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(Ei)c rcgon CVrgus. W. I. aiuns, ITO N MOrSISTOS. OB.BQO;j Olgg; SATURDAY", AUGUST 30, 1850. M-iv k)bore of bis l-cMTa Hot eWaeri .tumpe.li" fren the Fbla of nuck Diaiocracy. Since tfie Domina'.ion in ti.e "black hole" m Cincinnati, tv;o circumstance have transpired hi:h bav icailt red terror and dismay among the unkt of (he hitherto ''unwashed" and "uaierrified,'' nnJ which has materially n!Ti cted tbo "quotations" in the "piles current corrected evory four ye.Wly Wine cf Virginia, of the market valui of "good sound niggers.'' The fi'i of those political casualties is t'.e Ucl Ihei thn Ne-s York HeruM, a paper which, al though professedly independent In politics, ha hitherto sympathiz-d with tho demo cratic party, ond in ls."2 was a warm Pierce organ, ha tomo out for Fremont. This f.ict is looked upon a) exceedingly ominous of evil, from t ho fact the Herald has hitherto had thecridit of possessing a goo 1 dal of political sagacity which eua 'Med it to guess remarkably well as lo the inns of presidential canvasses, beside the (m of its controlling something near lmlf a million of looso floating votes. The re- ill of this do'lgo on the part of Bennett it looked npon by the friend of Buchanan us equivalent to the Ion of that many voters, who have no particular political principles, hut who like lo he on liio populur side, nnd who generally look up lo tho Herald as a sort of political wcnt'iorcork, to sec which way the wind Uowj, Tho second clrciniaUucc v.hich has ma toiially damaged the prospects of ttuchan. an, and earned Wii-c to countermand tome of his orders fir "ihoico lots of niggers," i a recent stampede of the Dutch and Iii-tli "wliQul.hursgh," tIio Ijovo hitherto workud admirably in hauling the omnibus of sham damscraey up hill nnd down, crammed a it with w hat Denton calls , "a cohort of office-holders, political eunuchs, armed btiilies from the custom house and tho Five Points in New York, political hybrids, tumble to act a man's part in any (lection, old intriguers, profes sional Picsident makers, political scamps, custom house officers, poUmnsteis, salaried dorks, heads of bureaus, niiimber of dm. fjress noglecling th people's business, old Viniziiriet and nulliliers, doubh.'.fcxed and double gendered, hermaphroditic in poli tics, violating pledges, trampling Compro mises in the dust, fjuiiing thu flumes of dis cord by otn ning up the hl.ivery agitation, making platforms lo i. puked up I'y them selves, aud trying to get the projilu to swal low tlx in, hy moiiaciiig ilia aspiring, coax ing the weak, seducing ihn vi-tinl, mid promising ofliees to those who aro willing to liolray their constituents." Heavens! what a "load tf poles" I 'J 'ho Dutch nnd Iritdi, who have hitherto hauled this political menngerio into tho Capitol, for no other reward than the priv ilege of liblrning to tho music while the band within tho omnibus struck up "i'rin go Dragh," and (if being well fed, liquorei and rubbed down during tho cauvns, hnvo at last t nkc I) a stampede and run oil with tho cart, ainco one of their number was hot down in tho harness by otio of tho dri vorH for frisking hit tail n little at b.-ing called a "d d Irish son of a b h." Our readers all know thai we refer to the killing of Thomas Kunlinir, an lrib waiter ul Willard's llotrd in Washington, by Hon. Philemon T. Herbert, M. C. from Califor nia, The act at tho timo was considered by the Irish population and by many others m a cold blouddd murder, demanding nn iinmcdiato etpuWon of Herbert from Con grass, No member of the democratic party noting in the mailer, I Km. I'bunezer Knowl ton, n Kepublican, ofll-rod a resolution ex pelling Hnrbert from his sent. The rcso. lution was Voted down, every dmuerat in Cvnyrrit, rnjt!ng linn. John A'cZy, an lrih C'ulhulico fair York, tatinffvffain.il Hit retention,- A few days aftor this, tho American Colt, an Irish democratic paper in New Yoik, came out with tlio follow, ing; 'Now, in lehiti n to thitt division in Her. berl'son'e, welunoa duty In peiform, and wo rmli not shrink from discharging it. That duty is, to anuouuee, in unniintukable terms, to the adopted citiions of liinh birth ihrongboul the cnuutry, that tho demo cratic purl .C in Congress have shamefully (hmrrled their duty, d.iserted their own pro fessions of iinpartiolity botween dilli icnt vIuasm of ciiit-ns, and that they haxe, as plainly as deed ran ipeuk, deulared the dca:h of a man of Iiitli birth by one of their volleagiios to be a triflo wholly un worthy even of Inquiry. Is the demo cratic party mad, or is it only rotten, that It should so belle itsell l Wuh 1,,-iif a doi en exceptions, evurv man of the majority for Keatititr's murderer is a profeued 'dem. ocrat.' W hat, then, d.i it mean t Or can it mean anything but on thing that n Irithman born, however peaceable, or loyal, Is only fit to ha used by the dfimv cratie tarty, und, whsn used, set tin for a target, and l)o' with impunity, ilia is what it nwaiM, anJ to ihia meaning we shall hold t! entire party. "W hold Mr. 1'i. rce, Mr; Douglas, and Mr. Buohanan rei-ponili fjr this con'lnct of their coiifidants and supporters. They wrre all ia VVhiiiguin ; it waa.lir days thetoptoof thrttown; if thair friends have taken side against tht victim and against Common justice, tbey are not holly above snspletotv A fi-sr-.Hays. ag tho blood of ThiVWias Jv-aJing w as on lit hands of but 6r. Pw ocrat ; it 1st spread since then, and it is n nr.on the srntl if the 70, who refused all inquiry. It is on the dem ccretle r,r'y pnr!.v- and accursed be le who helps s :c'i a party into p iwer, outil tbt blod is lawfully pur.-fd ar. L! 'hern I:. ' .irx- m.otcT i anything hit it now in hand, and he dit tmcllu uarnt the democrat rrpreuntativet at Wathington, that if juttict it rot dnnr on tht murderer, Herbert, they will be held arcountabU.at the part vho intervotrd lo tcreen and protect him from tht penalty of mt guilt." The democratic party gave no heed, however, to the threat made by the "Celt," nd seemed f think the matter of killing "Paddy" was of liula Importance. The Marhal of the District of Columbia, who bad Herbert in charge, Instead of Confining him in jail, aa ha would hv done an Irishman under a similar arrest, kepi him in hit oun home, and featted him at hit oipm table. At the assembling of the Cincinnati con tention Thomas D'Arcy McGee, an Irish editor adJrcsscd the convention the follow, ing note; " To the Mauler t of tht Democratic Kalion- al Convention. 101 Nassau Street, New Yoik, May 30th, ,1850. Gentlkxem ! A word spoken in time is said to bo worth more than gold, and I beg to ofTcr you such a word uy favor of the Cincinnati press. You will have at your door, I still hope not on your benches, a deleiale from California, (Mr. Herbert,) on whose hands ycl smokes the blood of a poor countryman of mine by birth, lately mur dered in a public hotel at WashiiiiMon. I address vou a simple, straight forward qus- lion do you mean to admit this man lo a seat in your convention ! I Impe, 1 sincerely hope, you do not. IJo is now under heavy bonds lo aland his trial for the murder of Thomas KeatiiiL'.and if he bus not decency enoiiL'h to stay away, yni, knowing all the insulting and unjustifiable circumstancea of thu case, ought to uavo Iveling cnougti to keep him out. ' I nm known lo several of your number, and, l hough never personally engaged in any presidential canvass oflha three I havo witnessed in tho United States, there aro thoso with you who can certify that all my pn formers have hitherto been D'-inocratic, and mv action accordingly. In 1852 1 was among the first, the most carrcst, and I believe not iho lenst efficient in resisting the artful attomt.t to make Mr. I'iercn an awetnblo for the Catholic test in the New llumpHhirecoii.stiluiion, Tho "campaign" publications of that day, untied from the oflicea of tho lloston I'ust, Albany Argus, and Washington Union, have recorded how ready for the inainluinanca of a great prin ciple, in common with the class of citizens to which I belong, I was then found to ob literate thn memory of individual wrongs. "Precisely in tho same spirit I now ask for Mr. Herbert's exclusion. Since 182, a fieice social war has been made, on the adopted cilizens. So long as it was confin ed to sectarian presses and midnight mobs, we etnlcavored to resist it with a firm for bearance. Hut when a Democratic mem ber of Congress, and di l-gntc to your Con vention, shoots, bf foro break Ths!, a work ing man, because he Msented being called a "damned Irish son of a b h," it is full time for us lo ask you, do you mean to sep arate (hat man from your ranks, or lo over look notorious facts, or to vindicate, the equality of all classes of citizens, high and low, native and foreign born, in practice ns in theory f Looking anxiously for your priceedinpi. 1 remain, gentlemen, very respectfully, tour obedient servant, Thomas D'Arcy McGee." The Cincinnati Convention pnid no at tention to the letter, and thus added insult lo injury lo the bono and sinew of the party. Since that timo the foroign press all over the Union havn almost universally run tip the name of I'Vemont, and turned away from Ituehanan with disgust. Among the number we nolo the St. Charles Democrat published in Missouri. The Slate Demo crat, in New York, tho Anzieger des W'tt- n.'of Si. Louis, the Pittsburg Courier y tho HufTalo Titegraph, the Slaltt Demo kral, tho Abend-Zeitunff, and lha rioneer of New York, besides many others. An extract from the Leit-Slern, (Guid ing Star,) published in Baltimore, must suffice as a sample of tho lone of thrso pa pcrs : "A word to the Native born Svlfttyled iemncratt. e have published several (iermim papers in this country, one for three yeurs past in Haltimore. We have partaken of the Revolution in Europe ond have stood with the banner of Freedim at the baricades where the balls of a despotic soldiery were flying thick as hail. We have always struck for the freedom of the people, nnd we have always been a friend of Iruo 'Democracy' but wo have found that tho same 'Democracy' as applird in this country to the party claiming that lido is an empty sound. "You. the manngers nf t lint party, drive or lead the (rermnns In tho poll like cattle, und, when they liavt, voted, yon treat them wiib contempt. If there is any benefit lo be lictowed, II is given lo theCathoho tri-m who govern you and whom yon are afraid of. Tha election i approaching. Here tofore yon havo had the Germs ns in a body, but you will have them so no longer. The bigoted Catliolie portion adhere to you, but the Protestant and free-thinking Germans are with you no longer ; neither here in Baltimore, nor elsewhere. The Northern and Western German papers, nearly all of them, have left the so-called Democratic party. t have not much money, but we have manv friends, and, as far as our ener Ifies am) influence po, we are determined, if osaihl, to in.cire tha defeat of the false ly so called Democratic party in (he com ing oontest." We see by the papers that the Philadei phiuus are posting up Urge caricature pic tures, designed to illuitra'e the position taken by Huchanan when he was a Feder slist and opposed the war of 1312, and thanked G.hI he hadn't a drop of Demo crat io blood in his veins." The picture represented a distinguished surgeon, puncturing with his lancet every vein in OM Buck's body, in search of ''one drop of democratic blood." It is nJ!e io say, that Duck is found as bloodless as a t-irnip- We rwomnwn I then to Herd an c'.her I..i rtn. rlu it I the 2r.U'hc fc-wt tlie bloodfrom Old Ruck. It may prove "a good enough Morgan till after the election." We fear however that notuing win win back the Irish vote nnless Herbert is sac rificed. The breach might he healed by flavinff him alive, and aending enough of his hide to all the priest to make each of them a razor strop. Dr. Kvans, lbs efficient U. S. Ge ologist who has been engaged for several years io risking a geological survey oi Oregon and Washington Territories, will leave for home on the next steamer. His museum of curiosities gathered on this coast will make a valuablo acquisition to the collection already at tho capital. The Dr. has laid on our table a samplo of pure limestone in iho shape of fossilized shells, which ho ha lately discovered In great abundance noar tho Molalla, some twenty miles from this city. This is a great discovery, and worth more to Oregon than a cold mine. The Dr. informs us that sev eral persons intend to commence burning lime soon. flT In reply to our lady correspondent in Ohio, who asks, "Who is 'The Old Ran- gert' " we can inform ber that he is the Hon. Aaron Tayne, who emigrated from Illinois to Oregon in 1 847, and now resides in Applo valh-y, Yamhill county, O.T. ; man who, Cincinnstus-like, lives by his own honest toil, and belongs lo the Lard handed yeomanry of lha country, a regu lar simon pure, Juflorsoninn, Compromise democrat. Uo was a "rnngor" in the old Black Hawk war, where he did good ser vice, and now bears about in his body one or two leaden keepsakes, which iho red skins presented him from tho muzzles of thoir rifles. He takes four copies of Tub Awes, pays for them, reads ihcru himself, likes them first-rate, but thinks we some limes "notice the fust (Hush) too much," and thon sends them to thoso friends to read whom he left behind. He is great at lecturing on temperance, scaling the ruoiin tains, and unraveling prophecy, is a friend to Fremont, lo all good men and good causes, but death on ludiana, abolitionists, grisly bears, nnd black democrats. Peackcs. S Rev. Mr. Atkinson has furnished us a samplo of 1 lie Early Crawford peach, which measures nino inches in circum forenco, and is the finest poach every way that we have seen in Oregon. It is cer tainly worth cultivating. Mr. Flaherty has also laid on our table a specimrn of tbo Gravenstoin apple measuring thirteen inches in circumference. If any body can beat this, it is time you were "shelling out." Peach Blight. After all that has been said and written about (he blight so common to peach trees in Oregon, we have nover yet heard a rea- tonable explanation till Mr. L. Yaughan, near Chehalein, gave us his theory, which is, that the early rains in the fall causo the sap io Ftirt up the tree, which remains in the limbs during tho winter, and becomes sour, thick, and unhealthy, and produces a disease of the leaves. Mr. Yuughnn'a remedy is, to keep tho ground protected around iho roots of tho tree so as to prevent tho early rains penetrating lo tho roots. This will probably answer, but we are using a different method on our tree, (the only ono we have.) Last spring it took tho blight dreadfully, when Mr. Schncbly stripped the leaves off entirely, informing us that a new and healthy dress would soon appear. We have watered the tree with sonp-suds every week since, and it is now covered with a beautiful foliage, and grows rapidly. If the roots are kept moist all summer we oannot see why the enrly rains should affect it. A liftod AppotattntBl. Capt. Hodges, Superintendent of Indian Affiirs, informs us that he has called Dr. James McRridu of Yamhill to tho post of Physician and Surguon on the Reservation al tha Grand Rondo. This is an excellent appointment, and would be hard to beat in Oregon. We are truly rejoiced to see one Government agent in Oregon who, instead of selecting appointees from grogshops nnd gambling establishments, begins first by calling lor the services of m,-n of experi ence ami weight of moral character, men who attind high in the estimation of the staid and mural portion of community. This is truly refreshing in Oregon, and look like getting back to good old primi tive Jeftersonian principles and practices. C.as'l r.ttaslnx. The organs of lh black democracy in the Stales aro at a loss to know how to lake Tom Benton. Some of the scribes say he is playing into the hands of his son in-law, Fremont, and is an enemy to Buchanan ; oi hers that if he is a Buchanan man, be is impolitic, and doing the democratic party more harm than good ; while others say, "if Benton tells the truth, we live in drtad- fully corrupt timet." Not a single one of them, lha; we know of, has dared to deny the truth of a single statement made by Benton. In fact he is a man who iitotrj what ha says, and is looked upon aa a gen tleman of acknowledged veracity a well a a great tutesman in both hemispheres. Tha fact is, we do not suppose that Bcnloo told ator than half th truth, for want of lime. Haw Vrawcttc Pvtcc. Wheat $1 30 ir buahel, Potatoes 1 33, Oats 1 1 20, Butter, not mentiond, Coffee 1 1 c:s. Vroaa Iks North. Gov. Stevens ba left tha Dalles with a train of SO wagons for Walla Walla where Capt. Shaw is camped, where ho was lo have a big talk with tha Indiana en the IStb of August. Perrln Whitman is his interpreter. Col. Steptoe has gone up with a company of dragoons to make a mil itary nost al Walla Walla. The Da Shuies and John Days River Indians have mostly come In end givan up their arms- Between four and five thousand Indians havs been brought in to the Dalles, and are in charge of the Government Agent. Mere ladlsa DrprcAatloa. We learn that a band of Indians still re maining in tho mountains on the head wa ters of Umpqua, have recently come out and burnod ono or two houses, beside firing at and wounding two or three individuals. Gov, Hleveas. Wo notice that Cass and other Senators have called for an investigation of the con duct of Gov. Steven in declaring martial law in Washington Territory. They speak of the act as a bold and daring assumption of military power, which ought lobe ro buked by making an example of the Gov. ; and intimate I lint the President will proba bly forestall the action of the Senate, by removing him immediately. (lesion's tipcecta. The great speech of Thomas II. Honlon which we published last week, exposing the rottenness and corruption of the locofoco parly, is doing good. Democrats tell u that there are things in that speech they never heard before in refureiico to the Com promise as a finality on the slavery agita lion, It will help to open the eyes of every honest man. He who can read that speech and then stay in the locofoco party, must be a madman, bent on the ruin of Ins coun. try. We printed a number of extra copies of Tub A rods containing the speech which aro in great demand. We have a few more left. Let every man get ono nnd send to some friend who yet live in the valley of political darkness. Arrival of tke Mall. The U.S. Mail steamer Columbia, Capt Dall, reached Portland last Sunday morn ing. By the kindness of Wells, 1-Vgo & Co.'s Express we were furnMied with files of California and States papers. Fire. On last Tuesday night an unoccupied dwelling house on tho opposite bank of tho river, belonging to Mr. Hugh Burns, was burned dow n by an unknown incendiary. Ran, Everybody t Those locofocos who went io for remov ing Col. Gardner "because he didn't i-ssue patents," will please call at tho Statesman office and get thoir sheepskins, as soon as possible, as we have no doubt they are about ready by this time. OCT Brooks in his trial in Washington City for the Sumner assault, was fined 8300, and 885 costs by the court. 9 Nothing more dono iti Congress for Oregon. Tho Jennie Clark has laid up for about a month, at Portland, for the purpose of undergoing repair. California Hems. Peaches are now selling in San FraucUco at two cents each. At on fruit store 100 baskets are daily received and mM fur tin's price. Judos Tirsy Rslcakd. Judjfe Terry waa released from coufluemenl by the Vigilance Com mittee in Sail Francisco, oil the 7th met. The following resolution by tho Committee was read to Terry previous to his release : 'Kesolved, That, in the opinion of the Committee of Vigilance, the interna of the State impera tively demand I tut the said David S. 'lerry liould resign bis position as Judge of the Supreme Court." Deeming it unnafo to remain iu San Francisco the Judge immediately took passage to Sacramen to. There seems to be s general upheaving of tho political fabric of California. The Vigilance Com mittee have filially couclujrd to disband, aud throw the power they wreated from the Judiciary, back into the hands of the people. We not.ee ihataome of tho papers contain calls of mau con ventions by the people, to take into collaboration the beet plan for promoting the true ends of gov ernment, without the aid of ponies, cliques, and demaguguea. The Sacramento Union aaya the people are worn out wilh party demagogueiam, aud are riaiug in their might to emancipate theni elvea from (he rentraiuli of partiea, none of which have ever aeuured to the people what they prom istd. We are glad to ace that the Cal.foroia papers are couiing on to the ground we have been battling fur all onr life. Politic Is California. The Sacramento Union, an American organ, savs: "Iu this State, allpartiet are beginning to man ifeat life and aclivily. AUetings are being held, club tomied, and arrangements made for a live ly campaign. D muvrauo aud American leader aud axruiiu are m-iving, aud number of the lo. hut are crcuiaiuig Uiiuugh the State to ex tend their aecuaiuuuice. and beln their fn.nJ. m CottveuUuua. "lha American party has been reported sa dis solved by Its oppoueuta, but it baa lately exhib ited unmiautkaule sign of life in the muuutains, aa weU a determinaUon lo give iu opponenle a deaperately apinted corneal lor the four elector al voum to be Cat by Cat n orma. "In the meantime, Ui Republican are sol idle. Tbeir leaden and ad locate claim (bat they are vet to maka a atrarm rVh, t-r .-- t , . - JUUCTU. iHne of them eonruu-aOv mh . ... -UM Mil, 1TQ ..m V ... k . n-1 o " ie.rra are a routf raanv ww.f ...vu. ib aau ranciac and in tha clly, and pertupa in aome ef the agricultural countwa, but iu the miaea, (ram lb lighta be fere n, we eaooid eay the nnmbrra who wU Ti t iu, iWm in the popalooa count; e will be found limit ed. Howvver, tb party, it ie reported, will aoen tail a paper la th e city, to adroca its etuM which, if property conducted, will duh U able' to develepe na atrength m the Slate. Th feud f lieeiy lime po-'itrfallj wjj dakbtle. be frlud 14 fvtr.fr " ATLANTIC SKWH. AppallUl Ace Ideal oa U Wort. Peaasyl- fin of tho most terrible accidents that has ever happened in the history of rat road disasters occurred en 1 hursday. 17th July, on the North Pennsylvania Kailroud, near Philadelphia, resulting in l ho death of over fifiv persons, mostly children, and the badly, if noi lutai, "mi x other. From the New York Herald we gel the following brief account of tin sad calamity : . Tho scholar of the St. Michael church, Philadelphia, attended by their friend, leachers, and Ilev. Mr. Sheriden, lo" the city on a pic-nio excursion. Tho train oonsisted of twelve cars, conlnining about si hundred persons; and when near Camp Hill, whoro ihore is a curve in the truck, was run against by the down train, and, dreadful to relate, some fifty persons, most ly children, together with the conductor, Mr. Harris, and Kov. Mr. Sheriden, were killed, and from lovenly lo eighty badly, if notfalally hurt. Three cars of tho up train wre broken to splinters, and the frsgmenl ignited from the tiro of the engine, by which many of the above victims losl their lives. The down train wa but slightly injured, and no person in it uslained any injury. The greatest excitement prevails in the vicinity of St. Michael's church, where most of the sufli'rers have resided. Subsequent lo the collision, the conductor of tho down train, Mr. Vanslavoren, driven to despera tion at beholding iho result of his criminal recklessness, swallowod arsenic, and ter minated his oxistence. The encincer was placed under arrest to await the result of the coroner invcsii;aiioii. The wh i!e city of Philadelphia was filled wilh consternation and mouriiiiiir, and the piper la'gfly occupied w ith the names of thesullerers, anil thn dotal is oi tne Heart rending catastrophe, but for which we have not room in our evening edition. BnralDf of a Httsmrr oa Lake I-'.rle. On the same dav of the Philadelphia disaster, another of almost eiual magnitude occurred on Lake Erie, the steamer North ern Indiana having been destroyed by fire while on her passage from iiullalo to To ledo. A number nf the pasengers wero taken oil by the steamer Mississippi, which went to the assistance nf the burning ves sel, but it is believed that between thirty and forty lives were losl, although there nre hopes ihat many of tho missing were rescued by a propeller and schooner which was assisting in picking up the passengers Pacific IlallroaA Pronosllloa lo Bntld Three I A correspondent of (he N. Y. Tiibune, writing fiom Washington, July 10, says: Tho special Pacific Railroad Committee have agreed upon a bill eleven members concurring; ami Uen. Denver, ttie Chair man, will report it on Monday, if he can gel the floor. Three roads are provided for one lobe built north of the forty-fourth da. creo of north latiiude, by the Northern At lantic and Pacific Railroad Comnanv, of which Alexander Ramsey la President; one betweon the thirty-eighth and forty. fourth parallels, to be constructed by an associa tion of all the road now chartered and running westward through Iowa and Mis souri, the junction lo be formed near Ft. Kearny, and the single trunk to run to tne navigable waters of the Pacific, in Califor nia ; and the Southern road is awarded lo the Southern Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, of which T. Butler King is President a new company, associated with tho Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company of Califor nia, the Texas Western Railroad Company, and the Vicksburg and Shrevespori Com pany, tins line ruus from tho Mianis-up-pi, at some point south ofthe thirty-eighth degree, and runs lo San Francisco, with a branch to Si.n Diego, and with a grant of forty soctions nf land tothemilo west of Texas to the California line, nnd llten ten sections to the mile lo San Francisco. No grant is made for ll.a' portion of tho road east of tho western boundary of Texas. The Northern road receives forty sections from piint to point, seventeen hundred miles. The middle road receives thirty sections until it reaches California, thi n ten sections lo its western terminus. The report of the Committee will not be long, but clear aud satisfactory. The bill will bs put through without delay. Refusal of tlio President to Interfere with tbe Vigilance Committee. Ill reply to the requisition made by tho authorities of California, upon the general government, for aid lo put down the Vigi lance Committee, the President says, the Legislature must first exhaust all the power of the State before any assistance can be extended to ihem by the Uuited States' au thorities. Tlial of tterurrt. Ilerhert has been tried in Washington for murder, but the jury failed to agree, they standing nine for acquitnl and three for conviction. lie is to have another trial. Political News from the Stales. The Baltimore Patriot gives the follow ing accouut of a nice Democratic family quarrel. The Union Styles Col. Benton's support of Mr. Buchanan as treacherous : The Washington 6rnt'o having recently attacked Col. T. U. Benton, the Free Soil candidato for Governor in Missouri, for what that paper is pleased to call his "treachery" lo the Democratic parly, Wm. Carey Jones, Ksq., of Washington, a son-in-law of Col. B., addresses a note to the editor of that paper, io w hich he savs : "1 request you to inform the writer of the piece that 1 am convinced that he is, and hereby pronounce him lobe, what he is himself entirely couscous that ho is, a liar, a scoundrel, and a coward ; and he can re ceive this either as a public or private com munication, according lo his ow-n ideas." The C'm'on acknowledges Ihe receipt of this note, and after treating i' contents rather cavalierly, concludes Ly aying that if the Colonel continues in iho fie'ld in op position to the regular Democratic nomiuec, "we most follow our conscientious convic tions and discharge what wa regard a our duty to the Democratic party, although we may thereby incur the hostility of Mr. Jone and oiher friends of Col. Benton." It appears that the Union did not publish Mr. Jones' spicy note, but merely referred to it, and thereupon that gentleman comes out in a publication io the Intelligencer, in which he gives it, and py his respects to the t'.iron in the following terms : ''In re gard to Ihe Union I have a word to mv, and that alo Solely on my own account. T'ta' p-er it etdrii o'iip fo r-r.v. .- 'V If. f .at of Mr. Duchanan. Thor wher tho 'treachery' lies, and it would not be nrpning if its article or the last tan day have alii'ded enough vote in the Si at of New York (not to mention oilier Stte) to mako lb balanco there against the Dam- , ocrat ic nominees. The Louisville (Ky.) Courltr, formerly a Whig paper, but now supporting Buch anan, I "inclined lo think ' thut be will carry every Southern Stain, although it says : ''The Contest will be very close in Maryland, nnd the Benton split may lot him Missouri. The vole of Maryland is doubtful, a the old line Whig there seem, cd inclined logo for Fillmore, and their in. fluurce mny chungo the calc in hi favor. " Kkdossescxt or Fotaiid Dsvton.TIi New Brdiord Mercury (heretofore lraitht Whig) put ih ticket st the head of It eolunmi. The Worcester t'py, a Krrenuil paper, adopt Ih ticket and endorse Ih nomination. The Now York Commercial Advertiser, a trigtH WUijj paper, nf pn-alavcry tendency, think Ihe nomi nation was only deaipiied to keep Iho coirglome rat ma of Hi Iinpubliean party together. Tbo Newark Daily Adverliaer, an old and eonserv. live Whig sheet endre( Fremont aud Dayton. The Concord (X. II.) Statesman, for many year tho organ of the Whig party In New Hampshire, runs up tin flag; of Fremont and Dayton, and endoreea Col. Fioinuiit w ill earneatnea. The New York lOveniOa l'ol. Democratic, which sup. pirlcd Tierce la Iho last election, now warmly adrncate the Philadelphia ticket. Tlio I'liila delphia American and the Inquirer, both Whig paper, suitain the nomination. The National Intelligencer I lurpriaed at the prompt nomine lion of Col. Fremont by the Philadelphia Con vention. CoagreM. Sknatr. July N. The b.ll amendatory of the act lo promote ill efficiency of the navy was ta ken up. After a desultory diecusaion on sundry amend ments an untuccemful motion was made, at 4 o'clnok, to adjourn. Mr. Tomnba obtained the floor, saying ss the Scnule was anxious to discuns the tjueition now he would five his view nt large. Mr. Hunter Will Ihe Senator yield for a mo tion to adjourn) Mr. Tuoinlia No, air the Senate lianjurt re filled tn adj iurn. I intend to speuk uu lha sub ject, nnd when Senator grl tired hearing me they can go bom. 1 hope, however, Hint the rcponrrs will keep Iheir seals, for my speech is intended a much lor the country sa for lite Senate. After I have spoken three or four hours 1 lie Seuator from Virginia can multe a motion to adjmrn if ho chooe. Mr. Toombs proceeded to give a Iratory of Ihe rise and prorena of the navy, going back lo tho foundation of ihe government Very few Senators were in their scat and there was much conversation going on in audible tone. Tha Chair several limes called for order, but Mr. Toombs said : "The talking does not die I ni b ms iu tho least. 1 am glad to hear Sena tors discus-tin; (lie subject. It might to be dis cussed on this floor, behind the bar, and all ever ihe country." July 16. Mr Drown from ths Committee on th Dielnet of Columb'a, reported a bill retrocoding Georgetown to .Maryland. From tho New York Herald. Tlie Vrcalaency Democratic f.onsplraey to Defeat Mr. llucuaoan. Our special dispatch from Washington, of July If), discloses one of the nicest little democratic conspiracies for the defeat of Mr. Duchanan thut could possibly be de vised. There U, too, S'tch a strong ex pression of consistency nnd method and purpose and reason ab.iut this scheme, that we feel perfectly free, to express the opinion that there is something in it ; that the par ties implicated, and their motives and ob jects, are fully equal lo the measure of the pint, and thai the complications of this can vass are highly favorable for carrying ibis plot into execution nt a venture. It is hardly necessary io say that the Pierce and Douglas democracy have swal lowed the nomination of Mr. Huchanan with a very bad grace. The fact is noto lious, and there aro abundant reasons for it. For twelve years Mr. Buchanan ha been a conspicuous democratic aspirant for tlio Presidency ; for twelve year he has had n clique devoted to him a clique of calculating politicians who have regularly brought him up nnd endeavored lo push him ih rough at e very democratic national convention, from that of 19-14 down to this of 18'0. In finally securing his nomina. tion, this cliquo of devoted friends must stand with Mr. Iliichnnan as his first cred itors they, in brief, with his election, will bo nearest iho throne. The leader?, disci ples, followers and deceivers ofthe Pierce, Douglas, Cass nnd Jeff. Davis cliques, re spectively, are well nware of this, and ac cordingly, in working for Mr. Rtichanan they feel very much like men working for nothing but the mere husk and straw of democratic principles, for they have no as. surance of anything better. The of Jeff. Davis, of Douplas, and even of Mr. Piereo himself, with Mr. Buohanan in :he White House, must bo secondary, and Bubject to the ndvico and consent of Colonel Forney and his particular set. This, though in a smaller degree, was the incurable weakness of Clay, Webster, Calhoun, Cass and M sa tin Van Buren. Kach had his pet clique of advisers, favorites nnd dependants, from which the outside masses recoiled a from a feast to which they wore not invited. , Thus stands Mr. Buchanan. But this is not all : He is distrusted by the younger democratic Southern politicians as "an old fogy" and a time-server j and at this crisis they would infinitely prefer a Southern man for their President some such man, for example, as Mr. Breckinridge. The Richmond Enquirer, which, like the Washington Union, did its very best, if not its very worst, to defeat the nomination of Buchanan, has hardly been persuaded to believe him the bcsl of all men since th decree of the Cincinnat Convention. Mr. Pryor, of the Enquirer, is a protege of Mr. Pierce, nnd believes, no doubt, that Mr. Picrco has been trcachorously sacrificed. At atl events, as one of Mr. Tierce's little trumpeters, Mr. Pryor hassenso enough lo understand that he must make his peace with the grand chamberlain Mr. Forney, before he can !io admitted into tho conti denco of Mr. Buchanan. Docs it need anything further than these hints to explain why the nomination of Mr. Buchanan drags, so heavily ? He is an "old fogy" a timidj old gpntleman, except in the hands of Soule an old stager, with bis little family confidential clique in every Slate, before whose claims and pretensions al other democrats, of high or low degree, must stand back ; aud is not thie enough I Mr. Breckinridge occupies a wholly dif ferent position. He rs a new man loo young and fresh as a politician to have col lected any barnacles or leeches npon bis sides. Should he. by a chain of lucky ac cideni. be made President, he would be as available lo Pierce men, Douglas men, and Jeff. Davis men, a to the original Buchan an men. He has no clique npon hi back to break him down no Forney to lesd hi by the noce no la." fHtrrlv of h-'jrgir'!