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THE ENTERPRISE.
Utm CITl OKEGO.V. OcfOBEIi 2i, lS7j
DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
For Congress,
LAFAYETTE LANE,
Of Douglas County.
Demacruts to the Trout!
Democrats, our opponents arc in
the field, prepared to figbt us at
every turn. Let U3 meet them then
with a solid phalanx and tt courage
which knows no defeat. Let us rati
fy the victory of California, and at
the sania time show to our deluded
brethren in Ohio and Pennsylvania
the error of their ways, and the rea
son of their unpopularity. In inac
tivity lies our only danger. Oregon,
undoubtedly Democratic on a pure
expression of public opinion, calls
for the fullest expression of that
opinion at the coming election. Let
every Democrat go to the polls, and
take his neighbor with him. A Dem
ocrat who stays away on election day
gives half a vote to the enemy.
In the Democratic nominee for
Congress, wo have a gentleman
moulded, as it were, for the position.
Llegant and ready in debate; consci
entious find assidious in his under
takings; of breadth of judgment; of
penetrativo mind; of honorable in
stincts and christian principles.
Wiiat more could we ask? With such
a standard-bearer, Ave feel assured of
the enthusiastic beaver-liko work of
the members of the Democratic par
ty. Mr. Lane is a gentleman well
known and respected throughout the
Sjate; bearing a most enviable repu
tation for intelligence and energy,
and embodying in his character and
history all the liberality and conserv
atism of the progressiveness of the
Democratic party.
Our duty then, Democrats, is plain.
Mr.' Lane deserves our support, and
is eminently qualified for the office.
Let us bring out the full vote of the
party. Let us work as if our own
brother were the nominee. Let us
stand by our colors bravely, and if
by chance, victory should not perch
on our banners iu defeat wo will
have the satisfaction of knowing that
wo had done our best that we had
fought a good ficrht.
Persistent "Liars.
One or two little insignificant Rad
ical papers persist in stating that
Hon. L. F. Lane was opposed to the
public school system, and that lie
has refused to take any positive po
sition on this question. They go oh
the principle that a lie well stuck to
is as good as the truth. Mr. Lane
has taken a positive and unequivocal
positiou on this question, which is
in the following words:
In Congress I will have no oppor
tunity to legislate upon this question
even if I desired, as it is purely a
local matter, and can only bo dealt
with by the State Legislatures; yet,
in whatever position I may bo placed,
I will, at any and all times, ojpose
any sectarian distribution or divis
ion of the common school fund.
This should satisfy any man of
Mr. Lane's position on tin's question,
and none but unj-rincipled dema
gogues would persist in lying about
this question after his repeated dec
larations before the public where he
lias spoken. We are pleased to state
that there are some Radical papers
in Oregon which have had sufficient
honor to placo Mr. Lane's position
correctly before the people, but such
little-brained concerns as the States
man continue to falsify the facts.
Lying may do in Nebraska, but a
grasshopper carpet-bagger will find
that his styla is not appreciated in
Oregon. Marion will give 300 less
Radieal majority than she did last
general election. Mark the predic
tion, Mr. Tramp, and all on your
account.
A (;rand Rally at Portland.
A Grand Democratic rally ia to be
had at Portland to-morrow evening.
The S2ealers on the occasion present
a list of talent which has seldom been
equaled ou the rostrum in our State.
Gen. Lane, who in himself is suffi
cient to draw tho entire Democracy;
Gov. Grover and Hon. J. K. Lutter
ell, of California, are the speakers
announced. These gentlemen will
stir up the dry bones of Radicalism
so effectually in old Multnomah that
there will be nothing left of the rot
ten corpse.
Not ExTiirsiASTic. Owing to the
f ict that certain Federal officials have
failed to come to the scratch to elect
Warren, the threat is openly made of
vengeance next spring. War
ren will find it hard work to keep
good his promise to help Hill to the
Senate next year. Oil and water will
mix n well as the Federal officials
and the Independent voters.
Centennial. Correspondence. In
this issue wo present our first letter
from Philadelphia. Independent cf
the national interest now centering
at that city, we feel assured that our
correspondent, with his reputation
for interesting and graceful writing,
will be sufficient to make the letters
welcome to every reader.
A vote for Warren is a vote to up
hold Grant in his infamous usurpa
tion in breaking up legally elected
' Legislatures in sovereign States.
A Foimdlinir.
A "rag baby" has been left at the
Democratic door by that well known
licentiate, the Radical press; and it
now devolves upon that very respect
able and outraged old party to vin
dicate its honor.
In the first place it would like to
say, that because two of its wayward
sons, Masters Ohio and Pennsylvania,
have adopted this illegitimate brat,
it does not see how the Democracy
becomes the actual father of the imp.
Ohio has already been punished for
its audacity, and Pennsylvania is in
a fair way to meet with similar treat
ment. The Democratic party de
nounces the inflated infant, and de
mands" that its rue parent recognize
its own creation.
It is a principle born with the
Democratic party that gold and sil
ver are the only stable currency the
only correct business media. For
Democrats to forget this important
dogma of their creed is to renounce
their party and to court excommun
ication. Of the twenty-one States in
which the Democrats have announc
ed a platform, all but two are in favor
of the speedy resumption of specie
payments. So if there is any odium
connected with inflation let it fall on
the shoulders of its father and spon
sor, the Radical party. Let it fall
on the Butlers, the Careys and Kel
lys, on the Mortons, Rarnseys, Car
penters, and Philipses, and those
other Radical leaders who openly
avow themselves the protectees and
parents of inflation. Let the curses
of the people fall on the party which
in direct violation of the constitu
tion, made greenbacks a legal tender.
Let that party assume the blame
which repealed the law under which
Secretary McCollough was slowly,
but surely, bringing the country
back to specie payments. Let the
disgrace attach itself to that party
which forced Secretary McCollough
to reissue, without law, the forty
millions of currency he had retired
on account of its uselessness. Let
the punishment for the sin of infla
tion be meted out to that party which
reorganized the Supreme Court of
the United States for the express
purpose of overruling a former de
cision of that court, that the legal
tender act was unconstitutional and
void. Let that party be forced to
recognize its bastard, which at the
last session of Congress passed a law
for the further increase of the cur
rencyin a word, let the Radical
party take its "rag baby" to its own
arms to its legitimate home.
TIid Real Issue Applied.
In the excitement of the disquisi
tions on inflation, created by the rot
ten planks in the Democratic plat
forms in the States of Pennsylvania
and Ohio, our people are in some
danger of losing sight of the true
issue before them. This issue, says
the New York Sun, (an Independent
paper) "is the arraignment of the
present Administration." The profli
gacy in evei-y department of public
affairs, must receive its check and
punishment ; and that can be accom
plished only at the ballot-box and by
the overthrow of the Radical party.
Some lukewarm Republicans admit
Henry Warren to be below the ordin
ary cast of Congressmen, but intend
voting for him on account of old ac
quaintanceship. Disinterested friend
ship, undoubtedly is a most laudable
virtue ; but it should never be in
dulged in at the expense of the pub
lic weal. Can you not see that by
voting for Mr. Warren, you counten
ance the venality of the Republican
robbers? Are you so blinded by af
fection for the man as not to see that
you are sanctioning Constitution and
State government destroyers? To
endorse, by a vote, that party, which
for fourteen years has sucked the
life-blood from our institutions, is
to welcome despotism and tho re
opening of all the wounds of the late
war. To vote for Mr. Warren, is to
indirectly breathe new life into
things despicable, and to embrace
knavery and fraud. Are you so lost
to patriotism, and so far forgetful of
the public good, as to actually favor
by a vote for Warren, a continuance
of the prostitution of our National
Government? Will you sacrifice tho
country for the mere gratification of
a personal whim, or as a matter of
pride or spite ? No, if you are men
deserving of the American soil be
neath your feet, you will allow noth
ing to come between you and your
country's best interests. Crush out
the Radical infamy! An opportunity
to strike the first blow is now at
hand. Strike hard; strike quick;
strike effectually, and be ever readv,
like Drutus of old, to "slay your best
lover for the good of Rome."
To be Revived. We are informed
that -the Portland Bulletin is to be
revived next week under new man
agement. Mr. James O'Meara is to
be editor, and Mr. S. J. McCormick
business manager. The former is
well known as ove of the best news
paper writers on tins coast, and Mr.
McCormick has had considerable ex
perience as a publisher and a prac
tical printer. It is understood that
tho concern is owned by Mr. Holla
day, who furnishes the funds to put
it on its legs again.
Bring out the full strength of the
Democratic party on Monday.
From the Frying-pan to the Fire.
Zachary Chandler, ex TJ. S. Senat
or, has been sworn in as Secretary of
the Interior! A greater outrage on
the people, a more palpable disgrace
of public sentiment, a more disas
trous use of the appointing power,
a greater disgrace to the National
Capital has never occurred in the
history of our country. Chandler,
or "Old Zck," as he is familiarly
called by his boon companions, has
a notoriety too wide-spread to need
from us any extended notice. The
disgraceful nature of his reputation,
which so signally led to his defeat
by his own party, in his attempt to
grasp for the second time Senatorial
honors, seems to be of a stamp, in
Grant's eyes, to make him deserving
of one of the highest positions within
the range of executive gift. His in
temperance, his audacity in defend
ing party theft, his facility for enter
ing into all schemes for robbing the
Government, and his swaggering
bravado, make him a suitable suc
cessor to such as Williams, but a
disgrace, even, to such as Delano.
Grant is now happy, a bird of his
own feather is in the Cabinet. Ju
piter, who sent the hungry stork to
reign among the frogs who were dis
satisfied with an inanimate log for
king," committed no more indignity,
nor made more apparent his antag
onism to public opinion, and his
desire to see the Republic crushed,
than this "Ciesar now. become a
god."
The prestige given the Radicals
by their accidental victory in Ohio,
has been entirely destroyed by this
obstinate blunder. Our good people
will now be afraid to support a party
which endorses such autocracy; and
will feel that the " Ciesarism applied
by the New York Herald to the pres
ent President has not been so unde
serving after all. The Independent
and honest Republican voters will
feel that to support any Radical
nominee is to admit their approval
of Grant's outright tyranny, and their
affiliation with the national thieves.
With Chandler appointed to the Cab
inet, what next are we to expect?
Our very lives are not our own with
such a captain at the helm! Grant
has waited for the election returns
from Ohio, and now that they back
his administration, he boldly shows
the cloven foot, demonstrating what
we may expect for the future.
It is time for the well-wishers of the
Republic to pause r.nd look around
them; it is time that the nominees,
who declare themselves friendly to
Ciesarism, should bo treated like
Ciesars; and it is time that the dom
ineering outrages of Ulysses Grant
should be checked and severely reprimanded.
A Shallow Excuse.
We see it stated in the Eastern
press that Gen. Sheridan's recent
visit to this State was for the purpose
of looking into threatened Indian
troubles. This is about as shallow
an excuse for the little General to
get his expenses paid to visit Oregon
as we have ever seen. In the first
place, we have heard of. no Indian
troubles in any portion of Oregon;
and in the next place, if there had
been, what did Sheridan do to pacify
the Indians? He came to Portland,
and after remaining there two or
three days went to Salem, from there
to his farm in Yamhill county, and
returning the next day remained one
night at Salem, when he took his
private car and left the State. Sher
idan's visit to Oregon was on purely
private and pleasure business, and
this pretense of his that he came to
look after supposed or imaginary
Indian troubles is trumped n for
the sole purpose of getting his ex
penses paid by the Government for
making a pleasure trip to Oregon.
It is nothing but a small devise to
rob the people of his expenses. For
pure cheek, we have seldom seen the
equal of this. But it is on a par with
other Radicals who keep their hands
in the treasury vaults. So it appears
that tho public has to pay this little
General's expenses for coming to
Oregon to look after his farming in
terests, and former relatives. What
a handy thing it is to be a Federal
official under Radical rule!
At Last. Our readers will re
member that at the completion of
the railroad to Albany, in the pres
ence of a large crowd at that place,
Mr. Ben. Holladay took occasion to
grossly insult Hon. Geo. R. Helm.
Ever since that time, Mr. Helm has
sought an opportunity to avenge the
insult, and by reference to our tele
graphic news, on first page, it will
be seen that he did so most effectu
ally.at the Fair Grounds last Thurs
day. It is now Mr. Holladay 's turn
to avenge the insult which was so
publicly bestowed on him.
Let Independents remember that
it was the Warren representatives
which, through fals6 pretenses, at-
! tempted to get their nominee off the
track. Unless yon a ant to endorse
political dishonesty, you should vote
; for Mr. Lane; at ha.t, you cannot
with any degree uf honor vote for
Mr. Warren.
When you go to the polls next
Monday, remember f at Mr. Warren
is the representative of Mitchell,
Ben. Simpson, Mallory, Underwood
& Co. the Custom House Ring.
LETTER JTR031 NEW YORK.
' From Our Regular Correspondent.
New Yoek, Oct. 5, 1875.
These are Granger times, and
although the public mind - is more
earnestly considering the issues of
the currency and sectarian schools,
forced upon it by demagogues, yet
the railroad question is undoubtedly
the one of most interest to thinkers,
political economists and statesmen.
And this is so for the reason that it
is a question the solution of which
is most difficult, and on both sides
of which admirable arguments may
be offered. But in the matter of the
currency and schools it is simply a
struggle between prejudice and self
interest on the one side, backed up
by ignorance, passion and noise,
against self-evident truth and hones
ty on the other, supported by the
honest determination of every think
ing man in the country. Indeed the
success that is attending tho superb
efforts of Carl Schurz in Ohio (the
very fountain head of pestilential
financial doctrines) give some hope
that tlie movement for soft money
may fall still-born and so avoid a
violent death in the presidential
campaign next year. As to the
school question, the President, in his
last and greatest speech (because the
longest) gave correct expression to
the temper of the entire country (the
few sectaries most interested alone
excepted) in denouncing any attacks
on the public school system.
But the railway question jresents
great and grave difficulties, because
it is a new one. Charles Francis
Adams, the chairman of the Railway
Commission of Massachusetts, who
has brought to the investigation of
this question a broad, liberal and
enlightened mind, the qualities of a
statesman, the ability of a scholar
and an uuequaled experience in rail
road policy, made last week, at Osh
kosh, Wis., a masterly attempt at a
solution of the problem. He thinks
many of the difficulties between the
roads and the farmers arose from
the fact that both roads and farms
were developed before they were ac
tually needed, and cleverly .likened
the case to that of two partners in a
venture, which, for the moment,
scarcely promises well, one of whom
has agreed to stay and improve farms
and the other to build roads to them.
The first has laid out a great many
more farms than are immediately re
quired, and the second has built
altogether too many railroads to
them. The natural consequence is
the appearance of a great many im
patient land holders and quite as
many disappointed bond holders.
He thinks that the remedy will ulti
mately be that the railroads concen
trate. "Take 'the Pennsylvania rail
road which coutrols road from the
Atlantic to the Pacific, or New York
Central, the management of which
now controls the line of lO'.M) miles
from New York to Chicago, formerly
composed of over a dozen different
roads. The Government must take
them, as it has tho Post-office, and
should the telegraph. Of course
this is not new, and will meet, as it
has already, with violent oppo
sition. It is opposed to the funda
mental democratic doctrine of free
trade, and of confining the functions
of government to simply governing,
and not .providing for, the people.
But it is the opinion of one of the
best living authentic writers on rail
road matters and is deserving, there
fore, of consideration.. The State
Engineer's Report on the railroads
in this State contains some interest
ing statistics. It shows that there
are 122 different roads now working
in this State alone. The New York
Central heads the list with 350,781,
511 passengers, and with 1,391,500,
707 tons of freight carried one mile
during last year. For this they re
ceived twenty-eight million dollars.
The desire of capitalists to invest in
a rapid transit road in this city re
ceives an explanation by considering
the number of passengers carried by
the trunk horse car lines that con
nect the two extremes of the city.
The Third Avenue line carried last
year 2l millions of passengers.
The Fourth Avenue carried nearly
ten millions, the Sixth Avenue over
fifteen millions, the Broadway over
nineteen millions, the Eighth Avenue
over sixteen millions and the Second
Avenue over fourteen millions, mak
ing a total of over 100 millions of
persons carried up and down town
in a year, and this too without coun
ting the small and the cross town
lines. No wonder the rapid transit
folks waut to get a finger in this rich
pie, and no wonder thoThird Avenue
folks are willing to pay four millions
of dollars to keep them off their Av
enue, as they have avowed their in
tention of doing, should that Avenue
be chosen as the one on which the
railroad is to be built.
As this letter seems to have taken
a statistical course perhaps you will
excuse a few more figures. Besides
being a very ambulatory, we are also
a very litigious, city. The courts
opened yesterday for the first time
after the summer vacation of three
months, with nearly six thousand
cases on their calendars await in"
trial. These are for this city alone!
Chief among these in interest are the
suits against Tweed and one or two
others of the ring. There were on
the criminal side of the court thir
teen homicide trials on the day cal
endar yesterday morning, headed by
the case of John Samuel, who has
already been once tried for the mur
der of Thomas Donahue after follow
ing him for months with the avowed
intention of killing him. The jury
disagreed on the first trial.
The fall meeting of running horses
opened on Saturcay at Jerome Park
An accident, by which McGratU's
finest horse " Calvin" was cut down
and forever ruined as a racer, threv i
a cloud over the day's sport. In
deed, last week seems to have been
an unfortunate one for horses, for
on the same day at Elmira, in this
State, the famous trotting mare
American Girl fell dead in the first
heat of the free for all race. Before
the race- she seemed to be in the best
condition, as far as anything her dri
ver could see. At the first turn she
was ahead, but her driver noticed
that she seemed to be giving out,
and let her head drop. She kept
staggering for an eighth of a mile,
and at the quarter pole fell and died
without a struggle. A singular co
incidence in the case was that those
in the grand stand say a rainbow
could be seen from there, the end of
which fell upon the head of the dy
ing racer. The celebrated horse
dealer and driver, Ben. Mace offered
$20,000 for American Girl the morn
ing of her death.
TEK It I TOH IAL. X U Wk ITESW.
They have had a 100,000 fire at
Fairview, Idaho.
The Seattle mines of late are very
much favored by developments. Two
coal veins that have been running
parallel, have, in the working, come
together, making a seam some ten
feet in thickness with a lift of near
five hundred feet. They also find
another six feet vein of superior coal.
An arrangement has been made
and the papers will be signed in a
few days for the building of the Se
attle and Walla Walla railroad from
Seattle to the coal mine on Cedar
river, a distance of some twenty
miles. This will furnish tho trans
portation for some threo or more
mines now known.
There are two or three rivers which
empty into Gray's harbor, near tho
coast, that would be navigable for
steamboats for a considerable distance
if a few drifts of logs were removed.
The blacksmith of Port Townsend
has just struck a new lead, that of
making anchors for the sloops and
schooners running to and from that
place. Last week he had contracts
for ten, ranging from 70 to 150
pounds each.
Fire at Walla Walla.
Brigham and Ann Eliza are again
in the courts.
Sjx hundred tons of wheat deliver
ed at Walla Walla last week.
Nearly 1,500,000 pounds of crude
bullion passed over the Utah South
ern railroad last month.
Frauk Orselli, of Walla Walla, has
made 300 gallons of wine out of
0,000 lts of grapes this year.
The railroad i completed to the
city of Walla Walla by the present
writing, in all probability.
Two pack trains, with about G,000
pounds of apple's left Walla Walla
this week for the Montana mines.
The Denver News says: Brigham
Young met President Grant at the
depot in Salt Lake and tendered him
the hosin tali ties of the Harlem dur
ing his sojourn in Zion. The Presi
dent politely declined.
A Snyie Effort. Surely the He
porter has not lived this long to hear
that scurrility is not argument! The
entire absence of anything like proof
in its answer to the Enterprise, and
the series? of unprovoked vulgarity,
incline us to believe that the leader of
that flock which so grossly insulted
Mr. Lane, and the writer of the
blackguard article in the Reporter
are one and tho same person. We,
in part, account for the frenzid
delirium of the Reporter, from the
fact that Judge Field has lately de
cided that patent ontsidos arc not lit
places for legal advertising.
Left the State. Hon. R. S
Strahan, well known to the people of
our State, having been Senator from
Benton county, and one of tho most
prominent lawyers of the State, for
many years a resident of Corvallis,
has left Oregon with his family and
removed to Lower California. The
people of Oregon have lost a valued
and enterprising citizen, and the
Second Judicial District a man of
ability and integrity which will be
hard to replace. We wish the Judge
and his family the best of prosperity
in their new home.
Official Vote for Governor.
The full official vote of the State, as
revised and corrected at the office of
the Secretary of State, for Governor
gives Irwin 01,509, Phelps 31,322,
Bidwell 29,752 and Wm. E. Lovett,
temperance candidate, 35G votes.
Tho total vote for Phelps, Bidwell
and Lovett added together make
01,430, leaving Irwin a clear majority
over the three candidates of 79 votes.
Irwin's majority over both Phelps
and Bidwell combined, 435 votes.
Democratic Speaking. On Sat
urday last Hon. George R. Helm ad
dressed the people of Scio, and Hon.
J. W. Baldwin and M. V. Brown
spoke at Sweet Home school house.
On Saturday next Hon J. K. Lut
trel, Congressman elect from Cali
fornia, and Governor Grover Will
make political speeches at Portland.
.
Ox the Stump. Gov. Grover has
addressed the citizens of Eugene
City, McMinnville and Lafayette this
week, and to-day he and Hon. Jas.
K. Lutterelk speak at Salem, and
to-morrow evening he speaks at Port
land. Conundrum What is the differ
ence between Longfellow's Minne
haha and the Statesman's carpet-bap:
editor? One is known. as Laughing
NYaters and the other as Whisky-
Waters.
Recollect that every vote eounts.
whether you are in a Democratic or
Republican precinct.
While Mr. Warren may be a crood
man, he is in most infernal bad com
pany, and should bo defeated.
PHILADELPHIA LETTER.
From our regular Correspondent.
Philadelphia, Oct. 4th, 1875.
With the approach of our election
comes the usual circus of stump ora
tors, inflamed hearers, illuminations,
torchlight processions of office hold
ers on one side and of aspirants to
like honors on the other. Truly we
; are a democratic nation, when such
I motive power as this moves the ma
j chinery that controls an election and
! gives us our rulers. As the torch
l bearers filed past a given point for
an xioiii wu kjaiuiunj mjjui', me
thought suggested itself, perhaps
not without welcome, "a few more
shouts, another Roman candle or
two my boys, and without knowing
to what a noble end you have con
tributed, our glorious Democracy,
rhcenix-like will have arisen from
its ashes of fifteen years smoulder
ing." At that instant, as though re
sponding to the thought, an explo
sion of harmless combustibles from
the lino of the old party broke upon
the eye and ear with such violence
that the inner spiritual eye already
traced the column enveloped iu the
smoke of victorious salvos.
Our national topic of cpnversation,
the Centennial," is not forgotten
during these days of feverish politi
cal excitement, and serves to furnish
us with a hobby for the year. The
buildings are comiug on apace, all
things being under cover except the
Agricultural Hall. The interior
work on the buildings is progressing
very favorably, the laying of the
floors and plastering the walls being
the only labor remaining, apart from
the finishing decorations in Memori
al Hall. The ornamentations of the
domecomposed of galvanized iron,
are now being attached, and tho work
of sheathing and glazing the frame
work will soon begin. The figures
over the main portal and on the pa
vilions will, when placed in position,
virtually complete the building.
The buildings now electing by the
British Commission are roofed, and
will be ready for occupancy in about
another month. Their architecture
is the old English style of the six
teenth century, and will form a re
markable contrast to the modern
Philadelphia residence of the ordina
ry prim kind so popular in this city.
The accommodations for visitors to
the Exhibition have assumed a more
tangible and definite shape, and I
think there is little danger of appre
hending an overcrowding. An agen-
i cy has been formed for the sole pur
pose of providing respectable lodg
ings for strangers next year, and is
in the hands of a party of gentlemen
whose names alone arc a sufficient
guarantee of the achievement of their
project. Besides this, nearly all tho
hotels have been enlarged, and quite
a number of new ones erected near
the Exhibition grounds. At the
Globe Hotel the building is being
lathed outside preparatory to being
rough cast, the entire interior frame
o
work is completed, aud the roof is
nearly finished. Thisstructurealone
will contain several hundred guests
The walls of the Transcontinental
Hotel, opposite, have reached the
second storj, and the flooring and
the interior work have been begun
The construction of the United
States Hotel, another new enterprise,
at. Forty-second street and Columbia
avenue, a few blocks distant, is also
progressing fast. It has also been
proposed to open Swarthmoro Col
lege during the summer vacation in
loulor lodgings to visitors. This
large and beautiful collegiate insti
tute is situated only a few miles from
the city, and is easily accessible by
rail. It is under the management of
the Hicksite branch of the Society
of Friends, and is one of the best
conducted institutes in Pennsylvania
If tho the managers can be prevailed
upon to open it for boarders, which
its peculiar situation renders it emi
nently fit for, it would undoubtedly
prove the most homelike of the many
caravansaries connected with the
Centennial Exposition.
Over five thousand workmen beinir
employed, quite a perceptible change
takes place in the structure during
a week; the space of time usually al
lowed by Philadelphians to intervene
between their pilgrimages to this
shrine. If the vast preparation, in
the shape of the buildings them
selves, the hotels, and the depots for
coneenration of trains from all parts
of the U. S., bttoken the number of
visitors, surely our celebration
should be successful. As a matter
of national pride it is to bo hoped
that at the time of opening, these
efforts will have secured this end and
that no Vienna fiasco will greet our
expectant friends.
Amongst theatrical sensations there
came last week a splendid rivalry
between Barry Sullivan, at the Wal
nut St. Theater, and Davenport, at
the Arch St. Theater. For several
evenings they played the same char
acters, and it was gratifying to note
that our own great actor (D.) drew
houses of twice the size of those that
his opponent attracted. On Friday
night a most perfect ovation was ten
dered Davenport by the Davenport
Club of N. Y. The actor having
been called before the curtain, he
was notified by the club of his elec
tion to the office of president of their
body. Congratulations upon his
success were offered, and amid the
plaudits of Ins many friends his ac
ceptance was in order. This is no
slight honor, since the twenty-five
gentlemen who form the association
are among the most wealthy and cul
tivated of N. Y. and emulnate the 1
deeds of the celebrated club of -which
Shakspeare was so graceful a mem
ber. We regret to say that on the
same evening in falling in vr7
Mr. Davennort. an,.;1 , lacbeth
The Stranger," being an easv
he managed to play it SatSrSU
ternoon without much tronhi Jaf
on the repetition of " v Mt
night he suffered so inteSf U at
it was with the greatest dilSn th,at
got through the piece. HeW J
to leave for Troy, where he S?9
tised for Monday evenin- i , er
let." Mr. Davenport's
will hear with deep re'rret t, irietds
compelled for a time to susnl , ,)
engagements in the Yerv
an unusually successful seisnrf of
to
miii, unless it ho
the matinee of our Chief Police V
istrate. which, to t
- oi
a?.
would pall your fastidous J?
I fear, out there in the ? '
west, but should it not be my nf
tunate lot to be an actor at on
these, you will soon hear again fro
Stoughtox
To I'ruit Growers of Ore
on.
ur..iLtMLs; .ire VOU fmn .
furnish specimens cf Oregon fruit
dried cured and preserved to h
forwarded to the Centennial? fcilan
the fruit interests of our State l
represented at the exhibition? u
the biennial session of the American
Pomological Society, held in Cbicapo
this season, arrangements were mad,
to have specimens of perisliable fruit
in cast placed on exhibition, and
many of our States are preparing to
have all their fruit represented in
this manner. Is the fruit interest of
Oregon worth giving any attention
to in this great show? We were a
little surprised at the answer given
by one of our prominent nurserymen
and fruit-growers, living close to
this city, w hen approached on the
subject of having the fruit interest
represented at the Centennial, 'fha
answer was, "It onght to be done
and I should have prepared some of
my fruit, but it would cost some
thing, and I should not get anything
for doing it." We hope our fruit
men will take a broader view of this
subject, and at least prepare and fur
nish some of their best specimens
for the Centennial next jear. A line
exhibit of our grains and grasses has
already leen secured, and we are
now prepared to give our entire time
to the work. We have secured rooms
for storing articles for the exhibition,
and an oflice in Corbett's brick block,
with the N. W. Shipping Company!
where we will furnish any desire;!
information or take charge of any
articles entrusted to our care.
A. J. Duftii, Commissioner
Portland, Oct. 4. 1875.
A Ixepiiblicaa Opinioii of Warren.
The San Francisco Chronicle, per
haps the leading Republican Journal
of this coast, through its Portland
correspondent, speaks in the follow
ing strain of the Radical noraineefor
Congress:
Unhajijuly for Warren he h not t
good speaker a very dull oiw iu
fact and, foreign born as he v:n
it seems he belouged to tlieKtioa-
Nothings in 1ST3. In this city it nil
lose him hundreds of votes anion;
the Germans and Irish and other foreign-born
citizen. He is a temper
ate man in his habits, yet tin? Tem
perance organization nominated an
other candidate, and as Hie ni.ij.ir
part of that vote comes from tii?
Republican ranks, he will lose mncli
more of the total cast for that randi
date. than will Lane. Thn. with tlie
sjilit'in the Republican party, which
grev out of the anti-Mitchell ard
anti-Holhulay schism of two years
ago, and is represented by those who
are known as the 'Orcjoniim King,"
the Independent trouble of this year,
and the Temperence exposition,
Warren has no chance at all of au
election. The Democrats will elect
Lane by a large vote, and this victory
will give them much prestige for the
State election next Juue, when the
Legislature then elected will have
also to choose a United States Sen
ator in September to succeed Kelly,
present Democratic-Senator, whose
term will exp:re March A. 1S77.
We cheerfully give spaeo to the
following correction made by the
Oregon Granger z
The editor of th
Oregon City
Entekpkise makes
ccrtion in his last
a very broad as
week's issue, as
follows, viz:
"The Only One. It is a matter
to boast of that the Aid en Preserving
establishment in this city is the only
factory of any kind on tho Pacini
coast which is exclusively run by
white labor. We trust t tat the com
pany M ill always continue to do so.
Now we do not propose to take up
this quarrel for every other town on
the Pacific coast, but as our local
habitation is cast amongst this peo
ple, we must come to their aid.
There are located in this city, nncl
in full and successful operation at
this time, one Alden Fruit Drying
Company, two large sash and door
factories, one large foundry and ma
chine shop, two large flouring nuns
one barr factory, one large saw m" .
and divers and sundry other small
factories, and in no one of them is
single Chinaman, or other gentleman
of color, employed. To labor is hon
orable anion? the white people
this oommunity.
"
Democratic Pkogeess. The rec
ord shows how rapidly the Demo
cratic party is gaining the confidence
of the country. Just look at it.
1870, fourDeaiocratic Governors; m
1S75, twenty-four Democratic Got-
ernors. In lSiu, lour
Legislatures; iu 1875, twenty-0"
Democratic Legislatures, in
ninety Democratic members of the
House of Representatives of the Unit
ed States; in 1875, one hundred ana
eightv members of that body. ln
1870 tn-elva Democratic members pi
the Senate of the United States;
1875, twenty-eight members.
, a
A nonentity in the minority w
very useless kind of represent"'-
i-r. rr.in.1 nn eieCUUU -
you wh o have the best interests oi
Oregon at heart.
Remember that a vote for &TTea
cn,inrSfl the Portland
Ring in their deception and treocn
ery to secura tha withdrawal of W
Whitney,
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