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i)C lUeekln Enterprise.
Oregon City, Oregon :
D. C. IRELAND, EDITOR AXD PROPRIETOR.
Saturday, March 23. 1867.
Keligiocs. Rev. 1. S. Knight, of the
Congational church, will to-morrow, as
on last Sabbath. addre3 liu congregation
upon temperance topics. . '
Money. Money continues to acenmn
te. and ".10 12, per cent, per annum
.feems getting to be the prevailing rate at
San Franciseo.- -
Con- ;i: ess: oval- FayousI Hon. Charles
Upson, (our old friend Charley.) and Hon.
Austin BIir. of Michigan, have sent us
valuable Congressional documents.
" Gratcitocs. An obscure sheet printed
Weekly at Albany, has taken to belyipg
the Editor of this paper. We think we
sball be able to survive all such infamous
slanders without loss.
) SXhh Fox. The thud ease of small
Opox in San Francisco was reported on
Thursday. It came from the same source
from which that at Fortland was derived.
The I'anaaia steamers.
. Comjiekci vi.. T he Fiddlier arrived at
Fortland ou Thursday, and will sail to day
fqr Victoria. The Jane A. Falkinhurg is
in tin? river, from Honolulu. The Ajax
i. expected- to-day. The Idaho leaves
San Francisco for Fortland to-day.
A Delicate Way of Expressing It.
General Sterling Frice, who is now at his
old " stamping ground" in St. Louis, has
(says a Missouri paper) '; had his acquaint
ance with his friends interrupted since
lbiil "
M u.st be a Fool. Milt. Abbott is such
a fool as to not understand that there is
no such grounds as neutrality, in the po
litical sense, these days. But, after all.
what more can be e.tpected of a man who,
in this age. prints a State Rights' Demo
crat. Whv. vou conceited ass, you are a
generation behind the times.
A Ci'kio.sitv. A late San Francisco
paper says that Frof. W. F.Blake has been
presented with two large teeth, by Colonel
Buckley, of the American and Russian
Telegraph Survey. One is from the mouth
of the Yukon river. Frof. Walker, of the
Fortland dredger, last year offered us a
snag from the mouth of the-Willamette.
We prefer sound teeth.
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Orecov Fapers. -The Salem Review has
recently enlarged its pages, and is other
wise greatly improved. TEe Daily Herald,
otQportland, has commenced its second
year under more favorable circumstances.
The Lafayette Courier will be soon en-
lirged.- The MwUainccr Is now A NaT.
The Ensign is the name' of a new paper
soon to be started at Roseburg.
Cantankerous.; The self conceited ass
of the Albany paper is getting as cantank
erous as one might welt im igine. In his
lastssue he displayed his best talent for
billingsgate and lying, directing his prin
ciple shots at the editor of the Enterprise.
the Unionist, and the F. T. Co. Falsehood
is his chief source of inspiration: Reduce
that fellow to the smallest possible'dimen
pions in his own estimation of himself, and
then subject him to a chemical analysis.it
would likely be found that his composition
contains animal excrement in quantity
Kujlleient to manure all the arable land of
this valley. He has mistaken his calling,
and is ekeing out a precarious, miserable,
livehood. in the effort to sustain a position
which it is utterly impossible for him to
fill, without brains.
The Age op. Reform.s. Ideas travel a
little faster now than they did half a cen
tury ago. As the prent means of loco
motion is to the lumbering stages of days
gone by. so is the present march of ideas
tpthe sfmv progress of the past. Ques
tions which might, forty or fifty years
ago, have been' left ih quiescence for a
decile, now drmind instantaneous atten
tion. The present reform agitation in
England is of compartively recent growth.
yet, in less than a tweivemoath it has
O shaken every commercial cen;er of the
United Kingdom, and roused the people
from a sleepy apathy into active and vig
orous life. The Government cannot shut
their eyes to the fact that cheap newspapers
and the telegraph have turned the great
stolid masses into acuve thinkers, and
Therefore into a power which no govern
ment can disregard. This is an age of re
forms. Indiana. According to the message of
Governor Baker, of Indiana, the State
debt is $o.39G.G12.08.. The Legislature
met- on' the 12th of January. TheLegisla
ture has before it a bill to make " bolting'"
frofi? either house, by any member, when
a question is before k a misdemeanor,
O punishable with one thousand dollars fine.
This is a very sensible measure. Repre
sentatives tire not elected for the purpose
..f running away to prevent legislation
when thev happen to be in a minoritv.
But the bill is likely to be defeated by a
' bolt'7 of the Democratic Senators. to
prevent its passage. It has become neces-
O -iry to provide a house of refuge for juve
nile offenders.. Among other important
bills was on regulating the price of freight
on railroads huhe State. The establish
ment of a Board of Emigration is next re
commended, and the importance of dis
seminating specific information in foreign
O countries as to the advantages held out by
Indian i to those seeking new homes oil
this continent,
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A Cool Subject. Recently certain gen
OUemen of Fortland asked permission of
the Sitka Ice 0mpany to dispatch a ves
sel to the North for a cargo of ice to come
to Fortland. The proposition was refused
rather cuolly, but the Fortlanders were
told they could obtain ice at San Francisco.
q from out of the Company's ships, at a rate
that would bring the article up to at least
It) cents per pound fn the Fortland
market. This leaves the matter rather
open.- but no doubt the ice will be ob
tained from somewhere. At the Dalles
i he people have succeeded in obtaining
some ice for home use. About twelve
tons have been taken from the reservoir
ions ot ice and pressed snow have
been put up. The Mountaineer rejoices
taai its. people will have wherewithal to
Jteey go tiu coming suauuer.
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Change in the Internal Revenue
On the first day of this month certain
amendments to the Internal Revenue
Laws went into operation. Every tax
payer is concerned to know how far these
amendments affect him. and whether they
increase or dimmiVa the burden of taxa
tion. We are glad to say. says the Alta.
that all the changes are in favor of the
people. Heretofore, manufacturers wore
assessed on or before the 10th day of each
month for the sales of the previous month.
If the tax was not paid before thp expira
tion of the month, the law required ten
per cent, to be added to the amount, as
penalty for lack of promptness. Frequent
ly this tax was not collected for months,
and yet the penalty was not increased.
Commissioner Rollins said in his report :
- The addition of ten per centum a3 a
penalty for the non-payment of the tax on
or before a certain day is sometimes a se
vere hardship, from which there is no re
lief, even in cases of sickness or accident.
In some instances large manufacturers,
punctual usually in their payments, from
the failure of a mail, or the unexpected
absence of a clerk, have been subjected to
the payment of several thousand dollars.''
In accordance with the Commissioner'3
recommendation, the penalty has been re
duced to five per cent, for the first month,
and one per cent, additional for each suc
ceeding month. The tax on sugars is very
much reduced and simplified. Heretofore
the amount of duty was regulated by the
Dutch standard, the rates being two cent?,
one and a half, or one cent, according as
the sugar ranged above 18, betwen 12
and 18, or between 12 and under, of that
standard. By the amended law the stand
ard is entirely changed. All sugars from
the cane are taxed one cent per pound,
and all refined sugars two per cent, ad
valorem. Sugar being an article of such
general consumption, every person is af
fected by this change. The tax upon hats,
caps, bonnets and hoods articles worn
by everybody is reduced from five to
only two per cent., and a similar reduc
tion has been made on india rubber boots
and ahoes. Leather of all descriptions,
whether tanned in the rough or finished,
was taxed at live per cent. ; it now pays
only two and a half per cent. A similar
reduction has been made in wool manu
factures. Over one hundred articles cf mannfac
ture, heretofore paying duty, have been
exempted entirely from taxation these
being mainly articles whieh affect all per
sons in the community. Our legislators
have acted wisely in this respect ; the
policy adopted by Great Britain of confin
ing taxation to a few articles having
proved more successful than any other
plan adopted for supplying the revenue
necessary for the support of the nation.
By the amended law the ten per cent, tax
ou incsme is changed to five, a uniform
rate being thus established. The exemp
tion of oce thousand dollars, instead of
six hundred, removes one of the most
odious features in the Internal Revenue
Law.
A few changes in the law remain to be
made, and we shall endeavor continually
to expose them, in hopes that Congress
may soon perfect our revenue system.
We feel truly grateful, however, that so
much has been done. The nitional debt
should not be paid by the present genera
tion, which has- borne the other burdens of
our civil war. It will suffice, at present,
if. each year, the interest on the debt he
promptly paid, and the principal be di
minished by ten or twenty millions. When
the Sonth shall have been reconstructed,
and the industry and capital of the whole
country shall be productive when" popu
lation shall be greatly increased, and new
sources of wealth ba opened tip then,
without checking industry or burdening
the people, the nation will be able to re
duce its debt in a geometric ratio that
will secure its total
within fifty years.
extinguishment
Sound Doctrine. Speaking of the late
riot, in San Francisco, occasioned by the
close competition of Chinese labor with
that of the free laboring men of California,
the American Unionist says :
The fact that Asia, with its over-crowded
population, is now being put in quick
and regular communication with this
coast, by the establishment of the steam
ship line between San Francisco and
China, will do very little to allay the ap
prehensions of the working-men on this
coast, that if something is not done, and
that speedily, they will be compelled to
earn a living in competition with the
Coolies, a condition that no right-minded
man desires to see them reduced to. The
question then to be solved is how can we
best protect the interest of free labor on
the Pacific coast, for the conditions of the
question presents this as the point at issue.
ITtKier existing treaties, which is the law
of the land,, we doubt if there is much
margin left for State organizations to act
in. Certainly there is no power permitted
to us on this coast as States to entirely iu
hibit Chinamen from coming here under
stipulations now existing in the treaties
between China and the United States.
The legal and only authorized wav then
for us to deal with this question, is to-have
our treaties remodeled in such a manner
that the China nabobs cannot send over to
us their slaves, and enter the labor market
in competition with free Americans who
have families to support and educate. Un
til every peaceful remedy has been ex
hausted we depricate all violence, and es
pecially all outrages against the poor op
pressed China laborer, who feels that his
master's rapacity has made him an exile
in a strange and unfriendly land ; but
rather let the attention of the treaty
making power of our Government be
called to this questioa ;let the Government,
thro -gh our Pacific Senators, be informed
that our laboring free men must not be
forced to compete for bread and raiment,
with the slaves of China.
Japan Politically. It appears quite
likely that after all our care in making
treaties with Japan, the work is waited,
and will- have to be done over agfain. We
have treated with the wrong man. The
Tycoon.it seems, is not the Tycoon, but
somebody else a sort cf counterfeit Ty
coon, whqm the Daimios and tlieir subjects
call the Shogoon, and who, according to
the Japan Times, is only the '"Generalis
simo.' and the fourth subject ia the empire."
OREUOJT
Capt. S. J. McCormick recent'y address I
the friends of the Irish Republic, at Vancou
ver. Proposals for the erection of the Albany
College buildings, wdl be opened to-day, by
John Connor.
There is a prospect that the city of Port"
land will receive the J14j5uoappropriat-2d.br
Congress for the improvement of the Wil
lamette river. Mie is justly entitled to it.-
Owing to the non arrival of the Honolulu
packet, now over due at Portland, the (Srego
nian says there is not a half-barrel of Ishtnd
sugar in the market.
Davis' Combined Reaper and Mower i'a an
Oregon iuvention, which proved very suc
cessful last year, and is likely to come into
pretty geueral use.
The next term of the Willamette Univer
sity wi'l commence on the 2 2d of April. At
that time the medical department will be in
augurated; The siJveeiite learns that Rev. Mr. Earfe,
an evangelist, will soon visit Oregon. He
was to have sailed on the last steamer, nor
due.
There are sixty-eight lodges of Good Tem
plars ia Oregon, and eight in Washington
Territory, with au aggregate membership of
S.ooo.
The Herald learns that the new water
wheel, invented by Mr. Shipley of this coun
ty, upon a practical test astonished even the
liiventoi himself.
The Oregonian learns that Mr. A. S. Mer
cer now has charge of the Custom House at
Astoria, under special directions of tueSsc
retary of the Treasury.
Cox & Hamilton oi Salem are furnishing
the Hooker, Wilson, Albany and Longwoittt
Prolific varieties ot Strawberry plants at 3
per 100, $2 for 50 ; or 7i cents per dozen.
We learn from the Advocate that J. C N.
Moreland and W. 13. Laswell, young students
have been admitted to the bar to practice
law in the Courts of Washington Tertitory.
The Walla Walla people are agitating the
matter of bui'diag a woolen miM there. You
are Quite correct. lit other Newell. Such in
stitutions do ward off" dull tmes," and pre
vent pauperism, if rightly conducted.
Mr . J. Minto, of Mai ion, is about to try
the region east of the Cascade range tor
sheep raising and wooi growing. If anyone
can produce good results from alkali-flats,
Mr. Minto is the man.
Mr. Joseph Watt, of Amity, Yamhill Co.,
has several paicels of valuable land for saie,
varying in lots of from ti-io acres to a town
residence. His heniestead. containing 1,230
acres, 5u of which is under cultivation, he
wishes to lease.
The Advocate says the people of Portland
have le.ison to be very tha'ikAil for tiie pnv
liege of educating their children so well at
home. There are numerous schools ot vice
in Portland, that can show a larger average
attendance that the schools ot which our
contemporary speaks.
Petitions are now in circulation to receive
signatures, praying the Post-office depart
ment to discontinue Sunday mail in Oregon.
The prayer is, that the contractors shall not
be required to carry mails on the Sabbath,
and that Postmasters shall not be required to
keep the offices opeu for the delivery of mail
matter.
The new Philomath College building, six
miles from CorvaUia, on the Yaquina Hay
road, is of brick, 40x60 feet, three stoiies in
height. The first term is designed to begin
ou the first of May. The Unionist learns that
the tract of" land upon which the college is
located has been laid out in lots, and $5,000
worth has been sold.
There is a small-pox excitement at Pott
land. On Wednesday the matter was sever
al octaves in height. The Oregonian says
the disease was brought by the Continental.
Hut one case has been developed, but it is
quite prooaole that others may soon be ue
velopert, and siinpte prudence would dictate
the observance of the usual precautions
again st exposure.
The Colutfihia Press is surnd on the labor
question. The editor says he can never en dorse
the employment of Chinese for general
labor in this country, so long as there are
thousands of white people on the co.ist seek
ing employment, winch is refux.d them un
less they will work for the mere nominal sum
which amply remunerates the Chinaman,
(who is a .dave,) and, besides, retarns a
handsome reward to his master.
The telegraph reports that a resolution
passed the Senate on the 14th, releasing Mr.
Corbett from his contract to carry the mails
between Lincoln and Portland." This was
done at his own request, in view of the law
loi bidding members of Congress from beinsr
also contractors with the government, it
is somewhat probable that .vhea tins service
is re-let, the daih mail between Kugene an.l
Shasta will be reduced to a ueckh , or siuii
weekly mail.
Parties at Portland have inspected the
sunken bri Due Je Large, by mentis. of' sub
marine armor., with a' view to raising her,
and again setting her afloat. .She has only
been out of sight Jifteea years. There ore
plenty of older tubs considered safe why
may not the Due swim? We next expect to
hear of some one shoveling the sand onto
the old Sylvade Grace, preparatory to start
ing her on some "voyage of discovery."
1'Ue New York correspondent of the (?v-goiiior,,-speaking
of Hutman's Mount Hood,
and'qiu-st tor Oregon landscape painting,
savs: When the Pacific Railroad is completed,-and
a branch from Salt Lake to the Co
lumbia., and the Oregon and California roads
are finished, thousands of American million
aires and travelers, who now visit the Alps
aad-Pyrenees, and th.nk they have done the
mountains, wiil then- pass their summer .rea
sons arooi.d the Cascades; and the Sierras.
And the time hen all these things sliail
surely be brought about, is not lar distant.
At the store of Mr. Shunahan, says the Or
(aoniaii. may be seen a-specimen of Vorsted
embroidery,- worked by Miss Kate Hayes; -of
this city, which, for finish and beauty,-quite
eclipses an of the puze pieces we reu-ieni-ber
to have s-en at any of the .State fairs.
It is a bouquet of full blown roses and vio
lets, raised so as to appear in full relief and
in the natural colors of those favorite flow
ers. Tiie leaves are worked with bead, in
such manner as to present the appearance of
being refreshingly ladeu with dew. Mr. S.
has set it beautifully in an oval, gilt frame,
which makes it an ornament, and a rare piece
of art, that one might well covet.
A yallerpup the proprietorship of which
was disputed between Buckskin Hill and Wm
Akers', of Portland, lias been in Court tor
two weeks, and is 'ikely to cost Multnomah
county more than her entire batch of dogs is
worth. The latest phase is a civil action,
Hill vs. Hoffman. Buckskin sues Hoffman,
before Anderson, and then there is a change
of venue to G radon, and again to Harney
Trainer's Court, where the defendant will be
tried for $100 damages, tor loss of the dorg,
the title to which was vested in Akers iy
Hofl'man, while acting in the capacity or a
Jus ice of the Peace.
The Unionist, speaking of the late exhi
bition of stidl fed cattle at Salem, says Mr.
Daniel Clark exhibited 25 head, mostly four
year olds though a tew were three and six
20 of whieh were purchased from a her d and
selected with reference to this mode of treat
ment. Estimated weight when purchased,
G5o lbs.; present weight 72o lbs. Commenced
feeding first of January, using timothy nay
and chopped whtat '60 lbs. of the former
and 1 i lbs. of the Putter to each head per day
thongn for the first two or three weeks but
12 lbs of chopped feed per day. Estimated
cost for each head per day, 5 cents. In the
opinion of several of tiw com-oittee Mr. C.
delayed commencing to teed until the stock
hud declined in weight. Mr. Thomas Cross
exhibited some So head; the- greater portion
of his own raising. They were in two lots
t First lot estimated to weigh an average of
i.uov i os. eaen ; secona tot 1,100 lbs. each.
Thirty steers (four year olds), raised entirely
on grass until January lsl,. 1S67, and since
that time fed 1 lbs. of meal per day for first
month, and four feeds of oats to lortv head
since then. 15 of meal and same of oats for
first mouth. Not verv clear. Twenty
steers (four yeai olds) fed cut hay and straw
in equal parts ; each lot entirely upon grass
with exception of time when snow was on
the ground. He has pastured thee steers at
a cost of $4 year. The committee appointed
were John Barrows. C. L. Buckhart and J
Parrish of Linn county ; Lewis Pettyjohn and
Thomas L. Davidson, ot" Marion. Tiie exhi
bition rvtleted great credit upon the owners
uuu tin; iaei.3 give some promise of profit in
this method of treatment. The pommittee
wiB prepare a report for publication.
TELEGRAPHIC SEWS.
We take the fodowimr telegraphic news
Irom dispatches to the Morning Oregontan.
Dat s to Marcli filst.
R H. Newell has obtained a divorce
froui Adah Isaacs Menken. Adah has got
a iXe'n' York dispatch of the 20th says
frade ia dull. California Oregon flour
closed at an advance. .
There is a prospect that the trial of Sur
ratt will be postponed until the June
term of the district court.
Mex:can news is up to-day. and down
to-morrow. Max. was annoyed by guer
rillas ou his march from the capital.
A meeting in Buckingham, Va., en
dorsed the military reconstruction bill
and framed a call for a State Convention.
The Governor of Arkansas lias vetoed
-the b dl loaning olO OUJ per m.le to aid in
building the Pacific Railroad. It will
probably pass over the veto.
Gen. Pope has been appointed comman
der of the Third Division under the recon
struction bill. Gen. Thomas remains in
the Department of Cumberland.
The Judicary Committee continues to
examiue witnesses as to the official acts of
the President, with a view to sustain the
charge of impeachment.
A royal decree has been issued in Spain,
authorizing the Spanish Minister of Marine
to cont ract for a submarine cable to Porto
Ilico. Mexico, and Pauama.
It is said the President will appoint only
Democrats to office hereafter. Should the
Senate not coufirm them the responsibility
will rest on that body. Indications point
strongly to impeachment.
Dispatches lrom Constantinople state
that the Turkish Government is determined
to continue the war in Caudia. and is pre
paring to send thither ten battalions of
troops under command of llasson Pacha.
It is said the President will immediately
veto the supplemental reconstruction bill,
giving the same reasons as in his veto of
the former bill. Congress will then adjourn
by Saturday, to next winter.
A Vicksburg despatch says that the
Conservatives are fearful that the recon
struction plans of Congress will prove suc
cessful. Who is opposed to harmony, as
indicated by the above ?
A Canada dispatch says that although
there is n:thiag on the frontier to cause
alarm at present, active preparations are
bei lg made to have troops in readiness to
move at once to any point.
The II '.raid's correspondent, says that
Georgia ;s ready to accept the terms of
the Sherman bill. It is said that in nearly
every Southern State the negro vote will
undoubtedly be cast on the rebel side.
By the fire-eating politicians of Louisi
ana Sheridan's order postponing the elec
tion is accepted without disturbance. The
impeachment of Gov. Wells has been re
ferred to a special committee.
Arrests of Fenians continue in Ireland.
Head Centre Donovan, who was captured
in Cork, and Burke, one- of the leaders re
cently captured, and forty others, have
been tent in iron to Donegal and put in
jail.
A Richmond special says the Pnion men
are canvassing the State of Virginia to
counteract the mfiueee of prominent reb
els who accept the situation, and will en
deavor to secure the negro vote for their
own particular end.
The report of Ur. Livingstone's murder
rests on the authority of nine native at
teud tnts. They say that the attack was
made suddenly and half the party mur
dered. Livingstone was not murdered by
them facing him. but was cut down from
behind while endeavoring to re-load his
revolver.
A Richmond dispatch says Gen. Scho
field's order assuming command as military
Governor of Virginia, gives entire satis
faction. Political movements are in pro
gress throughout the State. In several
counties the popular voice had called for
a convention under the Sherman bill.
The Commissioner of the General Land
Office has returned a survey in Umatilla
valley, Oregon, lor 10.3.0UU acres. The
Ivtstern termination of the base line has
bee:i rx ended to within twelve miles of
Snake river, the Eastern boundary of
Oregon.
A special to the Commercial Advertiser
says that the House has voted in favor of
extending the recess to December. This
is regarded as a fatal blow to impeachment.
The members favoring impeachment con
tribute every effort to prolong the present
- session.
There are rumors that an understanding
has been effected between Fiance and the
United States that the latter shall pur
chase Chihuahua, the proceeds to be ap
plied to the payment of the French Mex
ican war bends, which France meanwhile
assumes.
In tie House on the 11th, Julian of In
diana introduced a bill fixing the time for
election of Representatives and Delegates
to Congress, and a bill to constitute eight
hours as a legal day's work for mechanics
and laborers employed by or in behalf
of the Government. 'Referred to the Ju
diciary Committee.
The Democrats of Rhode Island have
nominated Lyman Pierce for Governor, C.
IL Durfee lor Lieutenant-Governor, Win.
S. Miller for Secretary of State. George .N.
Bliss for Attorney General, and James At
kins foV Treasurer.
The Michigan Democracy, in convention
at Detroit, last week, adopted resolutions
denouncing tho reconstruction act and de
claring that the entrsvachiement of the ne
groes and the disfranchisement of the
whites, as portended by Congressional ac
tion, is unconstitutional, arbitrary and
revolutionary.
It is probable that Senator Thomas of
Maryland will be refused his seat on ac
count of aiding the rebellion while a mem
ber of Buchanan's Cabinet ; also that
Senator Patterson of Tennessee will be
ousted on account of taking an oath to sup
port the Confederacy while a Judge.
The W'orld's Albany correspondent says
that Francis Skiddy and other members
of the P. M. S. Co., have arrived to- engi
neer the in vasiigating committee. The
fact that these leaders came up here to
control these appointments, is regarded as
a proof that something is rotten in the
management of the company r affairs. A
resolution to invesiigate their affairs re
cently passed the assembly.
Delegations from the South are ariving
dady to obtain the views of the President
on the reconstruction difficulty. The bill
repudiates the Southern States' debts. It
decla res the present State Governments il
legal. All the Southern States have issued
bonds since the establishment of the pres
ent Governments.
The Evening Post's correspondent at
Raleigh- N. C, says that the only danger
threatening brval men moving for recon
struction under the supplementary act is
that the commanding Generals may dele
gate their powers and duties to the pres
ent government of the rebel States. The
first election under the Congressional pol
icy shortly occurs to fill the Newbern mu
nicipal offices.
The Journal of Commerce says tire- immi
gration from Germany to America this
year is likely to be small. The changes in
local governments in the late war of Prus
sia is also detaining those who are liable
to military service. Two steamers re
cently arrived at Xew York from which
the baggage of many emigrant and the
owners were taken off before their sailing.
A Xew Orleans dispatch.says Sheridan
order is that no geueral removals from
office will be made unjes3 the present in
cumbents fail to obey the law of recon
struction. Pending the reorganization it
is intended to make as little disturbance
as possible ia the machinery of the various
branches of the provisional governments.
This condition is dependent upon the dis
position of the people, and steps will be
taken for the reorganization of the Courts.
A Selma. Alabama, dispatch of the 18th
says : The largest meeting ertr witnessed
in this city was held here yesterday. Reso
lutions were unauiiTro'usly'adopted". strictly
Union sentiments, acknowledging the right
of Congress to- prescribe the terms cf re
construction necessary to the re-admission
of the seceded States, and urging the peo
ple of. Alabama to forthwith accept the
beneficial terms of reconstruction' offered
to them.
Great efforts are making in Louisiana
and other Southern States to' induce
wholesale immigration from
Germany to
Emniigration
Louisiana and Texas
The
Bureau are alive and
wording. The pa
pers complain that hundred of families
from Germany who were preparing to
settle in the South are turned Xorth by
the injurious representations of Western
agent-.
The Colorado arrived at San Francisco
on the mrniog of the Oth. having m ule
the round trip to Japan and back. In seventy-nine
days, inchfdin'g stoppages of
eighteen or nineteen days at I long Kong
and three days at Yokohama, making the
actual sailing time, going and coming,
fifty eight days ; the total' distance traveled
being about "l2.70t miles, which would
show an average speed of about irl'J miles
per twenty-four hours. The outward pas
sage to Yokohama, a distance of 3.200
miles, was ma-de in- a little less than
twenty-two days' without setting sail.
The New York 7'imes of the 15th says
by the steamer this week 2,000 barrels.
2,!)1( sacks and 4,022 packages of flour
were added to- the stock in market from
California. The Journal of Commerce says
that California fTotir is in good demand at
full rates, atid quotes sales of 900 barrels
in sacks, at prices last quoted. The same
paper say the reports from the Western
States are promising in regard to the next
wheat crops. A large breadth of ground
was sown' t6 seed,, which started well in
the fall. The heavy covering of snow
throughout the winter was favorable.
A delegation of the Virginia Legislature
has been bvfore the Senate Judiciary com
mittee. The in terview was highly satisfactory.-
They assure the committee of the
earnest intention of Virginia to return to
her place in the Union under the terms
proposed by Congress. The delegates also
visited ihe President, who said, notwith
sanding his opposition to the reconstruction
bill it is now a law of the land, and he
should faithfully execute it. lie thought
the Legislature had done right in prompt
ly accepting its terms, which would allevi
ate bitterness and soon restore the South
ern States to all their former relations
with the Federal Government.
Cable dispatches-say that Bismarck has
refused to protest against the absorption
of Poland into the Russian Empire. An
order has been seat to America, recalling
Admiral Tegitholf to take command of the
Adriatic fleet. Agents of the Russian
Government are said to be purchasing
vessels in this country and on the conti
nent, to be used as transports, it is re
ported that a secret treaty was made be
tween Prussia and Bavaria, in August last,
and that by one clause of the treaty Prus
sia mav assume the military direction of
the Bavarian arms. The coronation of
Francis Joseph as King of Hungary dur
ing his present visit to Festh, is strongly
urged by all parties. The newly elected
Hungarian members took the oath of office
on the 10th.
In Congress on Ihe 18th Williams of
Pennsylvania, introduced a bill to suspend
the act authorizing the Secretary of the
Treasury to cancel S4.000.000 in Treasury
notes immediately.. The Senate joint reso
lution to forbid the sale of liquors in the
Capital was concurred in ; also, Senate
resolution to investigate affairs in the
Treasury Department. The joint resolu
tion for furnishing Tennessee arms and
equipments for 25.000 militia was passed.
Pomeroy, of Kansas, introduced a bill for
consolidation of the Indian tribes under
the direction of qualified territorial gov
ernments for Indians. Thomas of Mary
land, offered a resolution that the Judicia
ry be instructed to complete their inquiry
yhether we had a republican form of
State Government, such as Congress can
recognize consistently with the Constitu
tion. Adopted.
Representatives of the Irish Republic
hud an interview with the President on
on the 18th. soliciting the recognition of
belligerent rights by tiny American govern
ment. The representatives imide an ad
dress in behalf of the Fenian Brotherhood,
asking that the Irish Republic be respected
as a government dt facto by the United
States, and that the' American government
insist on it that their belligerent rights
be respected by Great Britain accordig
to the rules of nations in time of war.
The I 'resident asked, h? this de facto gov
ernment ac;u lUy in exi.stance? The del
egation assured him that it was. when he
assured them that the question should re
ceive all the consideration necessary in
deciding a matter of such great impor
tance. His sympathies were with the Irish
people. The delegation asks for prompt
u"? eii'erance in behalf of naturalized Ameri
can citizens ti)v prisoners in the hands of
England. The President said measures
had been for the relief of several naiu-ral-ized
ei::zens, and the other cases would
receive attention.
A Pleasant FiVrvnE. " Fleeta Flint-'
writing to the Oregonian concerning how
America is to balance the World's Fair
account, and get back her $100,000,000 to
be expended this year in Paris, says :
How can America balance this account
but by inaugurating the Third World's
Fair in New Vork. for A. D. 1870? Then
the great iron highway ef the transconti
nental route will be completed ; then the
monthly steamship line, between San
Francisco and China, will be increased to
a weekly line; then Collins' Russian tele
graph, and a second Atlantic cable will
have thrown " a girdle- round about the
earth in forty minutes :'7 then, as we hope
and pray, this nation of discordant States
will have been truly and' wholfy recon
structed and cemented in the bonds of a
perpetual brotherhood. Here the Cres
cent of the Orient shall meet the Cross of
the Occident, and both Asiatic and Euro
pean civilization, by opposite approaches,
shall join hands in this metropolis of the
New World. Then and there, friend Oie
egonian, yoxi may meet.
PiCTt iU" s. One of the evidences of our
advancing civilization is the growing taste
for One engravings. The cheap lithographs
of a few years ago seem to have had their
day, and in their place we see the produc
tioas of a higher order of art. Our enter
prising friend, W. T, Shanahan. of Port
land deserves great credit for his efforts
m the cultivation of the artistic taste of
our State. He has on exhibition at his
rooms a fine lot of engravinss. paintings
A:c. adn is prepared to furnish all stvles
of frames.
Cattle. Three bands
of young cattle
were driven through this city on Monday.
en route for Eastern Oregon. They were
mostly picked animals, for breeding, work
and beef. '
The Road to Tualatin Plains. No
other arguments than those which will oc
cur in a moment to any observer are
needed to show the great importance of a
good road leading from Portland to the
Tualatin Plains. City and country would
be alike benefitted beyond all present cal
culation by it. do not cart to repeat
what we have said heretofore on this sub
ject ; but we cannot refrain from again
earnestly urging the necessity of the work.
On Saturday we were informed that only
a' f thousand dollars of the stock had
yet Eeen taken in the city. Assurances
have been received that much more will
be taken ; yet it is to be feared that the
property holders of Portland are not suf
ficently awake to' the importance of the
road. Here is a feasible plan. Here is
an opportunity to do scme'thing that will
redound to the interest of Portland. A
vast number of impracticable enterprises
are talked of. and much valuable breath
i? expended in puffing them into coa.iuual
notice ; but heie is a work that is entirely
practicable, and one that ought not to be
delayed. Build the road to Hillsboro.
and the citizens of Washington. Yamhill
and Polk counties will extend it to Lafay
ette and Dallas, and all this rich section
of country will be brought into communi
cation with Portland, and wiil contribute
immensely tf its properiy. These who
are acquainted with the nature of Oregon
road in wmter know reasons enough why
this plank and McAdamized road should
be. built. Now is the time to do it. If
this road cannot be built, it is high time
to cease talking of vastly greater enter
prises. We clip the above from the Oregonian.
It is well-timed, and can with propriety be
applied to ovir own citizens. We need
above all things, in this county, good
wagon roads. Why is not something be
ing done to connect us with Aurora ? and
points .beyond. If Oregon City will reach
out to help herself, other points will be
glad to meet such imp-rovcmeifb halfway.
If Franklin had waited for lightning' to
come to him, probably it might never have
came down to mo' her earth. So with u-s
if we wait for persons to project and carry
forward enterprises of the nature of the
above for our benefit, we may not be bene
fitted in the least.
Cip.cuit Conn" Hon. 11 D. Shattcck J.
The March term of the Circuit Court for
Clackamas County, Judge Shattuck pre
siding, commenced its session in this city
on Monday last. The docket is unusually
largt for this section, and a greater por
tion of next week will be occupied in trial
ot causes. .. .Several actions regarding
the liquor traffic have been4 disposed of.
and others are pendiag . in- t-he case of
the State vs. D. SnitU and A. H. Anderson,
defendants tvere discharged on'" payment
of costs. .. .In the case of the State vs.
Whitlock, 500 bail was forfeited, and the
case continued. .. .Geo. W. Jackson paid
a penalty for selling liquor to Indians. . . .
Tbe Grand Jury presented a tr WU
against D. Harvey, on complaint for per
jury, audi application has been made for'
a change cf venue. . . .Also against P. A.
Weiss who was indicted for breaking a log
boom. . . .Wilson vs. Wills, suit to recover
money for sheep sold to plaintiff, which
were diseased and afterwards lost ver
dict for defendant. . . .Joel Palmer vs. Or
egon City Manufacturing Company suit
to recover S 1.500 for services as President
of the company verdict for plaintiff in
the sum of $5o0. . . . J. X. Smith is. Martin
judgment for plaintiff SG-10.2S. . . . Jas.
Smith vs. John Willhoit judgment for
plaintiff S5(i8.."0 . . . . A. G. Bradford vs.
Mason judgment for plaintiff S500. . . .P.
J. McGowan vs. W. S. Ladd, et al. This is
an action on change of venue from Mult
nomah county to Clackamas countv court,
and appeal from the latter to Circuit p
Circuit Court. Cause: forcible ejectment
and detainer verdict of not guilt-. . . .E.
D. Kelly r.-?. B. Jennings juHlgrrAMiJ for
plaintiff $287. ...Quincy A. Brooks vs.
M. Richardson judgment for plaintiff
$2(53.80 C. S. Welded al vs. P. Foster
judgment for plaintiff $1 5:i7.80. . . . W. C.
Dement vs. Geo. Abernethy et al judg
ment for plaintiff $b78....Wm. Stronir.
administrator of the estate of A. Hoibrook.
vs M. Richardson verdict for plaintiff
500.30. .. .Joseph Austin was granted a
divorce from Malinda Austin. . . .Peter A.
Weiss, a native of France, was admitted
to citizenship on the :;0th.
IIoxoixll" Mail. The Postoflice Depart
ment advertises for bids bw monthly line
of mail steamers from San Francisco to
Honolulu. Bids are to be all in by July.
The 'Anchor Line' wilt probably put in
bids for it.
Married.
At Portland, on Sunday the 17th inst.r bv
Rev. Dr. Isaac Schwab, ' Dr. Charles Blach,
aad M:ss Lebeubaum.
At Portland, on Sunday the17th inst., by
lit. Rev. Bishop Scott, Mr! Ferdinand Roman
and Miss Alice Angelo.
The parties wiil accept our warmest con
gratulations and best wishes
At Home Again. The numerous pa
rous of the Premium Artist of Oregon, Mr.
Joseph Buchtel, will be pleased to learn that
liuchtel k Card well's Photograph Gidiery. so
long and favorably known, bt First sueet.
Poilland, has again passed into the hands ot
Mr. Buchtel, who is now Proprietor and Op
erator. He has recently returned from San
Francisco, with all the latest styles known to
the art, and hence is prepared to give the
utmost satisfaction. When at Port and re
gardless of the weather call upon Buchtel,
at his old staud. (14o-
The JUcst Rcnw-dy for Ta;rifying tl.e
Blood, Strengthening the Nerves, Restoring
the Lost Appetite, is FRESE'S HAMBURG
TBA. It is the best preservative Rgiunst al
most any sickness, if used timely. Composed
of herbs only it can be given safelv to-iiilaufsv
Full directions in French, Spanish, and Ger
man, with every package. TRY IT !
For sale at all the wnolesale and retail
djrug stores and groceries. (31
EM1L FRESL', Wholesale Druggist,
Sole Agent, 41o Clay street, San Francisco.
Fishcrmri-.So often exposed to hurts
by having, tbeir skin pierced with hooks and
the fins offish, can be much relieved by bath
ing the wound with a few drops of Perry
Davis' Vegetable Pain Killer as soon n3 the
accident occurs. In this wav the anguish is
soon, abated. Bath& a often- as once in fire
minutes, say three or four times, ajid vou
will seldom have any trouble. Fishermen of
Oregon l remember this.
A'ew AdYcrlisements7
Dr. CHAELES BLACH, 0
Physician, Surgeon and Accoucheur.
OFFICE-Corner of Washington ami Front
streets, Parnsb's Block, Portland, Oregon.
RESIDENCE-Salmon street, between Third
and fourth, opposite the Plaza. f22.1y
Wool Wanted!
90 C(C LB- woI' WANTED,
"l"yV For which the highest cash
price wili be paid.
CHARMAN A BRO.
Oregon City, March i'2d, 1S67. 22.tf
FOR SALE.
TWO LOTS,
JSIL And a Gcd Dwelling H0use
In Orfr City.
22 Apply to JqUXNAMcCOTy-s;
OREGON CI fy
Paper Maiiuf Co.
s
3fa?iufoctvre, and Itctve constantly on
hand, a very Superior Article of
Straw Wrapping Paper.
Orders will receive prompt attention
'2.1yJ J. D. MILLER, Secretary.
-roTicr: is HEiiEuv given that'
X. there will be an' animal rrie?lid of the
Stockholders of the Oregor. City Paper Man
ufacturing Company, at the Company's office
in Oregon City,
On the 18th day of Apiil, 186?,
for the purpose of electing a Board of Di
rectors, and transact such other business as
may be required. J. R. RALSTON,
Attest: Prest. O. C. P. M. Co.
James D. Miller, Secretary (2-'.4t
OREUO.V Ctl Y MIAIN C-.MPAXY,
Notice is hereby given that an annual
meeting of the Stockholders of the aboTe
named Company, will be held at the office of
said Company in Oregon City, Clackamas
County, Oregon, oil the
Second Tuesday of April, A. D. 18C7.
at the hour of te o'clock P. M. of said day,:
for the purpose of electing Directors for the
ensuing year, and for the transaction of such
other business as may come before it.
T. J. McCARVER. Secretary.
March "ISth, 187. 2-2; 8 1
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THE NATIONAL COLLEGE
OF
BISIXESS MD giMIUERCE !
Corner of ALDER' and FRONT streets. -PORTLA'XD
OREGVX.
THIS FOpULAR, PRACTICAL INSTI
tution otitis tbe best ad mostrsuccess
ful System of Pragjical Training atad tbor-'
ougn .business LMscipIine,
0 -
T O Q U AQL I F Y
Young and HiiUHe Aged
isac jee: 9
For an Active, Successful Life I
. ZW Tuition for the full Business Course,
time unlimited, '0.
Those wishing to become members will be
admitted an-y week day fn the year. No ex
amination at the time of entering.
The College Gazette, giving full informa
tion, is sent free to all who desire it.
IS?" Applicants will applv in person, or
President.
Sixteen Years in Oregon.
S. J. M'CORMICK,
NHLMUSIC'
the swim
Pioneer Bookseller and Publisher
Of this Statedesires lo inform all his old
customers (and as nianv new ones as mav
not be acquainted wrth the fact) that he still
continues-to operate a&the
FRANKLIN BOOK STORE.
o
105 Front Street, Portland'.
o
(exactly opposite mocxt hood)
Where he is prepared to furnish'
SCHOOL BOOKS,
STATIONERY,
SHEET, MUSIC',
IXSTXUC'JIOX HO Oltt for all kinds of
Musical Instruments.
CHUHCii iitric hooks,
BASS, VIOL, GUITAR' and YIOLIN
STRINGS.
T0YS BLANK BOOKS,
MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS,
UiiLAP 1'UULlCATiON'S
N RVS1 A WM sT
MAGAZINES,
0
GLOBES,
, , PRESSES,
3Jr-J PENS',
Photographic Album s
And every other article in the above line:
Astoria Lot Sale.
Mr. J. M. Bacov is Agent at Oregon Citv
and Mr. C. P. Ferry is Aeent at Portland
to issue certihcates, or title bonds, and bjive
at their offices maps of the town,showing the
liyfis or snares into wnicivtneproperty is
uiviaeu, ana a pnotograpn ot a portion ot
the town, and of the cottage homestead which
constitutes the capital prize. Each purchas
er of a ticket will give to the Agent his due
bill for the purchase money, payable when
be receives a deetHprttjhp property whch he
shall daw. The distribution is expected to
come off within two months, judging from
tbe rapidity with which the shares are being,
taken over a hundred having been taken ia
Astoria alone fi thjlast few daCX .
5f For full particulars see Fourth pacce
t$f this paper. 21?tf
-xtt a rvrnmPT
-i AAA HEAD OF GOOD
JUUUU Sheep.
Inquire at Selling's store,. I
Oregon City, o 1
21.1m J. ILEPLER.