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o i 1 71 JJ 5 VOJLVUME :i. OREGON CITY, OREGON, SATURD AY, BECEMBEI112' 1868. BUSINESS CARDS. o I . the: ixthirrx caxai. , Oa this- - sutjoet we fend the fo!lbv-- ' ingiri a late Eastern journal r . The idea-o- f a "canal across the Isth- muswhich varies in width from H little more than 100 miles to sOiae thing' less tKan, SO miles was broach- ed as' early as the days of Philip If, of Spain ; and a partial survey was"' made by his authority, about the year" 1528. But insuperable difficulties were met 'with, aud th6 idea was abandoned. 1826 the plan "Was re- vived by a New Grenadiau engineer,-an- a route 'surveyed. Another and more formal survey: was rh'ark;, by authority of Bolivar, in 1827-2- 9. lit 1813 the French'surveyed for a canal,-an- obtained a favorable report ; and from that time to the' building' of" the' ' Pauama Railroad, 1850-5- 5, the sub- ject continued to be agitated, but without any practical results. Now, however, it is to be hoped tha, the set time has come to begin this miich-moote- d and most important interna- tional undertaking. The present proposed plan is rto build a canal large enough; to allow any ship in tha world, except the Great Eastern, to pass from ocean to ocean, without unloading; and to have it free to all nations, and neu- tral ia all wars. . Vessels are to pass and repass by paying a stipulated sum per ton and pef passenger ; the ports at either end to be free except for goods intended for consumption in the Republic of Colombia. The charge on ships' in ballast is hot to Some Facts about Earthquakes. A Washington correspondent of the New York Herald contributes the following : The recent earthquakes in South America and California have created a desire to know what part of the United States is most liable to these terrible convulsions. During the winter of 1811-- 12 a portion of the Mississippi Yalley, above and below New Madrid, ex- tending even up as fur as Cairo, was convulsed to such a degree as to create lakes and islands, and had the country been thickly inhabited it would have been attended with great loss of life. A tract near Little Prairie became covered with water, and a large lake, many miles in ex- tent, was formed in the course of an hour. The village of New Madrid, together with the batik of the river for 15 miles above it, was sunk be- neath the water, and the revulsion was such as to force all boats and other material afloat at the time up the stream some 12 or IS miles. The earth rose in great undulations, and when they reached a certain height the soil burst and vast volumes of sand, water and a singular substance-resemblin- coke were discharged. The general directions of the chasms were from southwest to northeast. Iudeed earthquakes may be said to bo chronic throughont a section of the country embracing southeastern Missouri, Northern Arkansas and In- dian Territory. Convulsions and tremblings of the earth's surface are of monthly occurrence in many por- tions of the district, so common and slight as to excite little attention, but are of importance as showing a con stant babilit' to serious calamity. Among the Ozark mountains there are several extinct volcanoes and one that has shown activity within the past three years. A slight volcauic eruption occurs regularly every twen- ty four hours two o'clock in the morning at the hot Springs in Iudi-a- n Territory, west of Arkansas. A loud report is heard, accompanied with an eruption of mineral, oil and water the latter hot enough to boil eggs. The volcanic tendencies of this portion of the Union has seriously retarded its settlement. Rich Mis- sissippi bottom lands in the vicinity of New Madrid cannot be sold for ten dollars per acve, while similar lands fifty miles north or south readi- ly bring $100 or over. It may be worthy of remark lhat the chasms opened by the Mississippi Valley earthquake of 1 S 1 11 2 were similar in appearance and at right angles with those of the great convul- sion in Chile in the year 1835, which extended three hundred miles west- ward to the island of Juan Fernan- dez, elevatiug some 100,000 square miles of the bed of the 6ea above high water mark. It is estimated that the amount of rock added to the contentment by the last named earth- quake was sufficient to form a moun- tain higher than Etna, with a circum- ference of thirty-fiT- e miles, or equal in bulk to one hundred thousand Egyptian pyramids. In view of these and many similar o IIoiv t!e Northern Piicitic Railroad Project I Opposeil. The Sioux City Branch Road, con- necting with the Union Pacific, is now attracting the attention of the advo- cates of the Northern Pacific, be- cause, in building it the provisions of the section authorizing its coa. struction are evaded.4 In the act of 18G2, incorporating and subsidiziug the Union Pacific Railroad, authority was "given the company to build a road from Sioux City, Iowa, to con- nect with the former on the nearest and most practicable route. For this purpose, the liberal subsidy of $10,000 per mile was granted, iu ad dition to the usual land grant. This is what is now known r.s the Sioui City Branch Road, and it was in- tended to connect with a Road from Lake Superior to Sioux City, thus affording direct communication from a point on the Union line with the above named lake. From a certain point on said road about one hundred miles west of Sioux City, it is at least one hundred miles nearer to the head of Lake Superior than to Chicago. The construction of this road would be of vast beneGt to the country through which it must pass and the territory contiguous to it. Instead of building the road, however, as con- templated in the law, says the Helena (Montana) Herald, by the nearest practicable route and in a direct line from Sioux City to the Union Pacific Road, it runs from Sioux City down the valley of the Missouri river, in the State of Iowa, for seventy-tw- o miles, crossing the Missouri above Omaha, and striking the Union Pacific at Fremont, on the Platte river. For the first sixty ..eight miles of the road, according to the Minneapolis (Minn.) Tribune, every mile after they leave Sioux City takes them from instead of towards the Pacific ocean ; and after sixty eight miles ride, the trav- eler finds himself twenty miles farther from the Pacific coast than he was when he left Sioux City. Prom Sioux City to Fremont, by the road, tlie distance is one hundred miles, and Fremont is but six miles nearer the Pacific coast than Sioux City. In brief, the Sioux City Company have built a Pacific Branch Road one hun dred miles Ion?, for every mile of which they have received a subsidy of 810,000 in government bonds and a land grant of 12,800 acres, and at the end of it, they are only six miles" nearer the Pacific than at'the poinf of departure. Had the road been built as provided by law, " iy the shortest practicable route," ninety-si- x miles of road would have joined the Union Pacific at Columbus, forty-fiv- e miles nearer the Pacific ocean than the one hundred miles actually built. This was not only a flagrant violation of the express provisions of the law authorizing the construction of the road, but it was an unfriendly act to Minnesota, which has justly excited the ire of the people of that State. The St. Paul Press, in par- ticular, is very warm in its denuncia- tion of the road built, and says that Minnesota is thus swindled out of the great advantages which the direct route would have given them over Chicago, and that the country is swindled out of the advantages which it would have derived from the sav- ing of hundreds of miles of railroad transportation for the vast commerce of the Pacific, especially of heavy Henry VarI Becclier's Farm. A correspondent of the Canada Farmer, thus describes a visit to the farm of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, at Peekskili, N..Y : We spent an afternoon there very pleasantly. in the society of the gifted proprietor, and his interesting family. Mr. Beecher's farm consists of thirty-si- x acres, having a narrow frontage, and sloping up a considerable distance from the stretch of table land below, so that it commands a Gne panoramic view of the picturesque region about Peekskili, and takes into the scenery a beautiful sweep of the original farm house, somewhat improved since it came into Mr. Beecher's possession, and forming a comfortable but un- pretentious family residence, and a large, handsome barn, roofed with variegated slates, and evincines the taste at once of the architect and owner. Mr. Beecher cultivates his domain in the meantime as a vegetable and fruit farm, and it reflects no small credit on his management that last year the salts off it amounted to $4,600 an average of $100 per acre Per contra mu it be reckoned the wages of seven men during the work- ing season, outlay for manure, team expenses, &c. Mr. Beecher is a bet- ter and more practical farmer than we expected to find him. He under- stands the theory and principles of agriculture thoroughly, and is mak- ing intelligent application of them on his little estate, which he is managing not so much for the sake cf present profit, as with an eye to making a pleasant home when he retires from active ministerial duties. Most of his land has been thorough- ly stirred to the depth of fifteen iuches. It is thoroughly enriched with barnyard and artificial manures. Apple, pear, plum, and peach or- chards are planted, and a large vine- yard set out. These are protected by evergreen screens and hedges, or rather will be when the young trees become large enough. Shade and ornamental trees are growing up to adorn a spot which already possesses extraordinary attractions, and will be a delightful place when tue owner's plans are carried out. Mr. Beecher has large plantations .of strawberries, raspberries and black berries, grows early potatoes, lima beans, melons, " ruta bagas," and sweet corn extensively, and has not only a bright and beautiful array of flower-bed- s close to his house, but seems to grow them promiscuously all over his farm. A good sized patch of "ruta bagas'' (or Swede turnips, as we should call them,) is fringed with three rows of dwart as- ters which are just coming into pro- - bloom. Mr. Beecher is pas sionately found of flowers, and likes to have them wherever he is, even in the pulpit. We were glad to learn from him that his example ot high farming is doing his neighbors good, and that a perceptible improvement has taken place, siace las advent, in the style of husbandry about Peek-skil- l. Such will always be the effect of growing uniformly good crops through the combined application of liberal manure and skilled labor. PRrxTS ox Aitles axd Pears. A friend who has lately been on a visit to the " Hub of the Universe," writes us thus : " I have just seen a very pretty and fanciful iiea developed ou pears and apples, in the orchard of a friend at AVest Roxbury, Massachusetts. As you ramble among the trees, you are ever and anon saluted by an iu scription upon the fruit, done as it were by the hand of nature" herself. On some you will find the names of favorite political candidates. Here you meet with the famiii ir names of Mary, or Alice, or a date (1SGS) in brief, everything that may suggest itself to your taste or fancy ; and all done in the skin of the fruit, without abrasion of any foreign impression. The discovery was made by the Hon Arthur W. Austin, of W est Roxbury, in 1S51-- 2. He observed, during the former year, that apples did not red den in that nartof tiie fruit where leaf happened to lie upon it. In 1352 he cut out letters from newspapers, and, when the apples were yet green, he pasted them upon them with paste such as the apothecaries use, made of gum tragacauth. The apples would reddea in all parts not covered by the pasted letters. When the fruit had reddened to perfection, the letters were removed, and they would appear permanently outlined in green. So, again, when he pasted on the ap- ple a paper in which the letters were, cut out, the parts covered by the pa- per would bo green aud the letters would appear distinctly turned in red, the greeu ground surrounding them. The experiment is a very pretty one, and produces a happy effect let our fruit growers try it. How much sweeter must be the relish of apple or pear if the name of the favorite should thus appear on it, as if written by the hand of nature. What a su- perior price such fruit, so inscribed, would command in market, and what a pretty present it would be to any lady at a feast." The proprietor of a forge, not remarkable for correctness of Ian guage, but vfho, by honest industry, had realized a comfortable independ- - ence. being called upon at a social meeting for a toast, gave " Success to IIOOIvEK. From the Alantic Monthly for December.' This capacious soul was lodged Iti one of the feeblest of bodies. . Physi-- , ologists are never weary of telling us that masculine health is necessary to the vigor of the mind ; but the vast mental strength of Hooker was inde- pendent of his physical constitution. His appearance in the pulpit conveyed no idea of a great man. Small iu stature, with a low voice, using no gesture, never moving his person or lifting his eyes from his sermon, he seemed the very impersonation of clerical incapacity and dullness ; but soon the thoughtful listener found his miud fascinated by the. automaton speaker ; a still, devout ecstasy breathed from the pallid lips ; thought and the most ex- tensive learning found calm expres- sion in the low accents ; and, more surprising still, the somewhat rude mother tongue of Englishmen was heard for the first time from the lips of a master of prose composition, de- monstrating its capacity for all the purposes of the most refined and most enlarged philosophic thought. In- deed, the serene might of Hooker's soul is perhaps most obviously per- ceived in his style, -- in the easy power with which he wields and bends to his purpose a language not yet trained into a ready vehicle of philosophical expression. It is doubt- ful if any English writer siuce his time has shown equal power in the con- struction of long sentences, those sentences in which the thought, and the atmosphere of the thought, and the modifications of the thought, are all included in one sweeping period, which gathers clause after clause as it rolls melodiously on to its foreseen conclusion, and having the general gravity aud grandeur ot its modulated movement pervaded by an inexpres- sibly sweet undertone of individual sentiment. And the strength is free from every fretful aud morbid quality which commonly taints the perform ances of a strong mind lodged in a sickly body. It is as serene, whole some, and comprehensive as it is powerful. A lady in Boise Valley who has been devoting her time and attention to teaching and raising flowers, writes her experience to the California Farmer, from which we extract : Have I not reason to sing and be glad ? Only a little time ago the world looked so dark and dreary. Never can we forget the heartache and utter desolation of spirit we en- dured when calling at the dry goods stores, book stores, and other places, seeking employment as a saleswoman; to all these was not an exception I one said, " Ave don t believe iu wo- man's rights." We besought with tears a place to work at one-hal- f the salary paid to young men. " Only take me on trial, I am sure I can try to please you. " No' the answer t lit J 1 came, we siioum tosc customers; then, " a woman's place is at home I ' What mockery ; Home! ics,home, and yet not a home 1 because rent must be paid, wood bought, provisi ons, lights, everything, and the act ive brain, and strong arms that car ried this burden were gone forever. No wonder thousands of women are hurried on to swift destruction. Oh ! that they knew the balm there is in the blessed sunshine and crisp frosty mornings, and the sweet satisfaction in sleeping, resting and singing, while the elements combine their powers to make her food grow. If old Ben. Franklin and Prof.-Mors- were made happy by chaining the lightning-mak- ing it subservient to their will why should not every toiling woman be equally happy when she wakes up to the fact that sho can, by simplest means, take into her service the nat- ural elements . and compel them to grow for her own use, luscious fruit, delicious vegetables.and golden grain"? Slowly we cry Eureka' we have found it"! We can earn bread and hnnlcs clothincr and comforts, and many more - luxuries than any work-i- woman, or a dweller of cities. We can stay at home, play with the baby, do our own sewing, keep house, write letters, read papers, and enter tain company, go out as often as we wish. Iu a word, feel independent, healthy and happy, no annoyance ot seekintr work, no temptation to un a poor woman to obtain it, no time spent in collecting bills from house to house The fruit from our garden has been sold at remunerative prices. The larger number of purchasers came to the house with their own carriages after it. Ladies come from towns twenty miles distant to buy slips of roses and verbenas, and later in the season for strawberry plants This seemingly barren hill-sid- e has in two seasons given us a larger sal arv than has been paid to any woman roar-hr- r in the Union schools of the country. A strange murder was recently committed at Lyons. Two men at- tacked a woman named Jacotot as she was entering her house, tied her hands, foced some corrosive liquor down her throat, and then threw her intr the mnddv stream called Suzon. Sho managed to crawl out of the ( river and reach the nearest house, but was unable to speak, and died iu (,a few minutes. The Weekly Enterprise. .V INDEPENDENT PAPER, ton TUB Businessman, the Farmer ArUl the FAMILY CIRCLE. PVBLISHED. tlLHi AT THE OFFICE-Co- ma of Fifth and Main streets Owg0 Cjy. Ore proprMon THE EXTERPRTSE has been very well re- ceived during the time of its iniUieaUon, of distinction in the State, gentlemen Jl0 recommend it as a journal valuable for Eastern circulation. Such ire shall endeavor to continue to make it. THE WEALTH OF OREGON shall at all times constitute the paramount interest to ' columns will be devoted. Every which our jcea-ur- e for the good of the State, whether interest, irrespective ot of pritats or public i.artv, will find in us an advocate and a de- fender, to the extent of our ability. We shall aim to attract the attention of the millions of POPULATION AND MONEY seeking profit- able places, to that channel which iS now making this the fioci of the globe, and ren- dering Oregon with other PaeiSc Statcs.the J. graneries of the world, with a centre of trade second to none. AUniCl'LlTRE will continue to receive that attention which it merits, at the liar.ds of every intelligent Journalist. " The Farmer f( ,d lU at!. THE MARKETS will be watched carefully, and such information as we shall be able to A. compile will be publishet . JUAXUKACTUUEUS are earnestly requested to inform us with respect to those various ""interests, to the end that we may be able to m.ike the Enterprise as near an encyclo-pxdi-- i of the business of Oregon as can be. TERMS of SUBSCRIPTION: le Copy one year $3 00 " six nionius - Three months 1 b0 CLUB RATES: Five Copies. 1 year, $2 50 each. .. .$12 50 S3- - In which case an, extra copy will be sunt to the person forming the Club, and as an inducement to such persons, with a view v( extending our circulation, One Dollar and Twenty-Fiv- e Cent Will be allowed as Commis.-io- n on each addi tional five Subscribers. Thus any person who will interest himself in the matter, may the paper free and receive a liberal compensation for his services. to be made at the risk of Subscribers, and at the expends of Agents. TERMS of ADVERTISING Transient advertisements, including all legal notices, y sq. of 12 lines, 1 w.$ 2 50 For each subsequent insertion 1 00 One Column, one vear $120 00 Half " " 00 Quarter " " to Uuainess Card, 1 square one year. . . 12 BOOK AX I) JOB PRINTING. .5- - The Enterprise office is supplied with unproved styles of type, and mod- ern MACHINE PRESSES, which will enable the Proprietor to do Job Punting at nil times Neat, Quick and Cheap ! JO Work solicited. C. IRELAND, Proprietor. JJ USIXESS CARD S. JJENTOX K1LLIN. Oregon. City, Oregon. OFFICE la Charman's Brick Block, up stairs. j)U.F. BARCLAY, jySJSlo JZ3a2L &Z2o 33L-- 9 (Formerly Surgeon to the Hon. II. B. Co.) OFFICE- - At Residence, Main street Ore- gon City, Oregon. T II. V ATKINS, M. D., ' SURGEON, Portland, Oregon. OFFICE 95 Front street Residence cor- ner of M tin and Seventh streets. V JM FERIAL MILLS. Savier, LaHoqtie & Co., OREGON CITY. COveep constantly on hand fot sale, Hour Mailings, Bran aud Chicken Feed, Parties purching feed must furnish the sacks. yfX. BROUG1ITON. Contractor and Builder, Main st., OREGON CITY. VS- - Will attend to all work in his line, con- sisting iu part of Carpenter and Joiner woik framing, building, etc. Jobbing promptly attended t . jJa vid slimi, Successor to SMITH d- - MARSHALL, Blaclc-Smit- h and Wagon Jfaker, Comer of Main and Third streets, .Oregon City Oregon. -- B!acksniuYmg in all its branches; Wag- on making and repairing. All work warrant- ed to frive K OS1IL AND 1UIOTIIERS, PORTLAND AUCTION ST0EE, 97 Pirst sC, Portland, Xext Door to Post Office. Importers and Jabbers of Staple and Fancy Pry Goods. Ur.ua bags, Uurlap3, furn-Mim- g Goods. 65, We pay the highest cash price for Wool, Furs, and liidca. YRM3?S & DALL AAL ZiirOUTEKS A NO JOBBEr.S OF Wood and Willow Ware. Brushes, 2'tc'uics, Cordage, etc., AND SIAXTFACTfRF.RS OF Brooms, Pails, rlibs, Washboards. c 15 A 217 Sacramento st., San Francisco. 113 Maiden Lane. N. V. Cily. JMES L. DALY, (Late Dalv & Stevens,) G EN EE A L AG EN T, Office No. 104 Front street, Portland, Will give special attention to Collecting snd adjustment of accounts, bills and notes; Negotiating Inland bills ; effecting- - loans ; buying, scUingand leasing read estate; house renting, and to the general agency business in all its branches. John. Nestor, Architect, OFFICE IN CARTERS BUILDING, Frout St., Portland Orc-o- n. FIRST-CLAS- S RESIDENCES, Business Houses, Halls, Churches, Tenements, Cottages, Suburban Residences, and M.L INSCRIPTIONS OF UKICK AND FRAME Buildings Designed and Planned With accuracy, and scrupulously and faith- fully Mtperititemiei. T"Owner; interests ijnoia-- , :i par j 10 Hi PATIEXCE. Why should we murmur, though the storm Is all around us raging? Though angry clouds the skies deform Like battle hosts engaging? An unseen hand the storm king guides As on the wintry wind he rides, And up above the tempest lines The sun in all his glory shines. VThy should we murmur though the ills Of life around us hover? Though through the gloom that nature fills No light we can discover? The arm that guides the tempest king Shall bear us through all suffering, And gently lead us to the shore Where sin and death are known no more. The wintry storm the earth prepares For verdure bright aud vernal ; So oftentimes our wearying cares Fit us for joys supernal. Then murmur not though griefs befall ; With patient heart endure them all Keep but the journey's end in view, And God shall lead thee safelv throurh. FEitrETUAL Presence of Christ. A Christian should make his Savior a perpetual companion everywhere, and on every day of the week. Christ offers to walk with him iu every day's journey of life. What compaa-ionshi- p so enlivening and so purifying as His; who else can make our hearts so burn witbiu us by the way ? Christ's presence with believers is one of the best preventives from sin ; one of the best stimulators to duty. Jesus is " made unto us sanctificas tion'' as well as redemption. That is His is a spirit of holiness. And when he lives in hourly communion with Jesus it has a tendency to make us holy. The sense of Christ's immediate presence is a perpetual check upon our lusts a perpetual spur to our self indolence. Are we provoked to cutting words or irritating retorts? One look from the gentle, Jesus should be enough to seal the lip and to smooth the ruftled brow. Are we ever tempted to keen bargains and overreaching in business? Selfishness sa7.", " All is fair, others do it, it is the custom of our trade.'7 Rut what will the pure and holy Jesus say ? How will our account book look-t- o Ilim when He " audits" them ? And so on all through the calendar of duties and the circle of daily temp- tations. With my Savior beside me. how will I dare to play the coward, or the cheat, or the trifler, or the sensualist, or the trickster ? No where will Christ's presence be more cheering and sustaining than iu the weariness of the sick room, or under the silent shadows of a creat bereavement. " Christ comes to me in the watches of the night,'' said the bedridden saint, Ilalburton : "He draws aside the curtains and says : It is I ; be of good cheer ; be not afraid. Here 1 lie pained with pain ; without strength, and yet strong." And when Lbe last farewells have been spoken through the sobs of the dying hour, this never failing Friend will sweetly whisper, " Fear not, I am with thee. Where I am ye shall be also. Having loved my own, I will love them until the end." Notable Dreams. A writer in the London Argosy says : Doctor McNish, " happening to sleep in amp sheets, dreamed that he was dragged through a stream.'' Doctor Symonds witnessed in his sleep what he thought was a prolonged storm of thunder, which he was afterwards able to trace to the light of a candle brought suddenly into the dark room where he had fallen asleep. He re .ites that a person having a blister applied to his head fancied that he was scalped by a party of Indians. I remember, when a boy, sleeping in a strange house, in an old fashioned room, with an oaken store-cupboa- rd over the bed. I dreamed that I was jeing murdered : the assassin struck me on the head, and I awoke with a sense ot pain m tnat region. 1 ut- - ting my hand to tny forehead, I found it sticky with blood ! I felt too ill to crv for help : but at lemrtb. I alarmed the household, and on pro- curing a light, it was found that some ermented jam had leaked through the bottom of the cupboard and fal- len upon my head in a small sluggish stream. From observation, reflection and experience, we nave conduced mat for all in any degree suffering from the use of stimulants, total abstinence ., t n- - . : A TV 13 tne moss tuecuu muiuuv. u fou'bt this opinion for fifteen yeara. While deprecating saloon dram- - drinking, we were very jotn to mve up the fascinating social nresiae eve-- i nino- - of toddy. The pleasure therefrom derived was anticipated hours iu advance. Yet to it we were at last obliged to trace much head- ache, languor, depression of spirits, and worse than all, an evtr-recurrin- g desire for a little taste of the creature at odd times and occasions. It was only ou renouncing it entirely that we felt on a safe foundation. Head aud ponder. Ex. -- -- A Texas paper publishes the following notice : " Persons .wishing their marriage or obituary inserted, will please send or hand it in." Rather i difficult request to be coinpli with LADD & TILT ON, BANKERS, rouTuxn, Oregox. Win give prompt attention to collections, and other business appertaining to Banking Sight and Telegraphic Exchange On San Francisco and the Atlantic States for sale. Government Securities bought and sold. Qy. FERRY, BROKER, Portland. Oregox. tor. Front and JVashington Sts. Agent North British and Mercantile Insurance Company, and Manhat- tan Life Insurance Company. IFfCovcrnment Securities, Stocks,Bonds and Real Estate bought and sold an Com- mission. W. c. JOHNSON". K. O. M COWS. Notary Public. JOHNSON & McCOWN, Oregon City, Oregon. W Will attend to all business entrusted to our care in any of the Courts of the State, Collect money .Negotiate loans, sell real estate etc. Particular attention given to contested Land cases. H. MITCHELL. J. N DOLPII. m A. SMITH. Mitchell, Dolph & Smith, Attorneys and Counsellors at Laio, Solicitors in Chancery, and Proc- tors iti Admiralty. srW Office oer the old I'ost Office, Front street, Portland, Oregon. C. CilBBS. c. w. rAiuttsn, Notary Pulli and Com. qUetdg. GIBBS & PAKRISH, Atlorveys and Counselors at Law, Portland, Oeegox. OFFICE On Alder street, in Carter's brick block. JOHN IYI. BACON, Justice of the Peace d- - City Recorder. Office In the Court House and City Council Room, Oregon City. J63 Will attend to the acknowledgment of deeds, aud all other duties appertaining to the business of a Justice of the Peace. Dr. J, H. HATCH" Late Mack Hatch, .v5ggav T-- v n tvt m t t rrt 1 t.S.Tvj.:'tfhj U Jj 1 X 1 O 1 ; The patronage of those desiring First Class Operations, is respectfully solicited. Satisfaction in all cases guaranteed. N. B. Nitrous Oxyde administered for the Painless Extraction of Teeth. Office Corner of Washington and Fron streets, Portland. Entrance on Washington street. " JENTAL NOTICE. HOME AGAIN. During my tour of two years in the Eastern States I have spared neither time nor monev to make invse'f per fectly familiar with and master of my pro- fession. Those desiring the best work that the nature of the case will admit of eanlind me at my olliee, 107 Front street, two doors above McCormiek's Book Store, Portland, Oregon. BR. J. G. GLENN. GKMriCEY BALL, iiuccrxmir to O radon cf; Co., MAN UP ACT l HKH OF Wagons & Carriages, '201 and 2v-- i Front st., Portland, Oregon. OCT" Wagons of every description made to order. GencralJolbing done with neatness and disfxitch. A LARGE jN VOICE OF NEW Sunday School and Gift Books ! -- J7R0.U THE AMERICAN TRACT SOCIE .L ty and Various other Publishing Houses! For sale by the subscriber, on Jefferson st. between" 2J and 3d, Portland, Oregon. G. II. ATKINSON, Secretary, 52.1 y and Treas. Oregon Tract So c CLAEK GREENMAIL City Drayman, 3iO j 0JIEG0XCITY. fLI- - All orders for the delivery of merchan- dise or packages and freipht of whatever des- cription, to any part of the city, will be exe- cuted promptly and with care. W. F. HIGHFIELD, Established since 1849, at the old stand, Main Strict, Oregon CUrj, Oregon. An Assortment of Watches, Jew- elry, and Scth Thomas' weight Ciocks, all of which are warranted to be as represented. Repairing uone on short notice, and thankful for past favors. A. II. CELL. E. A. r IKKEB. BELL & PARKER. I EUGGLSTS, AND DEALERS IX Chemicals, Patent Medicines, Paints, Perfumery, Oils, Varnishes, And every article kept in a Dru Store. Main Street, Oueson City. Robinson fe Lake YTII.L CONTINUE THE STOVE AND Tin-war- e trade as usual, at the estab lished EMIGRANT STOKE, Curiier of Front and Salmon sft., Portia nt, Oregon. A. J. MONROE. W. A. K. 31 ELLEN. NIMBLE WORK. MONROE & MELLEN, Dealers in California, Vermont, and Italian Marbles, Obelisks. Afonu- ?ncnts, Head and Foot sloncs, Salem Oregox Mantles and Furniture Marble furnished to ortier. to ANDiiEW WILLIS. WM. r.KOVGTITOX WILLIS & BR0UGHTGN. Having purchased the interest of S. Cram, in the well known LIVERY STABLER vne uoor ui market. Oregon City, announce-tha-t thev will at all times keep good horses ard carriages to let, at reasonable rates, liorses bought and sold cr kept by the day or week. Oregon Seed Store ! R. E. CHATFIELD, Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Garden and Field Seeds of all Kinds, PRODIXE AXD COMMISSION". First street, Portland Oregon, y, w, - Tir- -, ii.-- . exceed 75 cents a ton. $2 a ton.- - loaded with merchandise, orrd on passengers $10 a head may be charg ed. The company is to hare a grant from the Government of exclusive right of way for 90 years, - and is to pay the ; Columbian - Government O per cent, of the clearing profits for 25 years, and 8 per cent, for 75 years, for this privilege. A Singular Bird: James Henry, of Mound ' City, Illinois, 6n Surrday, the 13th ultimo, shot a new and com- paratively unknown bird on the Ken- tucky shore, opposite that city, which is thus described by the Cairo DeinOi crat r - It is larger than the ostrich, and; weighs lOi pounds. The body of this wonderful bird is covered Citk snow-whi- te down, and its head of a fiery red. The wings, of deep black,-measur- 15 feet from tip to tip, arid' the bill, of a yellow color. 23 j'neheg-It- s legs are slender and sinewy, peaV grccu in color, and measure 48 inches in length. . One of the feet resembles" that of a duck, and the other that oT a turkey. Mr. Henry shot it at a distance of 100 yards, from the top-mos- t branch of a dead tree,- - pTeyfus-upon-- a full sized sheep that it had' carried from the ground; A mao who was in the habit of constantly frequenting a cabaret 6b.' the Versailles road, near Paris, was"1 observed by the mistress to be sit- ting with his glass empty before him.- - What will you take V said the' woman. Uh, nothing more, ' was the reply. " I have but forty sous,-an- I must buy some charcoal 16' stifle myself with." " Oh. that's" very foolish' rejoined . the landlady,- - who thought he was joking ; "with1 two -- penny tforth of cord you coulif hang yourself, and by that arrange ment you could have some mora money to' spend in drink.'' " Upon' my word, you're right said the man and he spent thirty-eigh- t of his re maining sous in drink. On Saturday morning he was uiscovered 1 nauging- - to a tree. A Rochester urchin uncouseiou'g- - ly perpetrated a great joke at the ex- pense of his teacher, announcing to' her pupils the holiday of February 223, and asking them some ques tions concerning its observance ; among others, why the birthday of Washington should be celebrated more than mat 01 any t no eie. Wbv," she added, more than mine, lou may.ien me; sue sia to a little fellow eager to explain " Because," he exclaimed, with great vivacity, "because he never told a lie." " How many regular steady boarders are there m this house t asked a census taker of a Servant . r r. 1 1 r -- It fir I. mere s uueeu uoarueis iu an, sir ; but not mor'n four of ern is steady, sir." Oa a recent trial, an Irishman; with characteristic obliquity 61 specbh; after scratching his head1, Said ? " Plase ycr Honor, 1 do' not rcmcm-bcro- r if I do, I forget it now' A : At Biarritz, last summer; the Russian Princess Garlitzart was one of the boldest swimmers. She would go out a mile or more, attended 6n!y by a big black dog. -e--- : - After Charles Snmncf nad closed his speech at the Chinese' banquet in Boston, some amusement; was caused by the band striking uo " Champagne' Charlie." A Western editor reentry m'ar-rie- d One of his compbsitors, another acting as bridegroom, the o&cJatrng clergyman being a retired printer and the local editor giving tha br j!p " sway.- - facts, can we continue in the belief that great changes of climates and of the earth's surface are the work of remote periods only and have ceased ? Has our planet got its growth ? Ladies Should Head Newspapers. It is a great mastake iu female edu- cation to keep a young lady's time and attention devoted to ' only fash- ionable literature of the day. If you would qualify her for conversation, you must give her something to talk about give her education with the actual world, with the outward world, and its transpiring events. Urge her to read newspapers, and become familiar with the present character and imnrovements of our n . race. History is ot some import ance ; but the past world is dead, we have nothing to do with it. Our thoughts and our concerns should be for the present world ; to know what it is and improve its condition. Let her have an intelligent opinion, and be able to sustain intelligent convert sation concerning the mental, moral and religious improvements of our times. Let the gilded annuals and poems ou the center table bo kept part of the time covered with weekly and daily journals,, Let the whole family, men, women and children, read newspapers. -- Among the gifts to a newly married pair at a town in New Jer sey, a short time since, was a broom sent to the lady, accompanied with the following sentiment : " This trifling gift accept from me, Its n.--e I would commend ; In sunshine use the brushy part, la storms the other end." -- Novel Kace. A race or a singu lar character took place at the Driv ing Park, Lincoln, Illinois, recently. A man was matched to run two hun dred and twenty yards while a horse was to make four hundred and torty vards. both to start at the sound of the bell. The man won an easy vie tory. -- a Claims the Belt. An Illinois editor claims the champion dunner's belt for a gentleman of Jacksonville, iu that State, who dunned a man on his Wfis in chnrcb. and compelled payment before he would allow him to resume his prayer freights ; and the Sioux City Branch is reduced to a mere local connection, and deprived of absolutely all its im- portance as an avenue of Pacific trade and travel. The farther aud most important object of the Union Pacific of which the Sioux City Road is simply a feeder in building the branch contrary to law, was appar- ently to strike a blow at the North- ern Pacific Road. We say that the ion Road built the branch, which is true. Although the Sioux City Company is distinct from the Union, yet it is controlled by the latter, as are and will be all feeders to the great monopoly. Under the specious guise of proffers of subsides or other aid to roads now in course of con- struction, which can by any possi- bility be brought in connection with their - own, nnd thus inflate their power, the Union management are gradually bringing them all under their immediate control, and making them subservient to their own ends. thereby increasing the difficulties in the way of the friends of the more favored route the all important Northern Pacific. We shall have more to sav, at an other time, regarding the danger now existing" that the Union Pacific will become a monopoly that will effectu- ally control Congress, and block the wheels of legislation in aid of rival roads. In iron manufacture, it is rc ported that in Staffordshire, England, 275 tons of coal are consumed iu producing 100 tons of iron ; in York, shire, England, 220 tons of coal are used ; in Charleroi, Belgium, 165 tons of coal, and in Marquaise, Fraucc, 145 tous of coal. The French system of producing iron is said to be the most ecouomical in use. An European astronomer pre- dicts that in August next, there will be a comet of such brilliancy in the heavens and so near the earth that we shall have our nights almost as light as day. ( n - -- ' - -- 1 ATTnrp-- V r,T? BANCROFT LIBRARY, .. - .j ,r
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JJ5VOJLVUME :i. OREGON CITY, OREGON, SATURD AY, BECEMBEI112' 1868.
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I . the: ixthirrx caxai., Oa this-- sutjoet we fend the fo!lbv-- '
ingiri a late Eastern journal r. The idea-o- f a "canal across the Isth-muswhich varies in width from H
little more than 100 miles to sOiaething' less tKan, SO miles was broach-ed as' early as the days of Philip If,of Spain ; and a partial survey was"'made by his authority, about the year"1528. But insuperable difficultieswere met 'with, aud th6 idea wasabandoned. 1826 the plan "Was re-vived by a New Grenadiau engineer,-an-
a route 'surveyed. Another andmore formal survey: was rh'ark;, byauthority of Bolivar, in 1827-2- 9. lit1813 the French'surveyed for a canal,-an-
obtained a favorable report ; andfrom that time to the' building' of" the' '
Pauama Railroad, 1850-5- 5, the sub-ject continued to be agitated, butwithout any practical results. Now,however, it is to be hoped tha, theset time has come to begin this miich-moote- d
and most important interna-tional undertaking.
The present proposed plan is rtobuild a canal large enough; to allowany ship in tha world, except theGreat Eastern, to pass from ocean toocean, without unloading; and tohave it free to all nations, and neu-tral ia all wars. . Vessels are to passand repass by paying a stipulatedsum per ton and pef passenger ; theports at either end to be free exceptfor goods intended for consumptionin the Republic of Colombia. Thecharge on ships' in ballast is hot to
Some Facts about Earthquakes.
A Washington correspondent ofthe New York Herald contributes thefollowing :
The recent earthquakes in SouthAmerica and California have createda desire to know what part of theUnited States is most liable to theseterrible convulsions.
During the winter of 1811-- 12 aportion of the Mississippi Yalley,above and below New Madrid, ex-
tending even up as fur as Cairo, wasconvulsed to such a degree as tocreate lakes and islands, and had thecountry been thickly inhabited itwould have been attended with greatloss of life. A tract near LittlePrairie became covered with water,and a large lake, many miles in ex-tent, was formed in the course of anhour. The village of New Madrid,together with the batik of the riverfor 15 miles above it, was sunk be-
neath the water, and the revulsionwas such as to force all boats andother material afloat at the time upthe stream some 12 or IS miles. Theearth rose in great undulations, andwhen they reached a certain heightthe soil burst and vast volumes ofsand, water and a singular substance-resemblin-
coke were discharged.The general directions of the chasmswere from southwest to northeast.Iudeed earthquakes may be said tobo chronic throughont a section ofthe country embracing southeasternMissouri, Northern Arkansas and In-
dian Territory. Convulsions andtremblings of the earth's surface areof monthly occurrence in many por-tions of the district, so common andslight as to excite little attention, butare of importance as showing a constant babilit' to serious calamity.
Among the Ozark mountains thereare several extinct volcanoes and onethat has shown activity within thepast three years. A slight volcauiceruption occurs regularly every twen-ty four hours two o'clock in themorning at the hot Springs in Iudi-a- n
Territory, west of Arkansas. Aloud report is heard, accompaniedwith an eruption of mineral, oil andwater the latter hot enough to boileggs. The volcanic tendencies of thisportion of the Union has seriouslyretarded its settlement. Rich Mis-
sissippi bottom lands in the vicinityof New Madrid cannot be sold forten dollars per acve, while similarlands fifty miles north or south readi-ly bring $100 or over.
It may be worthy of remark lhatthe chasms opened by the MississippiValley earthquake of 1 S 1 11 2 weresimilar in appearance and at rightangles with those of the great convul-sion in Chile in the year 1835, whichextended three hundred miles west-ward to the island of Juan Fernan-dez, elevatiug some 100,000 squaremiles of the bed of the 6ea abovehigh water mark. It is estimatedthat the amount of rock added to thecontentment by the last named earth-quake was sufficient to form a moun-tain higher than Etna, with a circum-ference of thirty-fiT- e miles, or equalin bulk to one hundred thousandEgyptian pyramids.
In view of these and many similar
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IIoiv t!e Northern Piicitic RailroadProject I Opposeil.
The Sioux City Branch Road, con-
necting with the Union Pacific, is nowattracting the attention of the advo-cates of the Northern Pacific, be-
cause, in building it the provisionsof the section authorizing its coa.struction are evaded.4 In the act of18G2, incorporating and subsidiziugthe Union Pacific Railroad, authoritywas "given the company to build aroad from Sioux City, Iowa, to con-
nect with the former on the nearestand most practicable route. Forthis purpose, the liberal subsidy of$10,000 per mile was granted, iu addition to the usual land grant. Thisis what is now known r.s the SiouiCity Branch Road, and it was in-
tended to connect with a Road fromLake Superior to Sioux City, thusaffording direct communication froma point on the Union line with theabove named lake. From a certainpoint on said road about one hundredmiles west of Sioux City, it is at leastone hundred miles nearer to the headof Lake Superior than to Chicago.The construction of this road wouldbe of vast beneGt to the countrythrough which it must pass and theterritory contiguous to it. Insteadof building the road, however, as con-templated in the law, says the Helena(Montana) Herald, by the nearestpracticable route and in a direct linefrom Sioux City to the Union PacificRoad, it runs from Sioux City downthe valley of the Missouri river, in theState of Iowa, for seventy-tw- o miles,crossing the Missouri above Omaha,and striking the Union Pacific atFremont, on the Platte river. Forthe first sixty ..eight miles of the road,according to the Minneapolis (Minn.)Tribune, every mile after they leaveSioux City takes them from insteadof towards the Pacific ocean ; andafter sixty eight miles ride, the trav-eler finds himself twenty miles fartherfrom the Pacific coast than he waswhen he left Sioux City. Prom SiouxCity to Fremont, by the road, tliedistance is one hundred miles, andFremont is but six miles nearer thePacific coast than Sioux City. Inbrief, the Sioux City Company havebuilt a Pacific Branch Road one hundred miles Ion?, for every mile ofwhich they have received a subsidyof 810,000 in government bonds anda land grant of 12,800 acres, and atthe end of it, they are only six miles"nearer the Pacific than at'the poinfof departure. Had the road beenbuilt as provided by law, " iy theshortest practicable route," ninety-si- x
miles of road would have joinedthe Union Pacific at Columbus, forty-fiv- e
miles nearer the Pacific oceanthan the one hundred miles actuallybuilt. This was not only a flagrantviolation of the express provisions ofthe law authorizing the constructionof the road, but it was an unfriendlyact to Minnesota, which has justlyexcited the ire of the people of thatState. The St. Paul Press, in par-ticular, is very warm in its denuncia-tion of the road built, and says thatMinnesota is thus swindled out of thegreat advantages which the directroute would have given them overChicago, and that the country isswindled out of the advantages whichit would have derived from the sav-ing of hundreds of miles of railroadtransportation for the vast commerceof the Pacific, especially of heavy
Henry VarI Becclier's Farm.
A correspondent of the CanadaFarmer, thus describes a visit to thefarm of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher,at Peekskili, N..Y :
We spent an afternoon there verypleasantly. in the society of the giftedproprietor, and his interesting family.Mr. Beecher's farm consists of thirty-si- x
acres, having a narrow frontage,and sloping up a considerable distancefrom the stretch of table land below,so that it commands a Gne panoramicview of the picturesque region aboutPeekskili, and takes into the scenerya beautiful sweep of the original farmhouse, somewhat improved since itcame into Mr. Beecher's possession,and forming a comfortable but un-pretentious family residence, and alarge, handsome barn, roofed withvariegated slates, and evincines thetaste at once of the architect andowner.
Mr. Beecher cultivates his domainin the meantime as a vegetable andfruit farm, and it reflects no smallcredit on his management that lastyear the salts off it amounted to$4,600 an average of $100 per acrePer contra mu it be reckoned thewages of seven men during the work-ing season, outlay for manure, teamexpenses, &c. Mr. Beecher is a bet-ter and more practical farmer thanwe expected to find him. He under-stands the theory and principles ofagriculture thoroughly, and is mak-ing intelligent application of them onhis little estate, which he is managingnot so much for the sake cf presentprofit, as with an eye to making apleasant home when he retires fromactive ministerial duties.
Most of his land has been thorough-ly stirred to the depth of fifteeniuches. It is thoroughly enrichedwith barnyard and artificial manures.Apple, pear, plum, and peach or-
chards are planted, and a large vine-yard set out. These are protectedby evergreen screens and hedges, orrather will be when the young treesbecome large enough. Shade andornamental trees are growing up toadorn a spot which already possessesextraordinary attractions, and will bea delightful place when tue owner'splans are carried out.
Mr. Beecher has large plantations.of strawberries, raspberries and blackberries, grows early potatoes, limabeans, melons, " ruta bagas," andsweet corn extensively, and has notonly a bright and beautiful array offlower-bed- s close to his house, butseems to grow them promiscuouslyall over his farm. A good sizedpatch of "ruta bagas'' (or Swedeturnips, as we should call them,) isfringed with three rows of dwart as-
ters which are just coming into pro- -
bloom. Mr. Beecher is passionately found of flowers, and likesto have them wherever he is, even in
the pulpit. We were glad to learnfrom him that his example ot highfarming is doing his neighbors good,and that a perceptible improvementhas taken place, siace las advent, inthe style of husbandry about Peek-skil- l.
Such will always be the effectof growing uniformly good cropsthrough the combined application ofliberal manure and skilled labor.
PRrxTS ox Aitles axd Pears. Afriend who has lately been on a visitto the " Hub of the Universe,"writes us thus :
" I have just seen a very prettyand fanciful iiea developed ou pearsand apples, in the orchard of a friendat AVest Roxbury, Massachusetts.As you ramble among the trees, youare ever and anon saluted by an iuscription upon the fruit, done as itwere by the hand of nature" herself.On some you will find the names offavorite political candidates. Hereyou meet with the famiii ir names ofMary, or Alice, or a date (1SGS) inbrief, everything that may suggestitself to your taste or fancy ; and alldone in the skin of the fruit, withoutabrasion of any foreign impression.The discovery was made by the HonArthur W. Austin, of W est Roxbury,in 1S51-- 2. He observed, during theformer year, that apples did not redden in that nartof tiie fruit whereleaf happened to lie upon it. In 1352he cut out letters from newspapers,and, when the apples were yet green,he pasted them upon them with pastesuch as the apothecaries use, madeof gum tragacauth. The appleswould reddea in all parts not coveredby the pasted letters. When thefruit had reddened to perfection, theletters were removed, and they wouldappear permanently outlined in green.So, again, when he pasted on the ap-
ple a paper in which the letters were,
cut out, the parts covered by the pa-
per would bo green aud the letterswould appear distinctly turned in red,the greeu ground surrounding them.The experiment is a very pretty one,and produces a happy effect let ourfruit growers try it. How muchsweeter must be the relish of appleor pear if the name of the favoriteshould thus appear on it, as if writtenby the hand of nature. What a su-
perior price such fruit, so inscribed,would command in market, and whata pretty present it would be to anylady at a feast."
The proprietor of a forge, notremarkable for correctness of Ian
guage, but vfho, by honest industry,had realized a comfortable independ- -
ence. being called upon at a socialmeeting for a toast, gave " Success to
IIOOIvEK.From the Alantic Monthly for December.'
This capacious soul was lodged Iti
one of the feeblest of bodies. . Physi-- ,
ologists are never weary of telling usthat masculine health is necessary tothe vigor of the mind ; but the vastmental strength of Hooker was inde-
pendent of his physical constitution.His appearance in the pulpit conveyedno idea of a great man. Small iu
stature, with a low voice, using nogesture, never moving his person orlifting his eyes from his sermon, heseemed the very impersonation of
clerical incapacity and dullness ; butsoon the thoughtful listener found hismiud fascinated by the. automatonspeaker ; a still, devout ecstasybreathed from the pallid lips ;
thought and the most ex-
tensive learning found calm expres-sion in the low accents ; and, moresurprising still, the somewhat rudemother tongue of Englishmen washeard for the first time from the lipsof a master of prose composition, de-
monstrating its capacity for all thepurposes of the most refined and mostenlarged philosophic thought. In-
deed, the serene might of Hooker'ssoul is perhaps most obviously per-ceived in his style, -- in the easypower with which he wields andbends to his purpose a language notyet trained into a ready vehicle ofphilosophical expression. It is doubt-ful if any English writer siuce his timehas shown equal power in the con-
struction of long sentences, thosesentences in which the thought, andthe atmosphere of the thought, andthe modifications of the thought, areall included in one sweeping period,which gathers clause after clause asit rolls melodiously on to its foreseenconclusion, and having the generalgravity aud grandeur ot its modulatedmovement pervaded by an inexpres-sibly sweet undertone of individualsentiment. And the strength is freefrom every fretful aud morbid qualitywhich commonly taints the performances of a strong mind lodged in asickly body. It is as serene, wholesome, and comprehensive as it ispowerful.
A lady in Boise Valley who hasbeen devoting her time and attentionto teaching and raising flowers, writesher experience to the CaliforniaFarmer, from which we extract :
Have I not reason to sing and beglad ? Only a little time ago theworld looked so dark and dreary.Never can we forget the heartacheand utter desolation of spirit we en-
dured when calling at the dry goodsstores, book stores, and other places,seeking employment as a saleswoman;to all these was not an exception I
one said, " Ave don t believe iu wo-
man's rights." We besought withtears a place to work at one-hal- f thesalary paid to young men. " Onlytake me on trial, I am sure I can tryto please you. " No' the answer
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came, we siioum tosc customers;then, " a woman's place is at home I 'What mockery ; Home! ics,home,and yet not a home 1 because rentmust be paid, wood bought, provisions, lights, everything, and the active brain, and strong arms that carried this burden were gone forever.No wonder thousands of women arehurried on to swift destruction. Oh !
that they knew the balm there is in
the blessed sunshine and crisp frostymornings, and the sweet satisfactionin sleeping, resting and singing, whilethe elements combine their powers tomake her food grow. If old Ben.Franklin and Prof.-Mors- were madehappy by chaining the lightning-mak- ing
it subservient to their willwhy should not every toiling womanbe equally happy when she wakes upto the fact that sho can, by simplestmeans, take into her service the nat-
ural elements . and compel them togrow for her own use, luscious fruit,delicious vegetables.and golden grain"?
Slowly we cry Eureka' we havefound it"! We can earn bread andhnnlcs clothincr and comforts, andmany more - luxuries than any work-i-
woman, or a dweller of cities.We can stay at home, play with thebaby, do our own sewing, keep house,write letters, read papers, and entertain company, go out as often as we
wish. Iu a word, feel independent,healthy and happy, no annoyance ot
seekintr work, no temptation to una poor woman to obtain it,
no time spent in collecting bills from
house to houseThe fruit from our garden has been
sold at remunerative prices. Thelarger number of purchasers came tothe house with their own carriagesafter it.
Ladies come from towns twentymiles distant to buy slips of rosesand verbenas, and later in the seasonfor strawberry plants
This seemingly barren hill-sid- e hasin two seasons given us a larger salarv than has been paid to any womanroar-hr-r in the Union schools of thecountry.
A strange murder was recently
committed at Lyons. Two men at-
tacked a woman named Jacotot asshe was entering her house, tied herhands, foced some corrosive liquordown her throat, and then threw herintr the mnddv stream called Suzon.Sho managed to crawl out of the
( river and reach the nearest house,but was unable to speak, and died iu
(,a few minutes.
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sisting iu part of Carpenter and Joiner woikframing, building, etc. Jobbing promptly
attended t .
jJa vid slimi,Successor to SMITH d-- MARSHALL,
Blaclc-Smit- h and Wagon Jfaker,Comer of Main and Third streets,
.Oregon City Oregon.-- B!acksniuYmg in all its branches; Wag-
on making and repairing. All work warrant-ed to frive
KOS1IL AND 1UIOTIIERS,PORTLAND AUCTION ST0EE,
97 Pirst sC, Portland,Xext Door to Post Office.
Importers and Jabbers of Staple andFancy Pry Goods. Ur.ua bags, Uurlap3, furn-Mim- g
Goods. 65, We pay the highest cashprice for Wool, Furs, and liidca.
YRM3?S & DALL AALZiirOUTEKS A NO JOBBEr.S OF
Wood and Willow Ware.Brushes, 2'tc'uics, Cordage, etc.,
AND SIAXTFACTfRF.RS OF
Brooms, Pails, rlibs, Washboards. c
15 A 217 Sacramento st., San Francisco.113 Maiden Lane. N. V. Cily.
JMES L. DALY,(Late Dalv & Stevens,)
G EN EE A L A G E N T,Office No. 104 Front street, Portland,Will give special attention to Collecting
snd adjustment of accounts, bills and notes;Negotiating Inland bills ; effecting- - loans ;buying, scUingand leasing read estate; houserenting, and to the general agency businessin all its branches.
John. Nestor, Architect,OFFICE IN CARTERS BUILDING,
Frout St., Portland Orc-o- n.
FIRST-CLAS- S RESIDENCES,Business Houses, Halls, Churches,
Tenements, Cottages, SuburbanResidences, and
M.L INSCRIPTIONS OF UKICK AND FRAME
Buildings Designed and PlannedWith accuracy, and scrupulously and faith-
fully Mtperititemiei. T"Owner; interestsijnoia-- , :i par j 10 Hi
PATIEXCE.
Why should we murmur, though the stormIs all around us raging?
Though angry clouds the skies deformLike battle hosts engaging?
An unseen hand the storm king guidesAs on the wintry wind he rides,And up above the tempest linesThe sun in all his glory shines.
VThy should we murmur though the illsOf life around us hover?
Though through the gloom that nature fillsNo light we can discover?
The arm that guides the tempest kingShall bear us through all suffering,And gently lead us to the shoreWhere sin and death are known no more.
The wintry storm the earth preparesFor verdure bright aud vernal ;
So oftentimes our wearying caresFit us for joys supernal.
Then murmur not though griefs befall ;
With patient heart endure them allKeep but the journey's end in view,And God shall lead thee safelv throurh.
FEitrETUAL Presence of Christ.A Christian should make his Saviora perpetual companion everywhere,and on every day of the week. Christoffers to walk with him iu everyday's journey of life. What compaa-ionshi- p
so enlivening and so purifyingas His; who else can make our heartsso burn witbiu us by the way ?
Christ's presence with believers isone of the best preventives from sin ;
one of the best stimulators to duty.Jesus is " made unto us sanctificastion'' as well as redemption. Thatis His is a spirit of holiness. Andwhen he lives in hourly communionwith Jesus it has a tendency to makeus holy.
The sense of Christ's immediatepresence is a perpetual check uponour lusts a perpetual spur to ourself indolence. Are we provoked tocutting words or irritating retorts?One look from the gentle,
Jesus should be enough to sealthe lip and to smooth the ruftledbrow. Are we ever tempted tokeen bargains and overreaching inbusiness? Selfishness sa7.", " All isfair, others do it, it is the customof our trade.'7 Rut what will thepure and holy Jesus say ?
How will our account book look-t-o
Ilim when He " audits" them ?
And so on all through the calendarof duties and the circle of daily temp-tations. With my Savior beside me.how will I dare to play the coward,or the cheat, or the trifler, or thesensualist, or the trickster ?
No where will Christ's presence bemore cheering and sustaining than iuthe weariness of the sick room, orunder the silent shadows of a creatbereavement. " Christ comes to mein the watches of the night,'' said thebedridden saint, Ilalburton : "Hedraws aside the curtains and says :
It is I ; be of good cheer ; be notafraid. Here 1 lie pained with pain ;
without strength, and yet strong."And when Lbe last farewells havebeen spoken through the sobs of thedying hour, this never failing Friendwill sweetly whisper, " Fear not, Iam with thee. Where I am ye shallbe also. Having loved my own, Iwill love them until the end."
Notable Dreams. A writer in
the London Argosy says : DoctorMcNish, " happening to sleep in
amp sheets, dreamed that he was
dragged through a stream.'' DoctorSymonds witnessed in his sleep whathe thought was a prolonged storm ofthunder, which he was afterwardsable to trace to the light of a candlebrought suddenly into the dark roomwhere he had fallen asleep. He re.ites that a person having a blister
applied to his head fancied that hewas scalped by a party of Indians.I remember, when a boy, sleeping ina strange house, in an old fashionedroom, with an oaken store-cupboa- rd
over the bed. I dreamed that I wasjeing murdered : the assassin struck
me on the head, and I awoke with asense ot pain m tnat region. 1 ut- -
ting my hand to tny forehead, I foundit sticky with blood ! I felt too illto crv for help : but at lemrtb. Ialarmed the household, and on pro-
curing a light, it was found that someermented jam had leaked through
the bottom of the cupboard and fal-
len upon my head in a small sluggishstream.
From observation, reflection and
experience, we nave conduced matfor all in any degree suffering from
the use of stimulants, total abstinence., t n-- . : A TV
13 tne moss tuecuu muiuuv. u
fou'bt this opinion for fifteen yeara.
While deprecating saloon dram- -
drinking, we were very jotn to mveup the fascinating social nresiae eve-- i
nino-- of toddy. The pleasuretherefrom derived was anticipatedhours iu advance. Yet to it we were
at last obliged to trace much head-
ache, languor, depression of spirits,and worse than all, an evtr-recurrin- g
desire for a little taste of the creatureat odd times and occasions. It was
only ou renouncing it entirely thatwe felt on a safe foundation. Headaud ponder. Ex.
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A Texas paper publishes thefollowing notice : " Persons .wishing
their marriage or obituary inserted,will please send or hand it in." Rather
idifficult request to be coinpli with
LADD & TILT ON,BANKERS, rouTuxn, Oregox.
Win give prompt attention to collections,and other business appertaining to Banking
Sight and Telegraphic ExchangeOn San Francisco and the Atlantic States forsale. Government Securities bought andsold.
Qy. FERRY,BROKER, Portland. Oregox.
tor. Front and JVashington Sts.Agent North British and Mercantile
Insurance Company, and Manhat-tan Life Insurance Company.
IFfCovcrnment Securities, Stocks,Bondsand Real Estate bought and sold an Com-mission.
W. c. JOHNSON". K. O. M COWS.Notary Public.
JOHNSON & McCOWN,
Oregon City, Oregon.W Will attend to all business entrusted to
our care in any of the Courts of the State,Collect money .Negotiate loans, sell real estateetc. Particular attention given to contestedLand cases.
H. MITCHELL. J. N DOLPII. m A. SMITH.
Mitchell, Dolph & Smith,Attorneys and Counsellors at Laio,
Solicitors in Chancery, and Proc-tors iti Admiralty.
srW Office oer the old I'ost Office, Frontstreet, Portland, Oregon.
C. CilBBS. c. w. rAiuttsn,Notary Pulli and Com. qUetdg.
GIBBS & PAKRISH,Atlorveys and Counselors at Law,
Portland, Oeegox.OFFICE On Alder street, in Carter's
brick block.
JOHN IYI. BACON,Justice of the Peace d-- City Recorder.
Office In the Court House and CityCouncil Room, Oregon City.
J63 Will attend to the acknowledgment ofdeeds, aud all other duties appertaining to thebusiness of a Justice of the Peace.
Dr. J, H. HATCH"Late Mack Hatch, .v5ggav
T-- v n tvt m t t rrt 1 t.S.Tvj.:'tfhjU Jj 1 X 1 O 1 ;
The patronage of those desiring First ClassOperations, is respectfully solicited.
Satisfaction in all cases guaranteed.N. B. Nitrous Oxyde administered for the
Painless Extraction of Teeth.Office Corner of Washington and Fron
streets, Portland. Entrance on Washingtonstreet.
"JENTAL NOTICE.
HOME AGAIN.During my tour of two yearsin the Eastern States I havespared neither time normonev to make invse'f per
fectly familiar with and master of my pro-fession. Those desiring the best work thatthe nature of the case will admit of eanlindme at my olliee, 107 Front street, two doorsabove McCormiek's Book Store, Portland,Oregon.
BR. J. G. GLENN.
GKMriCEY BALL,iiuccrxmir to O radon cf; Co.,
MAN UP ACT l HKH OF
Wagons & Carriages,'201 and 2v-- i Front st., Portland, Oregon.
OCT" Wagons of every descriptionmade to order. GencralJolbing donewith neatness and disfxitch.
A LARGE jN VOICE OF NEWSunday School and Gift Books !
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J7R0.U THE AMERICAN TRACT SOCIE.L ty and
Various other Publishing Houses!For sale by the subscriber, on Jefferson st.
between" 2J and 3d, Portland, Oregon.G. II. ATKINSON, Secretary,
52.1 y and Treas. Oregon Tract So c
CLAEK GREENMAIL
City Drayman,3iO j
0JIEG0XCITY.fLI-- All orders for the delivery of merchan-
dise or packages and freipht of whatever des-cription, to any part of the city, will be exe-cuted promptly and with care.
W. F. HIGHFIELD,Established since 1849, at the old stand,
Main Strict, Oregon CUrj, Oregon.
An Assortment of Watches, Jew-elry, and Scth Thomas' weightCiocks, all of which are warrantedto be as represented.
Repairing uone on short notice,and thankful for past favors.
A. II. CELL. E. A. r IKKEB.
BELL & PARKER.I EUGGLSTS,
AND DEALERS IX
Chemicals, Patent Medicines, Paints,Perfumery, Oils, Varnishes,
And every article kept in a Dru Store. MainStreet, Oueson City.
Robinson fe LakeYTII.L CONTINUE THE STOVE AND
Tin-war- e trade as usual, at the established EMIGRANT STOKE,
Curiier of Front and Salmon sft.,Portia nt, Oregon.
A. J. MONROE. W. A. K. 31 ELLEN.
NIMBLE WORK.MONROE & MELLEN,
Dealers in California, Vermont, andItalian Marbles, Obelisks. Afonu-?ncnts, Head and Foot sloncs,
Salem OregoxMantles and Furniture Marble furnished
to ortier. to
ANDiiEW WILLIS. WM. r.KOVGTITOX
WILLIS & BR0UGHTGN.
Having purchased the interestof S. Cram, in the well known
LIVERY STABLERvne uoor ui market. OregonCity, announce-tha-t thev will at all timeskeep good horses ard carriages to let, atreasonable rates, liorses bought and soldcr kept by the day or week.
Oregon Seed Store !
R. E. CHATFIELD,Wholesale and Retail Dealer in
Garden and Field Seeds of all Kinds,PRODIXE AXD COMMISSION".
First street, Portland Oregon,y, w, - Tir- -, ii.-- .
exceed 75 cents a ton. $2 a ton.- -
loaded with merchandise, orrd onpassengers $10 a head may be charged. The company is to hare a grantfrom the Government of exclusiveright of way for 90 years, - and is topay the ; Columbian - Government O
per cent, of the clearing profits for25 years, and 8 per cent, for 75 years,for this privilege.
A Singular Bird: James Henry,of Mound ' City, Illinois, 6n Surrday,the 13th ultimo, shot a new and com-
paratively unknown bird on the Ken-tucky shore, opposite that city, whichis thus described by the Cairo DeinOicrat r -
It is larger than the ostrich, and;weighs lOi pounds. The body ofthis wonderful bird is covered Citksnow-whi- te down, and its head of afiery red. The wings, of deep black,-measur-
15 feet from tip to tip, arid'the bill, of a yellow color. 23 j'neheg-It- s
legs are slender and sinewy, peaVgrccu in color, and measure 48 inchesin length. . One of the feet resembles"that of a duck, and the other that oTa turkey. Mr. Henry shot it at adistance of 100 yards, from the top-mos- t
branch of a dead tree,-- pTeyfus-upon-- a
full sized sheep that it had'carried from the ground;
A mao who was in the habit ofconstantly frequenting a cabaret 6b.'
the Versailles road, near Paris, was"1
observed by the mistress to be sit-ting with his glass empty before him.--
What will you take V said the'woman. Uh, nothing more, ' wasthe reply. " I have but forty sous,-an-
I must buy some charcoal 16'stifle myself with." " Oh. that's"very foolish' rejoined . the landlady,- -
who thought he was joking ; "with1two -- penny tforth of cord you coulifhang yourself, and by that arrangement you could have some moramoney to' spend in drink.'' " Upon'my word, you're right said the man
and he spent thirty-eigh- t of his remaining sous in drink. On Saturdaymorning he was uiscovered
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nauging--
to a tree.
A Rochester urchin uncouseiou'g- -
ly perpetrated a great joke at the ex-
pense of his teacher, announcing to'her pupils the holiday of February223, and asking them some questions concerning its observance ;
among others, why the birthday ofWashington should be celebratedmore than mat 01 any t no eie.
Wbv," she added, more thanmine, lou may.ien me; sue siato a little fellow eager to explain" Because," he exclaimed, with greatvivacity, "because he never told alie."
" How many regular steadyboarders are there m this house t
asked a census taker of a Servant.r r. 1 1 r -- Itfir I. mere s uueeu uoarueis iu an,
sir ; but not mor'n four of ern issteady, sir."
Oa a recent trial, an Irishman;with characteristic obliquity 61 specbh;
after scratching his head1, Said ?
" Plase ycr Honor, 1 do' not rcmcm-bcro- r
if I do, I forget it now'A :
At Biarritz, last summer; theRussian Princess Garlitzart was one
of the boldest swimmers. She would
go out a mile or more, attended 6n!yby a big black dog.
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- After Charles Snmncf nad closed
his speech at the Chinese' banquet in
Boston, some amusement; was causedby the band striking uo " Champagne'Charlie."
A Western editor reentry m'ar-rie- d
One of his compbsitors, anotheracting as bridegroom, the o&cJatrng
clergyman being a retired printerand the local editor giving tha brj!p
"sway.- -
facts, can we continue in the beliefthat great changes of climates and ofthe earth's surface are the work ofremote periods only and have ceased ?
Has our planet got its growth ?
Ladies Should Head Newspapers.It is a great mastake iu female edu-
cation to keep a young lady's timeand attention devoted to ' only fash-
ionable literature of the day. If you
would qualify her for conversation,you must give her something to talkabout give her education with theactual world, with the outwardworld, and its transpiring events.Urge her to read newspapers, andbecome familiar with the presentcharacter and imnrovements of our
n .race. History is ot some importance ; but the past world is dead, wehave nothing to do with it. Ourthoughts and our concerns should befor the present world ; to know whatit is and improve its condition. Lether have an intelligent opinion, andbe able to sustain intelligent convertsation concerning the mental, moraland religious improvements of ourtimes. Let the gilded annuals andpoems ou the center table bo keptpart of the time covered with weeklyand daily journals,, Let the wholefamily, men, women and children,read newspapers.
-- Among the gifts to a newlymarried pair at a town in New Jersey, a short time since, was a broomsent to the lady, accompanied withthe following sentiment :
" This trifling gift accept from me,Its n.--e I would commend ;
In sunshine use the brushy part,la storms the other end."
--Novel Kace. A race or a singular character took place at the Driving Park, Lincoln, Illinois, recently.A man was matched to run two hundred and twenty yards while a horsewas to make four hundred and tortyvards. both to start at the sound ofthe bell. The man won an easy vietory.
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Claims the Belt. An Illinoiseditor claims the champion dunner's
belt for a gentleman of Jacksonville,iu that State, who dunned a man on
his Wfis in chnrcb. and compelledpayment before he would allow him
to resume his prayer
freights ; and the Sioux City Branchis reduced to a mere local connection,and deprived of absolutely all its im-
portance as an avenue of Pacific tradeand travel. The farther aud mostimportant object of the Union Pacific
of which the Sioux City Road issimply a feeder in building thebranch contrary to law, was appar-ently to strike a blow at the North-ern Pacific Road. We say that the
ion Road built the branch, whichis true. Although the Sioux CityCompany is distinct from the Union,yet it is controlled by the latter, asare and will be all feeders to thegreat monopoly. Under the speciousguise of proffers of subsides or otheraid to roads now in course of con-struction, which can by any possi-bility be brought in connection withtheir - own, nnd thus inflate theirpower, the Union management aregradually bringing them all undertheir immediate control, and makingthem subservient to their own ends.thereby increasing the difficulties inthe way of the friends of the morefavored route the all importantNorthern Pacific.
We shall have more to sav, at another time, regarding the danger nowexisting" that the Union Pacific willbecome a monopoly that will effectu-ally control Congress, and block thewheels of legislation in aid of rivalroads.
In iron manufacture, it is rcported that in Staffordshire, England,275 tons of coal are consumed iu
producing 100 tons of iron ; in York,shire, England, 220 tons of coal areused ; in Charleroi, Belgium, 165tons of coal, and in Marquaise,Fraucc, 145 tous of coal. TheFrench system of producing iron issaid to be the most ecouomical inuse.
An European astronomer pre-
dicts that in August next, there willbe a comet of such brilliancy in theheavens and so near the earth thatwe shall have our nights almost aslight as day.
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