Image provided by: Oregon City Public Library; Oregon City, OR
About The Oregon Argus. (Oregon City [Or.]) 1855-1863 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 31, 1857)
interfere to exclude 8!vry but thai the people of the Territory lave tit powor and Ik right, and, Stealer BIglar believes ihe Jitpoiitio to do m and that they abould be ProUcled io the xrcise or trial right from all Interference whatsoever. I la alto espresso tb opinion that the out) trol of l ha South io tba Federal Govern meat bat passed away fbrevr, and deolarea Lis utter diaoent from, and aversion to, all Iho acheoMt and prajrcta of Southern ultra Pro-SIvry jnurnali, for rt-oiwriing iho elave trade, or for i tending the power ad influeoca of Slavery. Willi reference Io tba question of Slavery In the Territo rial, he asterti, that all the power of Con crete over lb luhjecl, ia confrrvd upon the people of tba Territory t and lhat if Coagres aver had powr to exclu: b.ave ry, tho people bava it no. Souther Seeator tooled aghast when auob expression a these fell from the lip of the speaker ; and iba mora they think of it, Iba more I hey don't like it, and the mora ihey suspect that in fleeting Mr. Buchanan ihey have caught Tartar. Mr. Diglor we dumb when the present de bate commenced; but the Ehctoral Col lege bava mad up their record now, and lb Seoator't tongue can wag fearleaaly and free. Depend upon it, It will not be year ere we witneta as fierce a right up. pon this question, between the Noithern end Southern wing of ihe Democracy, a w bav bad at any lime io the pant. KAMA! MATTIIIS. The contest in the eaaa of Whitfield, Del egate elect from Kansas, has been settled upon iba preliminary question and he ad mitted to his seat upon the prima fatit ev idence of bis election presented in the certificate of Gov. Geary. This, how. ever, doea not settle tb question perma nently, and w shall probably Lave a e. oewal of the contest toon in a new shape. A Special Messenger from Kansas has ar rived here, with a memorial numerously signed, remonstrating against the admis sion of Whitfield. Additional memorials of the saute character are daily expected, end, when received, th effort will be made to refer them all to the Committee on Elec tions. It turns out upon int estimation lhat th election under which Whitfield claims 4o have been chosen Delegate, and by vir tue of which Governor Geary gave him the certificate, was held without authority ei form of law, either valid or invalid j in other words, that there waa no law, either Federal r Territorial, under which the Governor waa authorized Io call the special election. Under these circumstances lha .proclamation for (he election was a mere voluntary act, of no vitality, and th elec tion itself ia claimed Io have no more au lharity than would have been possessed ly en ordinary town meeting. While upon th subject of Kansas let me say lhat th President has removed Chief Justice Lecontpte, in consequence of Oca ry'a complaints against him, and appointed ia bis atead James 0. Harrison, a distin guished lawyer of Lexington, Kentucky. William Spencer baa likewise been nom inated as Marshal of Kansas, vicn Donel son ; and Thos. Cunningham, of rennsyl vauia, Associate Justice, in place of Burril deceased. John II. W. Underwood of -Georgia la also nominated Associate Jus ties in Nebraska, vice Iladcn, resigned. HUDSON B BAY AND NJGIT SOUND COMPANIES. The Committee on Foreign Affairs iu the House ere prepared to report a bill to purchase the possessory rights of the Hud son's Day and Pugel'a Sound Agricultural Company, fur which the Commiitco will ask an appropriation of two huudred and fifty thousand dollars, which amount, it is said will he sufficient to antisfy tho Com. tpany. Th aame Committee have also Matured another French Spoliation bill, -which they are ready lo report, and which in substance is the same as that passed two jears ago, MODIFICATION OF TI1K TARIFF. The question of the modification of the Uriffof 1846 conies up in the House of Representatives on the first Tuesday in January. Tho ahancos are pretty fair for 4h reduction of the revenue by addition of varioua articles lo the frre list, including coarse wool, salt, sugar, and raw materials generally which enter into American man ufactures. MINNESOTA AND ARIZONA. Th Committee on Territories have agreed lo report a bill to aulhorixo Ihe pto. pi of Minnesota to form a Constitution and Stat Government, with a view lo their ad mission into lha Uuiun. A memorial has been roceived from the people residing up on the Gadsdsn purchase, asking that their county may he erected into the Territory of Ariaona. They represent that they are out ofTby natural barriers fiom lit benefit of the law of New Mexico being nomi nal ly only in the county of Donna Ana, without any of lii privileges of cilizunship, and exposed to savages. They ask their delegate now her to be admitted. Tim case is before the Committee on Territories, but I fear the prayer of ihe petitioners w ill not be granted. I-OFENINQ 0F THI SLAVI TRADI DISCUSSED. Mr, Etberidg of Tennessee introduced into the House the other day a resolution against the re-opening of iho African slave trade, open the ground lhat it is inhuman, at war with Christiaaity, civilization, 4c. Alar ineffectual efforts by southern men losaoure a modification of ihe resolution, so as simply to declare it imjiolUie lo re.opeo Ihe slave trad (ihua waiving th que ion fits humanity) th original resolution waa adopted with some fifty odd negatives. Then Mr. Orr, of South Carolina, Intro duced a resolution against lha impolicy of iU revival, which was adopted with only eight dissenting votes, to wit.: Messrs. w m Brooks, Keitt, Bsrksdalo, Bennett of Miss., Quitman, Shorter, Walker and Wright. TUK FACIPIC RAILROAD QUESTION. Various parties are scheming bore with reference to the Pacific Ruilrosd, but noth ing definite csn he done until after the hol idays J and, indeed, there Is eome reason o fear that the conflict of scheme tnny again defeat th consummation of any. Whatever hill is passed will provide for three different roaJs, one North, another Central, and a third SuUib. It is the gen eral beliuf that only one road will be buill ; but three mutt he provided for, io order to allay sectional prejudices and srcur,o the authorization of one. When that has been elected under the bill, and it becomes ap parent that it will be constructed, the others will probably he abandoned, and the lands appropriated in their aid will revert to tho United States Government. This general policy will douhtloss ho maintained in' any bill which is pressed to a vote, but there is no other detail which ia at all settled upou thus fur. . The two wagon road bills passed by the Sena' lost session, stand very well in the House, and are likely lo pass. TUK PANAMA ISTHMUS TRANSIT. There is no truth in the statement that Mr. Marcy has evor considered the proposi tion to purchase any portion of th territory of New Granada. The Secretary denies also lhat Mr. Uoadley, President of the Panama Railroad, ever made any such proposition or suggesliuu lo him. Neither of those gentlemen bavo had tho least idea of Ihe procurement of exclusive control over Ihe Isthmus. Mr, Msrcy's aim is sim ply to make the transit perfectly safe at all time as th free highway of all nations, and when tho documenta connected with Ihe pending negotiations with New Gra nada come to bo published, this will ho fully apparent. These facts are important, be cause they repel tho anticipation of any fu ture antagonism between the United States and Great Britain with reference lo the Isthmus of Panama. There is and can bo no good ground fur such apprehen sions. CONSTITUTIONALITY OF TUB MISSOURI COM rsO.MISE, ice, QUESTIONED. The Supreme Court has just had argued before' it a very important case, involving tho question of the constitutionality of the Missouri Compromise, and also the ques tion whether a slave takon by his master into a free State and subsequently return ing lo a slavo State, has acquired lillo to freedom by the temporary sojourn in such free Stato. The plaintiff ia a negro. He claims having been emanoipnted, by his master having taken him lo reside in Illi nois, which act, it is declared by the Con stitution of that Slnte, oporaled to emanci pate him. The Circuit Court decided against the plaintiff, on the ground that by his rtturn to Missouri, his master's right, dormant whilst in Illinois, had revived, and that tho Constitution of Illinois was a pe nal law which tho Courts of other States were not bound to indorso. No decision has been rendorrd. Tho case was argued for tho plaintiff by Montgomery Blair and x-Comniis.sioner Curtis of Boston, and for the defendant by Senator Geycr of Mo., and Hon. Rovcrdy Johnson. THE TREATY WITH ENGLAND. In foreign all'uirs llicrs is nothing start ling. Tho new treaty with England in regard to Central America hns been com municated to the Scuato, confidentially, for ratification. Its stipulations mo such a I have staled in a former communica tion, and the chief opposition to it will bo based upon the ground lhat it further com. in its the United States to England in be half of the self restrictive policy of the Clayton treaty of 1850. Still, I think it will ho ratified. Miscellaneous. It ia reported from Washington that iho territory of Minnesota, through the dele gate, Mr, Rice, will lake- steps during tho present session of Congress for admission into the Union. Fires were very destructive in tho United States in the month of December. There were 22 in which the loss exceeded $10,. 000; Ihe total amounting to $2,445,000. The principal were as follows : in Syracuse 1,000,000 . St Louis $400,000; Now lork city 9550,000. It is statod that there are now twenty ludian treaties before the Senate, involving the cession of 122,000,000 acres of hind for a consideration of about 11,000,000. The Indians wiihin our limits are cstima ted at about 300,000 souls. HsrvllelaawrrecUoala Ihtftoalh. The Southern Sta'c have been un pleasantly agitated by the discovery of insurrectionary plots among the slave in certain localities, and rumor, gaining cred it from far, has spread abroad th idea that there was a general or wide spread conspiracy extending through most of tho Slav States. Slav society is always ex posed lo tho danger of insurrection, but it is still more liable to unfounded panic. Plota, or supposed plots, hav been discov ered in Louisiana, South Carolina, Ken tucky and Virginia. In Tennessee there was undoubtedly an insurrectionary more, ment, extending through the region from Memphis, through Clarkaville and Dover, on the Cumberland River. At the iron work owned by Senator Bull of Tennessee, somes'ave were accused of participation in this movement, and nine of them were han"d fuur by the sentence of a Court and five by a mob. A white man, said to hav been disguised as a negro, was sen. tenetd to receive nine hundred lathet, and died under the infliction. Nineteen slaves hav been hanged at Dover, not for any overt act, but for supposed insurrectionary design. A great many slaves have been imprisoned on suspicion. In Virginia, the county of Montgomery, and the neighbor hood of Williumsburgh have bete alarm ed with expectations of an outbreak. The authorities of Alexandria telegraphed on Sunday last, lo Governor Wise, fur arms to suppress an expected Insurrection. In this case, as in many others, there appear to have been a groundless panic. It hns been stated lhat the negroes were undur tho impression that " Fremont with a Northern army," was coming to liberate them, and many of the Sou thorn paper attribute the rising entirely to the agita tion against the extension of slavery, which prevailed at the North. It is more likely that the cause may be found in the exaggerated misrepresentations of the do signs of the Republican party, with which the columns of these very papers teemed, and which naturally bucamo the subject of conversation among the white people within hearing ef the negroes. Every Southern Buchanan newspaper during the whole Presidential contest, did its utmost to persuado its readers that ihe Republi cans intended lo abolish slavery by force, if they had the power, and could not suc ceed any other way. N. Y. Cor, S. F. Bulletin. ILaasas quieted Judge Lecompte removed. There is reason to hope that the Kansas troubles are done. and overenco for all. We hear of no moro battles and sieges, marchings and counter-marchings, in that Territory, and Gov. Geary is receiving credit for his administrative ability and fairness from both Freesoilers and Border Kufluns. Property in Lawrence is said to be worth fifty per cent more than it would bring bo fore his administration of affairs. It is expected to improve another fifty aftor the removal of Judge Lecompte, who has been turned out at length by Frunklin Pierce, and replaced by a respect able man named Harrison. Twenty-one of the prisoners nt Lecompte had escaped by digging unJer tho foundation of the building in which thoy woro confined. Abeut fifly of tho remaining prisoners, says the St. Louis Democrat, are being tried by Judge Cato st Tecumsch. Governor Geary woulJ not permit the ball and chain lo bo fastened on the limbs of tho persons convicted of offences within the Territory. Judge Lecompte had threatened to have the Governor errcstud for contempt, but had thought belter of it. Ills Excellency ills ox-Mayor of San Francisco is consid ered quite a good looking man in Kansas. The following from the pen of a suscepti ble Frecroiler appeared iu the N. Y. Trib uno recently : "I saw Geary this morning, and am quite charmed with him. lie is the best talking man 1 have met, and I cannot but think him sincere. At all events, it seems to me ungenerous to condemn him in ad. vsnco. " Give the devil his due." If tho Governor is a "devil," he is quite an cle. gant gentleman. I don't know why I thought him a gray. headed old man. Perhaps his name conveys that idea. But, lo my surprise, 1 found him quito an Ap ollo six feet high at least, faultlessly formed, a very handsome face, jet bluck eyes, straight hair, fine whiskers and mus tache in short, just the sort of man to win the love of the ladies. No wonder the Lawrence girls hnvo invited him to a Thanksgiving dinner next Thursday. My dear friend, depend upon it Geory is do. ingwcll. lie has not, it is true, dona all we can wish ; but he has dona a deal mora than tho other side have wished, 1 can as sure you." No offort has been made to recover the fice Slate prisoners, that escaped. Tho bogus Territorial Legislature, re cently elected, meets in Lecompton early next month. Governor Gcory is expected to do all he can to have iho most obnox ious enactments repealed. The free State Legislature, etectnJ by the people, Ajiects about tho same time at Topi-ka. Iutorfurenco by federal troops, or his Excellency, Gov. Grary, is not ex pected by many of our people. Governor Robinson and Lieutenant-Governor Rob. erts are both uow in Kunsa, and early in January they will be nt Topeka, ready to act inslhcir official capacity. iT. V. Cor S. F. Bulletin. Later from Mcaraiaa. By the steamer on this side we have nows from Gen. Walker a few days later, to the 8th December. Nothing further had been heard from Gen. Henningsen and his men who were besieged at Granada. Walker had attacked Rivss, but failed to drivo the enemy out, after three days' fighting. He had concentrated his troops to the number of 500 to GOO men nt St. George, on the lake, two miles and a half from Kivas, and nine from Virgin Bay. The enemy had attacked Walker twice, but were repulsed in both instances. On the 23d November, a roost brilliant naval engagement took place between the Nicaraguan schooner of-war Granada, of seventy tons, carrying I wo six-pound can non aud tweoty-eiht men, under C. J. 1-ayssoux, Lt. Commanding, and lha Costa Rican brig of. war "llth April," 114 Ions, carrying six 9 pounder cannon, with 114 men, all well armed with Minia rifles. Ac The engsgemeat lasted over two hours when a shot struck the brig io the stern, carrying il away and causing her magazine let Knli.Ud. Lieut. Fayssoui Immediately sent off hi boats to rescue the sufferers, and sue ceeded in taking from ihe water and off Ihe brig, before she eunK, lorty-iour per. on., whom he brought into S.m Juan del Sud the following morning. Thirteen of ihem were horribly burnt, among whom were the captain, second mate, Padre, second lieutenant, and not more than four of them will live. The balauce of the prisoners were sent by order of General Walker lo Virgin Day, where, ith a few exceptions, they were liberated. Too much praise cannot be awarded to l-ayssoux for his gallant achievement, and the humanity di.played in his endeavors to save life, regardless of securing the prize ere she sunk. Fayssoux lost two men and has three wounded. The Cusia Rieao brig had ninety rifle men on hoard, wiih a large amount of cloth ing fr her army, provisions, and 825,000 iu specie. Vatl Election ncleras. Fullolociion returns, officially canvassed, are now at hand, from all the States, and the result is as follows : Buchanan, in Free Statos, 1,203,000 in Slave States, 639,330 Total, 1,004,325 1,353,000 1,247 Electoral votes, 174. Fremont, in Free States, " in Slave Mates, Total, Electoral votes, 114. Fillmore, in Free Slates, " io Slave States, 1,353,340 421,008 409,117 Total, 022,125 Electoral vote, 8. Fremont over Buchanan in F. S., 89,033 Fremont and Fillmore over Buch anan in the Union, 373,046 Buchanan and Fillmore over Fre mont in the Union, 1,471,204 Wholo No. votes polled in 1850, 4,191,000 " u 44 u in 1852, 3,150,507 Increase in four years, 1,031,000 This is exclusive of about 12,000 scat tering votes in 1852, aud about the same number in 1850. Denton's Plan for a Pacific Rail, road. His road goes by the most difficult route, will cost more lands and more mon ey ilmn any other road by any other route, involving, among other splendid works of an, a luuuei tu an eievnuon oi nine inou saud feet above tho level of the sea, which ... . i .1 .f . e .i is a thousand feet or so higher than the summit of Mount St. Bernard, which peo ple make so much fuss about in climbing lo tho top on the back of a jackass. Pacific Railroad tunnel through the clouds lN. Y. Herald. GTIjc rcgott Slrgus. W. L. ADAMS, EDITOR AND rSorSIETOR. OJUQCION CZTT: SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1857. Mistake. Mr. Lovejoy s'atcd in his speech in the Legislature upon the negro bill that Web- ster and Cnlhoun voted against the organic act for Oregon, on the ground thnt the sla very prohibition was unconstitutional. This is certainly a mistake. Webster and Culhoun always occupied antipodal ground on tho question of slavery prohibition in tho Territories. Tho modern doctrino of the rights of slavery in the Territories was first introduced by Calhonn, and was called by Denton "n now dogma.". Webster took the ground that slavery could not ex 1st anywhere but by special legislative enactment, and his views have been con curred in by the great mass of statesmen of all parties, up to a very recent period. e have not the Globe at hand containing tho debates on the organic act of Oregon, but we recollect well tho antagonistic po. sitions of Webster and Calhoun on the slavery question. I3T Ihe Legialature adjourned lost Thursday morning, and many of tho mem hers come down on the Enterprise lh same day. The repeal of the viva voce bill was lost, so was the bill submitting the seat of Government question to the pcoplo again. Smith's resolutions passed the house aficrsonio. pruning. The Coun cil struck out " Munchausen's trumpet," and carved them up in various ways, dock ing some, and followed our suggestion bv giving more tail toothers. We lenrn that several amendments were made in Chin nook and other classics. After the members had their own fun out of them, the Council killed the whole butch. The House afterwards took them up and passed tl.em as House resolutions, The Legislature adjourned before any thing was done in reference to the liquor ques. tion. borne of the members are ashamed of their vote on the Clatsop contested seat, al least Avery said it was the only vote Ae had given that he was sorry for. We think that vote will stick to a few of the members for some time. The resolutions reading the Standard out of the party failed to pass. The vote stood fifteen for, to twelve against, io the caucus, but absent members came in afterwards and recorded their votes against the resolu tions, and, the vote stands fifteen for, to fifteen against. The fifteen who voted against the resolutions are, we hear, in favor of voting Czapkay'a organ out of ihe party. There is a very general semi mekt prevailing among the democracy that this sheet ought to confine itself n terely to advertising for the Doctor, and quit dabbling in politics. They are sat. iafied that Leland has the more brain of the two, not going brhinj the ears. tTThe Republicans of Clackamas county held a mas meeting in this city last Saturday, and cho 'e five delegate to lh Territorial Convention lo he held in Al bany February 1 lilt. The following named Individual ware selected : W. L Adams, Capt. J. S. Ri nea'rwn, Hon. W.T.Matlock, W. C. John son, and Lesndcr Holmes, Esqn, Kr Wo learn lhat Delusion wa o drunk for several days after the Jackson Jubilee, he wa scarcely able to attend to business. On on occasion iu making I speech, he tickled the audience by oo casionally breaking out In a big laugh, ai be saw ihe idea he waa after looming up in the distance. CO" Judge Deady, we learn, 1 figuring around after a nomination for the Delegate hip. lie avow himself as a proslavery man, and if he should get tb nomination, ho would run as the proslavery candidate, being supported by ihe nigger driving lo oo aud the proslavery men of the eld line Whigs. CO" The bill which wa up before the Legislature requiring bond of the Com missary and Quartermaster to the amount of 30,000, was defeated by a tie vote in the House. These officer are aaid lo have a great amount of money in their hands belonging lo ihe Territory, but these pretended democrat are not willing to male ihem re sponsible to the people. So much fur clique democracy. OO" When the bill wa uador discussion requiring the Commissary and Quarter muster to give bonds, we learn that the Quartermaster was present, and look ihe liberty of contradicting some of the speak ers. The Governor also sat a a spectator frowning upon every effort to bring ihe officials to an account of ihe'rr stewardship. 03" One of the member of the Legis lature, on hi way home this week, told us he bad become convinced that the distill ery furnished tho alimeut on which the black democrat io parly lived. Take this away, said he, and it would die fur want of stimulus. We have long said that 03" Broderick aud Gwin hove been elected to the U. S. Senate from California. They left fur Washington on the last steamer, brim full of the Pacific Railroad project, and hacked up by the united press of that State. W shall be apt lo heor more of this Railroad project betbre the adjournment of Congress. ' tW Tho election of Brodcrick to the U. S. Senate for six years from California hns thrown quito a damper over the exu berant joy lately manifested by the black democracy of the Douglas and Pierce school. Tho Weekly Time (Republican) of Sacramento seems pleased at bis elec tion, and seems to think Brodcrick ns good a Republican as many who voted for Fre mont. Tho Times ssvs that thoasnnds of republicans voted tho democratic tickd last year hoping toscenro the election of Broderick to tho U. S. Senate. He is said to bo a democrat of the old school, such a democracy was before it was budded with S uth Carolina nullification. UZT 1 ho Standard bus temporarily or eternally winked out. Some say that it is for want of paper, others sny that the cau cus resolutions killed it. . W'e think however it will lo out ajaii in with a fresh head of steam. Ualrtmoay. In today' paper will be found a matri monial advertisement. Ladies answering tho description calle d for, will take due no tice. All letters addressed to Box 25, w ill be attended to, and the names of the wri tcrs will be kept a profound secret, by him lor wnom they are intended a man who really wants a wife, and who, we have no doubt, will make a good husband. Lire Insurance. By reference to adveriisemont it will be seen that The New England Mutual Life Insurance Company will hereafter take risks in Oregon. For further particulars, see advertisement. Temtcraaee Paacr. wo nav received the first number of the Temperance Mirror, a monthly paper, published in Sacramento California, and edited by Wm. B. Taylor. T ho typographical appearance of the paper is neat, very neat, and the mailer that fills its column is fully equal lo its general appearance. It is a good temperance paper, and we predict that it will be well upn0rled. When Is Bel The postmaster at Winchester writes that J. W. Miller has left the country and no longer takes The Argus from that of fice. J. W. Miller owes nil ft ft W VW 03" Rev. W. Blain has our thanka for that club of new subscribers. 03" The recent constant rains have raised the river again, to lhat the Jenn!. Clark ia laid up. 03Teter H. Burnett has been anDoint- ed Supreme Judg in California, Gen. "Wool ha requested to be re- called from bis post on the Pacific coast. 03" Quite a number of communications are crowded out this week, 0REO0N LEOISLATDBE CoiiiiW frmn Iho Iff porta la t, Bltadsfd.Oi. gouisu, 'llnws, sud Cupkay's Organ. Januait 0, 1857. Council. Kelley Introduced a bill to amend the Oregon City chatter. ' A bill lo establish Mont v ill Institute passed. Housr. Shuck presensed a fvtltloii for a prohibitory liquor law. Th following bill passed : A bill toprovida for building and re pairing bridges ; a bill amending an sot to organize Curry county ; a bill to chang a territorial road in Marion county bj t establish Montville Institute. Motlilt presented th report of commit. sionur lo' audit war claim; 100 ccpiti ordered printed. Juhuson introduced a bill to Incorporate lb Porilaud aud Dayton plank road com pany. House went into committee of th whole on the hill lo prevent negroes and inula., toe from coining to resid in Oregon Censor in lh chair. Smith of Linn mad a lengthy speech against ihe bill, staling that il wa nneallsd for. There were no negroes of conseqosnc here, and none coming. If a few did com, we wanted them a laborer. The pa, sage of the bill would excite ihe abofj. livnist and proslavery men, and forestall th question of slavery or no slarery that would toon be submitted (o the people. H wa not a proslavery man ; he should favor a free State for a hundred reasons, and en was that slavery could not exist here. Smith of Jackson said ho was willing to show hi hand ; h was a proslavery ma, and he was opposed lo the bill bceras ft prohibited all nigger bond a well as frt from coming her. He wanted slavthohf. era fioin tho South to bav the privilege of bringing their slavea here. Rogers opposed lha kil rmrrrily on ac count of the five hundred dollars fine it imposed upon master of vessel who should bring negroes or mulaitoes here oj ship board, if the same should happen to run away and remain iir the Territory over forty day. Ho thought il wovld act against our commerce. He aaid thnt th organic act debarred slavery from Oregon, and ho could see no necessity for a negro bill to exclude slaves. Lovejoy said he believed the organic act so fur as slavery prohibition was concerned was repealed by tho Nebraska hill. lie knew that when the bill organizing lh Territory of Oregn was wp in Congrf Webster declared the provision in it was unconstitutional, and both ho and Calhoun refused to vote fur it on that account ; and he had understood of la'e that Attorney General dishing had given it as his opin ion lhat slavery can as readily exist ia ' Oregon as Kansas, sinco the passage of Ihe Nebraska bill. Ho would sny lhat if slavery could bo made profitable his con science would not forbid him from allow ing slavery to come hero. But he thongHf il would be nn injury to the country, pre venting tho Immigration of whito laborers; besides he thought with tho British Pes. sessions on the north, the Indians on the east, and a free Stale on the south, sUvery timid not exist here. Allen said he was in faver of the bit', and proposed to amend by inserting u fre" before negroes. He was in favor of a free State, and wautcd no negroes to black his boots. Allen's amendment was Tost. Shuck offered an amendment excluding; Chinamen. Lovejoy offered another embracing "Ka nnkas and so forth," which Shuck accepted. The amendment was lost. Committee roso and reported against the passage of ihe bill. Report adopted by the following vote Ayes, Allen, Avery, Barr. Berry, Benuetr, Brown of Linn, Brown of Multnomah, Collard, Cochran, Gates, Johnson, Lovejoy, Mnihews, Miller, Monroe, Moffitt, Ray, . Smith of Jackson, Starkweather, Under wood, Walker and Welch 22. Nays, Censor, Rogers, Uarpole, and Grovcr. Absent or not voting, Dryer, and Smith of Linn, Joint raomorlal fo Congress for addition al appropriations of land for University purposes taken up and referred to com mittee on education. Stnrkweatacr gave notice of a bill lo test the sense of the people as to the adoption) or prohibition of slavery in the Constitu tion. Janpait 10. Council Bill to provide for building and repairing bridges, a bill lo incorpo rate the Adelphisophical society, and bililo amend the act organizing CurrJ county, passed. Bay ley introduced a bill to take the sense of the people on the location of. lha seat of Government. Ross introduced a bill repea&g; tfci viva voce law. House. Dryer presented, aesiiios of Hiram Smith relative toaaineaae pauses. Committee on counties repotted bii to define the line between Washington, ana Multnomah counties. ' ' Bill passed incorporating Sale an, also ft bill to repeal ihe charter of Marioa Free Ferry Company. Bill to allow certain half breeds to be come citizen taken a p. It was advoca ted at length by Moffiu and Johnson, aae opposed by Smith of Linn, and Collard, Vote oe final passage Ayes, Avery, Barr,