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Peter Britt, Piiiotogfaphic Artist, JACKSONVILLE, OREGON. Ambrotype s, Photographs, Cartes de Visite DONE IN THE FINEST STYLE OF ART. ".Pictures RedHced OR ENLARGED TO LIFE SIZE. JOHN MILLER'S SpjDrtman's Depot ! Tliir-ci Street, Next Door to B. F. Dowell't Law Office; KEEPS ALWAYS ON HAND THE best stock of Guns, patent and home made Rifles anil Shot Guns, single and double; Revolver of the lateM patent; Pocket Pistols, neat, small and powerful ; Derringersr the lat est and best. Also the bet Powder and Pow der Flasks ; all sorts of Shot and Pouches ; Caps, Wads, and everything !n the Sportsmau'a line. The above goods are all of the best qual ity, and will be sold at reasonable prices. All orders In my lino promptly encuted ; re pairing done promptly and ivilb dippatch. Having sold out my saddlery business those indebted to me are requested so call and settle. JOHN MILLER. Jacksonville, Oregon, Nov. 5, 1870-tf U, BAILROAD SALOOJKE M. A. BRENTANO CODSTDTJCTOH, t'uoiee Liquors and Cigars always on hand. THROUGH TICKETS 121 CENTS. NEW STATE SALOON. DRINKS 12 CENTS. The Ihiratu public are informed that Pins t Savage of the NEW STATE SALOON will quench ihcir thirst with the most choice bever ages to be found in Jacksonville for ONE BIT. "We expect to lose money by it, bnt times are bard, and we cannot see people go thinly. 16oct69 PAPE & SAVAGE. EAGLE BREWERY ! JOS. WETTERER Prop'r. THE BEST OF LAGER BEER KEPT CON stantly on band ; fold by the keg, gallon, or glass. Seeing Is believing, give me a call and judge for yourself. Jacksonville, Jan. 15, 1870.-tf DR. A. B. OVErtBECK, Physician & Surgeon, JACKSONVILLE, OREGON. Office at his residence, in the Old Overbeck Hospital, on Oregon Street. Dr. E. H. Greenman, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, OFFICE : Al the V. S. Hotel, California Street, JACKSONVILLE, OREGON. He will practice in Jackson and adjacent etnnties, and attend promptly to professional calls. feb2tf DR.A.B.OVERBECK'S BATH EOOMS, In the Overbeck Hospital, WARM, COLD &SHOWERBATHS, SUNDAYS AND WEDNESDAYS. DR. L. DANFORTH, Physician and Surgeon, HAS permanently located on the Fnrt Law Ranch, two miles north ol the Willow Springs, and offers his professional services to tbe people of Jackson and Josephine counties. DR. L. T. DAVIS, OFFICEON PINE STREET, , Opposito tlxo Old ARKANSAS LITERY STABLE. Jacksonville, Oregon. ASHLAND MARBLE WORKS. MARBLE MANTELS. MONUMENTS. Grave Stones, &c, always on band, or Bade to order. J. H. RUSSEL Ashland, July 9. 1870. ly Warren Lodge No- 10, A. F, & A- X., JL HOLD their regular communications wsron the Wednesday Evenings or preced Xing the full moon. In Jacisoxtillk. Ok soon. T. G. REAMS, W. M., Mix. Mcller, Skct.' t ' i ..I .i ' ' ' A I vl J J rw dS -Bkzfc sW sa -A J itWy WF. jS fc Jy A I i j'ip' stwrsiB wu . isss m'WN rm wm am It I r I 1 I II I I I I Jfca IX III I I I 1 I VOL. XVI. JACKSONVILLE, SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 1871. NO. 20. THE OREGON SEKTIIL. PUBLISHED Hirers Saturday JilerHiar tT B. F. DOWELL, OFFICE, CORNER 'C if THIRD STREETS. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION! flvepllars; If not paid until the-expiration of the year; six dollars? TEKXS OF ADVERTISIKQl v - One square (10 Hoes or less), first Insertion, three dollars ; each subsequent Insertion, one dollar. Adlscosnt of fifty per cent, will be made to those who advertise hy tbeyear. Legal Tenders received at current rates. Young Men. An exchange says: "Thousands of young men are to-day drifting helpless ly about on the ocean of lite, vainly hoping that ere long some favorable breeze will spring up and drive their vessels into some harbor of safety. Where that safe harbor is they have no ides, because they have no definite object in view. They have never de cided upon any course in life, but per mit their actions to be shaped and molded by the circumstances of the hour. Is it any wonder that disasters follow each other? More men are ruined through indecision than a wrong decision. Few men will deliberately lay out and pursue a plan that will ult imately work their ruin. Most young men of the present day enter the great battle of life without any well-defined system of warfare, and consequently spend thir best days in aimless pur suits. Indecision is the bane of our ex istence. Nearly all who lo not succeed in life are men who started in the race without any definite aim or purpose. m InTELuacNrs comes to as that -considerable changes of population in tbe Willamette valley are taking place this year. Many old settlers in this valley are going east ol the mountains and new comers are taking their places. Land is changing hand quite rapidly. There is a class who never ean-eodare the bustle of mod era civilization in populous districts. Thee perceive tbe change now going on in the Wil lamette valley, and are moving to the other side of the mountains where they can bare "more roam" and "more freedom." The idea ol of being shut in on all sides by neighbors is in sofferable. Oregonian. m The advertising columns of a local paper tell the truth unerringly about the enterprise, public spirit, and liber ality ol the business men where it is published. When its columns are com fortably filled with plain, solid looking advertisements, you may safely assume that it is a live business place, and that the men of business are reliable, sub stantial ana reliable. John Quinct Adams, who has sev eral times been a candidate for Gover nor of Massachusetts, has written a public letter, in whtch he says "there is nothing in tne constitution, as amended, which is not perfectly com patible with tee happineso, welfare and liberty of the people of all the States." He deplores the "halting, hesitating step with which the Democracy is sneaking up to its inevitable position of acquiescence in accomplished facts." m Democracy op the South. The prevailing Democratic sentiment in the South-west may be inferred from the Memphis Appeal, which believes that the Democratic will be successful in 1872. And that thereupon "the ob noxious amendments, and all the laws in pursuance of them, will be wiped out ; and that, without disturbance of any kind, the balancp of political power will be taken from New England, and restored to a majority of the great States, with which must rest forever the duty of maintaining a true Union, based upon consent, tree and unre served." Genebal Sherman has addressed a letter to the editor of the New York Eerald, stating that he has a deep 6eatcd antipathy to politics, and he never has been and never will be a candidate for the Presidency; that it nominated by either party he would peremptorily decline, and ewn if unan imously elected, he should decline to serve. A Forgekt. A lottery scheme has been projected in Iowa, and advertise ments nave been wiaeiy nisinouiea containing the names of the Noble Grands ot every Lodge of I. O. O. F. in that juiisdiction. The Lodges in Iowa denounce it as a villainous swin dle and pronounce the signatures of their officers a forgery. m A man should think little of the evil that is said of him, unless he thinks much of the personjvho wye it gM grmw, Excursion to Southern Oregon. A correspondent of the Oregonian, over the signature of "A. L. L-", writes the following series of letters to thtt paper, giving graphic and excellent de. scriptions of the country traversed Jy him: A journey to Southern Oregon is usually rendered tolerable at this sea son by agreeable weather, improved colors. But the weather this spring iiju uceu mm snu wet, uic noun luuiuab impassable, leaving the beautiful scene' ry alone in its glory; The railroad transports the traveler in a few hours to Hauet, the temporary terminus. He is trans ported also in thought at the agreeable escape from the former tedious modes of conveyance. Halsey is a city in embryo yet. A few rude structures have been put to gether, but preparations are visible for the erection of permanent buildings. The site is on the open prairie; the soil is good, the air iresh ana tree, and the water aounaant ana very convenient. At Halsey the mails and passengers were transferred to hacks to meet the stage on the west side of the Willam ette. Passing through fields and roads, and in view of fine farms, orchards and dwellings, the conveyances reach Haerisbubg. This town bas a commanding situa tion on the east bank of the Willamette. Its elevated position argues well for healt'i and drainage, and the town has an agreeable air to the eye of a stran ger. The railroad graders are rapidly ap proaching this place. With renewed energy this greit work is being pushed iorwaru. it win oe compeuea to pause a while to await, the erection of bridges across the Willamette river and adjacent sloughs between Harrisburg and Lancaster. An old gentleman, among the pas sengers, was looking tor farms tor a large iamiiy, which he had brought from one of the older States. They came from Sacramento in private con veyances, and had found nothing which satisfied them until after they had crossed the Siskiyou mountains. He was a shrewd observer, and manifested much piactical information on a varie ty of subjects. He affirmed that the great hindrance to tbe rapid develop' ment of this entire coast is the reieo tion of the legal-tender currency. He maintained his position by facts and ar guments, which the advocates ot hard money, on the stage, failed to' confute. He argues that both selt interest and patriotism find expression in the use of greenbacks. This currency is working its way into California. Oregon should not be the last State to adopt it. Lancaster Is pleasantly situated, on the west bank ot the river. It had on a quiet air, as if it were waiting for something. " It will not wait long. Its streets will soon resound with the locomotive's whistle. Passing many splendid farms, and open lands destined to speedy occcupa- tion, we reached Eugene City at dark. This place, named after the daughter of its founder, as the story goes, ii surpassed in beautv of site and surroundings by few in Oregon. It is well endowed with schools and church es. A busy and thriving population awaits the advent of the railroad. Young Mr. Thielson, who has command of an engineering corpi reports favor ably of the railroad work and prospects in this region. Eugene City will prob ably become a railroad centre at no distant day. A tew hours ot sleep prepared the travelers for the worst portion of the road, which must be encountered the next day. Before daylight thejourney is resumed. A wide valley recedes to mountain ranges intersected with co nical hills, between which other valleys open into tbe great plain of the Wil lamette. But we now approach the head wa ters of that river. It begins in a lake let fringed with perennial verdure, in whose transparent depths the near and distant hills ure mirrored. From the recesses of the forest opposite comes a silvery rivulet plunging down the de clivity, and you imagine that it finds entrance into the little lake. . But watch it narrowly and von will dncov. er that it turns abruptly towards the south and pursues its way into the neighboring defile. This i Pass creek, one ot the affluents of the Umpqua n ver, and this is the divide between the two valleys. A ow turn to the .North, and behold a scene of extraordinary beauty, fertil ity and salubnousness.. its busy towns and its widely separated farms invite population to share their advantages. And it requires no prophets ken to foresee innumerable homes dotting its surface, diversified with cities yet un named, the theatres of varied isd- tries, the abodes of plenty and prosper ity. On the right stretches the Cas cade mountains, on the left, the Coast range, among whose foothills are large tracts of unoccupied lands, part being suitable for tillage, and part for graz ing. Some of these lands widen into small valleys, the fat soil of which has never been disturbed by the plow. The sides and summits ot these Moun tains are covered with valuablejimber, and many a torrent plungesjrorn per ennial springs, to water the plains be low, and swell the volume of the Wil lamette river. High banks and swift Currents betray numerous water-pow- ts destined to turn the machinery for working up the staples which these hills and valleys are capable of pro ducing in unstinted abundance. The curling fleece, each fibre ot which is pressed into silky fineness and length by the thickness ot the whole planta tion, like a forest of young firs, shall find choice sustenance on these hills; cattle shall crop the sweetest herbage along the mountain sides and summits; these plains shall furnish the varied staples both of subsistence and manu facture; these mountains shall pour forth the useful and the precious ores, and the forest yield its timber. we already nave tne oeginning oi mechanical and manufacturing indus tries, and their skill is proved by their success ; but uregon aemauas a targe increase of capital and skilled labor, to turn her rich and varied resources to the best account upon the very field of their production. ALL ii. From the divide between the Wil lamette and the TJmpqua rivers the de clivity is almost imperceptible in either direction. But in going southward the traveler is soon ushered into a pass, which soon assumes the peculiar fea tures of a canyon. Through this pass the road is execrable. It is a quagmire a mortar-bed with the bottom plank pulled out an Irish bog with no chance for Irish humor. Running sometimes on the lowest ground, drain- age is impracticable ; sometimes on the Slope, aramage is iciu iu itxeu. asiis were plenty but commonly too short or not long enough, and the rest shoved out of place. Some lay about a fath omless mud hole, like spokes of a huge car-wheel, waiting for the hub to come np. I noticed that the driver was a man of taste he disliked to disturb the harmony ot such arrangements by dnving through them. He waxed el oquent in addressing his horses; and as eloquent men use expletives, so did he, adding pungency to them by many a telling gesture. In the coach, vulgar ly called a mud-wagon, passengers waxed eloquent also. Some related with groanings their experience not particularly religious, though the case did admit o'f experimental piety. Some times the horses stood "shivering on the brink" of a cross-section of the bot tomless bog, quartering of course, so as to illustrate the four angles of a square, going in with a lurch under the gentle persuasions of the driver, which sent the rear passengers into the arms ot the front ones, scraping top and sides as they go, until a violent re action returns the compliment from front to rear. There is some inconve nience usually attending snch involun tary embraces. But "variety is the spice of life," and so from ooze we go to corduroy, which would give us a regular churning it the rails were all in place. But some are floated off, and some are taken off to pry out foundered wagons. "My experience is 'scrutta- tin" said a man who was seeking con solation in a bottle of red-eye or some other flavoring extract. Pass creek canyon is not deep, bat its. novelty is attractive, being the first on this route going southward. It just now assumes unusual interest in connection wiiu me rauroau, as iu passage through the canyon will de termine its direction through the re mainder ot the State. Some affirm this while others suppose that the road may still turn eastward from Eugene City. Just here is a very suggestive sight. Halt hidden iu the foliage, on a grassy level near the babbling brook, are pitched the tents of the pioneers of General HolladayV army ot progress. But their arms science honors, not war. The engineer's shout, prelude of steam whistle, reminded us that this limping snail pace this example of Oregoni an lefthandednecs should quickly give place to modern civilization. The State shut up a comparatively good road over the hills, and gave the only transit through the interior of Western Oregon to a monopoly which levies toll for the privilege of passing through thin continuous hog. Emerging lrora the canyon the scene widens, and the going improves. But there are stretches on all these roads which are nearly as had as Pass creek canyon. A vigorous administration of law is needed to "mend the ways" of the State. British Columbia and Cal ifornia have built many miles of splen did road by the labor of convicts. That State prospers which finds profitable apioyment lor au classes. Jj um convicts who are languishing in prison for want ot exercise, be turned ont n the highways, and earn their rations. If the labor disagrees with them, it on ly shows that they should have learned to work and not to steal. If the ex posure to the Public o-aza mnwtfi.. them, it is well; it puts another re- okraiui, uu crime, nut doubtless many convicts would take to tbe task for the sake of change ot air and scene. This State has inexhanstable resourc es which are unemployed. She needs roads to convey operators to these, or to transport them to the operators. The want of good highways is a fetter which chains her, feet to the banks of her rivers, or sticks them fast in the mud-holes of forest or fatness of prairie. The high price of labor is without a parallel in the world. The State needs more 9peiatives to increase production, that when the price of labor falls, as it must inevitably, the price of commodi ties may fall with it, and even below it as it commonly does, and thus pre vent hardships to those who are the real producers of wealth. In the prisons is cheap labor. It can be had for board and lodging. And it skill fully employed on the roads, it would be far more valuable than the highest priced labor on the coast. It is a maxim of political economy that everything should be utilized. Convict labor should bo utilized, for the good of the criminal and the bene fit of the public. . The State orders her voters to work on the roads ; and if they tended the roads as assiduously as they tend the pons, we snouia nave splendid high ways. But the freeborn rights of Ore gonians run to politics as the Willam ette runs down hill. Road making is uphill work. Crossing Pass creek, we soon reach ed the incline of another stream, along the valley of which, it is reported, the railroad must run. This is Elk Creek, a tributary of the TJmpqua, which pur sue a wild and mountainous course. This region, embracing Pass Creek and some miles north and south of it, is almost in a state ef nature. The im provements are few and inexpensive, the inhabitants primitive in habits, free and slightly original.. The sparkling torrent plunges into a deep basin. Hide your hook with a worm caught under that stone, and drop it quietly into tbe hasm. H ow, it you don't haul up a delicinns trout, it is because rou are a bungler. Venison and other game is abundant. The beef tastes qneer. "is tnis oar meat?" inquires one of the company. "Well, it is. took him out of his skin two nights ago, and a bigger one I shot before that, lie came onpleasantly close." A piece of well cooked meat of such extraction, is qnite palatable, after a hard ride. "What's in a name ?" The mineral resources of this region are undeveloped, and but panially ex plored. A few miners including some Chinese, meet sufficient encouragement to keep them on the track. A.L.L. m. The region drained by the TJmpqua river is as large as the area of Con necticut, and nearly all of it is em braced within the limits of Douglas county. .Numerous ranges of hills, running in every direction, intersect the county, cre'attng many valleys, none of them very large, but generally ve.ry productive. Some of these hills aspire to the dignity of mountains: and indeed the entire plateau is bound ed by mountain ranges. The valleys are beautiful. Yoncalla valley is worth visiting to see. Before quite reaching it, we passed the estate of Jesse Applegate, tne veteran pioneor and respected gentleman, whose broth er is a proprietor of Yoncalla. This valley is a panorama of verdant beau ty. Nothing can exceed the softness and profusion of the vernal decorations which crown the loftiest summits and overspread the valp. But art has stalked in to disfigure the scene. About midway through the valley stand monuments ot man's contrivance, conspicuous for their unightliness. One is a store ever tumbling down a rounded slope, and opposite is a non descript building, two or more stories high. A court house or factory it might be or even an academy; hut some one says it is a church. The amount of materials spoiled in church building, is incredible. Both of these works ot art are exposed to the not rays ot the sun without a leaf to shade them. Ascending from this lovely valley, the traveler is loth to lose sight of it. The view of it from the south impress ed me as more charming than any other. Bnt one of nature's contrasts was at hand. Mountain fcenery of surpassing beauty invites the traveler's gaze; and anon tbe valley smiling in the sheen of the cloudless sun, or half hidden in umbrageous bowers, capti vates tho eve. One ot the ndcres on this part of the route is called Smith's Mountain, which a n not fail to' interest the admirer ot natural scenery. Gradually descending from these elevated rargef, we reach the leye) of the Calapooia creek, a stream bearintr the same name as one ot the tributaries of the Willamette. It also bears the title of the neighboring range of moun tains. Oakland, one of the thriving towns of this little State of Douglas, comes into view, and produces a decidedly favorable impression. Crossing the shaky old bridge, we climb the street, and are satisfied that we have traveled sixty miles from Eugene City. We resume our Journey with Rose burg in the near prospect, being 18 or 20 miles distant. The scenery is pic turesque and sometimes imposing. From an elevated height we catch a splendid view of the TJmpqua river, and descend towards the level over a road which is a honor to the builders. It winds in and out along the irregula rities of the hills, presenting the valley below in every aspect, and shifting the view at every step. The scene was soon obscured by the dimness ot twilight, and we reached Roseburg, 20Q miles fromPortland, and made ready for a night-ride to Canyon ville, 31 miles distant. We are still in Douglas County. We shall travel all night, and not reach its southern border till after sunrise. It extends from east to west, from the Cascades range to the Pacific shore, 128 miles. More than one region in our country is called the "Switzerland of America." Douglas county may be classed among them. But it is capable of a far richer development than old Switzerland ever reached. I have heard this county depreciated by some, and ridiculed by others. But I am confi dent that it gives no ocasion tor depre ciation or ridicule. The Willamette valley stands unsurpassed, if not un rivalled, as an agricultural region on the Pacific coast ; the TJmpqua region is equal to the Willamette in many re spects. As I live on the bank ol the Willamette, and have to drink Wil lamette water, I would not like to say, in print, whether the former has not some attractions superior to the latter but I have my private opinion about it. An early settler in the Willamette valley, now a resident of Douglas, ex pressed his idea of excellence in a queer way. He summed up the virtues of an old pioneer by saying, "he is as good as they make 'em." This was his sup erlative degree of quality for cattle and crops also. And he expressed his opinion of the excellences ot the TJmp qna region thus: "Considerin soil, climate, productions and situation, Douglas county is as good as they make 'em I" A night ride in a stage leads to curi ous experiences. Human nature works out before morning, especially if tho stage is full ot passengers. Wrap youiself up in blankets like a mummy, cushion your sides, to guard against jolts, and your neighlwr's elbows, if you can. A good preventive of sleep is a spice of danger. A portion of the road runs along the bank of the TJmp qua river, at a considerable elevation above the water. In the obscurity ot night the scene is not adapted to quiet excited nerves. It is a wild view by daylight, as I have seen it. Bnt an ap prehended danger usually inspires pre caution, and quickens watchfullness. Accidents come ot carelessness. Hav ing fallen asleep, I awoke in the midst of this scene. The moon, a little past the full, was reflected brilliantly from a narrow strip of water, leaving the mass gloomy and black in the shadow of overhanging hills. The indistinct ness gavo an impression of undefined extent or gigantic properties. There was a fascination about it which dis missed alarm, while it "rivited the gaze upn the dancing moonlight and the deepening gloom. Canyonville is near the outlet of the only pass which has yet been discover ed'through the mountains between the TJmpqua and the Rogne river valleys. It is about thirteen miles iu length. It was discovered in the early settlement ot the country; and the first wagons that passed through it followed the bed of the creek. The remains of the first road are seen in many places ; and por tion? of Gen. Hooker's road, construct ed by order of Government, are still in use. The present is a toll road, well built, and kept in good order. It runs along the level of the creek for a con siderable distdnce a beautiful, spark ling, transparent stream, one of tho numerous afflnents ot the TJmpqua. In every pool the speckled trout sail in and out, heedless of tho presence of the presence of enemies ; and on log and rock, turtles crowd up to sun them selves There is art again to deface nature. A sawmill, pioneer ot civili zation, is devouring these magnificent firs and cedars. Beyond, is an attempt to mike a farm in a canyon. The style of buildings is nniqne. The sidehill plow is not yet introduced on this farm. The road now ascends from the creek by easy grades, hugging the huge wnnKies oi ine canyon s eastern siue. Turning inward we penetrate new soli tudes, terminated by thicket, or cas cade, or barrier of rock. Then, by an apmpt angle, we are carried outward, and hang over an abyss npon a shelf cut out ol the precipice. The tops of the lofty firs are far below ns, yet near by. Thick sot and moveless, they loofe like a plantation of young trees, till the next step gives back a streak - 1'pht reflected from some buried pool - hundred-of feet below or a waterlall senas murium. .h.i .....-......, to your ear. Below, arounn, a Dove, natnre reigns in thicket and forest, crowning the heights with lofty firs and cedars, upon which the slant rays Continued en nu'&.l oi