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O O O O v eijclilwklif (Enterprise. Oregon City, Oregon , Friday : : : Jen. 6, 1871. NOTICE TO LITiUAXTS. The EsTsnrnTSE having beon designated by Governor Grover as the offkial organ for Clackamas county under the "Litigant Act." we give notice that we are prepared to comply with the terras of said act- "Farms for the Boys-" There is a move being made by parlies icterested to have the Indian Reservation at Grand Rondo,- bi Yamhill county, and other, vacated. An up valley paper says that ibis is desirable, as it will give " farms to the boys' The Oregonlan takes exception to this, and argues that me sons nave no right to these lands, as their fathers should be forced to divide np their farrasQwii.il the boys. It, is natu ral for a paper in (he interest of monopo lists and land grabbers to take this post tion. The move to vacate these reserva tions h put on foot by the railroad land grabbers, and should they bo ablo to ac complish their object. these beautiful tracts will be claimed a3 a legitimate in - heritance of these corporations, to the ex clusion of actual and hona, fide settlers. The Ortgonian says that these lands may s well be used for reservations as to throw them open for "farms for the boys.'7 This shows that the. editor of that paper has a preference for the Indian. TJut this is not the cause of his objections to the " boys" having farms. When the reserva tions ale vacated, and the people in Yam hill anff Polk will see these beautiful lands withdrawn from market for the bent-fit of the land grabbers, they will realize the magnitude of the present system of favored legislation, and while the Ore gonlan objects to having these lands occu pied by " farmers' boys"' on account of their fathers not culiivatyig their present large tracts, that paper can sce'no evil in these lands being withdrawn from market nd given to rich corporations to bold find speculate upon, and place them be 3'ond the reach of poor men. This is what m expeett d to become of these rescrva- ti-dTls. and the moment tho bill is passed tt vacate the Grand Ronde Reservation, that moment Ben. Ilolladay will have the lands on that spot withdrawn from mar ket, and they become the properly of the railroad onipany, either under the east cr west side grant. The Oregonlan takes this early opportunity to prepare the minds ol the people for the change to come, and knowing that ths lands will be grabbed up immediately, it attempts to forestall the public indignation which will follow such proceedings. The people of Oregon have no more rights to their public lands. They are at the mercy of corporations, anl not subject to actual settlement. Jt is a pretty idea that a far mer's son should not be a1 lowed a farm of lis own because his father may own (U0 or even 1.280 acres ol land which he does not cultivate. Yet -this Rcd'cal editor would be willing to give every foot of laud in Oregon to railroad corporations, to be held by them to speculate off of, and thus be not only out of cultivation but t.lso out of the reach of persons who are peeking homes among us. Y"e suppose that ilm Oregoidan. after the railroad cor porations have all the land they can get belonging to the Gouernment, will at tempt to compel all persons owning a sec tion to divide it with them. Those per sons who received their G10 acres of land G tiia-Jj'l" the donation act have given the Government full value for the same, and they can do with it as they see fit. not sviihstandh? it displeases the editor of the Oregonlan, who probably would like to find somebody's lather to divide with li in. Grant's Neguo Speculation-. The lle amlner of Hie 23d inst... has the following : "Grant's little speculation in negro buying bids fair'to succeed. His San Domingo bill has passed the Senate. The '-Ring7' has triumphed, and the plunderers once cioire rejoice. As telegraphed, it appears that the proposition only received .'51 votes. Where all ilia other Senators were does not appear. In a full Senate there are 78 members, so that the proposition lacked considerable of a majority. The proba bility is that they conveniently went otit; not willing to commit themselves on the vt'COrd to such a palpable swindle, and yet not wishing to incur the enmity of the President b voting directly against his pet meaiiie. Of course the bill will pass the House, and so our new speculation in negroes will be consummated. How much ft head they will cost the Government will not appear until the Commissioners report. The probability is that they will cost considerable more per capita than nble bodied field hands commanded before the war. Rut what of that? The.se men are to be voters, and surely voters are vorth more than mere cotton-pickers. Wfco says that. the slave trade is dead? Vhy the thing has just commenced."' J"lIAT V So. Never was a truer descrip tion given in as short a space as the fol lowing from the New x ork World: ''The Radical party is the party of strife, turmoil, and conflict. It is the enemy of public peace. It fomented discord and encour aged riots in the South for the purpose of Xcjayimg reconstruction and as an excuse to use the. military in the elections. It keeps one section of the country in an un settled and uncertain condition, injuring commerce, business and industry, for the sake of party success. It sends military to one State and declares martial law to frighten people from voting against its candidate. It sends military into another gtate to force a railrord and carpet bag ring on the people. It has relied for suc pessintha past on the cry of a bloody tshirV Is Cot. Dent, who tends door at Ibo White lloaso, a kitchen colonel ? Boston Post. Coming Around. The Salem Statesman is coming around. During the last election and until recently it was in favor of granting all the public domain for railroads, but now it preaches a different sermon, and conies out flat- footed against any more land being given away, and further, that the subsidies al ready granted were procured by purchase of the honest and incorruptible Congress. Here is what is said in a late issue of that paper : "We present this subject to the consider ation of the people, tbat everyone may recognize the necessity of guarding the public domain and reserving it 'for what we consider its legitimate use. to become homes for the people upon the most fa vorable terms possible. Our growth and advancement as a State depends upon the advantages we can oiler the actual settler, and when capital owns our unoccupied lands and offers them for sale at specula tive prices, the chief inducement lor emi gration will be gone, and the masses will seek homes elsewhere. , Monopoly waits and watches i's oppor tunity and speculation lurks r.rjnnd the corner. Politicians are apt to forget that they should be friends of the people, and accept instead the position of friends to those who have fees to give for service rendered. A great inroad has boon made into the public domain in Oregon, and on the part of the people we protest that no more landed subsidies should be given. certainly no "floating grant," tor any purpose whatever. With the aid already given to railroads our State can soon at tain a position where the needed public iiuj)rovemenls will be consummated with out such aid ; and we would furthermore protest, in the name of the people, ihat whenever the present Indian Reservations shall be vacated, they shall be thrown open to actual settlement only, as are other public lands, and in no instance be placed within the grasp of any railroad corporation, or other monopoly. Democ racy wal soon have the majority. as our representatives in Congress, and we eom exercise of all mend this matter to the their spare discretion. Twisting. The Oregonhin a few weeks since thought that the San Domingo job was a dead letter in the President's mes sage, as the last cenate reiuseu to rainy the annexation or purchase project of the President, and believed that the Senate was justifiable in such refusal. Now it appears that the Oregonlan was not as wise in this matter as it might have been, and its predictions have not besn fulfilled, and now it comes out praising the meas ure, and sees a thousand bene fits to b' derived from the purchase of this island. It is remarkable what certain changes the Oregonlan can make. It has lost all re spect for consistency and veracity since the editor has received a Federal office, lie has no mind of his own, and whatever the President does, or Congress, notwith standing he may have opposed the meas ure a day or two before, i.i all right, and he turns square around and becomes an advocate in favor of the very thing he was opposed to. The editor of the Ore gonlan might have known that the job would be completed this session. The blocks marked out for Grant mid his Sen ators have been equally divided since the last meeting of Congress, and it is no trouble to get the little job through. Had Grant been willing last winter to make a just division with the Senators, he would have been successful 1 ast session, but he was hogish, and wanted to get the whole thing to himself. Since lie Iras sati.-fied the Senators and Representatives in some way or other, the thing has become a suc cess, and Grant has accomplished his lit tle object, lie wid be a large property owner in ihat section, and we think it will be a most magnificent place for him to go to after the Eh of .March. l.sTtl. The Plunder Session- T'ne i;Aleri:d interests of the country, which have been so serious! ycmnprrinisd by partisan legislation, and controlled by corrupt in-bieneos' will faze as badly at this session as they have heretofore done. There is no disposition on the part of Con gress to heed them, or to adopt any policy which may afford relief to suffering indus try or prostrate commerce, unless it be connected with selli-h advantage. Spe c;al legislation of every species and for ever' object; schemes of the lobb', and venal combination.-,, will have an attentive audience, because they appeal to the per sonal interest of a large portion of the Radical majorities, who will soon disap pear from this si, "no forever. - Some of them, like the wolves in the fable, who resolved to eal grass, until they saw shepherds enjoying the tender joints of lambs at dinner, held out lean and hungry, till those whose praise they once valued have joined the 'lings'' and fattened" on the spoils, and are now. as their only opportunity, eager for a share. Others, discarded at the" recent elections, feel tbat a return to the indigent obscurity from which some happy accident had . drawn them would be worse than humiliation, and hence will seek recompense -for de feat in pecuniary profit. And a third class, by no means small, looking upon the present as a transition period in poli tics, will grasp at this last chance for bet tering desperate fortunes. H Accountability, which is the one great rcquislt of purity in a. free legislativ bod, is never so teebly as during a closing ses sion of Congress. The restraint of public criticism no longer has terrors for many, and the confusion of the expiring hours, to which most large ' jobs' are deferred, furn ishes a concealment for others. Immense schemes for squandering the public lands, subsidizing private speculations, and plun dering the Treasury, were purposely put off this session, in order to avoid any dam aging effect upon the fall elections. The posponement was simply a matter of poli cy. The bills were meditated or matured long ago, and only avait the auspicious moment when corrupt combinations can enact them into the forms of law. For railroad grants alone biils are pend ing which propose to donate near one hundred and fifty millions of acres of land. excln uve of the grant for the Southern Pacific railroad and two other companies, which together would sum up about 200. 000.000 ! Yast charters are projected, which involve enormous indirect subsidies, that are adroitly kept out of public view. It those be added plans for building foreign telegraphic lines, some with re sponsible and others with irresponsible projectors, and a brood of bills with mil lions hidden under specious forms, the country will even then have but an inade quate idea of the plunder which this shor t session will yet disclose, and which it will be our duty to hold up to the public ga ze as the projects shall bo developed. Such is the sunshine in which the end of the present Radical Congress proposes to make bar. Patriot. Goixg Back ox it. The main hobby of the Radicals last June, in "this State, was that the Democracy wsre opposed to fur ther land franchises to railroad corpora lions. Now we find Grant taking the pamo position held by the Democracy on tbii subject, sad the. Radical press are swinging around and now oppese further grants. The robberies which have been committed by the Radicals of our public domain have become too heavy for the Radical organs to further defend. It is astonishing how readily these Radical edi tors go back"cn their record. Kai.ama. The Herald says . This new town site, on thellensill claim, just above Carroll's landing, on the Washington side of the Columbia river, is attracting some notice. It is very likely to become a place of considerable importance l'cr a few years, so long as the Northern Pacific Railroad Company make it the base of supplies in the construction of their road to Puget Sound, and perhaps a few years longer, in case the same company receive materials at that point for their future op erations east of the Cascade mountains. rcr.LisiiEKs' Convention. We notice that cur exchanges generally are in favor of a publishers' convention. If they are la earnest in matter, we would sug gest that somebody make a formal call. There Is much that could be brought be fore such a convention that would be 6f benefit to publishers generally throughout the State, and we regard it as a matter of importance. We ,von!d suggest that the convention of the publishers of Oregon meet at Salem February 22d, 171. many will endorse this ? lie ovv Died. -Mrs. Delazon Smith died at the residence of her son-in-law, at Albany, last Sunday night. ilrs. S. had just re turned from a visit to the States, and ex pected that the trip (here and back would have improved her long failing heal;h. but she had been back only three or four days when she died. Her aged father came with her, and is now at Albany. Mrs. Smith was highly esteemed b all who knew her, and the people throughout the State mourn with her bereaved chil dren her dem se. J.ttioant Okgan.s. The Bulletin desig nates those papers which have been ap pointed litigant organs as Gov. G rover's pap organs. This comes with a bad grace from a paper that Is kept alive by pap re ceived fro en Ren. Ilolladay and the. Con gressional corruption fund. Pap is the only thing which keeps life in that iusti tution. STA1K SBWi. From the Herald: A grand railroad meeting is to be held Portland next Saturday. in The Bates troupe go to Walla Walla to play a season at that place. Messrs. IJurch and Ronham. the com mittee appointed to in e.sugale the man agement of the penitentiary, have- con cluded their labors here for the present, and have ret un red to Salem. Several wit nesses were examined in reteience to the sale of the obi penitentiary. The Pioneer Root and Shoe Manufac tory is running at one-fourth its power, owing to the scarcity of competent labor. The proprietors have advertised for workmen in San Francisco, but none can be procured there at present, as the Crispins of this city have written to the rest of the order there not to come to this country, and have sent discouraging ac counts of the enterprise. This is sup posed to arise from the fact that wero many of that class, here the market would be overstocked. The factory could em ploy forty men with permanent labor, so no danger of an overplus need be appre beaded. The new bell on Odd Fellows Temple rang the old year out and the new year in by a merry peal. Regular trips are resumed between Portland, Vancouver and the Dalits. An insane patient has lately come ety- down from Lane County, and David Coulter has been sent to the Asylum lrom Marion county. On Saturday the steamer Okanagan took a considerable quantity of freight for Kalann, the new railroad town on the Columbia. The bark Ganger, with (i2. tons of wheat, is ready to sail for Fiilmouth. Eng land. According to last quotations the aver age price of Oregon apples in the San Francisco market was $1 50 per box. The steamer Dixie Thompson, formerly the C iscade. will be launched to-morrow from the boneyard dock, at 10 o'clock, sharp. , The Rugene Guard- announces the ar rival of Gen. 13. F. Ru'ler or some other spoon thkf in that town. Darkeep shouldn't keep silver spoons. From the Statesman : . Ren. Ilolladay has been a great gas among us, but he will figure small here after, in comparison with the influence and importance of the N. 1. R. R. Co., and must exercise a less important influence on the fortunes of the northwest coast. J. J. Smith, about 11 miles from Jack sonville, on the 2oih ult.. was tightening his saddle girt when a Henry rifie which was hanging by a strap over the saddle horn, was accidentally discharged, the ball passing through his thigh and into the ground beyond. The thigh bone was not injured, but an ugly wound was iu tlicted of a dangerous character. J. II. Robbins, of Rethel. is perfecting a machine which is Intended to thresh the standing grain, leaving the straw uncut, and which promises to be successful, as it is simple in construction as well as effect ive in operation. Work has been recommenced on the Santiam mines. The City Council of Salem have granted a franchise for seventeen years to Messrs Martin & Allen to lay water pipes for the city, conditioned that one mile of pipe be laid within a year, and a second mile w ith in two years, the city to pay for the use of wafer in that time SLSOO per annum. New Town. A new town called Free port, which is a rival to Monticello, has been laid off on the Cowlitz river, a few m'.k's above Moi ticello. COURTESY OF The Grant Dynasty, I. Ulvsses Slmnson Grant, President of the United States. II. Jesse Root Grant. President s lamer, .. . i postmaster at Covington, ivy. 4. III. Frederick Uent i,ram, a it.-aiu.i.. son' cadet at v est l una. IV. Orville L. Grant. President s oum.. er. partner with the Collector at tue port f V: Frederick T. Dent. President's father-in-law. claimant of lands at Caronde.et. Mo..-enchred bv Wilson, Commissioner of t lie Land Office. VI. Rev. M. J. Cramer, Presidents brother-in-law. Minister to Denmark. VIL Abel Rathbono Corb'.n. Presment s brother-in-law, negotiator of gold and real estate speculations with James lisle. Jr.". and Jay Gould. VIII. Ereve-t Brigadier General I. T. Dent, President's brother-in-law, chief usher at the Executive Mansion. IN. Judge Louis Dent, President's brother-in-law. counsel for claimants be fore the President ; estimated at $40,000 a vear. N. George W.Dent. President s brother- in-law, Appraiser of Customs, ban i ran cisco. XI. John Dent, Presidents brother-in-law, only Indian trader for New Mexico, under Indian Riireau j place worth $100, 000 a vear. XI L Alexander Sharpo. President's brother-in-law, Marshal of the District of Columbia. XIII. James F. Casey. Presdent's brother-in-law, Collector of the port of New Orleans ; place worth $30,000 a year. XIV. James Longatreet, President's brother-in-law's cousin, Surveyor of the Port of New Orleans. XV. Silas lluJson. Presidents own cousin, Minister to Guatemala. XVI. George K. Leet. Presidents brother-in-law's cousin. Public Stores. New York : place worth S1O0.OO0 a year. XVII. Orlando II. Ross. Prerident's own cousin, clerk in Third Auditor's office. Washington. XVII I. Dr. Addison Dent, President's brother-in-law's third cousin, clerk in '.he Register's office, Treasury Department. v aslnngton. XIX. J. F. Simpson, President's own cousin. Second Lieutenant Twenty-lii'th Infantry, XX. " John Simpson, President's own cousin, Second Lieutenant Fourth Artillery. XXI. " George P. Johnson, President's mother's second cousin. Assessor of Intern-... 1 Revenue. Third District. Ohio. XXII. 15. L. Wymans. President's couiu's husband, Postmaster ot Newport. Counterfeit Dealers in Money. rt , ... One of the richest devices of roguery is that which has just come into vogue among the shapors of this ci'v namely, that of duping the country 11 its by pretending to sell counterfeit bills-at a moderate price on the receipt of genuine money, and sel ling them only sawdust and shavings. There can be no pity for the foolish knaves who are caught in this trap. Their intent is wicked. They would cheat the govern ment, and their neighbors if the- only got into their wo.-session the counterfeit notes for which they bargained. Rut they can not do much damage with the sawdust and shavings wiih which the counterfeit dealers in those genuine -articles supply them. The seizure of one of these gangs in Nassau street has revealed die l;ct thai, hundreds of iuere!i;uits, farmers, labores and people of all classes throughout the country have, been ordering counter feit 1'ioney f rom this firm. uhels of let ters have been secured by the police, which, when exposed, will show the nice sense of m iraliry among pe qde who perhaps, in their own communi ies. are regrided as hs patterns of excellence and models of sanctity. As nobody has suffered by this bnsiners except the dupes who paid their money with a dishonest intention it is rather a funny ospisodo in the history of modern swindling. N. Y. jftra'd, G O VKRNM KXT Fj!Ai:P.-; AT FoiSTFUCSS Mox- no'.i. A systematic course of embezzle ment, which has been carried on in the Engineer Beparment. at Fortress .Monroe, lias recently come to light an l has caused great excitement there, as the individual concerned is the son-in-law of an eminent general in the Engineer Corps. It seems that he has been appropriating govern ment property for the Lis t three years for himself and confederates, most of whom were out of the department, wifh the ex ception of one. who is now in North Carolina, receiving pay from the govern ment he ha helped to swindle. . This should be a warning fo the heads of de partments that although a clerk may be the son-in-law of a general etc.. he may be light-fingered at the same time. The clerks implicated will probably get off with the usu il ten years'' owing to their influence. This is the great fault that " plagarisis'-" and the light fingered gentry in general should be protected under the disgusting veil of influence. RKM.uiKAtir.K. It is remarkable with what generosity the Bulletin offers itself as a defender of persons aggrieved at the course of their party papers. Men who have to be defended by the Bulletin are indeed in poor circumstances. When any one gets so low as to need a defence from such a source, they had better retire from the stage of public life. CourLAixr. We see from the Mercury f that through neglect of the last Board, a considerable amount of the school money is in a bad condition. Much of this money has become uncollectable and will result in much loss to the fund. To Commence. We notice an advertise ment in the Portland papers for proposals fo receive bids for the construction of the canal and locks around the falls. Pro posals will be received until the 1st of March. Turc Tennkssee Brri.Kn has resumed his seat in Congress, and in the car. ens yester day objected to the general removal of disabilities. Mr. Butler should be more considerate. He may have to ask pardon himself some day if the Pension Bureau really holds those charges against him that we heard of last summ er. V. T". TL'rald. 'PoMi'Ois and Oi'ricior.s"' is the term applied by the Springfield BepuJiHcan to Senator Conkling. of New York. How lovely and pleasant it is to see members of the same political family agree in union and harmony." Bkciped. The Judiciary Committee of the City Council of Portland, and the City Attorney, have decided that all advertis ing, required under the charter must be dene in the litigant organ of the county. TuK Prksipknt declines to hold out olive branch to Senator Scliurz. and hronch b 'tween htm and the Missouri publicans is not likely to be healed. an the re- BANCROFT LIBRARY, n Telegraphio Clippings. WvsurxfrroN:. Dec. 31. At a fire in the northern-part of the eity. to-day Mrs. Ann j Pass, aged 19 years, was fatally burned,, Rontvvell has issued a circular giving! numbers nnd denonrn ition of the many registered Bonds cavfated on the books of the Department at this date. The bonds are from S50 to $5,000 each, and aggre gate $502.4)00. - New- Yomc, Dec. .31. The Dark state ment shows an increase of specie of $2. 4D9.000. and a decrease of everything else. Money easy, 7 currency to 7 gold, mosuy 7 currency. Nkw Okllv. Jan. 1. Early this mr.rn ing the steamers Magenta, Grand Era, Julia A. Rudolph. S. Thompson. Dean and John Howard, with their cargoes, were burned at the Levee. Total loss, except m the case of the Howard, the hull of w hich will be saved. Total loss is $510, OtfOV Insurance about $240 (too. Steamship De Soto, hence yesterday evening for New York, took fire 27 miles below this city, and burned to the water's od-ro. Total loss of . vessel and cargo $250,000. Rgstox. Jan. 3. The steamer Concordia cleaved to-day for Falmouth. England. It is supposed she takes a cargo of arms and war material for France. Ai.nAxr, Jan. 3. Roth Houses of the Legislature were organized to-day. The Governor's message was read. II vKiM.siu n(, Pa.. Jan. 3. The Legisla ture was organized to-day. The House elected Republican, and the Senate Demo eratic officers. Coi.vMrcs, O., Jan. 3. The Legislature met to-day. - New YonK, Jan. 3 The Chicago Jmtr nal special says the President has tendeied Horace Greeley a position on the San Do mingo commission, with a view of secur ing the influence of the Tribune in favor of annexation. Washington, Jan. 4. In Hie House. among bills on to-day and referred, w is one by Smith, of Oregon, removing ob struction to the navigation of Oregon rivers. The President sent to the Senate to-day the nomination of Jno. A. Sumner, to be Indian Agent. Umatilla Reservation. Hamiitox. Dec. 31. Considerable ex citement exists here over the mysterious disappearance of Lewis Cook. Treasurer of White Pine county. He left here ten days since with ihe intention of visiting San Francisco and Austin, since which time nothing has been heard of him. Official investigations show the treasury to be short about S21.I50. A number of our most responsible business men are on his bo ld for $50,000. Cook's store was attached yesterday by the Receiver of the x-..r - i f .i. . i-"v- l.. c... viT -Trt'" .National IjIIIIK oi .n-iaiu, oi.iuj. Dee. 31. The French citizens yesterday sent by telegraph one hundred thousand, francs to Gambetta as a New Year's present in aid of the cause of France, and received an answer re turning thanks in most eloquent language from Gambetta. To-day Dennis Gunn. a moulder, aged 25 years, a young man ot irreproachable ciuu-acter. received an anonymous letter, stating that L Murphy, a painter, who has had several wives and mistresses, one td the former now having a suit pending against him for divorce, had debauched G"n nns sister. He consulted with his fattier, and the two confronted the girl, who is under sixteen years of age. and she acknowledged her shame. Young Gunn immediately star'ed out on the street and met Murphy at the corner of St. Mary's Place and Pino streets, and shot, him through the head. The homi cide was committed almost i:i front of Murphy's house, and Mrs. Murphy came out ol the house and threw herself fran tically on the body. Gunn gave him self up to a citizen, to whom he handed his 'pistol, and immediately started for the c iilaboose. Murphy is still breathing, but has not spoken. There is no chance for hi.s recovery. Public opinion lull y exonerates Gunn. Any amount of bail cau be obtained for him. KlUOPE VS WAil KE1VS. IIavkk. Dec. 31. A reconnoissance was mide to d ay in the direction of Belbec. Some fighting is reported idi the Ger man advance posts. The Germans lost 25 killed, IS wounded, and 11 prisoners. London, Jan 1. Siege ariiUer-y arrived before .Meung yesterday. A bat le is ex pected near II irieourt, with Treskou's force and ten thousand French. General Manteuffel reports that on Saturday live batallions left Rouen encountered a French brigade, drove it into the castle of Robert Le Diablo, which 7&s subsequently storm ed by Prussians. The French loss was 100 killed and prisoners. The losses of the be sieging forces, during the bombardment of fort Avron, are" reported at 8.00 ). In the engagement near Bruin yesterday, a French detachment gained a victory over 2.50 J Germans. Advices from Paris to December 20. represent that the larger portion of the army of Prince Frederick (.Juries has joined the besiegers of Paris as reinforce ments. It is reported that Eiure Paere has formed in Paris a corps of 12,000 voltin leers, who have sworn to cut their way through the Prussian lines, and to organize a levy on the provinces. BoitPKAfx. Jan. 1. Gen Chaucey an nounces that Gen. Jouffay attacked the en cmy on the left bank of the Loire, near Vendome, and defeated him, taking 200 prisoners. Chaucey adds that he will con tinue a forward movement. A fine of 50,000 francs has been imposed upon Versailles, for failure of the author ities to procure the stores required by the Germans. . Yk;'..saii.m:.-!. Dec. 27. Everything is ready for bombardment on a terrific scab, simultaneously, in circle, around the de voted city. AH officers hive gon? to the ftont,. The artillery commenced tiring on the French outposts. MAPinn, Dec. 3 IT Gen Prim died this morning at 1 o'clock. All engaged in his assassination escaped. The death of Prim produced a profound sensation of grief all over Spain. The Republican militia bat talions of Madrid uearly all surrendered their arms bv order of the Government of Madrid. Romk Dec. 31. Victor Emanuel entered the city this morning. Maimui). Dec. 31. The Cortes have sanc tioned the issue ofdreasury bonds. London. Dec. 31. The lsis Moscow correspondent says a belief in the alliance between the Luted States and Russia, in case of war, u becoming all but univer sal. London, Jan. 2. Bismarck writes to Odo Russel that Prussia is justified, under the laws of nations, in sinking English ships on the Seine. Althoug'i the payment offered lias been refused, be cause unaccompanied with an apology, he again renews tender of payment. A correspondent from Versailles on the 28th. savs the Prussian troops are be coming more dissatisfied every day at ', nothing being done to hasten the siege, j The Germans have guns heavy enough to send shells clear into Paris, but they have ; not employed them with effect. Within a' few days" all the heavy guns have I been brought to a particular point, to destioy cue or two forts, and a tre- mendous effort will be made to capture fier.i. The Duke of Mecklenburg has been here, and prince Albert is coming tor consultation. The result of negotia tions. so far. appears to be that the army of Prince Fredrick Charles will consent irself with simply protecting t'. e betit-gers. All troops outside of camp will remain on the defensive until reinforcements ar rive. Guns and amunbion arrive slowly, notwithstanding the almost superhuman energy exercised. London. Jan. 1. A correspondent at Berlin says the court of Berlin believes that Paris will soon capitulate. There has been a significant intercbatTge of cour tesies between Berlin and Wilhelnshole. The Emperor is confident of hi.s restoration. Darmstadt. Jan. 1. Prince Louis of Hesse telegraphs to the Government here that two regiments of Hessians, wit'i a battery, fought on Saturday with a supe rior force ot the enemy, southeast of Orleans. The Germans lost fi ft 3 men. London. Jan. 2. The constituents of Mr. Glad-tone have signed a petition ask ing him to resign. . Madrid. Dec. 31. The death of Prim has intensified the excitement in the city. Great apprehensions of arc outbreak of the conspirators exists. The Government is making efforts to allay the excitement. Vienna. Jan. 2. Field' Marshal Moor ing, of the Austrian army died to-day. London, Jan. 3. A portion of Chaun cey's forces are strongly posted now near Yondoine. For a week past engagements along the Loire have beea successes for the French. Near La Chattre 1.200 pris oners were taken by the French. A Prus sian column, in trying to cross the Loire on the ice, lost 300,' who were drowned. Advices from Pans to the 30th, state that the Parisians urge Truchu to make a sortie with an enormous farce, as now li.ir nrtitlrv U so numerous and the weather is moderating. Vehsaii.t.ks. Jan. 3. The King, at a re ceptien, said : Great events must have preceded our getting on to such a place at suck a day. It is due to your heroism and perse verence. and the bravery of the troops. Our object is stilt unattained. important tasks remain before we can have a lasting peace. It would be censu rable to make a p-aee. if yor rottst con tinue the duties bringing you here. VK'.'.sAiT.r.Ks. Jan. 4. The bombardment is so effectual on the east of Paris that only feeble replies are made lrom the gar risons. The bankers' participation In the French loan is severely censured at Berlin. A number of Bordeaux journals seems to coincide that it is understood that or ders will be sent to the Generals to has ten movements upon Paiis. Paris advices show that intense excite ment prevails among the population, who demand to mike a grand sortie. A num ber of mayors of the city have called up on Trocliu. insisting that he will acceed to their desire. RonnKAfS. Jan. i. It is ofin i dly an nounced that Faidherbe sends the follow ing dispatch, under da'e of the 3d. The ba'ule near Bassanlue. yesterday, lasted from 8 in the morning tilt V, in the even ing. I have driven tiie Prussians from till their positions and the villages held by them. The enemy's losses are numerous; o til's are serious. Impoktax r. We wii! furnish the Awn cm Sloe!.: Journal and the Enteim'kise at $3 per annum, in advance. We will ex tend this prf. position to all our subscrib ers now on our books who have not paid their present year's subscription, until the first of February. This makes the ExTKr.rr.i;!-: as cheap as any paper in Oregon. The Oregonlan still persists in refusing to claim what credit there is due its party for the diversion of the school lands, it is too bid fh.it the votes and services of WhalJev, O'Regan. Earhart. Ilolman and others are not better appreciated by party they represented in this matter. the We hive received a copy of the Pioneer published by Emily Pitts Stevens, of San Fraticisco, California. It is devoted to Human Rights' Judging from the read ing, we would Hipote it to be devoted to W o ir.e n s V. ig h f s. ' : Ia. Wi star's D.u.sam or Wn.n Chek lit is truly u bill- am. It contains th'fe buis-amic principle of the Wild Cherry, the b.ilsaaiie properties at tar -.a il pine. Its ingredients are all balsamic. Coughs, Co'ds, and Con sumption disappear rapidly under its bal samic iuilueiice. Tf yon feel dull, drowsy, debilitate I, have frequent hea-1 u-be, mouth tastes b.utli', pour appetite and tongue: edited, you are suffer ing from Torpid Liver or I3il!i-usnts," and nothing will cure yon so specoily f nd p-nnaiiently as Ir. Pierce's Alt. Ext. or Goldea Medical Dhseovc y. It also cures tt.e wctst lingering Coughs, at the same time strengthening and pm ifyinsr the whf-de system Remember that Dr. Pierce's pri vite U. S. (JoiVriiimmt Revenue Stamp bearing upoa it his poi tuait, name and ad dress, is upon every bottle of the genuine. Sold ly di 11 ggi-ts.. WILLIAM DAVIDSOIT. OiTiec.i ro. CI 'Front Strct, PORTLAND, - - - OREGON" REAL ESTATSDEALSR. Speoial Collector of Claims. A large amount of CITY and EAST PORT LAN I) Property for Sale. Also, IMl'ROVKi) FAKMS, and valutibte un cultivated LANDS, located in ult parts of the St.-.te Investments in HEAL ESTATE and other PKOPEftTV. Inade for correspondents. CLAIMS of all desci iptions promptly col lected. . HOUSES and STORES leased. All kinds of F.fuuictal and General Agency business transacted. Parties having FARM rnOPEIJTY for sale will ple.e (iirni-b descriptions of ibo same to the AGENTS OF THIS OFFICE, in each of the principal Ci'l IES and TOWNS of this STATE. Julv 2:tf Iti-be it-11 lligrcc Lodge Jo. A, I. O. O. P 4 Meet on the Second and Fourth TUESDA Y EVENINGS, of each month, at 7 o'clock, in O.Hd Fellows Hall. Members of t!i Degree aie invited to attend. I5y order of N. G. AVillamf te Lodge No. 1.I. O- fci. T Meets every Saturday evening, at the roorrs S.E. c orncr of Main and Fifth streets, et 7 1-2 o'clock; Yisiting members are invited to attend. By ordtr of W. C. T. Cn iPPKi) Haxds and Face, sore Ji ps, dry ness ot the skiu, ivc., sc., cured at once hy liegeman's Camphor lie with Glycerine. ft keeps the hands soft in all weather. See that you gf t liegeman's. Sd I by ail ru pisfs, only 25 cents. Manufactured only by liegeman &, Co., Chetn sis and Druggists, New Yuik. dccS'j-ly ' EVERY ONE HIS OWN DOCTOR. A private instructor fr married persons or'tbosj about to be married, both male ajcf female, in everything concerning- the phy's iology Mid relations of our sexual system,, and the -production and prevention "of off-spring-,- incbu ing all the new discoveries never before piven in the English Iancu:i"v hy WM. YOUNG, M. I). This is reaflv a vlfc irible and interesting woik. It is written in pbdn language for the general reader, and) is illustrated with numerous engraving. All young marrieil people, qr those contem plating marriage, and having the lea.-.t im- -pediiu-nt fo riinii-ied life, should "Tend' ifik nook. It discloses secrets that1 every- 6nP should be acquainted with ; still it is a book that must he locked i:p and not lie,, about" the bouse. It will be sent to any addiesi on receipt of fifty cents. Address'Dir. VM: YOUNG, No. 41ti Spruce strett-above Faarth, Philadelnhui. Nov4tfm.' jMjiII notiialt IKlyjc "o. l;A. F. it nci ' . A. Itf . Holds its regular "c'nmmunira Ytions on the Firnt dud -'third iaturm f -j fy in eaeh'rrtontli, at f o'clock"' fro m the 20th of September to tlitftWth oft. March, ami 7i o'clock from thD 2otfi Oi .March to the 2oth ot September., Breth-' ren in sood standing ar? invited to attend,' I)eca3,lS7i,.: By order of . AW. M.- : Oregon Loilgc So. 3," I. O. cf O. Meets every TharseJay even ing at 7 o'clock, in Od-d ftllow' II ail. Main s Members r.f the Order arc invited to Uy order. , N. ti. Pain is supposed t be the lot of 11s p&or morta's, as inevitable as death itself and liable at any time to come upO'i us. There fore it is imp'iitaut that remedial Hgent (dionfd b- at hand to be used on an eraer- " trency, when the seminal principle lodged in the system thuW devclope itself; and we fed the excruciating agonies of pain, or thefjle- pressiag influence ot disease, ruicli a reme dial atreut exists in the Pain Killer, whose fame has made the circuit of . t'.e glob. Amid tb eternal ices of the p. Iar regions or licncath the intolerable and burning suu of the tropics, its virtues are kuowu and appre ciated. Under all latitudes, from, the oii extreme to the other, suffering humanity'lias f nti'l relief from many of its ills by its ns. The wiae and broad area over which thi.-i medicine 1ns spread, attests its value nd potency. From a small begimii'ig, the Pain Killer has" pushed gradually along, making it- own highway, solely b' it virtues. Such unexampled success and popularity has brought others into the Meld, who have attems ted. under similarity of name, to usurp tlie eontidetH-e of the pcopTe aad tarn it iht-ir own sel!ihness ami di-ho.iesty, l-nt tneir efi'-vrts'iiave p oved f ruitless, while the Pain Kilier is stdl growing in public tavor. Jan. 5: him SEWING MACHINES ! ! COMPETITION DEFIED. . WE SELL TIIE S1XGEF., WHEELER Jt V 1 Wilson, llnwe. Elliptic, Grover fc Raker, Weed, Parham, Keystone, Ub ., Gold Medal, American combination, lUvin, Empire, mkle & Lyons, Wilcox fc Gibbs wi.h a complete out fir, lute t improvement, all extra attachments and case at 'V. The il.-.on, Folsom, McLean & Hooper, Rarthram & Fautou, wbh ouifit, impiovc met:ts, atl extra attachments and case at $:5. The Uukeve, Diamond, Anierk-.au, ilomo Shuttle, ' Ibb-tol w-ith outfit, table, attach ments and case, at f ; ). Ihe Common Sense, Octagon, Banner nod sill (,th r hand machines wi.lj outfit benuner and tucker at .? -. No toy machines sold. A complete set of ultWhtKcnts for hem ming tine, coarse and wide, binding any ma terial, qmbing, tucking and making the next tuck, milling at.d. gathering, doing awny wiih ng altogether. Made to suit r.uy machine. Oniy the complete set sold, $5. KfJITTiriG- BlilCHIrJES. The Lim b at $"." ; the Crane at ?!.; the Ilinkley. Diamond 27 ; the bicklbrd, Amet lcan, Essk-fe, New Haven 2o. q When the money is sent with the order we ship wuh all Irtinht charges prepaid a far as the Mississippi, or sent C. O. Ii., on receipt of halt the amount, and charges jidJed. L. PEKKgS & CO., 5112K1NG STREET, WILMINGTON, I EU 0 -ACTIVE PEES0NS G $100 A MOUTH ! IXERC.F.TTC PERSONS, CLERGYMEN, j doctors, lawyers, airents, business men, lanners, salesmen, dealers, and all others,, male a-id female willing to give their whole time 01 part of it, cun easily make ' $100 OTw M.OEE A MONTH, by engaging in light, honorable and staple business, in which to money is reouir-H No competition. Exclusive territory eiveo koicrences as to t bcracter required. Stamps tor return postage desired. Write your ad dress iu fad and plainly. H- A. CARTY, NO. 315 CHESNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA, PA ACTIVE FERSOXSWAKTEI Jan, C:in6 - Administrator's Noticed 7STOTICE IS IIEEEHY GIVEN TIIAT THE urifiorsiCTiCfl has t-een amnintnl titorot lue estate ot 1-ranees Jones, defeated lato of Clackamas county, Oregon. All 'person.- haviw claims against said estate t ill present them within f-ix months, at the residence of the. uuticrsignc-d iu said count y. n. JOIINil.ARP, Jan. 2, lS71:wi Attain 'btra tor. " o 0 O 0 c o o G O