como to us from the recent elections have proved that all these predictions, were pre mature, and the party which set it self up as the slayer of the Democ racy, has received the fatal stab, and is fast'going into past history. We rr do not wish to be understood as say ing that the Radical party is dead; not by any means. It will give the people one more and final tet of its strength in 1876, when iw over whelming defeat will cause its death. But in the meantime, corruption, and money, may give it an occasion al victory. But we did not start out in this article to preach the funeral of the Radical party, but to show that all its obituaries of the Democ racy have been premature. The echoes of the past month front every State where elections were held, should certainly convince the most sceptic that the Democratic pirty is a most healthy "corpse," and if it has been dead, it has risen with such energy as is seldom afforded in the resurrection of dead parties. The suicidal and ill-advised course of the leaders of the Democratic par ty at different times for the past twelve years has had its evil effects upon the masses of the organization and at times almost discouraged the voting elements of the? party. The presidential elections were a mere farce. At no time since 1SG0 have the Democracy had a ticket in the field which met their hearty support, , and the last year's campaign result ing (as every sensible man knew it would) in the defeat of Mr. Greeley, left the Democratic party completely demoralized and depressed. This fact none can or will deny. The party had fallen from its lofty posi tion, and having reached the turn ing point where it saw its own folly, reorganized its scattered fortes and now presents itself in a clear and open field before the enemy of the people. The party which gave to our governmeut its federative sys tem, through which we had become such a great natkm, and ieceived the admiration of the civilized world, has sprung from its repeated defeats like an unconquered giant, more powerful than ever before. While many of the leaders of the Democracy became ungrateful and turned upon the party when, defeat came, it has had the beneficial result of separating the true friends and foes and showing who were the traitors and renegades in tho camp of the faithful. When the loaders' treachery became apparent, the- mass es were stung to the quick, but they Lavo rallied with an enthusiasm which does honor to the Old Viuard. They have now united as one man and re-affirmed their national char acter and asserted their distinct party organization. They are now turned "with a determination upon their foes vhich, will insure future' success. These conclusions are justified by the results achieved during the past month, and who dare say the De mocracy is "dead." As an exchange truthfully says, "turn your eyes to Ohio and witness a triumph equiva lent to a gain' of 50,000. Is the De mocracy dead there? Look at Indi ana, the. home of Morton, and figure upctheimmense gains there. Is the Democracy dead in that State? Turn to distant Oregon, where the Demo cratic star is refulgently in the as cendant, and there is no "dead De mocracy" there. In Iowa, hereto fore deemedPan impregnable Radical stronghold, and even in Pennsylva nia, despite the ponderous influence of Cameron and Hartranft," the party has vindicated its ancient name and famo in heavy gains. Nowhere is the party dead. In the ensuing December election Texas will devel op a Democratic majority of twenty thousand," while New York h.w giv en a handsoome Democratic majori ty, which gave last year 50,000 for the Radical candidate. Behold the result in Wisconsin! She has heretofore given from 20,000 to 23,000 Radical majority. Now sho rolls up 15,000 majority for the Democratic ticket. California has cut off from the Administration, and her majorities will hereafter be counted on the side oi the uemocra cy. No, the Democracy is not dead. It cannot die except with the fall and death of our Republican form of government in which it had its ori gin and with which it is co-existent. Those who desert the party and pro claim Qts death will in due txyie find that they have committed political suicide and dug their own graves. Time, the corrector of all things, wiU a last a11 "Snt if the De mocracy will only ht true to to it- - 6ejf. Let Democrats take courage. ' Their cause is just and must at last prevail. G O O o. v. 1:5 1 A County 3fatter. Since the levy of the tax has been made by the County Court, wo hear considerable said in regard to the increase of tax, and some political demagogues are endeavoring to cre ate the impression that our present County Court is extravagant and reckless with the people's money. At no time has there "been a more rigid economy practiced than by the present Board of Commissioners. When they took charge of the coun ty business, there was a sad lack of many actual necessities, and the bridges were either in a bad state of repair or entirely gone. This de ficit the present Board has supplied, and we have many monuments of their expenditures all over the coun ty, while its predecessors left noth ing to show what they did with the peeple's money. The main expend iture during the past year has leen in building the Clackamas bridge. The loss of this bridge is entirely at tributable to the neglect of proper care by the former Board, and hence is chargeabie to the Republicans who were at that time in power. This bridge has cost the county more than the increased tax amounts to. Last year and year before, the coun ty levies were 7 mills on the dollar: this year it is ten mills for county purposes. The one mill increase for school purposes is the work of the last Radical Legislature, and our County Board is in no wise re sponsible for it. The Clackamas bridge was a county, and we may say, a State necessity, and hence we con sider that the County Court did but its duty in getting a good permanent bridge across that stream. It is a great convenience to a wery large portion of our county, and to our city especially is it beneficial. In this expenditure the Board did its duty and the people will not com plain when they understand for what purpose the money has been expend ed. The increase of tax for county purposes is 2 mills. This is cer tainly a small amount when we take into consideration what has been done by the Commissioners. Be sides, the tax is now less than in most of the other counties. In Marion where they have many less bridges to build or roads to make than this, the levy is 13 mills, and in other counties it ranges from 9 to 12 mills on the dollar for county purposes. Our county is about the average. By a sort of manipulation of figures by the Radicals as they went out of power, our county was reported to the people out of debt, when the truth of the matter was that it was in debt over $-1,000, and while it was that much in debt, county orders were worth only nine ty cents on the dollar. This they are worth to-day. The necessary expenses to which the present Board have been subject ed for repair and building bridges and other purchases we here append, to show that the other incidental ex penses of the Board have not equal led any of its predecessors. Besides this, the present Board has had to pay the expenses of three elections within the past eighteen months, amount to $2,000. Here are the ex traordinary expenses: For Cou n t v Map $ 208 OTt Repair of Jail l 00 County safe for Treasurer 7:V'00 Upper Clackamas Bridge 1,7:10 00 Repair oT Wright Bridge 400 00 Dridge on Clear Creek.' 22-3 00 Repair of Good 1 .ridge 15 Mill Creek Bridge 1,017 00 Covering Upper Tualatin Bridge 400 00 Sucker I,ake Bridge 300 (X) Covering Lower Tualatin Bridge 307 00 Repair of Eagle Creek liridtre. . 50 00 Clackamas Dridge including right of way 0,000 00 Total $12,163 00 This sum taken from the receipts of the county leaves but a small mar gin for other incidental expenses, and we apprehend when the people see that so much of their money has been judiciously expended for their good and for the development of the county, they will award to the pres ent Board the just tribute due them of well done good and faithful pub lic servants. The revenue which will be received from the levy this year will be sufficient to liquidate the county's indebtedness. This has never been done before. When an election has been approaching, the Radicals have invariably levied a lower tax than was sufficient to pay the necessary county expenses, and on the following year they would raise it to meet the deficit. Our: present Board has no political trick in it. They are not planning a po litical campaign for next June. This they could have easily done. They eouut nave levied a less tax, and kept up with the collecting of it Tin til our next election and while it was tax-paying time, county orders would have kept up to their "present figure. But they preferred to make people of their transactions and leave the verdict with them. We shall !fV mre to say on this subJect in Commenting on the probable ap pointment of Justice Miller to be Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, the Washington Chronicle says: The appointment of Justice Miller would be undoubtedly judicious. The history of the coun try does not furnish an example of so great unanimity on any question as on his appointment to the Chief J usticeship on the part of the Bar. The Democracy and Grangers. The Radical papers have started in their denunciation of the Grange movement. They declare that it is nothing more than Democracy in disguise, and that their success ar gues the death of the Radical party. It i3 evident that these Radical wise acres understand the position of af fairs. The success of the Grangers is the destruction of the Radical par ty. The Grange movement is Dem ocratic just this far: It opposes centralization, monopolies, corrup tion extravagance, theivery and op pression, and seeks to bring capital and labor on equal basis, and to give to cne section of country the same rights and privileges claimed by the other. It desires to give to the downdrodden Southern States the same rights claimed by that pink of loyalty Massachusetts, and seeks to break down the monopolies which are robbing the Western farmers out of their earnings. It seeks to re establish honesty and integrity in official position and to oust rascality and incompetency from public places. It aims to reform State, National and local governments, and wages a determined war against the high and unequal taxation, which now hold a mortgage upon every Western farmer. In all these things it is undoubtedly Democratic. These principles form the corner stone of Democratic faith. Abuse of the Grangers will avail Radicalism nothing, nor can the Grangers be blinded by their praise. The very principles of the Radical party are in opposition to the tiller of the soil and favors to capital, corporations and corruption. The hand writing is upon the wall. Radicalism is doomed, and it matters but little whether it be by the Democracy or the Grangers, as long as their prin ciples and aims are identical. The Radical party has been tried and found wanting. It is a stench in the nostrils of every honest and true lover of his country. Hoard of equalization. We this week publish the report of the Board of Equalization as made to the Governor. We see that a number of papers are finding fault with the action of this Board, in changiug the valuation. With what justice these assaults are made we are not prepared to state, not having had the proper time to consider the subjert with that degree of thoroughness- it requires, and we apprehend that most of the newspaper writers are in the same fix, finding fault with something they know nothing about. The creation of this Board is purely a Radical invention. brought into existence at the last session of the Legislature, and at a time when it was expected that the Radical Legislature would elect the Board. But through their own cor ruption they fell out in the division of the spoils, and the result was that they could not get up a joint con vention, and the desire to find fault with everything the Governor does, has started these writers after him for what he is in nowise responsible. If the various counties are not satis fied in the equalization as made by the Board, they need not adopt it for county purposes. We believe the Board has only power to regulate the State revenue, and has nothing to do with the county finances. They took the assessments as returned from the various counties, and struck a bal ance so that the assessments should be equal all over the State. If they have erred, they must have done so from the assessment rolls returned to them. We ask the readers to exam ine the report printed this week on our first page. We are informed by one who has had ample opportunity of knowing, that in the counties where the most fault is found, the trouble is not in the change made by the Board, but in the defects in the assessment rolls sent up. In several of the counties the adding up was incorrect mid the carrying out also, and after the corrections being made, the increase was obtained. It is a matter which the tax-payers should take in hand, and when they again elect members to the Legislature, let them select men of common sense, so that thay may know what kind of laws they are passing. The law is at fault and not the Board of Equali zation. This same Legislature, while it created additional officers and appropriated thousands of dol lars of the people's money, made no provision for an increase of revenue. This subject will receive further at tention at the proper time. The Jury in the Glass abortion case, of which we made mention last week, after being out but a short time, returned a verdict of guilty as charged in the indictment. The counsel for the defence has given notice of a motion for a new trial. Mealy, indicted for the same offence, has not yet been tried. The evi dence is equally as strong against him as it was against Glass. A motion has been filed for a new trial, and to day set for the hearing of the same. The CArisffom Messenger, publish ed at Monmouth, Polk county, closed its third volume last week. It asks that an addition of 400 names be, made by its friends to the subscrip tion list to place it on a paying basis. It is a good paper ar I ought to be sustained. The New School Law. At the last session of the Legisla ture, which was thoroughly Radical, the present school law was passed. We hear considerable complaint on the part of the people who are re quired to furnish their children with the text books as adopted by the .va rious Superintendents. This we pre sume is natural. Heretofore every district has had its own choice of books and every teacher regards those books which he has used the best, while the teacher in the ad joining district considers them total ly unfit for use. This diversity of opinion existing among teachers, it should not be regarded anything strange that County Superintendents should differ in their views, and the manner provided by law in adopting the books is certainly very defective, to say the least. We presume every Superintendents voted for ?iis favor ite books, and considered when he did so, that he had done his duty. The law, in our opinion, is oppres sive and in many parts needs radical changes. .We are not going to apol ogize for the acts of the Superintend ents. They are all probably able to defend themselves. . But as the law now stands it was incumbent upon them to vote for text books. There was no provision made by which the Superintendents could come to com mon understanding, and hence they all voted as their judgment dictated. If there has been any wrong done in the adoption of these books, the wrong is in the law. But we (and we may say a very small portion of the text-books for which we voted were adopted) think that as soon as the new series become generally in troduced, and the necessary expenses attended in introducing them is done the people will be better satisfied with an established series than they were under the old law. That the series should meet the approval of all, could not be, expended. But they are the choice of a majority of the Superintendents of the State, and as the result of such choice, must stand without change for four years. The fault found with the text-bcoks is not the result of an adverse opin ion to the books, but intended to make capital against the Superin tendent of Public Instruction. In the introduction of these books, he has nothing to do whatever. It is the work of the county Superintend ents, and the requirement of a law passed by a Radical State Legisla ture. Let whatever responsibility there is rest with them. The Legis lature is responsible for the law, and the people should throw the evils of it upon that body for the passage of the act. The Radicals are anxious to shift whatever censure is entailed to the act upon others, but the peo ple know who the parties arc that enacted the law and who must en swer to them for the p issage of it. Pleasant lor Hit ieoJc. The Caurier-Jota ua! thinks it will be pleasant for the people who are all taking involuntary lessons in re trenchment and economy, even in the expenses which are classed as necessary, to learn that the Commis sioner of Internal Revenue is alarm ed at the falling off in the revenue, and will delay his anuual report un til late in November, in order to de termine whether he will recommend " a slighi increase of taxation" to Congress. Very gratifying news this to wholesale merchants, pork packers, tobacco-buyers, farmers and manufactnrerers. Wall street is in profound apprehension; the wisest financiers and most prudent bankers in the laud are on a sea of uncertain ty; trade is greatly diminished in every department; people are con strained to exercise the most rigid economy, and yet we learn that in Washington, the city where "Boss," Shepherd, the President's -pat, has made $800,000 under the new mu nicipal dispensation, the Commis sioner of Internal Revenue is plot ting an increase of taxation. If this programme be carried out, we ven ture the prediction that a storm of indignant rebuke will burst forth from the people, without regard to party, which will make the Admin istration tremble. The Indianapolis Journal, a zealous Republican or gan, says of the proposed increase of taxes: "If the Republican party is wise, it will give a deaf ear to the cries of the Commissioner for a ' slight increase of taxes,' and will go resolutely about the work of re trenchment. As a good starting point, it might begin in the Com missioner's own department, where there are some useless and expensive sinecures which ought, to be abolish ed." Women- to the Front. Ono of the features of the recent election for county officers in Illinois was that in twenty-nine counties women were candidates on one of the tick ets for County Superintendent of Schools, and in three of these coun ties the candidates on both tickets were women. In the twenty-nine counties, eleven of the female aspi rants were elected. In Mercer coun ty, Miss Frazier defeated Miss Walker. In Alexander county, Mrs. Brown led Mrs. Taylor, and in Cass county, Mrs. W. H. Hinckley de monstrated the superiority of married women over, single by beating both Miss Housekeeper and" Miss Plaister. J. W. J asper Johnson has turned up at Washington this Winter as a ( Collector of Texas claims against the Government. 1 COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY, Summary of State. News Items. Salem imports barrels from San Fran cisco. Brownsville Linn county, is said to have a population of 550. - A revolting case of incest is exciting the public mind at Albany just now. TieffU?r,of Sit v oncers in Salem will come oir the first of December. Scab in sheep is reported quite prev alent in parts of Southern Oregon this fall. During last week, seventv-five tons' of wheat arrived at the Dalles, from Wallula. ' Mary J. Kiblinger, of Salem has been adjudged inyane, and will be taken to the asylum-. The comer stone for the new Episco pal Church at Raker City was laid on Monday ot this week. There are four Granges in I.ane coun-ty-at Springfield, Junction, Long Tom and t rand Prairie. A small amount of wheat has been shipped from Grande Ron.le to Uma tilla for the Portland market. Application has been made for a dis pensation to institute a Lodge of the I. O. O. F. at Forest Grove. Nehalem Valley supports a cutlery manufactory, at which the very best knives, etc., are produced. An attempt was made to burglarize the residence of Mr. J. D. Holman, at Salem last Monday night. The Mountaineer has news from the Yakima mines, from which it conclud es they are of the "spotted" kind. N. D. Short, who published IheRevil le at Jacksonville in 1sjs, died in that town on the 9th inst., in his 3jth year. The logging camp of Jacob Hutch Incrs, Coos county, was seized on by the United States Marshal on Thursday last. Harvey 15. Maxwell, has discovered a quart, ledge near Ashland, Oregon, which, he claims assays S;00 to the ton. He is jubilant. The Grain! Jury of Marion county report the offices of Sheriff and Clerk, and the State Penitentiary, in good running order. James 11. Bristow, of Fugene, has so far recovered from his injuries, receiv ed in falling from the University, as to be out again. It is reported that II. J. Rvdoy, of Pendleton, was murdered and robbed on Murch Creek last Tuesday. No par ticulars received. It is said that a newspaper is to be started at Junction City in the course of a few weeks. Another candidate for the insane asylum. The Kpiscopal Society at Baker City have commenced t!ie work of gettiiur the material for their new church edi fice upon the ground. Harvey B. Maxwell, formerly of Kugenehas discovered a quartz ledge at Ashland. Oregon, which he claims assays ?:lou to the ton. The Haker City Herald is collecting specimens of quartz, gold, silver, ores', wood, fossils, etc,, for the Museum of Iowa College, at tJrinncll, Iowa. Silas Wright was arrested last Satur day by the United States Marshal at Wrights station, on charge, of opening letters stolen from the United State's mail. The Fire Department of Corvallis is now regularly onnnied. and the city authorities formally deliver the fire apparatus on Thursday of the present week. A Mrs. Bland, of Douglas county, sat the foot of a tree in the dark woods and watched a bear while her husband went six miles for ammunition to shoot it with. The Raker City statistician reports seventeen widows and grass-widows among the population of that village. What a glorious place fir middle aired bachelors! Several emigrants are stopping at St. Joseph. A company lately arrived there from Dakota, and now on a pros-m-ci'mg tour to the Nehalem Valley, hunting for claims. Mr. M. Watte, Secretary of the Oregon State Agricultural "Society, states that the Board of Managers of the Society meet on Tuesday, Nov. 23th instead of the lsih. The Jacksonville Times says Mm. Sutherland lias been appointed Post master at llrownsborouii-u, an.l Jerry I lannalian at Sam's Valley. Thev are both excellent appointments. D. S. Kiggs has -an invention for mending cracked bells. He lately ex erimenteil in Salem, with complete success mending the bell ofl'bilomath College, weighing "00 pounds. Tlie amount of taxes to be levied by the County Court of Lane county this week is as follows: State, SIT.mxV; poll (which also iroe.s to the State.) $1.34:1; county, S 1.5,700 ; school, $l).4i. Total, - i. The Astorian says : Last evening at 6oVliek a fine team of work horses be longing to James W. Welsh became friirhtencdand backed ofFCapt. Flavel's wharf, wagon and all. The horses valu ed at were both drowned. While crossing the ferry at Albany the other day, a team belonging to Marion Davis, got seared and plunged olfthe boat, dragging a wagon load of wood into the river. The wood was lost and one of the horses drowned. The Democrat says : Howell, Harper et Co. on last Saturday purchased the entire lot of wheat in the Partners' Ware House at Sprinahill, throe miles below Albany, (on the river) being 7( tons. The price paid was S1,0." per bushel." One of the Spanish Merino sheep which Mr. S'cwby recently brought to Yamhill county, was accidentally kill ed a few days ago, and Mr. New by sheared off his fleece, which weighed K5'i pounds. The sheep was but ten months old. The P.akcr City Herald says: Freight train wagons drawn by from six to a doen span of mules, arrive now-a-days almost tit every day Sundays includ ed. They are "loaded with goods and groceries for the merchants of this and otherfpoints of this region." Tn consequence of the utter impossi bility of attending to the necessary business at one meeting a month, Leb anon Grange has found it necessary to change t liir Iy-Lavs so that they can hold' semi-monthly meetings. The membership of this Grange is increas ing at an unprecedented ratio. - Last week, while boring a well on Mr. Miller's place, on Soap Creek, at the depth of forty feet the borers struck a strata of muck and drift wood ; and fifty feet from the surface thev struck a log three feet in thickness, through which the augur passed. Mr. T.J. Duntcn brought to' Eugene on Saturday, the Sth inst., some speci mens of gold-bearing quartz which are said to Ik; very rich. Mr. D. found the ledge from which the quartz was ol tained while out himting on Camp creek in Lane county, and is quite con fident that he has "struck a good thing.' The Statesman learns that in the case, of the State of Oregon vs Kiblingcr, charged with the crime of rape ujwm his daughter, in which tho jury failed to agree last week, a venire has issued for twenty-four new jurors, to Ik1 drawn from a distant, to serve on the case. anl that it will come up again for trial on Thursday of the present week. A gentleman who resides near Scio informs the Mercury that the wife of Albert Bond, residing near that place was terribly burned about a week ago. She was feeling somewhat ill and laid down before the tire and fell asleep. Soon u stick of wood rolled down which set tire to her clothes, completely burn ing them off of her. At last accounts she was in a fair way to recover. - The Albanv Register of last Saturday says: "On Thursday, Mr. Win. Poe, of Halsey precinct, was arrested on a warrant issued by J. S. Grimes, J. P., charged with the crime of incest. Poe County Judge, yesterday, when he "vwi an examination anu was com mitted to answer, and in default of hail $3,000) was incarcerated in tho county I Territorial evs Items. Large lots of wheat have accumu lated at WaHula. Wood sells in Salt Lake Cit3' at ten dollars a cord. Julius Dickens has just retired from the Steilacoom Express. . - The Washington Territory Legisla ture adjourned on Saturday, the 15th inst. The streams in Idaho have frozen up and mining and mills have been stop ped thereby. Two million pounds of wheat have been shipped from Cache Velley, Utah, during tins fall. , . The Utah Grand Lodge of Masons held their annual session at Salt Lake last week. A band of horses numbering three hundred will be driven from Idaho to Missouai next spring. Recent sales of XXX flour have been made in the Helena market at the low price of $2 ler 100 lbs. Over one hundred emigrant families have settled in Walla Walla Valley dnring the past eight weeks. Dr. Thibodo has been appointed county phvsician at Walla Walla, at a salary of i00 per month. The Washington Territory Legisla ture passed sixty-four bills which re ceived the Governor's approval. A letter in the Walla Walla Union dated October 25th, seems to confirm the richness of the Yakima gold mines. Samuel Holmes, an old and much respected citizen of Olvmpia, died at that place November 5th, at the age of 5Q years. It is reported that the Washington Territory Legislature will probably appropriate about 53,000 in aid of the Territorial University at Seattle. ' The citizens of Nez Perce county, Idaho, held a mass meeting at Lewis ton last week, to forward the project of annexation to Washington lerritory. Mrs. Ann Kliza, Drigham Young's seventeenth wife, has started on her lecturing tour. We say amen to the prayer of an exchange, "Good Lord deliver." One hundred and forty-two head of W'ef cattle and 431 head of mutton sheep, were taken to Olympia from Kalama last week. They came from east of the mountains. Margaret Gibbons, of Seattle, W. T., asks forinformatioii of the whereabouts of John Giblions. When last heard from in lsM, he was in Williamsburg, Urooklyn and New York. Two steamboats are frozen up in the Missouri river at Bismarck, a short distance below the crossing of the Northern Pacific railroad, and it is pre sumed that they will remain there during the winter. The Seattle Dispatch claims to have ri liable information that the Swank mines are a grand humbug. Its in formants say that there are not now a dozen men there at work. The Larimie Indeendc nt saj-s there isn't a female in the W'yoming Legis lature, unless the eople of Wyoming have been grossly deceived, and have, unawares, chosen a female in disguise. The grain and potato crops in some parts of Montana have been almost total failures this year. The angelic irrass hopper did it" for the grain, and Jack Frost for the ferinaceoiis tube'. Abraham Whitson. a young man, was stopping at a hotel in Missoula, Montana, not long since. In the night lie got up in his- sleep,- walked out of the house into iiellgate river and w as drowned. The Helena Gazette says: "The dif ficulty of Montana banks in adapting themselves to specie payments would be trilling if the Government would give the Territory a mint to coin our gold and silver products." The first ten miles of the Walla Walla and Wallula Railroad is now complete and in working order. Over this road the cars are making dailv trips, and up to date have transported smnt X) tons of produce, charging at the rate of M ;!) per ton. The woolen factory at Davton, W T., is working twelve hands, and is in much need of a spinner and weaver, to worK cilcclivciy wun a full loree. They are now manufacturing some first class blankets, which will be put upon the market in a week or two. A recent geological, survey of the new Territories reveals the important and gratifying fact that on the line of the Northern r.in.ic Kail road, m the Rocky Mountain district, thereexistsa coal-bearing region . of ISO, 000 square miles in extent, the strata of available fuel buried there varying in thickness from five to thirty-live feet. . A certain old bachelor, who resides n the road letween Silver anil Doise City, was to havr been married to a beautiful daughter of the Mmerald Isle at the latter place last Sundav but he was not. I heyoung lady insisted upon her would-be" husband' joining the Catholic Church previous to the ier formance of the ceremony that would make their hearts beat " in unison for ever, lie stoutly refused and the wed ding was no go. John W. Towiisen-1 was killed bv Apaches in Arizona. The Preseott Miner says of him : " Deceased was a native of Texas. Since coming here, in the fall of lsH7, he had, in fair and open combat, killed twenty-six Indians. He must have killed some more in his last tight, as two or more shells of his car tridges were found; Fear was a feeling with which he was entirely unac quainted. I'rwe even to rashness, ho never faltered, even when alone,' in attacking any number of Apaches. The Walla Spirit of tho Westsavs: "The re i torts from the new gold mines in the Yakima country are anything but favorable. Several parties have re turned during the week. Some of them pronounced the whole thing a bilk, while others say there is gold there; but the quantity is insufficient to pay. At tho the time these parties J left there were only thirty or forty I men there, but the number has prob ably .increased to Wo are now confirmed in our opinion that the mines are not only interior but that the gold discovered" is very coarse. We hope that the re will be no more ' wild goose chases' taken by our people at least this winter." The Walla Walla Real Estate Record says: "Many of our farmers with whom we have conversed, put the av erage yield of wheat, this side of the Cascades, at 40 bushels er acre. A few seem to think this estimate too high, and think thirty-live bushels nearer correct. We are willing to accept the lowest estimate. The surplus wheat crop for this year in this' vallev, as near as we can determine, is from 00, 0(10 to 1,000,000 bushels. Of oats, rve and bai ley, of which there was a large crop, we can form no estimate, either as to the amount raised per acre, or of the surplus. In Stevens and Whitman counties the average per acre is about the same as in this district. Their sur plus is about 100,000 bushels, which will have to be held until another sea son, as they have no market." A little daughter of Jos. McLaughlin who resides a short distance from Rose burg, met with a serious accident the other day. A gun, hanging on a rack in one of the rooms in her father's house, fell to the floor and was dis charged, the bullet striking her just be low the joint of the knee, splinteriiv the bone and mangling the flesh. Dr. Palmer was called, and on examina tion ho found it necessary to remove several pieces of bone, some of which were an inch in length. From the Farmer we learn that the 3-,000 bushels of wheat stored in Huena ista warehouse have been purchased hy-tU- F-J,lnreh. for the Milwaukie nulls, at $1 05 ier bushel, less ware house charge of three and a half cents per bushel, so that it nets the producers 5d 01 H cents. It will stay in warehouse Y,utl Vrhe n ver rises- We ar J n formed that Mr. Burch has purchased differ ent lots of wheat along the river in Polk county, amounting to one hun dred thousand bushels, not all for the same party, however. - The Perjured Prophets. What a poetic revenge, says "the Examiner, has been dealt out to those Radicals who so strenuously urged the defeat of honest Horace Greeley, because only by Grant's re election could stability be main. tained in financial and commercial circles. The. very same evils and calamities are upon us which were predicted as the sure consequence of the election of Mr. . Greeley, and from which the country was a thou sand times assured that Grant's re election could certainly save it. v" were promised halcyon prosperity6 exemption from great financial dis turbances; that labor should find steady, remunerative employment, that the government would go on without any fiscal embarrassment and that every month would show continued reductions of the public debt, Well, Grant was by force of the din kept np on this score suc cessful; but we cannot say that th country is safe" from the ills his election would avert, according to the prophetic of his dynasty. Their predictions have not been verified their promises have been broken.' Within six or seven months after Grant's second inauguration we find that the Radical electioneering cries of last year were a cruel delusion I We find ourselves' overwhelmed with disasters for which no other cause can be assigned than fatal mistakes in the fiscal policy of the Government the very policy, as the World says, for which our admira tion was so loudly asked last vear. The country has every element of prosperity excepting 'wise govern ment. Close upon the most bounti ful harvest we have ever had with an eager foreign market for all we can export a healthy, vigorous pop ulation skilled in every species of labor in profound peace with all the world with every nameable snd everv ffiTiwivolilo l,1not.:,. ...i - i t ,- . , '"inio wiilCU Providence ever bestowed on any peupie ve me fcuuueniy overtaken by a great, prostrating" revulsion in business which involves rich and poor in a common distress. Great commercial firms whose assets ex ceed their liabilities by many millions topple into suddert ruin and deliver over their shattered affairs Into the hands of trustees. The earth has teemed with plenty, and thousands will sutler for want of food. The land is full of spindles and looms, and multitudes of our people cannot procure clothing to protect them from tlie winter's cold. In all parts of the country strong, skillful, and willing hands are out of employment. And no other cause can be assigned for this distress and misery, whose shadow darkens the whofe land, than the blunders and misgovi-rn-ment .of the political partv whose praises -were echoed through the country last year, and whose title to confidence was placed by itself on profuse promises of exemption from the very evils which we ure now suf fering. Grange Sews. Missouri has 800 Granges. California has GA Granges. Wisconsin has 191 Granges. Kansas has now 502 Granges. Tennesee has gained 23 Granges in three weeks. During the month of August there were 82i Subordinate Granges or ganized. The farmers of Tennesee had a State Convention at Nashville ou the 10th of September. Illinois ranks third in the number of Granges, having at the last report G13. The Mississippi Grangers are very prosperous in the eastern part of the State. Granges composed wholly of col ored persons are to be formed in Ar kansas and Missouri. The Grances of Wq noli tw have decided to raise 8100,000 to es tablish manufactories. The last renort of Socrpfurr TT.diir places the number of subordinate oranges in lowa at 1,700. The Granges of Lanrrf cUv tv-- have organized a Patrons' Joint-Stock Elevator Company. A Grange Shiniiinsr Association has been organized at Toledo, Ohio, wun a capital stock of S100,000. Bulluch County, Ga., has organiz ed one Grange, and will soon be ready to form two or three others. General John McConnell, living near Springfield, III., has been ap pointed General Deputv of the Far mers State Grange of Illinois. i l The ritual and manual of the Ord er of Patrons of Husbandry are to be . translated into German, and it is said German Lodges are to be formed in the West. The Granges of Winneshiek, Fay ette, Clayton and Allamakee Coun ties, Iowa, are already making preparations for a mammoth celebra tion next Fourth of July. Missouri claims to rank second in the Farmers' Movement, as regards the number of granges and their in fluence. Fifty agents of the State Grange are busy organizing new Granges at the rate of fifty a week, and it is believed that, when tho movement is two years old it will number - no less than 2,000 Granges. Meetings are held almost daily in the State, with an average attendance ranging from ' 5,000 to 10,000. Tne "Enterprise." That excel lent paper, the Oregon City Enter prise, has entered upon a new vol ume, and we are pleased to say with increased . success and prosperity. It is under the control of A. Noltner, Esq., one of our most valued ex changes, and has proved itself a most able Democrat champion. Clacka mas courty, once a Radical strong hold, has by his efforts been convert ed into a steadfast Democratic coun ty. We wish the Enterprise all jossible success. Jacksonville Time:, i