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Si 1 - 'O o o o 'o o o DEVOTED TO POLITICS, NEWS, LITERATURE; AND THE BEST INTERESTS OF, OREGON, O o VOL. 9. OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, J875. NO. 46. ' O 11 -- L ' r ' ' r -r - - 0 c o o o c 0 1 TEP.PRiSE. LOCAL DtfSRATIC NEWSPAPER K O It THE Farmer, Basinrss Mm, & Family Circle. ISSUEVERY FRIDAY. A.. NOLTNER, EDITOR 4 XV PUBLISHER. orFICIAL PAI2 FOE CLACKAMAS CO. OKFICK In Ksterprisk Buildln;. one door aoutn ol ..m.mjiuu Nji sonic Hi Term of JUerlption t Single Copy Onj Year. In Advance..... Six ilonths " Termbf Advertising t Transient aUvSf is-ments. including all lsal notices, square of twelve line one w?k ? For each subs-quent insTtion... One Column, o-ie year naif " " " O-nrter" Business Card, 1 square, one year .$2.50 . 1.50 2.50 1.00 120.00 liO.OO 40.00 12.00 s o ciety xo ncEs. -- '- - - - - - - - OKKCOV I.OPGIi NO. 3, I. I. O. I'., Meet: even- Thursday 4 e veiling at 7'i ? 'clock, in the UjSfcl oil I If.. 11 l.iir i-jy'VEaa?. street. MiMnljM-s of the Or der arc invite I to attend. I'.y order uunnt'CAj i:;ui:i: i.oih;ts . 3. I. O. O. l, Meets on the Second and Fourth Tues-S dav evening'' each month, at 7 'i i.'. l.u k iii the Odd Fellows' 1 1. ill Members of tho Decree ro invited to attend. Mt;i. to.ii ah i.)ix;i: no. l. a.i. A A. M., IIol.ls its rejjolar com- A 20t.Ii of Saptvwr. Urethren in standing aro invited to attend. 15v order of W. M. i7o. r.Vl.I.S IINC.VMI'MKNT XO.4 O. V., Meets nt Odd Fellows' I rail on the First and Third Tues . .r .. ...I. in, nth F'-itriarchs in 'ijood stan ling are invited to attend. It US I .V R & S C A K I S. A. J. IIOVKK. M. D. J. W. N ORRIS, M. D. JIOVK1I te sTOIJRIS, i'uvsicius axi) srntJTooNs, ej-i fll l'j iir? in Charman's Trick, M iin strv t It. 11 vr's r f t t of cliif stai: :,i-ni"-Third str-it. at str-'ct, tf 5 PARKER, Ihv.ic'iiUii Ot'rU'K Ni t to C liarmasi H P. M.'i ' '.ie -Os V. Fish's st on?. Main St. c on tiit'isiile. Eat; Th-r Irw-tor P -nsions, Vr r v-i in m:lt ion i-'XC 'V-t Hl'n- ni.il" a-i 1 "I'-rio-lical") can o.i mau" un r.it ?;-ci il orJ -rs trom the I'.Mioion Mir.'au V'a:'iii:iton. 1. '. DH..I01LN WKLQH DEfiTIST, OK KICK IN' OltKtiOX CITY, OHEBOX. lliy.,, t V. Price liilir.r Vonnty Oi-lrri. Pel- O. ATHEY, ATTOilNEY AND COINSE LCU-AT-LAW, Oregon City, Oregon. c. ... ..n u-.n t lonttinz Money. oiliii Front ro-Mii in Enterprise biilld- ,n liiiy-Jwu f. 1 1 U E A T CATTORNEY-AT-LAW: 0RE30H CITY, OREGON. t7"OKKICE Charman's brick. Main t. 5marlS72 Af. JOHNSON & McCOWN ATTOHN'EVS AM) COUNSELORS AT-LAW Oregon Gity, Oroson. jrWill practice in all the Courts of the Stat. Special attention, given to cases in tho IT. S. Und Oilier at Oregon City. 3airlH72-tf. T. BARIN attojIney-at-law, OR EG OX CITY, : : OR EG OX. OFFICE Over trcet. Tope's Tin Store, Main 21marT:Mf. W H. UIGHFIELI). Main Strcri, Orrson City, Orcpn. TV andVxeth Thomas' Weight Clocks : all or wmcu 1 - - ' " 1 ' l'l ' ' 'I' . . 4 I - -n..nuirin!ridone on snort notice, ana thankful for pt patronage JOIVl 31. "At"., TWTHmTF.RT-n DEALER lEM) in nooks. Stationery. i-vriu-- ZWZ. ery. etc., m. Oregon City, Orejron. irAt tho Post Ofllci side. Main stgeet, east REWIOVAL. ALFRED KINNEY, M. D., SURGEON, HAS TtF.NOVED HIS OFFICE AND Residence to the double house. X. W. Corner ef Alder and Kait Park street, Portland. Oregon, where he can be found at all hours, day and niffbt. May 6, 1375 an 3 $5 10 t Per Day at home. Trtns Uebly G. STIXSOK Co., Portland. Me THE EH iiiiinieatioiis In the rirst and V-- T.iird S ittird jls in each month, at" o'clock fi7ilthc20th ofSp. teiiilx-r tothfi'Hh of March ; ami 7 o'clock from TTio 20th of March to the troot 1 8x Statesmen Badly Dressed. Andy Johnson's style Clarkkson ( Potter a Well-Dressed ManOld PolandSam Cox Fernando ood's Iijjnlficl Style. From the Chicago Times. Andy Johnson was of the old school style of politician of some twenty years ago, with but one modern concession, and that was that the coat was a frock in stead of a swallow-tail. His style of dress, the conventional one of the 'American gentleman" of the years gone by, consisted of a shiny black broadcloth coat and trousers, with & vest of deep black velvet. There are but few of the Congressmen of the present day that wear this style of dress, but take them as a class, probably they are as badly dressed a set of men as one can find any where in the country. Throughout Congres there are many men who make it a point of dressing in the most eccentric pos sible manner. Luke Poland of Ver mont was one of the most eccentric dressers in the House. He used to always move about in a coat of blue adorned with small dinner plates of brass buttons. His vest was gener ally white, and opened so as to dis play a wild expanse of dainty milled shirk bosom, under whose shades gleamed ht-re and there tiny diamond buttons. The old man never in his life passed a pierglass without tak ing a good square look at himself. Two of the beat dressed men iu Con gress are Clarkson Potter of Xew York iu the House, and in the Sen ate Gen. IJnrnside. Clarkson Potter has rather overdone the matter in too closely adhering to the. Koglsh style of dressing. His whiskers are cat after the English fashion, and he affects the Jvifilifh stylo of pronoun ciation. Yet there are but few men in the House who are his equals in ability and capacity for work. Gen. Barnside, the best dresser in the Senate, affects the undress military style, and in his peculiar cravats. waistcoats, and origin ll colors never fails to attract more than ordinary notice. He was once a tailor in his early days, and never neglected an opportunity oliored by an evening session to put ou full dress-suit. At tired in tins society splendor, Am brose loves to stand about the door ways of the Senate Chamber and al low the public to drink in the fall beauties of his noble proportions. Among tho worst dressed men in ther branch of Congress is S.immy Cox. He always wears a bob-tail sne'.t co;t, and a bobhtil sack coat never fails to damn a little man. His clothes would not brin over i?7 50 in any auction store in the country. Lhere was onlv one man in the last House who was a worse dresser than Sammy Cox, and that was Crntch- hehl of lennessee. lrntciineld is a rough mountaineer, who never wore a collar or soaveu niiusei: oitener thau once a week. Flannigan, in the Senate, used to dress in a very peculiar manner when he was on deck as a Texas statesman. -V shad-be'lii'd co.it blue or brown, ornamented witl bone or brass buttons, a plaid wtdsi coat, and nankeon-colored trousers, over which hung a three-pound gold chain, made up a costume sufficient Iv striking. One of the most ungainly-looking men that ever stood on end in Con Kress is Louhridge of Iowa. He looks as if he was whittled out of very knotty wood with a very dull knife, and stalks about morning, noon and night, in a black suit, the coat a swallow-tail, with a waist-coat worn open and- low, Uispla-ing a tumbled shirt that is ever struggling arduously to cret above his ears. Lut trell of California was another badly dressed man. He always wore a rough array suit, that looked as some day it had rained clothing, anti bv chance a few articles had clang to him. After a time Luttrell don ned one day a Prince Albert coat buttoned snugly across his broa breast. His tronsers were a neat conventional gray. His paper col lar had to disappear above a pur ple stock. onder of wonders! this California Granger held also a dainty buttonhole boquet in his coat. Be hold the intlaence of lovely woman! the fair creature who tamed the Granger Luttrell is now in the mint in San Francisco, possibly continu ing her good work of polishing down the crudities of her Congressional lover. The double- breasted frock coat has grown in favor with the better order of Congressmen during the last few years. The beauty of the coat is that when it is closely but toned it gives a man a very compact appearance that never fails to im press a closelj'-dressed crowd. There is a dignity about a closely buttoned double-breasted frock coat that can be found in no other article of a man's wardrobe. Fernando Wood would lose nine-tenths of his impres sive dignity were he to put on a sack coat and lounge about in a way as sumed by some of his Western breth ern. He always wears a long black coat that buttons tightly np to his throat. He looks as if he were melt ed down every night, and run into his clothes every morning. He is always easy in manners, however, and has not the mannerism of Clark son Potter, the best dressed man in the Honse. Mr. Speaker Blaine, affects the double-breasted frock. He general ly wears two buttons buttoned, and allow the rest of his coat to roll so as to show a very neat shirt. Far rel of Chicago ;wears the double breasted frock, generally in some brown cloth. ' He ' rarely "if "ever but tons it.' r ' ' There nr iieculiar(garmerj,ts woxji so original m style that yon cannot help wondering at the genius of tde j tailor who devised them, or at the tasto of the wearer. Kasson of Iowa was the most notieeahlo t class last winter. He appeared upon all occasions in a little "bunt" look ing uiue reeflmg jacket, until his very presence, from its absurd mon otone, became appalling. He visited Washington this summer, and as he did not wear the jacket, oat of re spect to a thermometer then waltz ing up above 100 degrees, his best friends passed him upon the streets wimout Knowing mm. Of the hats worn bv the states men of the period, the rakish slouch nearly always have tho preference. The Western. and South rn members nearly all wear this villainous look ing slouch. Ben Butler crenerallv wears the worst hat of any of his com rades. The Administration. What Orejfon Radical Rndorae. An exchange says that the Presi dent (which means the Administra tion in Oregon politics) affects great virtue all of a sudden about the pros ecution of the St. Louis "Whisky Ring," for the protection of which he is more responsible than any liv ing man. The "ring" furnishes a large share of the money to aid his re-election, and has contribute ! heav ily for other objects in which he is personally interested. Its influence at the White House has been often and openly illustrated in a manner to cause the greatest scandal. When Mr. Bristow directed the supervisors and agents of the internal revenue to be changed, in order to break up a corrupt combination known to exist between them and the manufacturers of illicit whisky, Supervisor McDonald, chief of the St. Louis "ring." went to Washing ton with a fine span of horses as a present, and got that order revoked by the President's own hand, without a word of conference with the Secre tary of the Treasury. McDonald could not restrain his jov over this triumph, and he telegraphed to his confederate Joyce, who like himself is now under indictment: "The goose hangs high. I rode out with the President to-day." To gull the public now, Grant en dorses a letter to Bristow with this ardent exhortation: "Let no guilty man escape if it can be avoided." G rant's practice and this profession are very wide apart; for when Hodge was convicted of stealing half a mil lion from the treasury, right under the shadow of the White House, he let that "guilty man escape" with a pardon, and reinstated him in the fellowship of his associate thieves of the Washington "ring." So, too, he has done with a host of mail robbers, forgers, defaulters, co inteifeiters, and other third-term patriots, whose services were needed to pack conven tions and to jnake platforms of Rad ical principles It comes wish a singular grace from Grant to say to the Secretary of the reasury "No personal consideration should tand in the way ol performing a public duty." Since the first days of June, re marks the New Y'ork Sttu, he has been established at Long Branch, seeking personal pleasure and amuse ment only, to the utter neglect of every public duty, and setting an example which has done as mncn as anything else to demoralize the civil service. By indecent iruportnnity and the subserviency of a corrupt Congress, his pay was doubled, with perquisites heretofore wholly un known, which have made the salary almost clear profit to him. Instead of recognizing this enor mous increase by some token of re sjject for his great trust, and at least a passing exhibition of fidelity to its obligations, he has since then been more reckless than ever, and more disdainful of public opinion and common decency. The extraordinary spectacle is presented of the Presi dent and every member of his Cabi net junketing about the country and exhibiting themselves like a travel ling menagerie at clam-bakes and receptions, while the plunderers are holding high revel in the depart ments at Washington. The diplomatic corps, finding the head of the Government absent, the Secretary of State absent, and no re responsible official present to deal with, have all quit the capital, and have probably written home that this is a government of clerks and imbe ciles. It is not at all surprising that enlightened diplomatists should seek to avoid the mission to the United States, as they have done of late years. With vulgarity and venality at the White House and its social surround ings, offending all decency when Grant and his shoddy court are at Washington for six or seven months of the year, and with his underlings to govern during his prolonged ab sences, the life there to people of culture and refinement must be hard to endure. There is comfort in know ing that eighteen months more will put an end to this national disgrace, and restore honor and propriety to the high places now stained and de graded by Grantism. Newspapers. There is no book so cheap as a newspaper, none so Interesting, because it consists of a variety measured out in suitable pro portions as to time and quality. Be ing new every week or day, it invites to a habit of reading, and affords an easy and agreeable mode of acquir ing knowledge,' so essential to , the welfare of ,he, individal and the community.. It causes man v an hour sperifc M fdienessrftn4 COURTESY OF UNIVERSITY to pass awav meif in-v i-"-whien ' x&nld ot&erwisa " have ; been mischief. : Thomas Jefferson.' Some Interestlmjr Recollections or the Great Statesman. From Prof. Geo. Long's Letter. A few days after my arrival at tho University of Virginia, I walked up to Monticello to see Mr. Jefferson. I made m3rself known to his servant, and was soon introduced into his great room. In a few minutes a tall, dignified old man entered, and after looking at me a moment, said: "Are you the new professor of ancient lan guages?" I replied that I was. He observed, "iou are very young, to which I observed that I would grow older. He smiled and said that was true.' lie was evidently somewhat startled at my youthful appearance, and I could plainly see that he was disappointed. We fell to talking and I stayed to dine with him. He was grave and rather cold in his manner, but he was. very polite, and I was pleased with his simple Virginian dress, and his conversation .free from all affectation. I remember this in terview as if it took place yesterday. Daring my solitary residence be fore the University opened I visited Monticello several times, and occa sionally passed the night there. I thought that Mr. Jefferson became better satisfied with the boy profes sor, and we talked on all subjects. He saw that I took great interest in the geography of America, and in the story of the Revolution, and he told me much about it, but in a very modest way as to himself. He show ed me the original draft of the Dec laration of Independence, and he could clearly see that I was in habits, as I have always been and still am, a man who preferred plain republican institutions to the outward show and splender of European knigdoms when I say republican institutions. I mean genuine republican, for a Re public may have the name and very little besides that I value. I often saw Mr. Jefferson between this time and his death.'' When he came on his horse to the University, he generally called on me. His thoughts were always about this place of education, of which ho was really the founder; and though the first few years of the University were not quite satisfactory, he confidently looked forward to the future, and to the advantage which the State would derive from the young men who were educated in the University of Vir ginia. I remember well a long conversa tion which I once had with Mr. Jef ferson cm George Washington. He spoke of him freely and generously, as of a man of great and noble char acter. Mr. Tucker, in his life of Jefferson, has given the character of Washington as Jefferson wrote it, and it is, perhaps, certain that the character was written at the time when Jefferson spoke of Washington to me, though ho told me more than the written" character contains, but nothing that is contradictory to it. The character is exceedingly well written, and it proves that as a mere writer Jefferson might have excelled most men of his day. I discovered that Mr. Jefferson was well acquainted with Polybius, who is not a good writer, but a mau of excellent senso and tho soundest judgment. The last time I saw Mr. Jefferson, when he was suffering from a com plaint which caused his death, he was reading Pliny's letters, and we had a conversation about a passage. A few weeks after, when I was at the Sweet Springs during the summer vacation, I heard of his death. There was much foolish display in Virginia, and some extravagant bombastic ora tions. Those who had more sense showed their feelings in another way. The man who had done so much for Virginia and the United States was honored for his service, for his tal ents, and for his grand and simple character, lie ought to be revered by all wno enjoy the advantages of being educated in his University, and ever remembered as one of the great men whom Virginia has pro duced. His great deeds are recorded on the epitaph which he wrote for his own tomb. Don't Advertise. Don't do it. Don't advertise your business; it's paying out money to accommodate other people; if they want to buy your goods, let them hunt 3'on up. Don't advertise, for it gets your name abroad, and you are apt to be flooded with circulars from business houses, and to be bored with drum mers from wholesale establishments all of which also results in solicitirg your order for new goods, and money to pay for them, wnicu is very an noying to one of a dyspeptic temper anient. Don't advertise, for it brings peo ple in from the country, (country folks, you know, are of an enquiring turn of mind) and tney will ask yon many astonishing questions about prices; try your temper with show ing them goods, and even vex you with the request to tie them up which puts von to the' additional trouble of buying more. Don't advertise, it gives people abroad a knowledge, of your town, and thev come and settle in it; it will grow and other business will be induced to come in and thus inci ease your competition. r In short, if you would have a quiet town not too large; if you would not be harrassed by multitudinous cares and perplexities of ; business; if you would avoid being bothered with paying for and losing .time to read a great cumbersome . newspaper, just remain quiet; don t let the people know five miles away where you are. nor what you are doing 'and yOu will be severely let alond' to" enjoy the bliss of undistnrbedireptT r: .1 BANCROFT LIBRARY, OF CALIFORNIA, Fortunes in Congress. From the San Francisco Examiner. One of the most startling facts con nected with the history of legislation during the -last fourteen years . of Radical rule in Congress, is tho great number of fortunes acquired by mem bers of the Senate and House of Rep resentatives, who went to Washing ton poor, glad to receive the pay as means of subsistence. JYlostoi tnem were mereH' professional politicians, and had no other business to improve their material condition. , There is but one possible explana tion, remarks the New York Suri, for this sudden acquisition of wealth, and it is to be found in the enormous grants of public land to railroad corporations: immense subsidies of money in various forms; special leg islation for the creation of huge mon opolies; the passage of fraudulent claims; great appropriations for cor cupt "rings;" Credit Mobilier job bery; Pacihc Mail stock pools, and other methods, by which the treas ury was robbed and the people .were crushed down with ruinous taxation. Chairmanships and places on the leading committees which control the - tariff, banking and currency, public lands, judiciary, appropria tions, Pacific railroads, post-ollice, army, navy, claims, patents, District of Columbia, and others of less im portance, but still available for venal uses, were not sought lor the honor they conferred, but almost solely for the profits to be derived from an abuse of their trusts. They became objects of bargain and sale, of partisan arrangements and of caucus spoils. Presidents, and directors, and stockholders of banks, railroads and other corpora tions, not only shaped the legislation affecting their own interests, through the committee over which they pie sided and held in hand usually by a majority of three-fourths, but they openly advocated and voted for these schemes, in defiance of all parlia mentary morality and decency. Ihe Credit Mobilier investigation revealed the system of rascality which prevailed in Congress. Astounding as it was, by exposing the shameless venality of the most accepted Repub lican leaders, who preached piety and lectured on morality 'while in the very act of stealing, it deserves to rank as a mere trifle compared with the wholesale spoliations in other directions, which as yet have only been partially brought to light. According to the Springfield Ji- pullican, ex-Speaker Ulaine appears the list of tax Maine, to the the third highest on payers in Augusta, extent of 81.0S5. in a city where tax ation and assessments are low. He is also a very large property-holder in Pennsylvania, and owns a fine house iu Washington, which is kept up on a costly scale. While he swore vigorously betore the credit Mobilier Committee to having no in terest in that particular job, Mr. Blaine admitted that he had $30,000 invested in the Sioux City road, which was really a branch of the great concern, and managed by some of the same men, and with the same seven principals. Mr. Blaine went to Congress twelve years ago, poor, like most of Ins as sociates. He has received no inher itance and been engaged in no busi ness outside of politics. Yet in this short period of time he has grown to wealth, lives like a prince of the blood, and even aspires to be Presi dent. He illustrates the system at one end of tho Capitol which John Sherman does at the other, who has become a millionaire by pulling the wires of legislation. No wonder they all looked sad' and felt badly when the people revolted last year and left them out in the cold. Easy Work and Plenty of run. Our well-paid rulers are taking the world easy and making light of the distress. The President, with every member of the Cabinet, and many of the heads of bureaus and and chiefs of divisions, to say noth ing of a multitude of subordinates, was absent from Washington at the last accounts. Some of these offi cials have not been on duty for over two mnths, though they have punc tually drawn their full salaries for every hour of this prolonged ab sence. They aro scattered in all direc tions in and out of the country. Some aro regularly established at the sea-side, liko Grant at Long Branch; others are traveling in Eu rope, others in California, others in New England, and' others in Cana da. All of them are "bent on pleas ure and amusement, without the least concern for their obligations to the public. Until Grant became President, re marks the New Y'ork Sun, no such loose and indefensible practice as this is was ever known, or would have been tolerated, lie set the ex ample, and therefore could not re buke those who followed it. To this cause may be ascribed much of the corruption and stealing which made the present Administration excep tionally odious. Every facility has been offered to venal and weak employes in the De partments to abuse their trusts, and to fill their pockets dishonestly. ;iney nave noi iaiiea to improve these opportunities, as the frequent thefts, collusion with "rings" and scandalous jobbery, which are noto rious, attest. Ihe want of supervi sion and of strict accountability ; has opened the door of fraud, and it will not be closed until every vestige of Lrrantism is expelled from the pub lie service. . The assessment of Boston, just compierea, nxes the total valuation f 'TM 1 &Vj3 - X ' A of 'real and personal propertv at - Know-Nothingism. - The rise and progress of Know Nothingism is thus given by the Cincinnati Enquirer, in reply to a correspondent who desires informa tion on the subject: The principles of the Know-Nothing party were the disfranchisement of all foreign born persons from hold ing office; also the exclusion of all native born Catholics from that dis tinction. It was both a nativistic and religions test. It also favored the extension of tho naturalization law from five to ' twenty-one years. That was not new. The enemies of the Democratic party were in power in 1798. They repealed the five year naturalization law. They substituted for it a fourteen year enactment. It was repealed when the Democracy came in under the administration of Thomas Jefferson in 1808. The five year proviso was put back. In those anti-Democratic days a law was pass ed which authorized the President of the United States to order from our shores any alien whom he might deem dangerous to its security. Thus every foreign born person was to stay subject to the sovereign will and pleasure of the President of the United States. This was -known as the celebrated "Alien Law" of the John Adams (Federalist) administra tion. In 1814 the organization was revived. The churches attended by foreigners and Catholics were burned by a mob in Philadelphia. The for eigners, Protestants and Catholics were bitterly incensed. They voted to a man for James K. Polk for President of the United States in 1S1I. They defeated Henry Clay, who otherwise would have been cho sen as tho Whig rominee. In 1854 this party, whose fundamental organ ization was against all foreign born Protestants and native Catholics, was renewed. It was the meeting of se cret, oath-bound lodges. For a time it swept tho country. The Democ racy opposed it, and soon exposed its errors and its follies. The matter was dropped until to-day, when there is another secret society in vogue, to which most of the leading Rejjub lican managers belong, whoso pur pose is to extend the period of the naturalization laws, and to proscribe all foreign born Protestants, Hebrews and Catholics, as well as the native born of the last denomination. The Dead of a Few Years Fast. The very sudden death of ex-President Johnson calls to the mind the great number of men conspicuous or eminent in public life, who have died wvthin the few years past, or since the civil war. Foremost of all was the President who lost his life at the hands of the assassin, an event next to the civil war, and which gave knaves and demagogues an excuse for adding to its terrors and burdens. At the same hour came the attempt ed assasination of the Secretary of State, who received a shock which no doubt hurried his death. Of Mr. Lincoln's first official associates Seward, Chase, Fessenden, Stan ton, Smith and Bates, all effective men in their day, none survive. Among the Senators of that period, were Johu P. Hale, Sumner, Dixon of Connecticut, botli of the able men from Vermont, Collamar and Foot; "Jim Lane" Frank Blair and Breck inridge, all gone now; and of the dead Representatives we recall Thad eus Stevens, the leader of the House, Henry Winter Davis, Samuel Hoop er and James Brooks of New Y'ork; Thomas, who won the most complete victory of the war, and Farragut, the Nelson of the Navy, and Frank Blair who saved Missouri. After the French Revolution, it was said the stamina of the people had visibly suffered the young as well as the old succumbed more quickly to the assaults of disease and to ordinary trials, and so the civil war told on the nerves and the life forces of the generation which en countered its responsibilities. Not an ex-President of the United States is now alive. Good tor "Jack." We are in re ceipt of a letter from Mr. John E. Sheppard, commonly and familiarly known here as "Jack" Sheppard, who is now in San Francisco laboring earnestly and indefatigably in the in terest of the Immigration Commis sion of Oregon. "Jack" was ap pointed last fall bv the commission as resident agent in Saa Francisco to circulate pampLlets, papers, etc., concerning our young State among the immigrants as soon as they ar- 1 1 1 -I m . rive at caiuand lrom the East, and by personal representations iuduce them to cast their lot in Oregoi We are informed by persons who nave recently arrived frnm S:m Pmn cisco that Mr. Sheppard is working wiin an possiDie energy to turn the constant tide of immirrration vhieli is passing westward, in the direction of this State, and that ho is doing good service for Oregon. How well he is succeeding in tin's food work may be inferred from the following paragrapu which, appears in the. - . Alta of a recent date. A correspond out writing to that journal says: "But here, amidst our own commun ity, tho office of the State Board of Immigration for Oregon, 504 Battery street, now has its busy emissaries going up and down , the highways of travel. With flaming hand bills and frantic appeals they frequent immi grant haunts and' taverns, docks and depots all over town, and entice away great numbers, as the crowded steer age of every Portland steamer will &ttestJ3uUetin-,, .... .v Tisctcre of Ibost. Eh Perkins has given up tryingto be a humor ist and is writing letters irom Sara toga Springs to the New,. Jork, Mark Twain's Wish. The Union Democrat. Q q Sam Clemens, while a resident of Jackass Hill, in this county, became imbued with the idea tha't his fur ther existence depended upon a sight of the Big Trees, so one day he start ed, accompanied by his mining part ner. After passing Murphy's, the Iay of the country" became unfa miliar to the travelers and as night closed upon them they came to the conclusion that they were not only lost but that the prospects for food and shelter for the night were as slim as they could be. They had followed a wood road to the summit of a chapparal crowned hill and did not know which way to tnrn to-'reach tho roatl again. After floundering around in the chemisal and tar weed for an hour or mre, they reached a road near an apparently deserted house. Their halloos soon brought around them as vicious a pack of dogs as ever haunted the canine in fested streets of Constantinople. They numbered toward fifty, and not one of them was dumb. They dashed at Sam and his companion with mur derous fury compelling them both to seek a trembling resting place on the fence. The howls of the dogs finally brought about twenty of ti:eir mas ters from the honse and these men must have smiled in the twilight when their eyes fell upon Clemens and his friend clinging with heel and hand to the top rail of the fence sur rounded by the hungry snapping dogs. They proved to be Italians who did not understand a word of English. Then and not until then did Clemens lose his temper. He swore at himself .for getting into the scrape. He cursed his companion for not knowing the road. He anath ematized the Italians for coming to the country before they had mastered the English language. He profanely alluded to thecgap in his early edu cation that had not been filled in with the soft melodious tongue of Italy, winding up his remarks with a glance of concentrated hate at the pack of yelping dogs beneath him, as he turned to his companion and in that inimitably lazy drawl so peculiar to him said: "Do you know Jim if I might at this moment ask a favor of Providence after my familiarity with his name, if it was to be the last yearning desire of my heart I would ask that I might be converted into a ton of prime beef, loaded w ith strych nine, and dumped Gamougtd)at gang of curs. I'd die contented after that." Narrow Escape. The Baker City" Ilerahl of las Sat urday savs: "Last Tuesday evening about 4 o'clock, Mr. Thomas Cos- grove was caved in upon while at workin the main shaft of the Jamei Gordon mine, and was carried down with the debris perpendicularly about 75 feet, then down aa incline of 40 feet. His fc-llow-workman af ter the accident went down and at tempted to rescue him, and found him buried beneath heavy timbers. rock and dirt. He managed to un cover his head and to his surprise and delight found that life was not extinct. Being unable to rescue him alone,-and the dirt continuing to fall at intervals from above, he reascend- ed and came to town for assistance. The party from town were inexperi- 1 7 -, , . eutcu in unuergrounti worK, ana could do very little towards rescuing tue man. a couple of men started w down, but were driven back by the tnreatening aspect of falling stones and dirt. All this time the voice of Cosgrove could be heard, though not able to tell what he said. By this lime some experienced miners had; arrived from the Virtne mine, and a con pie of brave men descended with stout hearts. They found that great -danger threatened them, as they could now and then hear the omni ous thud of falling debris from above. They fixed some timbers and plank so as to protect him as much as possible from the weight of dirt, and reascended. They were none too soon, for no sooner had they gained the top than a terrible rumbling and crashing was heard within, shaking the ground for a distance around. All hope was gone. Nevertheless something must be done. Teams were dispatched from town with lumber and tools for timbering the caving portion of the shaft. With stout hearts and will ing hands the timbers were placed in and made secure. After anxious ly working till about 7 o'clock Fri day morning Mr. Cosgrove Was res cued and tirought to the surface, having been imprisioned in the very jaws of death for 15 hours. To the astonishment of every one only one rib was broken, and though badly bruised and cut about the body and lower limbs, his head and vitals (-axo said to be uninjured. . Mr. Marvin's Blunder. Ex-Congressman Marvin, who is the "War wick behind the throne" in the new United States Hotel, called on a car penter yerterday and said: "Mr." Thompson, we have a nice bar-room, and we want a handsome bar made. Who can make the best one?" "Well, I-I-d-d-don't 'zactly know who could m-m-make a handsome b-barmau," stammered Mr. Thomp son. 0 "No, no. I want a handsome bar made 3" "W-w-well, dang it! if you want a handsome barmaid, why don't you go over to T-T-Troy and get one ?" "No,-. no no, man! I mean who made these I see all around town?" "Great guns, Marvin! h-h-how the d-dlevil do I know who made all the: b-b-barmaids around town? I A-A-Anr't tnow. ftnd dfljufi CaX6 wllO did," shrieked Mr. Thompson .- O o G o o o o c o S o V r . ; J25: -- - r-