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o 'fTr- all j if i o O 0 O o o ; 6 o o 0 i V, o o o CtljetottWB (gntaptist. Oregon City, Oregon , . WIWUSD, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. Saturday Oct 17, 1868. National Union Ticket. FOR PRESIDENT, 6en.ULTSSES S.GKANT FOR VICE PRESIDENT, JSCHUY'LER 'COLFAX Fvr Preside atial Elector, AJL-B. IfcEASHwMI, oflUnion countj. , Df. W. BOWLBY, of Washiagtou. e.UACOBS. of 'Jackson. j-We shall pay no premiums i, for subscribers, as anaouoced last .week. The first number of volume i three of the Ektkrfrise will be is sued at Xa Grande, Union1 Coaaiy, Oregon. Persons having claims against the undersigned, will please present tbiHs of the 6ame Forthwith. D. C. Irelakd. KB- Accounts due the undersign ed to date, remaining unpaid ton days hereafter, will be leu in the bands of B. Killlu. Esq., Charman's iblock, forCollection. T). C. Ireland. We are moving our office - rigfit into the rebel stronghold df 'Oregon, east ot the Blue Mountains, to battle for Liberty and human rights, we shall nejyj the encourage meet of white men in western Ore gon. 'EDITORIAL CORKESrOXDEXCE. IlPrem notes made at Salem. It has been studiously circulated t by .some persons interested in the west side road .for some time .past, aud the same iPositiou was Uktu ia the Legislature now in session, that f the west aide sampany was desk s' noted by the last Assembly as the .company to take the munificent grant -of 12,800 acres of land per mile grant - ed by Congress in July 1866, and 'tthat therefore the question was set Med that the title to this immense rgrant, had been vested in the west . side company. But what are the facist This is a .question to bo determined by the record, and not by the interested tatfments of thus man or .that one. During the last week, by resolution .-ot the Oregon Senate, tho attorneys of the two companies were invited -within the bar, and requested to pre sent such evidence as they deemed essential, and to discuss beore that i body the merits and .demerits of the i two. companies. We had thejleas ure of being present during the whole ( that investigation, lasting as it did rsome two days, and we are now able to state the following to be the facts in reference io this whole matter., without fear of successful contradic tion. 1st. Congress, July 25th 1866, passed an act granting 12, 8U0 acres per mile, to aid in the construction of a Railroad and telegraph line from Portland Oregon, running southerly through the WaJlamet, Umpqua and .Rogue River yallies Jto the California '.line, thence on tb rough California to conuect with the Central Pacific. At the time of the passage of this act, a corporation had been formed incCalifornia under the laws of that State, in contemplation of this grant for the purpose of constructing so much of such railroad aud telegraph line as would extend .through Califor nia to the Oregon boundary. This company was called the California and Oregon Railroad company, and the act of Congress designated In terras this company as the one to re -ccive the land grant so far as related o the State of California. At the iate of the passage of tho act of Congress, however, no company was in existence in the State of Oiegon ; and hence the act provided that so far as the grant in Oregon was con cerned it should go to such company -organized under the general incorpo ntion law of this state as the legisla ture should designate. THE ORIGINAL PAPERS. Puring the session of the legisla ture of 1866, the following named gentlemen agreed together to incor porate themselves under the name of the Oregon Central Railroad Co., for the- purpose of going before the legis lature, then in session, and receiving tl?e designation of that body as pro vided in the act of Congress, to wit : J. S Smith, I. R. Moores, J. II. Mitchell, E. D. Shattuck, Jessee ArPe2nte ' Chenoweth, Joel palmer and II. W. Corbett, and this incorporation was recognized, and is the ojly incorporation that was des ignated, by the legislature of 1SC6. WHAT THE LEGISLATURE HAVE POKE. Articles of incorporation were drawn in triplicate, as provided by law, aud were j signed by the before named gentlemen, and acknowledged before and were given to Jos. Gaston, then a Notary Public, to attach his certify cate and seal as such Notary, and who promised to file the same one r-ODv u the office of the Secretary of n. - . r.d- e oi :ne ''tsnty" e'erk of Multnomah county, all of whfch."under tho general incor- poration law of this State, was abso lutely essential, before the corporation was in being. (See general incorpo ration law of Oregon, sections 1,2,3, 4 and 5, pages 658-9 of code. Observe, therefore, that the agree, ment to incorporate was between the eight persons above named. They reiving upon the gocd faith of Gas ton to attach his certificate and seal, and file the papers as be agreed to do; went before the Legislature and in nectnily represented to that body and its Railroad Committee that they were incorporated as herein sta'ed, ood under the namef the " Oregon Central Railroad Company. Mr. Oastou, as his own testimony before the "Senate on'Thursday last showed, also went before the Railroad Commitiee and represented to them that-a -corporation -had been formed as aforesaid, and by the eight gentle- men before named, and the Legisla ture under these representations prayed that the Oregon Central Railroad Company" mjght be desig nated as the Company to receive the Oongressional grant. The Commit tee on Railroads, relying upon these representations, wuich all the per sons named, except Mr. Gaston, sup posed at the time were true and he knew them to be false made a lengthy report to the Legislature in relation to railroads generally, fcnd in that report they made use of the follow ing language (see Senate and House Journal of last session) : " We come now to consider a defi nite proposition. Through the efforts of a few of our citizens, acting io conjunction with some railroad capi- taliets otCaHfomia, and aided by the 1'aciuc Coast delegation in Congress, a .grant of twenty sections of .public land per mile has been secured from Congress, to ail in constructing a'line of railroad from 'PortlandQregon, to the 'Central .Pacific -Railroad, in -California. -It is -made the-duty of this Legislature to designate the company which shall receive and manage so much ot this land grant as lies with in the State of Oregon. In view of these facts the following named gen tlemen have incorporated themselves uuder the general incorporation law of this State, to wit: J. S. Smith, 1. R. Moores, J. II. Mitchell, E. D. bhattuck, Jesee Applegate, F. A. R. Geary, 43. Ellsworth, and II. W Corbett, under the name and style of ''ihe Oregon Central Railroad Com pany," jfor the purpose of receiving the said grant of land and using it so far as it may go towards the con- struction of the proposed railroad passing through the Wallamet, Umpqua, tnd Rogue River Valleys. And on the 10th day of October, I boo, tnat Legislature passed a joint resolution designating "the Oregon Central R. R. Co." as the company to take the land grant, supposing as a matter ot course, as most clearly ap pears from the report of the Com mittee just quoted from, as well as from Gas tori s own testimony, that the eight persons named were duly in corporated. JSow, it such persons were incorporated at the time of the adoption of that resolution, ns stated, then it is -clear that the grant passed by that resolution. If, however, they were not incorporated at that time, then it is clear that the action is a nullity, and the grant did not pass, but still -remains in the custody of the Legislature and it is nnques tionably the duty -of that body toaiiaJce a aesijjnation otherwise before the meeting of the next Legislature the grant will revert to the general gov eminent by lapse of time. GASTON ' FIRST DEVILMENT. What are the facts, as shown by the testimony 2 Mr. Gaston him self. And by the j;et more reliable testimony the record itself. Gaston, instead of filing the arti cles of incorporation as he stated to the gentlemen named, and to the Legislature he had done, took one copy of the same, without his certifi cate or seal as notary attached, and placed the same in an envelope, and presented that envelope to Secretary May (this fact appeared by the testimony of Secretary May before the Senate) and requested him to endorse on it the date (Oct. 6, 1866) in pencil mark, and let him have the same agnin, as he desired to use it before the Legislative Committee, then in session. In compliance with that request Secretary May endorsed in pencil mark oa the envelope; " Oct. 6, 1646 and returned it to Gaston. The Legislature adjourned on Oct. 20tn, 1SGC. Qo the 23d day of October, lG6, 3r. Gaston, U1 holding in his pocket the before mentioned articles, procured to the same the signature of M. M. Melvin, and on Nov-ember 10, 16G6, he pro cured to the same the signature of Geo. L. Woodsy and on the lth day of November, 1666, he proceeds to Portlaud and procures the addi tional signatures of R. R. Thompson, J. C. Ainsworth, S. G. Reed, John McCracken, and C. II. Lewis. And on the 20th of November, 1866, the names ot li. r . lirown, Thos. II. Cox, and last but not least in iniquity, J. Gaston. All these names were pro cured by Gaston as additional cor porators, and the same were solicited by Gaston to sign the same, and did sign the same without the knowledge or conseut of any of the eight persons who first signed the same excepting one (according to Gastou' testi mony)II. W. Corbett. After obtaining these ten addition al corporators, all, it will be borne in mind long after the adjournment of the Legislature, and that too by prac ticing the most glaring and un blushing fraud imaginable, he, Joseph Gaston, enters into a written agree ment with five of the persons last named; which agreement was as we cave it to the public on August 29th, 1S68, in the Enterprise; and this agreement Mr. Gaston admitted be fore the Senate, when a copy of the the same was read before that body by the attorney for tha East Side road. But what is the next step in this a. -.;or ui nrt Ol (iaafon to defmud th por-.! and the original corporators who first signed the ar tides, and whom the Legislature, through Gaston's fraud, supposed were incorporated t On the 16th day of November, 1S66, be attaches his certificate and seal as Notary, to these articles this, too, at a time when he was not a No tary Public, and had no right to act as such, his commission having ex pried on the 3th of October previous. And on the 21st day of November he, for the first time, files these Ar tides of Incorporation in the office of the Secretary of State, and, on the 23d day of the same month, be files a duplicate copy in the County' Clerk's office of Multnomah county; and in May, 1867, Gaston opens stock books and subscribed, himself, the sum of $3,500,000, of' the capital stock, the one-hulf of ihe whole amount this being done, of course, in pursuance of the secret agreement above mentioned, and for the benefit of the six persons who -entered into it. The O. S. -"N. 'Co., being quite largely representee! in that agree ment. This amoniit of the capita stock Gus'on admitted before the Senate, he still held, and on the other half he had raised money out of fViC unsuspecting citizens of -Portland, and the honest, hard wowting-farmers of Washington and Yamhill counties. VESTED RIGHTS. These, then, are tue facts in reli tion to the Incorporation and or ganization -of the -West Side Com pany, and in relation to its being designated as the Com pany to take the land grant. Ana upon facts such as these, it will be 'pretended by some that there are vested rights that must not be disturbed. The 'Lawyer that would make this claim before the'moit obscure justices court in the Tland, would forever ftnmn himsetf in the estimation of rail honest men. What-l -A series1 df frauds such as these, result io the -transfer of inval uable grants intended for a publio good to (he men Who will originate and carry tuem out, and then with unblushing audaoity 'detail them in evidence before a Senate of this State. It would seem impossible that such transactions should for a moment receive the countenance or support of any honest man and they certainly will not when the facts are properly understood. Will any law yer be found to seriously contend that the act of the last Legislature could invest with rights a corporation not then in existence ? Most certainly not 1 A corporation not in esse can not take a grant any more I nan an unborn child, or a man in his grave, can take one. The designation of the last Session was io the present tense. Such desig nation presupposes that tae com pany designated is already ia exist ence. for a present designation of a company not in existence is a Legis. lative impossibility, and a void act In such a case, the desc'goatvon is fic ticious, and even in the absence of testimony showing the fact, it would be presumed that the Legislature were imposed upon by others, or mis taken in this case. However, the cafe is not left to stand upon mere pre sumptions. The evidence is clear, and overwhelming, that they were imposed and deceived; and that, too, by Gas ton ; who is now loudest of all in hit proclamations of vested rights, srrrosa the casb. But undT this state of facts what is the Terr most that could be claimed from the ac tion of the la.tt legislature? It would be this: Suppose these eight men, or a major it? of them, who supposed they were incor porated at last session, and who would hare beeri., hut for the fraud of Gaston, upon the disooTery of the frauds practiced, and the result and fact that no company was incor porated .at the date of the action of the last legislature, -aban&ontd that incorporation wherein -ten additional incorporators had been forced vpon them without their knowl edge or conseut, and if armed a new corpora tion, going into the same, some as corpora tors and seme as stock-holders, which was dne in this case. and -suppose they organize by a subscription of their stock and election of a board of directors more than -one i&nonth prior to the election of directors in the .first company, all of which was done, and which company is now the cast side company; we say if any equity, even, could be claimed by virtue of the act of the last session, it would exist in favor of that company which is com posed of the men whom the legislature of IS-? supposed were incorporated when it designated the O. C. It. R. Company, xn k asskxt or gaston. But, say the west siders, the act of Con gress provides that the attent of the compa ny must be tiled vwith the Secretary of the Interior within one year from the passage of the aot -aud, say they, the west side compa ny has filed that assent, and therefore, it has rights -that must bo respected:! ddees twt every man of sense .know that until a compa ay was designated "by the UgUlatvre it could no tnoreitile ab aesasto take tike grant that would amount to anything, than could a per sosx accept a5ev-w ef lancta through a will that had never been executed ; or before the devisor was dead This claim, therefore, is iu keeping with the balance. THE VIST SIDE ROCTB. As we have before shown, and as appeared from the evidence before the Senate, the wrest side company had sent on to the Secre tary of the Interior a map of .the route of their road the act of Congress requiring a map of the first sixty miles f the road to &e filed in that office and the Secretary of the Interior, O. II. Drowning, returned the tame. and in his communication to Mr. Gaston, of July 6th, ISftS, states that the map is not cer tified by tkeS0veror2e State under the groat seal that the route is not in accordance a itli the act of Congress and the laws of the State and in that same communication the Secretary states that it appears from the map that for about thirty miles, tfce read, instead of running in a " southerly" direction from Portland, run ntarbj due wet and further, that evidence iust be produced to satis factorily account for this variation from the route laid down in tba act of Congress. And the map was returned to Gaston. "We have presented this statement of facta tbey appeared from tne investigations made in the Senate, and we leave it to the candid judgment of our readers to say wluca of the two companies, if either, has any rested rights, and which of the two should be designated by the present legislature as the one to receive the land grant. D. C. I. The Carrie, as neat and trim a litle craft as ever graced the inland waters of any new country, is now plying between this city and Port land, in the trade of the Wallamet Steamboat Company. On the evenings of Tuesday and Wednesday the 20th and 21st of October, 18GS, there will be Exhibi tions of Tableaux and Charades at Washinton Ilall, io Oregon City, for tho benefit of Pioneer Lodge No 1 of the Order of the Eastern Star. Doors open at 7 o'clock. The per formance to commence 1 o'clock,. Admission 50 cents. CUjORXOVJS NEWS I THE lri!fO TELEGRAPni OKA NT AHD COLFAX ELECTED t OtPERfiEADS GIVE CONTEST t U THE rtEiifcaYi.VKfciA, i,oo. OI'IO, 30,000. 'INDIANA, 10,000. NEBRASKA, ,OO0. TREASON STUNNED t LET US HAVE PEACE? f' v0n Tuesday last Pennsylvania, Ohio and -Indiana held State elec tions with the results above named. This contest decides the result on the -2d of November. 'Grant and Colfax will be elected by a more over whelming popular vote tfcan any fu ture magistrate of this nation. There can no longer be any doubt of this. R.VIL.RGi'Ab CHAPTERS. The Evening Commercial is pub lishing from day to day chapters' on the railroad question, in favor of J. Gaston, 'Doc -Loryea 6,Co. 'It speaks of men of "character," of " financial Cminnce,"'of "'far-seeing acuteness," of" extraordinary mental powers," meaning Loryea& Co., we sappose 'who were caught by the 'net, but ere they were 'Cut and salted 'escaped," etc It boats' of what -Dr. Loryea suppose it means tin) did in the East. Tells of how -he hunted for A.-J. Cooke d: Co., etc., and refers to transactions of the East-Side Company in anything but pleasant terras. The Evening Commercial, it is well known to us, was started with Reed's, Thompsons, and perhaps Ladd's money, for the very purpose it is now subservinj and when it refers to this paper hav ing been forced to believe that the East Side Railroad project was a live enterprise, it mistakes its objact. Dr. Loryea attempted to buy this paper and convert it to the -defence or support of the West Side telling us but a few days ago that the East Side was a rotten swindle, and that we could obliterate sEr record raad; in its befeaif by ooo swoop, in show ing up its rottenness to the gase of the pWic. We spewt a week io Sa lem after this proposition on purpose to investigate the matter. Attended a three days' discussion ia the Senate on a direct proposition to cive the land grant to Gaston, oxt withstand ing the Hon. Senator from Clacka mas Mr. D. P. Thompson, of this city, said to Mr. Wm. Barlow after wards that ao measure had been up Duri8g that discussion all the evidence on both sides went the more couclu sively to prove, to our mind, that the West Side had been incorporated more for the purpose of preventing the construction of a road over here than to build one themselves. Wc heard Gaston's testimony, we heard his admissions, branding him all that we have charged him guilty of. We heard Loryea's evidence ; beard him say that although he could not find A. J. Cooke he found John Morris aey ; and after all the vital and un important facts there elicited, we believe as we have in the past, with respect to this matter, aud money can never change our opinions so long as we witness the work being done by Hen. Ilolladay & Co., and have to compare him with Loryea's clique of disorganizes. 0X1- A UEADACHE." When a man is a middle aged man what in these days is called " quite a young man" lie is in the height of his physical strength, while bis men tal vigor is still strengthening and increasing a vigor,Sn many instances, susceptable of hewag strengthened a'ld increased to the wry last. A man then i. or ought to be, io the tall gush of his powers, with added resources of every kind, and acquired skill and mastery over them. The sickness and languor of arly years are left behind, andnot much thought is given to the physical ill that may be screened by the curtain of the fu ture. Men rarely pause to consider a wonderfully prolonged exemption from the sharper phenomena of suf fering. Still, the healthiest life is not ordinarily free from touches of human ills. The middle-aged man, in the full tide of occupation, in the broad stream of his nergies ad ao tivitics, may be exempted from the presence of postive malady, but he is peculiarly liable to headaches. a . . . A New Element or Population. The New York papers announce the arrival in that city, from Constantly nople, of an Armenian agent, look ing for a place in America in which to found a colony of two hundred Armenian families. In case thegen tleman is suited, the country will probably receive a large accession to its population from Asia. The Ar- menians have been persecuted in Turkey, and they seek a land of re ligious liberty. They are an indus trious and intelligent people, with a great many eminent scholars among them, and they would be a valuable element to introduce into California or any other State in the Pniou. FACTS ON THE R. R. (QUESTION. Last Tuesday's Oregonian pre sented what it was pleased to term ten " facts on the railroad question.11 The first and second of these read thus : 1. The Act of Congress granting the lands required the Oregon Legis Iature to " designate" the Company which should receive them. 2. The last Legislature designatef the Oregon Central Railroad Com pany. Now follows No. 3, which is not a fact, in the opinion 6t honest "men": 3. What is known as the 44 West Side Oregon Central lRairmad Com pany," presented its Articles ci in corporation to' that 'Legislature ana solicited the hinds, "ana no oiner Company had any Articles df Incor poration in existence at tnat time. The only fact about that is this : Substitute 41 East Side" for West side and it is truth. The "only ar ticles filed atftbe tltHe'tfce legislature made the designation were those af terward taken from the office of the Secretary of State by 'J. Gaston, who acted like-V thief, if we must stfy it, in the matter, aa it has been sb 'often shown. The west-Side 'had no ex istence until 'after the time mentioned fcbove. We claim that no company had any valid existence at the time the dosiirnatiou was made, because of Gaston's deception. We claim that no company having been designated in 1S6S, through the trickery, treachery, or stupidity of Gaston, no " astcnt,f amounts to any thing. We claim that Loryea's letter from Drowning, contains nothing to prove that if West Side is not designated the land will be lost to the State. We claim that Loryea " got Lis back up" for nothing : resigned or was kicked out of the company that fee under took to buret it p said he would do so and we believe was purchased by w est siders lor tnat purpose, as he is one of the leading spirits in a Wallamet Valley Uailroad Co., par, ties el the second part, in the follow ing 4 Urns memorandum ot an agree ment made and entered into, by and between the Oregon Central Hail road Company, of Portland, Oregon, party of the first part, and V allamet V alley Railroad Company, party of the second part, as follows, to wit The said Oregon Central Railroad Company, in consideration, do here by agree with the said party of the second part they will make, execute and deliver a deed to second party of the second part, to one-half of the land which tho said first party shall receive aa a donation from the Gov crnment ot the Uuited states per mile for each mile of Railroad con Btructed by the prty of the seo nd part upon the condition and require ments to be d ne and performed by the party of the second part as here inafter mentioned. Ihe land hereby agreed to be conveyed shall be of good average quality and of average value with the land rectived by the party of the first part, to be selected by three arbitrators, chosen by the parties, in case they do not them Selves agree upon selections, and to be conveyed to the party of the sec ond part as soon as said hrst party obtains title to the same, and after the second party has performed their part of this agreement, in construct ing their railroad from Portland up the East Side of the Wallamet River to a connection with the Railroad of the first party at Albany, Corvallis or Eugene City, aud the party of the second part agrees to construct in consideration of the prendses, a sincle track Railroad from I ortland, Ore gon, tin the East Side of the Wal lamet River to a connection with the other Railroad as above, and when so constructed, the said O. C. R. R. Co. bind themselves, associates and successors to make the conveyance of the said lands one-half per mile for the number of miles main line built by said Wallamet Valley Railroad Company : Provided always, that 8iid first party shall never bo ob lined to convev under this contract any lands to the East Side O. C. R, R. Co., or any Company contracted iy Ben Ilolladay, either as contrac tor or stockholder, and provided that said first part are under no obli gations to couvey any lands lying ?cuth of the connection of the two Roads a Albany, Corvalli?, or Eu gene City. By order of the Board of Directors, Salem, Oregon, October d, 18G8. J. GASTON'. President O. C. R. It. Co., of I'ertland, Oregon. Silent Suitering. There is much pain that is quite eoiseless, and vibra tions that make human agonies are often a aaere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence. There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder, robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace or joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer committed to no sounds except that of low moans in tbe night, seen in no writing except that made in the face by the slow months of oppressed anguish and early morning tearp. Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed Into no human ear. The poets have told us of a dolorous enchanted forest in the under world. The thorn bushes there, and the thick barked stems have human histories hidden in them; the power of unutterable cries dwells in the passionless seemiDg branches and the red warm blood is daikly feeding the quivering nerves of a sleepless memory that watches thro' all dreams. These things are a nar- able. SPECIAL NOTICES. WUlavmeite Lodge No. IS I. O. . T Meets every Saturday evening, at the rooms S.E. corner of Mam and Filth streets, at 7 l- o'clock. Visiting members are inTited to attend. By order of W. C T. All persons who keep Howe 6t Steven's Family Dye Colors for sale can be relied on for fair dealing, for the reason that they cost the retailer twerity'-Eve' cents per dozen more than other kinds of Dyes in the market, while he retails them all at th ame price; consequently he makes twenty riv cents per dozen more by Selling an in ferior article. Dr. E. Cooper Uitlrril Mil cue tic 3A.LM A great Family Medicine. It it sovereign remedy for Diptheria And kindred diseases of the throat, and u: equalled in the cure of Mysentery, Diarrbs t Cholera, Cholic, Cholera Morbus, and Neuralgia, Rheumatism, Colds, Toothache, Burns, Sprains, Bruises, &c, Ac, art at once relieved by its timely use. Truly a. V-g-tWt Preparation, None genuine without signature of W. 11. STRONG. REDINGTON & CO., jylS Sm) Sole Agents. POLITICAL. JPEAKISG. Wilson Bowlby, republican and John Burnet, Democratic candidates for electors. will address the people on the political is sues of the day, as follows : Eugene October 10th Corvallis 12 .Albany " 13 u Salem " 14" Dallas " 15" McMinnville " 16 llillsboro " 17 Portland " 19 Oregon City " 29 Speaking to commence at 1 eclock r. m. each day. iicw Aurcrusgjiiciiis. m.7 a9 a Thlrfi and Last Call. ATI "pei-scns iwdebted to the undersigned by book account or otherwise, are berebv notified to make immediate payment. Ac counts due and unpaid will be placed in the hands of a proper officer for collection with in a few days. I must have my par. I. SELLING. Oregon city, Oregon. t-ZT Produce taken in exchange. gPEClAL NOTICE. CLOSING OUT ? Jacob Underhill & Co. PORTLAND, OREGON. Ofler t'ov Sato llicir ENTIRE STOCK! SHELF AND BUILDING HARDWARE! Blacksmiths1 and Carpenter's Tools, Iron, Steel, -c. At greatly Iledactd Rates This Stock is Full Well Selected And will be sold LOW for Cash ! J'T Or approved short time notes. JACOB UNDERHILL A Co., 51 Front St., Portland. 45.4) JACRS0X,SAI)ERS0. &Co., Svccesor to Jayuard, Coleman tf Co. I3XlPOIrrJH X 4 And Wholesale and retail dealers in CROCKERY, GLASS, CHINA -M- Plated Ware! Wood and Willow-Ware, 4 Uvuse Furnishing Goods I Also : Just Received, Li (.upper snip "FAVOR IT A," DIRECT FROM NEW YORK. F I'LL LINE O r PAINTS, OILS, VARNISHES, etc., -., cr. t-tJ Trada supplied on liberal terms San FraRcisco prices aud freight. JACKSON, SANDERSON Jt Co. O. S. N. Co.'s Building St Front st., 45.4ml Portland, Oregon. gETTLE YOUR BILLS ! Messrs Levy A Feebheimer, Main street Oregon city, are desirous of closing their business, and request all persons having claims against them to present the same for payment by the 1st day ot October, 1663. Those indebted will please take naiice that tbey must come forward and settle the same, immediately. LEVY A FECHHEIMER. JOTICE. All persons knowing themselves indrhtrA to the undersigned wifi please call and settle their accounts. BARLOW ii FULLER. Oregen City, July 30, 18fi3. A. G. WALLING'S Pioneer Book Bindery. OREGONIAN BUILDING, No. 3 AVRthington Stra-ct. PORTLAND, OREGON. BLANK BOOKS RULED and BOUND to any desired pattern. PS BOOKS, MAGAZINES, NEWS t A t fcltt. Etc., bound in every variety ef style known to the trade. Orders from the country promptly at tc4ed to. A LARGE tSVOICE Of SEW Sunday School and Gift Books ! T7R0M TI1E AMERICAN TRACT SOCIE JLty and Various other Publishing Houses! For sale by the subscriber, co Jefferson st. between 2d andTJd, Portland, Ortcon G. H.ATKINSON, Secretary. 2'ly ' Rd Treas. Oregon Tract So c .'y E" I -Li - - JOHf SPNOKRLAXD. RANDALL & SUNDERLAND, 95 First street, Portland Oregon. Manufacturers and dealers in Boots and shoes of the latest styles and best material. San I rancisco and PAifaifrtnl,; goods always on hand. Agents for Howe's ociriog .-"lacrnnrs, and John (;. Fol som s hand sewing machiues. Needles and thread f.jr sale. ""J 1 JttfeccUancoim. W. A. ALDBICH. i. C. MERRILL. JOHN II CRAKKK M'CRAKEN, MERRILL & 00. SHIPPING, COMMISSION A5D Forwarding Merchtttits, AGENTS OF TflE CALIFORNIA, Hawaiian and Oiegon Packet Lines. Importers of San ;uetitiTi aflfl "Carmen TslaDd Salt, Sandwich Island Sugars, Coffee, Rice, and Pulu. Agents for Provost's & Co.'s Preserved Fruits, Vegetables, Pickles and 'Vinegar. Dealers in Flour. Grain. Bacon. Lard & Fruit, Dime, Cement a tid Plaster. Will attend to the Pnrcbase.'Sale or Ship- riiept .of 'tferc'ha'fidise or: Produce in New York,"Sa,n; Francisco, IfqHoTulu, or Portland. ALDuICH, MJSRKILL & CO., Noa 204 and 206 California Street, . , . ... San Francisco. M'CRAKEN, MERRILL A CO., 16 Nona FrontStreet, Portland. t L.P. Fiher. 20 and 21 New Mer chants' Exchange, is our only authorized agent in San b rancsco. tor eastern Ad vertising, Mr. Fisher is represented byS. M. Pettingill A Co. of New "ork and Boston. THE PORTLAND Homestead Association : HAVING PURCH SED THAT valuable tract of land containing OXE HUyDBED ACJIEU 8'iitable for Building purposes, with a frnt s;e of nearly half a mile on the McAdamized road, situate about one 'fourth niileulh of PORTLAND CITY LIMITS. Are now prepared to issue stock receipts for s'lares in the same. Shares limited to $2."0, payable in small monthly instalments, with out interest. TITLE tXEXCEPTIOJfADLE. Full particulars, wtth printed copy of tho ConsutwtioTB, etc, to be-obtainei on applica tion to either R. F, Chatfield Secretary, or Walter Mtflfitt Treasurer, PjrtUad. " (s ACE0STIG. Pain Killer is worth, what it weighs, in gold, All around the world are its praises told ; It will Cholera cure scourge of Southern climes, No victim dies, who takes it "betimes ; Keep Pain Killer a true friend by your side. It will cure Cough or Cold, or Colic beside; Look out to apply it for Bruise er for Sprain, Let it once b tried 'iurill be ute.d again. ; Every word I am telling yat, reader, is true, Remember that Pain Killer is good for you. The Pain Killer is sold by all Druggists and dealers iu Family Medicines, TtTE CONMAXD31EXTS. 1. Thou shalt not make use of a'nvld'nd of goods, unless they are bought at Kohn A FUhel's storp. !!. Thou shalt not use any Gloves, Hose, tlanderchicfs and Fancy Goods, unless they come from Kohn A Fishel's store. 3. Thoi ?balt trol allow thv wife or daugh ter to buy Dress Goods or Domestic unless they are bought at Kohn k Fisher's store. 4". Thou shalt not walk the streets, unless thy Boots and Shoes are bought at Kohn & Fishel's store. 5. Thou shalt irot be allowed to visit la dies unless thy clotlilBg comes from Kohn & Fishel's store. 6. Thou shall have no eovering for thv head, unless thy hats are bought at Kohn k i istiel s store. 7. Thou shalt not nil-ow thy female house hold to go walking, unless their shawls, cloth or silk cloak, sacks, basques, furs, parasols, fans, balmoral skirts, embroidery, ami all soitsof trimmings, are purchased at Kohn A Fishel's store. 8. Thou shalt not buy goods of any o-bc that imitates Kohn A FisheL gUMMOXS. In the Circuit Cosrt of Oregon far Clack amas countv. Frances Young plaintiff, vi. Moses Yaaag defendant. To Moes Young, tTt abnr tmmtd defendant i In ttee nnmv of the State of Oregon, yu are herefey required to appear and answer the complaint tiled againut you in the above n tit'ed action, bv the fourth (4) Monday of October, A. D. 1S68, being the first (1) day of the term of the above entitled court next following the expiration of the time pre scribed by order of the said court, for tha publication of this summons to-wit; on a week for six successive weeks : And if you fail so to answer, for want thereof the plaintiff will apply to the cottft for the relief demanded in said complaint viz-: A decree of divorce from you. Bv order of the .Judge of the circfiit court. . HAMILTON A R. F. HENSILL. Attorneys for Plaintiff. Dated, Sept. 7th, lfcUS. 47.t IN THE U. S. LAND OFFICE at Oregon City, Oregon. Catharine Tracy r. Shu bael II. Torrance, William Knopf. To said S. H. Torrance and Williara Knopf You are hereby notified thut said Catharine Tracv has rplietl at thi office to enter un der thu Homestead Act, a part of the S hf of S W qr ol section 10, and a part of tbe N W qr of section 15, in T 3 S It 4 E, being the tract now designated as claim No. 40 of said township, alleging that you have aban doned said land and forfeited all right there to, and offering proof in support of such al legation. And you are further notified that you, or either of yo, will be allowed thirty days from service hereof in which to appear anc" Drove your right to suid laud, and that failing do do so said proof of abandonment will b taken as true, and the right to onter said lam! awarded to said Catharine Tracv. OWEN WADE, Register. HENRY WARREN, Receiver. Sept. 29th, 18GB. (S0:4w JXECUTOR'S NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that I have bet!) appointed Executor of the last Will of Marv Harris, deceased, by the Honorable Countv Court of Clackamas countj, State of Ore" son. All persons having claims against said estate are requested to present them to me with the necessary vouchers, at the office of Johnson A McCown iu Oregon City. Clackamas countv,Orcgon, within six months from the date of this notice; THOMAS HARRIS, Executor of the Estate of Mary Harris. October S, 186S. J51.tf J M 1 N I S I R ATOlt'8 X Oil CE. Estate or David Cutting, deceased. No tice is hereby given by the nndersigscd Ad ministrator ot the above named estate to the creditors of aud all persons having claims against said deceased to exhibit the same with the necessary vouchers within six months from this date to the undersigned, at the law office of D M. McKneney, in Ore gon Cil'r, Oregon. JONES CUTTING, Administrator. Oct. 10, 1863. f51-4t GUARDIAN S SALE OF REAL ES TATE, Notice is hereby given that bv virtue of an order of the county court for the county of Clackamas, State of Oregon, made at the Sept. term thereof, 1S63, as guardian of the estate of William Crow, heir of George Crow, deceased, late of Clackamas county, I shall oiler for sale at the door of the Court House in the county of Clackamas, State of Oregon, on Monday, the 2d day of November, A. D. 18SS, at the hour of 10 o'clock, a. w., the following described real estate, situated in said county of Clackamas, and designated as one hundred acres, more or less, in tha southwest corner of the. donation land claim of said George Crow, deceased, being Notifi cation No. 6G, section 1 and 2, in township -o. 2. S Range No. 1 East ot Willamstta meridian, and claim No. 49. Terms ofsale cash in hand. Sept. 21st, A. I). 1S0S. JOSIAU SETTLE, Guardian. By J. F. McCOY, Attorney in faet. :6t ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. Estate of Charles Cutting, deceased. No tice is hereby given by the undersigned, ad ministrator ot the above named estate, to the creditors of, and all persons having claims against said deceased, to exhibit tht same with the necessary vouchers, within six mouths from this date, to the under signed at the law office of D. M. McKenney,ia Oregon City, Oregon. CHARLES CUTTING, Jo. .Administrator. tYj'k-mber t"i.h, I4. i43:4t. auon1coSS A. B. Kiclmrdson AUCTIONEER! ' Corner of Front and Oak streets, P.m. . AUCTION SALES Of Real Estate. Groceries, General U.r v -disc and Horie.! n Every Wednesday and Saturday t A. B. Richardso-v, Auctioneer. AT PRIVATE SALE Eng ish refined Bar and Bandle Iron Howe-Sb Files, RaTa! 'te'1 Screws, Fry-pans, sheet iron, R.'q. jr. also : A large assortment of Groceries andLi.8r. O tx. x. 4HL.U AKDS0X, Auctioneer WALTER BROS. IVcw carpjetiivgs VELVETS, BE U SS ELS, THREE - PLY, OIL - CLOTHS, f V I K D 9.W- S H A.Ji 8 , PAPER -HANGINGS, LACE-CURTAINS, &c, 44, We Would Call the attention of put ties fitting up houses, or being tit need of anything in our Hud To our Stock; which is OXE OF THE C OJUPLETEST On the Pacific Coast! o Our Goods being specially selected at the Factories in England and tht Eastern States, we can tell AT THE LOWEST 11 Francisco FrlceSi WALTER BROS,, No. 89 Front strev-t, between AUr Z!h) and Washington, Portland, Oregta, c AMERICAN WalthamWatches Proof vf their Superiority. PeiliKylvanla It n ilronrf Com pa a r. Oiticb or tub General Superintbndint, Altona, Pa., Dec. IS, ls67. f Gentlemen The watches manufactured you have been in use on this Railroad tt several years by our enginemen, to whem we furnish watches as part of our equip ment. There are now some thre hundr4 ef them carried on our line, and we cnr.iMtr thm good and reliable time keepers. Ii dced, I have great satisfaction iu sayirg your watches give us less trouble, and hir worn and do wear much longer without re pairs than aey watches we have ever had ii use on this road. As you are twin we Uf merly trusted to those of English manufit ture, of ackuowledged good reputation, but as a class they never kept time as corrects, nor have they done as good service a yo-iri. In these statements I am sustained by ni predecessor, Mr. Lewis, whose eifrinc extended over a series of years. Respectfullv, EDWARD WILLIAMS, General Superintend!!. American Watch Company, Waltharn. New York Central Railroad. Locmoltve Department, Wettern. Pititien, Rochester, Dee. 24, 1S6S. Gentlemen: I have no hesitation in isjiirf that I believe the great mnjority of locomo tive engineers have found by experience that Waltham Watches are tha most satisfacUrr of any for their uses. Tbey run with t!s greatest accuracy and steadiness, notw;ti standing the rough riding of an engine, sad, as I have never known one to wear out, they must be durable. -I hope to see the time When railway companies will gtnarallf adopt your watches, and furniah tuem to ail engineers and conductors. In my opiaiea it Would grtatly tond to promote regularity and safety. Y'ours respectfullv, CHARLES WILSOX, G. Cai'f Engineer, Brotherhood of Locomotive K' gineers. American Watch Companr, Waltham. ' O Every Watch fully Warranted. , For sale bv all first-class dealers ia tki United States. Robbins $- Apphton, Xo. 1S2 Braaditay, General AjeU. R. P. Gray tt Co., San Frane'nco, 4S:4mJ Agent for Valifrrni. oregon leather The Best on the Coast. Titos. Armstronfj Manufacturer of ALL KINDS OF LEATHER AltLWAVKIE, OrEOOK. rpllE UNDERSIGNED WISHES TO IX X form DEALERS AND MANUFACTURERS That he is prepared to furnish as good asa" durable an article of Leather as can be nad on the Pacific Coast, at the following rate: Harness Leather, per lb 28 to SO centi, Extra heavy, for Concord 8S " Skirting, per pound 28 to It " Belting, in the side 35 " " Cut, per square foot, f 1 00 Side, upper, " " " 15 to i0 centJ. Grain Leather " " " 18 to Jt " Light Buff, or Grain for Wo- men's work IS to JO " CalfSking, per do Kip " " Bridle, per side Collar, per side I .are Ij.iillieK ttft side. . ..fSOflOtotWOO' ,. 4000 ta . S 50 to 4 0 . i oo to a . 2 00 to 4 I do not ttiiDK ini uarncss j,eu. should necessarily be made in Santa Cms, ia order to stand the test of our climate ; 5?" Nor do I think that Belting, iu ordr to bear the strain of Oregon Machinery, wuit be made in the Atlantic States. ALL I ASK IS A U ft, 1 1 Oil ft ncc' And I will prove, to the satisfaction ' concerned, that Oregon Leather is th "" on tho Coast. . , l-JT All orders will meet with prompt tention. Address: THOMAS ARMSTRONG S6.1y) Milwaukie, Oregca. . 1 .4 V . f . - V. . . Multnomah Lodge So. 1. A. K. Bi A. 91. Holds its regular roramuni cations on the Firit and Third. M VXyJineach month, at 7 from the 20th of September to tbe 2Mh . i- i t i w r,m h -ith of -War to the -Otb of September. Brethren in goa l a f I ti 1 LJ 1 iumh-v. .v w Uv order of n- ' t I it O O 7 V