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i 0 o o o O V Y A- THE EHTERPmSE. OREGOflTY, mm, 31 lit. 5, IStt 0 Labor and Capital. This is a practical age. No super ficial polish can eclipse the steam reality of facts. The slimy gause of of fashion and the buffoonery of cus torn may elude the scrutinizing efforts of the searchers for a season JJut facts arc; stuouorn things, am cannot be ml lorever. uey are as restless as Aianquo's ghost. They win not dow We propose appealing to a few of Sse, and if it hurts we cannot help it, though never so sor rowful. "For more than a generation there lias been a wonderful strife be twecn capital and labor. The pos sessor is crowned as a lord, whilst the producer lis branded as a slave This morbid and most lamentable condition of society has existed nntil forbearance hja3 nearly ceased to be a virtne. It kiicrht bo well for the worshippers A' mammon to read the story of the I Vabian knights, where a poor slavclJromised great riches and various i . wards to any one that would liberate him. But no one broke his fetters. At length, mad dened by his long confinement, he declared that . whosoever liberated him ho would i-lay. And so with labor. The toiling man is a slave.; The rich can liber ate him if they will, but they do not. By and by despair will turn to rage, and tho captor will bo slain and the captive will liberate himself. Do not the signs of the times indicate this result? The struggle is between monarchy and individuality between serfdom and selfdom. And whilst tho battle rages, can we not see tho glimmer of approaching day? In dividualism eer one's right to him selfto enjoy the good things be stowed by the Giver of every good, is the inalienable right of every man. Do you doubt i? Watch the tide of events and behcjld the progress of the advancing hosts. Every interest is being moulded jto meet the demands of the ago. Th face of aristocracy is turned downward. Our . social forms are being moulded to harmo nize with the nqw regime. There is a dreadful unrest in the) presence of all usurpation slid wrong. Reform is tho watch woA of the hour. Those in brief author V must yield to this inexorable dcflud. Simplicity of form and cheapness of execution must control our social and political relations. Industry must receive its honored reward, whilst idleness and speculation are reduced to zero, and her devotees made to meekly beg for bread. But the conilict is not between O capital and labr any more that it is between brains and muscle. Every part, if properly joined, is essential to tho life and I happiness of every other part. Tills law is universal. If one member Offers, all the mem bers suffer wiiuWt. Let us illustrate a one point by a few facts and figures. We will take a case where capita . and labor take their stand and assert their rights. Two men come to a neighborhood G eacli bringing a capital of 100,000. One man loans his money at ten per cent. At the end of .ten years he will have receive! 8100,000 interest, and will own it i all himself. More than that, nine-lA iths of all who bor rowed will be i Voverished by the rate of interest Sr y have paid. They will not only be bankrupt themselves but will bankrupt others in their fall. Tho 100.000 has proved a blessing only to the man who -loaned it. It has not caused two blades of grass where theijo was but ono bo fore. It has flowed in the channel of speculation andIs track is a deso late waste. ThVther man invested his means in ouseful manufactory that gave constant employment to one hundred men. These men re ceived in wages for their ten years work tho snug sr?m of 89,000 eacli or 8000,000 in all. These hundred men with their hundred families have built up a hundj-ed pleasant homes and they own it fill themselves. The proprietor is hailed with joy every where, for he ihas. made joyful a thousand homesi and gladdened ten thousand heartsA He is a benefactor of his kind, whl he gave peace and prosperity to oiSfrs he also prosper ed, for his capital of 100,000 has been multiplied by ten in as many years, and nobodz nas been wronged of a farthing. This is no fancy pic ture. It in not only possible, but probable. How do you like the con trast? Is it not lesspn enough for one week? Theik Needs. A correspondent from Summer Lake to the Corvallis Bemocrat says: The one thing needful in this county is u mail route. As it is, we of Snmmer Luke ;have to go eighty miles after our niail. Silver Laker's have to go upwarls of one hundred and twenty-fivo miles. Iu Silver Lake vallev the nm ft :4. persons; m Summer Lake there are upwards of ono hundred; in Chewau eau there are near one hundred ; in Crooked Creek valley about seventy live or on a hundred, and in other little valleys through which we pass there are settlers, all deprived of mail facilities, making near four hundred person that are deprived of mail connection with the outside world. Aweekly route from Silver Lake to Goose I Juke would accom modate all' these! frontiermen, and would not cost t' Government over ,000 at the f:lrtfe.-t. The Infamy a Law. The telegraph informs us that Grant has signed the infamous Civil Bights Bill. We publish the docu ment in full on our first page this week, and if it is not enough to damn any party, the masses have fallen too low to realize their terrible situation. If there had been anything lacking to sink the Radical party into obliv ion, this act certaiulv will do it. The bill will tend to open many of the sores which have become healed, and instead of being a benefit to the black race, it will prove a detriment to them. It will crowd our own courts with suits and annoyances. Just slunk, under it, one of the most filthy "heathen Chinese" can go to our most respected hotels, and should tho landlord refuse to allow him the same rights and privileges that ho does a whito man, it isniade tho duty of tho U. S. Prosecuting Attorneys to institute proceedings against the landlord, if the "heathen make com plaint," and should he fail to prose cute the suit, becomes himself liable. It does not apply to negroes alone, but to all the races, and the Indian a m . m now can come on tne same looting with the Chinaman and he with the most refined of our own race. Of course, the bill is one that was in tended to degrade and further humil iate the Southern people, but it will apply to the North as well.. There now remains but one hope for the defeat of this most infamous aet, and that is in the Supreme Court of the nation, and as that body ha3 been made up to do the Badical party's will, there is but little hope from hat quarter. Now let the Badical Congress pass he "Force Bill," (and probably be fore this issue is out it will have be come a law) and then declare the Badical party the "Government, "and Grant its executive head, and the work of a set of traitors will be complete and our system of government over thrown. It will not do for our Bad ical friends to say that "the Bebels of the South must have this crammed own their throats for punishment." Of course it affects them moredirect- y than the people of the North. iut it is a virtual abrogation of all State governments and the whole country will finally experience the malign effects of the subversion of the Government which was so wisely instituted by the great and good men who framed tho Constitution and founded tho Republic of free and in dependent States. The Radicals in Congress to-day are a more despica ble set of traitors than any man who sought by force of arms to dissolve the Union. Those men attempted it through force of arms and acted the lart of men; tho Radicals in Con gress have subverted the Constitu tion, destroyed the government, and that while they had sworn to protect and guard the sacred instrument. Let the people look at this matter calmly and without prejudice, and then decide whether they will yet make an effort to become free white men, of a free white man's govern ment, or whether they are prepared to have a Mexico or San Domingo placed upon the soil which was bought for them by the patriots of 1875. While wo aro not of those who desire the after-punishment of any, we should be doing our feelings an injustice were we to think other wise than that this legacy of Sum ner's is tho work of tho devil, and that he has received his reward by being made one of his shining lights in the dark world of sin, and that he will bo prepared to receive tho per jured 6et of Radical Congressmen w ho have inflicted their" country with tho bequest ho left behind him. Disabled. The steamer L03 An gel os, from San Francisco to Victor ia, became disabled off the coast op posite Tillamook, by breaking her shaft and other machinery, while on her trip up last week. There were on board 150 passengers. When the accident occurred the steamer was fifteen miles from land. Capt. Howell and four other men got into a small boat and succeeded in mak ing a lauding some fifteen miles from Astoria, and they made for that place through the woods. At Astoria they received the prompt assistance of Capt. Flavors tug-boat, which im mediately went to the relief of the disabled boat, and brought her safely to that port the following day, where she is now being repaired. The pas sengers passed suitable resolutions of thanks to Captains Howell and Flavel, as well as to Capt. Scholl, for their noble actions in their be half. The situation of these passen gers was a perilous one, and they were fortunate in their safe deliver ance. Gbant Gets Another Shot. A few days ago, under the direction of Flaxbrake, U. S. Grant sent to the Senate a message asking that Arkan sas be revolutionized like Louisiana, and that Grant be allowed to sav who shall be Governor of that State. The j matter was referred to a Committee, ; qi which Poland, a Radical, was chairman, and by order of the Com- j m it tee ho reported on the 10th ult. j that, "in their judgment, no inter- j ferenee -was necessary in Govern ment matters." Grant seems to find his revolutionizing course anything but smooth. s. In the New York Times oi Feb. 17, we find that Owen Wado has been re-appointed Register of the Land Office in this city, and T. R. Harri son, Receiver, in place of Hon. II. Warren. There appointments were transmitted to the Senate for confir mation on the previous day. Why we have not received this news by telegraph, Senator Mitchell could probably explain. We have nothing to say in regard to Mr. Wade's re appointment. Ho is probably as good as any other Radical and for fear of doing worse, we accept "it as the best wo could expect. But his re-appointment and the removal of Hon. Henry Warren is a matter which will have to bo explained by the powers that be. " Mr. Warren is a man of most excellent character, has made an efficient and faithful officer, and few men are held in high er csteem5 by those who have the pleasure of his acquaintance. He has faithfully discharged the duties of bis office, and why he has been removed and another selected to take place, the many Republican friends of Mr. Warren will call upon Mr. Senator Mitchell to explain, and if reports are true tho explanation will bo anything but acceptable. Mr. Harrison is a citizen of Yamhill, was a member of the Legislature which elected Mitchell, and he was elected as a Corbett man; he was also a mem ber of the Convention which passed the infamous Mitchell-endorsement resolution. In Yamhill county, were it left to tho people to say, Mr. Warren could get tho recommenda tions of nine out of every ten of the Republicans over T. R. Harrison, and the people generally would hear tily endorse hi? re-appointment. But his successor is not their choice for any position. It is stated that the position which he now receives was the contract entered into at Sa lem, when Mitchell was elected and that he was promised it in consider ation of his vote. lie accepted it, and now Senator Mitchell pays him off, at the expense of tho decapitation of a most faithful public officer, and one cf his warmest political friends in this State at the time of his elec tion. To the deceased son of Hon. Henry Warren, as much as any man in this county, can be attribut ed the votes of this county for Mitch ell. He, like the father, was a true friend of Mitchell, and now he stabs one who acted from pure and honest motives for one whom he had to buy with position to become his friend. We hear of but one expression in our place, and that is of universal con demnation at the removal of Mr. Warren, and Senator Mitchell knew that his action in this matter would bring such a remonstrance against him, that he thought it prudent not to telegraph the appointment until the confirmation was made by the Senate. The removal of Mr. Warren is a calamity to our city. By his uniform courtesy and gentlemanly conduct as a public officer ho has won their general esteem, as a citizen he is held in the highest regard, and were his successor clear from all the accusations of improperly bartering away the wishes of his constituenco, he would have to possess supe rior qualities before he could place himself in the confidence of the people here, now held by the re moved official, or in Oregon. We shall have more to sa- on this subject in the future. Death of II. C. Kinney. Again we aro called upon to an nounce the death of one of Oregon's pioneers, and ono of her most energetic and enterprising citizens. Robert C. Kinney, well known throughout this State, died at his residence in Salem on Tuesday after noon at 3 o'clock. Mr. Kinney came to Oregon at an early day and set tled in Yamhill county, following farming a number of years. He then engaged in the business of milling at McMinnville, and after being very successful for several years, he re moved to Salem, where he imrchascd what is known as the Salem Mills, and has carried on an extensive bus iness for tho past six years at that place. lie was a man of generous heart, warm in his friendships and an excellent neighbor, of great ener gy and business enterprise. His hand was ever open to tho needy, and no man in private life in our State will be more missed than Robt. C. Kinney. He has raised a large family of children, now nearly all grown, who reflect credit on their worthy and esteemed father. The family of the deceased have lost an affectionate and noble father, the State an enterprising and most val ued citizen. It is a State loss, and while the afiliction falls most heavily md directly upon the bereaved fam ily, the whole people, especially the farming public, will deeply feel his death. Mr. Kinney's death was the result of an accident which hap pened to him by being thrown from a hack at Portland several months ago. He was 01 years and 8 months of age. We offer our heartfelt sym pathy to the bereaved and attlicted family, and to the nublo sons whom he ha left we would say, emulate the noble example left you by a great and noble fai'.er. Coos Bay is going to have still an other newspaper. Oregon City Appointment COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BRr'iELEY, CALIFORNIA. About as Forcible. The "terrible murders of Radicals in the South," just now 'being pub lished in the Bulletin, will create a smile on the face of many, while they will utterly fail of the. object for which they are published: Such stuff may have served tho Radical cause in the past, but the people don't frighten any longer. They will be taken with about the same allow ance as was the argument of the Bulled editor some years ago on tho greenback question. The story is rather old but it is good and may be news to many of our readers, and we may therefore bo excused for re peating it at this time: 'When green backs were first issued, tho present editor of the Bulletin was editor of the Salem Statesman. Wo , were op posed to the depreciated currency, and in an elaborate article in reply to us, ho took tho ground that green backs wero better than silver or gold. "For," said ho, "the man who held the dollar in greenbacks had a dol lar, and besides he had somebody's promise ta pay a dollar." These may not bo his precise words, but are as near as we can recollect. Tho argument was so convincing that ho (gained quite a national reputation as a financier, and some of the Eastern exchanges thought he ought to suc ceed Chase, all on account of this sublime and convincing logic. The Radical cause being about dead, he is trying to keep it alive by the res urrection of imaginary Radical mur ders. It is too bad that this embod iment of all the virtne of the country cannot find a way by which to pre vent people from committing mur ders, and then if it must bo done, that they should bo all Democrats and the murderers should bo niggers. Gaston is about the only Radical editor in tho State or Union who is innocent enough to think that these terriblo tales of Southern horrors will save the Radical party. Bless his soul, the people all over the country know that where the Federal bayonets have been out of way in tho South, peace and prosperity has reigned, and that murder and blood shed is the result of the infamous conrso of the Radical Administration which makes tho ignorant negro think that it is a virtue to kill a Democeat. The Tress L.nv. Our readers infamous press claimed by the bill did not aim will remember gag law. It Radicals that the was this to abridge the free dom of tho press, but was only an act to place tho District of Columbia on tho same footing with other States. Poland, who was the cat's paw for Beast Butler, introduced tho bill, and while he had boon elected in his district by over 1,700 majority two years ago, the last election he was defeated by over 1,000 votes, so un popular was the bill which he had to carry with him. Even Flaxbrake Williams gave it as his opinion that the bill would not allow a publisher or editor, or correspondent to bo taken from his Stite and carried to Washington to be tried. Those who were not blind to facts and the causes of tho passage of tho act, knew thee Xirofossions to be falsehoods and de ceptions. Tho bill was the work of thieving Radicals who had been ex posed by the press, for their connec tions with jobs. But since the fall elections the true force of the bill has been acknowledged, and we find that men are dragged from their homos and taken to Washington to answer to indictments found against them by a District of Colnmbia jury, mado up of niggers and dependants of those very samo thieving Con gressmen, and before courts presided over by judges whose tenure depends exclusively on the will of Congress. Already several arrests have been made and the accused taken to Wash ington. The .last was a Mr. A. C. Buell, at present of the St. Louis llejiubliatti, but formerly of the De troit Free Pre. His crime is, that he slandered Zach. Chandler, better known as Drunken blood-letting Senatorial bummer Chandler, while he was employed as correspondent of the Press. This shows what the bill was passed for and while the Radical Congressmen who passed it tried to lie out of its true meaning during tho last fall election, now they are per fectly willing to show its full force. It was intended to gag the press, but there are those in the country yet who defy the infamous usurpers and who will speak of them as they deserve, and abide the consequences. The end of the rule of tyranny will come sooner or later, and the names of those who have been and may hereafter bo dragged to Washington before the conrts, will stand on the pages of their country as martyrs, while the Corgressmen who passed the bill will be consigned to the bottomless pit of infamy. Sold Oct. The Sacramento Union which has been the leading paper of the Independant party of California, has been sold and consolidated with the Sacramento Record, the organ of the Railroad Company, and the Ad ministration ' paper of California. While we have ever held different views from the Union, we can but regret that it has fallen into the hands it has. It was one of the best newspapers ever published on this coast, and as such deserved a better iate. r A St ron i; Minority. The Radical majority in the Unit ed States Senate for the next two years is by no means as firmly fixed as it appeared a few days ago says an exchange. The successive defeats oL Thayer in Nebraska, Chandler in Michigan and Carpenter in Wiscon sin, followed by the beating of Ram sey in Minnesota, has produced a prodigious sensation iu Washington. They were the Administration can didates. They were defeated by a coalition 'of Democratic . members with a few bolting, disaffected Re publicans, and in each instance it was understood that tho Senator elect would oppose the C.esarian pol icy of Grant, both North and South. Pledges were given to that effect. Two years ago it seemed as if it was an impossibility to obtain anything like a check in the United States Senate for years to come. It is elect ed for six years. Its . members aro divided as follows: Fifty-sevon Re publicans and seventeen Democrats. By tho elections of 1874 the regular Democratic strength was increased from seventeen to twenty-seven. Now on the great questions of the day the mil'tary supremacy over tho civil power wo may safely in clude in the negative the votes of the new Senators from Michigan, Wis consin, Nebraska and Minnesota. Boothe, Senator from California, was chosen as an Independent, friendly to tho Granger movement. Sharon, the Croesus Senator from Nevada, who bought his election openly, de clares his independence of all party affiliations. The votes of these men, added to tho Democrats, upon ex treme party questions, would raise their vote to thirty-three, and thirty eight is a majority of that body. It would be strange if five conservative Republicans could not be obtained upon a measure involving the de struction of the Republic. Tho Ad ministration "ring" have indeed a slight margin in the .Senate, with which they cannot afford to trifle. The Democratic Senators aro, many of thorn, very strong and able debat c-rs. We may mention c:; -President Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee; Timntun, of Oliio; McDonald, of Indiana; Bayard, of Delaware; Ker nan, of Nc York; Wallace, of Penn sylvania; Eaton, of Connecticut, and Geueial Gordon, of Georgia. These are all first-class speakers, and as there is no limitation of debate what ever in the Senate, they will make it lively for the adherents of imperial- ism lhe minority is so strontr that it cannot p unity. bo ridden over with im- The Majority Report. A Washington dispatch of the 2od gives us tho majority and minority reports of the Congressional Com mittee on tho Louisiana question. The minority report is made by Rad icals of the Flaxbrake type, while the majority report is made by two Radicals and two Democrats. De low we give the majority report. Tiie other evades the question and tries to demagogue out of a bad di lemma. The dispatch says: Foster, Phelps, Potter and Mar shall presented tho majority report of the committee on the State of affairs in Louisiana and concluded as louows: in our judgment ail that is needed in Louisiana is to withdraw the Federal troops and leave the people of that State to gov ern themselves." linfore making this recommendation the committee say: "To avoid the mischief and confusion of change, tho majority of the citizens of Louisiana seem w ill ing to accept us a compromise Xel logg's recognition and the restora tion to tho Conservatives of tho con trol of the lower Houso." For these reasons Foster and Phelps do not wish to oppose the recommendation that the administration of Gov. Kel logg be recognized in view of the fact that they know nothing of mer its as judged by competent evidence; nor do they wish to be understood as urging it. They only wisli to re cord their agreement with those of their associates who believe such a compromise might, by making a ter mination of the uncertainty in Lou isiana, bo on the whole less intolera ble than the present situation of that distressed people; but to any reso lution recognizing Kellogg, 'Potter and Marshall are utterly opposed. They find nothing to justify tho be lief that Kellogg w as elected, that he seized tho Government by aid of Federal troops through a void and lraudulent order which prevented tho counting and returning of the votes, should be a standingprosurap tion against him. When the people, outraged by tho abuses of his Gov ernment, had successfully regained the olllce he had usurped, he was again reseated by Federal iower through the forms of the laws by which ho had entrenched himself. He once more sought to nullify tho choice of the people at the late elec tion, and to that end called the Fed eral troops to break up the meeting of the Legislature. For Congress to recoguize a usurpation so gross, so oppressive, is, they think, to estab lish a precedent by which, under pretexts that caa readily be found, any Ktate Government may be over thrown, the will of the people nulli fied, fraud and violence perpetuated, and republican forms perverted to destroy liberty. Its Result. A dispatch from Alexandria, dated tho Jtli ult., says that in consequence of the passage of the Civil Rig'.ds bill, and fearing trouble, both of the principal hotels cancelled their licenses and closed. Civil Rites. The burial of the Radical party without military hon ors, is the way the Worcester Press I puts it. Expenses of tho Modoc War. A long report, says an exchange, has been sent to tho Lower House of Congress by the Secretary of War conveying reports of the quarter masters at Sai j Francisco, Portland aud other disbursing offices on tbo Pacific coast, in regard to the expen ditures in terminating the Modoc War. Deputy Quartermaster Eddy, of San Francisco, reports that he ex pended for supplies and transporta tion the sum of $120,585, which, with unsettled bills aggregating15, 377 80, swells the amount expended by him to $135,902. Of this amount Wm. M. Hoag received $110,000. Major Batchelder, quartermaster at Portland, gives the following fig ures of the expenses of his depart ment during tho war: . .. Accounts for. Kupilios paid f7T,f!S5 73 Accounts for transpor tation and services paid 172,711 81 $252,397 54 Accounts for supplies unpaid 50 47 Accounts for transpor tation and services unpaid . 22,657 37 22,707 i $275,105 3S During the war the following quantities of the principal articles were used by tho troops, or, at least, paid for to the Radical friends of the Administration who received the con tracts: Hard bread, 153,192 lbs.; bacon, 45,337 lbs.; sugar, 25,711 lbs; coffee, 13,208 lbs.; beef, 134,201 lbs.; Hour, 1G.393 lbs.; beans, 18,088 lbs.; tobacco, 5,140 lbs.; salt, 5,103 ft s.; soap, 4,420 lbs. Besid.s these arti cles there were large quantities of canned fruit and vegetables, S3ru2, crushed sugar, hams, rasins, oysters, lobsters, apples, pine-apples, lemon and Vanilla flavor extracts, Worces tershire sauce, bicarbonate of soda, cream of tartar, pine-apple cheese and pears. tioinc: hack on Himself. Our readers will remember that last March there was a difliculty be tween Governors Jiaxter and 1 rooks in Ark msas as to which was the legal Governor. After considerable trou ble, Grant anil Old Flaxbrake recog nized Raster as the legal Governor. Raster concluded that his timo was uii on the election of the present Governor, aud vacated the position without an- trouble. Rut now Ar kansas has elected by about 70,UOO majority a Democrat, and that don't suit Grant, and now lie wants Con gress to reinstate R rooks, and that, after ho declared that he never was tne legal uoveruor. u any ono is Governor of Arkansas lesides the one elected last fall, it is Raster and not lirooks, and Grant seems to bo going back on himself in this matter, unbecoming the Executive of on en lightened nation. There is no tolling what Grant won't do, and if there ever was an ass in the Presidential chair, without sense, judgment or decency, that chap is Ulysses Grant. He said that he had no policy, and the people have about come to the conclusion that he has neither policy or common sense or he would not put himself on record as a most con sum ate ass in this matter. Letter from Sandy. Sandy, March 1, 1875. Lmron Extkrpkisk: A sanguin ary conilict came off here last week, a sort of brotherly fight, which I deem worthy of public notice. There were two brothers residing together, formerly of Oregon City, aged re spectively, twenty one or two and about fifteen. They got into a light last week, the younger brother com ing out of the contest minus coat, shirt and some hide, and had there not been other parties present, I doubt not but what he would have been served like the Indians serve their victims on the plains, nearly skinned him alive. The victorious big brother is the same, I am informed, who whipped an old man iu Oregon City. If the younger brother has any lawful protectors, they should look after him, for. if left to the ten der mercy and care of the young de eiple of Yankee Sullivan, he may be served worse than to have his cloth ing torn off of him. Such conduct may be popular among roughs and hoodlums, but it certaiuly is not ap preciated in this quiet and law-abiding community. When his case is brought before the proper authori ties, I believo they will find occasion to use the handle to the young man's name, and impress on his mind that whipping old men and boys is not very profitable. Fnojt AX OllSEKVEK. To All Educationist. ofOkeoox. Permit me through a generous press to notify you, earnestly soliciting your hearty co-operation, that Dis trict Teachers' Institutes for the present year will- occur as follows: In Union, Union county, on the first Monday in May; in Canyon City, Grant county, o;i the first Monday in May; in Jacksonville, Jackson coun ty, on the second Monday in June in Tillamook county, on the second' Monday in July; in Astoria, Clatsop county, on tho second Monday in August. The State Roard of Educa tion and tho State Ro.ud of Examina tion will convene in semi-annual sessions in Salem on tho first Mon day of July. : The annual Stite Teachers' Insti tute will bo held in Salem on first, second and third days of September. L. L. Rowland, Sup't Public lust. Salem, Feb. 2Gth, 1373. T,rtUIUUU7 c Grand H. G. Struve, Esq., Gr the Grand JLodm. of i of the Grand fi rn Jer issued the following 1rocl LLC lT I I Nations unaer uate.of the 20th ult ii it J,",t"t rntler the .-.. ,. .. thw. n Greediiy : As Odd Fellows, we hiv i to regard the 2Gth day r iearnl each recurring vend as a fl,pnl Gf cious and memorable in tl?J atUSli of Odd Fellowship.. It "lanU and proper that si .wTf? t the birth of an organization "oVl and catholic in its spirit so nl V its influence, so n Ji JI' !?Aalia us mnuence, so assidnousn its bors of charity, so unprecedpri?i its growth, and so .nJlSf? 1Q moting t he cause of Friendship and I ruth, should bo obrve n pro. its memuers as an ocp.i;, r 'V thanksgiving and rejoicin- PraiSe' Therefore I, Henry G. Strove -yr . Grand Master of the W t? A ' Jl: Lodge of Oregon, by virtue" of tu power in mo vested, and in compf anco with a time-honored custom 1 hereby enjoin upon all Odd FelW and Subordinate Lodges in tins Jnr lsdiction, a proper observance of th fifty-sixth anniversary of Odd tV lowship m America, on the 2th .1 of April, A !., 1875, by ttttj apart the said day as a dav of thanks giving for the blessings of prosperity and harmony which has attended the Rrothsrhood during the past rea And I do hereby speciallv authorize and empower each and every Subor dinate Lodge within the State of Or egon and the Territories of Washing ton and Idaho, to celebrate said dT in such manner and with .such cere monies as may be deemed prop and if desired, to appear publicly h regalia and jewels of the Order on said day; Provided, nevertheless, that each Lodge availing itself cf this dispensation, shall be deemed to' have specially pledged itself bv it projH-r officers to observe strictlv all the rules and Jaws of the Order in that behalf made and provided, In testimony whereof, I have here to set my hand and caused the seail of the R. W. Grand Lodge of Oregon to be atUxod the day and date first above written. HENRY G. STRUVE, Giirnd Master. Ry tho M. W. G.-ar.d Master: J. M. Raoox, R. W. Grar.d Secretary. 7b all Is !! i'" R. ".?,'- tT,,; .Tlir:.--t("i: i'.tH, rf Grit ml Linl-jr- of Ori'jn,.: JUJJZAS. it has been certified to me by the Mot Worth v Gjutui tes of th ii. W nwd'Lodge of NV braska, and other goid and werthv liiethren, that owing to the 'grass hopper visitation" in that State J.i-t summer, many (.1 Fellows in that Jurisdiction with their families, n um bering not less than fifteen himdiv-l souls, are wholly dependent upon charity for their sustenance from now until September, and " that t'-o various or-onized aid scci. lii-s i-i:.. not possibly meet nil the just do ma! s upon them for general relief, the Tioccssity for which, becomr greater every day, as tlic srju.ii means of the fnv more favored be come exhausted, and that, although the Subordinate Lodges of that .Tur isdiction have responded promptlv 10 tne extent ol tlieir uoility, et many of the Lodges are loeaied i:i the devastated district, with their treasury snd memlorsh:p impover ished, and the local fontribiirio:is fall far short of what will be r quired to keep many of our Rivthrni from suffering and starvation until next harvest. Therefore, I do earnestly soli.-it for these suffering Riothren tl e ac tive sympathy and aid of all Oil Fellows in this Jurisdiction, and d. hereby recommend su-h contribu tions by Lodges and individual mem bers as they can afford to give in a spirit of love and charity, and to tin end, and by virtue of "the power iu me vested, I have this dav authoriz ed tho R. W. Grand Lodge of Ne braska the privilege of addressing all Subordinate Lodges in tins Jnristh'.: tion upon the subject matter and in viting their co-operation in relieving the wants of the di.-t ressc-.l. In testimony whereof, I have here to set my hand and carte l the s;. J of the R. W. Grand Lodge t-f Oregon to be aliixr-d the day and data firs-t abovo written. HENRY. G. STRUYE. Grand Master. Ry the M. W. GraMd Master: J. M. Bacon, R. W. Grand Secretary. Only too Plain. The astounding executive suggestion with reference to Arkansas, remarks the Springfield RejiHhlh-ftii, is a sufficient commen tary upon tho President's repeated protestations of reluctance to inter fere in tho domestic affairs of the States or put the army to semi-political uses. If these edifying disclaim- . -ers ever meant anything a point on which a good many people were al ready becoming very skeptical it is now only too plain that Mr. Gran has outgrown the feeling which piompted them. On Wednesday night at 12 ended the present Congress, and the people have reason to be thankful that it has come to an end. It is a blessing that Radical mischief is now ended. It is seldom that we notice anything in the medical line, nor would we now. unless we could Ik convinced that wo sire not doma: our tlutv as a journalist in recommending to the pu I fic the cel ebrated botanical preparation of lr. Henry. Whoever induces the victim of. scrofula or nnv other disease of the blood, to use Dr. Henry's Kx tract ff Sarsparilla, has begun "a good work. There is no question as to the result of this medicine if persevered in. It is a sure cure fur scrofula, rheumatism. Salt Ilheum.and indeed all complaints arising from vitiated or impure blood It is just what a good physician would prescribe for these complaints, and we confidently recommend it as tn-ing tlu lest article now in use. Dr. Henrys Cough Dalsani is the most affective remedy for affection of the throat or lungs "that we have ever known. I contains no deleterious drugs, andean be taken with impunitv and certainty of relief. For tho cureVd" coughs cohls. sore throat, etc., it stands without a ri val. Dr. Henry s Liniment as an alle viator of pain", is unrivaled by any lil'Olvii'-ifi.Mi liofnrn tln Olllllic: til" most skeptical will be convinced )' single trial. It will prove itself a by"' 111 111.41 41 .itlllil 1 - in ) i, ,,. rim V s inula w without. O O