i)c iUcckhj enterprise. Oregon City, Oregon : I. O. IR.El.AXn, KDITOH AXI) FKOPItlETOII. Saturday, April 6th, 1867. Stu.idtics Wanted. We notice that some of the California prints, aided by the San Francisco Board of Trade, are already engaged in specula tions as to the future grain crop. Statis tics are well if properlyapplied. It Las been a matter that has been too much neglected in thif part of the country. It is gratifying to note that the people are anxious for correct knowledge regarding the various pursuits and occupations jn which they are engaged. The spread of such information through the instrumen talities of organized .societies throughout the United States during the last fifteen years, has been the direct means of raising " the first occupation of m.aa"" to a standard unknown or unthought of by the people of other nations. AVe contend that, to-day, notwithstanding the claims of Great Brit ain to great practical achievement in the art of agriculture, the United States by far excels all other countries in the general branches of husbandry. England's great superiority ov er us must be acknowledged, however, in respect to her statistics. In Am?r;ca tins manes is sauiy negiccreu. In the State of Oregon there is nothing partaking of the nature of an association or society for the compilation, of statistical information. We are actually losing ground on. account f it. See what the Historical Society of St. Paul have done for Minnesota. Societies and clubs should be formed in every part of the country, with competent and efficient officers, whose interest would be subserved by collecting information needed by the people. The great aim should be to reach practical at tainments in a practical way, but this can not be done if we have no organizations for the purpose. Wherever tho greatest amount of general intelligence prevails, it is .universally found that ths people enjoy more cmufort and more wealth, than marks the condition of those who are ignorant and shiftless. Agricultural societies can i- considerable toward filling the want in Oregon, if they are properly managed. Through the influence of agricultural and horticultural societies, organized in differ ent States and counties, much valuable in formation has reached farmers andgarden rrs, which it would have been impossible for them to procure through any other channel. The state of perfection which some of the New England States have ar rived at in the culture of certain, fruits, is almost wholly due to the in3ancc of the Massachusetts llcrticultuyal Society ; a so Qciety, which in point of pomological intel ligence, is not excelled in the world. Na ture, in an agricultural point of view, has done but little for that section of the Union; yet ihc annual results of the skillful labor applied in the various branches of hus bandry by the people, are actually won derful. The benefits resulting to the peo ple of oilier States, from the teachings of such men as "Wilder and Hovcy, who for many years were among tbe principal pil lars in the Massachusetts Horticultural organization, have been.alniost incalcula ble. In the history of American horticul ture, the name of Downing will be re corded as a benefactor of his race. lie has probably accomplished more for the beneftt) of the horticulturist in America than any other man, having devoted his lifelocihe dissemination of knowledge of American fruits, and labored earnest' y and faithfully, with great force and effect, in encouraging the organization of socie ties, as a means of gathering information ffud spreading facts before the people. From the different agricultural societies and farmers' clubs, organized throughout the United States, and from persons who are irj a greatCineasure indebted to these organizations for the knowledge they pos Q'ss of agricultural matters, the Depart ment of Agriculture principally receives the data from which the valuable annual" reports of the Commissioner of Agriculture Qre made up, and which are of incalculable benefit to the country. The Commissioner, iu ou of hU report, says, ' that the sec retaries of the various agricultural socie ties and farmers' club are the proper persons to furnish, themselves or by others, the-department with the desired facts. In may cases they have done this faithfully and earnestly ; others having neglected it, intelligent and active fanners and business men of all professions were prompted to t4ipply the deficieayies." AVe never see Oregon rnentioceiTin the agricultural re ports, and we think it is puite time that some organization was perfected here, to furnish the desired information monthly, or annually. ExTKurr.isK Rewakped. As shav'ing the rult of persistent effort, and confi dence in man and man as partners, see the workings of the Blue Gravel Mining Com pany, of Yuba county, California. In 1854 the company organized for york with a eapital of $20,000. A tunnel was commenced in February, 1S"5. Th? part ners soon found themselves straitened for money, but they felt confident of the ulti mate result ; they.were faithful to the un dertaking, and to one another ; they were not afraid of hone t work, and their credit was good. At one time they were in debt over $00,000, and as a result of eight years work they had an expenditure of all their capital, a debt of $20,000 more, but greater confidence in one another (eleven men) and in their claim. At last, early in 1801, the tunnel passed through the rock and reached the ehanuel at a depth of one hundred feet below the surface. Now the company clean up once in eight or ten weeks, and theQresult8 of the several runs since the tunnel was opened till December Ulst, 1SCG, shows -that $G42.SG0 have been taken out. Their merit appears the great er when we kcp in mind the fact that their company is the only one upon the Pacific caast. within our knowledge, that c.vt played the game of "freeze out." Mr. Webb, the eminent ship-builder, gives it as his opinion that one of the reasons for the decline in American ship building is the difficulty of inducing boys to apprentice themselves to the buisness and learn it thoroughly. There is a want of skilled and educated laborers ia this department of industry, because boys spend their time in some occupation ?emed more respectable than mantra labor, says the New York Sun. This is an error that does not apply to ship-building alone. In almost every branch of industry there is a distaste in the mind of the Amer ican boy for anything like manual work. There is an ambition, altogether false and very prejudicial to the boy's future success, to escape all rudimentary work and occupy at once a position where a living can be made in the easiest and most respectable manner. This is con trary to all democratic teachings as to the dignity of labor, but it is, unfortun ately, true. Young men in this country are ashamed of toil. They are evea asham ed" of the toil of their fathers before them. They forget how large a proportion of men in all couritrles have attained wealth and eminence through the avenues of man ual labor. Men who haye thus risen are often anxious that their own sons shall be brought irp to some profession in which it is hoped they will attain more rapid distinction. It seems to be forgotten that skill and intellect will tell just as surely in many other ways as they will in law or any of the profession. There are tri umphs to be gained in the material world, and this country, above all others, pre sents a broad and promising field for the exercise of mind in the subjugation of nature to man's dominion and use. This field is full of honor and profit, but it must be reached by toil, and those who would explore it successfully must begin iit the foundation by making themselves personally familiar with the manual la bor they expect ultimately to eontrol. The renown of England's great engineers will outlive that of many of her distinguish ed politicians and statesmen ; and the greatest of her engineer were once mechanics in the humblest sense. In America it is specially true that talent will show itself wherever it may bo, ami men will pay it willing homage. Why, then, arc young men ashamed to step on the lower rungs of a ladder that reaches so high ? It is because parents and others give them false and foolish notions of the superior respectability of w calling in which they may spend ten years without gaining a single idea or enlarging their education one iota. Some petty clerkship is prefered tab.on.esi, man ly, ennobling toil, though it dwarfs mind and body, and yields not half the-profit. Our pubic schools should, in a measure, prepare boys for the practical occupa tions of life. The Colleges of the country should have departments solely for educa tion in the branches pertaining to me chanical pursuits, embracing the applica tion of the sciences to e very-day affairs, and their profitable- employment in the various handicrafts of life. " The Sltko Tuxxet.. A friend in San Francisco writes that we did just as we should, in denouncing the appeal of the Sutro Tunnel Co. for signatures to their memorials in Oregon. He says "it is purely a private speculation," and that Congress ought to do no more for it than they would for any other private enter prise. The proposed tunnel is to tap the Comstock ledge at a depth of about 1800 feet below the ci'oppings. The leading companies of the Comstock ledge finding that in some instances, as they go down upon their claims, the pay ore is exhaust ing, have an opinion that the Sutro Tun nel will enable them to vrork: to a better advantage, and hence arj investing capi tal in the project. The Savage mine put in $J."0,000 for Tvmnel stock, the Hale & Norcross $100,000, and so on. Consider ing that the Comstock ledge last year yielded about $15,000,000, and is the principal bolster at the back of Nevada and California, it is ea?y to be seen that nothing will be spared to put it in shape to continue this yield, but it is a matter in which Oregon and the General Govern ment need not invest. Dried Pjxms. Last years dried fruit has sold well, and those who have orchards would do well to give the matter of drying fruit still more attention. The large plums that were dried last fall brought from twelve to sixteen cents per pound, in large quantities. They are far superior to the German plum that is imported here in casks and retailed at twenty cents per pound. It would be well for those who have trees of the smaller variety, to bud them with the Hungarian, German and French prune. The French dried prune is now retailing at forty cents per pound, and there U no reason why the same variety connot be raised and dried here, saving a large amount of gold -from be ing sent away annually for its purchase. Steel Co.irAXY. A company is being organized to manufacture steel atMeriden, Conn., under a patent issued to Mr. Sav age, of the same place. The process con sists of immersing the steel in a chemical solution. The advantages are that the steel is mr.de in one day, whereas you are not row sure cf always making the same quality twice alike ; that there is no loss in the manufacture-ef.it, where as now there is more or les- less from not always being able to- make good steel, and that by this process it can "be made cheaper. Louisville, Kt. The Courier states that there are thirteen founderies and machine shops in that city employing a capitol of $1,061,000, with a value of products of $1,580,000 ; pay of labor. $416,920 ; hands employed, 067 ; bar and pig iron used, 4,000 tuns. No Doubt. The London Spectator thinks Andrew Johnson has been to this country a "blessing in disguise." TLtre is no doubt abouc the disgruhse. Emtcrn Oregon TVool. Mr. John Mia-to-, of Marion county, writes us as follows : Editor Enterprise : I notice a slight error in your issue of March 23d. I had not thought of changing my present busi ness of breeding thorough-bred merinos', and my home in Marion for any other pur suit or any other location. My design is to visit Eastern Oregon, ia order to form an opinion as to what proportion those alkali flats'" bear to the good, sound grazing grounds of the region east of the Cascades. I take some stock sheep and some mutton sheep iu order to make the trip something more than one of mere curiosity. This question of "alkali"' I have long considered one of very great import ance to the general interests of this coun try, and especially so to the woolen man ufacturing interests and raising of good wTool bearing- stcck sheep. For if this alkali is so generally present, and so in jurious in its action on the fibre of wool raised east of the Cascades, as some news paper items I have read would seem to imply : then, the Willamette river is not the Merrimac, and Oregon City is not destined to be our Lowell. For with three woolen factories already in opera tion and a prospect of three more being shortly biilt in the upper Willamette, with Umpqua and Rogue river valieys each making their own wool crop3 into cloth, the surplusage of wool, which is destined to make Oregon City the great centre of woolen manufactories on this coast.wili be smalb This is what is to bring Oregon City orders on the wings of lightning for cloths to be sent to the head waters of the Columbia, to the fishing and lumbering stations of the northwest coast, yes, even to countries drained by the Amoor and other rivers now being settled on the Asiatic side of the Pacific by the friendly power of Russia. Oregon City is situated so as to receive the wool from the Columbia river equally as well as she now carries on her trade with the Willamette, and to her manufac turers the amount of injury done to the wool by the action of alkali must be a question of interest. That the wool is in jured some, seems to be generally assumed or admitted, but to what extent I think has never been closely inquired into, yet it ought to be, both on account of the pro ducer and consumer ol such wool. The one ought to know to what extent his product is justly depreciated in value, and the other ought to-know whether this kind of wool can be used in indiscriminate manufacture with other wools, or used only as " filling'' for cloths of which the ' chain" is made of other wool. The ques tion is one of importance not only to Ore gon but to the entire Pacific States and Territories, for 1 believe ''alkali fiats" are found from Mexico to the British line. It ought to fee- solved by the Agricultural Bureau. Tu3 Sax Francisco Vegetable- Oil Works. The establishment recently erect ed at San Francisco for the purpose of manufacturing vegetable oils, commenced operations on the 22d nit., by extracting the oil from mustard seed. The establish ment has cost nearly $100,000 the presses working up to a force of S00 tons. At this amount of pressure the crushed seed becomes as hard, solid and dry as 3 pine board, and is subsequently ground to make the mustard of commerce. Every bushel or sixty pounds of seed, on an average, yields twelve pounds of a bright yellow oil, almost as sweet and clear as that ex tracted from olives. This oil spoils the mustard if kept after it has been ground ; its extraction consequently adds much to the market value of the mustard. The company are ottering live cents per pound for all tbe linseed they can obtain, and 3 ("" 4 c for castor beans. At these prices, tlax will be a far more profitable crop than wheat or barley. Montana. Our Montana exchanges are filled with accounts of new discoveries and big strikes in the. mines of that Terri tory-, lhe miners are fast throwing off that feverish impatience for hasty acquisi tion of wealth which was so characteristic of ch e early drivers, and in many instances have latterly, been operating upon tangi ble evidence of ultimate, though not of speedy fortunes. Such are the baro all over the countiy to which ditches are be ing and have been brought. The Legis laturc refused to order a special election for Delegate to Congress. The regular annual election is field in September. it r -r - w . i. UK A1LKDKK Or JLUt. IjIVINOSTONE. We have been expecting to hear by dispatches more particulars of the 'murder of Dr Livingstone, but presume we shall have to wait for a report by mail. It i3 not un 1 ? 1 . 1 il . 1 L . i 1 f t iiKeiy mai ne met ms iate in some man ner similar to that of Jules Girard. No satisfactory account was given, as to how me ueaui oi mis iamous lion Killer oc curred, for about one year,wh.eijjt was as certained that he was murdered by his negro grades, who wished to plunder his baggage, Guard was killed about two years and a half ago. bcETCs Iim.ber. The region about Cathlamet a5ouds in fine spruce, suitable for the manufacture of Imrrels, tnbs and pails. Much ot it is sent to manufactories at San Frascisce. The- barge of Mr, Grounds a few days since brought, at one load, 114 cords. It cau be put on the wharf at Cathlamet for $0 per cord, .while at Portland it costs $7.50. This suggests the idea that Cathlamet wouM te a suit able place for the manufacture of the raw .material. The Cigar Trade. lhe extent of the local manufacture of this article in San Francisco is such as to give employ scent to seven hundred, and at certain seatt ng twelve hundred Chinese. San Francisco cigars, made by Chinamen, are sold and consumed as pure Havanas. During the month of January, 1867, taxes were paid on 1,711,582 home-made eigars taken out of bond tor consumption. Concrete 1-loors. Arched floors of concrete, or beton, a mixture of broken sioue, sauu, aim uiauuc cement, are i j i 1 i i; . ibeing put down in Paris without any support of vaults, girders, or the like. The .material i simply packed in or molded on timber- centerings, which are with-drawn when ihetcoBcrete has set." Walla -Walla. The Statesman says : the milling business being overdone in Walla Walla Valley, Mr. H. P. Isaacs pro proposes to remove all the machinery from his present mill, and if our citizens co operate with him, will convert it into a woolen factory," OREGON Robert Pentland is putting up a large flouring mill at the Dalles A kr-re brick church will bo erectea at 3Jc31innrille tbe coming summer. yV new steam saw mill has been erected nar Lebanon and will iae put in operation in a few davS; The contract for bwiMing the Albany Col- ler-e. has been let. iue uuuuug m completed by October. Beniamin Simpson, of Marion county, nas beer- reappwntcd, and confirmed uy me Senate, Indian Agenx jor uie cuci m. Agency. Tbe steamship llaho brougniup six v,ovus- wold rams and ewes for .Mr. James iveyes oi lienton county. Their lieeces were large and fine. Postotr.ee has been established at Wheatland, Yamhill county. Mr. Hendricks has received his commission as l osimasier. So says the Unionist. The Unionist learns from conversations with farmers of Marion county, tnat tne coming harvest there will probably be light er than for several years; San Francisco coal dealers ara especially recomnicndinsr the" Oregon coal. An adver tisement iu the Times says Coos Bay coal n'akes no soot and leaves no ashes. The JJonntaiiesr estimates that something like 300,000 will be paid to the stock-growers of the ' Cow Counties" this season for cattle that will be driven to Eastern Oregon. Th Capital Brass Band of Salem are working hard to perfect themselves in the use of ttseir instruments, says tlie Jfeeieic, and no doubt will compete for the prize at the next State Fair. The Mountaineer says there is eonsidera- ble improvement troing on at the Dalles in the way of building iind repairing. One dwelling ho us is going up that, whea com pleted, will cost 'io,000 The JMu nti tinker states that two-thirds of the travel this seuson, so far, has gone to the John Day mines, adventurers preferring to risk their chances in these localities to the Lemhi orMoutana mines. . N. Cooke, State Treasurer of this State accompanied by Lis family, sailed bv the Idaho for Europe. The principal object of Mr. Cooke's- visit to the" old world is to be present at the great Exposition at Paris. We are credibly informed says the Umatilla Pres, that the Lawrence Brothers have discovered a Silver lode, on their ranch, on Butter Creek, in this county. Ore there from has been sent to Portland lor assay. The Oreoanian savst during the month of March just past, the numbers of passengers leaving tins port b.V oean steamers,, were 51 d. During the same time there arrited by ocean steamers 1,357. Excess of arrivals, 744. We learn from the Southern Oregon Press that a bed of coal has been discovered on the north side of Bogue river about thirty miles from Jacksonville. Specimens have been tried, showing the coal to be of good quality. The iloun-tixinrer states that Charles Green, the man who had the small pox in that city has recovered and gone up the country. That paper adds that this is the only case of the disease or anything like it that has oc curred' at the Dalles. From January Is-.t to March 15th, Coos count' sent to San Francisco 1.015 tons of coal. This at the lowest rates given in the last trade report will amount to $12,1 80 not a bad item of income foi a small county, from a single item iu 45 days. The Mountaineer noticed a few days ago a part- of six families with their wagons, fitted up for thejourney eastward across the plains. We fear these people never visited " Web foot ;" if they bud they wold never have thought cf returning io the East, The Jacksonville Sentinel says that tunnel ing in Gold Dill is still progressing with good prospects of success. The ledge has been struck again, and the miners are run ning a shaft from the tunnel to the surface, a distance of one hundred and twenty feet. The Lafayette Courier comes to hand this weak, much improved in typographical ap pearance, and enlarged. This indicates an intelligent and reading community iu Yam hill Co. The county paper should be sup ported, as a local organ, regardless of poli tics, so says- the Corvallis Quzet'e, and so say we-.. On one cf the P. T. Co'.s. boats, recently the passengers became aware that there was a woman with her little boy on bo;n-l, in very destitute circumstances, whereupon one of the passengers passed round 44 the hat," and in a few moments collected 23 for her benefit. An officer, acting under the direction of J. C. Carter, U. S. N., is now at Astoria, making the preliminary arrangements for re-anchoring the buoys in the channel of the river and bar, in puisuance of orders is sued by the Light-house Board, at Washing ton, January 'ioth. The work will bo com pleted at th earliest possible day. The Oregoruan is responsible for the fol lowing : Mr. A. Ilinman, lately appointed Collector at Astoria, is reported to have said concerning the matter, inon hearing of his appointment : 4t Well,, iir. Corbeit has prob ably procured me the place; if so be has done it without my knowledge or consent, but 1 am willing to forgive him." Jacksonville is again assuming a lively appearance from the number of new build ings going up, and the numerous other per manent improvements being made by our citizens, says the Press. Shade trees are being pl-anted" in front of all the private dwelling, which,' with proper care, in a few years, will make Jacksonville ihe most pic turesque, of Oregon towns. Should aiy portion of the daily mall ser vice between Lincoln and Portland be dis continued, it would be a great misfortune to the people along the route, says the Cor vallis Gazette. The people of Oregon heed and demand, at the hands of Congress, an in crease instead of decrease of mail facilities. And we sincerely hope, that when Senator Corbett ig released, that the corstrafit may be let to other responsible parties. The Review states that the freight ware house of Uzufovage & Wright, at Salem, has been extended some fifty "feet. Its dimen sions as it now stands being 175 feet by 3". Wagons can now drive through the whole length of the house and deposit their loads within easy reach of the boats, which will expedite business in a more satisfactory manner to all parties than when the Whty Boat was Hire only store house for freight. The Board of Directors of the O. C. M. E. Co., at a recent meeting determined to put the KKid through to the Deschuites this sea son. It is thought that money enough can be coKected from delinquent assessments to meet the demands of the Company this sum mer. The Journal says the Company seems to be -5 a flourishing condition, and insist that the l oad, be completed across the moun tains by .the Urst of September next. Mr. Wm. Pengra, Superintendent, started out on Monday te commence work. We learn that the Company will soon offer for sale all their lands this side of the mountains. Several .persons not long ago at Albany went to the house of one M'llwaiu in the night time, dragged him out of bed and into the strett, and gave him a severe whipping with a couple of raw hides tied together. The reason' for this proceeding was that M'lhvain was charged with enticing two little girls into his shop and taking indecent liberties-with-thei-r -persons. The men who administered the whipping were indicted for not, and the jury punished them with a tine of $50 and costs. That jury could not have been composed of fathers. Hon. W. L. Adams, tho Courier sacs, .has removed with his family back to Yamhill county, where he intends to reside in future. Mr. A. was formerly editor of the Argus at Oregon City, and next of the Statesman at Salem, and later still of the Astoria Gazette the publication of which he commenced sub sequently to accepting the position of Col lector of the Port of Astoria. Mr. Adams is a radical, - but a consistent one. At a time when all his party co-workers in Ore gon, as well as elsewhere, were vociferating their opposition to freeing the negro, he con" tended that it would be done, and that it would be a desirable consurmition. Rev. Mr. Earle is of Boston, Mass., a Protestant clergyman, now in the employ of the Young Men's Christian Association. lie has been laboring with marked success in San Francisco, Marysville, and other places in California. He does not come' as a secta rian, but desires the united and hearty co operation of all evangelical Protestants ia the great work of personal and vital Christi anity. His labors have been crowned with abundant success ia the East, and surely, 44 the field is already white to harvest in Oregon." The coming week he will preach in Oregon City. That a railroad, at no distant dav, will connect Oregon with the commercial me tropolis of California, and with the great and rapidly progressing Centreal Trunk Rail way, is to us a fixed fact. We know that there are men who ridicule the idea; but we have heard such Kip Yanwinkles laugh before. When a few years ago, railroads were talked of in the great, fertile West, these same stationary philosophers opened their eyes, 44gufl'awe'd ' and passed on. In a few years the snort of the iron horse awoke them from their ancient dreams and many of them footed it to Oregon. Here they are again in the minority. The following quotation is. from the Ore gonian San Francisco dispatch of April 3d, 44 A private telegram recti red- from New York Saturday states that Imperial Oregon flour was jobbing in that city, at $1(3, and that? the entire invoice of over 'Z.OoO barrels would be easily closed out at $15 50 in cur rency. Oregonians will feel flattered bv this intelligence." Flattered? Weil, yes, we Oregonians not only 44 feel flattered"" by the distinguished consideration with which the New Vorkers have received our flour, but flatter ourxelees that Oiegon has most decid edly got into the front pew, and that Cali fornia with her pride and arrogance and airs in general, is at present only" a second rate triumph as compared with ns, you see. 44 Jobbing at ltf," is just a trifle higher than we recollect to have seen even the famous Santa Clara brands the ne plus ultra of the (jreat State of California quoted in New York or any other market. Under date of March 13th. C. E. W. writes to the Corvallis Gazette: Thinking that a line from this quiet village might be inter esting to some of your readers, is my apol ogy for the following regarding the progre.-s of the Temperance cause in Oregon City. I have visited several of the diflWtcnt Lodges in the State, but find none of tbetn more earnest and untiring in their efforts to ad vance the progress of the holy crusadcj than the members of this Lodge. Rev. P. S. Knight delivered a lecture upon the subject of Temperance, Sunday night to a large au dience, in which he assumed that alcoho'ic drink was the head center around which all the other Sate'ites of injquity revolved ; that it was a cankerous contamination gnawing at the vitality, and eating steadily aud .stealthily away the purity, health, and pros perity of thousands ; trailing its infections through our homes, gangrenatiiit, every thing noble and pure. Although the cane in some parts of the State is not doing as much good as it might let us net feel like Hercules " leaning dejected upon his club of conquest,' but keep marching ahead, and soon we may be able to realize lhe exclama tion of CVsar, to his enemies, 44 J eni Yidi j - . - " Eastern- News. We extract from dis patches to the Orcgonlan, Eastern news to April 4lh, as follows : Cincinnati. St. Louis, and other western cities show Union gains at municipal elec tions on Monday. In New York the masons struck for four dollars aud a half a day and the eight hour system. The spinners aud carders in the factories at Lawrence struck for eight hours a day, The New York "Republican State Con vention is called to meot at Syracuse on April 10th, to select candidates for dele gates at large to the Constitutional Con vention. The election takes place on the 23d of April. The people of Texas, near the border, are utterly indfferent to the workings of the reconstruction bill. They profess more allegiance to Mexico than fo the United States, and they take more interest in Mexican affairs. The Lincoln Monument Association has organized with Senator Harlan as Presi dent. Fred Douglas is one of the Direc tors. Postmasters throughout the coun try are appointed agents to solicit contri butions. ' The N. Y. Times has a 1t'eU.i'jencer regards the tion as the tujn in the The Chronicle says the special that the Con ne I Lent eiec tiue of politic, lesson which it teaches should not be lost to the Republi can party. The Congressional loss will be made up in turn in August. Calhio dates to March 14-th say religious toleration was the absorbing topic of the day. A petition signed by the most influ ential persons of Calhio was about to be presented to Congress praying the enact ment of a measure of religious freedom. It is doubtful if the measure will pass at the present session. It is feared the result would be. a serious revolution. The debate in the Senate concerning the Union Pacific Railroad brought out state ments that work had been suspended on the road hecatise it wa fow-sd- impossible to do shallow grading daring the season of frost. The company has iron enough on the ground to lay the track from Fort Laramie across the Plains. They had been prevented from working in the mountains in the winter because of the de lay of the Government to fix the point at the base of the mountains at which the subsidy $48,000 per milebegins. Placards hostile to Prussia and favora ble to alliance with France, have been posted about the streets of Luxembourg. The Prussian commander declared that it was an insult to his Government. The Pope agrees to aij.ow Italian soldiers to enter the State fro help the Pontificial troops to suppress ferigan&ao. ' A procla mation has been issued offering regards for the capture of brigands dead or alive, and a double reward'tor lhe chiefs. The Czar of Russia has granted amnesty to the Frenchmen exiled to Siberia, for connec tion with the Polish revolution. In the North. German Parliament the amend ments to the Constitution providing for the freedom of the press, and the right to hold public meetings, etc., were rejected. A special dispatch says the Presides t has communicated to the Senate a treaty with Russia. The hitter surrenders to the Uni ted States sovereignty over all Russian America and adjacent islands, and espe cially includes the strip four hundred miles down the- coast, excluding British America from the ocean. The Times savs a memorial from the Washington Territory Legislature, dated January. 18(1(1, askiiv the President to obtain the'right for pui chase to Eastern Russia, was the founda tion of the treaty. There is considerable speculation among politicians to find if tins cannot be turned to account in tU " filthy pool." Stevens and a number of the leading Radicals favor the treaty on account of its great commercial advan tages. It is conceded tha t its fate is doubt ful because of the prejudice against Sew ard s diplomacy. Congress.----The House adjourned on the 30th at noon, until the first Wednes day in July. The Senate was convened on the 1st ia executive session. Should the 1 resident Mtk.e acceptable nomina tions the Senate will adjourn this week. Coxxkctjcct. The election in Connec ticut on Monday last, is claimed by about 900 majority, by the Democrats, for English Senate stands 11 Republican and 10 Democratic. Tho - f Tri'iir I'll !.,ilv i Lean. 11 Democratic. Married; At the residence of the brides' parents in Oregon City, April 4th, 18G7, by Rev. P. S. Knight, Mr" ROBERT II. DUNCAN and Miss EMMA COMSTOCK. Cempliments received. IEC5 3X "ELS5o In this county, on the 2d inst., ROXIE JANE INCALLS, daughter of Henry Ingalls aged about 16 years. At Home Again. The numerous pat rons of the Premium Artist of Oiegon, Mr. Joseph Buchtel, will be pleased to learn that Buchtel ACardwell's Photograph Gallery, so long and favorably known, si First street, Poitland, has. again passed into the hands of Mr. Buchtel, who- is now Proprietor aud Op erator, lie has recently returned from Sau Franc-isos, with all the latest styles known to the art, , and hence is prepared to give the utmost satisfaction. When at Portland re gardless of the weather call upou Buchtel, at his old stand. (14o Tlie list Reniedj- for Purifying tHe Blood, Strengthening ths Nerves, Restoring the Lost Appetite, is FRESE'S HAMBURG TEA. It is the best preservative against al most any sickness, if used timely. Composed of herbs only it can be given safely to infants. Full directions in French, Spanish, and Ger man, with every package; TRY IT ! For sale at all the wnolesale and retail drug stores and groceries. (81 EM1L FRESH, Wholesale Druggist, Sole Agent, 410 Clay street, San Francisco. Dr. CHARLES ELACH, Physician, Surgeon and Accoucheur. OFFICE Corner of Washington and Front streets, Parrish's Block, Portland, Oregon. RESIDENCE Salmon street, between Third and Fourth, opposite the Plaza. f432.1y New Advertisements. 300,-OOQ lbs. yOOL WANTED ! For which the highest cash price will be paid, at the store of J. R. RALSTON, 24.tf Oregon City. . ' PorlliP La'e-t Sfvle OF GENTS' CLOTHING! vi i Go to AeLerman's ! k5I 51 s liEW . a- s -4 S " w -ia ; SPRING STYLES 1 JJ5 ') 1 S 2 -t'OK s -". r t 18 6 7. AC KE BIX AST ! Wishes to inform bis Old Friends, and the public generally that he has received by the last steamer A FULL VARIETY CF S p p i it g Goods! The Largest Stock that has ever yet come to this market, consisting of such as DRV GOOD Of almost every kind ! CLOTHING! Of the very latest Styles ! BOOTS AXLr SHOES I In great variety ! 2Ie?is, Ladies, Jlfisses and C hildren s Hats, all of the latest, style for SPRING WEAR! Also, a well selected stock of Groceries, and all other goods in proportion. Please give me a call and examine for yourself. No trouble to show goods. VSi wiil sell as cheap as the cheapest. S. ACKEIMIAN, Charman k Warner's old brick store, yl) Main st., Oregon City. N. B. All kiuds of Produce bought. Selling oif at Cost ! II AYING DETERMINED TO RETIRE FROM BUSINESS! I now offer mv entire stock of Dry Goods and Clothing, Boots and Shoes, Hats and Caps, Groceries and Provisions, Hardware and Cutlery, Crockery and Glassware, fcc, Iii Lots to Suit Purchasers ! At Cost! for Cash! . . . .OR. . . . Country Produce at Cash prices! I have made arrangmcnts to close out in SIXTY DAYS ! POSITIVELY ! ! and my entice stock must be sold in that time. CO UNTR Y MERCHANTS ! FARMERS, MECHANICS! AND IN FACT ALL ! Are invited to call and examine my stock, before ma-king purchases elsewhere, and the will find that 1 am selling goods CHEAPER THAN X11E CHEAPES2." f THIS IS NO HUMBUG.! As you will learn by calling. My invoices are open to the inspection of purchasers, at all times. WM. BARLOW. Oregon City, March lGth, 1867. 21. 9t W. G. BALLAKB. THOS. STEPHENS. EXCELSIOR SODA WORKS IIALLAKD fc STEPUtlXS, Jroirieti-s. DEALER IJf Ime Brandies, English Ale & Porter, Qham jpayne C'uUr, Bock. Beer, etc. A LSO, Manufacturers of all kinds afSyr ZjL tips, Soda Water and Ginger Pop. Orders for English- Ale and Porter ifilled in bulk or bv-the case. BARLOW & FULLER, Agents, 20:13' Oregon City. HIGGINS &, GO'S Home Manufactured Soap. ON AND AFTERJANUARY 1st, 1S67, we will sell our Soap at the following rates, for CASH, only : fa FA JULY SOAP. Ter 100 Boxes, or over, at 145 per Box -60 l 50 " 2.5 1 53 CETEMICAJj .CUTS. 40 Bars, 33 lb. 3 20 " " 20 " 19 1b. iro "7E w?"""ant our Soap to be equal to any article that can be imported, and su perior to many brands that are ofl'ered iu this market, 1HGGINS A CO. .No. 8 tront street, 1 block north O. S. N. Co. s wharf. Portland, January 1, 1807. flMv JUSTICES" BLANKS, of every descrip tion, for sale at the Enterprise office. New Advertisements? Professor A. J. Rutjes, w L 5! t0 receive a number It Pupu3 at his 1 MUSIC ROOM AT THE CLIFF IIOTp OREGON CITY. He will also continue to give instructions n private residences- No charge for the u of the piano. My pupils will please give e notice when ready to commence. S:?9 W. A. ALDRICH- 2. C. MERRILL. JOHN MCRAKES M'CRAKEN, MERRILL& CO SHIPPING, COMMISSION AND Forwarding Merchants, A GENTS OF THE . CAIJFORxiA Hawaiian and Oiegon Packet Lines. Importers of San Quentin and Carmen Island Salt, Sandwich Island Sugars, Coffee Rice, and Pulu. ' Agents for Provost's & Co.'s Preserved Fruits, Vegetables, Pickles and Vinegar. . Dealers in Flour, Grair, Bacon, Lard & Fruit, Lime, Cement and Plaster. Will attend to the Purchase, Sale or Shin, ment of Merchandise or Produce in Ne York, San Francisco, Honolulu, or Portland. ALDRICH, MERRILL & CO., Nos 204 and 20o California Street, San Francisco. M'CRAKEN, MERRILL & CO., 16 North FrontStreet,Tortland. 0, D. SNYDER & CO., BOOK BINDERS AND BLANK BOOK "uIANUFAClUEERS.' OIIEGONIAN BUILDING, Su. 5 AVaslungton Street, 5 PORTLAND, OREGON. a BLANK BOOKS RULED and BOUND to any desired pattern. MUSIC BOOKS9 MAGAZINES, NEWS PAPERS, Etc., bound in every variety of style known to the trade. Orders from the country promptly at tended to. C. D. SNYDER 4 CO. Portland, March 22c 1867. fl-ly' Administrator's Sale of Beal Estate.- XfOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN TlLiT BY ii virtue of a license to mgranted as ad ministrator of the estateof Thomas Johnson deceased, b- the Honorable County Court of Clackamas county. State of-Dregon, at the April term thereof, A. D. 1867, 1 will proceed to sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash in hand, in gold coin, according to law, cn A. D. Is 67, at two o'clock P7)M. of said day, at the Court House door m Oregon City, Clackamas county, Oregon, aftek-said, all of the right, title and interest of the said Thomas Johnson, deceased, in and to the following described tract of land, together with all the improvements thcroa to wit : Beginning at the north east corner of claim No. 4, in Township 3, South Range two (2 East, as designated on the maps of the Unit ed States Surveys, and running thence along said North boundary of said claim 36 12-10o. chains, thence South 42 15' West 23 cham. thence jsuth 47 45' East, 27 80-100 to the Easv boundary of said claim, thence alon; said East boundary North 42" 15' East 46 27-100 chains, thence North 2 SO-100 chains to the place of beginning, containing 100 acres more or lessthe same beinj a part of the donation clainiMJescribed in Notihcatiou No. 10' '2, on file in the-Land OHice at Oregon City, and the said having been conveyed to said Thomas Johnson deceased, b3' deed re corded on pages 400, 4M1 and 4.2 of book C, of the Records ot DeedJ);f Clackamas county Oiegon, situated in Clackamas county, Stale of Oregon. F. O. McCOWN. Administrator of the estate of Thorua Johnson, deceased. Oregon City, April Sd, 1S67. 24:5w List of Letters "T EMAINl'Mtji- IN "THE POST OFFICE XV at Oregon Citv, March 31, 1SQ7 : At Lor. A T Mayviile, P CM oo re, IsaapO Martin,. J H Miller, M Martin, Mrs Uwy Morse, Adline Martin, Leandrino Arthur, Wiif Abernethy, George Alsworth, G Arthur, Mrs M J Alverson, J T Bell & Co, James Bam ford, E M MasonBenj II F Blathcuburger, GW 2 Malam, Jinnes Burnett, J A Malsy, Martiu Baker C Berk, Charles Brider, B Ballerberry, Mrs II Beeson, L BidweU, O Bloom held, G D Booeiiflgton, Mrs H Bullerkust, C J Boyle, E Bray, Geo Bow-en, Chas Burns, Samuel Beason, Wra Bryant, G Cary, Mrs M J Cole, C Crawford, J E Cox, J W Crews, John Chase, Tim Clark, Mrs E Col man, S D Cornunes, Thos Carter, J H Morris, .YY m May, Harvey May, Wm McCarrish, Mr McWilliams, James Martin, John II Morris, Lafayette ' J ewell, Mrs Olive J Oglesdy, Rev R C (-Osborp, Nathan Vdigo, J II Patridge, Lyman Pope, J ii fir- Potter, Miss E l'ierson, G W Purvis, P A Rodgers, James Richardson. M 2 Riss.-Matthias Russell.MJhapin Riggs, R B Rouk, Charles Rt!ey, Mrs Mary W Robardo, J Robardeh, Mrs M3 2 Rodes, MartlQ Riggs, Jonathan Davis, James S Dnfield, A Demlck, C Kesley, J ft 9 Davidson, JosephC 2 Ringo, Mrs H A E Iks worth. S Rush, J M Epperson, E Mrs Foster, P Ford, J C Fellows, II C Ford, James W Robins, N N Ringo. Joseph Sharp; G W 3 Stew a, John 2 Stoker, C r arrow, S F Foster, M-iss V A Farkevay, Mrs Jane Fanmusv, L Foster, C M Grisbee, P Garlets, Mrs M Gilfov, John Gar!ey,OV Green, M.rs S A Glaw, John P Githens, Mar' Arr Hill, R 9 u Hass, Miss Marv E Hartley, Miss bl 4 Harton,H Hart, A Huntclv J H Hall, M" Haunegty, A Hudson. Mr Howell, Jacies Howell, C Howell, Mrs A Haws, Henry Hall, Miss M J Uainiston, Miss B Harrington, G Jamea, John L Jacquity, J S James, A Jones, W A Jones, G M B Kandle, Mrs R Kirk, J D Kandle, M Kingston. P Kimball, J Kirk, Mrs S C Kirk, Thomas P Libby, J M Lamb, T P Lacey, Mrs L E Laury, Wm Lewellen, Stephen Lindley, L Murray, J A Smith, David Seely, Miss Addie Smith, Samuel Spears, Mrs Mary Smith, George Stearns, S Lvrx Stephenson, John St.John, Charles -Stewart, F M (-Smith, S C Strong, Mrs J Stewart, MalicnV Savage, B Stearns. S M Stewart. C E Sears, Rev A E Smith, Allen Snotlin, Mrs M Savage, Mrs M Stone, Mrs Ann Tuttle, J E 2ibett, S 2 Thomas, R R Tuttle, II II 2 Thomad, Jacob, 2 Thorp, W W Tuttle, J V Tuthill, W Ii Vickers, A J Vogt, P A VanCuren, A Wright, II Williams, Mrs E Wilcox, E B 2 Wells, John Welch, II Watkins, R Warner, A White, G J" Wilson, W G 2 Wanless, F E Wilson, Wesley Wanless, W S Walkley, R S Wossham, II W Wyland, G W Wineland, J 3 o EDLON B. KELLY, P. X? o