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ORCOOn CITY:
SATL'RU.VY, JULY 10, 1850.
'Meat of Government Ttoe Viol Tulckea.
Tb Statesman of lust Monday contains
the programme for another interesting lo
cation squabble. Just m tha whole Tit
rilory had relapsed" into ft refreshing snouzo
preparatory lo witnessing tha last let
which wet to come ofTb'-tttofn Eugene city
and Corvallis next October, wo ure iH I s'art.
rd by tho announcement, that the origin
al programme is nil ripped up, thut ono of
tho people's nags i snagged, h ll'o bote,
poll-evil, or iomcthing else, which render
Mm entirely unfit for iho course, and tho
owners of the I rfof.Jco party havo Vcr
mineJ lo turn out tho young nng to grass.
Corvallis is to rout awhile in order lo be re.
cruiledby bleeding and blistering, while Sis
Jew, the fsVoritcoM nig owned by the clliiuo
is to be 'Ut lu training fur III J cuur.se.
Sporting gentlemen aro already oTering
two to one on tha "old torrol," who in to be
rode by the young man who rndo tho old
iisj, culled 'Loeofoi-o Party,' before
"Alonzo got pcrwUion to talie the unddle,
from tho general belief that l.i prcl"cnr
wore rather heavy tpuro, and knoekrd the
wind out of old ''Pii bnld" by an Injudicious
application of hi IiBiIh, when iho faithful
'criiter" was alreaily "on n strain" arid do
ing bis best. It is slyly whiiiperud around
that we run no risk in '-backing our judge
ment" on tho "uld sorrel," as his owners
are determined to run the rue", even if thoy
have to crawl into tho stablo of youn Eu
gene, the night befure hand, mid by ccriiiiu
arts known to sporting gentlemen, put hi in
in the same "fix" that hn niado it ncces-
.J I A 1 1 a M nil, ft, a rl t 1 1 i winrw .... 1 1 1- II r fT
WllTJ W IUIII VUI ltl WVlf-JI Utiji Wll D '
We are more ihan half inclined lo belieVe,
that this will turn out lo bo o, and thnt
the dear prnjdc have hern humored in their
notions of bringing out their own rmgi to
satisfy them lli.it the ownern of "our parly"
woro willing lo make some shoiv of "demo
cracy" iu listening to the ponplu's wiohi s,
and then (honing them how fait a locofueo
flag can run in j litco of theirs, which has
been "providentially poisouod."
On lh 17th of last June, tho Statesman
published w hat it said were the official re
turni of the vole of Inulve counties, on the
location question, and Jiufonn county
among iho number. On Ihc first of July
inst., it published the returns of seventeen
counties, Jackson mid Wasco ninon; the
number which gave Corvallis a majority ol
SOt ovor Salem, and slating thnt Joseph
ino was "onlt lu hear from ;" hut to and
behold, on lat.t MonJ.iy iho advorliniii( col
umns of this sheet csiitaiu llii" '"oilictjil
rolurns," signed by IJ. P. Harding, from
fifteen counties only, and stating that "no
returns were received at this odice from the
countiot of Il'isfo, Tillamook, Jackson, and
Josophine." Tho footing up of Harding's
report, a'lcr throwing out tho vutoof Jack
son aud Wasco, already published ns ofli
ciul" in tho Statesman (Jackson, nt least,)
gives Salom a majority cf fifty ono votes
over Corvallis. Now by what hocus pocus
the oflicial returns found their nuy into the
Statesman ollieo, without rvcr gnlliug into
Harding's ollice, jut a few doors, diitunt,
will bo a mystery to such nt huvo not had
the benefit of reading our hutory of tli 's
same loeofoco party. The net of last win
ter, permitting iho psnplo to veto on ibis
uestion, required tho Secretary lo canvass
the vote nt the expiration of forty days
from the first Monday in June, nnd the Gov
ernor to proclaim tho two highest candi
dates to be voted for in October. After
waiting forty odd days, tho Secretary Ulls
us that from all iho returns Ad has received,
Salem nnd Kugme city are tho candidates.
Every body would liko to know why it is
that Jackson nnd Wasco counifo havo not
boon rcturnsd. Has there been a complicity
between the Statesman oflicc and th ch iks
andjudgos cf election in these counties
Or are iho returns iu the hands of K'aniniu
Vin ahd John, ore of whom is said to have
a part of the returns of tho Stnte Govern,
ment volo ? It remains for the Corvallis
folks to ferrot out this matter, and show if
lhy can find out where the fruud is, if in
ilood ihore has been any. If ihey aro not
abU to do this, their bands aro tied, so far
as the letter aUe not of last w inter is con
cerned. The spirit of that set is merely
an intention to get the will of the pcoph,
upon the point at which they wish the Leg.
islatur to locate the seat of government
It is morally certain that dis people prelcr
Corvallis to Salem, and the way the mat
ter now stand, if Salem or Kugene City
gets the seat of government, it i not at all
certain that the people would not have
preferred dm a. us to either of them
That there) hat been a trap kid by the
clhiie, in arranging thi whole mttier,
from the time it wot otTercd in a digested
firm lo the stupid IdoukhoaJs thst compot.
d the last Legi.Uture, to at to retain I he
teat of government at Salem, at ull A.ix
ri,tf possible, we w ill now proceed to
show.
1 he last Stateiman con'tint a lm ar
ticle embrseing extract from tne opinion
vfthe S;ipecinP Court of X. Y., delivered
In IS33, all coing to show, as iliissnrijrof
an attorney t.ys, l!,ut the Lr ihstuis
U0ismture
cannot klrgat j, pwer to the people."!
la taking l.olj of this matter, he
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wnoi.tm.jfw ,0 iw i,iea aud tangled that
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,6J r" lu 'rtswi :
pulling at. Hi head is decidedly too thick
fur even a respectable country pettifogger,
and he never aliinen with as much briliian
oy as an editor, as when he deals in in
sipid blackguardism, or steals "big editor
Ittls" from ab'dnon newspapers. '
IS.it let ushesr tho young pcllif igger !
"Below we makownw eslrscn frmn n optittf.lj
delivr.d lyih:uprMirw.rt.l New York, aM
eoueurrrd ia by all Hie JJf "f Hie coiirl, In IHM.
TlieqneilionHesllie vuli.lily'f the I oik
I, eel law, w liicli lisil been subwiill. d to Hie o
pie. A'l" tUUi't lite caw, end Hie eoiiciineiice
nl'llieenliie bencli in lb opinion thnt Ibe lW WJ
void fiorn liavins heep ub billed lo a popular vole
llial Ibe J.filaluri eoula U(,l dilrgste its pow
er l i be peule."
Tho iiiiprcsbion is here attempted to be
made thai llio fact of the School law'e hav
ing been submitted to the peoplo of N. Y.,
rendered it null and void. This was not
the casn. The Court argued that the law
was void because tho Legislature bad not
enacted it after the people approved it.
The luw had been pnscd by tho Legisla
ture, which declared il nhould be law, pro
vided the peoplo approved it and tho Gov
ernor signed the law as valid (so soon as
the approval of ihe people was made known.
ThcC'iurt decided that tho action of tho
people was only to be taken as an instruc
tion lo ihe Legislature, and objected to the
validity of tho law upon the ground that
final action upon i( had Icen taken at the
polls, when aslhetonstitutionof N. i. re
quiiod final action lobo taken iu the Log.
Mature. Tho follow ing extract from the
opinion of ihe court clearly showg this:
" The set in qneitioii, when it come from the
li of llu Guvemur with h r gnuture aMach.d,
did li"t nevKsuily cjprrss the will i f a e nlo
mciiiber il ei house upon Ibesubjrct nritti rof
be law. It eijrrswd this much ami nomoies
Thst it wni the will of Ihe ljjisTuturc- that the
qiii sliuii be submitted In the people al large to de
ci lewht lhrr it l;ouWb. conic Ihe law ol ihe State
ot not. The Governor by gning It ouly spproved
of Ibis subtiiilliiig tho quentrnn lo Ihe people. The
luiifjuujjo of tliu set iuseif shows clearly that such
mm Hie intention of its Iramtre. (.See. HI.) "The
ftlerlnniiliull dnlerniiue bv bullot st Ibe next 111
jciiul ekclioa lo be held in fcorenib.r next, wholli-
er Ibis ael shall or shall uot bevmne a luw'
It
ill be sren by Ibis provision that Iho question up
on Ihe fund paistigt otie b.ll was to be tukenat
Hie polls.
This dr.ctrine that the Legislature has
no right todelegato ihe power lo the peo
pie to pass finally upon tho stolules, is no
new djctiino in Oregon. We heard it
first advocated by Col. King when tho
Legislature submitted ihe Portland char
ter to tho citizens of thai place, and it wts
swallowed down by Thompson thn Hep
resenlalivo from Washington county, as a
voun" crow would swallow a' toad. A
lo t Ii o soundness of tin's doctrine, wo care
not at present lo inquire. It is enough for
our purpose lo admit the correctness of
this position, as taken by the Supreme
Court of N. Y., ssnntioned by Col. King,
and approved by the leaclcisof the clique
in the las'. Legislature, as we havo abun
dant evidence Although ihe Statesman
in III? paragraph already qtiatcd, attempts
lo convey the idea that the luw is void
from tho fuel that it in submitted to the
peoplo, let il be distinctly understood that
ihe position taken by the court was, that
ihe law was void because final action upon
it had been takenul thepolls, whereasjlie
Lcffi4uture should hnvo taken final action
after tho people appioved it.
The men who got up the aot of last win
lor undurs'ood this matter very well, and
were prepared lo draw up a law good and
vulid, or void, just as Ihey choso. The
only valid enactment they could have
drawn up, 'would have been one submit'
ling the question lolhe people, for instruc
lion as to their will, nnd containing a clause
providing for final nclioti upon il, by the
Legislature. A roii enactment would be
one framed after iho draught of the N. Y.
school law, nnd plucingyTiKi? action at the
pulls. Kow what was tho character of
this locution acl I A part of Sec. 8 says :
"The point or place receiving the major,
iiy of all the votes cast nt such special
election, shall bo and hereby it declared
the future sont of government of this Ter
ritory." Hero we have a void enactment,
jjot up in almost the precise words cf the
X. Y. school law. Does anybody beuin lo
hid nt,., mi nci was got up m a
form that pretended to let the people relo
cate the scut of government, and is conse
quently void, w;hureus it ought to have sub.
milled the question lo tho peoplo merely
for the purpose instruction. Now let it
bt remembered, thai on ibis location mat.
tor there were two parties in the Lrgibla
lure las! w inter. One party belonged to
the clique, owned property in Salom, and
were determined lo retajn the Capital
thare. The oilier party , wanted to sub.
mil tho question to the people and have
ihom decide it in a democratic sort of wav.
For convenience we will call the clique
party, number one, and the other party
number Iwo. Xumberone possessed the
most shrewdness and tact, and were a lit
tle the most' orthodox loeofoco, because
they wen bolter skilled in fleecing the
peeple.and appropriating the spoils'and
plunder. Number two, while Ihey were
not as well sehojrd in locjfoco villainy,
were entitled to more credit for honesty,
and still retained a little respect for the'
people. Xmnher two desired ta submit
the We.tion question to ihe people, Nllm.
.AA (I.. 'PL. .. .. .
ber one, from a show 0fdi
emocracr. screerl
to
it, but outgeneraled number two in
wording the bill so as i0 make it void. We
i have a uVscuption of the two parties in
ihe following Salesman editorial :
. nT ra",M d''Wace of opium.
..to ibe,,,- rfih. new vote op.. tb.ool.Hm
Hvenw ;mi.i,ber lw,. itaajnim that iti.llre
euvl maintain ilt.i 11 . ... .. .1
. - , ...... nr.en uuraael
s.i.i.i; U,.i ,1 l irume at ,l.m. sad j tice of law. He looks the very picture of
that Ibe eiversl llw i 1- ... ....... I "ul
, ,rIm.Tr a( ,
hf' ' i-met? tvs V:.r k,v t,i ,
".i ;.:,.'fili- I. la void, en ihe enailid llint
J... F. i.-j ....i., I In il,. Lnnilalut Asscmhlu
tlont Ihe power U lec.le and relocate Ibe seat 0
eovernmeiit, ana insi inni poer snki " --
Land to the people. These ngue that, at the
jtu.Mun could ouly sulhoriie a vote of Ihe peo
ple by way of intlruelion to lh Aein!jly, that
thnt was ull lhat was intended by the law ef Uet
M-Miun. As au evidence of lies Intuition, Ihey
tay that during the passage of the bill through lh
lluuse, a clauM directing the Secretary lopnpuro
1... 11. j A..,nl.ltf at the olacu havilil! s ma
jority of the sons, tnd lookiiuj to ihe meeiii'g ef
lue iegisioiuje wwioi n iu ,i '
It seems that number two, thinking lite
act was all right, and clothed tho people
wild authority to relocate the seat of gov
eminent, bad a clause inserted, directing
theSeoiclary to proceed accordingly, but
number ono laughed in their sleoves, and
cunningly had tho clause struck out, from
a full knowledge lhat the law was invalid
except as an instructive, "directoxj" one
nnd hoping il Salem lost it by a popular
vote, they would stand a chance to gl the
law set aside by the Supreme Court olUr
e"on, if the Legislature rfei the case upon
the Icgalilinfthe people's rote asfiiutl, or if
tho Legislature looked upon lha act as in
structivo, or "directory," thore would be
a chance of having a loeofoco Legislature
whom they could buy up, or induce to car
ry out the principles of ' our party" by
trampling on the will of the people, as
lr,i.r.fnnnare in the habit of doinir- Does
anybody begin lo see the trap now
The object of thoso who asked to submit this
question to their constituents, was to get an sx
predion of the public will j but the cl quj have so
worded the Isw, lhat if Ihe people fail lo decide ns
they wish, the courts will scl Ihe law aside, nud
thus dc.'enl the otijeet of the bill. If the eop.e de
cide as they wish, of course the validity or tne
l.:w will nut be culled io qui slloti.
It will be the business of the next Legislature to
find out as iiearns po.ss.blo what the will or the
people is, and then prucceJ le locale accordingly.
The clique claims to run Salem as cue of Ihe can
diJates, iu defiance of the people's preference for
Corvallis, because of a failure to return Ihe Cor
vallis vol according to the strict provisions of a
Uiw that it null and raid. Suppose Corvallis had
received niue-tenllis of Iho vote of ihe whole
Territory, slid the remuiiiiiig vote had boeu divld
cd between Saleiu and Eugeno, and through all
informality in Ihe returns Corvallis bad beeu
thrown out, ss she now is would the next Legis
Inlure be justified in locating Ihc feat of govern
mont at either Eugene ur Salem? Certainly not,
if ihey regarded the will of Ihe penple. If the
location act of last wiuter was valid and coiistitu
lional, Ihe Legislature wonld be bound in Ihi ir
acliou by the vole of the people, if that vo'.e could
be ascertained, whether it bad ben returned iu
compliance with the precise provisions of the tt.it
lite or uot. This is democracy and sunuJ common
sense, aud we would like to see Ibe court that
would set abide the action of a Legislature under
such ciicumilnnces. Iiul if the Legislature would
be bound thus to act undor dillijulliea growing out
of a want of conipliaiiL-e wild tho provisions of a
talid, ctnttUutimal law, they are certainly justi
fied in thus acting, where the law is hiMlid, un
constitutional, end a rotten swiudle, as is Iho act
of lust winter. We saw through the swindle before,
and we have been wailing for "our parly" to make
Iho developemeuts which the Statesman of last
Monday lias so bimg'iiigly ma le. The vuice of
Iho people is just us authoritative as an instruction
to the Legislators, under this raid Isw, a though
il had beeu expressed under a ruid law ; but after
the profit have thrown Salom out of iho ring, Hie
clique proposes, so far as we can learn, to throw
Corvallis out, and throw Salem in, and that lj t:r
tut of a void, ratten enactment ! Dues any body
begin to see Ihe beauties of loco fucoism yet? Our
next Legislature is bound to throw away every
thing done by authority of the acl of last wiuter ;
and if the will of die people cannot be fairly git at,
between this and the convening of the legislature,
then the Lrgitlulurs is bound to wait till they have
a clear expression of Hut will, tuforo they prooeed
lo locate.
Secretory Harding has acted properly in com
plying Willi the provisions of the act. It was not
his business lo enquire iulo the validity of an set
defining bisdutks under it) tnd ho could not report
Ihe vote of Jackson, and Wasco, when he had
uot received it,
We cure not a straw what particular point sue
coeds in gelling the seat of government, so the
people's will is obeyed. It la of no particular ad
vantage to any place, and the farther it is removed
from us the botler, so fur us our own individual
feelings are concerned, but being an old fashioned
democrat we d.elike to see the people ground iulo
Ihe dust by loeofoco tyrants.
We beg pardon of our readers for the length of
this article, but we didn't see hew we could make
a clean breast of the whole matter in a le;s space.
"Mr. John Fleming has been appointed P. M.
nt Oregon City. His faithfulness is a guarantee
thnt the detentions al that office will be remedied
if poesibie." Statesman.
What a reliablo newswheet ! Who "ap
pointed" him 7 Was it you or Wiggins!
Have you, like Jo Lane, taken lo "passing
laws," and executing the business of the
department at Washington ? We thought
that the P. M. General at Washington
nlone had the power lo "appoint" post mas
ters. As no such appointment has yet
come from Washington, and ns W. W.
LJuck still holds the office,' we conclude that
tho "appointment" has coma from the Post
al Asent, or from you, both of which are
alike able to "pass laws" and appoint post
masters. We heard, it is true, that on last
Sunday Mr. Fleming presented to the pres
ent P. M. what purported to be an "ap
pointment from the rostal Agent, which
Mr. Buck politely declined to recognize as
authoraiive.
(Er The newt from the North it unin.
(cresting decidedly so. Col. Wright as
near as t can guess, is forted somew here
on the north side of tho Columbia, and
hamaiakia is grazing his stock on the
head waters of John Day's river; all get
ting along peaceably of course.
(Ur Judge Skinner was in this city last
Thursday, lie has sold out his entire
possessions in Rogue River, takm him a
wife at Pacific City, and finally concluded
to settle at Astoria, and resume the nr.,..
r
:nc V t-ir dcw the r-r,
wear
TIM frt.laentlal r.tfftlo Ata
Ull'SlBS Of l.ljUl.
Ilcnneit of tho N. Y. Herald, after try
ing in vain fur sornt limo 10 indicate tho
tourso to be taken by the Cincinnati Con
vention, In order to securo a loeofoco
triumph in ll'o coming Presidential elec
tion, gives over in despair. He finds his
su.estion lliat il would bo well to run
Bu'chnnnn, or some man not loo objection
ablo lo ihe "fre'ctoilish democracy of the
North," is hooted at by tbt Washington
Union and the great mass of the loeofoco pa
pers, north and south. Uenuett but at lust
given his old party over to destruction, n
100 much of a "nigger dtiving" crew to
.,,,. 1 ne L'hiinee of success. As the
tauu " j " -
chances of the party for success grow slim
mer Bennetts arT'Ction for iho parly like
that of nil o'b-rloi-of.icj's'grows cooler.
He diM sii't exactly like any of tho pitt ties
in this fit M. The Fillmore ticket is to
Southern, ill its features, the Abo'ilion
ticket, loo ' kinky," tho Republican too
"ni,",er worsliipping" and tho loco tick'-t
too "nigger driving." He thinks them all
decidedly "bad eggs." He acknowledges
himself euniewhn' in llio daik as to the
course lo be token in getting up another
party, free from nil llnsi objections, nnd
possessing iho necessary requisites ofspeeiJ
and bottom, for the great race.
Ilia proclivities to a "North American"
party are however perceptible "to a man up
niree," Hnd in assuring us that be is '-just
brooking iulo the shell of .the great ques
lion," w e are led lo infer lhat this would bo
relished as a "good egg" by him and the
great mass of the people, who would un
doubtedly swallow it if somebody would
help him in completely breaking its shell.
Uo says : :
"Among lha superficial politicians of the day,
the op uiou is aluil uuivein.il thut with the eon
ceutrutiou of tho rank end tile of the democrulie
paiy upon one Presidential eand dute, while the
forces of Ihe opmsit':ou are d vided upon threo or
four tickets of unequal strenirlb, Hie Cincinnati
nominee will have nothing It d.) but lo walk over
the course. Charming provpecl! Uiily lo wuiK
over the coume, in order to secure the honors of i .'
White House, aud lis public plunder, augmented
unl'ronr fierce sdniiuistralioii to the uuiriiiliceiil
demucrutic figure for the peace establishment, of
oue hundred milliuiw a year! At a mst glance,
from Ihe ireueiul espci Is of things thruuhoul Ihe
country, this conclusion is quite ua'.urui, as .1 very
bnrfexhib I will show.
Mere we find 1 lie democratic party, nolwilli
stuildiue ils bloody rows, revolvers, bo.vle knives
uud hludeuus, lis ussaults aim Dalter.es, sua ill
lest no feuds and uuairels, and ils utter d.morali'
ziit'on upon anylliinglike principles here we find
it still exhibiting the practical sagacity of ils better
days, in rnllvins like a band of brothers Uon a
caramon ticket for the great common object of Ihe
p uls. . J ho. r plan is to unite lor Ihe plunder, and
then, if Ihcv cannot agree upon i.'s distribution, to
split end quurrel upon principles. In lhlsOutof
view whether the stukea depend upon uiu election
of tien. Jucksou or lien, fierce, the democracy
are a unit till the great battle is fought.
"(lis not alwavs a maik of wisdom tnr.iJ2e
from lh outside apneurunce of tiling, even in tho
political world. 'I hey areoficu very tricky and de
ceptive. 1 he H Ii 211 in I M l, nt the outset lauiili-
edat the nomination of Jumes K. Polk ; and bel
ting all their loose cash too fait upoil Mr. Clay,
they realised in November the truth of Ihe old up
horisin, lhat ' Iho fool aud his nion. y are soon part.
el." The daiuuci u'.s in Id-IB ridiculed iu the suinu
way Iho nomination of the simple soldier, General
TayLr, as the opponent uf thestalcsman, General
Cnss. The truth is thst the public opinion of this
country is nlways di nting to practical results ir
renpeclive of uames or parlies. Al thiajuncture in
our affairs a polilicul revolution is demanded a
revolution is at work uud revolutions, though ihey
may be cheeked for a time, "never go backwards."
We maintain our opinion thut not ouly is there a
decided majority of the American people in favor
of a new administration at Washington, new men,
new measures, and a new and conservative direc
tion to our domestic and foreign affaire, but a mn
jcri'y, Pierce or no Pierce, opposed 10 the demo
cratic nartv as deinoralhed under his nipg, r driv
ingnndfilli'buBiering policy. The parliculnr ques
tion is, how IS this majority to be conccillrtvd into
effective action ; uud perhaps Ihe parties cone. ru
ed may yot work out the problem. The election
will not go by default. We are just breaking iulo
Ihe .hell ol'lhe great question. We are still in the
wooJs, though we have some gleams of light.
CO" We leurn the Expositor has left
Cola, and gone lo Corvullis, much to .the
dissatisfaction of the proprietors of the
former city, w'ho couldn't very well see
why a paper could not be published just
as well in tho woods as any where els.
We presume bro. Mulloon is learning
something of the "nitiirre of publication,'"
and as he explicitly reserved to himself
lha right to "judge of the nature of publi
cation," in his prospectus, wo don't see
that any one has nny right to complain of
his "backing his judgment" by removing,
03" The Statesman told its readers some
time ago, that Everolt had espoused the
cause of the nigger-driving locofocos. This
of course every body knew to be false.
On our outside to-day will be found a short
speech, delivered by Mr. Everett, on the oc
casion of the recent outrage in the U. S.
Senate, and the repeal of the Missouri
Compromise, Everett, it will be seen, is
too much of a statesman and patriot lo ap
prove of the Nebraska bill, nnd too much
of a gentleman to approve of the Sumner
outrage, as nearly every loeofoco paper
North and South, has, either directly or
indirectly, done. The papers of all other
parties bo:h noth and south have almost
universally condemned this act of atrocity
on the part of Brooks, which would have
put a respectable Indian to the blush. The
approval of this, as well as of tho diabolical
villainies that are being perpetrated in
Kansas, under the sanction of this Admin
istration, proves lhat the loeofoco parly is
now only equaled in tyranny and corruption
by the Russian despotism that conquered
Poland, and crushed out the spirit of free
dom in that ill-fated laud by means of fire
and sword, and sent the Polish patriots! by
, i-,. . . .
tnousanus, cuatneu togemer by the wrists,
to perpetual banishment in the mines of
Siberia." There is no act of meanness and
cowardice, no murders and destruction of
properly, that have been committed in or-
derto carry ot the intention of the Ne.
braska twiiidle, by striking a blow it th. I
f v ... I
.-rs-n irrth tnj.f tic r-rearr. !
. "V
where and everywhere, in order to crush
out tho spirit of frtcdoin in Kansas, nnd
rive t chains upon her ciliwns which wero
forged In Missouri, no ad of villainy, Las
been perpetrated but what has eithv been
winked at ornpenly.npprovcd by lint Ad
ministration, ami ihe almo.t entire locofueo
pressof tho wholo-Uuion. And yet with
a brazen effrontery, and cool unblushing
impudence, unp.irulled in this century,
this same ur:y insults thu world, blas
phemes the spirit of liberty, and mocks
Heaven by calling itself the 'democratic"
party j nnd is lying presses seek to convey
the idea that every mmi is an abolitionist,
who opposes it, and to cnconnig" their
dupea by such falsehoods. a thut, such
men ns Everett have becomo sulliuiently
corrupt to endorse locofucoism. .
The Cltiengo Tribune rvz sis lolhe msnsgerlo
at Cincinnati s "Law a., I Older lickel," consist
iueef Ibe lion. Preston S. Brooks of Souih Ciiro.i
111, for P.e.ident nd Hon. Albert Kust of Aikau
sus, lor Vice Pns dtnt. Wo Cdi id 'Mhx selection
does iiijiMice to".M.irshal li.iia,dson,,aiid"!herill
Jours" of Douglas County, Kansas. If devotion l
Law and Older" is lo be rswarded in the pending
cunvuss, surely Ihe shining viriuesof these worthies
should nolbedisregaided.'-.V. Y. Tritium.
And your selection does injustice to not
only Oreon, but the whole North. We
want at least a Vice Prcsi lent from tho
north. Wo suggct tho withdrawal of the
nan o of Rust, and the substitution of lhat
of Jo Lane of Indiana, the only man in
Washington city who volunteered to bo
come Ihe Stincho Panzn of the chivalrous
Brooks, and readily received an appoint
ment ns envoy extraordinary, and bearer of
dispatches from tha cowardly rnllian Hon
Brooks, to Senator Wilson, challenging
him n to duel jf he "wani'laHnred of being
sculped in a fair fytit." This dignified nnd ,
statesman liko acl ought to entitle Jo lo
the serious consideration of the "menage-
CtCrOen. Palmer's removal did not cmne
nn by t lie last mail according to eoniract.
Jo Lane tried lo get (Jury appointed in his
slcad, but tho authorities positively and
properly refused to listen loit. Mr. Hed
ges finally got llio promise of tho job, but
we fear there is a sorew looso in Wash
ington. We opine Col. Gardner got 10
Washington in time to wisper a thing or
two in I'icrce's ear.
03" A subscription is on (but for supply
ing this city with water, by means of aque
ducts and cisterns. Property holders oil
Main Street, would do well r invest liber-
ally in Ibis enterprise." Tho lick of wa
ter lo supply llio engine at the recent fire,
has suggested the id.'.i, nnd if il fat's
through now, by lha timo two or three of
our lurg s'ores aro burned down, our citi
zens will to prepared to take hold of the
mutter in good earnest.
tir The ollieial returns on the location ,
vote, ns publi-hed by Harding, give Port
laud 115-1, Salem 2040, Corvallis 199S,
and Eugene City 2310. The advertise.
mcnts in relat'on to this matter arc ordered
to be published in three papers, nnd the
Secretary selects the Statesman, Times
and Sentinel. Tha tnjney to pay these
bills is to come from the Territorial treasu
ry, and a largo slwra of it is mndc up of
taxes upon tho property of others besides
locofocos, yet tho people's money is im
propriated towards supporting nothing but
loeofoco papers.' No party but this would
be gut'ty ofsuch. meanness.
03" Judge Lander has fined Gavi Sle
vens for cnnlompl of court. ' Thny have
their-diflrjuliies in Washington as well as
in Oregon.
03 A. Holhrook, lisq., will leave on the
next steamer for the Stutes, on business
connected with tint Masonic fraternity.
0 5" The Telegraph company, havo com
menced putting up tho wire from Lufayelle
to Corvallis.
: 03" An Irishman al Chenook, near As
toria, lately beat his wife, a squaw, nearly
to death, and then shot her dead. He is
now a prisoner at Ft. Vancouver, His
name is McGenegal,
03 Our subscription list is rapidly in.
creasing, and most of our nnw subscribers
pay in advance. There are ninny, very mani
of our old friends (1) who have ns yet paid
noihing. We had lo pay for our office,
besides supporting it, during the past year,
and we are now paying ititerest on bor.
rowed moniy, whereas wo might bo out of
debt if we could collect what is our due.
We hate to "dun," but we shall be around
to see you before long, when we hope you
will try to help us a little before wo ask
you to. Don't lay awake nighis thinking
about it, however, for we know by exper
ience, that it is very disagreeable to be
thus troubled about debts, and if we cause
anybody pain we shall wih we hadn't saiJ
anyihing.
03" The next steamer will brin"
ing news from the States.
excit-
i
03-AVc shall publish the aniens from th
Pe.n' J.: E. M.of Monmouth next week. I
03" Over fifty barrels of Caltforaia peas
weresold in Sao. Francisco, by the middle
of June.
03" Thirty thousand Tartar who hnd
joined the French and English in their war
upon Kussia, have applied to the Sultan of
Turkey to settle in this country. The rc.
quest is granted.
. , T "
JwJfttilZL
Uil Uie French emigration to Anient
"'1 year be immense. The Prov'eial F,-.., rl.
ee, t4 u-I-mswv -1 "
Orphan Httfoul,
iNUirSMJisci, July ft),,
I'dfor of the Argus Mi Oast 81a 1 At s
nut ting of llio Trustees of Momuelh TJiiiveitity
held July ftth inst., Ihe following resolutions were
liusniinoiisly tdopted.
' Resolved, That feeling deeply Impressed
the great neoessity of a poor orphan fret school In
Pregon, wt pledge ouitulves to use our best
dcavors to get lu being and keep In successful ope
ration a school of tins auid in eonutelioa wlih
Monmouth University.
Resolved, That books bt forthwith opened far!
donations.
' Resolved, Thnt Elder John . Murphy bt, and
hereby is appointed lu solicit fuuds for tha above
object."
I expect, ''llit Loid willing'" to visit the differ
cut portions of the Valley as solicitor for the peer
oiAKri free schcul as soon as couvenicnt, and trust
the noble minded of Oregon, and especially Uitstj
who pomosv thut Itrligiou which leachtt us"!
visit llit fatherless aud widows io their afflictions,'
will nobly tid in a causa fraught with blessings
great to the needy orphan. J. E. Musrur.
Wo aro glad lhat our friends at Mon
mouth, have entered , upon the laudable
work of establishing a froo school for or
iihatm. There is less need of a school ol
this kind in Oregon Ihan in the States, as
th. re nro scarcely any poor children or,
. . ... .a
this kind who cannot find homes in good
families w hich tiro willing to adopl them
and treat mum as iiinr . own. . The ttma
will come, however, when such a school
will bs needed, and ii is uot a bad idea for
ottrfi'hn Is totuke time by thlj forelock, by
gotiiug tho mutter in such a shape (bat
1I16 school' can grow up, and keep pace
with the wants of tho country. We shall
probably ndvort to this matter again. : ,,
fcJucalloa of Varment Sets. I , ' .
Pakthc Caicsr, July 5th.
A vast propirtion of the American peoblo art
eugiged lu agriculture, audit it t sad truth that
the standard of literary knowledge among this
great iiumber Is very low. The first reason that b
generally given for this is, that farmers art obliged
to keep their sons at home much of tho limt to
help on the farm. Another plea, (happily for tbt
honor of humanity it is becoming obsolete,) It that
"the farmer dons not need much educatiou ;" in
olhcrwor.it that bo should not be an enlightened
being, vic-viiij with comprehensive tad appreciat
ing "5 the glorious panorama thst pases by him
with every rolling year, trading to their causes tbt
biiuuliful phenomena uf nature that appear dally
an 1 hourly before his eyes, searching out the arcs,
no of tho v.sible world, aud thereby learning more
aud moro of ll.e boundless beneficence aud infia
i Lc wisdom of Ihe groat Architect, a being, in short,
K.rlhy of his uoble and God given occupation, bul
that he should be u mere labeling animal, a grove,
ling, m'udless drudge, but little elevated in the scale
of being above the ox lhat draws bit plow. ,
But the iik teasing light of knowledge is fast die.
sipuling such antiquated and ubsurd notions. The
i-iyusof the times indicate lliut Ihe farmer is about
Wdk iij up from his U p Van Wiukle-like lethargy,
und p. epurlngto fall iu with Ihe march of improve,
ment, beginning to learu that ' agriculture owes
much to science, in fact, depeudt intimately and
closely upon il, that the educated aud scientific
farmer possesses many advantages over the unlet
tered and ignorant one, that the great boik of
nature U rpreud out beforo him and will amply re
pay a porueal. a short, he is beginning to regard
his calin in its true light, not as a slavish drndy
ery, bal as tho first, highest and most independent
of e irthly employments.
there ure mauy reasons apart from tut elevat
ing aiul refining influences of education, why tht
farmer sliojld "get wisdom." How often is lie 0
bliged in the transaction of businem to call In tbt
a d of a professional man to exeoute some tienple.
form. How frequently must he go to the same
source fur information concerning tht very laws
which he himself has holp.d to make ! And, pro
foundly ignorant of tho mechanism cf hit own
physical constitution, every slight derangement ef
his health requires the services of a physiolan.
Thus ut every step of life lie is compelled to pay
(and dearly too) for . his own want of knowledge.
Knowing nalliing of the constituents of the toil
which he turns over every year, and out of which
comes his bread ; knowing nothing of the natural
sciences, he little deserves to be called nature's
cli Id. He does not realize that agriculture it
science to be studied, and that like all other scien
ces it is progressive, hut he plows and sows at hit
father did before him, and if ha learns anything
new it is the result of accident nnd not of Intelli
gent research. Wheu his manual toils are over
fur the day he knows of ntithing more to do but to
eat and skep. There is no well stocked library St
hand, no intellectual enjoyment, no "feast of re
sou and flow of soul" urouud him. Ilia leisure
hours ure uot spent in cultivating the minds of bis
children or adding lo the stores of bis own J bot
recreation of some kind he must have, and to bt
seek, it iu the village slore or bar-room, too often it
the intoxicating and brutifyiug bowl. Why it hit
horse's bond so often turned rewards town ; Why
docs he spend so many thousand .hours loafing
against a counter or sunning himself on a dry goods
box? Why is Sunday the dullest day of tht week
to him ? Simply becauso he hat never acquired a
tuste for intellectual employment. , , .. ,
But let us hope that tho timo will come whin
evory farm-house will bt tht teat of intelligence
tad refinement, every farmer an enlightened states
msn : and to (hut end let ut try to place tbt
means of education within every farmer's reach
When our vast rural dislrieta shall poor forth ta
intellectual aud intelligent po-.ulation, when Ik
sturdy millions who follow the plow thai) f
mental as well as physical power, when tbt nXin
aud mountain glent ehull becomt tUt-htmtt of
knowledge, Cen shull we have, the surest gut-aotf
of the perpetuity of our-institutions. ' J!
Scattered abroad as they are over afftt' fcnd
the tillers of die soli cannot avail themselvee ttftey
great extent of the benefits of select schools t-.d
academies ; the farmer should therefore cherish
and watch ov:r his district sohoolwitlijealoutctrt,
remembering that upon it he must mainly depend
for the education of his children, and that ho is far
moro deeply iutereeled in its welfart than tht mer
chant, prfcj-siaual man, or deuisnu of ihe tow. .
As to keeping children away from school ta t
tist ou the farm, it ie uot ouly mistaken economy,
but a great injustice. It ie the plain duty of tvtry
father to give bit olilldreu mental at well at sodi'?
food, ami if ht does not do it when H is in his ptw
er he defrauds hit oSspring of ihelr just doe. The
man who in a parsimonious spirit wouid flint tbt
measure of hia ch.ld's physical food sroald bt ae
couated an trnataml father: what that can bt
snid of him whe withholds lhat which it of let
thousand limes mere Imlnn eowrquenoe T Tter
en farmer I would sty then, belter pay mst a StUa
more nwr.ey for hired labor and keen year Wtt
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