The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-10-22

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breeze. You are now off the Colum-
bia river, twenty five miles, and can
see very plainly Mt. Hood. over 200
miles away, and Mt. ST Helen and
the Ramers just as plain and some
nearer Hood was once active and
perhaps took off his eternal snow-cap
to show his volcanic head, which is
estimated to be $4,000 feet high. ]
doRbt if any one was ever upon its
summit Yoa are now over the bar,
and the Columbia river is tide water
up to Oregon City, on the Willimet,
where the protoxide of hydrogen of
that stream is precipitated over a
basaltic strata forty feet down. 1t
was our pleasure to go up from Port
land to Caneuah on picnic excar-
sion through the five locks at the
Falls and it was a pleasure. certain
ly. At the Falls you conld see the
salmon trying to ascend In an hour
hundreds of these fish can be seen
trying to jump up. So many are
killed in these attempts that their
carcases line the shore and smell as
offensive as =" a rotten goldfish by
moonlight As you go up the Col
umbia river from the mouth of the
Willimette. II miles below Portland.
you pass Vancouver, a u. S. Fort and
brisk town. Then the huge forests.
Between the lower and upper Cas-
cades YOU will see why the Sierra
mountains were changed to the Cas-
cade mountains. The beautiful cas-
cadc of melted snow falls perpendic-
ularly, in many places, hundreds of
feet, until the whole volume of water
is but a mist These cascades are
attractive to the tourist and pleasure
seeker. Near Klamath lake, Capt. /
Jack, ct ais. recently gave q meek
tie party. description of which
you have already had. IA. NJ.
EUGENE CITY. LASE Co, Oregon, Oct. S, 'T9
DEAR GAZETTE Thinking you
would like to hear something of the
perSoncI of some Of our Oregonians.
l write. "
The most noted is one
JOHN NJ NIPPLE
dltas j !. Hiram Mitchell, who disgraces
Oregon by re aiming seat in the U.
S. Senate. He has sworn in many
afidavits on file in the Courts of
Mulctnoma county that his name is
John H. Mitchell. He now says that
in his youthful indiscretions" (26
years of age he committed srmdry
bad acts-that is. he seduced Saddle
Hoon. married her, brought mis-
tress (whom he eloped with.) to Sad
dies house and threatened if she told
of his crimes to kill her. Then ran
Off with the mistress, taking his part
ner's money. and came to California,
living with some woman whom he in
troduced as Mrs. Mitchell. How he
got rid of her, whether living or dead
is unknown Next he turns up in
Portland, with the child of Saddle,
and she reports that her mother died
in California, while John H.reports
she died on the Tsthmus. lie prac-
tised law two years and then married.
His friends in a few years afterwards
got Saddle to get divorce-he set
tied up with his old partner, know
ing as he was now a Senator in Con-
gress his life would be written mp.
With a full knowledge of all these
facts before them. the Republican,
progressive-reform party of the State
by special resolution in State Con-
vention, endorsed this man and his
infamous acts The candidate for
Congress on said platform will fall
far short of carrying the Republican
party. and ex-senator J. w. Nesmith
will be elected to fill the place occu.
pied by the late Hon. Jos. Wilson.
Nesmith is a Democrat. man of
ability and tried integrity. BE it
said in Justice to the honorable part
Of the party, that many will not sup
port the Republican nominee.
1881 ta MRS. A. J. DUNAwAY,
editress of the Nea1 Northeast, makes
the canvass with an appointee of
Grants, through the recommenda~I
ton of Hipple. She speaks here to-
night. Said female is of doubtful
character. engaged in a poorer cause.
Nesmith will have something to say.
BEN HOLLADAY,
Tie railroad king of Oregon, is sec
ond Vanderbilt. just before the
election, some friends of the railroad
wanted to know why he did not take
more interest in it. lie replied ''he
could by the Legislature cheaper
than he could elect it. / bought the
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