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o o o o 3 O THE ENTERPRISE. OKEIION riTV, ORECOXinifl 30, 1575. Important Land Decision. yWe arc in rrceipt of a disjmtch from Senacr Kelly, dated Washing ton, April 20th, informing us that Secretary of the Interior lias review ed and reversed the Commissioner's iTocision in the Donation Land case of "Win. Meek. This is an important matter, the Commisioner having de cided that in cases of married persons claiming donations under the act of 1850, -where the wife died before the husband completed the four years resilience required by the law, her half of the claim determined at her death and reverted to the United states. Thes Commissioner's decis ion was at variance with our estab lished rule which had stood unques tioned for more than twenty years. Had the decision been finally affirm ed it would have had the effect to seriously embarrass and cloud many titles heretofore unquestioned. Senator Kelly filed an able article in the case, a copy of which is before us, and is entitled to great credit for successfully resisting a decision that would have caused serious embar rassment to many land holders in Oregon. City Election. Next Monday, the voters of Ore gon City will be called upon to select their city officers for the ensuing year. The election lias no political signrtication.as the local interests are the motives which induce a person to vote for this or that ijian upon either ticket. Hut it has keen the univer sal custom to run jarty tickets in this place, and so Air as outsiders arc concerned, it gives them the im pression of the strength of the two parties. If our Radhjal friends pro pose to make the ijues on these broad basis, we are flisfied and will : pladly meet them oiiylMonday next. Among the points at issue in that case will bo, do the people of Ore gon City propose to indorse the Civil Rights Dill? Do they uphold the Federal Government in interfering in local Stato Governments? "Will they sustain, under th""i name of Ike publican party tins removal of faith ful ami honest officials from their po sitions to give place to thoso who got them by, to say the least, ques tionable practices? Do they pro pose to sustain tho third term policy of tho Administration? These are .some of tho national questions, and while wo claim that they have noth ing to do with our city affairs, the Radicals outside of this place, and some oven here, should they be suc cessful, will assert tliat the result -was an endorsement of all these questions. But we now take a very important local matter, which should bo lecided beyond question. It is well known that a portion of the Re publicans of this place are opposed to the turning over of tho school to the Directors of this District. This is a local matter, and we believe that no man should be elected who is uot in favor of immediately turn ing the building over to the Direc tors, by them to be kept for educa tional purposes. It is argued by some that the city has paid for the house and the district ought to pay back the juice to th city. This is child's argument. ItAs true the city paid for the prop ly, and it is equally as true that tV. citizens who compose the district make up the city, so if the district was to buy the school house, the c tizens of the ! town would have to be taxed to pay for it. Tho district is the city, and nothing more nor less. But this is not the true objection some have against turning the building over. There are'some, and we regret to say it, whr desire to break up the school. If they should succeed in getting into the Council, they would close up the school bouse and thus accom- piis.i int.- vmi i irj aiiutu ui m iuf. i: .1. i i i : t. . school meeting, lhn is their true , ?, , purpose, and those who are favora- ,, , , . . , ble to our school interests should look v U to the names on their tick- , ... . . , ct before they cast their votes. There is another important matter to take into consideration in this city elec tion. With the exception of one year in the past fifteen, the republi can have had control of affairs. Those ia power regarded it as their special prcqerty and the public knew nothing what wis being done. Three vears ago o change was made and that Council inaugurated a sys- tern by which the public was inform- ed of how matters stood. The Re- publicans have had the matter in their hands for tho past two years, and wo find that we are about in the same condition now. A change is certainly leneficial. The servants of the people should let them know what tliev have done Vocordin to . -vccoruiD' lo i uuring tne past .mi-juui Known to have been expended during that time with the ilebt, the city at this time' should be free from indebtedness.' Xf.ver Fails. When you see two some disadvantages. The great and But we know not whether it is or columns of government conti act pro- far famed Californi.i. has her disad not. One thing we do know, that posals on one side, turn the paper i vantages; she has her droughts, that when the Republicans stepped out right over, and you will find the ; mean starvation to man and beast, before, city scrip was worth sixty nicest kind of a stand-by the-Presi- : More than once has she had to get cents in trade and when the Demo- dent-anyhow leading editorial article j tkrur and wheat from Oregon to feed crats btepped out, it was worth tUe yisi,le PaS- Thc j ProJri!3'1nc , her population. Nver since the eighty cents in coin. Ad from aU th settlement of Oregon has she we can. learn, the la; Hguxo ; all. it i Ltils. ' failed to ru.ica tiyu to fttd her is worth at present. Taking all these matters into consideration, we ask -o-" it would not be good policy to make I v 1mv i i resDondents from bandy Have liaa another change? lespouueuu i but little to say about our Grange, The Responsible Parties. ! and perhaps it might interest many of your numerous readers, to know Last week we devoted quite a i hQyf our Grange is prospering. But lengthy article to the convict labor j a liuIe over a year ago, Cascade question, and gave our views as to ! grange, No. 120, was organized with the effects this class of labor will in , thirt charter members. It was pre the future have upon free mechanics, j Jictej thafc a Orange could not be The Statesman haa been riding a bob-j . j L e on accoullt of the by on this question for the past week a -i -i - -i .- : or two, ana persists in cuarging uio , proPr,ered beyond the expectation oi State Administration with the pies- . its most arjent supporters. Five ent condition of afiairs. This, our j new memi,ers haYe joined in the past readers will bear in mind, is not tho year At the expiration of the year, case. The enemies of the State Ad-. when tiiQ retiring Master was'con ministratiou are the parties to whom j tting the members upon their tins is ciiargeawe. At uie last ses- i sion of the Legislature, everj effort was made by tho Radicals', aided by a portion of the Independents, to wrest the control of the Penitentiary from the Democrats, and we found such patriotic lights as O. B. Gibson, late Internal Revenue collector, II. C. Owen, the Independent Saint, J. B. Condon, a Radical, John White, another leading Independent, and John F. Miller, the latter of whom is the only Democrat among the lot read- to take the convict labor. It was the urposo of these parties to employ the convict labor for manu facturing purposes. Then came an other bill, after this little game was checked by the most strenuous efforts of the Democratic Administration and tho members of the Legislature, to appoint three Commissioners to tako charge of tho institution with power to leaso the convicts. This was also a lladical move to get hold of the Penitentiary. So it will be seen that the present bill under which the convicts are leased, is the work of Radicals and Independents, and the State Administration is siinplj responsible for enforcing or carrying out a law which an incompetent Leg islature passed. So far is the Dem ocratic State Administration respon sible, and no further. The Statesman further charges that the convicts are leased at alow figure to Democrats. This is not so. Tho Superintendent advertised for bids for this labor, and those who have leasee! the labor are old Radicals, as Stephen Collin, who is at the head of the penitentiary manufacturing com pany, besides a number of other Rad icals and Independents. We know of no Democrat besides Sam. Bass who has taken any stock in the Pen itentiary labor. So much for the charge that this labor is employed by Democratic favorites. The bids were advertised for, and the contract was awarded to tho highest bidder. This was required by law, and the State Administration carried out the letter and spirit of the same. The evil effects of the measure must rest with the Legislature and not the Governor. As to the expenses of that institu tion, the Statesman shoots equally as far from the facts in the case. The last Legislature appropriated 00,000 for the support of the Penitentiary for the present two years, and pro hibited the Superintendent from us ing any funds earned by the convicts or creating any debt whatever. There are now over li'.O convicts in the Penitentiary. During tho last Radical administration of that insti tution, when there were about sixty convicts to support, the appropria tion was over G0,000 for two years. This shows which party has admin istered the affairs most economically. Besides there was a deficiency to make up. The Statesman has evi dently come to tho conclusion that ii has a good thing in this Ponitentiarj matter, and we are willing for it to make all tho political buncombe it can out of it. But, when the public tako into consideration that after for ty days hard labor by the Dolph in vestigating committee, aided by Pat ton, the known enemy of the Super intendent, that committee utterly j failed to find and improper manage- mmt , o ... , .,.,,. i 410, , , f ! anil the simple charges from unre- I 1;, i i , , n , , , , .L, ! liable sources should be taken with n, x- it ,! i creat allowance. .Nn nnlilir ofTici-ii . i, , i t , ! haseer been hounded as was Bill : vr.,!-;,., i . i. i t ., . ; i ,i, ,.,.,n r i . ' ' - f.-.v Aav-Jbn(.L&wXA showed that he had made a compe tent and efficient officer, and the un- j supported charges of his political onnonents have been nrnved rrrmin.l- j less aua malieious. If tlje c7,.wm thinka it can make ;ttt j o "J " assaults on the Democratic State Ad ministration on this scorn it i nt . fuU libertv to tlevote its euergies in J tbat airectiou. We want it distinctlv i nnjerstood that we , , I are opposed to any kind of labor which is calculated j . , , , . . , ... . to degrade and interfere with white labor, whether that be convict or j China. But this does not arprue that I wf have anv Censur to Knstnw- on ; Mtn A.im.'n,-ti-ti-,,n :., -. . it i . I duty in carrying out the laws passed . b Il;uUcals and Independents. The evil effects of this must be charged to those who passed the law. f Interesting Letter From Sandy, j SASYApriI 23, 1S75. - rwTTi.-. Your cor- citv cf the settlement, but it has i 1 . .. ... - ' lirosner;tv. he said that if there was 1 i. . anything which we should feel justly proud of, it was that no feeling of discord had found a resting place in our Grauge. The old grudges and animosities that had existed for yeai-s have given place to more kind and humane feeling. During tho past winter, social parties were the order, where fun and good cheer abounded, which brought forcibly to niy mind the good old times when you and I were boys. At the last meeting of Cascade Grange S. D. Coleman was elected W. M., in place of J. C. Bran ham resigned. Henry McGugiii, Secretary of the Grange, presented a subscription paper to raise means to publish the resources of Clackamas county, after describing the State and county board of Immigration and what they proposed to do, he said ho did not know of a better in vestment tho members of our Grange could make than to aid this board of Immigration; certainly none that will be more creditable to us unless to provide for tho destitute. The impression is abroad, in some quar ters that our organization is desirous of benefitting the farming communi ty alone. We want to show upon this and every other occasion that we de sire and arc laboring for the pros perity and happiness of all, as the farming community is the fountain head from which all prosperity must flow, whatever oppresses the farmer, in a like proportion, will it oppress all other trades and callings. The sooner this fact is understood, the sooner will the Patrons disarm their opponents and all will move along smoothly to prosperity and to happi ness. Fears have been expressed to mo that the money contributed may not be wisely and honestly used. All I have to say in reply to this is that the Hon. John Myers, State Senator from Clackamas county is President of the board for Clackamas and F. O. McCoweu, Mayor of Oregon City, is the Secretary, two gentlemen who have been honored by and stand high in the estimation of their fellow citi zens, and the board is composed of gentlemen who desire the settlement and the prosperity of our county and will add their dollars to the subscription, and no fears need be entertained that a dollar of the money so raised will find its way into the pocket of any undeserving person. Some object to trying to in duce immigration into our neighbor hood because they say the best loca tions have been taken up. But there are thousands of acres of land in this precinct alone, and there are plenty of men that would be glad to know it. There is hardly a man in our neighborhood but is holding or owns four times as much land as they can cultivate or make profitable to him self for the next twenty years. Whero j then is the wisdom in holding on to I this sCrplus of land and paying taxes on it ycai' after year'? G. W. Shar rock bettered his conditio? and also largely benefitted this settlement by selling a portion of his land thus making three farms where there was but one. Three times the taxable property besides three times the ability to build roads and school the children. If we will but contribute a little each to sustain our board of Immigration, fyid offer our surplus land low, ere long we can all find , . ' , . . , , tl salo for a part of our land, ana tuns . lt 1 -. v.- ,, better our own and the condition oi the community. Docs doubt that it pays to any one advertise? Kvcry successful business man knows that it does. How many make for tunes by advertising extensively the most transparent humbugs. Those States and cities that have advertised most extensively have grown up rap idly. Does any object for fear too rlattering a description of our State and county will be published? There is not a State in this Union which offers greater inducements to immi- grants than Oregon. She has a mild fo i t- i , , , . , and cheap farms. She is nearer the . . , , , center of the commercial world than the Empire State and who shall say that when Oregon becomes thickly populated and her vast resources be come developed, she ma' not rival any State in this Union? Then if Or egon possesses all that soil, climate and situation can bestow, w hat more lean be desired; all countries have COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY. UNIVERSITY OF CALIiX)RNIA, BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA population and to spare. In the last twelve months over one hundred ship loads of Hour and wheat left Or egon to supply the wants of other lands. Then if each one who desires the settlement, the wellfare and pros perity of our State, will help a little with this board of Immigration and railroad communication with the East ere long, Oregon's hillsides and her valleys will become thickly pop ulated with a prosperous and a hap py people. Then will our rivers and our harbors be whitened with the sails of ships to bear our surplus products to distant lands and bring us back the luxuries of other climes and gold to develop our vast mineral and other resources. At the conclu sion of Mr MeGugin's remarks which were well received, Mr. John J. Strowbridge made a spirited appeal to the members to contribute liber ally stating that immigration was the great want of our State and with it, would flow wealth enterprise aud prosperity. He made us believe he was in earnest by contributing two dollars. Francis Revinue also gave two dollars; Charles Cole aud II. McGugin each gave a dollar; Uriah Paine, Mrs. Lidy Revinue, F. Sea vers, Joseph Goi, and Joseph Wil liage, fifty cents each. I believe the committee has made a mistake in calling for at this serson of the year, when money is so scarce. This is not a healthy locality for neighbor hood quarreling or lawing, as we have none of either; even thc mem bers of the various Church denomi nations appear to have buried the tommy-hawk and scalping knife and all meet and mingle socially under the same vino and fig tree. Mr. Harvey Cross, (a clever and prom ising young man) has an engagement with tho Cascade Road and Bridge Company, to collect toll on their road the coming season. As the road has mostly changed hands, I understand the new company intend to make it what it ought to be, a number ouo road. There is quite a mystei-y up here who your Sandy correspondent "New Comer is, as his letters arc quire witty and amus ing. We would like to hear from him often, if he is not too busily en gaged studying the rules of draw poker, as taught by General Schenek at the Court of St. James. One of my neighbors informs ino that Uncle Samuel's officials arc on his track charging him with selling a quart of liquor without investing the requisite amount of stamps. If there is no evidence but the infor mant, thc proof against him rests on a very crooked stick. But I suppose that does not make" any difference with Uncle Sam's officials, so they get a bite, it it does come out of the dear people's pocket. The general inlpression here is that Uncle Sam has the wrong pig by the tail this time. I have seen a letter from a brother of Rudolph Gantenbein of this coun ty and Rev. J. Gantenbein of Portland inquiring about the prices of land and cattle, and produce in Oregon aud the cost of getting here as he in tends moving to Oregon this Sum mer, bringing with him a large and promising family. Perhaps a few remarks from you Mr. Editor, as to the prices and cost of getting here, might convey this desirable informa tion to many who contemplate mov ing to Oregon. His letter, which is dated at Calumet county, Wisconsin March, 18th 187"), says there was two feet of snow on the ground then and the cars were blockaded by snow drifts; that the people were out dig ging night and day to get them through; that the weather for a long time during winter was extremely cold, ranging from thirty to forty de grees below zero. I think that would have made an Oregonian's nose look blue. If each - subscriber for your paper after reading it would mail it to some friend in the East, much good might bo done towards the set tlement of our county. The political excitement is running quite low here at present. We re publicans are quite demoralized and would like to make a new departure since the passage of the Civil Rights bill, and the course our Representa tive S. P. Lee took in the Legisla ture in favoring Woman Suffrage, a measure distasteful to nine-tenths of the people of our comity; in op posing the Assessor's bill, which I'm creditably informed was introduced in the SenaiO bj the Hon. John My ers and by his characteristic energy and perseverance, he got it passed by that body. By the assistance of tho Democratic members of the House it finally passed and by the signature of a Democratic Govern or it is now a law, that only one thousand dollars of indebtedness shall be taken out, by the Assessor, a measuro that I believe will relieve the tax-payers more than all thc acts passed by the last Legislature; in also favoring even Republican petty partisan measures gotten up to annoy thc Democratic State officials. There arc scores of Democrats and Repub licans (if thc sentiment prevails in other sections of the county that does here) that supported S. P. Lee, will never support him or any other Re publican again. Mr. Editor, as your Sandy corres pondent has been charged with being a little too boastful to be real whole some; I hope I may not be so accus ed as I aim to tell a few facts, with out exageration. When anything sensational occurs, I will try to keep you posted. Yours respect full y, from A G i: nu ei:. Remarkable. The Staleonan says: Drs; J. C. Shelton, E. R. Fiske and J. C. ('base made a post mortem ex amination of the remains of Mrs. Nesbit last Monday. It was found that the neck was broken and the fifth ceverical vertebra was fractured and dislocated backwards, and the spinal column much injured. The wonder is that death was not instan taneous and would have been, had the injury been nearer the skull. From thc time of her accident up to the moment of her death she retain ed her senses, but thc lower part of her limbs were completely paralyzed from the moment of thc injury. " . RETtnxixG. Hon. J. S. Smith re turned to Portland on the steamer this week. His many friends throughout the State will regret to learn that his health has not materi ally improved during his absence. The Per Cent, of Gain From Home Manufactures. TUIItD AKTICLE. From the Oregon ian. Having spoken of this gain to the business activity, and to the increase of confidence in our business which is itself the best capital we speak in the third place of its direct effect upon our industrial interests. Employment is the prime source of prosperity. The largest yv- cent, of rallies of all JctmU of rjoorh is the hihor of jn-odnchi'j them and patting them in the hands of the consumer. The chief value of cordwood is the labor of cutting and hauling it. The materials for a pair of boots or a coat or a plow, or a wagon, or a stove, or a book-case, or a riile or a knife, or a watch cost but very little. Their worth is in the skill and toil of the artisan, and the cost of exchange. An aero of wheat well cultivated brings tho farmer, possibly, 33 bushels, or one ton. Delivered at the port of shipment, it brings him $1 37 per cwt., or $27 4.0. It costs him about i?lG 50 to raise a ton and put it on board a ship. If ho raises only 20 bushels per acre, or 1,2001b he gets 810 41, or hardly the cost of his labor. The best cedar for tubs and buck ets, brings at the Oregon City facto ry 8 per cord; but goods worth sev eral times that sum are produced from a cord. Wool costs 50 cents per pound, but broadcloth made of it is worth from s2 or S3 per pound. In a word, when we buy a stock of goods, or a carload of machinery, or an invoice of hardware or furniture, or a cargo of sugar or rice, we pay trom 70 to 90 per cent, for the labor and transportation which is labor and only 10 to 30 per cent, for the material. Your baker and butcher, and shoemaker, and blacksmith, will tell you all they make is on their la bor and skill. Increaso your indus tries, employ every man, woman and child, and you will create values fas ter than crops can grow or miners can wash out the gold. Home man ufactures furnish opportunities for your idle hands. For instance, Ore gon has 10,000 children of school age, between 4 and 20 years. Large ranks of them pass annually into womanhood and manhood. Few ways are open for them to make a living. It is hard for a man to find trades for his boys or places for his girls. Wo have a few foundries in which a few apprentices are permit ted to learn a trade; one or two furni ture manufacturing establishments that tako from two to eight boys each; three or four factories that em ploy from ten to thirty lads and girls; and tin shops, and blacksmith shops, shoe shops, and wagon shops, a meat market, bakery in every town, a watch maker, a brick yard, and tannery here and Ihere that will cm ploy one or two each; but the vast majority must seek work abroad, or keep on the farm or in the woods. Our sprightly young men hasten to other cities and States that invite la bor and encourage the skillful arti san. Our printing establishments have done much to employ lads and teach them a trade, but tho general decline reduces their power to help others. Surveying has but a narrow field, that will soon bo closed up. School teaching oilers annually new places, but finds a larger annual in crease of well prepared teachers. Clerks are more numerous than places for them. Looking on all sides, we have not work enough for our growing children. Add to these the immigrants whom wo invite by every argument to our northwest coast, we find that a large per cent, of thc people must be idle. They cannot all produce wool, or hen's eggs, or salmon, oi' beef, or pork, or wheat or oats; for it is easy to over stock tho market. All mouths are easily filled with food in our prolific climate and from our abundant re sources of laud and river. And when this condition happens, there is a stagnation of business, and a new chill of idleness settling over dull streets and gloomy houses. But extend home manufactures to supply all wants, and to employ all hands, and every finger-touch will put value upon something that be fore was worthless. The gentlemen who have begun to make glue and neatsfoot oil and curled hair, have set a noble exauqdo of what can be done. A new tannery is a double benefit, in saving us from importing leather, and in setting men and boys to work in getting bark and tanning thc hides. Every anvil and lap otono in use adds value to otherwiso useless material. Every table or bedstead or bureau made from our own woods confers a double benefit upon tho people, giving them em ployment on the one hand and com fort on the other. Thc Oregon Fur niture Manufacturing Company now established in Portland, as estimat ed saves ."0,iX)0 per annum to the Stato that wotild be paid for such goods to other States, and thus de velop nearly this amount of labor and skill among ourselves that would otherwise be idle, or be lost to us. The Oregon City and Salem facto ries put on the market several hun dred thousand dollars worth of goods annually, aa the product of labor and skill and power applied that was be fore useless. An instance of the value of home manufactures appeared as an item in the daily paper of the 22d. A gen tleman from San Francisco imports gloves made there, and undersells the English gloves, even in Victoria, their own market, after aying a duty of seventeen per cent. Many people buy and wear gloves. All credit to San Franciscans, who make them in stead of importing them. Two or three men in that city have begun to manufacture the Cor nell watch, employing many artisans and many girls. People buy Avatches freely. It is a noble thing to make them at home. Samuel Williston, of Easthampton early lost his health, and could not continue his studies and fit himself for professional life. He was poor both before and after his marriage. His wife began to cover buttons and sell for support. He iicited in the work. The business increased, and new and quicker processes were in vented, and more laborers and ma chinery employed. At length his importations of cloth became so large that he cut his covers in England to save a part of the duty. A village grew up around his shops. An acad emy was founded by him. Hun dreds of pupils are yearly taught, many fitted for college, others for business. Amherst college has re ceived a largo endowment from his industry. Churches and ministers have been largely supported by his industries. Families of tho poor have been reared to profitable trades and to afiluence by this single busi ness of button making. Most peo ple buy buttons. It is a gain to have them made in your own neigh borhood. We want matches to light lamps and fires, if not cigars. He is a ben efactor, who makes them and pxits them up near your own door. He ought to have your trade, instead of the man OUO or 5.000 miles off. Bonaparte said that England's manufacturers, not her soldiers, con quered his continental armies. Eng land has employed all her people and controlled manufactures, the commerce and tho markets of the world. She draws her wealth out of the bone and sinew and brain of her industrious artisans. Xew England has learned to do the same. The tier of States westward to the Miss issippi have begun to produce at home what they had bought from others. Georgia follows in that path. California takes rapid strides in sup pling her own and other markets with home made goods. Riches abide with them all. Oregon and Washington must do the same, if they would save money and gain more. Forinii Anricr.E. Producers want markets. He who raises food from garden, orchard and field, seeks consumers. Tne -nearer thej are to him, the qnirJo r arc l.i- sales and the, larger his net )iri,f,t. Employ every other person in homo manufactures, and they Avill consume all the vegetables and fruits early and late which neighboring garden ers and orchardists can produce. They Avill give lifo to thc milk, bread and butter business, paying cash promptly for all they buy. They will support and increase the num ber of grocers, and impart animation and stetdiness to all the smaller tradesmen of town and city. Large amounts and varieties of farm products are Avaste.l or almost valueless for Avant of a village m u ket at hand. Storekeepers pass many idle hours and days, because so few marketmen can sell what they could bring, or buy what they need. But Avherever a small factory starts, trade livens up. The employees, on their way home from Avork, call for sup plies for their tables, at two or three shops, and for some article of cloth ing or comfort of one or two other tradesmen. Increaso the factories, and laborers, men, women and chil dren, and the sheets of ever village and city Avill sing, day and evening. with the hum and cheer and attlii ot busy throngs. Thrift will also mark their persons and their dwellings. A gentleman who had spent ton VflUS IM it IHIR-lJl-l IKJill A l 1 1 1 .lli.l , e - lllinea ro iviigiau.i, j eiiiiiinu-jj; mere a feAV months. On coining back, his Avords were: "Everybody is busy there; all are at work, and all have work to do. Every articlo of food, eACry turnip, radish, lettuce-head, potato, currant, plum and peach, Avhich a man brings to market, selis quick for cash. You cannot have too much, for there are so many months to feed." He Avent to work hero in his garden and brought his vegeta bles and berries to market and got the best sales that were made, but thc market was so dull every day that ho became utterly discouraged, and a feAV weeks ago he sold out and left for England, or for some place in Avhich people can have something to do and can earn money to buy food. We do not commend the wis dom of his course, while Ave recall the lesson of his experience. A gentleman, recently' from a visit to the manufacturing villages of Massachusetts, tells of the surprise he felt to see so many artisans going to and from their shops, and so much groAvth and thrift in all those com munities. The houses of the me chanics Avere models of neatness and comfort. Many of them had little patches beside their houses for veg etables and fruits, and a stable Avith horse and carriage and other conven iences. Imagine a hundred sxich model houses built up in a commun ity and increasing every year. The lumber merchant, the brick maker and mason, the plasterer, thc builder and plumber, and painter, and furni ture manufacturer, are all in demand and their Avork is paid for promptly from the sale of goods manufactured. One trade prepares for another. It is not easy to overdo production when one thing creates a want for another. Before the day of daguerreotypes and photographs Ave felt no need of them, but now they are a necessity, as the term is used, in eA-ery house hold. You Avant thc face "of your living friends the mementoes of those departed. Ere sewing machines were invented, our mothers Avi-es i and daughters mado garments vr-rv ! j Avell by hand. But that day is passed I j forever, and this manufacture devel- i opes into larger proportions annual ly, supporting tens .of thousands of workmen and agents, and building up some of the most thriving cities of the Eastern and Middle States. Ihirty-fiA-e years ago a piano was considered a luxury not to be indulg ed in by a Christian. A minister, known to the writer, having been made a residuary legatee of a wealth y brother's projerty, projiosed to buy and did buy, a piano for the use of his four daughters. He had no son. Some of liis church objected, re proaching his extravagance, and mak ing it one ground of complaint which ended in his dismissal. One of his daughters afterward married a relative, and became one of the heirs of the late George Peabody, of Lon don. How much the piano helped that marriage deponent knoweth not. But Ave can testify that pianos have got into ministers' houses since then Avithout turning out the pastors. In those days Worcester, Massachusetts, was a l-espectable village. The ledge of rocks on Avhich Mr. Thayer built the "Oread institute," was then iso-? lated, a .Avouder Avhich croakers said would bankrupt tho builder, and end in the failure of the school. But the xiano manufacturers drew a class of mechanics around; machine shops Avere put up; ..various - home indus tries sprang into existence, and Worcester now encloses not onl- the "Oread institute," hill and all, but buys the ledge for building material, and gives a solid cash foundation for that and many other enterprises. Start your home manufactories of all kinds, and novirish them Avith capital at first, and they Avill put a large per cent, of value upon now Avorthless stones, and clays, and lum ber, besides furnishing a home mar ket" for your articles of food and clothing, and a place for your chil dren to learn useful and" lucrative trades. Man's Avants Avill multiply with ovory new invention, and extend abroad Avith every new mode of com municating with his felloAv man. I. 0. 0. F. Celebration. Probably at no period in the his tory of Odd FelloAVship has its anni versary ben so generally observed throughout the United Slates, and especially in Oregon, as it ay as last Monday. At Portland and Canyon ville extensive preparations Avere made for the occasion. At the form er place, Hon. S. C. Simpson deliv ered the oration, and at the latter, Hon. O. X. Denny, of Portland. Both are spoken of as very able and interesting productions, and the at tendance Avas very large. In all Lodges throughout the State appro priate ceremonies were had to do honor to the eAont. Hon. If. G. StruA O, Grand Master of Oregon, was Avith the brethren at Cmyom-illp, and made them a very interesting ltd d re So. have jnst The iaenilero of tint Order reason to feel proud of their organization nad the progress it has made in the fifty-six years of its existence in the United Slates. The following figures, taken from i the last annual report f the Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge of the United States, Avill give the reader an idea of the niagnitTade of this in stitution: The annua rc-pcrt &l 1874 shows that there rert. the previons year, under the jmisdietitxa sf the Grand Lodge of the United States, -10 Grand Lodges, 5,l!r(i subordinate Lodges, AA ith a momvrship of Ai-i.-l-: Grand Jneampojems. camnmr-nts, .. subordinate En- "l2. Avith a roe-Mil ier- diip of SO, 131; Rel.-e?h Degree Lodges, 512. During the pre-Aious year there had been 57,151 Lodge initiations. The relief )v Lodges for that period was l.'KYJ by Encampments, 150.787 0t; by Rebekah Lodges. ".55? ;-; aggre gating -Sl,4t0.-7i 72. The annual revenue Avas S"!.-i:U,O0i 0M, an in crease of Sl3fi.l5'. Ml over the previ ous year. It avsII be seen that tho ine?ubershij is rapidly gravitating toward half a million, and the aggre gate revenue proximate the larcro j snm or Ilve minions ot dollars, In Oregon the Order has progress- ; ej at a remarkably moid rate. Tho j fjy Tjd i i'xlcre- Avas organ i:d at Salem, in 1852; tho membership increased very slowly until 1800, and now there are over 2,700 Odd Fellows under the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of Oregon, divided into sixty four Lodges. The revenue of these Lodges is over fifty thousand dollars per annum, and the annual relief paid to its members fourth of this sum. is about one This shoAvs a relief for tho systematic organ iz benefit of those in need and distress. The Encampment branch of ths Or der is also prospering finely, and Avhile three years ago there. was bnt one Encampment in Oregon, now there are six and one in Washington Territory. The Grand Encampment Avas Organized the 20th of la3t March and under its fostering care the sub ordinates Avill grow faster than they have in the past. We can say, truly, that Odd FelloAvs haAe good reason to feel proud of their Order, and its annual celebrations are but a just tribute to the success of one of thc greatest institutions over organized and perpetuated for tho benefit of the human race. An Oif-Ykai;. The lively politi cal work in our own Stale, remarked a Connecticut journal, just prior to thc late election, ay ill bo revived in Ohio and Pennsylvania the coming fall. As both States have been strong ly Radical, Democratic majorities would bo convincing evidence of tho onward roll of the tidal-wave. It has been an off-year so far with the Rad icals. Probably so called on account of their being shoved off various pin nacles of power. IxTF.r.ESTrxo. A telegram from Washington City dated tho 27th inst. has this little item of neAvs about Oregon people. The Evening Star says editorially: It is noAV said tho efforts to dis place Secretary Delano arise from a omVii nfil ninvnmfiit on tlift nfirt of ! Senator Mitchell of Oregon, Ben j Holladay, Unfits Ingalls and others ; avIio Avaut him replaced by some one j who will join them in securing to a , corporation already formed, and in Avhich they are interested the Black Hills country. o G 0