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THE ENTERPniSI
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The Whisky Agitation.
There are few Questions -which
have ever agitated the country as
much and spasmodically, as vehe
mently, as the liquot question. For
the last six months' our State has
had its shower of 'this excitement,
and we shall continue to have a lit
tle more until the :Legislature ad
journs, when it will subside for
about one year, and is soon as elec
tion time shall approach the dema
gogues0 will take j up the liq
uor question againjto be agitated
until election is oreih It is a great
delusion for which f w extremists in
the temperance can llabor; to base
their hope for the ""ve of the evil
upon prohibition or local option leg
islation. All such coercive measures
are, in our opinion, conducive of in
jury to the cause tlky are intended
to serve. In principle, they are
shallow, ignoring those fundamen
tal fact3 which the sensible and sci
entific men who have conscientiously
looked into the final, causes declare
to govern in its working upon human
nature. Craving fcl excitement for
stimulus to the cfaVued or inert
brain, or other phlkVal or mental
energies which deg. aerate
into the
disease which we ca. i intemperance,,
is inborn in humanit;-. There never
has been in any age, a people, high
or low, cultivated or savage, in which
this taste has not beco found to ex
ist. It is universal as experience
and history bear wijpess. It is not
an accident or result; but the taste
for this stimulus exists in the nature
of man. and how are we to treat and
control a tendency so universal as
this? Coercion is insufficient to eradi
cate the curse of correct the habit.
If it be a physical edjsease, and we
believe all reformed trunkards claim
that such it is, then t must be treat
ed the same as other ills of the body
and mind to which we are heir. If
it be a moral questicin, it is without
the jurisdiction of 'municipal law,
and all -we can do is to visit a penalty
on the individual who violates and
offends the jeaceanl dignity of so
ciety. But we cannlt punish it in
advance of its comnssion. Morali-.
ty may be the object, the inferential
result of laws; they should bo con
ducive to morality.' Although a law
may not enforce n4:rality, it may
prevent the acts Contrary to it.
There can be no greater punishment
inflicted onhose who are guilty of
the crime and folly of the intemper
ate use of liquor, whireby their reas
oning faculties are ?inporarily de
throned and betraye :, than that gen
eral feature of law which prohibits
drnnkenness from being received as
an excuse for crime, but, on tlfe con
trary, which regards it as an aggra
vation of the offense.
It is impossible for us to uniler
stand upon what theory this constant
interference with private rights in:
the shape of sumptuary or coercive
Saws can bo justified. We cannot
comprehend what their advocates
can expect from themiany other than
the usual result an enforced obedi
ence that will break into disobedi
ence, and drive the parties if forced
to submit into hypocrisy and dissim
ulation. If the vice must be, let it
be open. Its horrible and shocking
examples may do something to pre-
a a 1 mi I r- .
voni 11s spread. n partans, we
are told, made their helots drunk; as
an example to their lyouth. There
fore, if this vice mu;it exist, it had
better be public thaAnien may find
the disrespect that aJlows such prac
tices, and that they may be useful
examples and warm -gs, if they are
useful in no other way. There is a
narrow-mindedness and contracted
uess of spirit in the system of enforc
ing the same class of habits to all
men. W ltuout regard to his tastes
or capacity, it is desired to subject
all men to be constituted similarly
in tnis question oii taste, mere is
no moralist or ph-isician who will
. 1 at J m
not admit tne laifiaess 01 sucu a
proposition. TheiVaro scarcely any
two constitutions -ipou whom the
same stimulus wil; have the same
effect. To one man alcoholic stimu
lus may be a source of health and
vigor; to another, almost poison.
IIow can we enact a law which will
enforce the same system on both?
As well might we try to compel all
people to a daily died0 of oat-meal
porridge and fish, because such food
produces muscular and nervous force
and general health, as to command
his abstention from the use of stimu-
Ients, because their abuse impairs or
destroys the vital powers.
The morals of this question are of
recent discovery, f o far as they ex
tend to compulsory abstinence. To
drunkenness,, as to. gluttony oi any
sort, morals have ajways been oppos
ed; but the use If beverage con
taining intoxicatiiA properties, has
only within. a clj-paratively short
time come under anathema. The
abuse of liquors has always been in
veighed against, but saints, as well
as sinners, have indulged in a judi
cious allowance of 'the fruits of the
yino and the juice of the corn and
rye, without any apparent diminu-
Vij-xn . f 11 j TTT1 1
uuu ui me savor oi sanctity. vvnne
o
we are inspired by a due sense of the 4 provement, typographically and edi
solemnity of this subject, we ! torially, and we wish the new prq
& prefer to follow the charitable rule j prietors success.
which will allow each man to become
his own guide as to the questions af
fecting his own happiness, rather
than the rule of those iron states
men and false moralists who insist
on placing each man on a bed of their
own manufacture, and chopping off
his limbs or stretching him as the
emergencies of such a bed may require.
Devoutly to be Wished.
An exchange thus truthfully speaks
of the organization of farmere known
commonly as the Grangers, but more
properly as Patrons of Husbandry,
are achieving a success in their ma
terial aspirations commensurate with
the importance and deserts of their
cause and the magnitude of their in
terests. They originated in an over- j
whelming necessity of the agricul
tural fraternity. In the Western
States, from the Chesapeake to the
Pacific, the people have been op
pressed by the machinery of an oli
garchy inherited from the war.
That olagarchy was and is the Rad
ical party leagued with the banks
and railroads and all the other mon
strous and overgrown system pro
duced by military power, inflated
currency and a prohibitive tariff.
It would be puerille for any man
of sense, observation, and reflection
to deny the potency, efficacy, and
value of the farmers movement in
States like Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,
Iowa, and Minnesota, where the peo
ple seek relief, not merely from re
mote national oppression, but from
immediate domestic misrule. The
Radical party is the father of monop
oly in the United States. It has cre
ated and sustained it at the Federal
Capital. It has fostered and nur
tured it in every State Capital and in
every municipality in the land.
Wherever Radical ascendency is
found, there also may be discovered
the combination, financial and legis
lative, which are hand in glove
with the governmental theories
put into such lucrative practice
the leaders of the Radical party.
Even more conspicuously in the
South, than in the North are the
baleful tenure and influence of Rad
icalism felt in the business and con
cerns of life. What wonder, that the
people, the tillers of the soil, should
organize to protect themselves? They
have witnessed a domineering rail
way aristocracy set over the trans
portation of their products. They
have seen a heedless and expensive
government set over all their inter
ests, protecting the strong and op
pressing the weak. Why should not
the farmers arouse themselves from
the political lethargy which was the
opportunity seized upon by their
remorseless oppressors? Why should
they organize themselves into granges
having no reference to party organ
isms, having no intention to disturb
the. present lines of the drill masters,
but determined to pour a fresh cur
rent of realistic and not spurious
blood into the exhausted veins of
American political thought. No
honest man deny the farmers' right
to do this, and no thoughtful, patri
otic citizen can dispute the affirma
tion that the realization would be a
benefit to the country, " a cousuma
tion devoutly to be wished."
What Kastern Oregon Accds.
The Idaho Statesman has a very
good article on the question of trans
portation on the Columbia, and we
see no reason why its idea of the
matter should not be correct and car
ried out. If it is, monopoly on the
Columbia river would be broken
down, and the O. S. N. Company
would soon find that they must cease
their extortions or opposition boats
would drive them off the river
. We
see no reason why the O. S. N.
puny cannot be compelled to
freight around the portages,
and
why they could charge any opposi
tion company moro than they do a
private individual. They are com
mon carriers, and as such the law
should compel them to transport
whatever is offered them, the States
man says:
Whether the opposition will suc
ceed or not, is not the question
which the people of Washington
Territory and Eastern Oregon need
to consider most. There is no ne
cessity for building other railroads
around these
portages, ne ques
tion is, regulate the fares on the
railroad and compel the O. S. N. Co.
to transport the freight around the
portages for the opposition or anv
man who navigates the river or wants
freight carried. All Eastern Wash
ington territory is interested in com
pciiiuy inu w. r. uo. to carry
freight on the Cascade railroad. All
Eastern Oregon is interested in com
peinng the owners of the railroads
to carry freight over the Dalles road
ac reasonable ngures. Give this
country a ireignt and passenger tar-
iu. .over tuese two short ranla nt
T 1 1 ,
reasonable rates only, and the Co-
lumuia river will become free for
every citizen to navigate and the
inibcmet win ne cured at once. It
"range mat this question of
regulating tuese tolls has never been
lurougut oi and enforced by law
xui sucu eeins to be the case and
now wueu tney come to talk about it
tuey ia.iK more use children than
tuey uu use men. xhe fact is, the
people have as much cower in w,n.
late these tolls as they have to fix the
prices of any other toll-gate keeper
and it is high time to do it. Strike
the blow where it will do the most
good, should be the motto, for the
peoxle have been robbed long enough.
Itemizeb. The Dallas Republican.
has ceased to be, and in its place
we now have the ItemUer, fublished
by Messrs. Casey & Hammond. The
f 1. , , i. t -a
paper preseuis iuij i marked im
The School IJook Q,"estiou.
A writer in the Albany Democrvt
has a sensible article in regard to the
present school law, from which we
make the following extracts. The
writer evidently knows what he is
saying; which we regret to say many
of the advocates for repeal do not.
He says:
During the late political campaign
much was said in reference to, and
denunciations without measure were
hurled at the law past by the last
Legislature requiring a uniform se
ries of text books to be used in the
common schools of this State. It
was said that the adoption of a uni
form series of text books in otir
schools was creating and fostering a
monopoly, while others declared that
it was oppressive, as it required a
change of books to some extent, and
that the Legislature had transcended
its powers when it assumed to deter
mine what books Jones, xsrown ana
Smith and all other patrons of public
schools should provide for their chil
dren, in order to secure to them the
benefits of our common school sys
tem. The proposition that every child of
the same grade in a particular school
should use the same kind of books is
a proposition not to be controverted,
but the question is asked why require
every school district in the. State to
use the same text books? The reason
is obvious. The teacher in district
No. 1 prefers Wilson's series of books
and the teacher in district No. 10
prefers Watspn's, arid the books are
provided, but it so happens in the
course of time that teachers are
changed and the new teacher for No.
1 may be the one who taught the
school in district No. 10, and he pre
fers Watson's instead of Wilson's,
and the patrons of the school are re
quired to incur the expense of a
change of books. A change of books
almost invariably followed when
there was a change of teachers, and
so frequent were these changes that
parents and guardians groaned under
the burden, and demanded of the
Legislature a uniform series of text
books, to the use of which teachers
as well as parents must conform.
This demand the Legislature heeded,
and made a liberal provision for the
selection and adoption of the books
to be used throwing the responsi
bility of chosing the books upon the
superintendents of public instruction
of the several counties of the State,
and if the law is permitted to remain
upon our statute book, the patrons
of our common schools will not be
required to change books again until
1st of October, 187G, and not then if
the present series snould be approv
ed at that time.
But it is said it is a monopoly. It
is no more a monopoly than the adop
tion of Wilson's, Watson's Town's or
any other series of text books, for all
of these authors or the publishers
have the copy-right, But it was said
the price was greater. Of this I
know nothing except what I gather
from the publisher's prices of the
several series, from which I take the
price of Wilson s readers as compar
ed with the Pacific Coast readers
the latter being the series adopted
in this State. Wilson's readers from
first to fifth, iuclnsive, cost 4 vo.
The Pacific Coast readers cost from
first to fifth inclusive, $3 75, a differ
ence in lavor oi tue latter ot fci vj
for the set. So that objection, as do
all the preceding objections named,
fall to the ground.
As to the merits of the Pacific
Coast series of books compared with
any other series I know nothing. If
inferior it is not the fault of the law,
but the mistake of the superintend-
ants of common schools for the sev
eral counties of the State who voted
to adopt them. It was a wise provis
ion of the law that the selection of
text books, should bo thus made, for
the teachers are supposed to be more
competent than the Legislature to
decide such a question, and to be
more in sympathy with the patrons
of the schools than the Legislature
or the State board of education. For
the reason here offered and many
moro that might be offered, I trust
the Legislature will permit the law
to stand as it is that it may have a
fair trial
Changed
Hands.
By private letter we learn that our
friend E. L. Bristow. Esq., of Eu
gene City, has purchased the Salem
Jiferctny, and taken possession of the
same. Mr. Bristow is well known
throughout Oregon, a firm Democrat,
and an honorable and highminded
gentleman. While he lacks the ex
perience very essential to newspaper
business, ho will make up this defi
ciency with his accustomed energy
and industry. We wish the Mercury
abundant success and feel assured
that Mr. B. will make an organ of
which the party may feel justly
proud. The retiring publishers and
proprietors, Messrs. Thompson and
Cornell, have our best wishes in
whatever business they may engage
They are both good and clever gen
tlemen and we trust that their lot
may be cast in pleasant places.
The Albany Democrat says that on
Saturday night, the 8th inst., a fire
broke out in the wagon shop of B
Windom, at Harrisburg, which de
stroyed the shop and all the materia
on hand. The flames spread to some
adjacent buildings, comsuming the
blacksmith shop belonging to Joseph
Morris, and a paint shop of Andrew
Condra s.
The report is confirmed that W. F
Board man. a Portland printer, has
inherited a large fortune in England
He lately received the legal papers
and will get the money about half a
!n' i i i -i -i 1 x T . J ,
minion, to be divided oetweeu uim
self and brother. It was left for him
by a good old aunt who expired in
Chester in 1871, aged 82.
A meeting of the citizens of J ack
son county will be held at Ashland
September 9th for the purpose of
taking into consideration the feasi
bility of the proposed railroad from
Humbolt, Nevada, by way of Rogue
river valley, to some point on the
coast at or near Crescent City.
Two Scotch noblemen on a tour of
observation and plcasnre, passed
through Jacksonville last week.
Political News.
Nashvuxe, August 19. The Dem
ocratic and Conservative convention,
for the nomination of Governor, as
sembled this morning, and, after the
appointment of committees, adjourn
ed till 3 o'clock p. M. The commit
tee on resolution and platform made
a report. The resolutions invito the
co-operation of all gooa men wno in
dorse the following principles: Pro
tection; the just reward of honest
abor a uniform taxation; a strict
construction of the Constitution of
the united States; opposition to mo
nopolies and oppressive rings; abol-
tion of superfluous omces; the re
duction of excessive salaries; rigid
economy of State Government; less
ening taxes wherever possible; abol
ishing the national banking system;
the payment of Government bonds
by the issuance of non-interest bear
ing notes; the repeal of the present
oppressive l ederal tariff; the denun
ciation of all legislation that inter
feres with individual rights, particu-
arly the Suplemental Civil Rights
bill, as palpably a degrading viola-
lon of the Constitution aimed at
Southern people, and productive of
untold misery to both races if pass
ed. IIakeisbtrg, August 19. The Re
publican State convention this after
noon nominated A. G. Olmstead for
Lieutenant Governor; E. M. Paxon,
udge of the Supreme court; Harris
on Allen, Auditor General; Col. W.
11. Beath, Secretary of Internal af
fairs. Resolutions were adopted
eulogizing the Republican party,
favoring the amplest protection for
and development of the industrial
pursuits; demanding the cessation
of further railroad land grants; fa
voring the improvement of inland
water navigation; favoring the pro
tection of the manufacturing inter
ests; condemning the proposed Can
adian Reciprocity treaty; favoring
banking; the aggregate volume of
currency to be regulated by the ne
cessities of the people and recognized
laws of trade; reaffirming the declar
ation of the National Republican
convention of 1872; favoring a return
to specie payment at the earliest
practical day, and remembering with
gratitude soldiers and sailors of the
Republic.
Galyestox, Texas, August 20.
The Congressional convention to-day
nominated Hon. John Hancock.
Wheeling, West Virginift, August
20. The Democrats of the Second
Congressional district to-day nomin
ated Chas. J. Faulkner.
Leavenwoksu, August 20. Colon
el Wm. A. Philips was renominated
by the Republicans of the First Con
gressional district to-day.
Montgomery, (Ala.) August 21.
The Republican State convention
adjourned to-day after three days'
session. Resolutions were adopted
declaring their unshaken confidence
in the principles of human liberty
and civil and political equality, with
out distinction to race or color; dis
claiming that they desire social equal
ity or special equality legally enforc
ed; that they desire no mixed schools,
and recognize the fact that every
house is sacred from intrusion, and
that in a free country every one can
dictate for himself.
Prrrsnrao, August 25. A large
number of delegates are arriving for
the Democratic convention, which
meets here to-morrow. The Supremo
judgeship is the most important
nomination, l or it there will lxlli
hard fight. Of the candidates men
tioned, Judge Ludlow, of Philad I
phia, and Hon. H. Ross, of Mont
gomery county seem to have tho loaf..
It is likely that one of them will bo
nominated. m
Westchester, Pa., August 2o.t-
The Westchester county llepublicjcn
convention unanimously nominated
Washington Townsend for Congress
for the Seventh district. t
Review of the Wheat Market.
New York, August 21. The Lot-
don Times of August 10th, in prepar
ing a review of the harvest prospec
claims that tho worst point of depn s-
sion consequent on the v lenna and
New York panics of last Autumn, a
general reaction from inflation
of wages in all parts of the world
was reached some weeks back, and
that slow but solid commercial revi
val is now in progress.
The Xews of the same date ob
serves: The extraordinary wheat har
vest is doing its work in depressing
the price of flour, and certainly be
fore the year is out the masses of
consumers in Europe and America
will be beginning to use for other
purposes the additionsl surplus that
cheaper breads will give them, and
manufacturers and merchants are
already beginning to prepare for tho
increased purchasing power of the
masses which a . good harvest has
caused.
The New York SJiiuphtq List closes
its harvest review as follows: Indi
cations being all in favor of a bounti
ful wheat harvest in the principal
countries in Europe as well as in the
United States, and with no country
under the necessity of competing
with Great Britain, tho inference is
now that prices are likely to rule
comparatively low.
Grange Resolution. At a meet
ing of Sheridan Grange held recently
the following resolution was adopted:
Resolved, That our agents acquaint
themselves with the present condi
tion of the produce market, and in
the event of any action on the part
of grain dealers and speculators con
flicting with the agriculture interests
of the State.Sheridan Grange will be
found in hearty co-operation with
other Granges of the county and
btate in devising sucu measurer as
in their judgment may seem mete
and expedient: that Wm. Savage be
and he is hereby authorized agent of
this Grange, and any contract or
agreement entered into by him will
be faithfully and implicitly carried
out
Doomed State. The present state
debt of South Carolina is $25,770,
611 44. This embraces the legal and
illegal bonded debt, the legal and il
legal floating debt, and the conting
ent liabilities. Of this debt 815,000,
000 have been contracted in the past
six years. What a luctury Radicals,
niggers and carpet-bag scalawags are
to South Carolina." The whites ought
to be assisted to leave the rotten
place and turn it over to the thieves
and robbers.
The Heecher-TIltou Scandal.
Chicago, August 16. Since the
publication of Beechcr's statement
the city papers which were inclined
to view favorably the case made out
by Tilton against Beecher have pret
ty generally expressed the opinion
that as the case stands, Beecher will
be acquitted by public sentiment.
The Tribune says: "Beecher has
thrown back the charges upon his ac
cusers, and with them rests the ne
cessity of defense. His specific charge
of blackmailing brands Moulton and
Tilton w ith infamy, which if not dis
proved, they cannot escape. Though
it may appear strange that Beecher
submitted to the demand for 37,000
to secure silence on account of his
hasty advice to Mrs. Tilton and
words that led to Tilton's discharge
from the Independent, this is not
blamable, and does not deserve criti
cism. Beecher's explanation of the
apology rejects that document.
The Times says that Beecher's
statement is extremely plausible, and
will doubtless be accepted by a large
part of society as conclusive of his
innocence; though by another large
part it will be deemed insufficient.
No honest jury could give a verdict
against the accused. His statement,
if true, shows conclusively that Fran-,
cis D. Moulton and Theodore Tilton
are a jmir of scoundrels and that Mr.
Beecher was the subject of the most
diabolical conspiracy ever formed.
His cross-examination bears out his
testimony, consistent and clearly,
though technical flaws could readily
be found in it. Is it possible to be
lieve that Beecher would weave a tis-
ue that if false could readily be swept
away by a word from Bowcn, or a
half-dozen documents from Moulton s
collection? His concluding words
express a sincerity and manliness
that commands respect and gives
great weight to the fact that Moulton
is in full sympathy with Woodhull's
free-love doctrine, which explains
many things otherwise inexplanable.
Those who have carefully weighed
the testimony and considei-ed the
credibility of the witnesses, and the
character and motives of the various
parties, must be satisfied that the
most gigantic of conspiracies and most
cruel of slanders has been utterly de
molished by Beecher's statement.
Mr. Beecher has been weak and fool
ish all admit that; "but that hois
guilty, as charged, we cannot believe.
n is wnoie wretcned business is trie
outgrowth of malice.jealousv and mis
apprehension, disseminated by busy,
mischief -making tongues.
The Post and Mail says: "Judging
the matter from the two statements,
we cannot but give the case to Beech
er. uton s is lull or malice, .emcan
ery, deceit and miscellaneous devil
try, which are centered in and per
sonified by Moulton. When to-day's
excitement is over and the storv is
told in calmer words, Theodore Til
ton and Francis D. Moulton will be
written down as the most thorough
scoundrels of the age."
New York, August 23. The Her
ald gives the following synopsis of
the forthcoming report of the Plym
outh Church Investigating commit
tee: The report is a lengthy docu
ment, given in two parts. One is a
mere report of the evidence; the oth
er gives the conclusions of the com
mittee. Of course these are all in
favor of Beecher. The statement of
Tilton is first taken up and gone over
piecemeal, and each mam allegation
is plainly set forth without verbiage,
the principal prominence being giv
en of course to the alleged criminal
commerce between Beecher and Til-
ton's wife. This is compared with
statements made on the cross-examination
and the tergiversation there
used. It is there shown that the
statements of what is known As the
ankle scene are not supported by tho
evidence of the person who claims
to have been a witness to it, inasmuch
as he could not swear to its taking
place at any particular time during a
period of nine years. The report
then goes on to revise Tilton's allegi
ations of personal chastity and high
moral character, compared with the
evidence of other persons as to his
alleged corrupt practices and crimin
al conduct, notably in the case of
tho girl known as Bessie turner,
whoso evidence is given to show that
Tilton claims to be what ho is not.
Therefrom is deduced a charge of
perjury, showing that Tilton states
under oath in one instance what lie
flatly contradicts in another. The
committee, in giving its conclusion
to this particular branch of the sub
ject, rule that in law his entire testi
mony as he is shown to have commit
ted perjury, is worthless. The re
port then reviews the testimony of
other important witnesses, among
them Mrs. Stanton; coming at lengtli
to the crossexamination of Mrs. Til
ton, giving her accusations of brutal
ity against her husband, and of his
infidelity, and still further showing
a distinct contradiction of Tilton's
accusations. Mrs. Tilton's evidence
is also quoted to give her denial of
having had criminal relations with
her pastor, and her own explanation
of several of the most prominent por
tions of her letters.. From this the
report proceeds to a short statement
of Frank Moulton, as given to the
committee, and dismisses it briefly
as having made no charges whatever
against anybody. Finally Mr. Beech
er's statement itself is taken up and
contrasted with several of the more
serious of Tilton's charges, showing
that circumstances, in themselves ap
parently damaging, were in reality
capable of explanation. After this
review in detail, the more prominent
episodes of the entiro controversy
are given. The report sums up the
whole matter pro and con, showing
on the one hand a man standing be
fore all the world with a great repu
tation for spotless purity, Christian
character and moral worth, and on
the other a man of proven bad and
criminal character, the latter making
accusations against the former; one
with nothing to prove his story ex
cept personal allegations, proven in
part to be purjury and supported by
s6me letters which may mean a dozen
things, but one meaning given to
tliem. This statement is denied by
! all having anv connection with the
matter but one. The circumstances,
as well as the burden ot prool, are
all on one side. The committee find
that Henry "Ward Beecher is not
guilty of the charges preferred
against him.
The Astortan figures out a differ
enoo of extra chareres on vessel
ing to Astoria and San Francisco' of
?3t6 7o on each ship of 1,000 tons in
lavor oi tne iormer port.
Telegraphic News.
New Origans, August 19. The
reported duel in St. James Parish,
yesterday, between Dr. Charles Fray
and Deputy Sheriff Richards, is con
firmed. They fought with revolvers
distance fifteen paces. Both fell at
the third fire and expired in a few
minutes.
Siorjx City, August 19. The re
port comes from Fort Sully this
evening that the Indians to the num
ber of four thousand made an attack
upon Custar's Expedition on the 15th
and were repulsed with heavy loss.
Custer's loss is reported to be fifty
killed and wounded.
Charleston, August 20. Advices
from Georgetown state that the town
is crowded with negroes, and the
colored militia is guarding the jail.
An order was received from Govern
or Moses to-day for a company of
colored militia to be ready to go to
Georgetown to-morrow. When the
militia was summoned only twelve
responded. The Adjutant General
of the State failing to arrive and take
command, the troops were dismissed.
New York, August 20. Secretary
Fish declares that the story of the
proposed cession - of Porto Rico to
Germany is without foundation. He
says the alleged dispatches are for
geries. Indianapolis, August 20. Geo.
C. Harding, editor of the Indianapo
lis Herald, shot Mr. Moritz, a prom
inent merchant, this afternoon. They
have been warm friends, and their
social relations were intimate. Mor
ritz -was about . 40 years old, and
married. He took advantage of the
intimacy and succeeded in seducing
Harding's daughter, eighteen years
of age. She confessed to her father
last night that she had maintained
criminal intimacy with Morritz since
March. Soon after the confession
she took opium. Harding met Mor
ritz this afternoon and shot five
times, two, shots taking effect one
in the elbow and one through the
lungs. To-night his recovery is con
sidered probable. Miss Harding
died this afternoon. Mrs. Harding
says, since tho shooting, that Mor
ritz had also made improper advan
ces to her. Morritz denies the truth
of both statements and says he can
prove his innocence.
St. Paul, August 22. A telegram
from Bismarck conveys a dispatch
from the special correspondent of
the Daily Press with the Custer Ex
pedition, as follows: Camp Custer,
Black Hills Expeilition, Bear's Butte,
1). T, August 15. The command
reached here in good health and
spirits. We left Custer Valley on
the 6th, and had short marches and
good camps. We found gold and
silver in several places and game in
abundance bear, elk and deer; sev
eral bears have been killed. . The
command leaves here to-morrow for
the Little Missouri, and from there
will proceed home to Lincoln. The
expedition has completed the explo
ration of the Black Hills country,
which proves even richer than was
before reported. Gold and silver is
found in numerous places and in
quantities so great that miners esti
mate that with a pick and pan a sin
gle miner may take out $10 per day.
The distance from Bismarck to the
gold regions is abut 250 miles, over
a practicable route. The citizens
of Bismarck are greatly excited, and
already expeditions are organizing.
LonsviijLiE, August 22. Governor
Leslio has called out four companies
of militia to quell the disturbance
occasioned by the whites and blacks
in Lancaster. A dispatch says spas
modic fighting has been going on
there since yesterday.
Bkookhaven, (Miss.) August 22.
The three negroes, Dick Cooper,
Anthony Grant and Silas Johnson,
who on Sundav morning last forced
an entrance to the dwelling of Mrs.
Burnely and violated her person,
were taken from the jail this evening
and hanged by citizens, about 1,000
of whom were present. Johnson
was captured Sunday. The other
two were captured at Canton and
brought here this morning and lodg
ed in jail. They all confessed their
guilt on tho gallows.
Lancaster, Ky., August 23. Two
hundred men of the State militia ar
rived this morning. All is quiet,
the whites and blacks have ceased
hostilities and disbanded. At the
home of Mr. Seller's, where the
fighting occurred, on account of the
shooting of a white man, the blacks
who were intrenched in it escaped,
with one exception. Two white men
were killed. The United States
troops interfered in time to save the
blacks from further iniury. The
blacks are demoralized. Two or
three whites who were wounded in
the fight are recovering. A late ac
count states that four blacks were
killed and two burned to death in
Seller's house. Thirty-five blacks
have been captured and placed under
arrest, many of them being riner
leaders in the riots. It is believed
that no further trouble will be expe
rienced. Adjourned. The M. E. Confer
ence adjourned last Thursday night.
It had quite a time in. trying the
ministers, there having charges been
preferred against four of them, but
they were all cleared. The case of
Rev. Mr. Driver is rather a strange
one, and it requires explanation as to
the verdict or the findings. The
evidence appears that Driver had
used bad language against another,
but then the verdict seems that Dri
ver had said the truth when he did
use the naughty talk, so his case was
brought down to having used "im
proper language."
Examination of Applicants to
theNaval Academy. The following
letter from Hon. J. W. Nesmith will
be of interest to the young men who
are ambitious to serve their country
in the army:
I desire to give notice through
your paper that a board of three
competent will assemble at the Unit
ed States Court-room, in the city of
Portland on the 11th day of October,
1874, to hold a competitive examina
tion of such young men as may de
sire the appointment of cadet to the
TJ. S. Military Academy.
An applicant must be between the
ages of seventeen and twenty-two
years on the 1st day of June, 1874.
Respectfully your obedient servant.
J. W. Nesmith.
Summary of State Nw.
"cin8
W- D- Pengra and party are enga
ed in surveying on the Oregon r
tral Mililary road. Q CeQ-
The Salem Mills have received
far about thirty thousand bushel
wheat of the 1874 crop. 13 OI
A fire occured near Lafayette on
Monday last, which burned np a barn
belonging to Mr.. Whitlow.
W. R. Dunbar, G. W. C. T., baa
commissioned Col. T. H. Cann of Sa
lem State Deputy at large.
Weston, Umatilla county, is rapid
ly improving. . Several buildings are
now in course of erection.
Several horses have recently
7 vli
stolen m Baker county, but just who
tho thieves are la not known.
TTrTmSs & Mverft rf PnlV
(iara aoM Hi Air flr1r r flKfl ckrt I
Lewis Bros, for $2 50 per head0.
E. R. Hall, the absconded millman
of Yamhill, left more than sufficient
property to liquidate all liabilities.
ue nciependence people are agi
tating the question of establishing a
daily mail route between that place
and Salem.
The fall term of "Rakpr r.ittr
- - - J AAVUUt,"
my will commence on Tuesday Sept.
1st, under the supervision of Mr. and
Mrs Barrett.
Linn county Fair will be held at
Albany from the sixth to the tenth
of October inclusive. Premium list
i... i- on nnn
Work on the Southern Oregon
Wagon road under the superinten
dence of Hon. E. C. Mason, is being
vigorously prosecuted.
H. H. Gale has sold the Haick-eto
office to a publishing company &t
Marshfield, Coos county, where a
new paper will soon be started.
The Catholics will build a church
on a piece of land purchased of D. R.
Benson for that purpose, about two
and a half miles west of Union.
Petitions were circulated in Salem
requesting Bishop Merril to return
Rev. Wm. McPheeters to that place
as pastor of the M. E. Church.
r i - . ...
u.r. George 'erKins, of lamhill,
threshed 843 bnshels of wheat from
a 27 acre field, machine measure, be
ing a little over 31 bushels to the
acre.
0
Some persons who saw the corpse
fonnd in the river at Albany last week
feel confident that it was the body of
Sam Price, who was well known at
Salem.
Mi. L. Morris, the mute who was
run over by" the cars several weeks
ago, near Oregon City, died about 12
o'clock on the 23d, at the Home for
the sick in Salem.
The Eugene Journal has received
from J. H. D. Henderson a ripe fig
grown in his garden in that city. It
is of full size, and appears to be ma
ture and perfect in every particular.
There are homestead patents in tho
Roseburg Land office for the follow
ing residents of Lane county: F. M.
Eaton, L. M. Veatch, Lucinda Hall,
Jonathan Butler and Daniel Bowers.
Several wagons of emigrants have
lately reached Jacksonville. Some
have gone to Josephine county, oth
ers remain in Jackson, while the bal
ance passed on throngh for tho
north.
Levi Leland, State Lecturer, of
the I. O. G. T., on the 3d inst., org
anized Ochoco Lodge No. 212, situ
ated at Prineville, Wasco county.
They begin with 31 Charter mem
bers.
The contract for building the
Dalle3 and Sandy Wagon road be
tween middle and lower landing nt
the Cascades, has been let to Mr. J.
Cart wright, for the sum of S10.0GO
in bonds.
James Martin, of Long Tom, has
just fallen heir to a property in Ire
land, valued at $40,000. "Jimmy"
will shortly make a pilgrimage to the
"ould counthry," to look after his
fortune.
The McMinnvillo Jirporier sajfl:
Harvest has been progressing splen
didly, with the excellent weather we
have had during the week, and grain
in this section is averaging 35 bushel
to the acre.
The business men of McMinnville
are taking steps toward obtaining a
telegraph line from that place to St.
Joe. A subscription is now going
the rounds, and has secured liberal
amounts already.
The lighthouse on Yaquina Head
is to be discontinued on the first clay
of October. This is an unfortunate
thing for Yaquina, and we can hnt
consider it false economy on the part
of the Government.
William Hickey was arrested at
Lafayette on last Monday on a charge
of assault with a damgerous weapon.
He appeared before Justice Hembree,
waived an examination, and was
placed under 250 bonds.
Governor Grover has reappointed
Theodore Wygant, of Portland, No
tary Public for Multnomah connty.
Also appointed William A. Clarke
Commissioner of Deeds for Oregon,
to reside at St. Louis, Mo.
A painful accident happened to the
wife of Mr. Ashur Taylor, living near
North Yamhill, a few days since, by
which she had her arm broken and
narrowly escaped being crushed to
death between the wheel of a wagon
from which she was thrown and a
stump.
W. Brown, who killed a man nam
ed Hurt, in the Sprague river country
about the last of Julv, passed throngn
Benton county on Wednesday of .las
week, and supposed to be somewhere
in that neighborhood at the present
time. A reward of S500 is offered
for his arrest, and parties are m no
pursuit. .
Small-pox is on the rampage
Cornelius again. A son of Mr. Shanks
aged 13 died with the confluent form
last week. The father has it himse".
but very light. The citizens otoor
nelius had to threaten him be fore no
would confine himself to his ov
premises. -it
In the Circuit court at Astoria law
week' John Driscoll, Antoxne
Dra, Nels Olsen, Frank Carr. no
ell Dennis, George B.McE,aD
William Oliver were admitted to c
izenship. - Martha A. Brown waa ai
vorced from D. S. Brown and Jien
Moo from Charles Moe. H.
iamswas convicted of . larceny.
Jacob Addis was acquitted of ma
cious injurv to personal property.