o f o O G o VOL. 8. OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1874. NO. 21. ffl 'fill 'iilf' M1 II WW! o v A THE ENTERPRISE. A LOCAL DEMOCRATIC NEWSPAPER F O It THE Farmer, Easiness Man, k Family Circle. ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY. .A.. NOLTNER, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER. OFFICIAL PAPEE FOR CLACKAMAS CO. OFFICE In Dr. Thessing's Brick, next door to John Myers store, up-stairs. Terms of Subscription Single Copy One Year, In Advance $2.50 Six Months" ' L50 Tcmii of Advertising Transient advertisements, includin all legal notices, square ol twvlv lines one week.. -- For oach subsequent insertion.-, lUiftt'olumu.oiie year Hiir .. Quarter - Business Car l. 1 square, one year.... g e ..$ 1 2.50 l.ot) 40.0) jjusiyjiss CARDS. J. W. NOKRIS, M. 13., PHYSICIAN AXD Sl'KGEOX, OR BO OX CITY, OR KG ON. e7Ofnce Up-Stairs in Charman's Brick, Main Street. uujjmi. W. M. VVATKSKS, iVi- D. Surgeon. P3RTUMD, - OREGON. vn FFI0E Odd Fellow's Temple.eorner First and Alder streets. Residence corner ot .Main and Seventh streets. l)rs. 'Welch A: Thompson, DENTISTS, fiiip office ix VtjcCl3 G I) 1) F ELLO irS T E M P L E, Corner of First and Alder Streets, I'OUrii.lM) - OKKCOX. li-Will be :n Oregon City on Saturdays. Nov. A :tl 8. II CEL. AT. CIIAS. E. WARREN. HUELAT & WARREN Attorneys-at-Law, OREGON CITY, - - OREGON. Jt-T-OFFICE Cbarmnn'F brick. Main st. oinarisTU .If. joHi-iwC n & um. c c o w n ANaHXEYS AND CCUSSELSSS AT-LAW. Orsn City, Oregon. 7Vill practice In all the Courts of the i F.JmI'1 Sp.-eiai aiieiiuoii pi n k u tho U. S. l-4i. d omce at Or.-gon City. 5aprlS7.'-tl". Ij. t. bakin, ATTOS?uEYATLAV, OREGON CITY, : : OREGON. KFIOE Over Tope's Tin Store, Main street. 2m ar:t-tf. J. T. APPifJSON, OFFICE IN POSTOFFICE BUILDING. Trmlrrs t'locfcam Con iity Or " .ler, him! Or-;r Cil- Orilem BOUGHT AND SOLD. TsTOTAl tY 1'UniAC. 2ans negotiated. Collections attended to and a General Hrokeage business carried on. )nll . A. NOLTNETt N0TA.UY rUULIC. ENTERPRISE OFFICE. OREGON CITY. Y. II. IIIGHFIELI). Established siar MO, at I lie old stand. Miu Street, Or'ioa City, Oregon. jjco Aa Assortment of Vathe:,, Jewel y ry.and Seth Thomas' Wright Clocks . -A "l w-o arc warranieu 10 oe as tLiitS represented. 7 It-pairing done on short notice, and t"hnkful for past patronage. A. 0. WALLINC'S PIONEER BOOK BINDERY. JMttock llallllir Corner of SXaj-it and front Streets. PORTLAND, OREGON. BI.ANK ROOKS RULED AXD ROUND Vo any desired pattern. Music boobs, Iuga)!im,'S, Newspapers, etc., bound in ev crv varlet v of stvle known to the trrade. Orders irom the .-t.untry promptly at fbdedto, OREGON CITY BREWERY. ITpnrv llnmhel. cxrr ' a4-or;vr II AVIVO Pl'RCIlAS- iifc-4--rAfdJ ed the above l.rew- rrv wishes to inform the public that he is now prepared to manufacture a No. 1 qual ity of Z. AO BR B RJtR, as pood as can be obiained anywhere In the state. Orders swtfccitod and promptly .filled. MEW YORK HOTEL. (Deutfches Gafthaus.) No. 17 Front Street. Opposite the Mail Steamship Landing, POUTL.VXD, OREGOX. It.ltOTIIFOS, J. J. MILKENS, Proprietors. Board V AVeek .... Board Week with Lodging.., Boa'd 4 D.iy........ s.oo . 1.00 My Mother's Spliming-Wheel. BY I. B. ROBERTS. How often in my waking dreams, Up the old garret steps I climb. Where struggling streams of light reveal A relie of the olden time. A relic of the olden time, That dust and cobwebs half conceal As useless lumber stowed 'uway My mother's spinning-wheel. In the old garret now it stands, Its busy hum is heard no more; Broken and tangled are its bands, The distalfon the dustv lloor : For long ago were laid away. In the eold chanilers of the dead, The feet that turned the busv wheel. The hands that deftly drew the thread. Iay after day, with patient toil. At the same wheel she sat and spun And drew the thread with dextrous hand, Until the woof and warp were done. And sometimes in my pensive moods The tears adown my cheeks would steal, As the soft inusie. of her voiee Blent with the whirring of the wheel. How often in my childhood days, 1 iisU-i.cu to iiiosc snouting I.jVs; Not dulcet sound of harp and lute Seemed half so sweet in after days. My mother ! Ah, that sacred name. What memories o'er my spirit steal! I think I see her, as of yore, Sitting and singing at "her wheel. Just as of yore I see her now, The wheel, the distaff, and the chair, The sunbeams playing round her head, And nestling in her silver hair; Oil. va;n illusion! well I know The sands have from her hour-glass run; The wearv wheels of life have stopied, And all her work on earth is done. The soothing whir of that old wheel No more shall o'er my spirit come; I'erhaps mv feet no more shall cross The threshold of my early home; Yet oft my early thoughts will-turn From present scenes away and steal Up the old garret stairs, where stands My mother's little spinning wheel. Grange News Items. A class of 24 was put through the Fourth degree in Tangent last week. The Harrisbnrg Grange numbers 100 memlers and more candidates are applying. Daniel Clark, Master of the State Grange of Oregon, is organizing bodies of the Order in Clarke coun ty, W. T. There are now in Whitman county "W. T., four established Granges, numbering about one hundred and fifty members. The R!'jtsf'r is informed that t'te Grangers f Hulsey intend sett ng up in the general merchandise busi ness at Halsey, after the plan of thtir Etstern brethren. The capital stock is put at $50,000. The Grangers in MVMinnville are t liking of erecting a large two-story building the coming Spring. The building will be calculated for a Lodge room on the upper Hoor, with a public hall below. South Brownsville Grange, L. C. nice, Master, A. V. Standard, Sec retary, last Saturday conferred the fourth degree on a class of 13 candi dates. A "harvest feast" and a gen eral good time was enjoyed. This is a flourishing Grange, having GO members i'-i males and 17 females. Wasco Grange on the 2Sth ult., elected the following officers: A. J. Dufur, Jr., M.; W. M. MeCorkle, O.; G. W. Buford, S.; II. llice, A. S.; E. B. Dufur, L.; W. 11. Mene fee, C-; A. D. Bolton, T.; G. H. Barnett, Sec; F. M. Smith, G.; Mrs. B. E. Burnett, C.; I). M. Bar ker, P.; Miss Arabell Dufur, F.; Miss Lucy N. Menefee, L. A. S. Friday evening of last week Knox Butte Grange, of which Martin Mil ler is Master, conferred the fourth degree on a class of 11 candidates the grange being in session from 11 A. M. to 4 P. M. A "harvest feast" was among the attractive features of the occasion. L. C. Bnrkhart, Linn county agent for the Grangers, and several other visiting brethren M ere present. The National Grange which has just closed its annual session in St. Louis, adopted the following resolu tion which effectually decides who are and who are not eligible to mem bership of the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry: "Resolved, That in the sense of the National Grange the expression interested in agricultural pursuits in Article 5 of the Consti tution, means engaged in agricultu ral pursuits, and having no interest in conflict with our purposes." A FiorGH Sentence on a Criminal by an Arkansas Judge. An Arkan sas paper gives the following report of a judge's senteuce, lately passed on a criminal: "Brnnley, you infa mous scoundrel! You're an unre deemed villain. You hain't a single redeeming trait in your charac ter. Your wife and family wish we had sent you to the penitentiarv. This is the fifth time I have had you before me, and you have put me to more trouble than your neck is worth. I've exhorted" and prayed over you long enough, you scoun drel. Just go home and take one glimpse at your familv, and be off m short order. Dont let's ever hear of yon again. The grand jury have found two other indictments against you, but I'll discharge von on your own recognizances, and" if I catch you in this neck of woods to-morrow morning at day-light I'll sock von right square into jail and jump you off to Jeffersonville in less than no time, yon infernal scoundrel! If ever I catch you crossing your finder at a man, woman or child white man or nigger I'll sock you right square into the jug. JStand up you scoun drel, "while I pass sentence on you!" Place-Hunting. HOW CONGRESSMEN- ARE TORTURED IX UEHALF OF THE SCXFiXs POPULA TION. Chicago Times Letter. All is not milk and honey and sal aried comfort with the wearers of the Congressional apparel. Apart from becoming a legitimate butt for lampooning, of standing in tie na tional pillory, a fair target for the dead cats and rotten eggs of miscon ception and malice, he is obliged to answer letters from home. Not the tender notes from Amarylis, burden ed with winsome words of half-con cealed, half-disclosed love. Not the homely missive from Joan, freighted with fireside chronicles of how the children are mastering the whooping cough, and how the oldest boy read every word of father's speech on the necessity of retrenchment, to the family and neighbors, in approving council assembled. Not the cheery epistle from Antipholns, the home business partner, nor the foamy but wicked billet donx from careless, de licious Cressida. These your Con gressman receives with glee, reads with hungry zest, answers with de light, and is as jocund as a girl with her first bustle for days afterward. THE LETTERS which do bring guile to his soul, aud gallish reminders that humanity is clay, and only half-baked at that, are those which come loaded with re quests for official boosts into Gov ernment situations. New members suffer worse than dried Congression al fish, A new man endures the as saults of the chronic beggars, besides taking his proportion of the natural trade. A llepresentative like Far well, who is passing his third Winter in Washington is receiving few ap peals from patient mob of old-time applicants in Chicairo. But llice, Ward, and Oglesby are honored with a dozen or more letters a day.. THE STANDARD JIINSTEL JOKE is that Brother Bones, or Tambou rine, should be so lamentably igno rant upou ordinary subjects in a land of common schools. Their lack of knowledge is no longer pro verbial. The personification of lie science is the man who is anxious to receive big pay for little work, as a wearer of Government livery. He imagines that consulates are to be had for asking; that clerkships yawn eagerly for the foremost applicant. Par example : One young gentleman living on West Washington street insists that he shall immediately be appointed Consul to Liverpool, Another whose home is on Indiana avenue, near Twentieth street, clam ors Mr. llice to give him a like job at llio Janerio. Arthur Ducat, insurance agent is Certain that his son should immedi ately be placed in the Annapolis na val school. Mr. Scanimon has a young friend whom he desires, or did desire till the office was abolished, to make, deputy pension commissioner. Three young ladies will be much obliged if Oglesby will l'rUjLt mem" obtain them nice situations in the Treasury Department. riiOI'ESSOIt HAVEN means that his son shall become a cadet at West Point. The sooner the appointment is made out the quicker the young man can com mence cramming for the preliminary examination. Besides, work is quiet in Chicago this Winter, and the boy ought to be doing something to keep him out of mischief. Three men desire to be Postmaster at Englewood. The office paid 8o two years ago. Now it is worth 500. A well-known La Salle street coal merchant wishes his representative to take his nephew and "put him in the naval school at Norfolk." There is iio naval school there, but no mat ter; old Anthracite is probably not particular in the matter of locality. TO APPLY THE CONDENSER: Logan has received some 20 requests for berths as consul, clerk, etc., the present session, all from Chicago; Oglesby, at the last count, Io; Far well, 15; Bice in the neighborhood of 50, and Ward about 70. So there are over 200 persons in Chicago alone who have petitioned for something, pleasant, easy and paying. The prayers are mainly from people who are big enough, old enough, and ought to know better than to think a Congressman has choice offices at his disposal to give away, as a moth er hands around doughnuts to her children. As much forethought as a man would ordinarily take in jumping over a puddle, just enough to see where he ought to land, would show these suitors their incapacity to leap into any of these fat offices. THE PLACES ARE ALL FILLED, and the classified list of candidates for vacancies nnrak'rs high among the hundreds. If they were empty, Congressmen of the ordinary run could carry no more influence to ward supplying them than a village blacksmith." Therefore my ignorant friends, you are not good looking aud you "cannot get in. The inso lence of office is not for you, unless you wait your turn, are an fait in the civil-service rules, and were born in Ohio. A young lady who prides herself on her proprietv, lately wrote home to her parents regarding her boarding-school associates. She said: "The girls are awful slangy. One of them told me the first day I came here that I had better 'walk off on my ear.' The little chit! I felt just like putting a tin roof on her. And they use such disgusting phrases as vou bet,' and 'bully.' I have pitch ed into them several times for their slang, but thev tell me to 'cheese it,' and if they go on this way I shall git up and git, you bet." The Author of All Our Woes. From the San Francisco Examiner. It is scarcely necessary for us to af firm that we are not of those who have any notion that by the next Presidential campaign the elements of opposition to the party in power will have cemented into an organiza tion other than the Democratic par ty. We are hopeful that all will see the necessity of uniting under the grand old standard of Democracy, since in that way, only, can all other opposing forces render themselves of utility. The Democratic part must be and is the center of oooosition until it succeeds in resting the coun try from ltadical domination. If it be possible to reconcile all parties in common antagonism to Badiealism on some general issues, not in con flict witii the main principles of De mocracy, we do not propose to make any technical or illusive objection; nor do we believe it proper to resur rect sepulchred issues, thereby pre venting honest men, not heretofore our allies, from joining with us. But this does not mean that we shall con sent to taking up some old battered relic of liadicalism to lead our hosts again to ruinous defeat. The issues of the next campaign are not yet crystaliseil, but while it is impossi ble to predict with any reasonable degree of certainty, now, as to the immediate issues between opposing parties at the next national election, it requires no seer to foretell that liadicalism and Democracy can never be brought together except as conflicting forces. They are as op posite as antipodes; their principles are irrevocably antagonistic; their antecedents are as unlike as their contradictory policies could make them. We hope with a Southern contemporary, the llichmoud En quirer, that the time is approaching closely when in American politics the great questions separating our people into parties will not be such as are founded in mere partisanship or prejudice, but such as rest upon national reflection, candid differences of opinion in refierence to practical measures and honest and earnest sentiments of devotion to the general good, regardless of the schemes of any faction and the csjjecial advance ment of any one section at the ex pense of another. But if that day shall arrive within this year or the next; if before the party positions are taken preliminary to the next cam paign for the Presidential succession there shall arise new issues to be submitted to the people, and the public mind shall thereby be turned away from the contemplation of mat ters that have heretofore held Dem ocrats on one side and lladicals on the other, it may be made to appear to the unsuspecting observer that the halcyon hours of political peace and party amity have come at last. But there may be delusion in the seeming scene. When Radicalism shall have ac complished its purposes so far as to be assured that in the concession of its principles by the acceptance of its precedents it has made its footing firm for any steps it may choose to take for the future, we need not be surprised to see it smoothing its wrinkled front, whispering softly and sweetly to the South, studiously avoiding all allusion to its own sins of the past, and atl'ecting the virtue of refusing to repeat its iniquitous usurpations, hoping thereby to in duce the country to forgive, if not, indeed to forget that it ever did what it may then so graciously de cline to do again. The principles of the Radical par ty are false principles; they are also to justice, false to national fair- iieaiing, laise to the substantial in terests of the country, false to the superiority of the white race, false to the Constitution as it was when the founders of the Government framed it, and as it is with all the amendments incorporated into it. And whatever policy the leaders of that, party may from time to time propose to pursue, it cannot be, it should not be, it must not be for gotten that, proclaiming the same principles it proclaims now, and per haps will continue to proclaim as its organization exists, this same Radical party is the author of all the woes with which the Democrats have charged it for eight years past. A I'cw Figures. Arithmeticians, w ho love the truths that figures always tell, may now see what it cost the nation to build the Union Pacific Road, and what it cost the Stockholders of the Credit Mobilier: WHAT IT COST THE NATION. Hoxie contract. Boomer " Ames " Davis Total .812.971,410 24 . . 1,104,000 00 . . 50,140,103 04 . 2:3,331,708 10 894,059,287 58 WHAT IT COST THE CREDIT MOBILIER. Hoxie contract.. Boomer ' Ames " Davis " 5 7,800, 1S3 33 0,000,000 00 27,285,141 00 15,029,033 02 Total 850,720,958 94 Profit. . .7. : . . .843,929,328 34 These figures, however, estimate stock and bonds at par. Taking for an instant the figues of the trustees as correct, incorrect as we know them to be, we find the cash value of this profit to have been as follows From sale of bonds. . . " " stock Divided in cash Total From "The Credit .812,576,250 00 . 8,744,169 81 . 2,346,000 00 823,306,319 81 Mobilier;" in j Scribaex'sfor March. COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY, ttvtvwrstty OF CALIFORNIA, That Reminds Mc. The end of a bookworm To " be buried in a book Chairs should not be covered w ith silk, but sat-in. The home circnit Walking about with baby in the night. Albany is threatened with a milk famine. The pumps are going dry. Why is an I O U like a confirmed toper? Invariably found in liquor. Melancholly Suicide A little boy, on being threatened with a whipping, hung his head. Do not run in debt to the shoe maker.- It is unpleasant to be una ble to say your soul is your own. Chicago has a female sexton, and she is charged with reserving all the best graves for the young men. A lunatic writes to ask whether, when a door is not a door, but a jar, the door jam is kept in the said jar. "Gracious me!" exclaimed a ladv in a witness-box, " how should I know anything about anything I don't know anything about ?" "Why Did He Not Die?" is the title of a new novel. We have not read the conundrum, but believe the answer to be, because he refused to take his medicine. "Anv letters?" asked Smith of his landlady on going home to dinner. "Only two post-cards, sir," was the disdainful reply; "but they contain nothing particular." A man referring to the sudden death of a relative, was asked if he lived high. " Well, I can't say that he did, said Terrence, " but he died high. .Luke the banks in these days, he was suspended. A pompons philosopher extracted the following reply from an advanced tree school lad to the querv : "How is the earth divided my lad?" " By earthquake, sir." A darkey left in charge of a tele graph office while the operator went to dinner, heard some one "call" over the wires, and began shouting at the instrument, "he operator isn't yer !" The noise ceased. An unfortunate man in Indianapo lis, who lost several toes by a car wheel, was consoled by an Irishman near by with, "Whist," there! you're making more noise than a man I've seen w ith his head off." A woman who recently had her butter seized at the market for short weight gave as a reason that the cow from which the butter was made was subject to a cramp, and that caused the butter to shrink in weight. "I should like," said a French medical charlatan, "to place over the door of ray surgery an inscription either in Latin or Greek, borrowed from one of the great authors." "Give Italian the preference," re marked one of his patients; "nothing can equal that verse of Dante's : 'Abandon hope, all ve who enter here.'" An Aberdeen minister, catechising his young parishoners before the congregation, put the usual question to a stout girl, whose, father kept a dm l:c-house "What isyonrname?" No reply. The question having been repeated, the girl replied: "Nane o your inn Air. -.Minister, ye Ken my name well enough. D'ye no say, when ye come to our house on a night, 'Bet, bring me some ale?' " A simple Highland girl called upon an old master with whom she had formerly served. Being kindly in vited by him to share in the family dinner, the usual ceremony of asking a blessing having been gone through, the gill, anxious to compliment her ancient host, exclaimed: "Ah, mas ter, ye maun hae a grand memory, for that's the grace ye had when I was vi' ye seven years ago." An Irishman, while on his passage to England in search of harvest work, was observed to walk up and down the deck at a bri.,k pace, occasional ly giving a look at the captain when ever he came in sight, as if to attract his observation. On being asked by the steward for his passage-money, when noaring the port of destination, Pat replied, "Arrah, honey, be aisy now; sure the master won't do such a dirty trick as charge a poor shearer who lias walked all the way?" Lo, the poor Indian ! A Kansas district school was visited by a party of "advanced" Indian chiefs, who came to hear the classes recite. A mischievous boy placed a crooked pin on the seat alloted to one of the chiefs, and as he sat down he was ob served to rise hastily and remark energetically: "Ugh! too much flea-bite. Me no care for much pap poose education ; me git ;" and he got, followed by the others in solemn order. .. There is rather a good story told of a dialogue between a navy and a man who had caught a fifteen pound pike. Seeing the fish on the bank, the navy wanted to know: "What d'ye call that 'ere, maister?" "Pike," answered the angler; "Will 'e boit, maister?" asked the navy. "Put your finger in his mouth and try," joked the angler. "Noa, I woan't but I' put pup's tail in," retorted the navy, and suit ing the action to the word, he caught up his dog, a lagish "bull" and pro ceeded to do as he had said. No sooner was "pup's tail" in, the pike's mouth than the jaws closed on it, and away went the dog across the country with the pike after him. . "Halloo! I say, you fellow," cried the angry angler, "call back your dog!" "Noa, I -won't," laughed the navy; "you call back your fi6h!" - . r Territorial News Items. The northwestern Territories have 73 Indian reservations. A quarter of an acre at Tacoma in ' the rear of the old town lias been sold for 8300. A Grange of Patrons of Husbandry w as organized at Skookum Chuck, W. T., on the 4th inst. The laws of Washington Territory will be ready for distribution in about five weeks. Large numbers of sheep are dying ; in Jordan alley from the eiiecets of cold weather and scarcity of fodder. Three different parties have been engaged in the neighborhood of Van couver during the Winter in getting out hoop poles for the San Francisco market. Two cars freighted with merchan dise direct from Japan, and twenty cars of tea billeted for Chicago and New York, passed through Ogden last week. A band of 200 head of fair average cattle changed hands at the rate of 810 a head at Walla Walla a few daj-s since. In the lot w as 100 head of over average cows. Rev. L. H. Wells has just returned to Walla Walla after an absence of several months in the East. We un derstand he lrought back 83,000 for church purposes. Marshal Blinn has turned over the office of Superintendent of Indian Affairs for Washington Territory to Gen. Milroy, his successor, who was also his predecessor. The reports from the Swank Creek mines are very conflicting. One writer asserts positively they are go d, while another as emphatically tays they are good for nothing. Five hundred and twenty-five dol lars was raised in about two hours, on the 27th ult., towards buying a lot on which to build a Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Walla Walla. The Boise City Statesman, says : This weather is awful on cattle and sheep, ami unless it comes off warm very soon, the probability is that the stock in this valley will die off by thousands. Passengers from the East, at Og den, report that the praying mania has reached many towns" along the Union Pacific road where liquor is s dd, and that w omen are organizing t ) join in the crusade against rum. There is now about 500 tons of wheat at Wallula awaiting shipment down the Columbia river." There is' also a large amount of freight below. The Columbia river is so low it is impossible for the boats to run, and freight will have to lay in store until the snows in the mountains melt. A number of persons in Bitter Root, Montana, proffered Rev. Mr. Catlin, if he would come there and preach, a 100-acre improved farm, four cows and one year's supply of provisions. Now look out for a rush of ministers to Bitter Root. The San Francisco Chronicle says that "E. S. Kearney, now United States Marshal for Washington Ter ritory", has been confirmed by the Senate as Consul of the United States at Buenos Ayres." We venture the supposition that Marshal Kearney don't know it, whether true or not. The Vancouver Rister nays: We are informed that the farmers on Mill Plain have about completed their Spring sowing, and that crop prospects are very favorable. Sever al farmers on this plain have from one to seven hundred acres under cultivation. A correspondent writing from Dayton, W. T., to the Walla Walla Statesman says: About 4,000 bushels of flax seed will be raised in this part of the county this season, and our enterprising citizen, S. M. Wait, will give attention to the establishment of an oil mill, in addition to the beet sugar enterprise. The body of John Tighe. a soldier who disappeared from Fort Walla Walla some three weeks ago, was found in the yard around the old pest house, in the outskirts of Walla Walla, last week. The body was in an advanced stage of decomposition. He is supposed to have started from the town to the garrison, and being intoxicated climbed over the fence and laid down and froze to death. A Father In Texas. The Wasco, Texas Avalanche pub lishes the following statement by a correspondent, who, it says, is one of the most trustworthy and respect ed citizens of that place: "There lives now in our midst a man who is the father of fifty legiti mate children; he has been married to five different women. Bv Avife No, 1, 14 boys; No. 2, 18 children; o. o, ten; No. 4. six, and by No. 5, three. Thirty-five of these children are still living or were a year ago eight were killed or lost in the con federate army, and seven have died natural deaths. Thirteen of the boys all children of No. 1 held office in the Galloway Brigade, Platte county, Missouri, troops; Burns commanding. Of the chil dren by No. 2, there were four in the confederate army, in different brigades. By wife No. 3, there was one in the Confederate army and two in the Heel Flies, making 20 sons in the Confederate Service. The man is hale, hearty and healthy. I know him well, also his wife No. 5, and her children; she is young with a mountain of wealth of hair, fine-looking, pleasant, and promises to still add to the population of this coun try. I will, if required, produce the amaavit oi tue latner oi mis uum on s nrntrpn v to the truth of this i o J 6tateraent." In Error About the Crangers. Under the above heading we find the following clear exposition of i". "lKns or t,,e Uranger in the W llliamsport, Pennsylvania,i?cj7iVfer. lhe object and purposes of the farmer's combinations. . seem to be greatly mistaken by many, especially the day-laborers and mechanic as we have had occasion to learn, recent ly This is owing partially to aa undesigned exclusiveness on the side of the farmers, but more to a design ed misi-fc! .refutation bv certain do nothings, whose supp'ort has for years been drawn from the aching shoulders of not alone the farmers but the laborers and mechanics also whose champions thev now so londW profess to be. The misrepresentation is to the effect that the farmers' com binations and particularly the Granges form for the purpose of oppressing the day-laborers and me chanics. Whilst nothing could be further from their purpose, we regret to see a disposition not cto disabuse the imaginations of these erring men. The fact must be prominent to the mind of every one fully cognizant of the objects to be attained by ther, Grangers, that so large and impor tant au element in this country, as the farmers cannot improve them selves socially arid mentally, or bet ter themselves in the sale" of their products or the purchase of the nec essaries and luxuries, without corres pondingly affecting those who are intimately associated with them a their farm-hands and their me chanics. The object is not to form or create a landed aristocracy. But few farmers in America f-Jo not labor hard, themselves, aud so long as our domain is free, and new fields of labor constantly opening, it will be impossible to form any such thing as. a landed aristocracy. Such is- net the object and such cannot be the result. The movement is not aggres sive but purely defensive, and Ja directed so as to counteract the fiorees which have for many years been brought to bear against the agricul turists and indirectly against their necessary help. Amftngst these op ponents to the farmers in the West have been the great railroad compan ies that secured Government support and then, buying up competing lines, raised the tariffs so- that the farmers. O could better afford to burn their corn as fuel than take it to low market high freight, and pay tariff on coal. Farmers in the East have "suffered "considerably from these enemies, though in u different way. Now thev are combining to protect themselves against all impositions from that source. They make no war on rail-C road companies as such. In faci they find them verv handy and valu able auxiliaries. But they want "fair-play." Railroads, built to meet the real wants of the country or local ities,. will not be quarreled with, but their managers must keep their hands, out of Congressional steals and such things, and rnn their roads by the laws of honest trade. The farmers, are organizing to make them do this, if they will not do it of their own ac cord. Wait and see. c O Again the farmers desire to protect themselves against all traveling ando stationary sharks, who have in the past by the expenditure of very little capital, less brain and labor, though much assurance, lived off' the earn ings of farmers and their auxiliaries as well. These are they who are specially interested in getting up an unreasonable fight between the farm ers and their help. These are the ones wiio would make the farm la borer believe that the man for whom he works intends through the Grange, to reduce his wages, put the price of farm productions beyond his reach and thus take the food out of his mouth. None but the veriest simple ton, of course, will believe that the farmers, as a class, will do this, or that they conceive any such an out rage. But, unfortunately, we have very many simpletons, -when it comes to measuring thetfr reasoning capacity. Strange, enough we have many w ho, whilst being robbed and at the same time flattered, kiss the hand which robs and obey the voice that flatters but deceives them. These are the loudest in their denun ciations of the Patrons, and yet, poor, misguided individuals! their inter ests are perfectly identical with those of the decried farmers. So long as they remain in their happiness, con tentment and prosperity depend up on the relation they sustain (to the farmers and the measure of success enjoyed by the latter. What folly it is, then, to make war between them, to -slander each other, and keep np a hostile attitude. This must not be. It is wholly unnecessary, as well as unreasonable. Let these various classes of industry seek a common bond of brotherhood, impove their social relations, elevate their condi tion, live in harmony, and banish the idlers and leeches from their so ciety and the Government. This is the work of the Patrons. Intemperance Statistics. Statis tics of intemperance in New York shows that the vice is on the incrf use. and what is worse, that intemperate women are more nearly irreclaimable than intemperate men. The number of men committed to the workhouse from January, 1870, to January, 1874, six times for drunkenness was 108; number women committed six times 3,702; number committed seven tj"meslmen, 28; wmnen, 002; num ber committed ten times men, 181; women, 1,157; number committed one hundred times men, 1; women, 29; total number committed in four years men, 500; women," 9,006; or eighteen females to one male. These figures exhibit a sad fact, and dem onstrate the necessity of some effect fi'vA measures for reclaiming the female victims to this habit. Vote the ticket at head of 2d page. o o o O O o G" G o