Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1876-11-09

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er is not on this coast, and who's,
custom is assuming large proportions
Y say 400 meals per day. conclud'
! 70 pen a letter to your excellent
tJouRNAL, which reaches Mr.. Graves
aud me regularly here.
| CROPS.
Owing to this peculiar season, ouI
crops of grain and fruit are less thar
for thirty. years past. Yet small as
is the grain crop here, it will more
than average with that of the West
ern States this year. The grain is
very plump, and farmers are far along
in securing all of it.
The price of wheat is only Is cents
per bushel, at our ship landing in
Portland. Wool is also very low here
now. Gardens are common av-
erage here now.
THE OREGON LEGISLATURE.
This body will convene in Salem
on the 1lth instant. This State has
been under Democratic reform rule
for about eight years'past. The con
sequence is that we are plunged into
debt; our school money fiiched and
squandered amongst political favor
ties; the producers placed under soul
less monopolies, who are governed in
their exactions by no law. but that
of gain: corruption and frauds made
respectable; while all the time the
cry is reform.
A U. S. Senator will be elected at
the coming session. The present
Democratic Governor is the chief as
pirant to that Office. He was elected
about eight years ago by the vote
mainly of the renegades from the
rebel States who fed here. We hope
that we can elect an old line Repub-
lican or Douglas war Democrat and
Granger, in the person of our former
Senator in Congress, Hon. j. w. Mes
mith. Grave questions of vital i'm
portance to our people will come be-
fore this Legislature. The friends
of temperance will urge the enact
ment of civil damage bill like that
of yours Of Ohio. But the Democra-
cy here are married to the whisky
ring and to the Catholics, and they
will fight such a bill to the bitter end.
HAYES AND WHEELER CLUBS.
These are being formed all over the
State. We have rousing Club in
Salem which I attend. These work
in unity and harmony, not jar nor
shade of strife. A tidal wave is ris-
ing here, and the masses are waking
up. The reconstructed rebels of the
South, through fraud and violence,
are foisting themselves into places
and power, and our government and
loyal people are in greater danger
now than they were in 1860. The
rebels tried us at the bullet box and
failed. Now they will try us at the
ballot box, and if they are successful
in that respect, and get the army, the
navy and the treasury of the nation
under their control, then the loyal
people must submit to their frauds,
expressions and cruelty, or If resisted
be hung or shot as rebels. A fearful
crisis is upon us. This Centennial
election may decide for all time to
come, whether many Centennials
shall be celebrated by our posterity
as free Republican nation, or wheth,
er the sun of Liberty shall set in
blood and anarchy, and true liberty
be known here only in word.
THE PATRONS OF HUSBANDRY.
This noble army of men and wo-
men are working for general reform
and social rights. Already their in
fiuence is felt here. Upon this no.
BILE, patriotic host may this nation
rely for salvation from tyranny and
oppression. The organ of this Or
der, "The Oregon Cultivator," pub
lished at Albany, Oregon, is an ex-
cellent weekly, and would ask that
you exchange with it. The number
of Oranges is steadily increasing in
this State. This Order is the dread
of the Rebel Democracy here.
Grangers are hard to whip into the
ranks of rebels. May God speed the
right, and may the day soon dawn
upon the loyal, true and brave,
clothed With State and National
authority.
OUR FISHERIES.
These as developed, show an end
less supply, while the demand seems
unlimited. The quality Of our Co
lumbia salmon is known to be supe-
rior to any other in the world. About
80 fisheries and IA canneries are run
this season on the Columbia River,
and the product is about two mil
lions of dollars this year. One COM
pany there, Kinney Bros, started to
Liverpool lately, their third ship
load of salmon-wOrth $12S,515.
They work 500 men, whites and
Johns.
OUR MINES.
Astonishing discoveries are con-
stantly being made in Oregon of rich
gold, silver and copper mines. Iron
is diffused every where, and attracts
but little attention. So pure is this
ore that excellent castings are run
of it from the first blast. In fact,
the stupendous cloud-capped Cas-
cade Mountains seem mass of rich,
metallic ores. With our small popu-
iation, and our large surface of coun-
try, and our river and ocean navlga-
ton on SO large a scale, it is manifest
that we need thousands of settlers
where we have not yet hundreds of