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OBXOON CITY:
SATURDAY, MAY 23, 1857.
Republican ZVominations,
CLACKAMAS CQ.
For Delegate lo Constitutional Convention,
GHOUGK ABKIIN'KTHY,
GILBERT REYNOLDS.
l'r llpresental'i ees,
W. C. JOMXSOV,
0. W. BUY ANT,
For Sheriff,
JOHN M. BACON.
For Jimrtior,
WILLIAM I'. HUKNS.
J jj Tlio uoiniiieia of lbs Republican Patty ill
Clackamas cnunly prornne to meet their fetlow
ttilizriin, and'addrnui lliun iiwn llie pvlilic.il iisuei
of day. at lite places and time bclow-mca-tioued,
to wit I
Upper Molnlla, at place of votiuir, SatMuy, May 23.
UeverCr"'k,at Arinpiiea's bcliuelll'iut, Mon
day, May if.,.
MalliKinV, Kl place of voting. Tueeday, Muy 20.
Yountf'a, at place of volinu, Wediiewi iy. May 'J7.
Hock Creek, at t'uiou School-House, Tliurnday,
Muy 2H.
Milwaukie, Friday, May S3.
Orcgou Cily,kuluiday, May 20.
Ilia denired and expected lliat the nominees uf
tlie Dcmocrulic party, (mid other candidate,) will
ba present at each of t'ls ubuve IiuincJ place, and
take a part in tliediaciuxion.
I). W. Ciu ia authorized to do any bus
inta conucctcJ with The Argiu Oflieo during my
alMcnce. V. I ADAMS.
g JT I" reply to numerous enquirers as
1o our position on ilia Delegate qnostien,
wo stato that wo shall voto for Lawscn
ami against Joseph. The fact ia, wo con.
aider Lawson (lie only ninn running.
AVe Imvo never seen liiin or Lad any cor
respondence with Lim, but we shall vole
for him, if tho Lor J spares us till I ho day
of election, as we consider it our duty lo
vote, and whilo we will not vote for the
Salem "caucus sovereignly" platform, nor
for a miserable tool standing on it, we
think it is our duly, an well ns the duty of
every freuman, to voto agniust it, by sup
porting Lawsox.
Wo hear of some who rtfuso to voto
for riilicr cnuiliilute. Wo thiuk thin is
fooliidi very. Thero aro ninny good rea
tons why every freeman who lias a soul
ought lo voto at this election. Tho rea
sons we havo not space to oHlr now, but
we predict that every man who fails to
voto will bn sorry for it after the election.
lfeuullful I'.onhlsleni-y.
At thu county convention of tho African
parly ill this city, ft resolution was adopt
ed endorsing tho coursn of our members to
tho Legislature Inst winter. Now it hap
pens that Lovejoy and Collnrd both voted
for tho bill exacting bond of tho officers
who havo chnrgo of the people's money
mid properly, turned over to support tho
Indian war, whilo Suirkwcathor voted
ngaintt il, thus giving thoso officers full
liberty lo do as ihey pleased with this
money.
Now, whom did the convention aim to
endorse, Starkweather, or Lovojoy and
Collnrd 1 Or was tho resolution merely
u lililo buncombe bastard pnA", a legitimate
oil' shoot of squatter sovereignty signi
l'vin'.' that the parly on this as on other
matters is neither fisli nor llesh.
rSoino of tho Africans around
town nro expressing lln ir suprisa that a
number of proslavery nieu in this county
declare their intentions to voto tho Repub
lican ticket. They admit by this surprise
that a prot-luvcry man would actually be
expected to voto : lu ir ticket. Why eo,
young men, if, as you aro constantly
vociferating, your party is proslavery 1
Tho fact is, these proslavery men w ho in
tend lo volu our ticket, show thuir good
aenso in preferring a parly that occupies
palpable jj'ound and is not ashamed of
its colors, to one w hich is this thing, and
that tiling, and then " neither the one or
the other," bul is made up of proslavery
men, old lino Whigs, and rotten abolition
ists, wi'.h no aim or purpose, other than to
show a proslavery leg on ono side of the
fence, and a freesoil leg on the other, mero
ly to catch voles.
Uum-y Hem.
Mr. Pcntlnml, of Linn City, has throo
swarms of bees, two of which are young
swarms ho obtained from the old hive this
summer. Tho bees do well, uud make
honey rapidly.
Wo hear of olhors w ho have had good
success with bees, particularly Mr. Thos. T.
Eyre, near Salem, Marion county, whose
lees have boon so diligent in the honey
lino that tho hivo is well nigh burst from
the weight of honey, and still ihey are
crowding in more. Mr. Eyro is satisfied
from his experience that bees will do well
in Oregon,
Wo were led t believe from experi
men's made in the Waldo Mills that bees
would nut p.iy in this country, but late ex
periments are very encouraging.
diT Tho rains have fairly soaked every
thing in this county, and some are already
crying enough, while we learn that at Cor
vallis they hav had no rain that has dona
luorogooJ than a heavy dew would hare
tlohc.
OCT The Indian news that came down
from tho Dalli t last w eek is said to have
been all a humbug.
CJ" Tho proceedings of the Tract Soci.
ctjr wiil be published next week.
The sluamer Commodoro reached
Portland last Thursday. From J. W.
Sullivan we received abundant files.
The nowf from tba Atlanlio States is not
very Important.
Connecticut Las elect J Helly (Am.
Ucpub.) Governor.
Im'ianapolis, which went for Buchanau
last fall, has electod a Republican Mayor
by over 200 majority.
Winter, the Emancipation candidate for
Mayor of St. Louis, was cloded by a largo
plurality.
Judge Drummond, one or the Justices oi
the U. M. District Court in Llah, has r.
signed, his exposition oi suit t.ue mur
als makes it a second Sodom. We shall
publish it next week.
(Jov. Walker was to leave for Kansas on
the 11th of Muy.
Henry J. Adams, the Free State candi.
dato was elected Mayor of Leavenworth
by 190 majority overall others.
The) Department of tho Interior has
nearly completed the arrangements for the
construction of the wagon road to Califor
nia, and bids aro now being received for
carrvinir the letter mail in four-horse
coaches semi monthly, weekly, and scrul-
weekly over the route.
Coxmissionkb to China. Mr. Reed
has accepted the mission to China, end will
leavo for bis post as soon as the steam
frigate Minnesota can bo got ready say
tho middle of May. The gentleman
named above is William B. Reed, of Penn
sylvania.
t fT Flour iu Sun Francisco ia quoted
at from 812 to 814.
OCT Money has been raisod by subsorip
lion to mako a good road from Cane man
up tho river leading out near Parrot's
The work is under tho management ol
James Barlow, and will bo pushed rapidly
to Completion.
The road has been very much needed
and will bo of great aervico to the public
and especially to Canemah. The contract
a
for building tho bridge across Purroti'
creek will be let to day to the lowest and
best bidder.
Dviucsttc niMcuMlrs.
NOTES TAKEN TltltOUOit A " KNOT UOLR.
Dramatis Persona;
Old Jo.
Mac, a Pro Slavery Democrat,
Lex, a r rco btato Democrat
Editor op Czai'iay s Ohgan
ACT I.
Scene I. Private lloom in Salem.
Jo sitting on a bed with a jug under it, ami
rcadtii'j tne "organ. Jbnlcr bailor.
Jo. Thrico weleomo to my room, my
dear bosom friend ; reaching his hand u;
der Iht ltd) won't you take something f
Eo.- No ; my stomach begius to spurn it.
Jo. Then the next thing wo shall hear
from you, your stomach will ba too weak
to digest democracy.
Eo. Never, till democracy gets too
weak to support ray purso.
Jo. Now you talk, God bless your
soul 1
Ed. "Our parly" has done a handsome
thing for both of our purses.
Jo. Yes, and I'm pretty sure wo've got
iho thing in such a lix that the supplies
will keep coming for some- time yet; but
come, tuke n horn.
En. My physician docsn'l proscribe
double doses uow.
Jo. "Prctcri be" it t This isn't pro
philacticum, man ; it's old rye !
Ed. That I never refuse ; takes a
horn.)
Jo. I was jusi looking over your paper
of this morning's issue..
Ed. How do you like ray "coarse" I
Jo. Language would fail me lo speak
in proper terms of my appreciation of it,
Yours is decidedly tho most alio demo
cratio paper I kuow of.
Ed. "Airgooso Adums has made the
Black Republicans belicvo I'm A brainless
blockhead.
Jo. "Airgooso Adams" thinks a man
ought lo ba something of a scholar, histo
rian, and logician, to qualify him to edit a
paper. I freely admit that it requires such
a mini lo odit a Black Republican paper,
bul for a deinocratie editor these qualifica
tions are as useless as two handles to a jug.
Ed. 1 find the main qualification an
editor fur "our party" needs, is to bo a
lirst-iate liar,
Jo. Not to pluck a feather out of your
cap, I'll admit that. But I think you are
peculiarly felicitous in another thing, and
I have just been admiring this particular
point in your last issuo,
Ed. I've made so many points, it is dif
cult for me to opine the sentiment you are
driving at.
Jo. I made no allusion to sentiiueut at
al' ; in fact, I haven't read it enough to
know anything about that. o a paper is
thoroughly democratic, it matters little
about the sentiment.
Ed. If you haveu't read the Taper,
how do you arrivo at the soundness of its
democracy.
Jo. I discovered it by a critical exam
ination of your leader.
Ed. A critical examination without a
rending 1 A new idea to me, at least.
Jo. Nothing new to au oIJ experienced
democrat like me. Why, you sec, I've
just been counting to see how many limes
you've stuck in the word "democracy, and
I find you've stuck it in just fourteen times
in one column. That's just one more
time than our old favorite democratic editor
in Posey, Indiana, ever used it, and you
are certainly entitled to wear the bell as
the rery prince of democratio editors.
Ed. So you agree with we mat w
word ha potuncy.
Jo. A potency f W by, Hr, tlio Halt oi
lis power lias uaver been discovered.
Didu't I tell you to slick it in wherever yon
saw an opening? Why, Cod bless your
soul, there's scarcely man in Oregon
who votes the democratic ticket but what
would be willing to have his pocket picked
by a democratic official, and would feel
good uuder tho operation if the official
tramped on his toes whilo dying It, and ev
ery toe had two corns on it.
Ed. 1 think we khall be able to carry
II our Sttlom measures under the name of
democracy.
Jo. Never entertain a icruplo about
that.
En. We shall salt down all our moa
ures nndor a great flourish of democratic
trumpets.
Jo. Right, right God bless your soul,
just right. Leave arguments and reason
ing with Mack Republican papers; bul
do you attend lo your post, and watch ev
ery opportunity for sticking in the word
"democracy.
Ed. You may depend, I shall plant co
piously of that kind of seed; Petor shall
water it, and we'll trust tho Devil for the
increase.
Jo. But, while I think of il, were you
not a liltlo indiscreet in covering up the
"mail robberies" you spoke of?
Ed. Would you have bad me expose a
"sound democrat" t
Jo. Does be endorse the Salem plat,
form)
Eo. Without dotting ap or cross
ing a t.
Jo. Well, I suppose you must manage
all such ugly jobs as we manage the infer
nal slavery question say nothing about it.
Ed. But, General, how do the people
seem to take the Salem doctrine, that our
caucus is sovereign instead of the people t
Jo Take it I God bless you r soul, ihey
shut their eyes and swallow it with as
much gusto as ihoy swallowed " squatter
sovereignty" a little while ago. The fact
is, "caucus sovereignty" is really nothing
more than squaller sovereignty stewed
down ; it's squatter sovereignty concentra
ted, if you please.
Eu I think it was a happy hit we made
when we bailed this caucus sovereignty
hook with your beef.
Jo It was indeed n happy conception,
for, just 'twixt you and mo, I'm a bait that
demoorats will always bite at, and the best
thing you can do when you want an ugly
hook put into iho gills of democrats, is to
bait it with Old Jo. Demoorats all swal
low me whole, and even many old-line
Whigs nibble at me most gloriously. God
bless your soul, I expect to be nibbled at
and swallowed in Oregon for the next thirty
years.
Ed Well, no ma'.tor how long, so you
dangle at our hook. But, do sore heads,
like Kelley and his friends, open their
mouths, like regular sharks, and down
with bait, book, aud nil, or do they nibble
daintily 1
Jo. Well, tho fact is, they felt consid
crably chagrined at first, and not at nil in
clined lo tuko hold ; but they'll nil come
of that, mark my word. Tho fact is, their
feathers aro all down ; they are perfectly
" cowed" and look as though they wore on
theslool of repentance. They'll all swul
low the bait, if ihey puke it up in three
days afterward, as Jonah did the whale.
Ed, Tho fact is, Kellcy will swallow
it in hopes he may be bait for tho hook
some day himself.
Jo. Thai's tho secret of the whole
matter, and this is just the way to keep
up tho party. Keep tho loaders all right
with promises, and yon nced'nt bother
your head about tho Iny democrats.
Xhy'll watch the lenders and run squeal-
in" after thorn through flames and floods,
9
too.
Ed. We'vo got a few men in every
county who will attend to the wires; but
urgent business requires my presence in
the clique cousultution room. So, adieu
for the present Exit FJ.
Enter Mac.
Jo. (rising and grasping his hand).
Well, upon my soul, if here is'nt the very
man I've bscn wanting to see, and your
coming has saved me a trip to your house,
which I was just preparing to make. IIow
have you been t
Mac. Hearty, 'cept an allflred cold, I've
got jost now.
Jo. handing out his jug) God be
thanked that the Maine law is'nt in force
in Oregon. Y'ou can tell what that is by
the smell of it; and, with me, you know
it is as free as rain-water in the winter
time. I think it'll turn your cold into a
warm.
Mac "fler taking nine saaHows)
Well, Jineral, I'm all fired glad to see
you. But what mout you have been
gwine out to see me for ?
Jo. Simply to consult you on a few
grave constitutional topics which the Cabi
net and Supreme court requested me to
prepare an opinion upon. I thought you
might be of great benefit to me in coming
to sound conclusions.
Mac If it's anything slantin' on the
niggor question, you may bet I'm right
side up. There ain't a sounder man on
the " goose" this side of the county-seat
of Old Tike.
Jo. I always knew you to be a "sound
democrat," and every way reliable,
. U.kc Sound t Vhy, there ain't a soft
the eend of ,
spot on my csreasa j uig . "- - i
ki
nail. I iwa ered tne main
,da..k in the Cinoinnaler platform without
chewio,' and without greaziu.'
Jo. scratching hit head) The 'main
blank' let me see.
Mac Have you forgot the main plank
in the Cincinnater platform, Jineral I
Jo. They are all very important.
Mao. Yes, but The border ruffians,
sound on the nigger question anU some iu
a bar fight," I look upon as the main pun-
oheon In the couasrn. Don t you see i
Jo. Y'ou got the speech I sent you f
Mac What, Stephens' speech o llie
"gocei"
Jo. ExacUy.
Mac Yes. and I swallered the whole
of it quicker nor grcaaod lignlnln' could
run down an Iclclo. 1 useu il 10 neip ui
gest the Ciucinnater platform. It jest lays
down dimicratio principles beautiful.
Now the facl is, ami 'taint no use 'o talk.
in, a man to bo a sound dimicrat has got
to be sound on the goose ; don't you see.
Jo. A reliablo democrat ought to bo
sound oa every principle of the creed.
Mac Jist so. Old Mao is right side
up, you may bet your lifo on't. I'm as
keen on the scent of a nigger, as nry hound
von ever seen in Arkansaw. The fact is,
Jineral, Pm in for niggers ; in on principle,
don't you see, and sound dimicratio prin
ciple at that
Jo. Perhaps you have niggers now,
that you brought from Missouri f
Mac Not a bit of it ; fact is I haint
hardly seen a nigger sence I left Missouri
the empire State of the Union; and I'd
now give a quarter jist to git to smell of
one.
Jo. "Would'nt a black goat do as well t
Mac You don't intend to treat the sub
ject lightly, do you f
Jo. No, no, by no means; democracy
ii inn serious a matter to trifle with. I
only meant to suggest a substitute for the
lime being.
Mac I thought, Jineral, that you was
right side up on the goose.
Jo. You never need expect to find mo
bottom up, till the old democratio ship gets
lo rolling ever and over like a log in a mill
pond. Then 1 may be bottom up occasion
ally from necessity, never from principle
Mac The fact is, Jineral, if we can't
have niggers here, I don't want no State
government.
Jo. There seems to be many weighty
reasons in favor of niggers. ' The fact is,
our women, God bless their sweet souls,
havo to do loo much drudgery.
Mac Yes, Jineral, you ought to have a
nigger to milk them fifty cows of your'n
while you'r out 'lectioneering.
Jo. The fact is, our women ought lo
have more help, and they must have it.
Mac Yes, and we must have more
wcemcn. iho tact is, weomen is so aim-
red scace that 'taint half the men can
get housekeepers. More nor a dozen she-
niggers could bo sold in my neighborhood
for housekeepers.
Jo. Did you own niggers in Missouri !
Mac No, but I was always UBed to
niggers. I cuoppea wooo ter voi. atones
and ho had a good many darkies and I jist
concluded it was what made biro Colonel,
and I determined to own one myself if I
ever got able.
Jo. You would like an office, I snp
pose.
MAC, Well, snose I should. Is there
any thing inconsistent in that !
Jo. By no means. It is one of the
surest marks of a sound democrat
Mac They rather ruled me out of the
caucus this year, because they thought
they needed a more abler stump speech
ifier.
Jo. What a puerile objection 1 The
best democratic speech I ever beard in my
life was from a man who got up and simp
ly announced that" he was a democrat,
always had been a democrat, and always
expected lobe a democrat, he had always
voted tlio democratio ticket, and always
expected to vole the democratio ticket,"
and then clincncu' '''a tiling by calling on
the neighbors for tie proof. Sucn a ipeech
will do raoro with a democratio audience
than any oration Webster could have de
livered. It always roaches the heart ef a
democrat, and seldom fails lo bring tears
to his eyes. This, I must confess, is my
own main reliance. It did'nt succeed well
among the Yankees of New Hampshire,
but it works admirably ia Oregon.
Mac Well, I could git that off", and
then tell them I was sound on the "goose,"
you know.
Jo. It is'nt best to stir the goose to
much, especially when she is selling.
Mac What do you mean, Jineral f
no dodging, I hope.
Jo. Are you sure the majority of your
people are sound on the nigger question!
Mac. Yes, two to one.
Jo. Well, then, your plan would be ex
cellent, and would be sure lo result in a
democratic triumph.
Mac The people in the States they
say are all turning Black Republicans.
Jo. It pains my very soul to tell yon
that the Kansas business, together with the
late decision of the Supreme court, bas
driven thousands from the democratio fold.
Mac Why don't the Supreme court
pass a law agin Black Republicanism, and
put and eend to it at wonst. t
Jo. I am really afraid the only help
for this our glorious Union will be to
change the Constitution so as to permit os
while we have the power, to fleet some
sound democrat as President for life, or re
sort to tho good old Komao policy oi m-
anguratlng a Dictator.
Mac Dick Tatcrf 1 lie n of old
man Tater tlmt lived down In OoosoneeH in
Pike county barrens I Dod rot my skin
if thar's a sounder dimicrat in Salem nor
old man Tatar. Fact!., all the Tatcrs
was sound on the goose.
Jo. Y'ou may depend upon it that none
but a sound domocral would be chosen.
If It should prove nt all difficult to find
one without a single flaw in him, I don't
know but I micht be induced to offer as a
enndidate myself just to save tho
Union, tou know, for, God bless yonr
soul, every body knows that I havo no de
sire for office except to serve my couniry
and savo tlie Union.
Mac Well, Jineral, jist pitch in and
I'll go for you, boots, breeohes, and brist
les, for I believe you'd make just as sound
a rmldent as old man Tater himself,
and I've beam be weut to Kansas and
luck all his boys along to help sculp the
bobcrlitionists.
Jo. Did he get any sculps f
Mac. They didn't find nothin' but
few weomen, but they luck their har, you
may bo shoar. Did you ever git to sculp
a boberlitionist, Jineral !
Jo. No, but I carried a challongo from
Brooks loone of them. But, Mac, I m
sound democrat you may be sure, and, if
the party should ever conclude to electa
Presidcut for lifo, they ought to be care
ful to selects man without a flaw In him'
Mac. What! tho dimicrats don't talk
of 'lectins: a Tresiifenf for life, does they I
Jo. Oh, no I I only suggested that it
might become necrssnry just to save the
Union, you know.
Mac jumping tip and gesturing vio
Icnilu) That's goin' too fur, dod rot my
skin if it ain't. I'll never inscribe to no
sich principles. We mout as will have a
king and done with it.
Jo. Hold, friend ; let mo reason with
you.
Mac If that's what you're arter, 'taint
no use in talkin'. I've always been a ro
tater dimicrat, and always expect to be;
' and I ain't gwine in for no PrcsWwif that
ain't a reg'lar rotater.
Jo. Rising and throwing hs arms
around him) God bless your old demo
cralic soul, now just listen to me a minute
Mac. Weill
Jo. You see yourself that our glorious
Union is in danger!
Mac Yes.
Jo. Tho Black Republicans are gaining
terribly.
Mac Yes, dang it, why don t the Su
preme Court do something 1
Jo. In a few years they will bo most
likely to get possession of tho Government
Mac Y'es, if tho Supreme Court don i
do something.
Jo. Now, just look here. If you could
have a sound democrat elected for life
man who always had been a democrat, an
always expected to be a democrat, a man
who drank democracy in with his mother's
milk, and was perfectly sound and reliubl
on every point wouldn't you prefer to
have the thing that way, to having a mis
eruble, rotten, amalgamation, abolition
Black Republican elected every four years !
Mac. In course, I would. I jist begi
to ketch tho idear. Fact is, I'm a convert
Jo. Handing out the jug) Here, let
take something.
Mac. .After taking a heavy horn.
throws domx the jug with gnat viokncel
breaking it, and swings his hat, hall oing) -Hoo-raw
for a sound dimicrat forever I
Down with tho Black Republicans, Bober
litionists, and Rotators tool I'm a dimi
crat, I nm; always have been a dimicrat,
and always will be a dimicrat; and dang
iho man that ain't a dimicrat and sound
on the goose I Iloo-r-raw for Old Jo ns
Presic'enf forever I Uoo-r-raw for the Cin
cinnater Platform ! The Border Ruffians,
sound on tho nigger question, and some in
a bar fight 1 Iloor-raw 1 Hoor-rnw ! hic-hic-hic-
raw I ( Curtain Drops.)
To le Continued.)
No Politician.
The following short dialogue wo came
very near overheariug Ihis week, between
two neighbors whom we shall designate as
John and Job :
Job. Well, John, how do you think
the slavery question is going to go !
John. Well, I declare, I don't know.
I don't hear much about it in my neigh
borhood. Job.
self!
John
Job.
lieve !
You are for a free State your-
Of course I am.
So are all your neighbors, I be.
John. All, excepting one or two, who
are loud and blustering for slavery.
Job. Why don't you get them to read
Brawn's speech in the Missouri Legisla
ture! John. How should I, when I haven't
read it myself!
Job. It is in the last Argus.
John. Well, I didn't notice it.
Job. You take the paper, do you not !
John. No; the fact is, I don't take
any paper. Politics I never bother my
head about.
Job. You are aware that you have
something to do in supporting the govern
ment. !
John. Well yes I suppose so.
Job. Then yon seem to be willing to
let baj men rule you, while yon are too
lodillertnt to post yourself sufficiently to
enablt you to discbarge jour duties as an
merican citizen.
John. 1'erhaps I have been too remise
n this matter. In fact, l'e thought a
good deal about it lutely.
Job. Think more about it, and yea
ill come to the conclusion lo support a
good pnper and try to do your duty as a
freeman. Such men as you are ought a
have been born in Europe, where despots
liavo usurped the privilege you lamely
surreuder, and I think it is unfortunate
that you wore not born there.
John. Well I have thought a good
eal that way myself, and have finally eon.
eluded to subscribe fur iho paper, and pay
little more attention lo our government
flairs.
Tualatin River tmproreutal,
We rccontly inquired of a gentleman
who is connected with the Tualatin Im
provement enterprise, as to the prospects
of a speedy completion of this work, whea
bo prcpnred for us lbs following communi
cation. It will be seen by reading it that
this splendid enterprise is no humbug:
This work is being steadily and success
fully prosecuted. Several large drifts
have been removed, and but a small part ef
the river between Moore's mill and Earns'
bridge remains to clear.
The public may be assured that the To
alutin Improvement is now a fixed fad, and
that this rich portion of our Territory will
have an adequate outlet to its productions.
Steps have already been taken toward
iht building of a steamer on the river, 19
by 73 feet, stern wheel, which will doubt
less be completed and tunning in time for
the fall business.
So fur, many of our citizens, who are di
redly interested, hove not taken hold ef
the maltor. A few public-spirited men
have pushed on the enterprise, and subscri.
bed sufficient means to make the river nav-
igublo and do something toward connecting
it with the Willamette The steamboat
is a private enterprise.
What is now wanted is tbat the people
of tho Plains who are more directly in
terested than any others should put their
shoulders lo tho wheel ; let them take held
in earnest : let the river ba cleared lo the
highest point to which boats can run ; let
a plank road or othor communication be
made with tho Willamette ; and we have
a most detirable and important improve.
ment accomplished. Will not the Plains
move in the mailer!
Lot tho moetings of the Company be at
tended; the whole plan is necessary
practicable and can be accomplished with
a very moderate outlay of means.
Tree Stale Conventloa In Lias.
Lebanon, May 10, 185
Pursuant tn arrangement, lha indepen
dent voters of Linn county met nt Leba
non, Linn county, O.T.
The meeting was called to order by ap.
pointiry Luther White Chairman, and
James M.Mahks Secretary. After soma
preliminary remarks, on motion a commit
tee of fivewero appointed to present reso
lutions expressive of the sense of the
meeting, consisting of Messrs Kendall,
Henderson, Condon, Kecney, and Ilodiae.
The committee, after a short consultation,
presented tho following preamble and res
olutions :
WiiEttEAS, the people of tho Territory
of Oregon are about going into a State or
ganization, and whereas, a considerable
number of tho inhabitants of the Territo
ry aro agitating the subject of slavery in
Oregon ; and, whereas, a considerable
portion of tho Democratic voters nave
been ruthlessly gauged, and refused lhe
liberty of any participation in the prima
ry iwsembl.iL'es bv the leaders of the so-
called Democratic party, thereby violating
one of the first principles or iroe uemoc
racy ; nnd whereas, tho present party de
nominating itself Democratic have so far
degenerated (as evinced by their late
acts) into a party of bargain and sale for
the spoils of office ; Therefore bo it
Resolved, 1st, That we who are opposed
to the introduction of Slavery into ln
Territory will mako use of the best and
most rffieicnt means within our reach to
secure a free State constitution for Oregon.
Resolved 2d, That we will support for
office mun ""'y M W'E ot -n
State constitution '.mmlifiedly, and win
labor to rtore to tbe People the old JefT
sonian principles of Psfflocracy W
purity.
On motion, the preamble and resolutions
were taken up and considered separately,
and, after a brief but harmonious disease;
ion, were unanimously adopted.
On motion, it was agreed to present t
the independent voters of the ceuaty th
following ticket:
For Delegates to Convention E. N.
Walters, J. Marks, J. A. B. Slinson, J. F.
Baokenstom, J. A.Dunlap, J. B.Condea.
For Representatives G. W. Lamberii
D.II. Bodine.G. H. Barnett.
For Co. Commissioner Thomas Can
non. ForS:hool Superintendent rv E"
Fisher.
For Assessor H. F. McCully-
On motion, it was resolved, that tne
proceedings of this meeting be publishei
in the Oregon Argus.
After some further consultation on seme
minor matters, the meeting adjourned.
LUTHER. W HITS, Ch'n.
Janes. M. Marks, Sec'y-
KT Tbat sack of flour from tbe tile1
mills was fully up to the credit of the nA
a little ahead of number one.
fcT Several communications e fil
next week. ' -