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.V 4- OREGON SPECTATOR. . L. MODUCI, SOtTO. OEEGON CITY. OREGON TERRITORY, BiXXtltJ Moralac, Starch 10, 1855. V (WCormpoodenU ia sending letter to the editor of tjiis paper, are 'requested to writ bit name ia address, instead of. the mod of the paperC0 t? " ADIEU I ADIEU! I t si f ATIONS, f 11ENDS-tfd'.FOEi Th last fTr. Minber of the "Oreeoo Spectator" ia before 70a ; bow dp you like its appearance J Ia j it not aatisfactorr evidence that you, as a people, work, too little t that you cultivate ,; jhe lands of our. beautiful Territory too lit- 1 . tle-t. Chat there are too many sluggards and I enough workers t and the-mind is too : sparingly aided ia the acquitment of use ful knowledge I and that your children, and Your children's children will feel the shock (hat yur present constitutional love-of is preparing the country for f For over eight ears has this paper strug t' fled for existence sometimes gliding along smoothly,' like bark ipon 'the unruffled ware on a, summer's day then heaving and tossing, amid the storms of dark' hours and delisdoents, like the1", mad" billow when it ' ' foams against the rock-bound shore, spend ing itself again and again, only to . . 'per- at its strength, for another trial anu iw, 4 at last, the throes of dissolution seize it with ' th fore ef a tn-elstrom, and hurl it to the : bottomless pit loo since fixed upon as its dttinttaa, by thos individuals, ho have not paid for what they bare bad ; and thos ffc ..too,- UKjstly.fwbo .might bar done, what " . they have so, w bat to say it, niggardly negUctedtodoI, ' ei Now, as to our own personal convenience - r Inconvenience, we car nothing about it 1 J -- For months we have seen that jn , Oregon - City answrpreoald ijbt, under the exist- fag pressure of the money-market, even . live, and much less, to make any thing. . And we have known for three months that -lLtthjvdaj;wbuld finiah our course with (his sheet. Because, even in - tiVnes of plenty thos who do pay ar not willing, of course, to pay for the delinquent side to such ansx ' J lent as will more than balance our income and expenditures. Our advertisers pay us . just at little at potable for favor 1 done to ' Arm, and our .tubscriberi -would hav us : throw them' all out, and hire help to the " '.- amonni of more 'than the total income, to .r-" nill pp tbe.weekly , blank which would there- . . ty be made.- How magnanimousithey ar And bow ready they are to devise plana, . . ; and poin out paths for others to follow; in-1 - stead of paying ua what they owedj and af- lerwards minOjogtneir own business. fr .. When the present publisher commenced vB prpmisM to conunu in paper-"one year," and by Industry and the( friendly aid .. of those who to-daytjr'CiialJ "patrons," we bar (precisely) accomplished that which .. Jjwe promised. And, w could - have made more" by" slopping sooner, and should have j "i i : : 1 uoae wvtvuiji mat id was compjencea ana v gone through with aa a matter-of-course, by ; usand (inly subject to b continued provided w could expect "pay" for so doing. This could be done if all who hav taken it bad .... paid fat it, and could soon be as firmly tablished as any paper in the territory. Now,1 do not imagine that, personally, w have any misgivings or lamenting, any neart-rendings or tear-lendings, on this mo mentous occasion of the final demise of the Oregon Spectator. No I not' a bit of it . I It is only "in common" witli all who .regret anything that might .look like av general backward tendency that would cause us to mourn, its death. ? You do not want a pa per her any longer, and as we profess to be of an accommodating turn of mind, we can aid you a little just now, in doing compliance j to your own wishes. But while talking in the above strain we re not alluding to thos who live immedi ately in th vicinity, or, at least, to only a Bsiaof portion of them. There are men her, and and a few at a distance, who have acted Met men ; and to them w would ten di jpur, most graWuI acknowledgements there ars quit a number of persons who bare paid tot th paper for some months in advance of this time, and tbey ar th ones who bare wanted to to se it supported They art the. ones who are forced by non pyug readers to con tribute "th us m och - moot jtm pro torn publico I Tkey ar the onet, Dn4Jo,oijrTS, whom yon intended should pay iof your copies, and which, had tbey only continued to do, for years longer, pjerbsps, would bar continued to please yo most astonishingly I I WJtb regard to refunding we have only ibft to say : we bare already refunded to most of those persoDS- who bar within six moaths, paid fot a year ia advance, but, can do so no longer, in money. Are ready at ; ;mj JLKUttlyomt'itir, during our present eawrt stay hr4 to give orders 00 those who htiriitot paio to aD who shall apply, in sst mnoonta as thritoosa may show to be dus firvm. - W fwrne bat Very ftw will demand, even this, anil trust that the ar rangement, in consideration cf th fact that all such .accounts ar now much nearer' a just settlement then ever before during the whole existence of the sheet, will be per fectly satisfactory to everybody. , Had all paid tit, and At the time thejrbould, vfrrj subscriber should have, yet, every copy-or which he has paid. But enough all who investigate the case, will, as soon as they un derstand how much we hav sacrificed, for the public rood, be willing to sacrifice any trifling amounts of that kind which the es tablishment may owe them. All demands against us, personally, we are ready to pay, within ten days, as may be seen by our ad vertisement, in another column. - ' T .Wiihegard to the courser wjT have pur VHfiihtm 4 nothing ,.at . present Tor us to say in condemnation. We have no regret to make -nothing to take back nothing to swallow. We have endeavored to "incul eate, every commendable virtue." Hav kept - slsngj obscenity- and blackguardism out of our columns. Politically we hav triecf to pursue a .course which, al least, - ' i ' -11 . . ' I should in no measure depreciate Whig doc trinea or influence J and si far as itmt are concerned, we are identified with non, un less a special respect for American-born white men and women may be regarded as such.. .Whig or Democrat, we approve of those whose sentiments aro truly and un compromisingly "Nativ American," as so understo od. A a local journalist we have laborea fully equal to "value received,", ev er avoiding details of street-fights,' robberies, cio, that never occurred, and only noting those things which we ""eonoeived to be. of some importance. W have been the tool of nopersoo, factions "or cliques, and though we have not, perhaps, pursued exactly the course, Irksome minor modes of cultivating the acquaintance of political aspirants and candidates, that we might pursue, were we to continue, yet we hav don what we thought was rieht, and hav had our svm- pathisers too, contemporaries and others to the contrary notwithstanding There are. many inquiring-: friends' who are anxious "for our welfare, and who are daily inclined to bother us with their, verbal assurances that they are sorry to think we should thus become bankrupt, &, &p. To such we say, turn your sorrows into glad ness, and your tears int dish-water, for al though we have 'made less than, we should b willing to take for another' year's labor, yet, i considering the capital invested the dividends show that we have 'held our own.' :Of the 'Canyons 4Cracks,, Teters,' 'Ks and others, including contemporaries, we only ask that they allow us to write our own - - t c sjoipsuize wun inoee wno may iaae a portion of our denunciations to themselves when we mean it for others, bu ibbj can le remedied. . We only condemn those,- who, receiving intimation, time after time, that the paper eu.M not exist unless they would pay, did not listen. ;: . ,.vT. , And we would give at "this time to the people a timely hlntf? it is this : Newspa pers in Oregon cannot now be afforded for less than five dollars per annum, and all who take them at that price ihould pay for them, too, if they expect them to survive That paper, in Oregon which furnishes its copies for. less money trill break, depend upon it, -salt cannot save it,' and people need not expect it That paper who 1 sends its five hundred copies per week regularly for one year and only gets pay for one hun dred and fifty will show evidence of a tin- king business. That paper which branches out,' in colors too numerous, and gives its subscribers more than "value received" will have to "crop its wings or die," But we will make no idle speculations about any, and only mean our remarks aa general, and and if they dont apply right "at home and abroad" then we are much mistaken. We know not bow postmasters of Oregon use our cotemporaries, but judge from what we know that many of them are as ignorant men as P. M. O. Campbell 'in bia ."holy." judgement could find in the territory, and those of them who we could mention, are not as fit for postmasters as Lucy Stone is to be President of the United States. There are honorable exceptions, of course. Now, some persons may, in their 'bliss ful ignorance," and obdurate nonottante, try to establish the idea that the" present ed itor of the 'Spectator' ha been, the caus of its downfall. This would b the height of impudence, and the extremity , of nonsense, and though it matters little, perhaps, yet w invite all who think in that way to investi gate th case befor they assert it for truth. Without indulging in any egotistic effusions of thought, we do say that we bare publish ed, at least, a tolerable paper J and taking into consideration th fact, that we have kept our own books, made up1 our own mails, collected our own moneys, don all th of fice Job-printing, run here and thereto gath er our own saws, and other people's news, for th benefit of oorjown magnanimous readers, besides writing all our editorials, ud some ef the "correspondence," and do ing regular jour work at type setting ; we say, taking all these things, and some otb ers, into consideration, vt are tatUfied with what ut have dont, and if others ar not it's immaterial to us. ' , In conclusion, w like Oregon City, and we like its society pour interests are iden tified with! it, and though we leave for a , while, shall often revert to it, during our absents, aa our home. We like a city where the air is pure and theivea are scarce ; where feminity has due respect -for itself and it influence upon our race where men who have business mind it ; where scandal rests, ancTmagnanimity goes abroad; where rich men have, plenty and paupers are not heard of ; where poor men have enougband the destitute and incastle are DtompllyproviddXbiaD(Lr..wberevery person has respect enoggh for bis fellow, to allow .him freedom of thought, actrnd speecbi Although Oregon City 'comes as near to th above discription aa any place webav evineenetiJC-icillT-'imenable fact that a newspaper here, at present, tan not be supported. .'. Now, patrons, friends and foes, we arel about to leave you about to quit this mod-, el town and mix again withtb world, and knowing that, hereafter you will be without the friendly admonitions of any home news paper in yo0r midst, w Lop you nay all ever remember whatever you, may learn, use to the best advantage that which hon estly you get, and be happy. May peace and harmony ever be with you, and every good virtue cement you. Again adieu 1 . WELLS, FARC a & COJS EXPRESS. To this rei'able company we shall ever feel under obligations.- ; They hsv taken extra pjuns to accomodate us duriig ouj. attempt to publish an Oregon Newspaper. We wish them all the prosperity, andspeei imaginable" to wards the maximum of their ambitious aspirations. r (KrJt. WSniLiTAS. This . accomoda- I ting gentleman is'entitled to a word while we are closing. Having never fail xl to send us a regular semi-monthly suply of literary news. Magazines Ac., he bas placed us under lasting obligations to him, and while asking hinf to discontinue for the future, we- can but express our gratitude. Success to him. - : . OUR EXCHANGES, ; A.rery large number of contemporaries have fav ored us, through . all our -.up'a and down, v '"And many of them hav never received half of our regular issues. We canJBJLlender to all them our-siucere respects, and ask them to discontinue their favors for th future, "6TLe'"8leamerGazelle,' ,old on Mon day but for the amall um of three thousand dollan. The capitalists who bought her will uno'oubtly take ber to.Canemah and rebuild her. The Company who tried to sell the boat for "seven" thousand run her little to high on the occasion" of the first sale. Had they been contented with six thousand six hundred, they could bar ob tained it f : arThe steamer Multnomah, Capt. R. Hoyt, 1 th regular packet between Port land and Astoria.- Trsvelerajieed- TjO better boat, and we doubt not that, she is well suited to the trade. The boat recommendi herself.to strangers. Acquaintances need no information with regard to her. f&"We notice that Messrs Charman 4 Warner have an apartment where they serve their guests with Oysters, hot-coffee. sardioes, and all the nice things in the eating line. Those ciears s! are of the first quality, and those wishing a good article will know whefe to find them. 03-We are glad to learn that the ad ministration have decided that there is ur gent need of troops, and that they are to be forthwith provided, to war with th Snake and Digger tribes on the great emmigrenl trail leading from the South Pass to Oregon and Washington., The Secretary of War Jeff Davis hss we believe asserted thst these troops will leave the states for Oregon, early in March, the present month.- MORMONS. Wear glad, heartily glad, U inform our readers that there are none, or at least, very few dissenting voices among all the news papers in the statesjrith regard. Jo the Jn- consistency of Mormonism, and its peculiar inttUutionot polygamy. . Tbey all proclaim against it, and we think the time is net far distant when "public opinion" will be too strong for tthem to stand under. Surely they, can never flourish long . wilt all this vast force in opposition to them. The "press is powerful and must prevail." . , " GrSusir has been quite brisk in town during the week ; there being,' of eourse an unusual number of people attending court. OCCeifafrom the mine still report unfavorable. .Th diggers are obliged to lefv good claims, on account of th scarcity - 03" Let Whigs recollect that the Terri torial convention will meet at Corvallia on April 18lh. Precinct and County conven tions -should be delsyed io . longer. The county convention for Clackamas en Tues day last chose Messrs. Jno. P. Brooks, J. N. BanksV,BQd James O'Neill, as delegate, to Territorial Convention to represent Oregon City precinct. Milwaukie, Albert Tudor. W. H. Vaughn, Wm'. Barlow, M.- rJ. Rar- num and S. Remick wer aUj chosen to represent different lociilities of the coim,j:J LATEST NEWS II By Welti, Fargo tc Co.'e Exprtu.) PAGE. . BACOM & CO., ANP ADAMS & CO,, FAILED I OREQOW TO BE"A'STAf E Ml PACIFIC RAILROAD AND TELE- GRAPH. FORCIG.I WAR STATES HEWS and California jrfiscellaur. L. p "The Cofu'mbia larrived ' Wednesday eve ning in dne time, bringing two mails and some littleV important newsf ' rage, Bacon & Co. have failed. Tbeir house in St Louis wa the first .to roroe down, and the probability is that this is one of those, fail urea which are profitobte to the leading men of the firm. Adams k Co. had alsoTsuspended pay ment, but think they can pay 25 per cent within thirty days, and the balance within a length of time not far distant They will undoubtedly make a desperate effort to" re suscitate their fallen fortune. " We give Mr. Wood' account of th circumstances under lyhicb they failed, in another column. The general idea v, however, that they owe a cool million more thSn they can pay! Alas 1 what in a name 1 ..--..-. Several other bank have failed, and there seems to bo general run on all monied con cern in San Francisco -cr Some hopes are entertained of the recov ery of Fage, Bacon fc Co.- " v Wells, Fargo j& Co. have stood the test of a very hard run, and proved themselves the most reliable house on the Pacific coast Some branches of theirs,- however, have re cently been compelled to suspend for a day or two on account of their coin beipgjn other localities. This only makes the run I more severe, and if .there, is any possible chance for them to Jbreak this company it will be: accomplished -before the departure of another steamer for Oregon. W do hope they wjll fiveth 1 rough it. ' The!!Caifornia Statesman," liketbe banks, iss suspended payment and publi cation. .- News from the Kern River mines were very unfavorable,-and expeditions in that direction were abandoned. OOCharles Durkee, an -'abolitionist, has been chosen U S. Senator from Wisconsin, by If majority of one. JfA new Pacific railroad company has been organized in Texas, and Hon. Robert J. Walker chosen President. ' (W Ralph Metcalf, an old line Democrat, ia th Know Nothing candidate for Govern or of New Hampshire. - 03-The U. S. Senate, on Fb. 1st' passed a bill to raise 3000 troops to wage exterm inating war against hostile Indians on the Pacific ' CO" A bill passed the House, in Congress, Jan. 29, authorizing the people of the Ter ritory of Oregon to form a Constitution for a State Government, and to be admitted in to th Union onanequal footingwithpther States, in all respects, snd which state shall retain the name of "Oregon." J (fcj-ln the House, Feb. 1, the Pacific Tel egraph bill was amended by striking out the grant of two millions acres of land, reserving th right of way, and extending the penal laws of the U. S. over th lino for its pro tection. Passed by 110 to 70. ' " i OAt Mount Pleasant, near Cincinnati Ohio, Jan. 30, fifty women attacked a .tav ern and destroyed a large quantity of liquors belonging to the landlord. They afterward dragged th owner through the liquid, as it stood six inches deep over, the floor. In trying to arrest these temperai.ee ladies the pfficers were foiled and bad to return to the city for reinforcements. (CrFrom the war we learn that Russian force on the Danub recently earn off vic torious in a battle with the Turks." Russia ia' preparing for the spring cam paign with much activity. Gathering large reinforcement, and getting them to teveral war location by forced marches. -z Reinforcements continue to reach the Al lies, and 3000 of the "French Imperial Guards bad embarked for th Crimea. : Money teem to be very plenty in France, and the loan of twenty million sterling had been easily effected, while eighty-seven roil. lions had been offered. ;: The Allies talk seriously of restoring Pelsnd. . LATER. Well, Farg$ fc Co do oot draw any drftt by their agent here, for this steamer, but will ss soon as the next steam er arrives. Lhe very Litest reliable intelli gence announces that they have resumed payment in San Francisco, and have coin on hand enough to pay off any ruu that can possibly Jbe made upon them. Ud. Spec.-' SAN FRANCJSqO BANKS. - Considerable excitement-was created yee terdav. by the circu'tairdn of a" rumor" that Mr. Ri-binkonone of the proin ietors of the savings oaiiK una ur, Aivnpnu. pro--priotur of the Miners' Exchange Bank, had been arrested on board the Uncle Fain, which sailed yesterday fur San Juan, having iri tbuir -possessfou a large amount of proper ty in coin and securities. V The whole affair is' enveloped in considerable mystery, and the true tMtefjVe.fac.tscouliBot..be. aa cert tilled. It 'was asserted that Kobinson wis ai i est d oq board the Uncle Sam, and 814,000 in spfcie, and 8I'.)0,000 in securi ties, -were found in his possession ; and also, that certaiu parlies to wboia.he was endeb- ted discovered- a Jarjfeainou nt-of -money (said tolie J60.000) which had oeen stowed away somewhere far safr keeping. We give the rumors for wuat they are. worth. . v WELLS, FAROO $ CO. In all thej:owns of theintenor, says' the Tribune, except San Francisco, Sacramento, Maryville, Nevada and Diamoud .Springs, Wellsy F,argOTfc Co. have kept paying certifi cates'' of deposit as fast tas prescu'cH, and it cannot be justly, said. that they have suspended-. It appears that in all th-ir interior offices they have a surplus over the amount due their depositors, and as soon as that" surplus can be transmitted t' the, offices in towns where tljey t suspended, specie'pay ment will be resumed. V received the following despatch IhA evening from -Jackson : The office of Wells, Fargo &,Co. at. Moquelumue Hill has paid all demands presented aginst them up to this time, and have sufficiency on hand to meet all others outstandiug. The office at JackSon has also paid all demands, and- is in good condition for any emergency. '- : ADAMS 4-CQ. TQ THEIR CREDITORS. 'Comments which have been'made on the closing of tour' house, seem to require thatl oeisre preseniwig 10 our creniiprs ine pro position which is below, I should acquaint the public, as our friends are already ac quainted, with the facta .which demonstrate that the real cajes of our suspension were not of our own making. -Such are the relations of banking houses to each other, and such the nature of pu blic confidence m banks, that without some sort of mutual good faith and -co-operalion, nd at least a general . idea of each others' re sources and position, no system of banks conducted upon any large and liberal pun ciples, can withstand a general crisis : , but must fail together, i" common coufusion and disaster, such as we have just. witnessed. The first banking house in the country alwaya forfesee a run. ItsV own, position add ability to go through a crisis it can as certain, and ought not to withhold from those who have'an interest and a right to knowTFormonths a leading 'banking bouse in this city has been quite strength ening itself and sustaining iu parent house elsewhere, at. the expense of every other banking house here, and especially our The house of Adams & Co. hold to-day thousands of dollars in bills receivable from our merchants f r independable accomoda tions, where with to meet their loans sud denly called in, and for which the hard cash basiefi oux vaults. " Even after the run on Page, Bacon A Co. of this city, Saturday, Feb. 17th, had it been possible by Hny amount of diligence, to ascertain the true position of J hat house, Adams & Cot could even then have prepared for the worst UnfortuiiMtely it was not possible. " . To repeated inquiries, to entreaties the mosurgentrour hotrsereceived a' way the assurance of the perfect ability of Page, Bacon & Co., to meet any run. Therefore it wa that we did not concentrate our recources here from all parts of the States, as we would bavs done, had the truth been revealed,)revenjhiiited to us Qn thi conTrary, we sent away our best resources, bavinir forwarded into the interior on Mon day, Tuesday and Wpdnsday of last werk.j more than 1 150,000 in coin, for the pur chase of gold dust a.'.-' 1 for the weukly ship ment, while we allowed ariotbar large amount of coin to be invested in bullion on the Vsy for the same 'shipment More than this : we freely expended the coin which was our life-blood in effbrU o sustain that bouse, in redeeming their certificates throughout the Stales, and in every other wsy. Such wasmir condition when on Wedns day night, at a late hour our house was as tounded by the news that Page, Bacon & Co. were unable t6 go on, and would not again open tbeir doors. It was ail event which not only falsified the repeated and solemn assurances Riven by that bouse, but which found us destitute of the preparations which, but . for those as aurances, we ihould: most certaniy have made. It was an event, too, which was. aggravated in ihe highest degree by the tone and temper of the extraordinary cir cular whieb annnunoedino Xhepublio. . February 32nd was a day of general cele bration, and I boned, with the large amount of gold dust in our vaults, we could meet the crisis then evidently impending. Hut between T and 4 r. M. of that day I found a run had quietly set in, which 'ookfrom us, 4 in about two. hour, over 200,000 in coin, and we saw' that unleaa our supply of com could be replenished, we must, to protect the ncrttt of all our creditors, in tbe city, and throughout- the mines, .iclose ' our doors, Immediately, and all that night, we made every effort whice'men could, everywhere in town, to procure coin. Gold dust we had; I had, my own pnvat property, and , th property of our friend., which, with unpar- ' alleled generosity, they had placed at our disposal.'- W offered a million and a quar-' . v ter of dollars in i the best securities in th world to raise one-fifth 'of the sum in coin. Every effort and every sacrifice were in vain ; it could not be done. The rest is known. These being he facts of our suspension, -I desire to make the creditor $f the house 4 throughout the Slate the following prop. sition 1. - That within thirty days from this date, the Receiver shall pay them twenty-five per T cent, in cash upon all our claims. . , That the creditors shall receive the ba. ance qf their; claims from' the Receiver, a fast "as he can declare the dividends, and for'" this purpose he shall be allowed to admin ister the assets, notes, real estate", etc., of the house, and realize them as promptly as pos-V sible,' without hindrance and to the best ad vanta;geJor.thecred great er security of the creditors ; that his pre- . ', ent bond., which are for one million doflare, , - shall be increased if deemed necessary." J . As it is desirable that we should obtain as promptly aa possible the sense ef our I credi torsii ponjhispropositi6n,which. I anv- confident is for their best intfrestsand wilF' secure the early payment of their claims in full, w earnea.ily request teem to notify us, at our Banking House in San Francisco, of ' their assent thereto. I need 'not say bow acceptable that assent will.be, nor that we shall endeavor to cequite it with the same energy'and fidelity of which we hope th- public lias bad some proof in its former- dealings with our House. I. C. Woods, t HARRICD. In Clacka.iisa Co.- Feb. 23d by Rev. H K. Hinks, Ms JAMES LARKINS to Miss LYDI A HILLERY. -. 2 " ' ? i InMarieoCo, Mnreh4th by Rev. H. K' Himts, Rev S.' R. CKiLESBY ta Mas MARTHA BONNY. t ' - Jan. 28,I8."5, by JnVM. ".Baeon, Em.; Math- ' ew Hoob rry sud Miss Miry Ann Reed,. aQ of t-lacksintui county. . , '. . New Advertisements. Look Here ! ! Tr.INTEND.M)iin7t slnenl mvaelf from homci Ja. sn'd.tisH probublr ler tlie Turriuvy'for noins Ifngiliof Inn. Thertfort, all persona hv- in; oi-nonio a pain irw, orinT una, mam pre- ent thtm, fo imnud.sle payment, on or before the Publish.- Orep)n Spectator. " . Oregon City, March 3, 1055. " :: Dissolution! T1IIE copartnenihipliervtoAireexHitiiig between L. 1), C Latonrvllei F. S Holland, and A. . Holland, under the firm- of Lalourelte et Hot- ' undrlsthis dV diMotVed'M'Tliutnal conacnUfirr - , S. Holland ia fully authorized to Collect out- t staudlnj debta, and pay all . demand; agsinst the lale firm, on pnaentalion. - ' - " v.. 1 U.U, L 11 ) L K 4 1 I K. - w f. s .Holland: AX 1 1 0 LLA N D. March, 1 1855. - " E. S. Holland hav'ns purchaie 1 the entire stock. will continue bus nim'at ihe old stand, r . Thankful for pavl favuni lit- rvfc fully ai-lu a continuance (if Ihe rame. F S. 1IOLI-.-1 A'J) Oregon City, March 8, JV Fine Cliero-.ts BT CJfAVAfAy.it WARNER, Zantc Currants 1 - - BY CHARMAN & WARNER. Fine Table Salt B r ClfA RMA N $ WA RNER. ' Sago, & Corn Starch BY CFlAltMAN WARNER. Superiorliaisins BY CHAR MAN 4 WARNKR. BlackrbcrryiCor(Hal BY CHARM AN 4- WARNER. ; Soda, fe Cream Tarter . BY CHARM N !f WARNER. , . WaslLboa-rds Clothes FINS. & ROOD LARH FOR SALK BY CHARMAN & WARNER. In m lit 1 1 Whig Coiivviiiion. .. The whip of Yamhill Ce. are rrtioewed to meet ia eoiivf utioa at Latayetta oa Haturday April lit, at one o'clock P. M to sleet deleftstcs to the whir Territorial Convention at Corvallia. -l Each preciuot to requested to send their mm . rales. . , ' VM. I. HfinDI, Viij of Whir County CcrosAt.. . LafayeMer Msreh Isy4855. - . - Whig Territorial CoHVMIn... The several counties In Oregon, as bow organ. -iscd, are requoslct! to aleotlaratea te meet hi. Convention at Corvailif. oa, Wedtisadsy, ths 1 8th day of April net, for ihe purpose of nominating a. eand date for dolrgatet Cbusrsas, and to transact each other barineas as may. be deamed advisapl far the futUro w,lfart of Oregon. - fjw-Eech county will be entitled to donbl tht number- of their repreeentatios ia. both Houses of tua LegWativ AaMiiibly.as olegates to said-C venlion. ' . i t ' . . ' it tr. coat.. - ' JAM Ed D- McCTJRpTe ALEX. Mcl NTT RK, C. A. RkED, ' , J. DRYER, Territorial Wh'g CWmltU Salt A eoara-H-jSanantitlesteeait muchaMltu -' by J. P. BltOOKS- Fresh Flour KEPT eowrtantly on band, at mill price.; March 3. 1855. J. . HKUOriS. Daguerreotype I I WOULD -t J to mj friends, and patrons, that - I shall opea my Daroorrean Room I. town : again, s soon aa navigation cloosa err ; thjkJfP ri'ar. JOSEPH BUCIITEL. . Oraren City, March 3, 1855. ' ' -!?' l: "lj.-- .w-... J ..- - 'i. v :, t . -'. . ' .