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J - INAL D CTDV - " ' r i - i i -5 f I i J' t? '- 11 THE COLUMBIAN. , St. Helen, Columbia Co., Or. pijiDAT. jmrs 30, 1332. CSS- SUBSCRIPTION BATES. 1 year, fa advance.. -6 months . .. $200 l no 1 oo 3 months ADVERTISING BATES: ihie square (10 lines) first insertion $2 00 " E--te!t utwequent insertion 1 00 E. . ADAMS." K.iitor A Proprietor. BAUER OF OREGON, Hon. M. C. George, of Oregon, who has just been re-elected to Congress, de livered the following tribute to ,he great orator of the Pacific coast, Senator Ba ker, of Oregon, at the regent Decoration Day services near Ball's Bluff,- Va., where Baker lost his life He said: Upon this National cemetery, this once 4arc valley of the shadow of death," he fatal battle ground of Ball's Bin IT. fell many a noble, gallant soldier. But among all the brave, true men who died tjponthefe heights of Leesbiirg, none could havebeen braver, none coulclhave been truer, than Edward Dickinson Baker.-.' He was a Senator from my State. The first words he ever uttered in that august body, the American Senate, wore inspired by the grandeur, the sublimity, of the natural scenery of the wild West . that of the great chasm formed by the torrrnt of the Columbia breaking through the mountain range, the Cas cades between the everlasting snow capped Mount t Helens and Mount Hood, " w&ere rolls the Oregon, an 1 hears no sound save her own dashings." For a .time he had laid aside the rore of an American Senator for the sword of an American soldier, as once before he had gone from the halls of the lower House of Congress to serve in the war with Mexico. he HAb Tns rrER of a major general's commission, but as its acceptance involved his resignation as a United States Senator, he declined to accept the high distinction and honor. From the very first, however, the pre sentiment of death vvas upon him. He felt, and so expressed himself, that he would never come from the struggle alive. And the dark wings of that dread messenger hovered o'er him, until, on this fatal battle ground, it droopedits fearful talons to bear aloft the iraraor tal spirit of the soldier-statenian. THE LIPS THAT SPOKK the words of wisdom and courage were here sealed foreven The eyes that beamed with all gentleness and love were here closed in the dim, dull lustre of death. The voice, which so often in most beautiful cadences wafted upon the air the brilliant word-paintings of tlje. fervid imagination, or proclaimed in mighty strength the truths that live for ever, was here stricken into the paraly sis and silence of death. The true, warm heart, that throbbed with patriotic de votion for the cause of liberty. and hu manity, poured forth upon this battle field its life-blood in defence of his life's principles. The great brain the seat and organ, of such subtle strength and power whether striving with a Lincoln or a Logan in the tribunals of justice or Smith in the arena of political debate or coping with the polished Brecken ridge and the adroit Benjamin in the forum of the Senate was here pierced and shattered forever by the deadly ri fle, ball HE DIED AT THE HEAD of his column, bravely cheering his men, and proclaiming that he would not ask them to go where he was not willing to lead. His noble lifeless form was borne, from this field rended with rifle bullets and bayonet wounds. Wrapped in a bloody shroud, with banners drooping above his pulseless form ; with melan choly dirge floating upon the despondent air ; amid the sorrowing hearts of his countryman drooping like the flowers upon the breast of the departed, he was borne from this consecrated ground to receive that ' mournful tribute which the majesty of the American people of fered to the urireplying dead." HE NOW SLEEPS .near the rolling billows cf die far ou Pacific. His body is interred in Lone 3fountain cemetery near the Golden Gate, where, years before, on its dedica tion, in the spirit of fatal prophecy, a -kitaed : "nither shall come ie pa)? malde from the tearful a.bodes of 'sorrow. Higher shall Xe borne the stricken warrior from the felooiiy fjels of freedom. " With him all was a matter of principle interwoven irith toe very life and woof of his exist ence. ' His was the ey of faith, that, accepting the prophecy of a Seward, be "jeved that some day it might, for aught he knew, be infinitely far distant, so far that mortal man could not the:i foresee slavery would be lott and ab sored in the superior baze of freedom. WHILE BELIEVING THIS, he trusted the people of this land, he felt that feverish sentiment would sub side, and returning reason would resume its place, and that the Constitution would remain safe, unshaken forever, until Wrpt iu flames the realms of thr ow, And Heaveu lat thunder Vaakc th world below. His was the personification of the peace ful spirit of eloquence and the undaunt ed spirit of war. He was a wonderful man one of thos,e geniuses of nature which thwart across the sky ef human existence. Of foreign birth, he laid down his life for the country of his adoption. We were proud of him. My 'State, the most distant on the golden Pacific, honored him with her highest trust. He: was our Senator when he fell. We are preud of our soldier, our orator, our statesman, and our hero. BAKER WAS PATRIOTIC and magnanimous. .His was the clarion voice in the grand yolume.of invocation which everywhere arose to high heaven, "Spare us from the madness of disunion and civil war," and Jie was the last of. the Senators to give up the hope that something might be done by conciliation and compromise. He hoped, he sympa thized, he struggled to the last, but all ...t r l . 1 in vam. Ai tne nnai moment ne nerveu himself for the desperate encounter. In the senate, in these words, he proclaimed his intention: Now, I will not vote to lay down arms till, without treaty, the flag of the United States waves oer every portion of: its territory. Till then give the President a million men, give bim the whole revenue of the govern ment and the whole property of the peo ple ; do not refuse a single regiuwut ; do not furl a single sail ; do not abate a single jot of all your embattled vigor till that hour shall come ; do not make peace till THK GLORY OF THE AMERICAN FLAW shall bo its own defence. " Why, sir,'' he. exclaimed, ' I have hoard it said that there was a time in Ireland when a vir gin, alone, unguarded, could go through all its length and breadth with a crown upon her head and a golden vu.se. in her band, and no man disturb her honor or rob her of Iter treasure. I desire, be fore 1 make peace, to see the time when a volunteer drummer boy shall be able. to carry the flag of the United States in every city and in every wilderness where it has once floated, amid the en thusiasm, the submission, the profound reverence, of every man, woman and child who gazes upon its stats." HE, LIKE CLAY AND WEBSTER and Jackson and Lincoln, was for try ing the strength of the Constitution. His soul became fired with military ar dor at the attack on Surupter's walls ; and at a mass-meeting in Union Square, in New York, he delivered an address which thrilled the souls of all who heard it. lie there pledged his personal ser vice to nis country as a soldier, and closed with these impressive and elo quent words, which were greeted with a thunder of applause: " And if from the far Pacific a Voice j feebler than the feeblest murmur upon its shore may be heard to give you courage and hope in this contest, that voice is yours to-day. And if a man whose hair is grey, who is well nigh worn out in' the battle and toil of life, may pledge himself on such an occasion as this, and in such an audi ence, let me fay, as my last wordy WHEN AMID SHEETED FIRE and flame I saw and jled the hosts of New York as they charged in contest in contest upon foreign soil for the hon or of your flag, so again, if Providence shall will it, this feeble hand shall draw a sword never yet dishonored Jiot to fight for distant honor in a foreign land, but to fight for country, for home, for law, for government, ; for constitution for right, for freedom, for humanity, and in hope that the banner of my country may advance, and wheresoever I tliat banner waves there glory may per- sue and freedom be established." IT IS A SAD COINCIDENT, in view of the eloquent oration delivered by Colonel Baker, in California, on the laying of the Atlantic cable, when he joyfully proclaimed that ' thought had bridged tho Atlantic and cleared its un fettered path across the sea, winged by the lightning and guarded by the bil low,"joining England $jul America, and calling, as he did, another Field tQ scale the Sierra Nevadas as he had sounded the set, until the AtHutta and Pacil'o had been linWl together. Tb;it, singu lar us it may seem, the first message, a few years after, 11 .shed across the com pleted link to the Pacific carried a cur- "'1 rent of sorrow to the people of the West in the announcement of the death of Colonel BakerJ BAKER WAS A JtAN of wonderful eloquence. His flights of thought were like the graceful ascent of the eagle to the sublime heights among the grand mountain crags and cliffs above, I recall a beautiful illustration from his reply to Benjauiiu in the Sen- ate when he paid this tribute to the lib ertytjf the press: " Sir, the liberty of the press is the highest safeguard to all free government. Ours could not exist without it. It is with us, nay, with all men, like a gveat exulting Ttnd abound ing river. It j is fed by the dews of heaven that distill their sweetest drops to form it. It guslifes from the rill as it breaks from the deep caverns of the earth. It is fed by a thousand affluents that dash from the mountain-top to sep arate again into a thousand bounteous and irrigating rills around. On its broad bosom it bears a thousand barks. There genius spreads its purpling sail. There poesy . DIPS ITS SILVERY OAR J there art, invention, discovery, -science-, moral ky, and securely float, ery land. It religion may safely and It wanders through ev ? a genial, cordial source of thought and inspiration wherever it touches, whatever it surrornJ Sir, upon its borders grow every flower of grace and e vera" fruit of truth. 1. am not hete to .deny that that river some times oversteps its bounds I am not here to deny that that stream sometimes becomes a dangerous torrent and de strovs towns and cities Upon its banks ; but I am h?re to say that without it civilisation, humanity, government, all that makes society itself, would return TO ITS AKCIEXT BARBARISM. Sir, if that were to be. possible, or so thought for a moment, the fine concep tion of the gWiat poet would be re-alizwd. If that were to be possible, though but for a uioirnmtj civilisation itself would roll th-j wlji-el.-j of its cjir backward two thousand years. Sir, if thai were so, it would be true'tha: 'As one lv n: in dread MtHea' train, SUr aiter star fade's off th" cthcrial p!an, TI: i-i u.t her ett approach and necret might, Art fir art, kor out, and all U nijf'it. l'!iiIoo;!iy, that leaned ou iiou'eu before, .Siuks to it second cause, and is no more ; Religion, Llushinp:, vril her sacred tires, And unawares, morality expire. how to himself are APPLICABLE NOW the eloquent words he ut tered years ago over the dead body of his friend Brodenek: "As inj life no other voice so rang it i trumpet upon the ear of freeman, so in death the. echoes will ever reverberate amid our volleys and until truth aud valor cease- to ip peal to the hu nan heart?' Many years have rolled away since Edward D. Ba ker was stricken dawn. Dust has long since returned to dust and ashes to-ash-es. The silver cord has been loosed and the golden bowl been broken. All that was mortal of the hero and statesman has perished from the eyes o men. But his record yet1 lives. "The charniiug sen timents, the convincing arguments, and sublime thoughts, the grand truths which poured forth j from his eloquent lips chrystalized in classic mould and glit tering in beautiful word-gems, yet live in the memory of his faithful country men. Though time is already laying its effacing hand upon the marble tablet which casts its shadow oyer his grave, yet upon the tablets of the heart of ev ery true American and upon the imper ishable records of his country in living letters we may read for all time to come how worthily he livud and hoMr glori ously b.3 died. The Xatioiud Republi can. 1 - i Major Adams in response to the following invitation has prepared an Original Poem entitled The National Birthday." j Vancouver, W. T. June 21st 1882. Major E. G. Adams, St. Helens, Oon. Sir: . I am instructed by ihe " Com mittee 4 th July Celebration " to invite I vou as " Poet of the da " and to deliver us a short poem on the 4th, pro. Please answer by return mail, Yours respectfully, ARTHUR II AINE, Secy. Com. Arrangts. The Herald of Jndastry. edited and published by Mrs. .Sfcpw in San Francis co, is a spunk'', euergtip exponent pf a won e i f ights, and yz wish it sucks which every man musj, that respected ! his mother, Mrs. SUjw hA hV.s of. grit and sond. A Great Rescue. The rovstery as to the fate of the seven imprisoned miners in the Alta mine lias for three days oppressed the people like a horrible nightmare. We are not unaccustomed to frightful catas trophes in the lower levels. The people of Virginia are too familiar with mining tragedies in many appalling forms to be unnerved by the ordinary run of acci dents. But the familiar circumstances attending this last disaster, unique in its terrors, 'enveloped as it was in awful mystery from the beginning, and leav ing all the while a slender thread of hope for the rescue of victims,-constitu-ed a strain upon the sympathetic Amo tions of the entire population such as has never been experienced before. The al ternating hopes and fears of many hours gave way early yesterday afternoon to something like a cheerful faith that af ter all the terrible sacrifice was not to be, though this pleasing prospect was dimmed by Uie sad reflection that two brave men had willingly laid down their lives in a vain attempt to carry succor to their companions in the dark and noi some.drift. It was, therefore, with an indescriba ble sensation of relief that at midnight were heard the shrieks of many whistles, loud and long, proclaiming thesuccess of the untiring tfforls put forth to rescue the imprisoned uiiuers. The protracted battle with hot water had been Cought and won. Back frn the mouth of a steaming hell,' and from the -jaws of death, the gallant rescuers had snatched and borne to the earth's surface seven imperiled lives The work of de liverance was complete. Grim despair had been driven from the thresholds vf weeping women and children, audjgrief had given way to joy 6t many a hearth htone. This wan the import of the mid night chcrus of whistles sounding over the hills) and those who had neither kith nor kin among the seveii rejoiced with their relatives and friends that they had been safely delivered from their great poril. There was one nan whose faith from the beginning never once faltered, and w hcs encouraging words of hope cheered mauy an anxious, desponding heart. Su perintendent BovI j held tenaciously to the belief that the men were alive and would all be rescued in good time. He wtood at his post, supported by a cool and brave a set of men as ever drew breath, and toiled away at the work of getting the water out of the mine until he was prostrated by sheer physical ex hauation. The rescue of the seven mi ners was a great and heroic exploit It is probably without a parallel in the his tory of mining accidents. It developed all the qualities of courage, valor, pluck and those grand traits in man'which call forth tho exercise of aU unselfish and sublime devotion to others by whatever na nes they may be designated. Tho at tempt of the two men who lost their lives in ai endeavor to penetrate the drift in search for tho others was rashness itself, yet an illustration of magnificent hero ism. Never was a more forlorn hope embarked. Who can conceive of the appalling prospect before two men ven turing in a frail boat to steer throtigh Egyptian darkness along a harrdw chan nell of hot water over two thousand feet down in the bowels of the earth 1 The death of these two martyrs to the cause of humanity throws a gloom over our general rejoicing to-day at the fact that the seven men in the Alta mine have been finally brought to the surface alive. Territorial Enterprise, Virginia, Ne vada. a A Doctor's Opinion Mr. J. L. Knapp, of Santa Clara, Cal., who was cured of acute iilflamation of tha bladder by Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver Cure, after the doctors could do nothing for him, met one of his old physicians shortly after his recovery, and asked him what he thought of tho effect of the medicine. Said Dr. Carpen ter: "I think that medicine o.ylo 0f a thousand the way it ha? cted in your case." 1 - July 1st, 1882, ScnU-Aonual Settlement. Parties whose accqunta, are, (Jup are quested to. cajl and make the fegular semi-annual settlement of acoounts on or before July 5.tht Accounts which have been due for. one year or mora must be paid, or settled by note iinme.-. diately G. W. McPRlDIv i t !' Washinuton, June 30. Guittau ris handed at 12:53 r. m, The 4th of July at j Vancouver. A Grand Encampment. -Preparations for celebrating tho4 th. .of! July at Vancouver an almost conij. in detail. . - - ELLSWORTH POST O. A. R. ete of Vancouver is . arranging to entertain the comrades of Posts in Oregon and Washington Territory. GEN. MILES Commanding the Department of the Co lumbia, who is also a Grand Army com rade of the first call, enters enthusiasti cally into the affair and has promised to furnish camp and garrison equipage for a Grand Encampment on the Milita ry Reservation. All visiting comrades are requeste to to take quarters in the Encampment, where, recitations, old stories and songs will revive many a half obliterated memory of the stirring days of the Re bellion. ' Ellsworth Post will have charge of the encampment, and do all in its power to make the occasion one of pleasure to their visitors. As the numbers visiting Vancouver on the 4th. will be far in excess of i tho accommodations of its hotos and restau rants, families and parties should pro vide themselves with luncheons. Ample tent accommodations on Garrison Grounds will be provided, the not only for comrades of different posts but for their families also. In the evening a grand display of FIREWORKS will In? exhibited near the enca nomeut. Thin pyrotechnic display is gift from the MEXICAN WAR VETERANS of Portland and Vaucouver Barracks, as a recognition On their part of tho lespi table manner in which they w re ei tamed bv Gen. Morrow aibi hits cstlma ble lady on Decoration Dav. The Orator of the Day will be Gen? Morrow", comrade of Ellsworth Postj Major E. G. Adams, Editor of the. Columbian, will be Poet of the Day, and i deliver a pocnu composed "for the occa sion. Hon. N. 11. Bloomfield will also deliver an oration and Hon. Charles Brown will read thy Declaration o: In dependence. - Correspondence. Beaver Valley, June the 10th, 1382. Ed. Columbian Dear Sir; Ah 1 have not seen any items frbitl .this part ot tho valley, so I will pen you a few lines. We, the people of Braver Valley and vicinity are going' to have a Grand Celebration, July the 4th, 18S2. -The celebration will b iu the. beautiful c dar grove on G. T. Mays's farm in Bea ver Valley, Columbia C Ogn.- The people of 1 -raver Valley and vi cinity met at the xi-hool-house to adopt programme and regulations for the 4th. of July '85. Meeting called to order; Dr. J. W. Meserve was elected Chair man of the meeting, J. W Richards Secretary of meeting. A committee was elected to form regulations and pro gramme; committee on program m, W II. Hankins, G T. Mays, J. Nelson, O, B. Anstine, J. Hudson, I. S. Parcher, and it was voted that the people would bring provisions and set the long table and have a puiilic dinner free to all. Committee on programme aud regula tions elected. " Dr. J. W. Meserve, Orator of the day. W. H. Hankins, to read the Declara tion of Independence. Rev. G. B. Riggs, Chaplain J. W. Richards, Marshal Moved and seconded that Dr. Meservo appoint table committee. The following were appointed as tab'e committee, Mrs. Winchester, Mrs. Mays, Mrs, Nelso Mrs. Malcom, Mrs. Kiser, Mtas Ella Malcom, Mis NirJa Malcom, Miss Nan cy -Hudson, Miss, Alioe Smalley, Miss Susan Hudson, Misa Mary Hankins, Miss, Minna Hankins, Miss Myrtle . - Washburn, MissMoK.ee, Mr, X. & Parch, erMr. J. Hudson, Mr, Q. B, Anstine, W. H, Hankins. vfsuj, appointed to pro cure music at yipxyla.ncl for the 4th. ye. will have ref roshioents. and goojdi order. There wil be. no, intoxicating drinks a or near the speaking. We in vite all. As there was no more husir ness, wo acjourned. Absolutely Sure, I have no more doubt of the. benefi cial effects of Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver Cure than I have . that the Genesee river empties into Lake Onta rio. Rkv. J. E. Rankin, D. D., Washington, D C, i ins:; :;fi;Y A 1: I".,!' -il U t jj ,( ti'.i M.'t k '.'I i.u n"s b.ii., :e u - i nj.-n'K, in cl.i.ij- rui's fchoes of all kinds carefully .;eleci'J by Mr. Giltnerin San Francisco now ar- riving and to arrive at MeBridcV store. Especi.ii Care has Ken taken H get the very best goods in the market. i " J. Wesley Doilson did a benevolent deed not long since that deserves men tion; he nursed a sick man in Washing ton Territory tl. tough a long illness, mid then furnished him money to return to his friends in the States. . This was tho more benevolent as all the funds to fur nished had to be earned by the huidest kind of labor. ftctv floods. ! i ' ' ' . - Arrived this week a full a.s&ortieent of newest styles of dross gotds including Brocades,' Grenadines, Brocatels, Seer suckers, jFancy Ginghams and mom ie cloths ;abo American prints, wliito goods, Ladies' and Misses' hosiery, in all colors, Lile-threud gloves, Embroidery itc. A'c. at McBride's Store. We went on Thursday to Portland on Thursday to Portland on the Ma'nzanilto, whirh makes trips every Monday v mi Friday t Astoria and every Wednesday to Clatsktiui". This i.M; tineiy finihed boat, and iU Captain, .filcers and vrew .ire very civil und obliging. It has a co sy cabin and nice furniture to match. Mrs. Ellen Perry has been figage! at Blakchley hotel, and h r gonial pleas ant couujenuive mL- - everybody Jo(k ood-humored, aud everybmiy puueuu- es th grub ju.-a splendid ith Mich ur '.xeidlenc cook to superintend culhiLiy .p- i .aioit.-. Mr. Mavg. r, of Bralbury, informs us the lNhtr.ips along the Owlumbia nru taking many fish, hut. the n' t do not meet wit ingly hig as-good luck in uch exeenl i water, aa the ihdi m4uj near the ho;'e. A lady! in th: Cojuty n.t bn;' -;o i ceived a letter i'rom h fr,ud of U';r 'm f uming ihr that mi acquaintance of tiii ir.-, not li iiig in flV O ji u' , hud died of V.Vt'(;'i, on the hr&Ui.. The water has n-jt Uva oil of thi l.mc3 overflowed in th-. t frvshei i.m enough ti rend, r thou tir. for '-rM 't w.iiou. I The hediiuent sevius to ivUin u. nat ure a Jong whil'cv An Extraordinary Offer. There are a number of jxjrsous out of employment iu every (ioUiity, yet ener getic men willing to work do not need to be. Those willing to Vrtifk can make from $100 to $500 a mouth clear, work ing or us in a pleasant and permanent business, j The amount our agents niakd varies, some matting ut high as $500 a month, while ethers at low as 100, all depending on the eiferg' of the agent We ha. e. an article of treat merit It should be sold to every House-ownerj and pays over 100 per cent profit Each sale is from 3..r0'vO 510.00. One scent in Pennsylvania sold 32 iu two days; and cleared $54.00. An agent m New York made $ i'hOO in one day. Any man with energy eliough to work a full day and will do this during the year can make from $2,000 to $3,000 a yeah Wo only, want one man in each countyt and to him will (live the exclusive sale as long as lie continues, to work faith fully for, us. There is no competition and nothing like our invention ma"d. Parties having from $200 to $1,000 to, invest, coi obtain a General Agonoy for ten CAuntiea or a states Any oa,e can. inu.!e an investment of from $23. V $),- 000 without the. least riak of loss, aa our Circulars w ill show tha.t tlwe investing $25 can after a 30 day's trial return tho. goods unsold to us and get their money back, if they io,not clear at leat $100 They show that a Genera Agent "who will take, ten oountiea a,u,3 invest $216. 00 can after a tria) of 90 dayu return all goods unsold to u, aivt have noney re-, turned to them if they fail to clear at $tf$0w0Q in that time. We are not pay ing salaries, hut want inen willing to work and obtain as their pay tho profits, of their! energy Men not willing to work on! our terms will not work cry any. ' These meaiiing business will re ceive our large descriptive circular, and extraordinary offer by enclosing a three, cent wttimp, with their address. The first to comply with, our terms will se oure the county or counties they may wish t?o work. Add rets, REN.VER MANUFACTURiylCo., U8 SmithlWd Street, Pittsburgh, Pa,' ii i V "I