SLYT I'll DAY, SEPTEMBER IS, 18G9. Pugilistic. Jim Maeeftlie English j-nyilist, has arrived ia New York. - w - The local editors of the Portland morn ing papers have collected over 300 to Lc forwarded to the Avondale sufferers. Cuors. The accounts received from foreign countries generally, is to the effect that crops, especially of cereals, are at least an average. Lookkd Foil. A stentnea is looked for to day, as the rain fall has increased the staire of water somewhat. A son "of II. Brenner, of this city, -who has been a resident of Paris the past three or four years, studying iuu?ic, has reached Portland aud'is daily looked for here. Maine Election. Republican rep resentatives have been elected in every distriet save one. Tbc vote was very light, but little more than half the usual vote being polled. . - The African all IIiouit. In no ticing the boast of Brick Pdmeroy that lie had worked in a printing office beside a black man, the 3IarysvillelYffl?says, 'he rs docs not give the name of the col ored gentleman, his reputation is unin jured." ' A narrow escape. Circus. The big six-horse circus wagons attract the attention of the boys; und between the Velocipede School and the circus, the young lavericks are in a terrible state of -excitement. As we go to press Friday afternoon, and the cir cus performance don't come off until Friday evening, we can't say whether "everything's lovely" or not. . ' Lectuiie, Saturday Evening. Au gusta'N. St. Clair lectures (at the Court House, we suppose,) on Saturday eve ning, on the "Duties of Woman to her Family, Society and the Public." . By our exchanges we notice that this lady lias been lecturing in the State south of here. Read . the hand-bills circulated over the city, 'and ''fix up" and go and hear what she has to say. Commissioned. A. A. McCully, of Marion county, C. C. Bcckman, of Jack son, and John Barrows, of Linn, are the gentlemen commissioned by the Governor to represent Oregon in tho National Con vention, which meets at St. Louis, Mo., next month, to discuss the question of removing the National Capital. The cost of Eiich removal to a point in the Mississippe valley is figured at thirty millions of dollar?. Has Anybody Saw the Comet I Ai-fairs in Canada. At an annex ation meeting in Quebec on the 14th, resolutions were adopted deploring the depression in the value of real estate, the diminution of ship building, the waste of magnificent water-power, the steady emi gration of young men to the United States, etc , and setting forth aa the de liberate opinion of the meeting, that Bteps should immediately be taken toward addressing a petition to the Imperial au thorities praying to be informed whether the nearly unanimous desire n the part of the people of the Dominion for annex ation to the United States, would not re ceive from the British people the same gracious reception accorded to a liko re quest from the people of the Ionian Is lands for a union with Greece. A com mittee was appointed to carry out the views of the meeting, which adjourned after giving three cheers for annexation. AxoTiiE-a Swindle. From the Sac ramento Union of the 11th inst., under the report of entries for the second day of the California State Fair, we extract a3 follows : "John Barrows, San Fraucisco, two bags of wheat." Up to two weeks ago John 'Sarrows was a resident of Albany, Oregon, where he has lived upwards of ten years, and as lie sold none of his realty nor household goods, it is but fair to presume that he still considers Albany as his home. The "two bags of wheat" entered by him to contend lor the premiums offered for the best varieties of that article,were the pro duct of Oregon raised in Lion county, and harvested the present season. If the entry as printed in the Union is intended to convey the impression that the afore said wheat is the production of California, as it undoubtedly does, we protest against such unfairness. This corralling Oregon productions and labeling them ''Califor nia" is a species of meanness that Cali fornians have indulged in so long that it has become almost impossible to break them of it. . " Some of our exchanges say that the so long predicted comet has arrived on time, and may be seen by the "naked eye" on any ' clear night, by "flinging a gaze" toward the northern portion of the heav ens, at any time between midnight and the rising of the morning star. We are compelled to. acknowledge the solemn fact that up to this time we have been unable to "disrobe" our visual organs onto the "fiery tailed" monster in other words, wo have failed to "see" it. This tremendous "etherial messenger" that is now perambulating through space without let or hindrance, is indeed a "stunner," if wo may be permitted to believe the many fearful assertions made with regard to it by some of our learned men. For instance, they assnre us that it will ap proach nearer this sphere of ours than any comet ever did before, and that one or the other will be necessarily compelled to change its course, or a collision will be inevitable. As this comet is asserted to be a solid mass of fire, and many thousand times larger than the earth, with a caudal appendage more than two million five hundred thousand miles in length, it is altogether possible that a collision with it would result as disas trously to the earth as did the upsetting of one of Ans. Marshall's hacks, a few weeks since, to one or two of the more unfortunate occupants of the vehicle it might "put head" on it. Then this count has a history it's an "old 'un." It is said to have been on exhibition to the terrified ancients freeof charge, children half-price immediately preced ing the terrible civil wars in Greece. In Persia, and throughout the countries of the East, its appearance was immediately followed by a most dreadful plague that, in a few weeks, swept from the face of the earth more than one-half tho people of the countries visited by it plague on it! Some years subsequently, this com et put in an appearance again, preceded by a most terrific civil war in Home, and followed by a plague, or scourge, that piled the dead up in heaps in the streets of that proud but corrupt city, until, in the language of the chronicler of those times, there were scarcely enough per sous left alive to bury the dead. If this long-tailed, mass of fire don't strike Web foot before the setting-in of the regular "mist," we predict it'll have to "take water," back out and "plague"' some other quarter less fortunate in the supply of chuck another inducement to immi grate to Oregon, i. e. her immense (six months) " water-privilege" for squelching plagucy long-tailed fiery monsters of the "upper deep." ' . . . New Discoveries. New gold dig gings are reported on the Sultan river, about sixty miles north of.Seattle, W. T. Also, gold and silver "strikes" are an nounced in the vicinity of Snoqualmie pass, same Territory. Duel. San Francisco dates of the 14th give accounts of a duel, fought at Saucelito, between Messrs. Smedburs and Gardner. Smedburg was shot in the hand Gardner escaped unhurt. A Convention of Georgia editors is to be held af Atlanta on the 24th. Their revolvers and bowie-knives have been trnsportcd thither at reduced rates by the Express Companies. The Convention ought to consult economy a little further, and through "sealed proposals" to the un dertakers, let their funerals to the lowest bidder. General Washingtons body-servant is dead again. lie was she, this time colored and of the name of Mrs. Thur neau. and died in Kentucky at the age of llf years. Adieu, once more, immortal fraud. - ' Major Rowan, an old and much res pected citizen of Merced county (Cal., was killed by a man naned O'brien, on the 22d ult., by blows in the head with a neckyoke. Many of the papers berate Mrs. Stowe for resurrecting the Byron scandle, when it was sleeping comfortably, and giving promise of "being forgotten , some day. But why should we be sentimentally charitable toward the memory of a bad man, at tho expense of the fair memory ot a good woman ? " The worst feature of this rampant and growing discussion is however, that the country journals are taking sides ou it, and making a political capital of the question of whether Byron committed incest or not. The Republi can papers go for universal suffrage, liq uidation, and Byron did and the Dem ocratic go for restricted suffrage, .repudi ation, and Byron didn't. Picpirchi, a volcano between Quito and Guayaquil, S. A., has commenced a heavy eruption. ; " ; Telegraphic Summary. The late Avondale disaster leaves 73 widows and 154 fatherless children. - Tho Greut Council of the Improved Order of Red Men is in session at St. Louis. McMann's stable, at Hunter's Point, was burned with another stable beside it. Cord, a famous mare worth 15,000, with many other fiue horses, was de stroyed. Loss, $75,000, The Red Stockings Base Ball Club of Cincinnati is coining to California. Perry Fuller has been arrested at St. Louis, charged with aiding the fraudu lent passage through the Now Orleans Custom House of 5,000 bags of coffee. Many ships, damaged by the late ter rible storm on the New - England coast, have put in for repairs. All the Democratic candidates for cily offices in Philadelphia have with drawn, and an entirely new ticket will be selected. The miners unhesitatingly deaiy that the Avondale disaster wasthe work of an in cendiary. ' W arren Kennedy, auctioneer, Cincin natijCommitted suicide by jumping out of the fourth story, abovehis store. Thirty armed negroes at Stanford, Ken tucky, rescued from officers a negro being conveyed to jail for trying to shoot an-" other negro. France. The Journal officially pub lishes the text of the Senaus Consultum, which is promulgated in the name of the Emperor, and signed by Rouher and countersigned by Duoergien. The fol lowing is a synopsis : Article 1.. The Emperor and the Corps Legislatif have the privilege of iniating laws. Ait. 2. The ministers are dependent on the Emperor. They deliberate under his piesidency and are responsible, but can only be impeached by the Senate. Art. H. The ministers may be mem bars "of cither chamber, and have free access and the right to speak in both. Art. 4. The sittings of the Senate are open to the public, but on demand of five meinbors the Senate may go iota secret session." Art. 5. Ti e Senate, after pointing out modifications in a bill, may send it back for further consideration to the Corps Legislatif. Art. G. The Senate may in any case oppose the promulgation of a bill. In such case the bill cannot be presented to the Corps Legislatif duriug the same session. . Art. 7. The Corps Legislatif has the right of .interpolating votes of confi dence or want of confidence. Orders dfjurc matures can be adopted, but must be referred to fhe bureau as a matter of rights whenever the government de mands it. The bureau will then appoint a commission to examine the mutter, on whose reports the Corps will decide whether to aeeept or reject the vote. -Art. 8. 2s or amendment of a bili can be discussed unless it has beeu previously sent to the committee which considered the bill, and also cdtniunicated it to the government. If the government and committee disagree on an amendment, a council of state shall pronoucne its opin ion, but the final decision Tests with the Corps Legislatif. Art. 9. t Budgets are presented and voted by chapters and articles. Art. 10. All modifications in the custom or postal tariffs made through treaties wi:h foreign nations, will require a law to make them binding. Art. 11. Relations of the Emperor and the Senate and the Corps Legislatif are changed only so far as they are mod ified by the Senatns Consultum. Their formal intercourse will be settled here after by imperial decree. Art. 12. Certain articles of the Con stitution inconsistent with, the above provisions are abrogated The Daily Inland Umpire says the people of California must-be using Anna Dickinson badly, as the papers inform us she goes through "A Struggle for Life" with them every night. In Sacramento county the entire Dem ocratic ticket is elected, unless Duffy (Rep.), for the Assembly, is the excep tion. - . . , Wiieat Receipts For the - week ending Sept. 17th, reported as below : bush. lbs. Beach A Monteith 6,691 21 J. II. Foster A Co ...10,S80 S. S.Markham A Son..... ..... 2,300 K. Cheadle 1,000 A. Cowen A Co... 3,600 D. i'roman.. . 1,800 . Total....!. .' ........ .25,271 21 Mistakes. -Again we repeat it, if our carrier fails to leave the Register for any of our subscribers, said sub scribers will confer a special favor by notifying us of such failure. San Francisco Markets. Flour Oregon brands are jobbing at $5 75; city brands, $4 755 50. Wheat Good shipping, SI 60; choice milling, "81 65; demand for shipping quiet.- f : ; -r- ? , Barley From 85c81 32. Oats California, $1 20 ; Oregon, $i 35. Gold, -136 ll 36i. Greenbacks, 73 J. Wheat in New York, SI 701 75. ; Wheat in Liverpool, lis 2d. Emperor Napoleon's health is reported as very precarious. VAKIOUS ITEMS. John Tyler, Jr., son of ex-President Tyler, is writing for Pomeroy's Demo crat. TSugenie is said ta be really coming to this country, next Summer. E. O. Poliard is writiug for the New York Times. Jefferson Davis and Charles Mackay are traveling together in Scotland. The Czar has decreed that no girl shall be compelled to marry any fellow she doesn't want to. Huz czar. Miss. Olive Logan is publishing through Mr. F. W. Carletou a character--istic volume called "Women and Thea tres." Mrs. Julia Ward Howe recently preached a sermon on woman suffrage in the Unitarian church in Newport, R. I. J A Mane editor is eighty years old, but has never seen a train of cars, and but one steaniboat since Fulton's original. , Isabella's head still ornaments Spanish postage stamps". It gives her rebellious subjects an op'ouunity to punch it. A c rner4ot)in Cincinnati, which was sold in 1798 for S5, was lately sold at auction for the sum of 120,500. The Jersey City officials declare their locality to be entirely free from loose women. It always has plenty of tight men on hand. ' 31 rs. Stanton and Mrs. Pauline. Davis have been at Newport, arranging for the forthcoming Womau Suffrage Conven tion there. A Boston critic, in speaking of a dan seuse, thus exhibits his lunacy : "Truly her limbs mellowed into her heart, as with mellifluous motion she waved her continuations." The young man of the period says, there is one particularly good point in a voyage across the ocean, which is, that one can get as tight as he pleases every day, and everybody thinks he's only sea sick. A correspondent of the Boston Journal says the whisky destroyed by the late Philadelphia fire would have made sixty one millions of "straight drinks," which, at fifteen cents a glass, would amount to eight-hundred millions of dollars, more than one third of .the national debt. A man passed through Allentown, Pa., the other day, pushing a wheelbarrow, in which was seated his wife unable to walk, from rheumatism, and who had been trundled all the way there from Illinois. Two little children of the pair tramped by the side of the father the entire dis tance. "es"! Fanny Fern says : "if one half the girls kuew the previous lives of the men they marry, the list of old maids would be wonderfully increased." Whereupon the Boston Post asks : "If the men knew what their future lives were to be, wouldn't it increase the list of old maids still further ?" The Rev. Dr. Punshon,.who has visit ed both cities, says that "at Chicago everybody seems to be going to some place; at Cincinnati they look as though they had been there and returned. A little boy in Iowa rolled down hil with a rattlesnake clinging to him. Be fore he died his body was the perfect color of the reptile. The water in Philadelphia is entirely out, at last, and consequently the great Baptist revival has beeu reduced to the necessity of giving its note at 30 days to new converts. The individual who reached a conclu sion has an arm three feet four inches in length. - Pectoral Ayer aspires to Congress. Does he ex-pectoral-ly enough voters ? "One JNight in Ten Bar-rooms," is a forthcoming drama by Mark Twain. Madame Anna Bishop has got to Chica go in her voyage around the world. Chandler will visit Cologne. His breath will furnish the city with another smell. Stockingless ladies is the latest agony- , u Lydia Thompson is performing at El mira. The Wizard oil troupe are at Schenec tady. Anna E. Dickinson has been attending horse-races in California. LCritic. Boston is worth more than all New Hampshire. Blondin is rope-walking in London. The Queen of Portugal is red haired. St. Jo is to have 500 Chinamen. Grant violated the trout-fishing stat ute. - Rosa Bonheur smokes. Paper napkins are out. A nephew of Patrick Henry is under arrest in Lee county, Iowa, for selling hogs without a license. We have to doubt that 1,000 cane of Mr. ScwardV. Two feet of the stick would have to be the solidcst kind of pure gold to be worth the money. You can't get enough "iron, wood and specimens" into a stick to make a thousand dollars not a stick that a light-weight like Mr. Seward could carry anyhow. - - - An epitaph in a rural churchyard reads thus : "Here lies Bernard Light foot, who was accidentally killed in the forty-fifth year of his age. This monu ment was erected by his grateful fami ly i . V3VLL3.ei.Va. DAVIDSON, Office, So. til Front Street, Adjoining thj Toll-graph Office, Portland, Oregon. Special Collector of Claims, Accounts, Notes, Bund., Drafts, and Mercan tile Claims of every desrrhtiun throughout Ore son and the Territories, WILL' BE MADE A SPECIALITY A X D PROMPTLY COLLECT ED, ai well as with a luc regard to economy in all business liintter.s intiu-t.-d to his care and the proceeds p:iid over punctually. Real Sstate Dealer. Sept. 11. tf. AIB.VXV RETAIL MAUKF.T. Albany, Septeml Wheat, white, H bushel Oats, Tt bushel Potatjes, bushel..- Onions, bushel Flour, tX barrel Butter, "ja It Kirgs, p- dozen Chickens, "f1 d-zen Peaches, dried, 1 lb , Son p. f- 11) Salt, Los AngcJos, "jl lb Syrup, gallon Tea, Young Hyson lt " Japan, - " " Black, " ....... Sugar, crushed, 'f lb " Sea " " Island. " Coffee, f tb ; Candles, "j lt Rico, China. "j tb , Saleratus. 3 tbT Dried plums, lb Dried apples. tb. Dried currants. lb Bacon, hams, lb " sides. " '' shoulders, ";: lb Lard, in cans, tb. Beans, Y H Devoes' Kerosene oil. "fi gallo Turpentine, p gallon Linseed oil, boiled, "A gallon- White lead, fl kc Powder, riilc. ft To'iaeeo, Y W ". Nails, cut, Yi lb Domestic brown. Y' yard Hickory, striped. Y .V'rd Bed ticking, per yard Blue drilling, Y1 yard Flannels, Y yard Prints, fa t colors, Y yard Pork, Y1 fl Mutton, Y f Bee", on foot, Y- lh er 18 1800. 5o6() 35 h0 I 2. .. $4 50(3,5 00 25 25 .. $2 503 00 20 5(j54 2 1 '.'$1 12il 25 1 00 .. . 1 00 75(0,1 00 I8(5j20 1G($1S 14 tela 22 (a, 25 2!t(-i:;:( 12tel0 lfiS 1S20 (ajb feS 14 15 (121 (ft, fi fein 4(aj& (oil 00 SI 25 fill $1 62-1 (Tfll $4 00(f!j-t 7 5 tel $1 00 1 50 7(SiS telOi lfia;30 25(a;50 . 20(5.30 50(a,75 (o,m 56 1012J 4i5 50 75 25 00 NEW TO DAY THE O O O Ifc S TSmt l!ioioginp!i IScsl, A R E BLACK) BROWN, GREEN, SCAR LET, MQRQ0N, Jeep ORANGE. Those that take White, or nearly so, are Purple, Blue, Crimson, Pink, &c. Sept. IS, Y9-2 J. A. WIXTER. KTOTIOE ! A LL persons aro hereby warned not to pur X chase either of two certain Promissory Notes made by me, one for $104, dated on the 9th of September, 1S69, and one for $305, dated Sep tember 10th, 1SC9, both made payable to Geo. A. Edes, of Salem, Oregon, thirty day.s after date, in gold coin of the United States, with interest at twelve per cent, per annum, as both of said notes were obtained by fraud and without considera tion, and I will not pay the same nor any part of them. Dated, September 15th, 1809. PRESTON MORRIS, 2w3 , "By Powell a Flixx, his attys. CHEAP SEWING MACHINES. C&5) r HOME SHUTTLE SEWIXGege f jQjs&i) Machine. A double-thread ffi lock-stitch Shuttle Machine ; stitch alike on both sides. CH A 3 Celebrated Comuaon-Sonse A O j5) L O Family Machine. Both ma- fij O chines fully Warranted for S years. Machines sent to any part of the coast by express, C. O. D. Agents wanted in every town on tho Pacific coast. Liberal commissi). Pacific Sewing Machine Co., 2y 109 Montgomery-st., S.F. 7 J. UAIVNOiV, Attorney and Counsellor at Law, AI,BASY,. OREGON. FFICE On Main street, opposito Foster's Brick. 1-69 o TO GRAIN GROWERS. MESSRS. CORBITT A MACLEAY, IIAV ing heard .that it is commonly reported throughout tho valley that they aro not purchas ing Wheat, would, respectfully inform - their Agents, Customers and Friends, throughout the valley of tho Willamette that they are in the market to purchase all tho surplus merchantable wheat in the State and pay the highest market rates, Cash on delivery in Portland. -Sept. Ilw4. CORBITT & MACLEAY. "OT9 TO HIT !" WADSWORTH & KUHfi Are now ready to execute all kinds of Plain and Fancy Painting ! such as Signs, Carriages, Buildings, as well as . Graining-, Paperhanging, Calcimining-, and" in fact all kinds and styles of PLAIN AND ORNAMENTAL WORK, that can be done with Paint and Brush, at ST- FAIR, LIVING RATES. Give ns a call. Shop on Ferry street, over Kuhn & Adams' wagon shop. aug21-5U ' .'NEW TO-DAY. IS NATIONAL LIFE Insurance O o 1 1 1 j n n ,y OF THE EXITED STATES of AMERICA, WASHINGTON, D. C. Chartered by special Act of CoDgressr, Approved July 25, 1868 $1,000000.00 DIUECTOrvS : CLARENCE II. CLARK, JAY COOKE. W. (J. MOOUIIEAD. GEORGE F. TYLER.' J. HINCKLEY CLARK, K. A. ROLLINS, ' HENRY V. COOKE, i W. F. CHANDLER, JOHN I. DEFIt EES, EDWARD DODE. H. C. F A H N E STOCK. 1 S OFFICERS : CLARENCE. E. CLARK, Philadelphia, Presi dent. JAY COOKE, Chairman Fjnnnco & Executive Committee. IIEN11Y I). COOKE, Washington, Vice Presi dent. EMERLON" W. PEET, Thiladelph a, Secretary it Actuary. E. S. Tt'RNER, Washington, Assistant Sec retary. FRANCIS . SMITn, M. P., Medical Director. J. EWING MEARS, M. D., Assistant Medical Director. THE attention of persons contemplating in suring their lives, or increasing the amount ol insurance they already have, is called to tho special advantages offered by the NATIONAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY. THE ADVANTAGES OFFERED . : ARE: It is a National Company, chartered by special Act of Congress, 1868. It has a Paid-up Capital of S1.C00.0C0. At oners low ruics oi.rremiuui. It furnishes Larger Insurance than other Com panies fur the same money. It is Definite and Certain in its Terms. It is a Home Company in every locality. Its Policies aro exempt from Attachment. There are no Unnecessary Restrictions in the Pol icies, t - Every Policy is Non-forfcitnMo. Policies may be taken which Pay to the Ins tired their Full Amount and Return all the Pre miums, so that the Insurance costs Only the Interest on the Annual Payments. Policies may be taken that will. Pay to the In sured, after a certain number of years, Dur ing Life, an Annual Income of One-Tenth the Amount named in the Voliey . No Extra Rate is charged for risks upon the Lives of Females. Insures not to Pay Dividends, but at so Iowa cost that dividends will be impossible. ITS POLICIES ARE NEGOTIABLE. By the Charter of the Company, certificates of obligations will be issued, agreeing to purchase its policies at their value which,' when accompa nied by the policy duly assigned or transferred, are negotiable, and may bs used as collateral se cur ty, in making loans from the Company or from other parties. The lTon. Jno. E. Sanford, Insurance Commis sioner of Massachusetts, in his Report for 1863, speaking of Dividends in Life Insurance Compa nies, says , " The sooner such guarantees cease to be made, and such expectations created, the sooner Life Insurance will come to rest on its true motive, and men Insure their lives for security, and not for dividends. The host and the most popular companies will then be those that prom ise only equity, and render all that they promise, and furnish the best security, with the most up right and judicious management." " By the Stock plan the full cash effect of the premium is immediately secured to the insured, the Company taking all the risk. By the Mu tual plan, the full value in insurance of the pre mium paid, is not secured to the policy-holder, who takes a portion of the risk himself." ! Policies Issued In 3-oli or Currency, WM. E. HALeT MANAGER. WELLS, FARGO & CO., GENERAL AGENTS FOR THE PACIFIC COAST. J. C. MEIVMJJIIAI,L, . TRAVELING AGENT For Oregon and Washington Territory. Albany, September 11, 18C9-1W