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& i THE ENTE RPfflSE, OREGON CITY, OREGON, 0 'democratic ticket. lor Congress, LAFAYETTE LANE, G Of Douglai CoiiMty. Lane, Perikeratic Hon. F. Lane, uenyrauc canui- dato for Congress, will aalress nis lei low citizens at the following times and nlaces. to-wit: Pendleton October Weston La Grande Union " Ifciker City Canyon City 11th 12th 15th ltith 18th 21st. Opposing candidates are invited to Join mm. Factory Labor and Free Trade. "We carry the war into Carthage, and take tho eround that the condi tion of that very factory hand who is supposed to exist only during pro tection, would be greatly improved under a free trade system. Even Bio. Whitney, a rabid protectionist, tells us that one half the Pennsylva nia iron workers aro iu favor of free trade, and so it is throughout the whole manufacturing union. The producing half being invariably high tariff men, while those who work up the production are staunch free trade advocates. Those men for instance, who manufacture from thj iron ore, ploughs nails, horse shpes and ihe like, are Jo a man in favor of the re peal of the duty on metal, that they may thus be enabled to s4l for lower prices, piace more to thelown cred it in the bank, and give iNter wages to their employees. Odo of the lead ing arguments of the high tariff par ty is that in order to secure for the working man, the highest possible wages it beeomes necessary to pro tect the industries in whicjh he is en gaged! The moralist teVi us that high pay alone does nvf promote happiness among the toil.Ag masses, and especially not where good wages will not buy as much as low wages elsewhere. Our mill operative undoubtedly receives more money for his labor than his brother in Europe for similar - T 1 L . 1 ll . 1? worn, uui we muse ax, me .sanie ume bear in mind the difference in rents, clothing, in fact of all the necessa ries of life. If the tariff simply pro tected labor without affecting their every day wants, then indeed would tho millenium bo nearj at hand; strikes and panics wouldj cease, and prosperity smile on us from every quarter, lo reconcile high wages and cheap living would make lasting peace between the employer and em ployee, and shelve forever the recon dite theorizings of the political econ omist. But it is here iwe find tho rough side of our protective system. juveryming mas we are la necessity compelled to use, is so burdened with taxation, that despite tLje American faetory hand's high wages', he has the greatest diflicult'even in. ekeing out a bare existence. Tho war between capital and labor is as bitterly waged in our country as it is atiywlrere in the manufacturing world. It is not because the wages, intrinsically, are not sufficiently large but because they aro not enough to buy actual sustenance. The wages earned hero by a man, if sent abroad, would soon make wealthy men of the recipients. Take the Chinese on this coast; the comparatively exorbitant price we pay them for their musclo is not squandered in purchasing heavily taxed importations or Lighly pro tected domestic goods, but is nig gardly saved, and eventually takeu to China where it can be enjoyed, where in fact its possessor can live for the rest of his days in idleness and sans souci. The professors of high tariff have literally failed to establish happiness or peace among tho laboring classes. Strikes now are of such common oc currence that they aro looked upon as a permanent feature in the ramifi cations of our maufaeturing inte -ests Indeed tho manufacturer is compell ed, in his books, to take into consid eration the contingencies of strikes. So long as wo depend upon foreign countries, so long will we be unable to regulate our markets. The slight est foreign fluctuation ve sensibly feel. If by some combination cot ton or wool rises in England, our markets inevitably respond by fol lowing suit, even if our warehouses and stores are glutted with goods. It is then that our merchants talk of a "firmer tono" in the market and immediately demand higher prices Xot why is it that foreign specula- lations affect the market of a com paratively non-exporting country like ours? "We simply answer be cause of protection. When foreign goods rise in price the domestic roar ufacturer then runs up his price! proportionately, and the poor labor ? ii. - icg luaa, wio principal consuinerL because shut oui from' competition with foreign productions, is th chief sufferer. One would natural! suppose that competition among ou manufacturers would Vad to lo- prices. So it would wef sthat rivalr of a healthy nature. U ie compet tion now existing has developed species of cut-throat business, an from the fact that labor is made marketable article, upon the wortt ! ljlBER 8, 157a man fall ail the ills in the struggle between the manufacturers for su premacy. Verily the American fac tory hand is the puppet of the man ufacturer, and until protection is overcome he will never know either prosperity or freedom. - The True State of the Case. "Imagine" says the Yamhill He porter "Lafayetee Lane flaring up and leaving the Halls of. Congress as he left Granger Hall, here, the other night. "Wouldn't Oregon be nicely represented?" In the name of common sense are wo to compare the blattering Dr. Watts and the hissing geese who packed Granger Hall, with the gen tlemen who occupy seats in the Na tional House of Representatives? For the moment, supposing Mr. Lane should "flare up" in Congress, would not that be less objectionable to a people who wish to have a voice in the management of affairs, to a man like the Republican candidate who would sit, session in and session out, like a comatose nonentity? We have no doubt that ever Mr. Warren himself felt ashameu of his McMinnville supporters and -even had Mr. Lane been without other cause, the nature of the company was bad enough to justify his leaving it. Rut uufrtunately for the Yam hill Reporter ho had other reasons for leaving classic Granger Hall, and announced them, fortunately for himself, before the close of Jiis siieech. lie informed his hearers that the weak stato of his health, and the utter impossibility, on ac count of urgent business, of his re maining to hear the whole of Dr. Wratts' answer. This he made known as a matter of courtesy to Dr. Watts, not wishing that gentleman to con sider him so far forgetful of the rules of politeness as to offer an inten tional insult. Mr. Warren's proxy took advantage of the rostrum to twist history into most unnatural shapes in order to apply to his argu ment; to this, Mr. Lano very justly demurred and in language appropri ate for the offence. He then left the Hall. Watts denonncing, and the well trained flock from the office of the Reporter hissing their teeth out. This we beg permission to state is the true state of the case. Southern Oregon's Vote. We have encountered coolness in various forms and degrees, but the last blast from the Oregonian in which it says that Southern Oregon will give a majority for Warren, out chills even the marrow-freezing cur rents of Labrador. We can almost imagine tho "oh yes," ironical gri maces which distorted Rrother nill's face when he laughingly penned such a patent absurdity. The assertion is so essentially silly that the "plain blunt man, who is no orator as Brutus is" should carry a Democratic stronghold that we are constrained to look upon it either as a piece of subtile sarcasm or an Ore gonian attempt at the ludicrous. Of the many tangible instruments we have at hand for the demolish ing of such tottering structures, none perhaps will better affect tho purposo in few words than the fol lowing from tho Bedrock Democrat: All accounts from Southern Ore gon agree in predicting for Hon. L. F. Lane a very large majority south of the Calipooia mountains. We have a letter from there of a recent date stating that he will receive in the six counties of that region at least one thousand majority, while an enthusi astic Southern Oregon man with whom we have recently conversed puts the figures as high as fourteen- hundred! Of course some allow ance must be made for the partiality ol our informants, but it is plainly evident that Mr. Lane will receive an enormous vote in his own reerion of tho State. He is most popular where best known something which cannot always be said of politicians or candidates for office. Petition to Congress. The following is tho petition adopted by the State Grange to be circulated among the citizens of Or egon and Territories for signatures: To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representative of the Un ifed States in Congress assembled: Your memorialists, the Patrons of Hus bandry of the State of Oregon, Washington and Idaho Territories, respectfully and most earnestly peti tion your honorable bodies to appro priate from the funds of the United States the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars for the con struction of locks and canal around the Cascades of the Columbia river. and that the work on the same be or dered to be pushed forward as rap idly as possible. And further that on account of the extensive district and laborious du ties of the government engineer of this district, wo further pray that a special engineer be appointed bv proper auiuority to make any addi tional surveys necessary to superin tend the work, and the expenditure of the moneys so appropriated es pecially in reference to the improve ment above mentioned; and vour memorialists will ever pray as in duty bound. Rciior. It is rumored that Syd ney Dillon, Jay Gould and Oliver Ames, now on their way to this coast intend looking into the practicability of building a railroad over the pro posed route of the Portland, Dalles and Salt Lake Railroad. Round trip tickets for persons going from all parts of the country to the Centennial are to be is3aed at a reduction of 25 per cent. Is He a Carpet-Bagger I The editor of the Statesman became very indignant when we termed him a carpet-bagger, and claimed a resi dence in our state since 1852, and to show that he was very materially in terested in the welfare of Oregon, proposed to compare tax receipts with us, intimating that he had. large landed estates, and that his knowl edge of the busines men and the pol iticians of Oregon was not surpassed, if equalled, by any one. We care but little who this conceited individ ual is, or from whence he came; but knowing that a falsehood was out, we sought to ascertain whether he actually told the truth or not, and for that purpose we rna&e inquiry among the old Oregonians of this place as to who ho is and what he had been engaged in for so many years, but co'ald gain no information. Having been in Oregon since 1857, andno' entirely unknown, it has been our privilege to meet most of the prominent citizens of Oregon, of both parties, during that time, but to our great surprise, we have never even heard of this rich Radical editor. So much for a preface. Now let us get down to the facts in the case, and before we get through we shall not only attempt to convince tho people that the editor of tho Statesman is a carpet-bagger, but is now engaged as a "gay aud festivo deceiver." The person who bought the States man is an old citizen of Harrisburg, engaged in the milling business, and has some wealth to boast of. The editor of the paper and for whose benefit it was bought is a carpet bagger from Nebraska, where he formerly published a paper. For some reason his name does not ap pear in connection with tho paper, but the rich brother is made to stand sponsor for the concern, and on this wealth the imported carpet-bagger places his claims to having an inter est in Oregon and holding enormous tax receipts. This is Radical cheek for you, and could only be expected from a person who, instead, as claim ed by him, being a resident of Ore gon for 23 years, has been an impe cunious wanderer from State to State during that period. Tho question of wealth and length of residence here has nothing to do with the wel come we are ready to give to all; but when a wandering tramp assumes to bluster and boast over a matter to which the true condition of things is entirely foreign, the mask should be removed and the deceiver exposed to the public. Will not the editor of the States7ian publish his tax receipts and tho places ho has lived for the twenty-three years just passed? It would give interesting reading mat ter to his paper. It would bo such a fine thing to claim an interest in the tax receipts of his wealthy brother-in-law at Salem. It would, show to a better advantage, and make the list so much larger. Put in the rich brother's receipts in Eastern Oregon. As well take in the whole family. -o- m Justice to Catholics. In a late great speech in the Ohio canvass, Senator Thurman paid the following just tribute to the Catho lics: To hear a Radical stumper talk of the Catholic Church, one would think if he knew no better that all the members of that church are un der tho absolute dominion of their priests; that tho priest has but to point his finger, and his whole flock votes for the party to which he points. There never was a more tin founded assertion, never a greater libel pronounced against a body of American freemen. In matters of religion tho Catholic reverently re ceives the instructions of his spirit ual guide; in secular matters he acts as other men act, upon the dictates of his own judgment. There are tens of thousands of Catholics who vote and have always voted the Re publican ticket; and if the number of such votes is diminishing, it is not because of priestly domination, but because the spirit of Know Nothingism again stalks abroad and threatens to obtain complete posses sion of the Republican party. It is not many years since .Archbishop Hughes, of New York, and Arch bishop Purcell of Cincinnati, were open supporters of Lincoln's Admin istration, and were much applauded by the Republican leaders for that support. Then not one of those leaders was heard to utter a word about priestly interference in poli tics, or priestly domination. On the contrary these prelates were lauded to the skies by the Republican party, and their example everywhere cited as an inducement to Catholics to vote the Republican ticket. Nay, further, President Lincoln manifest ed his high regard for the Archbish op of New York by sending him on a mission to Europe, and the whole Republican party applauded the act. But did the course taken by those eminent prelates none more emi nent or better entitled to the regard of their flocks and of mankind con trol the Catholic vote? Every man is ready to say no; for it is as noto rious as the sun gives light to the earth, that the great body of Catho lics continued to vote as they had been accustomed to vote the Demo crats continued to be Democrats, and the Republicans continued to be Republicans. Mr. Sharon has tendered to Mrs. Ralston a suite of seven rooms in the Palace Hotel, with private ser vants, a private coaeh aud coachman so long as she may see fit to use them. Oft Color. The last issue of the Reporter reminds us of the mulatto who said "I aint no niggah! I'se only got de yallajanders." COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Catholics in Maryland. Mr. Lane is not the only public man persecuted on account of his re ligion as will be seen by the follow ing able remarks delivered at Balti more in favor of the Democratic can didate for Governor: The non. Reverdy Johnson in the course of his speech referred to the intolerance of those who based their objection to Mr. Carroll, the Demo cratic candidate for Governor, on re ligious grounds. His fitness for the office, said Mr. Johnson, unless this makes him unfit, no one questions or can question. Eis blood, like his faith, descends frcm one of the im mortal signers of the Declaration of Independence, who was from the first to the last universally respected and esteemed, and who died revered and beloved by tie good of every religious denomination. No man was so stupid or intolerant as to ob ject to him on account of his faith. If when he was attaching his name to the great charter of American lib erty, any member of the body had objected to his right to do so, be cecause he was a Catholic, the ob jection would have been treated with scorn and detestation. No such ob jection was interposed, and his union with tho other of those great and pure men was received with joy and approval, as tending to strengthen the great cause on which they had embarked. Is it not marvelous that in this ago of the world, and partic ularly in this country, such an ob jection should be countenanced by any sane man? I fray especially in this country, because our ancestors were so impressed with the duty and necessity of not interfering political ly with any man, on account of his religious faith, that in one of the first amendments to the Constitu tion, that were coeval with it, they provided that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." And it is believed that a like provision is contained in every Constitution. Have Catholics ever failed to be good citizens? All the duties of life public and private, tiiey discharge as fully as all other Christiana. During the war of our Revolution and tho one of 1812 with England, and that of 184G with Mexico, they hazarded life and fortune to maintain the prin ciples, which produced the first, and to maintain the rights of our govern ment in the two last. They stood shoulder to shoulder with Protes tants on every battle-field, which was often literally mired with their common blood. This exclusion from political rights for many long years prevailed in England to her dishon or and disgrace. It continued for a long time in consequence of tho in sane obstinacy of George III. But better counsels now prevail. The enlightened men of the present day in that country have seen tho injus tice of such an exclusion and have removed the shackles which enforc ed it. One of these statesmen, how ever a gentleman of rare ability and consummate scholarship, the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, is waging a war of pamphlets with Roman Cath olic Bishops, which is calculated to revive to some extent the political intolerance of the past. Ihavo no doubt that he thinks lie is doing what will promote the interests of his country and secure its safety. His doctrine is that the civil and po litical allegiance of the Catholic is due first to the Popo rather than to the Government under which he re sides and is protected. This in my judgment, is a gross error as applied to the present century. Considering all these things, I should think that the American, aware of them, when proposing to exclude the Catholic from political office because of his religion, would blush scarlet from very shame. The First Chinese Voter. We have repeatedly warned the white working men of California that the inevitable result of Radical teach ings and legislation would be to ele vate the Chinese into full peerdom with them, and besought them to bo guided in their political action by such consideration. But year after year they retained the Radicals in power, by their votes, and the evil consequences of their conduct will be ultimately realized by tho admis sion of the pig-tailed heathen into the ranks of the voting population, and the still further humiliation of the white working classes. For the first time in the history of the State, a Chinaman desecrated the ballot box, at the late election, be deposit ing his vote therein. This pioneer Celestial elector was Tim Wong, of Monterey, and he voted the Radical ticket, of course. Examiner. In the Field. In a private letter we are informed that non. James H. Slater has already made addresses at Summerville, Pendleton and Weston in Lafayette Lane's favor, and is de termined to continue tho labor of love. His speech on Friday last before a thousand Patrons of Hus bandry at their picnic grounds near Union was a mastsrly effort and en thusiastically received. It is pre dicted that if Lane's popularity throughout the State is anything like it is in Eastern Oregon, he will be elected by an immense majority. Protectionists will find instructive reading in the communication of a writer in the Providence Journal, whom the arrival of the British iron clad Bellerophen leads to the reflec tion that "although tho harbor of Newport is one of tho vory few on our coast that will admit such great ships, it has but one square-rigged ship. A hundred years ago a single firm there had fifty ships afloat on every navigable water, and tho com merce of the port exceeded that of New York." Public Speaking, Gov. L. F. Grover will address ) the citizens of Clackamas county at Stipp s school house, on Saturday, October 9th, at 1 o'clock p. xr. LETTER FROM. NEW YORK. From Our Regular Correspondent.! " New Yokk, Sept. 21," 1S75. The Democracy of the State of New York held their convention at Syracuse last Thursday, and nominat ed a ticket on a platform enunciating with a directness and energy that makes the blood tingle, the princi ples that indicate beyond all cavil the claims of tho Democratic party as being the only safe custodian and guardian of the public welfare and public honor. Free trade, hard mon ey, home rule, reform with deeds, not words, and hearty support and commendation of Tilden are its main features. Jefferson erected the statue of honesty, Tilden has restored it when overthrown by Radicalism and hidden by corruption. The equinoctial storm seems to have spread disaster of discomfort from Eastport to tho Rio Grande. Fires have been tho order of the day, and blankets have secured harmony at night in "these parts," the weath er being so cold. The four feet of water that covered tho streets of Gal veston havo subsided, leaving a mass of ruin where formerly stood a hun dred houses, several churches, and two bridges. Lynchburg and San Jacinto, all in Texas, wero half wash away. Snow fell on Mt. Washington in New Hampshire, and altogether the storm has been one of unusual severity. You are well aware of the great convenience of tho method of trans ferring cash by means of post-oflice money orders, how bills can be paid quickly and with little risk. Still better is tho method of paying and drawing drafts by telegraph; but the great difficulty has been in making it sufficiently secret, for it is often im portant, especially in government affahs, that transfers of money should be made at great distances and quite privately. The Gold Exchange has accomplished this by means of a cypher. For instance, a customer in Shaneateles, N. Y., or in Mooslarna guntic, Maine, or in Conshohocken, Pa., or in any other "financial cir cumference" (for that I suppose is tho opposite to "financial centre") telegraphs down to his broker at the New York Gold Exchange "Scotland Emily," which means "Sell at best rate one hundred thousand gold," or "Turkey Thomas Utah at Mulberry," which means "name very honest price for 5,000 new 5 per cent bonds at 1GJ." Tho Government seeing tho advantage of this system, ap pointed somo of the leading men of tho country, merchants and others, and some iiigh officials, a committee to devise a scheme. This they did, and a few evenings ago met at the Fifth Avenue Hotel to practice it. Each of tho committee supposed himself to bo a distant post-oftice, and each was given an "electrical generator," made of glass and shaped like a hollow inverted cone and the apex of tho cono was elongated in a narrow stem and then flattened out into a disk to enable the "generator" to bo placed upright on the tabla and not to be upset without human action when filled with the "patent dispatch fluid." The fluid was pour ed out from a vial of dark glass hold ing about a qnart and shaped like well, I don't know what you call 'em, but they generally have a tin foil over the corks, which have to be held in with a wire. This "dispatch fluid" is very volatile and a great many vials of it were consumed, even in experimenting on this one evening. Indeed, I heard one of the committee say afterward that the expense was the only objection to this method of "exchange." Then the "dispatch briefs" wero distributed, five to each member of the committee taking part in the "practice meeting." Then they began. On that evening I hap pened to be visiting a friend a gen tleman friend from Brooklyn, who stayed at tho Fifth Avenue Hotel. He staj-s thero waiting to go home. He can't go homo becauso the Brook lyn bridge is not yet finished. He does'nt like the ferry. He took a pre judice against it the other day, just becauso when he was coming over, the boat he was in ran into a schoon er loaded with bricks and the shock threw him overboard, and a man fishing him out with a big boat-hook ran it through tho calf of his leg. I told him that that was no reason for not going back, "for it is," said I, "highly improbable that tho boat will rnn into another schooner of bricks right away and you get knock ed overboard, or if you did that a man would run a boat-hook into your calf again." But ho said he didn't see it. Slow and sure was his motto, and as there was a good chance of the bridge being finished next year, or at the farthest in two vears, he thought he'd wait. "Besides," he said, "as my wife is a very smart woman and can take good care of the children, and best of all as we have never been to church there, she don't know any ministers, and as Beecher is awayin the White Moun tains, I feei quite easy." Tho Seattle Intelligencer, says very properly: "The legislature- should memorialize Congress for a daily mail service between the principal ports on the Sound; a weekly ocean mail service between San Francicso and the Sound; and appropriations for opening of the Skagit and other nav igable streams of the Territory. All these demands should be made by our Territorial Legislature; and they' ought to be conceded by the general government," ' SUMMARY Ol' STATE X.E1VS. A young woman ramed Walker committed suicide by blowing out her brains with a pistol ,at Harrisburg last week. Albanyeis to have street lamps. The number 1 of legal voters in Wasco county is 1,078; males of 21 years and upward, 1,133; males un der 21 and over ten, 475; males under ten years, 583; females of 18 years and upward, 75G; females under 18 years and over ten, 319; females un der ten years, 587. Total population of the "county, 3.85G. Number of acres under cultivation, 12,072; num ber of bushels of wheat raised during the year 1871, 40,510; number of bushels of oats raised, 41,750; num ber ef bushels of barley, 10,0S5; number bushels of rye. 2,080; num ber tons of hay, G,9S3; number pounds of wool 132,700; number ounces of gold dust, 42G; number bushels of corn, 2,715; number of sheep, 5G,577; number of hogs, 1,323; number of horses, 8,175; number of cattle, 47,910; number of pounds of tobacco, 1G5; number of bushels of potatoes, 20,405; number of bushels of apples, 24,195; number of feet of lumber, 040,000; number of barrels of salmon, 80; number of mules, 142; number of pounds of butter, 50,315; number of pounds of cheese, 720. In Y'amhill county the number of acres of land is 250,132 s ; value of land, $1,207,320; railroad, land, 15, 350 acres; ;value, $81,250; value of town lots, $29,855; improvements, $309,909 ; merchandise, etc. , 251 ,210 ; money, notes, etc., 8544,910; house hold goods, etc., 8133,835; number of horses and mules, 3,750; value, 8179,710; number of cattle, 8,49G; value, S7G,500; number, of sheep, 22, 484; value, 33,310; number of swine, 0,002; value, .9,820; gross value of all, 2,948,910; indebtedness and ex empt, 902,115. Wo learn that some of S. Booth's fine running horses will be on hand to compete for the purses offered at the Yreka Fair. Also that horses from Jackson and Lake counties will be there. Senator Mitchell has nominated Russell Truitt, of Polk county, to a scholarship in the medical college of Louisville, Kentucky. Typhoid fever is prevalent through out the State. General Lane will speak in behalf of his son at Eugene on Tuesday next. Ben Ilolladay and wife have left for Oregon. Superintendent Watkinds offers a reward of 200 for the apprehension and delivery of an escaped convict named James Brown. Gov. Grover has commissioned i Col. W. W. Chapman delegate from Oregon to the National Railroad Convention, to be held at St. Louis the 23d of next month. The object of the convention is to try to settle upon certain measures of internal improvement that may be pressed with expectation of success before Congress. In Portland, on Saturday evening, a se-jille occurred between Major Johnson, of E.ist Portland,' and J.W. Kelly, of the Evening Journal. Mr. Kelly being a small man, was roughly handled. Johnson was fined 2) and costs. There is a big row in progress at Forest Grove concerning tho case of small-pox. Gamblers aro flocking to Salem. Two largo "tigers" are to be on exhi bition during the Fair. The escaped convict, Brown, has not yet been captured. There are 120 pupils in tho Jack sonville district school. Circuit Court for Yamhill county is in session this week. A two-horse stage is now rnn be tween Baker City and Boise. According to the census the popu lation of Jacksonville is about 700.'' An Indian girl, in a camp near Dallas, was burned so badly last week that she died in a few 'hours after. Twelve thousand bushels of wheat were raised on Mr. R. R. Thompson's farm in Yamhill county this year. The Odd Fellows of Malheur City have a neatly-furnished and comfort able hall in which their meetings are held. After running the Baker City Her ald for one year, W. S. James wound up the business of the concern and gracefully retired on the 29th ult. The streets of the town of AYeston are left wider than they were before the fire destroyed tho village. The burnt district is well built up again. Amity is to have a newspaper, the first number of which will appear in about two weeks. Mr. Hammond, formerly of tho Dallas Kemizer, will bo the proprietor. A letter from Gird's creek, about 120 miles southeast of the Dalles, says this section i? chiefly noted for its abundance of bunch grass and water, which maxes it a lirst-class stock raising country, and one of the most beautiful places in Eastern Or egon. A hop yard of seven acres and of two years growth, at Eola, belonging to Mr. Becket, turned out 10,000 pounds of hops this season, which brought the owner 1,000. Pretty good for hops. That's a paying bus iness, farmers. A citizen of Oakland killed three bears last week. Another citizen of the same town killed one. Captain Kelly informs tho Sentinel that they are taking quartz of a su perior quality out of their mines on Grave Creek, and have been running an arastrafor the last three weeks, but have not yet make a clean up. He is sanguine that the ore they are now crushing will yield handsome returns. Tho Platndealer calls attention to the fact that an error was male in the published report of the assess ment of Douglas county. It should be: Valuation of land, 1,275,409, instead of 275,4G9, as reported; val uation of horses and mules,108,GSG, instead of S108.G0G; valuation of sheep, 229,549, instead of 226,549. Total valdation of property $2,743, 138, " .. r ..... .... . . . TF.LECKAI'IIIC XfcWs. Washington, Oct. 1.-Friend nf Secretary Bristow, who is still absent deny that late appraiser Ham ri Chicago, was removed because cuiiunui """vuo kjii inu rjccretir but in consequence of statement" made to Bristow by members of tl last Chicago custom-house conimi'J! sion that Ham was intimate with an "'l defended the ring, which was spGCu lating on the government iu tj " custom-house construction there Postmaster - General Jewell 'ha written to the political managers in Alabama that he must have5 "ool men for appointments to resnont,MC. places, and prefers good Democrats to bad Republicans. Columbus Delano in his letter to the President assigns as one reason for his resignation, the exhausting labor which his fidelity to his duties Las demanded.' An examination of the official career of Delano shows that he has furnished one of the most conspicuous illustrations of absentees ever known in the Government ser vice. A careful scrutiny of the record of time devoted by Secretary Delano to the Government business in Wash ington during the four years he was Secretary, proves that in that time he was in Washington exactlv two years, one month and seventeen daya. It is forty-two per cent of the period of his administration considerably less than half tho time. The com pensation paid to Mr. Delano for tbe time he was absent from his duties aggregated 1G,933. There is a good deal of apprehen sion in the Navy and Treasury de partments on account of the news from California as to the condition of affairs in the navy paymaster's office at San JFrancisco. For several years, in consequence of political in fluence reaching into the Senate of the United States, an. adventurer, named G. M. Pinney, has been re tained in oflice as purchasing clerk of the navy in California, and his hold was so firm that the pay corps of thenavy'knew none of their corps' number, and could not accept a de tail to San Francisco without accept ing Pinney as an oflice fixture. About the 1st of September he ab sconded in his own steamer with a female, leaving his family and a host of creditors behiud. It is understood that certificates of indebtedness to about 800,000 have been discovered " to have been hypothecated in San Francisco. Terke Haute, Oct. 1. The advo cates of more greenbacks were rather staggered by the announcement that the directors of the National State Bank are deliberating the proposition to rednce the circulation one hun dred thousand dollars, having more than that lying idle which they can not use safely. Chicago, Oct. 2. A Washington special says Grant's lengthy speech at Des Moines is construed in but one way among nearly all classes of politicians, and that is that he does not return to private life in 1S7C. The speech was not particularly call ed for, as he has remained silent on a good many more important occasions. He has also been slowly making his cabinet over in compliance with the popular standard. In his own opin ion he is one of the few statesmen of the age, and he believes that the en tire country rests upon his shoulders, lie has latterly, in conversation with his friends, indicated an interest in public affairs that denotes a great change in his mind. No one in the past has ever carried the burdens of the Presidential ofiice easier. He has been absent from this cit- ever since. the middle of May, this year, and will not return hero until the middle of October. During his ab sence he has attended to nothing hilt the petty routine of small appoint ments and has really had less care upon his mind than an average treas ury clerk. In Gen. Howard's recent report to war department on our possessions in Alaska, it is shown that tu Gov ernment now pays 3G,000 per annum for twelve monthly tiips of a mail steamer between Port Townsend, or Portland, Oregon, and the port of Sitka, in Alaska. It prives the half dozen official individuals of that place the sole benefit of this expend iture on the part of the Government and is an exceeding injustice to the inhabitants of Kodiak, Bolkosku, Ounalaska, Unga and St. Micheals, all of which have a thousand times more trade than Sitka, and the first three villages have twice the popula tion of tho town in question. This 30,000 per annum, now literally wasted, would rnn a small revenue steamer, and, instead of being a drain on the treasury, would result in law, order and protection. It is also an unwarranted waste of public money, this moving the troops up to and down from Sitka every two or three years, with the increased cost of their supplies counted in. Washington, Oct. 2. Receipts from internal revenue to-dav, 34", 477; for the fiscal vear to date, 29, 289,087; from customs to-dav, S3S2, 070; for fiscal year to date, 04,425, 714. rinuDELrwA, Oct. 2. The Stato of Ohio has commenced the erection of its building in the centennial grounds. Similar buildings will he put up by Massachusetts, Connecti cut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsyl vania, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Kansas and Missouri. The commission to treat for the Black Hills reached Fort Laramio from Red Cloud to-dav on their way East. The attempt to obtain tho Hills was a failure, the Indians Iiola ing out for fabulous sums. Northern Indians weae leaving, and very had temper prevailed among the several bands. Washington, Oct. 3. Postoffice discontinued Walton, Whitman Go. WT. T. Postmasters appointedH. Eckerman, Sweet Home, Linn Co., Oregon; Marcellus Hun toon, I ort Angeles, Clallam Co., W. T. New Yokk, Oct. 3.-The famous trotting mare American Girl fell deaa yesterday afternoon in the first heat free for all ages. Salt Lake, Oct. 3.-President Grant arrived here this afternoon. He was met at Ogden by the Gov ernor and other oilicials and citizens, and also bv Brigham Young ana party, all of whom accompanied hi to Salt Lake.- Chicago, Oct. 5.-The Colorado Ring, under Schaffenburg has been discovered to have robbed tua Government money,. . of immense sums O
