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•"W THE COURIER. b 4, J866 I J J > ■ I 2 ’ t i . Gen. Grant A Traitor. • Wendell Phillips lately made a speech in Boston, in which he vociferated that Gen. Grant was a TRAITOR, and the seDtiment was lustily applauded by a Bos ton audience. For such utterances, tl IC Mountaineer says Phillips is a traitor. To this we must say Hold ! Mr. Moun- taineer; V endell 1 hillips a traitor ! T—r WUL. — FJL ' [ a I I r I W ithout M ail F aciliti fes.}—the t U<|YjERy. — Say, you Sentinel [NX ID i how piucfi more of that cast iron pa- maß Oregon City Enterprise, on behalf of the 'is theii iq^dur J ' office ? k Do try . and 1 citizens of Butteville and viciqity very perii littlelprint on gunny bags, fence I i moljifya ' ‘ '4 justly complains that Butteville is with raili rail somqtHizlg qtfiirig u ** kinder .soft,” so that a 11 _ r _ out any mail sen-ice, though it is a point fellpw can 1 "hop chQh an au item out occasionally. Very inbq|venibnt to smash them out of considerable importance. Seven or with .sledge-hammer.—/S'ftiiissrnan eight months since, petitions were circula Tnh.ri ii " ’ ili .’ a The t 4 . -------- paper p6 which the Sentinel man ted and numerously signed | at Oregoh nritits is like |his concience—iroi iron clad. City, Butteville, Champocg, Day ten anil Lafyette, asking for a tri-weckly servicL uru/ öcca!riona|ly manage to get get i a small through the dril- iteih from the jSentincl throu^' to be carried on the regular tri-weckly r line ingl^ajid blasting process, as a matter, of r of steamers plying between Oregon ' <'i'> fe- and this poin^ What disposition was! economy; sinee to burn out a ' t chunk i ■ ■ i ' ’ finally made ol-the matter we are at pre9-, quires time. 11 è TUESDAY,' DECEMBER » 1 ho IU 1 Hi Jo-e editorial columns of t-he Sentinel welcome guest and constant advisor of our ent unadvised ; but of this we are certain, *<< “ Martyr President a traitor I he man that such a service is greutly needed, and are'as d^stituti of political truth as the pa- fit I- •1 • c L . 5L L IJ us ‘ to the hatchet. " imperiai who, at the special request of President WOuld bc performed by 0 ipt;3Iiller at s -perils-------- 11 ' Lincoln made a speech in Washington on mere nominal cost to the t epartmeut. a certain occasion, and in which the fol lowing language occurs, a traitor ! Z_________ ■-__________ _ ! ! Í I ; I 1 ■ 4 ’ i |< t ✓ J ! . A lady ^rie id called at our office the othli taking up the Sentinel, M r . J. 0. Dow. late associate editor soon discover! d one of the editors polit • of the Daily Herald ta ;es the editorial ical a wlioppei r ’, which so unnerved her to dissolve this Union and thank God we charge of a new paper scon tobe issuci| that she kt th i paper .fall with a mighty k .1 J P r " k », the saqie breakin ig into angry frag- have finally succeded; the work is accom at Umatilla, called the Jolumbiai /’mq. t. .. ... ’ mufti and ;da igercus shaped plished.” J projectiles Messrs. I?ow & Avery art MI have labored nineteen years trying Í -.1 1 No- more lishers. The Press will nor no less than every candidate you sup in politics. ♦1 Wendell Philips a traitor! June, Mr- Mountaineer, — lips a traitor! Wendell Phil- Why, he received recent- I I which*, itrikingour devil abaft the 1 wheblhous£, p( ^disabled him i *that he has >r duty since/ The afore - ■ ported for State officers for Oregon last Ì ’ one id left the office in great T he Unionist of the 2 5th ult Says th« Sai Hon. II. C. Huston has re tired from” the haste mutteVit g that she did not know be of the Review, which pa¡- fore that we k ‘pt infernal machines about ly the almost unanimous nomination for chair editorial ■S ' the ofiice-H r 1 _ ’Ufil lying ones jit that. us on Friday last, hence congress by the radicals of Massachusetts, per did not reach i ■ T è and “ our (Oregonion’s) Washington letter '■ ■ we have no particulars. a F 41 fe regreted exceedingly that so good a man 3- —41 . - A — 1—- S teamer J — ■ I • < f iciio.—-In consequence of the ^reat,rustrí of freight at this time, the S outhern A id .—F\ rolli the P. 'T. Conpa Conpan hive put their new Steam- as Phi Hips should refuse to accept the de nee of the San Francisco er Écho on th ì ! Yamhill trajl^ Capt. Mil- who did refuse to accept the Louis correspondence V honor, ‘ w. ì I ' - ' V ■ ‘ with the express avowal Earamuier, we learn that large aniounts 1er ommandi ag nomination, but £ 7 • 1 I Ahat he could be of “ more service to the are being in various ways Raised in St. B all wifi bi given at the Lafayette Louis for the benefit of the destitute radical cause out of congress than in it.” « Hquse, on Clrislma? cven.i ng. Prepara' The man who has done more toward down South. tions are beingt made fur a grand affair. consolidating the multifarious elements « / r 1 I f • . *■ '■ T ypographical B lunders .—How entering into the composition of the pres • S ome F uw HER1 statistics of the pro- A giveu in ent republican party than all else besides, annoying, both to editors and correspbnd greiss of Yam|i County W..1I will lx be, ents! We confess that we have been a traitor! Friend Haloran you should # i JI j I intensely mortified at the numerous s ipes out 11- have forgotten that you j ever trained of the types that occured, for sevieral I ...II. ’’C . ' ■Ml ; .y ■ with, and belonged to, this party ere you weeks, in the Advocate. It would re T he M os '4 R rspectable —We will quire too much space, or an cxylination made the humiliating confession that its íntpré the ajsertion, without fear of çon- could be given that would refeive the very architect himself was a traitor. Come editor of ail blame in the matter^ Advo» tracÇçtlon, ¡sí|rs the ;Amandor Dispatch,1 “ □ •£ • j : ■ 'V hmwi out ! from the dirty and traitorous g&ng sate. and swear by the elements that you have ' Fudge ’ : ' thatjht tw.p negroes recently elected to I' fl ■rs ■ The Advocate min, with a the Massachusetts Législature^ were the confi- Corps of experienced printers talks II most-respectable?¡candidates elected about two most-respectable.'candidates - •. < *' LI. , ! , . . • . dence ”—that you had been cajoled into “ Mortifying’’‘blunders. Wo tfiiux he on the rump picket, although they could / not bave b>(| pinch self-respect, or they- loving(?) the MUnion” not wisely but must read proof but indifferently;' oulfij- have consented to become too well(?) , * • Suppose, as is the case with us, lie had never would? ■ ■; t------- —-— » I 1 ' no printer in his office over 11 six tRonths the* re preset fotives of such a corrupt theiv T he N ew D ayton R oad .—Much has I 1 Í J i-I ì II « i old,” and that he had to fedit his papet 11! I ing party. J 4L .vi -J... i..u — Ell been said touching the assumed impolicy ’n ¿ 1 ' J 1 •[ I • " ."1—,,fc,— do all the press work, set ads-, financier, SliOCKED.i-Th e- Radient sheets see and impracticability of the new county V . 1 XX- .1 Í distribute j^very type tnat is used about about this me terribly shocked af the road which was some time since.establish the entiae concern, run a job office, idea of Morrissey being elected to Con- ed leading due east from Lafayette on a saw wood, make fires, swe|p the ieffice, grcijs. They blurt out their indignation 1 direct line to Dayton. Without investi read proof, make up forms—j his mails and1 * ib ’“ go measured terms, ■ We arc no great gating the subject, we confess that we had « 1 0 i ! I ' J ‘ . t ' r ’ e carry papers about town; carry water admirer of |lorrissey or his kind, but for all along entertained notions in common across two blocks wash-days, and stick a party whifh has just elected the spoon with the opponents of this enterprise. type when there is nothing else on hands thieving bc^st Butler, tò thè same body, Having had occasion recently to pass over to do, as we do, he would then be justi- tQi criticise anyone dn the score of cnarac- a considerable portion of the proposed tfbw ijbaal error to fiable in suffering an occasi tet. sefems, sa^. the " least, a little absurd. road, we examined its practicability some I escape his attention. Until we are i made what in detail, and were unable to discov ; -- . — ’.I f • - i 1 I aware that such is his situation we shall er any very serious obstacle in the way of habit of A C ertain ! ' C ure .— ■ The hold him to a strict accountability for all ' ■ -1* I i J I I ! making a good road. We fiad a’so, that errors and misprints that occur in the col drinking; |ays • the La Cross Democrat ') a great amount of labor and money has can be cur dii b/ giving ’ the ! drinkers all r umns of the Advocate. already been expended on opening this icy *want all the i time. That Some editors, having nothing mojto to the liquor thoroughfare, which fact of itself is a po- thi& experiment! will prove. a success we do about the office than to write arid se " kbriw. Itjras L tried on a k p- wfiisky-ist in tent argument in favor of its early com lect for their paper and possibly read tfie Mifwauk^H QOtj luug long piuuv, since, who rffter II uuuj wiw aiuer pletion. It is obvious enough that a road proof of their own productions, passing dribking ^ll the liquor he could hold for leading from here to Dayton and there con two weeks, i'tnagin.ed ___ ____________ he saw ,______ snakes, , dev- the same back to the printer for al ejfa- lies, Ben. Butler and Thkd. Stevens^and necting With the Portland road is a neces tions and modifications, little dreamin ? r, - 11} of a four,-s|ory window, , run- sity ; and we fail to* discover the impro S stope into his head. 7Z He has the number of errrors of fact, oathogta- priety of said road leading from Lafayette a drop since, nor will he not the phy, etc., etc:, that have already been de rest of directly east and bearing directly in the f ■ r • tected and set aright by the printer, thick’ direction of its destination. The citizens TOLL ROM ANQING. they have all on their hands they can pos i of this place, of all others, should be the The telegraph is still at work humbug Such sibly attend to. L " editors will be last to odject to the construction of this gingthe giog the gullible public on Mexican mat poorly arm ad when they rea road. Thoroughfares leading to and from ters. Th^ Thé latest is that General Sherman of the gradeof newspaperdoi is about .^accompany Minister Campbell town, should, for the sake of system if readily conclude they were I ” I i to Mexico,’ and wjll remain there “ until nothing else, lie as nearly as practicable par the Juarez Government is fairly establish- for tl uphill business.” allel and at right angles with the streets. Wacke the information came form . ed.” WOi that the * Ji|i _______ ___f ” _____ _ Were it not for the fact that much has T arez Government, so-called, already been expended in opening this F rederick Weed, Nephew of £hur- ico, supposing Maximilian leaves, we are road, we should not faver its construction lew Weed committed suicide latedy at nqt advised. a. From all that we can see or bt;- DQ just at this time ; as it is, we are in favor Salt Lake City. He left a njOt e . rn hear, tb$ (ever^e hrould be the rbase. Is » it the intention, then, of our Government of its immediate completion. " he stated that he was tired of life. ’ 1 ' x ■ !'! ; J; “iJB ! to force .this bogus President upon them S ee Mr. Stiles’ new ad. and bear in whether? they » ' ipy will or not ? If so, it is a * , • J ■ i ’ ; co mmqntary upon Republican B usy ,—All the carpenters in anc /mind where bargain» in Sàddles, Harness out beautiful coi Gbverfimpijt. is Government. I Juarez Ji ' i no more the Draw on your Lafayette have been unusually busy for President^ Ijlex xl etc., etc., are to be had. ico than we are. He is own experience for the proof of the prop the past few months, and the demand is nqt^ing mare or less than a pretender, and osition that he who advertises liberally quite in advance of the supply of that a Would-be usurper. His term has long _ * 1 -1 1 .J 1 <1 ZT IN » » • sines and under oiuvo expired, xsaqjtgtpwj ’ auu UUUül the vUV Constitution VvUoviVuVlULl seldom deals parsimoniously. kind of labor yet- -r* J » »• . • « : • ' I of the Republic. Ortèga is the only one authorise^! authorise| ito act as President. If Sher- ’ ________ * ' ■ ' ' I - • I M ’ 1 • ' *; * G ood T emplars F estival .—A Christ man is ^be Bent to México to bully her people, and make them accept a usurper, mas Tree and grand entertainment will be hoisted the name of “ D. Ms C. F t” then this’virtuous outcry against the Em the order withjhe Good Templars of this ire and ¿foreign interference, is a hum at the head of the editorial col urn pire place on Christmas evening, ensuing. bug and | cbpat. General Sherman may D. M. C. C’aulì figures as possibly ^o ,to Mexico to ascertain the Speakers from abroad will probably be in to his salutatory. Come, _• ’ qp h0r rpeOp|e> real i wis but nothing attendance. Which is more.- been the “ victim of misplaced * à s I rW k f ■ a ■*- ztv I .■ I 5 ‘ I THE MARKETS. NEW Th e following is from McCracken, Mer- ARRANGEMENTS! -. » rill A Co’s, trade report, datedtNov. 26 - I®' AT Ví” T * ■ '•« i Farmers will be wisq to weigh well the HARNESS and SADDEERY prognostications found belpw touching the 1 ' iiifi:¡ • F l. _ ' ’ • i - **“■ -^’7' • } probable future of the wheat market. ; 'We learn that farmers are holding their • Y ■ ESTABUSHiffiNT I or crop£ in anticipation of prices that we fear will never be realized. California has tox ported since the 1st of July in Wheat and Flour what is equivalent tu three million bushels,—this is but littie more than one- third oT the surplus that State will bavH to ship, as it. is estimated that there is in store in the pity nod about the i now ‘ Bay, four million bijislitols But if this four million dushels is the entile surplus remaining fo ir shipment, it is equivalent in round nu nbers to One Hundred an I Thirty Thou; sand tons. It is a questio quest'io. a n whether thè required ton- nage can bc procured in time to* export thi$ emmeuse amount,- thib has an impor- tant bearing upon the, price of grain. It mal :ers little what inaiucem lints" for ship- met t foreign markets may iffer, it will of c ourse avail the produc ir or shipper nothing without the faciliti« es for sending it aWay. Reports from the East have not beeh favorable, arid the p fices have dew clin^d in San Francisco rum §2 to $2 12 J to SI 75 and $2. In the above estimate, oi^r own surplus has not been taken into acdount—but lit-* tle comparatively of the grain and Flour of this fcjtate has as yet been shipped. Th(|ro is no hope of a demand for Flour up the Columbia, except to supply the lo- cal demand uf the pails am d Umatilla, as wheat is to-day selling at a less price in the Walla Walla Valley th in in the Will amette. In view of these facts, we find nothing fo encourage the ri elief that high- cr prices will be obtained between now and next harvest. C Our loial milks are of fering 75c. delivered at th ie mill, lots for, sùf-ficient for theit ir immediate wants but do not manifest 1 a desire to lay in large 11 * ! ’ stock» at that figure. Flour—ranging from c5 00 to '$8 00 with limited demand except for export. Y Oats -r—local trade well supplied—flight demands—374 to 40c. per bu. f 19- Bacon—Sides 17(0; 18c.r—Hams Sh'oujders 8 and 9i 4 -Price hefc quoted only ^nominal,”there beind no enquiry, cun siderable in market, and holders anxious to dispose of their stock. Large quanti- quanti A ’_n^„s ties of bacon will be put up in the Valleys of the Columbia* esougb i tn n<iniv the to B supply eariy] Spring trade, of the mining country, if not for the entire season, ¡The future is not i very V promising I o for this aricle, and 1 we fear that am ther seast n: we shall have ■ 1 'depend almost entirely upon the Culifor* '' ’ - 1 market. > ugar—Stock on han 1 light ranging SA to 11c "for Island. S F. refined fro hlfi ibis. IßAe 114 r 1 12c. Crushed I -F * ! bbls. 141. i i „ Í - S. C. STILES 4' AT L € J ’ i ’• * .OREGON. I ; * t he undersigned, thankful for tbc liberal patronage extended to him in the pastr wool 1 say to his old .customers and others, that he is uow better prepared than ever, to supply all demands for ? H I? . - • ] P I -.-S ’ , • 1 ; 'si. [ I’S1 SADDLES & HARNESS 4 /I. i r- T Of all kinds and descriptions, and lower C - same i class - * •• J of - articles 'T - than the and - Quality * ’ elsewhere • ■ A j can L be . purchased the I.. I V A L L E Y m . < - Repairing, Mending done on short Notice. I’ 1 U 4 L • ' ■ ' • ?■ and Fixing paid ' for * The highest Market ^price Hidép and produce. «y promptitude i . . in business I hope to be able to merit a continuance of the patron- age Heretpfor^ so generously extended to me. Customers 1 from the opposite side' of the river, who purchase the amudnt of five dollars, will "be entitled to fejli ige at my expense. I i ! I • III I - I -- ■ ■ S. C. STILES I .Dayton, December 1, 18G6. v* ■ . 1! 1’ I IT > e I 1 z Semi-Weekly Line of IIA C K S From PORTLAND to LAFAYETTE, via Hillsboro, Forest Grove and Centerville, and eturn T\\ It F a IV EEK, Carrying the- ‘ ti ii < r t nfieU States M ail ! J ’!].[’■ ' v ■ 4 assengers and Baggage taken to and from I ajl the above and intermediate Points. "I ‘ Pack ages of Goods Ac., carefully and proijnptly delivered’. I l 1' ■ i ■T • I* ' 1 • Will|fe^ve Lincoln House at 6 a . m * One of the most wilfu and awful in ur MONDAYS and THURSDAYS. Ar- dors that has occured in li e west happen* ~r t t rivu Q at LAFA A ETTE on Tuesdays and ed in Iuka, Tama Co , Iowa, last 31 on Fri< ays, and reachin ' ’ ig PORTLAND on day. A man by the nau c of Felter shot retu um trips, VV ednesdays and Saturdays. ami then beat out the brains of his wife, " D- M. FIELD’ Pro . , . ’■ I ' • * I * ' II' ' J * I jette, Aug. 26,18G6. , ly. and then, set his house on fire, which was P FrW • T • 11 is little gi 1, an only child, his wife. TN a rn r»-* N I |> . • ■*?•!'* i ! the remains of consumed, together with A ■■ ' n . ' J _f ■ B F. Bonham. Attorney at aged rix years, escaped jy the advice of hjer’dying mother^ to tel. the story to her dsn S A L E M, 'hei murderer is now nearest neighbors^ Th< in th$ hands of the sheiliffi May justice ! ' j J I ■ ■ W 1 OREG ON. I < ' ill give prompt attention to all legal business entrusted to him at the Cap ' ri.. „..il -i-- praaetioe • jn any him; —Counci IT Bluffs itol. i He will also Í. Cóurj sof this State. I speedily ovci (Iowi|) Bii/7/c t - ¡ ‘ 1 * ■ ■ H LIVERY « . Tax Xotice—Fair Warning ! * ' nving “ Swung around the entire Cir cle,” and visited all the precincts in the ¡L afayette STABLE! ’ 'entire County, as require Ubv law, I hereby paying Taxes in OSBORN & RATHBUN, Pro’s. L give notice that • the , time LI or _______ Yamfiill County will expire on the 28th day irses and Buggies to Careful parties on of De:ember 1866, and al Taxes not paid on Ml reasonable Terms. or be ore that date, will be collected as on ex- letutiun. L. L. WHITCOMB,. Ben. F. Hayden, Sheriff of Yarrihil County, Oregon. ¥ 'Lafayette, Nov. 28, 1866. H ■% H 4 , : <. i p > z . ■ 1 • I ’ fl 1 E 0 LA, S COUNTY, STOR G E I 1 Com I A mission! ARE HOUSE, would- wouftd' say to all inter. WARE inter, estei, that he is prepared with improved facil ities for the accoifimodation of Farm ers, Merchants and ot 1er Shippers, with safe, safe accessible and Convenient convenient STOR STOR- AGE. He will also Purchase and For ward Produce for a ‘easonable Commis sion. Goods and Packages Shipped to my care will receive due and prompt att ention. J. t “ • ______ >__________ -1 *11 * • 1 K. SAMPSON- Lafayette, Nov. 23, 1866. ............................... f ----- r- s,.- - -------------- —-------- 4' * - pjRS. WHlrf & W(ESTERFIELC, Phy- l._z. sicians and Surgeons, Lafayette, Oregon. Oregon. nsr Lafayette, Office in the Drug store. ■ --------------------------------------- '■ ’ i a * 'll * ' I ■ : ' - « b T. HEMBREE' Dealer in DryGood s Groceries Hirdwore-&c. South sido Street. J , . Oregon. ¡ill practice in the various Courts of th s State. ,44 ly —, — 1 , J.i K. SAMPSON of the LAFAYETTE 11.11 . , ,2•' * AN OFFER. •Iii order to increase our circulate a )rojad—fin the States and elsewhere, ue propose to furnish the C ourier one yeir to those ordering it sent to any of tie states east, „ st or California, for the low price' price of D ollars . There is destined for maiy year^ to comu. to be a large emigration am u- ally peeking homes on the Pacific Slope, and evary dollar expended by~tiie people of Ya n- hill bounty in the way of directing attentii n- to tqe superior inducements offered e ns grants to settle in Yambiji County, will yfi Id. a foqr fold return. The > f - Territory and ‘ resources of YamLill County are ample to sustain fifte en tim its prasent population! There is scarcly one in the County wiio has hot a friend or friends in the States or ( alifbrnia to whom to send the countv paper who would in all probability be glad to sjnd fin exchange to such friends here, -a pa >cr rom their locality. Inealitv two ¡ I