The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1871-07-22
Letter from Oregon.

Under date of June 10, we have received n long
letter from our Portland correspondent, which is
chatty and interesting. Here is a specimen of his
opening, after strongly praising the matter and style
of the .aduertiser
" Gallileo-like, 1 am compelled now as ever to pre-
ceive that this world still ways that this earth's
ball still flies through space, n little faster indeed than
the boys football, and that men still move nearly all
around as well as all over it and the strangest part
of it just now to me is, that 1, at this Oregonian out
post, am now penning an epistle for q Pacific news
paper printed on one of the Islands in mid ocean,
rendered long since famous by Captain Cooks dis
covery as we'll as his death, and marvellous to me in
many respects as one of the seven wonders of the
world.''
Our correspondent among other things interpolates
a letter from an Oregon sea Captain, on a voyage to
Hong Kong, but which. though it reads well, is too
long for our columns. Portland was having a food.
The 6 ~backwater'' of the Columbia river on the 10Th
of June, was the general topic of conversation. This
flood was caused by the melting SHOWS of the noun
tains, and occurs every year in a greater or less de-
gree. Says an Editorial paragraphist of the day:
THE RIvER.-Just at present, the stage of water, the rate at
which ii is rising, and how long it is likely to continue TO rise,
are questions that interest almost everybody in the city For
the last two or three days the rise has been at the rate OF about
IL inches every twenty-four hours. Last evening the stage
was not yet quite as high as in 1866, and it lacked about four
Dales was to the effect that the Columbia at that place was
moving out of the houses in the lower part of he town to
higher ground toward the bluff, or into their second stories.
covering North Front street at the foot of F street. Below
that point, the street is all under. A rise of a few inches more
dock or to the F street ferry landing, not because of depth Of
shavings, which will be so soft as soon as covered with water,
as to be miry. The merchants and dock men at the north end
are preparing already-many of them-for the flooding OF their
floors.
Speaking of the Courts, our correspondent says -
ssThe June Term of our Circuit Court is on, and [
am told there are some three hundred cases on the
docket, which will consequently cause the term to
last some four or five weeks for which I I'm heartily
sorry, as 1 am subpenaed as one of the petty jurors,
and with eleven other good men and true'' was
locked up all night on Thursday last, because we
could not agree on a verdict. This Circuit Court, 1
trow, beats your Hilo assizes all hollow ; for we have
some very queer and very crooked cases indeed, 1
can assure you.'
In our last, we noted an Oregonian Editorial quar-
rel. Our correspondent clips us the following delec-
table bit from the Statesman and congratulates us on
the fact that we don't edit a paper among those " web
feet :"
yesterday afternoon there occurred on Commercial street
an afray in which the editor Of this paper was cowhided and
shot, but fortunately the cowhide only hit his hat and the bull
let glanced without inficting a dangerous wound. The would
be murderer and assassin was comiOrted and furnished with
$1,000 bail to appear before J. J. Murphy, J p, this morning
for examination. The ~cowhiding was a failure, and we were
enjoying a nice time on the defensive, driving the assailant be-
fore a pocket knife, when the other man, who is the fellow
shuhz brags so on, pulled out a revolver, firing four times
within ten PAGES and only making one hit. That is the poorest
shooting on record, and it is the purest sham in the world for
such a man to go about hunting for Shultz. If he was to find
Shultz he would run faster than he ever did from a mare mule.
AS this affair is to come before the courts we do not choose to
give any fuller statement save to say that the attack was made
unexpectedly, entirely so, and the cowardIy red headed scoun-
drel struck from behind, and struck a man that goes unarmed.
He concludes thus prophetically:
"The United States is a large land and these
Americans are a fast people As your island city,
Honolulu, is directly on the line of the World
Highway, between the East and West, and as we
Web-Footers and Pacific coasters are your Eastern
neighbors, as the Moon men are your Western
ones,-the day is not far distant. nor very long
ahead, 1 predict, when the ships and steam, the
trade and commerce, OF both Portland and Honolulu.
together with the Pacific Telegraph, will trade and
talk daily with each other on a large scale, and en-
rich one another abundantly with their goods and
grains, mules and merchandise. So mote it be
so. S. P.n