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PASQUIER, ETIENNE D. 



of which three are female, and two admit stu- 

 dents of both sexes ; six are under the charge 

 of the Methodists, five under the Presbyterians, 

 three Roman Catholic, two Lutheran, and one 

 Episcopal, Baptist, Congregationalist, New Je- 

 rusalem, Unitarian, and United Brethren, each. 

 There is also a low school at Cincinnati, and 

 three or four medical schools in the State. 



The receipts of the State treasury for the 

 year ending Nov. loth, 1862, were $6,239,323 ; 

 payments therefrom, $5,890,043 ; balance, 

 $478,456. 



The State debt, on Nov. 15, was $14,141,666. 

 The interest due out of the State has been 

 paid in coin, which was furnished by the banks 

 in redemption of their own notes at one half 

 of one per cent, premium. This was made a 

 condition of their suspension of specie pay- 

 ments being legalized by the Legislature. 



The length of the railroads of the State com- 

 pleted and in progress is 3,230 miles, at a cost 

 of $150,166,949. 



OREGON, situated in the northwestern ex- 

 tremity of the United States, on the Pacific 

 Ocean, had a population in 1860 of 52,465, 

 which is an increase during the preceding ten 

 years of 39,171. For the details of the census 

 relative to this State, the reader is referred to 

 the article on the UNITED STATES. 



The governor of the State is Addison C. 

 Gibbs, whose term of office expires Sept. 1866. 

 The governor, secretary of State, treasurer, and 

 State printer are elected for four years. The 

 last election was held on June 2, 1862. The 

 citizens were divided into two parties at the 

 election : one known as Douglas democrats 

 and republicans; the other regular democrats, 

 or, as they were called, Breckinridge democrats, 

 Laving voted for John C. Breckinridge for the 

 presidency in 1860. 



The vote for governor cast at the election 

 was for Gibbs, Union, 7,039 ; Miller, democrat, 



3.450. For McBride, Union, for Congress, 

 6,809 ; for Miller, democrat, 3,632. The Legis- 

 lature contained a majority of the Union 

 party, and elected Benj. F. Harding to the 

 United States Senate by 9 majority over all 

 others. 



The Legislature assembles biennially on the 

 second Monday of September. Th e Sen ate con- 

 sists of sixteen members elected for four years, 

 and the House of thirty -four members elected 

 for two years. 



The Supreme Court consists of five judges, 

 who are chosen in districts by the electors and 

 who hold the courts for those districts. They 

 are elected for six years. 



The receipts into the State treasury for two 

 years ending September 8, 1862, were $91,788, 

 and the expenses during the same period were 

 $55,831. The State tax payable in" 1861 was 

 $48,475 on a valuation of property at $23,886,- 

 951 ; and the tax for 1862 was $43,117, on a 

 valuation of $21,288,931. 



Four colleges have been incorporated in the 

 State, one of which is an agricultural college, 

 and very liberal grants of land have been made 

 by Congress for common schools. 



Western Oregon is well adapted to agricul- 

 tural pursuits. It has extensive valleys,where 

 the growth of various fruits is unsurpassed. 

 The valleys in eastern Oregon have a rich soil 

 and hot summers. The climate is compara- 

 tively mild and not particularly moist, except 

 in that portion lying west of the coast range of 

 mountains. In eastern Oregon it is dry with 

 little or no rain except in autumn. This part 

 of the State is rich in mineral wealth. 



No troops have been called from Oregon 

 during the war, but many of the citizens have 

 joined the troops raised in California. A regi- 

 ment raised in the State is also performing gar- 

 rison duty at posts where United States troops 

 were formerly stationed. 



PASQUTER, ETIENNE, DENIS, Duke, a French 

 statesman, born in Paris, April 22, 1767, died 

 in that city, July 5, 1862. He was educated at 

 the College of Juilly by the Oratorians, became 

 a councillor in the Parliament of Paris before he 

 was of age, and as such was one of the parties 

 exiled to Troyes in the last years of the old 

 monarchy. His father perished on the scaffold 

 in 1794, and young Pasquier exerted himself so 

 energetically to save him that he was near shar- 

 ing the same fate. He occupied several im- 

 portant posts under the empire, was councillor 

 of state and procureur general, a baron, com- 

 mander of the legion of honor, and, finally, 

 was appointed prefect of police. It was while 

 he held this office that Malet made his daring 

 attempt to overthrow the government during 

 Napoleon's absence in Russia. Pasquier's pres- 



ence of mind defeated the plan, and the emper- 

 or retained him in his post-. After the abdica- 

 tion of Fontainebleau, he recognized the new 

 government and did his best to induce the Pa- 

 risian population to submit to the authority of 

 the Bourbons. On their restoration he with- 

 drew from political affairs, but accepted the 

 post of director general of the ponts et chaus- 

 sees. On the return of the emperor from Elba, 

 he resigned, and exercised no public function 

 during the Hundred Days. On the second 

 restoration he was offered the post of keeper 

 of the seals in the first cabinet formed by 

 Prince Talleyrand in 1815. He was elected 

 deputy for Paris in 1816, joined the ministry 

 of 1817, and in 1819 was associated with M. De- 

 cazes in the formation of a new cabinet, in 

 which he held the portfolio of foreign affairs. 



