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. O. IRELAXD, EDITOR AND PROritlETOR.
Saturday
Sec. 5, 1868.
The Erie Railroad
thing in New York.
suit is a bi?
- The Oregon Herald
is using its
" influence" to abuse Frank Blair
the defeated candidate of the Demo
cracy for Vice President.
The new rebellion in Mexico
promises to be lively this winter.
iSscobedo says he Is not able to put
down the revolution.
The funeral of the rioters shot
rfhe occasion of a Fenian demon
strationin London, took place on
Sunday. Great crowds were in the
streets and the procession had fully
-eight thousand.
.
The -younger members of the
democratic party of New York, are
preparing to organize upon the basis
-of the Tammany party, ruling out
from the leadership old fossils like
I Jeriah Brown who are not alive to
present issues.
, II. Hives Pollard, of the Lost
Cause, has come to grief, and died in
his boots, on the streets of Richmond,
Va., last Monday. Shot by a man
named Grant, for slander of the lat
ter family.
The sixth anniversary of St. An-
drew's Day was appropriately ob
served in, Portland on the 30th, by a
numoer of the Scotch residents of
that city. Several prominent citizens
oi Uregon Uity were invited.
On Sunday morning last a land
slide of 40 acres took place at West
brook, Maine. One hundred hands
nre thrown out of employment by
the suspensi&n of the Cumberland
Taper mills at Westbrook. The loss
"by the slide is stated at a hundred
Thousand dollars.
The i Democracy have for months
told lis they were in favor of internal
improvements. Now they revert to
their time-honored opposition to snch
measures, and the Oregon Her ah
calls the Government subsidies to the
Pacific and other railroad "the most
gigantic swindles of this, or any other
-age.
The Irench government con
efimues me prosecution or tne press
wvith unrelenting severity. The edi
tfors of five journals were summoned
to appear before the civil tribuna
yesterday to answer charges for pro
moting a subscription for the Bon
dine monument. .
The stage robbers have all been
sentenced to terms of labor in the
Penitentiary, varying from two to ten
years each. The U. S. authorities
will probably contract with an ad
joining State for their keeping, as the
Oregon laws do not admit convicts
under laws of Congress, to our State
Penitentiary.
The Oregontan is " pitching in"
-to the Nezmeth wing of the Re
publican party, in Oregon. This is
right there is a large number of
politicians who never do a visible
(thing for party benefit until success
has crowned the efforts of the people
when suddenly they become very
officious, and go after the spoils vo.
.laciously. We shall not be fastidi
ous about these things, but hope to
see justice done by men who are qual
jged to fill responsible places, and
who are deserving of them.
In the map laid before Congress
by the Bureau of Statistics, a line of
xute is laid down for steamships from
San Francisco to Honolulu, thence to
to the Ffjee Islands, to the south
ward of New Caledonia, and on to
Sidney. The time on the voyage is
set down at twenty-eight and a half
days. This would beat all other
.routes in point of time, and the ad
vantages to commerce would be diffi
cult to over-estimate.
Forty-eight cities, being all the
-administrative centres in Spain, ad
here to the Junta and monarchical
principles. Seven cities denounce
the rlfrr n j ,i. -
rrtfvc v u , . !r u .
.v. UIU ueCn n!ten tnr liMmhor
r,' representatives from
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"wj ii.ico mav
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appear.
Ptomnt f .!.
new tax about to
vu.p,, ,tuuJ iub
be levied The
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Junta has
removed the Rishrm rf
Huesca and the Bishop of Urge! who
-are accused of having
Jarlidt demonstration.
aided
in tne
Snncot Cr-v rf "V V i
uuu vva, vt iors, once
of Ohio, has 'written a letter, in which
he defeaaa toft carpet-bagger. " Ev-
ervwMra.", IS aunset, " time has
, developed tlw truth that the people
m of America are Joconjotive. We
came from abroad, all of as.
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4.4 nocf nontnrv nnd whiMi ;
suu.wu per nuiium, is u '""mo
in the world's annals. International
law, which is said to be the world's
coiiscience, ought to conform to this
next frondition. New codes ere re
quired."
JtST BECAUSE.
It is decidedly amusing to one in a
healthy state of mind to read the
causes of the defeat of Democracy
through their leading organs. Here
are a few of the reasons
One says :
assigned.
" The action of the New York
Convention paved the way for defeat,
and had wiser counsels prevailed
there, all the subsequent disasters
might have been avoided. To take
the Convention to New York the
great focus of political corruption
in the first place, was a mistake, and
all that followed was only a series of
blunders."
So new York is the "great focus
of political corruption." That is sat
isfactory. But we do not agree that
all that followed were blunders.
Agiin :
" The platform embodying the fi
nancial views of Pendleton, who had
innoculated the people with the idea
that the Government indebtedness
should be paid in the currency of the
country, was strangely inconsistent
with the nomination of a candidate
for the first place on the ticket who
had just proclaimed himself in favor
of paying the bondholders in gold."
This strange inconsistency was ar
dently advocated by Democrats, how
ever. Farther:
14 The financial question was the
great lever on which the Democracy
expected to carry the election, but
when they went into the canvass with
greenback platform and a bond
holder candidate, the inconsistency
was too great to deceive anybody,
and as a consequence the people were
indifferent as to the result.7
Tluy "expected" to carry the
Southern Confederacy, but they did
not. Iheir inconsistency was more
apparent when fighting witn bullets
under Stars and Bars was left off for
fizhtinsr with ballots, under the old
Flag. But another excuse is that
" The Democratic party is a party
of principle, and whenever principles
are abandoned for mere expediency,
defeat is sure to follow.
lrue, tne uemocratic party was
once considered a " party of princi
ples," but that was when three-fifths
of the present Republican party were
styled Democrats. Once more:
me douoie dealing oi the iew
York Convention, lost to the party
the hearty sympathy of the mass of
the people, and in return for their
loss nothing was gained. The bond
holders, from the necessity of their
position, were in full sympathy with
the radicals, and contributed largely
from their means to elect the radica
ticket."
Yes, you are right, the bondholders
did contribute to elect the radica
ticket, and the bondholders wil
continue to do so when, as we are
told by the N. Y. Sun, and others
that the bondholders are from the
rank and file of the yeomanry of this
laud. James Buchanan was not
Bond-holder, nor is Jeff Davis.
Comment is unnecessary. Listen
to another apology, but at the same
time an admission, winch, under no
other circumstances, would have
been made :
" The radical party has now been
in power for the full term of eight
years, and all history shows that the
long possession of power inevitably
leads to corruption.'
It was the boast of Copperhead
orators, during the canvass, that De
mocracy had wielded the administra
tion for more than a quarter of a
century. If it be true that " long
continued possession of power inevi
tably leads to corruption' what, a
deep-dyed and utterly corrupt party
must the Democracy be, upon its own
confession.
The Atlantic cable is supposed
to have broken near Newfoundland.
During a riot at Bear River City,
Dakota, the office of the frontier In
dex was destroyed. The Index was
hugely Democratic, but this riot was
not occasioned by political disputes.
In Richmond, Va., 5,000 peti
tions in bankruptcy had been filed up
to October 1st. and 2,000 in Norfolk.
Nearly all the petitioners in Oregon
have been Democrats. Yet the "per
jured scoundrels" at Washington
passed the act.
Wells, Fargo Ac Co. have opened
offices at Forest Grove, Ilillsboro,
Lafavetie. McMinnville. Butteville
and Dayton. They will dispatch an
mnrnrnf. carrvimr treasure, freight
o o
aud packages.
tw Minnrrp..q in th nolitical com
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will amount to a virtual extinction of
the Northern Democracy m that
body. The only Democrats from
Northern States who will sit in that
body after the 4th of March will be
one from each of the States of Ohio,
Minnesota. California and New
Jersev.
A party who is intimatclv ao
i luanted with Georrre B. McClilIan.
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7:1 .1 i'"SiUUU an keeping school
ut ne iemocrats of California. II
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RAILROAD PROGRESS.
The railroad' era has fairly com
menced in Oregon ; no one can doubt
it who inspects the enterprises now in
progress. The east side road Is ncN
ually graded for a distance of seventy
miles. In this distance the short in
tervals of unfinished work are not in
cluded. There remains -about one
thousand feet between Oregon City
and Canemah to be completed, and
two or three short points near Rock
Island. With these exceptions the
grading is finished nearly to the San
tiam river. Owing to the rains this
part of the work has been discon
tinued for the winter; bul work will
be carried on with vigor in the com
pany's mills and shops. A large saw
mill has be'a put in operation two
miles ePGt of Milwaukee, which will
run during the winter cutting ties for
the road. The mill is every way
complete and substantial, and is ex
pected to cut ties sufficient for half a
mile of road per day. It is estab-
ished in an excellent body of timber,
and is doinj; good work. Another
mill is being erected about one and a
half miles distant from the one now
in operation, which will be employed
exclusively in cutting timber for
bridges and trestle work. It will be
so constructed a3 to saw timber one
hundred feet in length, when such
timber is required. As fast as sawn,
the timber will be framed aud nut
together, and as the track is laid it
will be carried to the places for which
it is designated. It is intended to
prepare at this mill all the timber
needed for the road as far as the head
of the Wallamet valley. A consider
able force of men are at work in ihe
car shops near Fast Portland ; and
at all these places the work will be
continued without interruption. Near
one hundred and fifty men will be
kept employed during the winter. It
is the intention to have the road
ready for the rails by the time the
iron begins to reach here in June
next. After the rains cease next
spring the grading force will be again
organized and this part of the work
prosecuted as fast as the iron "can be
furnished for the track. Ihe enter
prise seems to be in a favorable con
dition, and we expect to go to Salem
by rail next year, and possibly to
Eugene.
Oregonian.
The California Butte Record,
half inquiringly publishes the follow
ing :
" Not precisely understanding the
operations of rival railroad companies
in Oregon, it is somewhat difficult to
judge exactly what may be done with
regard to the Oregon and California
Railroad. The Oregon Legislature
have recently voted the subsidy of
lands and bonds to what is termed the
East Side Railroad Company. This,
wc had supposed, meant a line of rail-,
road from Portland, Oregon, to On
tcrville. in Nevada, to connect with
the Central Pacific Railroad, in ac
cordance with a bill introduced into
the last Congress; but we are informed
by gentlemen conversant with the
question that the East Side Company,
of Salem, means the California .and
Oregon Company and a railroad up
the Sacramento valley. We are fur
ther informed, from an equally credi
ble source, that the representatives
of the California portion of tho road
propose to build one hundred and
fifty miles of the California and Ore
gon line within the next two years.
We con only hope that this may
prove correct, and that the railroad
era for Northern California is indeed
so close at hand."
Youfinformation, not your suppo
sition, is perfectly correct. You nny
state further that 150 miles of the
East Side Oregon, Central will be
complete and equipped within seven
months from this date, and that Ore
gon is almost certain to accomplish as
much in the way of Railroads within
the next two years as in California.
The reason of this is, that we have
California capital and enterprise as
sociated with our interests, now, to a
large extent,and others are seeking to
invest. Of the llumboldt arrange
ment, the Record says:
"We believe the Central Pacific
Railroad Company own the lana
grants a' d franchises of the Califor
nia and Oregon Kailroad. And we
have been informed that Stanford,
the President of the Central Pacific
Railroad Company, declares it to be
his purpose, as soon as tne overland
road is completed, to commence and
push forward with the utmost vigor
the California and Uregon road, lhis
should be the case. But we arc in
terested not merely in having the
road built at an early day, but still
more in the question of its location.
We cannot ignore the existence ot a
project to divert the road from the
line of the Elliott survey, after reach
ing the upper end of the Sacramento
valley, aud carrying it thence up
through the Pitt River valley and
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out to Uoose Lake, to connect there
with a projected road from Oregon
across to the Humboldt. This scheme
should be watched closely and defeat"
ed iff)ossiblc. If it should be adopted
we will be left without railroad com
munication for an indefinite period to
come.'
The O. C.R. R. Co. are build
in"1 a new steam saw mill in this
cotintv. about one mile from the one
V m
put into operation about four weeks
since. The work of gettins out ties
and timber at these mills will progress
at a rapid rate all winter. The white
men employed at this camp have been
discharged" as the days are too short
and weather too uncertain to keep the
force employed.
Young ladies at .Saratoga take
daily lessons in the " Grecian Bend."
Y'ouug men at the same place prac
tice the American Bender.
A Naples dispatch of the 2-1.1,
eays that no fears are now felt for
the safety of the adjacent villages.
Letter from Rev. G. II. Atkinson.
Wkstfield, N. Y.. Nov. ISth, 1SC8.
Et. EvrEnnu.SE :
. While waiting at the depot for the
train to Buffalo I cut a few slips from
the Pittsburg Commercial of the 13tb,
which I enclose to you. The follow
ing facts about Belgium and England
impressed my mind with great force :
" Belgium is in urgent need of
schoolmasters. Seventy per cent, of
the inhabitants of Roulers possess no
schooling whatever. . The schools of
Belgium are still in the hands of the
priests. In the majority of the dis
tricts, the proportion of uneducated
people varies from 31 to 43 per cent.
Not one artisan in ten can read and
write.
. England and Wales contain a mil
lion of paupers. The persons regis
tered as belonging to the dangerous
or criminal classes are 112,404. Of
these the known thieves and depre
dators are 22,880 ; prostitutes, 25,-
6rJ ; suspected persons, 28,378 ;
vagrants, 32,558. Of these various
classes, 15,109 are under sixteen
years old.
The poor law of England is said to
be a failure. It does not remedy the
evil. On the contrary, it has created
instead of preventing pauperism. It
has encouraged improvidence, early
marriages, and increases population.
It has diminished parental response
bility. No country in Europe has
the same burdens of pauperism and
crime.
If it be true that 70 per cent, of
the people of Belgium need to be sup
plied with school facilities, what a
wretched degree of ignorance must
prevail. If England and Wales con
tain a million of paupers and if their
poor laws fail to reach the masses,
what distress must be suffered there,
and what a comment it is upon their
government !
It is pleasant to know that we
have room for all the poor of the
world if they will work. And they
are coming. The new era is to be an
era of immigration to our shores from
the east and from the west. Our
broad land is to be filled with a busy
population. We shall welcome all,
and be able to give all employment
at a fair rate of wages, and educate
all. We are now working as a nation
for mankind, and honor. The day of
caste and of tyranny ha3 passed, and
we trust forever. Its dregs may
linger in a few hearts, but they will
not control the public sentiment.
It is a pleasing fact that Mormon
dom feels the pressure of civilization,
and that Brigham Young has a new
revelation, which forbids 'polygamy.
lie prepares for change, and it will
come. He and his subalterns have
gathered multitudes from the poorer
classes of Europe, and their industry
in rearing a State iu the desert, for
which we shall soou repay them with
schools, churches, etc., is grand.
Yours, A.
Hon. J. II. D. Henderson of
Eugene City, Messrs. Anderson Cox,
Joseph C. Painter, and C. Moore, of
Walla Walla county, W. T., Mr.
A. S. Cross, agent of the Manhattan
Insurance Company, Mr. S. P. Drake,
late of Pitsburgh, Pa., aud several
other gentlemen of Oregon, and late
arrivals from the East, have called
upon us this week. The relations of
Oregon with the'; Atlantic seaboard
seem to be approaching a very close
connection. Mr. Drake is a railroad
engineer, and has been employed in
the business of railroading for sev
enteen years. He has passed over
the line of both roads now being
constructed iu Oregon, and assures
us upon his word as a man, that there
is not a line of grading in the country
that has ever been, done better than
Holladay Ss . Co., are doing. He
does not speak so well of the West
side and says that in Lis estimation
the Portland trestle woik will
condemned before it is used.
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A new method of beating rail
road cars was tried on the Connecti
cut River Railway tho other day.
The invention is thus described by
the New Haven Journal :
" A bonnet is placed on the top of
the car at each end, to catch the
wind while the car i3 in motion, and
the air rushes down a pipe in the cor
ner inside, close to a stove which is
made with a hot-air jacket, and at
tached to the chamber formed by the
heater and jacket surronnding it.
On the floor of the car stands a clos
ed box partly filled with water. The
air, whether filled with dust or not,
which enters the bonnet, rushes dN
rectly into this water box, where it
is thoroughly washed, and passing
into the heater, is forced iu an abso
iutely pure state into pipes that run
near the floor, the whole length of
the car, on each side and under the
seats. At proper intervals theso
pipes are perforated with small holes,
through which the heated and purifi
ed air escapes."
The apparatus is easily governed
and not liable to get put of order, is
light, and. rather ornamental.
On Tuesday last, for the first
time since the construction of the
new steam saw mill of Estes A: Stira-
son, Portland, we visited that institu
tion. It is a finely finished establish
ment. From the boom to the lumber
yard, including the plainer, lath-saws,
box saws,, engines and boiler, every
thing about the premises moves along
in perfect order. To stand in the
basement, during the operation of the
?!iafrs and pulleys, one is apt to re
mind himself of a violent hurricane in
the forest, aiij vet there is but little
noise.
OREGON.
The Oregon Iron Company at
Oswego, have been for some time
waiting for water sufficient for power
to again begin operations. We pre
sume they have it now.
Mr. B. G. Whitehouse, late of
Arrigoni's, is now clerk for the Port
land Gas Light Company. He also
retains the acencv of the Overland
Stage Company, at Portland.
The Portland Homestead Asso
ciation i3 a decided success. The
officers are from among the most re
liable business men of Portland, which
explains the fact that the whole stock
of the association has been taken, and
that 12 shares were bid for on Satur
day night.
Mr. Fred Muller, well-known in
Oregon as the original Paxaratta, has
originated another new idea at Port
land which promises to become as
I famous in course of time, as his
coffee. This new project of his is no
less than that of putting np pig's feet-
sonse, for table use. It is the best
appetizer we ever nsed, and comes
in most appropriately for luncheon.
Call upon Fred, or order a can of his
production. It is nice.
In climate and soil, in its gen
eral adaptability to the purposes of
agriculture, no portion of the North
American continent surpasses Ore
gon. On the Pacific coast, co-equal
with California, it is the extreme limit
whither the " star of empire takes its
way." Yet superior to California as
a land where the farmer may flour
ish scarcely a year but what he will
have a bountiful supply of rain to
moisten, and ample sunshine to ma
ture and garner his crops a soil. that
will repay many fold for its culture.
After expending several thous
ands in brick stores, warehouses, and
wharf, for the benefit of Portland,
we are glad to observe that our friend
Walter Moflitt had a few thousands
left to put into a residence for him
self. Mr. Moffitt has been a very
careful observer of the situation of
real estate in Portland, and having
made good investments, we feel it
pleasant to congratulate him that his
investments have never failed to make
him good. Property that is now worth
from $50,000 to $G0,000 in Chicago,
was but a few years ago offered to
Mr. Moflitt for $400. You'll never
catch him twice in thai way.
The hardy, toil-worn laborers
of Europe and our own country,
seekinsr a home where God will be
stow upon them, as a recompense for
the weary past, the blessings they, of
all men, are best entitled, can find no
such home as they would in sparsely
settled Oregon. Here, with little
labor, their table will be supplied
with abundance ; and with the
strength they exhaust in one day in
Europe, they nngiit enjoy tne lux
uries of life for a month and with a
few years of such labor as that thro'
which they are necessitated to pass in
the old countries, they would become
independent, and free from all want
The Wallamet Iron Works, at
Portland, one of the places visited by
us this week on our tour, is now one
of the institutions of the State. We
were very glad to see Messrs Nation,
Halleck, and others so well employed.
They keep from 35 to 40 men at
work during the dull season. Just
now they are turning out machinery
of a h;gh order, and it is a fact
worthy of special mention that a
"Shipley Water Wheel'' of Oregon
iuventiou, and Clackamas county at
that was being east and finished
for California, where it will be used
on a head of 75 feet. This we con
sider a high compliment to the worth
of Oregon inventions, as well as man
ufactures. The bed plate (weighing
4500 lbs.) of a boring mill for the
works, was hardly cold from the
flasks when we saw it. This is a fine
piece of casting, and the machine
itself is one of great invention ; it is
calculated to swing 12 feet. The
Company are manufacturing heavily
of castings for gang plows.- We ob
served that Messrs Lewis and Wol
gamot, of this city, had a large order
in to be filled.
A large fountain, near the St.
Mary's Academy, at Portland, will
henceforth attract great attention.
By invitation of a friend, on Wed
nesday last we visited the site and
were astonished to witness the per
fection with which the Portland
Water Company are putting in their
new reservoir. The one we refer to
is not only useful but it will be a de
cided ornament to that part of the
city. We did not take the dimen
sions of the masonry, but Mr. Green
informed us that it had been calcu
lated to contain 750,000 gallons of
water. By this statement the reader
can form some idea of its dimensions.
The east side is " faced" up to the
average height of a one story-building,
and the reservoir covers 100 feet
square. The masonry has been done
under the direction of Mr. Richard
son, and is of ihe very best kind of
cut stone, "pointed." Upon this
wall will be a cut stone ornamental
fount, and the whole surmounted by a
tasty iron fence. In the centro of
the reservoir is an iron column 42
feet from the base.with a fountain. In
addition to this another graDd reser-.
voir is being constructed farther back,
to hold 1.000,000 gallons of water.
The pipes are laid so that Blach
creek and Carruther's creek will lead
to these reservoirs. But in case of
a lack of supply from such sources,
a steam pump is being put-up on the
margin of the Wallamet, at the foot
of Lincoln sireet, which will force
water into reservoirs at a rapid rate,
through pipes of ten inches in circum
ference. Portland may boast of her
water worksor that she has citizens
who so liberally expend their means
to supply the city with wholesome
water.
LETTEB FROM PHILIP RITZ,
Pugrt Sound-
it import a tit advaiitiies and
promising future rtziewea, me urtnern
Pacific Railroad.
Wai.la Walla, October 16, 1SCS.
According to promise, I will send
you a few lines, having just returned
from Puget Sound and the East. I
fear that this short letter may not be
interesting, as there has been so much
said and written abont that country
lately that I do not think of much
now that might interest your read
ers. However, there is one item that
I have never seen fully carried out.
I allude to the immense lumber trade
that is springing up on our seaboard,
and particularly on Puget Sound. It
surprises every one on his first visit
to the Sound that such an important
business should have grown up so
rapidly and yet so quietly. 1 was
not prepared to find mills there actu
ally cutting over 250,000 feet of
lumber in twenty four hours, and
yet such is the fact. There are four
teen mills running on that inland
sea, most of them night and day,
with a capacity of from 20,000 to
250,000 feet per twenty four hours,
and an aggregate of over 950,000 feet
of sawed lumber every day, besides a
large amount of spars and piles , and
yet the lumber trade is increasing so
rapidly that the mills are not able to
supply the demand, and parties are
now nreDarincr to nut up more and
larerer mills.
Besides this vast lumber trade,
giving employment to a large number
of ships which carry it to all parts of
the world, snip building is becoming
an important business on Pug
Sound. There are at this time twelve
vessels ranging from one hundred
and fifty to six hundred tons burthen,
in course of construction at the dif
ferent ports on the Sound. Three of
this number are steamers. The tim
ber there makes lumber that is admi-
rably.adapted to ship building. When
this fact is generally known, and that
the lumber can be had so low, ship
building will become an important
item in fact, in a few years we may
expect to see the great ship yards of
New York and the Eastern cities
transferred to the waters of Puget
Sound. This is every year becoming
more apparent, as the forests disap
pear on our Eastern seaboard gradu
ally, and lumber, rents and food are
advancing. Ship builders will seek a
point where all these can be had to
gether, aud at reasonable rate3.
At this time ships can be built on
Puget Sound, and sent aronnd the
Horn in ballast, cheaper than they
can be built in New Y'oik. Then
when the great coal beds that are
known to exist air along the Sound
are opened, and manufactures are
started in earnest, and I believe
from what 1 nave seen that tuere is
enough of coal there to keep up the
fires of commerce fur ages, and
when the North Pacific Railroad has
established the great trans continental
artery through which the great
wealth of the commerce of the world
will flow, and on these waters will
the great exchange of the wealth of
nations take place, then we may ex
pect to see cities rise as if by magic,
and outstrip iu their growth anything
that the world has yet seen.
A large portion of the land around
the Sound appears to be not of the
best quality, and only fit for growth
of timber, bat when we come to look
back to the early settlement of our
Western States, now teeming in their
immense wealth and millions of in
habitants ; that at one time they
were considered scarcely inhabitable,
and that it was the opinion of many
persons that the conutry never would
become civil'zed, we can conclude
that even this wild looking country
may yet become the abode of civiliz
ation and wealth. In illustratiou of
this I might rem irk that it is a mats
ter cf record in the War Depart
ment, that at the close of the war of
1812, four CommisMoners were sent
out by the Government to select land
for agricultural purposes, in the al
most unexplored Indian territory of
the far West. One was seut to Ark
ansas, one to juissouri, one to Illi
nois and one to Michigan. They all
returned and reported that there could
be some land suitable for agricultural
purposes found in each of the Terri
tories, excepting Michigan. That
Commissioner reported that country
to be too cold, wet and uninviting to
ever be settled by white men. And
yet we find the State of Michigan at
this time fifty-six years afterward
checkered iu every direction by rail
roads, and producing from 12,000,000
to 18,000,000 bushels of wheat per
annum, besides all its other wealth of
productions.
And in Iowa as late as 1S-1G and
1847, hundreds of families would
strrt out in the spring to look at and
settle in the country, and in the fall
many ot them would return again
discouraged from sickness and othr
causes saying that the country was
not fit to live in and never would be
settled up. And yet Iowa at this
time contains over a million of in
habitants, and is one of the most
flourishing of the young States.
These waters assume a still further
importance -when it is remembered
that it is the only safe harbor on the
Pacffic north of San Francisco. And
when it is recollected that San Fran,
cisco is liable at any time to be shak
en to the ground by an earthquake,
as shown by the last shock, capitalists
are reminded that it is not a very safe
place in which to make permanent
investments ; and that these waters
extend farther east than any salt
water on the Pacific coast belonging
to the United States ; and that they
lie directly on the line of the great
wealth and commerce of the world ;
and that the distance from Puget
Sound to New York is 525 miles less
than from San Francisco to the same
place ; to Chicago 542 less ; to Bos
ton 542 less; and even to Baltimore
it is 400 miles Jess in distance than
from San Francisco ; and the well
established fact that the mountains
are much lower, the snow much less,
and the country much better calcu
li utcd to sustain a dense population
than on any other route across the
continent, all i point with unerring
certainty to a great and early luture
for Puget sound.
Respectfully,
. l'HILIl K1TZ.
A revolution is i being inaugur
ated in wells, by the patent drive
pump, selling at Portland by Charles
II. Myers, of the gas-fitting establish
ment advertised in this paper. A
few days ago Mr. Troupe, of the
steamer Fanmie Troupe, sank one of
these wells literally dug a well with
it, in one day, say 80 feet, at an ex-
pense ot cents per iooc. J.ue wen
is simply an iron pipe, driven into
the earth until it strikes water. By
the process of using it, a vacuum is
then formed at the base, and a never
failing fountain is the result.
Icw Advertisements. ;
HOME MANUFACTURE.
J, E. PAT TON,
Successor to IUGGINS d COMPANY,
'o. 8 Front Street, Portland, Oregon,
Is now manufacturing a superior article of
Chemical, Olive. Pale and Brown Family Soap
which he will sell at Fan Francisco prices.
This soup is warranted.
Orearoii Seed Store !
R. E. CHATFIELD,
Wholesale and Retail Dealer in
Garden and Field Seeds of all Kinds.
PRODUCE ASD COMMISSION.
First street, Portland Oregon,
Near the Western Hotel.
Dr. J, H. HATCH,
Late Mack 4" Hatch,
DENTIST,
The patronage of those desiring Firat Clusx
C'j rat en, is respectfully solicited.
Satisfaction iu all cases truaranteed.
N.l. JS'itroux Oxyde administered for the
rainless Extraction ot 1 ecth.
OrciCK Corner of Washington and Fron
streets, Portland. Entrance on Washington
street.
piGS' FEET.
FRED. MULLER,
SS Offers to the citizens of Oregon 5,000
Pounds Souced Pigs' Feet, (put up ly him
self) in lots to suit. Applv at No. 23 Wash
ington street, between First and Second,
Portland.
Country trade supplied in any desired
quantity. A liberal discount to the trade.
B. L. STONE,
FINE
AND CHRONOMETERS
Adjusted aud Repaired iu the best
Manner, and Warranted.
No. Ill Front st., Portland.
J. F. Jones dc Co.,
STEAM COFFEE,
AND SPICE
And FAMILY GROCERY
STORE,
Corner Second and Main Streets,
Portland, Oregon.
trer Ar? prepared to supp'.y thevr customers
with the Purest and freshest COFFEE and
SPICES I'OH FAMILY USK
( round Cottee is always be.-t when FRESTf ,
and the public are invited to try our articles
instead of purchasing old and stale importation
Particular Attention Given to the
Wholesale Trade
3 Orders from . dealers throughout the
city and county respect fully solicited, and
they will receive immediate attention.
J. F..10XES & Co.
Portland, Oregon.
Holiday Goods !
JACKS0X, SAXDERSOX & Co.,
Succe'ors to Haymird, Colt man it Co.
I3IIOHTK X
And Wholesale and retail dealers in
CROCKERY, GLASS, ClIINA
PlateclVare!
Wood and Willow-Ware, and House
Furnishing Goods !
FANCY GOODS,
Fine CUT GLASS WAKE,
CHINA TEA SETS,
DLNNER SETS, E'c,
FOIl THE HOLIDAYS.
Trade supplied on liberal terms
San Francisco prices aud freight.
JACKSON, SANDERSON k Co.
O. S. N. Co.'s Building, SO Front st.,
45.4nil Portland, Oregon.
MAKE YOUR IIOJIJES
AND
HOW CAN WE DO IT?
GO TO
Shanahan & Co.'s
mums Aim ahi
GALLERY !
One door south from the corner of First and
Morrison streets, near thp Western,
J 'or t land, Oregon.
And buy a fexo of those Lovely Pic
tures, which will furnish your
Rooms Complete.
IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IK
M US 1 CA L INSTR U ME NTS,
FINE ENGRA VINGS,
PICTURE FRAMES
And MOLDINGS.
rTMIE FINEST AND LARGEST STOCK
1 of Engravings, Cromos, Plain and col
ored Lithtx'rupbs, etc., ever before oli'ered
in this market, just received and for sale at
GREATLY REDUCED PRICES !
also :
Vieics of Columbia, River Scenery
Coyituiuly cu huud.
AUCTION AND COMMISSION
A. 15. Richardson,
t AUCTIONEER! '
Corner of Front and Oak streets, Portland;
AUCTION SALES
Of Real Estate. Groceries, General Merckani
dise and Horses,
Every Wednesday and Saturday
A. B. Richardson, Auctioneer.
AT PPvIVATE SALE.
English refined lJar and liandle I
English Square and Octagon Cast steel
Horse shoes, Files, Hasps, saws '
Screws, Fry-pans, sheet iron, It. G. Iron -
also :
A large assortment of Groceries andl.iquori.
OREGON CITY BUSINESS.
-g WILLAMETTE
iV XJ JLX ILlS IS, Y .
The following
Varieties of Choice
Fruit Trees.
Shrubbery & Plants,
Vro now Ready for Shipment to Order
o
Cherries, Prunes, Plums, Pears, and
Uerrics, Voolilllc's Black Cap
Raspberry, Wilson's, the
Agriculturist, and the
Triumph dxi Gave Strawberry.
AS' Our trees have the best reputation of
any in the State. Send for Circular.
djt. (i. W. A 1.1.1. NU & Co.
O-vsvego, ui.icKaiaas uounty, Oregori.
Orders left with JJeriow &, Fuller, Agents itt
Oregon City, will receive prompt atteution.
HOME MADE
FURNITURE!
Levy Sc Fechiieimer,
Manufacturers of and Dealers in Furniture,
OREGON CITY,
rpAKE THIS METHOD OF INFORMING
JL the pNfclic that tbey have notr ttn hand
a laagc invoice of
SQUARE AND EXTENSION TABLES,
BUREAUS.
bed-steads.
Lounges, deks.
stands, chairs,
And Various other Qualities of Rich
and Medium Furniture I
Forming a complete and desirable assort
ment, which merits the atteution of buvers.-
We MANTJFACTXTRE FURNITURE
Using good materials, and employing the'
very best mechanics in the State", hence ve
can warrant our jrotids' to be as represented,
afid we are prepared to fill ell orders with
promptness.
We call the attention of the public
to our salesrrom, as containing the must
complete assortment of dus'uulte gads in the
State.
LEVY & FECIIHEIMKR.
Ma'iu street, Oregon City.-
r to JOHN FlJlMlXU;
Building, Main SlrCci,
Masonic
IMPORTER AND DEALER IN
Tiii -
etc,
TT1LB
KEEP CONSTANTLY ox H ANI)
a larce and well selected t-tock of Itooki
Stationery, and Drugs, comprising ia part
Standard and Miscellaneous Book&
Medical, Mining, and Scientific
Books, Theological and Relig
ious Books, Juvenile and
Toy Boohs, Sabbath and
Day School Books,
IN GREAT VARIETY.
Blank Books in Every Style, J 'ass
Books, Memorandum Boohs, and
Time Books, Drawing, 7ac
ing and Tissue Paper,
Portfolios, and
PHOTO GRAPHIC ALBUMS,
Arnolds', Maynard t0 Noyes,' and
David's Inks, Mucilage, Sheet
. Music, Music Paper, and
Note Books.
All of Which he will Sell at tlie
Lowest Prices.
A General Variety of Drugs and
Patent Medicines, Constantly
on hand, for sale. '
e' School Teachers, and parents of Schol
ars will find it to their, advantage to inspect
my stock and prices, before purchasing else
where. 6W Rooks Tmpoi&d to Ordcfi Orders res
pectfully solicited and promptly filled.
K Agent for the California Tinas, aj)4
Eastern periodicals, and papers.
JOHN M.BACON.
Iniiitiii, Painting:
HOUSE,
Steamboat Painting
Graining, Gilding,
China Glossing, Imitations
Of all kin
Wood sunt Marble!
Exrciritd as
, vuU can done on V
Examine our work andJ'J-
Coaxt
ij'urt:lvss
-Every order attended to with c?re and
expedition. . C, E. MVL'.
Wt Door I-Mon -J
Main st., Oregon
J. WELCH,
DKNT1ST.
PcnnancntlyLoeaUlat Oregon City '
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