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OREGON CITY, OREGjk APR, 16, IS75.
The Questional Economy.
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This is a" subject of tbe most im
portance, and yet the least under
stood of all the sciences. We speak
of domestic, social and political
economy. And yet the 'words are a
mockery in the vocabulary of -our
language. Whilst they have a text
ual rendering, tho daily application
is a mockery to all pretentions. As
we view the checkered ways of life,
and the inconsistency of the hetero
geniotfs mass, does not the question
press itself upon the mind -with ir
resistible force and Almost audible
tones, saying what is economy? The
lexicon gives an easj' solution, but
the experience of life contradicts
this textual definition at every turn.
We preach economy and practice
prodigality. But again we hear the
words repeated what is economy?
The answer comes it is the rule of
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right. But wiiat is right? Again the
nnswer is given, it is tho rule of
conduct rendering the greatest good
to the greatest number. Or more
definitely stated; it is the rendering
of good to all. But this is not ex
actly republican or ecclesiastical, for
at the head of modera social scienco
stands the deformed and hideous
features of selfishness. It looms up
in all onr social and domestic rela
tions. We find the skeleton of fraud
incthe palaces of the rich and in the
hovels of the poor. Its illgained, de
formed and ghastly features are in
every nook where more comely
scenes should exist. But there is no
use of dwelling on glittering gener
alities. Facts call for plain words to
illustrate prevailing wrongs . and
needful reforms.
It is not economy to charge more
that a fair value for our labor or the
product of labor. It is not economy
to remain idle one half the time hop
ing for unreasonably large wages the
balarce of tho time. It i3 not ocon
omy to drive worthy labor from
us by unreasonable terms or unbear
able associations. Those who havo
the welfare of their homes at heart,
,-will employ those who contribute of
their earnings to support our schools
and churches, our business men and
mechanics, and by the fruit of whose
industry there will by built hundreds
of h omes from whhjh emanate the
genius of American life the germ of
a higher civilization.
Economy gives well tilled farms,
industrious mechanics, generous
merchants, humane manufacturers
and honest daily toihirs in the vari
ous pursuits of lifej It gives all
this, and gives mo.c. It insures
health. It imparts pleasure. Its
blessings aro peace and good will
and its fruits jirosr-eri ty. But all
th does not solve the mysteries of
fceonomj-. There is no explication
in organized associations and individ
ual life does not harwmize the irre
pressible conflict. IV hat shall wo
do? The most direct Viiswer is be
gin'at the bottom. Society is but an
association of individuals. Every
person is a factor of the whole. If
the factors are all right, then the
body will be right also. If one
member be halt, the whole body
will be deformed. C-ae drop of im
purity will discolor a glass of water.
The purity of the water depends on
the purity of every component part.
It is so with society A Therefore, tho
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a wise one. ty)
Let us philosophise. We will endeav-
' or to so polish our facts that there
can be no immediate danger jof mor
tal injury for this is a fastideous
age. In childhood we are robbed of
our individuality and self dependence
by stern, positive and regulative
commands. We are made slaves to
our parents without a reason and
the expanding mind rebells. From
this school is graduated the youthful
hoodlums of the age. Children
should not be robbed of their indi
viduality. They should be taught
self reliance. They should be taught
to know the right and to do it for its
own sake. This would be true econ
omy, and quite the reverse of the
usual customs of society. Wtness
- a single picture. Little Pet wishes
to visit aunt Sarah, she approaches
mamma saying:
" Please ma may I go over to aunt
Sarah's. little while;'"
The mothep replies with that terri
ble monosyllable, " No."
V But ma I want to so much."
" But you can't go to-day."
Why can't I go to-day?"
c.j Because you can't."
' But ma, there is t-o school to-day
and ray work is all done, and why
can't I go?"
" Because you caa't. Now stop
your teasing."
And so the poor little inquiring
,g nxmd is doubly rebuffed at every ap
peal Would it not have been much
better for the mother to have' reason
ed! with the child, and thereby edu
cate ami strengthen its reasoning
faculties, and thus teach it self con
trol. Gould not the mother have
. said, " I shall be quifee busy to-day,
you would be such a help to me,-but
if you go away I shall feel so- lone
"some, , Would it not be so nice for
my little Pet to stay with her mam
vina to-day?" With t few cheering
words of this kind, alopted to the
facts in the case, the child would be
left to its own choice, and would re
main at home of its own free voli
tions, instead of a stern command
that marred the happiness of all dur
ing tho balance of the day. This
appealing to the judgment and
showing your confidence in them
and their choice of the right, is what
we call domestic economy. The
song bird will have a happy home in
a family thus governed.
But there is another reform sadly
needed. It is making slaves of toil
ing millions. It is that hideous
monster fashion. How many hearts
have been made sad, and how many
homes ruined by the invasion of the
destroyer. Mrs. Ply ugly wears a
beaver hat and all the world must
follow. How few men or women
have self dependence enough to say:
'I have clothing quite good enough,
it was fashionable last year, and will
be fashionable with me till it wears
out." Seriously, clothing can make
a difference with those only who
have nothing else to recommend
them. A little more brain culture
would give us less fashion gossip,
and more of the social, homelike, in
dustrious and intelligcst qualities of
social economy.
But politics, also, has its votaries,
and the aspirant for party honors is
quite blantant over the virtues of his
party. We have learned this from
the experience of the past fifteen
years. A multiplicity oi omces nave
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been created for tho benefit of the
happy family.
Economy -directs the discharge of
all supernumeraries, the placing of a
well guarded lock on the public
treasury, the cutting down of all
salaries to mechanics wages, and the
reorganization of an honest govern
ment. We want but few offices less
laws, more honesty and a happy peo
ple made so by being governed by
the economy of right.
In finances so closely allied to
every relation of life, there is a wider
range for the application of economy
Suffice it to say that tho gatherers of
wealth are themselves but factors of
tho whole. Tho successful business
man gathers the waste in community.
Tbe principal belongs to the comnm
nity from which it has been taken,
and should be devoted to the public
good. Take the man with 3100,000,
he has gathered it by a few years
close dealing. It was gathered from
the surplus earnings of those who
dealt with him. With this money
he builds a costly mansion and en
joys it all himself. The money is
lost to the world, and so far as the
world is concerned, might as well
bo sunk in the depths of tho ocean.
It is true that the building and fur
niture gave employment to a score
of men for several months, but that
is no equivalent. The public good
demands more. It requires a resto
ration of what has been taken from
it. It had no surplus capital to do
vote to sucli selfish and useless pur
poses. Had the money been devoted
to the manufacturing interests, it
would have given employment to a
hundred mechanics, and supplied a
arge district of country with agri
cultural and other employments, and
thus satisfy a great demand. And,
what is more, the employment of the
mechanics would not have been for a
few months, as in the erection of
the residence, but would have ex
tended through a period of unnum
bered years. One appropriation
might be styled true economy the
other selfish prodigality. But
enough has been said. We plead for
home industry and the patronago of
home manufacture and home pro
ducts. We plead for every needed
reform that our homes may be
homes of peace and plenty. Shall
onr pleadings be in vain?
Going Down Under It,
nere is what a Washington cor
respondent of the New Orleans Times
says about President Grant:
"The President has already chang
ed in two years. His face is red, ap
proachincr at times to purple, with
aDorjle'ctio threatening, and, it looks
argue any thing, there are chances
that the third-term question may be
settled, if he changes not his course
of living', by the sudden clip of Clo-
tho s scissors. 'I see death in h
face if he keeps this thing up thri
months longer,' said a physician,
whose name is eminent among th
faculty in both hemispheres and re
nowned even in the London College
of burgeons, as we left the White
House that evening."
In addition to the foregoing, Gen.
Jas. B. Steadman, a well-known
Union officer, who was in the army
with Grant, and whose knowedge of
him is full and thorough, says:
"If he does not die the victim of
his appetite, he will cause his coun
try more trouble, more excitement
and more bloodshed than any man
f flho has lived on this continent. In
every position he filled in the army,
he ga've convincing proof of his des
potic characteristics in the unrelent
ing bitterness he exhibited toward
rivals. He could neither brook con
trol nor rivalry, and thwarted in
either, became unmanageble to such
an extent as to excite alarm in Wash
ington. The President has not appointed a
single Radical Congressman to office
nor any of their' friends, who voted
against the Force Bill. The ques
tion i3 asked by the people generally,
did he not trv to buy the passage of
this iafamous law with 'the public
patronage? The answer
plainly told in his acts.
is very
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Flax
TmoMPndfi. rovs a writer on
flax
cultuie in the Bulletin, the best
practical tracher, shows that, the
most valuable products must have
the best culture.
Of two farmers who raise wheat,
the one who tills best ana sows
and harvests at the right time win
get the best crop. It will pay bet
ter to raise 400 or 500 bushles on ten
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acres than on twenty acres. iutj
soil and climate of Oregon offer the
farmers choice to raise forty to nity
bushels per acre or twenty to twenty
five bushels per acre. The wheat
from fields of largest yield per acre
has the finest berry and commands
the highest price. It is better to
raise fewer acres and better tilled.
This analogy holds good in flax.
The gentlemen who have seen the
flax culture of England, Ireland and
Belgium the latter being noted for
the best culture and the finest fibre
affirm that the climate and soil of
Oregon are equal and. in some re
spects superior to those of tho coun
tries named, and. if there is failure
of a good crop it will be due 'to lack
of labor in the cultivation, or of skill
and care in securing the crop, or to
some error in selecting the land for
flax.
Last year some of the gentlemen
who raised it for the fibre, having
arrived late and engaged the ground
in Winter, made mistakes. Some
acres were of the light colored,
clayey, flat land, that baked hard,
on which flax would not grow. Such
spots are not fit for wheat, or oats,
or anything, until subd rained and
subsoiled. But rolling prairie, like
Howell's or parts of Tualatin Plains
where deep plowing and frequent
harrowing pulverize the soil for a
good wheat crop, promise to be the
best for flax.' Too much cannot be
done to make a deep, fine, meaty tilth,
as if you were preparing for an onion
bed. Every clod of dry lumx is an
injury and a loss. Spend more time
on fewer acres. You cau afford it
for a crop so valuable in market
You do not wish to raise the cheaper
or coarser flax, such as comes mostly
from Russia. .
The selling prices vary in Great
Britain from 123 to $300 per long
ton of 2,240 pounds. You can raise
flax of the highest value as well as
yon can rasse wheat of the highest
value for that market. You have
this advantage of climate, as intelli-
Having prepared your ground by
Fall plowing once, and Spring cross
plowing, and thrico harrowing, you
can sow in the earJy or muldlo Of
April or before May. You may ex
pect showers in May, which will be
needed to start the flax well. You
will have more or less dry weather
afterwards, in May or June, which
will bo needed for growth. July
and August will bo dry months.
which will give you tiie conditions
for harvesting, steeping and drying.
Your flax will bo pulled or reaped
quickly when tho seed begins to
slightly tinge brown or tho foot of
the stalk to change color The dry
warm weather in August will warm
your pond or ditch of still water, so
that tbe flax will ferment, or steep,
as it is called, quickly, say in 11 or
12 days. The cold rains in Ireland
often defer this process till very late
in September or October.
When "retted" (rotted) you will
in August havo warm days to dry
the bundles quickly. You can then
pile up in barns and brake and
scutch or swingle at your leisure, m
Winter tlays, and have a few tons of
flax to sell the merchant in the
Spring all the product of your own
laboror you can join with neigh
bors in erecting a breaking and
scutching machine and put your flax
into market in the Autumn. The
flax harvest can be gathered before
your wheat requires to be reaped,
and thus you save a large per cent of
time. This product requires labor
and attention. But your gang plows
modern harrows and rollers, broad
cast sowers and reapers give you ad
vantage over cheap labor countries.
One gentleman says it will not pay
to employ Chinamen at $30 per month
and put them into flax fields. Put
your own and your children's labor
and skill upon it in the Summer and
Winter and you will get the profits
Strive to raise the finest fibre that
brings the highest price. Its prepa
ration and transportation are no more
than for the cheaper.
The amount raised on some acres
in England and Ireland is 1,000
pounds per acre. But on the same
land they average 32 bushels of
wheat and even more. We ought to
raise as much which will bring from
$100 to 150 worth per acre. Mer
chants will advance from 100 to
S200 per ton for the flax, according
to the value of the fibre, as soon as it
is ready for shipment. Long fibre is
the most valuable. It is a pleasant
fact that Mr. Jessa Parrish, of Ma
rion county, who has raised flax for
seed in Oregon, and for lint in other
States, is preparing to put in 100
acres for the fibre this year, and for
seed for the next year. Other gen
tlemen propose to test on a smaller
scale. All well-wishers of Oregon's
welfare will rejoice in the success of
these enterprises.
The Line. It appear that Pinch
back is the dividing line between the
true Administration Radicals and the
soreheads. After Christianey had
finished his speech it was rmarked
that he had gone over to the Demo
crats. Those in f.ivor of him and
none others are to be Radicals. The
party would be terribly in tbe mi
nority. The nigger created the, Bad-
' ical party and
it now appears that
j he will divide
I mote it be.
and destroy it. So
Clear Ideas Respecting
Culture In Oregon.
COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA,
BrilKELEY, CALIFORNIA
The Pivotal States.
In a table giving substantially the
full vote of the country, : the aggre
gate, according to the full computa
tion of the Albany Argus, falls short
of the largest combined vote of the '
lxr 73 190 votes. Of this
number of votes, 52,415 are scatter
ed through the States of Iowa, Kan
sas, Maine, Minnesota, Michigan,
Mississippi, Missouri, Rhode Island,
Tennessee, Vermont and Virginia,
where they could not affect the re
sult unfavorably to the Democracy,
although they might determine the
States of Michigan and Minnesota in
their favor. The other 20,711 votes
are located in Massachusetts and
Wisconsin, and might determine
both Sates for or against the Rad
icals. Here, then, is a balance of
power in four States which cast their
electoral vote for Grant, sufficient to
decide the result; and the aggregate
electoral vote is 39. That the absent
voters were disaffected. Republicans
is evident from the fact that in olose
elections they abstained from voting.
That they wil favor a Liberal Demo
cratic policy is evident from the fact
that they cannot be brought to sup
port the Republican policy of to-day.
The Democracy, then, may gain 19
electoral votes or lose 23 votes by
their action. In the latter case
their electoral vote will be reduced
to 195;. leaving to the Republicans
171 a Democratic majority of 24.
Can this satisfactory majority bo
reduced to a minority? That do
dends upon whether a full Demo
cratic vote can be polled in a few
close btates. is there any reason
why Connecticut should not poll as
many votes for the Democratic nom
inee for President in 1870, as it did
for the Democratic nominee for Gov
ernor in 18G8; and ought not Loui
siana to do as well as it did on Gov
ernor in 1872? These aro the closest
of the States now Democratic; and
there is no reason why both of these
should not prove true. Oregon is
not likely to be struck by a reaction
ary wave, and Louisiana is now con
ceded to be Democratic. This leaves
only New Hampshire among the piv
otal States; and while that State has
sustained tho Democratic national
policy, it will undoubtedly again be
hotly contested. But with New
Hampshire. Massachusetts and Wis
consin against tho Democracy, the
electoral colleges would stand , Dem
ocratic, 190; Republicans, 170.
This shows that with a vigorous
campaign all along the line, and par
'ticularly in Connecticut, Indiana,
and Louisiana, the result is assured
But to carry the elections, it is nec
essary to have an undoubted Demo
cratic liberal and progressive policy,
which shall inspire confidence
throughout the entire opposition.
The P. I). & .
L. Railroad.
A correspondent writing from
Washington, under date of March
17th, has tho following further par
ticulars in regard to the construction
of the Portland, Dalles and Salt
Lake Railroad:
Some, three weeks ago an agent of
JL.omlon capitalists arrived here for
the purpose ci consulting with Col
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iuapman auu otner uregonians in
relation to building the Portland,
Dalles and Salt Lake Railroad.
After a thorough investigation an
careful inquiry tho agent, in behal
of theprincipals,,signed an agreement
to build the road, work to be com
menced at an early day. The agree
ment, which was drawn up by Sena
tor Kelly, was telegraphed to Lon
don Thursday last, and a favorable
answer is hourly expected. It is
tho intention to commence work at
Portland and build the road up the
Columbia, and thus relievo the coun
try of the oppressive monopoly that
controls that great highway of na
ture. The English gentlemen who
have embarked in this enterprise are
the proprietors of extensive rolling
mills, and in addition have abundant
means at their command to carry one
their projects. In addition to the
aid already received by the company
from the State of Orecon, tho people
of that State and the Territoties of
Idaho and Washington will be called
upon to contribute in labor and ma
terial a sum eoual to $200,000. The
vessels brincinsr the iron will, on
their return trip to England, be
loaded with wheat. This will furn
ish the farmers with much greater
frcilities for getting rid of their sur
plus wheat than ever before offered
and it is thought that, owing to the
impetus that will thus be given to
all branches of business and mdus
try, the $200,000 can bo raised with
difficulty. I am confident that the
road will be constructed, and, also
that work will be commenced early
the coming season.
A Tkue SusniAKr. An
exchange
thus pithily summarizes Grant's
Presidential record: "He has estab
lished precedents which will vex us
as long as the nation lives, and he
has set an example which embraces
all these blunders and crimes which
the ruler of a free country should
avoid. - He has wrought more dam
age to the republican system in these
six years than his successors can re
pair in the next fifty, and by his
principles and actions has done more
to demoralize public sentiment and
weaken public confidence in the sta
bility of public institutions than al
the trials and tyrannies of civil war,
And with these credentials he has
the magnificent impudence to aspire
to a third term, and' there are fools
and knaves who are willing to en
courage and assist him in it
. Stbokqee Claims. An
exchange
buj ss luul jrinciiuacK. 13 a man and
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uruvuer, uui vjisey 13 a man and
brother-in-law remarks the New York
Tribune, arid since 1869, that is
stronger claim.
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A Capable President.
In-, one respect, the New Orleans
Picayune thinks that Grant is a capa
ble President. He is capable of do
ing almost any act that public opin
ion could condemn. He was capable
of making Kellogg Governor of Lou
isiana; he was capable of making
Simmons Collector of the Port of
Boston; he was capable of appoint
ing Murphy Collector of the Port of
New York; he was capable of send
ing to represent the country abroad
as ministers and consuls a number
of disreputable persons who were
conspicuously incapable of perform
ing any of the duties ., imposed on
hem; ho was capable of entering
he House of Representatives to lob
by for a bill which was to make him
dictator of four States, and of inter
ceding in the Senate for a tax bill
which was to augment the incomes
of monopolies under pretense of in
creasing the revenues of the Govern
ment. After so many displays of
this kind of audacity, it is to be sup
posed that he is quite capable of ap
pointing Williams Minister to Eng
land. There would be a peculiar
unfitness in this appointment which,
no xloubt,' strongly recommends to
the President's consideration. Wil
liams is Attorney-General. In that
office ho exhibited so thorough an
ignorance of law, and so striking a
disregard of personal and public
rights that he established a claim on
Grant to the place of Chief Justice
of the Supremo Court. Tho very
brilliant manner in which he sue
ceeded in defeating his own side in
the controversy with Spain growing
out of the Virginius anair, has prob
ably indicated to tho President that
eminent incapacity for diplomatic
service, which constitutes the most
valid claim to a foreign appointment
under the present Administration.
We do not know that the President
has yet intimated any intention of
sending his favorite to represent this
country at tho Court of St. James,
but tho general opinion that the ap
pointment will be made shows that
the public understand and duly esti
mate tho influences which operate on
tho Presidential mind in selecting
his friends and agents. If Williams
were not conspicuously the most un
tie man in the country for the partic
ular place in question, no one would
dream that he would be selected for
it. In such a case his appointment
would bo a surprise. As it is, it
would be tho thing which everybody
expects, whilst everybody would re
gret and condemn it.
A Minister who "Won't llcsign.
The New York Nation publishes
tho following letter from W. J. Still
man, the distinguished author, artist
and dijdomatist. It is a severe criti
cism on Grant's Minister to the
Court of St. James. The letter is
dated, London, Feb. 22, 1875.
I havo lived abroad under many
regimes, and often had cause to blush
for tho official representatives of my
country for drunkenness, meanness,
profligacy, ignorance, incapacity, ve
nality; but until I lived under the
protecting presence of Gen. Sehonck
I have never had to deprecate, as an
American, a connection with swin
dling. I doubt if there is another civilized
Government, the meanest under the
sun, that would dare so to outrage
the self respect of its respectable
citizens as to compel them, year after
year, to endure tho humiliation of
seeing their representative protected
by his official capacity from a crim
inal suit, and hearing the head of
their Government commonly and
plausibly accused of participating in
the swindle identified in its highest
personalities with a mean and fra
grant fraud.
Every honest American in England
runs the risk every time ho dines
with a party of Englishmen of being
made blush by an allusion to the
Emma mine or Gen. Schenck, and
he must blush in silence, for there
is not one word that can be said in
mitigation of the disgrace; whenever
ho takes up a morning paper he may
see that some beggared victim of
Grant and Schenck has instituted a
criminal action against the American
Minister for complicity in a swindle,
which but for his name might never
have been a swindle at all, and would
certainly not have been a successful
one; that he can not go to his Minis
ter's receptions with self-respect, or,
if he went, meet there an English
man who has any.
That's the way we stand, and I
wish that, since General Grant and
his official advisers are lost to all
sense of diplomatic propriety, every
honest editor in the fXTnited States
would hear our complaint, and re
peat it till the whole country felt the
shame.
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Importance of Local Papers.
The Salem Statesman of a recent
date has the following on the im
portance of sustaining the local pa
pers, which is true and should be
heeded by all who have an interest
in either their county or town. It
says:
The local paper is an absolute ne
cessity to the county and community
where published, and to see that it
is supported is the duty of every
citizen. It is for their interest, and
it is business to see that it is kept
up. Tbe large city papers cannot
supply the place of the home paper.
That should be the first love of every
man and woman, for with the paper
is the locality identified. The paper
gives the county and town where it
is printed much of importance in the
world, and gives in detail the local
news, which cannot be gained by any
other source. Every day's issue of
the paper is so much local history,
and the rise, growth and develop
ment of the town and county can be
measured and recorded only by the
local newspaper, that is constantly
gathering its items. People do not
properly appreciate their home news
paper too much by tho number col
umns that it contains. The home
paper at any price is the cheapest
paperone can take, for in it, we re
peat, is found information that can
be obtained from no other source.
A Sensible Woman.
Some three years ago the editor of
the Independent Dispatch, at Ukiah,
Cal., died, leaving a widow with sev
eral children to maintain. The wid
ow took charge of the paper and has
ever since conducted it with marked
ability and success. The paper has
been independent of politics, but re
cently the " Independent" part has
disappeared and "Democratic" plac
ed in its stead. The paper will
henceforth be known as the 'Demo
cratic Dispatch. The following selec
tions from the leading article of the
fair editress, proves the genuineness
of her Democracy:
This fall the Democratic party en
ters upon the contest which i3 to de
cide its own fate, and the future
prosperity of the nation. Overborne
for nf teen years by the unscrupulous
use of military force beaten by ad
mitted fraud openly sustained and
endorsed by the " administration
held under by the systemized terror
ism which has prevented fifteen
States of the Union from exercising
the right of uncontrolled suffrage
debarred from deserving success by
the illegal use of Government funds
to corrupt and buy voters the grand
old Democratic party has still sus
tained itself against all opposition,
maintained its organization, ' and
rebuked the evils which it was pow
erless to prevent. That it has thus
preserved its vitality in due to the
fact that its principles are those of
constitutional liberty, and must be
forever dear to the wants of the
American people.
Political guerrillas must be sum
marily dealt with. Men who enter
caucuses must bo made to under
stand that their general desires must
yield to the wishes of the majority.
There must be no more bolters no
more " independent" candidates.
Men who enter a Democratic caucus
must respect and abide by its decis
ion. An "independent" candidate
must be regarded as a party traitor
as a man devoid of honor preferring
his own advancement to the good of
the party, or the welfare of the peo
ple. Personal feeling must now be
sacrificed, and self interest laid on
tho altar of the party. We are about
to enter upon no common contest.
It is a struggle for the existence of
our party the existence of the
Union. Successful we must be; and
everything must be done that will in
the slightest conduce to success.
Onr nominations must be faultless.
The best men we have must be chos
en. Talent, integrity and populari
ty must be the qualifications of can
didates. Inferior men with inferior
claims must stand back and give
place to those who can command the,
suffrage of our people. Victory
must be ours and to gain it our
best men must be' placed in tho lead.
Showing His Contempt.
The President of the United States
has an utter contempt for tho ex
pressed wishes of the people. At
the fall elections quite a number of
Radical Congressmen were repudiat
ed by the people in their respective
States. Grant now shows them that
while they havo discarded them, he
proposes to provide for them at the
public expense. It is stated that
theso rewards are in consideration of
tho vote these Congressmen cast for
the Force Bill. Eight appointments
of repudiated Congressmen havo al
ready been made, which are as fol
lows: GoJIove S. Orth, Minister to Aus
tria. Horace Maynard, Minister to
Turkey. James N. Tyner, Second
Assistant Postmaster General. I). W.
Gooch, pension agent at Boston.
Christopher C. Shcats, Sixth Audit
or. A. J. Ransicr, collector of in
ternal revenue for the Second South
Carolina district. L. Cass Carpen
ter, collector of internal revenue for
tho Third South Carolina districr.
L. A. Sheldon, assistant United
States counsel before Alabama Claims
Court.
It is well known, remarks tho
Wathington City Sunday Herald, that
some, and probably all of these po
sitions, and others to be hereafter
given, were promised before the vote
on the Force Bill was reached, and
in view of the fact that eleven votes
would have changed tho result, the
question naturallyj suggests itself
whether corrupt means were not
used to induce members to vote for
tho Force Bill, and, if so, who it was
that thus corrupted the representa
tives of the people.
The Connecticut Election.
" The Dutch have taken Holland,"
and in the same way the Democrats
have carried Connecticut. Connecti
cut and New Hampshire are both old
fogy Democratic States naturally,
and while it is a great victory for the
Republicans to carry one of them,
as in the case of the recent election
in New Hampshire, yet it signifies
nothing for the Democrats to get in
occasionally say once in fifteen
years. Our Democratic acquaintanc
es need not throw their hats over
their nutmeg Congressmen, for when
the election returns com to hand
from that State we intend to show
them that they have actually lost
ground in Connecticut since last
year. Wait and see.
The above is from the Bulletin.
Now don't hurt our jubilant feelings
with those figures when you get
them; please don't. It is said that
figures won't lie, but if tho Bulletin
editor attempts to prove what ho in
dicates in the above extract, he will
have to.prove that twice two are not
four. The Democrats only double
their representation in Congress,
but we will wait for , those terrible
figures which are to convince the
public that the Democrats have lost
ground in Connecticut. But, please,
Mr. Bulletin, let us feel good just a
little longer. You had your time
on the New Hampshire election, now
give us the same show on Connecti
cut. -. Enlarged. The Oregon Granger
has been considerably enlarged and
improved in its appearance. ' ;
SUMMARY OF STATU M-IW.
Lebanon Lodge, No. 47
I. O. O
Jr., has eiectea ALessrs. A. B. G
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and F. M. Morgan as ilfWof
the Grand Lodge of Oregon.
Albany Lodge No. 4 and Orgean
Encampment No. 5, I. o. o. F will
celebrate .the fifty-sixth anniversary
of. Odd 'Fellowship in the U. S on
Monday, April 2Gth, 1875, in an "8n.
propriate manner. i
An evening daily paper is to ba
started at Portland. The first issue
is to appear about the 20th inst
Bnshwiler is announced as business
manager.
It is Mr. Arrigoni's intention to
leave Astoria on the outgoing steam
er, for the benefit of his declining
health. We earnestly hope our
friend will find that great desidera
tum, and will return to Astoria with
the boon he seeks. The Occident
has changed hands, but Mr. A. still
offers it for sale.
Rev. Dr. E. R. Geary has accepted
pastorage of the Presbyterian Church
at Eugene City, andwill move hi
family there next week.
Five German families have moved
on the Henry Black farm, near Can
treville, which they bought last
week. ........
In consequence of President War
ren's contemplated trip to the Eat
in early summer, the commencement
exercises of Albany Collegiate Insti
tute will be about a month earlier
than usual, beginning on the 29th
inst.
Mr. Henry Fuller, who has just
come over the mountains from Goose
Lake valley, informs the Record that
the winter there has been mild and
stock have done well. The popula
tion in that region has increased con
siderably and the business of stock- "
raising promises to be profitable.
The great want of the people there is
a regular mail, and they consider the
want of it a great deprivation.
The Democrat says: BluefTMosa, of
Sweet Home, last Tuesday brought
down to Albany a bag of gold dust
which assayed 13. It was taken
from the Manzanita bar, on the San
tiam, a few miles above Green Horn.
The bar is owned by John Cave and
others, whom, we understand, will
immediately go to vork in the con
struction of a ditch and other im
provements for working tbe mines.
Governor Grover has appointed
tho following gentlemen honorary
commissioners of emigration to Ore
gon: J. W. Knight, of Grand Rapid,
for the State of Michigan; A. G. Al
lan, for the Province of Otago, in
New Zealand, and James Frazer, of
Windsor, Canada, for the Province
of Ontario, Canada West.
The Yamhill Itejwter says: Gen.
Palmer came over from Salmon river
one day recently, and he reports a
very bad streak of fortune upon him
self. He had a large band of cattle
in that country, out of which he lost
150 head during the winter. The
General says a dead whaje, measur
ing 50 feet long, washed into tho
mouth of Salmon river a few dajs
ago, aud it is likely- that there will
be some whalebone in this part of
the country now, judging from tho
calculations that are being made.
The Roseburg Plaindraler nays;
Sheriff Livingston captured I).n
Clark, a person who a short time
sinco closed an engagement of four
years service to the State, under tho
management of Watkinds, at Salem.
He has been making very free with
other people's property, riding off
horse belonging to Mr. Richard
Thomas, of Oakland,
ined before 'Squire
He was exam
Ellison, and
bound over for the
next term of
court. ...
A petition is circulating in Hill
boro.iu favor of giving Miss Mary
Brown the post-office at that place.
The farmers of 'Ronton county
havo formed a joint stock company
for the purpose of building aarjje
warehouse on the farm of Green li.
Smith, on the bank of the Willamette.
There are one hundred shares at 320
each, no one man being allowed over
ten shares. - .
L. E. Webster, a
man forty-ono
of Yircinia.
years old, formerly
where his parents now reside, and
late of Myrtle creek, Douglas county,
was examined a few days ago as to
his sanity. After close examination
he was decided insane, and ordored
over to East Portland.
The work on the Dalle's and Sandy
wagon road goes bravely', on. Mr.
John Marden, the superintendent,
has some twelver-or fifteen men at
work grading and clearing the road.
As soon as. the, fine weather com
mences carpenters and bridge build
ers will make the canyon of the Co
lumbia echo. - ' ' -
The Sheiiff of Polk county reports
that he was charged with the delin
quent tax roll received from formed
Sheriff and with tax roll of - 1874,
amounting in all to $23,248 92; taxes
now delinquent S2.SG7. 70.C Reports
that ho assessed and collected taxes
of persons omitted by the assessor,
amounting to 2,500. Allowed Sher
iffs commission on collectincr taxes.
$224,35. ........
Mr. Bewley, the mail carrier be
tween North Yamhill and Tillamook,
reports about eight feet of snow on
the summit of the coast mountains.
The snow extends about eight miles
and has to be crossed on snow shoes.
The Astoriaa says: About 1,000
has been subscribed toward the road
from Fort Clatsop to the Sea Side,
and prospects aro fair for something
being done in the matter at an early
day. The O. S. N. evince a determ
ination to assist the workv.".
On last .Thursday the Marion Co.
J udge examined a convict at the
State Penitentiary, who was pro
nounced insane by Dr. Richardson.
His name is Smith, from Multnomah
cqunty. This is the same person
that stabbed Dr. Glass last winter.
The Governor has appointed W
K. Leveridge, Esq., formerlyof Sal
em but now of San Francisco, honor
ary commissionor of emigration to
Oregon for the State of California.
D. W. Dimick, of Elkton.'in com
pany with another, gentleman, killed
two large panthers last week. These
animals have been making sad havoc
oa tho sheep in that section of coun
try. It is reported that there is no f3or
in Tillamook county.
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