THE GAZETTE. LEWISTOWN, FA. Friday Evening, July 30, 1852. FOR PRESIDENT, WIPIELD SCOTT. ! FOR VICE PRESIDENT, WILLI.4M k 1,1! 11l Ul. of North Carolina. J EDGE OI THE SUPREME COURT, JOSEPH BUFFINGTON, oj Armstrong County. CANAL COMMISSIONER, JACOB HOFFMAN, of Berks County. 3£o2 T I .MIL &MH3. County Meeting. The Whigs of Mifflin county, ami all others , in favor of the renowned AV infiel I v eot! for President, are invited to attend a County Meotintr at. the Town If ,11 in Lewistown, on Tuesday Evening, August 3d, to adopt so, h men Mires a? may be deemed uc-eessarv t<> eii-nri- success in the approach- ( ing elections. Come on. ye old v.-trrans, let us reason together respecting our candidate, than whom a more worthy lias never been presented. He's fought our battle- for us, And e\ T won them too, And now we're bound to fight for hi in Who ever has been true, lie fought fur us at bunny's Lane, Ai.i Chippewa, of yore, And now we'll shout thisglorious strain— i " To victory once more !" Bv order r,f tb • County Committee, GEO. FRYBINHER, Chan'mun. After several days of dry and sultry weather, we were visited yesterday evening bv a heavy storm of wind, Ac., which has probably done some damage in the neighborhood. Another < shower this morning has cooled off thn at mosphere and rendered it somewhat more pleasant, but these are changes that ought to Le carefuilv guarded against at this season We at compelled to omit ■ cveral articles already in type, togeiher with coirespond- nee, Ac., to make room for Hopper's letter and the Searight affair. The latter has assumed an aspect that calls for an explicit explanation, and Bowman, of the Bedford Gazette, a full blooded loco, has already proposed, in ease an explanation cannot be furnished, to throw Searight overboard and nominate a fit and honest man. The fair for the benefit of the Lutheran Church will commence at the Town Hall on Wednesday evening next, when an oppor tunity will be afforded to repay the ladies by purchasing the various articles which their skill, time, and patience produced—the only reward, we feel assured, they seek. THE CHOLERA. —We regret to say that Drs. Crawford and Frow, of Mifflintown, and Dr. Kinkley, of Patterson, agree in pronouncing the disease there cholera. Since the 18th in stant, there have been fjur cases and two deaths, namely, Mrs. Lydia Basom and a col ored woman named Amey Thompson, aged 83 years, making eleven deaths in all. The ; attack in a majority of ilie fatal cases resulted from imprudence in diet, and the greatest mortality occurred shortly after a rain. These facts are given for the purpose of inducing our citizens to continue to use every precau tion against disease that those competent tu advise may recommend—for if it once obtain a foothold here, it will then be too late to re sort to precautions. LEGISLATURE. —SoIomon Kintzer, Esq., who was nominated in the Aurora for the Legis lature, declines in the Democrat. The Senior of the Democrat also declines being a candi date, as he considers one of iLf twenty-one candidates in the valley ought to have it. John Shadie, of Brown is announced as a can didate ; and a correspondent of the Democrat proposes to give Major \> ilson, Hugh Conley, aud Alexander Gibboney, Esop-s., who were made yearlings, each one year additional. Much an arrangement would floor sundry aspiranta for three years in the " most ad mired manner."' —- The Apprentices' Literary Society ia muk- , ing an effort to raise funds enough to erect a suitable building in which to hold their meet ings, and the committee, we are pleased to i learn, have already succeeded in eliciting a considerable sum from the members ; but the great mass having but limited means, they are ! necessarily compelled to appeal to the public tor aid. Several gentlemen have thus far shown their appreciation of this excellent in stitution by subscribing liberally to the pro ject, an example we hope to see followed by ; all who are in circumstances to contribute a ' small sum without prejudice to themselves J 1 and families, as we know of no similar society, j hore or in this neighborhood, more deserving, 1 or of greater benefit to young men. A tine library it placed at the command of every member, while the regular meetings afford ample scope for developing whatever talent may be possessed, and at the same time give . profitable einpl ymenfc to hours that might ! otherwise be spent in idleness, or in forming habits that may stamp their career for life. In such an institution every employer, and indeed every parent, is interested, and what- j ever is thus bestowed, might some day he re turned ten fold by the fruit derived from it inculcation? The Imcofoco Candidate for Canal Com missioner. Trouble in tlie Csmp. A few weeks ago a publication appeared in the Uniontown, Fayette county, paper, over j the signature of Hugh Graham, who is said j to be a respectable citizen and a good loco- > foco, in which Wm. Searight, the nominee of ; the spoils party for Canal Commissioner, was I charged with dishonesty in certain transac- j tions, and a number of statements made re- . specting their dealigns which at least give thorn some plausibility. The pith of the matter is comprised in the following introduc tory statement of Graham's : " In March last I addressed a private letter j to Wm. Searight, a copy of which will be > found below, it was written in a friendly spirit, and intended to induce him to do jus tico in a case in which his oath had wronged j me cut of more than 1600 dollars. Ho never noticed mv letter nor regarded my appeal.— j | He was superintendent oi the Cumberland ! road and 1 was a contractor under him. He is now a candidate for C'anul Commissioner, and I am a democratic voter. The letter being addressed to one familiar with all the facts, needs some explanation when addressed to the public. Before the contract referred to, was wound ! up. Hugh Keys, formerly superintendent of . the Cuiiueaut division of the Erie extension, and afterwards Canal Commissioner, had died. I was appointed guardian of his infant children. We were both Irishm -n, and friends for a' that. I knew that he and Searight were partners in the construction <>f the Elk cr-rk Aqueduct, and that Keys paid down on that contract upwards of -kniij dol lars. Mr. Searight drew Md.ooo out of tli" State Treasury on this contract. For half that amount he was responsible to my infant wards. 1 a-kod him D> account for it. He refused to do so—advised me t . let it go, that Keys was in partnership with other euiitroctors whom h" named—that they had refused to divide with him, and 1 ought not to ask hint to do so. 1 would not take Ins counsel. 1 owed a different duty to the children of my old friend and c luntrvnian, and caused suit to be brought against him by Mr. K< y's adminis- i traters. This act has cost me upwards of 6'JO, including costs, Ac. It wi - for this, to use his own emphatic language, he ' put hi.-, thumb on me.' 1 had contracted under him f#r the repair , of tin* Cuiab Hand r-- id as stated, i had 1 long been his persona!, p ditieal. and eonii- ! dciitial friend. I to<>k his word for the - on tract. 1 was compelled under the changed condition of our relation,, to sue him. 1 hrl paid on besid l i\ own services atui that oi my team, §1252,30 on the contract, for whksh 1 have von her-". 1 paid for quarrying, hauling an l breaking 23 lJ perches of sioiie. l had the • i- • aroitrat d, and obtained an award for 81 LOO and upwards. He appeared and I consent •' t i leave it to the three road commissioners under whom he held Lis office. He was admitted as a competent witness against me, and fixed the amount of stone at a few hundred perches, and at such a meagre price, as made my compensation for the work only 8333,'j5, inn, hundred ol which he took oil me in charging me with the Brown order twice, lb* did 'put his thumb on me,' and j I cannot say as my countryman is alleged to have said to the Hen, when he put his thumb on it—l ww? there." Next follows a copy of an order for MIOO, : which Graham alleges Searight charged to him twice—then a letter from Graham pro posing an amicable settlement of the matter, and stating if his proposition was not aeee- : ded to, he would make tin: whole transactions public. To this Searight made no reply; whereupon an original letter of the latter to j Hugh Keys, formerly Canal Commissioner, is given word for word, as follows; SEARIGHT'S Feb 14 1840 Mr. Hugh Keys Dear Sir—l will just in firm you that Mills has not brut more Thau two inn dre-1 dollars home with him \v- j have been to the bank be paid of The iutrest j A Lis given me a Judgment fur Twenty live hundred whiten I have Entered on the County doekett h" has Gon back to riohinon-l whear he says he Can git riots discounted that his i Frit-ami Mold negiaes for in Orleans on a Credit of Mix and nine months and pay one half of the bank if so the Judgment will be good for the bajleus 1 have my doubts But as L vvase gilty of forgery by siriing your name to his note and the penitentiary Staring me in the face 1 ihot hast to release you from the bank and have taken all the responsibility on myself but if I ever do such uu act again Dam ] me. I presume he has written to Coplan ami you for to Do Smething for him I have noth ing to say in his favor you can do what you pleas you are lvlesed from the Bank 1 take it all or, my sell" But 1 do know he has don more , for the party now in power Then some man that ha., got the fattest Contracts on the Ca nal and if he had the mens wood Do more for freands than Some that wood follow Like ; penny dogs vvbean the Think the have HO rut- '■ thing to gain aud nothiug to Lose. f mean mills wood help whean his friend was in adversity not Like Some wood be freands that will hang to the Coat tail when in prosperity. 1 have promised to pay of the bank if mills fails this spring and that will Take about all the mony I wiil be able to Colcct as it has to Come By the hardst your friend meguire its most Likely will tail in paying the money he I borrowed of rue aud that will not lie tret ing,, his freands well he got about all I ever got. for our work and you now I must have a good deal to start that work pleas give my resects to my frieanda Copian and Flannankan. yours truly &, respectfully WM. SEARIGHT. | This is the document which our neighbor i of the Democrat avers could not have been written by Searight—hut thus far we have met with no authorized denial of its authen- i tioity. It is certainly a most delectable mor sel, and, if genuine, proves the candidate to j be all that the most barefaced plunderers on \ the State Canals and Railroads could desire. Another -Pill for Searight. Ihe above publication brought forward a , defence from some of Searight's friends, but one which does not materially mend the mat ter. An attempt is made to explain the above beautiful specimen of learning, thus virtually j admitting its genuineness! In answer to this statement, Graham pub lish' s another communication in the l'eunsyl vtuiia Democrat, which we annex: MR. EDITOR -.—The labored defence drawn I up by Mr. Searight's lawyer and published in the Sentinel and Genius, is so lame and flimsy as to require nothing more than a plain and simple statement, from a plain and common sense man, to completely refute. I have vouchers to show, which cannoL be disputed, and which any one can see that ma > desire it, that I actually expended on my con tract on the Cumberland road, $1,252 30 in cash • in addition 1 showed by positive testi mony that my son, with my team, was cm ployed nearly 'the whole of two summers in haulin" stone ; so that my expenditures, to gether with a liberal allowance ioi nit team, and a fair compensation lor the stone, wou.u amount to upwards of S2OOO, exclusive of my own time and labor. The case was submit ted to three respectable arbitrators ; they gave me an award of upwards of SIOOO, after de ducting $483 9u, which 1 gate Mr. Searight credit for. Having perfect confidence in the honesty and fairness of my claim, 1 afterwards agreed to submit the matter to the trustees ot the road themselves. These trustees disregarding all my testimony, took the testimony of Mr. Searight, who for all the above labor, materi al and expenditure, allowed mo $583 'JO, which amount he covered by the credit which I admitted of $483 95, and which was all he bad claimed on the settlement of the account before the Auditors, and an order ol SIOO which 1 say was included in and receipted for in the above sum. Now that the- above and every order that he ever gave ine was included in the §483 05 is proven by Mr. Searight'6 own statement made out under oath. The act of Assembly provides that " it shall he the duty of the -aid commissioner, t< render annually to the Court of Quarter Ses sions of the respective counties through which the road passes, an account of the toll received and expense- incurred on said road, oil oath or affirmation, and publish the same in one or more newspaper- in each county through which the road pa--es." Under this act it will be seen that it was the dutv of the road commissioner. annually to present under oath a full statement ol his receipts and disbursements to the Court nl Quarter Sessions, and have this published in one or more newspapers. In pursuance of this act, Mr. Searight pre -i liteu to the court, what he state-under oath to be a full account of his receipts and ex penditures from the 1-t day of May, 1 x i 2 to the last day of April, 18 15. This account is approved i v the Auditors, .January3lst, 1-44, an i published in the (n nius of Liberty, Trib. 22d, 1 -14. and to which 1 would refer. in this account, made out under oath us a full statement of Id- disbursements, Mr. Sea right claims that lie paid me s2uouii my con tract. Again lie presents to the court an account of his receipts and disbursements, from Ist lav of May. IsL. to tin* 31st of December, 1- !4 : at which time he was rem >ved from office 1 v iov. Shiiuk, and William Hopkins appointed in his place. This account also presented under oath as a correct statement of his disbursements was passed bv the Audi tors, and published in the Genius of Liberty, September 4th, 1845. In this account Mr. Searight claims to have paid mo on my con tract $233 'Jo, making in all sl-3 'Jo, just the amount for which I gave him credit. But when Mr. Searight came before the trustees, lie t< tifiod that he had paid me So.s3 95, and among other vouchers lie pro duced an order drawn by himself in my fa vor, on Daniel Brown tor SIOO. I alleged that that order was included in the receipts which he held, and went to make up the sum of $483 95, which I admitted he had paid me. This he denied, and testified before the trustees that he was entitled to a credit fi>r the amount of this order in addition to the amount of the receipts, which he also pre sented. Now I submit to an impartial public to de cide which statement is true; which will you believe, mv statement confirmed by the oath of Mr. Searight, or Mr. Searight's testi mony in opposition to his own oath and my most solemn asseveration. That Mr. Searight is mistaken in one or the other of these statements there can bono doubt. If it be true, as he has positively sworn, that up to the 31st of December, 1845, the time he went out of office, and more than eighteen months alter the dat • of the order he claims, he had only paid me 8483 95, can it be true, as he testified before the trus tees, that before the SJst of Dec-ember, 1844. be bad paid me $583 95. "Truth is mighty and wiil prevail." Notwithstanding the ef fort of Mr. Searight's counsel to gloss over this matter, yet there is something that even the ingenuity of counsel cannot explain awav. Facts and figures are stubborn things which cannot lie, and all that is necessary to decide the matter at issue between Mr. Sea right and my-'dfi in this case is to refer to his accounts, verified by his affidavits, as pub lished in the paper to which I have referred, and his testimony as given before the trustees in the trial of our ease. As evidence that the counsel of Mr. .Sea right is mistaken, in regard to the order {/re sented by him to the trustees, 1 present the following certificates, which show clearly that ! the paper presented to the trustees was en tirely different from that published in his at- , tomey's communie.ation. We, the undersigned, do hereby certify I that we were present at the trial of the case j of Hugh Graham, against William Searight, Commissioner of the Cumberland road.— That William Searight presented an order on Daniel Brown for one hundred dollars, for which he claimed a credit. This he said was the only order he had given said Graham on said Brown, or the Good Intent Company.— Said order was not endorsed by J*.wing Brownfield, llendleton Long and Kile'y, or by any other persons, James Thompson, J. B. Graham, John Springer, A. Keys, James Roderick. John A. Little. On the trial between Graham and Searight an order was presented in behalf of Searight for one hundred dollars, which Graham de nied, and stated that he received no order but what was receipted for, and 1 heard j nothing of an endorsement on the order pre- | seated. T. MeKEAN. i With regard to the fact of Hugh Keys be- ! ing a partner of Mr. Searight in the Elk Creek job, or the Erie extension, and of Mr. Searight's refusal to account for money ad- ! vanced, and profits, (fee., the counsel of Mr. Searigtit complains that I did not make known the fact to the Governor of the Com monwealth. I would just say that I was not quite so green as to go to the Governor with a matter about which almost everybody knew, and had become so common among those connected with the public works, that .t i was hardly thought either disreputable or , criminal. But this same writer says, "1 ! have concealed this information too lung, ! mori tbau ten years aft r the ground had j closed over Mr. Keys.'' But iu tuis the wri ter, as in many other {/arts of his communi cation, bus shown birns'df ignorant of the facts. Instead of concealing this fact in my own bosom, as be remarks, as soon as I was appointed guardian of the minor of nay deceased friend, which was some eight years ago, I called on Mr. Searight for a set tlement, and on his refusal to pay over what I believed to be justiv coming to Mr Keys' children, I brought suit, Up to this time Mr. Searight and myself were friends, but I considered that 1 owed a duty to the children of him, who as the defender of Mr. Searight says, "was my friend and countryman," and I fearlessly performed it ; and it was for this, as I remarked before, Mr. Searight said he would " put his thumb on me," and for which lie has put his thumb on me with a ven geance to the amount of a good many hundred dollars. Had it not been for this we should still have been friends, and he would have paid me the amount fairly coming on my con tract, which would have been about "SltiOO more than 1 got. Vet this apologist of Mr. Searight says that 1 retained this fact in my own bosom, notwithstanding the record of the court shows a suit pending for tins very matter for years. But this writer in hl< remarks in relation to Mr. Searight's letter to Mr. Keys, shows : the fallacy and shifts to which even an in genious lawyer may be dri en in defending a bad cause. After many lamentations over the liberty taken with the dead, lie says that there was an understanding between Mr. ; Keys and Searight, by which "theyfrequently i signed the names of each other to checks ami other papers, and that this was the fact in relation to the note referred to in Mr. s;*u righl's letter, that it was done by the express | authority of Mr. Keys." If this was the fact, whv dues Mr. Searight say, "as I was guilty ! of forgery by signing your name to the note, and penitentiary staring me, in tlu> face, I ! thought best ro release you from the bank, ' and have taken all the responsibility on my self, but if ever J do such an act again, damn me." Mr. $.-aright knew well that if ho ha lbeon authorized by Mr. Keys to sign his nam" to the note he would not be guilty of forgery, i and would be in no danger of the peniten tiary. If Mr. Keys had authorized him to dan bis name to the note, he would not likely j have released Mr. Keys from the bank aud ; taken a 1 the respoi - ibiiity on him.-eif, at a , time too, w hen lie supposed he would have { had the whole note to j ay. Jt it was nothing mure than the simple innocent act of a man S signing the name of his friend by las express authority, whv docs Mr. $• aright in view of this most innocent aet'e.wlaim with so mueh earnestness, " If ever 1 do such an act again, j dainn me." Tin* defence is so barefaced and void of j nlausibilitv that no one but a lawyer would j have tin* hardihood to present it to an en ; lightened community. But like the figures in his account, and his testimony before the trustees, th r- stands his loiter, his own admission in black and whit*', t!u y speak for thems'-dies, and require no comment from me to make them strong *r, aud no sophistry of coutn 1 can wipe ti cm eat. There they are and there they must stand. But Hugh K s and Huxh Graham, have ! not been the only persons i*.i this community whom Mr. Searight lets drawn in under the • garb of friendship and defrauded, deceived, : and betrayed. 1 am not, however, going to • write the history of lux villanies; it would take too much of my time, and require too . great a space in your paper, but if any one | has any curiosity to hear further doveiope- I monts of this score, among others that 1 ; could name, I would merely refer them to Messers. John Gad*l, It. 'f. Henderson, and ' Thomas McKean, not one of whose democrti ■ cy will be doubted, as mine has been atteiupt | ed to be. by even the editor of the Genius, Mr. Searight's son. Enough, however, for the present,—if oc casion requires, you may perhaps hear from me again. HUGH GHAIIAM. Letter from Oregon. OAK POINT, Oregon Territory, 1 June 19th, 1852. j ' To the Editors of the Gazette and Democrat: GENTLEMEN—I scarcely need offer an apol ogy for my awkward mode of writing letters, as most of your readers are somewhat ac quainted with ine and will make due allow : anee. 1 have now been a resident- of Oregon nearly one year, but have nut traveled enough ! to give you much information ; yet, I may blunder out something that might be of bene j fit to some of your readers, particularly those who are about to emigrate to the Pacitie coast, j and more jtarticularlg to those who should in . justice to themselves and futilities emigrate | somewhere. i This point is about forty miles from the 1 Pacific Ocean, and derives its inline from the fact that a very few oak tress are growing j here, the only place that oak is to be obtained for a distance of about one hundred miles : along the Columbia river—indeed, it is very | scarce in the territory. Fir and spruce are the principal timber trees growing here ; ! they are of rapid growth and immense diam- I eter arid height; two hundred feet is not ex i traordinary to cut into sawlogs from one | tree. They have not much top to theiu, and ! what they have is evergreen, like the hemlock jin the States. The wood or lumber of the I fir tree is similar to the yellow pine, and I the spruce somewhat like white pine; yet the growth is so rapid that boards sawed ' twelve incites wide will shrink nearly an inch. ; There is a variety of timber growing here. The alder bush, as it is called, growing in the States along the small brooks, stands here j over one hundred feet high and two to three j feet diameter; the hazel bush stands here i from sixty to eighty feet high ; wild apple | can be found twelve inches in diameter ; the i cedar is large and makes excellent lumber. Lumber is one of the principal products of Oregon, with San Francisco and the Sand wich Islands as the principal markets—some, however, going to the East Indies aud China. The Columbia river rises annually in June and July from the snow melting in the more northern regions, and the mountains here that are perpetually covered with snow. At ! this piace the river is nearly one mile wide, aud over one hundred feet deep. On the Ist j in st., the water had risen about eleven feet, | and the speed of the current was about ten 1 miles per hour. The rise was extraordinary —higher than it had been for several years. The quantity and quality of drift was astou -1 ishing; huge trees over three hundred feet ! long, and some ten feet diameter, were not un common—some with roots dragging upon the bottom of this deep river, with the top stand ing out of the water some fifty feet, bobbing along about half as fast as the current run, sunn-times standing at an angle of forty-five degrees, at other times nearly perpendicular. At t! Ie commencement of the annual rise, the salmon commence to run un. At Oregon City are tin* falls on the Willamette river, a branch of the Columbia, where the river falls nearly perpendicular thirty-five feet ; some salmon manage to get above the falls. A single trip from Cape Disappointment, one hundred and forty miles up this river and its branches, leaves u large field for specula tion as to the length of time this noble stream lias been running here. Cape Disappoint ment is at the Pacific Ocean. First you see the breakers at the mouth of solid rock, wa ter about twenty feet deep, as though the river at one time tumbled over a precipice into the ocean; then follow the river, and the banks the whole distance indicate that it had worn its way through one hundred and forty miles to Oregon City on the IV i 11amotto, but not so far on the main river, as it had harder mate rial to wear through, the banks being princi pally of solid basalt rock, varying from twenty to three hundred feet penmaicuki. _ All the small streams that come into the Columbia have falls a short listanee from the river, va rying in distance, according to the siz-* of the stream ami the quality of the material it had to cut through. At some places are left large prairies, some five miles wide ; but tic annua! rise iu the river overflows them *. they* are only good for'grazing. The soil, like the stone in Oregon, is all one quality on tiie hills and in the valhys, river bottom excepted. There are flowers in full bloom every month in the year. There is not much difference in the climate her', winter and summer being somewhat similar. The rainy season, as it is called, commenced the last week in August, 1> >l, and the last rain we had was the 11th of June, 1852. It is mm that a large quantity of rain fell during that period, but 1 think not much more than in old Pennsylvania; men who worked out of doers did not lose more than ten to fifteen days on account of rain. The thickest ieo I have seen was two inches thick on a rain barrel; Ihe day s are very short in Do ember, and are rather long now ; however, bauds work by the clock— breakfast at 0, some three hours after day light, and supner at 6, some three hours be fore dark. The weather in the forenoon i wavni, but generality v,*e have a fine sea breeze in the afternoon. W.• had nearly as warm days in January and February as we have in JOBS, and may not have much rain before October, winter and summer ben g designated by the rainy -ci-on and the dry season. It is not, as has been represented to me, that it rained incessantly halt the y -ar, and BO rain tue other half. L think it r un more or less every in nth in the year, per haps January or F' bru.trV last was an ex ep tiou *. but in every other month I saw ram. The forest is cvergre m, so'that the appear ance here in winter i - like summer, ami only from the difference in th • length ut the /; tys could a stranger tell whether it was winter, spring, summer, or autumn. And now a wordtothosewlmwouldemigrate to Oregon. A man with a lew thousand dol lars capital would nut bo much bettor off than the industrious man with only his hea 1 and hands, fur the reason that less than $20,000 would not reach far to invest in property Iu n*; vet, when inv :steu properly, his fortune is made, as it is not counted good unless it pays back in about two years. Those who com • here with a willing mind to work at anything that may com** upper most, and with a tuff determination to be in dustrious ami saving, need have no fears ol poverty staring them in the face ; but it is uot the country for tho- who think tin; world owes them a living, ami would look only to be paid that; they had better stay whore they are and loaf away their time, as this is not th<* best country t> loaf in. I see a num ber who have unfortunately cast their I ts in < ii—gon; thev are kicked about until at last tliev ae found among the Indians, and are glad to partake of drie I salmon an ! iu ; that is almost ready to crawl away. Such n the late of some who leave their homes, their families and friends, without iirst countitig the cost and the saerific s of old habits, bu* come here, as it were, blind to their own in terest, look to others to keep them, and to the world to pay them that living. Wages are $3 per day and boarded, for good laborers : some, who are n<>t good hands, get $2,00 per day. Carpenters get from s4t $7 per day aud lwaruud ; carpenter work is rabu-r dull at this time, as there are more carpenters than are really needed, but they take hold and work at anything. The farmers produce sell* readily at fair pries, and here as elsewhere they arc the most independent class. As a general thing, the Oregon!aus would shudder at the idea of spending their days in the old States, on account of the hard win t>*rs, aud stranger still, the belies who have been here three or four years, could not be persuaded to leave this _• nial clime. The prices of produce are about the follow ing at this time : Poiatoo- sl—wheat $1,25 — flour $8 per hundrc! pounds—beef by the quarter, 11 cents—butter 624 cents per pound —eggs 75 cents per dozen—fowls per pair, 81,25 —salmon about ?3 per one hundred pounds, fresh—all garden vegetables sell at high prices—small pigs are worth $3 each— calves slo—milk cows $75 —work oxen $l5O —lumber at the mill 830 per 1090 feet— plows cost S4O to SSO each—iron work is very high. And now one word for Oregon coal: there is a small quantity of a kind of sul phur that they call coal, but it cannot be used in steamboats, as it burns out the boilers. 1 think it will not amount to anything, unless by digging deep they might come to a better article!. My object in writing is not to encourage persons to emigrate to Oregon, for an indus trious man can make a living almost any where, and those who are not undustrious have no business here. This, however, is a good place to any who wish to turn a new leaf. There are a large number of poor men in Oregon, but they would be poor anywhere, even on a gold mine. And now, kind reader, let me prophecy that in a few more years you will find Oregon asking to be admitted into the Union as an in dependent sister State. The nerve is here— all that is wanted is the number. Then Ore gon a State, with a population made up from every State in the Union, and about as hardy pioneers as ever graced the shores of the Susquehanna, with a rich soil and mild cli mate, pure waters and healthy atmosphere, her snowy peaks and extensive valleys, her splendid harbors and countless timber trees, with a smooth ocean to carry her produce to any part of the world 1 stop short —I cannot see farther —reader, please imagine for me tke balance —l am not too full for utter ance ; 1 only stopped, and will close at this time, by wishing all my friends health and prosperity. Yours, respectfully. SAMUEL GOITER. Those who will refer to the campaign of 1848, will find that the locofueo papers pa raded the names of twenty-four members of Congress, with llenry Clay at their head, as opposed to Gen. Taylor. The iilcs of Nh>- \ember will shew who's who and what's what —and the brag game will again get its quietus, as it did in '4B. ■ ■ -4 About three hundred persons have left Miffi'mtown on account of the cholera. " TNRR'RE C,O;XG I>\" —A highly intelligent and influential fanner, who reeidei in a neigh boring township, and -who has Toted the dem ocratic ticket for twanty years, caiied at on o£ee the other day, and informed ua that he intended to vote for Gen. Scott. Twelve of hi a neighbors, he said, all democrats, had enlisted under the banner of " O'd Chippewa," and would not only vote but icork for his election. Everywhere throughout old Daephin, the people are " going in" for Seott, and his ma jority in this county will exceed fifteen hun dred ! — Uarrisburg Join rial. LADIES FAIR for the Benefit cf the Lutheran Churchj Will open in the TOW X HALL 011 WEDNESDAY EVENING, August 4th, and continue open day and evening, until Saturday, 7th August next. A fine assortment of FANCY ARTICLES, CHILDREN'S SUMMER CLOTHING, &<•.. all made un by the ladies, together with RE FRESHMENTS, and at suitable hours DIN NER and Sl'l'l'Eß, can he procured there. The Ladies and Gentlemen of Lewistown and vicinity, strangers, visiters, and all others who desire to see restored the noble build ing so villainously destroyed by tire, are cor dially invited to attend. To Country Store Keepers and Weavers! rpilF. subscriber respectfully calls the alten- J_ tion of Store Keepers and Weavers to his tine assortment of Cotton and Linen CAIt EE I' CHAL\, COTTiXV YAILV, TIE Y.ULV, Candtewick, f.-c, ; indigo Hlue Yarn, Coverlet Vara, Cotton Tidy and Stocking Y'arn ; Cotlosa Cap.* of all sizes and qualities, Woollen Stocking Y' urn, Carpet Filling etc., etc. All of which 1 w ill sell as low as any other store in the city. R. T. WHITE, No. 148, North 3 1 street, j u!y 3d—2m.] Philadelphia. AGEATS WAITED TO SELL THE LIFE OF GEN. SCOTT. 000 CAGES 12MO. Handsomely and durably bound : J/ius trated with engravings. By EDWARD D. 3IAXSFIELD, Esq,. Many years Editor of the Cincinnati Daily Chronicle. The subscriber will shortly receive from the Press, an edition of the above valuable work, and will furnish those who wish to be come Agents to circulate the same, on the most favorable terms. For further particu lars and all necessary inform uiou, applicants will picas- address their 1-ttera to the sub --ril. r. 11. MANSFIELD. Publisher, jnlySO] 134 York Street, New Havmi, Ct. r 2 l'! - i ! : ' .- /X^ || I U/& • y, I.' • 1 . % C. - V a'-' ' & Co's Great Consolidated Equestrian, Dramnilf, Oijui-iir and Histrionic Establishment, Organized and perfect-id fir the ensuing season, under the titl • of the EMPIRE CIRCUS With H double troupe of performers, male an.! female, selected from the cream of the European and American Amphitheatres ; an unrivalled stuJ of I *E R COR fli Mi 12 OIISE. superior i.i blood, beamy and Ironing to those i any other establishment exiinl; a whole fsmtly oi Diminutive Trick Ponies, whose sportive gambols, various dances, and extrnordi u try performances, exhibit almost superhuman sagacity, am! a full complement of DRAM.VI rsrs, F.SXTOUI.UtSI S A- HiVJ.HK ICS, w d! exhibit at i and 71 p, ill., at Hi N riv:noN, Thursday, August 12.1 i, GRERXWO'iB, Friday, &u;uit lath, LE'IVHTOWX, Saturdiy, August 1-ltii, producing i:p">n each representation a succession of Eq iesuriau, Acrobatic, Dramatic, ami Pantomimic, " chef d'tnuvres," interlarded with diverting Comedet tas, and Grand National Spcclaclt:*, * with ..n entire change cf programme at each perfor mance, .and in which the whole strength of ihe various departments will he brought into requisite a. THESTARS who compose this novel and gigantic Troupe are o? world-u ide ceiebrity, prominent amongst wlltoui tile fol lowing stand pre-eminent: .Midfine Itrower, the Equestrienne Prirm Donna and latterly first Lady rider at Francont's Paris. T. .Yeeillt, the young phenomenon and greatest trick and mercurial rider in America. W H Stout, the great classic Horseman—barker of many steeds, and first teacher of " La haute tcoie IF. .4ymar, the antino-is of the Cirque, dashing eqes trian, and living model of the .Ipollo Ptlriderc. W. Haehford, the unequalled Gymnast, exquisite rider, ami double somerset Champion. G. Serjeant, the greatest living Protean and Shakes percan equestrian. G. Dunbar, founder of the Vienuiin school of motley acrobats. Ilerr Lte. the modern Sampson, and psototype of Homer's Athiaeus. J Fisher, the extraordinary contortionist, and ex qui-ite performer on the corde volante. a. Leci. the great pastoral rider and pantoinimist. TIIE nOY HEROES,' Masters HEN 111 and AUGUciTE, the youth delineators of the higii school of art. .Messrs. BAKER, CARLE Y, MORTIMER, DUNCAN, &.C., &.C. Two Star Clowns. Messrs, J KNXI.NGS and BROYV£II, each fa mous for originality, wit and humor. A BRILLIAVT BRASS BWll, unhesitatingly pronounced the first and most accomplish ed in America, led by ihe greatest bugler of the age, Si. K. R Uli. And a genrrul outfit of appointments, decorations and paraphernalia, which either as teg irds tiste, skiil, or lavish expense, can Defy the World. Fquestiian Director jaud ".Maltre du Cheval," ' W '*• STOUT. Master of the Arena, l. DINBAH. Manager, C. P. Mrv. Admission 23 cents, only—no bail Vice*
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