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. , ' - ' -. L ORIGINAL DEFECTIVE 1 i J i i 3!)c (Enterprise. OllEGQN TIIIXSDU. ITT. 17, 1S78. The Grot aha ckers. Tho election of week !emcn- ' Mratea w hat wv have irt-vio:j.-t1y jrlict- ; .1, that thy Kutiounl r Cio.-nbar-l: 1 arty in rapi.liy itssnnvlns a eomlitinn to ' divide tlit; , restive ci victory ti'on , vritli tLo Democrats anl Republicans, j l ud it i quite lilic-Iy tl.nt they will hoM the Lr.!. grcsa bcf.v: Tttf gi'e -i.i t cached it. il l :' ;).r.v;;- i;: tL next Con ii i'.iv iil historic pirties. i-iii. ! lias cjrtaiiily not zenith yet; as long as we rut.; -'.nil i;oiu!.-noiin8 aiiKo .11.1 V fll courtin-r 'liine.o with it in uonblfnl districts it. f.ivis tLo tlicory tlio reward of ivsu ctful consideration, which will iindonl-ttdly i :i:.:ii3Co its progress in the future. Wo I loses prontstl ir ji.i Kortiou if j. n-ty jj ink KepiibJieahism ho o v it-zeal on 3 ns : i arnnscs, who in- i.st ti::.t it.- policy iuuks to the subver sion of pau r i.:;iii:y, ail tl-u substitu tion (;f coin vi'nsi ve!y, ivliich natu rally exciter ti " fears of the anti-con-tractionists. If the enemies of the Ile I uhliean party can pnccessfully fasten upon it, that it is in league with the capitalists and bondholders to reduce the vo'mii'i of National currency, it will go to lite wall, and its doom is sealed. We tliink llr-publican policy should be clearly enunciated to be to sanction the ispuar.ee of all the paper money that the people desire, who can back it with red eiv.pt ion al alue. Tlioso who go so far as to claim un limited i..s nance of liut money w ithout taking into consideration the matter of its redempl ion in .onitthing of stand ard value, arj Juuatics on tvhom reason and natural instinct have lost a foot hold. There ai;: a thousand vagaries of lir.ar.ee which arc being sown with an industrious hand to pervert the Iion C.t jt:u',:;:ent of tho masses, and w ho are led to believe that wealth may be created by the v-and of an enchnnlT without the intervention of labor and industry as heretofore; but the illusion will vanish when those who dream dreams are paid oiY in tho chimerical currency of their neighbor, for work done. This will at once convert the most obstinate fro:n the mysticism of the present iinaneialcrr.ze, and make him as much a philosopher as tho balaico of us who believe that for work done, or article:sol,!, a on hi p o-jo of stand ard and acknowledged value shall be paid. Ilepublican theory then is not for a coin currency exclusively, out lor all tho paper money there shall bo de mand for, to be issued after proper equivalents are put up for it to guaran tee its measure of value. Nothing short of this will answer the demand of the peo:lo, and the soonJ?r the bullion element are suppressed..? in tolo the healthier it Till be for the party. Tho S.'a;i br'il iz sour at our abuse of it for its abuse of Postmaster-General Key, and kicks back. It is all the more disgusted at Key because he is a Ke publican, who was once so undisguised a Democrat a-; to have been in arms against tho Government. This, the Stand n-d intimates, is the highest and bolir test cf u Democrat, foha'.ebeen antecedently a rcV.l. "YY'j admit all this, but o::?e in n while a wayward sinner turns fro: i the evil and wicked paths he has hitherto trod, and regen erated and disenthralled, stands forth as a conspicuous example of a brand saved from the hiiruitv,-. It is called "being born again," and we thought Tony knew all about it; but he is so deeply, darkly, and obtusely Demo cratic that if he were a mule with all the obstinate stubbornness and per verse spirit, which is tho mule's born prerogatives, and it were given him to exchange his long cars and tough con science for tho milder and moro amia ble disposition of tho horse, ho would rather remain with that despised "race which has " no prido of ancestry or hope of hope of posterity." Tho very prolonged storm of last week, aud reaching until Monday in this, has been the source of great dis appointment to the managers and pat rons of tho State Fair. Unless re strained by moro powerful considera tions than we are now aware of. the nn- rc genc rate portion will be very apt to talk in such a way to the clerk of the weather as will greatly shock the sensi bilities of that personage. We under stand the lair management, as to the necessity of a rousing timo this year, are a good deal in the condition of the boy digging for a chip-rami k he must catch him, as there is no meat in the house and owing to the bad outcome of the fair last year, they must make a success of this season or suffer bank ruptcy. If we wtro at the ear of the directory we should suggest adjourn, and adjourn through the next six weeks, until the fates smile more propitiously; and if worse comes to worse, wo would throw ourselves back on the resort of the S.'u.idi'.rd and Sentinel: have Gov. Thayer issue a proclamation for a day j of prayer. We must get this obs.trep- j crous individual down somehow, and up i to this time, objurgation and cuss-words j have had no effect. The salmon bill has passed both Houses. Pishing commences on tho Columbia river on the 1st day of April, and cnd3 cn the llr. t day of August, of each year. The closed time is the months of March, August and Septem ber, and tho weekly closed time, from G o'clock r. m. on Saturday to 0 o'clock r. M. on tho following Sunday. Heroism cUicr than InttimVliy 3Ion may eount it vaTor nnd undaunt ed braverv to fro forth to fierht . on the ! Held of battle, and think it the-highest j test of personal courage; Irat to our , rniud the trncr heroes, aud those who show a more exalted and unfa'tering 1 ravery, Hre those who, forsaking the healthful vales of the Koilh; Lave lle liherately proceeded to the hot-beds of sickness and death in the fever-stricken South, with the utmost certainty of being themselves laid ; low J?thc fall destroyer. Thousands of 'physicians and curses, both rrerj and. '.women,' with sublime conrage, have thus de7 parted, and yearly all have offered up their lives as an earnest of their hu manity commiseration of suTTering. The world, or the ann ds of time, from the creation forward, can not show a, snblimer portrayal of self-sacrifice and fe'f abnegation, fii offering up their livea on the altar of philanthropy, than they ! have -Uw-i.MwjuntIy-eii4y' the highest i2K)rtJ coijrage isviipJ; 'the j heroes Thermopylae the "slam of Marathon, the martyrs of vUamo or the unflinching on any buttle field,-befe the tension' of the nerves'are strnng by the calm, quiet and sasriheing - spirit like theirs which answers tt the higheet i Heroism. .- ; .. -;" So nigli is grandeur to our dust, . Sf ni'ar Is (od to man, - . When Duty w)iiirs low, thou must. rr : - if t i lni? wave n i y, J ctin Tho following from the Pendleton Tii tl'peinhnil illuKtrat es "th other side'of the story of 'wrongs-committed -in the lndian country: - . -.-.-. We learn of a grntiman3rir.Pike Davenport, that an Indian: wavs killed three miles from Pendleton on" tJatnr-J tlav. il r. iJavenpOrt crosses! themoun-i tains on Tuesday, bavin? examined the f dead Indian at the UmafiniT'oifcTief : lie states that tho Indian ,was alone, when killed and was mnrdered by'white men k-yuud doubt,- -and -tdiofc and mangled in a mannexIndiaiibar.bansn: could hardly xeeU Ooof ball - had struck the riglir""wsf,"'which "'was' broken. One had passed ' thfofigb the left hand, one through the left knee and one through the. JightCtlignf onei striking tho right breast, . passing out under thet left arm; one striking, tho left breast and passing out tinder the right arm; one shoe .passing directly through the bod- from sule to side, and one also through tho head, nnd a ver dict was rerdered that,Uif5 inaalcSDie"tt5i. his ueath by being shot. These occur rences are truly - roprtifying to a com munity who realize the trouble they are inculcating. There must be a band of white Indians in that country that jxis tice has not yet predominated over." Xow if the friends of this dead In dian could quickly retaliate on the cut throat whites who committed this das tardly murder we should be glad of it, for nothing but equal and exact justice would bo dene; but a class' of Indian exterminationists would be raised up who would insist that, total extiuetiou of the hated race would atone for it. We believe the Federal army ought to: be turned loose on a class of unscrupu lous, dastardly white i in that section, who have moro savage instinct in their breasts than the accumulated deviltry of all tho Indian tribes. If the Indian could only be taught to mete his ven geance on the actual transgressors, we should like to see him let loose awhile. t, x.r -r During his recent Western tour Pres ident Hayes made an address at theTri- Srate Fair fn Toledo,,, Ohio, concern wg4 the causes of financial depression, and the methods by which cjtjzgns rany aid. in establishing better ' times. " He. aid that one " simple acknowledged fact "is that the war was the cause 'of 1 he hard times. During the war business flour ished for the time, b'4caasb- tho United States Government bought of the peo ple, and money was-nlade easily . - But when tho needs of the Government de creased, the " flush times V.of ilie wa,r were followed by-hard' timoR-'-a ncces-5 sary result.' Ent curtailment of ex penditures gradually cinqstLis trouble.' Mr. Haj es remarked : "When the war ended we bad a debt of 82,-100, 000,000 on ortr shoulders, upon which we were paj-irig" seveii and three tenths per cent, interest. Our. taxes were raised to nearly $500,000,000 iq a timo of profound peace. "Our currency' wss worth sixty or seventy cents on the dollar. In our foreign trade the bal: auce was against us"Vieariy $100,000,000 a year. And now, how are re?The debt is reducefl nearly a third 1 How many a wise man shook his head at the the close of the-war and said, 'The peo ple can never pay that debt 1 -WTrf; we have a third of it paid off already.' Tho interest that you paid, that is re duced from 8140,000,000 to &35,00(.P00.- Wo no longer-. pay sevtu . and .thiie tenths per cent, interest; vej can get the money we war t at four percent.. . As to our balance of trade: before the panic that balance of trade wa3" sjainst us 8100,000,000 a year; that is to say, we bought abroad that much more than we sold abroad. How is it to-day t? ,We are selling more- produce than ever before in our history: more' cofn.. more wheat. We have even gone so far as to. tauo watches made at Elgin, .Illinois, and made in New England, and carry them right over to the foot of the Alps, where the people have been-making watches for 300 years, and sell the watches to those people. Now wo are selling 8207,000,000 a year abroad more than we are buj'ing abroad. . How does that operate? As every man who sells more than ho buys is getting rich, so it is with the United States. Yon each of you are getting out. of the panic; we are all getting put of the panic: and nothing but. our own unwisdom will get us into it." m tho course of h-s speech Mr. nays enlarged upon, the-, f act that the elements of success lav largelv in the mntcrial wealth derivable from "onr soil wealth of grain and"' wealth 'of min erals. This issue closes volume XII. of the E.NTEurnisE, and the third year under the management of the present proprie tor. Thankful for past favors, solicit ing more for the future, and reminding those indebted to come to the front wa j will close for this volume. ' Another Key Tfote of Titupera-tion. The Standard has been running a muck of vituperation of late, and has chosen D. P. Thoni2,son 'lS s lat vic tim of attack. Happily the 'people of the Pacific slope know Dave to be a pqnare man, and one who never goes back on his word; otkV l4sides beirig -honorablen his dealings, Dave has a little more shrewdness and natural ability than most men, aud Tony would doubtless " like, by dragging the afore said, down, to rise to the level of the ordinary by appropriating tho differ ence. Tried by the yard stick of pub lic opinion, Thompson measures com plete; but the editor cf the Shnulard, by the same test fails As an expert, however, Tony looms up grandly; par ticularly on tho measniement. of tho public printing, ;when a committee of his own party ann wui cg .that .Mart Brown has taken over ,&8,000.'not his own, but which the Standard man practical expert on b'SnffeWlial fan jgtfpjJ pJiquesP ; Jioneu greatness ut course Mart will rejuinl Jbe 8,000 (!). ' Tie can not affoikf 4o-dHl out righteous indignation gain8t the thieves und robbers cf the Ipubhcan party while that SS.GOC larges . .the Brown f s'fcter:U. ,-.w. ,000 en- ,wVu Id otherwise be too- plain a case of "f'tfio devil rebuking tin bwaray Laud. - A ttalem correspondent of a Portland paper gives, the fodowmgnr regard to the swamp land swindle: ..- Tire transaction involvin-the f wen- ty.per cent, on iC-'T.OOO acres 'ol'iand. panionnting' to 33v),(KX, seems tol o something like this: It." M. Walker 'or whoever was the pnnciual acrent m it. took t ie filings, including the quasi receipt for the monev, and tho receipt made by the Secretary of State to par ties in California for the purpose of eelliBg-out- the job for a.greater sum, and whatever the proceeds might bo bevond. the 830.000 would be clear protif, to be divided, among the persou in interest. This is the interpretation the , transaction bears npon' its' idep IhouglCit may. on JJulJerexplanalion, be susceptible of some other. But the $3t,000 wns never "paid ?fo the State, and.) it remains to bo seen whether thu Juiuls Can bo'heXl uncj,ei snelvf rauilnderit; ljo ceeding. -Novr that tlfe commitfee is fairly on the track of the job, it ought to get to the; bottom f the facts. Of other transactions referred to, tbex planation is more apparent. Various persons, favorites of the board," seem to have been designated- to select swamp lands,-) were allowed exorbitant com pensation for their services, and were credited with the amount in paymentof the twenty per cent, on lands selected for themselves or their associate h. This will explain Mr, Cann's stateun nt that, ' if a man had a bill against the- State, he audited it and retained the money." This can be characterized, ouly as a scheme for swindling the State out of twenty per cent. Such is exactly tho effect of it For what actual and bou est service J. N.v"D..ker,'brother-in-law oX.Sccretarr Chad wick, allowed over 88,000 which tho committee fmd him accredited with? A like question may be asked in relation to others who were paid great sums. The fact is undoubt ed that the State administration during the last eight years has been thoroughly corrupt. It has converted into mer chandise everything that could be sub jected ' to venal transformation. The Legislature is now on the track of some of the' delinquents, l'lio people call npon that body to make, thd '- investiga tion thorough. jt The Standard man has Tom. Cat-.' u on the brain, low felinesthat Wo suppose it is a fel- makesbim.lush to the breach in a tremendous caterwaul in honor of the Democratic nominee for, delegate to Congress from Washington Territory, but when, that other Tom., his, rival, closes in on .thopussy-lani-mons Cat-on tho stump, if 'there is anything left of him for reflection after Uio" sanguinary, Kilkenny- engagement that will ' eusne, it will be to mews on the catastrophe that left him dangling to Brent's belt, with this wemorabjo. in scription ;on his cenotaph: '' Jiequies Cat on, ) nce", - . .; ., ';. "V '. '"' - Last' winter the Democratic House ousted Judgo Belford; -of; Colorado, from his seat, on the merest technipal ity, and installed his Competitor, whom, the people had elected to sny at home.. It was a little tho meanest partisan business by the Confederate Brigadiers since their installment in Washington. Now the'-' people of the gallant J it Lie State have rebuked thia piece f shame lessness, and not only ret nrhed Jnd -o Bel ford by a big majority, but have elected a Ilepublican Legislature and the entire Ilepublican , St. to ticket. Colorado deserves a big tally. ; There is anotho' complication in ex Governor Curlin's district in Pennsyl vania. The Democratic -; Convention wdiich nominated him for Congress voted... ninety-one 'times, ' and then a large minority refused to abide by the result. This minority represented tho Greenback Democrats opposed to Cur tin's hard-money record. Beth. n. Yo enm, Democrat, has been nominated by the Greenbackers, and will make tho race"- against Curtin as a Greenback Democrat. , Virginia is beginning"; to reap'' -the fruits o ihe repudiation campaign' of a portion of her population. The treas ury is empty, there i? no money to run the schools ,or to pay salaries, and of course the bankers have buttoned their pockets and locked their safes. Some of the other States will do well to take a good look at the picture, The S. F. Chronicle says the tide of emigration from the Atlantic States to the Pacific coast has again set in oa a large scale, almost equaling the great rush of three years ago. The arrivals bv overland railroad now average over 100 daily.. , COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, 'Tlic Stale Print iiis Steal. r.KPOKT OF COMMITTEE ON STATE FEINT ING, MADE OCT. liTH. " Salem. Oct. 14th. 1S7S. To ihe Ie'jisla'tce Assembly of the State of Oreyoa: J Your committee appointed to exam- ; me , the work executed by the state printer during the last two years, nnd his charges therefor, beg leave to re port that they have performed that du ty as far as the short time allotted them andjhe printed matter obtained would permit. They appointed Mr. P. H. , D'Arcy, of this city, a practical prin ter, to measure the work, and bis re port is herwith transmitted. To verify his measurement and estimates, we caused a '.'art of the' work to be also measured by Mr. Keadv. a-practical-printer, hcrtofoio and now employed upoa.state ,work,,and his measurement corresponds with measurement made by Mr. -"D'Arcy1. ' "'Other parties being printers" rftea-snred parts of the work with like results.- We: took ''the testi mony of the state printer; Mi V. Drown, Ar.Noltn'ar, printing expert, ex-Go'. CnfdwtckAj Ll Stin'son; fort man of the state printing office, and others, jrinter& mainly, 'which ; testimony ac companies this report. It will be seen that Mr. .P'Arcy finds that, -'for the work which ho was able to obtain cop-j-s ofrpriuied between Sept. . 1.' 1S7G, and frv?ft, 15 1S78, the state minter was pai.f ''821,513 40, and that he was entitl ed to receive for the same word cor rectly measured 813,002 03; showing .that for that work tho state printer ro-Cfivt-d 87,854 47 more than he was en tiilL lu under the law." This meas b. ( 1;UV existin jIr Wns In 1871 a new urement or. iur. u Arcy was made un- . Drown law was tnaeled, changing in some respects the niauner of executing the work. It is clear that.it is in the1 power of the leg islature to4 make such' changes during tho the term of au eiectod printer, and that in these particulars the work should have been done and ihe meas uvetrieut ;aado under the acl of 1874. Your corrmittee are supported iu this opiuion by members of the legal pro fession -with ; wliom they have talked. Tho testimony of Gov. Chad wick shows that he has-the same' view of the law. Computatipns..i,nj1e.rthis . law,. Mr. D1.; Arcf estimates, would still further ieduce the comensatiin to whioh the state printer' was- enitled for compo sition,, press work and paper on the journals fully eleven: jer cent. Mr. aite, sw ell ' know n book and job finnter. wlio is now doing tho state printing, estimate that the reduction would be gi eater than that for work that Mr. D'Arcy did not measure, not being able to obtain copies of the same. It is presumable that the overpayment upon this work was not less than upon that'meafliired and reported by D'Arcy. House joint resolution No. 40, of the session of 1872, provides that for pamphlets and journals, paper, 21 by 38 inches in size shall be used. Tho testimony of Mr. Keady and also of Mr. Siirison, who was . forman of the state printing office, shows that paper of that Lze was actual used, but the state was charged for paper ouly one fomili that size, tlm printer makiii." four vcatos of one. Tims, for a aH of paper for which the law allowed teu dollars and which cost about six dollars, tlio printer obtained from tho state about forty dollars. Presswork was charged four pages to the form or sig nature. The law- required that there shall be eight pages, and the testimony shows that nearly all. or ail, was print ed eight pages to the form. Compo sition on. one pag bills is invariably Charged two pages. When it is remem bered that there is a profit of full 400 pei cent, on this kind cf work counting hut one page,-the grade of this doub ling process is not overmatched by that which made four reams of one. The testimony lakeu by us show that there was no custom warranting it. The state printer was paid for 1,XX) copfes of tho iv port of tho committee to visit the penitentiary.1 The receipt given him by the Sergeant-at-arms shows that but 300 were printed. Oue thous and copies of joint rules aud standing committees of the senate are charged and but'J 50 were printed; 1,000 copies of reports of joint committees to visij the state university were paid for. but only 50Q were ,pr;nled; 300 copies of rtp$rt$f eommjUe to visit agrie .ltn ral college were printed and 1,000 paid for. The law of 1871 provides for print ing 500 copies of tho session l-tws, bv order of tLe "seercJa'rv of sta ate, and 1,000 copies were printed. In 1S7G tho state paid 8017 for print ing assessment rolls for al l the couuties. There sctnis to .be no authority for this. Tho state is charged with the covering of 1,000 each of the message and' accompanying documents. The testimony of Governor Chad wick shows that 300 were bound together in oue volume, and therefore were not covered at all. Including the governors mes sage there 17 of these documents, which makes a reduction on this item of 8705, ,1 lie measurement of our expert. M f D'Arc.v. -does not enclndo this dednc tion. Having no evidence as to the number actually furnished, wo there fore allowed for tho full number which the law provides for and on which the state printer charged. These are but illustrations, and do not by any means cover all abuses discovered in tho de partment. Mr. Noltiier, the state print ing expert,? testified that he did not measure a page of the prjnting. though he .certified to its correctness under oath and charged the state foe six days' service in measuring the work, lie was he officer of the .state supposed to stand between the btte and the printer, and his conduct in certifying to the woik, with or without examination, was, most reprehensible and deserving the Severest censure. Nor is the secre tary of state blameless, for tho law makes it his duty to examine tho s'ate printing and call to his aid one export for that purpose. Had either of ' thesa officers performed their dnties, the state would have been saved thousands of dollars unlawfully taken from its treasury. Under the head of "depart ment printing" all sorts of work seem toiave been done, even to the priuti g of ornamental programmes of the daily proceeding of the teacheis' institutes and the free circulation cf the same among the citizens of the towns where held. There is no warraut of law for much of the printing of reports. The inferior state officers and everybody connectedwilh the government makes and prrrts'a report, except the janitor, which comprise much unless matter of no intero t to anybody, except possibly, tliQ authors, and not half worth the printing. This rapidly growing ought in some way to be checked. It will be seen that the stata printing during the two years ending Sept. 1. 1878, was overpaid on work measured by our expert, 87,854 47. Add 87C5 overpaid according to the testimony of ex-Secretaryk Chadwio for covering documents never covered, and the amount is $9,019 47. To this should be added a probable pro rata over pay ment on 84.001 28 not measured which makes such over payment amount to more than 10,000, and this sum does not include the 11 per cent, greater reduction on house and senate journals which measurements under the law of 1S74 would result in. WM. GALLOWAY, II. T. ST11ATTON, Committee. Taper Currency. The demand that the paper currency shall be issued by the government, which is one of the chief planks of the Greenback platform, says Hwper's Weekly, seems plausible until it is examined.- The actual greenbacks are a currency of necessity. They were issued because the government in dire extremity had no other resource. They were, in fact, a forced loan. The gov erment authorized debtors to pay debts with them, and itself promised to pay honest dollars to every one who took them. Their issue was justified by the S.ipreme Court on the ground of necessity. The government has now provided for the redemption of its promise on a specified day, but it has confused its own action and thrown suspicion upon its honor by providing also that that the notes may be re-issued. It is argued that if tho notes are so convenient and so excellent, nnd if tliev are so much better than bank notes, tuey oueht to take the tloo i of bank-notes..andthegovernnientshould j issue as mau v as Congress may think i necessary for (he wants of the countrv. The same argument would apply to the management of railroads and of every kind of trade and industry by the gov ernment. The proposhilion is rsally that the government shall go into the banking business, and that Congress shall be a board of directors with absolute pow ers. Paper money properly represents business transactions. Xt is issued by banks which have capital to loan. But the government has no capital to loan. It is not trader. It is not a producer. It has no money except that wbish it collects in taxes and w hich it pays out for its expenses at the lowest practi cable amount. If it issues notes, it is because it wishes to lend. If Congress ij to authorize the issue of as mauy paper promises to pay as it chooses, what possible security can there be that it will be governed by commercial and not by political consideration? and if it authorizes an issue larger than can be redeemed, what is to prevent a stoppage of payment and limitless inflation? Money represents capital. But what capital has the government? If the the United States are to go into the banking business, why not into other business? Indeed, tliis question touches the difficulty. The real support of gov ernment issue of papc currency is es sentially communistic. It springs from the feeling that all such tilings would be better done by the govern ment. It is a feeling that the govern ment is a great organized motive power, which can be turned in any direction and applied to any purpose. It is the confused conception of government as something wholly distinct from tl.o nation, as a kind of good genius which we can set to drawing water and chop ping wood and making lires. It is in fact, communism, or tho doing by gov ernment what each man ought to do for for himself. It is wholly foreign to the American instinct and the American idea. The true American policy is to redeem the promise made in the hours of extremity, to withdraw the govern ment from the banking business, and to leave the amount of currency to be de termined by tho legitimate wants of trade, which cau properly manifest themselves through demands upou the banks, but can not possibly be known in their constant variations by members of Congress. Secretary Sherman lias one prood de fence against an- misrepresentation of "his policy' regarding silver, viz.: the difficulty of knowing what it is. lie has just issued an order rcn-inning the previous one directing the payment of bilvcr for greenbacks. This makes the fifth order he lias issued in attemp ting to be "friendly to silver" since July 13. JIo first directed certain banks to be furnished with silver doll ars on their application; but they were to distribute it as currency, and not let importers have it for customs duties. The second (Sept. 3) directed silver to be paid out in sums under 10,000 in exchange for silver certificates; but it was still to.be used as currency, and tho importers were not to have any of it. The third (Sept. 7) directed it to J lo issued at Hie sub-treasuries to any- body for greenbacks. The fourth (Sept. 13) forbade such payment, on accouut of doubts of its legality. The fifth (Sept. 14) directs silver to be furnished freo of expense to 1-0 national banks, on their application, for general use, and directs United States disbursing agents and paymast ers to use silver dollars in their pay ment as far as possible, and Govern ment employes who desiro theni in pay ment of their salaries may also have them. Would it not bo a good plan to get tho religious papers to recommend tbem to th?ir subscribers as a good and safe investment? NEW TO-DAY. SherifTs Sale. BY VIRTUEOK AX EXECUTION ISSUED out of the Circuit Court of the Slate of Oregon, for t he County of Clackamas, to me, as Sheriff of said county, Ui' pursuant in a d'-erec of said Court, em . ::j September 2Slh. 1S7S, in a suii, wlitrein J. ; .'..u-. was plaintiff, and 11. F. Stewart and Martha Stewart were defendants, conimancinj.' me to make sale of the real p'ipe:: hereinafter described, I have levied upoi, and u II, on Saturday. Xo vein her lOtli, 1S78, At tho hour or 1 o'clock, p. r., at the Court House door of said county, in Oregon Oitv proceed to sell at public miction, to the high est bidder, for gold coin in hand, to satisfy said execution, the following-described real cnate, Eimat.e in the Comity of Clacljamrs a:i- Hi Mi-i oi Oreroe, to-n'ir. liinni?at the -outnwe.-. corner of sec t'on No. ')-, in town -nij Xo. ...dtji of ran'-o one eat of Uie Will.ini' :- m--.. 'ian; run ning thence ea.t it;) rocls ; , '.;c"i north ":7 rods; thence vest 10 rods; thence Miuth 137 roos ; incncu wesi i.j rods; ihonee south HK4 j rous l me piae.- ol oegn,iiag; also begin- i Sherlir of rPh ' "3f;.. i O?02On CltV. OSt 17th i&ZiZ OREGON CITY MILLS. --Jg-EEI ON HAND FOR SALE, FLOUK, BRAN, SHOKTS, MIDDLINGS, CHOP FEED, OATS, CHICK EX FEED, ETC. Parties iurebnsiiig feed must furnisn. sacks. , , , Market price i.all at all tim'.'S for wheat. 12. II. C. T.VYLOH. Agent at Poriliiiid. JAS. I. MIM-I2K. Oregon City. Oct. 17, lSTS-tf, Administrator's Notice. "VTOTICE m HEREBY JIVEN THAT THE iN unUTsi!?nU administrator of the estate of Marcus W. iSpaulUiiur. d.-c ns 'd, in pur suar.c?of an order made ly the (.ounty Court of Multnomah county, State of Orci, on the 9th dav of Octolnr, 1S7S, will, on th 2M dav of No'vembi r. 1HTS, at V) o'clock a. m., of that da v, and at the frontdoor or the t ourt House uf Clackamas county, in Oregon it y, sell at public auction, to the highest, bidder, lor cash (sold coin), the following-described real estate, to-wit: Th undivided one-hall int rest in Ihe east half of lxt No. three (., in Block No. two 2), in the tow n of Osucjro, 'lackamas county Oroiron. acordint' to the i nl.nt. t hereof. W. W. rAUl.m.u, Ad ministrator. Oct. 17. 1S7S-5W. DR. PAUL BOIGE, HI. D. PHYSICIAN AXD SUHGEON, NEW KKA OREGON, (flRADPATE OF HAXOTKn, X. E.) October 10th, IS78-ly. SUTIKE TO DONATION CLAIMANTS. 1 U. S. T,AND OtFlCE. OlIK'JON CITY I Oreiron. Oc tober 187S. TX ACCORDANCE WITH IXSTrCflOXS 1 nm.vrii t'rniu tlio Him. Commissioner of ,.1,? iI t net. under the provisions of th Act of Cr.n- Kress approved September iTi h, lst, common ly known as the ( )riv Urination Act, arid !' the amendment t her.-to, wlios. claims were located in advance of t ie- pn b!icstir-e s of t he United Stat'-s and have not been definitely located in connect ion wit h s cii surveys, are herebv no; ifled to come fur.var.l v. ithin thirty as from the date hereof and furrmh sucn a i description of t'.ie particular tracts claimed by them as will en:ibt their definite location ! on the plats of this otlU-:. j The fattent ion of claimants is part iru!arly directrd to the fnct that in default of such notice their claims ar; liable to loi K-it lire un- j der th provisions of tics :'.rd section ol th'i Amendatory Jionation Act ol l.sjl, which to- vides that 'nil persons claim in" donations under this Act or t he Actsol whic.i it is amen datory. shall jlive notice to the'1. Surveyor General fr other duly' aut horiz -d officers of the particular lands claimed as ! such donations within thirty days after befnff I requested to do so by such oflieer; and failing I such notice in either case, me ciaiinantor claimants shall forfeit all rilit and claim t hereto." IVmat ion claimants and t hoso holding un der them will best subserve their own inter ests by siviin rompt fitu-ntion to this notice, thereby nvoidinjr tie i os.-ibility uf having their claims declared forfeited under the pro visions of the Act above quoted. Claimants who have not made their final proof and obtained patent cer!iile-ies for their claims are r-euested to furnish such prouf and t ake t he necessary steps to obtain their cert ificates without furt her delay. Ii. T. HA I? IN. l: ter. octlO-lw. T. I. HAKU1SOX. Kec iver. Final Settlement. i In County Court for the ce tint. of Clackamas, j State of Oregon. , In the iiin(tT of the estate of deceased W. C. Harvey, j "vroTicrc rs iirhkby givf. x that 1 l'aniel Harvey, administrator of said is- tale, has tiled his final account as such ad 1 ministrator in said Court; ami that, said ! Court has dulv appointed the nth day of ' XovemlMT, 1ST.-?, a day t'orth Mual s--t.l t-ment of said estate, a nd lor hearing objections to ; said filial account. OANIKli HABVKY, 1 E. ij. Kastiiam, Atty lor esftti-. Admr. ! Oct. l'. 187S-1W. S. Land Office, Okk;on- City, Oregon, Oct. 1st, loTS. I 10.VPr.AINT HAVING BEEN ENTEUEH at thifcoilice by Fratit'isS..i!insi:) :i:'t:st I : l'.errv S. MeCtaken lor ab.md'oidm; his home- I ! stead entry No. Sh;!), dat -d February (, j upon the .south half of southeast piartrot j section 0, T. 6 S., K. i E., in Clr.ekam.i conn- ( i ty, Oregon , with a view tothe cancellation oi ! ; said entry; the said parties are herel.y suin I moned to appear it this i.iiiee on the -Uli day ; of XovcmlxT, 17S, at !0 oVIiK-kn. n. to re- j Sxnd and furnish testimony concerning said j ; aneijeo auamionmeni. I i. T lt.MHX, Be-ister. I oct3 4w. T. It. IlAKKlSiiX. Keceivcr. Sheriff Sale. BY VIRTUE OF A WIHT OF EXECTTIOX issued August olst, 1S7S. out ot t he Circuit Court of t he .State of Oregon, lor Clackamas county, to me, as Sheriff of said county, directed pursuant to a decree entered April 2th, 1.STH, in a suit, wherein W. Emreiie Dement is plain! iff, and T.J. Mat .oc , Ilopie i. Matlock, John S. smi:h, Jam-sA. Wcs j ton, S. H. Allen and C. H. Lewis, und- r the . firm-name ol Allen & Iewis, are defendants, j commanding me to make sale of ( lie property j hiTeinalter descriiwd. to make the sum of i five hundreil and lilty-tive and sixi--six liun l iredths dcdlars (-r-Vi'i.W.) in gold coin, w ith in- terest since April 'ith, lS7-, at twelve ercent. j per annum, togeuier with ioriy-uur anu seventy-live hundred! iis dollars Ull.7) costs and disbursements, and fifty-five and fi:ty six hundred hs dollars (S-V.;V) in like coin, for attorneys fees, lK-aring interest at ten i-r cent. ht annum, decreed iu favor of said plaint iir, W. Kugeno Dement, and the further sum of fourteen hundred and seventy-six and sixteen hundredths dollars ($H76.Ki) in gold coin, decreed in favor of defendant Theo dore J. Matlock, against the defendants Sm it h and Weston, I have levied this llth day of Sej tomber, A. 1. 1S78, iipfin the following described premises, situate In Clackamas 1 county, Oregon, to-wit : ! lock, bounded as follows j .A plilr.'l lilt lll.ll.ll lull l liu.ll .'I l . rtl" locK, bounded as ionows: beginning at a point on the south line of said claim, twentv chains from the east corner thereof; running t long said line in a westerly direction sixty j cimins, tho south c ran ot said claim ; t hence, at .right angles, in a nort herl v diree- i tion along tho west line of said claim twenty ! chains; thence, at right angles, in an easterly 'direction sixty chains; ! hence, at:iu:htan- fiie. in ii NMinim.v iiireciion l wcni y chains, to ttc plac of b.'ginning; containing uO acres, mori! or less. And, in pursu nce or said writ, I wili. on Wedriesday.Oeiober i'id. A.l. l7S,at 1 o'clock P. M., proceed to sell the same at public auc tion, lor cash in gold coin, to me in hand paid to the highest bklder, at the Court hous door, in Oregon City, C lackamas count y. Ore gon , to satisly the above-descrilied execution costs and accruing costs and disbursements! Said land will be sold in two separate par cels, to-wit : ,s'- A part of the donation land claim of W.I. Matlock, known as claim No. 37, in township 2 soul h. range 2 east of Willamette Meridian, hound, d as follows: iieginr:in" at a roclc twenty chains soul It sixt v-cight"de-grees west from the northea'-t corner of said ciaim ; running thence south sixt v-ei" lit de grees west twenty-four and 1 hirt v-nine huc- urei us cnains; mcno north twtntv-two de grees west one chain; thence sou't ii sixty eight degrees west two and sixty-one hun dredths chains ; thence north twenty-two de ! rees west nineteen chains; thence north sfxtveight degrees east t went y-srven chains thence south twenty-two degrees east twentv chaius, to place of beginning ; containing .3.5.75 acres. " 1'nd. The remainder of 3.1 id i2) acre tract J. U. FHd.SHUHY, SherifT of Ci.ickams Co.. Ogn. Oregon City, Oregon, S.-pt.-Q, I.v.-lw. Johnson, JlcCowa i Mafruus, Alfys. Administrator's Sale. In Ihe County Couit of Clackamas county Oregon, r' In tha matter of the estate cf Adam Wc;:thrs ton, deceased. tx rrusuAXCE of ax oudek of said .1. Court made in said matter on t he 2ltn dav nfnnl UTJ . 1. 1 : . .... - .uiu, me uiiuriMiiiru Will, on nray tie autu lay cf Oct.. 1. D. t.?.b..niadc known ftt Iat .purchas- : eis eApense. J.T. Al i'KKSn.N, ser,t.2i-4w. Adnt'r of said estate. FALL OPENING J. F. D. VRIFilCLE a CO.'S. itTE HAVE JUST nnfEIVEl) A I.AI'.O? and eomp:- C; stocl: of o o Is suitn!, tothisseasonof thoear. Our stock coasutj.,,.- IHack bilk-.;, lllitck Cashmeres, Colorttl Ciisiimere:-, IX NEW SHADES, SILKS TO MATCH. Illnrk aiiil Colored IJarflvCt Clotlit-, lolittix ami Camol's HairGoods. A fine line of Xew Sty! - Isre?s Cood? sd U. cents jcr yard. A full line of i-adis Cotton and Yo.! Hosiery. Corsets. Kid Gloves, Frinir.-s, Embroideries. Eaces, Kuchin?, Ribbons, etc. A larff-? Stock of Felt Skirts from 75 ccnti upwards. A Ful' .Stock or DOMESTIC GOOD. We have very heavy Canton Flannel at 10c per yard. A heavy Shaker Flannel at 20c A heavy Wool Flannel at..... ..... 25c 10x4 Uleached Sheeting at 25c 5.UO0 vd8 slightly damaged Sprague Prints 5c per yard. A Full Stock of Blanket 3, Bedspreads and Comforters. We have several Special lanes of Goods, in which we are offering: Great Bargains, of which we will make social mention later. All we ask is an in.ection of our Stock, as we know we are olle.-ins better inducements than are offered elsewhere. Orders from the country solicited, and promptly filled. Samples sent on application. J. F. D. WRINKLE & CO., ,iU Fiist St., cor. Shimon, Portland. 1S85.-FALL ST0CK--1878, js 1 WlXfi RKTl'KXEO LATKLV FROM tiau Francisco, with the best sel d locli oi Goods, I would cpII attention tothe LATEST STYLES AND PATTERNS, Which I will sell, for Cash at I'OllTLAXH PRICES. The same have been bought at Bankrupt Sales, so I can give Inducements, T IXVITE THE rUBLIC TO EXAMINE 1 before purchasing elsewhere. The following can be had and I DEFY COMPETITIOX: Ury Cioods. ClotlUnj, Winter Wear, Hoots mid Shoes Hals Hint I'mw, G-o--is, ( rarkerj-, Ilardnnre, blasimsrr, Cutlery and Pl:ltl AVr, Paints, Oiln, WindoAVS, IJ'or., n lid l'.li.xls. All kinds of produce bought and sold Oregon city, S.'i 1. 10. 13TS-tf. CLIFF OlSSE. on EG ox T W CITY, ORE CO R HOSES, Trii jisjeiit listRitt, SI to SI to 5i -r r.. ." iii-. fc. o -! t.'O Ninjile r-Ieal t?.ii -5cr lVeek I'd and l.oc? jn j-j- week The Table wii." I market a iTords. supplied with the best the Bail Sup;"rs furni at reasonable terms. .Nov. i:. 175 :tf lied on short notice, and II AS OI m 'i : ; low hous: t3 tHx ! I iV. WE GIVEN THIS Pori All HOCSE t horouLih re novation trm cdbir l gar ret, and propose to maK. it a iious.- s 'omil to none in Oreg m, this sid" ot Portland. Everything will he don. to advance the ooii! loit r the guests. Th House is largo and com modioli?. IVtard and IMlghi; H-r wwk " OQ I; i;iril cfk 4 IH Mouls a utl Iteds, " Free loarh t and from die i I j t I. Oregon City. Aug. e, JS7.S-tf. F. W. STEWART, l'rojiri-.-f or. rilHIS WEM. KNOWN AXI POPCEAIi B resort has Im-cu opened again by the un ilersigned, who will ke.'p a well assorted slock ' WIVES. LIOtlORS, BEEU AND (IGAKS, Free lunch daiiy front 9 o'clock p. ra. BILLIARDS. Txvers of this scientific game will find two fine tables at their service. Old as well as new patrons are invited to "cn 11 and smile." F. W. STEWART. Oregon City, October.!, 1S7S. HERMAN KATLER, 73 First Street, PORTLAND, OKLGO.V. BILLIARDS AMD SAM?L ROOMS. CAFifiBRSrJUS BEER. rpiUS CEI.Fr.KATED BEVEKAtSE FROM X I.. Feurer s r.rewery, at rortland, is con stant ly kept on draught at JACK TBEFiSATH'S SALCON. It is t he best her in t he city, and we invito the public to call and give it trial. Oregon City, March I, lS7S-tf. CHRIS ZAUNER, T) K T-3T SAL O 0ST, Opposite the Railroad Derot, KEEPSTHK BEST It E Kit AXD CIGARS in the City. Give him a call. jyo-tf. LAND FOR SALE. X IIAV2 205 ACRES OF XO. 1 IXI, .5. which I wili sell at a bargain ; r.iiuated 9 miles from l'oi-tlatd. and H miles from Clackamas Station. For further information inquire of Bert Phillips at the p.jstoffice in Orv.-.on City, or at Clackamas Station to Oct. 3,78-tr. w. riiiEurs. raotice U. S. T.AN-n Offick, Oreoon- f"rrY,l Oregon, Sept. 21th, 1$7$ f CVOMPI.AIXT HAVINO I.EEX ENTERED at tli is Otitee by Horace C Hrown against Thomas J. hamberlain for abandoning his homi stead entry Xo. SUM, dated January tHh, 177. u;ion the nort h half of t he southeast one-fourth of section Xo. 18, township 4 south, range 4 east, in Clackamas county, Oregon, wit h a view to the cancellation of said entry, said parties are hereby summoned to appear at th is office on the 25th day of tcto!er, 1S78, at l'j o'clock a. M.,to respond and furnish tes timony concerning said alleged abondon lucnt.. I- T. n.MtlX. It.-gister, T. It. HAHRISOX. Receiver. Oregon Citi", Sept. 2, 1S7S-1W. BEAXICSOF EVERY TUCSCrtirTIOX FOii Sale at this oflice. .last ices of the i'caeo can T?tanyt hi:i i:;tlif ir liae. sW!t3lf5i" '1,111 l!-i Inn 3 t ! i . ai . : fin : s !i C::?: T'. w : : J 51' 4 !