STATE EIGHTS ;DEMOCRAT.f-cn- itthe & ?m
sincere Democrats, wno win never reson
SATURDAY CTOBEIt 28. 1805.
THE FJUECTIOXS EAST AX D THE
.. UCJIUUMVY;'
Tfee result of the late elections in Ohio.
to discreditable or dishonorable means,
even to win success. Here, the civilians.
the people, not the soldiers, not the pol
iticians, hold the sway and control the
Pennsylvania; 'anil Iowa, shows that it is organization of our party. It is to the
wots than foil for the Democracy to good sense, the honest convictions and
hate tBcdViVse o policy and expediency patriotism of the people, that the Democ
racy of Oregon appeal for the support
which shall yield them a triumph. They
will use only honorabka means to obtain,
they will be willing to accept and enjoy
in,, their efforts to overcome the opposi
tion. s Wa thought (tad Jiopcd that the
inglorious defeat sustaiued in the Presi
dential election last year wcwld hav con
vinced our ravir rirfthr in th States I nnW n honnmblo victorv. It is not for
across the mountains that the time for offices and spoils they battle, but for prin
such questionable devices had gone by. ci pies and right, and to see that these
Butit senT these hist defeats were want- are maintained through the period of
ing to complete the lesson, and the con- control, they mean to select only the best
sequence is before us, and terribly bears land truest men for the positions to be fill
pon;Xfiem. In the Presidential contest cd. They have no pet Generals, ready
the singular spectacle was presented of a to turn their backs on their own conduct
war man running oh ajpeace platform ; of during a four years war to eujoy a civil
party, whose platform deaoaneed all of poskba in future; they have no need to
the arbitrary aeU and msurpatlons of the bait their platform with something which
partj MuffFer, haviag for their own can-1 tiaj catch soldiers votes; they do not
iidate a man who ra foremost m arbi- propose to take to their arms the apostate
tTary arrestsand who tad, without pro-J Johnson, and exease all his past excesses
test, been the instrument through which Dy approving ins present policy, merely
seme of the taost odious usurpations of J because he simply does his sworn duty in
the Administration had been enforced, obeying a very few provisions of the Con
GenJ&cClgllan wa- tendered the nomi- stitutionj nor do they propose to purchase
ration upon a given platform; he acted success at the sacrifice of principle or
as no candidate j?f the Democratic party party faith and duty in every manner
was ever permitted to act before he whatsoever. They will not fall into a pit
took the nomination and not only reject
ed but repudiated the platform. It was jsylvauia and Ohio dug for themselves, by
bitter dose For old or true Democrats to avowing certain cardinal principles in
swallow; it was with manifest revakion j their State platform, and nominating can
of spirit -that many of them supported didatcs who have most damagingly assail
him. They did it in the hope that the ed those principles. The evil example
evil would never be repeated, in .the! of those States they will shun, let victory
trust that good might flow from it. But or no victory be the consequence
It appears that the managing politicians
who arranged that ' campaign were not
yet satisfied with their experiment, and
believed perhaps that a plan which failed from- an article we printed about the
in a Presidential election might succeed State Fair some weeks a?o:
in separate State elections. .The results Around the polls, busily electioneering,
riven ought finally to convince them of ere of the owners and employees of
The State Fair Election.
The Statesman copies the following
Another JYcgro C'hurrh.
Tlie Congregational Church Association
of California have adopted resolutions in
favor of the
Immediate erifnuu'liisiMiicut of all iiipii of
full iiC without rcspwt to color, birth or
othr circumstance who nrf not now voter,
as have served in our armies during the late
war, mid all other men witliout distinction,
as are aide to wrifce their name and to road
the Constitution of the country in English.
Mark, the negro is to vote whether he
can read or write or not, " all other men
without distinction" provided they "are
i i. .. r . , . , .
aoie 10 write iiieir names ana to read t lie
Constitution of the country in English."
This is a persimmon above the ordinary
Radical gooseberry. But we canuot im
agine why the Association stipulates that
all other men" shall be able to read the
Constitution, unless it be to instruct them
how to violate it, or at least inform them
of its provisions so that they may regard
the whole thing as forbidden fruit. Sure
ly, the men who pass this sort of resolu
tions pay no heed to the Constitution
save to spurn and deride it.
The Association goes on to request the
Legislature
At its next session to ratify the proposed
amendment to the National Constitution
alHilishinjr Slaverv, and h adopt (ueh ineas
ures as shall give to all citizerurn! the fctate,
without respect to color or other cireum
stances not involving crime, the right to vote
and all other rights of freemen.
To escape the anathemas and inaledic-
dictions of the Church, no doubt the lcg-
islature will at once pass live proposed
Acts. Or, if they cannot do better, the
majority might frame and pass a bill
which shall declare any member of th
Congregational Church ot California en
titled to all the rights, immunities, and
privileges enjoyed by the negroes pro
vided, the aforesaid members arc able to
write tikcir names and read the Constitu
tion in Knglish. They certainly could
not grumble at such terms and conditions
J t is their own pill done up in their own box
their impolicy and error.
. ii me eanaiaates or campaign in
Pennsylvania, we have little information.
It ia quite eaoagk, kowever, to know that
mainly direct their energies to proeure the
defeat of Jas. II. Douthit, a farmer, but a
Democrat, of Linn county, for President.
And adds:
hpi... t .. Hi t ..c i..tU : i. -1 .
the State platform, while essentially sond j ment.
and perfect in point of principles, con
fanned leaven which oll not but in-
fffet the. wiole thing. "We allude to the
endorsement of President Johnson and
his policy. It was equivalent to saying
not the Statesman, in
copy exactly what we
Now, why did
quoting from us,
said, as follows :
Around the polls, busily electioneering,
were some of the owners and employees of
hft KtAm StAriMmn Thnn all annMMil
tha while the Democracy of that State mainly - directNheir energies to procure
adhered to- the principles of Jefferson and the defeat of Jas. II. Douthit, a farmer, but
Madison, .the conduct of an Abolition a --Tv LM un-J' fo Pr?We,nt;
' i ... . and of Ia. M. i aite, of their own party, but
Cfeief. Magistrate' was to be approved who proposes to publish the Plowman, for
that Democratic theories should . be fol- Corresponding Secretary.
Wed bv Abolition " nraetiM. Tim was This shows that paper to be guilty of
r . 1 IV I : i.i- i .
ftnUation, and -could' deceive no 8--S - misrepreaenuuura w maKe
msible TOter. If the party in StateP" 1U4 owu 1,ow' c wlu Prmo UB
CohytiohVere" ashamed- lo manfully H11 83 lt tuoted u3 of what we statcd'
rrtkM their real rnients resoectia- tobe fUlsc- We 6aw tfae tickets
anon m-nowM" W11 aa cnfrnm( ptsi i
. J : . , . election, and which some of the owners
ji imripiCT", wts cannot wunuer mai. me - 4
trionsly if not impertinently electioneered
On these tickets were printed, for Tresi
dent, the names of Mr. Eddy, Ralph
Geer, or Joel Palmer, respectively. Bvt
not on- a tingle one of them teas printed
the name of Jas. IT. Donthit. This must
satisfy uninformed and impartial persons
that the Statesman office was inimical to
Mr. Douthit's election. T3ut we have
stronger proof still. We saw and heard
"some of the owners and employees of
the Statesman office" offer to voters, and
beg of them to vote, tickets with the
name of 'some other candidate than Mr.
Douthit, for President. And yet strong
er proof : Two well known citizens of
mass of the Bterling Democratic voters
,wxq equally, ashamed to approve such
-morai eewardiee and -immoral conduct in
leaders, by easting their votes for
therticl-et presented.
, In umo, the Chicago blunder; was
;alajost,!exaetly: repeated. After passing
a sound enongh platform of principles
but which : was also befouled by an en
dorsement of President Johnson's policy
the ticket was made up of incongruities
The candidate for Governor was selected,
not from among eminent civilians, but
from the military class a General who
had held commission, and fought for the
emancipation of the negroes, all through
fee war. - Then among the other candi
State Rights. The present Chie
Justice of the United States, Salmon P
Chase, made a speech in Ohio in 1857, in
which he eaid :
We (the people of Ohio) have rights which
the Federal Government must not invade
rights superior to Its power, on which our
sovereignty depenos, ana we uo mean 10 as
sert those rights against all tyrannical usur
nations of authority.
Great principles, like truths, never die
Certainly the same principles which stooc'
cardinal and paramount at the time of the
foundation of our Government, exist with
equal force in this day as they did also
in 1857. There has been no change in
the Constitution, no alteration of its rca
meaning, by any competent authority. It
13 plain, then, that State Rights are the
same to-day that they were iu 1857, Yet
Chief Justice Chase and his whole party
now say that the doctrine of State Rights
ia a treasonable heresy. Then it was so
in 1857. If tho reverse of what Mr.
Chaso declared in 1857 was a treasonable
heresy, it must be so still. Therefore,
take either horn of the dilemma he and
they please, it simply convicts him and
his party of having been heretics and
traitors in 1857, or they are so now. The
Democracy ha3 a clear record in the mat
ter it has always stood by State Rights.
A Vacancy In licnton County.
We call the attention of Gov. Gibbs to
another vaeauev in the Lemslativo A a.
-j - - o
embly, which ho seems to have overlook-
1 when he issued hisordcrfor special elec
tions to fill Vaeiineie in tli!it. lioilv in tVm
- j j -
'ounties of Polk, Yamhill, Clackamas and
Grant. There is a vacancy in Benton
county. Senator llovey is no longer a
resident of that county. Iliscase is made
perfectly clear unon another score how-
;ver. The Constitution of Oregon says,
Art. II. Sec. 10:
1 1 XT . , . . .
io person Homing a lucrative omee or
ippomtuMMit under the Tinted State, or im
ler tins .state, Khali be eligible to a scat in
tho legislative -Assembly.
This only exceptions to this provision
are for "officers in the militia" who have
no annual salary, and postmasters whose
compensation does not execed one hund
red dollars ner annum. Mr. Hovev is
now holding an oihee m the surve
General's office in Eugene City. This
disqualifies him for the position of State
Senator lfn liriM-ia n'i)irid "luni-nfii-u''
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office, under the United States by appoint
ment. Besides, he has removed from
Benton comity, from which he was elect
ed, into Lane, county, which is a distinct
aud scpautfSg uaboriabdistrict. A strong
er case, save it would' be one of death,
could not be presented. Therefore, it must
have been an oversight iu Gov. Gibbs,
the failure to order a special election in
Beaton to fill the vacancy caused in the
Senate by Mr. llovey's disqualification.
The people look for his Excellency to cor
rect his error, and issue the order for a
special election iu Benton. So do they
in Linn, to fill Dr. Ballard's vacancy in
the same body. The time for the Gov
ernor to act is; short, yet it is not too late.
TE LE GIIAPH IC .
OVERLAND DISPATCHES.
DATES TO OCTOBER 19.
Clubmno Himself. Thaddeus Stev
ens of Pennsylvania, the Abolition leader
of the lower House of Coqgress, iu a late
speech said : ; The ordinance of secession
adopted by aaeli State that seceded, de-
flared their leparation to be final," and
he contends that "to say that during the
war those States were in the Union, is to
utter an absurdity." Then, agreeably to
Mr. Stevens own argument, the princi
ple of secession is admitted. Yet his own
party declare that to accept the doctrine
that a State can secede is treasonable.
Mr. Stevens is therefore convicted of
treason by the very party of which he is
a conspicuous leader. To grant tho prin
ciple of secession must carry with it the
right of any State to determine whether
it shall of shall not secede for itself, for
it is manifest that other States, or the
General Government, cannot "secede" it
they cannot even expel it from the Union.
And if a btate can seeedi?, and its separa
tion from . tho Union therefore becomes
final, it stands to.reason that it is utterly
impossible for any of its citizens to com
mit treason-against the Union just as
impossible as it is for a citizen of the"
Uujted States to commit treason against
England -should the two countries be at
war with each other. Mr. Stevens is
proving too much for his own party. His
argument would acquit Jeff. Davis at once.
Affairs in the South.
.lackwm, Mi.-H., Oct. 17. The Stato Lrgixlature
im t td-diiy unj oramzed. (tun. .S. J. Ji.hnson, of
Monroe, wiim elected Cliuirman of the ei:;ito, Col.
ioiont')ii, Hiicukcr of iho JIouno. Uov. liuniph-
rii'S was inaugurated.
Naslivillo, Oct. IS. Ornrral l i.k. Superintend
ent of tho I-'ri'dlmi'ii's Iiureuu, announce, after the
passaee of hills hy the different Ptatef protecting
negroes in omuls, ttiiit he will aboli.su in Ins de
partment all matters connected with the civil (status
of the nejro.
The hill permitting negro testimony to he allow
ed in court.-,, passed the. Senate to-day by a vote
of nine t'. ten.
New York. Oct. 17. The steamers Idaho and
Lee have arrived from Savannah. Of that city it
if said that at no time during tho past ten years
has there hjen more activity among shipping and
in trade generally than at present.
The report that John Mitchel U to bo uncondi
tionally released is denied.
The Herald contains a circular from Gen. Tills
scttm-; forth certain rules for the government of
meuinen. 1 bey are informed that they will not
he eubrfi.-dcd iu idleness hy the Government, and
the whites aro assured that they will he held to
gomt faith in their just contracts with frcedrncn
the Charleston Courier says : The efforts f Ju
ricn Mitchel of this city, who has for some time
been laboriously iirprin on tha !overnment the
propriety of restoring the land? to the original own
cr?, have at last tntt with complete pueeeaf. An
order will he issued making full restitution.
Ihe steamer IJril limit tn route for St. Lu;s from
Memphis, was burned at Xew Madrid, Mo at 6
o'chu k yettolday. The flames ppread so rapidly
that there was UaretT tune to ruu the lioat ashore
iconic of the parfscniers escaped without clothing.
Tho fire was caused hy the ex plosion of a kero
sene lamp.
Raleijrh, N. C, Oct. 15. The Convention yester-
dav continued tho di-cuision of the State debt. A
resolution was passed rc(nest:ng the President to
removo all negro trooj from the State.
New lork. Oct. 10. The Herald s Jackson, Mis
sissippi, correspondent nays strong fears are es-
presiK'd in regard to next year s cotton crop ia that
State. The depredations of contending armies
havo left the facilities necessarv for the production
of the staple in a very dilapidated condition. There
13 a:so a e'eat scarcity of stock aud implements m
difpensable in the planting, culture and prepara
tion for market. Planters appear to latk the en
ergy and practicability requisite for proceeding
with the work under the new order of things. In
ths matter of indolence the negr.icsare dispr sed to
imitate those who were formerly their masters.
The Herald's Charleston correspondent says the
troubles on the coast between the whites and freed
men continue. Gen. Bcnnet yesterday st-ct a force
of fifty picked isen to Asbpnrt ,a quell a distur
bance taeri which threatenea to bec-me serious.
The frrsdmen are reported to ba well armed.
Kew Orleans, Oct.. IS. An import nt circular
has been issued from the Frecdmcn's Bureau regu
lating the duties cf negroes toward their employers.
Freedinco are given to understand that they must
labor fr their eiist?uce, and net expect further
concessions. Hen. Tulliton arrived from Washing
ton, and is r-.-poftod to snccsed the prescntSuperiu
tenJent of Freedmcn. Xo further military inter
ferenee is expi-eted regarding registry of voters.
Governor WelU has issued a proclamation call
ing for proposals to reconstruct the levee, to be
d'tnc at the expense of the State. A petition has
been receive 1 by Governor Wells from citizens of
North Louisiana, asking him to take steps to pre
vent a negro iusurrcrtion in that section. General
Beauregard is to be Superintendent of the Xew Or
leans and Jackson Railroad.
Political.
( Jackson, Miss.. Oct. 19-Thc Legis'.etnre has
endorsed the course of lion. W. L. Sharkey, by
electing biin United States Senator to fill the un
expired term of Jeff. Davis, commencing March 4,
ISti;?, by an overwhelming majority lifiovcr Ful
ton mid Anderson. There were two ballets but no
election to fill the unexpired term of II. G. Brown.
The majority ot tb Legislature is in favor of the
admission of negro testimony,
Jicw York. Oct. 19.. At the Democratic ratifica
tion meeting last night, ipeeches were ma le by
Gen. S'.oenm. Montgomery Blair. John Van Buren
and others. President Johnson's reconstruction
policy was endorse'.!, negro suffrage denounced, and
tbj necessity of enforcing the Monroe doctrine in
rrgard to Mexico was maintained.
The Times AVashington special dispatch says in
formation from Louisville has been received, and
that much eonfnsi n and trouble prevails ia that
State, as some Parishes refuse and -it hers are relua
taur to recognise WcIU as legal Oovernor.
New Orleans, Oct. 19. Prominent Texans ar
riving say fesrs arc entertained that Gov. Hamil
ton will delay the Convention so as to leave the
Texas delegation out cf Congress. DelaT in or
ganizing mails has been detrimental to the political j
disaffection lias been canned, in military circles by
the recent order of (Jen. Grant directing the mus
tering out of a large number of colored troops. By
this order tho 25th corps under Gen. Weitzel loses
11 regiments of volunteer colorcl soldiers from tne
Slates of New York and Massachusetts.
New York, Oct. 2fl. The Posts special says the
State Department has received a dispatch by the
Scotia from the United States Consuls showing j
that the cho'cra is rapidly on the decline in Italy, j
Constantinople and elsewhere. !
A. II. Stevens called on the President this morn
ing. The interview was of a private eharacttr.
The fears expressed of negro insurrections in the
South have betn brought to notice, but are cousid
ered groundless. Aucye will doubtless be kept
on matters.
Detroit, Oct. 19. The Michigan Central railroad
freight depot, filled with goods, was burned last
night loss about Sl,"u,uu.
Denver, Oct. 20. The Abolition State Conven
tion have nominated AVilliam Gilpin for Governor,
and George M, Chilotte for Congress. They ap
proved Colonel Chivington's Sand Creel; massacre.
Xcw York, Oct. 20. The North Carolina Con
vention unanimously submitted to a vote of the
people, the questions of abolishing slavery and de
claring flic ordinance of seccssi'-n null and void.
An ordinance was passed 'prohibiting any future
Legislature from assuming or paying any cf the
rebel debt.
The Herald's Richmond correspondent says that
Gen. Grant refused to restore Gov. Wise's lands as
he wiil not take the oath.
A dispatch to the Times says that Jo. Davis, the
brother of Jeff., lias applied for the restoration of
his own and his brother's estates in Mississippi.
Election Return.
Philadelphia, Oct. 15. John Cessna, Chairman
of the Union State Committee, furnishes the fol
lowing : " The result of the. Sta'e election in Penn
sylvania has not been correctly reported. Ia.42
counties the official vot3 overruns the vote of 186-1,
and leaves the Union candidates a clear majority
of 17,000. The balance of the State 24 counties
gives from 5H0O to 7000 Union majority. The
majority cn the home vote will certainly execed that
of President Lincoln on the home and array vote
doptcd sfing tbe Pre,!,
nple of Vfrtb Carolina to all
solutions were ad
dent to restore the people or varolina to all
their constitutional riguis, w am military,
and transfer civilian pris'" otaoritie..
New York, Oct. 22. The Herald hChrlert)n
dat- to October 18th the day of th election fa
outh Carolina for Oorernor and members of the
Legislature. Gen. Bonnet had issued order, pro
hibiting military officers from in any manner In
terfering with it, and forbidding the presence of
soldiers in the vicinity of polling places: The
workin" men of Charleston held a meeting on Oct.
16th, at which they adopted n addrew to their
fellow-citizens, end nominated ftde Hafcptoa for
Governor. . , ,
The hostile attitude toward each other hi tome
part" of South Carolina, of the whites tod Mcks,
is represented d assuming phase thrrateumj s.
rions results onless the difficulties shall be rapidly
adjusted. F.speeially is this the case along por
tioni of the coast opon the hea IMands where ne
groes have been established on abandoned planta
tions, subject to the ontrl of officers of tbe Free
men's Bureau. '
A disastrons fire, attended with losi tf lrfe, took
place at Charleston last Wednesday. It wat in tbe
buinesi part of the eity, ana ucstroyea eTerH
mercantile and manufacturing establishment, and
also the Courier newspaper office. The Ion U esti
mated at $100,000. From thirty to forty person
were buried in the ruins ; from fifteen to twenty of
whom it is thoug: ' were instantly killed. Other
were extracted in a dreadfollf injured and suffer
ing condition.
The Fenian Conjjreas Jofca KitckellTfc,
leased.
Philadelphia, Oct- 2L In the Fenian Conteta
to-dav communications on gorcrnment, eonstitn.
tion, military affairs and finance were reported. Ia
the afternoon the President of the Congress an
nounced that B. D. Killigan, delegate from MU
souri, vho procured the unconditional release of
John Mitchel, was present. This announcement '
electrified the Congress. Tbreo cheers were given
for President Johnson, three for tho United States,
three for Killigan, end three for John Mitchel.
When the cheerine had in some manner subsided.
it was moved and seconded that the Secretary of
by several thousand. The Union party will have j the Congress prepare re?o?ntions CTOTeying the,
gratciui inanas oi -. nogmu
for his eflorts in bnng aooui me release or jonn
Mitchel. The motion was ananimously carried.
In the evening, after some discussion, the reports '
of the communications, with sotne amendments,
were adopted. An Irish banner was presented to
the Chairman by Canadian delegates. - The Con
gress adjourned until Monday. The session will
continue until Wednesday, the 25th October.
President Johnson's Views.
New York, Oct. 22. Tbe substance of the Pres
ident's remarks on tbe subjectof the reconstruction
cf the Southern States during a late interview,
has been given, with the President's approval,
by Maj. Gen. Stearns of Massachusetts. In reply
to a remark that the Democrats claimed that ha
had gone over to them, he intimated that the De
mocracy discovered that he u in advance of it,
and now was trying to come np to his standard.
He hoped it would succeed in doing so. "Hereitcr
i atS his doctrine that, notwithstanding the so-called
'secession of the Southern State, they wWe nerer
out of the Union, bet that by their rebellious coarse
they had forced the civil government to reconstruct
the machinery of which, as soon as practicable, he
considers the chief duty of the time. This he say
two-thirds of both branches of the Legislature
The Union party gains in 3S of the 42 counties as
officially returned." j
Chicago, Oct. 13. Tho Chairman bf the R.epnb- ;
lican State Central Committe of Iowa announces '
that the election returns thus far indicate that
Stone's majority will be about 16,000. The Legis
lature will be three-fourths Republican.
New York. Oct. 17. Savannah advices of the
12th state that the Unconditional Union ticket is
receiving large majorities in the State.
Fortress Moure, Oct. 13. The elections in Nor
folk and Portsmouth passed off quietly yesterday.
The vote is small. Chandler, for Congress, leads
his competitors with a hand3ome majority. Hurst
and Langhorn were elected to the House of Repre
sentatives from Portsmouth. Chandler's majority
in Petersburg is over 100. Little opposition was
shown to altering the third article of the Constitui
tion permitting Confederate officers to become eli
gible to office in the State.
A dispatch to the Tribune with returns from all
the counties gives Cox 2S.2S7 majority, while the
average majority on the Stale ticket is about 30,000.
The soldiers' vote will be counted next mouth.
. The Fenian Movement.
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Xew York, Oct IC The Fenian National Con. cannot Dc done in a moment, nnr sncnreat ana
rention in Philadelphia ia attended by about 500 j h'PPJ progress is being made in it, that fc resolta
dc'enates, and others are arriving. They are sit- sometimes appear like a dream. He did not ex-
pece lorever to aepriTC tut-in ui iuc civu -
it l.J it.: 1 a- i
Ufea tone itumi no fcad MstAmed ' th -M-u WUUV tut-.r wvmocrsmp uc.
s-r. wbh nfW to vote tie bemo- eta P14 for bj an employee of tbe Stafcs-
drs the -wr, but who man tha.fc they mjght Tot.e and
re 9r readj ia enter the lists for the
unsuspectingly they -voted the ticket he
gave them a ticket which had not the
name of Jas. H. Douthit on it, but that
of another candidate for the Presidency
of the Society. Of . these two votes we
have information there might have been
't ih.t lo towa, we do not eount the elec
tion there a Demecratic defeat, nor a real
Abolition victory,1 but frimply a trifltmph
arfr Fti"!il nv tlw enLlipra tlA f"rm-
eervatives of ! their Wnarty, and of the othf rote3 fimi 0ncdt ?f hich
oddsaad ends thatweTe:gathered under
K tlse main opposing ticket. - JThere ras o
re&l Deaocratie ticket in the "field,- or if
fl'iret,' it was .made up at the last
-vnoraenV noi Fitk., anj-hope of success,
;. BasSaa te oraclzatioB.
no information has reached u?. But cer
tainly we have adduced proof enough to
establish the correctness of our charges.
The Statesman's object is apparent.
It knows we stated the truth j -it also
knows that many of its readers never see
our paper. Ad ia eiyiner-the denial it
li'i i l. it . i i :
rfnirWAts' "n Pwn-La-a'll-neW lna OUr P018 01 0Wtl
- . - I-if - ii .i f
--vvania-nd OKIoo-Sht to serve as a les- V"? MUMBev" .Iau l ine e?eB 01
-- 1 . . - - 1 nnnnrMS or it reanftra. I nerotnm that
denial would answer its nurDOses. bad
son to the. Democraey of Oregon,- It
f tiould teach us that' to triumph we must
- 't&sg "4a principle, and lafose nothing into
our pUroi which runs contrary to the
ejirit practice - of the . jpemoeratic
faith and Deaioeratie measures.! Fortu-
aaiely we' are in better conditioa to do
5jus" than "our party, brethren in the older
.tatcs'. ;.Tbe war has been almost at their
Zoon, and iU demoralizing eSecti they
late notj emtiterj escaped. There are
ialtary heroes" among them, and mili
iary eclat ia paramouat there. Soldiers'
votes are to be flayed for and caught to
JBSSTft s-iccesa to any party, and unhappily
there are-too inany greed j fishers for
trolls ia; infiaential places in the. Demo
cratic ranks who care, not so much how,
they manage so that their own ends ere
ftccompiishedr- To secure the votes of the
v 4lsbs.-ided.and ; retume'd soldiers, ihere
: Geaerals and high military men are
Sfcleete l ox chief positions, on the ticket,
sd if need be, an . expediency plank is
.'' 1d.4f fWorm.-'; These devices
isay lure some ef he soldiers and . small
frj of place-hunters U Hie snDTort of the
ticket, but it drives, ajray or keeps aloof,
though.thcy were. But there are plenty
besides us who were present at the elec
tion, and who equally well ' know that
some of the owners and employees of that
paper did oppose Mr. Douthit's election.
To come at the thing directly, however,
can it, name a man connected with the
Statesman office who did vote fojfas. II.
Douthit for President? Now, show your
band.
Massachusetts Philanthsopt.
There are about 700 orphan girls and
grown, young women soon to arrive on
this upper coast at Olympia. and Port
landfrom Massachusetts, They come
to find .employment and homes. They
have been sent from Massachusetts. It is
singular, if not .discreditable, that while
so much care and so much money are de
voted to indolent negroes in that Puritan
State, by the patent-right philanthropists
of. the Equality school, these poor white
girls and young women are shipped away
like so many slaves, to be apprenticed out
to any who will purchase their services,
on this coast.
" Speculate a Little." The SUev.
Granville Moody of the Methodist Church
is a shining light among his class at the
East. It was he that in the National
Conference a year or so ago launched such
terrible anathemas against all Roman
Catholics, and asserted that the negroes
were far superior to the Irish, and more
worthy the right of suffrage. Of course
his reverence must be a very pious, ex
cellent, godly man. AVe propose to show
thatjie is from hi own sanctimonious lips
A loyal paper of Cincinnati gives a
count of a meeting of preachers recently
held in Troy, Miami county, Ohio, from
which it appears that
The Rev. Granville Moody advised his
brethren . to speculate a little now and then
if they could do it honestly, and thus lay
something away for future use. There was
no harm in it, he had done it before and still
intended to.
By counselling them to " speculate a
little," it must not be inferred, as a mat
ter 01 course, that tlie reverend man in
tended that they should turn horse jock
eys, stock brokers, or real estate sharpers.
Nothing of the kind; certainly not. Eve
rybody knows the advice the Quaker
gave to his son : ."Get money, Obadiah
honestly if thee can; "but get money."
The pure Moody didn't exactly say this,
but he did say all that there was need of
saying. There are not a few of Brother
Moody's pious calling Jn the country who
have, during the wat particularly, " spec
ulated a little," and a good deal more so
Condemns Itself.-TIic Abolition San
Francisco Flag says :
The Stockton Independent states the case
quite Btrone enough when it enys that the
tyranny of England over Ireland ia such as
fiends might be ashamed of. m
England's tyranny over Ireland has
been execrable, but at its worst it was mild
in comparison to the tyranny exercised by
the party in power not only over the South,
butover Democrats in the Northern States.
What a Question !--The Statesman
copies the following paragraph from our
last issue :
The States of California and Oregon have
both nullified the act of the Abolition Con
srefs which declared lejial tender notes a
lawful tender for all debts, public and pri
vate recent those especially mentioned in
tlie net. nnri these came not within the pur
view of the State enactments.
And then asks:
In what respects have these States nullified
the act referred to?
All we have to say in reply is, that we
cannot be expected to furnish brains to
that paper; that if its editor cannot see
tbat, for a State to declare a currency not
legal tender, when Congress declares
thtft it is a legal tender, is nullification,
we gWe hiin. up as hopeless. Ilia delinr
qacnt subscribers or debtors might prac
tically illustrate the thing to him, by pay
ing him up in legal tender notes at par.
After what he asks, we would as soon un
dertake to wash Lawsoq, as to try to con
vince hhn that t and is not are not synonymous.
ting with closed doors ; John Of-Meara presiding.
Rurqers of the mof t exciting character are afioac.
Important advices are said t- bave been received
in cypher ny ftc-amt-r just arrived.
Advices from Eucland 3y Fenian agitation con
tinues in Liverpool. The uiectinKS are attended bv
persons of means as well as the poor class, and the
di?cussi"'ns conducted with comparative freedom.
The fear that there is a strung Fenian feeling in
the royal navy has led to viperous measure? ; tbe
Liverpool Post says an investigation on board the
war ship Eagle reunited jn not finding a single ease
of Fcuiani.-is.
The Ft-nian toot in tho hands of the English po
lice, containing the pmceediags of the Fenian Con
vention in Chicago, Nov. 1S63, has the names of
many of the officers in the Fenian army.
Philadelphia, Oct. 20. Urn. Sweeney was pres
ent at the Fenian Congress to-day, and assigned a
place on the platform. .
A resolution was adopted prohibiting delegates
from taking notes of proceedings, and ordering the
destruction of all so far taken.
A Committee of tbrei was appointed to prepare
a report of proceeding? for lh-j press, to be subject
to the approval of the Head Centre.
The ri-port of tha Envoy from abroad was enthu
siastically ueeived. The Head Centre addressed
the Cotisre??, and advised prudence, cantion, har
mony and unanimity ; tbe entire rcvisal of their
Consiitu'ion ; and r.:-ad statements in relation to
the dtiay in lssning bonds of the Irish Republic
A correspondent to the 2iew York Herald says
the Congress will probably provide for organizing
the brotherhood into a military body ready to ec-
operrte with their brethren across the water.
Patrick J. Vt Jiclan, a prominent Irish-American
rights, even to the majority oi tctose exemaea in
tha amnesty proclamation, hut ir-tended tfcey should '
a.'k for pardon and thus realize the enormity of
their crimes. He is in favor of allowing negroes
who served in tbe army, and those who can rad
and write, and those possessed of either qnaliEoa-,
tion to vote ; bat he dees not think it is policy, or
that he has the right to force those conditions on
the whites of the South, thongh he believes he will,
before long, concede this privilege to the freedmen. .
The President also favors the basing of representa
tion in Congress on tbe qualified number of voters,
instead of on the population as at present.
orgauitation of the State. Austin intelligence says j journalist, just returned from a tour of Ireland, re
there is public complaint latterly of tho conduct of j parted, the organiiation thero powerful aud under
Sgi,d O.CT.-rTh Statesman says the Cal
ifornia Stage Company has ou- ne'r
Oregon route, stage's, horses and property,
to the Pioneer Company, of which Louis Mc
Lane, Chief Superintendent of Wells, Fargo
ACo.'s Express Companj on this coasi, is
President. ; : - , ' .
.Gett'SC B-. norse'Stealing and adul
terating gold dust are becoming prevalent in
Owyhee. The citizens mean to stop both
cviIb if possible,
Snubbed. Wc see in late State papers
that Horace Greeley recently called at
tha White House to sep President John
son, and'after dancing attendance for an
hour or two was obliged to leave without
hoi'itrf nHnlftfed to' the bresence." Hor
ace is a- radical the President is trying
to build up a "conservative" party. The
two won't hitch. ' -
New College. The members of tho re
lieious denomination of United Brethren in
Oregon propose to erect and found a College
on Mary's river, fivo miles trom orvains,
the ensuing summer, to be called " Philo
math College." ' The Ga?ette says over $18,
000 arei already subscribed for that purpose.
The building is to be of brick, sixfy by one
hundred feet, and two stories.
Mob ExECUTioNS.-trFiye mo.u w,era recent
Iy hung by tho Vigilance Gommittee in Mon
tana Territory. Tho names of four are giv
en, as follows: Jackson alias Jones, Mor
gan alias Collins, Cooke and Cann Kirby
fhrother of Billv Kirbvl t but the name of
the 6thor one is not included in the account.
GoloDust Prices. At a meeting held at
Silver City,-Idaho, the following rates were
fixed for goid dust -. --Battery dust $5 per
ounce j Creek dust (clean) $12 ; Bannock
dust (clean) $14. A motion to repudi
ate battery dust as a currency prevailed.
:'"NTrt Kegro Suffrage. The Constitution
of Colorado, now about to assume Statehood,
forbids ncpro suffrage.. .
frtedmea.
General Hews.
Boston. Oct. lr.-r-Thc Post says : A. If. Stevens
was entertained at a private dinner at the lievcre'
IIone yesterday evening, by Oen. Fairobild, of
Chelsea! Stephens said it was his policy to sup
port the policy of President Johnson for the recon
struction of the Union to the full estent of his abil
ity and influence.
"New York, Oct 1. A. II. Stevens and Reagan
aro st the Astor House and have been visited to
day by a large" number of persons. Those who
conversed with thetu say they expressed Union
sentiments.
New York, Oct. 15 Gen. MoClcllan isespected
to arrive in this city from Europe in four weeks.
Twenty ocean steamers cleared here yesterday: two
for Europe and most of the others fur our Southern
ports.
A late Brownsvillo arrival says the Juares eanse
is considered hopeless. Cortinas is the only ener
getic leader there, but is injuring the cause by his
bad character.
J"ew York, October 19. Information from Ilayti
savs tni only ressei jenaras nao employed in ine
blockade of rebel ports had been captured by a
party of three hnnu."ed men. Jeffards was at last
accounts at Port au Prii.;e.
New York, Oct. 13. The sicamer Moro Castle,
from HavanaOvith dates to the liid, has arrived.
During the first week in October heavy isms and
high winds prevailed throughout the island. i:or
eign people shut themselves npand suspended bu
siness. Great floods oocurred, covering the tele
graph poles in some plaoes and damaging railroad
tracks. Several lives were lost fcy drowning and
much misery caused. '
New York, Oct. 16. Tho PaciSe Mail Company
have advertised their -steamers for Aspipwall, con
necting with their steamers for San Francisco.
The llenry Chauncey sails on the 1st of November ;
the Atlantic on the 11th, and the Baltic on the
21st. Through rates to San Francisco $350,
$250 and.$f2.
Toronto, V. W., Uct. 16. JUr. BiaeKourn, ot yel
low fever notoriety, has been admitted to bail on
his own recognizance. .
skillfui leaders.
PaciSe Wining- Interests.
A meeting of gentlemen interested in mining af
fairs ia the Western and Pacific States, was held
to.day for the purpose t-f forming a permanent as
sociation. Tho object of the organization is the
developing of the resources of the ei nntry. J. P.
Curry was chosen Chairman,and J. L. Douglass
Secretary. The following persons were appointed
to obtain signatures for a general meeting: Neva
da, II. AYorthington ; Idaho, Gen. ii. 3d. McCar
ver; California, G. F. Bolton; Montana, J. H.
Sage : New York. Frank Fuller, Walter E. New
fon, Livingston Satterlee ; Arizona, J. Silversmith;
Oregon, ex-Gov-George L. Curry.
DATES TO OCTOBER 21.
Tbe Fenian movement.
New York, Oct." 21.- The Ilerald's correspon
dent at Philadelphia says the proceedings of the
Fenian Congress are still conducted with secrecy.
Funds are promised in great abundance. The del
egates are personally to subscribe $500,000.
No delegation has been sect from the Fenian
Congress to Washington.
Southern Intellig-ence.
Richmond, Oct. 21. Gen. Turner has issued an
order permitting the organization of the city gov
ernment, the tbreo objectionable officers having de
clined to serve.
Jskson, Oct. 21. Judge Sharkey and J. T.
Alcoa are chosen Senators from Mississippi.
The candidate? in faror of tbe Administration
plan of reconstruction havo been Ciected to the
Florida Stato Convention.
The Courts in Virginia continuing to whin negro
offenders for trifling offences, the Frcedmen's Bu
reau havs ordered that no punishment must be in-
European Intelligence.
General News-
Liverpool, Oct. 2. At Dublin yesterday O'Bran.
nan of the Connaught Patriot wu committed fov
trial on a double charge of treason and felony.
The Pope has again pronounced an alloeutioq
which is making some stir in Europe. This timo '
he fulminates against the Freemasons, reminding
(hem that several of his predecessors have pro
scribed and reproved that sect, entrance into which.
j they declared, should entail excommnnicatiou
which tho Pope alone oonid remove. Tbe Pope
denounces Freemasons as instigators of revolutions,
and calls on secular governments to suppress them.
The Steele, of Paris, says in Europe more than
two millions of Catholics are Freemasons. - The
Pope corjcemss all other societies of a similar kind.
: A CorkewspapOTBys: -: The British -Government,
having received information from the British
Minister at Washington that large parties of armed
men were coming to Jreland in the steamships
City of Dublin and City of New York, the former
was overhauled at Cork Haven, but nothing of a
suspicious character appeared on board.
The examination of the Fenians at Dublin was
concluded October 2d. The additional evidence
developed nothing new. Five prisoners were com
mit tod for trial for high treason. The prisoners
denied the imputations that an indiscriminate
slaughter of the aristocraeie class was Ter medi
tated. Arrests continue in various parts of tha
intenor. .
DATES TO OCTOBER 20. ,
Jeff. Dajs Asks TriaL
. New York, Oct. 20. A Washington dispatch
says the counsel for Jeff. Davis have expressed a
desire that his client be accorded an immediate
trial. The desire comes originally from Davis,
who, it is sahj, has declared that he has no fears for
tne issue, ana tnat tberetore tne uovernroent will
do him a great favor by arraigning him at the
earliest possiblo moment. The recent favorable
change in his every day life is mainly the work of
tho President, and at- this hour has about every
thing he could tkik, save liberty iiself and the pres
ence of his Itttnily. . , ;
From Mexico,
New York, Oct. 20. The Herald's correspon
dent on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande states
that a confused condition of affairs prevails. Cor
tinas and other Republican leaders are still hover
ing in small bands in the vicinity of Matargoras,
and skirmishes' between them and the Imperials
are still occurring, though not frequently. Some
of the Liberal loaders iu that region are remaining
in a comparatively quiet state, awaiting the result
of Gen. Carvalal s mission to tho United States
They are confident the result will be the furnishing
them with all the men, money and material neces
sary to rid the country of Imperialists within the
next eight months. I hey bave already received
reinforcements from some qnarters.
Prisoners taken on either sido in these border
contests haye little chance of life. Generally after
being subjected tea mock trial they are taken out
and shot.
Tho reported defeat of Imperialists by Republi
cans at El Haryel is confirmed. ,
, Six thousand Imperial troops were expected at
Monterey on the 25th of September to reinforce
those on tho Rio Grande.
Maximilian, it is said, has issued a decree direct
ing that no vessel be admitted into 'Mexican ports
which cannot show proper papers from the Consul
oi ins -empire in tne port irom wnicn wey sau.
General News.
Nashville, October 20. The notorious guerilla
Champ Ferguson was hanged to-day. The execu
tion" was strictly privats.
Now York, Oct. 20. The Heald"s correspondent
from Brownsville, Texas, and New Orleans, states
that considerable sensation and apparently little J
Pacific Coast Dispatches.
San Francisco, Oct. 21 . Private , dispatches
qnoto goM in New York on the 20th inst. at
and 147. The following dispatch was received ia
San Francisco to-day : ' - v:
New York, Oct. 15. To W. C. Ralston: The
credit of California is being injured here by exag-(
crated accounts of the earthquake. It is reported''
to have been something alarming. Please have a
oorreet statement forwarded to me for publication.
(Signed) . H. W. CARPENTER. "
On the strength of this dispatch, the President
of the Chamber of Commerce -was authorised to
communicate with the New Yc-rk Chamber of Cora,,
merce an official account of the shock. A tele
gram containing full accounts of the shock -was
forwarded to-day. It Is said that $1000 will ooTer
tbe greatest amount of damage done to any one
building. . . -- - -
Advices from the Russian Telegraph Expedi
tion, just received here, report the steamer Wright
at Plover Bay, Sept, 23d. The work was slowly
progressing. The expedition learned from the In
dians that a few days before their arrival the rebel
Shenandoah had made its app earanco in those wa
ters, and had destroyed several vessels. The last
seen of her she was beading south. ,
A special order has been issued from headanar-
Iters for the arrest of Capt. John T. Hill, of the 6th
flieted on negroes which is not awarded to white Infantry, California Yolanteers, who 'so trial
offenders.
General News).
Washington, Oct. 21. Lato dispatches from the
U. S. Consul at Liverpool state that cholera had
appeared at and about Southampton.
A Uiieasjp known as tho-underpest prevailed to a
groat extent among cattle about Wateree, 83 miles
from Liverpool, and killed off many.
New York, Oct. 21. At the Republican ratifica
tion meeting last night great enthusiasm prevailed.
The President's reconstruction policy was fully en
dorsed. '
Tho President- to-day pardoned 280 South .Caro
linians, among them P. B. Boyce. Gpn. Dick
Taylor is at Washington, seeking pardon.
Late West Indies -papers give accounts of the
terrific hurricane whiph lately swept over some of
the islands. Iu Guadaloupe it was particularly
severe houses were blown down and shivered in
fragments ;' a hospital was knocked over and all
the inmates killed ; and on the inland between 200
and 300 liyes were destroyed,
from Mexico and the CTct Indies.
New York, Oct. 13. Tho Herald eityf Mexico
correspondent says matters appear to grow worse
for the Empire. Tho Republicans are increasing
in activity and boldness, and have defeated the
Imperialists in several recent engagements. Re
publican troops swarm all over the country, and
some have appeared within sixteen miles of the
capital in Vera Crui. In one town they have a
paper.
The IT. S. Consul at the city of Mexico has been
refused admittance to the palace, and informed
that he was unknown there.
It is said the rebel officers have rofused to com
ply with Maximilian's Sacretary of War's request
to join the army, and declared that hereafter they
would fight under no - flag but that of the United
States.
DATES TO OCTOBER 23.
JTrom the South.
New YorkOct 23. jTho Herald's Raleigh cor
respondent says of the jforth Carolina Convention
that a singular . announcement was made by the
Chairman to the effect that after a diligent search
he was unable to procure a national flag to place
over tho Capitol, and had to send to New York
for one.
Nothing bat tho timely receipt of a telegram
from President Johnson saying that North Caroli
na should at once and forever repudiate every dol
larof indebtedness contracted to assist the rebellion,
prevented the staving off by the secession members
of a vote on the ordinance completely ignoring
tbat debt. -
I before a Military Court Martial on the charge ef
murder. at.ei gea to nave been committed in Neva
da. Hill claims he is in the hands of the civil au
thorities of Soaomacooty, subject to a requisition
from the Governor of Nevada, where he claims th
right to fee tjicd before a eiva eouri. Officers and
soldiers are ordered to aid in securing his arrest.
It is charged that when his eoniDanv was oil tho
way through Nevada, tHey foynd the dead body
of an Indian woman . with a living ehjld clinging -to
it. Captain Hill ordercd-tbo dead woman to bo
scalped, and not satisfied with this cold blooded
act, ordered the infant to be torn from the hosopi'
of its dead mother and dashed over a oreciDicel
The fall not completely killing the child, its braid
were dashed out with stones by the order of Capt.'
Hill. ' - . - ... .. V
San Francisco, Oot. 25. The . Pacific Mai,
Steamship Company promise to shorten the sehedT
ule time of their through line between' San Fran
cisco and New York to twenty-one' or twenty-one
and a half days, under the new arrangement which
goes into effect the first of November. The tiro
between this port and Panama is not t'he lessen--ed.
Reduction in the through trip is to hp effected
by making tho time on tho Atlantic side mside of
eight days. ' - . . . , .-i..-'--;..'
A meeting of workmen engaged in. dUfereot
branches of manufacturing machinery, bave called
a meeting for Friday evening next, at Dashaway
Hall, to protest against a repeal of the specific eon
tract law and endorses the report of the Chamber -of
Commerce on the same. f. .
Legal Tenders, ?01T0i. '
We havo Honolula dates to the 23d of Septan
ber. Private letters report the sugar season at an
end, and a scarcity of the article at Honolula.
Mknac-wg. The Mountaineer assails Got.
Gibbs for haying called for a special election
to elect a Representative in Grant county,'
and argues that the call ought to be for the
election of a Representative for Wasco coun
ty. Borland, whose vacancy is to be filled. -was
a resident of Qrai-f county. TBut the
Mountaineer contends this is no reason why
the election should be called in that county.
In cpnclusion it says : - , '
But if it L really the intention to disfiran.
chise Wasco county byprodamation, the Ex
ecutive may possibly find that his power in
this State haft limits, and means wUi not be
wanting tn shrtar Kim .1. i:.t .
rm and end. v .. "y".