were offered And refused. Shovels, spades, pick axes,
and other 'digging implements commanded enormous
prices. Many unable to procure these, were digging
with knives, sticks, and their finger nails. Enormous
prices were offered for provisions delivered on Die
ground. Nearly 800 men, women, and children were
on the ground and crowds were still locking up. The
mine is some way above Sutler's Fort, about 130 miles
from San Francisco. Its extent was unknown, but it
was believed to be immense. People with their fami
lies were camped out, and the mines being in the fever-and-ague
country, many of them are doubtless ere litis
lime shaking off vviial of their finger and toe-nails have
not been worn off digging.
Almost every kind bf business has been suspended
to give opportunity for the gratification of the desire to
accumulate wealth in a more expeditious manner than
the general routine or labor affords. Many of these
gold seekers will doubtless give practical illustration
ol the fable of the "greedy dog" before the mania shall
have subsided with them. This information concern
ing the situation ol atlairs in California, will explain
for vviial purpose the Schr. Honolulu has come into
Oregon waters. As we suspected, there is a great de
uiatid there for provisions of all kinds. Although the
crops have not failed, Ihey are eoing to waste from Ihe
neglect incident to the impossibility of commanding the
requisite labor for the ban est. The ''rout of all evil"
in the very commencement of its shooting in thai coun
try, has thus displayed a tendency destructive to its
first and best interests. However, as Oregon is des
tined to be the granary and provision market of the
Pacific world, she can as well now as at any other
time spread abroad her surplus supplies of produce,
which her own genial clime, and fertile soil, and the
frnVirlng industry of her people, have made most abun
dant. Oregon was never in a belter condition than she is
at present to show conclusively her importance as a
producing country. Her advantages and resources,
with every year of her existence, tend to establish
tier reputation and consequence more permanently to
point to that exalted position which she will one day
undoubtedly occupy, as a market of supply, blessed
with an industrious, hard working population, accus
tomed to the culture of (he soil; which no enterprise
can dismay or difficulty dishearten; whieli is being
annually augmented by Ik constant Immigration from
the Stales the fountain head On gun v ill make her
fruitful plains and fertile vallies as gold mines thai
shall furnish a plentiful and unfailing supply of those
products that contribute largely to man's prosperity and
iiappiuess.
News Items.! ho Whigs triumphed at the last elec
tion in the slate of New York, 'ihe Tribune, a Whig
paper, says ' every man on the Vhig slale ticket has
been elected by a majority ot '20,000, while Mr. Fill
more, their candidate for Governor, had at least 50,000
majority."
Connecticut has decland against lh. anu':...u ... u
the Constitution, allowing blacks the right ol suhrage,
by a majority of 13,705.
Wisconsin Territorial Legislature assembled on the
18tli of Nov. last for the special purpose of procuring
their admission into the Union. The population of that
Territory amounts to about 200,000.
What we Would Like to See. The official cor
respondence belweeu the Governors of California and
Orsfon.
Majies'Ngst8. In almost every community there are
a class of individuals who are continually finding
mares' nests, but, unfortunately for their gratification,
they find them empty, without even the smallest parti
cle of the shell of the egg remaining.
rULW FIRM.
THE undersipned, having formed a copartnership
under the name of
HOLDERNESS and CO.,
For Ihe purpose of dealing; in produce, and transacting
a general commission business in the same, do tender
their services to Ihe farmers of Oregon, and the public
in general, to sell all kinds of produce delivered to
them at this place, or any of the customary places of
deposite on the Willamette. They will use their best
endeavors to procure a speedy sale either at home or
abroad, for such produce as may be entrusted to their
charge will attend to flouring wheat and preparing it
for market.
As the abundant crops this year make it evident
that a large amount of produce will be on hand
to he shipped, they will use their best endeavors to
procure shipment to such markets as are deemed
best. If necessary, they will charter a vessel at the
Islands or California. S. M. Holderness,
J. L. Morrison,
Oregon City, Aug. 5, '48. J. R. Robb.
A C IT nitrl frw nrnrl tirn A tinlr frt
HOLDERNESS and Co.
Oregon City, July 29, 48. 17s.
ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE.
TVjOTICE is hereby given that the subscriber has
Lm been duly appointed administrator with the will
annexed of Joel Willcox, late of Clackamas county;
def eased, and has taken upon himself that trust as
the law directs. All -persons having demands against,
said estate are required to exhibit them in one year
from the 1st day of May, a. d. 1848, and all persons
indebted will make payment as the law directs.
July 30, '48. 18uu4. Wai. B. CHATF1ELD.
ADMINISTRATRIX NOTICE.
IWTOTICE is hereby given that the undersigned has
11 been duly appointed Administratrix of the estate
of Col. Cornelius Gilliam, late of Polk county, Oregon
Tirrih.r , deceased; and has undertaken that trust by
giving bonds as the law directs. Therefore all persons
having demands against the said estate will exhibit the
same for settlement to the undersigned, or the Probate
court of Polk county, within nine months from this
dale and all persons indebted to the said estate are
hereby requested lo make immediate payment to the
undersigned, or the aforesaid Probate court.
MaRY GILLIAM, Administratrix.
Polk county, July 25, '48. 17uu4.
Oregon Territory, Yamhill County:
i'JIEUE JACKSON,
vs.
Thomas Jackson.
BILL FOR DIVORCE.
THE said defendant, Thomas Jackson, will take no
tice that the said complainant, Phebe Jackson,
lias filed her bill on the Chancery side of the Yamhill
u Uil Court, praying a decree for a divorce from the
said defendant, on account of wilful desertion. 11 was
therefore ordered by saidcourt that notice of the pen-,
deucy of this suit be given by publishing the same in
the "Oregon Free Press," as the lavv requires in sucii
cases made and provided, notifying the said defendant
that if he does not appear on the 1st day of the next
term of said court, to be held at Lafayette, in Yamhill
county, on (he third Monday in September, 1848, then
and there lo plead answer or demur to said bill.
rill be taken as confessed, and a decree en- '
(he same wi
tered accorninirlv.
July 29.-17uu.
V VAULT and THURSTON,
Solicitors for Comp't.