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