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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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