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Cornallis
read for a!l time to come how worth
ily he lived and how gloriously he
died.
VOL. XIX.
CORVALLIS, OREGON, JULY 14, 1882.
NO. 29.
E. E. MEREIMAN,
AGENT F0K THE WOIiLD-LENOWNED
DECKER BROTHERS PIANOS,
Acknowledge now to be the best by all musicians, and used by the celebrated
ueen of players Julie Kive-KinK In preference to all others.
J. & C. FISCHER'S PIANO,
he leading and best second-class Piano on the market.
AL.UO TIT 12
Old and Established Standard Mason & Hamlin Organ.
Will be In Corvallis and vicinity from time to time to Bell these leading Instruments
or I lie world, unfair and unprincipled opposition to the contrary notwithstanding.
BAKER OF OREGON.
A Tribute to & Noted Senator The Recent
Services at Ball's Bluff, where the States
man Lost his Life Hon. M. C. George on the
Lire ana services of This Noted
City Stables ! Daily Stage Line
FEOM ALBANY TO COR V ALL IS.
TIIOS. EGLIN, - - PKmrifitnr
. j.
On the Corner West of the Engine House
CORVALLIS, - - OREGON.
AVISO COMPLETED MY
new and commodious BAHN,
am better tban ever ureDared to
keep the
Having secured the contract for carrying the
Catted States Mall and E.tpregg
EST OF TEAMS, BJ
J Jill
as. Corvallis to .A.lbanv
For the ensuins four years will leave Corvallis each
Q PA R 3 I A "CC ",!,rninS 8 o'clock, arriving in Albany about 10
LOi ibminin ULO o clock, nnd will start from Albany at 1 o'clock in the
wueiuuuo, returning lo ucrvallia about 3 o'clock
AND imtiiw win re nreparea wnn good teams and care
ful unvers anu nice comiortable and
SADDLE HORSES TO HIKE. . ASY RDmc VEH,CLES
At Reasonable Rates.
For the itffrnnnmAni'nn ,,f K.
ar rarxicuiar attention given to jjoarulng Horses
nrkf lti.t.'rh. an.l U..1.1 .... I.'..,.! . 1
Horses Bought and Sold or Exchanged
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DEIsTTIST
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AH work kept in repair frse of charge and aatisfac
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Ti uae of Nitrous Oxide Out.
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K B. AVERY, D. D. S,
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ly in Corvallis I desire to in
form the public that I am
reany to no air Kind ot dental
work. My Instruments are
all new and of the latest im
proved style All work in
sured and satisfaction mar
in teed or the money refunded
Offl ce ever Graham k Gold
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PITTS' CHALLENGER THRESHERS,
(WITH LATEST IMPROVEMENTS TO KEEP UP WITH THE TIMES)
M'Cormick's Twine Binders,
Hon. M. C. George, of Oregon,
who has just been re elected to Con
gress, delivered the following trib
ute to the great orator of the Pacific
coast, Senator Baker, of Oregon, at
the recent Decoration Day services
near Ball's Bluff, Va., where Baker
lost his lite. .He -saifc' Upon this
national cemetery, this "once dark
shadow of the valley of death," the
fatal battle ground of Ball's Bluff,
fell many a noble, gallant soldier..
But among all the brave, true men
who died npou these heights of Lees
burg, none could have been braver,
none could have been truer, than
Edward Dickenson Baker. lie was
a Senator from my State. The first
words he ever uttered in that august
body, the American Senate, were in
spired by thegrandenr, the sublimity
of the natural scenery of the wild
vv est that of the great chasm
formed by the torrent of the Colum
bia breaking through the mountain
range, the Cascades, between the
everlasting snow-capped Mount St.
Helens and Mount Hood, "where
rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound
save her own dashing. " For a lime
he had laid aside the robe of an
American Senator for the sword of
an American soldier, as once before
he had gone from the halls of the
lower House of Congress to serve in
the war with Mexico.
with the very life and woof of his
existence. His was the eye of faith,
that, accepting the prophecy of a
Seward, believed that some day it
might, for aught ho know, be infi
nitely far distant, go far that mortal
man could not then foresee slavery
would be lost and absorbed in the
superior blaze of freedom.
WHILE BELIEVING TniS,
he trusted the people ot this, land, he
felt that feverish sentiment would
subside, and returning reason would
resume its place, and that the consti
tution would remain safe, unshaken
forever, until
Wrapt in flames the realms of ether glow.
And Heaven's last thunder shakes the world below.
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PIANO or ORGAN
At her residence corner of 4th and Jefferson
Streets, CorvaUis, or will visit them at their homes
for the purpose of instructing them. Terms reason
able. Ths study of Harmony a Specialty.
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GOOD SEWS,
He that hath teeth let him hear by the Dentaphone
which enables all deaf persons to hear by the teeth.
Sample at Allen & Woodward's Drug store
CHAS. THOMPSON, Ag-'t.
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BOOTS AND SHOES.
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ISTD SHOES
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HE HAD THE OFFER
of a major-general's commission, but
as its acceptance involved his resig
nation as a United Stales Senator, he
declined to accept the high distinc
tion and honor. From-the very first,
however, the presentiment of death
mas upon him. He felt, and so ex
pressed himself, that he would never
come from the struggle alive. And
the dark wings of th.it dread mes
senger hovered o'er him, until, on
ih's fatal bailie ground, it drooped
its fearful talons to bear aloft the im
mortal spirit of the soldier statesman.
THE LIPS THAT SPOKE
the words of wisdom and courage
were here sealed forever. The eyes
that beamed with all gentleness and
love were here closed in the dim, dull
luster of death. The voice, which so
often in most beautiful cadences
wafted upon the air the brilliant
word-paintings of the fervid imagi
nation, or proclaimed in mighty
strength the truths that live forever,
was here stricken into the paralysis
and silence of death. The true, warm
heart that throbbed with patriotic
devotion for the cause of liberty and
humanity, poured forth upon this
battle field its life-blood in defense of
his life's principles. The great brain
the seat and organ of such subtle
strength and power- whether striv
ing with a Lincoln or a Logan in the
tribunals of justice, with a Douglas
or a Smith in the arena of political
debate, or coping with the polished
Breckenridge and the adroit Benja
min in the forum of the Senate was
here pierced and shattered forever
by the deadly rifle ball.
HE DIED AT THE HEAD
of his column, bravely cheering his
men, and proclaiming that he would
not ask them to go where he was not
willing to lead. His noble, lifeless
form was borne from this field rended
with rifle bullets and bayonet wounds.
Wrapped in a bloody shroud, with
banners drooping above his pulseless
form; with melancholy dirge floating
upon the despondent air; amid the
sorrowing hearts of his countrymen
drooping like the flowers upon the
breast of the departed, he was borne
from this consecrated ground to re
ceive that "mournful tribute which
the majesty of the American people
offered to the unreplying dead."
HE NOW SLEEPS
near the rolling billows of the far off
Pacific. His body is interred in
Lone Mountain cemetery near the
Golden Gate, where, years before, on
its dedication, in the spirit of fatal
prophecy, as it were, ho had ex
claimed: "Hither shall come the pale
maiden from the tearful abodes of
sorrow. Hither shall bo borne the
stricken warrior from the bloody
fields of freedom." With him alt
was a matter of, principle interwoven
His was the personification of the
peaceful spirit of eloquence and the
unaaunteci spun oi war. lie was
a wonderful man one of those geni
uses of nature which thwart across
the sky of human existence. Of fbr
iegn birth, he laid down his life for
the country of his adoption. We were
proud of him. My State, the most
distant on the golden Pacific, hon
ored him with her highest trust. He
was our Senator when he fell. We
are proud of our soldier, our orator,
our statesman, and our hero.
BAKER WAS PATRIOTIC
and magnanimous. His was the
clarion voice in the grand volume of
invocation which everywhere rose to
high heaven, "Spare os from the
madness of disunion and civil war,"
and he was the last of the Senators
to give up the hope that something
might be done by conciliation and
compromise. lie hoped, he sympa
thized, he struggled to the last, but
all in vain. At the final moment he
nerved himself for the desperate en
counter. In the Senate, in these
words, he proclaimed his intention
"Now, I will not vote to lav down
arms till, without treaty, the flag of
the United Sta'.es waves over evtry
portion of its territory. Till then
give the President a million men,give
him the whole revenue of the gov
ernment and the whole property of
the government; do not refuse a sin
gle regiment; do not furl a single
sail; do not abate a single jot of all
your embattled vigor till that hour
shall come; do not make peace till
THE GLORY OF THE AMERICAN FLAG
shall be its own defense. Why, sir,"
he excla;med, "I have heard it said
that there was a time in Ireland when
a virgin, alone, unguarded, could go
through all its length and breadth
with a crown upon her head and a
golden vase in her hand, and no man
disturb hei honor or rob her ot her
treasure. I desire, before I make
peace, to see the time when a volun
teer drummer-boy shall be able to
carry the flag of the United States
in everv city and in every wilderness
where it lias once floated, amid the
enthusiasm, the submission, the pro
found reverence, of every man, wo
man anu child who gazes upon its
stars."
HE, LIKE CLAY AND WEBSTER
7
and Jackson and Lincoln was for
trying the strength of the Constitut
ion. His soul became fired with mil
itary ardor at the attack on Sum pier's
walls; and at a mass-mveling in Union
Sqare, in New York, he delivered an
address which thrilled the souls of
all who heard it. He there pledged
his personal service to his country as
a soldiei, and closed with these im
pressive and eloquent words, which
were greeted with a thunder of ap
plause: "And if from the far Pacific
a voice feebler than the feeblest mur
mur upon its shore may be heard to
give you courage and hope in this
contest, that voice is yours to-day.
And if a man whose hair is gray, who
is well nigh worn out in the battle
and toil of life, may pledge himself
on such an occasion as this, and in
such an audience, let me say, as my
last word,
WHEN AMID SHEETED FIRE
and flame I saw and led the hosts of
New York as they charged in con
test upon foreign soil for the honor
of your flag, so again, if Providence
shall will it, this feeble hand shall
draw a sword never yet dishonored
not to fight for distant honor in a
foreign land, bnt to fight for coun
try, for home, tor law, for govern
ment, for constitution, for right, for
keedjoi for -humanity, and in the
hops tbat the banner of my country
may advance, and wheresoever that
banner waves there glory may pur
sue and freedom be established."
IT IS A SAD COINCIDENT,
in view of the eloquent oration de
livered by Colonel Baker, in Califor
nia, on the laying of the Atlantic
cable, when he joyfully proclaimed
that "thought had bridged the Atlan
tic and cleared its unfettered path
across the sea, winged by the light
ning and guarded by the billow,"
joining Europe and America, and
calling, as he did, for another Field
to scale the Sierra Nevadas as he had
sounded the sea, until the Atlantic
and Pacific had been linked together.
That, singular as it mav seem, the
first message, a few years after,
flashed across the complete link to
the Pac'fic carried a current of sor
row to the people of the West in the
announcement of thedealh of Colonel
Baker.
BAKER WAS A MAN
of wonderf ul eloquence. His flights
of thought were like the graceful
ascent of the eagle lo the sublime
heights among the grand mountain
crass and ciitts above. 1 reca I a
beautiful illustration from his reply
to Benjamin in the Senate when he
paid this tribute to the liberty of the
press: "Sir, the liberty of the press
is the highest safeguard to all free
government. Ours could not exist
without it. It is with us, nay, with
all men, like a great exulting and
abounding river. It is fed by the
dews of heaven that distill their
sweetest drops lo form it. It gushes
from the rill as it breaks from the
deep caverns of the rsrth. It is fed
by a thousand affluents that dash
from the mountain top to separate
again into a thousand bounteous and
irrigating rills around. On its broad
bosom it bears a thousand barks.
There genius spreads its purpling
sail. Tli ere poesy
DIPS ITS SILVERY OAR;
there art, invention, discovery, sci
ence, morality, and religion may
safely and securely float. It wanders
through every land. It is a genial,
cordial source of thought and inspir
ation wherever it touches, whatever
it eurrounds. Sir, upon its borders
grow every flower of grace and every
fruit of truth. I am not here to deny
that that river sometimes oversteps
ts bounds. I am not here to deny
that the stream sometimes becomes a
j dangerous torrent and destroys towns
and cities upon its banks; but I am
here to say that without it civiliza
tion, humanity, government, all that
makes society itself, would return
TO ITS ANCIENT BARBARISM.
Sir, if that were to be possible, or so
thought for a moment, the fine con
ception of the great poet would be
realized. If that were to be possible,
though but for a moment, civiliza
tion itself would roll the wheels of
ils car backward two thousand years.
Sir, if that were so, it would be true
that
'As one by odc in dread Medea's train.
Star after star fades off th' ctberial plane,
Thns at her feet approach and secret might,
Art after art goes oat, and all is night..
Philosophy, that leaned on heaven before,
Sinks to her second cause, and is no more;
Religion, blushing, veils her sacred tires,
And, unawares, mortally expires.'
HOW APPLICABLE NOW
to himself are the eloquent words he
uttered years ago over the dead body
of his friend Broderjck: "As in life
no other voice so rang its trumpet
upon the ears of freemen, so in death
the echoes will ever reverberate smid
our valleys until the truth and valor
cease to appeal lo the human heart."
Many years have rolled sway since
Edward D. Baker was stricken down.
Dust has long since returned to dust
and ashes to ashes. The silver cord
has been loosed and the golden bowl
broken. All that was mortal of the
hero and statesman has perished from
the eyes of men. Bnt his record yet
lives. The charming sentiments, the
convincing arguments, the sublime
thoughts, the grand truths which
poured fonrlh from his eloquent lips
chrystalized in classic mould and glit
tering in beautiful word-gems, vet
live in the memory of his faithful
countrymen. Though time is already
laying its effecting hand upon the
marbled tablet which casts its shadow
over his grave, yet upon the tablets
of the heart of every true American
and upon the imperishable records of
his country in living letters we may
Bsmta sazp-BtnxDniQ.
Liverpool Journal of Commerce
In the earlier part of the year par
tial accounts appeared as to tl
amount of ship-building turned cue
in the various ports of- the United
Kingdom where this industry is car
ried on, but return has just boew
issued by the Board of Trade on the
subject, and it must, of course,, be ac
cepted as a complete authentic rec
ord. The tonnage built for home and
the colonies was 501484 tons, and
for foreigners 101:694; in all 608,8S
tons. Tins' exceeded 1874 by 3000
ton's, bnt it was far in ad vance of an
other year. Leaving out of sight the
vessel constructed on foreign ac
count, we find that towards the horn
and colonial tonnage the Clyde was
the largest contributor. Taking tbat
river on both sides, from the reached
above Glasgow to Greenock as the
ultimate point, it would appear thar
169 vessels, consisting of 5.5 sailing
ships and 114 steamers, were launch
ed, the aggregate tonnage being 138,
094 tons. Next in order came the
Tyne ports, with 106 vessels of 91,
915 tons, but it is deserving of note
that the total 103 were steamers of
91,640 tons, the three sailing ships- .
averaging only 90 tons each. , In,
point of tonnage 76,927 tons Sun
derland follows, and the calibre of
70 vessels launched is conspicuom.io
asmuch as fouv were sailing ships of
4869 tons, and 66 were steamers of
72,058 tons. Fourth on. the list are
the Hartlepool s, where 30 steamers of
32,383 ton were- turned out. No-
business was done in sailing ships!
The Mersey comes next in ojderr the
number of vessels launched being
of 25,447 tons comprising 9 sailing
ships ot 12,051 tons, and 14 steam
ers of 33,397 tons. In this- instance,
the large capacity of the vessels as .
compared with their numbers is evi
dent. Stockton follows with a total
tonnage of 23,818 tons, contributed
by 6 sailing vessels of 7248 tons and
15 steamers of 16,770 tons, the pre
vailing demand for large vessels be
ing again exemplified. The same rule
lias been observed at several other
shipbuilding centers, of which the
principal may be noted, but as for the
most part the sailing vessels built
were limited both as regards number
and capacity, details' may be con
fined to steamers: Barrow had 11
steamers of 15,222 tons; Belfast 12,
of 13,694 tons; Dundee 11, of 11,710
tons; Middlesborouah 8, of 9231 tonsi
Hull 6, of 6873 tons; Whitby 6, of
6586 tons. A contrast, however, ha
been presented in other districts to
which reference has been made. At
Southampton there were launched I1
sailing ships ot 8424 tons-, ami
steamers ot 2975 tons; at Leith 1 sail
ing ship of 901 tons, and 12 steamer
of 3937 tons; at Whitemven 2 sailing
ships ot 3847 and 5 steamer of 189S
tons; at Campbeltown 5 steamers of
1212 tons; at Bristol 1 sailing ship of
84 and 3 steamers of 349 tons; aft
London 46 sailing sh-'ps Of 1963 and
18 steamers of 760 tons; at "other
ports" 204 sailing ships of 14,106 and
39 steamers of 2508 tons. Li aft 845
vessels for some and colonial owner
left the stocks last year, with an ag
gregate tonnage, as already said, of
501,184 tons, but the demand, on the
whole, for vessels of larger capacity
is made evident by the tact that
whereas iu 1877, and again- in 1878,
upward of 2000 were launched, the
tonnage in each of those year wa
ouly about 430,000.
THINNING THE FEUIT,
Those who thinned peaches, pear
and apple, soon after the fruit had
set, thought at the time they were
thinning severely, now that it has in
creased in size, are surprised at the
abundance of fruit on their trees. It
is rarely that even the experienced
remove enough at tfte first thinning-
novices never do, and it is often nec
essary to go over their trees again
when the fruit is halt grown or more..
At this time we ean see what is not
manifest when it is small, any impor
feetionsjn the form or trait. Pears,
especially those which grow in clus
ters, will become one-sided by the
crowding, and this should be kept iiv
mmd at the latter thinning, and the
least perfect removed, Tn this, a
well as all other operations on trees,
some thought should be put into the
work. Those who are intending to
co m pete for premiums at the autumn
shows, should not lose sight of the
fact that thinning is a direct and le
gitimate means -of producing "the
best six" or "best twelve" specimen
of pears or other fruit. Those who
have an eye to the prizes offered for
grapes should begin preparing for
them now, and not let three cluster
grow where a s:ngle one would be
better.