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i EI)c tUttkb (enterprise Orgon Oity, Oregon , . . IRKLAXD, EDITOR XSD FROFRIETOK. Saturday : : : Nov. 14, 1868. KXPJL.AJfA.TIOX. In the issue of the Enterprise of October 17 th, a paragraph occurred announcing that the materials of the office were to be removed to La Grande, there to begin, the 3d volume. This came entirely unexpected to a boit of the friends of the paper, but it wa deemed to be to the best inter ests of the publisher. The " forms'' vrere properly packed for shipment, and w should most likely have been off before this, only for a misunder standing between the contracting par ties, which it ia not necessary to re countsuffice it to say we are still here, and so long as we publish, a news paper, on our own responsibility, we shall do so in Oregon City. With this explanation we shall pro- ceea to business. Our past course and history ia before the public. Whatever we do we shall try to do well, and all the favors we have to ask ia yonr patronage. For nearly two years we shall not feel it incam bent upon us to dabble much in poli tics but on every important occasion w3 shall otter onr sentiments, and those sentiments perhaps will not de viate from what they were the past ensvass. Pacific Mail Steamship stock has advanced to 117. (D . ZL -The manufacture of the telegraph cable to connect France with this country, has been commenced. Wells, Fargo & Co. advertise to put passengers through to New York iu 11 days by the overland route. It is reported that Hon. Schuy ler Colfax is soon to wed Miss Nellie Wade, neice of the venerable Presi dent of the Senate. The editor of the Idaho Slates man has feasted his eyes upon a large pear and apple, 6ent to that place by mail, from Seattle, W. T. Orgon, by the latest advices from east of the mountains, has gone for Seymour and Blair by about 214 majority. The English Quakers, or Friends have issued an address strongly ad vocating jthe separation of Church and State. A new steamer is building in France which will it is thought, cross the channel in three quarters of an hour. The Pacific Mail steamer Alaska cf ailed from New York for Aspinwall with 1,200 passengers and 1,150 tons of freight, including 500 firkins of butter. It is said that a few drops of kerosene oil, rubbed iu with the point of the finger or a piece of sponge, is a certain and speedy cure for the cfs fects of the poison oak. Repeat for three or four days. The California Dry Dock Co. have in use their great graving dock hewn out of the solid rock, 450 feet long and superior to anything in the world ; also a floating dock for ships of fifteen hundred tons and under, which will take up ships at all stages ol the tide. Take your counfy paper. Post yourself on the advantages around you. Settle down, and not be one xf those restless beings who wander up and down this coast like ghosts of ileparted joys, or like autumn leaves borne hither and thither by the whirl wind of excitement, says the licgistcr, . ami we endorse the sentiment. The Copperheads of La Grande burned Gov. Woods in effigy the other night. A short time afterwards their town was nearly destroyed by fire. Whether the conflagration was kindled from embers of the fire which the drunken rebels had beenj dancing around, we are not informed, says the Oregonian. The first railroad in the United 'States the Baltimore and Ohio road was chartered in 1S27, and sixty-two miles of it were opened, but worked by horse power, in 1S31 New York opened iu the same year the second railroad the Albany and benenectady. The third was the South Carolina railroad, which was opened in 1855, and was at that time the longest continuous line ia the world. A new discovery has been made in telegraphic science, which does way with all the jars and fluids here tofore used ia telegraph offices, and a current of electricity sufficiently Btrongfor all purposes, is drawn from mother earth by means of one sheet of copper and onu sheet of zinc, which are buried to ths depth of two feet, and having four feet of earth between them. To the copper plate, wires are attached, and the current is inex haustible. Every message sent is re corded by an 'instrument which re O ceives its power from the buried bat tery, and which consists of nothing but ouc :slieet of copper and one of .sire. u Ttlegmphie Communication WitH Asia. A few months since we made allu sion to thfc anxiety of the English to establish railroad commnnication be tween India and China, as a means of shortening the routes from - the w Chinese ports to England and retain ing the trade which is being diverted in great part to the American route, on the near completion of the At lantic and Pacific railroad. Surveys are in progress for such a road, and meanwhile the attention of the Brit isb Government and press is directed to the importance of improving the telegraphic service' with Asia. The British lines at present extend no farther than India, and the system ia not a very direct one. There is tele-; graphic service to North China via St. Petersburg -and Kiachta, in con nection with mounted couriers, and the British steamers place Shanghai in connection with the Indian and Persian lines. By this means mes sages are transmitted from London tq Shanghai in from eighteen to twenty five days, says the Bulletin, and these are the sources of the tele graphic news from China and Japan which we sometimes receive through San Francisco ahead of steamship ad vices. If the European press was conducted in the same liberal spirit of enterprise which characterizes the American press, we should always have the latest news by this source from the most important points in Eastern Asia. The English have a strong desire for direct communication with the Chinese coast across their own terri tory. They have projected a tele graph liue from Calcutta to Shanghai, to connect with the shore cables of an American company ; but the scheme, both as to the English and American promoters, is in abeyance. Mean while efforts arc making to build a continuous line of telegraphs between England and India, as the first and greater part of instantaneous commu nication with China. It is believed this scheme will be realized before the summer of 18G9. The London Times says the line will commence at Nor deney, an island in the German ocean, on the Prussian coast, and. will thence proceed through Hamburg and Berlin to Thorn, ou the Prusso Russian frontier, through Pnsia via Warsaw, Odessa, Kertch and Poti to Tiflis, and thence through Persia to Teheren, joining with the syste;n now iu connection with the Persian Gulf cable, which unites with the thous ands of miles of wire in operation in India. Concessions have been ob tained from the governments of the different countries through which the line will pas?, and arrangements have been made for the use of wires al ready in operation on portions of the route. The amount of capital re quired is about $2,250,000,- and the 1 --ft p ' ... . a ' ... cost of a mcssa to India will be about 17 50. The advantages of he proposed line were thus stated by the London Times : The expenditure will be moderate, the security of the line will bo secured y convention, and, above all, the working of it will be in the hands of the company. At present, from the time a message leaves England, it is entirely freed from our control until it reaches the Persian Gulf. Duriug that time it passes through places governed by various administrations, and it is transmitted through tue hands of clerks speaking different languages. The new scheme prom ises to obviate the dulicuities which have hitherto existed in the way of a message passing intact and intelligible from England to the East or from the East to England. The new line will also secure in stant communication, when it is in good working order throughout. By the present service the average rate of transmission is about three days. We learn that the Corvallis col lege has been designated by the Legislature to receive the lands granted to Oregon by Congress to aid in the support of an agricultural college. We have not as yet seen the net, but presume by this that that institution will be converted into a college within the meaning of the act. Since the above was written, we have the Gazette,, which says : President Fin'ev handed us a bill, which we ' understand has become a law, designating the Corvallis College as the agricultural college of the State. J. F. Miller, J. II. Douthit, and J. C. Avery are constituted a Board of Commissioners to locate lands and take into consideration the further organization and perfecting a plan for the permanent establishment of such college under act of Congress making such donation. This is surely a very important matter; one that has received no small amount of attention from such gentlemen as President Dufur, of the State Agricultural Society !; Hon. J. H. Douthit, Hon. John Minto, and others. We hope to be better in formed with respect to the measure. Road agents are active between Boise City and Salt Lake. The re mains of two men, murdered for money, it is -supposed, have recentlv been found. The P. T. Co.'s Annual Meet ing wilt b? held December 31, 1S6?, at S ib m. OKEGOX. McCracken, Merrril & Co. will dispatch the Alaska for Honolulu. The sailors of the Sallie Brown have a pet pig and cat. Traiued on the voyage. - There were fourteen suits for di vorce pending iu Multnomah Circuit 'Court. The U. P. R. R, Co., are said to be actually surveying the line for a road from Weber Canon to Snake river. The new Bank of Messrs. Lndd & Tilton, Portland, is nearly ready to finish. It will be a credit to the State. ' The Portland Female Academy, next term, begins on the 23d. Oil painting and music have been added to the classes. A disastroas fire occurred in La Grande on the 7th inst. The losses, so near as can be ascertained, are about 11,000. The Emmett Guard will give a grand ball at the Oro Fino Hall, on the evening Thanksgiving day, 2s vember 2Gth. Great pains are being taken to make it a grand aff-iir. Morford's ditch, which carries water from the south side of the Uma tilla river at the mpids, near Umatilla City, is now completed five miles be low the city, to the Columbia, where miners are sluicing the river bars with fair success. The National Commercial CoK lege of Portland, is one of the indis pensable institutions of the State, and its importance is becoming more and more known and filt among the yonng men of the country. - Money or time cannot better be employed than by spending from live to six months in this school. No young man should consider that he is qualified to enter into business either f'r himself or his employer, until he has completed a thorough course at this college. A few days since, says the Unionist the Willamette "Wooleu Mills set up and put into operation a knitting machine, and are now man ufacturing a fine article of socks. They are as nice as any seen in mar ket," and have all the appearances of beirg more durable than those that are purchased from Eastern factories. One liiau with this machine can man-, ufacture about one hundred pairs per day. Dealers will find it to their ad vantage to get their supplies of this article from the Company, as the goods will be fresh, and not liable to be moth eaten, as is frequently the case with Eastern manufactures. A committee of both Houses of the Legislature, two-thirds of whom are Democrats, have not only de clared upon the fullest investigation that the StateTre isurer and Secretary of State h:ive " honvs'ly and faithfully discharged their duties," but have also highly commended them for the (fiicient, aLle, and thorough' manner in which the business has been trans acted. The Oregonian suggests that this Democratic endorsement of the faithfulness and honesty " of the Republican State officials will serve as a very good document in the next political campaign, when these same lvirg mnlignants whom the Demo cratic party allov3 to be its leaders, Will be sure to reiterate their former charges about the mismanagement of the State Treasury. Aurora nrecinct of Marion county, is probably' the banner Union crccinet of the State, having given & zoo one hundred and thirteen votes for Grant and only five for Seymour. This result is no doubt largely due to the Border-ruffian assault made upon the colony of Germans composing the precinct, by Ford and one or two other Ku Ivbixes in the legislature, says the Oregonian. The German colony being thus assailed paid ma- ligneu m a most unjnsuuaoie manner, its people naturally became indignant and arrayed themselves against their maligners. The result above indi cated is not, however, altogether due to this cause. The people of the col ony are a s-obcr, industrious, and re ligiou-', and a reading peop'e and, therefore, an intelligent people. In this acd many o'.her respects they are in strange contrast with most of those precincts of Mariou or any other county which habitually vote the Democratic ticket. While Aurora adds largely to the wealth of the county in substantial improvements and in paying taxes, it has never yet cost the county a ci nt on i count of crime or misdemeanor committed by one ot the coloniets proper. It has gone straight along in sobernpss, in dustry and prosperity ; it has some of the most substantial men of the county, some of the best buildings (outside of Salem), one of the best hotels on the stage roai, a fine church, a gooi mill, some of the best con ducted farms in the county, and a population whose intelligence com pares well with the average anywhere in the State and whose loyalty to the Union is pre-eminent. It is little wonder, then, all these things being so, that Ku Klux editors and legisla tors have no words for the colony but those of bitterness and hate. -, But we reckon the Germans can .stand this lu Klux abuse, if the Ku Kluxers, in turn; can stand the way tho Germans vote. During the fiscal year ending Sept. GO, 1863, 72,242 acres of lands were entered ' at the Olympia Land 02c? in Washington Territory. For i a corresponding .period in 1S67, but ! 2G.0GH acres, were entered. Who lean doubt that the march of empire is westward ? Who says that people are not learning that the way to India is bv th-; 3 cT the sttinc su THE ElKTIIftUAKES. Particulars of the terrible earth quake of the 13th of August, in South America are at hand, by overlaud mail. The story shows a sad and heartrending picture. We quote: -The earthquake commenced at half past five o'clock on the 13th of Au gust, extending from Bolivia to the southern ports of Chili. The coast and over a hundred miles iuland, with the towns and cities mentioned in the dispatches of last night, were literally ruined. All the buildings which were not destroyed by its ravages, were so badly injured as to require demolition for prudential reasons. All the public buildings in Arica were destroyed, including the custom house, containing more than four mil lion dollars' worth of goods, all of which were lost. The loss of the American steamers Frcdonia and Walerce are thus dis cribed : They were both at anchor in the harbor of Arica, near each other. After the first shock had occurred on land, which created great consterna tion on both vessels, Dr. Dubois, the surgeon of the Frcdonia, and the pay master of that vessel took a boat and went on shore to inquire for the wel fare of friends and offer the services of the ship. In a few moments after leaving the vessel a great upheaving of the waters cf the bay commenced, and the Frcdonia parting her chain, was dashed about at the mercy of the waves, and finally went to pieces on the reef. Nothing of the vessel was saved. Her officers and crew, twenty-seven in number, were lost, and also Mrs. Dyer, the wife of the lieu tenant commanding. The vessel had nearly two million of dollars' wort of naval stores on board, all of which were totally lost. The Watcree was more securly an cored, but dragged her anchors, and the great tidal wave swept her tour hundred and fifty yards inland, about two miles north of the ruined town. She now lies between two hillocks of sand, very slightly injured, but it wi.l be utterly impossible to extricate her Admiral Turner is only hopeful of saving her battery and stores. Several other vessels shared like fates. The scene ct Arica beggars description. Wc quote farther: Railroad rails, cars, machinery, gun carriages, household furniture, bar rels. dead animals, and mutilated corpses are lving about in confusion The citv numbered seven thousand inhabitants, and its multitudes stand hopelessly beggared on the beach Three hundred lives were lost. A conflagration burned nearly all that was not demolished by the earthquake, and a drunken rabble robbed and de spoiled what remained. Heavy can non were carried away up from the island battery, and now lie buried on shore. The stench is sickening. At Lima there was not much dam age done, although the shocks lasted about four minutes, exedrg the ut most consternation among the iuhab Hants, who fled to the open plains, where they besought protection from the Alnvghty. American Minister Hovey, at Lima, is energetically aiding, to the extent of his power, in alleviating . the dis tress. The merchants and citizens of Lima are contributing by thousands of dollars to ccmip and load vessels with clothing and provisions, and the Government is most energetically us ing all its tmans to alleviate the dis tress entailed by the horrible catas trophe. The Congress of Peru has unanimously passed a resolution giv the President unlimited power to succor the inhabitants of the southern coa.-t. The President has issued a procla' mation and the Arehlrshon a pasto ral letter, calling upon the Peruvians for liberal contributions: which have been nobly responded to over a mil lion dollars having been raised. Neaily all the towns and villages in the mineral province of Huancane have been destroyed and reduced to shapeless masses. The cities of Puno and Cuzco were not damaged. The port of Mollendo, where are stored the materials for building Mr. Meiggs' railway, were completely destroyed, nearly all the tools, rails and pro visions being ruined by the earthquake and the succeeding tidal waves. Ibarra, capital of the province of Imbaburu, Sarj Pablo, and Altnnto qui are in ruins. The entire popula tion of the towns, and cf Otovato, perished among the nearly thirty thousand. At Quito the earthquake com menccd at twenty minutes past oue o'clock a. sr. August 11th, aud cotr tinued at intervals for a few hours. Up to the last dates, (August 19th J the churches, public buildings and private dwellings were already in ru ins, and the people living in tents in the great squares. The towns adjoining Quito, named Verusho, Puellero and Cachavuanjo have almost entirely disappeared, with their inhabitant?. Few were kit alive, without being obliged to flee to escape the pestilence arising from the decomposing dead bodies. The towns of Yinicho and San An tonio have also disappeared. The number of deaths in Quito is not yet known. A large number of wealthy inhabitants died from pestilence or d'S3Stcr. Anvices Irora Talchuana st3te that at nine o'clock on the night of August 14 three earthquakes occurred. The second caused an immense tidal wave, which swept away fully one-half of the town, and rendered the other half almost uninhabitable. Four lives were lost, the inhabit ants fleeing to the hills. At Tome, the same scene occurred, but, being high, little damage was done. The port of Constitucioc suffered from the waves, but was not much damaged. The town of Conception was also damaged from the same cause. Cobija, Merrilones Island, Pisaq'13, and all the cities and towns, in fact, from Cape Francisco, in Equador, to Ma g('i un straits, sunercd more cr less from the terrible visitations of the earthquake. At Callao the sea burst over a line ofjiouses skirting the shore, at 10 o'clock r. m. on the 13th, completely gutting them of their contents. Sev eral vessels collided. No damage was then done, nearly all putting to sea. The next night a fire, broke out and fifty seven houses in the business portion of the place were destroyed, entailing a loss of a million and a halt of dollars. No lives were lost. The Chincba Islands felt the earthquake and wave, but not seriously as yet j known. j The cities of lea and Pisco also : suffered heavily, forty houses being overthrown and twelve lives lost at the former place. Nearly all the population of Callao fled to Lima. Ihe steamer Santiago, bound from Callao to Valparaiso, put in port off Chala, where, on the 13:h, she was seized by the great wave, her chains snapped, and the vessel carried to sea. In a fow minutes the wave returned toward shore, bringing the steamer with it, and carrying it, with all her passengers, safely over a high cliff, leaving it safely inside the channel, in the port of Chala, completely cov ered with water. At Caldera the wave and earth quake completely destroyed every thing, former dwellings being left heaps of rubbish. No traces of streets are to be seen. The inhabit ants fled to the mountains, but many were drowned or killed. At Inquois the shock lasted four minutes, after which the wave came and destroyed about three quarters of the place, with many lives, nearly all the provisions, aud the condens ing machinery which supplied the in habitants with drinking water. Pro visions and water have been sent there from Valparaiso. One German house at Iquique lost over $100,000 worth of property. Over 600 people were drewned. At Arequipa the earthquake com menced a few minutes past five in the afternoon. In five minutes nearly every house in th( city was leveled to the ground. The tower of Santa Catalinea Church is the otdv thing left standing, and that will have to be pulled down. Nearly all the in mates of prisons and hospitals per ished in the destruction of these buildings. Nearly 100 shocks oc curred in three days. The city is one mass of complete ruin. The river has changed. Mount Mistic is actu ally throwing out lava, smok-v and quantities of mud. The river emits a sulphurous odor, and rocks and earth are constantly falling from the mountain crater. No one dares go where the city was. The survivors are 'living in teuts on the banks of the river. At Pancarphata, hundreds of lives were lost by being crushed to death by falling houses. Other accounts state that an Amer ican bark with a cargo of guano, i a:ne unknown, was swallowed up completely in the harbor of Arica, and nothing more seen of her. The town of Uhaqnega,niie leagues from Arequipa, was destroyed. Tac quin, in the same neighborhood, lost sixty houses an 1 a hundred and fifty lives, mostly children returning frcm school. The town of Shegra was swept away, only twenty out of five hundred inhabitants escaping. The earth has opened in several places on the plains and pampas, and water has appeared. In some places hot water vomited from the new chasms. All the habitations at Otello were destroyed and twenty lives lost. Three vessels with their crews were also lost. All the nitre works at Iquique were destroyed, as well as those in the suburbs, causing "Teat loss. Among those killed at Iquique was the British Consul, Mr. Dillinghurst. At the Chincha Islands there was first a hurricane, then the earthquake and the tidal wave. Several Eng lish vessels were damaged. A Prus sian bark was wrecked. Four hundred tons of silver ore, with all the expensive woiks of the Peruvian Mineral Co., owned in Lon don, were completely swept away at Iquiqus. The towns of Caneta, Chan- ehoy, Capajna, C-harha, llobacera, and other small places, were totally destroyed. Los Lomas has been united to an island in the bay of Callao by the action of the earthquake. Over 300, 000 persons are without shelter and bread. Commissions are being formed ladies are making clothing, and the government of Peru is straining its utmost to alleviate the suffering General Kilpatrick left for home on the 17th of October. The earthquake of the 2Ut, in Cal ifornia, was not near so sad a calam ity, but it really makes one tremble with fear for that region, to read the above. On the day of this last event the Morning Call says : Never in the history of San Fran cisco has so great a calamity befallen it as we have met with to-day. In the natural excitement of the moment, when the streets are crowded with the affrighted populace, and the people are crazed with terror, it is difficult to calmly write up the sad details, or to find words in which to describe the scene of excitement and fear. At six minutes before eight o'clock this morning our city was visited by an earthquake shock, the severest by far that was ever experienced here. Brick buildings were terribly shaken to their foundations and partially de stroyed, chimneys fell, and men were killed aud wounded by the falling de bris. On California street the ground opened near Sansome ; on Montgom ery street the s'dcwalks fell in many places; awnings were ' shaken - from their fastenings and fell on the heads of pedestrians ; windows were shat tered on their panes ; and through out the business portion of the city is the scene of des-tructiou and desola tion. The shock lasted for at least thirty seconds, and the vibration was from northwest to southeast. The severe shock was followed by numer- uos light one which have occurred at intervals up to r. m. A long enumeration of casualties were .given showing Jthe. fright ful work almost a wreck bf tha half of the city. The Sacramento Union of the 22d says: This was the most severe earthquake experienced in this State since the American occupation, twelve are known to be killed in San Francisco. Every brick house in Pacheco is in ruins. The shock is not thought to have to have been heavier than the one three years ago this month, but of longer duration, hence the greater damage. ---4- W e append a table of majorities in the several counties of the State as far as reported : OR A XT. svEiioca. Multnomah 12:$ Clatsop Tillamook Columbia Clackamns Washington. .. YiunLin Polk Bentou Linn Lane Marion Douglas Jackson Josephine Coos and Curry. Wasco Umatilla Union Baker 35 20 81 li) 3 G9 12 30 13 220 110 525 lUti 231 31 90 19S 307 242 loo 1.2 Gi 1.478 Grant county is reported to be near ly oven, with a probability of a small IlepuU can majority. rj? If the figures reported in the Eastern coun ties are correct, the majority in the State for the "Seymour electors will be somewhere near 200. The farmers of Oregon, through the Stats Agricultural Society, have entered upon a plan for an agricul tural paper. It will be called the Wallamcl Farmer, and will be printed at Sale n. Hon. J. II. Douthit, of Linn county; Hon. John Minto, of Marion; and Major Joseph Magone, of this city, have been appointed a committee for the first year, to super intend and manage the same. The Fanner will supply a great want in Oregon, and we hope it will be a suc cessful venture. The Evening Commercial volun teers to tell rather more than the truth when it places this paper down as having an enormous capital of rid icule of the West side Railroad on hand, or to furnish upon any occa sion. We never indulge in ridicule of any ente rprise iu the land. What we have said in the Railroad contr o vcrsy, was based on logical and con elusive faets. We shall stand by the record. You seem to think that op position to the West side road's Company " will be a lever of hercu lean power that the road over there is an established fact;" and, not being able to further " depend upon the influence of the legislature's ac," will see other feasible means of pushing the road forward to comple tion. We certainly hope . that this may be so Pro. Bull we certainly do, sir. J. F McCoy started on the 1 3 th with a cash box and an escort, to pay off the men along the line of the East S:de Railroad, above this place. The men at this camp were paid off about ten days ago. Something near 1250 hands have to be paid off monthly by Ilolladay cc Co., a firm who were to pack trunks and leave us, according to reports from som quarter, as soon as the Legislature adjourned. Capt. Enoch G. Adams has be come sponsor for the Vancouver Register. Adams is a good jokist and will no doubt make a very reada ble paper. "Vancouver will soon be a railroad town, and must needs have a wide awake journal. Messrs. M. R Cox and R. W. Willson offered to keep and care for the Insane and Idiotic of this State at the rate of 78 cents a day for each patient, but the legislature thought it best to contract with Dr. Hawthorne at $1 00 per day each, for some rea son. Thursday the 2Gth has been ap pointed as a day of Public Thanks giving and Praise. We of Oregon especially have much for which to be thankful. Let business be suspend ed everywhere that the day may be properly observed. The man arrested here for the assault upon Charles Luche at Port land is the same who was accused of entering the house of Ada Philfps with burglarious intent, some months ago. Officer Saunders tracked him here. We shall publish next week, the remarks of Rev. Geo. II. Atkinson, at the close of the proceedings on Change m Chicago ou the 20th ult. Philip Ritz Esq., one of the most energetic men east of the mountains, has again left for Washington Citv in the interest of the Northern Pa ciac Railroad. The trial of the Blue Mountain mail robbers began at Portland yes terday, in the U. S. Circuit Court, be fore Judge Deady. niouDtain of magnetic iron i has been discovered in Lapland. It j Js sufficient to supply the world with i magnets. - The Overland Monthly for Oc' tober contains a splendid article on .be blending of the Old East in the New West. The contributor ap pears to be thoroughly conversant with the history and habits of the Chinese, in their own homes and as they live in California, and predicts a vast change io the future of the Ce lestial Empire by the retarn of the Chinese to their old homes, trans planting there what they have ac quired during their residence in our midst. There is very much in this article for reflection, and it strikes the key-note of the progress of mod ern civilization the Americanizing of the Old East, the aggregating to the Pacfic coast the commerce and riches of Eastern Asia. Mr. Dewey, who was so success ful in Oregon with Dana's Life of Grant, is now cauva?sing for a new book by Horace Greeley, Recollect Hons of a Fuy Life. The book is ta:d to be finely illustrated, but whether so or not, it should be taken for the sound sense it contains, if we may be permitted to judge, from what we have read of Greeley's Busy Life. : Last week we expected to be able to name the States, and the ma jorities, cast at the Presidential elec tion, by to day. In this we are dis appointed. In the course of ten days more we shall be in possession of the facts officially, no doubt, by overland advices. Grant and Colfax have re ceived the largest " popular vote" ever recorded. This much is known. Dr. J. A. Veach has been elected to the chair of chemistry in the Wal lamet University medical department. The Doctor wiil deliver a course of lectures, this winter, on chemistry and toxicology. It is understood that he will also deliver a course of lectures on mineralogy and geology. "Several advertisements inteded for this issue, amongst them Messrs. Char- raan's, are unavoidably omitted. We will state for the benefit of our readers, that the above firm wissl) ii understood that they are in the market to sell at prices that defy competition, from one j-ear's end to another. They have an immense stock, to which every steamer adds new articles. For further particulars see their letter to to the Editor. -- "TAIN KILLER cures Sore Throat. V Favorite Medicine with all classes, is Davis' Pain Killer. 1 F 3-ou have Painters' Colic, X use ihe Pain Killer VTO Medicine is so popular as the Tain Killer. 7" EE? the Pain Killer ahravs at hand. IF you have a Cough or Cob', use the Pain Killer. I OOIv out and not be caught without a j ixmie ol rain Killer in the house. FT every body use the Pain Killer tor .Sprains and Bruises. E1 pVERV sailor should curry a bottle of Pain Killer with him. EM EM HER, the Pain Killer is for .IV both internal and external use. The Pain Killer is sold by all Druists and Dealers in Family Medicines. SPE CIA L NO TICES. Wiillnomah Lotlgc So. 1, A. K. unci A. 51.- Holds its regular eommuni cations on the First and Third .Sat ' urd-iyx m each month, at 7 o'clock, from the 2mh of September to the 20th of Mii-ch, and 7A o'clock from the '2ith of March to the 2u',h of September. Brethren m good standing are invited to attend. By order of ty. M. Oregon Lodge Xo. 3, I. O. or O. F.- -?-535&fe- Mccts cver7 Wednesday even CtS ig at 7 o'clock, iu Masonic Hall, -wr- M.,in Btrcet Members of the Order arc invited to attend By order. if. a. "Willamette Lorfge Xo. 131. O, T Meets every Saturday evening, at the rooms S;E. corner of Main and Fifth streets, nt 7 1-2 o'clock. Visitinjr members are invited to attend. By order of "W. C. T. W. A. ALDUICir. J. C. XIEEHILL. JOUN U CP.AKEK SHIPPING, COMMISSION AND Forwarding Merchants, AGENTS OF THE CALIFORNIA, Hawaiian and Oiegon Packet Lines. Importers of San Qiicntin and Carmen Island Salt, Saud-.vich Island Sugars, Colics. Uice, and Pulu. Agents for Provost's &, Co.'s Preserved Fruits, Vegetables, Pickles and Vinegar. Dealers in Flour, Grain, Bacon, Lard & Fruit, Lime, Cement and Plaster. Will attend to the Purchase, Sale or Ship ment of Merchandise or Produce in New York, San Francisco, Honolulu, or Portland. ALDKICH, MKKR1LI, & CO., Nos 20-i aud 206 California Street, San Francisco. M'CRAKEN, MERRILL & CO., li) North Front Street, Portland. ALWAYS SAFE ! Always Effectual, Fever and A ei.e is Speedily arid ef fectually enred by Dr. E. COOPEK'ts Univer sal Magnetic lialm. SHERIFFS SALE. . Py virtue of an execution issued out of the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon, for Clackamas County, upon a decree of fore closure of a mortgage, in a suit in said Court wherein D. P. Thompson was plaintiff and C. A. Cantonwtne and Julia A. Cantouwine, his wife, were defendants, which execution was to me directec", and commanded me to mak sale according to law of the premises hereinafter described, in order to pay said Thompson the sum of ?322 20-100 with in terest, costs and accruing costs. 1 have duly levied upon the following described real estate, to wit : River Lots No. eight (8), nine (it), and ten (10) in Sec. 21. The West half oi tue rionth-east qr. of Sec. 21. The North west qr. of the North-east qr. of Sec. 28, all in Township 3 South of Range 1 East of'thc lUamette meridian, as known and desig nated on maps and plats of United States Surveys. Together with the appurtenances. And on Saturday, the 1th day of December, A. D. I SOS, at 1 o'clock p. v. at the Court Hour e door, in Oregon Citv, Clackamas cosntr Oregon, 1 will proceed "to sell all the right, title and interest of said defendants in and to the same to the highest bidder for cash in hand, to satisfy said execution. iJOHN MVERS, Sheriff of Clackamas Co.. Py Joitx Rtas, Dqtvty. Jonxsox &. MeCowx, Pills. Attys. U-1-it.J JOTICE. Whereas, my wife, Francoise Wilson, has left mv house and is now living separate and apart 'from me, without any cause for so j whom it may concern, that 1 shall pay no debts ot her contracting. JAMES WILSON. Caucaiab, Oregon, Ncv, ltb, lcd3. I: it A U C 'TION AND COMMISSION A. 15. Hicli:irlsoii, AUCTIONEER! 5 Corner of Front and Oak streets, Pertlane? AUCTION SALES Of Real Estate, Grocerie3, General MereW diae and Horses, Evefy Wednesday and Saturday A. B. PviciiAtmsotf, Auctioneer, AT PRIVATE SALE. English refined Bar and Bundle Iron Knglish Square and Octagon Cast sted 1 T T . . . . 1 . f . . . ViIaa T ....... ,. . " o o Screws, Fry-pans, sheet iron, R. Q. Iron 1 also: A large assortment of G roceries and Liquor , A. B. IliciiARDsosr, Auctioneer! II EUSTON, HASTINGS &CO. HEUSTON, HASTINGS & CO. Al E THE FASHIONABLE CLOTHIERS OF SAN FRANCISCO. SPECIALTIES. PRICE AXD GUARANTEE. The largest and most varitd stock of Gen tlemen's Clothing, Furnishing Goods, Trunks, Bags and Valises, on the Pacific Coast.,- Every article sold, being of our own manufacture, is guaranteed. Having con tracts direct with European and American Manufacturers of piece goods we thereby etlect a saving of fully 50 percent, in whole sale dealers profits and are thus able to offer superior Goods at less than second rate prices. STYLES. IlaTing agents in London and Paris we introduce the new styles in Han Fraucisc) simultaneously with their appearance ia New York. GOODS MADE TO ORDER. For the accommodation of sucli as mav de sire, we have secured the services of a cele brated European cutter, and are prepared to make np piece goods m a style superior to any -other house on the coast, .Shirts, Ties, Collars, etc., made to order at short notice. COUNTRY ORDERS. Goods forwarded by Express to any part of the Pacific Coast on receipt of orders and measures; send for directions for mcuHiue uient. HEUSTON, HA ST? fa OS & LICK IIOVSE ULCCIv, CO. novSl KAX FRANCISCO. S" T 5 otiz: or vou c.wt, at wf. pity yon. You liavo tri -J every iciueiiy I. nt the -'i? '".irii 't, l y U i-jtnni: laei ii, to fcuitcrsmto all wti--r iri oniUi-n.J. It is r."'t surprising you f.!io;Li Ij) ! i i:;iit tu try romchin is lifter the maar x- rUucr.ts ! li ivu made of trashy routpouaU .uist-4 lis j i'U'!;c sus a vertaia cure; bet REWELL'S i'umioiiary Byrup r-i-V.y the TITT rr;T rrif.!v evor comjv-n-V V :or lli" cue ( f l.'rtuylf. .''i!i.-. .' ore Thro!. 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