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THE ENTERPRISE. OREGON C1T1', OREGON ALGIST 7, 1S74. Timely VarjiIur. "We have on our subscription list quite a number of names -who are indebted to us from one to five years. This is a longer credit than we can afford, aDd within a yery few days we propose to notify all in arrears for overyear, tho state of their account, and if no i settlement be made within thirty cys after such notice, we shall discontinue the pa per. "We cannot give credit for an indefinite time, and hereafter, when ever a person is over a year in ar rears, we shall give hjim notice and stop the paper. . Iff payments are made promptly on Abe notices we shall give, the bills 111 be as if paid in advance, at the yjfe of $2 50 per annum; butif pay n'.- it is delayed, and we are forced to the expense of collecting, it -will-be made out in accordance with our terras, $3 per year. We trust that we shall not be compelled to " scratch" any of our patrons from ov.r books; but unless payment is made, we nuisj, part with them. Wo not only trust that those who are now in arrears will pay up on the okl account, but we having trusted;: them so long, they will make payment for the next year in advance. A Different pinion. While one of our State Democratic exchanges appears to have no doubt of Grant's ability to succeed in his call its attention to the following from the Indiauapqlis Journal, a Radical organ, and i(ublished at the home of Senator Morton, in fact, it is his organ, but takes no stock in tho third term question. It doubts whether the PresiderA desires anoth er re-election, but i he does it is confident he could not succeed in such a movement. "Tho Republi can party," it says, v is a powerful organization, but th( nomination of Grant for a third term would shatter it into a million fragments, and rightly, so, for it would be a piece of political bravado and a wanton disregard of an almost universal sen- timent, at a time wen there is no emergency to justify such a disre gard. It would be a clear case of voluntary suicide, and we assume it as tolerably certain that tho party will not commit any such rash or foolish act. Neither tho preservation of the Government nor of tho party requires his renominatipn, and if he or his friends are Working to that end they will undoubtly fail." Sad CoNnrriON. An exchange says that there are States in the Union that, fifteen years aio, were inhabit ed by wealthy, bay, and prosper ous communities, J Vid now if the whole property of f V of these States was put up at attoKu, or, if it was sold at a liberal appraisement, it would not bring enough to pay the public and private debt. This may rA atti- nr sovnrs of im r ronn. structed Commonwealths in the South, and notablv of the great and beautiful but ruined State of Louisi ana, where the State officials, serfs of Grant, rule tyrannically without a, shadow of legal right to the offices in which they are sustained by Fed eral power backed by bayonets. Three Issues The San Francisco Examiner says that the currency and tariff questions have already divided the Radical party, and the possibility of Grant being a candidate for a third term will unite the Conservative ele ments of the Union to use their influence to prevent a departure from tho traditions of tho Republic re specting the tenuro of tho Presiden tial office. They will remember the warning of Jefferson, that electing one person to tho Chief Magistracy for several terms may end in making that elevated position a life-office for somo ambitious aspirant. These three issues are taking such form as to warrant the belief that they will underlie tho Presidential contest, which on the next occasion promises to be the most exciting that has ever transpired in the United States. A Vigorous Protest. Comment ing on Governor Kemper's third term letter, the Mobile Register, edit ed by John Forsyth, makes this vig orous protest against the scheme: If General Grant wants to try his hand for a third terra, let him run on his own strength, or let the Rad icals carry him if they can. Conser vative men of all patties would sim ply disgrace themselves in the eyes of common sense and common justice and propriety who undertake to sup port the most selfish, unpatriotic, unprincipled chief magistrate who lias ever sat in the chair of Washing ton, Jefferson and Adams. Let the South, of all sections, beware how they are seduced into this monstrous Hard Monet. A convention whose purpose it shall beto give birth to a party with bard money for leading issue,-has- been , called in Illinois. The signers of the call are members of the Democratic State Committee, of the Liberal Commit tee, and several prominent citizens of Chicago. The convention will meet in Springfield on September 1st. Hon. II. G. Struve. A short time since, one of the Portland papers published a report that this gentleman, now Secretary of Washington Territory and Grand Master of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, was a deserter, and otherwise reflected upon him as a gentleman and citizen. While we have no sympathy with Mr. Struve politically, our personal relations amply justify us in publishing the following vindications of him from the Washington Territory papers. We have known Mr. Struve for many years, and have ever heard him spo ken of as a gentleman of unimpeach able character, and in justice to the Order, of which he is the present honored head, we cheerfully give place to the following from the Seat tle Dispatclt, edited by Be ri ah Brown, Esq., says: Admitting Secretary Struve .to be the deserter alluded to, what of it? At the time of his enlistment, over twenty-one years ago. he might have been eighteen years of age; certainly not over that age; he had but recent ly arrived in the country unacquaint ed alike witli our military system and civil customs, it is not remark able that he should have sought military service under the Republi can idea that perfect equality was maintained in t his country and that ability and merit were the only tests for promotion. Nor is it strange that a, gentleman with an University education and cultivated tastes should take the risks of desertion as the only alternative to the dog's life of a common soldier in barracks, re duced to the menial service of a hos pital attendant, especially in the case of an unnaturalized foreigner joiuing the service under the inspi ration of military ambition and de votion to Republican liberty. But that was over twenty years ago, dur ing all of which time Mr. Struvehas maintained, in every community in which he has-lived, the character of of an honorable and trustworthy cit izen; has achieved distinction and competence in the practice of his profession; and has held several honorable public positions, the du ties of which he has discharged with signal ability and acknowledged fidelity, and a few men commend in a higher degree the confidence and respect of their fellows. Is not twenty years of a useful and irre proachable life sufficient to atone for a single indiscretion of youth and want of knowledge, punishable by law but involving no malice or wrong to any human being, and ac tuated only by the impulse for free dom which induced the slavo to break the bonds by which he is held under the law. To the ?.bove, the Olympia Stan dard, a Democratic paper, adds this just endorsement of tho views ex pressed by tho Dispatch. The Stan dard says: We add our cordial endorsement to the above, as a simple act of jus tice to Mr. Struve. The public will bear us oufin the assertion that, politically, his course has been wide ly separated from our own and our personal relations have not always been tho most amicable, but when an attempt is made to blast a reputa tion founded on many years of use fulness and honorable effort by the citation of a single j-outhful indis cretion, we trust that we never shall be found so devoid of the common impulses of humanity as uot to raise our voice against such a manifest injustice. We believe the charge to be inspired solely by malice, aud this is the opinion of the whole com munity, except tho few who have been its instigators. Heavy Robbery at Salem.-'-Tho office of Well, Fargo & Co., at Salem, was entered by burglars on Wednes day night of last week, and some 85,000 in coin and valuables ab stracted from the safe. The burglars entered the residence of Mr. B. F. Brown, the agent, during the latter half of the night, and took from his bedroom his pantaloons, containing the keys of tho office and tho safe, and were thus enabled to perform their work in a very short space of time. Discovering his loss in the morning at about 7:30, Brown, hasti ly dressed, and fearing the worst, started for tho office. When about half way ho was met by one of the ; messengers, who informed him of the loss which himself and the com pany had sustained. We understand that suspicion rests upon three or four parties, but up to this time no arrest has been made. The safe con tained money and effects belonging to various corporations and individ uals in tho city, all of whom will be losers to the amount so deposited. Tho Superintendent of the Company has offered 81,000 for tho arrest anil conviction ol the thieves, to which the city adds 8300 and Mr. Brown himself 8250, making 81,550. Very Proper. No more fitting commentary on the bad character of the "Poland" law could be found or desired, says the Philadelphia In quirer, (Radical,) than the single fact that the first person to take advan tage of its tyranny is "Bois" Shep herd, head and front, beginning, middle and end of that notorious District of Columbia "Ring " which Congress had to get rid of by special act. "Boss" Shepherd is altogether the proper person to employ a law conceived in iniquity, and which can only be executed in corruption. Unconstitutional Ex-Attorney Gen. Black thinks the new law under which Congress expects to drag edit ors to N asuington from: any State for trial for alleged libel in any pub lication circulated tbere will fail He holds that it violates the spirit of the Constitution,"' which- guarantees the right to a trial where the alleged crime is committed, and that this right cannot be evaded by statutory provisions locating the crime where a newspaper is only circulated. Telegraphic News. New York, July 30. The Demo cratic State Central Committee of Illinois has issued a circular. They ask the restoration of specie a3 the currency of the country, free coinage, rigid restriction of government. State and National, and tho right of the people of the State to protect themselves from monopolies. Chicago, July 30. A fire to-day destroyed property on Water street worth' 835,000. There have been eleven alarms of fire here to-day; none false; no great damage. Galvestox, jnly 30. The Netcs' special says a fight between the In dians and rangers and United States cavalry occurred near Jacksborough, on Friday last. The Rangers lost twelve men and several wounded. The cavalry losi several men and. their commander and the whole force was repulsed by the Indians. Despite the action of the Govern ment in refusing to send military to Vicksburg, the executive powers of Mississippi still persist in the state ment that the public peace 4S endan gered. Gov. Ames, who has been away from his post, has returned, and to-day telegraphed President Grant, reiterating in the main the representations set forth in the tele grams and mail advices previously forwarded by the negro, Lieutenant Governor Davis. He makes no for mal demand for troops, but the tenor of his dispatch is such as to intimate that he desires Federal troops to be called to Vicksburg on election day. Washington, July 31. Governor Ames to-day telegraphed to the Pres ident that the condition of affairs in Vicksburg is alarming; that in fantry and cavalry organizations exist, and that bodies of armed men in violation of lawassnme the guar dianship of the peace. The contro versy is between the Democrats, who are white, and the Republicans, who are mostly black. Each fear frauds and violence from the other. Tho Democrats, who are masters of the situation, oppose tho presence of troops. Ho asks if there can bo any serious or harmful results in sending troops there, and will it not' be the least of the evils to have troops there in case of emergency. Secretary Belknap sent thefollowing reply: lion. A. Ames, J-Ackson, Miss.: Your dispatch has been submitted to the President. He declines to move troops except under a call made strietly in accordance with the terms of the Constitution. Montgomery, Ala., July 31. Tho Democratic State Convention ad journed this morning. B. D. Lewis and W. H. Torney are candidatea for Congress at large. Resolutions an nounce that the action of the Repub lican pa. ty necessitates a consolida tion of all whites in self-defence. They denounce as abominable the violation of the Constitution as con templated in the Civil Rights bill. New York, Aug. 1. Van F.ten, arrested at T re ton a couple of days ago for being concerned in the bond forgery in California, was removed from Jersey City yesterday and lodged in the Hudson County jail, to await the arrival of the United States Marshal from California. This morning, on going to Van Kteu's room, the jailor discovered that he was breathing heavily, and found standing by the prisoner's bed a two ounce vial of laudanum. The jailor administered emetics and went for a physician. Several doctors answer ed the call, .find an effort was made to resuscitate Van F.ten. Detroit, Aug; 1. A fire broke out in Muskegon at an early hour this morning, and has destroyed nearly half the city. The portion of the city consumed contained mostly wooden buildings in the eastern portion. All the saw mills escaped The fire oniginated in Hart's boot and shoo store, on Western avenue, and everything was burned to the railroad depot. About 200 dwellings and 100 places of bus iness were destroyed. New York. August 2. A Herald" s special from Paris states that serious complications have arisen between Germany and France concerning Spanish affairs, and that a diplomat ic rupture between these powers is threatened. Justice Riley gave a decision to- lav, virtually dismissing the com- laint for libel against" Tilton. Moul- ton has not testified. Ho cannot be ound. Young Walworth, the murderer of lis father, has been declared insane and committed to an asylum. Aew Iork, Aug. 4. an Jrten, arrested by Lees, of San Francisco, died from tho effects of poison taken with suicidal intent. Physicians have declared that Van F.ten, the California bond forger, died of congestion of the lungs, and not from the poison which he took. Local option is everywhere defeat ed in Kentucky. The Democrats elected the Clerk of the Court of Ap peals. Ihe reservoir broke at irenion, New Jersey, flooding an area of one mile long and three hundred yards widf Many houses were swept awaj-, but no' lives were lost. A Long Team. The following from the Union Times, Union coun ty, shows how they carry their freight in Eastern Oregan. Ihey te a whole steamboat full on one wagon. Tho Union says: "Several., freight teams passed through town yester day, stopping long enough to sup ply themselves with grain and pro visions. The lead team was loaded with nearly sixteen thousand pounds of merchandise for Mormon Basin, was skillfully navigated by J. G. Thompson, and measured from the head of the lead horse to the nma end of the wagon over one hundred and twenty feet." Civil Rights conversation in Ma con between two darkies: "Say. Bill, when dis civil rights bill done passed fore Congress, do your know what I'se gwine to do "No, Sam: what yer gwine to do? "Use gwine down tode Brown House and take dinner setting at de same table wid de white folks. And den I'll set out in front and smoke my segar jes as big as any of em It way. niererer. If von 'tempts to eat dinner at de Brown House I bets you eats supper in h 1."-Star and C ultivatoK. . Gordon Duncan, of Linn county wo ttujuugea insane one day last, wees, and sent to tho Asvlum at Portland. The Champoeg Murderer. Below we give the communication of His Excellency iZ FGrover, Gov ernor, to the Sheriff of Marion Co., in relation to ,tbe case of Thomas Gerrand, now in jail awaiting the ex ecution of his sentence for the mur der of Thos. J. Hubbard, at Cham poeg, in that county,". on the 12th day of last April : Executive Office, 1 Salem, July 28, 1S74. f To Hios. C. Sham, Sheriff of Marion county Sir: Herewith I transmit you my findings and conclusions on an application to commute the sen tence of Thos. Gerrand, a prisoner in your charge, convicted of murder in the first degree, by 'which you will observe that I am not able to find sufficient grounds to warrant me in interfering with the proceedings of the Court. Very truly yours. L. F. Grover, Governor. State of Or., Executive Office, ) Salem, July 2S, 1S74. , In the matter of the application to commute the sentence of Thos. Ger rand: At the June term of the Cir cuit court of Marina county, Thos. Gerrand was tried upon" an indict ment for murder in the first degree. The jury in the case rendered a ver dict of guilty as charged in the in dictment. A motion in arrest of judgment and for a new trial was Jn terposed, but afterward withdrawn by defendant's council, whereupon sentence was passed upon the accus ed at the bar, that he be executed on the 14th day of August, 1874. Application is now made for Exec utive clemency, and that the sentence of the court be commuted to that of imprisonment for life. The facts in the testimony is gath ered from the official statement of the judge of the court, before whom the ease was tried, and of the prose cuting officer ' who conducted the trial on the part of the State are as follows: Several weeks before the difficulty, which culminated in the death of Thos. J. Hubbard, at the hand of Thos. Gerrand, on the 12th day of April, 1874. The latter had been employed to work for the form er, und a dispute arose between them as to the payment - of a small sum of money which Gerrand demanded and Hubbard refused to pay; the latter claiming that the amount of work which Gerrand had contracted to do for a stipulated price had not been done. " . A few days after leaving the ser vice of Hubbard t Gerrand obtained a Colt's navy revolver, and told one witness that "he had purchased it to use for the purpose of getting even with Hubbard." At another time he to'd two other witnesses that "Hubbard owed him money, and if he did not pay him he (Cerrand) would put a bullet through him (Hubbard)." On the morning of the homicide Gerrand asked another witness to load his pistol and to put in big charges, saying that he might kill a man that day. The pistol was loaded and Gerrand took it. went to Champoegand inquired for Hubbard. lie was liiloreu that liuubam was at a certain place half a mile distant. ille went to the place mentioned, luund liuiiuarii; little or nntiiing was aid but Hubbard shortly left the place going in the direction of Cham poeg, Gerrand followed close after him. Hubbard reached Champoeg entered the store of C. O. Pelland. Immediately afterward Gerrand came to the entrance of the store, and re- j mained standing in the door. Hub bard said to Mr. Pel land, "this man (referring to Gerrand) wanted to shoot me a while ago in the woods like a dog." Gerrand replied in sub stance "that if he (Hubbard) did not pay him he wouLl shoot him yet." To" which Hubbard rejoined, "I will see you damned first. Gerrand raised his pistol and fired, the ball taking effect in the lower front por- tiou of the neck, from the wound of which Hubbard died m a few days afterward. It does not appear tht Hubbard 1 lit 1 . m was armed at me time oi the latal meeting, nor that ho did anything further than stated to provoke the deadly assault. With these leading facts substan tially, though perhaps not exactly stated, there appear to be no materi al circumstances or points of evidence in conflict. After presenting the chief incidents of the case, as developed on the trial, J udge tionham remarks: "I studious ly endeavored to secure to Thos. Gerrand a fair and impartial trial ac cording to law. I am satisfied that on this score," ho just ground of com plaint can be entertained." "It was, in my judgment, conclu sively proven upon the trial of said Gerrand, that he did deliberately and with malice aforethought, shoot and kill Thos. J. Hubbard, as charg ed in the indictment." The Prosecuting Attorney remarks: "Tho accused, Gerrand. "was tried by a jury of good and lawful men, under the supervision of an honora ble, competent and concientious judge, and defended by able counsel." 1 presume the proceedings were fair and regular, as no exceptions to the same havo been final ly insisted upon. The petititions set up no newly discovered evidence nor do they present any considerations in pallia tion of the crime committed., which were not presented to the jury and urged before the court. Under this state of facts I cantot arrive at any other conclusion than that stated by tho judge who presided at the trial. " Commutation of tho sentence is sought upon three principal grounds: 1. The youth of the person under sentence. 2. He is of Indian blood in part. 3. Two of the petitions present arguments against capital punish ment in any case. The age of criminal responsibility. as laid down by legal authorities, is fourteen years, though upon proof of a sufficient knowledge pf and dis crimination between right and wrong persons of much younger years have been held amenable to the penal code for murder. After the age of four teen years it has been considered that the innocence of youth until past the period of full manhood is a strong restraint .'from- the commission of crime.-'""- : - - In this case it appears that Gerrand is between seventeen and eighteen years of age. There is no evidence that he has not, as nsual, the intelli gence and strength of mind accom panying those years. That he is of Indian blood in part, should not be allowed, and I think has not been allowed to weigh against him. The fact appears rather to have created a sympathy in his favor; as is mentioned in all the petitions. Neither should this fact be a bar to the violated law; for among all races of men, by all nations civilized and savage, and with few exceptions in all ages, there has been but one pen alty for the willful and deliberate taking the life of a fellow man that penalty is a life for a life. This has not only been the penalty affixed by human laws, but by the mandate of Dirine Power. All classes of men can, and do, understand this law. The Statute of this State declares that "every person convicted of mur der in the first degree shall be pun ished with death." While entertaining great respect for the views and feelings of those who urge opinions against capital punishment in any case, my sworn duty to execute the laws as I find them, does not permit me to enter tain arguments and considerations, hower cogent against the laws them selves. .Those are questions for tho consideration of tle Legislature. Acting under the weight of solemn official duty, and in view of the whole case, I am impelled to the conclusion that the judgment of the court ought not to be arrested, and that the sen tence of the court cannot justly be commuted. I admonish those in charge of tho prisoner that he have every privilege and assistance in his preparation to meet the final Judge of all men. L. F. Grover. The Ircss C'ag Law. The first case under the new "press gag law" of Congress is soon to come off before the Criminal Court of the District of Columbia. It is the case of a newspaper correspondent charg ed with slandering Zach. Chandler, of Michigan, who brings suit for $100,000 damages. Now that the press begins to awak en to the infamy of the attempt to abridge its liberties, by the enact ment of this Congressional law, it is, without distinction of party, raising its voice in condemnation of the deed, and menace and punish ment of its perpetrators. Many prominent Republican journals have had the sense to see, and the courage to denounce, both the law and the perpetrators in the manner they de serve. Nothing in the old sedition laws of the Federal party can bo found worse than this act, which confers on a grand jury, in the District of .Columbia, the power to indict and bring to Washington in custody the proprietors, editors or attaches of newspapers in any part of the land, there to be thrown" into prison to await trial, subject to such excessive bail as a court under direct influence of the government may demand, and compelled to rely upon such justice as may be secured under the shadow of federal corruption and authority. It is not too much to say that this law, if carried out as no doubt de signed by its authors, ends at one blow tho liberty of the press, and puts in the hands of the government a weapon of intimidation well nigh irresistable. But few papers in the country would be able to stand the expense of a single trial under its provisions, which may be brought about by the most wanton cause. Its enaction should condemn both its authors and the party under whose banner it has found favor and life, to cverlastiug infamy. It is a blow at the liberties of the people which they would be fools not to be alarmed at, and coward not to resent. llaniter of Liberty. Thomas Cerrand State of Or., Executive Office, ) Salem, Aug. 1, 1874. f 7b His Honor It. 1 lion ham, Judqe of the. Circuit Court of Third Judi cial District, in and for the countyof Marion : Whereas, Upon a Bill of Excep tions allowed at Chambers by his Honor, the Judge of said Court, in the case of the State of Oregon rs. Thomas Gerrand, triedupon an iu dictment for murder in the first de gree, at the June term of said Court, 1874, and of said charge convicted and sentenced to execution on the 14th day of August, 1874, and upon tho perfection of an appeal to the Supreme Court of the State of Ore gon in said cause, an application has been made by petition to susjend the execution of the sentence in said cause, until said appeal may be heard before the Supreme Court aforesaid. Now, therefore, I, L. F. Grover, Governor of the State of Oregon, do hereby order and direct that the war rant of execution in said cause bo suspended from said fourteenth day of August, A. D., 1874, until Friday, tho 2d day of October, A. D., 1874, and that hereupon proceedings be had according to law. L. F. Grover. Local Optiox. This question will be brought before our next Leg islature, and in order that tho mem bers may understand what this law costs in California, where it in pro nounced a humbug and failure, we appeYid a little bill of costs from the Colusa Sun, which was created in that county recently, as follows: To the judges and clerks of tho several precincts, 8177 25; to J. T. Gill, posting proclamations, etc., SG0; Addington & Green, publishing proclamations and printing election blanks. 100; making a total of 8337 25. Worse. One of the Eastern pa pers has nominated Chief Justice Waite for the Presidency in 1876. This, thinks tho New York Herald, is a grave error. The Supremo Bench should be above the atmos phere of politics. The nomination of a Chief Justice for the Presidency, in the estimation of the Herald, would be worse than the nomination of Grant for a third term. .No new developments of any im portance have been, made regarding the robbery committed in Wells, Fargo & Co.s Express office in Salem. (Summary of State News Items The sixth brick kiln of the season at the penitentiary is nearly com pleted. : The telegraph office at Salem has sent and received 3,883 dispatches in six months. T- e residence of Drury Stanton, on the Santiam river, was burned on Saturday last. The celebrated Virtue mine, of Baker county, is in operation. Forty men are employed. A Salem establishment expects to turn ont 200,000 grain bags before the 1st of November. A novel race is soon to take place on the Coquille river. Each horse will be ridden by a lady. Green apples, from Walla Walla, raised this season, are selling at Pen dleton for five cents per pound. ! Rumor has it that a very respecta ble La Grande lady is about to lose her mind; cause, Spiritualism. A. G. Walling of Portland has the contract for completing Eugene Sam ple's share of the State printing. There is an eighteen-year-old girl near Stayton, Marion county, that weighs 338 pounds in her night gown. Tho first load of flax was brought into Salem last Thursday from the farm of Mr. Jesse Macey, living near that city. Hon. A. n. Brown, the State Treas urer elect, will move his family to Salem early during tho coming month. A French gentleman living in Eastern Oregon, who spells his name Schwydrienxzkity, will soon leave for Europe. Churchill farm, in the Waldo Hills was sold the other day for 3,500, cash down. It sold last year for $1,000 less. Mr. Sanford. who lives south of Pendleton, has lately sold 1,800 head of sheep to Messrs. Frazier fe Curtis, for 2 50 per head. A number of improvements are going on in the city of Corvallis warehouses, dwellings and barns are going up rapidly. The citizens of Linn county are subscribing liberally to the stock of the proposed Agricultural Imple ment manufactory. The farmers of Eastern Oregon are busily engaged in harvesting. The wheat crop will hardly average a3 well as last year's crop. Parties at the Dalles are arrang ing to build a couple of sailing ves sels to run on the Columbia river between Celilo aud Wallula. The soldiers have evacuated camp Warner, aud that part of our country is left without protection and at the mercy of the blood-thirsty savage. Mark Hoffman, sent to the peniten tiary from Washington connty for one year, for the embezzlement of school money has been pardoned by the Governor. On Sunday last a fire got out on Winkle's Butte, ten miles south of Corvallis, and burned over almo.-t the entire mountain. About 3,000 rails were distroyed. B. Hall last week found some roek" a few miles from Jacksonville, which proved to be immensely rich. Less than a pound was crushed on a mor tar und assayed $1 .12's. While boring the well at the Court house, Corvullis, last ednestlay, at the depth of twenty-six feet from the surface, the auger struck a fir log. Tho wood is firm and hard. The Portland Relief committee havo made a final report showing that thev have expended the sum of $12.W.,35 in relieving the wants of sufferer's by the fire of Aug. 2d 1S73. : Mrs. Judge Thayer, of Benton county, has just had harvested ninetj acres of fall wheat, on her farm six or seven miles from Albany, which averages about thirty bushels per -cre. The celebration of the first anni versary of Ashland Lodge, No. 45, I. O. O F., was a successful affair. There was a large number of people present and everything passed off finely. Last Wednesday a son of T. G. Flannery who lives about two miles from Forest Grove, while riding on a load of oats fell off, and one of the wheels run over Lis breast hurting him seriously. Jackson county has 2,372 children, and her share of the school money is 61,650 80 coiu and $395 90 curren cy Josephine has 303 children, and her proportion is $273 50 coin, and $05 GO currency. The Catholics in Baker City and vicinity have at length determined that they will do their portion to ward securing the services of the Sisters of the Most Holy Names to open school in Baker City. Jesse Macy did some tall threshing with his machine, a few days since, turning out his 1,110 bushels in two and one half hours, including stop pages. The work was done on A. N. Gilbert's farm, near Salem. Milton Hale, of Albany was last week very badly injured by a calf kicking a-barn door against his head, from which misfortuue he has since been confined to his bed with a dan gerous affection of tho brain. It was rumored at Junction, but the report could be traced to no reli able source, that two men named Baker, who recently started east of the mountains with a drove of cattle from Lane county, had been murder ed by a man who accompanied them. Two Union county men left Union for Nevada last Monday week with nearly 300 head of cattle, consisting of yearling heifers, cows and cows with calves. They purchased their drove in Grande Ronde valley, pay- ing ? ana per head for yearlings. $12 for cows, and $14 and $16 for cows with calves. Up to within a few years past it was generally supposed that the hills west of Corvallis .were fit only for grazing purposes. ' This, however, is not true. The Gazette have in their office some fine specimens of wheat, grown upon these hills. Even the red hills are proving to be very productive, and well adapted to cereals. The Ueecher-Tilton Scandal. The Brooklyn Eagle says it i, in. formed and is authorized to announce that Henry Ward Beecher has written a letter to Frank Moulton, in which he earnestly asks and adjures Moul ton to go before the committee and exhibit all documents ho has and tell all he knows with reference to matters in controversy between Til ton and Beecher. This letter is de clared to be. long, explicit, earnest unmistakable and to the effect that Mr. Beecher has no wish and Moul ton no alternative but for the latter to go before the committee and fully and frankly say all he can say forth with. This earnest request from Mr. Beecher, coming with a request from the committee itself, will reach or has reached Moulton at Narragan sett Pier. New York, July 31. Beecher'a friends assert that when Moulton's evidence is submitted it will entirely exonorate the reverend gentleman from criminality, and show that the letters of apology were brought about and written for an entirely different purpose from that ascribed by Tilton. To a reporter in aconfidential talk) Beecher intimated that his friends might rely on him; that although the clouds were somewhat dark at present, the sun -of truth would soon burst forth and dissipate them; he was preparing a refutation of "all charges against him and felt strong in his own heart. He might havo been inconsiderate, even indiscreet but had wronged no one. ' A special messenger was sent to Narragansett Pier to see Frank Moul ton.but failed to find him. Shearman to-day said: "I bavo talked with Moulton on this subject ho has nothing to say that will hurt leecher. Moulton held very pecul iar relations with Tilton. His testi mony will not hurt Beecher'a case. I know what Mr. Moulton 's testimo ny is, and wish he would speak." The following is publishod this morning by mutual friends of Beech er and Tilton: "I know Mr. Tilton told me that Mr. Moulton, having learned that Beecher had got posses sion of a paper which Mrs. Tilton wrote, clearing him of wrong doing, Mr. Tilton went to Beecher'a house to get it. I don't know positively whether he used threats, but I know he went with a pistol in his pocket, prepared to get the papeiby threats if necessary. I know he came awnv with the paper in his pessession. Mr. Tilton told me so at the time." Dr. Bacon says; "It is mjPbelief that Tilton has been three years seeking to lay thiegg, and used my letter as a pretext before the Investi gating committee. It is a poor sub stitute for legal proceedings, and its verdict, in any case, will be unsatis factory. I . feel no sympathy for Tilton, and withdraw confidence in Beecher with the greatest reluctance." The Tribune loses hope of Beech er's ubility to explain his letters, just iu proportion as that explanation i"r delayed. It admits that its sympa thies have been entirely with the great preacher, but says delays are diugerous, and that Mr. Beeeher's friends have been altogether too tar dy. A full and convincing statement would still satisfy the demands of the decent public, but it will now require to be fuller and more con vincing than would havo been neces sary last week. The Sun ealls for Moulton, and says if he is not heard from it will be believed that for some reason ho dare not testify. The World demands of Tittyn more proof, and thinks the public ought to exact it from him. New York, August 2. During re cent years, Tiltou's treatment of his wife according to her testimony 1 ri- day evening, has been marked br frequent violence in word and occa sional violence in action. Several times after the alleged discovery Til ton locked his wife in her room and berated her in the strongest lan guage, accusing her of violating her marriage vow, not only with Beech er. out with lour or nve other men. whose names were unhesitatingly give to the committee by Mrs. lil tou. It has been learned that another witness, whose testimony is consid ered of great value, has testified be fore the committee to the same effect that Tilton had included other men besides Beecher in his charges of adultery with hiswife. Mrs Tilton said her husband seemed to have a sort of mania for digging into her ears the belief that Beecher was guil ty. He used repeatedly to take down the Bible and read to her: "Whoso ever looketh upon woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery already with her in his heart;" and would then say: "There. Elizabeth. don't you think Beecher is guilty of adultery." Mrs. Tilton also testified that Til ton, on ono occasion wheu he was ia a violent tit of rage, brandished his fist before her face so closely that she felt sure that he was about to strike her; so also thought another person, a 3'oung woman who was in the room; she rushed in between them to prevent Tilton's striking his wife, and received such a blow from his clenched fist that she fell to the floor, striking her head upon the side post of the parlor door as she fell, and receiving severe injuries. New York, August 4. A synopsis of Mrs. Tilton's testimony is pub lished. She says Tilton cared little for his family, and often left her en tirely alone without coal, or food, or help, and was constantly telling her of his wrong doings with other wo men. When Beecher began visiting her house, Tilton soon I e.-ame jeal ous, and in the winter of 18 began to accuse her of criminal intercour-'C with Beecher. She found comfort in Beecher s society, and tried to tea Tilton all their conversations, bntuo would declare she lied and was con cealing something, and was trying to make her confess, say irg he had seen her sitting on Beecher s lap. His treatment was bars" ana often violent. Tilton oons'antly o fessed criminality with other wonjj She never confessed anything of ju kind. The letters used by Tilton were written by him and copied y her when sick and out of her She never confessed to Miss Anthony that Beecher and herself Jjrct0h,t mitted adultery, but did tell her tb her husband had accused her oi In conclusion, she said Tilton jlonj is responsible for the disruption the family. Tilton has written a letter lo th Unn MMYinliininC' of taJI course, declaring that ho has no cob fidence in tne result. o