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J? 0 O e O O ORIGINAL DEFECTIVE O G o o O o G o o O o o o o o e -o o o c o o o o c o G O 1 - THEJfJTERPRISE. OREGON CIT7, OREGON, FEB. 12, 1875. The Infamy Accomplished. anmnera legacy to the Radical party, the Civil Right bill, has passed the Lower House of Congress cThe Democrats did all in their power to prevent its passage, and as lon as they were allowed to filibuster they succeeded in preventing it from coming to a direct vote. It has been amcndedjn some particulars, which requires it to go back to the Senate for its final action, and there remain ing but a few more days for the pres ent Congress to outrage the people, it may possibly yet fail to become a law. 9 This bill was one of the main issues in the general elections last fall, and was the principal cause of the defeat of the Radical party. But the usur pers in Congress, hoping to win the negro vote back, deemed themselves justified in outraging the sentiment of the peoplo to accomplish this ob ject. This Congress is a cheat on the American people. It does not ; represent even a respectable minority as the last fall elections plainly show. In many places in the North, even, were the Radicals forced to disown the measure, and now, after having been universally condemned, they have "forced jit downthe throats of the people." jGrant has been report ed as oiposei to the measuse, but since the lafll agreement between himself and Me Radical leaders as regards his tl ird term, he will un doubtedly approve of the infamy, and with the Lgro vote and Federal bayonets, expefct to re-elect himself to the positiorlhe has so shamefully disgraced. Il The Radici; leaders cannot see their foolhardiness or the late defeat they met with has failed to impress upon them the oily of their course. The passage of this law is one of the best thing? that could have hap pened for the success of the Democ racy. But such an infamaus outrage should not b-1 accepted for party success. TheVutraged people will q soon teach tese self-constituted Credit Mobiliers and Pacific Mail bubsidy scoundrels that their time is up, and while they may calculate on the negro vote of the South, it will be found that the united North will utter its condemnation in such a manner as to bring terror to the per petrators. It is an old saying, that "whom the gods would destroy they first make mad." In the mad conrse of Radicalism there seems to be no limit, and had the party the least idea of decency, they would have' heeded the voice of the people and gone back on llio act which had al ready brougljl a verdict against them. The bil . is bound to produce bitterness and ill-feeling, tending greatly to rekicdle the animosities of the late war. It is sure to defeat its ostensible purpose, and to prove det rimental to the negroes. It fosters ignorance, for it impairs our common-school system. It discriminates against the popr in favor the rich. It is iu defianeO of all laws, divine and human. It is a legacy of sin bequeathed by Bumner f0 jjj "Radi cal co-laborers in fanaticism; a con tract with evil. It goes right home to the people. Jt affects more or less every one of us. In our schools, our hotels, our theaters, our conveyances, our homes it Mjill confront us, dis tending their loathsome effects into every part of public and private life. Tho yeople decided that they did not want the bill. , They spoks in un mistakable temp. It is the heighth of folly and m.-Aness for the Radical leaders to uselheir brief authority to force upon yfc country a law that they have emphatically condemned. The Civil Rights bill, the Finance bill, and the Louisiana outrage will show the Radical party in 1876 that the people of this country are yet freemen, and will with one voice, from Maine to Oregon, hurl Radical ism from power. Dissolve. The Home Agricultur al Manufacturing Company have re solved to pay the expenses of the Company and dissolve the organiza tion. Let our citizens now take the matter in hand and organize a Com pany and go to work. The people here proposed to give this Company S 10,000 cash as an inducement to locate here. Now let them add about twenty thousand more to it and own the works anu thus build up the town. The siock can be taken by our own people, and there is nothing that could be done to advance the interest of tti-i town and county more than the Atablishment of such an enterprise iij ur city. Removed.- 1 .5 removal of Benj. Moran from the position of Secretary to tho American Legation has caused some astonishment, but it is clear enough now, when the fact is known that he refusedJto accept a gift of 825,000 from a Yateful Englishman, because he belJed that, "to receive it would be i -consisted with his official position . be readily seen marics ine x-ronaence Pre, that a It. T i. man who would act in this way must have a screw lodke in his mental ma chinery and h.I better be recalled before he get4Jnto mischief. So Moran comes back. They Continue to Rob. It would naturally have been sup posed that Grant, if he had any re gard for the people, would long since have cast off the thieves around the District of Columbia. But the exposures of corruption and extrava gance which have resulted in the nominal overthrow of "Boss" Shep herd and the "Washington Board of Public Works, yet, through the per sonal agency of President Grant, the influence of the old Ring in the Dis trict of Columbia affairs is still po tent. The instruments of the old swindling crowd are still kept in re sponsible places, and the old extrav agant system of useless so-called improvements is still kept up. The Commissioners report an enormous deficit in the District treasury, and Congress is asked to make it good from the public fund, remarks the Sun. The people throughout the country who are taxed to pay for rot ten pavements and defective sewers in the city of "Washington should distinctly understand that all the talk indulged in by Grant's support ers in Congress about making the capital worthy of the nation is un mitigated humbug. The most ex travagant of the expenditures made by the old Ring and their successors have been for laying pavements and doing other work in an uninhabited part of the city, for the purpose of promoting a gigantic real estate spec nlati on by which intimate friends of tho President, and, it is believed, the President himself, expect to profit. Every dollar taken out of the national treasury to pay off these so-called improvements is a barefac ed robbery of the taxpayers of the country for the benefit of a Ring which has been convicted of the most fraudulent aud unlawful practices. -- Nothing Strange. Our Democratic exchanges seem to take the Oreaonian to task for its apparent inconsistency for the past month. They should remember that the editor of tho paper was absent at the time the able editorials appeared in regard to Louisiana and that the paper was managed by a young man who was not so thoroughly impreg nated with Radicalism. If any of our readers expect anything from Hill but unadulterated Republican ism and opposition to Democracy, they will always be deceived. He may fall out with the Radicals and find fault with them, but he can never be a Democrat and should his paper occasionaly lean that way, it is only a spasmodic feeling with him, which he is ready to take back as quick as it works off, and he never gets to bed before it does. Radical ism and the Radical party of Oregon may get rid of Scott, Gaston and others, but they never can prevent nill from being a Radical. It can't be done. Their Doom. An exchange says: Grant orders his Secretaay of "War to telegraph to Sheridan: "The President and all of us thoroughly apyrove of your course." If the Re publicans in Congress echo this in sensate dispatch to the people, the election of the next President politi cally is accomplished twenty months before the polls are opened. The Democracy will sweep the country, and the Republican party will be buried out of sight. The Radical party has become re sponsible for the action of Grant and Sheridan, and, as predicted in the above, the people will put their con demnation on the traitors who have outraged every sense of decency and law. They can already see the hand writing on tho Avail. Disgusted "With Ghant. It is stated that Hon. H. L Dawes, who has just been elected U. S. Senator from Massachusetts, has said in re gard to the military interference with the Louisiana Assembly: "He thought it would have been better in every way that tho Democrats should have had the House, whether right or wrong, than that tho mili tary should have interferred in any way in the organization. lie was unable to sustain, on any theory, the use of the military that had been made." The Vice President is cred ited with a like opinion. "He de precates the situation in w"hich the party and the Administration are placed, and thinks that a grave mis take has been made." Senator from Missouri. Gen. Frank M. Cockrill, who has recently been elected U. S. Senator from Mis souri, has a State reputation gained in honorable public service. Be yond his own State ho is but little known. As a brigadier-general in the Confederate service, he had a good record, and although his mili tary record moves the discontent of the Grant papers, we do not remem ber that they were at all uneasy in mind when the man who has no policy against the will of the neonle designated Geu. Longstreet for an office of trust and emolument. A dispatch from Washington under date of the 20th says that "the pre ponderance of private advices from It would of course j New Orleans indicate Hint the Con at "Washington, re- eressional committee will snbsfaT. J " WiolW mMnr in tho report made by Phelps and his associates of the sub committee, that the action of the Re turning Board was a villainous fraud i without which the Consertatives had won an undoubted triumph. The Guilty. ,It is a well known fact that nine out of every ten negroes which have been murdered in the South since the war, have been killed by negroes, and, generally, in quarrels which the whites had nothing to do with. In reply to a charge made by a Rad ical paper in New Orleans that the whites have been killing the negroes in that city by, the wholesale, the captain of the watch attached to the charity hospital publishes a letter in which be says that of all the wound ed negroes which he admitted to that institution during the year 1874, not one had been cut or shot by a white man. Every colored man so wound ed had been injured by one of his own race, and in almost every in stance the wounded negroes them selves, when searched, were found to be armed either with a pistol, a bowie knife, or a razor. Further, he says that during the whole time that he has been connected with the hospital, every colored man brought there shot or cut had been hurt by negroes, with the single exception of one black man who was shot while engaged in a burglary by the white owner of the house ho was breaking into. The Reason for It. The New York Sun says that sim ply to confirm the grip of the carpet bag Kellogg and his confederate thieves on the pockets and property of the people of Louisiana, and to make his brother-in-law Casey a United States Senator, Grant used the aimy to overthrow a Legislature chosen by the people, and invited a renewal of civil war! It is almost impossible for an American mind to take in the full dimensions of this largest political crimo thus far committed on this continent. To very man' of us it is inconceiveable. But the swift servil ity of Grant's Cabinet in sustaining the stupendous crime of their chief, and in approving Sheridan's brutal ity, and echoing the trooper's request that the President should outlaw the Conservatives of Louisiana as ban ditti, and let him slaughter them at will this, alas! is conceivable. But, thank God, it is punishable. The d rum-head court martial which Sheridan wanted to set up in the streets of New Orleans, the people will politically set up against those swift approvers of crime included in Belknap's telegram to Sheridan: "The President and all of us thor oughly approve of your course." Interesting Letter. Wee lve up much of our space to a most interesting letter ironi the Dundee Advertiser, written by Hon. Wm. Reid, of Portland. This docu ment is just the thing to send east to your friends. It contains more in formation than most people can write in a dozen letters. It should be generally circulated. Extra copies can be had at this office. Price ten cents, ready for mailing. Properly Stated. Gov. Taylor, of Wisconsin, in his message tarthe Legislature, gave utterance to the following in relation to the military interferanco in Louisiana: "I do not wish to prejudge facts, but if author ity exists in any branch of the Fed eral Government for what appears to be assumed by the recent proceed ings in the State of Louisiana and the extraordinary proposals of the Lieutenant-General of the Army in his dispatch from New Orleans, I believe the time has come for all of us to bury partisan spirit in a com mon effort for the preservation of our Constitutional sovereignty and tho inherited liberties of the Ameri can people." Probable. The Meridan Republi can strongly suspects that the new investigation by the rest of the Con gressional committee will not im press the country at large. If they corroborate the finding of Phelps and Foster, to be sure it would pro duce a very powerful effect; but they have advertised beforehand that they are going down to discover a differ ent class of facts; and if it comes to an issue of veracity, it is not difficult to see who will be credited. The President has made up this last committee for the purpose of aiding him out of the dilemma in which he has brought his party, and we may expect them to do their duty to their Ctesar. Awaiting Execution. A writer in the New York Sun saj-s: The Republican party has been tried, condemned, and is awaiting execution, and yet the miserable fools in Washington are not aware of their true position. They talk big and "vote supplies." They have the President. They have the army. They have the navy. They have the United States Court. They have the House of Repre sentatives. They have the Senate of the United States. What's the matter ? "Who's afraid? Nobody, only the whole people are unanimously and indignantly oppos ed to them. Cold Comfort. The action of the Constitutional Convention of Maine is rather old comfort for our female suffragists. Recently, by a vote of G to 2, they rejected a propo sition to amend the Constitution by giving women suffrage, under the same regulations aud restrictions as men. COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, OREGON, It Resources, Cllm', Prospects. From the Dundee Advertiser, Dec. 29, 1874. The climate of Oregor s very m?l and agreeable, having neither ex tremes of heat or cold. It is five months to-day since we arrived here, during which time we have had en tirely summer weather, much more pleasant and en joyable than the sum mer in Scotland. Rain has fallen on twentv-five days during these five mrmtlx nnt -consecutively, nor for a day, but lasting on an average two hours at a time. What agreeably surprises us in summer are the soft afternoon breezes which blow every day, and the cool evenings and morn ings. From 11 a. M. to 3 and some times to 4 i. m., the boat will go down from 90 to 82 in the shade, with clear blue skies. Only one day did I feel it oppressive be tween these hours. There has been no winds as yet, and I am told that in winter even strong winds are rare. Hot winds, as in Australia, are un known, and thunder and lightning are rare. Only once have we wit nessed a thunderstorm, whieh lasted an hour a small affair compared to those in Scotland. Yet the newspa pers next day told us the liko of it had never been witnessed in Oregon for fifteen years. So far as our five months experience goes, we say un hesitatingly that no better summer climate can be than in Oregon. But as winter has not made its appear ance, nor given us j-et any warning of its approach, although this is the 20th of October, I cannot tell 3011 what it is like. Only a relation of mine, a Scotchman, who spent last winter in Oregon, tells mo that there was no difference between the rainy seasons here and the winters in Scot land, except that tho spring came earlier here, and was much milder, with no east winds. Frost and snow came occasionally, but never lasted longer than a day or two at a time. So far as health goes, I and my fam ily have been all very much healthier than in Scotland. FARMING IN TIIE WILLAMETTE VALLEY. Here is the paradise of the agri culturalist. No c.rieriettcel farmer oouM desire such a combination of advantages as he will find in this valley. Farming is no speculation, failure of crops is unknown: " as ye sow, so shall ye reap" here; tho soil is prolific in tho extreme without manure; the land is flat and easily plowed; pastures nearly always green, hence suited for dairying. The yield with good cultivation is lartje thirty to forty bushels to the acre which, however, through poor farming is not the average of the State. Such lands (improved farms) can be obtained (bought) from 6 to 6 an acre, with houses, barns, etc., included, all in wood, with fine scenery around. Grain, especially wheat, is beautiful, plump and large, and the yield of vegetables and fruit is something unparalleled. It is painful to rule along a country road and see tho orchards going to waste, the trees overbearing themselves witL rrolificness. and nobody to eut or make use of the fruit. I am satis fied that Western Oregon owes her extreme prolificness and certainty of cro more to the evenness of her climate summer and winter and to the annual rains than to the soil it self. Butter, milk and cheese com mand equally as high prices as at home. Wheat sells at 3s to -is per bushel at Portland, the cost of rais ing it being (including labor, rent and interest on money) 2s inclusive of freight. Sheep farming is profit able; the average price obtained for wool this season is Is 3d per pound; the cost of "growing wool," as it is technically called, is 0 ,d per pound; But as very large flocks are un known, and there are no farms here with from 5,000 to 8,000 acres on wheat alone, as in California, a splen did opening is open for some of our practical agriculturalists of Scotland, with steam plows and modern farm machinery, to make money in the Willamette valley. The way farm ing is conducted here, compared to the "old country," is amusing. The first thing which strikes an experi enced farmer from Great Britain is the poor manner in which the soil is cultivated. This reminds me of a Scotch New Zealand farmer from the colonies, who this summer, on ob serving the bad cultivation of Ore gon fields, said to me: " "Weel a weel, I hae some chance here, whanr I had nane in Otago. We've had to fight wi' each other there, as we were all guid farmers, rubbing against the other, and seeing by thick competi tion it tak's us nil our time to get a leevin' in New Zealand, we've pros pects o' rubbin' out o' the world the puir plowiug they hae here, and makin' " money, when they canna baud the cannel tae us." This re mark struck me as very true indeed. If a Scotch farmer applies himself to tho soil here as he does to his well manured Scotch farm ho will make money faster by farming hero than in any other part of tho world. All that is wanted here is industrious, persevering men from Europe who will work with a will ; and such men with a little capital say 300, or 1,000 on their arrival here, will very readily in four to five years pay back the price of any farm they may purchase in Western Oregon. Let me, however, correct one serious mistake which all travelers and news paper correspondents have fallen into namely, stating that good farm lands can be had in the Willamette valley at 10s per acre. This mistake has risen from seeing only one-sixth of the agricultural lands of the val ley in actual cultivation, and observ ing the virgin prairie in many places unfilled; but, although many of the early settlers who got from 1850 to lSf.0, as a gift from the United States Government, a mile square of prairie land are still hero, they do not cnlti vate one-fourth of their farms nd some, instead of being disposed to sell a part of what they do not cul tivate, rather prefer to purchase (if thev can get it) their neighbors' lands whenever such a chance is open. As a rule Oregon farmers are well-to-do people, and a few of them are wealthy; all seem contented aud happy, except at wheat selling times when there is tho farmer' old stoi-y grumbling at not getting better prices. Of course, inferior at d tim bered lands (of which latter there is a large portion in the valley) can be had at 15s to 25s an acre, but except these are around villages I would not recommend Scotch settlers to purchase them. It will pay a man far better to purchass portion in casli and on time a good improved farm, fenced, and buildings, than to go back upon the vast tracts of Gov ernment land in Eastern, Southern and Southeastern Oregon which can egot at 5s an acre. These will, however, in ennrsA of time, be occu pied, and railways will eventually pass through them, and as there are still three-fourths of Eastern Oregon and Washington belonging to the Government, which could sustain 20,000,000 of people, now occupied by 12,000 or 13,000, you can imagine wuat a' wide field there" is on iuo North Pacific Coast for over-populated Europe to possess, having a climate, soil, scenery and products superior to any portion of the Amer ican Continent, where a man can se lect 160 acres and retain it as a gift from the United Siates, given him in return for actual settlement only. The Willamette valley contains (in cluding the small towns and Port land) four-fifths of the population of Oregon, or 80,000 people. The farming class proper, with their fam ilies, number 40,000 persons, who have produced this year in Western Oregon 5,000,000 bushels of wheat: 100,000 of Indian corn; 5,000 of rye; 2,100,000 of oats; 350,000 of barley; 5,000 of buckwheat; 40,000 of flax; 500,000 of potatoes; 50,000 of onions; 400,000 of apples; 200,000 of pears; 250,000 of other fruits; 125,000 tons of hay; 1,000,000 pounds of wool; 30,000 hides; 1,400,000 pounds of hog product; 340,000 barrels of flour. Not a bad showing for such a popu lation, and yet only one-sixth of the Willamette valley is cultivated. That valley is considered the agri cultural portion of the State. South ern, Southeastern and Eastern Ore gon are now used as stock aud sheep ranges, unlimited in extent, which inaj' now and will be occupied rent free for many years to come. VALLEYS IN OBEOON AND WASHINGTON SUITED FOB. AUHIC'ULTUEE. One can scarcely imagine the nu merous little valleys suited for agri culture scattered all over the North Pacific Coast which I have not men tioned (in area four or five times the valleys of Wrestern Oregon), over and beyond the sheep-farming lands proper. 1 subjoin a list of vallevs. gf some importance: Miles suited for agriculture Tresent Narad of Vallev. Willamette Vulllcy North rniiiua South lliiijxiua ltoue lliver Josephine Khimnt li John Day W'ilNiw Crook Kirch "reek Umatilla fine Creek Walla Wnlla tiraixl Hondo Powder Htver Jordan Kiver Willow Creek Ixngth. Er'dth. rnla 17o 40 25 50 -Mi 50 50 M 25 30 10 20 20 10 10 10 45 (iS.IHK) 15 3.000 10 2.000 15 3.0U0 5 50 15 :m 10 Sin) 8 100 H K) SO 400 15 50 8 l,fXK) 20 750 5 .5 5 35 5 35 5 15 5 fi.000 5 1.0O0 5 200 3 35 25 2,71)0 8 5 8! 5.0IIO 10 1,350 10 5 X) 10 3S0 15 200 liurnt Kiver , Wulla Walla (W 8 10 -to 2 T.)... Toucnet Tuckannon Alpona I'alouse Tafaha Columbia Basin (W. T, Do. (Oresron).... .. lii ..100 .. 10 )KKJ 2- Yakima 100 Spokane 1G Chehalis 50 'Including city It must be remembered that these are all prairie valleys, nearly desti tute of timber, having at all events on an average not as much tiircbe: as will be requisite for use. Pnget Sound is not included in above esti mate. It is surprising to sec the immense quantity of beautiful timber the tall trees, as straight as an arrow, shooting two to three hundred feet above, free of limbs for nearly 100 feet. Nothing so pleases the various sea Captains as the quality of the cedar and fir. free as they urn from knots and other imperfections. One Dundee shipmaster told me the other day there was nothing like it in Can ada. T: e timber trade is pretty large, but is at present confined to Sydney, Melbourne, :ir.d the Austra lian Colonies, China, Japan and the Pacific Islands. There are some fif teen sailing ships engaged in that trade, having their present head quarters in Oregon and Washington. Of course San Francisco is the near est, as it is the largest market at present. From that city it is ship ped to various cities in the South Pacific Ocean. There are some thirty to forty coasting schooners in the San Francisco lumber trade. At no distant day this Oregon timber trade is to advance tosivh an extent, in my opinion, that it will rival the present wheat trade of Oregon. For shipbuilding it is unsurpassed; and on the Sound and the coast of Ore gon there are now building some thirteen to fifteen vessels, two of which are 1400 to 1500 tons register. Labor at shipbuilding is high some where about 15s a day; but, on the other hand, material is astonishingly cheap. Spars, knees, rosin, tar,-and everything necessary, excepting sails, are on the spot. What this State needs, and what there are lucrative openings for, are M A N I'FACTl'I'.ER. A few gentlemen at Coos Bay the other dav amalgamated to build a 1,000 ton'ship. After examining the estimates they contracted to build at .12 per ton" complete. A wooden ship I mean. -Near to. or rather at Portland, there is a splendid natural site for a erravincr-dock and ship building yard at Albina. belonging to Edwin Pviissell, manager Lank of British Columbia, Portland, no.r to which are now building a few river steamers. There are so many for eign ships arriviug and departing that a shipbuilding yard for graving and repairs would pay well, lhe manufactories in Oregon at present are one smelting iron work, eight miles distant; three iron foundries; 70 to SO flour mills; five woolen mills; a largo paoer mill, and several tan neries. Two tilings will eventually build up Portland are first, its near ness to a large iron bed, found to be nearly twenty miles long and seven miles broad, and having timber un limited and coal within a few miles of the Columbia Itiver; and, second, an immense water-power, upwards of one million horse-power, at Oregon City, a small village twelve miles up the river above Portland. The success of manufactures is fully as sured. Determined to have railways (the want of which is a serious draw back to this whole North Pacific Coast) and an Atlantic connection, the Legislature of Oregon is going to pass a law allowing all foreign corporations to build railroads in the State with the same powers as citi zens, and also giving exemption for taxes for twenty years to all railroads 1 la. hnilC -wibuiu mo valuable, from the Estate, nuu ' , , Atlantic connections. Warned by previous experience of the way in which one of their railways was built, the State of Oregon is taking great care of its financial reputation, and will pass severe laws lor me protec tion of the interests of foreign bond holders as against the railroad com panies of the State. Such a change fa much needed, and your correspon dent is helping now to get passed sueh laws, which are necessary for the protection of foreign capital. The State has incorporated the Ore gon Central Pacific Railroad (330 miles long) under such laws, and has so guarded tho interests of bond holders, and given them a voice in the management of the road, and secured its revenues for the bond holders protection that it is impos sible in future for any defalcation to arise, or controlling or watering of stook and such other practices as have been common in the railroads of the Western States. The Legisla ture in 1872 passed a law entitling foreigners to invest in this State in any undertaking the same as citizens. SCENERY. So much has been written already upon the scenery of this coast that it is no use for me to describe it. I will only say that a sail up the Co lumbia Iliver from Portland to Wal lula (for Walla Walla) , a distance of 350 miles is something which .cannot be sufficiently described. 1 feel sat isfied we have nothing like it in Great Britain. KINDNESS OP TIIE PEOPLE. On arrival here in May we were gladly welcomed by all classes. Your correspondent did not think he was known in anticipation in the ' Far West" until traveling through the different portions of the country, 44 Duadee" is a household word in Oregon, I assure you; and if a man says he comes from that city he is welcomed. The Oregonians look upon that city as their friend, and are proud of what Scotland is doing for Oregon, and expect that more Scotchmen will come and rear up and develop its various undertakings. Strange to say that" the largo busi ness houses are all British. All along the valley 3011 find Scotch farmers iu large numbers, and scarce ly a day passes but I meet with many of my countrymen, some of them here since 1S47. They all unite in saying that Oregon is the likest place to Scotland in scenery, climate, etc. After my arrival here the various steam navigation comjanies and the Oregon and California, aud Northern Pacific Railway Companies tendered me free pases to visit any portion of the country from British Colum bia to Southern Oregon. When we j waited on the Governor at the Capi- j tal wo were there also welcomed, ami spent a few hours talking over the 1 subject of immigration with Govern or Grover. Oregouiaus thin iv mucii of their country, and well they mav, and all that it needs to make it a hive of industry for the Anlo-Saxon race is direct railway connection with tne Atlantic States, winch, when se cured, will advance this country more than the Central Pacific Rail- ! way did California. ! INVESTMENTS. j Money commands 10 to 12 per i cent, at the banks and on real estate j securities So high is the rate of j interest that in Washington Territo- ry 15 to 18 per cent, is obtained. But this high rate i:-. unquestionably keeping back manufactories. If money could be had freely at 10 per cent, the country would progress much more rapidly than it does now. Those emigrants who have come and are coming do not bring with them much capital. There are hundreds of opportunities in Oregon for men with a few thousand pounds. Large financial undertakings which would yield 112 to 15 per cent, are suspend ed for want of capital. Jwlictous in vestments cannot fail to prove remu nerative if well managed. The crops are heavy and always certain so that a man need not fail to pay interest on money ho borrows "at moderate rates unless lie is reckless or a spend thrift. The longer one lives here the more lie notices the many ways to succeed by honest industry and with capital, but it is dangerous (ex cept for farming) for a new comer to invest his means "right away," as Americans say. lie must be here a few months und acquire some expe rience before embarking on his own responsibility, lor commerce a wide field is open to take advantage of the produce of the country, and export it to various portions of the world. Prospectively no country offers such encouragement for com merce as Oregon does to-dsvy. It may be ten or twelve years before a large commerrial trade is built np, but it is coming for certain some day, the State having every tiling which constitutes material success, and all that is wanting is capital, immigra tion and railroads. Already Oregon will have this year 100 ships visiting its ports to carry away tho wheat and flour of the State; and last year there were 170 ship and steamer ar rivals and departures in the coasting trade alone from Columbia River to San Francisco. This has been the drawback of the whole State, its be injr subservient and paving tribute to San Francisco, nearly three fourths of the State imports and one third of its exports going into and departing from Oregou through the golden gate of San Francisco, and being there re-shipped direct to for eign countries. I am very sorry my time will not permit me giving you a longer de scription of this State. Yours, eve, William Reid. Portland, 22d October, 1874, n eads Cut Oef. The New York Times and Post have heretofore had a monopoly of the Government print ing in New York, but these two pa pers have failed to sustain the Lou isiana outrage, and official orders have been issued depriving them of these pickings. The administration is in a bad way in New York. Not a single paper of respectability or prominence sustains the military s'.yle of organizing Legislatures, and hence it becomes a question where the Government patronage is to be bestowed. Truly the administration must be at a low ebb when not a sin gle journal in a great city like New York comes to its defense. Con A a vvirewtin,..! Editor Enterprise y- ' -that a few lines from tLi8p " county would not be altom, 'U profitable, and wearisome t ' many readers. Ent before ert into details it will first be ne to give a somewhat limited tion of our part of tie. , p" Spring Water (better Horse IIeave) situated Bonl, " teen miles from its moutb- ? a high rolling country, lyiDgb sam river ana the waters of Clear 18 COQiW oneoftU growing Bection, j gram beincr of a r. Creek. It best wheat State the quality to anything raised on fJ prairie land. The great necessity J a neighborhood situated M that the land he in the those who are not afraid of.n.i and will exert their energies iD pro' moting the general advancement of the community. That is in Ln;iv- bridges, making roads, and Uml our lands in a superior maimer, tU we may be possessed of a large sur. plus; demanding such improveinwi, that we Wy market it with some L gree 01 satisfaction. Onr reads ar& in a very fair condition, hut not... fair condition. good but what they could he ajv,. tageously improved. There , was a considerable crop r.' wheat sowed in this section last fv' but the cold weather which we hiP lately experieuee-d has produced 1 very damaging effect having fcur: a great deal of it out, but as it Iu moderated now, the prospect w that it will take root again aud m, an average crop. Fruit and potato have generally suffered more tht any other article there beingagru: many entirely destroyed by the fro'. We have at this time a very ishing school progressing iu onrdif trict with an average attendance r: about thirty, pupils. It is cimAiu-tt-: by Mr. Corothers, apparently a ten intelligent and worthy gentlm: There have, within the lust fn months, been several farms cLuv hands in this part of the county, a:, we are pleased to acknowledge il- I purchasers as energetic and vev)-v do citizens; also there have he: quite a number settled on vacant a: railroad lands, which we det-iu 1 great advantage to the eountrv s iarire. as onr population has 1. increased, and the valuation of ol farms are constantly increasing. lint, with .ill these bright l-n- ,I.eI;!U'e'rrtliI1 .-lacking in mar respects. The ri"I,t . i altogether exi.t, n?n and (we are compelled to s:ivk., memoers. A little ciiom,,.' . iginaled in onr - . : 1 1 1 'f rii-eiim. iieirii inn ikkxi 1 which yon are doubtless acquaints as there wre something like a c mini of card, and other testimonial appeared, not long singe, in yonr j per, and from the way the thing:-.-initiated, we are satisfied that last impression is worse than t first, and the sati.-faction of tl," concerned (we deem) little inur ed; and we urge that it In? dim-. : tinned in the future. Your correspondent at Sandy, very proud and boastful of tin- r.r riage of Representative Mctir.:.: We do not wish to ni.;r him 0:.: joy or pride connected with the 1. py circumstance, but simplv v ! to inform the good people of t . j region that we too have an l--j Representative in the person '. j M. Reed, who resides with ns.s: j was not long since married toM o Deuing, of this county. What th S;indy think of that? And tl.i not all: we hope within a short t: to be able to chronicle others. Tit is another couple who apparel have the contract made, and as tr ims favored them in the past, th1!' tnro will surely make the reward. Youngsters with ns are coiara tively scarce at present, especii girls. We have given too ui any them away, which our boys are. termined we shall not do jiereaf ' as they keep a close watch of fLs on the north, and occasionally v: a runner to the south, that net1..:: serious to their interests may ocer There are other questions of intf est connected with this part, of wU we will, perhaps, speak hereafter. Respectfully yours, "Maximvs- O Mississippi. The beauty of I ical government in Mississippi is parent by the fact that it cost ?300. V to administer the government bef-' the war; now it takes Sl,500,ftV Before the war $4,5." paid the penses of the Executive Departni?'-' $S4,800 goes that way now. X yet the white "trash" down the" find fault with nigger rule, and c- ject to Grant's and Squaw Sherid.i- bayonets to maintain niggers fn ofii Ungrateful people. Died." Chas. Binder, an old c zen of Astoria, and well kno"' thronghout the State, died at tb place last Tuesday. Mr. Binder w- a member of Reaver Lodire. I. 0. F., and of Allison Encampment, 1, I. O. O. F. He was a man nn -respected by all who knew him. 11 leaves a wife and four childred ' mourn the death of an affections father and husband. Peace his remains. he As It Should Be. We are pl that our readers are beginnm? write up the different parts off county. We are always glad to? ceive communications which at tended" to advance the interest; our county, and hope that carl rbns will 'take a proper interes this matter. .-, 0 , Bettek. At last account, r' C. Kinney, of Salem who has quite ill, was somewhat better, his friends have strong hopes 01 recovery. - O 0