THE ENTERPRISE.
OREGDX CITV, OREliOX, SEPT. 17, 1875.
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DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
For Congiv?,
LAFAYETTEULANE,
Of Vangla. County.
ri'HMC SPEAK I xc;
lion. L. F. Lane, Democratic cnndi
date for Congress, will address his fel
l3W citizens at tho follovjng limes ami
nlaces. to-wit
Ttoseburg. ..........
ptemberl6th
18th
KneneC'ity
Albany
rorvalli-4
21st
22d
Balla
Lafayette
Hill-ilxiro
Oregon City.
S ilem. . :v
Portland'.'.
'Astoria
The Dalles
Pendleton
Weston
Jja(rande
Union
Baker City
Canyon City
Opposing candidates
join him.
23d
25th
27th
29th
30th
October 2d
4th
7th
11th
12th
loth
Kith
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' . 21st.
ure invited to
Official Incapacity a Crime.
i The patience and forbearance of
the American people i. indeed of a
most elastic nature. A blundering
President, stumbling into new dif
ficulties, with drunken indifference
as to results, if not actually applaud
ed, is by the great bulk of the Re
publican party pointed out as a
model. "Well I believj) Ue is per
sonally honest," says tho New York
Tribune. As if we ever had a Presi
dent who was not; or as though per
sonal honesty is so rare a quality
among us, as to entitle it? possessor
to immunity for all otlir failings
and faults, and to tho most conspic
uous plaos in tho Government. A
man receiving an appointment, or
the majority of votes for an office
which he cannot competently fill,
commits a fraud upon the nation by
accepting it, just as much! as the man
who does not understand typogra
phy imposes upon anlLeditor by
drawing an expert's wage 1
In such a stale of thin J it is easy
to see how the public service natu
rally and inevitably becomes cor
rupt. Nothing but uttci demorali
zation can come from sue . low esti
mates of duty and responsibility. It
is not strange that with suqh a "nerve
less grap" of the true coliception of
what belongs to faithful .7ld honora
ble service, loose and ilsponsible
method, and careless and orrnpt ad
ministration should be largely in
vogue.
Now, if it ha only on the ground
Warren's right to go to Congress. If
ho lias a conscience it must tell
him that he is incapable (f fulfilling
a high .trust; that he laiks, in fact
flvprr tliinrf tlinf. in 11 rtnfrtr
. J II w
helps to make a CongrVuuan, and
that ho will bo perpetratirg a theft
on tho national treasury by receiving
pay for work undone. Strangely
enough, the Oregonian which is sup
posed to be ono of Mr. Warren's
most ardent supporters,! inconsist
ently says "the subject ofiofficial re
sponsibility should bedilctly agita
ted until the neededlJeform is
brought about." If this subject be
squarely brought beforo the people,
what will become of tho "Republican
nominee? If he is to 1e made re
sponsible for even his own acts,
much less those of his subprdinates,
such a reform will end oiily in the
collapse vf the gentlemamf rom Yam
hill, ft
Tho present is a good VJie to make
a new departure, to settle beyond
controversy this question of official
accountability and capnv.ty. and It
it bo done at the ballot box in Octo
ber. Tho man, let us repeat, who
accepts an office for which he is un
fit and knows he is unfix commits a
crime against tho State, and draws
nnearued money from its treasury.
Sinecures are robberies; and in
competent public officers through
whose inefficiency or negligence the
State sutlers. are as much criminals
as they who take advantage of their
remissness to plunder the tax payers
.And rob tho State. The impulse iu
favor of administrative reform will
have accomplished little of perma
nent advantage unless it establishes
as a rule of political actioa the prin
ciple hero laid down, that official in
capacity is a crime; not a mere
weakness but a positive pronounced
crime.
Bettei: Late -Than Never. Al
ready tho fruit of the Democratic
victory in California is manifesting
itself in Oregon. The E ening Jour
nal, a heretofore Independent paper,
not to be behind hand in the general
rejoicing that is to take place next
month among the Democrats, has
alLwcV itself to thlt party and lias
uow become one of the warmest sup
porters of Mr. Lane and the time
bonored Jeffersonian principles.
Welcome.
A force of men left Sacramento
last week, headed by Cbas. Cadwal
lader, resident engineer of the Cali
fornia and Oregon railroad, with the
necessary outfit to survey the line of
that road from Reading to the Ore
gon line. The Record Union hays it
w understood to be the-intention of
the railroad company to connect the
California and Oregon riilrcad with
n.e Oregon Central railroad as soon
as possible.
That "Barren Victory."
The Oregonian argues that the De
mocraey of California have Avon a
"barren victory," from the fact that
tho vote cast was not a majority
over both tho other candidates, and
says that that State will give her
electoral vote to the Radical party.
If Dr. Hawthorne has lost one of his
patients, he must bo the editor of the
Oregonian. Even were it a fact that
the Democracy did not have a ma
jority over both the other parties, no
logical argument can bo produced
why the Independents would go
back unitedly to the Radicals next
fall. But let us see this '-barren
victory." By the latest returns re
ceived, we find that Gov. Irwin has
received 52.SG3, Phelps, Radical, 27
G33; Bidwell, Independent 23,8G5;
total vote for tho Independent and
Radical candidates, 51,498; Irwin's
majority over both, 1,465. We like
this kind of "barren victories." Now
let us see what else did the Democ
racy get by this "barren victory."
They have carried nearly almost
every county in the State, the excep
tions being so rare that they are not
worth mentioning. The "barren
victory" elects State Senators, Dem
ocrats, 12; Republicans 3; Independ
ents 1 and Independent Democrats 5;
giving the Democrats a majority of 3
over all the others. In tiio Assem
bly the Democrats have 51; Repub
licans 11; Independents 3; Inde
pendent Democrat 1; giving the De
mocracy a majority of 30 over all
others. This is a rich barren victo
ry, in fact a regular bonanza, and
nothing but a subject of the asylum
could see it otherwise. Wo don't want
any but "barren victories" if they
count up liko this. Tho bull com
mitted by tho Oregonian would not
be so ridiculous had not all the
small fish Radical organs copied the
article and consoled themselves that
the great Mogul was sane on tho re
turns and that the California election
simply argued a grand victory for
the Radicals in 187G in that State.
In fact that it was a kind Providence
that showed them that iu the saddest
affliction there is rejoicing and even
a triumph. How does the Oregonian
and its dupes liko the "barren victo
ry" by this time. Give us another
chapter. Do.
lather Thin.
Our friend Warren is making claims
to the laboring voters of our State
on the ground that he is a laborer
and farmer. Well, so are many
others, who aro able to own farms
and collect tho rents thereupon. He
regards Mr. Lane ss a politician.
Well, let us see. Mr. Lane has
served one term as a member of the
Legislature, a position which was
money out of his pocket. Mr. War
ren, in the last twenty years, (he has
been hero twenty three) has had two
terms of Sheriff ; wasa member
of tho Legislature and eight years
in the U. S. Land. Office, making
eighteen years he has been in office
out of twenty-three. Ho is not sat
isfied with this, but now asks again
to be mt in public position. If
there is a chronic office-seeker in
this State, Henry Warren will be
pointed out as the individual. Wo
have no objections to Mr. Warren's
aspirations, but it is rather "thin"
for him to say that any other candi
date is a politician when he will
view
y ears
his past
record of eighteen
office
holding.
If that does
not entitle a man to bo designated as
a chronic-office seeker, as well as
holder, we do not know tho meaning
of tho words and cannot understand
the plain English language. Don't
try to play farmer any longer, but
come right out and say that you are
a chronic-office seeker and can't do
without the public teat.
The .Most Chcefcj-.
The Salem Statesman, since it pass
ed into the hands of the carpet-bagger
from Nebraska, has shown more
brazen impudence than all tho other
Radical papers put together. Jn
fact, it has no regard for tho truth
whatever. Last week it announced
most positively that Dimick and
Whitney had withdrawn from tho
canvass- A day or two afterwards it
reads a lectnro to tho Independents
that they should disband, from the
fact that their leaders did not make
a respectable fight in California. It
had better counsel the Radical
party to disband. In California,
like every where else, the Federal
patronage is used to carry Radicals
through, and Ave all know that in a
State like California, it has an im
mense influence. Now let us see
which of the parties did the better.
The Radicals backed by tho San
Francisco mint, Custom houses,
post offices, TJ. S. Marshals, &c, re
ceived (as per our latest reports)
27.G33, Independents 23.8G5; Radi
cal majority .over the Independents,
3,703, or scarcely the number who
hold Federal offices in that State.
If any one should disbaud, taking
California as a bau, it certainly looks
as if it should be the Radicals. Tiiat
Nebraska carpet-beg ;rer will learn
after he has lieen in Oregon a few
months that the people are not a set
of f'ols. and that they are as capable
to judge of matters as he is.
Sagacity or "Piegax Phil."
When he went to the Grand Rondo
reservation L left Mrs. S. No. 2 at
Salem.
Itathor Crooked.
It is an old saying and rather true,
that if a man has any crooked spots
in his history, all he has to do is to
run for office, and they will be made
public. We should never have sus
pected that Mr. Warren, whom we
know to bo so bitterly opposed to
secret societies, could have ever been
"one of 'em." Mr. Warren was born
a British subject, ard came to the
United States about the year 1847.
He resided in New York and Missouri,
and in 1S52 came to Oregon. He
was appointed and acted as Deputy
Sheriff of Yamhill county before he
was naturalized. So it appears he
has had a hankering after office ever
since he has been in Oregon. Well,
to be popular, in 1855, when the
dark-lantern organization known as
the Know-Nothing party was started,
Hon. Henry Warren sought and
gained admission, to its fold. He
took the oath that was required by
that organization. We do not know
what it is, but those who have taken
it say that it requires a native-born
American to be qualified for mem
bership. Mr. Warren being of Brit
ish birth, we cannot see how ho could
take this oath. But ho did take it
and became a member of an organiz
ation whose only object was that no
foreigners should hold office in this
country, and that they shouhl not
be naturalized until they had lived
here tweuty-ono years. This was Mr.
Warren's idea of free government in
1855, and we have no reason to sup
pose that he has any greater respect
or sympathy now for foreigners (he
being ono himself) than he had then.
We ask our foreign-born citizens to
stop and consider this matter a little.
Are they willing to vote for a man
who once took the oath that none
but native-born citizens be allowed
to hold office, and that they should
be required to live in this country
twenty-one years before they be al
lowed to vote? Do they propose to
endorse this doctrine? By voting
for Mr. Warren they do so. Respect
for their intelligence and manhood
should dictato to them to cast their
votes against him.
Ilcartl l"rom.
Old Hammond, the clown that
burlesqued religion by his ridiculous
proceedings on our streets a short
time ago, has returned to San Fran
cisco. In a report of his trip, before
tho Young Men's Christian Associa
tion of that place, ho said that "Ore
gon City Avas by all means the hard
est placo he had visited ; the press
there was particularly low Avay
down." Whero the reputation of
Oregon City is knoAvn, this monte
bank cannot effect it; but in order to
show how hard a place Oregon City
is, wo Avill state, for the benefit of
thoso abroad, that there is not a
more peaceable, quiet and orderly
people on the face of the earth. It
is true, they did not take after Ham
mond. They have too much sense
and respect for religion to bo taken
in by such ridiculous show and
clownishness as was exhibited by
him. The place has a population of
1,300; it supports four regular
churches, and ono tAvice each month.
There is not an arrest made for city
offenses once in six months, and our
city jail has not contained a half
dozen white men for misconduct in
that many years. If this is a hard
place, it Avonld be a good thing for
this blasphemous slanderer to show
us some of the moral places he has
christianized. As to the press being
low, Ave need not take any issue with
him. Tho public is a better judge
between us and our accuser. One
thing Ave can tell this hypocrite, that
the people of Oregon City Avill bear
comparison with him or any of his
kind. Farewell, dear Christian friend.
May wo never see your like again.
On Dear! A short timo since,
the Oregonian which of late has no
political sense Avhatever, said that all
a Radical has to remark to a Demo
crat when he mentions the result of
the California election, 'North Caro
lina.' We had supposed that there
Avas a point to this reply, but since
the meeting of' the Constitutional
Convention of that State, we are at a
loss to see it. It was triamphantly
claimed that the Radicals had 'scoop
ed up' the Democrats and carried
that State. But the glorious visions
of Radicalism of late vanish as they
aro approached. This is tho case
with North Carolina. Tho conven
tion Avas organized by Democrats
being elected as its officers- Has
the Oregon tan heard from North Car
olina? The result in North Caro
lina Avas eA-idently one of those "Bar
ren Radical Victories."
Chance for a Bkt. A correspon
dent to the Willamette Farmer
speaks in this complimentary strain
about Oregon: "I have not seen 'a
lean and hungry looking Cassius' that
I would not dare to trust since I
have been here." Wo are prepared
to lay a small wagr that his visual
organs have not rest.-d upon the new
editor of the "Oregon Oracle."
i T 11 il IT l riniiA4 n . .
who is coming
Granger, writes
to Oregon to edit i
mac ne expects tart from JJes
Moines for this e - i -t, with two car
loads of Iowa imu:..-rants, by- the
15th inst. He says part of the immi
grants may stop in California, but
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I 4 1 .
inusi oi tnem tieMgn
Oregon.
ouurwTl UF BANCROFT LIBRARY,
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA.
"A Christ Killer."
In this goodly toAvn, says an ex
change, a little girl of Hebrew pa
rentage, on returning home from
school, said: "Father, Avhat is the
meaning of Christ killer?" "Why
do you ask, my daughter?' said tho
parent. "Because while one of the
girls Avas angry at me to-day, she
called mo a little Christ killer."
It is needless to say to the reader
that volumes are embraced in this
incident. It illustrates in tones un
mistakable, the impudence and in
justice of thousands in this land of
civil and religious liberty. It illus
trates the blindness of that ignorance
which fails to realize the true history
of tho Hebrew people. It ignores
the light of history. Omitting all
allusion to the grand tenets of Chris
tianity in which wo are humble but
sincere believers, it sinks into the
oblivion of prejudiced ignorance the
grand truths of Hebrew history for
1S75 years. It fails to grapple Avith
the sublime truth that to the Jewish
race, more than to any- other source,
we are indebted for the preserA-ation
of historical archives, learning and
letters, during the centuries of dark
ness; that to that raeo in Spain
through hundreds of years, civiliza
tion owes its preservation, and other
countries in Europe debts of grati
tude mountain high, in the long road
from barbarism to wealth, elegance
and refinement. It spits upon the
fact that Jewish beggars and drunk
ards are as rare as lepers. It refuses
to know that the Jewish poor never
in any country on earth become a
charge to the public. It forgets that
for 1S75 years the Jcavs have, Avith a
feAV exceptions, been a persecuted
race. It refuses to acknowledge that
the Jew s have all this timo bpen the
friends of humanity, the patrons of
science, of learning, of commerce
and of liberty. It ignores the fact
that tho Isrealites are tho merchant
princes of the Avorld, Avhether we
take them in Paris, Berlin, London
or Ncav York.
Despite the gibes and flings of
unthinking men, women and chil
dren, no Hebrew has any cause to
hang his head in sliamo when com
pared Avith tho best of any other
race. A people who have introduced
to tho Avorld a Heine, a Rothchild
and a Disraeli, have no causo to
blush.
"A nation Avithout a country,"
they have done as much and aro now
doing as much the world over as any
other nation to break down the bat
tlements of hate, and spread over
the Avorld peacef d intercourse and
and genuine humanity. The Ameri
can Mason of to-day may go to any
Masonic Lodge at the uttermost part
of tho earth, and enter the portals of
that great embodiment of benevo
lence, and there, as a friend and
brother, tried and true, he Avill be
heartily Avelcomed by the Hebrew.
These thoughts rushed upon us
while reading tho above incident.
It is sad to realize, in this age, that
thoughtless prejudice is allowed to
sway the judgment of our children
in matters so sternly appealing to
our sense of justice and our knowl
edge. How much
tho beam from our
better to pluck
own eye before
worrying about tho moat in the ey es
of others.
"A Max for the Fr:oimi." The
Oregonian- well says: "Mr. Warren
makes no pretentious to oratory".
1 an h il I Reporter.
Agreeing thoroughly with tho Or
egonian and Reporter Ave modestly
ask, merely for the sake of informa
tion, has Mr. Warren any preten
sions of any kind, and if he has, is
ho justified in entertaining them?
To admit that a man Avho aspires to
a seat in our National Legislatve
Hall "is no orator as Brutus is,"
sounds like recommending a man as
a blacksmith because he has no mus
cle. If avo want merely a stuffed
coat as the Oregon Represcntatvo in
Congress, we see no reason Avhy Mr.
Warren should not receive a plurali
ty of the votes, or at least run as
well on that issuo as any- man in the
State. But if it be the desire of the
majority of the voters in Oregon to
have a man who Avill conscientiously
look after their best interests, avIio
Avill be at all times ready to take up
the gauntlet of debate in her be
half, who is a ready and forcible
talker, and a man of whom no voter
in either party need be ashamed,
there can be but one result, and that
is that Lafayette Lane be allowed
to Avrite "M. C." after his name at
the close of our coming election.
Important Decision.
Judge Fields of the U. S. Supreme
Court, has decided that legal adver
tisements published in a patent out
side, or a paper printed part at home
and the balance abroad, is not a le
gal notice; holding that the patent
part being printed first, it is issued
from that office and not the place
Avhere it purports to be printed and
issued. This is an important decis
ion to litigants, as several of our
State papers are printed on the pat
ent outside plan, and may lead to
trouble in the future should the mat
ter ever be tested.
Ask asd You Shail Receive. It
Avas his first appearance in a saloon,
and wishing to appear like an old
"rounder" he marched up to the bar
i with a pompous air, and in stentori
J an voice inquired "What have you?"
LETTER FROM XEW YORK.
From Our Regular Corresromlont.
New York, Aug. 31, 1875.
Affairs are too pressing, business
too engrossing and life to earnest in
this oar country, to allow us to in
dulge in landmarks, historical sou
venirs or places associated Avith or
suggesting traditions. The "March
of Progress" is too rapid to bo stayed
by considerations merely- sentimen
tal. . These highly philoso2)hical re
flections bubbled from the eloquent
lips of your correspondent, much to
the edification of an appreciatiA-o au
dience consisting of a boot-black and
a cheffon'er, ts ho stood in front of
what Avas the old Fulton Street
Church, now a pile of bricks and
mortar dust. Hero for years Avas
held that world celebrated prayer
meeting. Here, as in the lamp OAer
the altar, the sacred flame of prayer
was never extinguished, and at all
times of day, men of business, avo
men going or returning from market,
clerks, in fact all kinds and condi
tions and men Avould drop in Avith
their parcels and bundles, and there
would unwrap the thick and heavy
folds of their every day nature and
take a peep inward to see if their
souls had been smothered or not.
But the lot on which stood the old
Church, bounded as it is by Fultonf
William and Ann streets became too
valuable, and the sacred pile had to
come doAvn. This it did A-cry easily
till the iconoclasts came to tho stee
ple, but that was a different matter.
Broad, deep and strong, it Avas built
in good old Burgher fashion and de
fied the efforts of picks and hammer,
though backed by good Irish muscle.
So they called in science to their aid
and science put its foot in it. A
"scientific" young German architect
suggested that tho foundations be re
moved and choked up Avith lumber
and a lire built under the timber,
"that" he reasoned "must inevitably
bring about tho decadence of that
steeple." It did. He reasoned not
wisely but too well. It tumbled and
ono end of the old structure defiant
even in death, went through the
brick Avail of the southern boundary
of a neighboring store, and a avoiso
smashed lot of furniture hasn't been
seen in this ton since Sing-Sing
Jake got on his last spree.
But the immediate benefits of this
progress and improvement are some
times rather difficult to bo appreci
ated; for instance during the rule of
Il'ng in this city a large "constitu
ency" Avere employed in building
tho boulevards. Streets built in
tho most expensive and solid man
ner but leading no Avhere in par
ticular, and some of them having
hardly a houso their whole length on
either side. At the SHine time t!;c
streets and avenues in the busy part
of the city were being paved with an
experimental Avooden pavement
Avhich in tho case of some of the ave
nues, began to wear out at the lower
end before the upper was finished.
For the past year or two, Seventh
AA'enne, one t.-f the main approaches
from down town to Central Park,
and designed for light carriage travel
has been nearly impassible, having
come to a condition worse than a
bad corduroy road in Virginia. The
present Board of Public Works, at
whose head is that able Engineer
Gen. Fitz John Porter, have made
most of the limited means at their
disposal, and have filled up the pits
witli broken stone, sand and pebbles.
The result is an even roadway, but I
think a stranger driving over it for
tho first time Avould be puzzled in
trying to guess tho object of tho
city in building a street like that. It
is in fact unique.
"Progress and improvement" are
also to lie reported concerning Gov.
Tildeu's crusade against the Canal
Ring. Tho once all-powerful, ex
Assemblyman "Jarve" Lord has been
put under arrest for bribery of leg
islators. He, however, received
himself tho greater part of the bribe
money, as Avas to bo expected. Pub
lic opinion is unanimous in support
of the Governor's course, and Avith
tho numerous suits, investigations
and Avhat not, it is getting hot for
the ring.
On Saturday- tho new Post Office
was taken possscssion of by the De
partment. The building, although
it has been the object of much se
vere hostile criticism, is a large and
rather imposing structure, and af
fords accommodations as well for
tho United States Courts, U. S. Dis
trict Attorney kc. The boxes are
5,7'.5 in number, having a metallic
doors Avith locks and keys, besides a
large number of (".rawers arranged
under them. Peculiar and con
venient aro the arrangements for the
newspaper exchange delivery, con
sisting of two alcoves with 38U large
boxes, the bottom of each box being
in an inclined position, so that the
papers Avithin Avill fall directly into
any receptacle placed at tho door,
when opened. There is also one let
ter drop for each State in the Union,
and below it is one for tho metropo
lis of each State. By means of tnis
arrangement ono half tho time of
mailing is saved, and letters Avill now
be receiA-ed at this office half an hour
later than heretofore. The business
of the money- order department last
year in the New York post office
alone amounted to thirty-four mil
lions of dollars, and it is steadily in
creasing. Barry Sullivan reappeared last
evening after an absence of several
years, at Booth's Theater in Hamlet,
and E. S. Davenport assumed the
same role at the Grand Opera House.
An immense crowd of Emerald Is
landers gathered in front of Booth's
to greet the former actor as he passed
along; and the GOth (Irish) Regi
ment attended the theatre iu uni
form. This together with the deco
rated boxes, the spirited national
music, and the Celtic animation of
the whole vast assemblage, gave it j
an uncommonly Dniiiant appearance
H.
SU3IMAKV OF STATE SHIVS.'
The stage-driver, Dan Smith alias
Armstrong, Avho eloped with another
man's Avife and who is supposed to
have robbed the U. S. mail beyond
Rosebnrg, Avas. lately arrested in Tex
as, and is now being brought to this
State for trial.
Lafayette Lane is knocking spots
out of Warren on the stump.
There is a prospect of tho flouring
mills being reopened at Milwaukie.
The Itemizer appears as a half sheet
this week.
Trout, grouse, grain and fruit are
abundant.
Dr. C. C. Strong, Visiting Physi
cian of the Oregon Insane Asylum,
in his report for the quarter ending
May 31st, submits the following
facts: Number of patients received
since March 1st, males, 13; females
5. Males discharged, 2; females, 8.
Leaving in the Asylum, Juno 10th,
1875, males, 143; females, 54. Total,
197.
The Astoriaa says Hans Anderson,
of Nehalem valle3-, has prepared a
stalk of timothy for transmission to
Connecticut, in answer to a challenge
from an editor in that State for some
one to beat a stalk grown there meas
uring three feet. The stalk prepared
by Mr. Anderson measures eight feet
'four inches.
Mrs. Walker, the mother of two
bright children is making it a prac
tice to get boiling drunk in the
streets of Portlaud.
On Sunday afternoon a boy named
Thorpe, living in Portland, was icci
dentally shot in the arm Avhilst hunt
ing near Milwaukie. Tho moral is
apparent.
An Oregonian offers to furnish fir
boards one hundred feet long and
twelve feet Avido for the Centennial
Exhibition. What other country can
"plank down" such wonders as this?
Church sociables appear to be
monopolizing the time of the relig
ious Port landers.
The total tax, exclusive of poll
tax, for Multnomah county this year
is 143a mills on tho dollar.
The Democrat says: Mr. McCrav.-,
of Silverton, called yesterday, and
informs us that he has just completed
a tour of tho prominent agricultural
counties of the valley, ami observed
that harvesting Avas generally later
than that of previous years. He says
fall grain is better than usual, but
spring sown grain is generally a-cry-light.
Notwithstanding the lateness
of tho harvest, he thinks at least two
thirds of the grain has already been
harvested.
Dr. J. II. Thessing, of Milwaukie,
calied ono day this Aveek, Avhile in
this city on important business. Dr.
Thessing i.s agent for a firm in Eng
land which lias decided upon invest
ing in the salmon canning business
of the Columbia liver near Astoria.
Theso parties propose to bring Aith
them men and families in numbers
sufficient to carry the business along
without having to resort to Chinese
for help. Asturian .
Albany is boasting of its Avaier
power and future manufacturing cel-t-britv.
What chance has Oregon
City g't ?
Flour is firm in San Francisco, at
;?5 25 to 75 per barrel. Wheat,
nominal, range of .2 10(?,2 15 per
1O0 lbs.
Hurst, Gray iv Co. have just com
pleted their large and substantial
grist mill ot Corvallis.
Juvenile burglars haAC been ply
ing their profession in Portland.
A correspondent of the Baker City
Ieniocrat, Avriting from the Cornuco
pia mining district, says: They Iuiac
struck it rich in the Hussey and the
stock is selling at $5 per share, and
not any to be bought at that price.
If you Avan t to live in a canvas house,
buy Avater at 83 50 a Aveek, pay Sloa
cord for Avood in the summer and
from 25 to $10 in the winter, and
make from 8 15 to 8100 a day. come
to Cornueopr'a. Lumber is selling at
8150 per thousand feet. Everything
is dear, but there is money hero to
buy Avith.
It seems from tho following from
Baker City that there has been a
small bank suspension at that place.
The Democrat of September 8th savs:
We regret that tho recent panic,
caused by the failure of the Rank of
California, has made it necessary for
the temporary suspension of business
by J. W. Virtue, banker of this city.
Wo publish elsewhere a notice "of
assignment for the benefit of credit
ors, and for a meeting on or before
Monday, Sept. 20, 187."), of said cred
itors, at the office or C. M. Foster, to
accept said assignment. We are in
formed that the assets are 8113,000
over and above all liabilities, 'and
that as soon as sufficient of the same
can be realized, creditors will receive
the same; and there is every reason to
believe they will bo paid in full, and
that our esteemed friend, J. W. Vir-
will resume business at
eaily
Peter Labour, of Io.va, who came
to take a" look at Oregon la&t spring,
has returned to that State for the
purpose of closing up his affairs
there, and Avill return to Clatsop
county- to reside in future, bringing
Avith him, perhaps, several other
families from that inhospitable re
gion. The Depot for Forest Grove will
be built on A. T. Smith's farm, Mr.
Smith having donated a piece of land
300 by- 1,200 feet for the use of the
company for railroad purposes only.
Tho agreement contains the Grove
liquor clause, prohibiting the sale of
liquor on tho premises, and other
restrictions. The company Avill ex
pend about 810,000 for " improve
ments. A cinnabar mine is reported to
have been discovered on one of the
tributaries of the Santiam, Avhich
turns out metal "superior to thcNew
Almaden," of California.
From a private letter dated Klam
ath Agency, Sept. 1st, Ave glean
the following items: Health of the
place very good. Things in general
running along the old beaten tracks.
The authorities that be at Washing
ton are cutting down expenses, sal
aries, etc., and several employees are
making their arrangements to leave.
The largest piece of sawed timber
ever manufactured Avas discharged
at San Francisco lately. It Avas cut
and planed by Benton k Holmes, of
Port Blakely, and measures 150 feet
in length, and 10 by 18 inches in
thickness. Through its entire length
there is not a single knot visible.
tf.i.i:c; R A Kill C N r.fcvs.
Postoffiee discontinued Snl v
ity, Marion county, Orvon vY
masters appointed Louis F jt ,
man, Milton, Umatilla counK- A
Marcus W. Walkers, Warm Si?
Wasco county, Oregon. "
San Fkancisco," Sept. H.-pi
of Nevada by tne 1 t proximo an l
ilia Avnoft:itinn nf ' .
expectation of early resumption
the Bank of California l.
by-
tended tto increase a confident feelinfT
in business circles, and large trails'
fers of coin from the treasury anV
receipts from the mini Lave'ki
favorable effect. a
The action of tho National Ool,l
Bank and Trust Company iu accou
plishing a gradual resumption in"
stead of hoarding coin against a for
mal openingf have been of niateri tl
assistance to tho money market
This institution is now doing a en
oral business, Avith no signs 0oAnv
run upon its resources.
The syndicate of the Bank of Cali
fornia is continuing preparations for
resumption, Ailh no special new de
velopements to report.
Greenbacks S5 buying, SGj; sell
iug. Washington, D. C, Sept. 11.
strange Indian story comes from
Montana. It is charged that tho
Government has paid 8500, Q00 in ten
years to support Indians who do not
exist on Amorieon soil, and Avholonr
since removed to Canada. The story"
Avhich is claimed to be authentic, is
that before gold was found in Mon
tana, that country was inhabited bv
Blackfi et Indians. This nation is
divided into three tribes Blackfeet
Bloods and Piegans. It avtis the cus
tom for the agent of these Indians to
visit the country- once a year, distrib
ute his supplies, and return to tho
States the same season. As gold
seekers began filling up the country,
the Indians moved north across the
British line. For ten years not a
Blackfoot Indian and not OAer live
lodges of Blood Indians have been
on American soil, save in the form
of parties visiting this side to steal
stock. These Indians do their trad
ing at British posts, and are supplied
by the Canadian government. There
are still about 1T0 lodges of Piegmi
Indians, Avho spend part of their t'ir.e
this side of the l'ne draAving supplies
from the United States, and they
mainly live on British ground with
the Bloods and Blackfeet. The rea
son they have not lived oxclusivelv
north of the line is that they hae
been r.t war with the Assinabuin In
dians. But a treaty has been made,
and Avithin a .year t he Piegans will
bo off American soil. During tlio
ten years past. Congress has annually
appropriated 850.000 for the Black
feet, Bloods and Piegan Indians, and
agents have been sent to these In
dians at a salary of 81, ""JO a a-ear
each. In the office of the cWii-i-sioner
of Indian affairs may bo found
returns of there agents for ten Aears
for 850,000 per annum. With thfs-
returns will be found endorsed ah-
slracts
of issues
in which are the
names of the Blackfeet and Uleod
chiefs, signed to Avhat purports to ho
recviits for immense ouantitirs ef
I supplies
and inventories of tooths
x - -
whil
e not a solitary Blackfoot and
not over five or six lodges of Bloods
have been on ti.is side the Jh;e. for
ten years, and during that tinar. )
U. S. Indian agent tvor saw a Black
foot Indian. These names have lcea
put then.' by the agents and cleik.
An inspector visits this agency onco
a year. He sees a few I'iegans ahor.t
and is told the Bhiekfeet arid Bleeds
are hunting buffdV es,
RaI.I.KWI, N.C.i-Vpt. 11: Follerr-
ing aro tho principal ordinances in-
trodueed in the convention to day:
Abolition of the office of Lieutenant
j Governor; p;-epaym nt of poll tax m
a qualification lor suh'rage; aho'jt;on r
of the township svsttm. and restoia-
tion of the courts ot
Common pleas
to prohibit in
and quart o r ses s i o n :
termarriage of races, and fixing civil
rights and social equality before tiio
law, from the Democratic standpoint.
Tho Republican side of the house
introduced an ordinance that no con
vention should hereafter be called
unless tho question be submitted to
the people.
Poktlano, Me., Sept. 13.-rort-land
gives Conner (Rep.) 2.41!.
Roberts (Dem4 2,-"51; Democratic
majority, 115. against last year's
Republican majority of If 53. Twenty
towns give Conner 5,020, and Roberts
4.000; forty towns give Conner 12,
170, and Roberts 11.381. Last year
the same towns gave a Republican
vote of 10,5X51 and a Democratic vote
of 8,7(50, showing a Republican ma
jority of 180 in 1875 against 2,105ja
18(4. Sixtv towns give Conner 15,
102, and Roberts 13,730; last year
the Republican vote avos 13,357, and
the Democratic vote 10,185.
PoiiTSAiorTir, N. II., Sept. 13.
The Democrats elected Moses H
Goodrich Mayor of this city to-day.
by about a hundred majority, and
six of the ten Aldermen.
Washington, Sept. 13. The Uma
tilla Indian agent being in doubt,
has inquired of Commissioner Smith
as to his power to permit the Nevada
and Northern Telegr.qdi Company
to build their line across the reser
vation on.llio Meacham creek roail.
The commissioner has notified him
that there is no objection Avhatever
to the building cf the line on the
reservation.
Salt Lakk, Sept. 13. Tho rail
road is completed to Alfa, near the
Emma, Flagstaff and other promi
nent mines, and a train ran in there
to-day.
San Fr.Axcisro, Sept. 13. It seems
probable now that tie reopening of
the Bank of California will be delay
ed beyond tho 15th, probably until
tho opening of the Bank of Nevada,
about the 1st. pros.
E. J. Baldwin was to-day unani
mously elected director of the Bank
! of California, to fill a vacancy, m
consideiation of the fact that ia.u
win is one of the largest creditors oi
the bank, his election is consider
significant of the favorable progress
cf the efforts of the syndicate toward
resumption. s . ,
Augusta. Me., Sept. ll.-OIhcval
returns from 20 towns give Conner
3.000 majority. The Democrats have
elected 13, and perhaps 15 Senators,
the Republicans probably 12.
Washington, Sept. 14. Postmas
ter General Jewell lias appointed x
B. Tnttle and D. H. Jones ronte
agents on the Columbia river, oe
twecu Portland and Astoria,5 Oregon.
Weatheecockjsh. There is a man
in Salem as irregular in his moot.s
rs the latin verb "to carry."