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C) c o o C THE EHTJEnrajSE. 0iTE"tiV"llTV, "OKESUX. 311 Y 2S.1S7S. Democratic State Out nil Com o niitteo Meeting. A meeting of the Democratic State Central CVr.iniittetj is hereby called, to t.j held in the city of Portland, on Thursday, ilu; 2ltli dav of June, 1S75. IIKNIlV KLdPPKL,, Chairman. Jacksonville, May 19, 1873. Democratic papers please copy. Questions in regard to Oregon- A gentleman of this county lias re ceived a letter from n friend in the w East, seeking information in regard to our State,, which ho has handed to us with a request to answer the same. Wo shall number the questions ask el and the answers: 1. I wish to know the price of im proved and also unimproved farms in your country, and what chance thers is of making something at farming over and above supporting a family? 2. What facilities there are for .schooling? what nationality is the country set tled with generally? 4. What kind of a market have you, and what is wheat oats and wool worth, also beef, pork, butter, and cheese? R Wlmf i M!re crop of tne usual farm products? C. What could a man do there in raiding sheep and wool? 7. What kind of clmiafe have you? Is it healthy? Do you have any fiver and ague there? j 8. What cild I;dJ with, say four thousand dollars; &c. ..vc. 1. Tho price of improved land -"ranges from 5 to f2o per acre owing to improvements and locality. The best answer we can give to the second inquiry to question one is, that our farmers, those, who are in dustrious and work, are generally doing well and accumulating some thing every year, and we are of the opinion that farmers can do better in Oregon than in any of tho West ern State.? East of the Rocky Moun tains. This question is probably more fully answered in question live. 2. Wo have a good system of pub lic schools in out State. An annual tax of three mills is raised by the re spective cconntios, and an amount equal to about half this sum is de rived from the irreducible school fund of the State. This revenue will keep a public school in every district in tho State which has forty scholars, at least six months in each year. Resides we have boarding schools and the higher institutions of learning in many of the towns throughout the State. u. The society in Oregon will com pare favorable with any place in the Union, peaceable and Law-abiding. In regard to nationality wo can claim representatives from all the nations of the earth, but the principle popu lation is American. 1. We have a ready market for all onr farm products. Wh.iat is worth at this placOgfroin 80 cents to one dollar per bushel, ami ct times goes as high as one dollar and twenty-five cents in coin; oats bring from i0 to 50 cents per bushel; woqI from 25 to i0 cents, and has been r's high as 50 cents per pound. 5. The aVerage. crop of wheat is from 25 to 30 bushels to tJie acre, and some localities reach far above tho latter figure; .barley about 35 to 40 per acre; oats 40 to GO. Butter is worth from 20 cents to 10 in the summer, and from 30 to 50 in tho winter; pork last year sold readily at from GH to 7J per pound; beef is worth from 5 to 8 cents per pound; cheese from 20 to 30 cents. G. Sheep raising has been profita bly carried on and still i, but owing to tho settlement of this valley the range has been Hunted and ihero are other portions of the fstste better adapted to this kind of iiasbandry. 7. The climate of Oregon is mild. We have considerable rain during the winter months, but seldom any cold weather. Tho thermometer hardly fier gets to zero, and our wiil4-ers as l iuiU aro so open that stock keep' fat tu p&aturage during the entire "wviuier. The health of Oregon is good. We Lave localities where fe ver and ague aim -prevalent, but not to any very great extent. The nights are cool, while the days are not ex cessively warm during the summer reason. Tho thermometer hardly ever reaches 00, while the average temperature is about 65 to 73 during the summer months. We have plenty of good healthy water in every part f the State. " v With this sum of money a per son can buy a comfortable farm and a little stock to start with. In fact we are of the opinion that this amount of monev will give a man a good home and put him i,i an inde pendent position. School teachers. in the common1 schools get about 125 quarter fem.des from &0 to $1(V, y,ith board' This branch is pretty urtl supplied, yet competent leaeiiers can get te-dv and almost steady employment. " A. Woi;tuy Titim'TE. Th t5.imdav Welcome pays the following : deserved tribute to ex-Vice President Breckin ridge: John C. Breckinrid; :o js ijt-A l. lb was one of the most gifted, the pur est, and the greatest anion;; the bril liant constellation of statesmen this country has produced. His nobilitv of soul will be his endurincr morm- ment. What They Want. The course that some of our Dem ocratic State exchanges have taken towards persons named in connection with the probable candidacy for Congress, is just what the Radical organs and politicians desire. Somo of the persons named have really no desire for the nomination and if our Radical friends ca-a be successful in bringing about bad feelingit is one pr-t in their favor. The wholesale abuse socae of the party papers have heaped on certain Democrats and which has been copied by others, as well as the entire Radical press, is certainly in bad taste and out of place, to say the least of it. The persons alluded toj are private citi zens and are not subject to the per sonal attacks of papers. Should any of them receive the nomination of the convention, and these editors have pictured their true character, it would then be their duty and right to refuse them their support. Then they would become proper subjects for abuse, but not before. It is al ways bad policy to persno a course that gives your opponents a club to knock you down with, and the pa pers referred to are evidently engag ed in furnishing ammunition for the enemy in time of war. The Radical press is engaged with all the .energy it possesses to create dissension and discord among Democrats and the course persued by the party press is only calculated to aid them in their endeavors. We do not propose to dictate to our party brethern as to the way they should conduct their papers. This is their own business. Rut one thing is certain, they are giving aid and comfort to the enemy whenever they stir up strife among the members of their party. It is hardly probable that the Convention can nominate more than one candi date, and lie will certainly be the peer of any Radical that will be nominated against him. Democratic Conventions generally show good sense in its selection, and to it be longs the selection of the candidate and not to the party organs. Trouble and discord in the party is all that gives the Radicals any hope of suc cess, and we are sorry to see our own party organs aiding them in this ef fort. Easily Explained. The ready ac quiescence of the Radicals of tho Louisiana Legislature in the terms of the Wheeler compromise, whereby the political complexion of the Lower House was changed, lias excited some surprise, but it is easily explained. An irresistible argument was brought to bear upon the anti-adjusters of the Radical party in a threat to withdraw the Federal troops from the State unless they consented to tha ratifica tion of the decision rendered by the members of the late Congressional Committee. Tt-at clinched the mat ter. If, however, the Senate, next December, when it takes up Pinch back's case, decides that tho seat he claims is vacant, and if the Louisiana Legislature fails to elect Brother-in-law Casey to fill the vacancy, the New York Sun asserts, that there is no telling what may be the result. A President who uses tho army of the United States to carry out his personal views at any time, without the slightest regard to law or consis tency, may always bo depended upon to give his admirers fresh surprises. Sensible Talk. T. B. Barnum, the great showman, was recently in augurated Mayor of Bridgeport, Con necticut, on which occasion ho gave expression to the following sensible remarks: No person needs be unemployed who is not over fastidious about occupa tion. There are too many soft hands (and heads) waiting for light work and heavy pay. Better work for half a loaf than beg or steal a whole one. Mother earth is always near by and ready to respond to reasonable drafts on her never failing treasury. A patch of potatoes raised "on shares" is preferable to a poulticed pate earn ed in a whisky scrimmage. "When fashiou teaches economy, instead of spending for a gaudy dress what would comfortably clothe the family ; when people learn to walk until they can ride; when the poor man ceases to spend moro for tobacco than for bread; when those who complain of panics learn that we "cannot eat our cahe and keep it;"' that a seive will not hold water, panics will ceaeand prosperity rtturn. False Rumor. In our hist isstiJ we gave publicity to a rumor in cir culation to the effect that Mayor McCown, of this city, is an aspirant for congressional honors. We had at the time our doubts as to the truth of this report, and since that time Mr. MeCown kas called upon us and assured that ha is not an aspirant in that direetun, aor would he ac cept the nomination if tendered him. He proposes to devote his time and talents to his profession and consid ers office-seeking detritaejital to any person who kas a legitimate business occupation. Our friend Mc. is cor rect in Li views, and after hi ez pressed and emphatic declination, his name may a,s well be dropped from tlie list of Congressional aspir ants, and his client will ulways find him ready to attend to their want and interest. Funeral. The funeral of ex-Vioe President BreckinridgA took place at Lexington, Ky., on the 10th, and was attended br an immense con course of people. Unjust to the Farmers. An exchange forcibly remarks that it ought to be clear to the com mon mind that the tariff, which at present burdens this country, is no friend to the vast agricultural inter ests of the United States. The farm ers 'have a heavy handicap upon all their energies in the tariff. To till their lands and toil for a subsistence they are indeed free, but they must stand by and see the fruit of that toil put in bonds the moment it reaches maturity, even see it doubly shackled on the boasted free soil of its birth. When it is ready to be sold, it is forbidden to seek its full worth, where that full worth awaits it in the foreign markets, out is forced to the market at home only to come back to its producer shorn in its estimated value. For, this is the true and tainted root of the system, that it deprives the farmer of tho foreign markets, where bis products would obtain cheaper and better manufactured articles in exchange and restricts him to the inferior do mestic' article, enhanced in price by tho duties. The farmers are thus forced by these duties to accept less for what they sell and pay more for what they purchase. And all this in order that a favored few may enjoy a monopoly of supply to the American people, putting their own price on their mer chandise. Is it not obvious that any such procedure contravenes the primal irinciples of justice, those principles which give to a man a possession in his own property, and a right to dispose of it as he chooses of his own free will? Let this disre gard of individual right, which un dertakes to prescribe where a man shall sell his property, and what he is to receive for it, be spread over a continent and the freedom of its peo ple become an idle exaggeration; for that cannot bo legislation in its true sense which tampers to such an ex tent with the fundamental law of justice, but it is rather of the nature of an imperial edict like those which at times were promulgated from an cient Rome to lay her vast provinces under tribute to the Ciesar's exorbi tant capacity. As long as the drain continued, the people remained im poverished, trade languished, no wealth entered, and population avoided the burdened land. Are not these the very evils which the exhaustive demands of the tariff bring iq!?n t!e agricultural indus tries of the country '.' lovr can the abundant source of wealth be struC without drying up its beneficent out- nowmgs.' jNowhero is the injustice of the Radical tarilf system so appa rent as in its enects upon the roots of our national prosperity the farm ing interests. Historic Printing Press. THE FIRST OS THE SOUTHWEST COAST lion. J. Quinn Thornton Dear Sir Being in Salem, on business, and knowing the regard you had for my late husband, the Rev. Henry H Spaulding, and knowing, moreover, the interest you have ever felt in everything pertaining to the Mis sionary and Pioneer History of Or egon, I hereby and herewith present to you the hrst printing press, type and other material and fixtures for printing, that were brought to the .Northwest coast of America. This precious memorial of the ear ly history of Oregon, and, indeed, of the estern coast of America, I con fide trustingly to your hands, as a most sacred legacy, with the request that you make some appropriate dis position of it; and until that shall be done, you will store it in some place at least reasonably' secure from fire. And it is my further request that the historic relic which I thus com mit to your present keeping, shall always remain at the seat of the State Government. At another time I may be able to give you a more detailed and accu rate history of this press, and of the work it has accomplished, than I now can. At present I can only say that it was sent to my late husband by the Sandwich Island Mission, to assist him in his work among tho Nez Perce Indians, and that it was tho first printing press brought to Oreeron, which at that time was bounded by the latitude of 54 deg 40 min. on the North, the 42d paral lel on the South, the summit of the Rocky Mountains, East, and the Pa eific Ocean on the West. From this press was issued the first book printed on the West coast of America. In addition to other matters not remembered by me, the Gospel of Matthew in the Nez Perce language was printed on it, also a Hymn book in Lnglish and Nez Perce. This last contained various translations from the Scriptures, and some prayers. A Nez Perce and En glish Dictionary, the joint author ship cf my late husband and of some one not known to me, was also issued from this interesting relic of the his tory of the great Northwest. Some time after the massacre of the mis.-ionaries at Wa-il-at-pu, No vember 23, 1847, this pioneer press was brought down to the Willam ette Valley and placed in the care of the Rev. J. S. GriiSn, near what is now Hillsboro, where it still remains, ready for removal by you to the Capital of the State. I ought, perhaps, to add that after this press had thus come into Mr. Griffin's possession, he issued from it a monthly periodical entitled "The American and Unionist," and that this was the first periodical pam phlet issued upon this coast. I have the honor to be yours, re spectfully, R.( ntr. J. Spai-lii-i. S.ixw, May 3, '.$73. Dost Co.ve. T!;. following State papers fail to re.'K-ii this office: The Mountnineer, Ji i,i'z,-, Jacksonville Sent! nil, Umatii, Tribune and the Independent. Wt occasional ref erence to these pt;srs ia our State exchanges and presae tley are yet published. Is It Justice? j We are reliably informed that cer ' tain parties in Portland take special pains to misrepresent this county to ; immigrants arriving in the State. The story comes to us from different sources, tliat wnen imiuigrauw comu who have a little money to pay for a farm, they are told to go up the val ley and purchase themselves places, being informed that there are no good farming lands in this county. At the same time, if the immigrant has no money to pay for a farm, he is readily recommended to locate in this county, being told that he can get cheap lands and in a few years he can make himself a good home. Now we ask but justice in thi3 mat ter in behalf of Clackamas county, and no more. Through misrepresen tations of this character, our best farming land (which aro equal to the very best in the State) are not worth more than from 10 to $20 and at the very outside figures 30 per acre, and the latter priced must bo close to town and on the river and railroad while an inferior' quality of lands in counties south of us, and from ono to two hundred miles from market, aro worth and selling at from 15 to 45 per acre. We know, of some of the best farms in our State located in this county which can be bought at from 10 to 20 per acre, within two to five miles of the railroad and close to the river. We know that there is some of the very best agri cultural land in the State in Clacka mas county, and that farms can bo had for a less pi ice than in any other part of the State. While Clackamas county does not lay claim to broad and extensive prairies, she does claim some of the best agricultural lands in the State, and immigrants can do better here than elsewhere away from a market. It is true we have a good part of our lands in timber; but it is equally true that we have much ex cellent land already cleared and un der cultivation, and a great deal which can be placed under cultivation for less than one-half the increased price which is asked for prairie farms, while it is an acknowledged fact that when our brushy and roll ing lands are once placed under proper cultivation, they are more productive and moro certain -of a re munerative crop than any lands on over-flowed or low prairies. Clacka mas county may bo kept back for selfish purpose, but we feel confident that t-hc time is not f ir distant when her close proxiui!fv to market, her fertile soil and her healthy aiifl pure air, will . be appreciated and taken advantage of. We would ask person's who have good farms to sell to leave their address at this office, rnd give us a complete description of the land offered for sail. We know of several that can be bought at reasonable fig ures, and if we can once get a share of tho immigrants now arriving in our Stato to look at our county and its great advantages, we feel confi dent that Clackamas county's repu tation will be materially improved The representations made to tho im migrants at Portland are partially substantiated from the fact that when they pass along the river or railroad, they see a dense forest and do not stop to inquire or look farther than their observations go while traveling on these conveyances. To show how eager some people are to run down UlacKamas county, we will cite a fact that has come to our knowledge recently: An immigrant was passing up tho road a few days ago, when crossing the Barlow Prairie, ho r marked that there was a fine body of land, and asked what county it was in. The person addressed was an old Oregonian, and knew in what county it was, but ho replied that it was in Marion county. This is the way our neighbors try to get a repu tation at our expense. Let immi grants come to Oregon City and ex amine for themselves, and we feel confident that they will find it to their benefit. Wo will say, as a matter of justification for those who make these misrepresentations, that they know nothing of Clackamas county, haying never traveled off the railroad or river within its boun daries the distance of half a mile. But persons desiring to procure homes slrbuld look for themselves and examine into this matter before they purchase. Will ke Consecrated. The Yam hill Reporter says that the Reverend Bishop Morris will be at this place, according to appointment on Sunday the 6tli day of June the second Sun day after Trinity. . On that day St. James Church, McMijnville will be consecrated according to the rites of the Church. It is a law with Epis- cojjalians that no Church can be con secrated to the worship of God so long as one dollar of indebtedness rests against it. St: James' Church could be consecrated to-day for all that law. It stands free of all in debtedness, and Rev. Mr. Summers holds the receipt of the last creditor. So when Bishop Moms visits our beautiful little village on the 6th of Jun next, he will have the last sol emn rite to perform on the comple tion of another temple for the wor ship of the Lord. A man was indicted, tried, con victed and sentenced to six months imprisonment at Walla Walla last week for the crime of assault com mitted in 1863. SUMMARY OP STATE NEWS. Washington Hall, a pioneer of thirty years ago, who has been ab sent from Astoria fisteen years, re turned by the John L. Stephens this week to claim possession of Chinook, wrnich has been recently decided to ueiong to iiim. Wild strawberries are 50 cents per ganon at Eugene City. A Salem manufacturer is shipping iurniture to Lugene. Salem is shipping wooden water pipes ana pumps to Astoria. Mr. John Marden is getfng along iiuciy , uuuaing tne wagon roau round the Cascades, and has it completed to within one and a half miles of the lower landing. The Pioneer and Historical Society oi uregon. on the 17th. instructed the committee on rooms for a library at Astoria, to proceed and fix the same for use and occupation. Edward Ashley! your sister, Mrs Sarab A. Crabtree. of Baxter Sorinsrs. Cherokee county, Kansas, is anxious to near ironi you. If you are ih Or egon, write to her immediately. The man called "Naught" in the papers, who was killed near Amity last week by Rurrows, was not named Naught but Knott. Knott was not killed but only bruised, and he and Burrows have mutually charged each other with assault with a dangerous weapon, and that is all of tho Polk county homicide. The editor of the Messenger says no must enlarge his paper. Tho contract for building the Christian church has been let. Tho Plain dealer says Gen. Joseph Lane visited Roseburg last week, looking as hale aud hearty as of old. Twenty mining claims were record ed in the office of the County Clerk of Douglas last week. Mr. George Prior says there will bo about 20,000 bushels of small grain raised in Camas Valley this year. Heretofore, 5,000 bushels was the usual crop. We copied an item last week from the Hillsboro paper to the effect that a man -named Chamberlain, in Wash ington county, had been held to an swer a charge of killing a young man named Steventon. The fact is Cham berlain was only accused of threat ening the life of Steventon, and was bound over to keep the peace. The land office at the Dalles, with Capt. L. Coffin as register, and Mr, C. N. Thorn bury as receiver, will bo opened for business on the 1st of June. R. II. Lamson, Judge II. Hurley and A. R. Burbank have been ap pointed as a local board of immigra tion for Yamhill county by the State bcrnd. A Baker City correspondent has visited Rye Valley, last week, and thoroughly inspected the "Granite Mountain." He says "it is full of rich quartz lodes and will devclope into a first-class quartz camp far better than War Eagle Mountain, Canyon City but being f n an out-of-the-way country, capitalists know nothing of it. If men of money ! would 011I3' come and see for them selves, they would invest, and witli a small amount of money expended, would realize moro profit in one year than they could elsewhere." Ou tho 7th day of this month the State Board of Immigration for Ore gon forwarded to David Newsom, of Marion county, a commission to act under them, in behalf of immigrants in giving inforn a ion about lands to sell or rent and about employment for immigrants wishing to perform labor. Crops are looking well throughout Mai ion county. So says King L. Hibbard the county assessor. There aro a good many cases of typhoid fever reported up in Sweet Home valley, Linn county, this spring. Hon. G. R. Helm, of Linn county has long been confined to his bed by sickness, but is again able to walk about. The Baptists are actively canvass ing the city of Albany for aid to build a new church edifice. Success pretty well assured." Suit has been cammenced by W. W. Moreland, of California, in tho U. S. Circuit Court for the district of Oregon to recover from Marion county the block in Salem on which the court house stands. Tho grain crop of Linn county is now generally in, and a careful'm spection reveals the fact that at no time since the settlement of the conn try has there been tho samo pains and care taken to have tho ground in good order and the seed properly put in. This not only speaks weil xl r 11 ' t . . ior me iarmers, one is 01 liseit a guaranty that there will be an abun dant harvest. The Right Rev. B. Wis tar Morris and Rev. J. H. Babcock held services in the Congregational church at Al bany, Monday the 17th inst. After the close of the services sufficient money to purchase a lot was sub scribed, in answer to the appeal of the Bishop, who subscribes a further sum toward building the church. A lot has already been purchased. Geo. Settlemeir has just returned from a tour through Southern Ore gon, and gives tho Granger some notes taken by the way. He says the Galice creek mines are virtually a failure, and that those who visit them generally so decide. Times are dull and money scarce. The cinnabar mines near Roseburg, Mr. S. thinks, are a reality, and will prove of benefit to the State, as well as profitable to the discoverers. But thewhole matter is summed up by saying that it is useless to cro sonib in search of better times, or a better country. There are nineteen miDils in fliA Deaf Mute School at Salem. C. H. Humnhrev has sold nni 1n"o interest in the Benton Democrat. Gov. Gibbs is to deliver the Fnnrfl, of J uly oration at Junction. An unfounded report was rmhlisli- ed in the Portland papers last Tues day, announcing the death of S. N. Arrigoni, at Astoria. He is quite ill, but hopes are yet entertained of his recovery. A man named Arthur Cox lias been held to appear before the Grand Jury of Marion county on a charge of at tempting to aid the penitentiary con victs to make their escape. He is charged with having furnished them with weapons. The number of sheep driven to Eastern Oregon this year will be greater than in any preceding sea son. It is reported, says the Sentinel, that the rock taken from the Yank ledge is proving richer and'richer the farther from the surface the ore is taken. Mr. H. Klippel brought to Jack sonville one day last week, cinnabar which he had discovered somewhere in that vicinity, which Mr. Campbell informs tho Sentinel assayed CO per cent. non. H. W. Corbett has let the contract for the building of a private residence which will cost 25,000. Mr. E. St. John received the con tract. The Reiorter learns that Yamhill county is out of debt; that about all the county warrants have been re deemed, and when the last one is paid there will still be a small sum in tho treasury. The Albany Democrat tells that one of the children of "Bud" Thompson who used to publish the Mercury, recently fell into a well and was taken out to all appearance, dead. The parents, however, being deter mined to resort to all available means for restoration, Mr.". T. knocked two of its front teeth out and succeeded in pouring into the aperture thus made a sufficient amount of brandy to accomplish the baby's resuscita tion, aud event nally its complete res toration. Onr correspondent at Hillsboro writes a facetious letter this week, which he winds up by. saying: "Times are very quiet. There are, however, a few individuals hereabout who persist in dickering on horses, lands, etc., just as though judgment day never was coming, and the weather was always going to hold so; but such men sometimes slip into the Church, and die happy, in spite of an overruling Providence." The Smithsonian Institute has re ceived two specimen Salmon sent from Astoria by Mr. James Welch. The Jacksonville Times says the mail between Linkville and Ashland is now tri-weekly. Prof. J. D. Fountain, of Ashland, will deliver an address before the Allumni of the Corvallis college on Juno 11, 1875. The counties of Jackson, Josephine and Curry are planning to build a wagon road from Jacksonville to Chctco, n the coast. Mail transportation from Linkville to Fort Klamath costs only to'.) bb a month, semi-weekly trips are made. The Astoria.i hasn't "any compli ments to waste on the G ivlord famil v says it was "sold, badly." The Odd Fellows of Cornelius have negotiated for a beautiful site for a cemetery, situated about a half mile north of the town. They pro pose fixing it up in good style. Contradiction. Mr. Reid of the Stato Board of Immigration last Tuesday sent the following telegram to the Associated Press of New York: Portland, May 25, 1875. 77e Associated Pres., JVtH? 1'orJ.-: Contradict the false statement receiv ed from Kansas, that Oregon is too much crowded with immigrants. Although a large immigration is ar riving weekly in Oregon, mostly farmers from the Western States, all are satisfied and provided for. Wheat and all other crops are exceedingly heavy. There is room for thousands of farmers and sheep-raisers for years to come. WiiiiiiAM Reid, State Com'r of Immigration. Order of Odd Fellows. The report of the Grand Lodge of this Order for the State of California, for the year 1875, shows it to be in a nourishing condition. On the first of April it numbered 18,51G members. Its net total of property, including building, cemetery, library, etc., is 1,050,5G1 85. Against this, the debt of tho various Lodges in the jurisdiction amounts to but 86,727 40. The amount expended for relief from April 1, 1874, to April 1, 1875, was 110,568 18, and the amount of all other expenses during the same period 140,154 20. Four districts had failed to send in lists, and record of their membership is obtained from their reports for the term ending Dec. 31, 1874. Southern Sentiment. Ex-Governor English, of Connecticut, who recently returned from a Southern tour, gives the following encourag ing report of the political status of Texas: "The people in Texas have seemingly forgotten that there ever was a war, and from every act and expression I gleam the information that they welcome auybody who will come here to better their condition, regardless of any political associa tion. It is a very rare thing for them to refer to a man's politics; not half so much as we in New England do." Corroboratory Evidence. At a Democratic conference in Ohio, re cently, Senator Thurman expressed his belief that the Radicals will reor ganize the old Know-Nothing Lodges that played such a conspicuous part in our political history twenty years ago. That was the idea in Washing ton before Congress closed its ses sion. The course of the Radical pa pers, their violent assault upon all foreign-born and Catholic citizens, gives corroboratoi-v evidence tn that etfect J ' j Failed. The New Englanders i failed to extort from President Grant a disclaimer of " the third term pro ject. The New York Sun. thinks that he will probably disclaim it about the time he takes the temperance pledge. TERRITORIAL SKWS ITE A tiny ' Wade fly is said to be k; 1 ing the grasshoppers in Colorado and tho ranchmen? are praying that it may achieve 11 complete victory. Five houses were burglarized. in Salt Lake City Sunday night before last, and the Tribune says some of the victims bad not reported u-p to the hour of going to press. An Eastern exchange remarits .af ter its reporter had interviewed ft fellow all the way from the Black Hills: "If that man told the reporter the truth, then indeed is the Black Hills country good, and we wondir greatly that the aforesaid should leave it. When you find rock which yields 120 to the pound, it is well that you find all of that kind of peb bles possible. That is our individual opinion, and it may be that we ara prejudiced." Olympia now boasts of two boat clubs, the members of which aro ladies. It is understood that a chal lenge will be made to row for the silver cup which was won by Vie. Tull three years ago the coming Fourth of July, and the champion ship of the Territory. Laboring men are wanted by hop growers in Tacoma valley. The snow fell to the depth of three inches at Silver City, Idaho, on tho 16th of this month. A vessel namo unknown has been chartered in San Francisco to load with spars on the Sound for Cork, Ireland. The Couriers Seattle correspon dent says Beriah Brown has been ap pointed clerk of the district court vice Mr. Andrews removd. Grasshoppers have made their ap pearance in Millard county, Utah. As yet they have done but little dam age to the growing crops.. Col. John McCracken, 33d was on a visit to Walla Walla last week, and instituted Columbia Lodge of Per fection No. 5, of the 14th degree of said rite. Tho following officers were elected to serve for three years: Frank Kimmerlv. G. M. ; Sewall Trnax, S. G. W.fjohn Goudy, J. G. W.; W. II. Egan, G. O.; B. L. Sharpstein, G. A.; Park Winans, (1. T. Ralph Guichard, G. S. In the last issne of the Idaho World, T. J. Sutton announced that his connection with that paper ceased with that issue. Bishop Blanchet, of Vancouver, i at Walla Walla on a personal visit. The pastor of the M. E. Church at Vancouver had new potatoes for din ner on Wednesday last, which hj had himself planted the present sea son. The gentleman would certainly mako a good agriculturist, judging frm the lesult tf his amateur exer tions. The Alia of a recent date has a re view of the condition of the States and Territories of the Pacific sh remarking that "Idaho is stationary The chief hope of tho Territory at present for advancement is fixed on a number of quartz mines which aro being opened, ami some of them art very promising." Major Henslee's great good for tune iu having suddenly recoven-d his sight after being blind for years, has created some little oscitt-ment in Vancouver, wh re it is looked upon iu the light of a miracle." Every ono, however, is heartily graVfi l that the Major has been relieved cf his disa bility, and all express the hope that it may bo permanent. There are in Seattle between 2,40 aud 2,500 inhabitants, including 1;.") male and 12 female ( h;ncs, a id about 100 Kanakas and Indians; aIo real and. personal property, (at its assessed value) to the amount of one million one hundred and sixty odd thousand dollars; and also 301 'dwel ling houses occupied by families. In the county, outside the city thero are nearly 1,800 inhabitants; somo 8700,000 of assessable property, and 210 farms which are occupied. Theso returns as contrasted with those of some four years ago, make a very good showing. There were then 1,142 inhabitants in the city and 1,002 in the county outside the city limits. Speaking of the necessity for a bridge across the Willamette, tho Vancouver Register pays the follow ing neat tribute to the city of Port land: Her public buildings will com pare favorably with those of any city in the Union, and her improve ments are generally of the most sub stantial kind, and with the largo number of steamers and ships in port from time to time she has the appear ance of one of the finest cities in tho nation for her size. When we take into consideration the fact of her central position as to trade and com merce, with her river and railroad privileges, backed by her immense wealth, her enterprising citizens, her many most excellent papers secular and religious as published in the city, we are ready to conclude that she has a bright future as the second city on the coast, and in time we have no doubt that she will be the Phila delphia of the great West. The Record says the walls of the capitol building are all up for the second story, and the joists are being laid for some parts of the upper floor. The two heavy girders of boiler iron, fifty-seven feet long, that span the center rotunda, are almost completed and will be in place during the pres ent week. Contractor Mann is push ing the brick work for the third story, at the south wing, and consid ering the hindrances of the weather, is making rapid progress, and half a million brick have already been laid. The building is on a grand scale, and there is considerable more of it than the Stete of Oregon needs to finish up and make use of for a few years to come. Mr. Piper says one other appropriation will suffice to finish up all parts that will be essen tial for many years, and the work to be done this year and next will gi.v0 the State abundant room for all its wants. .- Reward Offered. A "Women s Peace Society" has been formed London which hn nnblished an offer of 100 for the best tract written a woman on the subject of peace. The title must be, "In what way do wars affect women, and how may they best use their influence to prevent war. I V UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, xLi, CALIFORNIA