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OFFICIAL PAPER FOR CLACKAMAS COUNTT.
Cxogon City, Oregon ,
Friday : : : Jan. 12, 1872.
State Convention-
Elsewhere in th'13 issue will be found
the proceedings of the Democratic Stake
Central Committee. The various counties
were allepresented, with one exception,
either by proxy or in person by the mem
bers, and we are informed that the best
of feel In g3 characterized the actions of the
Committee. The ratio of represention
was based on the vote cast lor Governor
at our last election, allowing one delegate
for every one hundred votes so cast. At
thi3 representation, the next Convention
will be composed of 119 delegates. This
is fully large enough and we apprehend
that the basis of representation will be
satisfactory to every county. The place
for holding the next Convention was fixed
by the last The Dalles, and the Commit
tee has selected the 10th of April for the
time. We consider this time rather late,
and would have preferred two weeks or
a month sooner. The last Convention was
held on the 23d of March, and we did not
have any surplus time for the campaign.
The County Conventions are recommend
ed to be held on the 23d of March. We
hope that every county in the State will
be represented by bonaf.de delegates and
not proxies. The Convention will have
to nominate a candidate for Congress and
three Presidential Electors. While we
have not a general State election next
June, the result of that election is of the
utmost importance. We hope Democrats
everywhere will commence to make ready
for the approaching conflict. A strrng
and long pull altogether, will give the
Radicals their final defeat in Oregon.
Another Nkgko Oitiuue. The tele
graph informs us, that at Rochester, N. Y.,
on the 2d inst., a negro was confined in
jail for committing a rape on the person
of a little white girl, whose injuries were
so severe that her life was despaired of.
A mob soon surrounded the jail and at
tempted to get hold of the brutal negro,
but was prevented by the police. At a
later hour, another attempt was made to
lynch the prisoner, when the military was
called out, and most unwarrantably fired
a volley into the mob. killing several inno
cent citizens, who were, only spectators.
Intense excitement prevailed. Ten or
eleven military companies were guarding
the jail at last accounts, and cannon had
been planted guarding all the avenues of
approach to the jail. Much indignation
was expressed at the action of the military
in firing. Thu3, we have to record, an
other of the frequent diabolical outrages
of these demons, whom the Radicals
would have us make a "man and brother,1'
and the consequent loss of the lives of
several innocent white people, who. per
haps, leave wives and orphans behind
them to Jmffet the rough waves of future
in a cold, uncharitable- world. How long
will the people suffer from the fiendish
acts of these barbarians whom the '-God
and morality party" have raised to the
position of "free and equal citizens?''
An Unpleasantness. From Portland
, papers we learn that on Wednesday last,
in that city, an altercation took place be
tween Sylvester Pennoyer, Esq., late edi
tor of the Herald, and James O'Meara,
Esq., editor of the Bulletin, occasioned by
a number of articles recently appearing
in the latter paper, reflecting upon Mr.
Pennoyer. We give the circumstances as
we find them reported In the morning pa
pers. Mr. Pennoyef had, some time since,
waited upon Mr. O'Meara. and notified
him that such personal attacks must cease,
but on Wednesday morning a very severe
article appeared in the Bulletin. Mr. Pen
noyer met Mr. O'Meara in Richardson's
auction rooms, and, approaching him. de
liberately spit a mouthful of tobacco juice
into his face, and struck him a blow with
his cane. Mr. O'Meara stepped back and
drew a pistol; but further hostilities were
prevented by the crowd. The gentlemen
Boon met again outside, when Mr. O Meara
charged Mr. Pennoyer with coming upon
him unawares, when the latter threw away
his cane, and told Mr. O'Meara to throw
down his pistol, and then asked him if he
was not gatisQed. No further demonstra
tions occurred.
;: Secretakt Fish. From late dispatches
we learn that the rumor concerning the
probable resignation of Secretary Fish, is
now assuming more tangible shape, and
re this, that gentleman has most likely
sent in his final resignation. The telegraph
intimates that the difficulty lately arisen
between the Uuited States and Spain, with
regard to Cuban matters, has matured his
resolution to withdraw as soon as possible
from affairs which threaten to assume a
black and stormy aspect. While in New
York, a few days ago, he was interviewed
by a reporter, and iu answer to a question,
he replied : "I am annoyed about the re
call of the Spanish Minister, lie. knows
the Spaniards, and there is no better man
than Senor Roberts. He has been cour
teous and "kind whenever he possibly
could be. He advocated a humane policy
in Cuba, and eudervored to mitigate the
severity of the Spanish rule in that island.
Spain has never sent a better representa
tive to Washington than Senor Roberts."
The grejfct results expected from Gen.
Gmnt's Administration have been abund
antly realized. The fruits are before the
country in positive, tangible form. All
that the people anticipated, and more, has
been accomplished. Oregonian.
Yes, the "fruits are before the country
in positive, tangible form." And what
are those fruits ? A ruined commerce : a
"desolated, wasted South, overrun and
oppressed by the mercenary hirelings of
a military usurper ; the stagnation of in
dustries ; a people reduced to poverty by
excessive taxation ; millions of acres of
land, ' the just heritage of the people,"
squandered to enrich a Sctt gigantic mon
opolies. These are but a tithe of the
fruits" of his Administration. How true
the above language . 'All that the people
anticipated, aud more, has been accom-:
plisbed!" Yea, almost the utter ruia of
the country.
Political Notes-
The New York "World has pronounced
against the passive policy.
The Radical press of California pretty
generally favor Newton Booth for Vice
President.
The New Hampshire Republican State
Convention has nominated E. Starr for
Governor.
The Albany Register advocates the nom
ination of Geo. II. Williams for the next
Vice Presidency.
A new Radical paper The Paget Sound
Courier has been started at Olympia, in
the interest of Garfielde.
The Olympia W. T. Standard, in a
lengthy leading article, declares bodly in
opposition to the passive policy.
The Dallas Republican asks " where is
the Democratic party?''" For an answer,
we refer it to the election returns next
June.
Most of onr Radical cotemporaries are
extremely non-committal and reticent on
recent removals in our Indian Depart
ment. The Salem Statesman has turned econo
mist, and recommends Congress (!) to re
duce taxation. Why didn't you talk that
way years ago ?
The Oregonian's " regular St. Helens
correspondent" is going to attend the
funeral of the " dead " party in Columbia
county, next June.
Attention is called to the article on the
first page of this paper, entitled " The
Cost of Taking the Census." Tax-payers
would do well to give it a careful perusal.
The last thievery we notice is reported
by a Washington correspondent of the
Eugene Guard. It was in the Treasury
Department, and only amounted to the
petty sum of $G2.000.
The Statesman is working itself into con
siderable anxiety in relation to the next
United States Senator. It is afraid the
dead " Democracy will have a majority
in the next Legislature.
M A Washington correspondent of the
Louisville Ledger says there is an increas
ing, open, decide and general expression
among leading Republicans ia opposition
to Grant's re-nomination.
The Albany Democrat says Joe Wilson
will doubtless be the Radical nominee for
Congress next spring, and adds that,
' whenever the Rpikals can't do any bet
ter, they always ' Sfimp-up-Joe.' "
The Oregonian has been preaching
again on woman suffrage. It says the bal
lot will not make a woman any more of a
woman than she is without it ; but scoffs
the idea that it would degrade her. Logic.
The Oregonian says our commerce
fears no rash and inconsiderate policy of
war." No; the policy of the dominant
party has so completely driven our com
merce from the seas that there is not suffi
cient left to entertain a ' fear."
The Oregonian thinks Meaebum's re
moval was caused by misrepresentations
to the Department. Another exchange
intimates that Dyar's removal was for the
purpose of preventing the Methodists from
getting any advantage over the Catholics.
We are furnished the consoling news by
the Radical press that it is not thought the
Investigating Committee and the officers
of the Treasury Department who are now
overhauling the affairs of Government
disbursing officers in a most searching
manner," will find any further defalcations
than those already reported. As we have
already had reported the stealing of sev
eral millions, this is good news to the poor
tax-payer.
The Corvallis editors are getting very
complimentary to one another. Here is a
specimen brick from the Democrat : The
'Good Templar Swindle' Gazette says we
left Idaho in a hurry. We did leave there
at the witching hour of midnight stage
time. We left at about the same hour,
but net with the same celerity, nor for the
same cause that the editor of that sheet
left the back door of a certain residence
in this cityr, not many months since."
The Oregonian gays the "supreme excel
lence the sum of all the merits" of the
administration of Grant, " is its capacity,
fidelity, honesty, statesmanship, its sound
ness of principle and prudence of direc
tion." That is the first time we ever heard
a sensible man impute -capacity, honesty,
fidelity and statesmanship " to the Long
Branch horse-jockey. It seems to us that
the above is a great deal of lying for an
office no higher than that of Collector of
Portland. Scott deserves promotion.
The Albany Register, in an article al
most a column in length, says crimes
have been committed under the wing of
the Republican party ; defalcations and
stealings have been perpetrated by dis
honest officials, as in the May case ; -"' yet
it immediately adds that, the members who
compose that party ' constitute thj high
est types of honesty and moral consist
ency we have in the country. They are
conscientious, and act from moral convic
tion." There we have it. Those -types
of honesty '" who tteal while in office,
'act from moral conviction! "
Diugiiam Yoi-no in Limho. Brigham
Young was arraigned before Judge Mc
Kean. on the 2d inst.. at Salt Lake, on an
indictment for murder. The Court room
was crowded, aud much sympathy was
manifested on the part of the Mormons.
Motion was made by his attorneys that he
be admitted to bail, on account of old age
and feeble health. The prosecution de
manded that the bail be fixed at 30.000,
but the Court refused bail, and ordered
the prisoner into charge of ihe Marshal to
hold him a prisoner iu some dwelling in
town. On lea ing the Court room Brig
ham Young tendered the Marshal the use
of his residence, on South Temple street,
which was accepted, and Brigham was
driven as a prisoner, to his own home.
New Dkess. The Salem Mercury has
donned a new dress of fashionable Bour
geois, Brevier, and Nonpareil type, and
is well printed on a new Taylor cylinder
press. We congratulate our cotemporary
oa its prosperity.
Changed Hands. We see it announced
that Messrs. E. C. Alexander, of Salem,
and W. S. Moss, recently of this city, have
taken charge of the Salem Mercury, J. II.
Upton retiring from the concern,
A Radical Humbug Exposed-
Below we give the instructions of the
General Land Office to the Surveyors
General of all the States interested in the
matter of swamp lands, which were lately
forwarded to the Governor of this State
by the Secretary of the Interior, as a guide
in the selection of such lands in this State.
We also append the instructions of the
Board of School Land Commissioners of
Oregon to the Deputy Swamp Land Com
missioners. A careful perusal of these
two documents will show how utterly ab
surd aud maliciously false is this Radical
cry of " land rings" and a swamp land
swindle." It will also readily be seen
that the " State instructions confine the
work of selection to lands ' unmistakably
of a swampy character,' and they deny
the Deputies the right to interfere with
bona fide settlers at alff Now we ask
how can papers laying claim to respecta
bility, continue to howl on false grounds
in the face of plain, undeniable facts ?
Following are the instructions to Survey
ors General :
General Land Office. 1
November 21. 1S."0. f
Sir: By the act of Congress entitled
'An art to enable ihe State of Arkansas
and other Slates to reclaim the "swamp
lands' within their limits." approved Sep
tember 28. 1830 it is directed -that to en
able the State of Arkansas to construct
the necessary levees and drains to reclaim
the swamp and ovei flowed lands therein,
the whole of those swamp and overflowed
lands made thereby unfit for cultivation
which shall remain unsold 'at the passage
of this act shall be, and the same are here
by granted to said State."
1st. By the fourth section of this- act
it is directed that the provisions of it
shall be extended to, and iheir benefit be
conferred upon, each of the other S'ates
of the Union in which such swamp and
overflowed lands may be situated.
2d. And -that in making 'out a list
and plats of the lands aforesaid, till legal
subdivisions, the greater part of which is
'wet and unfit lor cultivation.' shall be
included in said lists and plats; but. when
I tie greater part of a subdivision is not of
that, character, the whole of it shall be ex
cluded therefrom."
This act clearly and unequivocally
grants to the several States, those lands
which, from being swampy or subject to
oveifiow. are unfit for cultivation. Iu
this class is included also all lands which,
though dry part of the year, tire subject
to inundation at the planting, growing, or
harvesting season, so as to destroy the crop,
and therefore are unfit for cultivation,
taking the average of the seasons, for a
reasonable number of years, as the rule
of determination.
Yon will please make out a list of all
the lands thi.s granted to the State, desig
nating those which have been sold or
otherwise disposed of" since the passage of
the law, and the price paid for them when
purchased.
The only reliable data in your possesion
from which these lists can be made out,
are the notes of the surveys on file
in your office; and it the authorities of
the State are willing to adopt these as the
btisis of those lists, you will so resrard
them. If not, and those authorities furn
ish you satisfactory evidence that any
lands are of the character embraced by
the grant, you will so report them.
The following general principles will
govern you, in making up these lists, to
wit. :
Where the field notes are the basis, and
the intersections of the lines of swamp or
overflow with those of the public surveys
alone are given, those intersections may
be connected by straight lines; and all le
gal subdivisions, the greater part of which
are shown by these lines to be within the
swamp or overflow, will be certified to
the State; the balance will remain the
property of the Government.
Where the State authorities may con
clude ,'o have the surveys made to de
termine the boundaries of the swamp or
overflowed lands, those boundaries alone
should be surveyed, taking connections
with the nearest, sec. ion or township cor
nets; or
Where the swamp or overflowed lands
are on the borders of a stream or lake,
die stream or lake could be meandered
and ordinaies surveyed at snitablr inter
vals, from the borders of a s-'.ream or lake
to the margin of the wnmp or overflowed
lands, and by connecting the ends of
those ordinate! next to that margin by
straight lines, the boundaries of the
swamp or overflowed lands can be ascer
tained with sufficient accuracy. Iu no
eas, however, should any such bounda
ries or ordinate be marked in the field,
as they may produce difficulty in determ
ining the lines and corners of the public
surveys hereafter, and thus lead to Inig-
tion. The selections In all tnese eases
will be made as before directed. Where
satisfactory evidence is produced that the
whole of a township, or of any particu
lar or specified part of a township, or the
whole of a tract of country bounded by
specified surveyed or natural boundaries,
is of the character embraced by the grant,
you will so report it. The adjacent sub
divisions, however, to be. subject to the
regulations above given; and in every
case under each rule or principle herein
prescribed, foriy-acre lots or quarter
quarter sections will be regarded as the
legal subdivisions contemplated by the
law.
The afil davits of the county surveyors
and other respectable persons that they
understand and have examined the lines,
and that the lands bounded by lines thus
examined and particularly designated in
the affidavit, are of the character embrac
ed by the law, should be sufficient.
Trie line or boundary of the overflow,
that rend-rs the land unfit for regular
cultivation, may be adopted as that which
regulates the grant.
You will make out lists of these lands
as early as practicable, according to the
following form, one copy of which you
will transmit to the land officers and an
other to ihis office. The lands selected
should be reserved from sale, and after
those selections are approved by the Sec
retary of the Interior, the Register should
enter all the" lands so .selected in his tract
book as granted to the State by act of
28;h September. 1 850. being swamp or
overflowed lands."' and on the plats enter
on each tract -State act of 28th Septem
ber. 1830." Copies of the approved lists
will be sent to the Registers for this put
pose. Your early attention is requested
in this matter, ihat the grant ms y be dis
posed of as speedily as possible. Very
respectfully your obedient servant.
Commissioner.
Instructions of the Board of School Land
Commissioners to Deputies appointed to
select the swamp and overflowed lands
belonging to the State of Oregon, issued
April 22. 1871, pursuant to the provision
of the Act of the Legislative Assembly
of Oregon passed October 26. IS .
In the execution of your duties under
the provisions of the above entiled Act.
you will proceed to the field and examine
all such tracts of land within the coun
ties of as are swamp and
overflowed lands. Until further notice
you will confine your work to districts
which have been actually surveyed by
the United States. Iu all cases where
you find swamp or overflowed lands
which are embraced within the claims of
bona fide settlers, holding either under the
United States or the State of Oregon, you
will not include the same in your selec
tions, but you will make a minute of such
tracts aad the amount of lands so inclad-
COURTESY OF
I ed in said clai.us and make return of the
same to this o.nce m b..i
by themselves, under the heading of
'Swamp and Overflowed Lauds occupied
by bona fide Sellers in the County of
This "schedule you will please complete
with care, as it is intended to form the ba
sis of a ela;m for the United States, in
lieu of these swamp laDds by right ought
to have been vested in the Stale of Ore
gon heretofore, as swamp and overflowed
lands.
You will also proceed to select all
swamp and overflowed lands within said
county, being within the surveyed por
tions thereof and not occupied or claimed
bv bona file settlers or purchasers under
the United States or of this State, as afore
said, and to make a e'.ear and distinct de
sciiption of each tract of such land so
selected, by legal subdivisions according
to said surveys, and to make return to
this office of The same, either by districts
or the entire county above named, when
finally examined, as you shall be hereafter
insirucied.
In ease you shall deem it necessary in
the execution of your duties to be provid
ed with map? of the surveyed portions of
said county where swamp or overflowed
lands are located, you are authorized t-j
procure the same, to be made at the Land
Office, the expense of which will be
paid by authority of this board ; said
maps, if procured, you will please return
as a put of your report. In cases where
you find in ihe prosecution of your work,
of legal subdivision, a portion of which is
swamp and th balance arable land, that
part which is the largar you will consider
gives character to ihe whole that is if
more than une-half of any legul subdivis
ion is arable, you viil make no selection
from that legal subdivision; but if more
than one-hull' is twain p. you will select
the whole leg;il subdivision as swamp.
In case you find lands unmistakably of
swampy character, bordering on tracts
which are meandered in the United States
surveys, as swaiups or lakes, or tracts of
that characher lying by themselves, but
which have been reported as arable lands,
and so designated on the maps of tiie Uni
ted Stales, you will nevertheless select aud
report the same to the Board us swamp
und overflowed lands.
Where school sections, indemnity school
lauds. State or nnivesity lauds are found
to have been located so as to cover any
swamp lands within your district, you
will omit the selection of such lands, but
make a schedule of the same, and report
the same separately to this office.
L. F. G tiovKii,
S. F. CltADWlCK,
L. Fl-EiSCUNEU.
Board of School Land Com'rs.
Prcceedin23 of ths Democratic State
Central Committee-
Portland, Oregon, Jan. S, 1872.
The Democratic State Central Commit
tee, pursuant to the call of the chairman,
met at Judge Page's office at 2 o'clock
p . m.
Present Hon Benj. Ilayden, of Polk
county, Chairman ; II. C. Page, of Uma
tilla, per Card. Stump, proxy : A. W. Fer
guson. Wasco, per Al. Zieber. proxy ; J.
II Lappeus, Multnomah; Geo. Morrill,
Columbia ; Jas. Jeffries. Clatsop, per G.
L. Curry, proxy ; Geo. L. Curry, Clacka
mas, per John Myers, proxy ; John Swick,
Washington, per Geo. L. Curry, proxy ;
A. Shuck. Yamhill county ; 11. S. Strahan,
Benton ; D. II. Murphy. Marion, per John
F. Milter, proxy ; J T. Crooks. Linn ; J.
M. Thompson. Lane ; L. F. Lane, Doug
las, per Win. Thompson, proxy ; J. N. T.
Miller. Jackson.
The counties of Union, Grant. Baker.
Josephine. Coos, Curry and Tillamook
were not represented.
On motion. W. Thompson, of Douglas,
was chosen Secretary.
On motion persons holding papers were
admitted to represent their principals in
the Committee-;.
On motion, persons residents of the
counties unrepresented were invited to
participate in the proceedings of the Com
mittee . behalf of their respective coun
ties. Under this rul Dr. McCleary was
admitted to represent Baker county.
A letter was read from citizens of Tilla
mook, asking that their county be allow
ed representation in the Committee.
On motion. J. II. Reed, Est., was ap
pointed member trorn that county.
On motion of A Shuck it was resolved
that each county be allowed at least one
delegate in the coming State Convention.
On motion of, Geo. L. Curry the vote
for Governor at the last election was
made the basis of representation in appor
tioning delegates.
Mr. Myers, of Clackamas, moved that
each county be allowed one delegate for
each 100 Democratic votes cast at the last
general eleciion. and one for each fraction
of 30 thereof, or more.
Mr. Shuck moved to amend by striking
out 100 and substituting 73 votes as the
number for each delegate.
The amendment was rejected, and the
original motion adopted, fixing the abasia
at 100 votes for each delegate.
On motion of John F. Miller. Wednes
day, the 10;h day of April next was fix
ed upon as the time of holding the State
Convention.
On motion, the 23rd day of March next
was recommended to the different coun
ties as the time for holding County Con
ventions, and Saturday the loth, a3 the
day for holding Precinct Conventions.
On motion of Hon. Benj. Ilayden John
F. Miller in the chair it was recommend
ed that Democrats throughout the State
immediately organize clubs iu each pre
cinct, for the purpose of consultation and
to effect a more permanent organization
of the party, to secure unity of action and
a fair expression of the sentiments of the
people in the various conventions.
Under the rule adopted of representa
tion, each county is entitled to delegates
as follows.:
County, Delegates.
Baker". 6
Benton 6
Clackamas 7
Clatsop 1
Columbia 2
Coos 3
Curry 1
Douglas 8
Grant 4
Jackson 8
Josephine 2
Lane 8
Linn 12
Marion 11
Multnomah 10
Polk 7
Tihamook 1
Umatilla 5
Union i
Washington 4
Wasco 3
Yamhill C
On motion, the Secretary was directed
to furnish all the Demoeratic newspapers
of the State with copies of the proceedings
of the Committee.
On motion, the Committee adjourned
without date.
Benj. IIaydex, Chairman.
Attest :
Wm. Thompson, Secretary.
A Chicago dispatch, dated December
31st. states that the (jrand Duke Alexis,
after leaving that city, will go on a long
buffalo hunt. He will be accompanied on
his hunting expedition by General Sheri
dan and a military escort. Should the
snow be found too deep for hunting, the
party will go through to San Francisco.
The roads between Pumphrey's Land
ing aud Olympia are so bad that the stage
coTnpany have found it impossible to run
even mud wasrons. and have drawn them
off for the present. The mails are carried
on horseback.
BANCROFT LIBRARY , i-
State News.
Lane county orders are -at par.
Hay is worth $25 per ton in Salem.
Wheat is selling at Salem for SI 13.
Forest Grove has a population of 300.
Oregon is now using California potatoes.
A small steamer is to be run up Dairy
Creek.
Judge Upton is now holding Court at
Astoria.
The next State Fair Is to commence on
October 7th.
Multnomah county hospital has twenty
seven patients.
t The Ajax sailed for San Francisco on
Wednesday last.
Eugene has four select schools in suc
cessful operation.
Carrie F. Moore, the skatisl, has returned
to San Francisco.
John Richey, of Oakland, has been sent
to the Insane Asylum.
There were 113 marriage licenses issued
in Marion county in 1871.
There was a heavy snow storm at Jack
sonville on Wednesday last.
Four men crossed the Columbia on the
ice at aucouver last week. !
Rev. Clinton Kelly has laid out another
- addition" to East "Portland.
Albany young ladies gave a Leap Year
Sociable on last Friday night.
The Catholics will erect a three-story
chui ch in Salem next summer.
St. Marian T'Vault. of Jacksonville, has
been sent to the Insane Asylum.
The Statesman is again "growing small
by degrees, and beautifully less."
Col. Pollo'ck, of the Twenty-first Infant
ry, has arrived at Fort Vancouver.
Mrs. Dnniway orated in Portland last
night, on the subject of Politics."
The Albany urchin who was thought to
have the small-pox ouly had the itch.
The ship Windward now lies at a dock
at Portland, almost a complete wreck.
Rebecca Lodge, I. O. O. F., of Portland,
will give a grand ball on the ISth inst.
A young man named Calvin, of Corval
lis. has been sent to the Insane Asylum.
Real estate transactions in Linn county
for the past year atuouuted to $31,565.
.Rt. Rev. Bishop Morris, of this dioeese,
is expected home about the 1st proximo-
A young lady who was married on Ap
plegale last week became insane next
day.
Prof. Oglesby, of Dallas, had an arm
shattered, last week, by the kick of a
horse.
The storm last week caused much dam
age in Powell's Valley, northeast of this
place.
The total expenses of the Portland Fire
Department for the year 1871 were $11,
1)55 42.
Portland has 3G fire cistern5, holding
552.000 gallons of water; also, 22 fire hy
drants. The estimated cost of the Portland Po
lice Department for the year 1872 is
S1S.000.
Capt. Js. R. Wiley, of the Portland Po
lice, has been elected Captain of the Em
met Guard.
Marion county farmers are breaking
more ground lor wheat this season thau
ever before.
Mr. Ilayden, of Eola. has invented and
applied for a patent for a new kind of
pruning shears.
The Bulletin Company has moved into
its new printing office, corner of Ash and
Front streets.
The steamboat Wenat is making regu
lar trips between Monticello and Pum
phrey's Landing.
Mr. Plunder, of the Market Street Park.
Portland, has sent to China an order lor
birds of fine plumage.
The law relative t" the carrying of ex
plosive fluids is to be rigidly enforced on
our steamers and cars.
A Portland paper complains that beef
is retailed at higher prices in that city
than in San Francisco.
O. P. Mason will deliver the next lecture
before the Washington Debating Society,
at Portland, on the 10th.
The well known Portland firm of Kohn
& Fishel has been dissolved. Mr. Kohn
will continue the business.
The Era says East Portland has the
handsomest women in the State. Bah !
You should visit Oregon City.
Martin Luper, six miles south of Al
bany, has 1.000 bushels choice White Chili
Cltib Wheat for sale, for seed.
E. II. Stolte, ex N. G. of Hassalo Lodge
No. 15. was presented with a fine hat by
members, on Friday evening last.
A man named McEwen, ninety-six years
of age. was recently brought from Astoria
and confined in thu Insane Asylum.
Samuel E. May has been released on
bonds. J. L. Parrish. Jacob Conser, S. B.
Knox, and P. D. Palmer, being sureties.
Governor Baldwin, of Michigan, has ac
knowledged the receipt of $500 from
Porlland.sent to the Michigan Relief Fund.
Ben Hollad.vy exacts 25 cents per month
from every man in bis employ, to be used
as a fund to keep up a railroad hospital.
Frank Warren, long connected with the
office of Wells. Fargo & Co.. in Portland,
has accepted a position in Ladd & Tiiton's
Bank.
An Albany Good Templar recently for
got the "obligation," got bewitchingly
salubrious," and spent a night in the cala
boose. Some Portlander3 assert that they have,
within the past few days, seen volumes of
smoke rising from the summit of Mount
Hood.
Immediately after a wedding in Albany
the other day. a pedlar approached the
bridegroom and wanted to sell him a fam
ily record.
Three members of the family of George
Belknap, of Monroe (which has recently
suffered so severely with typhoid fever)
have recovered.
The name of the young man who was
frozen to death, in Yambill county, on
Christmas day, was Rummage, inslead of
Ramage, as first reported.
The Ilerakl has ju3t discovered that 90
per cent, of the crime committed in Mult
nomah county last year was caused by
bad whisky and bad women.
The fog was so thick at Portland last
Tuesday Ihat the ferry boat got lost, ran
into the Emma Hay ward, and had one of
her paddle-boxes lorn away.
A stabbing affray took place on Thurs
day night last, at Eugene, between two
' dusky maidens." A white man is said
to have been the instigator of the affair.
The editor of the Democrat wa3 the re
cipient of" substantial " New Year's pres
ents two barrels of flour, one box of
grape?, a ham of venison, fluids ad Wjilurn
and a pair of socks. The latter he no
doubt duly appreciated.
A man named Bush, living near Eugene
City, was recently accidentally shot by a
man by the name of Bud. Edmundson. A
painful, though not fatal wound was in
flicted. It is announced that Adjutant General
Dennison has made a requisition on the
General Government for arms and equip
ments for the State militia, to the amount
of $2,311.
Mr. E. W. Cornell, brother of one of the
proprietors of the Herald, has entered into
a copartnership with Messrs. Parrish and
Watkins, of Portland, in the real estate
business.
The bark Whistler has again arrived at
Portland. She has been thoroughly over
hauled since her late trial by tire, and is
considered a better vessel than she was
before the disaster.
The Chicago capitalist who was to have
erected an extensive carriage manufac
tory, and other mammoth enterprises, in
Albany, manufactured two or three board
bills and decamped.
On Saturday night and Sunday last the
heaviest rain storm of the season was ex
perienced in Salem and Portland, doing
considerable damage to streets and
bridges in the latter city.
The first twenty miles of the Oregon
Central Railroad (west-side) having been
completed and accepted, the subscriptions
lo the subsidy are due. and the Company
gives notice to that effect.
Jno. D. Yates, a pioneer printer of this
coast, who worked on the California Star,
and assisted in getting out the first num
ber of the Oregonian. has been appointed
on the Portland Police lorce.
A fire occured in the store-room of the
Cosmopolitan Hotel, at an early hour oa
Monday last, which brought out the guests
en deshabille. but was soon extinguished by
a timely application of water.
About 12 o'clock oa Wednesday night,
the store of C. Coleman, at Thoenix, eight
miles south of Jacksonville, with its con
tents, was entirely consumed by fire. In
sured in the Imperial, for $7,000.
Empire City was visited, on the night of
the 18th ult.. by the most severe gale ever
experienced in that locality. Shipping in
Coos Bay suffered considerable damage.
and all the roads were filled with fallen
timber.
The mail carrier who started overland
from Portland, ior the Dalles, some two
weeks since. wa3 unable to get through,
having encountered snow twenty feet in
depth. He returned to Portland on Sun
day last.
A handsome monument has been com
pleted at Salem, to be erected to the mem
ory of the late S. T. Church. It is a fluted
column, broken off at the top. and stands
on a pedestal adorned with the emblems
of Odd Fellowship and Masonry.
A fire, one night last week, consumed
a f moke-bouse, with its contents, belong
ing to the widow of the late G. W. Miller,
of Sheridan, Polk county. Loss. S400.
This is a severe loss, as the unfortunate
lady is in somewhat straitened circum
stances. A North Carolina couple, aged respect
ively 70 and G5 years, recently arrived in
the vicinity of Jacksonville, put in and
harvested, during the past year, without
any aid whatever, except a few days dur
ing harvest (which they repaid with their
own labor), 1.G00 bushels of wheat, 900
bushels of oats, and 700 bushels of corn.
There is still a heavy gorge of ice in
the Columbia, about two miles above the
mouth of the Willamette, being from four
to six feet thick on the Washington Terri
tory side, and on the Oregon side, where
there is a large sand bar, from fifteen to
twenty feet thick. . From Vancouver up.
as far as can be seen, the river is open;
but from Cape Horn to the Cascades it is
reported closed.
The Territories.
Hay brings from $45 to $60 per ton in
Kalama.
A large railroad depot is to be built at
Kalama.
A Swedish boatman .named Harold Jen
sen, was recently drowned near Kalama.
Two Alden engines, from Philadelphia,
will soon be due at Kalama, for the N. P.
R. R.
Oak Point Mills, owned by Messrs Ab
ernethy and others.were burned on Thurs
day last.
At Helena, Montana. November 26th,
the thermometer was thirty-five degrees
below zero.
Late dispatches from Walla Walla state
that the weather at that point has materi
ally moderated.
The amount of land disposed of at the
Olympia Land office during the month ot
December was 14.008 acres.
The Baptist denomination at Seattle
are preparing to build the largest church
edifice in Washington Territory.
The Beacon says that mines have been
discovered on Lewis river, that, with a
small capital, can be made to pay a hand
some yield.
Ihe U. b. steamer Luvely is cruising
about Paget Sound on Ihe look out or
loggers who are suspected of cutting tim
ber on Government land.
At nearly all points in Montana the
snow lies very deep. An unusual rise in
the Columbia and Missouri rivers next
spring will perhaps be the result
Dr. Rounds, formerly of Willamette Un
iversity, is now Superintendent of Public
Instruction for Washington Territory. His
address is Union Ridge, Clarke county.
Dominic Gerry, a member of Co. E.
23rd Infantry, committed suicide on last
Wednesday by shooting himself through
the head. It is supposed his mind was
deranged.
There are now two diily and five week
ly papers published at Olpmpia. a village
of perhaps twelve hundred inhabitants.
Still another (a Democratic weekly) is
projected.
On the night of the 1st inst., while the
steamship California, hence for Olympia,
was anchored off Esquimau, she lost an
anchor and eighty fathoms of chain, and
narrowly escaped going ashore.
Mr. Money, of the Beacon, has for the
last month been seriously indisposed, in
fact coufined to his room, with neuralgia.
He seerns to be improving now, in a way
that promises his presence in the office,
again soon.
The California on her trip over to the
Sound last week, stopped at Cape Disap
pointment and took on board an officer
and fifteen soldiers to relieve Capt. Has
kell's company at San Juan Island, who
are going to Arizona.
The Olympia Tribune warns people
against buying property at any particular
place on Budd'.s Inlet, in the hopes that
the terminus will be located where they
buy such land, because it Is not settled
which side of the Inlet will be selected by
the railroad company.
The Governor of New York in his mes
sage declares that the public debt during
the past year has been reduced to $29.
000,000, and the tolls from the canals in
creased nearly $500,000. over the pre
vious year. lie recommends a new char
ter for the city of New York, the sug
gestions for which are geuerully similar to
those proposed by ihe Committee of seventy.
?WTjteF?tl'wtTVHftWi'li!lfcM i'l'iTSl
Oregon City Prices Current.
The following are the prices paid for
produce, and the prices at which other ar
cicles are selling, in this market :
WHEAT Wbite, bushel, SI 25.
OATS bushel. 75 cts.
POTATOES bushel. SI 00 cts.
ONIONS f bushel. $1 00$1 50.
FLOUR bbl. $7 00$U 50.
BEANS White, .. 45 cts.
DRIED FRUIT -Apples. Ext5,G cfa.
Peaches. ft., lujc: Plums, 15
16 cts.; Currants. lb.. 1020 cts.
BUTTER-- lb.. 3540cts.
EGGS 'f dozen. 50 els.
CHICKENS t? dozen. $3.
SUGAR Crushed'. 8).. 20 cts.; Island
1 lb.. 1012i cts,; N. O., "t lb.. 15 cts.;
San Francisco refined. lb. 16 cts.
TEA Young Hysou, lb., $1 50 ; Ja
pan. r fix, 90c$l 25 ; Black, S., 75c.
$1 00,
COFFEE 'fl S.. 2325 cts.
SALT li(2 cts.
SYRUP Heavy (iolden, gall., $1 00 ;
Ex. Heavy Golden. j gall., SI 25
BACON Hams. ) ft., 14 cts; Sidea,
14 cts. lb.: Shoulders, 7 cts. Q
LARD- lb., 14 cts.
OIL Devoe's Kerosene, "J gall., 75.
Linseed oil. raw. gall.. SI 50 j
Linseed oil. boiled. gall., $1 50.
WOOL 5).. 35 cts.
BEEF On foot, 7 (7i)S cts. lb.
PORK On foot. 7f38cts. lb.
SHEEP Per head. $2 00,$2 50.
HIDES Green, 'ft Bx. 5c. ; Dry.? ..
124 cu ; Salted. 8c
lll-ligious Service.
St. Pauls (Episcopal) Church the Rev. Jchn
W. Sellwood, rector. Services on Sunday
at a.m. and 7 p.m. Sunday School
und Bible class at 2 p. m.
1st Congregational Church Seats Fnfr-e
Morning Services, 10.
Sabbath School, 12 o'clock M.
Evening Services, 7 o'clock.
Rev. E. Gkbry, Acting Pastor
PRAYER MEETINGS. '
Sunday evening, 5 o'clock
Tuesday evening, 7 o'clock.
M. E,ihtirch,. Seats Free.
Morning Services, 10.30,
Evening Services, 7 o'clock.
Social, meetings.
Clas-: Meetinfr following Motninjr Servces.
Prayer Meeting Thursday evenine 7 co'clok.
Sa-.hath School at 2 o'clock P. M.
Tlic CJrtat Pictorial X cuHah
Hostetter's United States Almanac for
1S7.'3, for distribution, grctis, throughout
the United States, and all civilised countries
of the Western Hemisphere, will be publish
ed about the first of Jaaaary, in the English,
German, French, Norwegian, Welsh, .Swed
ish, Holland, Bohemian and Spanish lan
guges, and all who wish to understand the
true philosophy of health should read and
ponder the valuable suggestions it contains.
In addition to an admirable medical treaties
on the causes, prevention and cure of a great
variety of diseases, it embraces a large
amount of information interesting to the
merchant, the mechanic, the miner, the
farmer, the plante-, and professional man ;
and the calculations have be&n made for
such meridians and latitudes as are most
suitabte for a correct and comprehensive
National Calendar.
The nature, uses, and extraordinary sani-tarj-,
effects of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters
the staple tonic aud alterative of more than
half the Christian world, are fully set forth
in its pages, which are also interspersed with
pictorial illustrations, valuable recipes for
the household asd farm, humorous antc
dotes, original and selected. Among the?
Annuals to appear with the opening of the
year, this will be one of the most useful, and,
mag be had for the asking. The proprietor,
Messrs. llostetter & Smith, Pittsburgh, Pa.,
on receipt of a two cent stamp, w ll forward
a copy lj mail to any person wtio cannot
procure one in his neighborhood. The Hit
tets are sold in every city, town and village,
and are extensively sed tiiroug h&ut the en
tire civilized world.
Forty Years Eiperlrnrc have tested
the virtues of Dr. II ixtar's Balsam of Wild
Cherry, and the result is that it is the best
remedy extant for pulmonary and lung dis
eases; embracing the whole range from jv
slight cold to a settled consumption. Were,
it not for its merit, it would loug since have
'd.ed. and made no sigu." decSw4
WILLIAM DAVIDSON",
REAL ESTATE DEALER.
OKte, Ko.
PORTLAND,
G4: Front Street,
OREGON.
liEAT, ESTATE in this CITY and
EAST POKTLAND, in the most desirable
localities. consisting of LOTS, HALF
BLOCKS and BLOCKS, HOUSES and
STOllES; also
IMPROVED FARMS, and valuable
uncultivated LANDS, located ia ALL parts
of the STATE for SALE.
PEAL ESTATE and other Property
purchased for Correspondents, in thi? CITY
and throughout the STATES and TERRI
TORIES, with great care and on the most
ADVANTAGEOUS TLICMS.
HOUSES and STORES LEASED.
LOANS NEGOTIATED, and CLAIMS OF
ALL DESCRIPTIONS PROMPTLY COL
LECTED. Aiid a General FINANCIAL and
AGENCY BUSINESS transacted.
AGENTS of this OFFICE in all the
CITIES and TOWNS in the STATE, will re
ceive descriptions of FARM PROPERTY
andjforward the same to the above address,
Feb. 3, 1871.
Fresh Garden, Flower, Tree and Shrub,
Evergreen, Fruit and Herb Seeds, Prepaid
by Mail. A complete and judicious assort,
ment. 25 sorts of either class $1 00. The
six classes (150 packets) for $5 00. Also,
an immense stock of one year grafted Fruit
Trees, Small Fruits, Fruit Stocks, Young
Fruit, Ornamental and Evergreen SeedliDgs.
Bulbs, Roses, Vines. House and Border
Plants, Ac. Ac., the most complete assort
ment, in America. I'renaid bv mail. I'ricrii
Catalogues to any address, also trade list,
gratis. Seeds on Commission, Agents
wanted.
H. M. "Watson, Old Colony Nurseries and
Seed Warehouse, Plymouth, Mass. Estabi
lished 1842. Nov. 10 4w.
Oregon LrfMlge So. 3, I. O. or O. F". ,
-jvSjgs Meets every Thursday even
'jjggvj: ing at 7 o'clock, in Odd Fellow's
Hall, Main s eet.
Members of the Order are invited to attend
.y orner. N. (i.
Multnomah Lodge No. 1, A. F. nnd
a A. M. Holds its regular communica
VAtions on the First and 'Hard Satur
fd"y in each month, at 7 o'clock from
the 20th of Sentember to thn 20th of
March, and 7J o'clock from the 20th of
March to the 20th ot Sentember. Breth
ren in good standing are invited to attend.
vec. 2:3.1 i-70, By order of w. 31.
Rebecca. Degree Iolge Xo. 5!, I. O. O. V
Meet on the Second and Fourth
TUESDA Y EVEXIXGS,
of each month, at 7 o'clock, in Odd Fellows
Hall. Members of the Degree are invited tQ
attend.
Notice to Stockholders
Of Odd Fellow's Hall Association.
rgUE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE O, F.
II. Association will be held at the office, in
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van reuuw duuuiuj, -uamsireei, vjrejron City,
at 4 o'clock p. m., on Thursday, January 18th,
1872, for the election of officers, and such other
business as may come before the meetingr.
Oregon City, Jan. 5, 1872. President,
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