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1 ATE' RIGHTS DEMOCRAT. RATE3 OP ADVERTISING j vzu teas ; On Column, $100; Half Column, $C0 j Quarter Col uniD, f 35. - , , . ... Tranb:nt Advertisement per Square of tea lints or les, first insertion, $3 ; each cubrequent latr tlon,$l. A square is one inch in rpoce down the colnsaa, -counting cut, dhplaj lines, blanks, Ac, as solid matter. ETo advertisement to be considered ; ; than a eaare, and all fraction! couate.1 a full fquare. All alrcrtijtcments ir.eerted for a leii period than three months to be regarded as tratf icnt. r ' . '- ' - .-s i : t'OBLlSHRD aVStlT SATURDAY, BT 'ABBOTT & BROWN. X. H. ABBOTT. 1 Jt. V. BROWS. CFFICE IN HANNQN'S BUILDING. FIRST STREET. t " T SUMS, ta AtiTAxcB : One year, M; Six Montha VOL. IV. ALBANY, OREGON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 18C8. NO. 14. 1$J;T One Month, 50 cts.j Single Copies, 15JU. ' Ct rresiMmdents writing orcr a?nraed signatures -ir aiiBTB9W. must make known their proper iMii to th Editor, or no attention will he given to tieir communications. All Letters and Communications, whether on - Vulxess or for 'publication, should Vi addressed to r Abbott A Brown, BUSINESS CARDS. EX. CAITTEUnURY, M. D., Physician and Surgeon, ; 1 CORVALLIS, OREGON. UOffice, B. R. Blddlo's Drug Stow. T hotH6S v4n!3tf ALBANY COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE. THE- NEXT SESSION COMMENCES faOSDAY, SOVEMDEU 23d,186S. - To? particular adJrcsa v ! HEV. H. BUSHNELL, aal-JrSnSiyl Albany, Oregon. , ; ; U W. GRAY. D. D. S., iCBJLD JJ.TI OF TKI ClXaNSATI DtSTAL COUIGE, . rrrouLD invite all persons desir- : Vi t-. Art.floUl teth and first-class Dental ..T " r.. n ir nim Mil. Spimen of Vulcanite Base with gold plate llninis, and oilier new styles or work, may be !ims U his office, up stalrj in Parrusb. Co. , Brick, Albany, Oregon. ' rt Rendenoe, corner of Second and Raker streets. V prir63v3n34tf . J. C.OWM.i. I..TUSS. POlVELXi fc FLIX3T, ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT ZAW AND SOLICITORS IN cviaic. . (I Flian, Notary Public.) LB ANY, Oregon. Collections and convey oc20n!01y ances promptly aucnaea iu. JDFFICE OF COOT! SCHOOL SUPERIXTE.VT, I X WATERLOO, SIX MILES ABOVE LED A .v- R,nm. Pot office address, Lebanon. , TfnUly I ... ... J. W. MACK. Co. School Superintendent O- C3-- OTTIRX., J ATTORNEY AT LAW, . . : SALEM. OREGON : Will practice in all the Courts of this State . will attend the Circuit Court terms in Lum county lad the e.ttro DUtrict. Office in Watkind 4 Co', trick, up Stairs. T-n48jl D. B. BICE, 31. "Surgeon and Phys cian, ALBANY, OREGON, TH INKFUL FOR THE LIBERAL PATRON- re received, continue to teo.ler bbj services to the citizens of Albany and am,adinS coun try. Office an 1 reideaM, oa Second street, two blocks east of Spread's hew Hotel. v3n-tr JOHN J. WXIITSEY, 'ATT0E5EY IT Lltf A53 5CTART FOlIC, ALBANY. OREGON. Bailding, ' Office. opposite the "State U:;hM Democrat F. 31. W VDSWORTIl, CARRIAGE AND ORNAXENTAt P A I N T E Ft V SIGN, Over McBrlle'i ''.Ta-oii shop, o twen Firat and Seeond, on Ferry street ..... Firet-elass work d ne on thort nUuce. ; ... v3n!9yll X. II. CBAXOB, VTT0S5ET: A5D C0C5SEIL0B AT LAW Office In Norcross' Brick Building, up-stairs, V. . HILTABIDEL. T. H. BEDF1ELD, h t;i nii,TABIDElV at CO., -wpirT.M TV GROCERIES AND PROVI Lr sious, Woo.1 and WUlow Ware, ConfceUon ryC Tobacco, Ci-ar?, Pipes, Notions, etc. Store Jkr- . . i:..;n;n thn Kmreil oface. Al ton XIVXIIIO HIOCl, UJU..0 e tbany, Oreg-.n. . e2Sv3n7tf , . BEXJ. UAYDES, Attorney and Counsellor at law, r STRl tttend to all business entrusted to h'ua by citisens of Polk and adjoining counties. ' Eola,-July 25, 1887. v2n51tf BaBBJWI, t..LAIS, g. E. TOCHG. J. BABBOW A CO., GENERAL '&cV)hnSSIOX 21 E R CHA NTS TfcEALERS in Staple, Dry and Fancy Goods, JJ Greenes, Hardware, Cutlery, Crockery, Coots and Shoes, Albany. Oregon. y Consignments solicited. ocCnStf ALBANY BATH HOUSE! rUHB UNDERSIGNED WOULD RESPECT J. fully inform the citizens of Albany and v liity tlui he has taken clrge of thu Estabhsh taent,anL by keeping clean yooulj nd PJ trict attention to business, expects to suit aJ those who mar favor him with their patronage iiavmg Heretofore carried on nothing but First-Class Hair Dressing Saloons, t 6Tntii ta trvn entire satisfaction to alL SCLildien and Ladies' Hair neatly cut and shampooed.' " C 'JOSEPH WEBBER. " apr4v3n33tf ' - WHEAT AND OATS WANTED ! THE SUBSCRIBERS" WILL PAY TIIE highlit cash price for whpat and oats deliv aattht ir Warehouse ia Albany, Also wheat 0.n& oats ' A ni SMpped at the lowest Batei! .(Joods cf all kinds received and chipped from tteWhari ? SIARKHAJ1 & SON. - r3n52yl 1 r. r. bi-sjell; Att'yatLaw. , JAVZt ELKIKSf NoUry Public E:TJSSEL.r & EEKINS, Oflce In FarrisbV & Co.'s Block. First Street, ALBANY, OREGON. " Having taken into co-partnership Jamas Elkins, Esq., Ex-Clerk of Lina county, Oregon, we are enabled to add to our practice of law and collec tions, supt rior facilities for - Conveyancing, Examining Eecorda, , V ." . ;. i '. .- ' i ." .. - . . I..-, - ; , ." CV., ..j,.., . .... AXD ;, .: ' Atte liin to Probate Dasiness. Deeds, Bo ads, Contracts and Jlortgages carefully drawn. Homestead and Pre-emption papers made and Claim i secured. ' Sales of Real Estate negoti ated, and V.ans effected on Collateral securities on reasadable rates. All basisss entrusted to them will be promptly attended t. RUSSELL & ELKINS. See. , 18SS v2ni6tf ADVEltTISEMKNTS. n. C. HILL. B. MAXSriKLD. D. MANSFIELD & CO., DEALERS IN GENERAL MERCHANDISE, ALBANY, - - OREGON. IN FOSTER'S ONE-STORY BRICK, OPPOSITE THE POST OFFICE. THE ABOVE FIRM TAKES PLEASURE IN notifying their friends and the puMio gener ally, that they are CONTINUALLY RECEIVING DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, HARDWARE, &C. "Which we will Exchange FOR CASH OR PRODUCE! XT THE VERY LOWEST PRICES. We respectfully ask the public to Call and Examine car Stock and Prices Before purchasing elsewhere ; and we assure all that we will give ENTIRE SATISFACTION TO PROMPT CUSTOMERS. Albany, Feb. 18, '87 vn27tf PACIFIC HOTEL THE CNDEKSIGKU Kbtofhui ,uui informs the public that this llouee HAS JUST BEEN FINISHED, ASD IS JNT O "W OPEN for the mccomaoditlon of all who may favor him with their patronage. THE FUKNITUllli is entirely new in every department, and is of the latest .and tnoat approved styles. THE TABLE will always 1 supplied with the bert the market afford, and no pains will ie spareu for the com fori and conve nience of bis guests. ers'ns arriving ty Loats acouimodated at all hour, day or night. Spits of rooms and superior accommodations ir fauiilics. 4 Un? exrxirknce in tb loinc?s warrants the nmt.r'u-tnr in r.romiyiaar fatifactin to all who may favor him with their patronage, if it can bu douo by bountifully, eupplica Uble, ptcaatjt r'orn. leanlT beds anJaiuuous aueanon w usir wa j. J J. B. Si'RENtiKK. Albany, June 6, 186S. v3nl2tf WILLAMETTE STEAMBOAT COS NOTICE. -I71ROM AND AFTEIl TIlIo UAli. u.aai. further iiotice, THE STEAMER JtdZk. WE5AT ! WILL LEAVE PORTLAND EVERY DAY, (SUNDAYS EXCEPTED), FOB OREGON CITY, At 8:30 A. SI., connecting with the Steamer SUCCESS, On MONDAYS and THURSDAYS of each week, For Salem, Albany and Corvallls and all intermediate points j and with the STEAMER ANN, On the same days for DAYTON. RETURNING Will leave Oregon City at 1 o'clock P. SI., except Wednesdays and Sat urdays, on which days she will await the arrival of the steamers SUCCESS and ANN from above. For Freight or Paseagc, apply to J. H SMITH, at the American Exchange Wharf. sep26v4n6tf. JH. IIAUN, President. ISA A. MILtEB. A. p. MILLER. MILLER & BRO., (Succejiior: to TkiVp MitUrJ R BLEW OHK S ALBANY, OREGON. MA Shop on Washington, bet. lit and2dSt's. THESE GENTLESIEN BEQ LEAVE TO IN form the public at large that they are now prepared to furnish ; . - , ' JIAKBLE MONUMENTS '; ' , ', ' -ajid : ' G- R A V E - S T O K E S ! . . ' OF EVEHV -8TTLE AND PATTERN, At tlip JJost Be8onaIIe rrleen. TonusToriEs cut to order '"" On the very shortest notice. Mar7v3n29tf . '.-r,.. MILLER BRO : ; notice ! ; LOOK OUT FOR THE CARS! JUST RE ecived t a very large stock of ' DRY, GOODS AND GROCERIES! by steamer from San Francisco. I will sell for cash or merchantable produce, at low prices, my entire stock of Goods,' to make room for more. Call and see for yourselves. R. CnEADLE'S ; apr4v3n2JtfJ Cash Store, Albaxry. V O K T It Y. WORKING AND WAITING. gjj, BT AtUll ISAACS Mtt.NKK. LooV on that form, once fit for tho sculptor! Look on tlTnt obcok whero the rono.1 have died! Working and waiting havo robbed from tho artUt All that his tuarblu can show for his pride. , , Stiituo-liko sitting Alone, in tho fiittiug And wind-haunted thndowslhitt people-licrbcarth. tlod protect all of ui Hod shelter alt of us From the reproach of such things on the earth I All tho day lung, and all through the cold midnight, Still tho hot hcedta she wearily plies, Haggard and white as tho ghoxt of a rpuined one, Sewing whits rubes for tho chosen out's eyes. Lost in bar sorrow, But for the morrow Phantom-like speaking in every stitob. Ood protect all of us (lod shelter all of us From the eurso born with euch sigh for the rioh I Low barns the lamp. Fly swifter thou needle ! Swifter thou ap for the breast of the poor! Else tho pale light will be stohn by pity. Ere of tho vital part thou Im.-t made euro ; Dying, yet living All the world' giving Barely the life that run out with tho thread. (Jod protect all of us Ood shelter all ol us From her last glance as she folio i the dead t What if the morning finds her Hill bearing AH the soul's load of a mcrei! lot ; Fate will not lighten a grain of the burden. While the poor bearer by man is forgot; Sewing and nisrhlng Sewing and dying What to such life is a day or two mere? God protect all of as God shelter all of u From the new day's lease of woe to tho poor. Hasten ye winds! and yield hr the ier-y Lvinr In sleep on your purified breath I YUdd her th mercy, enfolding a Messinjr, Yield her the mercy wb inet is death ; In ber toil stnppin. See her work dropping. Fate! thou art mcrnful ! l.ifu ! thou art tUne ! God prrte-t all of n God hdor all of n From the heart-break ir.g, and yet living oa ! Winds, that htvoomltedberrtr!! ye the story . Of the younff lifo of the no!! th u bled ; Slaking its brtdye over dcatls uodles water, Out of a swayln? and sonl-ntting thread. Over it goloz. All the world knowin. Thousand's have trod it, fo.t-tUe ling before; God protect all t.f n God helier a!l nf Should she look back from tbcoppo5ta hore ! REPORT OX YAfU'INA HAY. The entrance to Vafjuiaa Hay U situ ated oo the Coast of Oregon appros : lut. 44 40' "JO", Loo-. 1240.i'V; 105 miles south of the xuouth of the Co lumbia river. Ia approaching it from ft, fchouM it he a clear day, uaviprators will firt make out a peculiar square topped mountain, covered with dead riuc tree?, trivin- it a whitish color. 1 his mountain, known a. Alsca mountain, i on the head waters of the rircr of the ganjo name and w from sea. apparently to the south and cast of the entrance to Wtuina. Mary's peak, a conical, shaped motu- tatu in the interior, will a!o tthow (dark blue in color) to the north ol Al-ea. On nearinir the shore, if comi v: from soutlfWard, a cluster of detached ruck will be seen about a mile from the find beach and outlined against it. These rock are called the Scal-illc-he's or f-'ca! Uocks and aro fanprox) S miles below the mouth of tho Vaquina, and between it and the Alsca river. Three and one half (SI) mile to the N. W. of Yaqu'tna Head is a rcmarkablo cape or point known as Capo loulwca'h er. It is perfectly bare of timber, ex tends 1 mile out from the beach, and con sists of two conical hills: the inner one 407, the outer 300 feet above low water mark ; and terminates in a tongue or point of rocks, with one large detachcd imlct IvtDS oil its extreme enfj. itiw cape being a very prominent land mark, and unlike any other on the co.ist line, will identify the position ot lafjuina en trance at oocc if the mountains are not visible. The north shore or " Head" of Yaquina entrance consists of a bluff 120 to 130 feet hih, of sandstone formation, show ing yellow from the sea. This bluff is crowned with au isolated grove of tall pine or fir trees, some dead and eouo alive. On its Beaward face n beacon or signal has been erected, ihc base of which is 12G feet high. Directly under it and extending towards tuc liar is .1 Mi. largo flat rock oblong in shape. : The South Beach is low and sandy, backed by sand dunes and still further back by a low range or hills bare ot tini ber. on the highest of. which a Flagstaff (158 feet at base) has been : erected for celebrations, etc. Jl his Jlagstau has been boarded up '60 feet from the ground to serve as a range or beacon . tor entering the Harbor (to be mentioned hereafter.) Back cf these hills there is a long 'ridge covered with a dense forest of living fir trees. On the point of the South Beach, seen from sea, the roof of a large ' house, new,18G8, will show prominently. Th first danger in approaehiug tho Harbor of Yaquina, consists of a ledge of rocks running parallel with, the general trend of the shore ll a"d distant; from 1 to 11 miles from it. ( This ledge, (as far as surveyed) culminates iu ,?0 miles from shore and 2 miles S. ?- of the North Head on which there is but 12 J feet at mean low water. On this rock . the sea breaks at low tide and in heavv weather. Running from this rock to the northward the ledge' sinks., Op posite the entrance it again rises, the shoalest spot being but G feet below the surfaco at mean low water. The extent of - shoal water is about :G00 yaruVJn length, the reef then sinks again rising in isolated spots to 13 feet , belowr the sur face untiL it terminates at Cape, Foul weather. Between this reef ; and the bar there is a good chan nel over G00 yards wide with an average depth of 24 feet (m. 1. w.) , ' '' ! . , . I V i The Bar is formed partly by a sand spit making out' from the South Beach and partly by a double reet of rocks ex tending from the North Head. The "out ermost reef starts from a .point 838 1 yds, north of the large rock before mentioned and ends with n lino of kelp on tho nortl edge of the channel. COO yds. from its shore end, and 100 yds. Irom tho edge oi the channel, there is a rock awash at low water. Tho inner reef starts from the largo rock and runs 220 yds. out, termin ating at the edge of tho channel, also. Be tween the sand ppit and this reef, runs tho north or rather the only well defined channel exist tng at tho present tuna. Through this channel, choosing tho best water, vessels will not get a shoalcr cast than 0 foet at meau low water, or 101 to 17 at mean highwater. As its most narrow part, there in a width of 108 feet carrying 0 feet; J20 feet carrying 8 feet j and 000 feet carry ing 7 feet. The shoal water ia GOO feet across in the channel, vessels getting 17 and 18 feet up to it and inside. On tl.o sand spit befuro mentioned, there is, in some places, a depth of only 2 or 3 feet at low Water, and the sea breaks on it almost coustautly. The ves sels formerly running iu and out of the Bay crossed this sand ppit. On their ranges we found 2J feet in the shoalcst spot at mean low water. As better water has always been claim cd for thc.HC ranges, I am inclined to think that tho sand Hpit is shifting and would probably kIiow on increased depth of water after tho winter gales. The main current of the river sets very strong ly towards this spit at ebb tide. The channel on tho contrary may shoal some iu winter, but having one rocky edgo will, it is probable, regain its depth in summer. The shoal water in crossing the Bar through the channel continues so short a distance and the channel itself is so straight and well defined in ordinary weather, by the breakers on each side, that with a pilot or chart to guide them, vessels drawing 10, 12, or even IU feet, can by choosing the time of the tide, en ter, and depart with juried fcalcty. In this it lias a uect'Jcd advantage over the more tortuous channels of other places on tho coaht. Should the harbor become of f ufilcicut importance to justify it, a steam tu could take vessels out and in drawing even more than tho above mentioned depth cf water. My Hcport 1 1 the Superintendent of the Coat .Survey on the completion of, our work, will embrace a recommenda tion for the placing uf buoys on the fehoal ?pots of the outside ledge of rocks, and should he deem it justified by the import ance of the place, it will be forwarded to the Light Iloue Department for action. This ledge once marked and defiued thus, will be no further obstacle. The accompanying chart docs not of course, embrace but a portion of the work already completed, but sufficient to jdiow the char.ivh r ,f the bottom. Profiles of t f the bottotu arc placed on the chart and their positions in Jicatcd. The soundings are all reduced to mean low water, viz: a mean of the lowest of low waters observed during the progress of the burvey. TLc mean rise of the tide i 7 feet. At the full and change of tho tuoctt the high waters will rise low waters fall lower higher, and trie low waters than the above, and consequently the depth of water on tho bar will be greater at high tide, and lower at low tide. Accurate tables of the exact rise and fall above the plane of reference (mean low water) will be given when the chait is published. In heavy north west or south cast weather, the tides arc sensi bly affected bv the wind. The highesi tide ever kut - a here from that cause rosy 15 feet above the plane of reference A beacon lias been erected on" tho sand dunes back of the South Beach to be kept in range with the Flagstaff to enter the north channel through the best water. SA1M.NU IjIHKCTIONOS. . Vessels bound for Yaquina Bay, after making the land marks before mentioued, should not run iu'closcr than 12 fathoms, until they get the signal on Light House Point (or the North Head) to. bear N. K, i E., then run ( for it until range signals are on. . The range signals aro' a bcacoa erected on the saud dunes directly,back of the Beach, nod tho Flagstaff on tho hill be hind. These arc to be kept m range un til the water-deepens to 3 fathoms; and the slide or diamond shaped hill on the north side of tho bay bears N. by K. K., then run for it until opposite the town. Anchor above the houses, in tho stream, and as close to tho shore as the vessel will swing; lower down the holding grouud is bad and the current on the ebb very strong. A. W CHASE, U. S. Cost Survey, in ch'g Survey of Yaquina Eey. . ' A. Good NimiT Kiss. -Always. send child to bed happy. Whathever cares may- troublo: your mind,1 give the dear child a warm good night kiss as it goes to its pillow. The memory of this, in the stormy' yars which may bo in store for the little' one, ; will be like Bcthelo hem's stiri( to the bewildered ehephcrds ; and welling up in tho heart will rise the thought: , - "My father, my mother- loved mo l" Lips parched, with fever " ... ' ' ' . .t .1 Mt H will become uewy again at mis inrui or 1 ; T.?- .1 M 1 setul memories. , ivisa your mue cnuu befoi-e lt goes to sleep. .; f" il 5' : 1ST The 'Wickedist Man' revivals in New: York are "abating." J ohjiny Allen now repents himself that he drer "repen ted," and says that the;preachcrS:arp4.80 hard on .the poor;i prostitutes,, and;, paint their sins with such mortal blackness the forlorn ccatures are discouraged in all at the dance-house' and rat-piti unfortunately are' :tcirbmg but to be counterfeits ; and the reason wenft to be that those'engaged in making them seem to be more' anixous to advertise their ' own immaculate good ness and philanthropic, dispositions "than to' really improve the. conditiou of their degraded fellow creatures. tempts at reformation x preferripg hell-fire in the future, to'pharisaical scowjs ' in the ' The ne w issue of Christians from Fpctal Correpodenco of The Crbiin. Nouni AMi:nicA iiii:.omi;a. A BRILLIANT DEKCttllTlVE LETTIfR. Arica, Pf.ru, Sept, 18, 18G8. Dr. William Trttntt, Culumlu t "When I promised, a few weeks since, to wrno you irom wio sunny lanus oi mo trop ica, I hoped to have sent plcaantpcn photo graphs of tho southwest coast, and to havo led you with me among the orange groves, to look upon tho people of Peru as they arc, courteous,-hospitable ana kind to tho stran ger. But I had scarcely arrived within her boundaries when that terrible convulsion oc curred, which has shaken the Pacific coat for over three thousand miles, and obliterat ed towns, provinces and communities forever from tho face of the earth. The general features of the catastrophe have doubtless appeared too often in the American press to need present repetition. A more vivid idea of tho action of tho earthquake will, perhaps, bo formed from a sketch of iU re sults as they here present themselves in all their fearful reality. , Arica was tho most attractive city of the whole Peruvian coast. Kivulets of pure wa ter flowed through its streets ; its northern boundary was a mass of fuilagc, where the strange bnt delicious fruits of the tropics grew in profusion, and tho traveler, either from south or north, was wont to bear with him pleasant memories of a scene so much in coutrnat with the barren and rock bound coast on either hand. To the south, imposing and majestic, rose the morro, a huge cliff, a thousand feet in height, crowned by a bat tery, and at wboxc foot elccp the mummied Incas or an age long past, ihe railroad to Tncitii skirted the bay, a handsome Custom liouao of stouo and iron I routed the mole. and being tho tnlreixA ot the south of Peru and of tho bay of Bolivia, there were every. where evidences or buy trade, wealth and refinement. Uut a swift and sudden doom was hang- .... . .V . ,1 m;, liKC the sword ot uamoeies, over the unconscious city. At a little after five, on thfj afternoon of August 2.'5rJ, the solid earth heaved and shook like a torm-tocd vessel, a roar deep and hoarse, a of subterranean thunder, was heard, and in the initmct of scJf-preacrvoat in, the frightened inhabitants tied to thetrccts and plazas. Tho delay of a moment was fatal ; for. torn from their founda'iona, as though by a giant band. house, churches, factories, all went down in ono undifdittgnifthable mass of ruin. The huia pillars uf the Custom House were toss- el about like pine-stem, and fragments of fctone and hue blocks or masonry were hurl ed like pebbles from a sling. Thoo who could, fled to the sloping side of the Morro, Mtuinblifig and reeling like drunken men upon the heaving surface of the troubled earth. Thick clouds of dut aroo, and the darkness multiplied the terror of the panic- utrtcken fugitives. Mine few, bolder than the rot, remained behind : some to extricate a loved one from the ruins; some to save some little from the gr.cral wreck : but nnttn n roar, louder and hoarser than. that of tho earthquake itself, was heard ; and the sea, crouching, a though to make the leap more deadly, retired from th ebore, and thundering ou In one unbroken wave, forty fet in height, dahedduwn upon the devot? ed city, and completed the annihilation of Ar!e:i. Siyen ttms the wave retired even times they flung theniMdvei, tiper like, upon the unresisting victim. The artli ull swayed to and fro, and moaned ilko one in JitrMK; and the houdes, homeless, dcsulaied groups kbelt Kbivering upon tlc inountain-ide, and with white faces nn l quivering lips, prayed for.mcrcy In tbo harbir were anchored the U. S. 6 Waterec, the U. S. Storothip Fredonia-, the Peruvian frigate America, and a number of merchant vccls. Toed like corks urxjn awhirlpod, now stranded by the receding wave, now borne swittly torward upon its crest, their situation was terrible, and made ten-fold more so by tho utter darkness that soon shrouded the scene. The merchant vessels were hurled upon the rocks and ut tcrly destroyed the Chanarcillo having rolled over and over and . wrapped around her one hundred and twenty fathoms as upon a spool. Tho America was crushed ; her spars earner awav, and a large portion or cer or- ficers and crew swept into eternity. Tbe Freionia, moored stem and stern by four anchors, resisted for some time the pressure of tho elements, but finally was torn from her moorings and utterly destroyed, with everv soul on Ioard. The Wateree was commanded by brave and cool officers, who took every precautions- battened down tbo hatches, secured the guns, ran lines from everv available noint. assem bled all hands on the hurricane deck, and having done all that human foresight could suggest, cnlrrdr awaited the result. ' The foTcc and velocity of the sea may bo faintly imagined from the fact that she was swept along at from twenty-five to thirty miles an hour, dragging with her 120 fathoms of chain and her heaviest anchor. Seven times were they carried back and forth by the resistless flood, not unmindful, even in such moments of fearful peril; of tho duties of humanity; but gathering in to their hospitable deck such unfortunates as floated past in boats or on fragments of w reck. 5 The waters thundered upon the crowded deck, nut the precautions taken were effectual j and when the Wateree finally settled gently upon tbe sand, and the roll was called, .not a solitary one, of her complement was missing, ouu lies on an even , keel, her bow pointing seaward, her taper masts as upright as though she were at anchor, and her hull apparently uninjur ed ; her flag floats as saucily, and is hauled down as punctually at sunset, as though she were sun a rormtuaoie uoaiing uaucry. nut her cruise is up ; she lies half a mile inland, and will henceforth serve onlv as a sorrowful monument of the power of the elements. The scene, as 1 rode slowly along the iront of tho city, can better bo imagined, from what I have said, than intelligently ' descri bed: lor miles tho beach is strewn with sad mementoes of the catastrophe. 1 Iron chests, gun carriages, coaches, boxes of tea, masses of twisted track, maps, bookf! papers, broken boats, lurniture, anchors, &o., &o.t were mingled in wildest confusion, while tho angry sea muttered threateningly, as though in wrath at the remnants of prey snatched trom its remorseless grasp. t ' , while; in such emergencies, the noblest traits of" man's character are at times brought out, so are the darker features of his - disposition otten thrown i into promi nence".: While the , officers or the Wateree Wore clothing the naked, feeding the hun crv. sheltering the homeless, , helping, the wounded and burying tho dead,' troops of human vultures were prowling among the ,. v j - -n;r j r-j ueons iur piuuuer, uuciuuoiiauy sciuou uuui their unholy, work by the uncovering of some dead face,.. or the more; intelligible; warning hf n. ro(kfid revolver. . The verv nieht of the ruin, while the waters were still in a state of unrest, and the earth still sobbing; at inter vals, like a fretful child, the glimmer of lights upon the -shore, and the sound of heavy ; blows, pointed ouc to we watcners on tho bill whero the work of plunder had be gun. " The iron safes were rifled, cases of merchandise broken open, and their con tents carried off openly by tho mule load. But ono strange and solemn freak of the earthquake was the splitting off of , huge stratum from tho Morro itself, disclosing some three hundred huacao. or Indian gravcA, dating long before thj conquest. 1 heir inmates at in grim immobility, in a crouching posture, their faces towards the sea, each with some little memorial by his side a string of colored sheila. Tit A a twwiV line, ajar of wine, or a clumsey trinket of beaten gold. There they had lain for een- lunv.,, a eucn perfect preervation that it seemed hard to believe they were not cotem porancs of tho present race. I propose visiting the interior in a few days, and will write you whenever incident or sufficient interest shall present itself, trusting that I shall never again have to paint so painful a picture as the destruction of Arica. Yours, very truly, C. S. R. THEY WO.VT TItOUKMJ YOU Children grow up nothing on m.ffi grows so fast as children. It was but yes terday, and that lad was playing with tops, a Douyant boy. He w a man. and gone, liicre is no mora chihlhrl fnr hm. D1 for us. Life has claimed him. . Wbeo a beginning i mi ; . ike raveling a stocking? ttiVK hv ... . n f mrwmm mf J 0VII LtTCB WaV Illl Ail ,a .r. 'I I. - nouse nas not a child in it. There is no y j ,vuv. i uw mow doiso in the hallboys rushing in pell mell; it is very orderly now. There are no more skate or nWu i , - vii( vans VI strings left scattered about. Things are neat enough now. There is no delay of breakfast for n. folks ; there is no longer an t.ilr you of looking for anybody, and tucking up me ocuciotnci. There are no disnntcs to settle, nobody to get off to school, no complaints, no importunities for impossi ble things, no rips to mend, no fingers to tic up, no laces to be washed, or collars io oe arranged, i here never nrl, peace in the house. It would sound HL music to have some feet clatter down the front stairs. Oh; for some children's noise I What used to ail us that we weri linwli. jog their loud laugh, checking their noisy frolic and reproving their slamming ami banging the doors ? We wish our neigh bors would lend us an urchin or two to wmv a. uuw noise in mese premises. Al . a wome without children ! It is like a lantern and no candles : a tnrden and no flowers; a vine and no grapes ; a brook and no water gurgling and rushing in its channels. Wc want to be trier! tn L vexed, to be run over, to hear child-life at work with all its varieties. During the secular davs this is enon-rh marked. But it is Sunday that puts our homes to the- proof, lhat is the Christian iamily day. The ittervalag of public worship are long spaces of peace. The family seem made up on that dav. The chiidrcn are at home. You can lav vour uanas on tncit ieads. Thev seem to re cognize me greater and lesser love to . . . . . . " Ood and to friends. The houso is peace ful, but not still. There ia a low and melodious thrill of children in it. But Sunday comes too still now. There is a silence that aches in the ear. There is too much room at the table, too much at the hearth, lhe bed-rooms are a world too orderly. There is too much leisure and too little care. Alas ! What mean these things ? Is somebody growing old 1 Are these signs and tokens? Is life wearing ? Ex. G rant Speaks a Piece. In response to a serenade at Galena, on the Gth inst.. Grant made the following speech : "Friends and fellow-citizens of Galena: Thanks for this additional mark of kind ness. Sufficient has now been heard of the result of the election, to show upen whom has fallen the great honor to ad minister the affairs of Government for tho next four years. I suppose it is no ego tism in me to say that choice has fallen on niB. The responsibility of the position I feel, but I accept it without fear, if I have tho same support which has been giv en me thus far. I thank you and ail others who fought together in this contest a con test in which all are interested personally as much and more than I. I now take oc casion to bid you good-bye, as I leave to morrow, for Washington, and shall probably see but few of you again for some years to come, although it would give me great pleasure to make another pilgrimage to tho place : where I have enjoyed myself so much; during the past few months. At the conclusion of Grant' speech, a crowd proceeded to, the residenco of Con gressman Washburn, whomade a striking speech. . What Railroads do for Farmers. To haul 40 bushels of corn 50 miles on a wagon would cost a least $12 for a team, driver and expenses. A Railroad would transport it for $i at most. Allowing an average of 40 bushels per acre, the crop would bo worth $8 more per acre, or 8 per cent., on the $100w As the relative ad vantage is about the same for other crops it is clear that a Railroad passing through a town would add $100. an acre to the value of the farms. A town ten miles square.j contains 64,000 aercs. An in crease of 100 . per acre is equal to $6, 400,000, or enough to build 200 miles of Railroad, even it it cost $32,000 per mile. But 200 miles of railroad would extend through twenty , owns ten miles square and cost but $5 per acre if taxed; upon the land. These figures are given merely as an illustration. : If the farmers had taxed themselves to build all the railroads in the country, and given, them away to any .companies that, would stock and run them, the present increased value .ot their lands would have well repaid tbe outlay. " ' '' 77-" i!;vr -. An old lady who" recently visited One- dia, N. Y., was asked on her return if the canal passed turougu mat place. , fche paused awhile .and answered : .,."1 guess not : I didn't see it. If it: did . it must have gone through in tho night when I was asleep." OltKdOW. In climate and soil, in its general adap- tabil'tty to the purposes of agriculture, 9 portion of the ?lorth American Conti-; nent surpasses Oregon. On the Pacific'' coast, co equal with California, it is the extreme limit whither the; "Star of Era-, piro takes its way." Yet superior to Cal ifornia as a land whero the farmer may flourish scarcely a year but what he will6 havo a bountiful supply of rain to moist-, cn, and ample sunshine to mature j garner his crops a soil that will repay, many fold for its culture. Wherefore, though settled to some ex-" tent, for the last twenty-five years, has the merit of this great North-West been, under a cloud? Wrhy that many of our Eastern neighbors scarcely know its loc- tion 1 The wherefore is easily solved,' if wc assume that .the people of Oregon' have taken a negative position, and post. . uveiy wan ior time, wnn tne marcn oi progress and slow immigration, to with draw the curtain and disclose to tb world a territory of unlimited resources mineral and agricultural; and water fa cilities sufficient to yield motive power to . every public work now existing cast, of the Rocky 3Iountains. Candor will dead us to confess our Southern neighbor, Cal ifornia, infinitely superior to us in mani-' festiog enterprise, in that she take ncC negative position. True, the . riches of her placer diggings first opened to the' world the Eden-like valleys which spread through all her borders, in climate, in soil, in the production of fruits and cere-' als, a paradise. Allured from home from friends, from old associations, by; the yellow ore, once through the " Gold-' cn Gate," trial being made of their for tunes, disappointed in the mines, the thousands wandered through those en-" chanting valleys. They came, they eaw,', and they were conquered; but in their turn to conquer, not valleys alone, but through their fertility, homes, and that fortune which first led them to the Pacific shores; ' that fortune which Providence vrouhf consider most honorable to man. Such was the manner in which California be-, came celebrated throughout the world,' and in the short rpaee cf a few years, wa. known as fully as the oldest State "of: America. But were her adopted citizen with this contented ? . Did they permit to rest here the fame of a country which had done so much for them? By: nof means. The naturalist was sent forth to explore tbe vast extent of her area, there-; by gathering data, the subject matter cf the countless pages which have been 4 strewed over every civilized country. ' So the florist has collected and made' known the various species of flowers which adorn her lands, high and low. The patrons of agriculture have commis sioned the chemist to analyze her soil. The variety and character of her timber,' r the extent of her rivers and harbors, have' r given rise to volumes and all this was accomplished by public and private n-' terprisc. What if all this had been done for Oregon by HER adopted citizens?1. Has the State an arrangement for pub lishing a volume of valuable statistics, re ' lating to the valleys of the Columbia and . Willamette, and of their many great trib-'. utaries, those noble rivers over; which1 Mounts Hood and St. Helens, snow-" crowned, cloud-capped guardians, watch- ' ing day and night, would teach us to re-'; gard with admiration and awe as soma of ( natures noblest scenery, those beautiful1 and extensive valleys, which, in some re spects, those of California may equal, but, taken as a placcof abode, arc inferior? Arc there published statistics relating to those, which may be cheaply circulated , among the hardy, toil-worn, laborers of Europe and our own country, seeking ,v home where God will bestow upon them; ': as a recompense for tho weary past,' the ' blessings they, of all men. are best entif tied? Where can they find such a horns...:, as "they would in sparsely settled Oregon? AVherc a home, in which, with so little 11 labor, their table will bo supplied withr' abundance ; where, for the strength they exhaust in one day ill Europe,' they might enjoy the luxuries of life for a month ? and where, with a few years of such la bor as that through which they are ne cessitated to pass in the Old Countries, they would become independent, and free from all want. Such an immigration will enrich the State as well aS themselves.--Have we any societies in our midst to thus Sromote the' welfare' of Oregon, and in-, uce the honest bnt careworn people of other nations and States to settle among us, by means of hooks and copious ad- vertisements ? Had California the ad vantage of rich diggings -to attract imxnU gration, and yet deemed necessary to ad- vcrtise her resources the foundation for av great and prosperous State, much more Oregon has need of resort to the same, means, never having had an inpouring of T thousands of gold-hunting nomads 1 : Now, unbss we bo selfishly inclined, aud would keep our resources husbanded and hidden from the world, should not ft" -system be inaugurated of making knownf thoso various great resources, in many re gards equal, in many superior, to those- , of any other State in tbe Union., Im ' migration will then come Oregon will have its complement ; will assume a po sition, and will keep it. Try, Oregonians," " and you will never regret the day. land Commercial. Bondholders made their purchases at fifty cents on the dollar. ' Their inyesl-,, ments pay them, f therefore twelve i per1 cent, in gold, equal to hfteen per; cent. in currency. They are exempt from : taxa tion and thus gather very nearly twenty per cent on the price of blood. Senator Henderson says that they interposed to ? delay reconstruction, ; their purpose being; v to prevent the possibility of the speedy ? extentions of the funded. debt of the t country. T-iey would now make the five- wenties 1 run' through forty years, and ;t thus make Vaeir children the hereditary;;" aristocracy of America. -; To perfect this A scheme the States must be consolidated v and the Union converted into an empire
