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PRECOX CIH, PRECOX, AlUl'ST , 1S71.
Col. Chapman's tetter.
On the first page; of this issue will
bo found a lengthy! letter from Col.
Chapman, Preside of the Portland;
Salt Lake and Dalits Railroad. The
Col. has given this matter his entire
attention for a number of years, and
the facts set forth in the address are
not over estimated, nor is the im
portance of the enterprise exagor
ated. We ask a careful reading of
the document, and trust that the ex
pectations of the Company may be
fully realized. Direct Eastern con
nection is the greatest need Oregon
is suffering from :to-day. Besides,
this road would cpen a section of
country, rich in mraeral resources as
well as agricultural, that is now
almost worthless. I The building of
this road would te the making of
Oregon, and while we are, and have
been, opposed to the general policy
adopted by the Government in the
past in giving away its public lands
to rich railroad companies, the pro
visions of the bill now pending before
Congress are so -favorable to tile
Government that it i3 a matter of
surprise to us wh;,j the bill did not
passjjefore this, it asks for no land
subsidy, nor does ' ask the Govern
ment for any money. It simply pro
Tides that the Government guaran
tee the interest on the bonds of the
Company at the sate of 88,000 per
mile, and the read to bo sub
ject to Congressional regula
tion, and in consideration of this
r
security by the Government, the
mails and Government stores and
troop3 are to be transported for ever
free of charge by tin Company.
As to the matt of immediate
State aid, we woulVrall the attention
Qof the members elect to this proposi
tion. "We are not prepared to state
that it would be in aecoriianeo with
the Constitution to grant the credit
of tho State for this purpose, but we
are satisfied some legislation can be
had by which tlqs funds already
given can bo maao more directly
available. This enterprise is of such
vast antt general i importance that wo
should allow notjjEng left undone
which will secure its speedy accom
plishment. Wo have long ex
perienced the great need of direct
connection, and our only hope now
seems in the construction of this im
portant road. If this road is built,
it will not bo long before the Oregon
and California road, as a matter of
self-interest, will bh forced to extend
its lino to California. As long as
they can prevent the construction of
any other route which will give a
direct communication, it is of but
little importance ik them to extend
their present roal Wo are fully
assured by tho ColTtthapman's letter
that the prospects for the road he
represents are very flattering, and in
private conversation with him. he
informed us that if the present bill is
passed at the coming session of Con
gress, the work will be commenced
without delay. Oron must have
direct connection w .a the other sec
tions of the Union, and until we do,
we shall not prosper in that propor
tion we ought to, taking into consid
eration our wealth, climate, and com
mercial situation. n our opinion,
tho Portland, Dalles and Salt Lake
Railroad is tho most important en
terprise that Oregon and adjoining
Territories can puih to an early"
completion.
Local Option anc-i Prohibition.
One of our most I teemed friends
writes us that he rtVards our views
on the petitions no being circula
ted for Local Option and Prohibi
tion, as correct, and trusts that the
Legislature will net waste time on
these snbjects, which have been
worn threadbcar and proved a fail
ure wherever they have been enacted.
If tho members of tho next Legisla
ture will consult the interests of our
State they will put down all such
legislation on the start, and not fool
their time away with a subject that
can be the result of ho earthly good.
The great trouble v.'ith Legislatures
generally is, that they try to Legis
late entirely too much. While we
would be glad to see intemperance
eradicated from the face of the earth,
wo see no way of its accomplishment
until the apetito of man is changed
and its manufacture stopped. If the
Legislature can pass laws which will
do that, then all right. All other
efforts to stop tho curse are useless
and will avail noticing but trouble
and useless
seless expenstA
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.he last term th
ty Court, tlLCo
At the last term Ithe Clackamas
Countv Court, tlLvCommissioners
purchased the Dr. Thessing brick
building for a Court House. The
price paid was 84,000 in county
orders, equivalent to $2,530.
We clip the above from the Bul
letin. In justice to our county we
repeat the price paid was three
thousand dollars is; county orders,
which is equivalent :to twenty-seven
hundred dollSrs, oAers being ready
sale at ninety cenfl We hope the
Bulletin will make t-ue correction, as
we do not desire to ave the report
go abroad that our county's credit is
bo low down as givn in the above.
John Adair, Jr., of Astoria, has ac
cepted the position if Brigadier-General
of State MilithA 8o long filed by
Col. A. I. lJennisrll .
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The Game Law.
A subscriber in Lane county, calls
our attention to the fact that certain
Members of the Legislature are op
posed to the present game law,-.and
says that he for one, (and he is a
farmer,) sees no reason why the law
should be repealed, and hopes it will
not, but that it be amended so as to
protect certain game during tho
month -of July. The writer says:
" I learn that some of our Repre
sentatives are determined to knock
our game law into a cocked hat ; or
'bust in tryinV We should not
only spare harmless animals that live
without our care, but we should pro
tect them, so that your children and
mine maylive to see them in their
native wilds as we have seen them.
I cannot see that all the good and
pleasant things of our country should
be consumed or be destroyed by one
generation."
There can be no question but what
there has been a great deal of game J
killed in many parts for simply the
sport of killing, ami we can see no
good reason why the present law
should be repealed. We know that
it is a matter of inconvenience to
some persons who live on the outer
settlements, and that gamo being
plenty it is a great inducement to
kill it. But these persons should
remember that each year, as settle
ments increase, the game is dimin
ished, and it seeks its home further
into the mountains. The indiscrim
inate killing of game will soon ex
haust the supply, because many per
sons kill deer and other game for the
hides alone and leave the meat for
the crows. Our correspondent is
perfectly correct, that we should
protect the harmless animals which
supply our settlers with food so
that they be not exterminated, and
we trust that the Legislature will not
attempt to repeal the law. If there
is any part of our State where game
is yet so abundant as to be trouble
some to the farmers, let those sec
tions be exempted from its operation
But by no means let us go back on a
law which has proved so beneficial
in protecting and fostering the inno
cent animals which furnish food to
thousands during the proper season.
Law or r.o law, it is decidedly wrong
for persons to kill game during the
months it is protected by the present
law. Let the members of the next
Legislature investigate this matter
and see the great good it has already
accomplished.
The Indiana Democracy. Mr.
Joseph McDonald, chairman of the
Indiana Democratic State Committee,
informed a rovrjovter of the Chicago
Ti V,une, recently, that in his judg
ment the Democrats will elect their
ticket by a handsome majority, but
it would be after a well contested
campaign. Concerning the Legisla
ture, he thinks, that tho complexion
of the Indiana State Legislature is
more difficult to determine now than
the result of the State ticket. There
are several causes for this. In the
first place, the Radical party, in their
apportionment of the State for Sena
torial and Representative purposes,
secured all the advantages that it
was possible for them to do in the
districts formed. Governor Baker
denounced the districting bill as an
infamous outrage on the Constitution ;
still he signed it. Then the Grange
element in the Sjato will influence
more or les3 the selection of members
of tho Legislature. It will have
more influence on members of the
Legislature a great deal, than on the
general ticket of the State. .
The editor of a Minnesota Anti
Monopoly paper desires but one
office, and that is, as he states it him
self as followe:
There is, however, one office which
we would like to fill, and that is the
office of Undertaker to the eorrupt
Rings-Monopoly Party which now
predominates in this State. Wo
hope, at the next election, to decent
ly bnry them, big thiaves, little
thieves and all, so deep that Gabriel
will have to bore an artesian hole to
their graves, before the horn of res
urectjon will sound in their ears.
Stokage. Tho Astorian of the-Gth
says: "A private letter from Joseph
Watt, dated on the 2d, at Amity,
inquiring for storage room at Astoria
for 80,000 bushels of wheat from that
point, is au indication of the course
things are taking. Last year Astor
ians were canvassing the valley for
wheat now we are preparing to ac
commodate them, and will gladlv
store their surplus products, and
assist them materially in various
ways. Astoria is the point because
two or three thousand ton ships can
be loaded here with no obstacle in
tho wav.
Grand Representatives. Joe.
Buchtel, Representative to the Grand
Lodge, I. O. O. F.' which meets at
Atlanta, Ga., on the 11th of Septem
ber, will leave Portland the present
week. Mr. J. W. Snodgrass, the
other Representative, will leave
Oro Dell in about two weeks. We
wish them both a pleasant journoy
and safe return.
Orders have been received to stop
tho Dov nby and Harrington at As
toria. If the grain is not forthcom
ing to load these vessels they will
, probably go on to San Francisco. If
; Oregon wishes to profit by the in
' created tonnage this year, her farm
: ers imst come out with the grain
hip or sell; one of "the two speed-
lilv.
One Who saw the Future.
'It was given to few men, if to any,
says the San Francisco Examiner, to
see as clearly what the future had in
store for this country as to John C.
Calhoun, of South Carolina. In 1849,
twenty-five years ago, he made the
following remarks, which are so ap
plicable to our present condition that
they could not be truer if they had
been written yesterday. The great
statesman of South Carolinia was in
deed gifteel with "mystical lore."
He reasoned clearly from cause to
effect, and had a thorough under
standing of the motives which gov
ern the human heart. When these
predictions were made they were
sneered at by the most contemporary
statesmen as the visions of an alarm
ist. " They could not see in the inev
itable logic of events, where we
should surely elrift if a certain policy
were pursued. In some respects Mr.
Calhoun was the ablest man who
ever wrote or spoke upon the science
of Government in the United States.
However men may differ with him,
that must be conceded. The Con
stitution of the United States was to
him a piece of machinery which he
could dissect in every part, and with
the history of its formation he was
as familiar as he Avas with the Fng
lish alphabet. With such an iniqui
tous law as the so-called Civil Rights
bill hanging over us ready for pas
sage, tho Cincinnati Inquirer thinks
it ia well to read and read again what
Mr. Calhoun says:
"If emancipation should ever be
effected it will be .through the agen
cy of the Federal Government, con
trolled by the dominant power of
the Northern States of the Confeder
acy against the resistance and stuggle
of tho Southern. It can only be ef
fected by the prostration of the white
race, and that would necessarily en
gender tho bitterest feelings of hos
tility between them and the North.
Owing their emancipation to North
eners the negroes would regard them
asfriends, guardians and patrons, and
center, accordingly, all their sympa
thy in them. Tho people of the
North would not fail to reciprocate
and favor them instead of the whites.
Under the influence of such feelings,
and impelled by fanaticism and love
of power, they would not stop at
emancipation. Another step wouk.
be taken to raise them to a political
and social equality with their former
owners by giving them the right of
voting and bedding public office un
der the Federal Government. We
see the first step toward it in the bill
already alluded to to vest the few
blacks and slaves with the right to
vote on the question of emancipation
in this District. But when once
raised to an equality, thr-y could be
come the fast political associates of
the North, acting and voting with
them on all questions, and by this
political union between them, hold
ing the white race in the South in
complete subjection. We would in
a word change condition with them
a degradation greater than has ever
yet fallen to the lot of a free and en
lightened people, and one from which
we could not escape should emanci
pation take place (which it certainly
will if not prevented) but by fleeing
the homes of ourselves and ancestors,
nud by abandoning our country to
our former slaves, to become the per
manent abode of disorder, anarchy
and wretchedness. The blacks and
the profligate whites that might unite
with them could become tho princi
pal recipients of Federal offices and
patronage, and would in consequence
be raised above the whites in tho
South in the political and social
scale."
Patrons of Hcrbandry. The
stockholders in the Oregon Shipping
Storage and Commission company
of the Patrons of Husbandry met at
Good Templars' Hall on Saturday
lasi, at Portland, and effected an or
ganization by electing A. J. Dufnr,
of Multnomah, President; Greenbu'ry
Smith, of Benton, Vice President,
and J. T. Matlock, of Clackamas Co.,
Secretary. The following named
Directors were also elected: Green
bury Smith, of Benton; L. D. C.
Latourette. of Clackamas; Stephen
Coffin, of Marion; W. W. Powers,
of Linn; Levi W. Welkins, of Lane;
O. D. Babcock, of Polk, and A. J.
Dufnr, of Multnomah. The capital
stock of 8100,000 is said to have been
all taken, and it is in contemplation
to increase the amount. The next
regular meeting of tho company will
be held September 1st.
So Much the Worse. The Brook
lyn Eagle thinks that by the time
Charles A. Dana gets through with
"Boss" Shepherel, there won't be
enough of the "Boss" to serve as a
globule under a microscrope. It
further says that President Grant
will recede from the public respect
farther and flicker than the comet
is receding from the sun, in case he
dos'ntpart company with the "Boss."
If he can't well, so much the worse
for both of them.
Still in Session. The annual
Conference of the M. E. Church is
still in session at Portland. The
Conference last week failed to sus
tain the charges against Rev. Mr.
De Vore, and he was reinstated.
The charges against Rev. Mr.
McPheeters were also not sustained.
Rev. I. D. Driver was being examin
ed on charges against him at last
accounts. It appears that the Con
ference has had its hands full trying
the ministers on various charges.
A man named Squires, of Tilla
mook county, for some offense was
sentenced to jail- for sixty days, but
managed to break jail and went on
foot to Salem and applied to the
Governor in person. The Governor
advised him to go back and serve his
time out.
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Telegraphic News.
Painesyiile, O., August 13. The
Republican Congressional conven
tion here to-day nominated General
J. A. Garfield.
Chicago, August 13. iewsfrom
the various parts of the Indian coun
try indicates that . the Cheyennes,
Comanches, Kiowas, seeing formida
ble preparations made to punish
them for their recent depredations,
ask for peace and for the military to
call it even. Orders have, however,
been issued not to let these hostile
bands enter reservations, but for the
troops to follow-and punish them
wherever found.
Boston, August 12. There is a
steady demand for all desirable kinds
of wool, and the market is firm.
Combing and delaine selections are
very much wanted, and sales are
reaelily made at 55.62c as to quality
ior washed, and 43(5;4:5c for unwash
ed; but there is now very little offer
ing, and receivers very generally de
cline to sell for delivery ahead. The
stock of California wool has been
considerably reduceel by large trans
actions for some time past, and the
sales have been moderate at 3040c
as to quality.
Omaha, August 12. Grasshoppers
in the extreme southwest haveaiearly
ruined the crops and destroyed the
grass so that tho cattle and hogs are
starving. Relief movements are be
ing made here.
Memphis, August 12. Everything
is quiet at Austin, ami the troops
have elisbanded.
Omaha, August 12. A courier
from the Spotted Tail agency says
the band refuses to occupy the new
reservation, and are highly indiguant
at the proposal. They think Custar
is making a movement to crush
them.
Washington, August 14. The Au
gust returns of the Department of
Agriculture on the corn crops shows
that on the Pacific coast, California
has raised her average from 00 to 103
and Oregon depressed her's from 103
to 100.
Augusta, August 1G. Gabrial and
Mike Mura, who shot Captain A. F.
Butler, were taken from the jail on
the death of that gentleman, last
night by a crowd of armed citizens,
and, after three hours' trial before
au improvised jury, Gabriel was re
mandetl and Mike shot.
Washington, August 17. The fol
lowing postal changes have been
made on the Pacific coast:
Offices established Camp Harney
Grant county, Oregon, Wm. J. Ste
phens, Postmaster; Colo's Valley,
Douglas county, Oregon, George
Shamhrook, Postmaster; Dora, Coos
county, Oregon, John H. Roach,
Postmaster; French Settlement,
Douglas county, Oregon, John M.
Wright, Postmaster; Jordan, Linn
county, Oregon, E. T. Richardson,
Postmaster; Crab Creek, Stephens
county, W. T, W. A. Bu.ey, Post
master; Lewis river, CJarke county,
W. T., John H. Simmons, Postmas
ter; Lummie, Whatcom county, W.
T., Catharine McDonough, Postmas
ter. Charleston, August 17. Jones
and Rowley, negro members ef the
legislature from Georgetown county,
are engaged in a dispute w hich has
involved tho negroes of that section
in a quarrel, ami riots are in progress.
On Weudesday Jones' friend broke
up a Rowley meeting, andnoue color
ed man was killed in the melee. The
next night the negroes came te town
in force and attacked Jones' house,
slightly wounding him and inflicting
other injuries to his adherents. On
Friday Rowley's house was attacked,
and Bowley, to save his life, surren
dered to the Sheriff, and is in jail.
At Saturday noon the excitement was
still intense. The town is filled with
armed negroes.
None but Radicals
are enjracred in
the riot. The white
citizens are alarmed.
St Louis,August 18. A desperate
shooting affray occurred at Point
Pleasant yesterday, in which Albert
Hall and a young man named Flen
iiam were killed, General Darell was
mortally wounded, and Captain Cede
and two brothers named Coe were
seriously wouneleel. The affray grew
out of a rivalry between Captains flail
and Cole, who ran competing ferry
boats at Point Pleasant and which
culminated in a lawsuit.
New York, August 18. Mary E.
Pomeroy; the alleged victim of the
Rev. John S. Glondenning, pastor of
the Presbyterian church, Jersey City,
died this morning. In her deathbed
statement she charged Glenelenning
with being the father of her child.
Little Rock, August 17. The 1
Republican State Central Committee
have called a State Convention for
the 15th of September. The commit
tee ignore the present Constitutional
Convention, taking the position that
it was called without authority.
Washington, August 17. Up to
date, the amount of circulation with
drawn by National Banks by the de
posit of legal tenders is greater than
the amount issued since the passage
of the new law by about, one million,
thus working a contraction of the
currency to that extent. A number
of banks thus withelrawing circula
tion are situated in the South and
West.
Omaha, August 17. A telegram
from Fort Fetterman states , that a
half-breed there reports that a
council of Cheyennes and Arapahoos
had decided to recall their war par
ties from the vicinity of the railroael
and return to the agency. Large
parties are, it is said, returning in a
hungry and eliscouraged condition.
New York, August 18. The Jour
nal of Commerce nay'. "Rather low
er prices for spring grades of wheat
is conceded with lighter shipping
demand. Prime is not pressed for
sole, there being quite a moderate
stock. Winter grades sell strongly.
The new crop bring steady prices,
but offerings are limited."
Boston, August 18. The Repub
lican State Committee to-elay appoint
ed a State Convention to be held at
Worchester on the 7th of Octoler.
Augusta, Ga., August 18. There
are continued reports of an impend
ing fight between the whites and
negroes of Ridge Springs, Edgefield
county, South Carolina. A party of
armed whites left here this afternoon
to aid their friends, anel others will
follow in case a conflict occurs. At
9 o'clock to-night all was quiet, but
both parties are arming and there is
a growing fear that a war of races
will legin in South Carolina, and in
that event the white people of Geor
gia on tho Savannah river will go to
th rescue of the whites. Arms and
ammunition are being shipped from
here.
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Territorial Xcws Items.
The crops in Walla Walla valley
are yielding better than was expected
a week ago. - '
' R. C. McCormick, of Arizona, has
declined a renomination as delegate
to Congress.
A. F. Forbes was admitted, on
Monday, by Judge Jacobs, to prac
tice law in this territory.
The garoters and thieves who have
recently been cleaned out of Denver,
are making their appearance in Salt
Lake.
There are at this time three qnartz
mills and twenty arrrastras in opera
tion in different parts of Arizona
Territory.
One hundred and fifteen citizens
of Southern Colorado and New Mex
ico have petitioned Gen. Sherman
for protection against hostile Indians.
Several Walla Walla capitalists
cnntemplate the organization of a
bank, uneler the laws of the United
States, the capital being fixed at
$50,000.
Hon. J. P. Kidder, Judge of the
Second JudicialDistrict of Dakota,
has been nominated by the Repub
licans as their candidate for Delegate
to Congress.
Hon. O. B. McFadden has been
very ill with inflamatory rheumatism.
A dispatch to Gen. Miller, of Olym
pia, of the 14th inst., says he is now
slowly convalescing, but cannot yet
leave his bed.
A man representing himself a New
York Herald correspondent, named
G. S. Atkinson, alias J. E. Emerson,
has beeu "doing" Colorado. The
last heard from he was under arrest
at Denver for atten-qjting mureler and
suicide.
Colorado 014 miles of completed
railway within her borders and roads
entering in Denver. Immigration
which always follows railroads, has
been greater during the last three
years there than in tho settlement
of any Territory.
The delegates from the several
subordinate Granges, P. of II., who
met in Olympia last week, organized
a District Council, and held a gen
eral consultation upon the workings
of the Order, and the questions that
affect them in that section.
At the election held in Montana on
the 3rd inst., Maginnis (Dem.) was
elected delegate te Congress by over
300 majority. The vote was largely
in favor of the approval ef the law
fixing the capital at Helena. The
Legislative Assembly is Democratic
by a small majority.
Some eight er ten clergymen and
several members ef the Baptist per
suasion are in Olympia in council
with the church at that place, hold
ing services and attending to the
interests of that body. On Wednes
day his Honor, Judge Greene, was
set apart by ordination as a minister
of that denomination.
The expedition of General Custar.
into the Black Hills country has re
vealed wondrous scope and richness
of land. Every encroachmeut upon
the untrodden regions confirms the
same old story of fertility and pro
ductiveness which j ears ago was told
of Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebras
ka and all the vast region which now
forms the great States from Plymouth
Rock to the Missouri.
A letter of inquiry was received a
few days ago by a gentleman in Van
couver, relative to one Cornelius
Tompkins, who is supposed to have
died some twelve or fourteen years
ago, somewhere on the Columbia
river. Any one knowing the circum
stances of the death or condition of
the estate will confer a favor bv
addressing Mrs. Mary A. Fmlick,
box 1,540, South Bend, Indiana.
The Courier says: " Tho effects of
the vote for railroad bonds in Thurs
ton county are gratifying indeed.
The opposition vote was less than
was feared; tho whole vote was larger
than was expected, or even hoped for,
and a pretty general feeling of sat
isfaction and encouragement is being
manifested. Let each one now feel
himself called to cease croaking, and
work for a better state of things.
Foreign Telegraphic News.
Madrid, August 12. The Impar
tial reports that England, France,
and Germany have formerly recog
nized the Spanish Republic.
Paris, August 12. The Spanish
representative at Paris has applied
to Madrid for full credentials as
Minister. France has declared her
readiness to recognize him.
The Journal Den Dehnts argues that
the crime of which Bazaine was con
victed renders him liable to extradi
tion, and that France should demand
his surrender.
London, August 12. The 'Mark
Lane Express says that we are now in
the middle of harvest, and the new
wheat crop shows nothing to indi
cate more than an average quality
and growth. Some flelds show pre
mature ripening.
London, August 12. A change of
Ministry is imminent at Madrid. It
is thought General Dominguz, who
took Cartegena. will become Minister
of War. General Marionez will be
placed in supreme command of the
Army of the North.
Paris, August 16. An election to
fill a vacancy in the Assembly was
held in the Department of Caladeor
to-day. Complete returns show that
the Bonepartist candidate was elect
ed, having received 20,000 votes; the
Republican candidate received 15,
000, and the Legitimatist 5,000.
London, August 17. The Daily
News says Marshal Razaine has ar
rived at Spa, and M. Ron her has
gone to Chateau De Arenburg to
consult with the Empress Eugenie.
August 16. The Cologne flazettc
publishes a letter from Madame Ba
zaine to M. Choband, in which the
lady declares that the first account
of the Marshal's escape was snbstan
tially true. She oays that she plan
ned the affair herself, and that she
had no complicity except with one
of her relations.
August 17. The recognition of the
Spanish Republic by England,
France and Austria is officially pro
mulgated. Vienna, August 17. The New
Eree Press says it has reliable infor
mation that the Pope wi 1 recognize
Serrano as Marshal of Spain.
Tho Supreme Court is now in ses
sion at Salem.
Summary of State News Items.
The flouring mill on the Yaquina
is about completed. '
Union is overstockeel with girls at
present a happy failing.
The Salem Flouring mills have re
sumed operations after a few weeks'
suspension.
Mrs. Dr. Glass is canvassing Salem
for signatures to the petition for the
pardon of her husband.
"Local Optionists" at Salem are
busy preparing a bill to urge through
the coming Legislature.
Studies will be resumed at the Ac
ademy of the Sacred Heart, Salem,
on Monday, the 24th inst.
Hon. n. F. Simmons is in the State
looking for homes for Mississippj
ans. Ho comes well recommendeel.
Knox Rntte Grange, four miles
east of Albany, is' having a splendid
new hall erected for Grange pur
poses. Owen Rupert, of Linn c6unty, has
invented a gun which is said to far
surpass the Remington rifle in excel
lence. Alex. Mason, of Rrooks, on the 7th
inst., headed in five hours time with
a ten-foot header, sixteen acres of
wheat.
Two white men and an Indian
made an unsuccessful break for free
dom from the Linn county jail last
week. . .
Two men in the Waldo hills came
to blows one el ay last week while ar
guing on tho subject of "church elis
cipline." The farm of I. R. Moores, near
Junction, comprising 1.20 J acres,
will yield this season 40,000 bushels
of wheat.
Miss Jettio Milster was thrown
from a horse at Silverton, last Satur
day, and was so badly injured that
she had to ba carried home.
Tom Ballard, arrested at Albany
for stabbing Aaron Backus on Mon
day night, had an examination on
Tuesday and was acquitted.
Tlse Capital Lumbering company
of S dem snipped lastThursday eight
car loads of eak lumber, on their Pal
ace hotel, San Francisco, contract.
Mr. Wesly Graves, at present lesee
of the Chemeketa holel, intends go
ing to Albany soon with the inten
tion of engaging in the hotel business
there.
C. H. Stewart has become a half
owner in the Albany 1'hmocrat. He
entere'd the office seven years ago as
au apprentice to learn the typograph
ical art.
Young Bourgos, who was arrested
at Salem last Monday, on the charge
of petit larceny, failed to compro
mise, aud was elected to work out
his fine of $59 and costs.
Willamette farmers will scarcely
credit tliM fact that the threshing of
grain in Urupqua valley euly costs
three cents per bushel. This is the"
price for threshing wheat, oats and
barley.
The citizens of Lafayette are talk
ing of employing "workmen to blast
out a channel in ihe river through
the ledge ef rocks just below town,
and think it can be done with but
little outlay.
Tho barn of Mr. Downing, who
lives near Weston, was set on lire by
a stroke of lightning on the 15tU and
several hundred bushels of wheat
were consumed as well as the build
ing containing it.
The Farmers' wharf, at Astoria,
when completed, will be the largest
wharf north of San Francisoa. This
does not include the roadway, which
is 600 feet long, anel can be used for
wharfage purposes.
The mines in Auburn district, Ba
ker county, are proving more favora
ble than they ever have heretofore,
new claims being opened that will
last and pay better than any ground
ever discovered in Oregon.
A gentleman from North Yamhill
says that grain is yielding far better
than any estimato had ever reached
before the harvest began. Mr. Ben.
Stewart had a ten-acre fiekl which
harvested four hundreel and ninety
bishels.
The work of repainting and other
wise impi-oving the appearance of
the Legislative halls and the office of
the Secretary of State and Treasurer,
preparatory to the meeting, of the
Legislature, is progressing and will
soon be completed.
A company has just been organized
for the purpose of erectypg an oil
mill on Mr. Nesmith's farm, in Polk
county. Preliminary arrangements
have already been made and the nec
essary machinery will be secured
when Mr. Nesmith goes east in the
fall.
The Annual Convacation for the
Missionary jourisdiction of Orjon
and Washington Territory, will meet
in Trinity church, Peirtland, on
Thursday, August 27th, the first ser
vice to be held at half past seven in
the evening. The Convocation will
continue over the following Sunday.
Chemeketa hotel has. been leased
for a period of years to Mr. Thomas
Smith, formerly of the Empire hotel,
Dalles City. Mr. Smith, as the pro
prietor of the latter nameel hotel,
has been very successful, and has
made hosts of frienels by hi.s gentle
manly manner, anel his uniform goed
treatment of his guests.
The Salem Statesman says: Wm. P.
Tnrpin, a quiet, peaceable citizen of
Polk county, living just across the
river from Salem, was assaulted in a
most brutal manner last Thursday
evening while engaged in hauling
from the Whiting farm to Salem.
While driving along the road some
unknown person in ambush sudden
ly threw a large rock with terrible
force and unerring aim. It struck
Mr. Turpin on the left side of the
head, mashing his upper jaw bone
and cracking the right one, and oth
erwise injuring his mouth and face..
He was knocked off the load and re
mained insensible for some time. A
boy as with him at the time, who
at once took charge of the team and
drove them home, Mr. Turpin suffer
ing severely. There is an unpleasant
mystery connected with the case that
no doubt warrant a full investigation
which we trust will terminate in the
arrest and conviction of the perpe
trators of so foul a deed.'
Our Future Prospects.
Wo take the following from
correspondence tof the Oreg0u
inn, written by "Northwest." j
gives a correct view as to what
our city may in time become
and what it can be maele in a short
time, if our citizens will only take
advantage of the times which rc
indicate such a strong disposition to
inaugurate the establishment of
manufactories. The writer says :
To the close observer and those G
who can see some distance into the
future development of the resources
of the State,
OREGON CITT
And its surroundings present matter
for favorable consideration und deep
reflection. The building of tie
canal and locks at the Willametto
Falls laid the foundation for tie
emancipation of the Willamette val
ley, securetl cheap transportation
and enhanceel the value of all tho
material interests to the head of nav
igation. The emancipation will bo
consummated when the farmers,
millers, merchants and steamboat
companies, in place of waiting on tho
sham efforts of subsidized Congress
men anel Senators and the action of
corrupt politicians, who insulted the
people of the valley by voting $7,500
to clear the upper part of the river
113 miles, will unite their efforts and
contributions ami remove the oh
structions that prevent navigation
during the summer and fall months,
thereby saving all the outlay the
first season by the reduction in
freight charges, and getting the
wheat early to market, in consequence
of the removal of these obstructions.
By their prompt, united aud liberal
action, under such a leader as Cap
tain Smith, who showed such marked
ability anil energy in building tho
Canal and Locks, demonstrate that tho
river can be cleared to Albany by the
1st of October. By such prompt
and united efforts they will manifest
the true spirit of independence, their
determination to depend in future on
their own efforts and united co
operation, in place of relying on
venal politicians, and waiting on
paltry subsidies that are scarcely
enough to supply the str-alings of
corrupt officials. Witli the river
cleared of its burs ami other obstruc
tions, the East and West Side Rail
roads completed, and direct commu
nication by .railroad to the Eastern
and Western States, the water-power
at Oregon City will not be confined
to driving three jnills and two or
three machine shops; the banks of
the river on both sides will be lined
with mills, factories and work-shops,
driven by water-power, equal to a 0
million horse-power. It is satisfac
tory so far to see the Imperial and
O.egon City flour mills making the
best of flour, the Wooden Waro c'
Manufacturing Company supplying
the State with excellent tubs, buck
ets aid washboards, the Wooleii
Manufacturing Company niakmg
choice blankets, eassimen s ami other
goods Th their line, the sawmill ami
machine shops doing their part to
meet the wants o the, people; all
this manufacturing is not a tithe f
what will one day be put in opera
tion by means of the spLndid water
power at tiiese falls.
The Practical S-It uatii.n.
One of our exchanges, the best
posted and most reliable political
paper on the Pacific Coast, the Hn
Francisco Examiner, speaks as fol
lows as regards the result of the
August elections and the future cf
Democracy. It says:
The result cf tho August elections
should not astonish the Democracy.
The causes which have produced tin
political upheaval in North Carolina
and Tennessee are at work in all tlia
Southern States, and when their veto
is taken they will give even greater
majorities than either of the first
mentioned States. The negro voters
of the South have been eiemoralized
by the action of the Radical partv in
Congress. The Civil Rights "bill
which had be-en long sleeping in the
United States Senate was brought up
in that body immediately after Sum
ner's death, and its instant passage
was advocated by his admirers as a
fitting token of respect to his ioera
ory, and it passed that body by a
very largo vote. Only two Radicals
voted against it. It "was sent to the
House where, by skillful manage
ment, it was prevented from coming
to a vote. This was done so as not
to bring the question into the Con
gressional elections, in order that
the white Radicals representingcloso
districts in Southern States would
be free to explain their course upon
the stump. That has been the case
in Tennessee, which was regarded
as a closely balanced State. Horace
Maynard, on the stump, explains
that the Civil Rights bill would not
enforce negro equality in the schools,
but the vigorous declarations of old
Rrownlow'that it would, and that the
measure was the'sum of all villainies,
aroused the whits folks; and tiiey
preferred to forget theirformer party
ties and unite with the Democrats to
support the supremacy of the white
races. Tho contest has commenced
in earnest, aud -in every southern
State, save South Carolina, Missis
sippi ami possibly, Louisiana, the
Democrats will carry the majority of
every Congressional delegation; in
some by two-thirds, in others by
nine-tenths of the members to he
elected; and even in two of the three
named, where the carpet-baggers
hold sway, tho Democrats may elect
a few members. The political revo
lution which has taken place in the
Southern States will give a Demo
cratic majority in the next Congress:
and it may be' a large one, if we are
not most woefully deceived by the
political indications in tho Middle
and Western States.
The body of a man was found float
ing in the river at Albany last Sun
day. The corpse was taken from tie
river and every means taken to iden
tify it, but without avail. It was the
corpse of a man aged 40 or io; nye
feet six inches high, sandy hair, cbm
whiskers aud mustache. The body
hail lain in the water several days.
He had on dark clothes, was rather
tidily dressed, had on boots a little
run over at the heels, but otherwise
good. He was hurried by the court.
The following is attributed to
crusader :
Little drops of toddy.
Liittle crams of" spice.
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