J 4 m Retake of Preceding Frame V SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1869 V. S. Official Paper for Oregon. What is the relation of the door-mat to the scraper ? It is the step-farther ! Monetary. Gold quoted at 130, in New York. Greenbacks in San Fran cisco at 7576i. State Fair. The total receipts of the State Fair, as reported by Mr. Min to, Secretary of the Society, were 10, 150 25. Nebraska. The election returns from Nebraska indicate that the Repub lican majorities will be fully equal to those of the Presidential election. Strong Winds. In Missouri lately the winds have been so high, that the legraphic dispatches were blown from the wires ! High old lephyrs, those. Reduction or Fare. The fare for Immigrants on the Columbia river boats, from Umatilla and Dalles to Portland, has been reduced one-half. , I 4. - " 4 Montana "Dust." A gentleman arrived at Salem from Montana, the other day, "toting" a lot of "dust" from that country. The "dust" was valued at S75,000. very Effective. Gov. Ilaight, tf California, went East to stump the State of Ohio for Pendleton. The result of his efforts is shown in the utter defeat of Pendleton and route of the Democracy. Homicide. Ilenry liorst wick, boarder at Salisbury's Hotel, Salisbury, (Conn.), shot Mr. Halstead, proprietor of the hotel, during a dispute about his hotel bill. Halstead was instantly killed. The mur derer was arrested. j Railroad Prospect. Tbo Almy, loaded with rails for the East Side Rail road, is looked for at Portland the pres ent week. As soon as this vessel ar rives track-laying will commence at East Portland. The editor of the Salem Statesman has been over the route re cently, and he pronounces, the grading along the river aud at Oregon City done in the most subscantial manner, and quite ready for the ties. " The piers of the bridge at Clackamas river are nearly completed, and the entire road for twen ty-three miles is so near ready for the tics that were the iron all here now a small force in advance of the graders would be sufficient to prepare the road bed for the track layers." We hope to be 'able to ride on the cars of the East Side Company by December. ' t m Simple Rule. The Chicago Journal gives a tew rule for computing interest, and says it is so simple and so true that every banker, broker, merchant or clerk should post it up for reference. By no other mathematical process can the de sired information be obtained by so few figures : Six per cent. Multiply any given number of dollars by the number of days of interest desired, separate the right hand figureand divide by six, the result is the true interest on such number of days at six per cent. ' Eight per cent. Multiply any given amount by the number of days upon which it is desired to ascertain the inter eat, and divide by forty-live, and the re sult will be the interest of such for the time required, at eight per cent. Ten per cent. -Multiply the same as above and divide by thirty-six, and the result will show the rate of interest at ten per cent. . Rumored Failures. Rumors of heavy failures were in circulation in San Francisco on the 19th. One of the lead ing members of the money ring is said to have failed fo three millions ; another for one million two hundred thousand; others for similar sums. Chicken Pie. Some chicken thieves in Salem the other night, on the eve of being caught, dropped their booty, which was captured by the pursuers. Three chickens were captured, taken to the Statesman office and there interred in -chicken pip. . Suspended. Messrs. J. II. Ham & Co., of the City Flouring Mills, San Francisco, suspended business on the 18th. Liabilities about ?30,000, with as sets nearly sufficient to cover, but not at present available. The Result.- We have nothing def inite with regard to the Judicial election in California, which ' transpired on the 20th. San Francisco is supposed to have gone Democratic; complete returns, however, may make a different showing. Steamer Lost. The old steamer Sierra Nevada, which left San Francisco on the 17th for southern ports, became nveloped in a fot; off Pedro Blanco, ran on a reef and became a total wreck. """" -Hughes, the second officer, swam to the shore with a line, by means of which all on hoard where saved. The cargo was a total loss. Bia Money. Conner is outin a card, in which he states that he will not trot Dexter with any horse for money, but that he will pay 100,000 for any horse that will make the time Dexter has made. This is a great price to offer for one piece - of horse flesh, and is only exceeded by one Richard three i's. v Liverpool Wheat Money. The only cheering news in relation to the wheat market, is the statement that there is $100,000 in the hands' of Portland merchants, placed there by Liverpool dealers, with which to purchase wheat for this market. A bark is now loading at Portland with wheat for Liverpool. The " Monitor." Mr. G. nodes, gunsmith of Corvallis, Benton county, has constructed a buggy entirely out of ironspokes, felloes, shafts, bands, and body, all c iron. The Mercury speaks f the vehicle as troe and shapely, but imagines it will pull back somewhat on up-grades. 51 r. II. calls it the "Moni tor . ' ' - - Os THE Rampaje. A party of en raged Canadians recently hauled down, trampled upon, and tore into t itters an American flag that was unfurled over an annexation meeting. They doubtless acted thus on the supposition that they were balancing the account against them at Lundy's Lane and Chippewa. After Him. The Gregonian is after a fussy little fellow named Philip Ritz, who, by some unexplained manner, ob tained the appointment of U. S. Marshal of Washington Territory, and is using - the office in the interests of the Democ racy. The Oregonian says that Ritx is not now and never was a member of the ! Republican party. He never voted a Republican ticket in the Territory. All - his appointees since he received his pres ent office are Democrats. It, therefore, demands the- immediate removal of the whole batch of treacherous small fry, com menciog with Flanders and ending with little Fritz. Chiuese Policy Against the Chinese There is one way of solving the Chin ese question which a correspondent who signs himself " Roland" advocates in our : columns to-day. It has the merit, at least, of being simple, clear and decisive. He says : "Shut the Chinese out alto gether. Let no Mongolians set foot ever again on the soil of America. He not merely says this ; he argues it, a. priori posteriori, on first principles, on last prin ciples, every way. His letter is bold, frank, and, in its way, able. It undoubt edly sums up and expresses the views held by a large number of persons. It puts forward these views with a fearless and naked simplicity. Arguments which another man would hide or disguise, lest they should be thought to have their fountain and origin in class selfishness, "Roland" proclaims aloud as the off spring of justice and eternal right. He has all the courage of his prototype of Roncesvales. i We have, therefore,given him a full opportunity of expressing his opinions and 'maintaining them ; and it is our duty to reply to them, and to convince him, if we cau, that he is wholly in the wrong. ; . , "Roland" rests his argument for the Chinese policy which he advocates the building of a wall of prohibitive legisla tion round the country to shut out the Mongolians namely on two grounds : First, that "the labor of a cduntry be longs to the laborers of that country ;" and that the laborers have a right to in vite whom they please, as sharers in that labor; and next that the immigration of the Chinese will prove the ruin of our laborers. Hence, it follows that the la borers of America have a right to de mand that Congress shall pass a measure amounting to the absolute interdiction of the importation of Chinese. Now we join issue distinctly and directly with our correspondent on both his main posi tions. To begin with, we utterly deny that the undefined class of beings whom "Ro land" calls "the laborers" have or ever could have any such right as he claims for them. Why deny that a majority of the population has any such right. If he likes, we will go a step further, and emphatically say that the whole popula tion of the United States every man, woman, and child of them, from Presi dent Grant down to the little bootblack on Broadway have no such right, and never could have it. Of course, the ma jority could do anything. Majorities can do foolish and wrong things, if they please; but they have no right to do them. No man has a right to say "I and my friends alone shall cultivate this whole field of labor." His right to ex clude anybody from the field can only be founded on his capacity to do the work better. We deny that any Congress or other legislative body has a right to sac rifice the general interests of liberty and civilization to the supposed interest of any class of persons whatever. So much for "Roland's" assumed right of laborers. There is no such right, inherent or iun- Truths Aptly Spoken. A Demo cratic organ, the New York Citizen, un der the head of "Wanted A Principle," lets drive in the following truthful and refreshing style : We hear nothing as to what are dem- coratic principles at present. Copper- hcadism was a f ailure, and died the death it so richly deserved ; the proposal to pay our debt in greenbacks has been re pudiated by the nation ; the everlasting colored gentleman has secured all the rights he knows what to do with, and a few more; the woman's suffrage move ment has not the diguityof a party meas ure. Democracy is in a state of chaos. It cannot undergo the irrevocable ; it has nothing to offer as an incentive to per sistence. Cannot somebody find us a few principles ? We are opposed to lujrh taxes, and in favor ot low taxes ; but the nation must' pay its debts, and must raise the means necessarv for this purpose. We believe in "economy, re trenchment, and ' reform ;" but so do many other people, and our example in this city is not an encouraging one to follow. We must find a principle or two, or we shall never get back into power. ho is prepared to furnish the genuine article ? Chinese Labor. The Chinese labor question, as summed- up by the Orego nian, is simply this : By Chinese labor the Pacifis States are enabled to open new sources of wealth which have hereto fore formed no part of our system of gen- i j l 4. . a r. r-n. ' . . Taamental. He must show cause tor his crowding white laborers out ot employ ment, will actually open up the country and create new avenues of industry for white men where they now find nothing to do. Abandoned. An infant, apparently not more than one day old, was lelt within the convent gate of the Sisters, at Portland, and was found there by some of the inmates of the institution, on the morning of the 20th. It was wrapped in an old red shirt, a piece of an old white flannel petticoat, aud a piece of blue blanket. It will be provided with a home. Elopement. On last Tuesday says the Corvallis Mercury, a young man by the name of Mann, left thfo city for parts unknown, with a young lady, in quest of an opportunity for the two to be made one. They probably brought up at the nautical Gretna Green over at Yaquina Bay. Gossip. The same paper says : Mr. George Biddle left in our office the other day some raspberries grown iu his father's (Dr. Biddle's)- garden in this city a second crop which were finely devel oped and ripe. From Jackson County. The Sen tinel says that thePostmaster at Apple gate has resigned, and recommends that the office be discontinued. . Jas. Sutton has painted a picture of the falls on Rogue river, which he otters to sell for fifty dollars. The Sentinel thinks it is worth $10,000. The Oro Grande Mining Company has struck a large quartz lead on Applegate, in Josephine county, which prospects well in free sold. The vein is twelve feet wide, and dips to the northward. From the Neve we learn that R. H. Danlap, of Ashland, while out on Evans creek, found an jmmense bed , of stone coal. The coal is of a superior quality and in such quantities as to supply this section of country for an unlimited num ber of years. The same paper states that the town of Ashland is a thriving place, and turn ishes employment for every inhabitant so that they have no such luxury as loalers in the village. The official returns of the vote for Governor of Vermont,' at the late elec tion, foot up as follows : . General Peter T. Washburn, Republican, 31,834; Ho mer W. Eaton, Democrat, ll,45o ; scat tering, 20; Republican majority over all, 20,353. proposed exclusion, prove that it is justi fiable and necessary, just as he would for any other novelty in legislation. So we get rid of his first proposition, and need not trouble ourselves any more about his imaginary right of the laborer. - Who are "the laborers" in the United States? Does "Roland" mean simply all those who work with their hands and no body else? The distinction is clear enough in most European countries ; for in some the laborer is shut off by dis tinct legislation, in others, even in Eng land, till the other day, he was, and to some extent he still is, practically distin guished from other classes by political disability. But here the distinction seems both unwise and positively unreal. Assume, however, that people vho do manual labor are meant. Why is it wise and just for these to demand special rights of exclusiveness which no other class would be listened too in demand ing? Suppose we, the writers, were to insist that none but American books should be read, that none but native Americans should be allowed to write for our newspapers, what ' arrogant block heads "Roland" would think us. And, if we were really to demand a legislative measure tending that way, how sternly and rightfully he and all sensible persons would say, "My good fellows, what America wants, first of all, is good read ing and writing. If your class interests stand in the way, then we must push them aside. ' The nation is not to be starved and stunted mentally to oblige you. Stand out of our sunshine." The same would be said to any other class to lawyers and doctors, to pries' s and school-masters, to clerks and scriveners. Can "Roland" tell us' why those he calls laborers are to have a divine right of mo nopoly not granted to or expected by any other class ? Again : who are the labor ers to whom belongs the right of exclud ing strangers ? The Germans and Irish who landed here for the first time the day before yesterday or last week ? The people who were born here, but whose fathers and mothers came from Europe ? Or only the descendants of the Pilgrim Fathers and the lineal representatives of Peter Stuyvesant's contemporaries ? On this principle, we think, it would be only fair to invite the vote of the Indian tribes on the question whether we ought not all to take ourselves off and leave the soil to its original owners. "Roland" would find himself in some difficulty, even if his supposed right existed, in de termining the persons to whom it be longs and who ought to bo allowed to ex ercise it. . , "Capital and labor," says "Roland," "are natural antagonisms." We did not know that there was yet any one being living and looking on the earth who be lieved in this exploded nonsense. Ac cording to "Roland," the man who buys is the natural antagouiat of the man who sells. Can capital get on without labor, and labor without capital: And can two things mutually indispensable ' be likewise mutually antagonistic? ''Ro land" mitrht as well tell us that two and two which go to make up four are natur al antagonisms. "Roland s own , in stincts, however, soon triumph over j his hyperbolical assertion ; for he says, with great truth, that "the workingmen's la Bor is their capital." What about natur al antagonisms now? ! But, of course, "Roland's" great point is that the introduction of Chinamen will cheapen labor and injure the working classes just the old objection to rua. chincryin a new guise. Grant that the men now in possession have the right to say that nobody else shall have the right to come in, if their coming should re duce the wages of labor. We deny that the immigration of the Chinese will have any such effect. The Chinese will help to develop resources which otherwise must remain wholly or long unde veloped ; that is all. We do not treat as serious "Roland's" proposition that the land of this country is already sufficiently occupied. There are still, wo believe, a few square miles to be had in Texas ; and we have heard that along the line of the Pacific railway travelers observe some clear spaces. Everything said of the Chinese now would have applied; with equal or greater strength to the Irish and German's a generation back, j The wages of labor are inordinately lowered where' masses of workers, many of them only half competent, crowd iuto great towns and crush the lives out of each other. But the resources of the United States are almost unlimited. We only waut hands to develop them. ."Roland" speaks of the poverty of the English la borers ; and means, we presume, the ag ricultural laborer. Does he reaily im agine that it is foreign immigration which has caused this poverty ? Why, in some English rural districts, where the men arid women are poor as rats, and miser able as scarecrows, a stranger, even an j. nail uuuci , iios uctci uuuv aj via during the memory of man. Giles Scrog jrina works and starves where Giles' fath er, grandfather and great grandfather worked and starved before him ; and no innovating Mongolian has ever sat foot on the soil which poor Giles may only , but does not own. The conditions of England and America are wholly dif ferent. Feudalism and ignorance have made Giles Scroggins what he is ; free dom, a wido soil, and the possibility of owning something, make the territorial democracy of the United States. "Ro- and's" alarm at tha Chinaman is only like his grandfather's protest against; the steam plow. "Roland" prophesies that the hosts of workers who were an army but the oth er day (yes, and who were foreigners the other day also) will never submit to the importation of Chinese, but will have re course to strife and bloodshed to prevent it. We have much greater faith in the justice and the good sense of the work ers. They know and are proud of the knowledge that America has elected to live in an atmosphere of liberty ; and they will not, for any supposed and chi merical dread of rivalry, consent to de mand any of the conditions of a despotic and Oriental exclusiveness. They will welcome the Chinaman to America. They will never consent to turn America into a China, with a legislative enact ment for a wall against the stranger. Independent. Telegraphic Summary. The New York Chamber of Commerce appointed delegates to attend the opening of the Suez canal. Brown's collosal statue of Lincoln is ready to be unveiled at Brooklyn. The Virginia .Legislature seems very intent upon electing men to Congress who will have influence in securing public improvements. , JJx-Uov. Kitter, ot jrennsyivania, nas died, aged 90 years. More Spanish troops are arriving in Cuba. , The diamond fever has broken out in Australia, and companies are forming to hunt for diamonds. It is said that the President entirely denies that the Rothschilds have ten dered any loan to this Government. A fire destroyed Maurick's Petroleum Refinery in East Boston, with 20,000 barrels of petroleum. Loss, 4U,UUU. A block of machine shops and tobacco works, on South Canal street, Chicago, has been burned. Loss, S 100,000. Oct. 15. The Louisville Commercial Convention has resolved in favor of the line of the 35th parallel for the Southern Pacific Railroad, which fills the St. Louis and Louisville people with anger, The health of Admiral Farragut is much better. The Herald's Washington special says he has seen a letler, purporting to be from M. Ferguet, agent of the Rothschilds in New York, to a friend in Washington, statinjr that his pronosition and corres pondence relative to offering an unlimited loan from the Kothschilds to our Lrovern ment at 4 per cent., has been conducted by him directly with the President at his request. M. rerguet says the public announcement in the Herald was evi dently the result of jealousy on the part 'of the Secretary pf the Treasury, who was not, consulted in the matter. M. Ferguet will return to France to-morrow, but he believes the matter will be suc cessfully carried out. M. Ferguet is said to be a partner in Rothschild's banking house, and was for many j'ears the spirit of the Paris fiim. Gen. Thomas made a thorough report on Alaska, its condition and resources, in which he takes very different grounds from Mr. Seward. Ho thinks the prin cipal if not the only present value of the new Territory, will be in the effect its transfer to the United States will have upon the losing hold of England upon British Columbia. He thinks the send ing of revenue and other civil officers there a useless expense, as the only bene fit is to those who draw the salaries. He thinks the military posts should be re duced, and that the expenses of supply ing and keeping up a civil sevice very far exceed the revenue collected. The Territory wa3 a constant burden to Rus sia. She held it at great expense, simply for the benefit ot the Fur Company. There is no probability of any euiigia tion in that direction, as there is not the slightest inducement for any. No mines of valuable mineral have been discovered, which would pay to work. There is Wheat Receipts For the week ending Oct. 22d, reported as below : We get the subjoined items if m Beach Monteitli .1. H. Foster & Co S. Markhara t Son.. It. Chc!ulle...... D. l''roman..l.... Tutal biuh. ft. .. :1.:J2 47 .. 6 81a .. 930 21 .. 2.CU0 ... 1.000 ..14,7t 08 Circcit Court. The October term of Linn County Circuit Court convenes on Monday next. For list of cases dock eted for the term see- another column. Fine Apples. A subscriber called on us last week and presented us with a nice lot "of apples and pears. As we were jus out of fruit, the present was in good season. Many thanks. Total. Messrs. Beach & Monteith' have received to date, 64,152 bushels and 2 pounds of wheat. Their largest receipts for one day during the week was about 800 bushels. Good Diggings. Weaver creek, Kootenai mines, is' credited with paying from 820 to $30 per day to the hand. - Probable Amputation. From the Portland Herald we learn that Noble Johnson, brother of vv. Cary Johnson, of Oregon City, was out shooting Satur day evening last, near that town, and in going through the brush and dragging his gun along, the hammer of one ot the barrels caught on something and explod ed the cap, sending the charge through his right leg, below the knee. The limb was badly shattered and torn, and will probably have to be amputated. : California Matters. A young Jewess, eloping with a Catholic- from San Francisco, caused great excitement. A defaulter of San Francisco, named Harry Meigs, is the Railroad KiDg of South America. Horse thieves infest Santa Clara county. A female billiardist was on exhibition at the State Fair. Recently, at Santa .Cruz, a Mrs Thompson and two children were burned to death. L. II. Robie, once deputy-sheriff under Jacob Stttzul ot Multnomah county, at tempted to commit suicide by takiug phosphorous lately in Sau Francisco. The parsonage of St. Rose Church, Sacramento, was entered by thieves, who chloroformed the clergyman and robbed him of 250 and a gold watch. The blast at Sucker Flat consisting of 37,500 pounds of powder, was a suc cess. .We should think so. A boy of 14 has been beaten to death iby his schoolmates in San Francisco. Hill's great picture of Yosemite has been sold for 10,000 to Charles Crocker of Sacrameuto. ' vThe new capital in Sacramento is al- Idaiio. from the Boi.sc City Chronicle : A gentleman just down from On Grande informs us that all the mines along Loon Creek, nw open, ore paying wtll. It w now a settled fact that these mines on Loon Creek are rich and camp will be livoly next spring. 'I he rt-ported new discovery between Oro Grande and Leesburgis believed to be a humbug, so far as placer mines ore concernqtr", but some very rich -quartz lias been discovered. Dr. Thibodo informs us that a team ster in the employ of Mr. Call, had his leg badly broken on Monday last. He was coming d6Vn the mountain and went to throw the brake on, when the sand under his feet gave way throwing him under the wheels, and the wheels passing over his leg broke it very badly between the knee and ankle. He was doing well at last accounts. On Monday niuht the Faloon of George Chapman and the saddle shop- of Mr. Christ was broken into and the money . drawer taken. From the former about sixty dollars in greenbacks, and from the latter only a lew dollars were taken. We have noticed for -some weeks past. that there are quite a number of men in ' ' town who have no visible means of sup port, and it is not at all surprising to us , to hear of houses being broken open. Some one will be caught very soon. - An aspirant for a teachers' certificate before the Nevada county (Cal.) Board of Examination, recently, was asked to name some of the prominent characters-;-that fell at Bunker Hill, and answered that among them were John C. Calhoun, Andrew Johnson and Andrew Jackson. 'WILLIAM DAVIDSON, Office, No. Ct Front Street, Adjoining tha Telegraph Office, Portland, Oregon. Special Collector of Claim, Account?, Notes, Bonds, Drafts, and Mercan tile Claims of every description throughout Ore gon and tho Territori-5, WILL BE MADE A SPECIALITY AND PROMPTLY COLLECT ED, as well aa with a due regard to economy in all business matters intrust :d to his care and tho proceeds paid over pam'tually. Heal Estate Dealer. Sept. 11. tf. . ALBANY ItETAIL, MAKKF.T. Albany, October 23 Wheat. Tvhite, bushel 50 (a 55- Oats, 33 bu?hel ....' :jO- Potat MS, i bushel 40(tj5U Unions. Tti bustiel 1 2j Flour, W barrel Batter, fi , Effgs, fi dozen Chickens, 5j3 d 'zen Peaches, dried, J to- &oap, lb Salt, Los Angciosi "ft, tt. Syrup, fi gallon. $4 00 4 50 30' Stl $2 50.1 00 2l 5(w5& $1 12ia)l 2i- plenty of timber and coal, but plenty of j most ready for use. It ia gotten up on vlh goad quality and easier access, can be had 1,000 miles south of the Territory, and as an agricultural region it has no value whatever. a tiranu scale, contains ouU panes ot la-s, the duty on which is S25,0C0. The doors are- of walnut and laurel, and cost SilOO apiece. From Europe. Telegrams state that a modification of the French Ministry is talked of and a more liberal programme. The striko of merchants clerks in Paris is quite general. They are per fectly orderly and do nothing to provoke the police. 7 Advices from Paraguay say that Lopez has established a new line of defense, where he has a considerable force and plenty of artillery. The allies will soon re-prganizo and resume the pursuit. Later news says that Lopez has been pushed from his position. In Spain the government is generally successful against the iusurgents. Yamhill County. The Blade fur nishes the following from Yamhill county: An attempt was made to burn a barn in McMinnville last week. The fire was: started and burned a sill partly off and then went out. Several oat fields were reaped in Yam hill county last week. Two new churches will soon he erected in McMinnville, one by the Episcopal and one by the Methodist ' Episcopal Churches. Deer are said to de plenty along the foot hills of the Coast range. A new bell tower is being erected on the McMinnville College. San Francisco. Dates to the 17th say that the first regatta of the San Fran cisco Yacht Club took place yesterday. The flag was won by the Emerald. Peer less, second. The Columbus celebration of the Ital ians was very creditable. The proces sion" was large, and an address was deliv ered in Italian. Oct. 18. The Pavilion at the recrea tion grounds was burned last night. Loss, ?5,000 insured. Two men were arrested as incendiaries. A building was burned this morning in the rear of 914 Market street. Loss, 20,000, partially insured. Under the head of " Valuable Inven tions," the Statesman has the following Mr. M. Stoker, late of Dallas, Polk county, took two premiums at the late fair, for inventions made by him, on which he has applied for patents. The first is " a high and low water indicator1 for steam boilers. A copper float, inside the boiler, swims on the water surface, and by means of the lever to which it is attached, indicates the stage of water. The idea is very simple and must work infallibly. The other is an improved saw tooth, lor circular saws of the Spauiding make. It works with less power than any other and cuts lumber smoother. River Improvements. The Salem Statesman has the following : The rock at Bock Island, known to river men by the name of Bissell Bock, is to be blasted out this week. The rock is about twenty feet square, and has always been troublesome to . steamboat pilots. The P. T. Co. have heretofore been putting in wing dams on the shoals between here and Oregon City, with logs and brush, that have been, for the most part, washed away by the winter fresh ets. The Company recently purchased a pile-driver, and will hereafter make their river improvements of a more permanent character. Mr, Church informs us that the Company contemplate going to work immediately with the pile-engine, in which case the steamer Success will be detailed for that service. Upton, of the Corvallis Mercury, has been gambling. Here's what ho says of the matter : .Ladies bet on the races at the State Fair. We know it. We re olize the fact. "Taking chances" with one we were relieved of two and a half with no further effort on our part. It is seldom we bet, but this is an offer we did not feel altogether at liberty to decline. In our simplicity we supposed that it would be urigrallant in us. We had no further curiosity in helping out any " boss" by betting on him, so we steered clear of ladies driving along in carrages and proposing . to bet two and a half or anv other sum. . We were cured. Done for. Vanquished. Chicago has started a subscription which aheady foots up 520,000, for the purpose of organizing a base ball nine to beat Cincinnati next year. Her next enterprise will be to hire a man who can whip McCoole. A honse without children is like a lan tern and no candle; a garden and no flowers: a vine and no grapes: a brook and no- water gurgling and rushing in I its channel. Live Freight. A few. daya ago, says the JMko Independent, a singular kind of express freight came along in charge of Wells, Fargo & Co., in, the nape ot a tinman being, who was way- billed throuirh from San Francisco to Missouri, with regular instructions from the shippers to give tho man plenty of grubb but not a cent of money nor a particle ot " red-eye, or means where with to obtain the same. This fellow had evidently been " pressing his tansy " for some time, and his friends concocted this way to do it, which is not only a novel one, but most excellent and safe. Wells, rargo & Co. do business right up to the handle and follow instructions to the let ter, and it is safe to bet that the fellow never " got a smell " while under their charpre. The German gentleman of the period announces an addition to his family in this fashion, through the newsoapers 'I have the honor politely to anounce to my relations and friends, the happy de livery of my dear wife, Julie, maiden name Sattmarn, of a health)', strong boy. Cologne, August 17, 18G9. Eduard Fonim." - An enthusiastic admirer of the beau ties of beautiful women, recently startled a triend "Been to church this morning," he asserted. ' " To church ?" "Yes : and such necks ! Full and white, aud good enough to eat six of 1 them all in a row ; 'watched 'em all through service. ' Oh, my, what necks." Noble Johnson, of Oregon City, who accidentally shot himself in the leg a few days since while out hunting, died from the effects of the wound. The nervous shock received by the wound produced a sinking from which he, could never. rally. , San Francisco Markets. Flour No change since our last re port. Wheat Demand fair. Santa Clara 81 25; medium $1 35; good milling 51 50 extremes of the market, 11 55. Oats Light at 51 ; choice heavy, 51 30. , Barley Range of market from 77i to 97 i cents. New York Flour, 56 509 50. Liverpool Wheat 10s 6d. j ... v j Satisfactory. Josh Billings has turned editor, and in answer to corres pondents perpetrates the following : Gertrude Your inquiry stumps me. The more I think about it, the more I Tea, Young Hyson "j lb 1 HO ' Japan, " J 00 " K'ack. " 75(311 00 . Sugar, crushed, 1 lb 18St " . ea 16(0,18 Island. " ... 12(5K Coffee, tb 23(025 Candles, lb 2 56$ 33 lVito, China. lb 1216 Saleratus, lb ICJ Dried plumg, f ft 15 (a, 20 Dried apples, tb 1 6(0,7 Dried currants., 9 lb ...r u Bacon, hams, lb " 18(a-J0 " sides, " 14(j;16 " shoulders, "0 lb Lard, in cans, lb. IT Beans, ij3 H (ft Ucvoes' Kerosene oil, gallon (Jill Oil Turpentine, pnllon $1 25(t;l 50 Linseed oil, boiled, gallon. $1 621(ntll 75 White lead. kejr.. $3 7bi 25 Powder, rifle, "pi lb 75(1 00 Tobacco, 33 lb .... $1 00',l 25- Nails, cut, lb .. i74 Domestic, brown, yard lofuilfi-r Hickory, striped, 'p yard..., 16(o)30 Bjd ticking, per yard... 25 ($50 Blue drilline;, 3 yard I6(cfl25 Flannels, yard o0(af62 Prints, fa t colors, 3, yard .-. Ui Pork, fb j. 5(5 Mutton, t$ lb. "10$1H' Bee', on foot, "J3 lb 4i(o NEW TO-DAY. NOTICB To the Taxpayers of Linn Ck I WILL BE PRESENT TO RECEIVE Taxes levied for the current year, at the times aud plaees as follows, to-wit : Iu November : ) Lebanon. Monday, 22d ; Waterloo, Tuesday,. 23d ; Nye's School House, Wednesday, 24th ; Brush Creek, Thursday, 25th ; South Brownsville. Friday, 26th ; North Brownsville, Saturday, 27th. Iu December : Harrisburgh, Tuesday, November SOtb, and. Wednesday, December 1st; Peoria. Thursday.. December 2d ; Orleans, Friday, 3d ; Albany, Sat urday, 4th ; Scio. Tuesday, 14th ; Franklin Bntte, Wednesday, 15th ; Santiam, Thursday, 16th ; Syracuse, Saturday, Istb : Center, Monday, 20th. As it will save time aud trouble, V hope everr tax-payer will be prepared to settle4iU tax at tha times and places above named. R. A. IRVINE, October 23, 1869-7tf Tax Collector. Waltham Watches. Let every one who wants a Waten, read Una. carefully. Especially if in remote ont-of-the-way place.. Now that the railroad is open, we propose to give the residents of Orbgob the opportunity of getting (ingle genuine Waltham Watches at the The Lowest Wholesale New York Prices. We sell more Waltham AVatches than any other establishment in the country, either wholesale oc rotail ; we send great numbers to every section of the country by Mail and Express, carefully pack ed, and in perfect running order. Our plan is this : You want a Watch, and see our advertise ment; now, we want you first to write u us foe our Descriptive and Illustrated Price List ; we will send it, post-paid, by return mail.' It ex plains all the different kinds, tells the weight and quality of the eases, with prices of each ; yon then make a selection of the kind yoa prefer, and send ns your order. We will then send you the Watch by Express, with the biH to collect on de livery. We give instructions to the Expcess company to allow you to open the package and examine tha Watch ; if it suits, you can pay and take it ; if not, you are under no obligations to receive it ; and if it is taken, and afterward does not prove satisfactory, we will exchange it, or REFUND THB - MONEY. As an indication of the prices, we will quote one Watch of our list. The P. S. Babtlett, Lever Movement, with Extra Jewels, Chronome ter Balance, Patent Pinion, Patent Dust Cap, and all the other late improvements, in a Solid Coin Silver cae, . . .-. $28 in Greenbacks, or about $20 in Coin. now, I think I don be ced both ways, neether may be rite. Upon the hole 1 think I wood or I wood n't, jistas I think best or otherwise.' The Indiana Democrats are divided about the time of holding their state Convention. One party favors January, another midsummer. This blowing cold and hot has often damaged the Democrat ic cause before this. ! C. F. Hall, the Arctio explorer, is a citizen of Cincinnati. ' can't tell. As near as I can recollecKsJ An t. ti... v:j. v-.i. n..j. 't know. Much might same proportion. Do not order a Watch till you have sent for a Price List, as it contains a great deal of information regarding tSee Watches that will enable you to make an intelligent selection. Dont forget, when you write, to state that you saw this advertisement in the Alat Register, and you need not put in stamps for return post age. AdHreai in full, ' HOWARD CO., Jewelers and Silversmiths. 618 Broadway, NvT. We refer, by permission, to ' " Messrs. Wtu.it, Karoo A co.,' N. T. and San Francisco, t I. W. Ratvokd, Esq., T. R. Bctxeb, Esq., B. c. Howard, Esq., 8an Francisco. W. S, Ho4RM, Virginia e Hy, Nevada. 7