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OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, JTCLY 10, 1874.
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Oregon City, Oregon.
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the IT. S. Land t llloe at Oregon City.
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ORKGOX CirV, : : OREGON.
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ICE-CREAM SALOON
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'Main Street, - - . Oregon City.
TCE CREAM WILT, P.E SERVED FROM
X an.i alter this date during: the Summer
season. The best qualities of
FRENCH ami AMKRICAX CANDIES.
Ice f r sale in quantities to suit.
J. T. APPERSON,
OFFICE IX rOSTOFFICEr.UII.DIXO.
Kal '3feneter, ClncWantas County Or
rte.". a n.l Oregon City Orders
I BOUGHT AND SOLD.
Loan negotiated. Collections attended
to, and i Oeneral Drokeage business carried
. Jan6tf. .
A;. NOLTNER
NdTARY PUBLIC.
ENTERPRISE OFFICE.
OnECOX CITY.
Some Western Politics.
From the St. Louis Dispatch.
The farmers are swarming jnst now
in Illinois, Indiana, "Wisconsin, and
Iowa. They mean to nominate sepa
rately, pull together as a class, carry
as many Congressmen as possible in
the fall elections, and then after tho
battles are all over, and the breath
has come back to them consequent
upon the cessation of effort- -do the
next best thing possible that their
hands may find io do.
Well, what of all this? what effect
will these tearings down in one place
and buildings up in another, have
upon the future and the fate of the
Democratic party? In no event can
the issue be injurious. Uorn of the
war, and the military prescriptions
and tyrannies of the war, Radicalism,
if it had been half wise and half con
servative, might have administered
upon the affairs of tho Government
for the next fifty years. It was all
powerful. It had not only great
strength but great gloiy. A kind of
a Titan trumpet had blown and filled
the whole land with its fame. It
had covered Democracy with a thou
sand wounds. It had hunted it out
with edict and Ku-Klux law from the
everglades of Florida and the rice
plantations of the Carolinas and the
coast. It had so worked upon and
so impressed public opinion that
when men in bulk admitted that they
were Democrats they generally fell
upon their knees like a congregation
that wanted to be absolved. It was
a young, strong, healthy, ironclad
party, with a million of armed men
at its back and six hundred thousand
solid negro votes to bo cast at its
bidding for any cause or candidate.
This was the Radical party in
in 1808 in 1872. In the four
States we have named its organiza
tion was superb. It lorded it. over
everything and everybody. It took
beggars and put them on horseback.
It made kings of scavengers, and
bishops of those who had drunken
snreptitiously the wine of the holy
saorament. It scarcely knew that it
had an opponent called Democracy,
and that one of these days the old
thing would break from its prison
house and do great deeds in the
land. Time passed, however, and
with it Radicalism has lost much of
its ancient prestige and power. There
have been rebellions, revolts and
mutinies in places where the holiest
standard has been set up. It is not
necessary to explain why. The par
ticulars that go to make up the bare
fact are not reeded to establish the
fact itself. It is useless to go over
in this connection the loii list of
wrongs done the people by llajical
im, the stealings, the plundering,
the proscriptions, the demoralizations
that have been inflicted upon honest
things, and the pernicious inlluences
that have been felt in things that
were once pure and incorruptable.
We know that the farmers of the
Northwest are in revolt, and that
sooner or later they will accomplish
what Democracy could not have ac
complished unaided in tho next half
decade.
Much the future will have to reveal
to us in connection with the move
ment now going on in agricultural
circles. In no event in the States
we have named can Democracy be
worsted. Whether successful or
unsuccessful in the long run, no en
emy that lights Radicalism can fail
to inflict upon it more or less of in
jury, and hence every blow put in
now makes the fiual resistance less
dillicult to overcome when the great
stuggle is to bike nlace for constitu
tional liberty. Without some aid a
little beyond the natural order of
things, and without some movement
of the kind now under consideration,
a movement that has about it many
clements of revolution, the Demo
cratic party proper in Illinois and
Iowa could not have promised itself
a return to power possibly before
1880. The odds were too great
against it for it to have any opinion
different from this. Any calculation
other than this would have been
false, and certainly unfair. As it is
now, the Democratic party is liable
to take possession of Ilhonis at any
time, and almost sure to come into
the ownership of Wisconsin and In
diana. We say, therefore, without
the fear of successful contradiction,
that the Avhole tendency of the farm
er's movement in the Northwest as
far as it has gone, has been to break
down Radicalism, tear its organiza
tion to pieces, destroy its dicipline,
shatter its cohesiveness and demoral
ize and deteriorate in every possible
way that old-time esprit an corps
w hich made it famous and formidable
the country over. And beyond this
so far Grancrerism has not prone
the Northwest, nor in any single
Democratic State has it put itself in
conflict with the domment party.
Therefore Democracy should stand
still and see further.
A feminine teacher in a school that
stood on the banks of a river once
wished to communicate to her pupils
an idea of faith. While she was try
imr to explain the meaning of the
word a small fishing-boat came in
view. Seizing upon the incident for
an illustration, she exclaimed: li 1
were to tell yon that there was a le;
of mutton in that boat, you would
believe me, would you not, without
even seeing it yourself?" "Yes ma am
replied the scholars. "Well, that is
faith, said the school-mistress. The
next day, in order to test the recolec
tion of the lesson, she inquired,
"What is faith?" "A leg of mutton
in a boat! was answered from al
parts of the room.
A witty moralist says that "many
a. man thinks it's virtue that keeps
him from turning rascal, when it's
only a full stomach. One shnnld bo
careful and not mistake potatoes for
pnucipie3.
Hishops of the M. E. Church, South.
The Louisville Courier Journal, of
May Cth, has the following sketches
of the Bichops of the M. E. Church
South, whose General Conference is
now in session in fnat city :
The General Confereneo whiVh
convened in Library Hall last Friday
will be presided over alternately by
eigni, uisiiups.
THE REV. ROBERT PAINE
is the senior Bishop of the M. E.
Church honth. Ho is about as old
as the century, and has been a pre
siding bishop since 1846. His form
and general appearance have not
yielded as much to the influence of
age as might be expected from his
protracted and incessant labors. His
keen black eye has lost but little of
its youthful hre, and his step is still
firm. His executive talent is of the
highest order. His magnanimity is
such as to place him almost beyond the
shaits of envy. His culture is liber
al; his reading extensive. In preach
ing, when he rises to the ' height of
las great argument," his ascent is
such as to equal the highest aspira
tion of human genius.
BISHOP GEORGE F. PIERCE
belongs to a preaching family. He
is the son of the venerable Dr.'-Lov-ick
Fierce, and is in his sixty-third
year, lie is therefor in the prime of
life, and we may expect from him
many years service to the church.
He has been a bishop just twenty
3'ears. no is a prreat preacher, a
good platform speaker, and an excel
lent presiding officer.
BISHOP KAYAXACGn
is about ten vears older than Bishop
Pierce, and has been on the episco
pal bench just the length of time.
He is a genial gentleman, a sweet-
spirited Christian, and an able nun
ister of the new Testament.
BISHOP WIOHTSIAN
is a native of South Carolina, and is
auouc sixty-live years old. He is an
elegant writer and an accomplished
scholar. He preaches with enercrv
bath of thought and feel in 7. He of
ten overwhelms a congregation by an
oratory at once graceful, earnest or-
gmal and impassioned. He presides
with dignity and impartiality.
BISHOP DAVID S. POGGETT
is ft irgmian. He is a rehned and
dignified Christian gentleman; a
scholar 01 excellent attainments, a
preacher of rare merit. He under
stands parliamentary rules, and
knows well how to apply them.
BISHOP ENOCH MARVIN
is a n estern man. with many he
is the greatest possible favorite.
His mind is metaphysical in its natu
ral turn, and in its researches. He
is probably the greatest metaphysic
al preacher in the convention and
this is saying a good deal, and yet
not too much; for it is not often
that a profound metaphysician can
awaken and keep up the interest of a
promiscuous congregation his sub
jects are too abstract to evoke the
sympathies of Jus audience. It is
marvelously the opposite with Bish
op Alarvin. lue common peopia
.hear him madly, and listen with
great pleasure to his discussions.
BISHOP HOLLAND N. m'tYEIKE
was uorn to rule. Jtxis person is
commanding, his will strong and his
self reliance thorough. lie knows
the law and he abides by it ; he is sol
id as granite, and firm as solid; he is
reticent almost to a fault, and his
reticence causes him to be misunder
stood. He is a fast and true friend,
and possesses under a comparatively
cold exterior a heart glowing with
warmth, throbbing with love to all
his race. As he is slow of speech,
he has to be heard often in the pul
pit to be luiiy appreciated. He is
about fifty-nine years old and has
been Bishop eight years.
BISHOP JOHN C. KEENER
is a native of Baltimore, Maryland.
He is a graduate of W eslevan Uni
versify of Middleton, Connecticut
and was, we believe a class-mate of
Dr. W. H. Anderson, of this city
He is an original and profound
thinker, and often startles you by
the presentation of a subject in an
entire- new light. He is quick in
his preception of truth, accurate and
just in his judgment of character.
and broad in his views of all the
oreat enterprises of the church. His
preaching is full of good sense, and
often abounds with the richest and
most beautiful illustrations of divine
truth, so as to present tho very mar
row of the gospel.
DECEASen nisnops.
Since the last General Conference,
Bishops Andrews and Early have
died, and we suppose this conference
will elect two others in order to meet
the growing wants of this numerous
and powerful denomination.
A friend of ours, a bank clerk, is
dead in love with a pretty girl on
Pine street. The other evening he
r!iiied upon her witn the air 01 a
man who had hit upon a happy idea
"Do you know Jennie," said he,
"that in a dream I had last night
you allowed me to kiss your pretty
cheek."
Well your dream must come
true I suppose," and she presented
face to his lips.
"And now, Willie, I had a funny
dream last night.
What was it dear.
"I dreamed that you brought me
a diamond bracelet."
0 thunder," exclaimed the
.:i,no,l rderk. "vou dream too
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strong for me."
When the Civil Rights bill, so
nnod rame to a vote in the Lower
TTmisA nf Congress, twelve Republi
cans voted against it, whilst forty
seven dodged the question,
COURTESY OF
UNIVERSITY
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A Crusaded Man's Complaint.
The Cincinnati Commei-cial gets
off this good and tamely hit:
11v said a man to a rennrtoi-
' 7 - i' "
tho Commercial yesterday, I am a
temperance man, but I am opposed
to the crusaues, ana x will tell yon
why:
It has destroyed the . peace of mv
family. As I said, I am a temper
ance man mj-self. I havn't touched
a drop of whisky, beer, ale or wine
for I don t know when. These
things don't agree with my stomach,
and I can't drink them if I wanted
to. '
We were getting along very well
in our family." J. though we -were
happy &t least the neighbors said
we ought to be. lint when this
movement, commenced my wife got
it into her head that she must cru
sade. I think my mother-in-law put
her up to it. My wife said the Lord
called her to do this work. I tried
to pursnade her out of the notion.
I said we could not afford to hire
another girl, and that she had better
stay at home and help rear up our4
family. But she insisted that the
Lord must be obeyed, and of course
Iliad to cave in. AVell, she went
out, and has. been in the business for
the past three months. I never
thought a woman could stand as
much as that wife of mine has gone
through. She told me last night
that in the past three months she
had made 110 speeches, 97 prayers,
and walked, on an estimate, 480
miles. When she gets home at night
from the war she is completely fag
ged out, and doesn't feel anything
like herself until she has taken six
or eight cups of strong tea.
Our gentle household has been
completely revolutionized. We can't
keep even one girl now. My wife
drives them oil as fast as I hire them.
The consequence is, I havn't had a
square meal at our house for the last
quarter of a year, and the children
are dying from neglect; the fact is,
I can t myself, because of my not
having been raised to it, feed and
clothe these children properly. I
have done the best I could, but
somehow a man can't get up good
domestic meals and wash and iron
clothes and put them on children so
as to look neat. But my wife says I
can t icarn ounger; it is my duty
She has been called to this blessed
work, and has enlisted for life or
during the war. I wish to the Lord
this cruel war was over. Why don't
these saloon keepers quit, if for no
other purpose than that of stopping
the misery in the homes of the cru
saders? v -
My wife carries on the crusade at
home to keep herself in practice, I
suppose. She gives me a long tem
perance lecture every night. I say
I don't drink. But she says, grant
that I do drink, just for the sake of
argument, w hen she finishes her
speech she brings out the pledge and
makes me sign it. If I have signed
that biased old pledge once, I have
a hundred times, lhen she makes
me pretend that I am in the saloon
business. e get out the washstand
and set the camphor bottle and vin
egar jug on it, and I stand behind it
i:ke a saloon keeper. Un the coun
ter are some scraps of stuff on a plate
to represent a free lunch. I stand
there handing out the camphor and
vinegar that are carrying sorrow to
so many homes, when my wife comes
up and sings 111 front of my saloon.
She beseeches me to quit my awful
calling and go to canvassing for sub
scnption books or some other re
spectable business. I get mad and
call for the police, and order my wife
out of the house. But she keeps on,
and at last mv heart is touched.
pour the camphor out into the cream
pitcher, and the vinegar into the
wash basin, so as not to waste them,
and say I will never engage in the
business again. I sign the pledge a
few times and put up my traps at
auction.
Sometimes we have another play,
which my frantical wife has arrang
ed for me. I go and drink a glass of
oold tea, imagine it to be beer.
become very drunk and go home and
kick up a terrible row. I smash the
furniture and beat my poor starving
family. Maddened with that glass
of beer I rob, steal, murder, and do
all sorts of horrible things. Just
about this time my wife happens
around as a crusader, and hands me
a little tract. I glance at it through
my bleered eyes, and lo! I am
stantly a changed man, I take the
pledge, wash myself up, and in a
very short time I am a rich man, sur
rounded by a large, flourishing and
happy family. All this tomfoolery.
my wife says, will have a good influ
ence on the children.
Now, that will give you a sort o;
an idea of how things have been go
ing on at our house. 1 don t enjoy
it. It seems pretty hard a man who
has lived to my age, and tried to do
right, should have to suffer in this
way. This seems all right to mv
wife but blamed if I can see it. She
says that if a man goes and drinks a
glass of beer anil gets drunk he can
not enter the Kingdom of Heaven
Well, then, I say, let him stay out
Because he should make a fool o:
himself is no reason why our inno
cent family should agonize about it
She also says, cursed be lie who put
teth the cup to his neighbor's lips
I say certainly; but let the saloon
keepers look out for themselves. So
far as I know these cups are put to
mighty willing lips. To ! bear my
wife talk you might suppose that the
saloon keepers rushed out of their
dens like spiders and nabbed inno
cent young men by their collars as
they were walking uy on the street
and nauiea tnem into tneir aen
choked them down on ' the noor and
poured whisky down their throats
I think my heart is in the cause o
temperance, but I know I would be
BANCROFT LIBRARY",
OF CAT.TFOpmta.
a better Christian if I got better
meats and 11 things went on better
at home.
Good Templar's Wine. The Stoc-
on Independent tells of a new kind of
wine made by James Smyth, who re
sides a few miles from that city. It
described as a simple and very
successful process of making a light
quality of sweet, unintoxicating wine.
The juice is pressed from the fruit in
the ordinary way, and then placed
in a huge vat or tank, carefully boil
ed, and the impurities skimmed off
as they rise to the surface. After
the juice thus treated becomes cool
it is placed in bottles or barrels, as
may be desired, and then stowed
away for use. He has tried this pro
cess during the last two years, and
he finds that there is no trouble
whatever in keeping the wine thus
made. So well pleased is he with
tho process, that he proposes to
make all his wine hereafter, in the
same manner. By the boiling pro
cess it does not become necessary to
rack off tho wine, as it is perfectly
clear, and free from all impurities as
soon as the operation is completed.
The wine thus made, he says, is
wholly free from intoxicating quali
ties, and is a beverage to the use of
which, on the table, the most rigid
temperance advocate could not rea
sonably object.
Not to be Laughed Down. The
spectacle of Massachusetts with a
Democratic Governor would cause
many an old politician to rub his
eyes with wonder, and yet judge from
the tone of the State press there is a
possibility of such an occurrence.
The Boston P0.1t has expressed its
hopes of such a result, and the Bos
ton Journal has made fun of it for
doing so, but so cautious a journal
as the bpringneld Jtepnblieau hints
pretty broadly that the Democratic
prospects are not to be laughed down
S3 easily. It acknowledges that
prophesying is a vaiu businesss, es
pecially tins year, but at the same
time thinks "if people will indulge
in vaticination over Massachusetts
politics they might as well be saying
that (jrovernor Talbot will be the lie-
publican nominee, and 'Jack' Adams
the Democratic, and that the latter
will be elected. Talbot is quite like
ly to so act as to force the Republic
ans to take him. Will the Demo
crats have the sense to take the man
who can beat him."
Orr. Foreign Trade. According
to the omciai statistics tor the year
loo our foreign trade, for that year,
was in imports, 02 -1,997,302, and in
exports, i?GOO,3035:j7. For some
months, if not for a year, says the
San Francisco Examiner, many have
indulged in the pleasing hoj)e that
we were retaining some of our lost
ocean tonnage, and doing a large
business in vessels under the Amer
ican flag. Tho official report dis
pels the illusion. Of the imports
for 1873, SlG3,C22,G3o were brought
in American ships, and ?Hl,o20,iG5
in foreign vessels, being an improve
ment of $20,000,000 for last year in
the amount of our importations in
our own bottoms as compared with
the figures of 1872. But the differ
ence in the value of our export trade
as between American and foreign
vessels is against us to the amount
of S106v000,000; and we actually did
80,000,000 more foreign trade in
foreign vessels in 1873 than we did
in 1872.
A Touon Old Fellow. Vander-
bilt is now over 80 years old, and, ac
cording to the Herald, his chances
are good for 20 years more of healthy
life. lhat paper says lie is still
bright of eye and drives a span of
trotters with as steady a hand as the
best of the Jehus of Central Park.
At 30 y-ears of ago he was a poor oys
ter fisher, and did not for many years
after lay the foundation of his for
tune. Just where the average weak
ling of these days drops out of lifet
ruined in health or broken down in
mind by softening of the brain, this
old fellow began his great work, and
now, at 80, is younger, in fact, and
has a surer hold on 20 years more
for action than the Jay Goulds and
Tom Scotts, who are young enough
iu years to be his grand-children.
The difference is, that these men
never had a boyhood, while Vander
bilt remained a boy at 30, and a
young man at 50.
Failed to Connect. Wo are told
that 43 out of a class of 110 appoint
ees to the Military Academy at West
Point failed to pass the necessary ex
amination for admission, among them
all tho colored persuation, 10 in
number. This is deplorable, as our
ultra Radical friends, by their fail
ure, are deprived of an opportunity
to glorify the intelectual superiority
of their adored colored brethren. It
is said that Webster's Unabridged
Dictionary cooked their goose for
them. If so, it ought to be indicted
under the Civil Rights Bill, and at
least ruled out of West Point. . We
shall expect to see the obdurate old
lexicographers specially denounced
in the next National Republican plat
form as an obstical to the advance
ment of the cause of universal equal
ity. .
A French chemist is said to have
condensed the body of his wife into
the space of an ordinary seal, and
had her highly polished and set in a
ring. He made a handsome income
by betting with lapidaries and oth
ers that they could not tell the ma
terial of the set in three guesses, and
after pocketing the money, would
burst into tears and say: "It is mv
dear dead wife. I wear her on my
ringer to keep alive pleasant remem
brances of her."
Gild is a big knave and little hon
est men worship him. "-
Conventions and Elections.
The N. Y. Times publishes the an
nexed political calendar:
June 30 Illinois Prohibition Con-
tion in Bloomington.
June "30 Arkansas election, for
Constitutional Convention.
July 1 Iowa Republican Conven-
vention, in Des Maines.
July 14 Arkansas Constitutional
Convention meets, if carried.
July 14 Indiana Democratic Con
vention, in Indianapolis.
July lo Ohio Democratic Con
vention in Columbus. (A meeting
of the State Committee is to be held
to see if the call shall not be with
drawn until after the election on the
proposed new constitution!"
July 29 Alabama Democratic
Convention, in Montgomery.
Aug. 3 Election in Kentucky.
Aug. 5 Kansas Farmer's Conven
tion, in Topeka.
Aug. G Election in North Caro
lina.
Aug. 6 Michigan Reform Mass
Convention, in Lansing.
Aug. 18 Special election in Ohio
on the new Constitution.
Aug. 19 Pennsylvania Conven
tion, in Harrisburg.
Sept. 1 Election in Vermont.
Sept. 14 Election Maine.
Oct. 13 Election in Ohio, if new
Constitution is rejected.
Oct. 13 Election in Indiana.
Oct. 13 Election in Iowa.
Oct. 13 Election in Nebraska.
Oct. 13 Election in Georgia.
Oct. 22 Election in West Vir
ginia. Not. 2 Election in Louisiana.
Xov. 3 Election in Ohio, if the
new Constitution is ratified (Aug.
18).
Nov. 3 Elections in Alabama, Ar
kansas, Delaware, Florida, Illinois,
Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan,
Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New
York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina,
Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and Wis
consin. Note. All the above named States
(thirty-two) elect Representatives
for the Forty-fourth Congress, be
sides State officers varying in each
State. Rhode Island will elect mem
bers of Congress in that State. The
elections to the Forty-fourth Con
gress will be completed next year, as
follows: New Hampshire, in March;
Connecticut, in April; Calif orinia,
in September; Mississippi, in No
vember. The Forty -fourth Congress
will, unless sooner convened, meet
on the first Monday in December.
Election in Washington Territory
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Training of Children.
The instruction of children cannot
commence too early. Every mother
is capable of teaching her children
obedience, humility, cleanliness, and
propriety of behavior; and it is a de
lightful circumstance that the first
instruction should thus be commu
nicated by so tender a teacher. It
is by confining affectionate gentle
ness in granting what is right with
judicious firmness refusing what is
improper, that the happiness of chil
dren is promoted, and that good and
orderly habits are established. If
children are early trained to be de
cile and obedient, the future task of
guiding them aright will be compar
atively easy.
The training and education of
children can, however, be only re
garded as a means to the attainment
of an end, for all acquirements, all
learning, are valueless, if they do
not make us better in our several
relations of parents, children, hus
bands, wives, and unless they lead
us to the practice of that divine pre
cept of religion, " Thou shalt do un
to others as thou wouldst wish others
to do unto thee."
Sujjposing that you have secured
for your children the benefits of ed
ucation, and that they have been ad
vanced in the different branches of
industry, as far as is necessary for
the persuits in life to which they are
destined something else is yet re
quired of those to whom an offspring
has been given you are still called
upon, as parents, to attend to their
religious and moral training; and to
care that, after right prospects have
been imparted, your children may
not be corrupted by your own evil
examples.
If a parent supposes that his vices
can be hidden from his dhildren, he
is greatly mistaken; for children are
quick in the perception of what is
wrong, and in reasoning upon it, and
imitating it; and if, with the words,
"Thou shalt not steal," in your
mouth, you nevertheless make use
of anything not your own, or take
undue advantage of others, you are
practically destroying the force of
the precept, and teaching your chil
dren to be dishonest. How can it be
expected that your children will have
a horror of drunkenness if they ever
see you drunk, or if drinking is dis
cussed by you as an object of grati
fication),? If you encourage your
children by promises to confess a
fault, and' then punish them after
ward for it, do you not practically
discourage their telling you the
truth? Or if you hold that nothing is
to be said which can in any way in
jure, your own interests, and say,
"Remember not to tell so and so,"
can you expect that your child win
not lie, whenever it suits his own
convenience? If you are violent and
intemperate in your demeanor, inso
lent and overbearing, will not your
children be infected by such exam
ple? and are you not crushing m the
uuu lue iruiy eauiuaAu
ian qualities of gentleness, forebear
ance and charity ?
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If John Bull must occasionally
" go for" America in a rage, let it be
in the steerage by all means. ,It will
cost him 815 at present rates.
Origin of the Grange.
The spread of the Patrons
bandry vexes some people mightily.
One of the speakers at the late anti
secret society convention in the
East gave what purported . to be an
account of its origin. He said the
question arises, naturally, what ia
the grange; by whom conceived;
what are its purposes; who its spon-.
sors? Popular uprisings indicate the.
the development of progressive
ideas or of latent principles of gov-Q
ernment policy. Does the - crrantre
represent either? There has never
been an official announcement of its
originators. Whoever they really
are, they show a degree of modesty
not characteristic of the American
people, in failing to claim the dis
tinguished honors which awaits
them. There is a significan t mystery
surrounding the affair, very signifi
cant m view of some recent develop
ments. Its birthplace was Washing
ton, D. C. The accoucher was, soq
far as known, Mr. Wm. Saunders,
Superintendent of the Public Gard
ens. From the best information ob
tainable, the present Secretary, Mr.
O. H. Kelly, a department clerk at
Washington, was sent to the Caroli
nas some time about 186G or I8G7 on
business connected with the Freed
rnen's Bureau. He became acquaint
ed with a small colony of Scotchmen
who had transplanted an old country
system of association, of a purely;
social character, and who to keep
themselves free from unpleasant in
trusion, had adopted a system of
passwords and signals. This was
called a grange, and this was the
seed which found its full develop
ment under the nurturing care 6f
Messrs Kelly, Saunders, Grosh, Mc
Dowell; Trimble, Thompson, Ire
land, Curtis and Bryan. These
were the figure-heads and the prin
cipal operators; but they had silent
partners and advisers, who were to
receive compensation in political
preference. Tho persons above
named were apparently the investors
in the undertaking, and their chief
interest was the profits to arise. The
speaker had been iformed from va-
t 1 -t- . - i
nous sources, mat ex-x-resiueni
Andrew Johnson had been consulted
in the incipiencyof the organization,
and that he expressed the oxinion
that any system which would band
the farmers together in a common
brotherhood woald certainly wield
the political power of the country.
While this story may be received
with some grains of allowance, and
may perhaps be told to gratify the
vanity of some of the gentlemen
above named, who feel a pardonable
pride in having conversed in private
with the "Great Commoner," is not
lacking coroboration in the recent
movements of the irrepressible 'peo
ple's politician. He has recently anQ
nounced himself as a Granger can
didate for United States Senator
from Tennessee, and it would seem
not altogether improbable that tho
merry Andrew may carry off the toga
this time.
Plundering South Carolina. It
is a startling fact, says the Charles
ton Courier of a recent date, that
during the present week more than
2,000 pieces of real estate in thoTcity
of Charleston have been forfeited to
the State for the non-payment of
State and county taxes. The owners
of the property were unable to pay
the taxes, and the property was of
fered for sale without finding bid
ders who were willing to profit by
tho misfortunes of their neighbors.
and accept tax titles which will most
probably prove to be worthless. It
is believed that the state has no
power to sell real estate for taxes,
except on the particular days pre
scribed by law; and that, therefore.
any sale of real estate for the taxes
of any year preceding the present
year is absolutely void. The prop
erty forfeited to the State or sold
can be redeemed within ninety days,
but very few of the persons who are
unable to pay now will be any betteiQ
off three months hence, and the fact
which we repeat, that more than
2,000 pieces of real estate in Charles
ton alone have been seized by tho
State for delinquent taxes, shoyvs the
terrible pass to which Radical mis
rule, fraud and extravagance have
brought the people pf this State.
Ax improved, or rather newly in
vented felted fabric has been brought
to great perfection by English man
ufacturers. In Lonaon it sells at
prices which make it the rival of
woven fabrics for curtains, uphol
stery, book binding, and similar
purposes. It can be made to imi
tate the solidity of Cordova leather,
th rich brocaded silks of Lyons,
the elegant cretonnes, Mulhouse,
the purity and gloss of damask linen
and the magnificent paper of China
and Japan. It is, in fact, a species
of Japanese paper. It is as durable
as any woven fabric, light andwsrm,
particularly applicable to curtains
and quilts, and need no washing.
Its colors never fade, and it is so
cheap that elegant curtains three
yards long, ready made with bands,
sewed and lined, ranged in price
from a dollar to five dollars the pair.
It has not yet been manufactured in
sufficient quantity to meetthe home
demand, and therefore is not yet in
the American market. -
A shark fifteen feet long was cap
tured at the Isle of Hope, near Sa
vanna, recently,' the - contents of
whose stomach consisted of one old
boot one grindstone, one tin cup,
two crabs, one joint of stovepipe,
one small shark, and several bone3
pf a human foot. It is supposed
that he swallowed the grindstone
thinking it was a large cheese. o
The laundrymen - reflect more on
the flight of time than any other
elaBs.fiE very Monday they - ponder
onh elotheB of -the week. -. .
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