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EI)c tUttkb (enterprise
Orgon Oity, Oregon ,
. . IRKLAXD, EDITOR XSD FROFRIETOK.
Saturday : : : Nov. 14, 1868.
KXPJL.AJfA.TIOX.
In the issue of the Enterprise of
October 17 th, a paragraph occurred
announcing that the materials of the
office were to be removed to La
Grande, there to begin, the 3d volume.
This came entirely unexpected to a
boit of the friends of the paper, but
it wa deemed to be to the best inter
ests of the publisher. The " forms''
vrere properly packed for shipment,
and w should most likely have been
off before this, only for a misunder
standing between the contracting par
ties, which it ia not necessary to re
countsuffice it to say we are still
here, and so long as we publish, a news
paper, on our own responsibility, we
shall do so in Oregon City.
With this explanation we shall pro-
ceea to business. Our past course
and history ia before the public.
Whatever we do we shall try to do
well, and all the favors we have to
ask ia yonr patronage. For nearly
two years we shall not feel it incam
bent upon us to dabble much in poli
tics but on every important occasion
w3 shall otter onr sentiments, and
those sentiments perhaps will not de
viate from what they were the past
ensvass.
Pacific Mail Steamship stock has
advanced to 117.
(D . ZL
-The manufacture of the telegraph
cable to connect France with this
country, has been commenced.
Wells, Fargo & Co. advertise to
put passengers through to New York
iu 11 days by the overland route.
It is reported that Hon. Schuy
ler Colfax is soon to wed Miss Nellie
Wade, neice of the venerable Presi
dent of the Senate.
The editor of the Idaho Slates
man has feasted his eyes upon a large
pear and apple, 6ent to that place by
mail, from Seattle, W. T.
Orgon, by the latest advices
from east of the mountains, has gone
for Seymour and Blair by about 214
majority.
The English Quakers, or Friends
have issued an address strongly ad
vocating jthe separation of Church
and State.
A new steamer is building in
France which will it is thought, cross
the channel in three quarters of an
hour.
The Pacific Mail steamer Alaska
cf ailed from New York for Aspinwall
with 1,200 passengers and 1,150 tons
of freight, including 500 firkins of
butter.
It is said that a few drops of
kerosene oil, rubbed iu with the point
of the finger or a piece of sponge, is
a certain and speedy cure for the cfs
fects of the poison oak. Repeat for
three or four days.
The California Dry Dock Co.
have in use their great graving dock
hewn out of the solid rock, 450 feet
long and superior to anything in the
world ; also a floating dock for ships
of fifteen hundred tons and under,
which will take up ships at all stages
ol the tide.
Take your counfy paper. Post
yourself on the advantages around
you. Settle down, and not be one
xf those restless beings who wander
up and down this coast like ghosts of
ileparted joys, or like autumn leaves
borne hither and thither by the whirl
wind of excitement, says the licgistcr,
. ami we endorse the sentiment.
The Copperheads of La Grande
burned Gov. Woods in effigy the
other night. A short time afterwards
their town was nearly destroyed by
fire. Whether the conflagration was
kindled from embers of the fire which
the drunken rebels had beenj dancing
around, we are not informed, says
the Oregonian.
The first railroad in the United
'States the Baltimore and Ohio
road was chartered in 1S27, and
sixty-two miles of it were opened, but
worked by horse power, in 1S31
New York opened iu the same year
the second railroad the Albany and
benenectady. The third was the
South Carolina railroad, which was
opened in 1855, and was at that time
the longest continuous line ia the
world.
A new discovery has been made
in telegraphic science, which does
way with all the jars and fluids here
tofore used ia telegraph offices, and a
current of electricity sufficiently
Btrongfor all purposes, is drawn from
mother earth by means of one sheet
of copper and onu sheet of zinc, which
are buried to ths depth of two feet,
and having four feet of earth between
them. To the copper plate, wires
are attached, and the current is inex
haustible. Every message sent is re
corded by an 'instrument which re
O ceives its power from the buried bat
tery, and which consists of nothing
but ouc :slieet of copper and one of
.sire. u
Ttlegmphie Communication
WitH
Asia.
A few months since we made allu
sion to thfc anxiety of the English to
establish railroad commnnication be
tween India and China, as a means
of shortening the routes from - the
w
Chinese ports to England and retain
ing the trade which is being diverted
in great part to the American route,
on the near completion of the At
lantic and Pacific railroad. Surveys
are in progress for such a road, and
meanwhile the attention of the Brit
isb Government and press is directed
to the importance of improving the
telegraphic service' with Asia. The
British lines at present extend no
farther than India, and the system ia
not a very direct one. There is tele-;
graphic service to North China via
St. Petersburg -and Kiachta, in con
nection with mounted couriers, and
the British steamers place Shanghai
in connection with the Indian and
Persian lines. By this means mes
sages are transmitted from London tq
Shanghai in from eighteen to twenty
five days, says the Bulletin, and
these are the sources of the tele
graphic news from China and Japan
which we sometimes receive through
San Francisco ahead of steamship ad
vices. If the European press was
conducted in the same liberal spirit of
enterprise which characterizes the
American press, we should always
have the latest news by this source
from the most important points in
Eastern Asia.
The English have a strong desire
for direct communication with the
Chinese coast across their own terri
tory. They have projected a tele
graph liue from Calcutta to Shanghai,
to connect with the shore cables of an
American company ; but the scheme,
both as to the English and American
promoters, is in abeyance. Mean
while efforts arc making to build a
continuous line of telegraphs between
England and India, as the first and
greater part of instantaneous commu
nication with China. It is believed
this scheme will be realized before the
summer of 18G9. The London Times
says the line will commence at Nor
deney, an island in the German
ocean, on the Prussian coast, and. will
thence proceed through Hamburg
and Berlin to Thorn, ou the Prusso
Russian frontier, through Pnsia via
Warsaw, Odessa, Kertch and Poti to
Tiflis, and thence through Persia to
Teheren, joining with the syste;n now
iu connection with the Persian Gulf
cable, which unites with the thous
ands of miles of wire in operation in
India. Concessions have been ob
tained from the governments of the
different countries through which the
line will pas?, and arrangements have
been made for the use of wires al
ready in operation on portions of the
route. The amount of capital re
quired is about $2,250,000,- and the
1 --ft p ' ... . a ' ...
cost of a mcssa to India will be
about 17 50. The advantages of
he proposed line were thus stated by
the London Times :
The expenditure will be moderate,
the security of the line will bo secured
y convention, and, above all, the
working of it will be in the hands of
the company. At present, from the
time a message leaves England, it is
entirely freed from our control until it
reaches the Persian Gulf. Duriug
that time it passes through places
governed by various administrations,
and it is transmitted through tue
hands of clerks speaking different
languages. The new scheme prom
ises to obviate the dulicuities which
have hitherto existed in the way of a
message passing intact and intelligible
from England to the East or from the
East to England.
The new line will also secure in
stant communication, when it is in
good working order throughout. By
the present service the average rate
of transmission is about three days.
We learn that the Corvallis col
lege has been designated by the
Legislature to receive the lands
granted to Oregon by Congress to
aid in the support of an agricultural
college. We have not as yet seen
the net, but presume by this that that
institution will be converted into a
college within the meaning of the act.
Since the above was written, we have
the Gazette,, which says :
President Fin'ev handed us a bill,
which we ' understand has become a
law, designating the Corvallis College
as the agricultural college of the State.
J. F. Miller, J. II. Douthit, and J.
C. Avery are constituted a Board of
Commissioners to locate lands and
take into consideration the further
organization and perfecting a plan for
the permanent establishment of such
college under act of Congress making
such donation.
This is surely a very important
matter; one that has received no
small amount of attention from such
gentlemen as President Dufur, of the
State Agricultural Society !; Hon. J.
H. Douthit, Hon. John Minto, and
others. We hope to be better in
formed with respect to the measure.
Road agents are active between
Boise City and Salt Lake. The re
mains of two men, murdered for
money, it is -supposed, have recentlv
been found.
The P. T. Co.'s Annual Meet
ing wilt b? held December 31, 1S6?,
at S ib m.
OKEGOX.
McCracken, Merrril & Co. will
dispatch the Alaska for Honolulu.
The sailors of the Sallie Brown
have a pet pig and cat. Traiued on
the voyage. -
There were fourteen suits for di
vorce pending iu Multnomah Circuit
'Court.
The U. P. R. R, Co., are said to
be actually surveying the line for a
road from Weber Canon to Snake
river.
The new Bank of Messrs. Lndd
& Tilton, Portland, is nearly ready
to finish. It will be a credit to the
State. '
The Portland Female Academy,
next term, begins on the 23d. Oil
painting and music have been added
to the classes.
A disastroas fire occurred in La
Grande on the 7th inst. The losses,
so near as can be ascertained, are
about 11,000.
The Emmett Guard will give a
grand ball at the Oro Fino Hall, on
the evening Thanksgiving day, 2s
vember 2Gth. Great pains are being
taken to make it a grand aff-iir.
Morford's ditch, which carries
water from the south side of the Uma
tilla river at the mpids, near Umatilla
City, is now completed five miles be
low the city, to the Columbia, where
miners are sluicing the river bars
with fair success.
The National Commercial CoK
lege of Portland, is one of the indis
pensable institutions of the State, and
its importance is becoming more and
more known and filt among the yonng
men of the country. - Money or time
cannot better be employed than by
spending from live to six months in
this school. No young man should
consider that he is qualified to enter
into business either f'r himself or his
employer, until he has completed a
thorough course at this college.
A few days since, says the
Unionist the Willamette "Wooleu
Mills set up and put into operation a
knitting machine, and are now man
ufacturing a fine article of socks.
They are as nice as any seen in mar
ket," and have all the appearances of
beirg more durable than those that
are purchased from Eastern factories.
One liiau with this machine can man-,
ufacture about one hundred pairs per
day. Dealers will find it to their ad
vantage to get their supplies of this
article from the Company, as the
goods will be fresh, and not liable to
be moth eaten, as is frequently the
case with Eastern manufactures.
A committee of both Houses of
the Legislature, two-thirds of whom
are Democrats, have not only de
clared upon the fullest investigation
that the StateTre isurer and Secretary
of State h:ive " honvs'ly and faithfully
discharged their duties," but have
also highly commended them for the
(fiicient, aLle, and thorough' manner
in which the business has been trans
acted. The Oregonian suggests that
this Democratic endorsement of the
faithfulness and honesty " of the
Republican State officials will serve
as a very good document in the next
political campaign, when these same
lvirg mnlignants whom the Demo
cratic party allov3 to be its leaders,
Will
be sure to reiterate their former
charges about the mismanagement of
the State Treasury.
Aurora nrecinct of Marion
county, is probably' the banner Union
crccinet of the State, having given
& zoo
one hundred and thirteen votes for
Grant and only five for Seymour.
This result is no doubt largely due to
the Border-ruffian assault made upon
the colony of Germans composing
the precinct, by Ford and one or two
other Ku Ivbixes in the legislature,
says the Oregonian. The German
colony being thus assailed paid ma-
ligneu m a most unjnsuuaoie manner,
its people naturally became indignant
and arrayed themselves against their
maligners. The result above indi
cated is not, however, altogether due
to this cause. The people of the col
ony are a s-obcr, industrious, and re
ligiou-', and a reading peop'e and,
therefore, an intelligent people. In
this acd many o'.her respects they are
in strange contrast with most of those
precincts of Mariou or any other
county which habitually vote the
Democratic ticket. While Aurora
adds largely to the wealth of the
county in substantial improvements
and in paying taxes, it has never yet
cost the county a ci nt on i count of
crime or misdemeanor committed by
one ot the coloniets proper. It has
gone straight along in sobernpss, in
dustry and prosperity ; it has some
of the most substantial men of the
county, some of the best buildings
(outside of Salem), one of the best
hotels on the stage roai, a fine church,
a gooi mill, some of the best con
ducted farms in the county, and a
population whose intelligence com
pares well with the average anywhere
in the State and whose loyalty to the
Union is pre-eminent. It is little
wonder, then, all these things being
so, that Ku Klux editors and legisla
tors have no words for the colony but
those of bitterness and hate. -, But we
reckon the Germans can .stand this
lu Klux abuse, if the Ku Kluxers, in
turn; can stand the way tho Germans
vote.
During the fiscal year ending
Sept. GO, 1863, 72,242 acres of lands
were entered ' at the Olympia Land
02c? in Washington Territory. For
i a corresponding .period in 1S67, but
! 2G.0GH acres, were entered. Who
lean doubt that the march of empire
is westward ? Who says that people
are not learning that the way to India
is bv th-;
3 cT the sttinc su
THE ElKTIIftUAKES.
Particulars of the terrible earth
quake of the 13th of August, in South
America are at hand, by overlaud
mail. The story shows a sad and
heartrending picture. We quote:
-The earthquake commenced at half
past five o'clock on the 13th of Au
gust, extending from Bolivia to the
southern ports of Chili. The coast
and over a hundred miles iuland, with
the towns and cities mentioned in the
dispatches of last night, were literally
ruined. All the buildings which
were not destroyed by its ravages,
were so badly injured as to require
demolition for prudential reasons.
All the public buildings in Arica
were destroyed, including the custom
house, containing more than four mil
lion dollars' worth of goods, all of
which were lost.
The loss of the American steamers
Frcdonia and Walerce are thus dis
cribed :
They were both at anchor in the
harbor of Arica, near each other.
After the first shock had occurred on
land, which created great consterna
tion on both vessels, Dr. Dubois, the
surgeon of the Frcdonia, and the pay
master of that vessel took a boat and
went on shore to inquire for the wel
fare of friends and offer the services
of the ship. In a few moments after
leaving the vessel a great upheaving
of the waters cf the bay commenced,
and the Frcdonia parting her chain,
was dashed about at the mercy of the
waves, and finally went to pieces on
the reef. Nothing of the vessel was
saved. Her officers and crew, twenty-seven
in number, were lost, and
also Mrs. Dyer, the wife of the lieu
tenant commanding.
The vessel had nearly two million
of dollars' wort of naval stores on
board, all of which were totally lost.
The Watcree was more securly an
cored, but dragged her anchors, and
the great tidal wave swept her tour
hundred and fifty yards inland, about
two miles north of the ruined town.
She now lies between two hillocks of
sand, very slightly injured, but it wi.l
be utterly impossible to extricate her
Admiral Turner is only hopeful of
saving her battery and stores.
Several other vessels shared like
fates. The scene ct Arica beggars
description. Wc quote farther:
Railroad rails, cars, machinery, gun
carriages, household furniture, bar
rels. dead animals, and mutilated
corpses are lving about in confusion
The citv numbered seven thousand
inhabitants, and its multitudes stand
hopelessly beggared on the beach
Three hundred lives were lost. A
conflagration burned nearly all that
was not demolished by the earthquake,
and a drunken rabble robbed and de
spoiled what remained. Heavy can
non were carried away up from the
island battery, and now lie buried on
shore. The stench is sickening.
At Lima there was not much dam
age done, although the shocks lasted
about four minutes, exedrg the ut
most consternation among the iuhab
Hants, who fled to the open plains,
where they besought protection from
the Alnvghty.
American Minister Hovey, at Lima,
is energetically aiding, to the extent
of his power, in alleviating . the dis
tress. The merchants and citizens of
Lima are contributing by thousands
of dollars to ccmip and load vessels
with clothing and provisions, and the
Government is most energetically us
ing all its tmans to alleviate the dis
tress entailed by the horrible catas
trophe. The Congress of Peru has
unanimously passed a resolution giv
the President unlimited power to
succor the inhabitants of the southern
coa.-t.
The President has issued a procla'
mation and the Arehlrshon a pasto
ral letter, calling upon the Peruvians
for liberal contributions: which have
been nobly responded to over a mil
lion dollars having been raised.
Neaily all the towns and villages
in the mineral province of Huancane
have been destroyed and reduced to
shapeless masses. The cities of Puno
and Cuzco were not damaged. The
port of Mollendo, where are stored
the materials for building Mr. Meiggs'
railway, were completely destroyed,
nearly all the tools, rails and pro
visions being ruined by the earthquake
and the succeeding tidal waves.
Ibarra, capital of the province of
Imbaburu, Sarj Pablo, and Altnnto
qui are in ruins. The entire popula
tion of the towns, and cf Otovato,
perished among the nearly thirty
thousand.
At Quito the earthquake com
menccd at twenty minutes past oue
o'clock a. sr. August 11th, aud cotr
tinued at intervals for a few hours.
Up to the last dates, (August 19th J
the churches, public buildings and
private dwellings were already in ru
ins, and the people living in tents in
the great squares.
The towns adjoining Quito, named
Verusho, Puellero and Cachavuanjo
have almost entirely disappeared,
with their inhabitant?. Few were
kit alive, without being obliged to
flee to escape the pestilence arising
from the decomposing dead bodies.
The towns of Yinicho and San An
tonio have also disappeared. The
number of deaths in Quito is not yet
known. A large number of wealthy
inhabitants died from pestilence or
d'S3Stcr.
Anvices Irora Talchuana st3te that
at nine o'clock on the night of August
14 three earthquakes occurred. The
second caused an immense tidal wave,
which swept away fully one-half of
the town, and rendered the other half
almost uninhabitable.
Four lives were lost, the inhabit
ants fleeing to the hills. At Tome,
the same scene occurred, but, being
high, little damage was done. The
port of Constitucioc suffered from the
waves, but was not much damaged.
The town of Conception was also
damaged from the same cause. Cobija,
Merrilones Island, Pisaq'13, and all
the cities and towns, in fact, from
Cape Francisco, in Equador, to Ma
g('i
un straits, sunercd more cr less
from the terrible visitations of the
earthquake.
At Callao the sea burst over a line
ofjiouses skirting the shore, at 10
o'clock r. m. on the 13th, completely
gutting them of their contents. Sev
eral vessels collided. No damage
was then done, nearly all putting to
sea. The next night a fire, broke out
and fifty seven houses in the business
portion of the place were destroyed,
entailing a loss of a million and a halt
of dollars. No lives were lost. The
Chincba Islands felt the earthquake
and wave, but not seriously as yet j
known. j
The cities of lea and Pisco also :
suffered heavily, forty houses being
overthrown and twelve lives lost at
the former place. Nearly all the
population of Callao fled to Lima.
Ihe steamer Santiago, bound from
Callao to Valparaiso, put in port off
Chala, where, on the 13:h, she was
seized by the great wave, her chains
snapped, and the vessel carried to sea.
In a fow minutes the wave returned
toward shore, bringing the steamer
with it, and carrying it, with all her
passengers, safely over a high cliff,
leaving it safely inside the channel,
in the port of Chala, completely cov
ered with water.
At Caldera the wave and earth
quake completely destroyed every
thing, former dwellings being left
heaps of rubbish. No traces of
streets are to be seen. The inhabit
ants fled to the mountains, but many
were drowned or killed.
At Inquois the shock lasted four
minutes, after which the wave came
and destroyed about three quarters
of the place, with many lives, nearly
all the provisions, aud the condens
ing machinery which supplied the in
habitants with drinking water. Pro
visions and water have been sent there
from Valparaiso. One German house
at Iquique lost over $100,000 worth
of property. Over 600 people were
drewned.
At Arequipa the earthquake com
menced a few minutes past five in the
afternoon. In five minutes nearly
every house in th( city was leveled
to the ground. The tower of Santa
Catalinea Church is the otdv thing
left standing, and that will have to
be pulled down. Nearly all the in
mates of prisons and hospitals per
ished in the destruction of these
buildings. Nearly 100 shocks oc
curred in three days. The city is
one mass of complete ruin. The river
has changed. Mount Mistic is actu
ally throwing out lava, smok-v and
quantities of mud. The river emits
a sulphurous odor, and rocks and
earth are constantly falling from the
mountain crater. No one dares go
where the city was. The survivors
are 'living in teuts on the banks of
the river.
At Pancarphata, hundreds of lives
were lost by being crushed to death
by falling houses.
Other accounts state that an Amer
ican bark with a cargo of guano,
i a:ne unknown, was swallowed up
completely in the harbor of Arica,
and nothing more seen of her.
The town of Uhaqnega,niie leagues
from Arequipa, was destroyed. Tac
quin, in the same neighborhood, lost
sixty houses an 1 a hundred and fifty
lives, mostly children returning frcm
school. The town of Shegra was
swept away, only twenty out of five
hundred inhabitants escaping.
The earth has opened in several
places on the plains and pampas, and
water has appeared. In some places
hot water vomited from the new
chasms. All the habitations at
Otello were destroyed and twenty
lives lost. Three vessels with their
crews were also lost. All the nitre
works at Iquique were destroyed, as
well as those in the suburbs, causing
"Teat loss. Among those killed at
Iquique was the British Consul, Mr.
Dillinghurst.
At the Chincha Islands there was
first a hurricane, then the earthquake
and the tidal wave. Several Eng
lish vessels were damaged. A Prus
sian bark was wrecked.
Four hundred tons of silver ore,
with all the expensive woiks of the
Peruvian Mineral Co., owned in Lon
don, were completely swept away at
Iquiqus. The towns of Caneta, Chan-
ehoy, Capajna, C-harha, llobacera,
and other small places, were totally
destroyed.
Los Lomas has been united to an
island in the bay of Callao by the
action of the earthquake. Over 300,
000 persons are without shelter and
bread. Commissions are being formed
ladies are making clothing, and the
government of Peru is straining its
utmost to alleviate the suffering
General Kilpatrick left for home
on the 17th of October.
The earthquake of the 2Ut, in Cal
ifornia, was not near so sad a calam
ity, but it really makes one tremble
with fear for that region, to read the
above. On the day of this last event
the Morning Call says :
Never in the history of San Fran
cisco has so great a calamity befallen
it as we have met with to-day. In
the natural excitement of the moment,
when the streets are crowded with the
affrighted populace, and the people
are crazed with terror, it is difficult
to calmly write up the sad details, or
to find words in which to describe
the scene of excitement and fear. At
six minutes before eight o'clock this
morning our city was visited by an
earthquake shock, the severest by far
that was ever experienced here. Brick
buildings were terribly shaken to
their foundations and partially de
stroyed, chimneys fell, and men were
killed aud wounded by the falling de
bris. On California street the ground
opened near Sansome ; on Montgom
ery street the s'dcwalks fell in many
places; awnings were ' shaken - from
their fastenings and fell on the heads
of pedestrians ; windows were shat
tered on their panes ; and through
out the business portion of the city is
the scene of des-tructiou and desola
tion. The shock lasted for at least
thirty seconds, and the vibration was
from northwest to southeast. The
severe shock was followed by numer-
uos light one which have occurred at
intervals up to r. m.
A long enumeration of casualties
were .given showing Jthe. fright
ful work almost a wreck bf tha half
of the city. The Sacramento Union
of the 22d says: This was the most
severe earthquake experienced in this
State since the American occupation,
twelve are known to be killed in
San Francisco.
Every brick house in Pacheco is
in ruins.
The shock is not thought to have
to have been heavier than the one
three years ago this month, but of
longer duration, hence the greater
damage.
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W e append a table of majorities
in the several counties of the State as
far as reported :
OR A XT.
svEiioca.
Multnomah 12:$
Clatsop
Tillamook
Columbia
Clackamns
Washington. ..
YiunLin
Polk
Bentou
Linn
Lane
Marion
Douglas
Jackson
Josephine
Coos and Curry.
Wasco
Umatilla
Union
Baker
35
20
81
li) 3
G9
12
30
13
220
110
525
lUti
231
31
90
19S
307
242
loo
1.2 Gi
1.478
Grant county is reported to be
near ly oven, with a probability of a
small IlepuU can majority. rj? If the
figures reported in the Eastern coun
ties are correct, the majority in the
State for the "Seymour electors will
be somewhere near 200.
The farmers of Oregon, through
the Stats Agricultural Society, have
entered upon a plan for an agricul
tural paper. It will be called the
Wallamcl Farmer, and will be printed
at Sale n. Hon. J. II. Douthit, of
Linn county; Hon. John Minto, of
Marion; and Major Joseph Magone,
of this city, have been appointed a
committee for the first year, to super
intend and manage the same. The
Fanner will supply a great want in
Oregon, and we hope it will be a suc
cessful venture.
The Evening Commercial volun
teers to tell rather more than the
truth when it places this paper down
as having an enormous capital of rid
icule of the West side Railroad on
hand, or to furnish upon any occa
sion. We never indulge in ridicule
of any ente rprise iu the land. What
we have said in the Railroad contr o
vcrsy, was based on logical and con
elusive faets. We shall stand by the
record. You seem to think that op
position to the West side road's
Company " will be a lever of hercu
lean power that the road over
there is an established fact;" and,
not being able to further " depend
upon the influence of the legislature's
ac," will see other feasible means of
pushing the road forward to comple
tion. We certainly hope . that this
may be so Pro. Bull we certainly
do, sir.
J. F McCoy started on the 1 3 th
with a cash box and an escort, to
pay off the men along the line of the
East S:de Railroad, above this place.
The men at this camp were paid off
about ten days ago. Something near
1250 hands have to be paid off
monthly by Ilolladay cc Co., a firm
who were to pack trunks and leave
us, according to reports from som
quarter, as soon as the Legislature
adjourned.
Capt. Enoch G. Adams has be
come sponsor for the Vancouver
Register. Adams is a good jokist
and will no doubt make a very reada
ble paper. "Vancouver will soon be
a railroad town, and must needs have
a wide awake journal.
Messrs. M. R Cox and R. W.
Willson offered to keep and care for
the Insane and Idiotic of this State
at the rate of 78 cents a day for each
patient, but the legislature thought it
best to contract with Dr. Hawthorne
at $1 00 per day each, for some rea
son. Thursday the 2Gth has been ap
pointed as a day of Public Thanks
giving and Praise. We of Oregon
especially have much for which to be
thankful. Let business be suspend
ed everywhere that the day may be
properly observed.
The man arrested here for the
assault upon Charles Luche at Port
land is the same who was accused of
entering the house of Ada Philfps
with burglarious intent, some months
ago. Officer Saunders tracked him
here.
We shall publish next week, the
remarks of Rev. Geo. II. Atkinson,
at the close of the proceedings on
Change m Chicago ou the 20th ult.
Philip Ritz Esq., one of the most
energetic men east of the mountains,
has again left for Washington Citv
in the interest of the Northern Pa
ciac Railroad.
The trial of the Blue Mountain
mail robbers began at Portland yes
terday, in the U. S. Circuit Court, be
fore Judge Deady.
niouDtain of magnetic iron
i has been discovered in Lapland. It
j Js sufficient to supply the world with
i magnets. -
The Overland Monthly for Oc'
tober contains a splendid article on
.be blending of the Old East in the
New West. The contributor ap
pears to be thoroughly conversant
with the history and habits of the
Chinese, in their own homes and as
they live in California, and predicts a
vast change io the future of the Ce
lestial Empire by the retarn of the
Chinese to their old homes, trans
planting there what they have ac
quired during their residence in our
midst. There is very much in this
article for reflection, and it strikes
the key-note of the progress of mod
ern civilization the Americanizing
of the Old East, the aggregating to
the Pacfic coast the commerce and
riches of Eastern Asia.
Mr. Dewey, who was so success
ful in Oregon with Dana's Life of
Grant, is now cauva?sing for a new
book by Horace Greeley, Recollect
Hons of a Fuy Life. The book is
ta:d to be finely illustrated, but
whether so or not, it should be taken
for the sound sense it contains, if we
may be permitted to judge, from
what we have read of Greeley's Busy
Life.
: Last week we expected to be
able to name the States, and the ma
jorities, cast at the Presidential elec
tion, by to day. In this we are dis
appointed. In the course of ten days
more we shall be in possession of the
facts officially, no doubt, by overland
advices. Grant and Colfax have re
ceived the largest " popular vote"
ever recorded. This much is known.
Dr. J. A. Veach has been elected
to the chair of chemistry in the Wal
lamet University medical department.
The Doctor wiil deliver a course of
lectures, this winter, on chemistry and
toxicology. It is understood that he
will also deliver a course of lectures
on mineralogy and geology.
"Several advertisements inteded for
this issue, amongst them Messrs. Char-
raan's, are unavoidably omitted. We will
state for the benefit of our readers, that
the above firm wissl) ii understood that
they are in the market to sell at prices that
defy competition, from one j-ear's end to
another. They have an immense stock,
to which every steamer adds new articles.
For further particulars see their letter to
to the Editor.
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"TAIN KILLER cures Sore Throat.
V Favorite Medicine with all classes,
is Davis' Pain Killer.
1
F 3-ou have Painters' Colic,
X use ihe Pain Killer
VTO Medicine is so popular
as the Tain Killer.
7" EE? the Pain Killer ahravs at hand.
IF you have a Cough or Cob',
use the Pain Killer.
I
OOIv out and not be caught without a
j ixmie ol rain Killer in the house.
FT every body use the Pain Killer
tor .Sprains and Bruises.
E1
pVERV sailor should curry a bottle
of Pain Killer with him.
EM EM HER, the Pain Killer is for
.IV both internal and external use.
The Pain Killer is sold by all Druists
and Dealers in Family Medicines.
SPE CIA L NO TICES.
Wiillnomah Lotlgc So. 1, A. K. unci
A. 51.- Holds its regular eommuni
cations on the First and Third .Sat
' urd-iyx m each month, at 7 o'clock,
from the 2mh of September to the 20th of
Mii-ch, and 7A o'clock from the '2ith of March
to the 2u',h of September. Brethren m good
standing are invited to attend.
By order of ty. M.
Oregon Lodge Xo. 3, I. O. or O. F.-
-?-535&fe- Mccts cver7 Wednesday even
CtS ig at 7 o'clock, iu Masonic Hall,
-wr- M.,in Btrcet
Members of the Order arc invited to attend
By order. if. a.
"Willamette Lorfge Xo. 131. O, T
Meets every Saturday evening, at the rooms
S;E. corner of Main and Fifth streets, nt 7 1-2
o'clock. Visitinjr members are invited to
attend. By order of "W. C. T.
W. A. ALDUICir. J. C. XIEEHILL. JOUN U CP.AKEK
SHIPPING, COMMISSION AND
Forwarding Merchants,
AGENTS OF THE CALIFORNIA,
Hawaiian and Oiegon Packet Lines.
Importers of San Qiicntin and Carmen
Island Salt, Saud-.vich Island Sugars, Colics.
Uice, and Pulu.
Agents for Provost's &, Co.'s Preserved
Fruits, Vegetables, Pickles and Vinegar.
Dealers in Flour, Grain, Bacon, Lard &
Fruit, Lime, Cement and Plaster.
Will attend to the Purchase, Sale or Ship
ment of Merchandise or Produce in New
York, San Francisco, Honolulu, or Portland.
ALDKICH, MKKR1LI, & CO.,
Nos 20-i aud 206 California Street,
San Francisco.
M'CRAKEN, MERRILL & CO.,
li) North Front Street, Portland.
ALWAYS SAFE ! Always Effectual,
Fever and A ei.e is Speedily arid ef
fectually enred by Dr. E. COOPEK'ts Univer
sal Magnetic lialm.
SHERIFFS SALE. .
Py virtue of an execution issued out of the
Circuit Court of the State of Oregon, for
Clackamas County, upon a decree of fore
closure of a mortgage, in a suit in said Court
wherein D. P. Thompson was plaintiff and
C. A. Cantonwtne and Julia A. Cantouwine,
his wife, were defendants, which execution
was to me directec", and commanded me to
mak sale according to law of the premises
hereinafter described, in order to pay said
Thompson the sum of ?322 20-100 with in
terest, costs and accruing costs. 1 have duly
levied upon the following described real
estate, to wit : River Lots No. eight (8), nine
(it), and ten (10) in Sec. 21. The West half
oi tue rionth-east qr. of Sec. 21. The North
west qr. of the North-east qr. of Sec. 28, all
in Township 3 South of Range 1 East of'thc
lUamette meridian, as known and desig
nated on maps and plats of United States
Surveys. Together with the appurtenances.
And on
Saturday, the 1th day of December,
A. D. I SOS, at 1 o'clock p. v. at the Court
Hour e door, in Oregon Citv, Clackamas
cosntr Oregon, 1 will proceed "to sell all the
right, title and interest of said defendants
in and to the same to the highest bidder for
cash in hand, to satisfy said execution.
iJOHN MVERS, Sheriff of Clackamas Co..
Py Joitx Rtas, Dqtvty.
Jonxsox &. MeCowx, Pills. Attys. U-1-it.J
JOTICE.
Whereas, my wife, Francoise Wilson,
has left mv house and is now living separate
and apart 'from me, without any cause for so
j whom it may concern, that 1 shall pay no
debts ot her contracting.
JAMES WILSON.
Caucaiab, Oregon, Ncv, ltb, lcd3. I: it
A U C 'TION AND COMMISSION
A. 15. Hicli:irlsoii,
AUCTIONEER! 5
Corner of Front and Oak streets, Pertlane?
AUCTION SALES
Of Real Estate, Grocerie3, General MereW
diae and Horses,
Evefy Wednesday and Saturday
A. B. PviciiAtmsotf, Auctioneer,
AT PRIVATE SALE.
English refined Bar and Bundle Iron
Knglish Square and Octagon Cast sted 1
T T . . . . 1 . f . . . ViIaa T ....... ,. . "
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Screws, Fry-pans, sheet iron, R. Q. Iron 1
also:
A large assortment of G roceries and Liquor ,
A. B. IliciiARDsosr, Auctioneer!
II EUSTON, HASTINGS &CO.
HEUSTON,
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Al E THE
FASHIONABLE CLOTHIERS
OF
SAN FRANCISCO.
SPECIALTIES.
PRICE AXD GUARANTEE.
The largest and most varitd stock of Gen
tlemen's Clothing, Furnishing Goods,
Trunks, Bags and Valises, on the Pacific
Coast.,- Every article sold, being of our own
manufacture, is guaranteed. Having con
tracts direct with European and American
Manufacturers of piece goods we thereby
etlect a saving of fully 50 percent, in whole
sale dealers profits and are thus able to offer
superior Goods at less than second rate
prices.
STYLES.
IlaTing agents in London and Paris we
introduce the new styles in Han Fraucisc)
simultaneously with their appearance ia
New York.
GOODS MADE TO ORDER.
For the accommodation of sucli as mav de
sire, we have secured the services of a cele
brated European cutter, and are prepared to
make np piece goods m a style superior to
any -other house on the coast, .Shirts, Ties,
Collars, etc., made to order at short notice.
COUNTRY ORDERS.
Goods forwarded by Express to any part
of the Pacific Coast on receipt of orders and
measures; send for directions for mcuHiue
uient. HEUSTON,
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