*'■3^ I ■ 4 I A, » t ! < Ts / s i ife fl I t. I ■ t i \ I « I ■ 4 * < i ia 1 À r ■ I 11 ■ j * '« I t J '* ? : 1- H j i! J I I- J 1 I ÍU- r <14 ■—MB 11 I ■ Í I J4 t ♦ I I « r I **■? » i ¡ * r! jj Oi a I —i . ' Ì i t ' i "'i' g h !i: » « '4 í — i j I V I» r > r- P. 4 K *** s. i 1 M V I d Í 4 » 4 0. . » »' ■: J? i * * 1 1 I Í# « ■ I % # ft. ¡ > L j * j 4 4 f « } f * * 1 • ff < r! ! 1 -3 I * .* i* ' -'I' ■ • Ir ' • T * I 4 ‘ K »Th’ .4 í I r 1 ‘JR P r ■ 7 ” '""‘i ' F t 5 b •*;, > r • i 1! i J « '« • » 1 fc. f.i t i k b / • ' . Y. .R, S- ! > »■ i ' JL» ■ I 4 Vf =4 CO f * ISSUED EVEKY TUESDAY, i j AT ! - Ì ■■■■■I , DEC. 18, 186& 2 *• the United. States resumes-its annual leg- islative labors. An Allwise and merciful Uyiamended tapir c< ir constitu- YAMHILL COÜNTY, OREGON. » || Providence has abated the pestilence U8 ke them conform to the , BY < w tifii wjiich visited our shores leaving its cal­ iat effected iij the ! organic e> t ij. H- UPTON, editor and pub ’ sh r . amitous traces upon some portions of our _ h 4 They declared null and '. ’uf I 1 *V*' ’. â C f < country. Peace, order, tranquility aud ices and laws of seceBsioff; r repudiated 111 pr< cc.) civil authority have been formaly. declar­ ■— tkk S i S or pre^eodtil debts ahd obli- 'dMions creawiljib ed to exist throughout the whole pf the i • the revolutionary pur- One Copy One Year, . . , . . $3 00. One Cdpy Six Months, . 2 00. United States. Civil authority has sup­ ¡»rises of the ¿niur section and;proceeded in ffiiilr.| to’Jhe eugctmcn| of measures j&S?* Clergy men and Teachers will Furnished erceded the coercion of arms and the peo­ with the C ourier at $2,00 per annum. ple by their voluntary action are maintain­ for th 14 pvotc|jt^n and amelioration of the accomplished^ the war ought to pease. In some i instances, Senators were permitted func- to > continue their legislative tions while iw other instances, Repre- : IlH " i ■ Ml » : I V-' ' . . . . . j.. < I I ■ . ' » .1 - . . - seats after their States had formerly de­ clared their rights to withdraw from /the Unirin, and were endeavoring to maintain that right by force of arras >A .11 of tha.State8 whose people were in iO8UL rrection as States, wero included iu i/Xvflivujp-rn. i the apportionment of a direct tax of tweq- ty millions of dollars annually laid upon the United States by an act approved on ■ I ■ I > 4 í ! 4 « 1 J - f « j -, f . 1 ■ -■ rp ■ y ■ represented states. This would eonsu- mate tl e work of restoratiou and exert a e-estabiish- most salutary influence in tl I fraternal ment qf peace, harmoney feelin^l It would tend greatly to renew the confidence of the American people in the vigÿr of the their institutions. It would bind us more closely as a nation, and enable usa v iil be made on suppressed by the ordinary course of ju­ ortbe jscssio| thatj an exception was made judicial purposes been divided into dis­ tion of these states and by inducing emtgra <- Quarter'y, Yearly, and half Yearly Adver­ 3 dicial proceedings. The animosities en­ ih fav^rof Tehuess* ee by the admission iof tricts, as States alone can be divided. The tion aid |n the settlement offertile regions tisements. I * •: Hotel, Medical and Law Cards, $10,00 per gendered by the War are rapidly yielding her ffenato! J: Vi and. Reprc: intatives. I same recognition appears in the recent now uncultivated, and lead to an increas­ • M annum. . » ’ ed production of those staples which have I profound regret that legislation in reference to Tennessee -ing the basis on which our to the benifleent influences of our free in­ i^eem t a su added so greatly to the he wealth of the j^a- tn .. rates are fixed. Currency will only be taken stitutions, and to their kindly efforts of Coogrpss hai .• ifar failedgto admit to which evidently rests upon the fact that tion and « commerce of the world. New 4' I at market Y;due. k the functions of the State were not des ­ enterprise would be opened to fields of ei unrestricted! social and’commercial inter ' 1 rs and epresetatives J L course. Ajp entire restoration of fratern­ $rom tile o|b Hl Kes, whos| inhabitants, troyed by tlie rebellion, but merely sus­ our progressive people, and soon the de­ COUNTY OrriciAL DIRECTORY. vastations of war would be repaired, and“ ' i al feeling must be the earnest wish of e.v^ with those c f pie tine ssee, had engaged in i pended, and that priciple is of course as all traced of our domestic differences ef­ Judge, J. W. Cowles; .Commissioners,• \V »applicable to those States which, like Ten- faced from the minds of our countrymen f re than onc- Ball, J, 11. Br iwn; Sheriff, L. L. Whit cry patriotiq heart, and we will bave ac* the rebellioi L j Ten‘States nessec, attempted to renounce tbeir place in the efforts to preserve the unity of. the Adams; Assessor, D. comlpished bur grandest Nation»! achieve­ comb ; Clerk,’S. whole number, remained fourth of t Smith ____ ; ; Trci'surt-r, Chin. Eckles; School ment when forgetting the smi events of tfc^ in the Union. The action -of the Execu­ government which constitutes uS one peo­ i hfcebtation. * The setts of 50 Stiperirdemkut, Hev^Jolm Spencer; Coroner, without, rejpi ple, by Restoring the states to -the condi­ past and remembering only , their instruc­ hicmbfers in jt t|q House of Representative!! tive department of the Government upon tion which they held prior to the rebel­ J. W. 'Watts; Surveyor, A. S. Watt. < a this subject has been equally definite and lion. We should be cautious least, hav-* tive lessons, we resume cur onw ■ird caree arid of 20 mbjnbefs re t miembers in in the the Senat Seo at re yet yet ing rescued our na ion from the perils of uniform, and the purpose of the war was I as a free, prosperous and united people. yaCanl vatani —riotjby notjby their own consetjt^ consent^ not by disintegration, we turn to consolidate, and, Tr* T'lnn.nmli/ In mvr my vn^QânrFA message nF of tliA the zlth 4th nF of December,- ft faction of |^0torsl ' ' ; ' but ' by the refusal J i of stated in the proclamation issued by my in the < l, finally absolute despotism as a OSBORN 1 RATHBUN, PRO. 1865, Congress was informed of themeas- predecessor on the .22d day of. September, I I reward r the recurrence of kjmilar ___ trou- Congressr t p accept their credentials. a 1862- It was then solomnly proclaimed blcs. The war having terminated, and . rpHIS HOTEL is still kept tbr the accom- ures which bad been instituted by the Ex­ theirj ¿dm is Hoh> iL is believed, would JL modation of boarders and the travelling i1 ■ 1 ■ s « occasion for the exercise of ecutive witjh a view to the gradual hut have iccomfished j much towards the re and declared that thereafter, as heretofore, with it I all — - i-. I- A public. ’ the War Will be prosecuted for the object power of doubtful constitutionality, , we sure rstoraiibn of the States in which th'd I 4 ■tue icning of our relations of practically restoring the Constitutional should hasten wi newaljand _____ __ to bring legisation within «ODD STABI j IH i G, : A ‘ I V I; k I- r ‘ 1 bT ■ yr _ - . I late insurrection occurred, to their l/r^er as between the United Dtates and the boundaries prescribed by the Contitu- orA) peo|le, ^nd removed a serious relation -Wf a I f w •1 1 *,A* “ - —J L “1 Jjon, anil •*. a X* and atUntivehostlers. d return to the ancient land marks M*W UI U»«uto» Ule people, is sacredly obligato: hole ss bf the pcnd^nce t ; TT H : rest-ntativea chosen to tbe;Congress nt ffo people ought tb bear the them as States, and in the Tupreme, Cir­ upon al lIh S. HURLBURT. United States ; and courte had been open­ Hr! r» burden of taxation, and vet denied the cuit and District Courts. In the admis* If in n th he opinion of the people the c - admis­ ATTORNEY AT LAW, ed for the enforcement of laws long in a On &M UVO^IUH ¿of Ul but tributii on the UM/U! modification the VU coo- «kil right d of n preset»tation. It would have sion of Tcnators and Representatives from ......... I--FT--7 K i U “ W oriaV powers be iu any particu’ar ^afayette, Yamhill County, Oregon. Will abeyance. The blockake had béen removí any and all of the S rate-«, there can be no stitutioL i be6n^ an consonance with the express pro-» practice in the Supreme, Circuit and all just grounds of apprehensions that per­ wrong, let it be corrected by an amend* ed, custom bouses re-established, and f j ’ V I of the Courts of this State. S visioi |s of tjher Coobtitution that each State sons who are disloyal will be clothed with ment in the way in which the Constitu­ internal revenue laws put in force in order V t ' I shalLhave at ileait one Representative, the powers of legislation ; for , thi$ pould tion, def ignates, but let there be no * that the people might contribute tojj the ■% not happen when the Constitution and change by usurpation. Washington spoke ER. B. J. BOUGHTON. at n ptate? without its consent, * ' I national income. ■ Postal operations had and » the law are enforced by a vigilant and these, werds to his ^countrymen, when, Late Physician & Surgeon,- inyed of its equal suffrage in faithful Congress. Each House is mady followed; by their love and graitnde, . he shall ‘ be dei been rene' wed, and efforts were being . ■ jj " \ J- ' « « The£e provisions Were inten- the judge of the election returns and qual--: voluntarily retired from the care of public the Senate^ In Hospital Department made to restore them .* ; to their ’ * ' former con­ W' • t ' ’*i life. ‘‘Keep all things within the pale of fè f to pvery State, and to the ificatiooB of its own members, and may, ■to evi ded to secu| i * Of The Army of the POTOMAC. dition ami, efficiency. The States them­ with the eoDCurrejMte of two-thirds expel our Constitutional powers, and cherish ■ Ï peopjo of et Lery y Stat State, the right of repre- a member, r When a senator or Represeln the general onion as thd only reck ^of selves bad been asked tp take part in the Office in Dallas, Oregon. safety,” was prescribed by Jefferson as a high function of amending the Constitution sentatiorf ip each house of Congress, and tative presents his certificate of election, f I • I j role of action to his sountrymen. He he may at once ba admitted or rejected, aud of thus sanctioning the extinction -of so important was it deemed by the fram­ or should there be any question as to his ¿enjoined^ k inedj them to study the true principles i -» y Æg I ers of the Constitution, that the equality leir Constitnion, of their Constituion, aud promote a union , £. C. BRADSHAW, African slavery as one of the e legitimate Í of thp States should be preserved, that not eligibility, his credentials may be referred of sentiments auspio- □rents and action equally auspio ion to the appropriate commit results of dur struggle. Háii ing progrès* z tieir happiness und safety. Jack ■v^ lathand if admitted to a seat, jit must be ious to tbeir bappiness and safety. Jack- sed thus far the Executive head fburia even by an ^amendment of the Constitu-' ♦ 4.1 -,__ * . ’ ' ft- • ■ rjt upon evidence satisfactory to the House of son held? that the action of the general that it had accomplished nearly allp that itiou^an ayy State, without its consent, ba which he thus becomes a member, that government AND utent should always be strictly con­ : i o ^he sphere of its appropriate du- fined to denied a v le in that branch of the na ­ he posses the right ¡constitutional and le ­ was within the scope of its Constitutional COUNSELOR AT LAW, AND SO- < idjjustiy and forcibly urged thak ties, and Í LIC1TOR IN chancery . authority. One thing, however, y^t re­ tioqal legi ture. . It is t true it has been gal qualifications. IT refused admission è as a member for wank of due allegiance to our govetnment is not to be maintained ol tes tes- ­ assumed, t t the existance of States was the Government, an nd returned to his con- nor our Union preserved by tne mained to be done before the^work 0: the mv invasion Lafayette, Oregon. I I K j toration coiuld be completed, and tbftt was terminated iy rebellion and the acts of stituent8, they are > l admonished that none 1 f {Cçuchtded on tccon d " Pa^e.V “ W ill practice in the District and Supreme but persow loyal to the United states will the admiefction to Congress of loyal Sena- ■Hj^rippal^ants, and that the insur Court» of Oregon. * %« *» p^w ed a voice vbice in in! the legislative coun coun- »Hwed .pyTaxes Paid, Collections made, and tors and Representatives from tho States tion bavio<|been" suppressed, they wei Í : <¡ i Proceeds Promptly remitted. k>f nation, and the political power iof the tho natW, r e « 1111 • 1 ¿A I IL 1 ’ I d theÊmoral influence of Congress are whose people had rebelled againt the thenceforward to be considered merely as I dbf ■< I » conqaered sterritory. The Legislative, thuB effectively exerted in the interests of lawful au|l hority of the Öeneral^ Gjri^ GovcrniDeDfc and fidelity to Executive nd judicial departments of the ment. This question i devolved upon 1 1.AFAYETTK FEBBY. Mu 1!« • . 1 __ 1 4, 3 I ‘ respective Houses which by the Constitu­ Governmerit have, however, with great Upon this qwtidn, so vitally affecting OHRTStMAS ENTERTAINMENT, 1 HE undersigned would respectfully an­ distipctne ' refused f /- to sanction ----- 4i-------- an as- the restoration of thè union and ths per­ An Entertainment to consist of two or more nounce to the travelling public, that he tion are made the judges ef the election > 4 manency of our present form of Govern* incompatible with the nature has, at the Lafayette crossing of the Yamhill, returns and qualifications of their own suip ption lectures, music, a “ Christmas Tree,” .distrix ment, my convictions heretofore expressed of &t|r Remjblican system and the profes­ have members, and its consideration at once en- f bav? undergone no change, but on the ,buton of presents, ect, wilt ba given by the A LARGE, NEW 'AND SAFE FERRY BOAT, if the war. throughout the contrary their corred tness has been con- Lafayette Lodge of Good Tnmplars, at the sed pbj < on which he can cross Teams, Stock, &c., gaged thq atteniton of Congress. . In the firmed by reflection ii nd time. If the ad- Court House, on Monday night, Dec. 24tb of Congress the undeniable meantime the Executive plan, having recent L mission of loyal men: bers to seats in the 1866. EXPEDITIOUSLY AND CHEAPLY. f‘ been proposed prop >sed by Congress, continued its fact ¡makei^ttself a ^parent that the the po- respective Houses of Congress was wise The members of the Lafayette Sunday And 4 The roads h»fl«ngt0 an<3 frotn this crossing efforts to perfect as far as^was practicable litical co: nitiehaie nothing less than and expedient a year • ago, it is no less wise Day Schools, and the pnbjic general/, are re­ pF I ayn in good ¿epair, and persons from the líí expedint now. Ii f this, anomalous con- spectfully invited to attend, the restoration of the proper relation^ be- States of Un iwn At the very com- restera! South going t.'- going to Salem, Dallas, Corvallis, will find it the States, and the Federal Governmet, declared, Jjith a unanimity aS remarkable time it is lawful to exclude them fro# bels and hangings, must be handed in to* 1 'if-' to their advantage to P^ronize^iB Ferry. » ■ *■ c representation, I d$ JOHN HAKKlo. do not see that the ques ­ the undersigned Committee of arrange ­ extending from time to time what the as itiwaasigpificant, that the war was not 13- tion will be changed by the "efflux ’of time Lafayette, July 31, 1866. I i ments, by ¿he Saturday evening previous. waged [Uire to the public interest! seemed to requite óur side in a partisan spirit — - r ' . ten years hence. item« of the t for the u Tree " solicited judicial, rpveriue and postal eyetema of opprefcypD, nor for any purpose of con ­ pu If these states remain as they are, the tct H country. With the advifte and consent ofj quest or fii&jugation, nor the purpose of right of representation will be do longer open at 5} o’clock P. M. — -the right of exclusion wifi be no wea- t' r- the Sepate the necessary officers were ap- overthrowing or j interfering with the «^.Admission Free. * “ , 1 * ker- LAPAYiWt NO. 8, I ; By order of Lafayette Lodge, No. 34, pointed, appropriations ^ere made by J rights ortestablished institutions of these JTfre Constitution of the united States me aa< Acte^ud Muon«. « j L- Congress for the payment of their salaries. States^nlto defend and maintain the makes it the duty of the President to fe- I. O. of G. T, S V1 4 ; I . sentatives were elected and admitted . to 1 1 4 ♦ f V gÄLon.tbo 18' )h day of No- d o, it waï officially declared to :f ... a ■ ilid, and a pari i of the Con- - T jUnjted Stateg. All of th^ Lich the insurrection h insurrection had ex LAFAYETTE, ■« f » 1 ’ up ¡4» F ellow C itizens o^ THE S enate and H ouse of IlEPrESESTATIVES : After a brief interval the Congress . * > 1 -> ii 3k—*■ Kl i PRF a SIDIL^TS message . “ ’ V1 I I UM* » ■ t I / 2 LAFAYETfE, i « I ■'. T it —2. I . J í / I' I I I >*• ! il-* X I »* 4 X . ' i E ' r «WM I ♦ 9 ■Í -■ 44- *1 ? LAFAYETTE. HOUSE }' t 4 r 4 * 4 ■ f *1 urz.i t * 1 ■ ‘ ¡¡L p I ' Ji If h ? r I • ; j V 4-, f J V f u * ; 4 . I « i'* A. F. and A. M. V » w / ’ a Meets in Lafayette on the 1st. and 8rd Friday of each month, at half past 6 in the afternoon. Brethren of the order, in in good standing are L B. EMBREE, invited to attomL T. V* W. M. Gao H. S teward Sec’y. « i I i -4 » t I. r il J. W. Watts, W. B. Daniels* » The proposition to amend the Federal supremacytof the constitution and all laws edmmend to the eojisideration of Congress . sueh measures as he shall judge necessary J. H.:fcall; T. B Hanley thu ex- made in i jirsuance therof, and to preserve or expeuient, I kr ow of no measure Constitution bo as to provide for th Mrs. J. W. Watts, Mrs. 8. C. Adams. tinotion of slavery within the United the Uniottlwith all the dignity, equality/“0™ imperatively demanded by every consideration of Ñ i , .Mrs. €♦ B. Doris. v- al interest, sound States, or any place subject tv their juris |of the several States unimpair- policy and equal j ice, than the admis- r Committee of arrangements* it num- diction. was ratified by a sun A as soon as these objects were tion of loyal membe frobk the now un- Lafayette, Dec. 9th, 1836. • ? b I ■ • -i ■ r ! - v • ! 1 J 4 % I 1 I *!■ I 1 ' ■ • * i ■I ■K ijn * ; : ! • ■ .■ ®. ä; ¡ T ; - ■ 4 i V jf ' "1 4*- f 1 I, -I ■ * I 4 ■ f ,4; i au ""«’n K. í_> L ttf j Í i " 1 9 J 1 1 i * I 4.1 ‘ / -,'W A ■ !• ■' I 4 » j ; j -.7.' ‘ I - ♦ V ■ y ; UM v,r- I ! » L it / ■ ■ 4- it . . , V* irö