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The Portland daily press., 1870-06-18
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The house o, j 81. Blake of G oncor5, N H.,
was robbed OF $40 on Thursday night. The
rogues were frightened and left behind lot of
silver ware which they had packed up to take
away with them.
A race on the Seekonk river Friday between
the first crew of the Harvard Scientific School
and Brown Freshman crew in a victory for the
Harvards by half dozen lengths. 1t was
spirited race, but violent thunder shower and
hail storm spoiled the fun OF the spectators.
The latest news fiom Fort Garry is that Riel
can muster $50 men, which could be swelled to
three times that number provided there is no
fighting, but plenty of plumber. Riel will
probably net make any determined opposition
to the British aud Canadian forces.
A correspondent of the Halifax Chronicle
urges oil interested in the City of Boston 10
raise fund for the defence of libel suit
brought by the insurance company against the
author of the Times letter asserting that the
steamer was over laden. The correspondent
believes trial will envelope the cause of the
disaster, and starts the fund with $50
A large four story brown stone residence cor
ner of fifth avenue and Goth street New York
fell Friday morning while the occupants were
taking breakfast One was seriously injured
| another is still missing. Workmen engaged
excavating the earth for the foundation of a
new structure next to it carelessly undermin-
| ed the walls. AT present the entire sidewalks
| have fallen out, leaving three floors with a
| few articles of clothing and bedding hanging
| to the timbers.
The French Cable Co. have relinqushed the
monopoly they enjoyed of landing cables on
the coast of France, in exchange tor the right
of amalgamating with other companies.
| A London despatch of Friday gives these
| items of English news: There were yesterday
unusually heavy transactions in Havana sugar
afoat. Heavy thunder showers have prevailed
here nearly all night. 1t is feared they came
too late for the wheat on light lands Another
| yacht race occurred yesterday for two prizes
offered by Vice Commader T. Bradwood of the
Rnval London Yacht Club zTI- d. F-n,.
Dover to race proved to be mere
| ly a drifting match. Boutchers yacht Feona
Is tons, took the first prize. The press of this
city continue to praise the appointment of M
Provost Paradol as French minister to Wash
ing. The iron clad Swiftsure was successfully
launched at Jarrow, Durham, yesterday after
noon. The Irish Times says that Dickens lef
fortune of $4,000 sterling. Six monthly
parts of the mystery of Edwin brood are fin
isbed and the rest of the story is SO outlined al
to leave its completion easy. The ISnaes
states that Wilkie. Collins will undertake,
to complete it. The ship Albatross, from
st. Johns, Newfoundland, has arrived a
Wexford in damaged condition. She expe
renced heavy weather and lost a part of he
| deck load.
The Portland daily press., 1870-06-18
Letter from n CALIFORNIA; Teac her

KENT's HILL, June TO- 1870.
DEAR PREss:-Here 1 am at the date of this
writing, attending the examination of this pop
ular and fourishing school, though but few
days since having left the city of the Golden
Gate and ON. hnn-+;f.,i Dao,tse-s'opo' ~ AZ
not much of an exploit now to cross the CONT
nent. The time has gone past when one can
take airs on having made this journey.
L suppose your readers are aware of a recent
excursion of teachers from California to the
east. Our excursion party, numbering three
hundred, and consisting of teachers of Califor-
MIA and their friends, left San Francisco, Sat
urday, May 2Sth, at eight o'clock, A. M. We
had nine cars, the largest train that ever CT oss
ed the Sierras and Rocky Mountains.
On the Central Pacific, we had Silver Pal
ace sleeping cars, and on the Union Pacific
railroad Pullman train. Our excursion was
a complete success, and one cannot appreciate
the grandeur of a ride across the continent un-
til he has actually made the trip The mana
gers of the respective roads, over which we
passed, extended all the courtesies possible,
and provided US with the most elegant train OF
cars that ever crossed. We arrived in New
York Saturday, June 4th. The passes are
made out giving us ninety days in which to re-
turn. The excursionists return at their ewn
convenience; most of them within sixty days.
The rates of fare were as follows: the teachers
pay $40 in currency to go and return, and
their friends pay $170 The teachers are
from almost every county in our State
and many of them the pioneer educators OF
California. 1 cannot speak too highly of the
public schools aad school system of California.
We employ the best of teachers and pay the
best of wages. As regards myself, have no
occasion to regret going to California; have
been teaching there for more than three years,
and am most pleasantly located in San Fran
cisco; am teaching, or have been, for the. past
two years in City College, San Francisco; my
salary $4,000 per year in gold.
In praise ST California cannot speak too
highly Its splendid climate, its magnificent
scenery, and it's warm-hearted and hospitable
people, have seen and never shall forget. Still
it is pleasant to revisit the scenes of my youth
and revive the associations of olden times
If our young men will leave the dear old
State to seek their fortunes elsewhere, they
may do worse than to come to California.
The examination of this institution, Just
closed, fully sustains its claim to rank among
the first-class institutions of the country. 1t
done and is doing good work. In the grand
march of improvement We will endeavor to be
up to the standard of our brethren of the
East. If Maine leads the way, California will
not lag far behind -
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"THE FIFTY MILLION DOLLAR DANCE,
"Capering OF Coin," Graceful Gyrations OF
Greenb"cks," are some of the headings used
by the San Francisco Chronicle over an elab
crate description of splendid entertainment
given at the Continental Hotel on the 7th inst.
70 the Boston Board of Trade excursionists.
1t says:
:. S Sn OF T the most recherche balls ever given
the numbers not SO great as we " have sasn
at many otner entertainments of the same
kind, yet every erss detail which goes to make up
crease the pleasure and comfort of the omes in
every device which can add to the bear1. e amS
completeness Of the affair, has been stndion "
considered and skilfulIy supplied. The Dart
of the building given up to this hospitable car
nival is that originally fitted up in splendid
style for the reception of Col'ax and his party,
and afterward added to the hotel. The two
large bridal chambers, and the pa1or between
them, have been thiown into one, and will ac-
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Eighteen persons were received into the
Main Street Free Baptist Church, at Lewiston
on Sunday-fourteen by babtism and four by
letter.
Nineteen persons we've admitted to the
Pine ST., f. Baptist church, at Lewiston, on
Sunday eleven by baptism, and eight by le.-
ter. This young and thriving church now
numbers about 122
-Rsv. W. T. Sleeper is to be installed pas
tor Of the Gong. Church of Sherman, on Sun
day, June g. The installation sermon will be
delivered by Rev. Horace James, of Lowell,
Mass
Rev. J. G.. Leavitt will be ordained over
the Cong Church of Patten, on Monday june
eth.
Six persons were baptized last Sabbath
morning by Rev. c. J. Clark of the NJ E.
Church, Saco, and eleven were received to
membel ship.
The rite of baptism was administered te
So persons at South Montville, on Sunday last
and SO were received into the church.
An extensive religious revival is in pro
gress in Montville. Last Sabbath 25 persons
were baptized by Rev. Mr.. Knowlton, in the
presence of crowd of persons numbering
1900.
AT meeting of the North street Parish
Bath. Monday evening, it was voted to hold
the pews as parish property, the running ex
penses to be raised by rent of the pews.
The Young Mems. Christian Association o.
| Rockport, Me-, have secured a commodious
and centrally located building for their uses
IIwas formerly used as place of worship by the
Second Congregational Church of that town.
The Methodist Church in Duxbury, Mass
talks of adopting the Congregational polity.
"A Jew in Montery has bought for $4,000
| gold one OF the finest Jesuit churches in Mon.
terey, and given it to the Protistants worship.
| ing there. .E5f q.
The Ohio Episcopal Convention tabled g
resolution for the revision of the baptismal
service only in the book OF prayer.
f--Rishnp Simpson, while in Europe, will
visit Denmark, Sweden and Norway, as we'll
as Germany and Switzerland, to attend vari-
Gus Methodist Conferences.
In the Ohio Episcopal Convention last
week, Rev. VIM. Boyd, of Marietta, delivered
a severe discourse upon Ritualism, and de-
nounced the practice as derogatory to the in
terests of religion, and calculated to produce
only a sickly sentimentality.
1t is among the strangest freaks of mod
ern society that many man who declaims
violently against the churches as exhorbitant
in their demands, spends more money in Sc
| cret lodge to which he alone can go than it
would cost him to belong to a church to which
he could take his whole family.
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Political Notes.

THE Echo says that the Democrats of York
county have concluded to unite on Caleb R
Aver, ESQ.,, OF Cornish, as candidate for Rep
resentative for the First District.
In the fourth Pennsylvania district Hon.
William D. Kelley has been renominated for
Congress.
Fl. II. HELPER announces that he is con-
sentative candidate for Congress in the North
Carolina 9th District.
THE Republicans of Butler county, Penn,
formally recommend Hon. E. McJenken, one
of the ablest lawyers in the State, for Con-
gress.
THE COrinne Reporter dominates j. H
Beadle, tGentlle) as delegate to Congress
from Utah.
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William Jewell of Franklin, N. H., has mys.
| teriousy disappeared 1' -' ""' my
Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte died at his res;.
dence in Baltimore Friday morning. aoed ~
years. His mother-in-law, Mrs Willio,ms ii III
at 4 o'clock a. M, at the same residence ''o
William A. Graham who was candidate fo,
Vice President in 1852, on the Scott ticket, was
| recently nominated for the State Senate q
| North Carolina, but he declines.
A former near South Bend, Indiana, is rails
ing crop of corn by bis own labor, himsel
being seventy years old, and the two horses ht
uses being twenty-sx and twenty seven years
of age.
Gen. Mcclellan and wife have been for some
time stopping at the International Hotel, Mag
ara Falls. Mrs. Mcclellan is an invalid, great
fears being entertained that her health will
never return.
Horace Greeley is seriously although not dan
gerously i'll. He has been growing worse since
his return to New York from Nassau, and his
physicians say that he is threatened with ty-
phoid fever. He has been confined to his bed
for several days, and sees only few intimate
friends.
Nathaniel Greene, an aged citizen of Boston,
and formerly pos master of that city, was
knocked down in the street on Thursday by
three ruffians and robbed of 800 and valua-
BILE gold watch.
M. H. l.. Dorsey of Pawtucket, r. l., has
given $50 to furnish strawberries and cream to
the convIcts in the New Hampshire State Pris-
on on St. Johns Day. June oath.
~ Is a., koI -, Ill g.
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HARRINGTON, y nne 10, fS5O.
To the Editor OF the Press.
L notice in your paper of to-day that you ado
Farming )7a to the list of delegates reported
in the Lewiston Journal as having chosen
Frye delegates. Allow me to ask you, in sim.
| pie justice to the present incumbent, Hon
S. p. Morrill,, to correct that statement Farm
ipgton has not chosen delegates to the Con.
gressional Convention, and when the time
comes to do SO she will undoubtedly assert her
preference and her honor, by supporting her
worthy son, as will franklin County general
ly. FAIR PLAY,
The Portland daily press., 1870-06-18

THE New York papers say the excitement in
that market for -four and wheat on Thursday
was something remarkable. The sales of wheat
considerably exceeded 100000 bushels. The
French were large buyers, and their presence
in the market led to an active speculation. A
further large advance is not improbable. Great
The Portland daily press., 1870-06-18

THE San Francisco Bulletins statistics of
passenger travel over the Pacific railroad for
the four first months of the present year were
going east 5033; going west 9,052. 1t will be
seen that 1000 more people went to California
orer this route than came from California east.
ward. There arrived at San Francisco during
the same period by sea G, 1854 persons, and there
departed 1000 The whole number of arrivals
in the four months was 1920, and the depar-
lures 5000, showing balance in favor of Cali
The Portland daily press., 1870-06-18

Since November last nearly fifty million
acres more of territory have been voted away
by Congress, making fully 45O,OOO,00O acres in
all, or an area larger than France, England,
Ireland, Scotland and Wales, combined. OF
the 975OoO, 900 acres remaining, exclusive Of
Alaska, fully ope-halt is regarded as worthless
or next to worthless. We have thus remain.
ing only some 5OO,OOO,OOO acres of valuable
public land.
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PureWhiteLead
Observation-Disclosures HaIr Dve

fdis splendid Hair Dye is the best in the world /:
the only true and perfect Dye; harmless reliable i'm
stantaneous; no disappointment no ridiculous tints
remedies the ill effects ofbad dyes invgorates and
leaves the hair soft and beautiful black or brown
Sold by all Druggists and Perfumers. and nroperlv
applied at Bachelors Wig Factory, I6 Bond st. NY
June s. 1S70sNJlyrNW
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Boarding.

A FONT of NEW BREWER TYPE t2l2 lbs, can
a be purchased at the PRESS OFFICE, PORT
LAND, Maine, at Great Bargain:
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SPECIAL NOTICES.
Members of the Portland Army
and Navy Union.

ihere will be Special Meeting next Satur.
way hveninx, at O'Clock, to take action on
'ne report OF Head Quarters Committee, and such
o'ue, BUSINESS as may come before the meeting
'uio'u E K. ELLIS, Asst Secretary
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o SDOrtSmcn
G.. L. Bailey.
50 Exchange Street.
aD16sneodtf

To remove Tan, Sunburn, Pimples. and Erup-
tons from the skin. use Schlottei beck's Moth and
Freckle Lotion, prepared only by A. G. Schlotter-
beck & Co, Apothecaries and Chemists, Portland
Me. For sale by all Druggists at so cents per bot
tie mays entf
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AtPrivate sale,

At 101 CUMBERLAND ST., a very fine set of par.
Tor Furniture, black walnut in green rep-to he sold
very cheap. my24snif
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PimDles on the Face.

, For Comedores, Black-Heads, Flesh Worms or
Grubs. Pmpiy Eruptions and Biotched disfgura-
tons on the Face. use Perry's Comedone and PIN
pie remedy. Reliable, Harmless, and contains no
lead poison. Depot 40 Bond St., n. Y. Sold by
Druggists everywhere mari7dHwamsn
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MARRIED..

In Thomaston. June 10. Owen w. Davis, OF New
York, and Miss Abhe A., daughter OF Hon. A. p.
Gould. of T.
In ThOmaston, June 8. Geo E. Wallace and Miss
Marietta B., daughter OF DR.. j. B. Walker
In Dresden. June 6. Geo. w. Call, of Perkins, and
Serecta A. Webb. OF d.
The Portland daily press., 1870-06-18

ID. Lewis, Ellzabethport; SIak, johnson, aud Mag.
net, Smith, Heb ken; Hume, Spauiing, Rochiand;
Louisa Frisbee Elzabethpori
PORTSMOUTH Ar igIb al aoor,ia nd. an,
l.. Georgetown.
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1.-TWO gentlemen desiring board in private family
L WITHIN two minutes walk OF the Post Office, can
oe accommodated by addressing sc. W. F - at this
office. je15dtt
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FOR EIGN PORTS

Ar at Newcastle, NSw. ApI 1e. ship Rchd Eus-
teed. Kingman, Melbourne. to load for san'Fran-
At Bombay TIN ult, ship John Potter, Mcclure,
for rice ports.
AT At ,Leshorn soth ult; ship Italia. whittemore,
Valencia 10 load tor New York
AR at Hamburg Sd inst, ship Crusader, Bradford,
Bakers Island.
Ar at Liverpool 18th inst ship Riverside Randall,
Ar a. u, nuegos 5th inst bri0s Rachel Coney. Co
ney New York. i Ross, Wyman st Johu NIB;
18th. bargue NJ Stetson Seiners Boston.
Ar 1T Havana eth inst. brig Geo Burnham, Staples,
CID ioih. brig. NJ Merrill Farnsworth, Falmouth
ceS,,m,6,orazoo. Ioomb North OF Hatteras
go 10Th; nar ue Jos r Eaton. EHi1gwood NYork;
oaisdell, Sawyer. Caibar.en
I'm In port itb, barque Rosedale, Pencil, for Que
' ebartesre nay1,e s woodbury. for New YORK =,
s;n t rso hhds sugar. Remedies, at IS; brig
ny ~ at M o,o nnds m 5lasses at SO.
How Raitmore 9Th inst, barque Ellen Stevens,
sd sth oa,sues Stampede Gfkey, tor New York;
rien; 9th, Daring, Mcdonald. Pni,ads,,,,i,y '"'"
Chartered 3d-brigs @ Titcoub ssn bhds moIas-
shds r Mors s u $500 Anita Owen, 700
hhds North Hatteras, S2s5; Sarare sr,.tta
t. load at Sagua tor New York. $50 hhds M bart
Mendoza. to Dad at Remedies Tor New York. 800
Sid i'm Cardenas 9Th inst, barque Triumph. se.vv
Sagua; brig Alice starretr. Hooper, ioi North Of
| HatIeras; 9Th, Don Quixote. Hassel, and j & H
| Crowley, Crowley, Matanzas.
Sid m sa!ua LIST inst, sch Adde Ryerson, Hough-
| ton. Philadelphia.
Ar at Halifax 18th. brig Amanda Jean, tPrl Doy'e
Cid at St John. NIB, 18th inst, brig James Davis,
| Showers, Philadelphia.
May g. lat IS N, Ion % cJ W, ship Criterion, from
Calao for Antwerp.
June 8, Of Key Sal. sch Lizzie Watson, from sagua
June 10, lat 40 As N, lon Il W, brig Sharon, from
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SacO aud portsmouth
Railroad Co.

DIVIDEND No. 81 has been declared, payable
IL June 2S. to Stockholders May 81, 1870.
ELIPHALET MOTT, Treasurer.
Portland, June H. 1870. je16ist2S
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For Moth Patches. Freck es Il Tan.
Use "PERRY'S MOTH and FRECKLE LO-
TON" The only Reliable and Harmless Remedy
Known to Science Tor removing brown discolorations
Ky, ~ Bond st, N. Y. Sold by Druggists every.
The Portland daily press., 1870-06-18
WITHIN EY,s
MEATS Foot Harness Nonn

NILS, Blacks Poshes and Scans the Horness o.
" the same time. Wholesale bv e'' az
JAMES BAILEY &.CO;, 1872 Middle st.
smy6sn3m
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JoUvEN's KID GLOVE CLEANER restores
soiled gloves equal to new. For sale by all
druggists and fancy goods dealers. Price rs
cents per bottle. 4&. mr28-d1y
The Portland daily press., 1870-06-18

The Rockland Gazette chronicles the arrival
in that city of Mrs. Daniels, Mr.. Sturse and
A. E. Watson of New York, j. NJ. Missels
purporting to be Sheriff OF Jersey CITY. and
understands their visit was to make some ar
rangement in regard to the balling of Daniels
and Moore, the Lime lock Bank Robbers
now confined in Belfast Jail.
McLoon and McAlister of Rockla are "a
build a vessel the present season of about AS(
tons. She will be 12) feet keel, 10 feet s inches
wide, II IL feet lower hold and teet between
decks. She is to be commanded by Capt, w
Smith.
The Portland daily press., 1870-06-18

"A heavy silk crop is anticipated in Italy this
season.
The Portland daily press., 1870-06-18

THE PUBLIC DoMAIN.-The n. Y. CONNER
ciG AdUertiser produces from the records of the
General Land Office the following table of
amounts of land given away by Congress:
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sAGADAHoC COUNT,
SOMERSET COUNTY.

The new ferry boat for the Knox & Lincoln
railroad, was launched at Bath THURSDAY. The
Portland Company furnish the machinery, and
1t is all ready to be nut in
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HANCOCK COUNTY.
ANDaosCoGGIN COUNTY.

A big haul of salmon was made on Satur
day at the weir of Richard Abbott in Verona
consisting of twentyseven splendid fish. On
of them weighed q IL pounds, and fou
weighed So pounds.
The Portland daily press., 1870-06-18

Britain, as appears by late circulars, is net get
ting any foreign wheat, except from tie United
States. The demand at that market for the
continent has Interrupted her supplies, and she
will soon feel the want Of them. But the most
important fact is, the falling off of the receipts
at the lake ports which, according to the statis-
tics were, for the week ending June 18th, 90, 900
bush. of wheat, and &C. 600 bbls. flour; or, reduc-
ing the -four to wheat, equal to 100000 bushels
wheat, less than for the corresponding week
last year. This, in connection with an increas
ed demand, can hardly be overestimated.
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The Skowhegsn Reporter says Messrs Hill
u Emery have lost their splendid horse.
''Skowhegan Boy This was one of the fin,'
est Knox horses in Name, and his loss is not
only severe upon the owners but to the public.
He was valued at IS 000 The cause is said to
be stoppage.
George Clark, of Skowhegan, brakeman on
the Somerset Il Kennebec railroad, fell from
the extra train over the road "Wednesday after
noon, which was running at the rate of twenty
miles al hour Nothing disturbed by the lit
tie affair, he got up, started along and soon
overlook the train. 1t was a narrow escape
from sudden death.
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Mr.. John Brown of West Paris, recently
had needle extracted from his body which
had been fOrty-four years burrowing in his
flesh. He was eighteen years old when it eff
iected Judgment, and re is pretty sure be got
it from some young lady's dress to which be
was attached about that tins. The needle en-.
tered the side and was taken out of the chest
just below the lett collar bone, says the Demo.
crdt
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Day.BOOk Lost.

wanted!
A N American Woman wishes situation as house,
"A keeper in small family. or to take care of
Children. Call at No. Deerng Place. iun1Ss3t
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The Observer learns that the Major Dennet
timber land opposite the depot at South Paris.
has been Sold to MIR. Alvah Shurtl If of Paris,
and Mr.. Barbour of Portland for S. 5OO
The Oxford Democrat says Tuesday evening
a singular shower was experienced at South
Paris. The atmosphere presented peculiar
appearance; and after the shower, strong sui
pburic vapor was observable, and the ground
was sprinkled with sulphur. The next morn
ing. sulphur was found ia tubs OF water which
were left out over night. 1t permeated the
houses and The coarse grit could be felt ON
rubbing the hands over the furniture.
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WALDO COUNTY.

ing man came to Capt. Dennison, of the
steamer City of Richmond, during her landing
at Belfast, and refunded to him $40 that he
received early in the spring, as pay for q lost
trunk. He said the money had been paid
wrongfuily, and he desired to refund it. On
recently experienced religion, and was baptz-
ed last Sunday. That conversion has borre
rapid fruits -
The Portland daily press., 1870-06-18
PENOBSCOT COUNTY.

The Jameson Guards of Bangor have been
invited to visit Portland and participate in the
4th Of July celebration.
The Bangor Wing says at Chapman and
Palmer's mill in Orono, on Tuesday last, from
A. M. to p. NJ, $500 lashs were sawed on
one machine. The stock was not selected, and
1 hours were taken for maoIs
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1870-09-03

The railroad surveyors are coming
along steadily, and have been over two
weeks making survey from the mouth
of Pit river to the ferry across the Sac
ramento, some IA or l5 miles above. The
great difficulty in making the survey, is
on account of the river being SO crooked
with short bends. The Sacramento river
route, however, is the best route found,
in fact the only route on which the road
can be built reasonably. The supposi-
ton of tho Oregon surveyors, that the
California road will meet the boundary
line at Lost river, around the north side
of the Butte has no foundation in reality,
as a road connot be built at any reason
able expense via. Sheep Rock and Butte
Creek Valley from the head Of Shasta
Valley. The railroad survey will GER
tainly run somewhere along Shasta VAL
ley, very near Yreka if not through it.
The surveyors expected to be in this vi
cinity before now, but will probable be
here during the middle Of September,
aud continue their survey as straight as
possible to the Siskiyou mouutain--
Yrckn Journal.