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THE ENTEBPfHSE. OREGON CITY, OKEl'.OX, SEPT. 21, 175. DEMOCRATIC TICKET. r. F'oi Congress, I ACA VCTTC 9 A SVJ C Of Dong-las ('ounly. PUBLIC SPCAKIXC. Hon. L. F. Iane, Democratic cancli date for Congress, will address his fel low citizens at the following times and places, to-wit : Hillsboro. Oretron Citv September 27th " 29th Hilcra " 30th Portland October 2d Astoria " 4th The Dalles " 7th Pendleton " 11th Weston " 12th haOrande " 15th Union " lth HakerCity " ISth Canyon City " 21st. Opposing candidates are invited to join him. Inflation and Irotection. Messrs. Kelley, CaAy and Butler, champions of pw lection and the asors of the "roVAtaby," have at Messrs the eh sponsors least the merit of consistency, for inflation is nothing more, or less, than the outgrowth of a high tariff. To say that a protective tariff is al together wrong, would be neither true, nor in accordance with the prin ciples of national economy. Almost every country in Europe has deemed it advisable to protect, certain indus tries; but like the apprentice who has been afford to learn the and is finally the industries, after living develop ed into a state of comparative perfec tion, have been finally exposed to the competition of other markets. Henry Clay, the great champion of the tariff, was only u favor of pro tecting our industries during their infancy. Logically this is entirely correct, for no interest is worth con sidering that will not stand upon its own merits. Steam and electricity have made this world one market in which the individual consumer can only be protected by the most thor ough competition. If wo can believe the defenders of n protection, the benefits of the meas ure should manifest themselves in well-paying and increasing indus tries, and in the affluence and happi ness of the working man. Has this been the case? Do the closed doors of the Pennsylvania rolling mills, the quiet of the Xe England fac tories, the strikes and poverty of the laboring classes, the business failures or bank suspensions tdl such a story? And in the face of all his the protec tionists have the auJlieity to tell us that our stagnation f I owing to our over productiveness. 3 ver produc tion has never yet injured a country, in fact there is no such thing as over production. The more a country produces the richer it will become, if proper channels for an out-let for the surplus le . pro :ded. As our country now stands isolated and en trenched behind the walls of a tariff approaching prohibition, the markets of tho world are closed to her rnami- factured goods, her oin markets be come "glutted, prodiVtion exceeds demand, and as a nllessary conse quence business beer nes dull and profitless. The time for a revision of the tariff litis come, and with it the resumption of ,--specie payment. More paper monev will but accelerate our ruin, and tho remedy Hhaj Dr. Inflation Kelly riroioses will oily help us from the Uou means nouiing more v. an an increase ... a i in thebulk of money with a propor- lion&te increase iu tho price of neces sities. It means that if our paper money amounts to $300,000,000 and is increased to 8750,000,000, the mowing or threshing machine that now costs a hundred dollars will then cost one hundred and fifty. It is true we will have more money, but will we be able to buy any more for it? Will it not have to be re deemed at some time? And does it not remove us farther than ever from resumption? Radicals who are ;by nat.ire pro tectionists, must inconsistency be inflationists. If wenrotect, we do not deny that inflation will be of a transient benefit, and for the moment lielp ns out of our slough, but only to plunge us into it again the deeper when the reaction sets in. Do not point to the "more money" plank in tho Democratic platform in Ohio; the Democrats of the country repu diate it, and the loud voice of its 0 press denounces it with such vebem o ence that the feeble squeak of that erring convention is but a breaking o twig iu a thunder-storm. inflation will not only remove us farther from resumption, but will unsettle values; will make this coun try a good market to sell in, but a bad one in which to 1'iiy; will stimu late speculation to tterrible extent, and finally will enlin a crash that will dwarf even thaof the panic of T3. Bear it then L mind that it is to protection that w.t can attribute pur over-stocked markets and s?ag-nation-in' trade, and that the inflation rT) dodgeHs the creating of hiii tariff, the "darling of the protrtiouists. Free trade hasever, been a funda mental principla in "-the Democratic ireed, and free trade -and specie pay ment nre fin sisorxj the one scarce- to exist with-id the elhcr. t o 0 ed evol-y opportunity intricacns of his trade, left to ffjft for himself, frying pan into tlA fire. ...... ,11.. . .. s we unucrstai it ianai The School Question. Without showing the imbecile ef forts of the Republican press to use this trumped-up question as a bug bear, we will merely state the facts concerning this oft quoted topic, and leave the reader to form his own conclusions. In the first place, there is not, as has been so often asserted, any plank in the Ohio Democratic platform ad vocating sectarian appropriations, but on the contrary, the only refer ence to the school question reads as follows: "13th. We favor tho complete separation of Church and State, re ligious independence and absolute freedom of opinion, equal and exact justice to all religious societies, and purely secular education at the ex pense of the tax-payers, without di vision among or control by any sect, directly or indirectly, of any por tion of' the public school fund." This school question came to be used as a weapon against the De mocracy only after Morton of Indi ana found that bloody shirt waving and the resurrection of dead men and issues would not avail. He was afraid to attack tho inflation plank in tho Democratic platform, for he, with the ether Republican leaders had already committed him self in its favor. And now the inquiry is in order, why has tho school question been pounced upon as a thing ruinous to Democrats and of incalculable value to Republicans? As tho New York Sim said, "It is the last expedient of a doomed party." Like a drowning man they have veritably grasped at a straw. A plain unassuming to bacconist, named Geghan was elect ed to the Ohio Legislature, and see ing that tho State prisoners and those iu eleemosynary institutions were compelled, irrespective of their different religious beliefs to worship in one and tho same fashion, intro duced a bill praying that the differ ent denominations in theso different institutions be allowed to have min isters of their different faiths, and to worship God after their different consciences. Was there anything unjust in this? Does such a bill imply that tho Pope's hand is at tho throat of our institutions, and that his minions are arming for the over throw of our nation? Are wo led to believe that there will be a public distribution of the school fund be cause a bill lias passed in a free country allowing men to worship God after their respective beliefs? No such out-cry was raised when a Radical legislature passed a bill identically the same in Massa chusetts. No, indeed. When the immaculate Republican party passes a bill there can be no hidden motive, for its justice and practicability are invariably on its face. Square Lying. If persistent and unblushing lying will elect a Congressman, the Rad icals will undoubtedly be successful. In order to divert the public mind from the enormous crimes of the Radical party, they have trumped up an issue which they expect, by lying it into the canvass, will create pub lic prejudice and animosity against a religious portion of our people, who have neither asked nor expressed a desire to interfere in the question of public schools. The Democracy of Oregon, as a mass, would repudiate any move to establish sectarian schools, and besides, this outrageous and persistent lying simply shows that the Radical leaders (who are trying to divert the public mind while they rob tho people) must re gard the masses as a set of donkeys. The Democracy of Oregon Jstands upon the State Constitution in this matter, which emphatically and pos itively prohibits any appropriations for sectarian schools. Article I, sec tion 5, of tho Constitution says that "no money shall be drawn from the treasury for the benefit of any relig ious or theological institutions." This is the Constitution of Oregon, and no party has claimed or desired an amendment thereto. As it is, the matter is foreign to tho questions before the people. This issue is simply brought into the canvass to divert public attention from Radical stealing, as must be apparent to any one of ordinary sense. Mr. Lane would have no more power over our school sj-stem than a member of the English Parliament. Radicals may as well place themselves on the wit ness stand and answer to the live issues before the people and clear themselves of the charges of venality made against them. Aiming ti Ieceive. The Statesman, like other carpet baggers, is trying to lie Warren into Congress. But it won't do. He, in company with the Oregonian and the other oracles of Radicalism, has brought a question into this cam paign which has no existence in fact, nor will persistent lying make it so. In a late issue of the Statesman the oracle says that the Democrats have brought Mr. War ren's Know-Nothing record into the campaign to hide the school ques tion. Now the truth is, the Radi cals have brought the school issue into this election to hide their war upon foreigners and Popery, and their desire to resurrect the Know Nothing party. The people nnder- Oregon Immigration. Rome may not have been built in a day, but if tho immigration to this State increases in the same ratio as it has for the last three years, not many decades will be needed ere we have within our borders enough peo ple to build a western Rome in forty minutes. Every day we hear of some repre sentative of a colony in the East trav eling through our counties with a view of selecting farms and homes. Editors throughout tho State are continually receiving letters from all classes and conditions of men, in quiring of our advantages and disad vantages with a close questioning that means if satisfactorily an swered, the writers proposed to start. News of our mighty crops and fertile valleys has spread, creating a spirit of restlessness and dissatisfaction that can only end in the sale of the old farm, tho shop, or whatever it may be, and tho cry of Ho! for Ore gon, the land of fruits and flowers, with rivers of milk and honey! With its hidden gold, silver, coal, iron and cinnabar, only waiting for muscle and capital to bring them to the sur face; with its mighty timbers and deep rivers, prepared to make and "float a thousand fleets;" with its rich prairies that knowing no such thing as drouth have never experi enced a failure of crops; with water power sufficient to set the world in motion what more could paradise havo been? To what better haven could energy steer? From the Salem Statesman we learn that a large colony from Mansfield, Pennsylvania, is on tho evo of de parture for the Willamette valley. Several clergymen are in the party, and their constitution prohibits the use or sale of intoxicating liquors. "The constitution shows tho plan, object and principles. It does not seem to be the result of excitement or impulse. It is the maturity of a plan that has been the study of years by persons long intending to emigrate to the Pacific coast. Already the success of tho colony is beyond a doubt, for the men at the head of it are of a kind that make haste slowly, and enough are now secured to make it an object for others to join them who wish to move to this beautiful summer-land." This is tho kind of people whom wo are always glad to welcome temperate, sensible and in dustrious. Such companies as this are forming all through the West, and if we take the tide, now at its flood, it lays in our power to throw the whole stream of immigration into our own State. All we need are peo ple and capital, God has given us the rest. Let us not fail then to keep this subject continually before the public. Send our papers to your friends in the East, let each man contribute his mite toward so good a cause, and we predict an in flow of men and means within the next ten years sufficient not only to build a second Rome in forty min utes, but also vast enough to devel- opo our resources. A Hasty Correction. A friend of Mr. Warren's calls our attention to the fact that we made a mistake in our last issuo as to the time of his arrival in this State and the length of time he has held office. We hastily and cheerfully make the correction. lie came to Oregon in 1847, and has consequently been here 28 years. Out of this time the poor man has only been in office surteen years instead of eighteen, as stated by us last week. This is a great in justice and ought to bo corrected. A man who has only been in office sixteen years out of twenty -eight has been sadly neglected by his adopted country, and can consistently claim to be a "laboring man," and not a "politician." Let our readers bear in mind that these sixteen years in office have been since 18G4, which is just nineteen years, and the great in justice is still more apparent. What a shame! Only sixteen years in office out of nineteen, and still forced to go before the people as an honest "laborer," and not a "politician !" Too bad! He should be jdaced on the pension roll without further delay. - Religious Freedom. It is an in teresting fact that a bill precisely similar in spirit and force to the so called Geghan law of Ohio, and to the kindred laws enacted by the Leg islatures of Minnesota and Massa chusetts, was introduced in the New York Legislature last fall, and passed the Assembly by a handsome major ity. It was proposed by Mr. Mc Gowan, a Demoratie member of New York City, and was supported by him and Mr. Lincoln of Ontario, a Republican, and adopted by a vote of 71 to 13. Only one Democrat voted in the negative, and Mr. F. W. Seward, the present Republican candidate for Secretary of State, voted with him. The truth is that there is nothing in either of these nets except a sim ple expression of t e American doc trine of religious f c . lorn for all. Another Pape;:. We are in re ceipt of a prospectus announcing the contemplated publishing of a daily evening paper at Astoria. The name of D. C. Ireland at the head of the movement is ..enough to insure its success. COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY UXIVZRSITv CF CALIFORNIA RiTT rV n . T -rr-vr-, The Majesty of Law. There are peoi:le in America snob bish by nature. Many of this class have been to Europe and come homo cheap counterfeiters of foreign airs. The young man of this species is either known as a "club" or a "soci ety man" and imagines that by affect ing a drawl in his conversation and a wobbling, side-long gait, he creates the impression that he is in a direct line a descendant from William the conqueror. He sneers at our insti tutions, deprecates everything not European, in fact announces himself a monarchist. When Colonel Baker committed an indecent assault on a young lady in an English railway carriage, he was justly imprisoned and fined notwithstanding his wealth, position and powerful influence. "There," exclaim our modern tories, "there is a country where exact jus tice is dealt out to rich and poor alike. Compare that judgment with the late Tweed case, wher,e the rich thief gets off, or as good as off, or with the Stokes case, where money saved a murderer's dife justly forfeit ed to the gallows." But if we take a closer look at this exceedingly impartial Justice, a slight feeling of uncertainty arises. We quote from the London correspon dence to tho New York Tribune: "Perhaps nothing but the Queen's personal interference would have proved powerful enough to over-rule the influence exerted in Col. Baker's behalf." Oh wonderful British Jus tice, you have shown the cloven foot! If we remember rightly, in 1215 thero was adopted in England a cer tain platform or series of .resolutions known to tho world as tho Magna Charta. We have always understood that this was tho palladium of the Briton's freedom, and that it de nounced, in express terms, all med dling with courts or interference of tho crown between subject and sub ject. So this is the vaunted English justice! So the Queen's "personal interference" with a court weighs mightier than the laws of the people. We do not say that in this case the Queen, in gratifying her notions of propriety, was wrong, but other wise we do say that if Victoria is to be allowed to sway the courts, sup posed to deal out justice, to inter fere between man and man, to over ride and tramplo upon tho sacred bulwark of British freedom, the boasted Magna Charta, we personally would prefer American law with all its trickery and corruption. - -O Itather ISinclintr. It is true that our friend Warren's Nnow-Nothing record is rather an old thing, just twenty years of age on the 23d of last May. But it is a matter that should bo borne in mind by our foreign-born citizens when they cast their votes. In order to show what he subscribed to then, we give the articles in the by-laws of the Wigwam, which are as follows: No person shall be proposed to a membership of this Order unless he be a free white male, of good moral character, of tho age of twenty-one years, a native of tho United States, and an American-born citizen. Are you willing to use all the in fluence you possess in favor of native Jmrn American citizens for all offices of honor, trust or profit in the gift of the people, and do you promise to vote for them to the exclusion of all aliens and foreigners, for all local, State and Government offices? The above are tho main articles in the by-laws, and on the evening of May 23d, 1855, Mr. Warren took the following oath: I, Henry Warren, kneeling before my God, my Maker, my left hand upraised toward Heaven, to all these and those do I most sincerely prom ise, declare and swear, binding my self under no less a penalty than that of having my grave trampled on by foreigners, and to have my memory cursed by my children and my chil dren's children. Very Cau.y. When Russia disposed of the ice bound territory called Alaska to the only too eager dupe, Mr. Seward, it publicly congratulated itself of hav ing got a good price for a "sucked orange." The following very lame story, which comes by telegram from Washington, will not even be swal lowed by the most credulous: The Treasury department has re ceived from the Collector of Sitka, Alaska, a copy of a report made by an experienced miner who has made an extensive examination of Alaska with a view to ascertain its mineral resources, in which he states that he has discovered deposits of greater richness than any kno-vn to exist in America, and probably in the world. The Collector certifies to the charac ter and scientific ability of the miner making the report. In a letter writ ten subsequently this officer reports that a largo number of British sub jects, hearing of the discovery, have gone to the locality and located there and have applied to the British Gov ernment to be incorporated as a town, claiming to be on British soil, while the United States officials claim that they are considerable distance within our lines. The question of territory has been submitted to the State de partment, and it is possible that an interesting and exciting international question may be raised should theso mines prove to be as rich as reported. Those who were disposed to make light of Mr. Seward's speculation in real estate may yet be forced to ad mit the wisdom of the purchase of Alaska. The New York Sim says Pig-iron Kelly is speaking in Ohio in favor of inflation. Ia Kelly still a member of the Republican party ? LETTER FROM NEW YORK. from Our Regular Correspondent. New Yokk, Sept. 7, 1S75. Yesterday was the first day of the "Piattdeutsches Yolksfest," for which the low Dutch societies havo been preparing for several months. It opened with an immense proces sion, taking over two hours to pass any given point. As processions us ually move at the rate of between three and four miles an hour, this one must have been between six and eight miles long,, and contained great numbers of those allegorical masks, of which the Germans are so fond and which they act so well. An interesting feature was the rep resentation of German warriors from the earliest to modern times. 'First came twelve Germans dressed in the ancient costume a" bear-skin wrap ped around tho body and a head dress of fur having two horns upon it and carrying heavy clubs in their hands; next came seven warriors in the uniform of Charlemagne, seven in tho costume of the Crusaders, seven in the dress worn during the thirty years war in Germany, and fourteen soldiers in the uniform of the army of Frederick the Great and of the war of 1812, and fourteen in the uniform now worn in King Wil liam's army. This was followed by a wagon with girls representing Co lumbia, Germania and the different North German States, and drawn by eight superb white horses. Then came Prince Bismark, Count Yon Moltke and Field Marshal Roon on horseback, and many others. There were six divisions, including an im mense number of military with spik ed helmets and forty gallon stom achs, and they all went to Union Hill in Jersey. It is said that a branch had been dug from there to connect with tho Delaware and Itari tan Canal running through Newark, and that two thirds of the breweries of that placo (in all about four mil lion) will empty their beer directly into the canal and so carry it in bulk right to Union Hill. I don't quite believe that myself, for I don't think that Germans when encouraged br each other's presence would, suffer lager to bo iut under a lock, and there aro three of them from theie to Newark. Shall pies bo sold in the new post offico building? is tho question that has been agitating tho city for the last few days. Postmaster James allowed it; but tho press objected. Then the Postmaster, like a sensible man, saw the inappropriateness of the traffic, so he notified the gentle pieman that ho must stop it by Sat urday next. Tho pieman is very angry, and says the l'ost-m'astcr has broken his promise. He admits that pie-crust was made to be broken; but that a promise is a sacred thing, and should be kept inviolate, he firmly believes. I don't wonder tho pieman is mad, for he has been doing a busi ness of nearly a hundred dollars a day sinco tho new building opened on Monday last . We eat an immense number of pies here. That's the way the patent medicine men get rich so fast. There havo been the ordinary num ber of commonplace murders, but it would be tiresome and monotonous to write about them. If your readers desire to know the particulars of them, let them turn to some of my former letters, iu which somo are recounted, and change tho names of the victims. But there was one mat inee suicide that deserves honorary mention. Signor Yianni, a vain Ital ian, with fiery blood in his veins, tried in vain to buffet successfully with tho gin slings and horrors of this life, so being at a clam-bako in New York harbor, and being much annoyed by the jolity of the occa sion, he tried to stop it by reciting a piece in Italian. Some of the short hairs present didn't see it, but the swallow-tails got tho best of them, ami he did it. Judge of his right eous indignation when everybody seemed to enjoy tho recitation, and that too without understanding a word of it! so he gave up in despair and shot himself through tho head. A member of Congress who wishes to be thought "up" in the line arts, cried out, "Capitally done!" When he found out his mistake he came straight to New York and gave 5,000 to the new college of music to hide his blunder. "Charitv covers a mul titude of sins." " II. The Salem Crcestts. We congrat ulate the editor of the Statesman, on his wealth. It is not often that we have the pleasure of hearing of a rich journalist, though, by the bye, we advise him to have a cane, for we fre quently hear of fools and their money being soon parted. We charitably overlook his childish boasts concern ing his vast tax receipts, for ox course he is kept too busily engaged cutting coupons to be very particular as to what he says or how he says it. "Backing Wateis." The Orcgonian takes exception to our calling it the Mogul of the Republican party, and in a left-handed way tries to shirk the questionable honor. If when it accepted Warren, editorially, as its candidate, was not a tacit aposta cy from the Independent party and an acceptance of Radical patronage, then either that paper has a most cloudy way of expressing itself, or a most nimble way of vaulting political fences- . SUMMARY OF STATE SEWS. A misunderstanding occurred at Brownsville, the other day, between Messrs Wilson and Strand Long, in which the former stabbed the latter iu tho arm and side, w hile the latter shot a hole through one ear of the former. We wait particulars. Last week the Catholic Social Union of Portland gave a series of theatrical representations. They were eminently successful in every particular. Tho Multnomah county finances have become exhausted. Robert Newell, living near Cen terville, Washington county, had his hand torn off by catching it in the cylinder of a threshing ma chine. Messrs. Parker Sc Morris put on board the cars ten tons of wheat on Tuesday, destined for Chillicothe, Ohio, to be used by agriculturists of that vicinity for seed. The wheat will be forwarded by rail from Sun Franoisco to its destination, and will cost the farmers there prbably three dollars per bushel. Yirgil Newsome of Marion county has been discharged from the insane asylum, as sound in body and mind. The Portland Post Office has been transferred to Fifth and Yamhill streets. The La Grande Sentinel reporter visited the Union county fair grounds a few days ago and found President Caviness and Directors McAlister and Rogers busily engag ed in flooding the track. They have lengthened the track to a full mile; have plowed it up and elevated the turns; will soon erect a new judge's stand, and are making the most am ple "preparations for the coming fair, and they are the boys that know how and havo the will to do these things, which they find necessary to bo done iu order to secure success. The Y. M. C. A. is to publish a paper called The Helper. The Asso ciation intends also holding divine services in a tent at the State Fair. A new township of land has just been survej-ed in Clatsop county, near the head of Lewis and Clarke river. It is reported to be good bot tom lands along the river, and level table lands. Here is a chance for 141 families to secure homes, on a navigable stream emptying into the finest harbor in the world, near one of the best markets on the coast. Mrs. E. V. Henderson, tf Amity, Yamhill county, has made 143 pounds of butter in ninety days, from the milk of three ordinary cows usirg three-fourths of the milk; com mencing on the Sth of May, 1675. According to the statistics of im ports into Portland, 2ublished by the Commercial Jteporlcr, thero were imported into tiiis city for the first eiht months of the present year 13 4U1 boxes of candles. The Lafayette Courier avoeates a new county jail. "Just think, four men in a cage GxS feet." Messrs. Moore &, Parker, of this city, (Albany) are having two large 40-inch water wheels cast at the Portland foundry one of them to be used in a saw mill in King's val ley and the other in one at Oregon City. A party of three men have latelv discovered gold placer mines on a small stream that heads up at Mount Hood. The new flouring mill, in Thye valley, Wasco county, is in operation. John Creel, who lives at Sating Hill, (Devil's Point) three miles be low Albany, has a 12 acre hop field, and expects to extend it several acres next year. It will undoubtedly be a paying enterprise. . M. P. Bull, of this city, has pur chased the Pendleton '7Vi7op, "for merly owned by "Crazy" Abbott, and will resume its publication about the Is olt next month. Success to him. On last Saturday the warehouses occupied by Messrs. Fverdinn- Farrell and the wharf belonging to C M. Carter and Gov. G rover were destroyed by fire. Both fully insur ed. Capt. Auld, Master of tho ship City of York,' wishing to express in a substantial manner las gratitude to the Portland Fire Department for cmviciii otft il-b leiiaerou iv them on the occasion of his vessel's narrow escape from burning, on Sat urday last presented to Chief Engi neer Hal lock, a gold badge bearing eompiimemary ami appropriate inscription. a. mspateli was received on the nth liy Uen. Michler reporting that the supply of water at New Dungi ness light station had been exhaust el, which necess talf d the stonnin" of tho fog whistle. Tho keeper h; s been directed to strike the fo? bell until more Water is obtained. There is never much rain falls at this place. The Salem Mercury says the wharf at the farmers' warehouse has been completed and turned over to the company by the contractor. It is a commodious and substantial struc ture, 1C0 feet in length and 4C feet wide, with a large bulkhead at. the upper end filled with gravel to pro tect it from drift-wood. On the wharf is a freight sh.d, '.)0x40 feet, with a chute from the warehouse ou the bank above, tunneled under the street, running into. it. A good road has been graded down the bank and planked and railed in tho most sub stantial manner, and everything is now in readiness to handlc'with ease and expedition the enormous quanti ties of wheat stored in tho ware house. The mammoth ox of Lost river is on his way to the Oregon State Fair and attracts a great deal of notice, lhe Jacksonville Sentinel thinks he will weigh 5,000 pounds when made fat, but he has"been reduced for tra vel and brings the scales down now at 4.C00 pounds. He is 10 hands high and i3 probably the largest an imal of this kind in tho world. A solid chunk of coal, weighing C,000 pounds, was recently shipped to San Francisco from tho Newport mine on Coos Bay. Parties are making four dollars a day to the hand, mining on the San tiam. "Washington county Fair will com mence on next Monday. I zrr?r?s5wai li'i(llcii-nA,l f- i- i ujh v v-l. IOOK Ollf rT M claim on the Klamath river tlr ,r in three day ana a half, oe"tn5S and forty ounces, or ah.mt o. 1 -L ins ciaim can ue s "big." aid to b0 paVin Ouite a serious lpiivfi his lionsp. 'Tln'o 4'. i.io i lm'V lY.t,,,.7 it q tho fracas, Duiic.iu waVarui on the head with a rock U n,,-. i At t: seizeu a kihio ana struck il,i.,. Isadore. Tho knife penetrated t'"" back iart of th lw.-.'- ii ' ' i ,!0 and was drawn down over t'c -LoV der to the chest, making n f. wound and nearly half srvoritw tl lieshy part of thenock from the trir' ai lai ma ij is me -v.onrjiieu was expected to recover. The Mcrciny says: In the shun- - window at U. .Martin's can k seven pieces of silverware intr-rule for special premiums in the bili,-.s department at the State Eair.G Th,v consist of one butter dish, two vas one ice-pitcher, one card stand un,' one card basket. They are all ,.f new and elegant design having been selected from a large lot of new sam ples of new styles of goous sent out bv one of the mist p(jl.l,rit,-,i ..v.! ITJ.iim- facturers of silverware in the East. These articles, in connection with the eighteen gold and silver medals manufactured for the Association -at a cost of about 500, will form an attractive exhibition in the pavilion during the Fair. Salem is trying to organize a bout club. Jacob G. Nesley, one of the oldest settlers of Grande Rondo valley. ditd at his residence near La Grande, on September 13th, in tho Cith year of his age. He wasa native of Virginia, but emigrated to Oregon and so-Ukvl in Columbia county in 1S55. The Oregon !an say.-;: On Monday Sheriff J cilery was served with a no tice that tho U. S. Marshal word I file, on the 2it!i inst., a good .. sufficient bond to faithfully conrdy with the law in the cast; now ptiil .:i in the State circuit court in th mat ter as to v. ho is legally entitled to hold passession of the bricdevard of Win. Jones, in K pivsent the proportv is br-in iointlv iiel.l by the Snvriif and Marsha!. If on Thursday, the Mar.-hall tiles a bond which shall meet with the ap proval of the Sheriff, iLut officer will surrender tho possession of the prop erty into, the crtody of Mar.d.ld Malarkey until the disputed question is settled by the proper tribunal. At Corvallis, on the morn:ng?of the 10th a lire was discovered int!.e rear of A. Cauthorn Sc 'o.'s sh ro, which rapidly spread to ii.e i ar of Fisher's two-story briVIc, :it:d m ( n found its way through the back v, ir. dows of the brick, as well n ihr-r-iu'li the roof, making considerable head way before it was got under conti-ch Losses: Cauihoni A- Co.. m-vrl- ' dise, total; Allen Woodward, drugs, partial insurance; S. li'. Ibompso-n, dry-.?otds :md groeork-s heavy, some iusrr;inee; Max Frie'-d-i . . -i ii i, eonsiuei.u,rv; iiisurar.ee known; Masonic jod ,'., 1,SS 1 1.0! re- ruo-vai aim water, serious ; Odd i'..d lows' lodge, same; I'l. Flsht r ,-;. store, total los-: insurance ;;r.( : brick building: impossible to r ; loss at present; h-sui-anc;-. ;'-".",''':' Supposed to have been the work , ' an incendhu-y. The Assessor of Wa-liingfon conm his made his return, and'from it th IudpewJent gathers the folloui&.r county statistics: Number of voters, 1.-J05 : legal voters til war? and upward, 1.573; under I'l nrd over 10 years, 738; under lit vca- 82S; total mules, 2'30; niirilW females IS years and upward. !.':': under IS and over JO -J5J- r-rd " I 5G; total females, 2, 20 2. 830; total nonufition t- i;.l n;dt-- .V.17: of land in cultivation '::7.S24: r.r.tu ber bushels of wheat raist d. i.'u.'.1: oats. 251.'t70; bnrl'-y, 1.305: rv27": tons of hav, 7,74; "pourds . f vx-rd. 48,021: bushels of corn 2 37 r-.: i toes, 42,.r.l;0 apples, 40,::,, 10,170; hogs, 7.640; horses, ::-: i ( ' mules, M; rattle, j. tobacco 557,000: of I umbo 1 1.- pounds of cheese.' '1 pounds of butter. 05.28-i The assessment of Linn co:;:.t--for the yf-ar .1875 U completed a's! the tax levy made. Last year the taxable property' of. the county.. returned by the assessor, footed" r. .?4, 505, 770; and the levy was L"1.; mills on the dollar, of which amor.i.t the State claimed 5j mills. and the School fund 3 mijis, 'leaving for county purposes. , From that sum of 7 mills - the :cnni;tv ft'itli-ri-tic paid over -820. 00t of ' indebted ness, and at the close of the fiscal year, ending July 1, 1875, had $U.-r 4G 77 remaining in the treasury. The - taxable property for this yenr is returned by the assessor at t-U.'J--108, being J?5S0,5S0 less than ht-t year; but it must be remembered that the property of Linn county was assessed last year higher than almost any other countv in "the Shite while this year it looks a little lik the assessor had . gone to the etaer extreme, making tho assessment re markably low. Tho Jfemccrat savs. e The Gentlkmax rr.o-.i 1tvooxia. It is a fact' worthy of remark thai somo of the oldest journali.-ts iu t'-c State have stumbled into th2 same slough that we have concerning the pedigree of the editor of the Salem Statesman. Indignant . at our ignor ance concerning so prominent a per sonage, he informs us in an cnr:i?l paragraph that he has been here ever since 152! Who cares? It's a pitv, however, that the modesty whu-a prompted him to hide his brilliant under a bushel for twi-uty-thre.; years was not sudieieutly inbred to keep him thero forever. A Power, lx the Laml-As we predicted, the dailv Mercmy is a pa- per to which Democrats may reKi with pride. Tho initial number is a r.-v-,"ii ir ita Ti-iT- nnil for the mani fest enterprise, ' Bro. BrUtow is de serving alike of congratulations and thanks. - All our Universities and .Cees Lave some fettled religion. Union on last Saturday' 'o"'?: Vn Two half-breeds nami-a 3iv, and Isadore went to the housL' of "U Duncan, a carpenter who lives U outskirts of the town, and b.,." quarrel. Duncan orders! ti.t''n.a ilTi i':ir i . or v.-. r