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Convict Labor.
The last Legislature passed a law
authorising the present Administra
lion to lease tlic Ctmvict for any
purposes that persons niay -wish, to
employ them. Already a number of
the convicts have been leased ottt for
manufacturing purposes. "While wo
would like to see the Penitentiary a
self-supporting institution, we can
not look upon this plan a3 in any
way beneficial to our State. The
better clas3 of our mechanics wifl
Lave to compete with this labor, and,
in our opinion, a tirial will show ft to
be of more injury ihan benefit ttTlho
State at large. It , was
well enough
while the convicts; were confined to
making brick, andin this occupation
the prison was fJlst becoming self-
supporting
BuVwhen you place j
that labor agaii? carpenterB and
shoemakers and other mechanics, we
apprehend that a t ial will show that
the hist Legislature did a great in
justice to the free mechanics who
will bo com pellet.- to compete with
convicts. A law similar to ours is
in force ia several of tho Eastern
States, and it haj become very un
mm
popular. In Califl'snia tne same law
exists, and nearly Vll boot and shoe
makers, cabinet Nkers and others,
have to compete against this class of
cheap labor. An effort was made in
the Legislature of that State at its
last session to amend tho law, but
without success. The people of
Massachusetts are anxious to find
some relief from its evil effects upon
the State, and at the last session
of the Legislature, a special commit
tee on the labor question was ap
pointed upon the petition of several
citizens of that State. The pitition
vas accompanied by a craft of a bill
prohibiting tho employment of con
victs on suehework as is usually done
by women. This would seem to be
a rather unilateral attempt at reform,
but still it is a step in the right direc
tion. At the hearing convincing ev
idence was presented to show how
O .detrimental the present system is to
people seeking to earn an honest
livelihood. Tho petitioner tcstilied
that he was conne:.ted with a society
a part of whose mission it was to
find employment for poor women.
He related as hi
clothing dealers w
t
experience that
e able to procure
their work to be
one at such low
rates by convicts
that the sewing
women of the city could not compete
with them. Tho oLmpetition of the
convicts, was tho c Jyjf obstacle to the
c amission in giving ork to poor wo
men, and the condition has been
constantly growing worse. A large
shirt manufacturer testified that con
vict labor had reduced the earnings
of competent shirt-makers to forty
iive cents per day, which was the
most a ftirl could earn with a ma
chine, working from twelve to four
teen hours consecutively. Another
manufacturer testified to the same
effort, and argued that tho reduction
in prices caused by the convict com
petition was a virtual tax upon poor
people for tho support of tho penal
institutions. He had, during the
few months prior to the examination,
be. n obliged to turn away from
twenty-Jive to thirty women each
day, tn account of tho lack, of work,
caused directly by tho employment
if convicts in this woman's work.
Other testimony of a cumulative
character was adduced from witness
es of probity
In this hearing wo find revealed,
iays the Examiner, a sad phase of
the labor question, which must elicit
tho sympathy of th0 people in whoso
midst are perpetrated these law-pro
tected wvongs upoc honest and intel
ligent industry. The subject is one
of great importance everywhere, and
it should be borne in mind that, in
all cases, the convict labor system
bears with equal injustico upon the
male poition ot tne community.
It, is admitted thai there is a neces
ted thai there is a neccs
erforrAnce of a certain
abor the male and
;ts in pTaal institutions,
sity for the perf
amount of labor
female couvic
from all consideration of health and
discipline; and when such institu
tions aro pelf-supporting, or nearly
-o, the fact is looked upon as an evi
O .deuce of excellent management, and
w a canse of congratulation to tho
tax-payers. But the investigation we
Lave alluded to reveals a state of
-affairs far from conducive to the
highest interests of tho community,
and emphasizes the demand for a
change in a wide-spread and perni
cious system of disposing of the
fruits of convict labor, of which the
Boston case is an example. That
honest labor should bo forced into
competition with that of criminals
is an insult to the working man, an
act of resistance to the best workings
of tho law of supply and demand,
which is the capitalist's refuge when
cornered; and.it is by no means an
incentive to honesty on the pirrt of
the laborers. The amount and qual
ity of work which c. man is able to
perform, is a commodity which may
be brought into tho market and dis
posed of on the besc terms that can
be agreed upou between seller and
buyer. But the seller should not be
forced to compete with the State,
acting as agent for and keeper of the
ien .. ami women whose acts have
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shown them to be unfit for the socie
ty of honest people and perilous to
the peace and good cr def of the com
munity. To place the products of
convict labor in the market at such
rates, to the disadvantage of honest
men and women, is an anjnstice so
patent that it hardly aeenis possible
that it can be longer permitted.
Should the system be continued in
Oregon, we shall soon find the better
class of our mechanic forced in com
petition with convict labor, and the
sooner an end is put to it, the better
it will be for our State.
Death of Gen. M. M. McCarver.
Gen. Morton M. McCarver, an old
anA mucli esteemed fellow citizen of
tK?s nlace. died at his residence in
(Tacoma, W. T. on last Saturday.
Mr. McCarrer was born in Kentucky
January, 1807, being at the time of
his death in his sixty-ninth year.
At the acre- of 21 or 22. he went to
niinois, where ho married a Miss
Jennings, sister of Col. B. Jenninys
of this county. He was connected
with the commissary department
during the Black Hawk war. In
1832, he, in company with one or two
others, moved on and located the
town site of Burlington, Iowa. In
1813, ho came from Iowa across the
plains to this State. He first settled
on Tualatin Plains. Having soon
after his arrival hero made up his
mind that this was the country for
him in tho future, he sent for his
family to come out. They . arrived
here in the fall of 1815. During tho
winter of 1813-1G, he sold out on the
Plains and purchased the place now
owned by Arthur Warner, near this
.city, from Col. Taylor, of Astoria,
and moved thereon, where he resid
ed until the fall or winter of 1S57,
when ho moved from Clackamas
county, since which time he has re
sided at Portland, Idaho City, and
finally Tacoma, where ho breathed
his last. He was in California dur
ing the gold excitement and was a
member of the Constitutional Con
vention of that State which framed
the Constitution. He was also a
member of the Legislature of Oregon
under the Provisional Government,
and was Commissary during the In
dian war of 1855-50. His first wife
died in 1810 in this county and he
was again married in 1S17 leaving a
wife and three children by tho wife
which now survives him, and two
children by his first wife, a son and
daughter residing in this place. Tho
General was an active man, ever on
the move and possessed an enterpris
ing and energetic spirit. He was
universally esteemed by all who
knew him, and being an old pioneer,
ho was well known by the older set
tlers of our State. Some three years
ago he located at Tacoma, where he
felt sanguine that the terminus of
the N. P. lv. Pv. would be, and his
expectations were that he would, m
his old age, bo the selector of a town
larger and greater in importance
than the city he found in 1832 on
tho banks of the Mississippi. But
before his expectations were realized
he was summoned to tho city of all
the liviug, and the once active, en
ergetic spirit of Morton M. McCar
ver has gone to rest. Thus closes
the history of another old pioneer of
our State.
CI rant's Yicar.
.in exceedingly spicy ana clear
headed correspondent of the Xew
York Sen writing from Xcw Haven,
Connecticut, just prior to the elec
tion in that State, expressed the
opinion that the Radicals then de
spared of electing their Governor,
and said ho would poll precisely tho
same votes as Ulysses S. Grant
would if lie were running. The cor
respondent then discoursed as fol
lows: He might be termed tho vicar of
Grant in Connecticut. Ho is the
only man in tho State, so far as heard
from, who openly and unqualifiedly
endorses Grant. He, from his own
resources, and his own motion, caus
ed to be fired one hundred guns in
honor of Grant's approval of Sheri
dan's banditti dispatch. And when
tho nominating convention met
Greene was selected by the emmis
saries of Grant's Administration as
the one and only available man in all
the State competent to stand on a
platform that squarely endorses
Grant. He is therefore emphatically
a grant man, tho representative of
Grant, and to strike down Grant.
Whoever would vote for Grant will
vote for Greene. Therefore the
present despair of tho Republicans
on the Greene question is an admis
sion of Grant's weakness with the
people of this State. This is the
teat of Grant's strength, and the only
test furnished in this campaign.
Civil Rights Law. Judge Em
mons of the United States Court at
Memphis, has declared the recent
act of Congress unconstitutional in a
charge to the Grand- Jury. In the
charge he said:
You ask whether it is a crime for
which yon have a right to find an
indictment, that a negro has been
denied the full and equal enjoyment
of the accommodations, advantages,
facilities and privileges of theaters
and inns of the State. Such denial
is not an offense over which Con
gress can give this Court jurisdic
tion. Those are matters which tho
State Governments alone control.
Parties who think themselves ag
grieved can bring their civil action
in this Court at once. Any decision
we may then make can be reviewed
by tho Supreme Court.
Mr. Culver, of Coos river, is going
to put up a fruit-drying establish
ment on a large scale. - - -
The Per Cent. Gained By Home
Manufactures.
About two years ago ft manufac
turer from San Fi'anciseo was pass
ing thy falls at Oregon City Eaya th3
Or&p&nuiHy and being aslicd what ho
thought of its power and its position,
he replied i ""You can make money
by manufacturing hero when we can
not run a spindle in California."
Taking out a card, ho marked $10
which the Mission mills pay for
power alone viz: 30 for coal and
$10 for firemen and engineer.- He
then markod their interest on 80,
000 for real estate. Against these
items he marked not more than $10
per day for power at Oregon City,
and the interest on $20,000 for the
equivalent real estate. At these
rates the saving in power is $9,000
por year, and in interest, $0,000.
"Your laborers," he said, "can be
hired and supported as cheap or
cheaper than in San Francisco. Your
homo wool can bo bought at lower
rates, and your foreign wool import
ed at only a little higher freight.
Your transportation to ouUide mar
kets will cost a littlo more, but your
home demands will be met at loss
cost. You have plainly tho advan
tage of us, and wbon in closo compe
tition we cannot run a spindle, while
you can run your looms ami mate
money."
Why do not our wealthy merchauts
invest in such enterprises and in
crease their business, if the profit is
so sure? Ho replied: "If they would
put half the money thai they invest hi
fine houses and stores, they would soon
make the money to build them, and ex
tend business activity among all the peo-
ple, and (jive strength, grotrth and per
manence to the towns and cities"
Will money seek this investment?
"Undoubtedly at some time, but it
will pay now. I know what I say.
The Pacific coast has the best man
ufacturing facilities in America. We
have the climate, the productive
power of food, and of the raw mate
rials, and ready access to tho regions
that supply material and take our
products, and we cau secure the la
bor that will compete with tho labor
of Europe.
"In twenty years, and possibly in
fifteen, you will sec our woolen fab
rics laid down in the markets of
England cheaper than their own. I
have studied this question, and I
know what changes are in operation."
Some other remarks of the samo ten
or were made as tho car ride gave
opportunity.
Subsequent inquiries proved that
the factory at Oregon City is run at
a cost for power of about $2 per day
of twelve or twonty-four hours'
length, and it uses only a part of its
two hundred horse power, allowing
perhaps, more than half to run to
waste. The original cost of its
ground and water power was only
about $10,000.
To show that prices have not
changed much, a gentleman offers to
sell three lots, 00x100 feet each, with
a seventy horse water power, war
ranted to be perpetual; tho race is
blasted out ready for the wheel. The
price last namcl was $0,000. Or,
being a mechanic, and also some
what acquainted with manufacturing
he seeks a partner with capital to
erect a building and put in machin
ery for some kind of fabrics or im
plements. Tho woolen mills now in operation
increase their business annually, and
find markets for all the goods they
make. A difficulty is felt in chang
ing from one fabric to another, as
tho market demands. A mill that
makes one class of goods alone ex
tends it market most widely at the
bent profits. Five factories will do
better in a place than one.
But it is objected that this factory
has paid no dividends. Yet it has
been burned once and rebuilt on a
larger scale, putting a large per cent,
into improvements and perhaps ac
cumulating a working capital. Their
accounts, arc of course, open only to
the company, yet their prosperity is
patent to every observer.
But it is objected that our popula
tion is too small for a homo market,
and we cannot expect to compete
with the older States whose manu
factories have long been in operation
with every improvement; with abun
dant skilled labor at CoramJ'.Lvl; wit'n
goods that have won a first class rep
utation, and with all the facilities of
access to all parts of the country and
of the world. If that argument had
been a good one, New England was
unwiso to attempt manufacturing
while Old England was eager and
ready to supply tho markets of the
world. But in the competition of
many fabrics New England goes into
tho same outside markets as Old
England. American manufactures,
of various kinds, sn rpass those of Eu
rope. Our opportunity to use the
latest improvements in machinery
equals theirs, and gives us the samo
chance to supply cheaper and better
goods.
Oregon manufacturers can buy the
latest improved machinery, and start
with the foremost mills of the East.
But a fact is better proof than a the
ory. Some Oregon goods, as blank
ets from Salem and Oregon City, do
compete in San Francisco, Chicago,
New Y'ork with those made in the
East. Orders have come for them
and for cassimeres. if report is true.
Several articles of our home manu
facture have now a deserved fame
and created a demand. But admit
that it is possible to put our manu
factures on other markets, von oh-
ject that some of onr mills stop, and
j some shops stand with closed doors,
; showing that the cost price has been
j above the selling price.
Grant the objection, in some cases
the continued operation of other
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mills and shops, show defective, man
agement, or bad location, or some
accidental Ion in those that hmo
ceased work. A commission mer--
i.,.v mav not know how
to manufacture wagons or hlaukets ,
with success, but this does not pxu
that it cannot be done hy men , ,ho
understand the business. Every
man to his trade is tho rule of eih
cient business.
The thing to do is to set the expe
rienced and skillful at work with
such self-interest in tho enterprise
that they will strive for success.
They Kill (est the possibiliy of competi
tion. The fact that this very thing
has been done in Oregon, proves that
it can be done on a larger scale, and
thus meets tho objection respecting
certain failures. ' ".
' Having disposed of this poiut, wo
come to the per cent, of gain which
homo manufactures give to business
activity; to industrial interests; to
home markets'; to the value of real
estate; to the inducements to immi
gration; and to a saving of imports,
or making the balance of trade in
our favor, communities aud , States
must count this balance, as well as
nations in their census.
Respecting business activity, " a
3 nick penny is better than a slow
ollar." Merchants that depend on
harvests and farmers only can have
but a few months of activity xor
year. But those that supply oyer
moving machinery, and bear off its
products, find every day full of work
and idleness and vacuity the excep
tion. Their activity is the spring of
hundreds dependent on them. The
hum of wheels stirs tho throng upon
the streets. The throb of central
power sends pulsations through
every fibre of tho social system.
Witness tho manufacturing centers
of New England, and the swift trains
that run hourly to and from Boston,
their great business emporium, and
the trains that permeate also all tho
cities and larger towns of the coun
try. Stop those wheels and tens of
thousands would become idlers, and
perhaps paupers. Close those facto
ries, and hundreds of huge ware
houses and lofty stores would be clos
ed, and their employeis turned off.
Set them in motion and every mind,
hand and foot become active. The
per cent, of gain from this fact alone
to every man and family is apprecia
ble in every direction. It is a posi
tive premium on every dollar of in
vestment in tho manufactory. That
premium must be counted by him who
seeks fair returns for his money.
The OrgonCity Land oilice.
Mr. Harrison, the now Receiver,
will take possesion of his oilice this
week, having completed his bond.
He is said to be amply qualified to
discharge tho duties of the office,
and his friends claim that ho will
make a first-class officer.
The late incumbent, Henry War
ren, Esq., has made an nnexcoption
ably good officer, and retires witli
the good will of the general public.
and the hearty sympathy and good
Misnes oi au ins parry menus, iur.
Warren has all tiro elements of suc
cess and popularity in a large degree.
with an unblemished record in a long
career of public service, and ener
gies and rare abilities, wo shall ex
pect tu hear a good report from him
in me next campaign in old lamina
It will be Ins successors highest
praise if he fills tho Receiver's oilice
with equal satisfaction to the public.
The above notice of Mr. Warren
wo take from the Hnltefin of the KJtli
inst. llio complimentary part is no
more than a deserved mention of a
faithful and honest officer. But avo
arc of tho opinion that tho JinHctin.
will fail to realize its expectations in
anticipating a good report from the
gentleman who has been retired in
behalf of tho wing of the Radical
party which is represented by Sena
tor Mitchell's organ. Mr. Warren
could hardly bo expected to aid the
men who have caused his retirement
and if he uses his influence in old
Yamhill, wo feel confident it will be
in behalf of honesty and right, and
not in favor of a party which rewards
treachery and selling out at the ex
penso of its better members. Mr.
Warren was entitled to retain his po
sition if. the Register retained his,
for there could be no reason assign
oil why ho should be removed fur
ther than the fact that the' leaders of
tho Radical party had sold him out
for one who was ready to do their
bidding and to betray the trust the
Republicans had confided to him.
Mr. Warren is a man of integrity and
having experienced tho treachery
of the leaders of the Radical party of
Oregon, he will not sustain those
who have insulted him without cause.
Wc shall expect to hear a good re
port from Mr. Warren in old Yam
hill, but not in behalf of the Mitch -
Qll-D'dHia clique, Vu'ic'll is controll
ed by tho worst elements of tho
Radical party in onr State and which
is made up of men who M ould betray
their every trust to advance their own
interests. Mr. Warren is too good a
man to train longer with this class of
Radical politicians, and the Bulletin
may at once release its expectations
that he will serve it or its managers.
The Best Method. If Gov. Til
den has the Presidency in his eye he
has taken tho best method to give
that optical figure a reality. The
unearthing of corruption is tho pop
ular card at tho present time. Tho
saving of $1,500,000 taxes in tho
State of New York will bring tho
Governor into great favor. Of his
action the New York World says:
Governor Tilden's canal reform con
sidering the good will with which
the Democratic Assembly, the Re
publican Senate, the people of tho
State, and the public opinion of the
whole country have swept into its
support deserves to bo reckoned as
one of the political landmarks of the
century. uu
Hassalo Lodge elected Hon O 'NT
Denny, A. G. Walling, J. W ' Whal
ley and A. N. Gambell as Delegates
to the Grand Lodge. eieoaies
Encampment Instituted.
Tuesday evening of last week, we
left here in company with Grand
Secretary J. M. Bacon and C. M.
Kester, of this place, for Olympia,
for the purpose of instituting Alpha
Encampment No. 1. At Portland
we were joined by A. J. Marshall, A.
G. Walling, S. J. Spray, Wm. Bra
deu, and E. II. Stolte of that city,
and Hon. S. Ellsworth, of La Grande.
This made up a jolly company, and
on tho following day we were found
on tho steamer Emma Hayward mak
ing our way for Kalama, where we
arrived at 9:30. Tho train not leav
ing until 11:30, we had a couple of
hours to view Kalama and its sur
roundings. We saw all there was to
see, and wo found but little worthy
of mention. There are a groat many
houses to "let" and some are very
neat and expensive. It looks liko
a pity to see so much property ap
parently going to waste. Tho finest
building in the place is tho office of
the Railroad Company, but it seems
only partially occupied. Mr. and
Mrs. Money hare a fine printing of
fice there, but at present they are
only doing job work." The trip from
Kalama to Olympia was made in
about seven hours and nothing oc
curred worthy of mention. Our
company was kept in good humor
and we reached Olympia ready for
work. Comfortable quarters wore
engaged at the United States Hotel,
and at 8 o'clock the ceremony of in
stitution was commenced, which was
soon dono and the following officers
of the pioneer Encampment of that
Territory were elected and installed:
II. G. Struve, Chief Patriarch; N. S.
Porter, High Priest; Robert Mack,
Senior Warden; Jno. M. Swan, Jun
ior Warden; Nath. Crosby, Scribe;
G. G. Turner, Treasurer; Geo. S.
Dcrr, Guide; G. Rosenthal, Senti
nel; J. M. Murphy, R. G.T.; W. W.
Evans, L. G. T. After tho installa
tion there were six Brothers exalted
to tho Royal Purple Degree, and two
were initiated into the Patriarchical
degree, taking until five o'clock the
following morning. Those who were
initiated appeared to be highly pleas
ed with the Order, and our friend
John "Mighty-right" Murphy, of the
Standard, seems to think thero is
nothing to equal it. After those in
attendance had taken a short sleep
that morning, wo had breakfast serv
ed, which did credit to tho hostess,
and tho hungry patriarchs did it am
ple justice. During tho day the town
was "dono" by the visitors, and in
company with friend "Mighty-right"
and Geo. L. Derr, we all enjoyed a
splendid sail on the beautiful Sound.
In tho evening wo all visited Western
Lodge, Nd. C, and witnessed tho ini
tiation of a candidate and while we
arc not disposed to tako any credit
away from Oregon, we must say that
the ceremony throughout was per
formed in such an excellent manner
that wc doubt whether it can bo sur
passed. It certainly reflected great
credit on tho officers of that Lodge,
and showed tho greatest proficiency.
Next morning wc all returned, and
on that evening reached Portland
about 5 o'clock," being cloven hours
and a half from Olympia. Olympia
had begun to put on her summer
garb, and looked even more inviting
than it did on our former visit. We
were all highly pleased with our
visit, and all spoke in flattering terms
of the beauty of Olympia and the
scenery surrounding it. The hospi
tality of its citizens is worthy of im
itation by others and we kuow that
thero was not a member in our com
pany but what regretted that the
time had arrived to leave for home.
Alpha Encampment starts with six
teen members, and if wc are not mis
taken, before six months are passed
it will number fifty or over. Tho
members of Olympia and Western
Lodges are truo Odd Fellows and
where the spirit of the Order is so
manifest thero is no doubt of its rap
id and permanent success. In Con
elusion we desire to return our j
thanks to the O. S. N. Co., the N. P.
R. R. Co., and Tilly's stago lino for
their liberality in giving to those
who attended tho institution of 4'
Encampm--; aro for haf 1)rico
tic
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Max DkovxedIx Toi.k Covxty.
Tho Dallas Itemizer says that David
C. Collins, a young farmer of that
county, was drowned on tho 13th.
He had taken his plow team to water
at a small lake, when the horso he
was riding was mired down, threw
its rider over its head, and in floun
dering struck him with one foot on
the right side of tho upper part of
tho stomach, and with the other up
on tho left breast just over tho heart.
The affair was seen by several per
sons from a distance, but before
they could reach him, Mr. Collins
had gone down. After a long search
the body was recovered. He was a
single man, a little over thirty years
of age, possessed of a good farm and
other property near the south line of
that county.
The Least Expensive. Tho Leg
islature of South Carolina which ad
journed recefltly, cost the State $150
000, yet tho Charleston Xeics and
Courier says it has been tho least ex
pensive session South Carolina has
known for many years. $4
On"Wednesday, the 18th inst., the
municipal government of the city of
Portland was 21 years of age, the
Common Counoil having been or
ganized on the 11th of April 1S51.
Not Yet Entirely Unfolded.
The beauties of the so-called Civil
Rights Bill, the Cincinnati Enquirer
thinks, have not been as yet entirely
unfolded to tho people. It is a fra
grant bouquet, the smell of whose
each particular flower they have not
inhaled. It is provided that the
United States District Attorneys,
Marshals, Deputy Marshals and
Commissioners shall bo especially au
thorized to look for offenders under
the Act. This is a nice point. -Why
should the penalties of ono law bo
more specially considered than an
other? How can one statute require
especial mention? It can only be
done by tho United States officers
neglecting their other duties. It
follows that they must omit indict
ing pirates, counterfeiters, and mail
robbers in order that they may pun
ish some persons who have de
clined to sit and drink with anoth
er because of his "race, color, or
previous condition of servitude."
This is not all. The law goes on to
say:
"And any District Attorney who
shall wilfully fail to institute and
prosecute tho procedings herein re
quired shall, for every such offense,
forfeit and pay the sum of $500 to
the xerson aggrieved thereby, to be
recovered by an action of debt, with
full costs, and shall, on conviction
thereof, be deemed guilty of a mis
demeanor and be fined not less than
$1,000 nor more than $5,000.
Here is a penalty for the Attorney
for the Government. It is an anom
aly. There is no such statute impos
ing a penalty upon a District Attor
ney who neglects to prosecute a pi
rate, a counterfeiter, or mail-robber
Are not those malefactors as deserv
ing of attention as some man who
merely refuses to give a negro the
same right at a hotel as a white per
son? The penalties under this law
are astounding in magnitude. They
are, at the least, a fin-T of $500 and
imprisonment for thirty days. It
m-Aj be $1,000 and imprisonment for
a year. In after ages, when people
look back upon the present genera
tion, they will regard this with the
same wonder and curiosity that we
regard tho burning of witches in
Massachusetts tvro centuries ago.
Even granting tho premises of the
friends of tho bill, the punishment
is simply infamous. To deny a man
even rightfully, the privileges of a
bed or a dinner only necessarily in
volves an action for damages in some
local tribunal which might be avl-11
satisfied to fine ten or in an aggravat
ed case twenty-five dollars, but in
this instance it may be a thousand
dollars and one year's imprisonment.
It can't bo less than $500 fine and
thirty day's imprisonment. Can we
conceive of a greater case of tyranny?
Is that in any event or under any cir
cumstances a proper remedy or prop
er punishment for any person who
refuses to give another person equal
accommodations at a dinner, what
ever may bo tho reasons assigned
upon the fact that the man is pro
scribed? The law makes tho whole
thing depend on account of his race
or color. Otherwise it.is nothing. It
is not the fact of proscription that is
to be punished, but it is tho reasons
that are given for it. When men in
future ages read the account of such
a law they will simply consider it
with artonishment. They will won
der how in an age of railroads and
telegraph and general enlightenment
it could have passed. They will
consider it more properly belonging
to the days of Herod or tho times of
Nero or the frenzied period ot the
French revolution. That any cool
and dispassionate Assembly could
adopt such a statute will appear in
credible. A Horrible Atl'ray.
A telegram from Jacksonville un
der date of the 20th gives tho follow
ing of a most horrible affray which
occurred near that place:
On Sunday afternoon theloih inst.
a horrible all ray occurred sonic five
miles east of Jacksonville, on or near
the old stage road, as follows: Two
families, named respectively Doty
and Johnson, living near each other
and have been quarreling for some
time, which resulted last fall, in a
pitched battle between Mrs. Doty
and Mrs. Johnson. The case was
taken into tho justice court and Mrs.
Johnson was bonnd over to appear
beforo the next term of tho circuit
court. The grand jury failed to find
any indictment, and the bondsmen
werc released. Things passed on as
Usual, but no compromise of difficul
ties seems to have iiecn affected be,
tween tho families. On Sunday
morning Mrs Johnson, who, by tho
way, is a widow lady with quite a
large family, had occasion to visit
one of her neighbors, and in doing
so, passed through her neighbor
Doty's field, wliero it seems he had
forbidden her to go. Doty seeing
her pass prepared himself for her re
turn in the evening, and as she came
along a general fight seems to have
taken place between Mrs. Johnson
and Mr Dot-. Mr. Johnson getting
the worst of it was loft senseless on
tho ground, beariug the marks of
heavy blows with a club over tho
head. Her two boys, Thomas and
Brooks, learning of 'the situation of
their mother, started to her assist
ance, and while on their way, wcro
met by Mr. Doty, when a fight en
sued with guns and revolvers, which
resulted in mortally wounding both
of tho Johnson boys. Thomas is
grown, while Brooks is only about
fourteen years old. It is thought
that Mrs. Johnson will recover, but
both boys are pronounced by their
attending physicians as beyond hope.
Doty is laying in jail awaiting his
-xamination. Tho people arc . groat
ly excited over tho affair.
FnuiT Ixjcked. Tho San Francis
co Examiner of the 7th inst. say that
reports from various points in the
interior of tho State inform us of tho
recent provalenco of cold weather,
generally throughout California, and
rain, hail, snow and frost have greatly
damaged the orchards and vineyards.
This is very disagreeable intelligence,
to all lovers of fruit.
SUMMARY OF
J. D. Rowcll, of
tuuuy, uwus a cow lliat
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1IIIU .j niontl
is.
Mrs. m. Trcsler, of Pi
county, lowa, -writes
anil nci. -.
( jfo y Wilarkn 1 Ivne i II
don't know; does anybody?
There will Iks an academy bnildin
erected in houth Brownsville .i
coming season. It will be built
private contribution.
The Albany Democrat learns of "
oc-
farmer
ing. Feeling unwell he arose earlv
and making a fire in the fire-nlace
sat down before it, and was almost
immediately taken with a fainting
fit, and remembers nothing of what
followed. His wife, who was still in
bed asleep, was awakened by hearing
him groan, and springing out of bej
ran to the fire, where she found kini
lying witlhis head and one arm lit
erally frying in the blaze. All pos
sible relief was speedily afforded
but at last advices lie was not ex
pected to live, and even if he should
survive he must inevitably lose ki&
forearm and hand.
H. Tamoura, a Japanese student in
the junior year in Pacific University
wrote some artiglcs on Japan to g
New York periodical which were
published with complimentary re
marks both as to the style and mat
ter, and tho publisher sent Mr.
Tamoura $23 as an earnest of his ap
preciation. Information is wanted of J. B.
Attcrbury, who was formerly era-
ployed in Aikin's logging camp
Coos Bay. He left there last fall on
a sailing vessel for California. Any
information addressed to P. Attcr
bury, lioseburg, will bo thankfully
received.
The Albany Register says: " Ono
evening during ihe reeeut revival
meetings whilst Mrs. Wm. Gird was
attending the services, some miscre
ant entered the family residence,
coiner of Second and Broadalbin
streets, and took therefrom a small
cabinet of Chinese workmanship,
which contained nearly all the family
jowclry, amounting in value to
about si, 000.
Dr. F. A. B iiley, of Hillsboro. has
been invited by the Medical College
at Salem to deliver the annual address
to the graduating class on the 22d of
J une. The doctor has accepted the
invitation.
The parties who purchased Mr.
Black's farm on Tualatin Plains, re
ports .sonic sixty families who intend
coming to this State f lie coming rea
son, provided they write favorably.
Come, wc have plenty of room.
C. X. Thorn bury has received his
commission as Beceivcr of tho Eard
Oilice in Dalles City.
The Columbia river at?ho Dal!.-
is raising at the rate of from 12 to 2D
inches in 21 hours.
Messrs. E. B. McFarland and Wil
liam Mitchell have been chosen to
represent Columbia Lodge, No. 5. I.
O. F., at tho Grand Lodge, which
meets iu Portland next month.
On Thursday of last week, while
plowing with a sulky plow, Anderson
Harlow, of Lane county, had the
misforluno to break both bones of his
left leg six inches below the knee.
The preliminary surveys for tfin
Corvallis and Coast Lino -Hailroad
has been begun and tho excitement
is at feverish heat in consequence.
Beuben Whitlow, not being satis
fied with being "devil" in the Lafay
ette Courier ofiiee, must needs play
the d 1 by shooting one of his fiD
gers off. Tho young man was hunt
ing for grouse near the Eastabrook
Farm and had stopped for a moment
on a little knoll, when a bird flew up
and Whitlow, in turning, slipped
and dropped the gun and threw out
ins left hand just far enough to catch
over tho muzzle, when the gun went
off as did also one of his lingers
and the entire load went0 through
the palia of his hand. Dr. Little
field was called aud dressed the
wound.
A n-imber of Texans arrived in
Douglas county last week, hunting
homes.
The Astoria, i says: " A new line of
steamships, to connect with steam
boats of the Columbia and Willam
ette rivers, is now pretty, certain.
Our informant states that the elegant
Oregonian. built at Xew York in 18f7
by the O. S. N. Co., will bo onfe of
the steamers of this line."
The PhiiuJealcr's correspondent at
Coaled o, Coos county, in a business,
letter states: "Since I ;.alne hcro
last Jul wc liaTO jllilt six mics of
railroad, and two smart little towns.
You would be Vd prised at tho
amount of work that'haa been done
sinoo you were hcro last."
From Ucosted. of Wolf creek, tho
Bosebnrg riautdmlcr learns that Mr.
G eo. Southwell is tho lucky man;
that one day last week he found in
his mining claim on Cayote creek,
nugget of gold weighing 21J ounces
and equal in value to about
We would like to mino where those
things grow.
Tho Odd Fellows of Jacksonville
and vicinity will, on Monday, April
2(5, 1S75, celebrate the Fifty-sixth
Anniversary of Odd Fellowship in
America by a social reunion at their
hall in Jacksonville at 2 r. m., and
supper at 0 the latter free. All
members of the I. O. O. F., with
their families aro requested- to par
ticipato.
Tho Odd Fellows of Jacksonville
have procured a handsome tomb
stone for tho gravo of George P
Funk, formerly a respected member
of tho Order, who died of small-pox
during its prevalence- at that place.
Samuel B. Cranston, formerly of
Ashland, has beou appointed Eegis
ter of the Linkville land office. We
have not heard whether Mr. Small,
tho former Begister, has resigned or
been removed. So says tho Jack
sonville Times.
F. E. Bubell and Clarence Hedges
have dissolved their connection with
tho Dallas Itemizer.
Mrs. Xesbitt,. Matron of the deaf
school at Salem, while out riding
last Friday was thrown from tho
wagon and so seriously injured ih&t
she died on Sunday from the effects.
She was a lady highly respected vj
till who knew her
most aistressing accident whioli
curreu to Air. j. i . jNoal a