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Rh Allan, McKinlay & Co. announce that the steamer Washington will make tri-weekly trips between Lower Scottsburg and the mouth of the Umpqua river. A good scow always in readiness for the transportation of cattle. This was a branch house of the firm of that name at Oregon City, which succeeded the Hudson's Bay Company at that place, established about 1836.

William E. Lewis, boat builder and spar maker, on Mill Creek, Umpqua River.

W. N. Wells, house carpenter and ship joiner, Main street.

B. F. Johnson, blacksmith and gunsmith; also horseshoeing.

Local news very scanty. Paper, however, was well filled with a variety of miscellaneous items of interest.

From the column headed "All Sorts of Paragraphs" the following items are selected:

"Cost of census of United States for 1790, $44,377; for 1850, $1,316,027.

The world was to have been destroyed on May 10, 1854, the date fixed by the Millerites, of Boston.

The mayor of a town in England sent a circular to all bakers in the corporation urging them, during the high cost of flour, to leave out the yeast, as he had reason to believe that it was the yeast which made the bread rise. That is not the cause now.

A Democratic paper in Ohio, after grave deliberation over the question of reducing the accidents in connection with railroad travel, concludes that the only way to do so is to abandon the use of steam and run the cars by oxen.

There are 13 individual banking houses on one street in San Francisco, all charging 3 per cent per month for money, and often more.

The American car is being admitted into England, it being regarded as superior to the English type."

In the second number of the Gazette the advertisement of Addison C. Gibbs, attorney at law, appears. He was elected governor of Oregon in June, 1862.