, 1861-01-11

have left WOllA Walla for Olympia about
the LIST instant.
1t has been intimated more thaB once
that improper Influences were brought to
bear on the late presidential election. A
"poick acknowledges the corn, as follows:
She knew me for Democrat
The roguiSh little elf
Knew that loved my party lsus-
Less than did herself;
30 she told me might kiss her
III laid " Doug on the shelf
"A Ccckney poet has lately written q
poem on is native hisls. We make an
extract:
Hold HinglAnd bis the 'applest hisls
That from the h'Oesan starts,
Hand h'ever may 'Old uuf 'Onss. -
Our hintsrests and our 'earts.
The bark Vieksry, on ber late voyage,
was IS days from San Francisco to Victo-
ria. She made the run to Cape Flattery
in II days, and had to enter the Straits
seven times, being driven back si1 times by
southeast gales and currents.
Mr.. Chas, W. Prosch, editor of the
Herald, was in town this week.
The report Of Gov. Stevens on the
Northern Pacific Railroad Survey, in two
volumes, very handsomely illustrated, will
be ready for distribution about the first of
next February. This is a new edition.
The receipts for postage for the quar-
ter ending S0th ult, between California and
the States, are: From overland route.
$s7, 900; from the ocean steamer, t25, 900,
The postage on letters BY the former route
is three cents; BY the latter, ten cents.
Gov. McGin will please accept our
thanks for newspaper favOrs
The ball at GaIlihsr's, on the 9Th inst,
went of very pleasantly. The music was
especially good. We imagine that the
fact Of there being SO many balls at the
battle Of New Orleans, bas established the
custom Of having ball on its anniversary.
When Flora Temple trOtted tho won
drOus time Of 2.l93 seconds to one mile on
the Kalamazoo track, she moved at the
rate Of thirty-eight feet per second.
-Byerly, convicted Of forging election
returns in Philadelphia, has been 6ned
$500 and sentenced to two and Q half
years imprisonment. y go Is
Some apples have been shipped lately
from the west Of New York to England.
The Common Council had an extra
meeting on Monday night, preparatory to
taking measures In reference to the coun-
ty seat.
The farmers 10 the country were OBJ
ligsd to feed their stock during the late
snow.
Capt. Roeder sailed from here for
Bellingham Bay on Wednesday, with bis
schooner, Gen. Harney. Cargo-live stock.
The mortality statistics, compiled from
the census returns, show that North Caro-
lima aud Virginia are the bealthiest States
In the Union. They have sSs inhabitants
over 100 years Of age.
Opium eating has become fashiona.
bic in the country towns Of Massachusetts,.
The wheat crop iu the West this year
Is the most wonderful ever known in the
United States. The receipts at Chicago
and Milwaukee since the harvest have been
nearly ten millions Of bushels The pro-
ductiOn in Wisconsin is thirLy-one bushels
to each inhabitant.
Henry Ward Beecher says of three
sermons q day: The first one Is cream;
the second one is skinned milk, and the
third is milk and water.
Potatoes are so plenty in Iowa that
they sell for only ten cents a bushel.
The German population in the United
States is estimated at 100000 ~
Iron cars have been invented for rail
ways. The wooden cars, in a case Of col.
lisiOn close into each other like the joints
Of telescope, manning and killing.
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