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--The Walla - Walla Statesman MARRIED.- A " pRir.-vre- - Letter One of AUCTIONANJD COMMISSIONSecomk The enterprise for which theShe tUcckhrtCuScrpricr. wTiU the sadlTTonar cost "6T "extra boats",warehouses, handling, etc., etc., precludes

-- : lKCt.AH."Of Wallamet Fall, Canal and...Xrfk Coiapauy, ofClackawas Coun.t y, Oregon.

tne leading juemocrats ct Uregou,now mVash i ngt on Ci ty w e w i U

not say jlhatjitWas the Roy. Josephwritirrg to a Demedrat of this

eity, makes use of the following lan-

guages respecting the action of 'the-- press of hat-party, -- in commentingupon the work of the last Legisla-ture.' He bays V

ou should earnestly implore - theHerald and , in fact all Democraticpapers in Oregon, to cease the dis-cussion of this question. No good cancome out of it and untold damagewill inevitably follow its further dis-cussion.- . ; - n;.: -- ;

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The Democrat to whom the above"!, , , "': '..!

una mucn more was aauresseu, tnatnedeemed it unadvisable lo- allow us toprint,) lives in Oregon City, and heis a gentleman the like of hicIk thereare but feW. in that party. r He is ; asthoroughly disgusted with the coarsethe. Democratic majority, pursued in

the Legislature, as was Senator Hus-

ton, or Mr. Waymire of Polk county,both Democrats, : who are ; not

afraid to place ; the responsibilitywhere it rests.: Upon the rebels, ofthat body. , :

Tkkathext ok SifALL-Po- x Dr.W. Eield, of Wilmington, Delaware,says; "Having much experience inthe cure of scarlet fever - and small-pox, of the most malignant type, 1

would thank you, for the sake of hu-

manity, to publish a recipe, which ifcarefully and faithfully carried outwill cure forty-fiv- e out of fifty cases,without calling on a physician":

Scarlet Fever. For adults, giveone tablespoonful of brewer's yeast inth rce taolespoonfuls of sweetenedwater, three times a day, and if thethroat is much swollen, gargle withthe yeast, at;d apply to the throat asa poultice, mixed with .Indian meal.Use plenty of catnip tea .to keep theeruption out on the skin a few days.

Small Pox. Use the above dosesof yeast three times a day, end takemi!k diet throughout the entire dis- -

C agon City, Oregon ,

P. G. JREUXSD, EDITOH FUGFRIETOR.

Saturday : : January 16, 1869

; The Wenat is again " up anddoing."

The California Pacific Railroadnow open to Sacramento and to

.Callstoa, from Yailejo."" mil mm.;"

-- If it , is .only !.' conscience that.. makes cowards of ns all." The

Urald should be at fearless as Ctesar.

y- - A letter from il Observer''', andr one from Occasional are uuavoida"

We delayed.

- Hamlin and Morrill of Maine,are"'fighting" for the Senatorial seat of

that State.

: . Capt. Cahalan has been re-

elected to the command of the Enj-m- et

Guard, of Portland.

The Grand Konde Sentinel hearsthat a $10,000 nup:Set has beenfound on Shasta creek.

Chas. Sprenger, one of the pro-prietors of the Pacific Hotel in Al-bany, died last week of consumption.

George Hall, aii old gentlemanformerly of Canton, Illinois, died' ofAsthma in this city on Thursdaylast. He bad no relatives.

J. II. Slater has bought a farmsir miles from La Grande, and willdevote himself hereafter to agricul-tural pursuits.

The Evening Commercial is" pitching" info two heavy menJudge Stronsj and Ireland. We canstand it. How is it with you, Judge?

Terrific rain storms have dePtroyed much valuable property andmany lives, in Pennsylvania and ad-jacent States in the East.

All the boats on the Wallametriver, below the falls, are scarcelynbl to carry the freight to Portland,as it accurnnlates on the portage,aud in the warehouses of this city.

We learn that Beach & Mon-teit- h,

of Buena Vista, are erecting as:iw mill in place of the one they lostby fire recently and that by springthey will be actively engaged againin lumbering.

T. VI. Brooks, Civil Engineer onthe Oregon Central and Puget Soundand Columbia River naiiroaas,

ease. JN early every case can be cured until the services of a first class civil engi-witho- ut

le;ivfn,r a ,,,!.-- i neer has been procured, one who has h.td

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savs that of all '"bilks" the man whobilks a newspaper is the tsieane&t.

-- J?21. Gi!oan os;' preparing tobuild a three story brick adjoiningCarter's fine block in Portland.

Messrs. Patterson- - & Semplehave decide d that three Democraticpapers iti Portland would not provepi.olitable. Hence will not begin it.

.... John S. White, Esq., formerly '

of Portland, was married to Mrs.Ruth Hnssoy, at Walla "Walla onthe Cth. -

The new banking house of Messrs.Ladd & Tilton, Portland, is describedby the city journals.' It is as fine astructure as ,any on this coast,

Persons visiting Olympia shouldstop at the .Pacific Hotel. We areinformed that Mr. Hill Harmon,' thehnSt, is a whole sooled, er.terDrisingcitizen. .

General Grant does not favorthe maintaining of large squadrons atforeign stations that are not import-ant, and especially where Americaninterests can be protected with twoor three ships as well as a dozen.

One of the latest engineeringprojects is to connect the upperOhio' with the Gulf of Mexico by ashort route. The principal link inthe line would be a canal thirty mileslong between the Coosa and Tennesseerivers.

A large number of bills havebeen recently introduced iato Con-

gress among them one by Ashley,providing a temporary government forAlaska ; also in relation to the election of a Delegate from that Terri-tory. Preferred to the Committeeon Territories.

The material formerly used inpublishing the Blue Mountain Timeshas been shipped to Walla Walla,and is to be used there in publishinga new paper of Republican proclivi-ties, to be called the Weekly Union.II. M- - Judson, editor.

Geo. Francis Train begins toconsider his imprisonment a seriousjoke. It was an easy matter to getinto this bad English box, but liefinds it very hard to get out. Mean-while he has given up all hopes ofCongress and the White House. Heis said to sutler 1'ur the want of aTurkish bath.

A writer in Harper's Magazine,recently speaking of the editorials ofa certain journal, not the OregonHerald but it might have been, said:" They are apparently written underthe stimulus of a reward of a goldmedal for the person who shall com-

mence the farthest away from hisllllll.mt fnl... L. time in

greatestexpress ti is

ideas;

The first earthquake of whichif n 1 T I'liave riorum,was JeH m tne year L,tO at SanGabriel, which was so frequentlydisturbed that it was called " Earth- -quake Valley" el valle de los 1cm.-blore- s

by the Eranciscan friars,who nevertheless established a mis-

sion there, and built one of the finestchurches on the coast. It was neverthrown down or even seriously in-

jured, and San Gabriel is now lessaffected by earthquakes than manyother parts of the State.

According to all we are able tolearn S. P. Whitman, (whom someof our cotemporories are advertisingas a fit man to be trusted with letralbusiness in Washington City,) is adead beat. His advertisement wasformerly in this paper. Any personhaving business before the GeneralLand Office at Washington, can withsafety trust BHtton & Gray, No.476 seventh street. We were per-sonally acquainted with Mr. Graysome years ago, and know him to bean' honoroble gentleman. Make anote of this.

The Salem (Mass.) Gazette saysthat in a neighboring town shoes r.re

made up in one of the worst forms ofshoddy,, in the shape of inner solingmade of straw and leather chips.The leather pr2sents a very plausibleappearance to conrmon observation,and would, perhaps, wear tolerablywell in dry walking. But on wear-in- s

through the thin outer sole, exposing the inner to tj.e moisture of

the wet ground, the sham stuiT willsoften to pulp and come to pieces,rendering the shoe utterly useless.The shoes thus made are intendedfor the Western market. They eannot fail to destroy the reputatiau oftheir manufacturers.-

There is no nonsense aboutGrant. He is grandly practical.'Both before and citice Ins election tothe Presidency he was oQVred ova-tfon- s,

but he has steadily refused toaccept them.' lie is not much on

show; but is" heavy on substance.The more they know of 'him, the bet-

ter do the people like him. EvenDemocrats begin to praise htm, andafter having voted all they could

against him, now talk of voting allthey can for him lie has capturedthem as be did Lee at Appocuattoxand like Capt. Scott's coon, they say"You needn't fire, .General ; we'llcome ilowu." And they are com-iii- j'

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corporation is formed is to locate and construct suitabte locks" at the

ifallsof the Wallamet river, on the westside ot said talis. So as to pass boats fromthe lower ts the uppes? Wallamet river, andfrom the upper to the lower Wadamet river,s as to ensdre the speedy transit of freightamf passengers up ! aud down said Wal-lametriv-

Tmnn The principal office or place ofbusiness shall be at Linn Citv. Clackamascounty, Oregon. - -

Fot itTii The capital stock of said cor- -poration shall be three hundred thousand

" " " '"'dollars.i r Fifth Th amount of each share shall. be one thousand dollars.

Sixth The canaf'ahd locks shall bebuilt commencing at a woint on the westside of the Wallamet river opposite thetown of Canemah and terminate oppositethe toWn of Oregon City, all m Clackamascounty, Oregon - l. a?.' ; '

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.Vii ' S. L. STKVFXS.Witnesses: vu ' ' '

. F. O, MoCO WN, D. T." BEALS.

... ....),., .ok Okkgok,County of Clackamas, j

Be it remembered that oil this 14th dayof September, 1865. before me, the tin dor-signe- d

Notary l'ublic for said county, per-sonally came X- - liaun. F. W. Baughmanfand S. LVStwens. by me known to be thepersons described in and who sigtied theforegoing articles of incorporation, and indue form of law acknowledged that theyexecuted the same for the purposes thereinspecified. - -

. In witness whereof, I have hereunto sub-scribed my name and affixed my NotarialSeal the day and year last above written.

seal. F. O. JlcCOWN,Notary Public in and for Oregon.

Extracts from Acts cf Congrrss.

The following are extracts from the Actsof Congress from which the moneys (setapart by the Legislative Assembly of tinsState in aid of this improvement,) are de-

rived :

Fii:st An Act entitled "An Act to ap-

propriate the proceeds of the sales of theI'uulic Lands, and to grant Pre-emptio- n

Flight.'' Approved. September 4, 1811.Section 8. And be iffurther enacted. That

there shall be granted to each State speci-fied in the first-sectio- of this act live hun-dred thousand acres of land for purposesof internal improvement : Provided, thatto each of the said States which has al-

ready received grants for said purposes,there is hereby granted no more than aquantity of land which shall, together withthe amount such State has already re-

ceived as aforesaid, make five hundredthousand acres, the. selections in all of thesaid Stales, to be made within their limitsrespectively in such manner as the Legis-lature thereof shall direct ; and located inparcels conformably, to sectional divisionsand subdivisions, of riot le-- s th.'-- threehundred and twenty acres in anyone loca- -

tion. on any public land except sucii s isor may be reserved from sale by anv lawof Congress or proclamation of the l'resi--

dent ol the United Stales, which said 1 -j

tions may be made at. any time after tliej of the United States in said States

respectively, shall have been surveyed vc-- ;cording to existing laws. And there shallbe and hereby is. granted to each new

j State that shall be heieat'ter admitted intothe Union, upon such admission, so muchland us. including such quantity, as may

j have beeH granted to such State before itsadmission, and while under a TerritorialGovernment, for uurposcs of internal im- -

' provement as aforesaid as shall make five' hundred thousand acres of land, to bo se- -i "lee ted and located us aforesaid,j Section V. And be it firHtcr ciwted.! That the lands herein granted to the States

above named shall not be disposed of at aprice less than one dollar and twenty-fiv- e

cents per acre, until MMicrwise authorizedby a law of the United States; and tlonett proceeds of tho sales of said landsshall be faithfully applied to objects of in-

ternal improvement within the States aibre- -

said, respe. lv. name! v Roads, rail- -

ways, bridges, canals ami improvement ofwafer-course- and draining of swamps :

and such roads, railways, canals, bridgesland water-eo'iro- when made or im- -

proved shall be free for the transportationof the United States mail, and munitions ofwar. and for the pa-.-a- ge of their troops,without the payment of any toll whatever.

Secoxp An Act providing for the ad- -

mission of Orecron into the Union:that tiv? per centum ot the net

proceeds ol sab s of all public lands lying j

within said State which shall be sold byCongress utter the admission of said Stateinto the Union, after deducting all the ex-

penses incident to the same, be paidto sail State, for the purpose of makingpublic roads and internal improvements,as the Legislature shall direct.

The act of the Legislative Assembly di-

recting the appropriation in aid of this en-

terprise, is substantially the same as wehave heretofore published. Section 7 readsas follows :

Section 7. The said Canal and LockCompany shall be required to expend thesum of one hundred thousand dollars be-fore the 1st day of January. 1670, and thew hole, work completed cm or before thefirst, day of January, 171 : or if the aboveconditions are not complied with, theabove mentioned sums-o- f money sdiall notbe paid, and an" other rights given theCompany by the State, under this act.shall be declared forfeited.

Weekly Commercial lleview.Enterprise Office, )

Oregon City, Jan. 15, IStiS. fA San Francisco dispatch of the 14th says

flour was unchanged in New Y'ork. Wheatwas quoted at Us 8d(3,ns led in Liverpool.Heavy receipts of flour from Oregon had de-

pressed the California market, and thesebrands were selling at $5 ) bbl ; San Fran-cisco superfine, ?L7.1al.?7 ; wheat, $1.7,per hundred for shipping, to $1.80 for choice.Oats were quotable hi j to &.2f for Or-

egon, and 2. 20 for California, with a smalllot at highest figures.

A citizen of this county recently receivedreturns of sale of a lot of Oil boxes fruit,through McCr-ako.n- , Merrill & Co., at favor-able figures better than he expected net-ting about r,$ cents per box.

A Fplendid show-sal- case forapply at this office.

Saddler-- . J. JI. Schrarn, of thisCity, is now manufacturing the best Saddleryand IIarnes in the Stale. lie will have atleast 50 sets of all grades, from fine to com-- ;mon, linistied and ready for sale next month,and moie than that number of Saddles. He ais bound to make a trade. with any man whowishes to buy of him. He uses both Oregonand California leather in his establishment,and Jiis work hears amoht excellent reputationabroad. We hope that citizens of our owncounty will think of this, when they want anyarticles in his line.

Courage. Courage of the hiffliest-ordcr is the Product of lhe conscience andtne wi"- - lt; is not t'ie karJihood whichcomes from ignorance of the situation, or'.rom slo",a inensiiiiity. it looks upon the;'et Y f "In the dangers as

- , , ,. , r" nsnei loeKco

they resolved that prices must be reduced inproportion to the times. They have suc-ceeded, and are now considered really thebest'men in Portland to deat with.

to. EC.AU persons who keep Howe &

Stevens' Family iMe Colors for sale can bereuea on lor fair dealing, for thcJ reason t!ia;,hty ' Cf,fit' the retail--r twenty-fiv- e re'.ts Wruozen niorc than other kinds of Dves in the-

:

"1;ll'Kt'l wlll,e i retails them all at the same I

I'"e-ioiqwntIy he makes r rts., jdoz-- j,

cv.iiu-a- u luicnoi' aritcie.

all possibility of serious competition, foranv lengtn or ume. ... .$be ave?agSprfc of freight on the riv:

er, excepting when there has been opposi-tion, (which 6ppositioal as heretofore, hasbeen so uncertain and irregular that ship-pers Qould not depend upon; itwiti anycertainty.) has beeu as follows : ! '

From rbftlafd toTSaleni.'. . $tiO)' Corvallis. . . .00

... . . v r - If arrisburg . .12;00ti !. . " Lue-en- titv l0t- -

S3 .

iMncn.From,. Eugene to Portland. $14 00

- Ilarrisbnrg " 10 00' Corvallis - " . 7 00

Salem .. , , 4 50Froni points on the Yamhill river to

roitland, from $5 00 to $7 00; ' ''' '

a dVe sapiose it is not a low , estimate tosay, "tli at wTieu boats can pass throughthese Falls, and the one craft "be able tomake the found ti'ipjfreigbts Can be carriedat one third the above specitiedj orevne les3 than that, and this cheapening ofthe prices lor carrying freight on the Wal-

lamet fiver will then, be permanent, andnot spasmodic as heretofore. . It is a factgenerally known to. the people of Oregon,that for the' lust ten years or .more, sincethe carrying trade of this river has becomeaa object? worthy ot attention, that it hasbeen iubre or less under the control ofsome private company or incorporation,which bas erected improvements upon butone side or the other of the Falls,, whichimprovements have of course been underthe control of the Company owning them,and have been exclusively managed bysuch Company or incorporation lor thepromotion of their own private interest,and in some instances for the exclusiveuse of the boats owned by that particular

Company which at the time ownyd orcontrolled the portage, and the obstructionto navigation caused by these Falls asthey naturally exist, being so extensive asto necessitate a land carriage of all freightfor nearly a mile in extent, with numer-ous and trans-shipment- makesthe passing of freight around these Falls,by any Company not possessing largecapital and acting in concert with someCompany owning boats above, a matterof impossibility.

The natural effect of this state f thingshas been to give to the Company owningor controlling these improvements, analmost exclusive monopoly of the carry-ing trade of the river, the "baneful effectsof which most shippers on the "Wallametand its tributaries, the Yamhill and Sun-Ha-

have at different times experienced.But the day that this Company open theCanal and Locks proposed to be con-structed by them for the passage of boatsthrough these Falls, that day ends foreveranything like a monopoly in tin: carryingtrade of these rivers.

The bill granting the State aid to thisCompany provides- that boats or watercrafts of any description, shall be passedthrough the Canal and Locks in the orderof their arrival at either terminus ofthe Canal. This leatnre alone in this bill

commend the enterprise to thesupport of every shipper and producer inthis valley. Boats, and water crafts of allkin Is, are now plenty in the Wallametriver, and are constantly increasing, andwhenever a boat, belonging to whom itmay, can start 'Vera Portland or Astoriaand lake its caigo of merchandise to anypoint on the upper Wallamet, and returnwith its load of jiroduce, without anydetention except such as are commonlyincident to all steamboat navigation onrivers, and paying no tolls except such asare established bv lav, and air coual toa II. a new era in the carrying trade of theliver will be commenced. .

When this river is thus opened to freeand fair competition from its source to itscontinence w ith the Columbia, the produ- -cers of tins valley can then, and not. tillthen, depend upon getting their productsto market at a.i times, ami at, r.vuig rules.Xo steamboat mom.'iiolv can th . n smtnort.its host id' ofiieials and nominal employees,and boast of making its one hundred andfifty or two hundred and liitv thousanddoilars m one n. oil the producersand consumer." tins V;

Annex, .(i (,) th" pamphlet will be foundthe Articles of Incorporation of this Com-pany ; the Act of Congress of September1, lfc.Il, donating lands to the Stales forthe purpose of Internal Improvements ;

and the Act of the Legislative Assembly j

of the Slate of Oregon, setting apart tothis Company one hundred and fiftythousand dollars of the proceeds of thesale of lands granted to the State bv thesaid Act of September 4. lsfl.and the fivepur centum of the net proceeds of thesale of the public lands of the UnitedStates, lying within this State.

By the report of Hon. I. It. Moohes, Sec-retary of the Hoard of Commissionershaving charge of the lands granted bv theAct of Congress of September 1841. it,appears that the whole amount of saidlands, (500.000 acres), has Keen Felectedby the State of Oregon, of which selection2'3:).876 28-10- 0 acres have already beenapproved by tho Secretary of the Inte-rior. 2H0.G(1 35 100 acres'of this land issituated in what was formerly a portionof the Oregon City Land Dislrict. and isprincipally located in Union and BakerCounties, a large amount of which land isnow occupied by actual settlers, and willbe entered and paid for as soon as theproper officer is appointed on behalf ofthe State, to receive the money.

In a letter written by Hon."). Ciiapi.ix.Rec eiver ot the Land Office at La Grande,in Union County, to one of the Directorsof this Company, it is stated that at leastforty thousand dollars would be paid overimmediately, in that District, if there wasluiy officer authorized to receive the same.In addition to the above, from statemen'sreceived from the Land Offices in thisState, it appears that there is now duethis State from the United States 19,821dollars, arising from the five per centumot net proceeds of lands lying within thisStat, sold by the United' States. Therehas been no appropriations made by thisState out of this land fund previous tomaking the one to this company, and nonesince except one of 1.1.000 dollars.

And there eanb o no reasonable doubtof the sufficiency of the funds fromwhich the grant to this company is to bepaid, or that the faith of the State of Ore-gon pledged to this Company will be keptinviolate.- -

The capital stock of this Company hasall been subscribed, and partly paid up,and tho Company fully organised by theelection of Directors .md other officers alist of whom will herewith appear. Theobject of this publication is to call the at-tention of the public generallyto the ob-ject sought to be carried out by this Com-pany, .and to invito the ofthose who desire its consummation. Thiswork will be commenced as early in thespring as the season will permit,"and willbe completed, if possible, next summerand fall. As (his work progresses it isprobable that bonds will be issued by theCompany, and an " opportunity given tothose who may desire to invest in this im-provement. The permanent place of busi-ness cf this Company 'As established byits articles of incorporation at Linn City,Clackamas county. State of Oregon, whereau office will be opened by the Companywnen ine acure operations on these workire commenced. For the present Hipregular place of meeting of lhe Directors i

of this Company is at thcoffice of S. Iluelat j

"n Oregon City, where a draft of the worksproposed to be erected by the Companycau oo seen, ami ivnere communications J

relative to the business of the Companv

Bv order of the Diif-rfoi--

..;.-...- S. II UEL AT, Secretary.

Arlirlen of inrorporalion, entered in.ty ST. Iliiun, AV. Ja nuliinitnand Samuel Stipliftn, ofClacka-nia- s

County, Oregon. ,

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FntsT The name cf this corporationshall be lhe Wallamet Falls Canal and '

I Cnnmnnv." The duration of the timeto be oeroetuaL i

At f'fio rsidpnee of the srroom. bv the RevJ. V. Sellwoodon. tbcJitb iusX. Mr. SAM-- ;UEL RAMSDON to Misa CATHEItlMuFEX WICK, both of, Oregon City.' j

Of small-pok- , Jan. llth, at the residence:of her uncle lii Chckitat Co., AV. T., oppositeDalles Citv, Oregon, Catherine.etdest daugh-ter of A. C. It- - and E. Shaw, of Oakland,Cab, foimerlyof l'ortland, Oregonr aged'2lveurs and 6 months.

Sew Advertisements. -notice. v ; ;. . !'

The person who exchanged hats' wtlme at Oood Templars' Hall will please maketl.u Avr.hanaro (THflit tfl TUft fit OVCH. '" t f

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" There will 'be' meeting of the stock-holders of the Odd Fellows' Hall Associationor Oregon Citv held on Thursday, January2lst, 4(it', t 7 o'clock, p. v. tortbepnrposeof electing Directors, Ac Tlie meetmgwillbe held over T. Charmati's store. ' "T- -

lir order of Incorporators.i - J. AL BACON, Sec'y.l

HATS! HATS! HATS!OF EVERY STTLE .

In Large Quantities can It ' Found

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(iirls' Hats in large varieties. Give us a calland examine. . ,

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everystorekeeper in California and Oregon.

REDDING &. CO., Boston, Mass.

7 T f ( Pi MAD-St"- A.JLX J J JlJ mji so important.St ud two .stamps for sealed 72 pago on the Ovhole subject. Dr. Whittier, confidential

physician, HIT St. Charles st., t. hmiij,Jlo.. s ta litis above all other'in his specialty. No matter who failed,ytate your case. Patients treated by wail lerrrv State.

Pacific Agency of the

American Clock Co.,

We inv'te the attention of the trade tntbeestablishment of a branch of our New Yuri;

House in Saa Frandsco. We are sole -- geuuof thfE. JV. Welch Manufacturing Co.,

Selh Thomas Clock Co.,JSeiP Haven Ciork Co , and

Scth Thomas' Suns it-- C&.

We have lately received a full line of ClockDegulators.Caleiidiiis. Mantle Clocks in limineand Marble, and Clock Materials, which we

o.t at very low rates to'tiie tradi'. On ipjiii-cation- ,

dealers will be provided with catalogueand Price lists of ail our roods'. -

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TO THE TRADE..The San Francisco rercus-io- ti MaUh y

arc now delivering to the Trade a SfiV'r"i:ior Ihand ft Family and Saloon Matlie.".tntPremium awarded by the M -- ehanies'Iuttitutefor these best California matches. . ...

it-i- Send your order for t lie S. F. Prm-sio- n

Matches, to any of the Wholesale Oroceruor Tohacco dealers, or to our office, 406 Frontstreet. San Francisco.

HI ink Hooka , Paper and Stationery,Playing Cards, etc., at Reduced

Prices..jft W Parties wanting to purchase Stationery

would uo well to tx inline, our large slok.Our gocds are of the be.--t quality, pricelow. JOH.X G. HODGE Co.,

Z--'.i und 3tl jSansome St..

Itrni tor. Sacramento. San FrnnciT".

J7I)UCatioxal:A public examination of tt'acherslesiri'ij

Ceititi-u.t- - t Tratii in Ulacknmax coun-ty, will be held at (he OieO'i City Seminry. on Jan. wUth, beginning at loo'cloetr a. m.''- -0 S. D. POPE.

County Superintendent.

JPARR & BROTHER.BUTCHERS &: MEAT VENDERS.

&rB Thankful lor past favors of the publicrespectfully ask a continuance of the Maine.We shall deliver to our patrons all the betqualities of Beef, Mutton, Pork, Poultry etc.,us usual twice a week, on

Tuesdays and Saturdays !

JJXTERPRISE JARKET!

THE PLACETO GET YOl'li MOSEY S WORTH.

Straight & Hunsaker Proprietors,

constantly on hand an assortmentof Corned and fresh Meats. Iird, llutter,Kffgs, Fruits and Vegetables.

JPACIFIC MAIlTTtosiiii!sliii Oo.?- -

STKAMSIIII'S FOU

New York, Japan & China,AVill be dispatched as follows' : ' .

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Leave wharf corner of First and lirannanstreets, at 11 o'clock a, si. of the followingdates, for I'aiiamn. connecting via. I'a'tianiaIi. II: w ith one of the company's splendidsteamers lrom Aspinwall Tor Nev Vol k, .on

Tlie Gth, 14-tU- , 'Z'iil nml 0OII1, -

O F E A C H M 0 N T HISteamers leaving ManFrancisco on the 1 4th

and 30th touch at Manzauillo. All touch atAcapnlco. Departure of thetOth connectswith English steamer andAustralia.

of the ltli is expected to connect withthe French Trans-Atlanti- c Co.'s steamer for8t, Xazai re, and English steamer for South'America. Through tickets can be obtained.Departure of ltb is expected to eonuectwith Eutilisb steamer for Southampton. South '

America, and P. K 11; Co.'s steamer fr Cen-tral America, Through tickets can be had.

iT Passengers berthed through. !!:)::'gae checked through, loo lbs. allowed ta

each adult. ' An experienced surges4 oe 'uuhtu. aieaicme and attenctaBce trecv . . .ti,.,. ,i.i ,. .. , A ..ivrt; Hcamns will' positively fanO Clock.' I'asRtMK'Or nr rnnnvilrtt tft llllVCtheir barga;e on board before ten o'clock.

Z-- Tli rough tickets to Lw erpool by theCanard, Innifuiand National seamsliip line'can be obtained at the .P, M-- . Co.'s 3Tlieein SanFiancisco, wLcre niav.also be obtainedorders fur passage f rom Liverpool or South-- .

ajr)t(in, to San Francisco, either vi NewVork or St. Thomas i desired an amoi.mtof JtlO or .) will beadrunced with'th'above ordofsv Holders of 'orders will bo re-

quired to identify themselves to the Agents'in England: ' r

FofmercloiTdise and freight for New Yorkand way pot ts, apply to Wells, Fargo 4 Co. .

No Freight' received after p. m. of thedav piie to depiu-ture- i '

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Fr piassase-an- all other inlormaf'ion. --,plj at the P. M S.S; Co.'s ofjice, corner of

Sacramento nnfMeidesdui tf sts. ;5.HVKR ELDKIDCi; Agent.

e harinn 4hi.TdaT sold t M. Wortheim-e- rour entire stock-o- f iiivniturc, tools and

merchandLseall parties owing the under-- 'sjgned, will calf immediately for settlement,.;as 'aff Xutst.Timi accounts at tfie end' of 8"daj-gwi-ll be- - placed in legal hufcda for collec-tion. 'All parlies having any clainis againstfthe undersigned will hand them in iihniedi- -

al?'.v..to "prtheimer for payment, as af-t-jr

j0 days nou-wit- l be allowed. j i"..' " ' f rt-- v' t irc-iiKT- irif . .

Oregon City, Dec. SCtU-lSiii- . 1 9.4

1 The"- - Wallamet Falls Canal andLock Company has been incorporatedand organized, for tie purpose of con-structing, at the Falls of the Wallamet, aCanal and Locks, for the purpose of facil-itating uud cheapening the transportationof freight and passengers up and aowntin.' ailamt--t rher.

The work proposed to h? accomplIhedby the organization oY this Company is onewhich has occupied" the thoughts, and at-tracted the "attentic-TE- ; of persons feeling aninterest in the growth jtnd developmentof the Wallamet valley, as much perhaps,as iny contemplated improvement withinthe-- Wi dei d of the State.

ametl alls form the onlv imnas- -sable barrier to the free navigation of the

a1.- - at 411 reason of the year,from-it- s vsoyrca to . .its Junction with .theColumbia-rive- r :' and.' with the final com.pletion of the improvements proposed by..this Cimipany.-ther- e wijh be an open high-way',' from" the head-water- s of the Wallametriver to the Pacific Ocean; a distance oftwo hundred and fifty miles, runningthrough and drainlng'what is universallyconceded to In? the' richest ;and most pro-- ,duet ive . valley of any upon the Pacificcoast, if not in-th- United States, of its ex-tendi J ,l; ;!, '' - j

,Xhe proposed improvement is one notlocal indts character. It will be beneficialalike to-to- wn and country to the eastside, as well as the west side, "of the river,and which every "county in the Wallametyidley has a. cpmmon interest in seeingsuccessfully carried out. With the ac-knowledged capabilities of the soil ef thisvalley, and the. extensive body of arableland there is in it, front which is annuallyharvested the never failing crops, lias pre-determined the question that the gieatbusiness of this valley always be thatof the agriculturist, and attendantpnrsuits,which leaves but one question for ..the set-tler to solve, to insure wealth and a com-petency for all. and that is : Cheap andexpeditious modes of getting the productsof the soil to market, tvery cent savedon a bushel of wtieat, either in cost oftransportation or by the prevention ofwaste in handling, goes directly to thepocket of the producer. therefore, everyenterprise proposing to increase the laeil-itiw- s,

and improve the manner of transpor-ting the produce of this valley, is deserv-ing of careful attention, and should meetwith encouragement from every citizen ofthe State of Oregon who feels an inter-est in accelerating the advancement of theState to that great and proud position inthe sisterhood of Slates which the gifts ofnature, so luviddy and bounteously

upon her, entitles her to occupy.This Company propose to proceed in the

erection of these works in a manner thatwill justify the confidence of all, in theirpermanence, durability and safety. Nothing material win lie done on uiese works

experience hi constructing like worLs innmtlar localities, under whose personal

i runervisiuu and hisinjction. these locksi will be constructed.

l hat this improvement can t:e maaj mlie manner itiescribeil bv the Act of the

Legislative Assembly of Oregon graiit- -j ing to it the State aid, and at the sameI thl,c' b,! a AU(l Vf inve.-dme.i-t

i lor capital, there seems no good reason to,.oubtJ without indulging iu imaginative

j liigUs, or the lauguage of mere theoreticj speculation there is certainly good reason

!d (.bservant minds to believe thattins l'acdtc coast is now commencing uponau ,.ra rapia aud permanent ineveasV la

j nonnlation. and con.-eouent- lv in materiall wraith anil iinnrovt'iiii'iiLs of uil kiad.--; U'itLin a tew short months the Great l'a-- i

eilie Raih'fiatl v.'ill be coinoletud. It is re- -

upon what should, be censi!ereli jood authority, that as sot.u as this jrreat

work is linlshed. there, will be liiinie.li.i'.elyi so: ni work, ou a branch railroa;! to tin

Cnluinbia river, some fiflei'ii !liou.-ai- ul men.'l'hat such iinmease enierprisi'S must esseu-- I

tiaiiv ehuuu'o the. coinli'.iou of a Hairs inth;.--; "State for the better, as well as in Cal- -

ifornia. and hasten to Orerjon the onejrreat dcshLratuii -- popuUliou none candoubt.

Tin; amount of carrying business thatI will Ix: done upon the Wallamet river inj future, must of eouiobe somewhat, a mat- -

ter of speculation, dependiiii: on variouseoiitin;;enees. and cannot now be estima-- ;

ted with any thing like certainty. Rut.that this river wi'd al ways be the greathighway for the transportation cf the ro-- :

ducts and supidies of a large portion ofWostoru Oregon, has been fixed by nature,arid cannot be changed.

The extent and capabilities of WesternOregon for future ('evelopnietit and ofwhich the Wallamet valley forms tho mainfeature, is a subject upon which we do. notpropose to enlarge in this pamphlet. Thesubjoined concise description of this partof the State, taken from a recent report ofthe Commissioner of the General Land Of-fice, will convey to persons whose atten-tion 1ms never been called to the subject,a verygood idea of its natural featuresand extent:

Western Oregon, that portion of thoState first settled, and containing the greatpreponderance of its present population,is two hundred and seventy-fiv- e miles inlength, with an average width' of one hun-

dred and ten miles, being nearly one-thir- d

of the whole Stat?, and contains aboutthirti -- one thousand square miles, or nearlytwenty million acres, all of which is valua-ble for Agriculture, for Grazing, or fortimber-growing- , excepting the crests ofthe highest mountains. It is more thanfour times as large as Massachusetts, near-ly three times as large as Maryland, and isgreater in extent than the united areas of.Maryland. New Jersey, Massachusetts, anaRhode Island. '

That everything in the nature of mate-rial progress and developments in theState is now in its infancy, is a well attestedfact known to all, and yet, the carryingtrade of the present day upon the Wal- -

ifvue.-- b ijni. olivine iuui cousiuei auou llregular and rapid increaso during the pastlow years, fully justifies the erection oftheseworks at" the present time, by this

'EJf undcr tbc vantages enjoyed

.mb. Samtel-L- . Stevens, who has keptthe books of different Companies passinglifMght at these Falls for several yearsPst. and who is therefore in possession fopositive knowledge ot the exact amount.says' thai in the year 1?G: there waspassed fourteen thousand tons. In theyear 1 sfk forty thousand tons: and whilewe have no figures to show the amount forthe seasons of 1M7 8 and 18G8 9. wehave estimates lrom persons acquaintedwith the business, which are probably verynear correct, who place the amount lor1 St.7 8 at fifty thousand tons, and forlSeS !) at sixty thousand tons, and in the

Hast named season, to thefreight, it is estimated that at least twentythousand passengers will be passed. -

These facts, within themselves, show arapid and healthy increase in business onthe river, notwithstanding the general highrates of freight, now charged,

I'.y the terms of the Act granting theSta'e aid to thi Company, the Companyis untie .riM.'d to .charge 7o cents per ton forpassing freight for the first ten years, andtwenty cents per passenger. There hasyet been no thorough or exact estimatemade of the probable cost of the improve- -'

mentsi.proposal bv this Companv. but no 1

tliat, has as vet been madeby anvperson tor tiie Coninanv. place t tie co t

above ihe amount of th capital stock of j

thuComnanv three hundred thousand dol

l,r,a ti:'ii,v'?.nt lae a.me ;HirtT,V-jr,- rlts i

port oi aeuverv. on tuner me v. auameitf tie. cUubia rivers., in .comparisonviili any Coinpany' which has to. make

aud till'. Lt t I Lb Falls.

isi''J'11! iao. mu longest

soon expected to return to Portland ! r""S nd pmpl7having about completed the survey to ot words to

The Walla Walla Statesman.speaking ef the gang plows such asare made by Mr. J. W. Lewis of thiscity,

," With this plow one nan can domore woik than two men with theoulmarj talking plow and the someamount of team, and hence on anyordinary farm the whole cost of theimplement can be saved in a single

-.eason. Among all the labor-savin- g

m.'ichiues we have examined, desigtiedlor the use if the larm. we know c f

none that for simplicity, case ofworking, and genera! adaptation to thopurpose intended, excel the " Fft-i- l

Ciang Plow," iuui as such we com-mend it to the attention of ettr far-

mer readers." .

Tiio AicMinviile' Courier s jastleader is just three columns in ientrth,devoted to the Democratic Garden,and the new Gardener, Co!. Jas C.

Dow. Dow will probably tell 31r.Johnson as Uenri-- lloehefort oncetold a publisher :

" riibiish plenty of itcm,cntrejhts, separated by cuii.idcrublespaces. Tiie pubho does Lot thankym for giving it uiore ' copy' than itdemands.'7

That is the easiest way to get Outof it Dow.

On Monday next, in rooms ad-

joining the Lincoln" Bakery, on Mainstreet iti this city, Alp. J. 1 Nevv-tra- n

wi.'l open a first class restaurant,where m?a!s can be obtained at allhoars. The want of some such estabiishnu-ti- t as this has long been feltby visitors to our city, and we hopethat Mr. N. will meet with goodpatronage.

JNEWSrATER D I HECTOR V. G. Pliowell & Co., the New York Ad-

vertising Agents, have issued a com-

plete American Newspaper Directory. It is a compilation much need-ed, since nothing of the kind havingany claims to completeness hn everbeen published. Messrs. Howell &Co., have spared m pains or expenseto make this work complete. We,,.,i,,.v..,,-- i .!..,. i... ,j .,. ;

octavo volume of about ,00 pages, j

bound in dark cloth, and sold forFive Dollars per copy. As the pnb- -

Ushers are Advertising Agents, their j

issuing a work containing so much in- - j

formation, usually jealously guardedby those in that business, shows thattbev arP onnfLloot nf tboir hi!;o,be of service to advertisers, or ihevwiuld not so readily place in theirhands the means of enabling everyone to communicate direct with pub

j

lisheis if thev so desire.

Horace Greeley purposes to 'i

write, during the year-- an elementary woik on Political economy,wherein the. policy of Protection tollorne Industry will lie explainedand vindicated. ' "ThTsVork will first j

be given to t!ie publio throngh suocessive issues of the New York Trib-u.:ic- -, j

and will appear in all its editionsDi'v, $10: , semi wlcklv, . 81 :

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weekly, ,2 j'er atiiiu'tn. j

We lave received from the pnb ;

lisher?, .the Star S"'imvahd Jiannrr '

iur vu.uua.tj. ni.ir turt, uu-uou- i .. i

enters upon its seventh volume, and i

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Prof. Yost, of Portland has ta- -

ken the Oregon City Brass Band toteach,, and'1 in' addition desires a few

7npte for Piano instruction. Thedays" set apart for his visits to thiscity are Mondays and Tuesdays ofeach week.

The address of Rev. G. II.Atkinson, delivered before the NewYork Chamber of Commerce, ofwhich our correspondent " Hoosier''speaks, is before us, in pamphletiorm. Thanks to some gentlemanof New York City. Comments

Thte Editor of an illustriousnheet' being' asked by the getter-u- p ofits illustriou3-loeal- i whether the lat- -

ter's jocose statement' oPa-- certainpiece of news was infra dig; replied:

You should know, you are-- ilwsysin for a dig, at somebody." Heraldplease comment.

The Herald, in its grotesquegambols endeavoring to place itselfabove suspicion with respect to cer-

tain matter?, reminds us of the Mile-M;- m,

born on th last day of the year,who always felicitated himself on hisnarrow escape" from not being, bornnt all. " Be jab)bers,', 'says-he- " and

if it had been the next da, whatwould have become of me V

Mr. B. K. Leverish, of Center-vill- e,

has invented a gang plowfwhicbthe mnnnfacturer, Mr. L II.' Calkins,informs-u- s is-th-o most simple, effective ajid cheap of any made. Thepeople of CentreviHo are raising sub-scriptions of money to clear out Dairyrreek, so as to make it navigable forthe steamer Onward.

W e have heard lrom personscoming to this city, that the reportis current elsewhere that a case or

two of small-po- x has occurred re-

cently in this city. It is entirely aiaitake. If the disease should break

ut here and it is probable it nayMayor Barclay will be attentive

ta. tUa matter of preventing itsppread.

--Since tbe first settlement of the

country there lias rarely been a mild-

er wiutar- - than, the present. Thusi'.ir there- - h'aa been no colder weatheri hau to produdft frot and ice '

about the thiekaess-or-- a pane or win-

dow glass; while many-- of the dayshave been warm enough to dispensewith firt--s even in sitting rooms.Grass has grown all winter thus far.The rainfall has beeu unusually lightnnd the rivers,-no- low; hayi at no

titn reached more than a go d boat- -

is etiiartrea ana - -improved, .giving .j -

near! y double lhe foi raer nmount of 1There? certainly cannot be anything like

matter. It is a sheet of lOJco!urifiis ! Miece.-s.sfu- competition .with this Company,nird 8 pages, illustntted.'ond is really ! a? Co,nri.v usin- - t! river and

" ; lag a trans-shipme- at these 1 alls. Thethe cheapest paper iu the coutitry. Rrcat aiiI-eren(!-e ihut thero ,vill lje .in

Its : pubbslers present, gratH, to j the expense of boats taking their freightevery subscriber, a splendid, tngrar- - 'i at Riiy point oath- - upper Wallamet riveriti"-- , and the

.price of all is onlv 75- 1cents, bpeeirnci.s wi.l hs sent' free j

by acl'ire-sig- , Stir Sj angled 2?jK- - ;

:er-- ilinsthib', X. II.

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