THE ENTEBPfHSE.
OREGON CITY, OKEl'.OX, SEPT. 21, 175.
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F'oi Congress,
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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