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DALLAS, OREGON, MONDAY. NOVEMBER 30, 1868.
VOL. I.
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All advertising bills must be paid quarterly
h
Raiload flattera.
NO. 37.
Soith American Phenomena—A iag wave, now borne awifty forward op«
Brilliant Descriptive Letter.
on its crest, their situation was terrible,
Jeffries, o f Eola, is ao educated and
M e r it
R e w a r d e d . — Dr.
W.
D.
On Sunday last, in
company with skillful physician and surgeon, and as a
A rica , P eru , Sepf. 1 8 ,18G8.
a friend, we took a walk along the
consequence o f true merit, hie practice
Dr. William Trevit, Columbus:
W est Side Railroad. A t the end of is extensive and increasing.
Wheu I promised a few weeks
Fourth street, we encountered the first
It is always a pleasing task for us to
bridge, which is a massiv^ structure, record the eminent success o f those since to write you from the sunny lands
800 feet long and 85 feet high, across among ns whose services are so nee» p f the tropics, I hoped to have sent
pleasant pen photographs o f the south
Marquam’s Canyon. It is now com» essary to life aod health.
west coast, and to have led you with me
pleted ready for the ties, the stringers
The necessity for medical men, edu
being laid with a foot path o f boards cated and skilled in all the intricacies among the orange groves, to look upon
the people o f Peru as t ti -y are, courteous,
between them. Further oo, we saw o f the science must be apparent to ali,
other bridges and deep cuts that give and we look forward to the d«y when hospitable and kind to the stranger
Rut I had scarcely arrived within her
evidence that a great deal o f work has empyrics and quacks will have to give
boundaries when that terrible convul
been done
The big cut, 00 feet high way before the march o f colightement
sion occurred, which has shaken the
in the middle, is now finished and the and be heard o f no more forever.
Pacific coast fur over three thousand
road bed is completed to the summit at
Ben. Butler stole trom a gentleman miles, and obliterated tow as, provinces
Slauin’s Pass. There are no laborer.»
and communities iorever from the face
at work on this side now, the first camp in New Orleans one hundred aud eleven
o f the earth. ri he general features of
being in Washington county. Every» thousand in coin. Suit was brought
the catastrophe have doubtless appear
thing looks like progress and seems to against the old pirate and judgm ent re
Greenbacks ed too ofieu in the American press to
justify the prediction v c have heard covered in New York.
made, that cars will run to Hillsboro were werth 40c. on the dollar at the need present repetition. A more vivid
and made ten-fold more so by the ut
ter darkness which soon shrouded the
scene.
The merchant vessels were
hurled upon the rocks and utterly de*
stroyed— the Chanarcillo having rolled
over and over and wrapped around her
one hundred and twenty fathoms o f
chain cr.ble, like thiead upon a spool.
The America was crashed, her spars
carried away, and a large proportion o f
her officers and crew swept into eternity. ^
The Fredonia, moored « t e a an^-aten* ..
by four anchors, resisted for sometime
the pressure o f the elements, but was fi
nally torn from her moorings and utter
ly destroyed, with every soul on board.
The Wateree was commanded by cool
and brave officers, who took every pre
caution— battened down hatches, seeur.
ed the guns, ran lifelines from every
available point, assembled all hands on
idea
o
f
the
actions
o
f
the
earthquake
time. The radical saint, Ben., paid
by next July.— Portland Herald.
the hurricane deck, and having done
will,
perhaps,
be
formed
from
a
sketch
the amount in greenbacks, clearing con
all that human fore sight could snggest,
For eloquence, point, spirit and pa.
siderably over an hundred thousand of its results as they here present them calmly awaited the result. The force
thos, it is doubtful whether Judge H ay
dollarsic greenbacks by- the transaction. selves in all their fearful reality.
and the velocity o f the sea may be shown
NEW CO LU M BIAN
den’s speech in the Circuit Court in
A
rita
was
the
most
attractive
city
of
The loil party elect and re elect this
faintly to the imagination from the fact
behalf o f the doomed Sutton has ever
the
whole
Peruvian
coast.
Rivulets
of
H O T E L .
monster to Congress, and hence eudorse
that she was swept along at from 25 to
been equaled iu Oregou by any attorney.
pure
water
flowed
through
its
streets;
A D V E R T IS IN G A G E N T !
a downright thief. God aud morality,
30 miles an hour, dragging with her
M ain St.y Curvatili, Oregon.
His speech is universally spoken of as
its
northern
boundary
was
a
mass
of
120 fathoms o f chain and her heaviest
my boy.
NO. 30 (SE C O N D F L O O R ,)
a m asterpiece of genuine eloquence
E . S. A ltr e e , s : P ro p T .
foliage, where the strange but delicious anchor. Seven times were they carried
M ERCH AN TS’ EXCH AN G E,
The Judge is iu his element in de
Miss Puiey W. For.-yihe is publisher fruits o f the tropics grew in profusion,
back and forth by the resistless flood,
oard and Lodging on reasonable terms.
ralitoruia
Street,
below
Montgomery,
fense
o
f
the
weak
and
powerless
against
0» the Liberty, Mississippi, Advocate. and the traveler, either from South or not unmindful, even in such momeots
Meals at all hours.
SAN FRANCISCO.
the giant efforts and abundant resources Miss Forsythe says io her salutatory North, was wont to bear with him o f fearful peril of the duties o f humanity,
THOS BOYCE,
j
but gathering into their hospitable deck
such unfortunates as floated past in
J . K . Is F n o ,
boats or on fragments o f wreck. The
»RACTICAL HhHIIF.H aud H A IR
waters thundered upon the crowded
DRESSER.
deck,
but the precautions taken were
B L A C K S M IT H 1 N G .
In d ep en d e n ce , O regon
sible effort to be made in behaif o f a elusively by members o f the family— the Morro, a huge cliff, a thousand feet effectual, and when the Walerte finally
NEW SHOP.
victim of the law’s vengeance that he five children— 2 girls and 3 boys hav- in hight, crowned by a battery, and settled gently upon the sand, and the
roll was called, not a solitary one o f her
pposite Salem, on the Spring Valley road, may have the full benefit of every cir
ing grown np in the Advocate office at whose foot sleep the mummied Incas complement was missing. She lies on
j of a mile from the Ferry, the under*
cumstance that would in least tend to printers. Miss F. has good ability as a o f an age long past. The railroad to an even keel, her bow pointing seaward,
ned have opeued a
JO N ES T H E J E W E L E R ,
soften the rigor o f impending punish,
Tacna skirted the b a y ; a handsome her taper masts as upright as though
writer.
State Street. Salem, Oregou,
Blacksmith and Wagon Shop
rnent; and the lawyer who neglects to do
Custom-house o f stone and iron fronted she were at anchor, and her hull appan
s the place to go and get your watches,
clocks and jewelry repaired in good style, Where all kinds of work in their line
ill be his whole duty iu behalf o f the weak
M o r e L u n a t i c s .— A new religious the mole, and being the entrepot o f the ently uninjured ; her flag floats as sauci.
i warrant all my work fur one year ; if it is executed promptly and with dispatch.
and powerless, or who.in point o f ability, colony is projected. The papers say south of Peru and o f the bay o f Bolivia, Ij, aod it ia taken down as punctually
not right, I make it right.
tfSifU EPAlK IN U done to order.
at sunset, as though she were still *
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MANN A PIERCE.
is not equal to the task of defending a that several hundred families, styling there were everywhere evidences o f bu formidable floating battery. But her
R E M E M B E R
T I I E 8 II O P
IN THE P 08T OFFICE BU ILD IN G .
prisoner well, should not be allowed to themselves “ Friends o f Jerusalem,” ure sy trade, wealth and refinement.
cruise is up; she lies half a mile inland,
N. B. Fine watches repaiaed with the great
and
will henceforth serve only as a sor
appear in one’s behalf.
about to to leave Wurtemberg to set.
est care,
But a swifl and sudden doom was rowful monument o f the power o f the
tf.
tie iu Palestine.
hanging, like the swerd o f Damocles, elements.
W e sometimes hear a man say, “ W ell
The incitement to this t o m f o o l e r y
The scene, as I rode slowly along the
over the unconscious city. A little af
BONHAM A LA W SO N ,
I hardly ever read advertisements in a
is found in certain chapters o f Jeremiah.
front
o f the city, can better be imagined
ter 5, od the afternoon o f August 13th,
newspaper any how ." The chances are
from what I have said, than intelligent
Queer people in this world.
Attorneys It Counsellors at Law,
the solid earth heaved and shook like ly described. For miles the beach is
D r. W . D. J E F F R I E S .
two to one th at such person “ hardly ’ ’
Jerusalem pilgrims will be apt to
a storm tossed vessel, a roar deep and strewn witbsad mementoes o f the catas
ever reads anything else. Rut he found
SALEM , OREGON.
go hungrf.
Iron chests, gun carriages,
hoarse, as o f subterranean thunder, was trophe.
that Richmond was taken, that Jeff.
P H Y S IC IA N . & SU R G E O N .
OFFICE IN TIIE COURT HOUSE n27tf
coaches,
boxes
o f tea, masses o f twisted
Davis was captured aud that we had
There are various opinions entertain heard, and in the instinct o f self-prescr.
track, maps, books, papers, broken
EOLA, OREGON.
a war on our hands for more than four ed as to the ability o f women to become ration, the frightened inhabitants fled
boats, furniture, anchors, etc-, etc.,
Special attcition given to Obstetrics and
years, by heariug somebody talk who successful printers.
Mrs. Elizabeth to the streets and plazas. The delay were mingled in wildest confusion,while
diseasts of women.
did read. The same theory applies to Cady Stanton says they arc a success in of a moment was fa ta [; for, torn from the angry sea muttered threateningly,
advertisements.
Those who do read the business. I f the Revolution is their foundations, as though by a giant as though in wrath at the remnants o f
talk about what they learu from the indebted to women for its “ make hand, houses, churches, factories, all prey snatched from its remorseless
M c C a u lle y
rasp.
4t
newspapers, aud thus the most stupid up
went
down
in
one
undistinguishable
those
engaged
on
that
paper
W hile, in such emergencies, the
At
ALEXANDER,
are accommodated with information in unquestionably arc a success, at least inass of ruiu. The huge pillars o f the noblest traits o f man’s character are
D E N T I S T S .
at times brought, so are the darker
spite o f themselves, as it were.
— The Revolution, for perfection in Custom-house were tossed about like
features o f bis disposition often thrown
FFICE on State street, over Gills' Book
typography, has no peer in New York pipe stems, aod fragments o f stone into prominence. W hile the officers o f
D
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,
Store, Salem, Oregon.
The Oret/oniaa goes into “ nearly
and huge blocks o f masonry were the Wateree were clothing the naked,
All operations performed by us are warranted
city.
spasms’
’
because
the
grand
jury
in
to give satisfaction.
hurled like pebbles from a sliug. Those feeding the hungry, sheltering the
Portland refused the other day to indict
One o f the firm may be found in our
After the toil love feast in this place who could, fled to the sloping side o f the homeless, helping the wounded and bu
SALEM.
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r
•office from 8 o'clock a . m ., until 4 p. u., o f each
13 Union soldiers who voted io Port, over “ Oregon Redeemed ! " republicans
day.
S. D. McCAULEY,
Morro, stumbling and reeling like drun rying the dead, troops o f human vul
tures were prowling among the debris
18ly
E. V. H. A L E X A N D E R .
land on the 3rd instant. That paper bet their money Ireely on the State.
ken men upon the heaving surface o f for plunder, occasionally scared from
says that soldiers have no right to vote
It is all up with them now.
the troubled earth. Thick clouds o f their unholy work by the uncovering o f
while
in
the
service
o
f
the
United
States,
I f they will be virtuous there is a dust arose, and the darkness tnuliplied some dead face, or the more intelligible
WATSON If GRIS W ELL,
and
hence,
it
urges,
that
these
13
veter
show for them yet being happy, but not the terror o f the panic stricken fugitives, warning o f a cocked revolver. T he
A r c h it e c ts a n d P r a c t i c a l
very night o f the ruin, when the waters
ans ought to be indicted aud punished this t ine.
Some few, bolder than the rest, re
were still in a state o f unrest, and the
HOUSE CARPENTERS,
for so doing.
mained behind; some to extricate a loved earth still sobbing, at intervals, l.ke a
IN D PE N D E N C E O R E G O N .
M u d d l e d . — The Unionist copies our one from the ruins; some to save some fretful child, ihe glimmer o f lights up
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—
This
word
belongs
for
Building
Houses
’ T IT IL L take Contracts
account o f the breaking iuto Mr. A . S little from the general w reck; but soon on the shore, and the sound o f heavy
V V o f every dascriptiou and 1 kind, in town
to a class o f adjectives which are form* Crider's boot and shoe establishment
blows, pointed out to the wntohers on
5 t^
and country. Sntislaction guaranteed«
a roar, louder aod hoarser than that o f
any hill where the work o f plunder had
ed from substantives by the addition of and credits the same to ‘ Sentinel.' That
R e s t a u r a n t,
the earthquake itself, w m heard; and begun. The iron safes were rifled, easea
al. For example, incident, incidental ; paper, also, in speaking o f a letter re.
State Street, Salem.
the sea, crouching, as though to make o f merchandise broken open, and their
orient, oricntul ; regiment, regimental,
ceutly written to the Herald by H. C. the leap more deadly, retired from the contents carried off openly by the mule
J , L. C O L L I N S ,
and so on. W hen the noun ends in
Huston, says that gentleman was a shore, and thuudtring on in one unbro load.
'ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW
ce, euphony and ease o f utterance re
But one strange and solemn freak o f
Senator from Polk county.
M E A L S A T A L L H O U R S-
ken wave,forty feet iu heighth, dashed earthquake was the splitting oft o f •
quire the modification o f the sound o f
DALLAS, OREGON.
down upon the devoted city, and com huge stratum from the Morro itself, die-
READ, PIES, CAKES OF ALL K IN D S, al into ia l; as official, and so on.
But
W e see that many republican papers
pleted the annihilation o f Arioa. Seven closing some three hundred huacas or
PECIAL attention given to Collections,
we
might
as
well
say
parential
as
pres
Kept on band and Supplied to Order.
are extravagant in their laudations o f
Indian graves, dating long before the
and to matter« connected with reel Estate
times the waves retired—seven times
conquest. Their inmates sat in grim
idenfia/. “ Presidential campaign ” is the rebels who lately overthrew the
Cracker*. Oysters and Sardine«.
the waves flung themselvos, tiger-like, immobility, in a crouching posture,
How consistent!
Being Fitted up in first elaaa style we can a blatant Americanism for Presidental Spanish Governnent.
upon the unresisting victim. The earth their laces toward the sea. each with
33tf
guarantee satisfaction.
canvass.
What better is a Spanish rebel than an
still swayed to and fro, and moaned like some little memorial by his side - a string
C A B D W E L L
c .
American
rebel
?
Or,
if
to
rebel
is
o f colored «hells, a rude hook and line,
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one in distress; and the houseless, home
The city clock o f Galveston, Texas,
d e n t i s t ,
a j&r o f wine, or n clumsy trinket o f
such a srevious wrong, per se. why
NO 9 3 H 0
•
1S V T T V d
less,
desolated
groups
knelt
shivering
has been sold under an execution for a
beaten gold. There they had lain for
P O R T L A N D , OB E G O N ,
•
‘ jterq )« satoiQMV
countenance it anvwhere?
upon
the
mountai
i
side,
and
with
white
centuries, in suoh perfect preservation
city debt. W e should think the pur.
DENTAL
OMM—NO 88 First street- ly
if
faces and quivering lips, prayed for that it seemed hard to believe that they
chaser would be much in the same fix
Over fifty thousand dollars was staked
N08XIHM *0 M
'H XyoaiddV *V f
were cot cotcmporarioa o f the present
as the boy who won the elephant at the and lost by republicans in and about mercy.
race.
In the harbor were anchored the U.
raffle.
I propose visiting the interior in a few
Salem on the result o f the election in
J
cafee m
F.
P F T * M AN,
S.
steamer
Waterce,
the
United
States
days?
and will write you whenever in
this State. Judge Denny’s dispatch
IMPORTER AMD SOBBVRIN
A New York paper mentions two proved a costly one to his party.
storeship Fredonin, the Peruviun frigate cident o f sufficient interest shall present
W IN E S
a n d I . 1 Q IT O R »
itself, trusting that I shall never again
cases o f quarantine, three o f Grecian
An erica,
and a number o f merchant
•
*
have to paiut so painful a picture as
Also Sole Manufacturer and Proprietor of the
bend and one of cholera morbus. Same
Official vote of New York State gives vessels. Tossed liko eorks upon
eBLXBBATXD RUSSIAN BITTERS,
the destruction o f Aricn.-^CoIum bui
Seymour 9,452 majority.
28 3m
U S Jackaen S t., San Francisco. treatment applicable to all.
whirl pool, now stranded by the reced- Crisis.
o f the State.
W hen he has failed to that the Advocate was first issued Jan. pleasant memories o f a scene so much,
clear a prisoner, his case had been in 1st., 1838, and that th* paper has been much in contrast with the barren and
deed a hopeless oue. It is right. It regularly issued ever since— that for the rock-bound coast on either hand. To
is human. It is correct for every pos. last twelve years it has been run ex the south, imposing and majestic, ro-e
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