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"t '.. y-;. ' f. Jr.v. ,'1 w. l, ADAM, mtiTni axu ranrantro. OHJBOOM CITY: SATUilPAV, MAIU'H 20, 18.19. To tbe Republican! of Oregon. There will be a fnuveiiiion of llio Rpiiu!ieaiiof uregua at 8AI.I..H, on 1 iii'rv, tiik I wiNTr riMT bat or Aran., I8.9, for Ilia purpo of nom- liming Ie!eate or Iteproktiitiitive lo Consress, anl for Iht purpnw of ImiHuctitig ourh oilit-r bum- nts nwy fine nature Hit I oiivfuiuon, - 'I'll Committee miffifcul t lint the follow inir nninr t'onniPiil I) n.llirr I In lu electing delegates: Curry 1, loot 1, Juckunii , JiM-phint 'J, J'ou glM 4, I'mpiiM 2, Latin C, Limit), Hi mm 4, I'olk 4, Yenih II 4. M.-ir oil 7. Clnckamns A, Wash liigtnu 3, Multnomah 4, Culumb 1, Clatsop I, Jiliniiiwli 1, n. iihii I. Th Comm'tte nUo earnestly request lliul a full and complete org.iniition of Ilia liepubliruna bo peiftcteJ in eiery eounty an eaily day, ami that Ilia chairman of e.u-h county eonimitu-e im mediately aainl hi n.-inie and p.rt-tnV luldnts lo W. C, Johnson, Clerk of the Central Committee, I Oregon City. W. T. Ma-tux-, W. C. Johnson, Rep. I I lout m, Cm. I,. II, Wakkkikld, Com. V. L. .Ivans, Jan. 22, IS.'i9. Mqeatlrr HoveretgatyThe Trne poillUn f rartlr Territorial flight aa Drpeadrarle. The moat rigid inlcrpreUit'on of the Coiur.itu tion "iiei to Concrete no power lo interfere in any manner with the domestic economy of the Territo ries, any more than with llwt of thu 8late. There U nothing whatever in it to warrant the idea that eitiien of any State of Ilia 1'iiinn, by becoming resident of any '1'erritory, ri'limpiishet a aiig! constitutional r'jfttt which he enjoys under the protection of a State government, or, by ihe mere net of changing hit residence, yet, remaining citizen of the United Slates, pliicca in Ihe hand of Congri M the power to make bit kiwt and teleel bin oflicert." C'jayiiy'a Organ. Now, if a citizen doet not " reinyuiM I 'ingle nnttilntional right, which he enjnys under the protection of the State government,'' il must ni-e-eatarily follow tUt tbe citlzt-nt of a Terr'tory hnve the Mine right to prohibit tbe introduction ofela- rery therein, an I hey would have under a State government, fjr the right to prolrb't or introduce thia inaiitiilion it an undoubted right pertalu'ng to Ihe congregated citizens of a State. 'J'hil conclu des cannot be escaped. It is Ihe inevitable result of ihe proposition laid down by the Statesman, and wherein docs it difT-r, iu eftvet, from the propor tion, "That every orjan'tej Terrrilory is, and of right ought lo be, perfectly free to islablMi or ex clude slavery, mil to settle according to their own pleasure nil their domestic institutions I" There it and can be no difference. One proposition it the exact counterpart of the other. To any they differ, it to assert that a difllrence may exist without a distinction. One proiosltiou ia Republicaniam, avowed to be such by ISepublicnnt, who attempt not to tkulk away from their principles. The other, its exact counterpart, is of the tame mate rial, and no sophistry can relieve its author from tbe charge of Kepublicanum. We appeal to Dro. Adams, of the Argus, and Mr. Tengra, of the Press, to ray, if Hush's lioiltion, on the subject, it not identical with their on n. What, also, says the Jacksonville Seu'.iiiil? Ore gon Union. As you have appealed to us fur tin assent to the correctness of your position, and as we believe you have mind enough to see the force of na argument, and candor enough to assign to us the ' position' we claim, wc cheerfully answer, that, so fur as the position taken by Cznpkuy's organ is intended to le an endorsement of 51 orris's bill securing to the people of the Territories the privilege of electing their own officers, aud a Congressionul recognition of nil the sovereignty iu u Territory compatible with tho Constitution nnd tho luws of tho land, Iris position is identical with our own, and, perhaps, with that of every other Republi can. Tito endorsement, however, of Mor ris's bill, and the premise s, logic, and con clusions of the extract you have quoted, as iilt.o the distinct avowul, in another part of tho article you quoto from, that tho people of a Territory Imre tho riyhl to instil uto sluvcry ami polygamy if they choose, nro two very different things for, while the former U oar position, the latter is neither our position nor that of any cleur-headed Ktutesmun or sensible mini in the universe. The premises, logic, and sequences arc well worthy tho intellectual caliber of the brain less blockhead that spawned them a poli tician better qalified by nature and educa tion to ulubornlo tin ' usages of cliques ami caucuses and discuss the 'relations' be tween a row of whisky bottles on the intiJe of a counter and a row of ' Democrats-' on the oulsitle, than he is for discussing grave matters of constitutional law regulating the relations' of Territories to the general Government, or even tiie 1 nations' ' or States to each other. Tukc for instance the following specimen of statesmanship: "The most rigid interpretation of tho constitution gives to Congress no power to interfere in any manner with the domestic economy of the Territories, any more than with that of the SStutcs. The only liowcr which Congress possesses over the Territories, by virtue of the constitution, is based upon the " power to dinpate of mid lunko all ucedful rules and regulations res pecting the territory or other property be longing to the United States." Murk tho langttajre. It docs rt confer tho power to legislate for the jxople of the Territories,' or to oppoint olheein over them; it confers no Kmemina powers whatever. It simplv Tets iu Congress, as agent for the States, the authority to dispose of tho soil, as of nny other public proiHTty." ' That is th? position of the sniveler that yon pretend to think ' identical with ours. I ho idea or resorting to ' tho most rigid, strict construction' of the Constitution to curtail tho powers of Congress over Terri tories, is certainy rich for a young man bo longing to a party, the head of which, in order to koep up with public seutiraeut, tn-J domed the racific Haldroad scheme u withiu the legitimate action of the Govern ment, and extorted Lis constitutional au thority from tho 'war-making power' party that rotes millions from the treasury ! for, sucn omwioreo . improvements as tho 'ttiliturr road' from Jo Lait farm to Camp Stunrt, lu order to put money in the pockets of partisan contractors' a party which Is now willing to vote a corruption fund of $30,000,000 Into the hands of the President under the pretenso of buying Cu ba, when, according to Judgb Story, " There Is no pretenso that the purchase ! ... i :...:....:!.:.. or eeKiiuu oi any jumgu icuuuij it nnum any of the lowers expressly enumerated lu the Constitution. Story Lommrmary: p. 400. The criticism of Czapkny's Agent upon tho clause of the Constitution referred to, m far from being our position, or tho posl tion of the Republican, is tho legitimate progeny of one A. S. Watt, who gave birth to it six rears airo. and it hasn't grown much under the nursing of Gov Curry and the Agent, since it was horn. Wo now quoto the 'position' of Judge Story, as of somo weight on constitutional construction a position which, being ' idea ticul with our own,' shows that the Union's conclusions arc wrong: " Xo one has ever doubted the authority of Congress to erect territorial governments within the tcrr.tory of the nitcd States, under the general laiiguugc of tho clause ' to make nil needful rules and regulations.' Indeed, with the ordinance of 1787 in the very view of the frnmcrs, as well as the pcoplo of the States, it is impo sible to dojfbt that such a power was deemed indis pensable to tho purposes of the cessions made by the States." Story's Com., ? 477. We now quote from a decision of the Su preme Court rendered in 1810, by Chief Justice Marsliull, iu the case of Sere vs. I'itot:- " The power of governing and legislating for n Territory is the inevitable conseiiuencc of tho right to iicquiro and hold territory. Could this position lie contested r 1 he Constitution dccl.uvs that Congress shall hnvc power to dispose, of ami mukc all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the United States. Accordingly wo Ond Con gress possessing and exercising the ubsolute and undisputed power of gnverning, and trgi'sluting for the Territory of Orleans." 0A Cranch, 330. The Supreme Court made the snmo de cision in 1828 iu the case of Carter vs. the American Insurance Company. '"'.'' At a later date the Court made the same decision in tho case of JlcCuIloch v. the State of Maryland. . , y - In 1840, Judge Thompson, in the case of the United States vs. Gratiot, referred to this clause iu the Constitution as the nu doubted source of tho power of Congress over the Territories. . In a ease from Culifomin, Cross vs. Har rison, Judge Wayne, in delivering tho opin ion of the Court, said: , " The territory has been ceded as a con quest and was to bo preserved nnd gov erned as such, , until tho sovereignty, to which it had passed had legislated for it.-rr That sovereignty was Ihe. United. Slates under the Constitution, bit which notrrr had been given to Congress ' to dispose of and make all nceulul rules nnd regulations r specting tho territory or other projierty be longing to the United Stales.' 'J' Hero we have five decisions of the Sn premc Court, reaching from 1810 to 1854, declaring that the Constitution makes I on' gress sovereign over the Territories. In addition to this, we might quote from a speech mado In the Senate by' Ponglns, Juuo 5, 1850, nnd another speech made on the same floor in the same year in reply to Calhoun, also from a letter written by Buchanan to Sanford from ,, Washington city, Aug. 21, 1848, all taking the ground that Congress had the power; to legislate even to tho exclusion of slavery from the Territories. We might also instauco the fact that the framers of the Constitution r '1 understood it as lodging sovereignty over the Territories in Congress, nnd hence every administration From that of Washington down has acted nj(ori such an understand ing, while not a single statesman of tho lowest grade has ever denied that tho. Con stitution made provision for tho govern ment of Territories, by the general Govern ment. In addition to this we might quote from a speech of Senator Green of Missouri made iu tho Senate December 16, 1857, on I.pponipKm, and the opinion of Jack sou's Attorney General, R. F. Butler, on the Arkansas case both of which repre sented the sovereignty Of Congress over, the Territories to be so 'plenary and limiteu' that the simple oct of organizing a State government nnd setting it in motion while an organic act of Congress is in force, is downright rebellion. ' Both of these ex tracts arc copied into tho Salem paper iu large capitals, nnd endorsed by the editor as emanating from statesmen , of great ability. '' '' '; ,; lu view of tills array of evidence, how could you expect us to nullify all tho decis ions of tho1 Supremo Court for the last forty-nine years, and disregard the opinions of ull statesmen, for the honor of occupy ing a 'position' 'identical' with that of a jackass foundered on the bran that oozed out of Curry's 'incipient State' bantling, which he held np to the astonished gaze of such Democrats ns Dolf in ' the last Le gislature. '''"' ' ' ' When, In 1S03, the citizens of Indiana memorialized Congress to : remove the re strictions of the ordinance of '87 from their Territory, on the ground that it was an un wise, unjust, nnd ' unnecessary regulation,' as it kept out emigration and deprived the conntry of labor, Congress thought other-1 wise, au'd the committee to which the me morial was referred reported through their chairman, John Randolph,-, that it was ' highly dangerous and inexpedient to im pair s provision . wisely instituted .to pro mote the happiness Sjpd-iprosperity -of the Northwestern conntry, nnd to give rtrvnjrtli and security to that extensive frontier,' The committee further assured tho settlers that at no distant day they would bo am ply remunerated for present hardships for want of laborers, by a heavy immigration of Free laborers. IF Congress had listened to tho prayer oF these petitioners, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin, "all of which havo been carved out of the then Iudiuua Territory, would have had shivery us securely fastened upon them as Missouri now has their 'soil, climato, and .produc tions ' being much tho same, nnd labor paying' equally as well. The result has shown that the,' rules and regulations' of Congress respecting that purt of the ';ro erly' of the' United States,- which conse crated the soil to free labor, and protected the white laborer from tho encroachments of negro-gnng competitions, were not only wise but ' needful.' Shull ice tuko a iosi tion 'identical' with that. of an ass that af firms they were not only unnecessary but unconstitutional,' nud that the people of Indiana Territory hud cither the inaliena ble right, or constitutional right, or both, to curso their posterity for all time by de priving the weaker portion of their fellows of their ' inalienable rights,' and converting them into a capital for aristocrats, with which they could drive poor white laborers out of the arena of competition and out oF the Territory ? Our position Is, that slu very existed in most oF the thirteen origi nal States by the force of municipal local law, and was not founded in natural right, but was contrary thereto, and the Consti tution tolerated it as deriving its sole nu thority from such local legtslntiou legisla tion which had fastened an ri'7 iipori certain localities, over which the general Govern ment surrendered all control in guarantee ing Stnte sovereignty, but over which in tho Territories the general Government re tained full conirol, . by lodging in Congress the right to muko all ' needful rules and regulations' for tho Territories, which we demonstrated beyond the successful cavil of the most ortful political Jesuit by reference to the ordinance of '87 nnd five successive decisions of the Supreme Court. This po sition is ' identical' with that of every states man, excepting Culhoun and his disunion, followers, who ever expressed an opinion during the first sixty years of the Govern ment. Wc shall never be decoyed, into a concession that slavery can claim any au thority outside of the original compact, from nature or the Constitution. We drive it right back to ' local law' ns the foundation of all its authority, and plant tnitt outnonty upon might ( as its founda tion Instcnil of rir,'and wo are determin ed it' shall have no other, "It 'shall never puck the Constitution into a .Territory un der one lirm nnd the Bible under another, and, ' riftor'' having spread the Constitution on the ground, nnd laid the Bible ou it, proceed to sqilat down oh them, and then, with' n devilish grin, taiint' uS by pointing beneath its fundaments for its authority to be there--an authority that wc had con ceded by acknowledging that the people of a Territory had the right (constitutional or nntural) to invite slavery, white or black, to squat down ninong them. Concede this principle, and we concede, according to tho Charleston Mercury, the moral principle, the substantive basis upon'.which the great issue is to be fought. ' We have shown that to concede it would bo the concession of a fahehoodtor mere temporary triumph,' perhaps n,? concession from which wc should some day have to recede. ' It is the very foundation upon which the whole su perstructure of sectioual Democracy rests- it is the grand swivel iu the chain, one end of .which is reaching after the ; Territories and even free Slates, on onr continent, and the other after Cuba, and Congos in Afri ca, with which; to Africanize this continent. Concede ; this principle, and you are irresist ibly led to concede all the other pretensions of sectionalism,' viz: that the Constitution carries shivery into the Territories, and into the free States, nnd is also at variance with the enactments of 1819 ; nnd 1820 against tho slave trade. ' This position conceded, and we will be surely driven step by step to the present Ultimatum of Black Democ racy, viz: that slnvery is national and free dom sectional., It would be a concession intended to demoralize the Republican par ty, and bind.it hand and foot, ready to be sold out in I860 to a Douglas faction that upon certain contingencies will , be thrown up from the crater of the Charleston con vention, which, ninong Douglas's friends, it is now feared will be too hot .with, the fires oF hell for cither, tho ambition of Douglas or For fusing the driven-niggers oF the North with the fire-eaters oF the South. IF Douglas and his Followers .are really for territorial sovereignty, why not say so 1 Why not favor the doctrine that Congress ought as n matter of expediency to permit the jieople of the Territories to elect their own officers, aud relinquish, if you please, all the sovereignty compatible . with the Constitution and laws of the land that Con gress is willing to part with, without sanc tioning a Nebraska bill which gives to the Administration the power to appoint all the territorial officers etni send out' Govern or clothed Kith the ieto power f'1 If pop ular sovereignty Is what "twy are after, why, in the name of God, hasn't some con vention1 ever said so, instead" of silcntlv pnssing'ovcr the grievance! of the Terri tories in having corrupt "anil imbecile offi cials forced upon them by a corrupt and J Imm-cilc Administration and then singling out the right to hnve such ' domestic insti tution' as daverv anil polysnmy if they choose T jutt ns thonjh the key-stone of tho whole arch of self-government consisted in a natural or constitutional right to en slave others and have forty wives if wc choose, notwithstanding that, by disre garding tho natural law that equalizes the numbers of the sexes, wo deprive thirty uino other white men of their natural right to a wife each In conclusion, Mr. Union, you probably understand our 'position' to bo a perfect willingness to endorso popular sovereignty In tho fullest and broadest extent that the Republican party chooses, bo long as they don't travel out of their way to conccdo n false principle, or lay tho ax at the root of natural and iualienublo rights. We are too well posted with the wire-workings of tho slavo power at Washington City, with the principles, pnst history, mid future pros pects of tho Republican party, to be either demagogiied or entrapped. So you rcc that our position is not ' identical' with that of a jackass foundered or physicked with Curry's ' incipient Stnte ' bran. TUe War Dent. The war debt, if it hnd been paid, would havo amounted to (500 to each voter in Oregon, and $100 to each man, woman, and child in the Stato. This would havo made money plenty, nnd have enabled us to support a State government with case. Delusion, nnd the rest of the driven-nlggcr orators, when urging upon tho pcoplo to vote ' for convention,' told ns that wc must have two Senators and a Representative in Congress in order to get the war debt pnid. They also urged that, as by becoming a Stato the war debt would be paid, it would really be money In our pockets to shoulder the burthen of a Stuto government, which would only amount to some twenty odd thousand dollars, in order to get the five million war debt, that tho Government at Washingtou was inclined to look upon our war debt ns a grand scheme for swindling the Government and wc stated when G rover was nominated for Congress, that he was the very lust man that should be sent to Congress, as he had had a finger in auditing the claims, and had personal demands against the Govern ment which would cause him to bo looked upon with suspicion nt Washington as the interested ngent of a gang of swindlers. He, Smith, and Lane, all went before the commit tee, a committee of their own sec tional politics, and, according to Smith's letter, made 'lengthy speeches' on the war debt, and the effect was just what wo pre dictedthe debt was cut down from six millions, to but little over one million, and then the committee refused to ask Congress to make nn appropriation to pay even this pittanco. If Grover is sent back to Con- gross, os' hc will be,' if the clique can send him, wc predict that the war debt will be still further cut down, or wiped out entirely. We havo. no doubt but that. Oregon would havo been much better off to have hired Lnue, Smith and Grover . to stay at home, and had nobody thereto repre sent us. . , ., ..).. .;. -. But, ns the war debt isn't paid, and isn't likely to be, we must go to work, and make our money by hard knocks.'1 Lane, Smith, nnd Grover hare accomplished just what they went to Washington for for Oregon admitted and for this net of patriotism nnd mighty statesmanship, they are now jingling twenty-five thousand , dollars in their pockets. The act, while it has put twenty-live thousand dollars In their pock ets, will take about twenty-five thousand dollars out of our pockets by way of sup porting another set of ignorant, lazy, un principled locofoeo State officers. The tax will be divided principally among about three thousand voters, and will have to be paid,' notwithstanding the war debt isn't provided for.;. 'Notwithstanding all this, wc shall soon have these sniveling section nlists fairly bursting their buttons off on the stump ninong us in spouting about the wonderful feat they accomplished in getting Oregon into the Union how they were permitted to dine with the President what great influence they had with tho Cabinet how they were the intimate, confidential Friends oF Buchanan, aud the particular Friends oF Douglas how Jo Lane stands Fair For a nomination nt Charleston For the Presidency, nnd Delusion For the Vice Pres idency what a great country Oregon is thought to be nt Washington and how certain we are to have the war debt paid, the Pacific Railroad built) and the Union saved, iF we elect the 'regular nominee' oF tho scctionnlists fo Congress. ; ' . A una,"- Alio aiiiuuiii, ui. gum that has been shipped from California from 1851 to 1858 inclusive amounts to about $388,772,517, and that from Anstrulia for tho same period, to $319,097,700. Add $200,000,000 more as the amount actually dug from the earth in these two great gold fields, of which we have no account, and $200,000,000 more as tbe product of all the other mines in the world, and we have a total of $1,103,470,277 as' the entire amount of gold that has been taken from the earth in the fast seven years. . , Allow ing one ton to be a load for a team, and supposing each team to. occupy two rods, the teams employed in hauling this gold would occupy, when traveling, over thir teen miles of the road. Now the question is, where has the gold gone to ? If the gold was divided among all the inhabitants of the globe it would give each man, wo ,mollg the'iuhabita'nts of the Uni- man, ami child fl.OJ each, but u equally ted States, England, Ireland, and Scotland, it would give to each man, woman, and child $22.03 each. . .. . t Who has got the chhlaman t t IiAMYum, March 20, 1850. Frikno Adamh: I thought it my duty to notify you of a little iiutlerhaniUd gatuo that is going on to Injure you. Not many diivs ago, Mr. who lives about nine miles west of hero, mailed a letter nt this office to T. J. Dryer, informing hi in that your business out South this winter wna to puck tho Stato Convention of April 21, so ns to get thu nomination for Congress, You may rely upon what 1 state to lie cor rect, without asking how I got my informa tion. I writo this as strictly coiilHleuliiil. as my only object is to put you on your guard against the attempts of such men ns Dryer s correspondent to injure you try false reports. lours, Ac, Wo print tho abovo letter, withholding the author's iiiimo, thus violating no conli dencc, to correct a report which bus been as widely circulated us Mr. of Vain ItilL und a few others have been ublo to scatter it. But, suppose it was trim that wc wanted to run for Congress hod been out South und had made known our wishes to our friends whose business would it have been ? Haven't wo and ull others a perfect right to to do f And isn't it coin mon for men who expect to be cnudidates before a convention to sec their friends or write to them on the matter f Everybody knows it is, and that there Is nothing either criminal or dishonorable in it. Wo, how ever, dispose of Dryer's correspondent in this short way. First We haven't ' been out South.' Second We never told a sin glo man in Oregon thnt we wanted to run for Congress. Third Wc never wrote u letter to a man in Oregon even intimating that we should be u candidate before the convention, and wc will give $500 for each man (of truth) who will state that wc ever told him so, and $500 for every letter that wo have ever written even intimating that we desired to run. Fourth Wo hare no desire to run for any office whatever, but have a desire to engage in agricultural pur suits, raise cattle, enjoy the peace and quiet of home, and nurse the babies. We have also a strong desire to see our country pros pering under a wholesome, economical, and r oral government u state of things we luivo been laboring tho last four years to bring about a condition we shall continue to lu labor for during our whole life. We shull probably find it iu the line of our business to travel occasionally to visit delinquents nnd collect a little money to carry on thu Argus, nnd while we are out wc shouldn't wonder if wc iniulo an occasional spceeli iu defense of the great principles of rrpubl ennism. Iu fact, we are in the war for life, and wc calculate to do somo hard fighting yet. ' We therefore give due notice of our in tentions so that the nervous nnd sensitive needn't bo nt nil alarmed at reports of our ambition, stealthily put in circulation by such ns Dryer's correspondent from Yam hill a man who is a Mormon in sympathy, who voted for tho abolition candidate against Clny in Ohio in 1844, who was a practical amulgamutionisl, u uotorlous liar, a mail whose highest ambition consists in breeding disturbances by covert attacks through anonymous or ' confidential' letters, and who, to his other qualifications, adds that of being sneaking, low-jinny, and cote ardly. .... The L'mon. The Union comes to hand under the editorial conduct of Mr. Sinter! He mnkes a very good paper for n ' Denio- ocratic' one. He is down on the clique op poses tho idea that the nationals must fol low the Stnndnrd, which it more than inti mates is another Arnold fights shy on Jo Lane mauls away at his old favorite pro-slavery wedge lor splitting tho clique and seems rather independent any way. We heard him make two or three little speeches in the Legislature last winter, when we set him down as one of the clearest-headed mcu in the House as he al ways talked with sense, talked to the point, and seemed to understand his subject. There is, however, a pin loose in his head somewhere, or ho wouldn't be a locofoeo , editor. ' " ' '' ". Tax. The Union snvs that passed by the Inst Legislature raises njpA cnuo Tor this year of $38,000 over aiurjove the ordlnury tax, ond that the Jjrst State Legislature must raise $30,000 , more to meet the expenses of a State .government. It will nlso cost the counties some twenty thousand more to meet the expenses of the county courts ranking iu all the sum of about 88,000 as the State expenses per annum. -! i i 1.- ' '' Cattle Lost. Wc think not less than two thousand head of cattle have died in the Willamette ' valley in the las weeks. Estimating them nt $25 each, we have nn aggregate loss of $50,000, a! for the want of cattle-sheds, and a little feed. , Range has at length become poor through excessive pasturing, and the con sequence is that cattle in most sections be gin to fall off in October,' and keep getting poor till February, when the cold rains and sleet chill them until they arc unable to navigate 'and they are soon down. Al though the most of them ent heartily after they are down, nine out of ten in this con dition are never raised. Horses manage bettor to shift for themselves than cattle, althoogh we learn from a gentleman from Marion county that a good many horses have died in that section. .. . Pome. We saw Albright the butcher pay $30.08 for a hog brought to market last Monday.. It weighed 236 ' pound-', and brought $13 per hundred. Our mar ket affords much better beef thia winter than it did last, as a few farmers around here are furbishing" atall-tetl "cattle. , Ten cents on foot is paid for such cnttlft : : t4 . Ullfc " MMVL II Thu steamer Northerner rcichc jL Iniul on Tuesday, evening Mt lt.. , duU'sfroni tho Enst to Feb "fl'-'W Indebted to Dr. Steele, agt'of wr. I.argodCo,,Jlr.Iloyt,0ftloKx.' uu.. iv.Buiimn, of San FraBcki t- lute papers. ---I vi Humtrj f Hew. The Commit !co of -Wart ami v ' have directed their clnilruinu to ri favor of taking a censm. in Kansas 8T1. mint in New Yorkr ,,. , A Slate Couventiou of tho oi.notJtio. parly was held in Luuisville, Kv v? 2t, For tho ptiriwMiWnominatiimKi.i ..nicer, J.lfcnw.riE.S! Governor, and Alfred H. Allen for III? tenant Governor. " ru It is related that two commi, arc on their way to St. Thomas, h.S bee. con.n.iss.oned by G,n. Wrmo to 2 v.tcS..nA.,nbaektoMexieo,,,doJ him he leadership of the Reactionist nrt, 'Ihe wUr7ofWarliMrtoBk2. telegraph to Vw Orleans, to the pZ government ofhe.als, to proceed iinrtj. utely to have thu bur at the mouth oftlil Missippl denned out, employing the materials, etc., required the expeiMci t0 1 defrayed out of a sum of $7l,(ioo, the un expended - bnlanee of the Congr..wi0llaI appropriation for the payment of tlii. tractors on the bur. . , .The House, Feb. lOtli, rcduwd llic in. propriation Tor the army by to ii,ili01 dollars below the estiinutc presented lit tl Secretary of War. - " Mujor Ben. McCulIocli has arrived it Washington, direct from Soiiora, where In was sent by ( Jover cut a few months lira 1 Ic reports matters to be In a state of imat confusion in Sonorn, ami predicts that general war ninong tho various ni fuel ions must break out ere lung. p)0ni(r jusnowsiaica lu iishington political circles that Lord Napier was recalled w British Minister to this country, hceniwnf his having withheld from President hitch. iniaii the information that Sir Willinm Gore Ousley had succeeded iu negotiating i treaty with Nicaragua. A speciul meeting of the Cabinet wm" held, Feb. 23d, on Mexican Affairs.- The question of the immediate reeogntiion of the Juarez Government hi Mexico wwdi. cussed, without any absolute agreement being eoinn to ns to the policy to lie pur sued. It Is pretty well decided, however, thnt tho Juarez (invcrnnient will he offi cially recognized, o soon as Senor Jlula, the Envoy from Jimrez, presents Ms cred entials, lie isK no far, unaccountably, ubseut. Fayette MeMiillin has resit-tied the Gov-'' cmnrshlp of Washington Territory. ilie n nslimgloii Mutes snvs: "We hnve reliable information that it was deter mined nt n recent Cabinet meeting, not to recall Messrs. Dallas und Mason from their respective missions." 1 1 A n appmp'atioii of $2,000 his hwn rotnl by tha Miiwouri Senate iu beluilf of Iht Mount Vcinoa ' filllJ.: .v-.f.. :...i. -.( Iii.onnatioii hat bt-n receivrd at Wa-li'iiftno of ths r.itificulioii hy Nicaragua of the Cw-Vri-orrl treaty., It micuns important fuoilitin to llict I n't'.ea Stales in trainnortiiig muni juns of vrarsml inaiU, and tha right to Interpol-, liy force for prod-cling the taint. It gives no txcluiirr pre-fi-reiiue lu any one transit company, and any -wlikh may lie cstalililieil ia furbid.lra to dtclut , ilividi mis em-fding fifteen per cent. The Secretary of the lulrr'or lias asked Con gress for aii appropriation of $30,000 fur Inking Ihe census of Kansas, Willi the view of its adinioion into thu Union, in m-cordanee with the reran- in-.-iiilat'ons of Iht l'residont in hit Annual itf ' Tin? Jn'r'inttf number .of p.iasengeni arrivrJ in the L'liitid Slates fro.n fore'gn countries, by tea1 , from Sept. 30, 18-13, io Dec. 31, IRIS, is -1,055,-'. 000 i nearly 2,500,000 of whom were mules.' ' 1 Tho Kansas Legislature his adjourned. ' Anion.' iu lust aoU was tho pismiga of a genital ' niniiesty bill, granting pardon: to all persons in , custudy, and immunity from priueculion on ac-1 count of pist d'sturbinces in Southern Kanm The-hill rc.-eived Ihe approval of Ihe Governor. PisTHlcT Ji-m;k.A dispatch, Feb. 18, , from Washington, says that Commissioner : Hendricks of the Laud Office in Washing ton City will probably be appointed U. District Judge for Oregon. That would . be a triumph of Lane over the clique , Didn't Jo and Delusion pledge theniselrei . to rro for somo cliauitc, nnd lmvn't Jo nd Dclusjsold out nil their oUfrienM.. Stilcin to get their scuts as Senators? . , the Inivn7'1 r- -f , isea jtifc ' 13T Jo Lane and Delaion look their ' .not in ih Senate. Feb. 14th. Lano drew the lontf term,- which expires h . 1801,' 'while Delasson drew tbo ehort term, whiuli expired in three weeks after he ioo hi seat. About ihe first vote liie Bar' '; was to' exclude Lane and McCariy from heir iesis Senators fiom Indin- . I - H How Delazon voted, we do not Know, The next vote was on a motion to postpo he homestead bill, a Republican measure, u hi-h ih .PfiionalisU were au!oui w I feat J Lane voted with the .eclionalistjrf and Delusion wiih the Republican. '. i... hjTthre i b issue. jw uim 'jr . , 1 ... . ... llm II- ue with ihe two wings f& I, here it, .hall ihe'Lane party or thaeliq" ; party have t majority irihi. repreeiur tion. Lane i already fixed, and .. deter-, ; rained, now that he ha bought over Deuv , ion by promise, that he shall be rt- : ed by the approaching Legislature. ; W ; that case he and Smith will b a iipit " ! again,, the cliquewhile Grover, if i"ta- ed,will be a mere cipher, a he bul111' force .anyhow. On ihe other band, la., clique want to re-elect Grover and f Naamith or Harding, to .the Senate, - , place of Delusion so a. to have a mJ0"7 .gain.. Lane., Grove, b tried to .cc-Pf ;- usual Bairi'deoflb-fencPuo.;'": ring the family euarrel-thatU W' ,o-so a to render himself f ff' compromise candidate oa which fcotf .ion. can nnita- 11" b. hoer If J posted "Dear Bush" the time while in Washington. .r.rppnii vp at wasninEioufj' . II T-j.T-