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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.
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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
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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.
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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:,
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