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fp fl j!J rrrN mm I ' 3 WW o DEVOTED TO POLITICS, NEWS, LITERATURE, AND THE BEST INTERESTS OF ORECON. OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, "1874. NO. 6. 3 VOL. 9. THE ENTERPRISE. , , OtM. 0E V10WATIC NEWSPAPER I TO A'4 ED CLACKAMAS or ir rw - " doot Ul v.-.r In Advance $o0 tCm- line "!!. V U"i"."V. ... LOO Krr'-,'M,u'",,lr inir .. :::.'.'.". ; SOCIETY NOTICES. ni:m:tXA ih:c;ki:i: i.oik;2 xo. j o o. K., Meets on the rfsJWt7 v..;.,,.! and Fourth Tues- U.lUd ,.4V ..veiling- -:el. Uloliiii. ttJ .,i T't o'clock, in the dd I- . 1 v." II ill. Memborsof the Deg 1U.' invited to attend .VlM'NOM All I,OIH;i2 XO. 1, A.F. A; A. M-. Molds its regular coin- A m'iitieatioiis on the First smd Vr T.i;r.l Siturd-ivs in each month, ., 7 ..'clock t'lVni the' Jut h of. Sep. t- ulnr toth -ith of Jfarch; and 7?i ..Vi.x k from the Mh of March to the J.iJi f SvteiiilK-r. Ihethren in good a- tn lin ; are invited to attend. i'.v rlr of W. M. Fl.l r.MM.Ml'.MHXT XO. 1,1. O. . I., MeeU at O ld Fellows" q li ill m t ; i i Kirit an d Third Tues- XT .1 cv ..t" c i.-h month. Patriarchs i i ; j I st ui 1 i 1 1 r an; invited to attend. CM KK KNCAMI'MUXr sNO. 'i. c. U. . M -it ( lt l-'-U'vs- Hall, in i r .'ii'i' r--;ci, tr.i Monday evening, at 7 , .,v. M -mi!) rs t.r Hi ont-r ar-- in m! It . rt a t. M. C. AT1IKV, C. I. M. r. v v. It. S. in i-'Tly ;: r s i x i; s s . i n s. J. V. A'OIMU M. O., PilVSI J. VXD SCltGKOX, o ; 'f.- i c I T J'. f.' ( -V. ". li . I'At iirs in C'harman's Brick, M on s:r-.-l. H aii-1 Itl. w. w. :ioki: land, ATTORN EY-AT-L AW, ClflK'Av CITV, ()K(iOX. OKKK KVtlStrept, opioitc I lie ( rt IIimi-.-. S. II UELAT ATTOP.N EY-AT-L AW: cArY, - - OREGON. "OI-KIcilharinairsbriek,Mainst. 7 iimrl'S7J:tr. JOHNSON & ftlcCOWft nroRErs xd colnselors at-law. Orogon City, Oregon. "Wltl prnctic in all th Courts of tho Ktnt. S..t-l:il attention given to cases in In L. 8. I.riJ uilicc at. Oregon City. 5aprlS72-tr. L. T: BARI N, ATTORN EY-AT-L AW, ORKGOX CITY, : : OREGON. OFFICE Over Po's Tin Htor Main ,lrt- 21niar7a-lf. Dr. S. PARKER, ATfc OK POKTI.AMD, OFFEIW HIS I th "" i i nysician ana rsurgcon 10 in people f Clackamas conntv, who mav ny timo lx in need of a ph vsician. lie LTHKMort-whoro ho can be found at all orjif g of the tl.iy when not engaged in nro nr'',,nal ca,,- Ilcsidencc-, Main street, ii .,lorlMlt "" above 11. Cautiold's store. etoVrjS7l. tf JOHN 31. UACON, lnWRTER AND I'KAT.EU fl x k .ati.nery. IVrfum- "7, etc., etc. &l O rejron CItj-, Oregon. atenar,,,An lt XVarner's old stand lfjP'l 'y S. Ackernan. Main st. OREGON CITY BREWERY Henry Hunibcl, now tm, , '""""i in" piiuuc mat nc if ltv 0'f Vtcx to manufactiire a No. 1 qual noV, Z s to. '"form the public that he is J' AG R R RRRU, AheK2a-V'aln ,H? oaineJ anywhere in ni-.. " Orders solicited And nrnnml Iv 1 1 i . - OYSTER SALOON a x n ESTAU II A MT ! o LOVL SAAL, Projn-letor. trk .T7 . Oreff0 City ) Vn l .T: . ' "K SERVED FROM fc n- J n'.8ate during the Winter , "- iLra "CBt qualities of . rra AMERICAN CANIJIES c" forsai in quantities to suit. Me(.ls every Thursday .SSJ, in 1 at 7 ' o'clock, ... the ig&g U . rVllowV Hal 1. M:un II' 't Monilrsol the Or ,,;r an-i.vit,lt.atten.l. Hy order JOHN SCHRAM, Main St., Oregon City. llAMFACTLTiER AD DIPORTER OF MutldleA, Ilarnefea, Satldlt'rjr.IIard ware, etc., etc. --71irCII HE OFFERS AS ClIE-r AS f can be had in the State, at WHOLESALE OR RETAIL. cr7l warrant my goods as represented. 1,000 DEER SKINS W xV N T-E J, AND ALSO, i IT. OTHER KINDS OF HIDES, FOR 2Y. which I will pay the highes market price in cash Urlng on your hides and get your coin for them. JOHN SCHRAM, Saddle and Harness Maker. Oregon City, Oregon, July 11, lS73-m3. WAGON AND CARRIAGE JI X N U FAOTO'IIY ! TITHE UNDERSIGNED. X liaving increased the di mensions of his premises, at the old stand on the Corner of Main nml Tlilrrt Street, Oregon City, Oregon, Takes this method of informing his old pa trons, and as many new ones as maybe pleased to call, that he is now prepared, with ample room, good materials, and the very lest of mechanics, to build anew, re construct, make, paint, iron and turn out a. I complete, any sort of a vehicle from a com mini Cart t o a Concord Coach. Try me. lll.iE'kjniitlilng, Horse or Ox Slioeiii- and Ooneral Jobbing ncaflv, qnieklv, and cheaply done. DAVID SMITH. AT E. D. KELLY'S, MAIN STREET, OREGON CITY, fl'ST ARRIVED. DIRECT FROM SAN Francisco, all the LATEST STYLES of Fall and Winter Hats & Bonnets, Trimmed and I'ntrimmed, for Fall and Winter wear, which we oirr to the ladies of i (riron I 'ity and vicinity at exceedinglv I-o-.v Prices. MILLINERY GOODS. MILLINERY GOODS. HATS AND BONNETS. HATS AND BONNETS. FEATHERS AND FLGWERS, FEATHEaS AND FLOWERS. RIBBONS AND ORNAMENTS. RIBBONS AND ORNAMENTS. CALL AND EXAMINE. CALL AND EXAMINE. No trouble to show goods, and no one urgi'd to purchase. Our desire is to ph' our numerous customers. Oregon City, Oct. ''5, 1S71. asc tf 13 0 () T S A X D S H O E S T () B A C c o s Y G () () D S c I (i A J S H A T S c A V s j I now (ilr r tins stock or Oootis; at Ibices far below any other j house in the State. Times are hard and money 'seareoand I will give every one ;th' worth of their money. I also keep a full assortment! 'of I OREGON CITY MADE (lot 111 11', I'mli-nvenr, Klu n neltf, Uluiiketx, And Vnriis. AI.SO Groceries, Cutlery, Jewelry, Not illllH, Musiral Inst riiments, Ktc, .AT THE. Lowest Prices For CSEL .AT.. octlCtf OREGON STEAMSHIP CO.'S STEAMBOAT NOTICE! Sti-. E. IsT. COOKE, Will leave OREGON CITY for PORTI.AND everv Uav (Except Sunday, at. H o'clock, A. M. Returning, will leave Portland for Oregon City at 2J4 o'clock, P. M. Str. ALICE. Will leave OREGON CITY forCORVALOS every Monday and Thursday of each week. Sti-. DAYTON, Will leave OREGON CITY for McMINN VIIXE, LAFAYETTE and DaYTON, and all points Ix-tween, every Monday, Wed nesday and Friday of each week.' leaves the Pasin at 8 o'clock, a. m., and connect with the train at Canemah at 9, a. m. Sti ALBANY IiOavrs OREGON CITY for HARRISBURG and EUGENE and all intermediate joints evcxy week. Sti Eamiio Pat ton, Iyeaves OREGON CITY for ALBANY and all intermediate points between twice ever-" week. J. D. BILES, Agent. Oregon City.February, 111. 871. ,f,LOTHINfij A. LEVIS. SICK! Please open wide the window and let in the morning lhrht How I've waited for its coming, throu-h the lonr and lonely night . iWU" Yes, waited by a smoking lamp's un- earthly, thekering glare That only made the gloom within grow deeer everywhere ; And nil without was silent, save the patter of tho rain, And I wondered how the world could rest, when I was nicked with pain! Ah! even now how tew that know an other day is born Only the llowers and tho birds are out to greet the morn ; How few t hat know how full of gold the sunbeams really are And how delightfully thev rest upon the hills atar; How rich the thrush's song, and more, .. llow sweet the morning breeze! Where is the painter that can tint the emerald of tho trees, Or sketch the w hite-capped waves that dance adown the Ch.pewa, Kach one a minute mirror of the glori ous god of day? Ah! yonder conies a woman with a measured step and slow, Upon the bridge I, too, was there but one short week ago Another still ; this time a man. How hasty in his tread ! He looks as if-ho murmured some to leave his cosy bed. I wonder if they reaiizo that better far than wealth, To bring us faith and happinesses Cod's sweet boon of health ! For though I marked the beaut v of the sky, and earth below, I did not know how rich I was just one short week ago. Two discontented laborers, bound for their work are thev, Yet gladly I'd exchange my couch for their long working dfiv, If I might stand upon tho "bridge, sweet health upon my cheek. Instead of being caged up here, wearv, worn and weak. Yes, open wide the window and let in the morning light We would not know how bright the day, if 'twere not for the night ! Nor do we ever realize, how health ami strength can fill Our souls with purest happiness, till wo arc-weak and ill. Countrj- Journalism. Of lato years there lias been an ef fort on the part of the proprietors of some of the large and influential newspapers in tho great commercial centers, to strangle the country press; and in many instances they have suc ceeded. It is a well established fact that no city paper will assist in building up ari interior town. What are the Portland papers, to-day, do ing to build up Corvallis, or any other interior town in the State. And what have they been doing in this direction for the past ten years? Let any reflecting man think of this for a few moments, seriously, and we think he will find strong reasons for supporting his local paper. The following from the San Fran cisco F'njnro, of tho 3d iust., with change of names, is so applicable and sensible, that we give the article entire, as follows: "Since writing a paragraph on this subjec t, (Country Journalism) which appears elsewhere, we have read an editorial on the same subject in this morning's Chronicle. The lesson which it seeks to draw from the deatli of the JJeaicia Tribune seems to be that since the establishment of railroads, a paper in a country town is unnecessary. Inferentially the in habitants ought to subscribe for the Chronicle- and let their local organ die. The fact of tho matter is that there is not a paper in San Francisco that will assist in any way to build up an interior town. On the other hand a blight editor properly sus tained by the inhabitants can make a town. Does any one pretend to de ny that tho amusing nonsense pub lished by Bailey, has had an effect upon the prosperity of Danbury ? Danbury is known to a great many as the place whore the lhmbnry Neirs is published. Not long ago a man worth considerable over million in money and land, pulled a Kansas pa per out of his pocket, and 2ointing to the head of the column said: 'I depend entirely on that man to make tho property I own in this place val uable.' A conntry paper might be as pleasing to the inhabitants of San Mateo, Jose, Grass Valley, Marys vill, Placerville, .Los Angeles, or any other interior town as one filled with the scandal of the metropolis can be. The natural advantages of the surrounding country afford as pleasing a text as a murder in a dive, or the latest discoveries of fraud among city officials. The country newspaper is a great advertisement for the town in which it is published and it is to the interest of every in habitant to contribute to its support. Corral I is Gazette. Plan to Conceal Corruption. A Washington special says that those Democratic Congressman who have arrived at the Capital are frank in their declaration that the labors of the next Democratic House of llep rcsentatives will be mainly devoted to investigations. To frusticate such damaging action, the Radicals propose to pass a law, at the coming session, providing that all investiga tions into tho conduct of the Execu tive Department of the Government shall be conducted upon joint rec ommendation of both Houses, and not on the independent resolution of one House alone. Should such a course be pursued it will, in our opinion, prove one of tho strongest nails in the already nearly completed coflin of Radicalism . The scandalous Washington Clien tele says: When Mary Walker reach es Turkey we hope the Sultan, that absolute monarch of all he surveys, will make her take her breeches oil. Mary won't listen to any such in Sultan proposition. She isn t that kind A man in Cincinnati advertising for a situation, says: "Work is not io much an object as good wages. What We May Kxpcct. From the San Francisco Examiner. Confident though we were of very large . gains in the November elec tions, and fully expectant of a decid ed change in the constitution of the Forty-fourth Congress, we are free to say.we had no prevision of so complete a transposition of popular favor at one time. We were looking forward to a gradual transfer of the the base of power from its present location to the .Democratic party, but we have been agreeable disap pointed as to the extent of the popu lar discontent with tho maladminis tration of the party in power for fourteen years past. We confess that we should have preferred an easier gradient to suc cess, a less violent, reversal of the popular virdict, not quite so sudden and destructive a catastrophe to our opponents; but, nevertheless, the manner in which our partisans have everywhere received the joyful tid ings indicates their ability to use them profitably for the future. We were apprehensive, for a moment, that excessive joy over so grand a victory might harm them more than grief over corresponding disaster. We know they can survive the most disheartening defeat, but we were not certain of their conduct under so tremendous a shower of heavenly manna. The behavior of the "un terrified," however, shows the effect of the dis cipline and self-control to which they have become habituated. Some times victory proves very delusive and more damaging to tho victor than to the vanquished; as was the case on a certain occasion a famous English general remarked at the close of a meeting of a battle in which he overcame the enemy " an other such victory and we are de stroyed." But it is not so with our gallant hosts of Democracy in the contests of '74. Ours is but a pre liminary triumph to '7G, a sort of general primary election. Revolutions like this never go backwai'ds. It has gone too far for ward for a rebound, and it must con tinue until tho culminating campaign of the Presidential year. It is the reaction so long hoped and prayed for, and of which our faith in the masses forbade our despairing. Though tardy in its coming, it is none the less welcome. There are many explanations and accountings attempted to be given by the stunned victims, many strange and discor dant explanations of what has struck them so terribly, but the true mean ing of all these States wheeling into line and taking position once more upon the plane of constitutional lib erty is not difficult of apprehension. Massachusetts particularly in its phenomena knocks the spectacles off of the proboscis of tho political phi losopher. A wonderful metamor phosis, that in tho Old Ray State. There are but three instances within our recollection in which that State has gone Democratic since the origin of the Government. It voted for Thomas Jefferson for President at his second election in 1801. In 1830 it elected Marcus Morton Governor by two votes upon tho issue of tho fifteen-gallon liquor law. That law prohibited any sales of liquor under fifteen gallons, and was popularly supposed to discriminate against the poor in favor of the rich, who could buy a large amount of liquors. Mr. Morton was again elected Governor by the Legislature in 1S11-2 by one vote, no choice having been made by the people; that is, no candidate having a majority over all other can didates, the Legislature elected. That was in the time of John Tyler. In 1850 the Democracy again carried the Stato by a coalition with the Free-Soil party, electing George S. Boutwell now a Republican United States Senator, but then a Democrat Governor, and Charles Sumner United States Senator. Since the latter year no Democrat has been chosen to a State or Federal office in Massachusetts except at the late election. The Radicals are very anxious to convince us and themselves that the result does not bear the only inter pretation possible correctly to place upon it. It has no other meaning than it is a revolt of honest and de cent elements against the corrupt crew led by Butler and Grant, who see no prospect in waiting for the Radical party possessed of the de mised Grantism or Butlerism to ex ercise their evil spirits by any effort of its own. The election there and elsewhere mean exactly what the people intui tively feel and know, that the days of Radicalism are numbered. The hour of its final doom is approaching with the regularity and inevitability of a heaven-ordained event. There is no power to stay this revolution. It will accumulate intensity and force as it speeds on, and within two years we shall witness its climax and wit ness in the realization of the future the promise of the present. The people will not stop short of a complete consumation of their pur pose. No one who has the slightest modicum of reputation for political sagacity would hazard it now by de nying the ability of the successful party in the late elections to elect the next President, and thus obtain the mastery of the Government. With the return of the Democracy to power will come peace and all its concomitants. It is the only party capable of administering the Gov ernment on a broad national basis, which will infuse confidence and hope into the people of all parts of the country irrespective of geograph ical divisions. The Radical party being essentially sectional could never hope to do this, even were it as pure and honest in administration as it was the reverse. COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Kroin Conquuring to Conquer. From the New York World. Before as yet the smoke of battle had lifted from the field of Worces ter, Oliver Cromwell hastened to re port the brilliant success which had there brought victory to the people's arms and confusion to the hopes of British absolution. "The dimensions of this mercy," he wrote, "are above my thought.. It is for aught I know a crowning mercy." And such a mercy it proved to be, crowning as it did the long labors of his iron sided soldiery with the gi'eat deliv erance" which had been the end and aim of their heroic struggles. The trumpet of a great deliverance is this day sounded throughout our land. Too long has the nation bent in the house of its bondage under the scepter of Radicalism a rod of iron for the peeling and oppression of the people. It is fitting that the voice of the victorious Democracy should rise in shouts of patriotic ex ultation as of old tho children of Is real sang together the songs of Mos es and Miriam, when the waters of the Red Sea had closed over the hosts of Pharoah and his chosen captains, "The enemy said I -will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword; my hand shall destroy them. Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them, they sank like lead in the mighty waters." The consum ing anger of the people comes like the breath of Jehovah to blight the counsels and confound the designs of the infatuated leaders who for so inany years have ruled this countrj', only to ruin it. Under the weight of their excesses and the accumulat-' ed guilt of their political iniquities, The cohorts of Radicalism have sunk like lead in the mighty waters. Wo can measure the greatness of our deliverance only by measuring tho depth of degredation from which the insurrection of Patriotism has lifted the drowning honor of the country as if by its locks. Let the jubilant Democracy as they "strike the loud trimble" in undissembled exultation over the splendor of their victory call upon the people to rejoice with them in their "crowning mercy." For it is in the name of the people, and with devout prayers to Almighty God for diliverance from tho chiefest nation al calamities that the Democracy have set up in this contest their ban ners inscribed w ith the legend "Freo Trade, Hard Money, Home Rule. So that if amid this chorus of national rejoicing, it falls to the lot of Democrats to lift their voices the highest, it is only because they have been honored to the leaders of the people in this prayer for and this work of national regeneration. But the grounds of our exultation are shared in common by all good citi zens. The victory won is a victory and not a woe to the conquored. Our deliverance in Republican de liverance just as much. The patriot ic masses of tho Republican party may indeed be thankful that the mad rioting of their leaders in the inso lence of office has been rebuked and arrested. The suffering whites of the South so long plundered in their property by Radical thieves and har ried in their persons by Federal em issaries, may lift up their heads to greet the rising of a better day for them as well as for the nation at large. The poor negro, even who has cast his ballot refusing to vote, because voting had brought him thus far no higher wages, may take his share in the general joy. for the ad vent of the Democracy in the control of tho nation will come to the real "year ob jubilee" when he shall no longer be made the pariah of Radi calism, but enjoy his rightful liber ties without becoming the pest of tho nation. With the light of victory beaming from their faces as a presage of great er achievements to be wrought and greater victories to be won, it only remains for the Democracy to close up the ranks, and shoulder to shoul der under the old banner and the same watchwords go on from con quoring to conquor, until the last citadel of Federal power- has been subjugated to their sway. Grant's pretorian phalanx has been broken. His "Third Term" banner has been captured and reversed for a scoff and a hissing. The bummers of his army, tho spoilors of the South have been compelled to slacken their hold where their prey has not been wrested from their teeth. The polit ical sorcerers discovered that Mor tonism has lost its power, for a de lusion of the defenders of the Re public the people at tho ballot box. Yet this is only the first great battle in a long campaign. It is won tri umphantly. Yet there are others to be won. Victory has been tied, wilh all her garlands on, to the standards of De mocracy by faithful hands which have successfully planted those stan dards in the forefront of this great battle. It is a victory for Free Trade; a victory for Hard Money; a victory for Home Rule. The sign by which we have con quored in tho Empire State is the sign bv which we shall conquor in tho whole country. Let the same victory graced standards now bo car ried on to the storming of the White House and to the northern as well as the southern wing of the Federal Capital, and two years hence tho Quatre Bras of Republicanism shall be forgotten in the havoc of its Wat erloo. "And that loud Sabbath shake the spoiler down." Should e Able. "My notions of a wife at forty," said Douglas Jerold, "is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two twenties" Tilden and TUurmaii. From the San Francisco Exam iner. That sound Democrat and true patriot, ex-Senator Hon. Wm. M. Gwin, being absent from the city, was written to by J. V. Plume, Esq., one of the Vice Presidents of the Democratic jubilation meeting on Thursday night, and asked to be present on that occasion. Dr. Gwin replied in a letter stating the princi pal cause of his absence to be tho pressing demands of business else where, but incidentally remarked: " If I were in the city, I should be compelled to attend the Democratic jubilee and make a S2eech. This would furnish a pretext for attack. I suppose they class me as an old Bourbon and 'secesh.' I am nei ther." Our ex-Senator further says: In answer to that portion of your letter asking my opinion of the Gov ernor elect of New York, I reply that I estimate him as the coming man, und destined to higher honors. The recent elections have indicated so plainly that " he who runs may read," that Tilden and Thurman should be the Democratic standard bearers in the great contest for the Presidency in 187G. They have won their spurs, and received the belt of knighthood, from the greatest of earthly monarchs, the sovereign peo ple. - For near half a century after the adoption of the Federal Constitution, national political conventions to nom- inaie uuiiumuiea mt x resiueni antij ti t -.: l.. i. i t Vice President were unknown. Con gress for a time made these nomina tions in caucus; but the people re volted against this usurpation, and Jackson, the People's candidate, was elected and re-elected the People's President. Then followed national political conventions. Washington has no peer, but of tho men who succeeded him in the Presidency, the greatest was the nominee of the people, in revolt against Congressional dictation. Let us hope that a President worthy to succeed Washington and Jackson mav be elected in 187G, and be as Jackson was in 1824, 1828 and 1S32, the people's candidate. I recognize Tilden and Thurman as the people's nominees for the Presidency and Vice Presidency -in 187G, and I ac cept them as such. Mark my words, if the policy I have indicated is "adopted, and Til den's aud Thurman's name hoisted, at once, at the head of every Demo cratic paper, their election is as cer tain as the sun rises and sets. They are new men, each in a great position always properly before the public, of splendid records,, and belong to two mighty States. A point can be made in favor of Tilden with telling effect. In the one hundred years of our national existence but one citi zen of New York has been President, and he, only for four years. We ought to have no controversy about candidates. Take these men and make them our Chiefs. The people have brought them to the fore and they are the very men we want. My reference to Gen. Jackson is historical. But one thing not even you have thought of is, that Jackson is the real founder of the Demo cratic party. Although with the same principles improved it was the old party in opposition to the Fed eralists, the actual name of Demo cratic party dates from Jackson's triumphs, as his opponents created the Whig party. The era of good feeling during Monroe's Administra tion in some degreo obliterated old party lines. The Federal party was never revived. Ours before Mon roe's time was the Republican party, more generally called the Democratic Republican party. One great result of the recent elections you did not allude to in your letter. It is the break in the serried ranks of colored voters in the Southern States, heretofore controll ed "by Republican carpet-baggers and renegade white natives of the South. Louisiana and Alabama are indebted to colored voters for the triumph of the people's party over these leaders backed by Federal bay onets. - The heel of the despot is thrust from their necks by the aid of colored votes. This is the begin ning of a new era in these Stales, the downfall of carpet-bag rule, the end of the reign of officials who have rob bed and oppressed the people with impunity, and, let us hope, the res cue of many of those States from the inevitable bankruptcy 'with which they are now threatened. Laconic. What the Springfield Republican thmks about the result of the elections: The comet was nothing to this. Suppose anybody had predicted this two years ago 1 The pitcher that goes often to the fountain gets broken at last. Eh, Gen. Butler ? Did we hear anybody say anything auoui a imru. term.' Ana, it so, will lie be Kind enougli to repeat his lit tle observation ? Gen. Dix has made such agood Gov ernor and is such a respectable man that it seems a pity that he should have been swallowed up in the com mon catastrophe But it is tho fa miliar story of Poor Tray. He was caught at the wrong time in bad com pany, and has coino in for his share in the common cudgeling. Fortun ately there is ample consolation for his defeat in the charactor of the successor. Like the Thikd-teem. "Do yon know why you are like the third term ?" said Susan Jane to her bro ther, who lingered to talk with her Adolphus after the old folks had re tired. "No, I don't." "Well," re plied his saccharine sister, "It's be cause you are one too many." A set of bad teeth, bike a farm, has many achers. Very Much' Alike. The press of the country takes a sort of fiendish delight in the bottling up of Ben Butler in the late Demo cratic primary. Somehow the Beast and the Bohemians- Bever could har monize. There wae a sort of natural antipathy between them, of intensity almost equal to the antagonism said to subsist between Satan aiul tha consecrated aqueous fluid. The press bas been always picking at Benjamin for his peccadilloes, and he has in return berated the inkslingers with tremendous ferocity. The Sun whilo giving him a dig, avails itself of an opportunity to draw a favorable com parison between him and the incum bent of the White House, saying, in its magnanimous way, it is not But ler alone that is bottled up this time. It is "Grant also. If anything could reconcile Butler to his own defeat, it would be the reflection that by the same adverse wave of public opinion Grant has been so complete-O ly overwhelmed; for at the bottom oi iutier s Heart mere oerer can have been anything but malignity toward Grant. It is really entertaining to observe how nearly universal is the rejoicing over Butler's- defeat. Tbe gratifi cation at his discomfitures," says- tho Evening Post, "is rather more gener al and hearty among Republicans than among Democrats." And the New York Times, the leading Repub lican raier of thfi ennnfrv- evnrHSsef its satisfaction on the occasion in an - elaborate and able- article. Indeed. we may say almost literally, that the. press has but one voice on the subject. The blow under which Gen. Grant now staggers he is somewhat used to staggering seems to be regarded by Republicans as well as Democrats with as much complacency as if it were nobody's concern but "his own. Outside of the circle of office-holders scarcely any one seems toPbe discon certed. The truth is that in selfishness, in greed, in unscrnpnlousness, Grant and Butler are very much alike; and if the comparison be carried further, it can only be made mButler:s favor, for he possesses great moral courage, more talent, greater originality, ami fertility of resource, and more of hu man qualities which attach friends to a man, than have ever been mani fested by Gen. Grant. Ejccltiruye. -- m A Discouraged C ranger. The editor of the Yuba City Ban ner, Avho is a Granger, moralizes on the sad condition of the grain market thus: . o It is now quite certain that the next year's grain crop will far exceed the present crop. The foreign de mand for this year's crop is not suffi cient to stimulate, an advance in the present prices, the old buoyancy in grain being made through freight re ductions. The immense amount of wheat in first hands, and the prospect of a greater amount to be harvested seven months hence, and no hope for any material advance in prices, is a little discouraging to those of ouD farmers who were in debt, and held their grain for higher prices, Many of our farmers now wish they had let their wheat go for SI 40 1 45 to Friedlandcr's agents when they wero offered that for it. Whether it is an act of true policy to hold thestrrplus crop from the market of the world is doubtfnl. The calamity which fol lows is, if anything, greater tban fol lowing the locking up of gold. Grain is bread, and when withheld is sub ject to loss and decay, while gold re tains its principal at least, Wheat sold in August at $1 30 i equal to wheat stored and sold six months af ter for 31 GO. Sheriff Harkey sold his large crop when first threshed for SI 50. He did well, making a fair profit. It is said it will pay the farmer to grow wheat at 1 25; but, says the farmer, "we must have $1 75 or we will .withhold it from the mar ket." At the same time the farmer says to the merchant,- the printer and middlemen in general, "you must re duce the prices of your goods, freight and newspapers." The result is a general derangement all around. The speculator, who is the lifcPof the country, is forced to retain his mon ey from circulation, and frequently changes to other States or countries. They tell a story oi fin editor in Indiana who calls his items "Nits," becarfse they come out of his own head; bnt this is nothing to a chap on one of our morning contempora ries, who is perpetually telling stories about a person named Noah Count no account--and then flatters him self that no one recognizes them as his autobiography A showman whose notices called few fat boys to ''feed his cannibals," received a' card from a man saying that he couldn't spare his boys, but he had a good "stall-fed mother-in-law" that he thought would suit. " Is there any person you wish me to marry?" said a wife to a dying spouse who- had been somewhat of a tyrant in his day. Marry the devil if you like' !" was the gruff reply. " No, I thank you, my dear, one hus- bend of the same family is enough for me." A bachelor says that if you hand a lady a newspaper with a scrap cut out of it, not a line of it will be read but every bit of interest the paper possesses is centered in finding out what the missing scrap contains. It is said of the printer "He beats the farmer with his Hoe, the carpen ter with his rule, tho -mason in set ting up colums, the lawyer in attend ing cases, and the parson in the man agement of the devil. f 7 - r -; - ' -- , 1 o O o o o o o o o c O o