£h t Jílffklj polk (grants Signal. j were shot down and murdered by ne t
grocs.
Portions of Spain arc in a state of fer
ment.
OFFICIAL- PAPER OF POLK CO.
MONDAY MORNING,
NOV. if.. is«s.
The following is a genuine letter
which fell into our hands no matter
how. I t is a curiosity iu its way, so we
print it verbatim, only omitting names
and the place it wa* dated :
--------- Oregon
“ November the 9 1868
To thay County Clurk of polk Coun-
>y l want to knowe ef thay has bin auy
liseus for thay marige of b ill---------
a u d ---------------------c r ------- ---------- -
us she may Chung her kname I would
like for her to have a dev<>rse before
she marries hut let thdm rip please let
me knowe if thay got Itsens vores tru
ley
—--------------”
To fully appreciate the situation
it
will ouly be uecessary to opine that th*>
above tender epistle was despatched by
a husband in search of his wife.
The Government has opened ncgocia
turns for the right o! way across the
Than'«giving.
Isthmus of Darien.
A DAY OP THANKSGIVING FOR THE
llarrisou Reed, Governor of Florida,
w h o l e c o u n t r y a p p o in t e d by t h e
ha* been impeached for “ high crimes
PRESIDENT.
and misdemeanors in office.”
Jft/ the President o f tht United Stole of
A large number of arms belonging
America :
to the State of Fl *riday were destroyed,
PROCLAMATION.
In the year which is now drawing to estimated to h ive been worth $20,006.
its cud, the art, the skill »nd the 1 ib -r
Govern >r elect IL'fftnau of New York
of the people of the United States have
been employed with great diligence and made a speech on i 7th in which be
vigor, and on broader fluids than ever asserted that if Grant squared his con*
before, and thn fruits} of the earth have duct in < * *] i > o ’ . e Constitution he
been gathered into the grancry and the woUid ret :v<_ ■ * •;.port of the Dcm
storehouse in marvellous abundance
A n o t h e r S u it A ganj S t B u t l e r .—
Our highways have been lengthened, ooralic pat ty
an 1 new and prol Gc reidons have been
Tin; X . V Sun figures Hoffman’s A negro barber doing business in Lowell
occupied. We are permitted to hope majority in N- w York at 27,623, and Massachusetts, has commenced suit
that long protrreted political and sec.
against Butler for 8397. principal and
tional diseotions are, at no distant day Seymour’s at about 12,000.
to give place to returning harmony ( The republican vote iu South Caroli* interest, money borrowed of said negro
by Butler to defray his expenses to
and fraternal affection throughout the f na is largely reduced.
Republic. Many foreign States have i
Charleston to atte d the convention
It had not been definitely determined
entered into liberal agreements with
wherein he voted fifty.nine times for
us, while nations which are far off. amt at last accounts whether Seymour vor
Jeff. Davis.
which, heretofore, have been unsocial Grant had carried California.
and exclusive, have become our friends
The annual period of rest which we
P ersistently D e m o c r a t i c .—
have reached in health and tranquility Berks county, Pa., was organized in
and which is crowned with so . many
blessings, is, by universal consent, a 1752. The Reading Times of Oct. 20
convenient and suitable one for culti gives the vote of the county polled at
rating personal piety, and practising every Presidential and Gubernatorial
public devotion.
election in this county nnce 1706. In
1, therefore, recommend that Thors- ;
day. the 26th day of November next, j this year Thomas Jefferson carried the
be set apart and observed by all of county by nine hundred and three mu.
the people of the United States, as a ' jority over John Adams. lu lS d O Je f
day of public praise, thanksgiving and ferson got 3662 votes and John Adam.*
prayer to the Almighty Creator and j
Divine Ruler of the Universe, by whose got only 44. The county has gone
ever watchful, merciful and gracious Demoejatie por.*istently all the wa)
Providence alone. States and nations, through, MvCIel en even beating Lin
no 1« ss than families and individual coin 6556. This is an example of a
men, do live, and move, and have their
county g »ing Democratic at every dec
being
In witness whereof I have hereunto | tion for near a hundred years.
set my hand and caused the seal
Berks county is one of the most; weal
of the United States t<> be affixed thy, prosperous and peaecable counties
Done at the city of Washington, this iu the “ Old Keystoue.” Its inhabitant.*
twelfth day ol October, in the year
of our Lord, one thousand eight hun are intelligent, industrious, enterprising
dred and sixty eight, and of thn In contented and happy.
dependence of the United States the
Where’s the county to match"“old
uinety*third.
Berks.”
By the President : ANDREW JOHNSON.
W illiam H.
wash .
Secretary of State.
TH E N EW S.
COMPILED FROM DISPATCHES TO THE
PORTLAND DAILIK8.
Tho Governor of Kansas has resign*
ed.
Negro suffrage carried in Minnesota
by G.000 majority. Wilson, Democrat,
is elected to Congress from that State
*
*
John II. Surratt is at liberty after
a tedious and unjustifiable confinement
of over two years.
McCulloch proposes to issue more
greenbacks.
•Georgia gave 40,000 majority
Se;. uiour.
for
The republicans and Democrats of
Hartford. Conn., have resolved to be
frieuda iu the future
We to d the republican* last week
that they bad yelled before they were
out of the woods, and they thought we
were joking. What do they think now ?
Their powder is goue—their caudles arc
burnt out and their wallets use collapsed
while Oregon has gone back on them.
j They yelled themselves hoarse la*t week
because the State had gooe republican
and have now sworn themselves hoarse
because it did not. Everyone blames
somebody for the blunder. Lafollctt
blames everybody. He sa)s the repub
Means arc a set of d —d fools, and yet
' he bled freely to promote the orgies of
Friday night c. week ago—and all for
what ? Echo an*wer* what ? Oregon
is democratic by a handsome majority.
That dispatch from Judge Denny of the
Dalles which fell into Judge Jioisc's
hands proved a thorn in the sidis ol
Dallas loilists
I
The New York LegieEture is Demo
The Olympia Transcript gives a lo
critic, after all. T tis insures the elec
cal ghost story iu disgusting detail. This
tion of Gov. Seymour to the U. S. Sen
is a paper that, lately urged that, in or
ite.
der to be fit to go into u family a news
Louisiana gives Seymour and Blair paper should scrupulously exclude mere
40,000 majority.
“ stuff” Iroiu its columns. It also
The Legislature of New Jersey is j claimed that the Tro script was the on
Democratic which gives us another ly paper of the six or seven published
U. S. Senator.
In Olympia •' ieh fi led lie hi 1.' An
1 nd sensible people
The republicans allege frauds in New other gho*i
York.
will .*ee t
i >:n-
The negroes are growing more turbu.
Judge Dcady lias lately decided ti e
lent iu Georgia than usual. They are
celebrated “ 1 M ery” case »gainst Cyru*
giving the authorities and people a
Olney. '1 he point involved was, that
great deal of trouble.
said O’ney had engaged in the lottery
A telegram dated Nov. 5, boasts that business with an us>umed misapprehen
Hoffman's election will bo contested be- ! sion as to what constituted a lottery and
fore the court of appeals, of New York, had not paid the U. S. It. tax of n hund
•ud that there is a majority of repub red dollars required of lottery dealers.
on the benchl
The Democrats gained heavily in
The Council Bluffs (Iowa) Weekly
North Carolina, but that State has Democrat .presents the most perfect
gone for Grant.
specimen of typography of any paper
Alabama, according to latest advices, published East of the Rocky Mountain- .
It is a lar^e 36 column sheet and is
was for Seymour.
A Democrat is elected to Congress very ably conducted. We arc pleased
to receive this splendid paper regularly
from the first Dist., South Carolina.
in exchange. Any person desiring a
The n ’gro suffrage amendment was
complete summary of low« news cannot
carried in Iowa by 25.00U majority.
do better than send for fhe Democrat.
Three Democratic and two republi
Iowa has stricken the word “ white ’*
can Congressmen arc rciurned from
New Jersey. Missouri goes for Grant out her constitution by 25.000 ni Jonty.
The Oregonian thinks it will not he long
by about 12,000. .
ere Oregon will go and do likewise.
Two Democratic Congressmen arc
•elected iu Teoo.
More #ucw goods at Nichols’ drug
In
Savannah, Georgia, policemen store.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, editor of the
Revolution, a Woman’s Rights paper
published in New York, has been to
Dhiladclphia lately, and in her report
ol the sights she saw, etc., Jay Cooke’s
establishment is mentioned. She say* a
Church and parsonage have been built
by his munificence, and that his church
is locally dubbed “ tho Church of the
Holy Five twenties.” Rather goud.
Since the only recommendation Grant
had lor President was the fact that he
had rode a donkey while a monkey rode
Grant, it is difficult to determine which
may he said to he President, the donkey,
the monkey or Grant.
Hons. Axtell and Johnson, Democrats,
are elected to Congress from California,
while Mr. Coffroth, Democrat, in 2nd
District, is defeated.
Rev. I). R. McAtiulh, who has hud
the editorial charge of the St. Louis
Christian Advocate since 1851, has rc
signed the position aud issues his val
edictory through the columns of that
paper of Oct. 7. The Advocate is a
’urge sized 8 page paper, is spleudidiy
printed aud has ever been ably edit
ed.
The Readiug(Pa.) Times has a lengthy
leading editorial urging the abolish
meut of the Grand Jury system by the
Legislature of Pennsylvania. The world
moves.
M A R R IE D .
At the residence of the bride's father, Nov.
S, b y Isaac ¡5tn.it>>, J. K, Mr. M. Scruflbrd uud
> i«s Elizabeth ililli-rbriuid, daughter of Paul
Milteibraiid, E mj ., all of Polk county.
Strange, But True.
In attendance at the Good Templar’s
festival <>n Tuesday evening were hut a
very few of our good church people of
the city, or in other words, members ol
the different church organization*. This
was not as it should have been. The
Good Templar organization is one well
worth the ioflueuce and material assist*
mice of all good people of whatever
n ufte or denomination they may be,
but more especially should the churches
aud Christians ot our community lend
it a helping hand. Temperaiioc and
Christianity are hand maidens, the for-
mor being the foundation tor the sue
ceSsful establishment ot the latter,there
fore we think our church people should
have made it their especial duty to have
been present, aiding and a*sisting in
thi- good work.
Besides this, there is probably no
church organization but what ut some
time has held its festival for the pur
po*e ot replenishing its treasury, and
improving its social companionship. At
tiiese festivals they have expected to.
and have beeu patronized ty ihe oiem
hers of oth* r organization* whose ob
ject was to elevate aud better the c o q
dition of mankind. There were some
of the members of one or two church*
es present, but we understand objec
tions were made l»y others because it
wa* proposed to enliven the festivities
by dadoing alter tho other exercises
of the frstival had closed. / This was
done because thus who attended the
festival desired this kind of amuse
ment. If those who were opposed to
it had attended the festival as they
should have done, their feelings and
desires would have been duly respect
ed. and no dancing would have been
indulged in. If dancing was wrong they
could have prevented, besides their
i«r scnce and material assistance would
have encouraged the members of the
order, in tile vigorous prosecution of
rheir just and righteous cause,— (Jouu
cil Bluffs (Iowa) Democrat
Chinese Barbarity.
We commend the following from the
Overland Trade Report, to the consid
eration of Gov. Woods, who vetoed the
late luw looking to -the removal of
Chinese barbarians from among us.
The Report says:
I t is now some time since we have
had to record oue of those dreadful
outbreaks which take placo at sea oo
hoard ships engaged in the coolie trade,
and it is doubtful if at aDy time a more
daring ana successful attack by Chinese
emigrants ever took place. For atroc*
ity aud utter recklessucss the case seems
without paial 1*1, and it is only to be
wondered that a survivor ever reached
laud t<> give the details of the tragedy
which has taken place. It appears that
the 2d oi February, this year, the Ital*
ian ship There sc, Capt. Bollo, left Ma
cao tor Callao with 293 coolies on board,
hein^ Well found in everything requis
ite for such a voyage. Ail weut well
until the 5th of April, when, the ship
beiug off New Zelund, the coolies, with,
out the least warniug, rose en masse aud
attacked the officers and crew. Iu the
struggle for the mastery twelve of the
crew were murdered. The suvages
having obtain- d possession of the ship,
commenced ransacking her, in which
operation frequeut quarrels arose for
the possession of ditlereut portions of
the valuable cargo 'i he captain was
tied up and threatened with death if he
did not ut once turn the ship's head
hack toward China, aud this he was
compelled to do to save his life aud that
of his wife, who, sad to say, was on
hoard with him, a witness to the fright
ful sceues ot daily occurrence on hoard.
Daring ilie voyage back the Captain
aud his wife were treated with the ut
most cruelty by these inhuman wretch
es. being deprived of water among
other things, a drop being occasionally
uiveo, after begged and j rayed for.
On the 5th day of ’his mouth the ill
fated vessel arrived off Cha-fo, a small
coast port not far Irom Macon. Of the
two hundred and ninety three who left
Macon only one hundred and fifty came
ha» k to that place; above oue hundred
and forty deaths thus taking place on
board since the 6th of April. They
fought among themselves, aud evou
had elan fights on hoard, for one ocea
sion no I* ss than fifty llakkas were
murdered by l’untis, in a quarrel last
ing two hours On arrival at Cha-fo
ou July 6th, the Captuiu had the hor
ror of seeing his broth*-!*, the first-mate,
murdered before his eyes; without the
power ot raising his hand in the p or
fellow’s defense. Here the coolies dis
charged all the cargo, consisting of silk
pi<-cu goods, oil, tea, pepper etc , and
sold everything on shore. They ctco
took the clothes of the remainder of the
crew aud disposed of them. The man
darins at Cha-fo never interfered on
the Captain’s behalf, but allowed the
coolies to do what ’hey liked, and as
lar as looting is concern d, they did the
work most thorouhg'y, for-they cleared
the ship of everything of va'ue. The
Captain was at last, on the 12th of this
mouth, allowed to leave these fiends,
and go where he wished, a privilege
very quickly taken advantage of, he ur
rived at Macon on the 14th instant.
Mrs. Bollo is suffering most acutely
from the effects of the bloody scenes
through which she has passed, and the
Captain himself has not escaped with
out considerable suffering from the ter.
rihlc situation in which he was placed,
being three months on hoard a ship
with men. who are only one remove
from savagjs, and during that period
uncertian as to whether his life would
be spared from day to day, or even
worse, that bis wife might not become
a prey to the cruelties of the wretches
with which his ship was crowded.
A R e sp e c t a b l e D e n t is t E l o pe s .
—The elopement of a respectable den
tist of Pittsburgh. Penn , with a young
lady employed in his dental establish
ment as an attendant on lady visitois,
has been the subject of a great deal of
gossip during the past month in social
circles there, although the escapade
has thus far been kept out of print.
The case is a distressing one in all re-
spec’s. The dentist was in the em
ployment of a large aud lucrative prac
tice, and was rapidly acquiring wraith,
lie left the city without any intima
tion to his family as to his plans and
purpose*, and suspicion was first arous
ed by the tact that the young lady cm
ploved in the establishment disappear
ed at the same time. As netiher of
them has since been heard of, the con
clusion seems to be irrcsistublc that
they left together.
The saddest part of the story is that
the dentist deserted, in hi* infatuation
and folly, au estimable and devoted wife
and three children. It is said that he
converted all of his available property
into money. The partner of his flight
shame, aud disgrace has hitherto home
a respectable character; she is a young
woman of more than ordinary intelli
gence and personal attractions. This
seems to be one of the most inexcu
sable and depraved instances of crime
that has occurred iu that city for many
years. The offender stood high in the
community; he was a prominent mem
ber of one of the principal churches,
aud was remarkably punctilious in the
discharge of his church duties.—Read
ing Times.
STORAGE! STORAGE.
W HEAT BOUGHT-
DOTY A CO., EOLA, HAVE TH EIR
m
splendid new
R
W A R E HOUSE
Completed and are prepared to store an indefi
nite quantity of Wheat, OaU, Barley, etc., etc.,
and are paying the highest
CASH P R I C E
for W H E A T and O A T S.
Their facilities for receiving and sacking grain
are unsurpassed anywhere in the State.
Steamboats land regularly alongside of
their Ware House at all seasons of the year.
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UBO. A. ED HS.
SAUL HKADltlCK.
GEO. A. EDE8 & CO.,
|jB A L E R S
IN
D ru s* ,
M edicine*,
P ain t*,
Oil«, J
AND DYE STUFFS,
At the Old Stand formcrlwoccupied by M. R.
COX A CO.,
UNION BLOCK, Commercial Street,
SA L E H , OREGON.
A liberal discount made to eountr}’ trade.
GEO. A. EDES.
SA ML. HEADRICK.
S T R A W B E R R IE S !
S T R A W B E R R IE S
F O li F A L L P L A N T I N G !
13 C hoice V a rie tie s Now Ready!
81 56 PER HUNDRED!
P
LANTS earetully Selected and sent by Mail
ut lovvrutes. October und November is
oest time to Plant.
COX & EA R IIA R T,
Moores’ Salem.
30-4w
John Hughes,
Dealer In
FEED, GRAIN AND FLO U R !
P ain t*,
Oil*,
V arni*lic*
- amd -
CO LOUS OF ALL K INDS.
-A L S O -
Glas* and P u tty ,
G roceries a n d P ro v isio n * .
Under the Legislative Hall, Holman’s
Block, Salem.
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Willamette Iron Works Company
NORTH F R O N T A N D E STREET,
P o r tla n d , O r e g o n .
IR O N
.
FO UN D ERS,
STEAM ENGINE*
AND
B O IL E R
T
h ese
w orks
B U IL D E R S .
are
located
on
the bank of tho river, one block north of
Couch’s Wharf, and have facilities for turning
out machinery promptly and efficiently.
We have secured the services of Mr. John
Nation, as Director of the Works, whose ex
perience on this Coast for fifteen years gives
him a thorough knowledge of the various
kinds of machinery ¿required for mining and
milling purposes,
We are prepared to execute orders for all
s asses of Machinery and Boiler Works, such
m in in g an d S tea m b o a t
M A C H IN E R Y ,
FLOURING MILLS. SAW MILLS.
QUARTZ MILLS, MINING TUMI'S
4-6’. *C. * c .
Manufacture and repair machinery of all
kinds.
Iron Sh utter W ork at San F ran cisco
Coat aud F r e ig h t.
Wheeler k Randall’s Patent Grinder and Am
algamator.
Dunbar's Self-adjusting Patent Piston Packing
Steven’s
**
**
“
Either applied to old or new steam cylinder s .
q u i r v Stam pers, Shoes and D lea,
Of uie bast bard iron.
From the New York IndepewcUnt,
Nov. 7tb, 1867.
Read, thick, and decide! The tip»«
pie therapeutics of the Patriarehiéal
era, when herbs “ for healing the na*
tions” were the only medicine in use,
find Hule favor with the medical profes.
sion of the day. Yet at the early pe
riod of the world’s history the ordinary
term of human life was at least eight
times longer than it is now. I t is there
fore manifest that the stamina of man
has seriously declined in the lapse of
ages.
I t is a scientific fact that, during this
process of human degeneration and de*
cay an immense number of powerful
poisons have been introduced into the
medical repertoire, while the mild veg
etable system of treatment exclusively
practiced when the world was young,
has been in a great measure abandoned
by the medical profession. This is »
singular coincidence, and it suggest*
the possibility ot a direct connection be.
tween the physical deterioration of the
species, and the wholesale administra,
tion of deadly mineral and other drugs.
It may well be doubted whether tho
mineral salts and oxyds, and the no less
dangerous alkaloids, wh:ch chemistry
has added to the pharniacopceia, have
not destroyed more lives than all tho
diseases they have been prescribed ta
cure. Une thing, at least, is certain—
viz : that the average term of human
existence has been shortened since tho
days wheu the vegetable kingdom was
the only medical dispensary known to
mankind.
The truth is—and sensible people are
becoming more alive to it every day—
that the world is overdoctored. The
principles of medication are sim ple;
hut they have been so befogged by tech,
localities, so mystified by profes ional
verbiage, that one half the community
fancy they can neither be interpreted
nor applied except by persons who have
been taught to clothe the living truths
of science in dead languages. I t is not
to the interest of “ the Faculty” that
the theory and practice of medicino
should be simplified and popularized,
ami thcrclorc the public conceive but
little light from that quarter-
To prevent crime is oue of the great
ends of civil law, and to prevent disease
should be one of the grand objects of
medical science. It is better to protect
than to cure, and much easier. Vital
power is the natural antagonist of all tho
influences that militate against health
—whether they exist iu the air wu
breathe, iu the water we di ink, or tho
objects with which we e une iu contact,
or iu ourselves. Without a sufficiency
of this resistant principle, there can I kj
uo reasonable hope <>f escaping prevail
ing epidemics, or of enjoying even un
der the most favorable external circurn-
-tanccs, an immunity from sickness and
pain. ’This fact being established, the
next question is, how shall a deficiency
in pinsieal and constitutional vigor ho
supplied ? Instructed by the experi-
emc of twenty years, and sustained by
the testimony of thousands of individ
uals of both sexes; hailing from all pnits
of the world, wc reply that Hostetter’s
Stomach Bitters is the only medicine
that can be fully relied on as a protec
tive and preventative touic and altcrna.
tivc iu all climates aud under all con*
tingeneies. With a system strength
ened and fortified by the use of this in.
vigoraut, no oue who possesses common
prudence need fear the effects of mal*
aria. It is the best safeguard against
infection at preseut known. It produces
appetite ; it promotes digestion ; it pre
vents constipation : it regnlates the flow
of b ile; it strengthens the nerves, it
purifies the animal fluids; it clears the
brain; and, the vehicle of its medical
properties being a pure diffusible stim
ulant, their influence is extended to
every portion of the system. Mere
alcoholic stimulants, though administer
ed largely in medical practice, are not
in themselves medicines; hut they per
vade tho whole organization more cer
tainly and swiftly than anything else
tnat can be given. They are quickly
taken up by the absorbents, and there
is not a fiber of the body between the
crown ot the head aud the sole of the
foot whieh is exempted from their in
fluence. Hence a spiritous stimulant
is the best medium for conveying to all
the organs and members of a feeble or
disordered system the means whereby
that system is to he recruited and reg
ulated. I t is for this purpose that tho
alcoholic elements is used in the pre
paration of Ilostctter’s Stomach Bitters.
It is simply the instrument by which
the medical virtues of the preparation
are carried to their objective points and
ed active.
ilmost necessary to call tho attention of
ics io a medicine which is everywhere
sed as the standard specific for Indices-
n every town in tho United States which
i a drug store, or a store io which drags
, it is known as a remedy for stomach
nts of every class, from simple flatnlea.
, the most obstinate chronic
most important organ. Its anti-bilious
es are also universally understood and
ited i and in the West and South-west
n Ague cures” have
been generally
led, and this real chologog—which ae>
ircaks up intermittent feVer within a
ter the first dose is taken—adopted ia
ad. In the intermittent fevers to n -
malarious districts during the fall of
it is proved equally efficacious, and U
HOSTETTER, 8MITH A CO„
Agents for Paciftc Coast,
Wholesale Druggists, Ban Fransisoe.
aov2—lm