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o o THE ENTERPRISE. OBGO. Cfiih OREGON, APR. 9, 1875. Whit Oregon Needs. We don! lif there is a State in the Union pos-llned of more natural and productive -wealth than Oregon There is one thing we can say -without successful contradiction, that thero is no State that can show a greater ox pott for the number of people. - This wealth is probably more equally distributed than in other States. "We have no very poor people among us, and yet none aris tocratically wealthy. Yet we find that money is scarce and many of our citizens complain of hard times. Let us see if this is not our own fault more than tho cause of natnral consequenco3. In tho first place, are not the producers, to a great ex tent, standing m their own light when they do not encourage home manufacture and home industry? See the enormous amount of money our farmers allow to go out of tho State annually for sacks to send their grain to market. These sacks could be made here, and by so doing, would not only give remunerative employment to many idle jersons in towns, but would give profitable em ployment to our farmers. Just think for a moment, what a difference this item alono would make to any one town in Oregon. Over three hnn dred thousand dollars goes out of tho State annually for this one item alone. This entiro sum could be kept at homo and circulated among our people. The farmer and manu facturer would get their share of it, while at tho same time the farmer would be creating a consuming ele ment to use up the surplus products on which we now have to pay heavy ireigms to snip to; other countries. We annually .import not less than ten hundred thousand dollars' worth of farming implements, and this is constantly on nn increasing demand. Allhese implements conld be made here, and we need only import such of the material as w o have not in our own State. Let some one take this item alone and see how many con sumers this large sum of money would support, directly and indi rectly. Our shoes, leather and har ness probably cost us another million annually. These could" all be made at honitt and the money retained here. See how many consumers this vast sum woc-ld support and keep the money in circulation at home. Our ready made clothing is another big item which conld all be saved. Now, when we take into considera tion that this vist amount of imports is made at the expense of not more tharf a producing population of fifty or sixty thousand people and we have not enumerated all that we im port which could be made here is it any wonder that times are hard and money scarce in Oregon ? Not at all. The only wonder is, that Oregon is 'able to sustain herself un der such circumstances. Our people must sooner or later come to this pjoint; they must bring the consuming population here and retain their wealth at home. They must cease to encourage the impor tation of articles which can and ought to be made at homo. They must encourage home manufacture and thud keep their surplus earn ings iu circulation at home, build up largo manufacturing towns and increase tho value of tho farmers products. Tuere is certainly no 6enso in sending "our cloth to Cali fornia to bo mode up, paying freight, commissions, c., there, and then tho same thing! back again. No man who has any business sagacity 'will claim that thi3 is either profitable or judicious financiering. Tho people of Oregon must learn to rely on themselves if they wish to prosper, and having all the natural advantages that they could ask for, whenever they learn to support themselves and keep their surplus earnings an nually at hon e, they will begin to soe a different state of things. Oregon to-aay is doing a great deal in building up Eastern manu facturing interests which she should foster and sustain at home. These enterprises would bring population here of a desirable character and town lots and farms would soon be in demand for double their present value. Home industry would make Oregon the garden spot of the Union but as long as we ship our surplus earning each year to enrich some Eastern town, just bo loner we can look for hard times ami a scarcity of money. Oregon needs but to help herself in these enterprises. She has ample means to start them and make them successful. It is true that some may havo to be on a small scale to commence with, but as demands in crease they would increase in pro portion. There is no sense in any one expecting to become rich if he spends two dollars where he makes one. This is equally true of a State If we export annually ten millions of products, and import eleven million dollars worth of goods, we are eoiner back instead of advancing.- We can only become prosperous when- we have the balance of trade in our fa vor. We are on the edge of the mar kets of the world, and we have never - raised anything or manufactured a Binglo article that not found a market. Our paper find a ready and profitable market.for our lumber, our tubs and pails, our fish, our wheat and flour, our iron, in fact the the , more ' we hare ito export the greater becomes the demand. So it would be in other articles. Where wo now import, we would become competitors and exporters. , - This BUbject leads us to the citi zens -of Oregon City. Thero is no more natural spot for manufactories than this place affords on tho face of the earth. Nature has done its share for the place, and the place has many citizens who aro wealthy and who have to send their money to other localities for investment. If they would only invest their means in starting factories, they would not only find that their wealth would in crease more rapidly, but they would find the town and county around here prospering much faster than it has in the past. Just think what an investment of $25,000 in a bag fac tory would do for our town and the farmers in the vicinity. There would be annually expended at least three hundred thousand dollars here, and this would be contributed to us from all parts of our State. See what a tannery would do for us, which would take but a small invest ment. These suggestions are thrown out to our property holders in the hope that some of them will act upon them and invest their means in such a way as not only to be of great ben efit to themselves, but to the county and town. A half million of dollars expended in a proper manner in man ufactories in Oregon City, would in five years make it the most prosper ous place in our State, and really of great benefit to the entire people. To the Farmers. We this week publish three arti cles which have appeared in the Bulletin, on the question of flax cult ure. These articles are written by a gentleman well-known to our citi zens, and as wo regard this question as one of the greatest interests in our State and future benefit to the far mers, we have copied them for in formation to our readers. The au thor of these articles has spent much time and labor to inform himself on the subject, and what ho says can bo relied upon. They are all worthy of a careful reading, and cannot but prove beneficial. We have in our office some qualities of tho best and second qualities of fiax .which have been raised in our State, from an inferior grade of seed, that we will be pleased to show to our patrons, and we havo also a small quantity of tho best "Riga" flax seed, which has recently been im ported by Messrs. II. Hewett fc Co., of Portland. This firm proposes to sell the seed to our farmers for the first cost, 8J cents per pound, and give the farmers time to make payment for the same. Persons de siring to try the experiment on a small scale, can get a sample of the seed we have. We are satisfied that this article of diversified products for export and ho090 consumption, will eventually become one of the great staples of the Oregon farmer, and the sooner it is commencod, the better it will be for the wealth and prosperity of our State. The arti cles we have copied give all particu lars as regards to planting, pulling, price, etc., which aro necessary to give the farmer an idea as to how to make a start, and we trust our far mers may profit by this information. Properly Viewed. Wo cheerfully give place to the following letter. Mr. Foster takes a proper view of the matter, and all others concerned should take the same view. Mr. Foster says: Eagle Ckeek, Clackamas Co. t April 5th, 1875. Ed. ExTEnrHisE Dear Sir: I no tice in your valuable paper of the 2d of this month, that yon declined publishing " Fair Play's" communi cation from Eagle Creek; which, I think, was very proper. For I do not think that ' New Comer" intend ed any disrespect toward tho persons named in his letter. Who " Fair Play" is, I do not know; but I for one, can assure him that it amused me very much, and gave no offense. For the benefit of " Fair Play," you may publish this, if you please, llespectfully yours, Philip Foster. Civil Rights ixa Barber Snor. The Alexandria (Va.) Gazelle gives the following account of the opera tion of the Civil Rights Bill: A colored man entered Fisher's barber shop yesterday and demand ed a shave. The proprietor seated him in an ordinary chair. Being seated he was lathered well, the brush occasionally slipping into the corners of his eyes. The barber then, after rumaging in a chest, pro duced what must have been the father of all razors, and com menced strapping it -vigorously. The customer, half blinded by the soap, seeing him handling the small scythe, asked what he was going to do with it, and when told that he was going to shave him with it, said he wouldn't be shaved by any sUcb thing, and hastily rising, seized a towel, wiped his face and left the shop. Nut Obliged. The solemn philos opher of the Cincinnati Commercial makes this profound observation on the announcement that civil service reform had been abandoned: "One is not oblicred now to Dull all his ( brothers-in-law in office. practical Flax Growing for tho Fibre or Lint. A writer in the Portland Bulletin says that prudent farmers try new products cautiously. Ten years ago it was a question whether flax seed could be raised in Oregon at ft profit to make oil for paint. Now the" far mers plodgo tho Messrs. Holman to raise from ten to twelve thousand acres per year for the seed alone. These gentlemen thus supply their own mill at Salem and the mills of San Francisco. ; ! Oregon linseed oil" is now a home production and a common article of export. The fibre has been mostly thrown away or burned. Yet a sin gle hank of it sent to Mr.Wm. Roid, of Dundee, two years and a half ago, showed the Irish flax growers tha$ our climate and soil surpass theirs for the product of lint. - The Messrs. Williamson of Albany and Smith, of Salem, havo tested it with inferior Chicago seed, and have had very profitable results. . They have been offering as rent, for good land, $15 per acre, including two plowings, three harrowings, sow ing and rolling. A gentleman who carries on sev eral farms estimates that the owners of land can hire if they prefer it tho above labor performed for S5 50 per acre, leaving a clear profit of $9 50 per acre for their land. Esti mating the highest present cash value of such land - at 40 per acre, it af fords a net profit' of nearly 25 per cent, per annum, or two per cent, per month. It is osthuatod thai the whole cost of flax per aero, ready for shipment, including rent of land, as above stat ed ($15 per aero), and hand pulling and binding, at a cost of S6 per aore, is $55 per acre. Tho net profit over all expenses, as shown by the test last year, was over $30 per acre. Should this year's test equal the last it would go far to establish the relia ble annual profits per acre of land suitable for flax. We give the following suggestions to guide any farmers who may wish to try flax for the lint this year: 1. Your location should be near a pond or brook or ditch of good water in which you can put the flax through tho retting process conveniently. 2. Your land Bhonld be of the quality suitable for wheat, or oats, only it may bo rather moist. Some farmers fuiled to raise a good crop of flax seed in Washington county a few years ago. Col. T. R. Cornelius raised a good and profitablo crop the same, year. He said that his neigh bors sowed a little too late and on too high ground, yet in both cases it was common wheat land. 3. The soil must be thoroughly pulverised; two plowings and three harrowings, sowing, covering ' inches and rolling constitute the pro cess which the experiences Messrs. Williamson and Smith have found to be the best. Onr wheat growers will perceive that the preparation for a good flax crop is nearly the same as for a good wheat crop. Deep plowing will give tho longest and most valuable fibre. . 4. Sow tho best Riga or Ilolland seed 'which has just been imported by II. Hewitt & Co. for fibre, 112 pounds per acre, or for raising seed, 5( pounds per acre In some cases in Ireland three bushels, or 180 pounds per acre are sown. The books say that the stalks thus grow taller and less branching. But 112 pounds havo been ' tested with good results on our soil. 5. Avoid weedy land as far as possible, yet a dense growth of flax will do much to choke down weeds. 6. Fibre is saved by pulling the flax, yet.it costs $6 per acre to pull and bind. It can bo reaped for $1 25 if in large quantities. 7. Flax for lint must be pulled or reapen when somewhat green. That for seed should remain till ripe. The lint of this ripe flax can bo used for canvas or for course fabrics. 8. The yield of flax may be esti mated at 500 to 600 pounds of fine lint per acre, worth in Great Britain, on an average every year, 15 Cents per pound. 1,000 pounds have been raised per acre. 9. Twenty per cent, of the flax should be allowed to ripen for seed, which is worth about 8 cents per pound. 10. Sow flax only once in five years on the same land, as inIreland and Scotland they rotate crops and get the best wheat crop after a crop of flax. 11. If ponds or brooks are con venient for retting, the care and skill for this work can easily be acquired, and the braking and scutching can be done by hand at leisure times, and employ many persons, young and old, who want work, especially in the winter season. A scutching mill is better if it can be convenient to the farmers to furnish the fiax straw. 12. A gentleman says it is better to begin with one or two or four acres this year, nd test it every one for himself, and raise seed also for another year If it fails, the loss will be less j if ix . succeeds, more acres can be well prepared for the next season, 13. Do not delay sowing beyond the second or third week of April, as the raina may cease before the flax is well started to grow. " There are some valuable facts re cently published in one of the Bel fast, Ireland, papers on the demand and supply, quality and cultivation of flax, which may be soon republish ed here. Election News. Healthy Readluff for Radical; . Tho following election returns may be healthy reading for Radicals, but it will be mncli more so for Demo crats, the' 'dead Ifemocracy? of which we have heard so: Jtnch. -.Tho dis patches speak for themselves : New Hatex, April C.-The latest returns from this section of the Con gressional district gives Phelps (D.) a majority of 1,195- with five towns to hear from, which last year gave a Democratic majority of 14J. bon ders' Democratic plurality in the 1st district, over Hawley, is 488. Bar num, (D.) in tho 4th district; is re elected by probably 1,000 majority. Returns from the 3d district are mea gre, but probably Starkweather (R.) is re-elected. The State Senate is Democratic by a large majority re turns already in showing there have been elected 13 Democrats out of 21. The Republicans gain largely in. the House, und it is probably close. Hartford, April 5. Forty towns in the State give Ingersoll (D.) for Governor, 11,158; Greene (R.) 8,808; Smith (Pro.) 792. The same towns gavo in 1874 Ingersoll, 9,808; Har rison, .). 7,828; Smith (Pro.) 94. Ingersoll is probably elected by as large a majority as last year. Hawley is pFobably . defeated in . tho 1st dis trict by from two to four thousand. General Hawley runs ahead of the Republican ticket here, and Sanders, his opponent, is largely behind his ticket in his own town, New Britain. 10 i. m. Eighty -one towns give Ingersoll 1,8G4 plurality over Greene in a total voto of 37,744. Tho same towns last year gave Ingersoll, over Harrison,' 2,093 in a total voto of 32, 959. General Hawley 13 defcatod for Congress : for the first district by 490. P. L. Barnuni is elected Mayor of Bridgeport. Republicans gain slight ly in the Legislature, but probably not enough to overcome last year's Democratic majority. New York, April 5. With only 35 towns i to hear from, tho vote in Connecticut for Governor stands Ingersoll, 50.89G; Greene, 41,954; Smith, 2,398. Ingersoll is elected by 7,000 majority. Congressmen are elected as - fol lows: First district, Sanders (D.); second, Phelps (D.); third, Stark weather (R.); Fourth, Barnuni (D.) Ohio has the following as the re sults in that State, which is not very encouraging to Radicalism: Cincinnati, April C. The Demo cratic city and county ticket was elected here yesterday. The Demo crats elected their ticket in Zanes ville, Troy, Lima, Crestliuo, Dayton and Chilicothe; The Republicans and Independents in Springfield, Xenia, Urbanon, Mansfield, Will mington, Youugtou, London and Toledo. Cleveland, April 5. Tho city election returns are coming in slow ly.- Returns to 1 a. m. show large Republican gams over the Cougres sional vote Inst fall, and indicate tho probable election of Chas. Pettygill, Republican, for Mayor, by a small majority; also Republican majority in the common council. In Michigan the Radicals elect 13 of the 21 Circuit Judges. To the Farmers of Oregon. Albant, March 29, 1875. Gentlemen: Having been selected by the Con tennial Board of Commissioners, of this Stite, as a superintendent of the cereal department, or one to work in conjunction with tho board of com missioners, for the purpose of col lecting together the best varieties of cereals to send forward to the Cen tennial Exhibition, at Philadelphia, next year. I desire to call your at tention to the fact that the different varieties of grain and seed will have to be raised, or produced this sum mer. This is a work, if properly carried out, that will be of lasting benefit to this State and the people thereof. It is a work that one man cannot do as it should be done. Therefore, farmers of Oregon, come to the front and assist me in bring ing together all and- everything in the grain and seed department that is worthy, in order to make a first class exhibit. As this great work de pends on you and me, let us set this State before the outer world as should be. Then, I repeat, farmers, come to the front. By a combined effort we can succeed, and do honor to our selves and the State. Raise wheat, rye,-, barley and oats, of various kinds. Thrashed and in sack, two bushels of each variety. Also a sheaf of each ,variet5r'S longest growth. Best head ed. Grass seed a peck of each vari ety, and a sheaf of the same. I de sign showing to the world the growth of our wheat, rye, barley and oats in sheaf, as this, I think, will be the greatest advertisement for Oregon that could be obtained. All samples of grain and grass seeds intended for the Centennial Exhibition, will be carried over the railroads and rivers free of charge, in this State, to Portland, where there is a storehouse' in readiness for their reception. Mark, A. J. Dufur, Port land, where there will be competent persons to receive 'and box them. Any one intending to send samples of any of the above grain, seeds or anything else in my department, will notify me of the amount of space required for their lot, when placed on the tables at Philadelphia, so that I may be able to notify the Director General of the Amount of space re quired from this State for that de partment. All newspapers of Oregon who feel inclined to assist in developing the resources of this State, will please give space in their columns to thA above. C. P. Bttrkhati-p Murder. A gambler named W. H. Baker shot and killed another gambler named Lee Stewart, in Port land, last Friday morning. The ex amination of Baker was held before Judge Denny, who held the prisoner m S2.000 bonds to appear before the next grand jury. Modes and Uses of Flax Culture. The Encyclopaedia Britannica, eighth: edition ( 1853) . says , tho Bul letiti calls flax " the most important crop of limited cultivation." " View ed merely as an agricultural crop, the cultivation of flax is exceedingly simple,'-and could be practiced as readily and extensively as that of the cereal crops. The difficulty is that before!, it can be disposed of to any advantage, it must undergo a process of partial manufacture thus there is required not only an abundant sup ply of cheapr labor, but - such an amount of skill and personal super intendence on the part of the farmer as is incompatible with due attention to corn and cattle husbandry. If a ready and remunerative market were available for tho fibre in its simple form of flax straw, this, in combina tion with the value of the seed for cattle-feeding, would at once hold out sufficient motive to our farmers to grow it steadily and to any re quired extent. Flax prospers most when grown upon land of firm texture, resting upon a moist sub-soil. It does well to succeed oats or potatoes, as it re quires the soil to be in fresh condi tion without being too rich. Lands newly broken up from pasture suit it well, as these aro generally freer from weeds than those that have been lorg under tillage. It is usu ally inexpedient to apply manure directly to the flax crop, as the ten dency of this is to over-luxuriance, and thereby mar tho quality - of the fibre, on which it chiefly depends. For the same reason it must be thick ly seeded, tho effect of this being to produce tall, slender stems, free from branches. Tho land being plowed in autumn, is prepared for sowing by working it with grubber, harrow and roller, until a fine tilth is obtained. On tho smooth surface the seed is sown broadcast by hand or machine at the rate of three bush els per acre, and covered in the same manner as clover seeds. " The vantity of flax imported into Great Britain has for a considerable number of years been gradually in creasing. In 1830 it was 48,000 tons, in 1840, C5.000 tons, 1850, 80,000 tons. Of theso amounts Russia fur nished 74 per cent., Prussia, 10 per cent., and Ilolland, Belgium, France, and other countries 16 per cent." In 1SG5 Great Britain used flax as follows: Tons raised in Ireland, 84, 000; valuo of imports, 35,000,000; tons imported, 3,000,000. During the last twenty years this business has greatly increased. A single firm in Dundee, Messrs. Geo. Armitstead i Co., sell all over Great Britain and Ireland an average 1,000 tons per week. Tho following quotatians from the Dundee Advertiser of March 2, 1875, show the Dundee prices of flax and tow: Riga K 4" to 10 J ri .'! to 40 PHI) 42 to PW 4.; to V 40 to 43 4t 41 I)V 2S to Cod ilia 0 to 32 0 St. Pi-TTKitsmma Pskow 12 heads Ordinary " 9 " 6 " Tow, No. 1 , 43 to 34 to lis to 22 to 40 to 41 30 23 0 36 58 50 Tow, No. 2 30 to A RCn A NO K Ij 31 Crown 57 to Fine Zabrack 49 to lne letters iv, itv, lfixu, etc., are known to the trade as brands indi cating the quality. The Dundee and Fifeshiro weavers use the lower grades for the manu facture of linens and damasks, table cloths and the coarser linens and twines, yet they paj' for the raw tow and flax from 140 to 295 per ton. The Belfast weavers ube to next grades for the finer linens, and pay from $300 to $350 per ton for the lint. The Leeds weavers, of England, certain houses in France, and also certain houses in Belfast manufac ture the linen fabrics and pay cor respondingly high rates for tho lint, over $450 to $500 per ton. This lat ter is the fibre which Oregon has and can produce. Thus, the flax products of a single field is graded and sent to different cities of England, Scotland, France and Ireland for manufacture. About forty years ago three young men moved from Brechin, Scotland, to Andover, Massachusetts, and be gan the manufacture of linen twine. cord and shoe-thread. Their annual importion of flax from Dundee mer chants was very large, besides the amount obtained from tho United States. Their fortunes are counted by millions from this business, and the fame of Messrs'. Smith fe Dove extends, as manufactures, over tho continent. The price per pound for twino is $1 12 in our market. The cost of the material is 12 cents to which must be added the cost of the manufacture and labor. The tariffs on linens if from 30 to 35 per cent., the freights and com missions about 20 per cent. more. A few months ago the Captain of a ship needed new sail cloth (linen fibre) . The merchants of Portland could furnish only that made of cot ton. From San Francisco he got a supply of the article, imported there from Dundee. The two hundred acres of flax raised for the lint in Oregon last year, besides the thousands of acres for seed during eight vears past. prove that our climate and soil equal, and even surpass, most parts of Great Britain and of Continental Europe in production. lhe Messrs. Wil liamson Brothers & Smith have done a noble thing for our State and coast by proving this fact with the lint, already sent to Belfast, of tho last year's crop. To Mr. William Reid is due much credit for sending that small hank of Uregon flax to them at Belfast in July, 18J2. That small knot of fine, soft and strong fibre revealed one of our resources of more value than the gold pebbles found in the creeks of .California in 1848. -'The same gentlemen, it is said, have made good offers, $15 - per acre rental per year, for land to raise flax this season, tor half the profits ier acre. ,4. . .'' . , v. ' One thousand bushels of best Riga and Holland seed have just been received by . H.. Hewett & Co., for sale at net cost of importation 8 cents per pound, to farmers, and credit will be given on good security. The cost of raising and preparing for market is about $50 per acre."' In this a new industry, with surer in come even than wheat, is open to our farmers. Mr. Smith says that 100 acres sown in any locality will war rant putting up the machinery for scutching and preparing for market. Grant Means to Kim. That Vise and penetrating ; observ er, Mr. J. S. Pike of, Maine, writes from Washington tq the . New York Tribune in a very clear and convinc ing manner upon the design of Gen. Grant to bo the Radical candiate for President in 187C. Wo quote tho whole of his letter: "One has not long to be in Wash ington to discover that all this South ern business means a third term. Gen. Grant means it, and the whole host of adventurers whose personal fortunes are bound, up iu his contin uance in office mean it also. It is a new political feature in our history, but not more strange or striking than many of the events of the last dozen years. The incredulity about it is still considerable, because peo ple do not readily believe in wholly new things. It is not unlikely the plan is going to succeed. General Grant has this great advantage. By making himself the agent of violence and repression in the South, he has secured the undivided support of tho blacks and carpet-baggers in the choice of Delegates to the National Convention. Here is a large funded capital to begin with. With the del egates of the old slave States in his hands at the outset, it will be seen that he enters the contest with an immense advantage over every other candidate. It must also be remem bered that this is a blind force, swayed oy personal and partisan con siderations merely. It will be the dead weight of the Convention, not amenable to high public considera tion. It is difficult to see how it can be overcome. " The dividing line is already be ing silently drawn here among the Republicans on this question, and it is not dflicnlt to trace its winding and its boundries. The stiff and sure Republican States are at bottom anti-Grant, anti-third term. They wish to try no rash experiments. They desire to savo themselves, if they cannot save the Presidential election. They therefore oppose themselves to all political audacities of whatever character, and strive to conciliate tho moral and conserva tive forces which underlie ail sound republicanism, but it will be rec ognized that the number of such States is comparatively small, and that they are no match in represen tative force for the bod v of Southern States. " The Northern States arc to fur nish recruits fur the Grant standard are States quite differently situated. They are States already lost to the Republicans, such as New York, New Jersey, Indiana, and others. Grant delegates from these States can be inrnisued in any quantity, ana the rivaries of competing civilian c;indi dates will swell tneir nuniuer. It is not with them a question ot success now, but of future operations. They would sooner throw away" votes on Grant, than anvbodv else, since his probabilities of success would be worth more to them than anything else Avithin their reach. Then tho class of doubtful Northern States, of which Pennsylvania and .Ohio may oo taKen as samples, which they can not be so certainly counted on, will nevertheless turn out a good deal of driftwood that will follow the strong est current. So that all things con sidered looking to the States alone, Grant's chances seem to be altogeth er better for a nomination than those of anybody else in the Republican ranks. "This view rec3ive3 confirmation in a very striking manner, by the reticence of leading Republicans. Very few openly say anything against the third term, in fact nobody ex cept such as aro - ready to break with the Administration. Everybody is afraid of that. It affects them in their party relations, and brines down partisan hostility, which few have the intrepidity to . defy. It is an abasement that all politicians suf fer, rather than endanger their places. It is not manly, it is not honorable, but it is human. It is a great mis fortune that people in public life cannot be independent and cannot say just what they think. Gen. Grant dominates the leading Repub licans very much as Clay used to dominate the old Whigs, though from very different reasons. Clav was a leader and dictator by virtue of his genius; Grant is so by rea son of his place. The latter has all the patronage of the counrty at his disposal and a backing of popular favor among the rank and file. Be tween the two he makes himself for midable, especially so through the exercise of his military qualities of pertinancy and obstinacy. Who ever, therefore, would understand the political situation, and desire to know the reason of the extraordina ry policy being pursued, and to V apparently, still further pursued with the .Southern States, must rec ognize the facts here rreRAntl They are the key to the position. It is a Doia push for the third term." J. nere is no doubt that this is a periecuy just and oorreot Al ? a i view of me situation, and a eontemporary commends it to all Radical wi,a.0 patriotism and self-respect are stronger than their devotion to the mere name of a party. The Washineton dent says: Mr. Dalv. of this tiWa was deputized by Sheriff Tosier and sent down with the mail hack yester day to arrest W Corbett. th mail carrier on this route, far embezzling.' iuwitry, uu complaint oi u. li. oos of this rdace. and returned with Mr. Corbett in his charge Wednesday luormug. - SUM.MARV en. oM; v.,. - Linn county is out of tUu , a $45,000 Court House an jail. Linn has been continua" der Democratic rule. "QTlalv ' The body of an unknown m found in the Santiam ri : Jefferson, last Fridav It . ' Der composed that reon,: ' a So k -ii o"'uuu pussi uie. Mr. Javen is, the Sexton of then,. Fellows' cen: the Record that Jurith? ino Mrrch there were sev.n ' lnt 4 males and 3-female..- Thi,; half of the whole amount 0f - ments of last year, i : ... 7 r- .Work on the buildings for an'? foundry at Baker City, has g menced. . v- a c05- A disease Characterized as snof,; killing off a creat m- Washington county, and "J HI ing a carcass with issect. a . view taming the cause. m. of ascer- dmi Bive TIT- '. T!V-1 i J s;r, iormerlv . successful teacher of this cor, L who went back to -Missouri last f& is said to be returning-to Wt.K'' The Record of Tuesday says- TV day the Salem ; mills have advweS the price of wheat to 70 cents rTr of the foreign demand, and also prot ably because wheat for grinding j, becoming less plentiful than lerui' fore. W. C. Meyer, of Ashland, Las 8oU his stallion, "Capt.Sligart," to Cait Kellogg, of Washington Territory The merchants of Jacksonville Lots taken the matter into their own hands and will hereafter observe the Sue day law, which has stood as a dnw letter on our statute books. X.. goods, except iu extreme cr3,-w:;;3 be sold on that day. . Stock is reported to be doing well in Lake Co. - W. Orr, of Tule Lake, will star for Chicago about the 1st of Jul with 1.000 head of cattle. The delegates to the Grand Lodg; of I. O. (). F. from the three Lodg. in Washington 'county are Dr. V Bowlby and C. II. "Walker frot Washington Lodge, No. 4S, at Fort Grove; D. L. Turpi n and II. C. lis; inond from Cornelius Lodge, No. at Cornelius; A. T. Crocker and V D. Pettiuger, from Montezuma Lodg No. 50, at Hillsboro. - A letter from Williams creek, Jot phine counjy, to the Times, Hay mining in placer diggings has prove a failure this season. Quartz pru pecting is the only alternative. Wor; on the ilorsehead lead will probaK commence now shortly. A nw ver lead has loen discovered lateW Williams creek is a srood iluce fori sawmill. A blacksmith shop is a! needed. Settlers can find rh-a: places to buy, or tolorably fair raneL es to take np in this county. The State RigJifs Demcirtit mt The Lebanonites and their imnifii, ate neighbors are- buzzing arouni lively now soliciting sHbsciiptior for the erection of a bridge arrow the Santiam at that place. We ur derstand that over 62,000 have subscribed in Lebanon alone. mh is expected that , as much more be contributed by the people on tlr other side of the river who are cv; more interested than the Lebanon:. , in the project. It is estimate! tht $10,000 will be required to build th bridge, half of which is to be rai: by subscription and' the county ac tiiorities are asked to apiropnate ;t other half. Tho Surveyor General rcmoYfc the land office from Eugene C'itj t Portland last week. We suppv Portland will soon ask all tho o8ic he removed to that place. The Odd Fellows of Astoria Lv decided to give an anniversary l" on the :10th iust. J. M. Scott and E. M. Waito 1:t been elected delegates to. tho (JranJ Lodge, I.O.O.F., from Olive Lolg? at Salem. The arrest of Bill v Corbett i: Washington county was entire; groundless and unwarranted, and was honorably "acquitted, bavin; proved that " he paid .' the moner t question last February. Mr. Luther Hasbronck, who re cently went from Lane county K Leslie, Michigan, writes to George Humphrey, concerning the weather. that the thermometer lias been do to 40 degrees below zero, and on tlrf loth of March the snow-was vet to feet deep on the ground. Grnmbleri at Oregon weather will r)leas tab notice. The Record says that the maefci- cry for the manufacture of boots anH shoes at the State Penitenti arj ha' arrived and is now on the erround. Stock has been received for makinK boots and shoes and preparations : now going on. Lafavette Williams has been re elected Clerk of the Salem district by a very large majority. The remains of the murdered mar Daniel McMahon, arrived at Jack sonville on Friday of last week, an; were consigned to tho tomb on the following day. Barden and Carey, the murder of Daeiel McMahon, have been bel to answer, and for their better secur ity havo been heavily ironed " placed in closo confinement. A brother of the murdered raJ3 McMahon, arrived at Jaeksonril'' from Nevada on Tnesday of week, and he iate&ds prosecuti;'? the murderers with all tho rigor eanjDommand . The coroner's jury in the case Daniel McMahon murdered in Ja' son county, found that deceased a native of Ireland, aged about 3ir 40 vears, that ho came to his deat on the 20th day of February, A-1; 1875, in Jackson county, by pi shot wounds. And they furtlie1 found Chester Barden, aided nj assisted by William Carey, was ta person by whose act the death of" said Daniel McMahon was occasion ed; that the same. was done by sbtf ing him with a pistol, and was do in the commission of a robbery, they deem the same to be murder the first degree. O