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o o o 7)' frVMv O o o . VOL. 8. OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 1874. 0 NO. 41. is" Ml Will II II I I I WW u III ; (II, yil II I 5 r V' THE ENTERPRISE. A LOCAL DEMOCRATIC NEWSPAPER V FOR THE Fanner, Business Man, k Family Circle. 4 OFFICIAL PAPES FOB CLACKAMAS CO. OFFICE-In Dr. Thessing's Brick, next door to John Myers' store, up-stairs. Terms of Subscription J 8l.El Copy One Year. In Advance S2.50 Six Months lu Term of Advertising One Column, one year ...i 120.00 00.00 41k lUk Qrter " , ,.. 1 -"""l ?. ILitH Busiiifss uaru, j1-" SOCIETY NOTICES. conix;ox lopcjc so. 3, 1. 1. o. v.. Meets every Thursday venin!fat?H o't-lock, in the igSl&S. Odd Fellows' Hall, Main Htreet. Members of the Or der are invited to attend, Bv order . G. ur.iir.cc.v DKuniui-: loik;h so. 3. I. O. O. V., Meets on the Second and Fourth Tues- t L-lrJ -i :...... ,..,.! ,....,.tl -. ; at l "i o ckjck, in me vuu Follows" Hall. Membersof the Degree are invited to attend. MULTNOMAH LOUCJIJ SO. I, A. l it A. M., Holds its regular com muiiieatioiis on the First and Jo Tnird Saturdays in each mouth, at 7 o'clock from thelSKh of Sep. tender to the 3Jth of March ; and 7'4 o't-IiH'k from the "JJtli of March to the J0th of Septeiiilier. Brethren in good standing are invited to attend. ity order of W. M. falls i:xcaipmi:n't SO. 1,1. O. O. V., Meets at Odd Fellows' it. .ii ..iiiw Kirst snnl Tiiird Tnes- .i ii- .t" each month. Patriarchs x 4 in 'o-J standing are invited to attend. i:nc.vmi'U2:xi' so. s, c. H. C. M "ts at Odd F.llo.vs' Hall, in Ore-zj-i I'itv, Or;sn. on Monday evening, at 7 oVI.-ls. M-Mii birrs of the ordrr ar - in-vit.-d to att -nd. M. C. A I'll BY. i J. M. iiAt.'oN. It. S. niaJTly II V S I JV S S V A 11 V S. j. v. Noititis, :si. I-., I'll VSIflAX XI J-il'ltCJKOr, o n h o o y c i r r. o iz k a o sr. OTOiHe- Upstairs in Charnian's Hriek, Miiin street. au-Htf. W. H. WATKSrfS, tvl. D. PJ.UUND, - - OREGON. &7ii;iTICE )dd K.'llowVs Temple.cornor First an. I Alder str u ts, itesidence corner of Matin ami Sevoulii streets. W. W. 310 KE LAND, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW; HF.liO. CITY, OltKGOX. OFFK'B-Maln Street, opposite the Court Mouw. II U K T, A T ATTORNE Y-AT-L A W: 0RES0N CITY, OREGGN. ?"OFKICE Cliarman's brick, Main st. 5iuarl"7 :tf. JOHNSON & McCOVVN ATTOR.VEVS AND (OIWSELORS AT-L.1W. Oregon City, Oregon. '"Will rretiee in all the Courts of the stat. Special attention RivAi to casi's in ine L. .S. 1-iiul i :Hc' at ur.-on City. oairi7i!-tf. " I.. T. BARIN, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, OREGQxciTV, : . OREGON. tetKICEVrr ro"s T'n Wore. Main 21mar7:j-tf. ICE-CREAM SALOON A x n . KESTATJltAMT! LOUIS SAAL Proprietor. M.i Htxu Qr Id SShS'S1?5 SERVED FROM RECI1 nl AMEUICVX CANDIES. fetorwle In quantities to suit. J- T. APPERSON, OFFICeL roSTOFFICE building. B(JtOKEK. WaJTerrter,, Clackama, Count v Or d.r,, -nd Ore-on City Ordr. BOUGHT AND SOLD NOTARY PUBLIC ik--nded janCtf. A. NOLTNER NOTARY PUBLIC. . ENTERPRISE OFFICE. OKi:c-CJ CIT"'. ? . Tr-ient advertisements, including U letfal notices. f square of twelve line one week .. 5 - ..'L -k .!. -ouont insertion 1.00 p nr ra u - IJeyond the River. The time must come, I know, w hen we shall part All ties must sever; This golden zone, enclasping heart to heart, Must snap and shiver. But doth yon deep, dark stream, part evermore ? Or shall we meet and greet on that far shore, Bey-ond the river ! If we shall meet oh! would that I knew how! In saintly blessing ? Or shall we stand as we are standing now Mute y caressing?- . - . Is yonder life but this grown rich and grand ? Or is humanity left on the strand Dropped in undressing? Oh, would I knew ! The misty clouds that lio Theso waters over Still darkly droop, still mock re straining eye, .Still thicklv hover. I call and question. Silence hath no tone, In vain I ask how I shall meet my own As friend or lover. This world were dark indeed had I not theo To clasp and hold me ; My light is thy great love, so tender! v, So often, told mo. The night must come ; but, in the far-oil morn. Will the dear arms that have m- steps upborne Once more enfold me ? I,ove is so precious, life so frail and lleet ! Hearts bled and quiver; Tears wet the prints of dear departed f?t, Gone hence forever. Parting is bitter. If I could but know That thou wilt be to me the same as now, Jiej-ond the river. Is love eternal ? Still yon sullen cloud Answers me never, In vain I plead; its folds its sable .shroud, .Silent forever. But I shall know. 'Tis useless to con tend With shadows; yet all doubts shall have an end Bevond the river. The Difference. dcut of the New Or -A - co rrespoa- eans Piccuttne contrasts the way in which business lias been done at the Treasury Department under Boutvvell and llichardson with that of former days, when duty was performed without regard to favoritism or to assumed official superiority. Many years ago, Geo. JI. Bibb, who had been Chancellor, Governor, and United States Marshal of Kentucky, was ap pointed Secretary of the Treasury. In preparing the lirst monthly roll of salaries, the pay clerk included that of the Secretary, and it so pass ed the Auditor, but the first Comp troller, Mr. J. W. McCulloch, refus ed to approved the warrant, unless Secretary Bibb should lirst settle the balance due the Government on his unclosed accounts as United States Marshal. The Secretary at once ten dered his resignation, but the Presi dent ignored it, and tho item of sal ary was rejected from each pay roll until the amount earned had ex hausted tho indebtedness of Mr. Bibb as Marshal. Bibb became a fast friend of McCulloch, who for many years continued to be lirst Comptroller. Gotxg to Afmca. That tide in the affairs of newspaper correspond ents which carries them into Central Africa is again to take there Mr. Henry M. Stanly, the man who found Livingstone. This time Mr. Stanly goes as the high joint commissioner oPthe London dailey Telegraph and the New York Herald, and the mis sion is to learn the secret of the Nile, and do what he can toward abolish ing the African slave trade, known as "the infamous and the lucrative." He is to continue the work of Living stone, and open the unknown coun try to commerce and civilization, thus shedding glory on himself and the newspapers while he is benefit ing mankind. The wealthy journals employing him are to eqnip him am ply for the great work, and much is hoped for from his courage and per severance. Should he prove success ful in his explorations and accurate in his accounts of what he observes, the Louisville Courier Journal thinks he will acquire fame enough for the most ambitious of discoverers, and will give journalism a 2restige that, with all its power and usefulness, it has never vet known. BOTS AND BCMBLE BEES. Did VOU ever undertake to break up a bumble bees' nest? Three boys tried it the other day with disastrous results. They got long rods and made an at tack on the nest, which was located a short distance from a railway track. In a minute out came the bees and the boys started off on a run. One of them stubbed his toe and fell with his head on the iron rail of the track, leaving his person exposed through an aperature in his blue cottonade pants, through which three bumble bees stung him until he howled. The other boys ran and yelled lustily, as the bees bust zed around their ears, and stung them in revenge for break ing up their home. The wounds in flicted through the hole in those blue pants will keep that boy from sitting down with any comfort for a fort night, and the ears of the other boys have been enlarged to the size of burdock leaves. Know ye the printer's hour of peace? Know ye an hour more fraught with joy than ever felt the Maid of Greece when kissed by Ve nus' amorous boy? 'Tis not when news of solemn note his columns all with sadness fill; nor yet when brothers quote the effusions of his blunt worn quill. But O, 'tis when the weather's fair, or clad in rain, or hail, or vapor; 'tis when he hears the .welcome sound, "I've come to pay. yoa'for.Tonr paper." The Mission ofFree Trade. From the San Frisco Examiner. . Among the abqmnable political heresies that have through the direct help and agency of the party in pow er contributed to the injurv of the material interests of this country none has been of direr harm than the fallacy of protection. We shall not enter largely into the discussion of free trade versus protection. As an exponent of genuine Democracy we are a free-trader in the most com prehensive signification of the term, which means to refrain from inter fering governmentally in individual concerns, in allowing people to work out their own destiny unhampered and nntrammeled in such way as seems to them most conducive to their own success. Tho whole theory of protection, whether of morals or money or of trade, Avhether in local option or prohibitive liquor laws, or legal ten der or paper currency acts, inflation schemes, or tariffs " for the protec tion of home industry," is based up on the hypothesis that some one man, or set of men a sovereign or legislative' or popular majority knows what is good for other men better than they know themselves. To this we are, of course, being thor oughbred Jefferson ian Democrats, unalterably opposed. We are free-traders, a term under the present circumstances of the country, capable of modification; and subject to pervision or misapprehen sion by its unscrupulous opponents. But we use it here, as we have said, in its largest sense. Now, the great mission of free-trade, for this genera tion at least, is, to our mind, the sweeping away from the comprehen sible processes of nature the vast number of economical cobwebs which man's subtilety and industry have woven. There i no snbject upon which the human mind lias been so muddled and mysti'ied as on that which tho authorities are pleased to denominate the science of money and currency, exchanges and bank ing. Yet, paradoxical as it sounds, we hold that this subject is as simple as simple can be, if we do but con tent ourselves by applying to the obvious facts existing about us, the elementary principles of honesty and common sense in other words, tho non-interference principles of free trade. In the conduct of our private af fairs we deal with all these questions in a small way. and always deal with them intelligently. We never, for instance, delude ourselves with the ridiculous axiom that " debt is a blessing," or that paying high prices for everything we use or consume increases our aggregate riches, or that taxation leads to wealth, or that refusing to liquidate our obligations is creditable. But the moment we come to dealing with public affairs we grow paradoxical; try to be or appear profound, and we become helplessly muddled, mired, and con fused. Ye cannot and will not real ize that what is right and good for one is so for all. A thorough mas tery of free-trade principles will alone heln us out of the bog. The editor of tho Michigan Argus seems to be the sort of a man one likes to hear of as standing at the helm of a newspaper. A subscriber lately came to him with an article in his hand and this speech in his mouth: " Put that in the Argus or stop my j paper. lhe editor did not put in the arti cle but er .sed the subscriber's name and even surprised him by surveying the event. " We have no desire," he says, "to lose our subscribers; and yet there is running through our head an old and familiar rhyme, penned, no doubt, by an editor in just our fix: We do not lelong to our potrons, Th.s paper is wholly our own ; Whoever likes it can take it. Who don't can let it alone." " We patronize those who patron ize us," is the motto over tho Zions vills, (Ind.) 77??.' advertising col umns. And to this another paper adds: "We go for the scaps of those who go for our scalp; we stir our selves for those only who stir for us; we are as lukewarm as fresh milk for those who, while pretending to be our friends connubiate with our enemies; we will take no chances of injuring ourselves by supporting for office those pusillanimous pups w ho, when in, think the smartest thing they can do is to give us a kick. Newspapers have been too long looked upon as a mere stepping stone to power. Editors have been too long content to gather up crumbs, but if we have no chance at the loaf we don't fight worth a cent." "Little Rhody" is, no doubt a model State, and yet her rulers man age to amerce the people to a consid erable extent to pay the expense of running the governmental machine. The Providenc Journal estimates that the government of tho State costs each inhabitant $1 09 per an num, not to mention local taxes. The State expenses of the little com monwealth are 432,553. Tn yer. mont the State government costs 8343,822 a vear, or 81.04 a head; in New Hams'hire, 8152,000 a year, or 47 cents a head; and in Delaware onlv 31,333, or 25 cents a head. Rhode Island is evidently extrava gant, for though its legislators work for a dollar a day, somebody gets the money. The highest State salary in Delaware is that of the Chancel lor, 82,500.. A Loxo Time. "Brethern," said a young Quaker lately married, "I have married a daughter of the Lord !" "The devil you have!" ejaculated an Irishman. "It'll be a long time bo fore oull sx -ver fitter in la-." COURTESY Naked Justice on a Oatc-Post. Our old friend, Judge Tom Farrar of Lake Providence, says the New Orleans Picayune, who is known throughout the State as a lawyer and jurist of eminent abilities, and a gen tleman of most lovable character, tells at his own expense, and with the keenest gusto, a story which we think is too good to lose. It appears that some years ago, while riding through one oi the prettiest districts of North Louisiana, he came, about sundown, to a,veek. which was so deep as to require a swimming feat. The Judge being a man of vigorous and invincible determination, no sooner realized this emergency than he promptly dismounted, undressed himself with great dispatch, and at tired only in is high plug hat and a pair of spectacles, bestrode his gal lant cob and urged him to the venture. After a desperate struggle the oth er side was gained, and the Judge again dismounting, this time with a profound sigh of relief, was about to resume his integuments, when the horse, prompted by some diabolical spirit, started from his side and trot ten slowly down the road. Of course, the Judge had no re course but to trot after him; and thereupon there ensued one of the most remarkable and picturesque chases ever known in histery or tra dition. The horse appeared to have no motive save that of keeping a cer tain distance ahead of the Judge, and of finding some comfortable barnyard where he might refresh himself after such gigantic efforts. The Judge, whatever may have been his ambitions, confined himself to the effort of keeping tho truant beast in sight. It must have been a cheer ful aud invigorating experience to see the Judge trotting briskly along that smooth and sandy road, his ven erable plug hat pulled over his eyes, and his spectacles bobbing up and down his nose. The chase was long, and tho moisture of great exertion would gather-on his brow, and then, when lie reached around for his handkerchief, alas! it was not there. All of which had the effect of im pressing the Judgo with his very pe culiar and unfortunate situation, and imparting renewed play and light ness to his legs. So the two bowled pleasantly along preserving a steady relative distance, until just as the setting sun was red dening the distant hills and touching the Judge's manly form with gold, the horse whisked suddenly into a gate bolted with eager haste toward a stable dimly visible in thedistanco. The farm-house sat in a grove of trees whose shaddows made a great darkness round it, and from this grove, as the Judge was scampering furiously after his horse and ward robe, there issued sundry yellow dogs, surly of mein and shaggy of appearance. The Judge felt that it would bo utterly impossible, under these circumstance, to assume that majesty of aspect and fearlessness of gaze which is currently believed to be the correct thing with dogs, and so, -seeing a friendly gate post near at hand, he gave one wild bound and reached its summit just as the lean est and fiercest of the dogs snapped viciously at his legs. When the uproar had subsided, and the Judge, realizing the absurd ity of the situation, had regained his customary frame of mind, a female voice was heard calling from the house: "Who's there?" "A fellow-creature in distress, manam." " Where are you ?" " On the gate-post," said the Judgo beginning to enjoy the joke. " What can I do for you?" It was too much. The Judge's old humor and quisical love of meni came over him. " Call off these dogs, and bring me all the fig -leaves on the place." Some Weather Signs. M. Quad, a humorous writer on the Detroit papers, enumerates the following as among the most reliable weather signs: If pear trees blossom before the 20th of March, and you notice the cows and horses rubbing themselves against tho meeting-house door and the top rail of the fence casts two separate shadows, it argues well for the coming wheat crop. If the clouds all move one way during November, .and big girls go bare-footed, and tin peddlers are nu merous, and yo'ur wife wants a new pair of shoes, and plumb-trees grow the most branches on the west side, the next year will be prolific of thunder-storms and lightning rod agents. If pumpkins are frost-bitten before they turn yellow, snd house-rent goes up, and catnip-tea has a bitter taste, and saw-logs show an inclina tion to roll up hill, the potatoe-rot is sure to follow. If there are high winds in Febru ary followed by warm rains, and cattle refuse to lick salt, and red headed girls are conspicuous, July will be a cool month. Magnaximocs. A number of ex Confederate soldiers in South Caro lina recently exhumed the bones of two Union soldiers, buried in neg lected graves by the roadside, inclosed them in handsome coffins, and forwarded them to their homes in Ohio. Broken Ur. A marriage was bro ken tip in Dnluth by. the young man making an unexpected call and find ing the poodle-dog playing with lus true love's glass eye ' His Answer. ' Where are yon going ?" said a little boy to another who had slipped on an icy pavement. ' Going to get up," was tho blunt reply. - - OF BANCROFT LIBRARY', Multum in Parvo. Laugh if you are wise. MeArtial. Shadow own its birth to light. Gay. Frailty, thy name is woman. Shakspeare. . Wine has drowned more than tho sea. Publius Syrus. Felicity, not fluency, of language is a merit. Whipple. Alight wife doth make'a heavy husband. -Shakspeare. The less men think, the more they talk. Montesquieu. Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies. Pope. Too low they build who build be neath the stars. Young. Years steal fire from the mind as vigor from tho limb. Byron. The surest way not to fail is to de termine not to succeed. Sheridan. They that stand high have many blasts to shake them. Shakspeare. Fortune dreads the brave, and is only terrible to the coward. Seneca. Give mo the eloquent cheek where blushes burn and die. Mrs. Osgood. There are some persons on whom virtue sits almost as ungraciously as vice. Bonhours. Time is a continual ever-dripping of moments, which fall down one upon the other and evaporate. llichter. If wo are at peace with God and our own conscience, what enemy among men need we fear? Hosea Ballou. This dread of midnight is the noon of thought, and wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars. Mrs. Bar bauld. The clouds may drop down titles and estates, wealth may seek us; but wisdom must be sought. Young. Those who bestow too much appli cation on trifling things becomes generally incapable of great ones. ltochefoucauld. The cheap ambition, eager to es pouse dominion, courts it with a lying show, and shines in borrowed pomp to shine a twin. Jeffrey. This weak impress of love is a fig ure trenched in ice, which with an hour's heat dissolves to water, and doth lose its form. Shakspeare. A woman cannot love a man she feels to be her inferior; love without veneration and enthusiasm is only friendship. Madame Dndevant. A person that would secure to himself great deference will, per haps, gaiu his point by silence as effectually as by anything he can say. Shenstone. Chill penury weighs down the heart itself, and though it sometimes can be endured with calmness, it is but tho calmness of despair. Mrs. Jameson. There is strength and a fierco in stinct, even in common souls, to bear up manhood with a stormy joy when red swords meet in lightuing. Mrs. Hermans. Love covers a multitude of sins. When a scar cannot be taken away, tho next kind office is to hide it. Love is never so blind as when it is to spy faults. South. There is a limit to enjoyment, though the sources of wealth may be boundless, and the choicest pleas ures of life , bo w ithin the ring of moderation. Tupper. In all cases of slander currency, whenever the forger of the lie is not to be found, the injured parties should have a right to come on any of the endorsers. Sheridan. It has been well observed that the misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations con tinually repeated. Johnson. The blossoms of passion gay and luxuriant flowers, are brighter and fuller of fragrance but they begile us and lead us astray, and their odor is deadly. Longfellow. Verily, I swear, it is better to be lowly born and range with humble livers in content, than to bo perked up in a glittering grief, and wear a golden sorrow. Shakspeare. Let go tli3 hold when a great wheel runs down the hill, least it break thy neck with following it; but the great one that goes up the hill, let him draw thee after. Shak speare. A darkey gives tho following rea son why the colored race is superior to the white: " All men are made of clay, and like the meerschaum pipe, they are more valuable when highly colored." Like dogs in wheel, birds in cage or squirrels in a chain, ambitions men still climb and climb, with great labor and incessant anxiety, and never reach the top. Burton. The human mind cannot create auything. It producesiothing until having been fertalized by experience and meditation, its acquisitions are the gems of productions. Buffon. When I see the elaborate study and ingenuity displayed by women in the pursuit of trifles, I feel no doubt of their capacity for the most herculean undertakings. Julia Ward Howe. Tho greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice. The rich are al ways advising the poor; but the poor seldom venture to return the coci plfment. Helps. , Indiana Democratic Convention. The Democratic State' Convention met at Indianopolis on the 15th ult. Gov. Hendricks was elected its Pres ident. This is rather an important convention and, perhaps, may bo re garded as striking the key-note for the Presidential campaign. Wo ap pend a synopsis of the resolutions as furnished by telegraph : It is the opinion of the Democracy of Indiana that the present adminis tration is untrustworthy in its forci ble overthrow of the government," and using State offices for party pur poses; squandering money, through the Departments of Justice, in North Carolina, Arkansas, and other States; appointing corrupt men to office and removing upright ones, who have fought corruption, and appointed unreliable and corrupt men for Dis trict of Columbia ollicers. The Re publican party must be held respon sible for the acts of the administra tion it placed in x,ower r uo fraudulent Sanborn contracts, and the oppression of the Southern whites. The convention asks the people to entrust the Democratic party with the administration of the State and country upon the follow ing principles: Strict construction of the Constitution of the United States and its amendments; enforce ment of a low tariff for revenue pur poses; condemnation of all gratuities in the form of retroactive salaries, State or national; condemnation of the attempt of the last Congress to muzzle the press; securing to every citizen in the country equal protec tion under the laws, without violat ing tho principles of local self gov ernment, or interfering with the social customs of the people; oppo sition to high fees and salaries, either in the State's or the United States' service; reduction of national and State salaries to a degreo that tho people may bo relieved from higher State and local taxation. The con vention favors the redemption of 5 20 bonds in greenbacks, according to the law under which they were is sued, and a repeal of the law which assumed to consider them payable exclusively in gold; favors the re peal of tho national banking law, and the substitution of greenbacks for national bank currency and a return to specie payments as soon as the business interests of tho country will permit; favors such adjustments of tue volume of currency as willsnb serve the industrial and commercial requirements of the country; favors a liberal system of education alike to whites and blacks, but opposed to a mixture of races m public schools and institutions. The convention views with abhorrence tho attempt on the part of the Federal Govern ment to take control of all schools and colleges, churches, hotels, rail roads, steamboats, theaters and graveyards for establishing negro equality and coercing the whites to give equal social aud political rights to the colored men, as proposed in the civil rights bill, under jtenaltics and fiues. The convention arraigns Senators Morton and Pratt before the State for favoring this atrocious measure. The act known as the Bax ter bill has proved a failure and is of doubtful constitutionality, and re strains intemperance less than a ju dicious license law, therefore its repeal is favored. Wrong Principle. The follow ing is from the Sac. Vol. Agricultur alist: "Boys will bo boys" we havo heard it said. "Boys will be men, might be more properly said, though the majority of farmers try to make their sons believe they are only boys, when in fact they would be men" in every sense, had they been granted the necessary facilities to fit them selves for a state of independent manhood. Keep a boy chained down on a farm until he has attained his majority, compelling him to labor without hope of promotion or remu neration, more than simply his board and clothes and suddenly turn him out on the world to do for himself, and we shall find him incapable of thinking for himself, or laying any definite plans for his future. On the other hand, raise a boy to feel that he is of more concequence than a mere day laborer, give him an in terest in the growing crop, in the stock, poultry, and farm, and you impart to him a feeling of self-confidence and independence, which is the foundation of true business men. Without self-reliance no man ever attained success, and the sooner boys arc taught this, the sooner they will become men ready to battle with ad versity, and the cares of life. A New Plank. It is reported, says an exchange, that a new plank is to be inserted in the Republican platform in South Carolina, in conse quence of an unpleasant accident to a colored voter who became the vic tim of a spring gun while endeavor ing to commit a burglary. A meet ing of colored citizens, after full discussion of that lamentable occur rence, unanimously resolved against hereafter giving their support to any candidate for office, and especially for the Legislature, unless he will pledge himself to work for the pas sage of a bill making it a penal of fence to set a trap-gun in tho vicinity of any corn crib, chicken coop, smoke house, or pig stye. " Choice EprrrtETS. "Gilt edged ass," "howling ignoramus," and " perpendicular idiot," are some of the choice epithets bestowed by the Chicago Tribune upon the leaders of tho new party out West. i t There are moments when petty slights are harder to bear than even a serious injury. Men have died of the festering of a gnat. Cecil Dan- A War of Races. From the Chicago Tribune. ' - The misgovernment of the South cannot continue forever. Misgov ernment means plunder, insecurity of life, liberty, health, property and reputation. It means anchary. It means barbarism. When we say then that tho misgovernment of tho South cannot last till doomsday, .wo meau simply that tho Southern peo ple will nqj submit forever to the present condition of things. The Southern people value "life, liberty, property, health, education, refine ment a3 much as other people in otherquarters of the world. They are well fitted by nature to eijoy them. TJiey will rebel against the deprivation of them as any other race will. We may bo sure, then, tha they will by some meams bring the reign of corruption and robbery to an end before it brings itself to a close by raduciug the Southern States to the condition of Mexico and Central American Republics. When ?e ask how the misgovern ment of tho South is going to cease, we find ourselves face to face with an alarming problem. Where the South is misgoverned, negroes & abound, and between their predomi nance in certain States and the mis government there, there is undoubt edly the relation of cause and effect. Such States cannot be helped to a better government by peacable means from within. Good government then supposes negro co-operation to es tablish it. But such co-operation cannot be rationally expected. The negro race has no inherited ability) for self-government, and has not had time to acquire it. It has inherited ability only to be governed to be led. It is as natural for the Ameri can negro to be led as it is for the American Anglo-Saxon to read. Nor can it be expected that the Ethiopian skin shall be changed immedeately by education. XJan the South afford to wait till the negroes are educated? So far as help from within, then, is concerned, tho South is in this posi tion. It needs to do anything toward giving itself a better govern ment, the co-operation of the negroes, and the co-operation of the negroes it cannot obtain. Can it obtain any help outside? Tho General govern ment cannot, under the Constitution legitimately resolve itself into a pro tectorate over the South, though it can do much by the force of example and by moral influence. Shall this force of example, this moral influ ence bo exercised? If not, then it will remain for tho South to remedy the evils it is suffering froni without negro co-operation and without aid from outside. This it can do only by some kind of revolution. We are O far from counseling this method of procedure. We are of opinion that it is, considered as a remedy, no bet ter than the disease. We refer to it simply as tho remedy which certain people in the South seem to consider the only practicable one. The ques tion of race has been raised in the Southern States. It has been raised by the negroes themselves. They have been drawing the - lines. They have under the lead of the carpet baggers, encroached oi the property rights of the Southern people till in Louisiana, as Gov. McEnery said lately in an address delivered at Monroe, in that State, unless their insolence is ended, the "day of tho irrepressible conflict will come when physical force will solve the prob lem." Aud he continued: "The only means of averting this calamity lies in the union of tho whites of the State, .representing, as they do, its virtue, courage, and wealth, into one compact and impos ing phalanx. The negro party and its corrupt and insolent leaders dare not stand before the menacing front of an insulted and outraged people. This issue is forced on us by the negro party in Louisiana. It is none of our seeking, nor are we responsi ble for it and tho results that may be O born of it. On the Contrary, we have almost sacrificed our honor and manhood in fruitless attempts to avoid it. Its gravity aud masruitude terrified us so that we hardly dared imagine it ever could arise But it has arisen, and now looms up so prominently in the political heavens as to overshadow and dwarf every other question in Louisiana. It re mains to be seen if the white people of Louisiana are capable of meeting tho demands of duty and the hour, or whether by dissension and divis ion they demonstrate to the whole world their .civility and their cow ardice." The Vicksburg Herald indorses MeEnery's views fully, and com plains that in that city, where tho population is about equally divided between whites and blacks, the latter have selected for ten out of the thir teen of the city offices people of their own color, while white men chosen by them are of the lowest character. The man they nominaten for Mayor was indicted, before his nomination, for an infamous crime, and the white man they nominated for Alderman was dishonorably discharged from tho grand jury a short time before. The utterances of McEnery reiter ated by the Herald point to the dread ful possibility of a coming war of races in the South, which for the sake of civilization must be avoided. Smart. Says the Oakland Trans cript: A smart young Granger of this county, has this year set out 1,000 eucalyptus trees besides sitting up five nights in every week with a red haired young woman of great beauty. The young man is entitled to the medal. While Miss Libbio Shreve was driving to Dallas last Saturday her horse ' became unmanagable and threw her and two little children from the buggy, happily not BericruS 1 injuring them." O O Gu ?3 o o o o G o &