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THEJNTE OKEGOJ CITi-, OR t'GO.V, OCTOBER 11. 1S75 DEMOCRATIC TICKET. For Congress, LAFAYETTE LANE, Of Douglai Count-. IU11LIU SilAKINU. lion. 1j. V. Lane, Democratic candi date for Congress, will address his 1'el low citi7.ens at the following times and places. tcHwit : Biker t'itv October lth Canyon City " -1st. Opposing candidates are invited to join him. VOTE!! Upon the people of Oregon, the election now at hand devolves an im perative dnty. Every good citizen must remember the importance of the work before him. Wo do not make this appeal merely as perfunc tory discharge of duty, but in deep appreeiatiou of the obligation incum bent upon us, by reason of the posi tion u public journal holds in coun selling the peoplo in matters apper taining to their welfare. It is our duty to nrouso citizens to a sense of their obligations at this time, and to endeavor to infuse into them a warm vital interest in their own affairs. We look upon it as of less consequence how or for whom you vote than that you do vote. The legal voter who wilfully neglects to go to the polls and cast hi ballot, no matter for what party, covuaits an unpar donable sin, partaking in its nature of a parricidal crime against his country. The troublo with our po litical system is the growing indif ference, if not to say aversion with which certain classes regard the ma chinerv of elections. Certain of our farmers say they can't afford to lose a whole day by travelling miles mere ly to cast their votes, and others that this election is only f or an un expired term and of no great impor tance. Such lukewarm, indifferent meu are the kind wo hope to reach and arouse. The election before us is perhaps at first sight of minor in terest, but when we look beyond mere appearances, wo tind it pregnant with events of a most important type. It is the harbinger of the great pres IvVutial election which will soon claim our attention, and which ever party now manifests the superior strength, that party will be the dom itant power, not only in this State, but throughout the United States in 187G. From this election we are to learn whether the Oregonians en dorse corruption and extravagance, or wlu-thei they repudiate the Radi cal office-holders and yearn for a ca llable and economical government. Wo consider the- cause of our politi cal troub.es tho neglect by citizeus to exercise the elective franchise. This neglect is violating a duty, and there is no necessity of quoting from ancient history to show that it is the logical antecedent of tho ruin of the republic. The peoplo of Oregon are within n few days of an election whoso importance to d.preeiate would be a crime. Voters, let noth ing interfere with your being t the polls. Democrats, we most earnest ly call upon to recollect your duties, cheer up your indifferent neigbor, create an enthusiasm within vour party ranks, and we will carry this State by a majority that shall ever be a by-word in its political history. The Same Thing Again. Wo see it stated that Senator Mitchell (generally called by the Urenoiiian, Hippie) is canvassing Eastern Oregon for Mr. Warren What a glorious spectacle! Hill and Mitchell workiug for the success of the same man! Which has surren dered, Hill ov Mitchell? That is the question now. If Mr. Mitchell can come all the way from Washington aid Warren (and we think it would havo been better for him to have stayed away) is it not a natural sup position that if Warren is elected it would be an endorsement of Mitchell and a condemnation of the Oregonian crowd? It nr-t assuredly will be. But there is no danger. The people ouce sinched a Hippie candidate, and they will d so again on the 23th of October. Warren is the nominee. not of the Oi jonian clique, but of the Custom-house Ring, and his sue cess would bo a defeat to the former. while it would be a most complete endorsement of the latter. But while the people aro at the business of re pudiating their "beloved" Senator, they may as well give the Oregonlan a taste of their disapprobation of treason and treachery. It is a strange thing to the uniuformed in the mys teries of Radicalism how such gentle doves as Mitchell and Hill can lie down together and sleep in the same political couch. Bat the rest will be short, not sweet, and on the 25th of October these laborers of love for the same object will rise to read the verdict of the people: "No Mitchell- Hippie; ro Oregon um treachery Roth repudiated and forever con demned." This shall be the verdict! Wall.v Walla. Fair. We ac knowledge tho receipt of a compli mentary ticket for the fiist annual fair of the Walla Walla county Ag ricultural Society. From what we bear, we predict in every particular a succensf ul fair. Radical Deception. The Radicals are attempting to create the impression in the minds of the peojne that tlie present Admin istration is in favor of hard money as the currency of the country. This is the most barefaced piece of impu dence we Lave ever known a party to be guilty of. Its whole history givesi the lie to this profession. In the first placa it was the Radical party which brought into existence the rag-money. In the next instance, when it was well known that a judi cial decision as to the legality of the trash would be adverse to it, the Administration packed the Supreme Court in order to get a favorable de cision in its behalf. This would in dicate that the Radical paTty was in favor of the present currency with out further evidence.' But that is not all. Finding that its financial policy was unpopular before the peo ple, a Radical Congress niado a false pretense toward resumption, and an nounced to the people that in 1879 they would resume specie payment! and at the same time did nothing calculated to bring about this end, but passed an act to regulate bank ing. This act provides for the issu ance of nearly double the amount in bank notes more than there is in ex istenca in greenbacks. To make the point more plain, when a person has U. S. Bonds to deposit they can get bank notes to the amount of 90 per cent, on the amount deposited, while the Government retires 80 per cent, of the greenbacks. Thus it will be seen that should the -whole amount of the present issue of greenbacks be supplanted by bank notes, the coun try would havo ten per cent, more than tho currency now out. These bank notes are the same as green backs, they being a circulating rag money. This act was passed the same session the resumption bill was, and shows the hypocrisy of the party in power on this great question. The fact is, the Radical party is managed and controlled by the financial sharks of the country, and for their benefit this infamous banking system was passed. If we are to have rag-money in circulation, it is just as well to have it direct from the Government as to allow, while the people are pay ing interest on tho bonds, tho credit of tho Government for the payment of the notes. Wo say, if there is to be paper money in circulation, for which the Government is responsi ble, let it be issued by the Govern ment, and not by money sharks. This Mould not bo so barefaced a fraud if tho bonds, when deposited in the U. S. vaults would cease bear ing interest. But as the financial policy of the Government is now car ried on, the bondholders secure in terest on the bonds deposited, and have tho Government endorse for them on a paper currency, on which they realize interest in addition to tho bonds deposited. To this indis criminate banking system tho . De mocracy object as seriously as they do to. further inflation. Tho Democ racy is opposed to making anything but gold and silver the currency of the country, and when they shall again take charge of the management of our Government, it will return to the only propei currency, which is gold and silver. But while we may be in favor of the return to specie payment, it is necessary for the Government to do its part toward it, so that the country may not be thrown into bankruptcy. This can only bo done by retrench ment and reform in the management of our General Government, and as long as Radical extravagance prevails, so long will it bo utterly impossible to return to specie payment. Let us then, have a change in the National Administration, and with it will come e blessings of economy and a re turn to the fundamental principles upon which our system of govern ment was established by the fathers of our country. This can never be under Radical rule. Corruption, in competency, tlislionesty and extrava gance are too deeply seated within its organization, and the peonle must drivo it from power or the country is lost. Tlie Prospect?. I- rom every part of the State we have the most cheering news of the probable result of tho approaching election. In Southern Oregon, the Democracy will have a larger major ity than ever before. Marion and Multnomah will give a greatly red uc ed majority for the Ring candidate, w hile ashmgton will give a major ity for Mr. Whitney, and it is confi dently believed that every other county in the valley will give Mr. Lane a plurality vote over the other candidates. Columbia county will stand off Tillamook and Clatsop, while Linn will balance Marion and Multnomah, thus giving the Democ racy the entire majority of Eastern and Southern Oregon, which will not be less than 1,500, with everv prospect of from 300 to 400 in the valley counties. Let Democrats turn out and make the victory most com plete. Every Democrat has a duty to perform on election day. Let him see that he performs that duty faith fully. No business should keep any voter from the polls. Yes. Warren is no politician. He has only been in office since. 1SG4, twelve years, and yet he is no politician. Why Mr. TYarren Should be De feated. The election which takes place on the 25th inst. is one of great impor tance, and no voter should look up on it with indifference. "It is not a question as to whether "Warren, Lane or Whitney shall go to Congress, but whether the people are ready to endorse tlie l-eaeral crew wuicu is running Mr. Warren. It is an issue between the public and a ring which has controlled the nation, or whether Oregon will follow in the steps of the other States, from Maine to Cal ifornia, in repudiating the 'corrup tion at Washington, and condemn the tricksters composing the Ring in Oregon, in their unprincipled efforts to gain the success for Mr. Warren bv a most barefaced and infamous fraud upon a large portion of our people. This alone should be enough to cause every independent and hon est voter of Oregon to cast his ballot against the Ring candidate. But he is also pledged to support and en dorse the Federal Administration. Let us see what that endorsement is: It is the approval of the most ex travagant, corrupt and infamous Ad ministration that has ever governed this nation. It is the approval of the Credit Mobilier "frauds; the Indian Ring, which has been robbing the nation of millions annnually, and in consequence of this robbery, has caused the death in our own State of some of the honest pioneers; the whisky Ring; the straw-bid Ring for mail contracts; the Jayne Sanborne moiety swindles, and, to quote from a recent complication of Radical in famies, the party of Pomeroy, the party of $10,000 Harlan, the parry of Colfax, the party of Landaulet-and-Outrago Williams, the party of Dela no and his son John, tho party of Mr. Richard Safe-Burglary Harring ton, the party of Do Golly er and Mc- Lellan's $5,000 Garfield, the party of Jay Cooke and of his silent part ner in the Finance Committee of the Senate, John Sherman, the party of the Force Bill, the party of Kellogg, of Packard and of Casey, of Clayton, of Dorsey and of Spencer, the party of Durrell and Busteed and Charles T. Sherman types of infamy in the annal3 of American judiciary the party of Moses in South Carolina, and of Ames in Mississippi." These Mr. Warren is pledged to endorse Tho Custom nonsc platform says the Radicals of Oregon endorse them and it now becomes the people to say whether they will sanction and ap prove of this endorsement bv their votes on the 25th. If they aro ready to give their sanction to this list of rascalities, let them vote for Mr, Warren; he is the representative of the party which has been guilty of them all; if not, then cast your vote for Hon. Lafayette Lane, who stands pledged against these crimes upon our fair name as a nation. The result should not be looked upon as a personal matter between the voter and Mr. Warren. It is a matter between the voter and the party which Mr. Warren represents. If the acts of the Administration arc such as to meet the approval of the voter, then let him cast his vote for Mr. Warren; if not, he should cast it against him. The Administration with all its infamies is on trial, and the voter either must endorse or re ject. To voto for Mr. Warren is to endorse; to vote against is a blow at the fountain-head of all corruption, U. S. Grunt and his administration. The Ohio Election. Tho returns received to the hour of going to press from the Ohio elec tion, indicate that the Republicans have carried the State. This is what we expected from the moment the Democracy planted itself upon an inflatiou platform, and for a lesson to the party, we are more than grate ful for the result. This will put a stop to the Ohio politicians' visionary ideas being brought into the National Convention, and will place the party where it stands, on a hard money platform. Ohio is somewhat noted for its new departures, and whenever she has taken one it has resulted in defeat, and more than once her bane ful influence has been detrimental to the party at large. This is no time to try experiments, and we hope the Ohio politicians have learned a les son which will prove of lasting bene fit to them. But tho result in Ohio has been gained in a great measure by the use of the Federal corruption fund, aud tie great fight, on the Radical side, was made in that State hue we regret to have the great State of Ohio go Radical, we cannot say that we had any interest in the fight. It was & trial, not of Democ racy, but of Inflation; and Mr. Infla tion got handsomely slaughtered. Iowa, ns usual, has gone Radical; but indicates a reduced State major ity. Mixed. From the articles in Cii r .i the uiuitjHHiH ior uie past weeK, we should judge that the editor must be uu "uo uig tirunus. we are mformed that he ha been in an unfit conditiou for Budiwielder to take him around as "hi frightful ample." ex- An irresponsible carpet-bagger at balem persists in saying that Mr. lane is opposed to the public school system. He will find that such false hoods will not win in Oregon, if they A Day at the State Fair. On Tuesday 'we made a day of it at the State Fair. The grounds outside the fenco are occupied by people "tentiug on the old camp ground." Wo are led to believe, from the pres ent appearances, that fully as much will be taken in at th a gates of this fair, as were this year at the State fair of California held at Sacramento. We write of only what we saw on Tuesday, things may have improved since then. The fair seemed to us to be made up of side-shows, a kind of epluribus display. " Thegreat, the only . v Rice," "the World renowned Circas sian sword devourer," "tho biggest ox that ever draxced the breath of life," "the red-liot chewing candy," "the celebrated grizzly that inhabit ed the lofty crags of the Rocky Moun tains, amusing himself by leaping from peak to peak." The startling canvass drawings of Hottentots be ing devoured by alligators, and Arabs hunting "the king of the Numidian sands;" the seedy individual who calls ont "walk right up ladies and gentlemen and examine the celebrat ed little Kn Klnx eye-opener! Each and every purchaser guaranteed sat isfaction or coin refunded. Roll up! where is the next man to bo made happy for life?" and then the music bass drums and cymbals predomi nating, harmony playing second fid dle to muscle; all these things com bined, wesay, make quitean amnsing show, but as for tho fair proper, at least on Tuesday, wo can only say that there is room for more articles room for improvement. State fairs aro like circuses having seen one, yon have seen them all. Tho same big turnip, the carefully selected corn-stalk, the pound apple, the lazy bulls the sleepy pigs all tho same at every fair, from one end of tlie map of the United States to the other. The people, too,' who visit fairs are always of a similar type. The old farmer it his new store suit; his prim wik in her stiff gown; the blooming daughter with her many colored ribbons, and nocorset; sham bling " steady company," with im mense hat, gaping by her side; gam blers, jockeys, and thieves complete tlie picture, and make up what is called tie fair. Wo visited at their respective stalls the famous "flesh," Twenty-Ono and Foster. The trainers of theso ani mal are very reticent concerning a race between them, but the quid mines whisper confidently, that before the end of the fair these "fliers" will bo brought together. Tho race between Rye Straw atd Laura Glenn, was a languid affair. .Pools sold live to one on Rye Straw's favor, who won in two straight heats, and making very poor time. Mr. Wilkins, the President of the State Agricultural Society was un well and failed to make tho custom ary long-winded annual address. Before closing this account we feel that to overlook the Clackamas county dried fruit would be a great injustice. It is neatly packed in glass boxes, many of which have in serted letter made from fruits. On every hand it is acknowledged that Oregon City has, in this Alden dried fruit, contributed tho principal fea ture to the fair.- The fruit is in every person's mouth (in one sense at least) and everybody is proud of the display. .That Clackamascounty will get the gold medal is a foregone conclusion. Is it So? We hear, it rumored that Hill, in consideration of his treachery to the Independent party, besides the bursting of tho Bulletin, was baited with the promise that he should have the Radical support next fall for U. S. Senator. We doubt the report, yet there are strange things happening these days of Radical trickery. How will this seton Crawford, Scott, Dolph, Mitch ell and others. Not Much. Mr. Warren, with nearly two-thirds Democratic majori ty against him, would not amount to much in Congress if the people of Oregon should be so foolish as to send him. He would amount to nothing, arid the people might as well have no Representative at all. ne would be but a tail to Mitchell's kite, and draw his salary. That's all. But there is no danger of his election, if Democrats will only do their duty. Disbaxd. The Radicals have made their boast that tho Independents were terribly beaten in California, and ought to disband. Now it hap pens that for Lieut-Governor the In dependent candidate got 2,403 votes more th?ln the regular Radical can didate. That is rather rough on the Radicals. Oh, disband the rotten organization. The people are sick of it. Mr. Warren publishes a letter to the people of Coos and Curry coun ties, in which he tells them how much good he could do, if he were in Congress. The people of that section will trnst one who has a bet ter knowledge of their wants than he has, owing to his long residence among them. Lane will get 300 ma jority in Coos and Curry. The "Washington Standard is the first paper in Washington Territory to adopt a steam press. Of course this paper is a supporter of the Democracy. Gov. Grover's Speech at Stipp's. On last Saturday Governor Grover addressed an enthusiastic meeting of the Democracy at Stipp's school house on the Upper Molalla. Tho occasion was ono of Democratic re vival. Tho old standard-bearers gathered in from six or eight miles around. The Governor said that tho true Democrat was never at a loss to know where he stood. His party was the party of the Constitution. It be gan with the Constitution. It had lived with tho Constitution, and it would die only with the Constitution. Some changes had been effected in that instrument; some lawfully, some in tho midst of civil war and the smoke of battle, in an irregular and perhaps fraudulent manner. Bat these amendments now stand by the right of revolution and are accepted by tho Democracy as a part of the! fundamental law of the country. The Democratic party now, as it always did, supports the Constitution as it is. Tho issues of the Avar were defi nitely settled. The Democratic party moves forward to recover tho inter ests of the country as they once ex isted, to establish them in a sound and flourishing condition. On the currency question the Gov- ernor stiowea tuac me jemocraiic party had originated and sustained all the hard money sentiments that ever existed in tho country; that par ty had contested step by step every departure from this policy. Tho Democracy had resisted the issue of greenbacks as unconstitutional; had opposed the establishment of national banks as unconstitutional; had op posed flooding the country with an irredeemable paper cucrency, and had denounced tho policy of infla tion. It is now suddenly proclaimed that tho Republican party is the cham pion of hard money and the foe to inflation. He said that acts speak louder than words. What are the acts of that party? During Grant's administration the paper currency of tho country has been steadily in creased more than 100,000,000 be beyond the enormous volume which had been issued during the war; and this, while the Republican party in a period of profound peace und pre tended retrenchment bad had exclu sivo control of every branch of the Federal Government aud a two-third majority in both branches of Con gress. IIo made a 'merciless dissec tion of tho act of the last Congress for the pretended purpose of resum ing specie payment on January 1st, 1379, and showed that instead of its being a measure of contraction and gradual resumption of specie pay ment, its purpose and effects were to multiply national banks, which al ready exceeded two thousand, to in flate the paper currency, and in the promise to furnish silver coin instead of fractional paper currency, the sil ver coin would bo bought by brokers and shipped ont of the country, and after the destructien of the fractional paper currency, the people of the Eastern States would have to return to postage stamps for change, as they did soon after tho beginning of the war. The direct action of this bill of inflation under the name of specie payment has been to reduce green backs from 90 cents to 80 cents on the dollar an approach to resump tion of specie payment indeed ! The Republican party, with its character istic insincerity, was advocating one policy and following the reverse. The Governor discussed tho tariff question, which ho illustrated by many familiar examples of home in terest. He said that the interests of tho Pacific States are now as produc ing regions, and always would be bound to the policy of free trade. He then commented upon the des perate condition of the public service under Grant. He said that the affairs-of no department of the General Government could be probed without reaching the deepest corruption. That self-exposed depravity and maladministration had become so manifest that every issue of the daily press throughout tho land made a fresh exposure. That the cost of all this extravagance, corruption and maladministration had raised the ex penses of the General Government 100 per cent, above what it was be fore the late war for the same servic es, not including any allowances for interest upon the public debt or for pensions and liabilities growing out of the war. This was monstrous. If Grant was honest he was careless or imbecile; for he either had no power over his appointees or shared their corruptions. Tho people had determined upon a change. You read that determination in the elections of last year, in the late votes of Cali fornia, Kentucky and Maine. You will read it in the vote of Oregon on the 25th inst. The word among the people is that we must have a change, and there will be a change. He discussed our ship-bnilding in terests; touched slightly on the school question, and closed his speech of an hour and a half with thrilling exhortation to the Democ racy to rise up as one man in the support of Lane for Congress. A true representative by inheritance, education and choice of the great principles which he had been discus sing. Many old Democrats, at the close of this speech, gathered around the Governor, and with hearty shakes of the hand, assured him that that section was all right for Laae. LETTER FllOn NEW YORK. From Our Regular Correspondents New Yokk, Sept. 28, 1875. The Indian Summer is now here, and so is the epizootic; but let us not treat of them jointly and together, but severally and apart. And let us first consider the Indian Summer. This institution, as is well known to tourists and British note-book mak ers who pay flying visits to our met ropolis, is a delightful meteorologic al, baronietic, thermometric, hygro metic state occurring but once in each year and generally, yes, I may say, invariably in the Fall. It is en tirely independent of the Summer proper, and if the Summer proper doesn't come, or comes improperly (as was the case this year) that makes no difference to the Indian Summer. As soon as the timeallotted toSnmmer proper in which to have his say has passed, old Indian Summer is sure to lear on the scene with a whoop, shaking his leafy wampum and bran dishing his aerial tomahawk. The tourists and "mem." makers above mentioned have a fashion of describ ing this season as a lonely time when the rays of the sun (still high in the heavens) tempered by the soft haze that bathes everything in its mild embrace, still warms the blood to a grateful glow, while the cool balm of the air at once invigorates and soothes. "Ah! that haze," say they, "who shall describe its dim trans parent beauty, who paint the soft distant purples by it given to the hills, who fitly sing the bright glor ies of the new-born morn, or the faint beauties of the vesper sky, which seems to blnsh when old Sol tucks himself up in bed just the other side of the Jersey flats?" That's all very jioetical and nice, especially the last part, but that's the Indian Summer that was when Pocahontas, and Min ehaha, and Leatherstocking, and Red Jacket, aud all the other scalp-lifters and Indian "fanciers" that never ex isted (at least as we know them) bossed the ring. The season has changed like the savage but noble redskin, and now we have the Indian Summer of. Shack-nasty Jim and Scar-faced Charley, of the Modocs and Young Crows, of Delano and of Saville. Tho soft breeze that used to kiss your cheek, bearing in its breath the bitter sweet of the half ripe butternut, now grown to a full sized wind, whistles through your insufficient clothing with a keenness that can give ingratitude five points in seven and beat it every time; and the poetry -inspiring haze has devel oped into an everlasting and driz zling mist that embraces tlie very marrow of 3'our bon?s with a caress like that given by the pincers of an inquisitor in Spain. Now for tlie epizootic. We had it here once before, and so bad that nt one time there wasn't a horse-car or an omnibus running in the city. It "went west," too, and that with such an overwhelming and all-embracing rush that nothing can equal it except the next Democratic victory. This time it is much milder, and the horses are not prevented by it trom working; but when one of them sneezes, I should advise you to be at least as far off us across the street. The Democratic convention at Syr acuse passed off without the custom ary humorous speeches; everybody seemed to bo too much in earnest to make jokes. Rishard Schell raised tho only laugh of tlie session by moving that the convention "dis pense with further rolling of the call." This was like the Cambridge professor, who, lecturing on Political Economy, remarked that the value of silver was increased by its large use in the manufacture of "sporks and foons;" or of tho earnest but careless Methodist preacher who spoke of "the dogs that licked the sores that fell from tho rich man's table," or of the excited theoligical student preaching for the first time who announced his text as follows: "And immediately the cock wept, and Peter went out and crew bit terly." The world moves fast here. We have the rapid transit scheme (on paper), the fast mail and quick ocean passage. The fastest. time ever made by an ocean steamer was accomplish ed by tlie "City of Berlin," of the Inman line, crossing from Queens town in seven days and eighteen hours. This vessel is. with the ex cept:on of tho "Great Eastern," the largest afloat. The fast mail is car ried by a train running from New York to Chicago at an average rate of forty-five miles an honr inciuding stoppages. It leaves here at 4:15, a. m., reaching Cleveland, Ohio, at 7:30, r. m., the same day, and Chica go at G:55, a. m., the next, thus al lowing the inhabitants of that enter prising city to read ut breakfast the New York papers of the day before. The bustle about the Centennial ia daily increasing, and the squabbling over space has already begun. Ire land demands a space for itself, being an independent nation in desire, if not in fact. The old time rivair' bet ween Boston and New York is not lessened by tho approaching contest for the palm of superiority. A "run ner" for a house in the former city was having a little blowing match with an employee of a rival house in this city the other day, "Hear my inuendo," said the New Yorker, "wo have sold so many of those goods lately that in making out the invoices alone we have used over six hundred dollars worth of ink." "Tell your folks," said the Modern Athenian, "that our houso gave orders to omit! in the correspondence relating to that liue of goods, all points punctuation, and in that alone we saved over eight hundred dollars in -ink." The New Yorker looked at him for a moment, said to him, "You're a harp struck hy lightning," and walked away. The Yank mused a moment with a puzzled air, and at length asked me what that darned Democrat meant by that. I suggested that New York considered him "a blasted lyre." Boston 6miled gratefully and asked me over to Stewart's to eat an olive. H. SU3IMAHY OV STATE MiVVs Dr. C. C. Strong has been appoint d as physician in charga of th Good Samaritan Hospital at Port land. l Some East Portland hoodlum, feasted on the Chinese lf.i;J. placed on the graves of departed ce lestials, one day last week. The Baker City Democrat of tha 4th instant says:" On last Monday J' AY "Virtue ran a gold anJ silvpr 1-kfiolr i ......... ..v., wim j,mr dollars to the ounce, weighing G47 ounces (I,- DricK, worth four dollars t nee, weighing 017 ounces, th of the four days' rnnofth itvimi ui me iour nay: Ureen .Discovery mill, from jiscoery mill, iroin twi- trom Greeu's Ledge, in Rye vallev J is plenty more rock there of There mc Bimic ui i. -j. ne mm is in good running order, and will be kept con stantly at work ponnding out tho precious metals. Both the Green and Monumental ledges are devel oping very rich. The future of th9 Iiye valley mines, from present indi cations, are very bright. The assessor finds that the total amount of property in Jackson coun ty to bo 1,908,910; amount of in debtedness and exemption, 599,0G3 amount of taxable property, $1,3C9 877, which is about 5,000 in excess of the assessment by the assessor of last year, with Lake county includ ed. The commissioners' court last week levied a tax of 20 mills divMeJ as follows: State tax, G mills; school fund, Jl mills; conutj' funds 8 mills; building fund 2 miih. This levy is 2 mills higher than last, and the State tax being 1 mill mors now than then, the county tax is consequently raised but one mill. A teachers' institute will be held at Baker City, commencing Novem ber 1st. The Astorian learns that the O. S. N. Co. has secured a tract of land at Astoria for wharf 2urposes. Grounds are being surveyed and laid out for the use of the lighthouse at Coos Bay, and a fine garden plat is included therein. A road from South slough is also to be surveyed and run through to the lighthouse, which will prove a great convenience. Total valuation of property in Ben ton county, as per assessment of 1875 S2.011.337", against $1,4G2.502 in 1871. Levy for 1875, is 15 mills, against 21 mill last year. Amount raised for countv purposes last year, $18,281 27, against 11,2-13 85 thi year. The academy, Marshfield, Coos county, is fast approaching compila tion, and looks already quite at tractive from its commanding site. The trustees deserve much credit for the energy disfdayed is not only con tributing but collecting funds for this desirable undertaking. From the Albany Democrat we aro informed that a yonng woman in male atttire was promenading around the fair grounds the early part of tho week, but being warned that her disguise was known, and that an offi cer would "nip" her, she disappear ed, at least in that garb. She waj thought to be respectable, bnt was certainly very foolish. Oregon Presbytery will meet in Salem, in the Cumberland Presbjte rian church, Thursday, 11th inat., at 7 o'clock r. m. The buildings for church prcrposf being built by the Methodists and Episcopalians, at Pendleton, are both nearly finished. The taxable property of Umatilla county amounts to about 1,000,000 in value. The tax levy this year is 21 mills on the dollar. The following is a synopsis of the census returns of Douglas county: Number of legal voters, 1,370; males over 21 years, 1,413, males under '21 and over 10 jears, 811; males under 10 years, 1,025; females over 18 years 1,212; females under 18 and over 10 years, 1,041; total G,147. Acres ef land cultivated, 30,031; bushels of wheat raised in 1S73, 270,338; bush els of oats, 200,000; bushels of bar ley, 27,245; bushels rye, 42; toD8of hay, 13,104; 2onnds of wool, 375.1S1; bushels corn, 22,205; pounds of to bacco, 80; bushels of apples, 115.216; bushels of potatoes, 24,773. Num ber of sheep found in 1875, 102,386; swine, 10,425; horses, 3.S52; rattle, 12,087; mules, OS. Feet of lumber cut in 1874, 13,243,700; pounds of cheese made, 7,545; butter, 77,580. Roseburg' population is about COO. Gardner Citv ranks next with about 200. The census returns dace the pop ulation of Jackson county at 5,423, and tho number of legal voters 1.2'J. Acres of land, 102,210, of which there are 132,010 improved, and 55,200 acres unimproved; average value per acre of improved land, 4 3S; of un improved, 1 25; value of town lots, 40,000; value of improvements on same 204,305; merchandise and im plements, 283,025; money notes, accounts, sale of stocks, etc., $3v G45; household furniture, carriages, watches, etc., 55,958; number of horses and mules in the county, 3,872. total value of the same. Sb G23; average value per head, b, number of cattle in the county, 10, 240; total value of the same. 11U-6; average value per head, 11 34; num ber of sheep, 18,330; total valued tho same, 47,102. average value per head, 2 50; number of swine: IV 834; total value of same, 2G.804;av" i i i co fi total erage value per head, - l" value of property in the county, 1,008,040; indebtedness of the coun ty, 383,7s9; exempt from taxation, 215,321; amount of taxable VVeJ' ty in the county, l,3G0.87v, being about 5,00 in excess of the assesa ment of last year, including that por tion which is now Lake county. The Plaindealer is informed that Mrs. Cora Young, wife of JJ1 Young, of Myrtle creek, met , . ..r n.. ftti liv a norriDie aeaiu. on - -", tree. The tree fell across her legs, mangling her in such a i,f ci.a At in a few n ours. She has only been marrried to . . Young a few months. Her Mr. Her parents are name was Willett late of California. t Mr. John Cox and Part?' ,bfi 0f prospecting last July on the he 0 the Santiam and Clackamas , njer discovered a hot spring on the u of the latter stream. h?tain this spring is suppose.1 to co valuable medical properties, ana hot enough to cook with. A true bill was returned ion Tn day by the Portland grand 1 jn cblrging C. H. Cameron ..the sewing machine agent, with having emlz zlod 600.
