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i. T DEVOTED TO POLITICS, NEWS, LITERATURE, AND THE BEST INTERESTS OF OREGON. VOL. 9. OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1875. NO. 52. ) I V TBI Era ibftrftlfti.. - -n mas fT n lS I krTllff i . . . . .m . The State fair LOCAL DEMOCRATIC NEWSPAPER ww -W 9.- F O K THE Business Man, Family Circle. f: faraifr, ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY. vOLTNER, A. id iron AND PUBLISHER. OfflCIAL PAPER FOR CLACKAMAS CO. orKITE-In EntkrprisR BviUdins. one dwrsouili of Masonic UullUintf. Main St. Terms of Subscription t . Copy Ona Your, In Advance $2.50 ' .Six Months " " l-r'0 Term of Advertising I gins' .: ... o.ivri isomentn. Including inotitv. square of twelve i,...,c iinC W-M'k 2.50 1.00 Fir. ;!i subsequent insertion mi.- Coin tun. mi- yf iiiir " " , Q-urter - " u imuos Cunt, 1 square, one J ear. 120.00 40.00 12.00 SOVIET!" NOTICES. o:!i:i; i,oiu;i: no. 1. 1. o. v.. Mivts every Thursday v' liin-rat 7 ' Vloek, in the Oil Fellows' Hall. Main .n-ei-t. Mfin'iiMS of t!io Or- d:T are iiivitt-il to attend. P.v order x. a. in;m:tJJ.v i)i:i:ni:i: i,om;u no. I. O. O. V., Meets on the Seeond and Fourth Tuos d.iv evening each month, it 7 .. nVloelv. in the Odd .1". l-Mlows' 1 1. ill. .Uc-nhersof tho Decree ;ire invited to attend. 3;uiro:.j vii i.oi)(;ii no. i, v A. M., 1 1. '1,1s Us rr-rnl:ir com iminieitl ions on thu First :md . T.iii d -S it unlays ineaeli month. a. i: :il I n ii.ici; iroin ine-uii 01 .-".-p. t Mii'o. r to tin; J Rh of March ; and o'- l'ti k iVoni the L'Otli of March to tho juh nf Svtnti-inlter. llrt-threii in good st ireliiej; are invited to attend. l'.V iinli'l' of W. 1. 1M IP.C A.UI'MSiVr NO. 1,1. o. () V., Sleets at Odd Fellows' 0 rj Hall onthra First suulThird Thus d iv o(" each .month. Patriarchs od standing are invitod to attend. n V S I A' li S S V A JZ I J s. a.j. u ivr.R, m. n. J. Vv. XORRLS, M. D. HOVHU fc NOHIUS, I'llVSU lVNS AN!) Sl ttKXS l'j.-st;iirs in Cliarman's I.ricic, v :. ir. M.iv-t's r'sij fnt (if oiilT sr.-iir.vay Tliird str.-ft. at str.-ft, tr .1 OILS' D S f 3 T I 3 T VKT.CII OIK HlC !:; ." city I V , m::coN. laiil fr Couiilj Or.l.is. HUELAT &. EASTHAM, ATTOuNEYS-AT-LAW- POIIT1. X1) In I 'ir-t si n--t. Opitz's new brick, SO :ik;;o. CITY Charman's Vrick, up M v.rs. sei't-Mtr S3. O-'ATHEY TTI!!iM:Y AM) r.nlNSELOU-.T-L.V, Oregon City, Oregon. StV -PI; Tl X. it attention siven to loaning Money. ' Front room in Kntkki-ki.sk buikl- july.".itf JOHIISOrl a. PlcCOWN TTQUEYS AND COUNSELORS AT-LAW. Orogon City, Oregon. .-Will pnPti'?o In nil th Courts of the Stat. spfeial attention iivcn tt cases in the U. S. Land oniee at Oregon City. 5airlS72-tf. JL,. T. 13 A 11 I N" ATTOr?rJ&Y-AT-LAVV, oregon crr, : OFFICE Over Tope's street. : : OREGON. Tin Store, Main :imnr73-tf. . V,. 11. HIUUFIKLD. K.itallUHel rtiucv ' 1.), at i oUl ataml. Main StrM, Orrsau City, Orcjon. --o .n assortment of Wathes, Jcwel i vx rv.and Setlt Thomas Weljrht Clocks ;o ;i'n of whielt are warranted to be as &.'3 represented. 9"Uepairina: done on short notice, and thankful for pat patronage. JOHN 31. RAC0N, niror.TEn ap dkai.er In Hooks stationery, Perfum ery, etc., etc. Ore-roil City, Oregon. P-Atth-i Tost Ue. Office, Main street, east STILL I X TIIE FIELD! REMOVED SECOND DOOR SOUTH OF HAAS' SALOON. WILLIAMS & HARDING, AT TIIE LINCOLN BAKERY, KEEP THE MOST COMPLETE STOCK of Family Groceries to M found in the city. All iroods warranted. Joods delivered la the pity free of charjre. The highestcash price paid for conntrv produce. Oregon City. March 2S, 1S73. TO FRUIT-GROWERS. rPHE AI.DKN" FRUIT PRESERVING J- Company of Oregon City will pay the , HIGHEST MARKET PRICE Ior l'I.VMS, PEAKS and APPLES. .Mr- T no. Charman is authorized to pur-t-aas for t he Com pa n v. L. L. C LATOURETTE, TTrr- President. Trio. CHARM -VX.SeoretarT. was pecuniarily a success. Many pockets were relieved of their contents during fair week bv he light-fingered guild. A China woman was murdered by some unknown celestial in Portland last week. Lewis Miller was shot at Kalama and instantly killed by his nephew, J. Huprill. Domestic trouble the cause. East Portland is happy it has had an elopement. Gen. Oh! Oh! Howard has com pleted his tour of inspection. Now then, Moody and Sankey we are ready for you. . i Tiie new fire company at Albany lias incorporated under the laws of the btate, and will commence solic iting stock subscriptions at once. Capital stock is fixed at $1,000, in shares of 10 each. Mr. R. 11. Cochran has arranged with a number of citizens of Albany to meet nt Snores' ferry next Wed nesday, and with them make a full and complete reorganization of the proposed route of tli3 canal from the McKenzic river down tuo valley to Albany. The horse Foster won the big race on Friday. The California horse, lwentv Une being withdrawn as lame, after the first heat. lhe lamlnll county grand jury report that there is not a safe jail in the whole county. Frank McMillen, of Forest Grove, returned the other day from a trap- nintr excursion of month, bringing '200 worth of furs. Large quantities of wheat are ship ping from lorest Grove ly the rail way. it is estmiateii inai 4 0,vuv bwsliels will be shipped from that point this season. The tax lew of Coos county is 23 mills on the dollRr. The total valu ation of propeitv in the county is $1,503,882. from which are to be de ducted $138,511, and indebtedness, $250,013. , The Commercial Flouring Mills at McMinnville have commenced running.- The proprietors are paying St. Joe prices for wheat, and are get ting a large amount. They have already about 20,000 bushels stored at the mill. ThcThriiUesKuess of Profcssion- a! The laborer who has saved money is better fitted perhaps than any one to employ to advantage the kind of labor in which he himself is versed. But the lawyer or the author who has saved money has no way open to him of turning, at the same time, both his knowledge and his money to account by the successful employ ment of the talents of other lawyers or other authors in undertakings like unto his own. Perhaps, indeed, something of this kind happens when a very popular author like Dickens turns editor, and collects round him a staff of clever writers, who admire his genius and are even disposed to copy his mannerisms. But the case is exceptional, and as a rule it so sel dom turns out that the very success ful author happens to have the qual ities of a successful editor and jour nalist, that exceptions of this kind may be pit aside as irrelevant. No doubt one of the great reasons why professional men are, on the Avhole, so turiiliess in proportion to ineir m. i a gains is this that the occupation which absorbs their energies is not one the gains of which can bo ex tended by the help of judicious sav ins and investment. A man cannot be successful in commerce, nor, in deed, very successful even as a skill ed laborer, without a strong motive for saving in order to secure more success, either of the same sort, or at least of a closely analogous sort. But a prolessional man who is very successful rarely has a strictly pro fessional motive for saving. The more his heart is absorbed in his work, the less he thinks of providing for himself in directions which are in no way bound up with his work. IsondoH Spectator. Mr. James Lick's selection of Mt. Hamilton, in Santa Clara county, California, as tho place to put his observatory and great telescope, makes this description of the moun tain by the San Jose Mercury inter esting: " Mount Hamilton is 4,448 feet high. The summit is higher than any land within 50 miles, and consequently below the level of tho plane of the Observatory, which, in an astronomical point of view, is the desideratum sought. The beautiful valley of San Jose, the snowy ridge of the Sierra Nevadas, and a bound less area of mountain scenery, are in the scope of vision, and the elevation is so high as to be above the fogs of summer, and is not so high as to be much disturbed by the storms of winter. The party that ascended the mountain on Sunday last had a magnifiicent view of the grand old Pacific, while the setting of tho sun almost bewildered them by its gor geousness. The road will open up a rich territory of agricultural lands, besides furnishing one of the most romantic and delightful drives in the United States." A Louisville man complains of marble table cloths at one of the res taurants. He says he doest't like to wipe his mouth with a tombstone in the absence of a napkin. xow max me iau elections are m vogue, a married man rarely gets home before two a. m., so anxious is lie to hear the latest returns. The State TLKIIITORIAL XEIVS ITEM. I Sam Phinney, a heavy horse raiser in North Idaho, passed through Boise on Sunday before last with a band of one hundred and eighty head of horses, destined for the town of Ste venson, on the line of Utah and Wy oming Territories. There are four or five streams emp tying into Puget Sound that can very readily be made navigable for dis tances varying from ten to sixty miles, and thus open up to settlement and profitable culture a large area of the best lands on the coast. P. I.-Ford has commenced suit against the Northwestern Stage Co., for $31,000 for damages sustained by his wife, by the staare accident near Flint some time ago. The Salt Lake Tribune says the heir apparent to Brigham's throne is down from Cache valley, brintrintr on the soles of his boots a few acres of the farm bis father stole from the Government. The cars are expected to reach Walla Walla city by the 1st of next week. A farmer in Walla Walla valley year 0,300 bushels of raised this wheat on 145 acres of land John Gihlay was dangerously and perhaps fatally stabbed by Peter Donnelly at South Mountain, Idaho, on the 5th inst. There is talk of a trotting match on llie walla w alla tract between Mack's Mark Twain and Eph. Bun ker's Lewiston. The latter is an Idaho horse, and said to bo very fast. There is a movement on foot in the Washington Territory Legislature to incorporate the city of Tacoma. We hear that at the Boulder coun ty fair. Colorado, a blind horse, dri ven by a deaf man, won a trotting race. "Don't see it." The Washington Territory legisla tors have taken an exenrsion down the Sound, taking a vacation of two days for that purpose. If Cheyenne don't watch her cor ners she will wake some morning and find the capital gone. Laramie is going to try to capture it. A paper in Wyoming advertises a tailor's establishment where,4double breasted boys' suits" are kept. This shows to what extremes woman suf frage has brought that unfortunate Territory. Dr. Savillo, Indian agent at Rod Cloud, will probably be superseded by a Mr. Hastings, a Michigan man who has never been accused of steal ing anything. Another band of converts, 3.30 in all. and mostly from Fngland, are way from New York to Salt on their Lake. The Las Animas Leader tells about a ranchman in that region who sold .$537 55 worth of watermelons and cucumbers from an acre of ground. Bills have been introduced in the Washington Territory Legislature providing for the removal of obstruc tions from Gray's Harbor and Whis ky river, and permitting foreign cor porations to transact business ana hold real estate in the Territory. The Prescott (Arizona) Miner of Oct. 1st says: Mrs. M. Hnllery, an aunt to Mrs. Allen, arrived here from Portland, Oregon, a few days since, and will make her home here. The Boise City papers report that there is not a house to let in that place. The Hard of Avon. It reminded us of Theodore Hook when he stopped a pompous pedes trian with the anxious inquiry, "are you anybody in particular?" An austere pride-puffed individual was sauntering through the principal street of Oregon City one day last week, when a prominent member of the celebrated Hoodlum family call- ed out "I say, Shakspeare! O, Shak speare His Lordship whirled indignantlj' around, pistols and coffee beaming in his eyes, demanding: "How dare you insult a gentle man!" "Say, Jim, it insults this rooster to be compared with Shaksriearo, he must be a prince!" "Shakspeare is not my name, you impertinent puppy." "'Tain't, eh! What did you turn around for, then?" "Why, er, the truth is, ah" but his "Nibs" was suddenly reminded of an engagement at Canemah, and to the best of our knowledge, never finished that sentence. The Speakership. The strength or weakness of the inflationists will be shown in the election of a speaker of the next House of Itepresentatives by the Democratic majority of that body. The candidates for the office are embarrassed by doubts as to tho drift of financial opinion. Only one of them Mr. Michael C. Kerr is known to have declared in favor of a sound currency. Mr. Kandall sur rendered to the inflationists at the Erie Convention, and Messrs. Cox and Woods are silent. It may be that the hard-money Republicans, nnitinor with the hard-money uemo crats, will elect Kerr, the coin cur- rency candidate, over Randall the avowed friend of inflationists, ana Cox and Wood the mutes. The Ungodly. A Connecticut re vivalist is named A. Ripper, and the ungodly say that lie is all that his name implies. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. Los Angeles, Oct 13. The Los Angeles and Independence railroad is now completed to Pico and Jeffer son streets in the outskirts of the city. The wine making season bas fairly begun. Three establishments expect to make 1,000,000 galloDS of wine. The grape crop is large and Coming in freely. Two hundred men will be employed in grape crushing be fore the close of the seasen. CmcAGo.Oct. 13. President Grant and party arrived here yesterday, and left for Washington this after noon. Boston, Oct. 13. Hon. Charles G. Davis was nominated for Congress to-day by the fi?st Congressional district Democratic convention at Middleboro. The executive commit tee of the Democratic party of Mas sachusetts decided to-day to place the name of John Qnincy Adams on the ticket as candidate for Lieutenant Governor, vice General Bsrtlett, de clined. Salem, Oct. 14. George B. Ilelm, whom Ben Holladay grossly insulted at Albany on the completion of the railroad, met Holladay on the fair grounds to-day, announced his name and returned the insult by calling llolladav a dirty dog, an infamous coward and other approbrious epi thets, and Holladay, in the presence of a large crowd of bystanders, walk ed away. Memphis, Oct. 14. A committee, composed eoually of white and col ored citizens of Corhama county, Miss., have issued a circular invok ing the efforts of all good citizens of the country in behalf of peace and to protect private property of people from tho incendiary's torch. It charges colored Sheriff Brown with having sought to arouse, the colored people to lawless acts by declaring to them, in his harangues, that while the ain houses arc the proierty of the whites, the torch is the remedy for grievances in tho hands of the colored men. It appears that Col. Stovali's steam gin house was burned by incendiaries a few weeks ago. On the night of the 10th inst. his stable and thirteen mules were burned, and an attempt made to burn his dwell ing. The circular urges well dispos ed citizens to organize for common protection against incendiaries, and nightly patrol the plantations. It is signed by nine colored men, and among the signatures of white men are the names of U. S. Senator Alcorn and Kev. It. 11. White Washington, Oct. 14. Although this Government repeatedly and em phatically expressed its desire to the Spanish Government for the termin ation of tho insurrection in Cuba, and tendered its good offices to pro duce an accommodation between the contending parties, it has never gone to the extent of the late transatlantic story by diplomatically threatening to acknowledge the rights of Cubans in case hostilities were not closed by the first of January next. llailway mail service has been or dered from Los Angeles to Anaheim, in California, on the Southern Pacific railroad, 21 miles, to commence Oct. 10th: also, from San Fernando to San Bernardino on the same road, 81 miles, to commence Octobor 16th. New Orleans, Oct. 15. The Lieut. Governor has issued a proclamation calling on a lawless band in the par ish of East Felicianna to disperse. Chicago, Oct. 15. A Washington special says among the important oue-stions bound to occupy a consid erable share of the attention of the Democratic House tives, is the status banks. New York. Oct of Representa- of the national 15. Moses S. Ilerman & Co., of 22 Walker street, the principal member of which is a brother of A. S. Herman, who recent ly went into bankruptcy, have also failed. The firm's liabilities are placed at $200,000, and tho assets at .$95,000, $50,000 being stock and $45 000 bills receivable. Harris Itothstein, a hatter, has failed, and made an assignment of his property for the benefit of his creditors. Liabilities, $37,0G0 58; assets, $12,045. Washington, Oct. 15. The TJ. S. steamer Tuscarora, now at San Fran cisco, will sail about the 1st of No vember and cruise among various groups of islands in the Pacific ocean for the purpose of taking soundings to ascertain the most advantageous route for a cable in those waters. P. W. E. Creary. of Michigan, has been promoted from assistant to postmaster of the Senate, and C. C. Jones, of Minnesota, has been ap pointed assistant postmaster. The President arrived this morn ing and the regular Cabinet session was held at 12 o'clock. There were present Secretaries Bristow and Belk nap, Attorney-General Pierrepont, Postmaster-General Jewell, Assistant Secretary Cad walader, who represents the State department, and Assistant Secretary Cowan the Interior depart ment Columbus, Oct. 16 J. G. Thomp son, chairman of the Democratic State committee, in reply to a card of the Republican committee, says he was charged with falsification when he asserted that the Democratic vote was 20,000 more than was ever cast for any Governor of Ohio. Their defeat was caused by a lavish expen-. diture of money, fraudulent votes and the introduction of the public school question by the Bepublican nartv. San Fkancisco, Oct. 15. Billy Carr has been heard from. He is at Coos Bay, Oregon, and will be home next Monday, ready to appear before the Pinneyourt of inquiry. William Cullen Bryant, the poet and editor of the New York Evening Post, an original Republican, warmly advocates the election of the Demo cratic ticket. The Radicals and Resumption. One thing is morally certain that it is easier for a camel to pass through a needle's eye than for the Radical party either to solve the financial question or to bring us back to spe cie payments. Speaker Blaine, or Credit-Mobilier Dawes, or the emi nent chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Senator Sherman, who invite Hard-Money men to give them and their party a longer lease of pow er on the promise of bringing us back to specie payments, should talie a fair review of their own achievements while possessing uuhindered power, from 1809 to 1874, up to the time when the present Secretary went into office. What was done by these leaders and their two Secretaries of the Treasury, Boutwell and Richardson, toward specie payments The fol lowing money paid in taxes was wrung from the people during those five years of Grant's Administration: 18150-70 Net revenue receipts ?)oIiV)0,8W 1870-71 Net revenue receipts o7-tt43l,HM 1871-72 Net revenue receipts 3iii,o4,zr.i 1S72-73 Net revenue receipts 322, 177,73 1873-74 Net revenue receipts 2! (9,941, (KM) Total $1,007,203,929 The payments of interest on the national debt and of pensions amount ed during the five years in question to the following sums: 18(19-70 Interest on debt 18(!(-7(1 Pensions 1870-71 Interest on debt 1870- 71 Pensions 1871- 72 Interest on debt 1871- 72 Pensions 1872- 73 Interest on debt 1872- 73 Pensions ". 1873- 71 Interest on debt..... 1873-74 Pensions , $129,235,10S 00 28,310,202 17 125,57li,fl" 93 31,413,894 88 117,357,8f;9 72 2S,o33,402 7 104,750,088 44 2,3"i,42l 80 107,119,815 21 29,0;8,411 00 Total $733,755,748 63 Thus.then, the gross receipts for the live yea re were $1,007,203,929 00 Deduct interest and pensions 733,755,748 03 Net receipts $933.41S,1S9 37 Now here was nearly a thousand millions of dollars over and above the needed interest and pensions, to be disposed of in five years. If we take the immediate five years next proceeding the war as a basis of Gov ernment expenditure for war, navy, Indians and miscellaneous in fact, for all purposes except interest on debt and pensions, the result is as follows: lS5fr,r)7 503,137,497 45 18.57-58 09,458,013 20 1858-59 02,490,077 00 lS59-() 51,711,831 45 1800-01 57,517,298 7o Total in five j-ears $307,451,318 51 If we deduct this amount from the 8933,448,180 37 that the Blaines, Daweses, Boutwells, Richardsons and Shermans expended in the five vears from 1809 to 1874, we find they had .$025,990,801 80 more than their predecessors in 1S50-61. Now ou page 24 of the Secretary of the Treas ury's report for 1874 we are advised that the whole principal of redeemed bonds from 18o"9 to July, 1874, was $182,241,750. With this exhibit before us of the immense amount of taxes squeezed out of the people and fruit lessly squandered, what possible confidence can bo placed in the Re publican party's intention or capac ity to bring us back to specie pay ments when, now, we are 2oor anl cannot any longer be squeezed as we have been in the past ? Can the country any longer confide the ad ministration of the national finances to such incompetent spendthrifts? N. Y. World. Common Sense Ventilation. The best practical statement I have met about ventilation, says Colonel Waring in the last Atlantic, was con tained in the remark of a mining engineer in Pennsylvania: "Air is like a rope; you can pull it better than you can push it. All mechan ical appliances for pushing air into a room or a house are disappointing. What we need to do. is to pull out the vitiated air already in the room; the fresh supply will take care of itself if means for its admission are provided. . . 1i !11 1 A.1 It lias Deen usual to wnuuraw me : o.. :i air tlirougu openings near lue ceil ing; that is, to carry off the warmer and therefore lighter portions, leav ing the colder strata at the bottom of the room, with their gradual accu mulation of cooled carbonic acid undisturbed. Much the better plan would be to draw this lower air out from a point near the floor, allowing the upper and warmer portions to descend and take its place. An onen lire, with a large chimney throat, is the best ventilation for any room; the one-half or two-thirds of the heat carried up the chimney is the prico paid for immunity Irom disease, and large tuougu tins seems from its dailr draft on the wood-pile or coal-bin, it is trifling when com pared with doctors' bills and with the loss of strength and efficiency that invariably result from living in unventilated apartments. How to Get Money foe the Gov ernment. A cable dispatch contains on excellent hint for our trafic ma kers. The returns from Great Brit ain for the last halt year snow an increase of r.cJo,uuu sterling as compared with those of the corres ponding period of the year 1874 When it is remembered that this later period must have been one of serious depression in the British for eign trade, in consequence partly of of the industrial and trade depres sion of other countries, particularly the United States, tins result is not only remarkable but a well-nigh con- i : .ir . ciusivw ueieuee ui a tarin wnicn is imposed on only twenty-two articles of importation, from seven of which most of the revenue is collected. Our legislators, by reference to the Revised Statutes of 1875, will find that our nonsensical tariff affects almost sixteen hundred articles, on macy of which is served as an actual prohibition. Where has been tha gain? Women's Centennial Roard for Oregon. The women's centennial board of Oregon met in the committee room of the State Agricultural Society on Wednesday afternoon, the 13th inst. The meeting being called to order, Mrs. A. J. Duniway in the chair, Mrs. Victor was appointed secretary, and the business of the meeting taken up. Committees were -appointed for the several counties in the following order: Mrs. Laughery, of Yamhill; Mrs. E. L. Sanborne, of Clackamas; Mr. M. M. Blaine, of Linn; Mrs. Lottio Ream, of Lane; Mrs. Major Brooks, of Benton; Miss Ellen Scott, of Washington; Mrs. E. Wilson, of Wasco; Miss Mary Rodney, of Mult nomah; Mrs. A. F. Watson, of Doug las; Mrs. Inez E. Parker, of Clatsop; Mrs. Conyers, of Columbia; Mrs. N. Y. Johnson, of Coos; Curry, to bo supplied; Mrs. B. F. Dowell, of Jackson; Mrs. Ivan D. Applegate, of Lake; Mrs. F. McComas, of Union; Grant, to be supplied; Mrs. E. A. Corwin, of Tillamook; Mrs. S. A. Clark, of Marion. Mrs. Laughery offered the follow ing resolution: Resolved, That the members of the Ladies State Centennial Board of Oregon be instructed to call meet ings in their several counties, and appoint sub-committees to more ef fectually carry forward the object that this board has in view to pre sent to the world the productions and arts of Oregon, as well as anti quities and to make reports of pro gress. Mrs. Laughery and Mr. Dufur ad dressed the meeting in appropriate remarks, after which it was voted to adjourned until 2 p. m. Thursday. Salem, Oct. 14, 1875. The adjourned meeting of the wo men's centennial board of Oregon met to-day at 2:30 p. m. After read ing of minutes of previous meeting, Mrs. Duniway being in the chair, made some suggestions to the ladies present as to the manner of distrib uting the work of the committee in gathering up such articles as it would be desirable to send to the great Cen tennial exhibition. Mr. Dufur fol lowed with further suggestions on the same subject. The meeting resolved itself into a committee of the whole, a proposi tion was made by Mrs. S. A. Clarke to have the ladies, present to state what articles they had to present. Some contributions were offered and many more conditionally proposed. Mr. Dufur laid considerable stress upon the preservation of the natural flowers, grasses, Sec. Mrs. La-aghery gave a plan for working in her county byvwriting an appeal to the ladies of her county, and publishing it in the county pa per, asking them to central point and fix and amount of work meet at some upon the kind to be done by the sub-committee of Yamhill. Mrs. Bruce recommended that this plan should be followed be the com mittees of all the other counties. The meeting approved the sugges tion. Mr. Dufur then reminded the com mittees to instruct contributors that all articles may be sent to his office in Portland free of charge on all the railroad and steamship lines, where they will be registered and receipted for and duly returned to the owners after having been sent to the exhi bition. Mrs. Laughery offered the follow ing resolution: Resolved, lhat the several papers throughout the State be requested to publish these minutes and lend their influence in aid of the work of this board . The meeting then voted to adjourn sine die. Truth is Mighty. A Nevada paper relates this anec dote of a conflict of imaginations: He was a sad-eyed, meek-faced man, and we supposed lie merely wished to give us a news item, but when he commenced telling us about building a barn on his ranch 190 by 280 feet, seven stones high, and or namenteii witu oay windows, we thought it was time to check him. and so we commenced: "Well, we must admit that this is a pretty large barn for this country, but back in the States our father built a barn 325 by 500 feet, nine stories high, and furnished with steam elevators; the " "Back in the States," interrupted our listener. "Why that wasn t much of a barn for the States. I re member, now, that when I was quite young my father built a chicken coop 550x832 feet. I don't recollect how many stories high it was, but I know that there was a cupola on it for the roosters. "About how high was the cupola? we asked. "1 don t remember the exactheiht now, mister," was the reply, "but I know that it was so high that the fourteen upper tiers of roosters died from the effects of the light atmos pnere rue nrst night. lfien lie looked up toward the - imiiy una commenced Humming a hymn, and we went and sat down on the wood pile and wondered why somebody was always out-stripping us in tne race of life. The following we clip from a New jLorK paper: President Grant has received an invitation to visit San Francisco. If he accepts it he should by all means extend his visit to Oregon, where he would find old friend3 who would undoubtedly give him most cordial recention. Besides, the jresiaeut, lib TleiflTin npfifls recreation and recuperation after the close and con fining attention to his official duties which has specially distinguished his administration of the office no noias.. Ton Moltke on West Point. ThellfBson Why our Civil War Failed to Produce a Uistinguishea General. IiOndoi Correspondence of the Capitol Shortly after our arrival in London we encountered a distinguished gen tleman on his way to the continent, armed with letters of introduction, and among the rest one to Von Moltke. Wishing to know whether the famorts General had realJr said what bad been attributed to him " that evolutions of armed mobs had no interest to him from a militarr point of view," we asked our friend, if the opportunity occurred, to fetch up the subject and give us the result of the interview. Our friend's letter is now before ns, and it is gratifying to know that the views we expressed ten years since, from actual observa tion, are those of this great captain. Our friend writes: "I brought up the subject, and the old hero expressed himself very frankly. He said: ' ' I was asked why neither side in the civil war in America produced a very distinguished general. Even their respective partisans hardly claim any leader of transcendent genius. In so long a war, and where so many men fought, doe it not im ply a lack of military talent in Amer icans 1 answer, no. The true rea son was because their field of selec tion was so limited. No officer could hope to obtain the supreme com mand of their armies unless he hatl been a student at their military academy, called West Point, on the Hudson River, in the State of New York. The number of these stu dents, deserving as they Blight be, was and is extremely limited. The Southerners adopted the pernicious system of exclnsivenessas many of these Av est Point oflicers had joined their side, and their President had also been at the academy. It was perhaps, fortunate for the North thai the South did not seek for talent among the mass of the people. It is evident that the chance f obtaining a distinguished general increases as the field of selection widens, and di minishes as it .contracts. In our army every soldier may aspire to the supreme command, but in the Amer ican armes the line of demarcation was drawn as deeply as between the former slaves and their masters. The volunteer, who represented the great bulk and strength of the people, might, indeed, attain distinction in a subordinate position, but the highest place of all was forbidden. In read ing the records ef the American civil war it really appears as if the whole contest was between a few officers of West Point, and the mighty heart of the nation never throbbed, This aristocratic system, which the Amer icans still follow, was formerly the practice in all European armies. In the revolution of 1793 Carnot. the French Minister of War abandoned it, and we have followed. For the the sake of example, and not binding ourselves to any exactness of figures, except that the one is very small, and its opposite, with which it is com pared, very large, let us suppose the number of West Point officers to be 500 and the number of Prussian sol diers 500,000. Evidently, as we have a fund a thousand times larger to draw upon, to render the chances of obtaining a great general equal, each American must possess a thousand fold the talent of a Prussian, which is absurd.' " But," I said to him, " do yon not regard tho South as having the advantage in this respect?" " ' Not at all, he responded: 'the leaders of that section did not seem to comprehend the situation. Their advantage was the excess of military spirit; their disadvantage, the lack of resources and the prestige of an established government. Their blows, therefore, should have been swift, sudden and aggressive. On the contrary, they acted on the de fensive, thereby giving the Govern ment of the United States full time to develop its immense resources. Every day the North had its oppor tunity to grow stronger, while the South weakened. On the other hand the Northern leaders, instead of us ing the advantage tendered them, by creating armies and calling to the front the military genius of the coun try, exhausted themselves by throw ing armed mobs into the field, so badly disciplined and drilled that their battles were fought by regi ments and separate brigades. The one great axiom which directs the concentration of a heavy forco against the weaker point of the ene my, that the side of the Government had in its power to illustrate, was neglected and lost. Four years of a depressive war exhausted the South, without in any way contributing to the military renown of the success ful side.' " A number of hotel keepers in Chi- . -ti l r cago who have ocen swmuieu ir- quently now require travelers to pay in advance. They say a man who intends to pay for his accommoda tions cannot object to tue arrange ment. One traveler, not appreciat ing the change in affairs, was ques tioned by a clerk, who said: "You will not object to paying Deiore you SO tO yuur room, on: vvi iniuiji fc . ia1 I'll 7 J fl Tl 1 not; maKe oni ine um. x ur uow long, sir? " Well, said the stran ger'" you may charge me for about ten minutes, on tne European pian. By the end of that time I think I shall be at a hotel where the clerks wear smaller diamonds and have more confidence in human nature. It is coming election time, when the weary, waiting wife sits before the smouldering fire at 1 o'clock in the morning, and sobs and thinks of the sunny days of her childhood, and chalks the handle of the poker as soon as she hears the click of her i husband's nightkey. r