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J. B .T IC H E N O R , C. BOWNE, REAL ESTATE AGENT TONSORIAL ARTIST, PORT ORFORD POST. I and the rem ainder of the men. EDITORIAL NOTES ANO MEWS. Col. Casey and L ieut. Stone- Senator David Davis supports Ill KSDAY. AUGUST 11). ISSO. j man went in the steamer. The Hancock. cause of the above named move ---------. — ?ORT ORFORD AND GENERAL was that a short tim e previous The population of the United Major To V ault, afterw ard of Jack States may be safely set down at STONEMAN. sonville, had been assaulted by 50,009,000. I t e iu in is e e ii c c i * «>■ d ie I t n r ly --------- -------------- - S tr u g g le s , 1 l o r d s h i p s , S a c r i the Coquille river Indians and f ic e s , T r i u l s a n i l T r i u m p h s o f lost live men. To chastise the Floods have accomplished much ( lie P io n e e r s o f C u rry ( o u i i l j , damage and destruction in Aus W h i c h W e r e P a r t i c i p a t e d in m urderers and protect the lives of b y l . i c n t , S t o n e n i a n —s i n c e i f la - other white men was the object of tria of late. J o r -G e n e r a l - V . S. A. the expedition. Stanton arrived The people of Portland contrib at Two Mile creek the sec uted $500 to the relief of the suf E d it o r P ost :— Seeing it announced that Gen. ond day, the steamer upon the ferers by the fire at Gardiner. G eorge Stonenian is on a visit to same day at daylight and com The necessity for a Signal Station Port and and received as an hon menced detaching; three boats at the m outh of the Colunbia is ored guest in that city, early scenes w ere landed with great danger and and incidents are recalled to my difficulty,the fourth was compelled urged by the Portland Board of Trade. m ind in which he was the prom i to return to the ship as the seas nent actor, and which couple his were increasing every moment, The population of Washington name with the early history o rendering it impossible to land an T erritory is nearly seventy-five P ort O rford. My first acquaint other I oat, and compelling the thousand—falling far short of the steamer to return to Port Orford num ber claimed during a year or ance with the General, (then Lieutenant) was at Benicia, in and land Col. Casey and Lieut. two back. October, 1851, under the follow Stoneman, with the men, who pro A row among a number of col ing circum stances: After the dis ceeded immediatly by land to sup ored men at C hurch on a recent persion of the men left on Battle p o rt Stanton. All arrived safely. Sunday, in K entucky, resulted in Rock at P o rt O rford, great inter Stonenian erected the block house the k illin g o f a num ber of the com est was felt on the entire Coast as on the bluff overlooking the p rin battants, ami horribly stabbing to their fate; as no tidings of cipal Indian village, located on and cu ttin g of others. them could be had, the N orthern the north side of the liv er; here ----------------—— The Indian Commission, started Coast and interior being occupied he brought the howitzer to bear by a most m urderous set of In and dost oyed the village with by Mrs. General Sherman, has dians, with whom there was no in shells. A portion of the troops made an address, asking the co-op tercourse even by the Hudson Bay under his command, pursued the eration of the Catholic Temperance Co. or others, their entire destruc Indians up the river. Having ta Convention of the United States tion was apprehended. As soon ken one of the savages, he was in forwarding temperance, educa as Gen. Hitchcock, then in com forced to act as guide w ith rope tion, industry and Catholicism mand of the Pacitic, heard of it, around his neck and a soldier hold among the Indians. he ordered Col. Silas Casey with ing on to him , so escape was A uditor D unn of San Francisco, a sufficient force to proceed to an u tter im possibility. He would has donated one thousand dollars Port O rford and render all aid fall into beaver sloughs, and be to the W orkingm en’s Free L ibrary requisite to the settlers on this dragged out by the men who were in that city. D unn was elected laid "of the Coast. The steamer not overly nice about handling on the W orkingm en’s ticket, and Sea G nll was chartered to trans him when the officers did not see is in all respects the peer of any port Casey’s command in com them. A t the same time the boat gentlemen who ever occupied this pliance with the order of the com advanced up the river to aid when position before him . manding General. As we do not necessary, carrying supplies for Some sensation somewhere con design w riting a history of the the command. Let any person nected with the news departm ent settlem ent of P o rt O rford, we will now examine the ground passed pass over some interesting facts, over by those men at that time and of the telegraph at the East has and only allude to the settlem ent he w ould say the feat w as im pos discovered that immense frauds of the place. F irst, on the 9th sible of accomplishment. Officers m ust have been perpetrated at the •lay of Ju n e, of the nine men; the and men were mired down or were South by Census Enum erators. 14th day of J u ly of sixty-seven forced to wade through sloughs The per cent, of increase of popu up to their necks, Stoneman would volunteers from San Francisco; lead, and never a word of com lation down thero startles some the fourteen men under Lieut. plain t was heard from his men. Ho body. Whyman of Major Hathaway’s never asked a man to do more than If “ Children of school age” command at F ort George (now he did, nor suffer more. could find employment at the can (C O N T IN U E D NEXT W EEK .) Astoria) on the 3d of Septem ber ■MmMMOMMBMMAar«. neries anil fisheries in the vicinity and the last under Col. Casey. t u n i i s s ic . of Astoria, and could be drawn Returning now to order No. 1. W. S. II .— “ Will Succeed Hayes.” from W ashington T erritory and The Sea Gull proceeded to Benicia J . A. G .—“ Judged As G u ilty .” Portland during the fishing season and took on board thirty-six C. A. A.—“ Come And A nte.” and bo enumerated meanwhile, the horses and forty-two m ules and W. H .E .—“ W ant Hom stE lectio n ” dead give away on Clatsop’s pop ninety men, rank and file, Gen. ulation would not be so apparent. CCKSIX (JO Utt ailO.ilM-;, E flJ, Stoneman being a L ieutenant in Jo h n Cahil, a m ining S u p erin Company C, 1st D ragoons, com The Lem ars Sentinel, heretofore tendent, shot a Mrs. Scheeline, the manded by Major A. J . Smith. the most u ltra Republican sheet in ball striking her body im m ediate Arriving at San Francisco, went the U nited States, is vigorously alongside of the ship St. Thomas denouncing Garfield, in jolty sen ly over the heart, striking a steel of Boston, and took three beauti tences and disconcerted paragraphs rilro f h er corset and penetrating ful boats for the command and after the m anner of those in which no further. Illicit love was the of proceeded to sea, and arrived at philipics were recently clothed trouble. Cahil, supposing course that he had killed Mrs. S. Port Orford the 1st of November. against the Democracy, and which shot himself through the forehead Landed all safely except two mules were most extensively copied into who were determ ined to stick to Republican journals far and wide. and fell to the carpet. He died their contrariness, took to sea, As was the case with “ B rick” soon after. dead against the wind, and of Pomeroy and the Dem ocratic p ar The letter written by Hancock course were drowned. That night ty, “ curses have Como home to General Sherman d u rin g the it blew a living gale, the following to roost” in the R epnblicin camp. pendency of the Presidential broil, morning moderated. The night If sensible people would give no and which was to he used to d is of landing, Col. Casey chartered countenance to the frothy, turgid, parage Hancock's fitness for the the steamer to proceed to the irresponsible vaporings of such office lie seeks if Sherman would mouth of the Coquille with a por fellows as Pom eroy and the L e surrender it, has been given to the tion of the men, while Lieutenant mars man, the occupation of such public by Hancock’s request. I t Stanton of the same Company political parasites would be gone, proves a very boomerang, since it proceeded by land with one of and no party would be betrayed does not contain the things it was fondly hoped it did. the boats mounted on a wagon, in an hour of its need. K llea .« b u rg , . AND. . • R io n i COLLECTOR CF CLAIMS, P o rt O rfo rd , f u r r y tC o u n ty , O re g o n . 0 - O rrgon . W alker’s Saloon. L. HOWE. 0 v u UKXKHAL v Taxes paid. C ollections inaila and ¡Pro ceeds prom ptly R em itted. BL A C K SM IT H , Tlie follow ing choice bargains are now booked: ELLENSBURG. Olt. LTARM for sale—situated on Sixes * river, 9 mill's from Port Orford. (50 acres of bottom land; 23 acres under cultivation, which is p lan t ed in peas, corn and potatoes; also 28 head of hogs; 7 stands of bees; together with farming im plements. A good house and barn on the place. 50 acres under fence, and a good Orchard. Price $1000. Terms cash. HORSE SHOEING, ETC, F .D C E D T O O L ) Made Io Order, and on Hand. C o s s n o p o lita n H o te l, KLLK X sBU R J, OR. K. P . M l M ' I K l 1, - r n .|> r lr t « r . k JH E E P ranch for sale—together w ith 100 head of sheep; good dwelling house; 1 acre in garden; OYSTT” STEYT' AT SHORT NOTICE- I. acres of pasture under fence; 12 acres suitable for cultivation; lilt! W ELL SU PPL IE D TABER. bearing straw berry plants. This ranch is situated on Floras creek, 12 miles from Port O rford. Price W I L L H ü K T L Ç Y , $300. Terms, cash up. I A R C H IT E C T . / ‘ it Acres, 135 neres u p la n d anil 25 Ov* acres bottom ; 1 m iles from P o rt O rford. I '. 8. title ; term s, eusli. )LANB. Npeeitleiithms mid E stim ates of cost of M aterial and Labor for I electing buildings, etc., furnished. O i l Acres on Nixes river, six miles OO n o rth of Port O rford, 5 acres suitable for c u ltiv a tio n ; 12 head of catt le --cows, steers and heifers. I). 8. title. T erm s reasonable. I IC Ile iia b o r g . • O re g o n . PIANO FOR SALE. > A N ('ll of Ilk) acres, on Elk river, ft frosi P ort O rford' 30 acres i tit V miles for cultivation; 10 acresbottom A splendid Keven Ooiuve Plan", Auger land; 10 under fence. Good (Jar- F reres,’ wilRI.e sold eheap for C asa. den, together with hogs and cattle. Apply a t this "Hice. Term s cash. O LD C O fN L K 0 / 1 Acres on Elk river, 3*tj miles v troni Port O rford; 20 acres under 1 O c u ltiv a tio n ; a good o rch ard c o n ta in ing 100 hearing trees—apple pear and plum ; also, 25 lie al of hogs, 25 head of sheep, 30 head of c attle and 7000 feet of lum ber. T erm s c a s h . * / l Acres choice land, situ ated on S L O O N PORT ORFORD, OR. AHA C AKM AN, H I Crystal ereek, 7 m iles n o rth of H Port O rfo rd ,80acres bottom land, 5 acres under cultivation, 4 acres seeded in tim othy and one acre in g arden, 45 acres under fence, 8 head of cattle, plows, liar- rows and otticr farm ing im plem ents. A THE VKItY - BEST P r o p r ie to r . Hit AN IIS OF WINES, LIQUORS 1 1 Acres ty m ile so uth of E uchre H i ereek, on the C oast. One half bottom; the balance upland easily clean'd; 15 acres well Heeded in velvet grass, and 3 acres in gar Constantly on hand mill for Sale. den; dwelling house pleasantly lo cated near the beach; 11 head of LIVERY A N D cattle; 12 head of hogs; several stands of bees; farming im ple ments, etc. Also 1500 feet good beach mining ground fronting land claim, with ditches, flnming, to gether with m ining implements. LOUIS KNAPP, PRCPR. A good chance for a practical miner. P o rt O r fo r d , - O re g o n . J o h n F itz h u g h , t H C ig a r s , FEED ST A B L E , COUNTY SURVEYOR AND CIVIL ENGINEER. Deputy U. S. Mineral Surveyor. H a d d lr l l t i r . r . to I e t o n lir a .o n iib t o T - r i n i . Â. O. Wolcott, OREGON. PORT ORFORD, K im , M u s t Ils P u l i i I n A i l v u n m , J. Good II. TIC’IIE N O iq N o ta r y P u b l i c , mt.' ut i in G e n e r a l M e r c h a n d is e C L O T H IN G , P o r t O r f o r d , C a r r y C o .. O r . D RY G O O DS, S. II. HAZARD, A tto rn e y at L aw , G ro c e rie s , B N P I I I B C IT Y . Co«» County, • • . Oregon. HARDWARE & DRUGS, /