nil leavts tha unfortunate possessor
"nigger" in bit possibililie col les than
io bit actual ilit. So that tha hut branch
of tha ganaalogioal traa wa Lava been da
icriking ia not merely ana tixty-fourtb, or
ona hundred and Iwenty-eigbtb, part Icaa
admirably orsanized lliao tha thorough-
brad, Simon Pura Virginian or Georgiao,
it ia not wall organized at all ; it cannot
take car of itself, and 10 mutt have an
overseer, though, atranga to ay, it ana
Ilea the overseer to get hi food and rat
niont aul af a aort of industry not, in other
caaea, esteemed productive, tho flourUhing
of a con -bide J it cannot ram ita own liv
ing, and ao nccda a mailer, though, won
derful to tell, with ibat master, it can earn
the living of both, and leave a large Ul
anoo for billiard and racehorse, New.
port and Saratoga ; it cannot Improve by
instruction j this was thoroughly proved
by a humane, though quixotic, experiment
of Mrs. Margaret Douglass of Virginia,
who baa candidly published an account
of tha utier failure of bcr efforts, admit
ting that sba succeeded in communicating,
even tbe first rudiments of knowledge, to
but very few, and tbut even these soon fur
gut wbat they bad learned. Tbe claim
tnade, on very doubtful authority, of some
Taw exceptional cases, in which beings of
ibis description, after outrunning bounds
and hunters, dodging rifle-balls, and evad
ing kidnappers and commissioner.', havo,
under tha influence of a different diet and
atmosphere, outgrown their incompetency,
mid mado speeches, written autobiogra
phies, delivered lectures, and edited news
papers, cannot for a moment bo admitted
to weaken the immense may of evidence
existing under tba general rulo, and thus
Mr. Stephens' argument stands firm and
impregnable aa hypothesis itself.
Justus.
l)c rccjon StrgitG.
W. L. ADAM, EDITOR AND raOMIKTOS.
OBxaoN CITY i
SATURDAY, JULY 11, 1857.
(3f" I). V. Ciaiq ia authorized to do any bus
iaom connected with The Argus OITiua duriug my
aUeoco. W. L. ADAMS.
'MDr. Hill, whom it (the Stnlcsman)
styles an abolitionist is a zealous I'ro sluvo
ry man from the State of Tennessee, a cli
mate where the monstrous ducirino docs
not vegetate." Corvallit Metscngtr,
In order to post our new comer on Ore
gou politics, we will inform bim that, will
Cznpkay's organ, every runn who is an an.
ti-bushito, is an " abolitionist," just as ev-
-erj man who is for a free constitution is a
black republican" with tho Messenger.
Hence, with Czap's organ, Dr. Hill, Avery
nnd L. P, Hull, may alwnya expect to (ind
.themselves ranked among "abolitionists,"
while, with tho Messenger, such men ns
Judge William, Delozoo Smith, Kelly and
Waymire, may expect to be classed as
" black republicans."
These names are stuck to your opponents
snorely because you (Link them odious
with such men as you flatter yourselves
you havo an influence over in fact they
constitute the strong arguments with loco-
Toco wbippers-ifl generally, and we should
foe very aorry to see locofoco scribblers de
prived of tbe privilege of using tbein, and
thus cruelly bereft of nine tenths of their
thunder. A law which would deprive d
jlors of ibe privilege of using such ap
pellations, as well a that of publishing
such silly falsehoods as that the Illinois
law of 1803, exposing free negroes to sale
who enmo into tho State, was passed by
Republicans, and that "niggor usually
voted tho republican ticket" would kill
nearly every locofuco paper in Oregon in
six months, nnd at a cull from llriglmm
of $700 per annum each, we should prob
ably witness ao emigration of several foot
pad, with a knapsack stropped ncros tho
back marked " for Utah." Upon arriving
.nt Salt Lako, the ''new democratic papers"
that would start up, would bo character
ized by tho same tone that is alluded to in
tbe following item which we clip from the
New Orleans Delta :
" Tho Desert News (Brighain Young's
organ) assumes a delimit and warlike tone;
declares that the principle of squatter sov
ereignty shall bo vindicated by the Mor
mons ; and that under it the poopla of
Utah have the right to choose their own
institutions, without regard to tho General
Government."
The position taken above (which we
Lave no doubt is a correot one) that poly
gamy is really a squatter sovereignty, dem
ocratic institution, would probably be
zealously adhered to, while every mnn who
refused to submit to the lawa of the
land," and take bis proportion of concu.
bine, would be branded as an "abolition,
ist" or " black republican."
Henry Clay was branded as an abolition.
(t, although a slaveholder, because he was
a Whig and declared that " no power on
earth coull induce hi in to vote for extend
ing tlavery over territory where it did not
exist;" and John M. Dutts of Virginia was
bowled at Man abolitionist for his great
Compromise speech at Richmond. The
free State men in Kansas were all called
abolitionists, although hundreds of them
were very recently from Southern Statea,
where they were born and raised, and
where tbey had enjoyed the privilege of
marking tba effect af tbe peculiar instiiu
lions apon tbe best interests of the coun
try. Our Revolutionary fathers were
branded as abolitionists by tbe fire-fating
Brooks on tbe 3d of laal October, when be
made a liucbanan eptech in South Car
olina, and expressed hia desire to "tear tha
Constitution Into atoms, and trample it un
der hia feet," because it wa an abolition
document, made by abolitionists, who ao
shaped it a to ba expresely detigoed to act
in harmony with auch legislative enact
menti a the ordinance of '87, in blotting
tbe foul atain of alavery from the Ameri
can contcnent io a generation or two at
most
We are now branded as an abolitiooist
because, while we are willing to concede to
our Southern brethren all thiir rights un
der the Constitution, leaving them to
manage their domestic institution in tbeir
own way, we are with Clay, Webeter,
Wright, Van Buren, JelTerson, Madison,
and a host of other Statesmen, opposed to
its unjustly and wickedly driving millions
of white laborer from soil they are en
titled to as a free heritage from the band
of Cod, where they can make homes and
rear their oflpring without fear of being
crushed out by coming in contnot with
low wnges created by a tlaveowning aris
tocracy. We can also inform these locofoco edit
or that hundreds and tbousanda of the
beat men in tbe South hold this same sen.
timcnt that we do, and we spoke our sen
timents as feailessly and explicitly in Tenn
essee as we do Lore, and we wore never
branded with the name of an abolitionist
till we came in contact with " self-soldi
soul hired, and scorned Iscnriot" dough
faced locofoco editors, picked up in the
high-ways, and by-ways, and paid fordo
ing dirty political work, many of whom,
who, while tbey dance to tbe music of fire
eating border ruffianism (afar o(T) and
clamor about " saving tbe Union," would
no doubt sell their country to Great Brit
ain fur a new auit of broadcloth, a gold
watch, and fifteen dollars in pocket change.
t3T Mr. Murks, who ba been South,
informs us ibat immense drove of cattle
have been constantly leaving the Territory
fur California this summer. He thinks
that not less than a hundred thousand
bead have already gone South. Tbe rea
sun assigned by the owners for removing
their property was the high taxea in Ore
gon. We clip the following from the Califor
nia Chronicle :
A Good Joke The Jackson (0. T.)
sentinel 1ms the following: "At the
present time, and for three months, tbe
road lias been crowded with bands of cat
tie nnd horses, owned by farmers leaving
Oregon and going to California. Upon tbe
inquiry, W hero aro you going F" they
answer, " To California, where the taxes
are low." "Why," said one, "Iliad to
pay ten cents on the one hundred dollars
lust year, and thnt is higher than I can
stand; nnd besides that, they intend to
form a State Government, which will in
crease the taxes." In Jackson county
the people pay a higher tax than in any
other county in tbe Territory. The lax
last year was only fourteen centa on the
one hundred dollars." The joke will
doubtless be perceived by any California
tax-payer.
The cream of ibis joke will be under
stood by tho following, which we clip from
the Yreka Union:
Debt of Shasta County. The debt of
Cliasia Cotmtv amounts to 850,000. Th
Courier in announcing the fact adds: "If
there be any truth in the old saying, thnt
misery loves company, then our tax-paying
citizens will be glad to learn that the
indebtedness of I'lacer County on the 10th
of May, was $92,223,43 property tax
is $2,25 on 1100" Perhaps our friends of
the Courier may derive a drop of comfort
from the $70,000 indebtedness of Siski
you. Tax Rates is Shasta Cou.mty for
1857. On Friday, 20th ult., says the
Shasta Courier, the Board of Supervisors
had a special meeting, and fixed the fol
lowing rates of taxation for the year 1857
viz : Slate tax, 70 cis ; County tux, 50cts;
Road tux, T eta ; School tax, 10 eta J Hos
pital tax, 25 cts ; Special tax for paying
County indebtedness, 50 cts total (2,10
upon the hundred dollars of taxable
property.
If a tax of ten cents to tbe $100, induces
Oregonians to drive oft tbeir cattle, we
fear that a tax of $2,25 to the 8100, un
der a Stnto government, will induce them
to drive o!T horses, abeep and mules the
Jackasses (political) we presume will be
left to eat out of tbe trough where the
" depositee" are made.
tW The last number of the Corvallia
Messenger is peculiarly loving towards tha
Advocate at Salem. It talks much about
" Rro. Pearne," and proposes te discusa the
alavery question with him, while it de
nounce Th Argus as a " muddy-looking
abolition hebdomadal," with an " ungentle
manly tone," uaing "coarse and vulgar
language" that " places it beyond the pale
of respectful consideration and stamps it
as unfit to pas tbe threshold of any decent
domicile," cVc, to. He winds up the
notice of us a follow :
"We can find other journals to discuss
tha question at issue wiih, that have some
claim to respectability, without blurring
our columns with tbe notice of a sheet
which it a disgrace to the noble callinz of
journalism, and which should be spurned
irora every respectable dwelling as unfit to
be read outside of a pothouse or Magda
line asylum."
Now, dear friend, don't get angry and
tear a board oft of Avary's pig pen, or do
some other rash act, just because wa criti
cised your sheet in a truthful manner.
If you Wf discusa the slavery question
witb any body but " bro. Fearne," we hop
you will permit ue to alip ia a word oc
casionally edgewise, and send up our devil
to help bro. Pearne, provided you are more
than a match for him.
The Vaartb r Jail Caitkratlaa
Teased off very pleasantly in this city.
There were some six hundred person In
attendance, who, with a few exceptions,
seemed to enjoy themselves exceedingly
well. Tbe little heroes of the Cold Water
Army, numbering near two hundred bright
and happy face, turned out with badges
and banners, and, with the Sons and
Daughters of Temperance, the Sabbath
School, and the citizen generally, were
formed into aa imposiog procession, under
ibe direction of Thomas Tope, Esq, a
Chief Marshal, and marched through the
streets of the city, and thence up the bill
le a beautiful fir grove near tbe Court
House, where a table loaded with refresh
ments had been prepared.
Tbe exercises were opened with prayer
by Rev. Mr. Post, wban, aftor the reading
of the Declaration of Independence by
W. C. Johnson, Esq., and musio from tbe
Choir, an oration was delivered by W. L.
Adams, followed by addresses from Messrs.
Wm. White and John A. Pott, Rev. Mr.
Blain and Rer. Mr. Rutledge.
Dinner was then served, and the assem
bly dispersed, a part to their homes, and a
part to the Court-House to witness Prof.
NewelPs floral Concert,
THE FESTIVAL OF THE ROSE.
The house was crowded to overflowing,
and the performances, which lasted some
two hours, were listened to by the-audience
with many demonstration of delight Tbe
young actors all acquitted themselves
more than creditably, tbe "Yankee ped
dler" whittled himself into popularity a
an aotor, the aweet smiling Queer gave
grace and dignity to tbe throne, and "Dr.
Spoons," aa page, seemed to take pleasure
in scattering the oblations of flowers at
ber feet. Frof. Newell baa abundant
evidence, in the expressions of an approv
ing publio, that bis untiring lubors in be.
half of the youth and children of this
community are appreciated,
tZW A rencounter took place last Wed
nesday evening at the toll bridge on Pud
ding river in this county, between Stephen
D. Mnrtindale and George Irvin, which re
sulted in the death of the latter. We have
the following account of it from Mr. Mar
tindale'a own mouth. Mr. M., who bad
previously had some difficulty with Irvin,
waa atanding on tbe bridge near Irvin 's
bouse attcuding to bis duty as toll-keeper,
and having a double-barreled shot gun in
his hand, when he heard a noise behind
him, and, casting bia eye over bis should
er, saw Irvin in lha act of shooting him
with a rifle. By some means Irvin who
was but a few steps distant, missed bim,
when be (Martindale) wheeled and dis
charged one barrel of his shot-gun at his
assailant, missing bim also. At this Irvin
retreated under the bridge, with hia boy,
some 14 yeara old, who by this time had
come up to the scene of difficuties. Mar
tindale immediately walked to where he
could watch Irvin, in caso bo undertook to
reload his gun, when Irvin and bis boy
both came out and commenced an nssault
on him, the boy beating him with tbe back
of an ax, and the father urging him on,
while he himself was making hostile dem
onstrations. At length they got Martin
dale between them, when he discharged the
other barrel of his gun loaded wtth buck
shot into Irvin's breast, killing bim instant'
Mr. Martindale delivered himself up to
ilio proper'authorities, and tho case will be
investigated soon. Tbe deceased had a
family j Mr. Martindale is single.
A Failure. Geo. II. Ambrose came to
town on Thursday last, " cut and dried"
to whip us. Well, he tried it, but made a
failure. Now, if a young and a big man,
a Dr. and an ex-Indian agent, can't whip
an old, ciippled and sick man, and who
has the use of but one band, who can he
whip I oenltnel.
1 nat a right, Colonel ; don t let any
body veto the freedom of the press. Main
tain your rights like a man, and, although
you print a locofoco paper, and " go in for
niggers," you have a right to do so, and if
those who differ with you, cannot "whip"
you in discussion, they have no right to
resort to " striking arguments."
We glory in the spunk of an " old, crip
pled, and sick" member of the fraternity;
and if you find any body who can do bet
ter than Ambrose did, just send bim down
this way.
y A fight took place io tbe street in
front of our office last Tuesday between an
Indian and a white man. The former
brandished a butcher-knife and the latter
a club, while both used recks pretty freely,
ss circumstances seemed to suggest a
change of tactics. First one ran, and th
the other imitated his good example-out
the Indian finally took to his heels; his
courage being apparently quashedt little
under the erroneous opinion thatthe sym
pathies of the bystanders were against him.
03" Mr. Vandervort, just down from the
Dalles, informs us that some excitement
exist at the Dalle about y'new gold dis
coveries that have been tnade some 200
miles beyond Colville, whert tbe gold is
said to be coarse and pays $50 a day.
03 Mr. Hatch, our fellow-townsman,
arrived from tbe States on tbe last steam
er. Gen. Palmer arrived at the same
time. Gen. MeCarver ha reached San
Francisco.
03 The last Standard has a letter from
Mr. Kingley of Portland, boring Csapkay'a
agent for tbe hollow bora.
roLi County, June 27, 1857.
To th Editor otkt Occidental Muunger :
Bias IIsotiiki : I have just teen jour
paper, and I must aay that I like it re
markably wall. I think it the roost sound
and consistent Democratic paper in the
Territory, but I cannot agree that yon are
fully right yet. Tbe error in yoor position
I will try to show, and I think I can make
yon ace and acknowledge it.
You say in your issue of June 20tb, as
a reason why slavery should be admitted
into Oregon, that
" The alavery representation In tbe U.
S. Senate needs strengthening the pre
ponderance being in favor of the free
States and a fine opportunity is new be
ing presented to restore the equilibrium
by the admission of Oregon with a sla
very clsuie."
In your issue of July 4th yen say, in
speaking of Oregon t
"Thert ia but ont thing wanting to give
her thia position in the sisterhood, and that
one thing ia a liberal Constitution, with a
clause permitting citizens from all the
States to come hither with their property,
of whatever description, and become cul
tivators of tbe soil."
Now, my dear brother, while you ire so
liberal toward the South, why have you
let your ''prejudices of education" prevent
you from putting in a plea for Utah,
wbicb will soon become a State I Will
not the " polygamy representation" of that
State need strengthening t and will not
tha " preponderance" in favor of the other
Slates be vastly against ber I and, by re
fusing to adopt a polygamy clause, how
can you boast of having a "liberal Con
stitution," "permitting citizens from all
tbe States to come hither with their prop
rty" and their familic t Would you
have a Constitution that allows the "citi
zens of all the Statea to come here witb
their properly" but requires them to leave
their familiet behind t Shocking incon
sistency 1 Besides, you must see that our
"women need help," and the household
that has soveral wives must get along
much easier than where, by a foolish and
anti-Christian custom, it ia confined to one.
These wives could also be useful In assist
ing a poor neighbor woman in ease of
sickness, whereas it is now almost impossi
ble to get help. Utah has the right, un
der tbe " Nebraska bill," to regulate ber
own "domestic institutions," and I cannot
see, for the life of me, why Democratic
editors ever sneer at her institutions, which
are wise, humane, and inviolable under
the Constitution and the Nebraska bill.
Think of thia matter, dear brother, and
try to overcome your prejudices, so as to
go for "a liberal Constitution that will
permit citizens of all the Slates to come
here." , Yours, with great respect,
Mormon.
Portland, July 0, 1857.
Editor of The Argus
After an absence from home, upon my
return I happened to pick op the Times,
and, in a very silly comment upon an arti
cle in the N. Y. Commercial saying that
"the friends of freedom in Oregon ami
elsewhere ought not to be unfaithful to
their principles and supine and indolent in
the performance of their duty," the Times
says :
" We should like to see a few of the
elsewhcrts, th mischief-making abolition
emissaries come here on a "Massachusetts
Emigrant Aid" enterprise. The people
wouia oe very nappy to escort such fellows
over to ibe Grand Rnnde, where they
might circulate iu peace among their
equals."
Now, Mr. Editor, taking into considers
lion the fact that tbe Commercial made no
allusion to Emigrant Aid Societies, and
did not even hint at the necessity of pick
ing up a rotten hireling, and aending him
out here to edit a paper to induce Orego
nians to regulate their institutions contrary
to their wish and considering that the
Times man is a very new comer such
swaggering and bluster sounds very impu
dent and ailly. Suppose the Oregonians
should take him at his word, and send him
"over to Grand Ronde," what would he
think of the trip,
By tho way, Mr. Editor, I have con.
versed with a friend from Indiana, who
thinks Prentice of the Louisville Journal
did injustice to the Buchanan procession
in Indiannpolis last summer in classing so
many of them as " Buckniggers." My
informant tells me that there was a large
number of locofoco officials and editor in
the procession, wbo were said to be one
eighth African, one eighth Jew, and the
rest Indiana blood. While these gentle
men had dark skins, and by the law of
Ohio would probably have been excluded
ffom voting, I do not think Prentice ouch!
if a ...
io nave called tuem niggers," without
explaining that they were not full blood t.
Respectfully yours, Kaintcci.
03 We learn that Mr. Pomeroy of the
Tualatin Plains has been engaged in sink
ing an Artesian well. After boring down
110 foet, he struck quicksand, which made
it necessary to put down a sheet-iron tube.
The tube was made rather too large for the
hole, and pushed down in separate joints,
instead of being riveted together as it went
down. When down aome 60 feel, the tube
struck and became ao bent that tha anger
could not be forced through it and there
the well atands, awaiting the arrival of
" tome one who understand the business."
We think he will not htve to wait long,
as our enterprising fellow-citizen, Mr.
Thomas T. Eyr of Marion, haa arnt to Cal
ifornia for oae skilled in lb boring of Ar
tesian well, aad intends to bsve one oo bis
farm near Salem.
Ftr Ike Argt.
Th Coesal, Oae Mere.
Ms. Editoi With your permission, I
will ocoupy a small space In your paper
for the purpose of merely correcting an
impression which ha got abroad among
tome ef the readers of the Oregonian,
namely, that " the comst" is to be seen at
present with the naked eye, ahorlly after
8 o'clock in the morning, ia the north-east
part of tha heavens and other say that
fvo are visible, close together, one a little
larger than the other, and both tbe moat
brilliant objects in the iky, tare only the
moon, when the is out.
Now, so far from eitbtr of these objects
being a "cornel,'' as stated by the tappy
ent editor of the Oregonisn, in his number
of June SOth, tbe two are in reality tbe
most beautiful planeti io our Solar system,
the brighter one being Venus, and the
ether Jupiter: tbe latter being attended
with four moons, which the editor would
probably have styled "young comets," had
ha noticed tbem, just getting old enough
to travel, like Mattoon's Expositor at a cer
tain period of its squalid existence while
the bona Jtii comet about which there hat
been to much talk of late is not in that
quarter of the heavent at all, and, further
more, it perceptible only with the aid of a
powerful glaaa. It ia obviout that the
"glass" through which the editor of the
Oregonisn is accustomed to "see stars,"
must have been a "powerful strong" one,
to have magnified a harmless and beauti
ful planet into a terrible comet, scattering
the dread of war, pestilence, and famine
through the land, and even threatening our
solid glob with dire destruction. If the
wiseacre of an editor aforesaid will only
turn io McCormick's Almanao for 1857,
ha will there learn that Vonus and Jupiter
are morning star just about this lime, and
have been for several weeks past.
Gamma.
July 8, 1857.
We print considerable interesting
matter on Mormonisin to-day. We learn
that emissaries of these land pirates at
Salt Lake are now preaching in this valley,
and that they have made some converts in
the Tualatin Plains. There is no doctrine
so monstrous and black but whnt devotees
can be found to it, and we presume that if
a paper was started among us advocating
the introduction ef polygamy, "just to
ssve the Union," quite a number of sub
scribers could be had for it. Tbe woman
wbo wilt embrace Mormonisin, and go to
Salt Lake, deserve to havo 3G5 husbands.
03 Wear under obligations to Wells,
Fargo & Co' Express, the American Ex
press, J. W.Sullivan Esq. of San Fran
cisco, and to Dr. Steele, the enterprising
agent of Wells, Fargo ii Co. in this city,
for ample files of California and States
papers,
t3T C. L. Goodrich, former editor of
the Oregon Spectator, it new publishing
tbe Alameda County Gazette, a weekly
paper in San Leandro, Alameda county,
Cal. Tha paper shows that he has lost
none of his talent as an editor. Success
to him.
65" Apples of the Red June, Sweet
June, and July Bough varieties are new
offered in market. Tbe best apples by far
we have seen are those at Mr. Caufield's,
who calls them the Summer Geniten.
(& Harvest has commenced in good
tamest. Tbe crops look well so far as
they go, but the average yield of grain
will probably be little more than two thirds
of what it was last year.
03" The people of Bulteville bad an in
teresting time of it on the 4th. Mr. Hoi-
brook delivered the oration.
03" The last issue of Czapkny's organ
contains a column or two of abuse of 'Bro.
earne.
03" The New Orleaas Delta has a long
article on the Sugar crop, in which it is
averred that the present season's yield of
sugar will be uncommonly abundant in
Louisiana.
03" Flour in San Francisco is worth
from $8,50 to 89,00.
03-TheNorfolk (Va.) Arguttays:
MarylanJ, by position and interest, is
not entitled to be classed among the alave
plates, iter politics shows that ber press
is fast bringing about a fraternization be
tween her and the free Slates to called.
On etch tide of the bsy ber people are
sound, but north and west of Baltimore
there it but a shcus of diflerence between
the inhabitants of Maryland and Pennsyl
vania. It ia through Maryland that most
of the slaves now escape from Virginia.
Her laws on this subject are wholly inef.
fectual, and public opinion will not tolerate
one that ia worth astrsw.
What is Legal Tendee I Thompson 'i
Bank Note List gives the following:
" American gold coin in any amount Am
erican silver to tbe amount of fire dollars
three cent piecea to tbe amount of thirt?
cents, and one cent pieces to the amount ef
ten cents, are legal tender."
03" The bill requiring the publio ac
counts to be kept in dollars and cents, has
passed both houses of the Canadian legis
lature. It will come into force on the first
of January, 1853.
03 There are two kind of bores in thia
world the rich and tba poor. Yon can
get rid of tbe latter by lending bim fir
dollar. Yon can free yourself of tbe
other by attempting to borrow twtnty-fire
J. It l.- -r-
Newi from tha Atlantio Sutoi.
The news by this mail it net of nUrtlins;
Importance. A terrible election riot took
place at the recent election in Washington
City. Tbe U. 8. marine were called out
and fired upon the rowdies, composed f
"PlugUglio.,"Rip.R.p. 0l UfA
were killed and wounded.
Great excitement also prevailed in OLIo.
The U. 8. Marshal attempted le arret a
fugitive alave at Meohanicsbarg, Cham,
paign county, but he wa driven off. Sub.
sequontly a wairaut waa issued for th ,r.
rest of tbe roan in whose house (he tlav
was found concealed, but his whereabouts
could not be ascertained. The tlar
taken, and in the attempt of a Sbri(T aad
posae to terve a writ of habeaitorput upon
tbe Marshal, a row commenced. S0m of
tbe Federal officer were arretted, and
much ill. feeling wat manifested.
Col. A. Cumntfng af St. Louis bad Veea
appointed Governor of Utah, but declined.
The latest reportt ttato that a man bat
been found to accept the office, but hit name
bad bot transpired. A large force waa to
be tent out to support him under Gen,
Harney.
Gen. Walker had arrived in New Or.
leant, and waa received with great enthu
siasm. It is confidently asserted by Lis
friends in New Orlesns, that he will jo
back to Nicaragua in a tbort time witb
plenty of men and meant.
Tbe steamship Louisiana wat burned in
Galveston Bay on Sunday morning, May
3 lit. Eleven persona worn certaiuly lost
Col. Rainbridge, of the Army, and thirty
one others, are missing. Twenty -five
person were saved by the stesmtr Galvet
- f on. There were 159 txevea on board,
which were consumed.
The Virginia elections have resulted in
a general Democratic success.
Death of Two U. S. Senators. Mob.
A. P. Butler of South Carolina died on the
25i h of May, of dropy. Hon. James Bcll
of New Hampshire died on the same day,
The latter had been in feeble hoa'tb fur the
past year.
The Hon. Aadrew P. Butler, U. S. Sen.
ator from South Carolina, is reported to be
on his dentb bed. W hear it witb pre.
found regret. Judge Duller is the fanatical
champion of ail irrational, ciuol, decrepit
social system, and is impelled by his devo
tion thereto to say and do many thing ha
ought not ; but the man is nevertheless
sound nt the core, generous, chivalrous,
and high-minded. South Carolina will
nut easily fill his place wiih one who com
mands in equal measure the respect of hit
adversaries and the confidence of his (A-low.partisana.-JV.
Y. Tribune, May 23d.
Kansas. Nineteen out of the twenty,
six counties of Kansas have sent in their
returna of the census, showing an aggre
gate, so far, of 0,250 registered voters.
It is stnted that the character of the emi
gration to the Territory this spring is
greatly better than it has yet been. Im
provements are going on rapidly.
Gov. Walker's Inaugural Address to the
people of Kansas, it a long, conciliatory
document. It recognize all Territorial
enactments, and says all constitutional
laws shall be executed. It urges all parlies
to participate in the election, and believe
the Convention will make a Constitution to
suit the people, and docs not believe Con
gress will reject it. It says Slavery will le
ultimately determined by tbe law of cli
mate. It is this law operating fur and
against slavery in Kansas. Iu the- evtot
that alavery does not exist in Kansas, il
says she has constitutional duties to aer
sister Slates, especially to Missouri, and
trusts the Constitution will contain clauses
forever securing to that State all the con
stitutional guarantees, both by federal and
State authority, and supremacy within her
own limits, by the authority of tbe Su
preme Court uf tbe United States.
Gov. Walker passed through Lawrence,
and assured the people there that every
thing should be fair.
Acting Governor Stanton bad issued hit
proclamation for the election of delegate!
to the Constitutional Convention on tha
15 th of June, accompanied by the return
of the late censut and the apportionment of
delegates among the several counties under
it.
Jude Cato of tbe U. S. Court had de
cided that William Weer, the District At
torney appointed by the President, was
the only rightful Government prosecuting
officer, both under the United State and
the Territorial lawa ; thus displacing al
together the man, selected as Territorial
Attorney by the Legislature, and witb him
all the various indictments he had caused
to be framed against Free Sl; men.
The object of See-gjary Stanton's ft'
cent visit to Laurence, was to make aa at'
tempt to unite the free State men with the
pro-slavery men in the orgsnizatiofi of (he"
old Democratic party. He expresses him
self desirous of having (he evils of the
past forgotten, and to commence anew.
Ctrrupmdtnet tin St. Lniu BtpMiM
(pn-iUvery.)
Lawrence, May 19
Th e conservative men, the true National
Democracy of Kansas, whether from tbe
North or South, free Stale or slsve Stale,
thould organize, and atand thouIJer w
shoulder aa tbe upholders of the l'Dd
the advocates of " Democracy and a D1
ocratic const it ut ion for Kansas." w"1
ever may be the result, so far as be slave
ry qnestton goe, w may be misiae,
we ibiok that Aransas writf be a fret Stat,
itith a protective clause a to negree "
owned i tin Territory, and will be aoao
to by tbe act of the united and nstfs-
live National Democracy, now w -
Ynrll. and tha Smith. If this shwlld t
so, the Democracy of the Nonh will ew
a debt of cratitude to the Southern w'f
of lha party whose fall extent it wi
almost impossible to conceive-
must new be drawn forever and for y
it : I - r SUrar and Fieetswf
Rorder Roman" and " A boliuoourti,
National Democracy and BlacaJt-p1
uuimr iroin mm. j it n on.