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f 0 . - O o O V . . i"T .. ; ... y ..,4-.nT,r, ; ... i . tit Mi o O o mm o 0 G G DEVOTED TO POLITICS, NEWS, LITERATURE, AND THE BEST INTERESTS OF OREGON. o VOL. 9. OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST G, 1875. NO. 41. o f?ri ft -v 1 i ' jff fill I i ev a. 1 4?r? ' ' UA'? s. v f 'N ft, i -s. v r-v a ! V O P o IP 0 TH E EMTERFBiSE, LOCAL DEMOCRATIC NEWSPAPER F O jit THE Farmer, fii.sia?sJMan, i Family Circle. ISSUED E-VEKY FRIDAY. .A.. XOLTN"ER, KDITOR AND PUBLISHER. OFFICIAL PAPET. FOS CLACKAMAS CO. OFFICE" In KxTKRPBtsE Bullying; one 4oor south of Ma nic Building. Main St. Term of SuIicriptioii Kindle Copy Oni Year, In Advance. Six Months .$2.50 .. 1.50 Tertu of ArtTertlslnjft Transient aJvn fin-nts, including all lo-jal notions s marj ot twelve lins one w.;; ................... ......v .."-' For each tin us "u it insertion.- 1.0) One Coin tun. on O-iirter" B'lsiiiss Card, 1 Ar rjO.OO W.W . 43.00 ar one year 12.00 SOCIETY NO VICES. j)KIJ(;i)X LOJt!i: NO. 3, I. I. o. Meets every Thursday evening at 7 ' o'clock, in tlio O i l Fellows' J Tall. Main street. M mho- rs of the Or der are invito! to attend. I'.v order N. ti. hi:i:lc.v iiu;ui:i: lodku no. I. O. O. 1, M-ets on the Smn l an. I Fourth Tues day Bveniii.1 each laonth. at 7 ' oVI.ilv, in tne U.iu Follow i' II ill. M;v.ahersof tho D are invito! t i attend. rree .MULTXOMAII LOOKS' NO. I, t A. M., Ilol.is it regular efini- V. V iiuiiui-.Uions on t!u rir.-t ami -V? t!u ! irst ami T r.l S itnrilivs in eaoh month. at 7 o'clock (Voiji theOtii o('S.)i). te!iili.r t.ithc HJtii of March; ami 7'i '.lock from the ')!h of March to the. of S jjitemher. Ihethren in kou btaii'ini ' :uo iiiviitM 10 aliens. 15 oivler of I'Wi.j.s i:u i:n:xr no. 1,1.0 . 1. M .et at O hi 1- ellow.s Hall .nt:i I i'.--;t Mi. I l iiirii i m-s el iv of e i'?Ii m mth. in ': I .-tan -li:j.j .ire Patriarchs v-v i'lvited to atteiul. n c .V .v ; s s v a n it .?. .1 a p:i Y.sit. N suit a CON, O 11 R H () A r T Y. O 11 ICCi O A". '.-lirs i:i Chrvr: ivin's Hrick, au'llti'. Main s:r t. Dr. 3..PAS?XZat 3 hy.sici: oK.'ic:: v.- it t. Charman's Store, I! "-i.l ri.; ' M:v;;i Hfr , t-.v d:or above li. v'aail .-Id's s:.r . Ta-! . :!-:. n. .so ci ir ;oa ( -xc -pt iJi-'n- ni il-' :in i "I'-ri .t.cil '( caa m id! -.vit!-o i: s.-.-i il .: 1 rs :r :a IU . IVasioa liar.'au W.lS.lill '"oil. 1). nil. joiin D E ?i T 1 ST, ()F?ICK IX o:iv:cit) city, oitncox. iii-i n! ?..' i:rico paM fir CounJy Or JeiL s. ii t: it ATi ATTORNcY-AT-LAW: 3? CITY, 0RZG0H. prOVFlVn rhiiriiiin's brick. Main st. 0narlS72:tf. J O : J il 3 O i!3 &KlcCOW N ) ATTORNEYS AND- COUNSELORS AT-LAW. Ora?on City, Croon. BVill practice in all tho Courts of the Ktat". S;.oial attiiiuoa civen to cases in the V. S. Land O.H2 at or.-joa City. oa;rlS72-t f. L. T. 13 A n I IST ATTOI?SY-AT-LAW, i OREGON Cnk : : OREGON. r -OFFICE Over Iret-t. 's Tin Store, Main Jlmar73-tf. 01E33?J CITY BREWERY. Ilonry lluii bel, - xivivc TM-itrn vs. fe 11 a t;.. .ilmt-fi'llMiir. -iSuiaifci erv .ah"S to tnio' m th" public thai it--.a no.r proparod to m inutacture a o. 1 qual- itv oi J. A O i 11 S BUR, a pood as can obtained nnywhere In the state. Ora.-r solicited and promptly fltlod. . 11. IlIUUFIEM). Kitabll.lirtl since 49, at the oltl stand. Main Slr.Tt, Orgoa City, Oregon. An assortment of athos. Jewel- ry.'ind ?s tn l iioinas- eiKimiocks nil rt M-iiicli :ire warranted to bi n r?nrs-'iitd. it 'pairin.i don) on short notice, and thankful for past patronage. JOHN 31. KACON, IMrOUTEU AND DEAT.EU In Hooks, -Stationery, IVrfu'ii ry, rtc, etc. Orc-jon City, Orfjon tVAt the Tost ide. O.fl:', Main street, cast RIKVAL. ALFRED KINNEY, M. D., SURGEON, HAS HEXOVEI) HIS OFFICE AND Residence to the double house, 'rtirr A liter and East Park tr ot, Portland. Oregon, where be can b lound at all hours, day and night. - " lST-i an'J Hit Him Again. Is It a Crime to be a Ceruian. lb J. 31. Edmunds, Eq., Chairman of the Xnt'ioaal Republican Committee, Washington, D. C. Dear Sir: Having b2en a Repub lican ever since the present Republi can party ivas formed, nud having never voted any other Federal ticket thau the Republican. I claim the right to call your attention to a matter which lies within the controll of your Committee, and which threatens to injure the Republican party by ul ienatng from it a largo mass of its supporters. I have been so unfortunate as to displease the central and chief organ of the Republican party the "Wash ington National Republican by some letters in the New York Herald con taining the results of investigations into the political and industrial con ditions of several Southern States; aud your organ accordingly informs its readers, in an editorial article, which has just come into my hands, that I ought not to be beleived not because I have misstated facts, oram an inaccurate or incapable observer, but on the gronnd that I am a "Dutch Jew'," "Dutch" standing of course for German.. I have noticed that ignorant Americans commonly call the Germans "Dutch." Now, if I were, in the organs ele gant phrase, .V'Dutch Jew," I don't see what that has to do with the cred ibility of my statements. I am, in fact, a German, and am proud of ray de-scent from a people who have been the faithful supporters of liberty on two continents. I am not a Jew, but if I were, I should not be ashamed of it; for the Jews in this country are intelligent, industrious and peacea ble body of citizens. But the organ thinks differently. Speaking in the name of the Rep ublican Administration, whose mouth-petco it is, it has t lie folly to assert that if a man be German by blood, he is therefore) not to be be leived; if he is a Jew by religion, he is thereby nnwoithv of confidence. Is tliis really Republican doctrine? If not, is it prudent in you to allow your organ to oiler such a wanton in sult to a very large number of citi zens, Germans mid .Tews, who most ly vote the Republican ticket, and whose votes next year will be abso lutely iudispensiblo to the success of the party. Yon o;ight to muzzle your dog, the l Uioiin Jitpubti'-an. A recent and notorious overdose of government pap has given him a lit of indigestion. uiii he is snapping at the heels of your memis. It von let him go on he will presently do the party a dam age. e are to have important elections tlii Fall: and next vear there will be i Presidential election. Have von forgotten this? Is it not an insane folly to let your ollieial organ, un der your very nose .tlinga gratuitous insult in the faces of several hundred thousand German and Jewish voters, and this in the name of the Republi can party, and as presumably an ofli eial declaration of the sent ments of the party chiefs? Do you really want to drive these voters away from the Republican ranks? Or do you imag ine they have no self-respect or re sentment? And have you no fear that the Democrats will use such declar ations, made in your chief organ, against the party next year? Or even in Ohio and Pennsylvania this year? The Republican party should have a respectable organ in Washington. If j'on can not get rid of the National Republican you ought at least to chancre its name. You might call it the National Idiot. I make you the suggestion as a sincere and earnest Republican. Yours truly, Charles Nordhoff. Atlanta Ga., June 28, 1S75. Talkixo Like Mamma. "Jack!" screamed a bright-eyed, golden haired, fair-faced little girl, of not more than six summers to her young er brother, who had dumped himself under the wall, where lie was dig giug sand with a strip of shingle; "Jack!" you good-for-nothing little scamp, you are tho torment of my life! Come right into the house tin's minute, or I'll take the very hide off of you! Dome in. I say! "Why, Totty," exclaimed her fa ther, i ho chanced to come up that moment, "what in the world are 3011 saying? Is that the way you talk to 3'our little brother?" "Oh no, pappa," answered the child promptly, with an iunoeent smile. "We was playing keep house and I am Jack's mamma, and I was talking to him just as mamma talked to me this morning. I never really spank him, as mamma does me some times." Mr. Secretary Belknap sports the most showy turnout in Washington. Secor Robeson drives another of the same sort, aud has his coachman and footman in liveries that would as tonish the English; and now it turns out that both these high officials maintain their family equipages after the manner of the late Attorney-General ! Will iams. Will Mr. Secretary lielknap tell us where ho gets au thority for keeping a familv turnout at the people's expense, and making coachmen, and footmen, and even house servants of the men who are down on the rolls of the War De partment as messengers and labor ers? It was an illustrious statesman John Andrew Jackson Creswell, we believe who first set the example of making cooks, waiters and coachmen of men who were down on the Post Office roll as messengers, and paid as such. SS.l.Sun. Six Sioux girls stand in a row on the- smiling pi"tistir! call in mourn ful roues: "General Castar, Oh! tou sneaking" white rdrrn!" -,--3r -Tr IK - The Tariff Imposition. From the San Francisco Examiner. Mr. Irwin is very firmlv rr;" ly poised upon that plank of the Democratic iiuuuuuues ior a revenue tariff. His exposition of the evils of the existing "ntntfciivo" tarill is equal to any thing we have A w seen on the subject, and it nrivnnfl, ! .i i - " r'u" me arguments in iavor of frey trade1. m compact ami cogent form. This question of the tariff is looming up into great prominence, and ere long the people everywhere will begin to understand it as they have never yet understood. V"e have been struck with a ' remark of the Financier, in discussing this very question, that the people of the United States do not really understand their own gov ernmentthat haviug never studied it, having scarcely watched it having put a thoughtless confidence in it, they have gradually abused and per verted it until it is undergoing se vere and unprecedented strains. That this is so is already slowly be coming understood, and tho result will be tho compulsory attention to the subject of government which must precede, and which alone can effect, any real political reform. The intermediate steps, the time and the cost of effecting this, there is no haste in conjectui ing. The question of free-trade is most closely allied to governmental reform; in fact, the first is a part of the other, for a vital principle underlies both. And as there are abundant indications that the question is already before the country, to stay so until settled, and that tho old contest is to be waged over, although under new ciren in stances and with more rational meth ods than formerly, it is well to re cognize at the outset the great im portance of the question, and the re lation to it of the opposing political parlies. The Radical party is responsible for and upholds the tariff. The Dem ocratic party opposes it find de mands a reform approximating to entire freedom of trade. One of the severest charges upon which the domitant party is arraigned before the people is that has fastened upon them a high protective tariff, the du ties of which average lifty per cent. ad valorem. In 1872 ten per cent, was taken off by Congress, lint dur ing the last session it was reinstated by a strict party vote. A reasonable tariff for revenue is necessary in or der to support the Government, but is the tariff for "protection" that is dessicating the life-blood of the country, paralyzing the industry it pretends to protect, snapping euergy discouraging enterprise, destroying our agricultural interests, and re-' dncing thousands of our artisans and laborers to indigence. There are more persons engaged in agricultural pursuits in the Unit ed States than in all other occupa tions, yet the great farming sections of the South and West are made ser vants of the manufacturing sections of tne East. Year by year the earn ings of tho farmer are ground out of him by tho operation of unjust and unequal taxation, and instead of being used to defray the expenses of the Government are paid over to cot ton and iron ard other manufactures in New England and Pennsylvania. Under the tarill laws more than two thousand articles are taxed as im ports. The tax falls upon every ar ticle of utility, of comfort, of luxury and of necessity. Nothing escape's the omnivorous maw of the Radical tariff. The increased cost to the people of all the articles affected by the tariff is estimatated at upwards of live hundred millions of dollars annually. Of this amount the Gov ernment has never received as much as one-half, tho most of it going di rectly from the pockets of the labor ing massess to the coffers of the cot ton lords of Massachusetts and iron monarchs of Pennsylvania. l s- The operation of the tariff law is ruinous unjust and discriminative Eastern manufactures receive the raw materials in cotton or iron and convert them into manufactured ar tides. Not only is no tax put ujon them, but the Government has lur nished a protective tariff which ena bles them to exercise a monopoly over the West and South and pre vfnt comnetitou from abroad. But while New England demands this protection, she also demands and re eeives free trade for the benefit of her niscicultural interests. At the very time when the beef-packers and nork-nackers and butter-makers of tho West are paving a tax of over one hundred per cent, on each dol lar's worth of salt used by them, the fishermen of New England receive their salt at the C istom House free of duty, and do not paj-one cent of tax. The Government does not even make its salt out of the New Eng land codfish aristocracy. Iy the op peration of this tariff system twenty nine agricultural and commercial States embracing more than three fourths of the wealth and population of the Union, whose interests are op- nosed to the system, are com pel lei tO T1.1V tribute to eight manufactur ing States, comprising less than one nuarterof the national wealth and 1101 dilation. We believe the people are tired of this exorbitant tariff, and will hold the party in power to a strict accountability for the wrongs that have been perpetrated in its name. In California this year we elect Congressmen who are nnn.1 on this issue, and who will do their utmost to adjust the tariff on a revenue basis, removing all those features which oppress the people and rob them of the chief part of the fruits of their industry ' An Illinois wOtriari; who wanted to rhirrrde part: as-' Mary, Qrteen of Scotrs, lobket! thWugh' the" Bible to ascertain how the i?hftrtc'ter wasxlressed. pifim9 Miscellaneous.' Northern Iowa amusements a sample from the Sioux City Journal; That was a cold joke the girls at the Depot Hotel played on a young man the other night, lhey nuea ins pillow-slip with snow. j "How does your brother get on in -v- v..i. t,.ji o . n lanier: ; eij-; vej.l indeed, ma'am, thank you. He's only there three months," and he's already beginning to speak the lan guage beautiful." : ; L, :' ' - "From what you ! know W ' him, would you believo-him un3er: oath?" "That depends upon circumstances. If he was so much intoxicated that he did not know what he was saying, I would; if not, I wouldn't." A Texas obituary: Another one of our friends has been taken away from us and has passed away for ever. Young Patterson, of the familiar name of "Charlie," has gone to his long home tightly bound in the grip of death. Said she: "How long are yon go ing to stand before that glass?" Said he: "Until I see how my ulster hangs. But that's just the way; a woman never takes any interest in her husband's dress after she's been married a year." "For two months," despairingly said Solomon Burch, of the State Journal, "for two months I have been trying to find out about this Pacific male! Whoever he is, he has made a heap o' fuss and got numer ous people into trouble." Tom Thumb lately advertised him self in a new way in Pittsburgh by engaging a well known champion in a public game of billiards at a hotel. The miniature General is said to be a very good player, having a tenden cy to "pocket himself." Young Mr. Sauermilch, of Penn sylvania, is an applicant for a cadet ship at West Point. It is melancholy to reflect that though he should de velope the military genius of a Han nibal, he can never represent the cream of the army. School Inspector, to urchin "Now Johnny, how many can you count?" Johnny "One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. In spector "Good, Johnny; go on." Johnny, after a moment's thought "Jack, queen, king, ace.' A lady semis us sends us some lines com- mencmg: "A Lircl is singing; in my heart, And asks that the' be published. If she takes our advice she will ring that bird's neck, cook it and serve it up on toast for some sick friend. Several passengers on the lower Mississippi were attracted by the al ligators basking in the sunshine. "Are they amphibious. Captain?" isked a looker on. "Amphibious, thunder!" answered the enthusiastic officer, "they'll eat a hog a minute The New York Commercial Adver tiser notes the fact that a Mrs. bine, of New Jersey, is living with her fourth husband, and says that "the other three must have gono off on a tangent." That may account for the first and third, but not for tho se cant. A Boston dramatic critic says of a gifted actress: She wore a handsome dress, and thereby hung a trail. Her subtile grace, flexible as the sin uosities of a morniug's mist, and yet thoroughly proportioned to the curves of the character, were most especially noticeable A young man in New York recently p-cked up an envelope containing 70,000 worth of bonds, which he returned to their owners, a firm of bankers. The latter had just had their circulars printed.offeringSl.000 reward for the missing bonds, but promptly cut down the reward to sioo. Among the peasantry in Russia the bride always presents a whip to tho" bridegroom. It is hung at the foot of the bed, and not nnfrequently used. Unfortunately, in the case of small men with big wives, the wrong person sometimes applies the whip. There is no custom in the world, young men, which can be a comfort to all of you. s An Irish soldier, pretending to dumbness, and: the surgeon of the regiment, after several attempts to restore him, declaring him incurable, was discharged. He, in a short time afterward, enlisted in another corps, and, being recognized by his old comrade, and questioned how he learned to speak, "By Patrick," re plied Paddy, "ten guineas would make any man spake." A Buckeye -journalist, dissatisled with the present stock of words in the English dictionary, has t.ikeu occasion to add another to our already copious language. "Pressgrams" is what he calls his thefts from other papers. The derivation of the mon strosity is unmistakable, but whether it has enough in it to commend it to general use remains to be "seen. ' It is old, but good. Iu early days, say ISoO, Lieutenant Derby, United States army, familiarly known as "Phcenix." took passage for San Di ego. Derby, advancing to Captain Bob Haley, asked the price of pass age, to which the answer came "Sixty-five dollars." Derby Captain Haley, what's the freight on lumber? (which was worth $100 per thousand feet.) Captain Fifty dollars per thousand. Derbv (who was on deck and a small mad Well, Captain, as the freight on lumber is- less than passenger rate, measure rhe, for I'm aboard. - - -" Since the tornado, Detroit women make a bee-line for home the moment the sun goes behind a cloud. - - COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA. The Tariff System. From the S. F. Examiner. , The topic of the tariff is thought by those who do not concern them selves with it to possess no interest to be dull and dreary, in the details of its discussion,- and difficult of comprehension by the common mind, whereas, in truth and in fact. it is an interesting and instructive subject for consideration, aud bv no means . necessarily abstruse. What is a tarill? Properly speaking, it is a schedule of rates, fixed by law, im posed upon certain articles import d mto th$ country from- a foreign do minion. The term "tariff" had its origin in this wise: There is a town in Spain, situated in the narrowest parts of the Straits of Gibraltar, on the southermost point of the king dom, which is named Tarifa, in hon or of a Berber chief, who landed there from Africa on a rcconnoisance before the conquest of Spain, by the Mahometan Moors in the 8th centu ry. The. Moors occupied part of Spain until the year of the discov ery of America, m 1-192, and it was in the joy of her heart at the fortu nate conquest to Granada, their last stronghold, , that Q teen Isabella pledged her jewels to aid the enter prise of Columbus. Ilio Moors built a castle at Tarifa which com manded the strait, aud during their domination in Spain compelled all vessels passing through the strait to stop and pay duties to them at such rates ns they dictated; and from this custom, thus and then originating, the word "tariff" passed into the En glish and continental languages. It has not, ns may be seen a very hon orable derivation, for these "duties" were nothing but blackmail levied on commerce. They were the equiv alent for no service rendered; the' conferred no benefits cn anybody save the robber-recipients of die mo ney; they were demauded and paid under compulsion; and they appro priated jast so much, without re turn, from the profits of the voj-nges of the vessels which passed inward and outward through the Straits. Though in its inception the tariff had a low and piratical origin, the experience of nations has demon strated the necessity of levying an external tax for the purpose of reve nue and incidentally, during the in fantile stage of manufacturing indus try in certain countries, of affording a just measure of encouragement to the growth of developed industries. There are two kinds of tariff--re ve nue and protective the oue is for the purpose of supplying the money or revenues necessary for the mainte nance of government; the other is imposed with the view of restricting the importation of foreign goods, in order to foster the production of sim ilar articles at home. Any tariff, un less it be professedly prohibitory, must be a source of revenue. ' Still, in a so-called protective tariff, the direct purpose is not reveuue, but partial prohibition. In their opera tion, the two kinds of tariffarc whol ly antagonistic. A duty imposed for the sole purpose of protection, in or der to be effective, necessarily dimin ishes the importation of the articles upon which it is placed, thereby di minishing the revenue derivable from them. A tariff for revenue seeks, on the contrary, as its primary purpose, to it? crease importations and consequ. ntly augment the pub lic revenue, its legitimate end, for it is obvious that the greater the quantity of importations the larger the addition to the receipt of cus toms. The tariff under which we are now suffering is a prr tective tar iff, constructed with an eye single to the protection cf certain native in dustries bv impairing and prohibit ing competition from a foreign field in the same branches. Probably there is nothing new in these remarks to our readers; but it is not easy to invent ideas on this subject. It is only by dwelling with more or less frequency, at judicious intervals, upon the topic of the tariff that"we can hope finally to reach the reason and iuapel the popular mind to ac tion in the direction of reform. We have said that the tariff, as at present established, is in the inter est of certain domestic manufactures and its benefits confined to a cer tain small seetion of our country. The leading interests protected by it have always been the iron-mongers of Pennsylvania and the cotton man ufacturers of' the - New England States. Every high tariff that we have had has been dictated and made by those States,, for the fostering of their own and exclusive industrial aggrandizement. They have had the protection for years of one hundred per cent, upon their, capital; and who are they and what are tho inter ests which have been compelled to pay tribute in order that this protec tion miffht be secured? They are the farmers in the West, extending even here to California, who are the greatest consumers of the protected fabrics. This protection of Eastern industries has cost our agricultu rists hundreds of millions of dollars. We are glad to observe that our peo ple, particularly the farmers, are be ginning to understand this question, whicli i3 really as simple a3 the al phabet. There is hardly a young farmer, who has cast his first ballot who is not opposed to the whole pro tective tariff policy, and tfbo is not in favor of as close an approximation to free-trade as the state of our reve nues will permit. The Democrats are a unit against it, and its friends are to be found entirely in t tie ranks of the Radical party whose very life blood is drawn from the veins' of Monopoly and Proscription.' When the iniquitous system' of robbing one section of the country f 6 r the bene fit of another was first "tlevised it was Claimed that it was onlya tenipdrary expedient;' -"that" our rnanufactures would heddtUt self-supporting,' and the tariff' reduced to revenue limits. Half a century has passed and, under a Radical Administration, we have the highest tariff that has ever op pressed us. Still the same cry is heard in the laud, that our manu fauturers would bo ruined, if the ex orbitant duties L:ow prevailing were lightened. So it Mould be at the end of another century. Avarice grows by what it feeds upon, and the demands of associated wealth in corporate hands are insatiable. It is said that if the tariff were repealed or radically modified the- farmer would bo injured, because those who ardngurged, in tho manufacture of iron, cotton, aud the implements of industry would all bo driven to the farm nud the field.' The statement is fallacious. If we had free trade the most of our manufacturers would still make a fair profit; and the com merce of the country would give em ployment to hundreds of thousands of men, who cannot now obtain it on account of the fact that the oppres sive duties imposed by the tariff have made the construction of ships impossible on equal terms with for eign naval constructors, and is rap idly excluding from the ocean the standard sheet of the Union. And again, if we had cheap iron, the country would be developed in every direction by railroads, inducing an increase of population, aud creating and strengthening a home m:irket. Ninety-nine hundredths of the peo ple would be benefited by the sub stitution of a free trade or revenue tarill' for the present odious and on erous system. Shall tho ninety-and-nine be sacrificed that the one may revel and rot ia luxury and indo- lenc Itf ore Kadical Frauds. Prof. Marsh, of Yale College, has addressed a letter to President Grant embodying his views on Indian af fairs, in which he presents certain Radical officials ijavery unfavorable light. Ho submits his statement upon the subject to Grat.t,in person, declining to give them to the Interior department alone for the following comt reasons: First, I have no confidence what ever in the sincerity of the Secretary of the Interior, or the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, when they publicly announce their wish and determina tion to correct abuses iu Indian man agement, because I have reason to know that they have long been aware of these abuses anil have made no sincere effort to reform them. Seeond, In all my intercourse with these two officials, their object has manifestly been to find out not so -much what the frauds real y were as the extent of my information con cerning them, so as to prevent by every means in their power all r-ub iieity or exposure of them. liurd, Evidence now in my pos session reflects unfavorably on lioth Secretary Delano and Commissioner Smith.' For theso reasons I have thought it best to lay before yon, to whom in accordance with my prom ise to Red Cloud I make tho first communication, the accompanying statement in detail, in full confidence that the evidence presented will meet the consideration it demands. In the statements which accom pany the letter to Grant, Professor Marsh sets forth tho results of his investigations into t ie affairs of the Red Cloud agency, the largest and most important iu the West. These results clearly indicate both misman agement and fraud, especially in the following particulars: First, The agent, J. J. Saville, is wholly unfitted for his position, and guilty of gross frauds upon tho In dians in his charge. Second, The number of Indians at this agency has been systematically overstated", for purposes which can only result in fraud. Third, The last issue of annuity goods which I witnessed was a sus picious transaction, and in part . at least fraudulent. Fourth, The beef-cattle given to the Indians have been very inferior, owing to systematic frauds practised by the agents aud beef contractors. Fifth, The pork issued to the In dians during my visit was not suita ble for human fare. Sixth, The flour was very inferior, and evidence of fraud in this article is conclusive.--- - Seventh, The tobacco I observed was rotten and of little or no use to the Indians. 'Eighth, In consequence of fraud and mismanagement, the Indians suf fered greatly the past winter for want of food and clothing. Niuth, The contract for freight from Cheyenne to Red Cloud agency va fraudulent, as .the true distance is 145 miles, while. the contractor was paid for 212 miles. I would especially call attention to the evidence of fraud in beef-cattle, as presented in the accompanying statement. This subject I investi gated with great care, as beef is the principal article of food of the Sioux Indians, and the frauds I observed caused great suffering among them, as well as great pecuniary loss to the Government. . The Detroit Free Press is n wicked paper. " It says: The philanthropists subscribe liberally to. the fund tor a ten-acre idiotic 'asylum in Califor nia. The solicitor goes up to a phil anthropist and savs. "How do you do, my good man?"". 'Then he reads the California Independent platform to him, and, the philanthropist with an "Ah! Usee, I see," cheerfully puts down ?oOO. ' . . - The Vassar College girls got away with, -138-, quarts of; strawberries .at sup-per time, to say nothing of the cold ham lett'over for dinner. And then they got out and jumped cigtit--foot ditches." - ' ' Reform Failures. The extravagance and corruption pravalent in the Government lias been fostered and encoured by tho' Radical leaders. and managers. Some of the most astounding exposures are made occasionally, and then we hava profuse promises of reform. Tho cry goes .forth "Keep us in power and we won't do so any more.; But' none of these forced" promises are" fulfilled. The number of office-hold ers are not diminished. The people still support eighty thousand of these creatures on big ' salaries, Grant heading the list with lifty thousand a-year, double the sum. paid toW'aslir lugtou or Jehoison or Lincoln. A few weeks ago there was a move ment ia favor of breaking up the' "whisky ring." But it was only a" spasm. Too many men of promi nence were connected with thefrauds. nd hence tho order to "halt was sent forth from the President him self. We hear no more of Whisky Reform. The "ring" goes on as prosperous as ever, and honest man ufacturers continue to be swindled and cheated, and the public revenue's defrauded. Great cheating was fliscovered in the post-oliico department: "straw- bidding," for mail contracts, was the onler ot the day, and it was found that tiie Government was losing in this manner millions of dollars annu ally. Another spasmodic movement was mane to stop this business, and to punish some -of the swindlers. But the whole thing has ended in smoiie. J.110 JNew XorJi Junes de plores tho corruption in the post- Ljcc department and shows how tha Government is defrauded by con tractors as follows: "The other day, says tha editor, we were told that the new device for certified checks instead of bonds. adopted by tho Government as secur ities against what is known as straw- bids, had proved a failure. The low est bidder deposits his certified check witaout hesitation, but after com mencing the service he has been illowed to withdraw it. and frequent ly does so, and then fails to go on with his contract. The department is then left in just the predicament it used to be ia when it took worth less bonds. The mail must be car ried, aud the Postmaster-General must contract with somebody. This is just what the old contractor ba been arranging for, and he then gets iiis own terms. And in this way, often in spite of the utmost vigilance of the department, year after '"year millions of dollars go into the pockets of contractors that ought to remain in the treasury. If it were possible to get the mail service done for what it is really worth, it is very probable that the post-office department would be self-supporting instead of as now, taking from the treasury many mil lions more than it returns to it." There has been another spasmodic effort to reform . tho custom-house abuses at. New lork, remarks the Albany Artus. Goods to the amount of millions upon millions of dollars have been smuggled, through by offi cials of prominence. By this sort of crime the tax-payers are not only defrauded, but the business of the country is deranged. Scoundrels and perjurers can afford to undersell honest merchants who paj' the dutie3 required by laws of Congress. And so wo go from bad to worse. The Radical part 3' has made all sorts of pledges with regard to the curren cy and specie j'ayments, none of which have been redeemed. Can the people continue to trust a party with such a corrupt record? The California Wiikat Fleet. During the harvest year of 1874-5, ending July 1st, 2G3 cargoes of grain were sent out from the State. Of these 11G were loaded at San Fran cisco, bis at Oakland, C2 at South Yallt-jo, and -1 at as many other places. The cargoes aggregated 8, 711, 2S1 centals of wheat, valued at 813,817,001. Included in the above, reduced to wheat bulk and value; were 186,555 barrels of flour. Of the vessels carrying ft way these bread stuffs, 17'J were Bn't:sh,'('2 American, 12 French, 8 German, 1 .Austrian, 1 Norwegian and 2 Peruvian. Tun Coming Harvest. The Chi cago Times publishes reports from over nine hundred cqunties all ' over the country, showing the progress of the harvest and tho condition of the growing grain. The reports show that the prospects are unusually good in all parts of the country, and that there will be a full crop of the principal grain in till sections and a very large yield in niauy. .The report-embraces the entire country east of the Rocky Mountains, only excluding the States or Texas. Flor ida and North and South Carolina. - Politically Dead. The New York Graphic is of the opinion that but for that unfortunate Credit Mo-bilic-r affair which exploded n couple of 3-ears ago, doing such fatal damage to political reputations, Mr. Schuyler Colfax would head the Presidential list, and undoubtedly be the coming man; but lie is now ' as 'politically dead as any .of the fossils of Hall's geological collection." , .'Very stern parent" indeed "Come here, "sir! 'What is this' complaint the school-master has against you ? Much injured youth "It's just no thing at all. . Yon see Jemmy Hughe bent a pin, and I only just left it on the teacher's chair for him to look at', and he came in - without his specks" onr tind Bit right down on tbe pin; and now' he wants to blame vaA fdrifc.-' Z. V , . i " .T :rut - The exercise that yonrgJafliesr art most partial to taking the heir - - 0 O 0 O o G 0 0 O G o o O o o r k . ti; o o 3 o 1 o i H 1 o o o c G O o O O G O G .-' J f o v; r J