hie . ailiaiin flistf r; TJ. S. Official Paper for Oregon. SATUUVAY, JULY 9, 1870. Congress was to adjourn either oo tlie 10th or 13th. I5y joint resolution the President has been instructed to negotiate with the Indians on the Umatilla reservation. .The income of the General Govern ment, from all sources, for the fiscal year ending June 30, was nearly 8400,000,000 The fight arranged between McCool and Toil) Allen will not rnnw off -, flip former having paid the forfeit. Thtfpetition of the Orleans princes to be permitted to return to France, has been rejected, by a vote of 173 to 31. - . . It is stated that Prim's agents in Prus sia have offered the Spanish throne to a Prussiqn Prince. At Rome it is thought the debate ou the Infallibility dogma, would terminate before the 10th inst. On the 22d of June there were ri&ts in Cork, Ireland, tho cause of -which is .thus related : The master tailors nf that town recently hired a large nambor of German tailors, thus displacing the Irish tailors. The latter, with their fellow countrymen of the some craft, met and resolved on a strike--and having struck one way they struck another by attacking the shops where the Germans were em ployed. The police soon put an cud to the disturbance but many persous were injured and property destroyed. The riot assumes importance only from the fact that it brings this question "promi nently before the Irish people for solution Shall foreigners be allowed to work in Ireland ? News from I'.xchanges. Illinois Adam Paton, residing near the Doctor oir. Uciug unable to swim, lie floated down the stream some distance until he grasped a friendly root, where he remained in water up to bis armpits Oregon liailroads. .-. Os-ricE O. & C. R.iR. Co., ) 1 Portland, 0 , July 5, 3.870. j Editor Oregonian : -In your papeT j of yesterday I notice an article of which ior me nours, Dciore succor reactied ; the lollowiug is au extract: him. The horses -have not been heard of . Will Mr. llolladay. controlling both the east t.: I aul west sides, extend a railroad further than tbe bince their plunge. ; j heaJ of th Willamette Valley 1 It looks as if A'humber of business houses are fitting i tllis niiglit be doubtful. It is oven whispered . . I here, and with come appearance of plausibility, UD With gas hxtures at fcale,m. ; that, having now secured undisputed control "of Tl. .,! ;rir in tlitir tn0 railroad system of the moat populous and iin- , . W . Horace G reeky owns ten shares of the Tribune stock, now valued atS108,000, the same amount he owned when the pa per was first niado a stock concern. : The Portland dailies state that on last Saturday the Oregon Central Railroad fianchiso was sold to Ben Holladay, the "monopolist.'' The transfer was made by J. Gaston, President, and a majority of the Board of Directors. The price paid is reported at 70,000. Thj under standing in Portland is that Mr. Holla day will commence work ou the road as soon as the necessary arrangements can be effected. If this should prove true, the westsiders now have some show of a railroad within a reasonable time. Naples, was thrown from his horse one day last month, and instantly killed, j Alton is jubilant over the completion of glass works in that city. - i The Canton Register states that wolves arc making it warm for sheep in Fairview township. Several fine Cashmere kids have been devoured by them, also. ; . The crops in Logan and Dc Witt coun ties, except rye, bid fair to yield more largely -than usual! ' Bye will be light hardly ten bushels to the acre. V The corn crop in Will county bids fair j for a magnificent Yield.' . " j in Macoupin county n.ne Democrats . I"J, me ponj get ,.. UVB reilchi that ;t m C0Jtjnue t have announced themselves as candidates j when it ran away, and the rope becoming j j,uilJ soutll without any interruption ; for -the office of sheriff. 'and it isn't an I entangled around , Mc.'s ankle, he was ; that is, in case the bill now before ou over average year for candidates, either. dragged about one hundred and fifty gross to grant aid for the Uumbuldt . - - , , - .t. !,!, tu i uit.:v i,rv" braueli road is passed in such a shape as- Alio burst id" oi an emery wncciin me j "? . . ".r , .,.- ti,.,f 'a : . ,i n I t. ' - V i.ut UUU LU J 111 I" I11IU L11U l! 1 1 U V was slightly bruised and Lis clothing all - ... , ..; ' report, condemn the Court House as out of repair and generally dilapidated. - The farmers of Grand llonde valley were hay-making last week. E. S.McGomas, Clerk of Baker county, .recently while exercising a wild Indian portaut part of Oregon, - he. will not bund a railroad turthcr south than Lngeno City, or the head of the valley. The Oregon and California Kailroad Company will this year build and equip their road for a distance of one hundred miles' south of Portland, and will there after complete it as rapidly as possible to the head of the Willamette valley. After . - Goi.no Ahead. The Yreka Journal says that the officers of the Central Pacfie Railroad Compaby- held a meeting at Marysville on the 11th, and resolved to push the Oregon and California railroad on' to the Oregon line as rapidly as possi ble. . : - - ' ,--.., . ' The A.laska Times says that if there is want anywhere it is not ' among the Sitka Iidians. They follow the custom of the ' Boston man" in dress and style ; they can be seen every day dressed iu broadcloth and carrying sporting canes and umbrellas " . . . NEW TO-DAY. I,1l?ORTA.T TO THE ISl Ul (J PUBLIC ! Illinois Holt Company's woiks, at Curpen- terville, ou the 24th ult , was the cause of a funeral. , On the same date, four miles cast of Elgin, Johu Donohuc lost his life by a A bill giving miners the right to pur chase tracts of Government land of from 10 to 100 acres, at '52 50 per acre, 1 as torn to shreds by the little spree. that branch should be eo made as to avoid The body of a man .named William j the southern counties and bring the road Shipton was found, on the 29th ult., in "a! into Willamette valley, "at or" near Ku f I i .i, i , 1 , 1 gene City bv the middle fork- of the field near Crescent City, who is supposed , TY;ilnnipft, , ?. (. . .., field roller passing over him. Uis head i ae neen muraerea, ut no ciueo , our roai no furtht r s.mth than the head and shoulders! were crushed. : - ! tne murderer as yet has been, obtained; 1 of this valley, where we would ultimately The Baptists of Elgin are to erect a j :- On Tuesday morning, at the island connect with the Humboldt road. In new ehurch to cost $30 000. I ar Salem, Mr. Miuto found a buck In- i U0;J s, n. new tnuan to cost, ov,ujv. . - , , , : would not be practicable to build a road In Iroquois county recently ha.l. fell ; uian, un naii a aozen squaws nau uea furtlier south ,,, dj0 ilt indicatod ' r t tl T rtl-rv tinnr i ir,i,'i'tm f--v run 1 1 . tl ft 1 . ... to the depth of a foot. Some of the hail V, '". ' V j stones measured two inches in diameter. Lut 5nstcaJ of- 0being orders, the whole A lew days ago a youtti, llarry 1. band waltzed in with clubs and undertook The Cable' states that Prince Ilohcn zollen has finally accepted the Spanish j throne. . Englaud approves, but Franco objects. . . , .. - - Three 'eutleincn of science, from - the , Netherlands, are in San Francisco, prc ! paling to start on a five years' excursion i up the Columbia and through Alaska, ! collecting specimens for the national mix j seum of the Netherlands. They havg a j magnificent outfit. Gen. Sherman has received a report fiuiu Geu. Sheridun, giving au account of his recent trip through the Indian coun try. He says the military posts are very weak and poorly garrisoned, and not strong enough to quell an Indian w-ar. ALARMING . MORTALITY ! Withiu the past three years, six of tho local Insurance Companies of San Franoisco, repre senting a capital of over $2,000,000, suspended the first four during the low rato war of 186" anil 1S68 the last two during tho past few weeks. - Sh out of Twelve in less than three years i an alarming record of mortality, and should suggest to the insuring pub lic the propriety of avoiding experimental, inex perienced, and low rato Companies, and patronii- ins the old established, conservative, wealthy, andT prudently managed corporation of the solid and permanent order. It has bceu decided to alter the plans for the mint building at the Dalles, says tho Oregcmian, and convert it into an I gUl;ti, Was run over by a locomotive at to put "a head" ou Mr. M. It being his assay office. The Supervising Architect j Aurora, and instantly killed. - '! however lie in turn setzc.J at Washington has notified Superintend- n CrolU of pekin, wa3 assaulted j ITJ,,, f L "i " J L easier, route by way of Pitt river, so as to passed the Senate, and will pass the cnt Hogue not to proceed with the other j few ui,ht8 since whie 0U his way home, L)ad leave lbr the mailand. ,: j f a ""u lM"."7S House as soon as it can be reached. j -all of the building further than the j by aD unkn0wn ruffian, struck with: a " The firemen's election in Salem on last iia lL o seL-uuu w.wjf . j slung shot on the back and. aide, or tne ( lucauay resulted iu the election ot John t Owon, under their own control. . Whetli- plans lor completing the building can be j lcaj aillj i,js skull crushed in two places right, Chief, and D. 3Jet-addar, ; er we Uuijj our roa,j 0f ,;c ieaj forwarded. , J hese will be sent on in a There is a nero woman thirty-seven years of ago, living oil the plantation of ' W. li. Battlo: of Baker countv. Georcia. For we slwuld be cut oft from southern j who weighs 300 pounds, has twenty-five ana eateru connections, uiasmucii. as wic (children, all living., jJattle says she . is Geutrtd Pacific Company would almost j remarkably healthy and is a good cook, certainly cause their California and Ore- ; but never cooks more than one thing at a gon road to diverge froin the route orig- i time. luaiiv jam aotrn, ana buna it by the A son of Captain llobson, of the Jusie McXear, was drewned near Clatsop beach while bathing on Sunday last. At the same place was also drowned on Monday a young son of Mr.. Coffinburg. ' i after, without recoveriug consciousness. The largest and probably the most . .The vote for County Treasurer in Wasco was a tie, each candidato receiv ing 311 vo'es. They, cast lots and the office fell into the hands of the Republi can candidate, Mr. Ruch. . It is said that a plate from which to issue counterfeit bonds of the Central her of having taken his money and secrc- Pacific Hailroad was traced from New ' ted it about her person. To recover it few days. As tho walls are now up to the second story window Bills, work will j be temporarily suspended, T, '. , ,. ! sissipni, passed Winona "a few da-s ago. - Tn Sn Vranmsrai rnrrntlv. aeeordinsr ' . -' from the effects of which he died shortly ! - --"c-v., .... - .-v , 0, lr e n liiamcuo vaney or not, uepenas - - i i tncrciorc on me action 10 ue iaKcu iy On the 7th, campmeotiug commenced ' Congress relative to the route ot the Sale of Kkai. Estate. Jlr. Wm. Davidson," Real Estate .Dealer, has just effected, the sale of block Xo. 10, located between Second and Third and E and F strects in Couch's addition, to- Messrs. A. A. McCulIy, George .'..Marshall and John Marshall, for the amount of "fivo thousand dollars cash in U. S. "old coin. .,f Vr.,..-., ..A 1T,.-..H 1 t,...,.l, 1 f,.. TT V.,.1.1 ! . . .11 . 1 . T T - i " . . . . IC J f . . . valuable rait ever siartca aown ine-.uu- prutrie, in Mariuii countv. , e ' - a i .v t iandat815 rcr M was worth $37,500. fail rS a mnn tdannw nff thp plntnps nl ' , Sv j . i j j Allowing 20,000 feet .. , n , . . . : Snut up a irood sized ou tne siuc-wa It contained 2,500.000 feet of lumber, j community, was found in the back room :of J. whom he had knocked down It- Tl,i. f,. ii.cf r.nn, Ful ul a J j - v ..:.., i...v. ,...!. ... 1..,1 : r,... - , ., out of a house together, and he accused . , - -.. 1 ; ... .J , ... i ereCt aUU llUiatt A tJ UlVCHlUa. : i v v.uiui;i:i uy iyn.,ciuij " " IS. Nichols '" shoe store. Salem. . ' whore ho had 'stnlpn iinrrrwivod on last ' they will tto so without, fiolav, unless . . T . . . f .' ,, to bo sufficient o fwlKre ut- ,laa stolen unjercencu, on last , j - . , . both play a match to-day, tlie one in. the lu U1, j Tnpsdav aftprnnniv in a .-Ivin oomli tiou : their purposes are che,ckeo by such lei;- f r J , , . j' , - ,.;.tnf. tV. ft iu-suay aiicrnoon, in a ayiug conuuiou. , . i . i j o . nioruintr and the other in the afternoon, i evidence, ,ne ratt In a very short time thereafter he died, f elation in Congress as will render it im- - , ..... , - e d "Mv son," said a gentleman the other ; . u u: ...:i. It is tlie ue.-ire, as it has been tlie in- ; J , ' , i uu iu ou a ii li raua tu uui jjiauu ! .1 i .-. .j ... " i.i : tailroad Company to butld ttu:ir road to j ... . , J , ,,T . , ' . ., i J , ,. c.. i sible, was the ready reply, "I belong-to the southern boundarv of the .State : ana i., . . . 1 J. . . , , James M. Curlev, well known in this l tention, of the Oregon and California , practicable to carry them out. In other words, if the uiant for tho Humboldt branch .shall be so made as to connect Give me forty cents for a ball. ' JUSTLY TAKES RANK AS THE" LEADING AMEBIC4S IT'ii-e Insurance .Co. Tlicir contracts are endorsed liy cilsb assets . jSxceediug 1, f ; e ?:. .-; :.? JL,T'00,00- Their business ia managed hy onderwriUr who York to Canada, thence to England and f he knocked her down and tore off every owner has reluscd l,UUU, lias curcu no j Paris,, and there captured rascals had time to print any. j was on hand to arrest the rascal The two wings of tho New Hampshire i 1 t i a ...l.fo ; branch .shall be to made as to connect . - it. j i : i T i j c - il, ' "uu "-1"5 luu' ai-Buiuuusucu. uiau5n.a- ; , ; - .. -, , pi'emocracy are eaiieu "Oiu liners anu Iowa. A madstone, for which "e . -.. . . 1 , with our road in lloirue river valley, and I r. ,.:..t im.. it tut- tUUJU t . JUUl UUI I CIS, lU&IHUlLtUlV. 1 UtlC 13 " - tun. I v ..: i".vn , IITX' 1 if .- i Paria and there capttfred before the i trarmcnt that she wore. No policeman j less thau thirty persons. 4 hands "for better or Worse" with Mr. ; l''4' t'1" ""1 i" , Y"-13" al i limril to murdprpr nl .J xM irake. ,-,,,tn it r.,. n M .. ,i .r, I f 1 1. iwit r 7 !' .,. , , ., , --,,! .1 ' i i i' i i r " n- I ; south of tlie illamctto valley. t ,:il V. tinni, f PAtmrT l?lr,f?j Om 'A Avnathr-r wa shniilti think tor Woolen. '. .... J Ot'.icv- Lincoln is tne name auoptca tor uw j . xhe Democrats of Missouri have iu- ! uf the present month, "no preventin ew State to be erected out of the Terri- j ronnal,v nominatcd B. Uratz Brown for ? providence." : ; - .orj . w Mexico, ine nouse torn- Governor, and it is understood he will i A band of Gypsies, visiting Sious mmee on lerruones nave reporteu in ; carry the stT(,Dgth of.tJle party. Brown favor of a bill for its admission, and when ; for a ,ODg time edltor of tbc )&i0Mr, admitted it will be the ihirty-ciahtl, .Dimocru, rrevious to the late war. He O L ... ' The sehooner Bootiiinlc arrived at the 1 wise we shall not do so. have no tsupei iora and but few equalu in the Union Tioir risks are small, carefully selcetcd, and Mat tered ihrouguout tbe entire L'nitod' State, thus avoiding heavy loss in the most riou conflagra tion. T be ir rates are-not of the gueiw or Raiub- ' lin rder, but are La-sed. on actual experience, and are as low a$ pood insurance can be furnisbed at. Their lusaei are bouorabty and promptly ad justed, and paid in gold coin without delay or disoouut. .. Their agent, located at all' point of importance, have authority to issue policies direct, thus avoiding the danger and delay incident to the ul-agec.v gy.-teiu ; and, in each and every particular; both as reparda solvency, permanency, prudent management, bonoralde conduet,eqaitable rates, aud conservative jrartu-c, '. ' ; I The Ihcriiix, or Hartford, The frost iuiuriii"; the Clops in Scott I furnir-he facilities to the insiiringptiblicnuequall- bittcr feud, between the two factions. One hundred and forty-four bushels of oats to an acre is the latest Wiscunsin achievement. ' ; " City and plying their hereditary vocation, foretell that four or five of her city edi tors will be married soon. was a Eepublican then, and still claims i The grand annual convocation of the I The Democratic county candidates in ! near the head of the Willamette valley To f'ns 'frtnnpetion if ltmv to. as well mouth of the Umpnua a few days since, 1 r, i tr ct.,tn t,., T w!,-.n .,n rrw,..! with two cases of small POX on board, j .,A l,;i,l ,1. r,vl n,ft,l.;n S Vl!.. 1. . nao.l nn a.lvn' in floor i ! V y ther Company doing business ou this She is lying there in quarantine. : ; ,j the first section wi hiu tho time allotted j this section from g2.5:)S3 per hundred j c"st-- -Col. Chapman, of l'ortiaiid. is up for i ay the act of Cyngrcss, and nltimately j pounds, says the Yreka .fmtrnul. ' j ' '-mm - m m 'w -w' a speech on -the 10th at Jacksonville, on continuing it south to a junction with, the j ' . -rr- --r .It. II. TlAIliij, .jTIanaCr the subject ot railroads. i Oregon arul California road at some point i nat to expeOu at a oy scaooi , .. 42! California St., San 1-rancisco. Of persons relieved duiiug the past to be a member of the party.- He favors 1 Duukards of the United States for 1870, Yamhill are going to contest. Two lie- i - I - - i ..t.K.f j:. )... J .1. ,!.,.., i he pendinjr constitutional amendments will transpire iu JJIackhawk county, four U1UJU--lclu 1 , , .- - . i ., , . , , S will also contest. I he election in Yam- m:s. HOLLADAY. j boystrous couduct. year by the San Francisco Benevolent Society. 30 per cent.'ot -the poverty was caused by drunkenncsj j 25 per cent, by widowhood and orphanhood, and 25 per cent, by sickness. . The 4th iu San Francisco was a suc cess. The procession was estimated at three miles in length, no where less than four abreast, while the military occupied the entire street. The weather pleasant, and not too warm for comfort. to restore the elective franchise to those I or five miles south of Waterloo. Ten f j fat oxen are to be killed and roasted, I atej 'twenty-five barrels of flour baked into hill will doubtless be thoroughly vc mil ls season and the rest ; wi 11 CuNUltKS.-lONAi.. A new Committee of Conference has been ordered on the I'ostoffice Appropriation Hill. lu the House, 011 the 2nd inst , the following bills wi re passed : Foibiddin"; the conveyance of Indian reservations by treaty to auv other guarantee than the B. Gratz Brown, of St. Louis, Mo., has been nominated for Governor of Missouri by the St.Xanis Democrat, and not by the Democrats, as the telegraph stated. - The Democrat is the leading Republican journal of Missouri. The President will not accept the re signation of Secretary Fish, unless he in sists upon its acceptance. According to the President, Mr. Fish is ono of the best members of the Cabinet, and if news paper men were better acquainted with -him, ' he would receive less abuse at their bauds. s .-,.. A young school teacher 'out in King's Valley was attacked .by . a dog, as he was : -going to spend the evening ;wUh his sweetheart, a day :3tr two t sioce. The ,. brute dragged him . under the - house - of his beloved by the slack of his breeches. "The course of true love," etc. : As the passengers on the steamer Sen ator . were rushing ofl ,petl-inll upon reaching her fvTiarf at Portland, on the 4th, the "drop" gave way, precipitating ' ' a number of people into the water'he tween the boat anrT wharf- Mrs. Bel- ;r Toine was drowBejf,''xiU(.aite.a'A.u'mber were bruised and liadly frightened. ' : . The debt statement for July , pan out , bad lor ; the croakers. : It : 6how. that .- during the month of June the debt was ,. reduced more than twenty millioos, or : two thirds of a million per day ! Won't : they still, insist that Grant's adniiriistTa r rion is a failure, and that the debt never will be wiped out? - . That dreadful Bcourge of the nations, cholera, has again broken out in Madras r and Bombay, and at last accounts its rav "ages in those hot climates were terrible. ; The activity, of this pestilence Irranjr part ; of the world naturally excites some ap prehensions of- dkoger. t;In 3 tho! great cholerajrears of 1B32 and 184Sr the dis ease reached Europe hy saiiisg vessels .and was brought ;'ta this' couBtiy' in the , same way.. Now the means of eouimu- nication are mora direct and speedy. The ' cholera rages in come -parts of .Asia all -' the time.- - Bat it has appeared with more .than the usual fatality this year, and J the - presence of the scourge at porta ' with - which tbere is so trequent commucica rioo, is a sufficient warning against all sanitary negligence. attention to the preparation of building material brick, for instance. drive six in hand. Three of the horses .; United States; protecting settlers of the arc snow white stallions, and three arc j Cuhed .States lands under benefits of the ,,, , ..' c - , , -,, I pre-emption or homestead laws ; prever.t- coal black. 1 he first, or wheel spau. will ; i . . . .. .,1 1 1 ' ' ' ting further gale ol pubhe lauJs 111 Dako be composed of a :uigh" black horse, I ta Vcvada, Nebraska, California, Kau- aad a white "ofF' and t iVr versa for the gas, Arkansas and Utah, excepting under who participated in the rebelliou.- . J. I'. Henderson has been sent to the ; 1 1 1 . . . 1 , - ! Colonel Jim Fisk. Jr.. is prepanos to penitentiary from Marion county for five j . - ooortion have been let. ! a Sat splurge at Long Branch years, for horse stealing. According to 1 j thi . 0i . . jiix.MSUTA. ur. rosier nas uecn the Statesman, at the time of his arrest t . , ,, ,, , ,. ,. , , . ' t . f appointed Collector at the I ort of Duluth. he t as neKOtiatinpr some heavy purchases, j 11 v' . , ,. 0 . , , , l, . Mrs. Hatch, who shot Jo. Brush, in including some of the best farms in I , , , , , ... -r . 1 e 1- St. 1 aul, has bceu discharged on the Marion county. Instead of speculating i . . ' 0 in real estate he will hereafter turn his i . yjn toe -isi 01 -'lay, me rcsiuencc 01 t . . . . . . -, , 1 . 1 J ' i t 1 - 1. t.t.. l. .. A .1 . r.i-f rt 1 1-111 iir h(i!riifi:iil l:iv. nncl tnr. 1 T, , -r o i - i - i.i- : icuucia, ixius ujdhiuu 4lic ou;- L 1111 . II ttUM . 1 1 - ' - t I cter De fcent in B.pley township, was ; StaUs. The ! car- S tot he United States the lands of ir,iL- tw lifrhlninn f. n jl Ihrna rt Ilia r 1 1 1 1 , ; ,1... f 1.1 I ,.1.L...l I i i ,i t n 3 o i Odxv. uuii iviux ijiu 12 ii;u, nut ui; mi. ilri-i finva nrrpl 14 TO nnd i H vi:rs. ' ' .7 j j - o - ) j 1 THE WAR ( Ketween the 11 iiml tl;e new ; lniccn high 1rict'g anil lunir credits (in .ast; ie iiauu. anri i ."mall pn.f.is ami reaily pay on the uther, ftill ly.tiuuns to.rasre w'i "utisa.atej fury at Browns- i ville, and Wheeler, 4t4'vreents iu this contest the new order if tliinf;?, etns drfcrmined to Cglit it out on that line" if it laks a lifetime. .PcoiiU' i isiting Brownsville will find at Li3 store a fine tttnuk of ajl kind of Roods, which i lieinir sold lowr than ever to xnako room fur a larjre Fall tlek. 41 I'ulicics Issued and llcucwcd Direct by U. FL1.., Asi-nl, AT. HA XV, OUKflOX. Jy2'70--13ui3 ' WILLI AM DAVID feON, Oftice, o. 4 Front Street, PORTLAND - - ... - OREGON. SPIUXG AM) SIMMER STYLES. ; Pokisq Fun at the Pope. Among the jvu (Texprit to which the Hcumeni cal Council has given . rise in Home, is the followiug new Pater Noster handed about among the Americans. Even the Pope, who enjoys a joke thoroughly, it ia said, might forgive the man who uses the license of ink esainst him bo blas phemously yet dextronsly : "Our Father who art in the Vatican t Infallible be thy name : Thy Temporal Sovereignty come :: Thy will be - done in Europe and America as in Ireland : Give us thi day our . tithes , and, titles, and forgive as our tresspasses as we give plenary indulgence to- those who pay penitently onto us : And lead us not into Ecumenical ' Councils, hut deliver , na from thinking; for thine' is the croaier, the key, and the tiara. Rome without end. Ameo." . A letter to.the daily Post, from Grant county (New Mexico), Silver Mines, eays they are 5,000 fjet above the level of-the sea. -There is a. population at Hal ston, the new village, of 200. It is about 25 five miles to the nearest river. ' : 285 ledges have been discovered, and over 50 claims, dot being made in' conformity with the Territorial law, are being thrown out, bat are re-located about i as fast as they are open." A - municipal govern- rrent has been formed and- a recorder elected. There is no doubt of the im mense wealth of many of the claims. A canal and railwav com nan v. with a cam. tal of 1 1,000,000, -has been formed to take the ore to the mills, at the river, and to carry water in the canals to the mines The mines are in the heart of the Apache Indian country, and the settlement will be a -great security "to ' the pioneer ; set tlers and travelers. ' New and very rich silver mines have been discovered eight miles from Fort ; Jjayard. Pehghtful showers of rain have fallen at intervals during the past two weeka, and the crops, at one time regarded as-almost a taiture, now give ; promise .of a- full ; average The Dutch Reformed Cbarch, at ' the corner of Fulton and " William - streets, New York, Iwill soon disappear, as the lot is needed for other purposes, and will sell f for ' more than rf 250j000." The church wa erected 107 years iago; and since September 23, 185T, has beeat'th'e place of holding the celebrated "FoltOD Street Daily Prayer Meeting,." ; 1 respectively, instantly killed. George Woolsey and John Lightfoot, of Clear Lake, Iowa, were arrested at Waterville, Le Sueur county, with four stolen horses in their possession! , John is an old offender. - Missovki. On., the' 25th ult., the house of Elijah George, in Henry county, was burned, and three children, two of them twin brothers, nine years old, and the other twelve years, perished in the flames. ' "" ' ' ' ' Ground has been broken and the track laid for the '.first ' line of street ears in Kansas City. - ;-.,. --v.- McCoole went into troiuing on the 20tb ult., at St. Louis, for his fight with Tom Allen. ........ ... I -'; ' :- IvA.SAS.-r-Orders have been issued for building quarters for six companies of cavalry at Fort Leavenworth, at a cost of 830,000, and headquarters, at a further cost of 850,000. These are the prelimi- j nary steps to making this post a perma nent camp of instruction. - j . . . .... Oregon. Dr. R. C. Johnson-, of Cor- vallis, is down with the consumption. The grain crop in .Jackson Icounty is unusually heavy,' Weather intensely A large amount of new-mown hay, in Douglas county, was injured by the late rains!',:.: .,:.w'.', .;','. "4.; ?, .-; ;W- - One pf the Applegates had a resident of Douglas county arrested far insanity for voting tho Democratic . ticket. .-: The County Judge wouldn't "see it in that light."- - One Siwash killed another and - sunt him in a hole, last week, at Eugene.- The Abergwine was ajrrested. ; - ' - ,A little daughter of S. Warner, of Lena county, died, Monday of last week, from the, effects, it is believed, of strych nine. ' .- ' . . Saturday, June 25th, Dr. Robert Alex ander attempted to cross a slough , which runs oat of the JfeKinzierLane county, when one of the We's baulked. I He got cut" of hw-wagon,-unhitched tbe team, mounted ihi-Bea aiuial, 'intending jo ride "out. ' !The first, step the horses made plunged them into a deep hole, throwing most imposing, it is said, ever built in this country or in Europe the whole equipment, with London harness, to cost thirty-five thousand dollars. ' . m-j ; A band of three hundred mounted Indians rode in front of a railroad train near tho Platte river a couple of weeks since, expecting to : slop it. Thirteen of them were ruu over and killed, j with their horses. The others seemed to be greatly astonished at the result, and ev-, idently don't want any more of that ort of fun. Mr. Jttliau reported a bill to confirm James Hutching and James C. Lemon their preemption claim in Yosemite val ley ; passed. . The bill created much dis cussion. f Tho Louisiaua contested case of Parrall against Uai ley was decided . in-favor of Jja'rrall, but a motion to reconsider was entered, to be considered nxi Wednes day. Ferris repotted from Conference Com mittee the bill granting right of way to ditch and canal owners. REAL ESTATE DEALER. Spcrtal-Collcctor of Claims, The Marysville Appeal is informed that the Central Pacific , Hailroad . Company have resolved to push forward the ,work on the Califoria and pregon Railroad to. the connecting point with ! the Oregon Central. They also resolved to construct as rapidly as possible to the San Joaquin Valley. Kailroad. L ' . ., ..; y .r : " RaooMS. If a broom is occasionally dipped into hoilng suds, the straws will iu a measure lose their brittleuess and become tough, and do less iojury to a carpet. It will also j last much longer. Broom's wear out carpets full as J fast as tho usual tramping over them, liefore commencing. to' sweep a carpet, dip tho4 broom into a pail of - water aud strike it against some object ' to "shake off the drops. 'Repeat this frequently while sweeping, and you will raise. liteJa dust, and bo surprised at the quantity of dirt which will "settla in the bottom of the pail. It ia well to strew moisened , saw dust, Indian meal, or tea. leaves is oir -a carpet before sweeping. Fine, moist salt ia equally as,goo' or better, y. and gives the carpet a nice clean look. --5 , . .r I.. ...ir , - It is given out that Andrew Johnson has determined to '' run for Congress. He wfll have to move to some other dis trict, for last fall the one in which he lives was nearly unanimously "Republican. Is DMAD--The Sentinel says - that Josephiue county is prospering, and that "really" good' women 'afe" more in demand there than any other article.' " - -,. ' i r' " '' :- :. - " ii --sT ' 1 ' - San Fraaaiboatis shipping peaches and grapes of the-new crop to New York.' " .... Maik Twaiu having been elected an hanorary member of a poultry Society, roccommendti himself in the followiii": st3'Ie: "Even as a school boy, poultry raising was a study with me, aud I may v say, without egotism, that as early as the ae of seventeen I was aquaintcd with all the best and speediest . methods ot raising thetu on a roost by burning lucifer matches under their noses, down to lifting them on a fcuce " on a frosty night by, insinuating the end of a warm boa id under their heels. By ; the time I was twenty years old, I really suppose I bad raised more poultry than any one individual in all the section round ' about there. 'The very chickens enme to know my talent by and by. The youth of both i sexes ceased to paw,, the earth for worms, aud old roosters that came to crow 'remained to pray,' when I passed by." i. . . . ; ; , 1 - : A Night Ride- The Grass Valley Union ot J one 4tli relates the tallowing : ' Two old citizens night before last ot on a bender and concluded to . ride on horse back out into the country. They" started all right and thought they ; had rode about ten miles through a most beautiful region,, in which there was an alteration of. town and country. Their horse tracks showed noxt day that they went all night around one squaref the tow only occasionally catting ! acrofs lots through a gentleman's garden, the gates of wBich had "accidentally been left open. ' There is nothing so healthful as a horseback airing away from the town. ' , , We find in California papers a state ment that the California and Oregon Railroad was to be open to Chico by the 5th of July. The maneuverings oi the Company in their surveys indicate, that they still have an idea of building their road up Pitt tiver valley and into the Goose Lake country.- . Hence their anxi ety to control the Humboldt branch road to Eugene City.-J r The total number of cattle in the va rious European States is not less, ;it " is aaid, than 91,700,000. A lovte amohnt of CITY aud EAST I'ORT- I.AX1 I'ropertr fur Rale. Alj, IMll(OVEf FAK.M.S, and valuable nn- eultirated I.AXDS, located in all f.artj of the Ktate. Invrslraents in REAL ESTATE and other FKOl'EHTV, made for eorrcpondeutB. CLAIMS of all iloseriif ius prouiptly xollectcd. IlOrSES and Sl'ORES luascd. - All kinda of Financial aort ticcer.il Agevy busi neis trauKaeted. Taities having FARM PROPERTY for tale will -please tiirniMfl deseription of tlie same to the AGENTS OK THIS OFFICE, in each of tho principal CITIES and TOWNS of this STATE. juue HTO-tf-1 CUSTOM MADE CLOTHING CIIEVOIT SUITS, WHITE DUCK SUITS, , CASTOR BE AVE H SUITSr Heavy Canvas Hunting Coats, , j.l White Marseilles Vests, Figured Marseilles Vests, i iiriusiiuig uuous ui mi mnus aod a great .witty of other NEW AND SEASONABLE QDODS. This Valuable Family Medicine has been widely and favorably known in our own aud foreijjn .coHutrics, upwards of r , THIRTY YliARSl It ban lost nine ol ita pood name ly repeated trials, but continues to occupy a prominent poei tiou in every family mor.ioiue cTieat. It U an External and Internal Remedy. For Stiinmer Complaint, or any other form of bowel disease in children or adults, it is an almet cer taiu cure,. and haa without doubt, boen more uo eessfut in curing the variolic kinds ofCUOtERA than any other known remedy, or tho most skill ful phyaician. Iff India, Africa and China, where this dreadful diaeasti is mora or leu preva lent, the Pain Killer ia considered by the native, as well aa European resident in, thoe climates, a ur realeiiy; and while it ia a most efficient remedy for pain, it ia a perfectly safe 'medicine, oven in unskillful hands. Directions accompany each bottle. Sold by all Druggists. , Price 25 ota.,50 ota-and $1 per bottled r fjuly , NKW TO-DAY. - ',:-- Citation. j; . In the County Courtr.of the Countjr of Linn, State of.Oregon. - :- Iu tho matter of :4hoi-statc. of .Isaiah' -.-crctor,idcceased.-, iiY.Y 'I. 5 To Mrs. Franklin P. Smith (formerly Misa Mer cier), Faroh L. Mercier, Josephine Meroier and Mary Mercier, heirs of said deceased : IN THE NAME OF TUB STATE OF ORE gon : ' You and each of you are hereby cited to be and appear in said-Court, at the court booso ia the city of Albany in said eoanty, on -Monday, the first day of Augpsr, 1870, (being a day of the August term el' raid Court), then and there show cause, if any exist, why aa order of sale of the real estate of said deceased should not be made as prayed for in the petition of S. M- Ponningtoo, tbe Administrator of the estate of the said Isaiah Mercier, decease. -.Said teal estate-1 described as follows, to-wit : . Lot No, 5, ia Sloek No. 10, and lot No. 2,ln Block No: J6, ; . ' - By order of said Court- - - -.-' la . testimony hereofr I, A. C. Jones,- the County C'leik of the county afbrtaid, bave here unto sef my hand aai affixed the scal uf said Court go this 7th day iif July; 1870. - ; , - - " . -A. C. J0NE.4, July 9, 1370 4iwl ' 1 Couuty Clerk, ' "Ve are prepared t.o offer to the public the lar gest and -BEST SELECTED stock of Clothing of our own manufacture, over brouht to Portland, and at prices that 11'Y COMPETITION. ... s WM. CURRIER" i, CO.. jy2-13-3m 103 Front-st., Portland. ... GEO. W. GRAY, D. J. S., r OVLH SOLICIT TUE I'AT T T ronace of all persons desir ing ARTIFICIAL TKETU and FIRST CLASS DENTAL opera- Hons. Nitrous Oxide administered for tbe paro le? extraction of teeth, when desired. Charge moderate. - .' . . . , ,' . . Offioe in Tarrish A Co. 'a brok block. Resi dence, first house south of Congregational Cliureb, fronting on Court House bloea. , ,, . - . ,. - . Alhaiiy, Oresonj Jalf 2, 1870-43 --Summons. r In the Circuit Court of th State of Oregon for the county of Linn. ,. - '. ,, , James Knox, Latitia Knox and) .Suit toeompc) J B. 1'lendeuiug, plaintiffs, j , tbo perfbrm- " 'vs. -r-.j V-ance of a legal John Lowdetback , ucfcndauW ; I ; obligation and - J for damages. T John Lowderbaek, defendant , TTN THE NAME OF TUB STATE OF ORK. the Circuit Court of the Btate. of Oregon fur the v. v u u v. a. u u , u u s I UK V.UUJKUK bUOreiU filed against yea by the above named plaintiffs, with the Clerk of - said Court, within rau day from the data of service of this sammona apon yen if served within this county, or. if, served in any other' county in this (State, then within twenty days of the date of service of thi lumnoui upon you: And if service of this summons upon yett be had by publication, then by the first day of the term following the expiration of six week from tbe first publication hereof, to-wit : the fourth Monday of October,' 1870. And. take notice, if you fail to answer, the plaintiffs will apply to the Court, at said term, (or the relief demanded in ssid eomplaint, to-wit : fwr a judgment ox decree discharging a mortgage, and for on hundred dol lars damages, besides co Is, 4o ; - , .Dated Jane 21, 1870. - tie t, " First publication Jone 25, 1870. r' , By order of Hon. R. P. Boise,. Judge. T N. U. CRANOR. ' " 42w8 AU'y for plaintin. J.-W.rPentlcy. rl ENTLEMEN'6 BOOTS MADE TO ORDER patch on short uottoe, aaa itb neatness sod dia. 3t" Ali Kinds of Repairing Qoaa, Albany, June 11, 170 W '" ' T-niTiisjmnrKiiiiii)i)ntii.it: jtu