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OREGON CITY, OREGON, MAY 29, 1858.
No.
and olher kind, dune la ordtr, oo shift notx.
THE OREGON, A11CDS.
rvsuatisa evtav UTViutr ausnso,
, T WILLIAM L. ADAII3.
., fttaoixTio
Aeete fey list tfttm lt Coavta
Ilea, Atvtl St, U5U.
Resolved, lit, That tht Republican
Carty, (rut (O tba principle thai form lite
aeief eur free and democrat io system ol
government, reaffirm lo litem lie unalter
bU devotion, I laii) down In the blood
bought chartr of American lib-ny, lb
LVclerttion of Independence, and devel
oped ia lb Cooaiiiution or lha United
Bute, and that the prosperity and perpe
tuity of our Union depend upon a atria
adherence la the doclriiii-s tujj!il, inJ ihe
tight guarantied in those bouorud repos
itories of republican faith.
Resolved, 2nd, That in relation la
(antiunion of domestic slavery, we remain
Where tht pit rioia who formed our iusii.
luliunt piloted themselves, and where ike
leading statesmen of all partie, until with
in a receat period, have harmoniously
etood that it it a purely local, mil gener
al, Slate, and nut national, institution
determinable by ibn States, each for itself
over which the oilier Stale have, nu
control and for which no responsibility.
Unsolved, 3d, That with W w-liiiitfion.
Jeff.tMjn, Madison, Franklin, and ihelr
compeer and cntemporaries, who in tU
framing of the CvtitliluHon made efT-clintl
pravitioa fur the annihilation ofthu irairio
slave, tnJ Who wore especially anxious
thai ''.ut !. . i. i .i,..t.i .,.,i ,;,. n.. u,l
...... IIMIIUIII'HI IIIUU H V''1"1.'. W '
Mission of the right of una inun to huld
property in another, we believe alavery to
be a political, S"ctal, an 'I moral evil; sinl
while we disclaim ull riirtii ami inclination
lo interfere with it a a miiniuipal regain
lion nf any of dm sovereign Slates of the
Union, we believe ihat the organic act nf
1797 for ike government of nil ihu turrit"
ry then belonging to the It -public, p.'iiii'-d
by thassgiciuua Jciri-raoii. approved by tic
immortal Washington, and strictly adhered
lo in the formation of every ti-rriluri il
(ovnrnmenl from that i'ioih donii to 1 "51.
embodiea ihu ilu'y or lOiire m iraoiuiij
(uveriuiieiit fur tho Ti-rritorie itiat it,
the iirtn-ejienvioii ufulnvurv.
Heaolveil, 4th, That li'e iifiriiiit'e
1euar!urn from that biiiluiiil" in the lot
am oriianijin the Territory u( K iii-j-', lu
which wa directly trace the buier aiu
lien which baa ddatmyed ilia peac, mid
reddened with the blood of lir,.ilicrn t lit
virgin toil, of that fair ImiH, has proved hv
ita bitter frnitv the wiaJom of tho ancient
policy which it haa anppluiitvd.
Uolvgd, ftlli, That we amnd by and
maintain, u did our forcfutliera, liuu pop
ular aovereijfiiiy, and thu iimlieiuiMc rilil
f the people to govern thema -lw ; but
we deny that a man ia depriied of llnv
unleaa he enjuy the privilege of enal ivin
other, and iilRrm tlmtibe result oI'micIi ii
doctrine would be to founil the liberty o!
the ci'izen upon a havi of duspoiiiin.
Henolved, Olh, That the all':inpt upon
the part of the present Duwoci.iliu 8 linin
iatraiioa tn foicn upon the puoplu of K in
vita a oonatiKition abhorrent lo a largp
majority of i' citizen, urn! to auatain in
iowr a uiiirpin and tynmiiicul minoriiy
;jaiiist tb known will of the ri'inuindcr,
fa all outruns Hut 111 bo bo'na by a free
people, mid we hope thai, p!mitiii tlp in
aelvet lirnily upon tho iinnuriiil trutli fir si
nuiicialeil by the Declaration of ndep-ml.
nee, " that all (;overniiiriits derive lli"ir
juiit power from the consent f t g iv
erned," they will bo able to wrest from
their oppressor that which is inettiiiialile
to a freo peopln and furinirliiblu lo tv runts
only llie ribl to compel ihu ruler to con
form to the wjalic "f the rub'd.
Reaulved, 1h. Thai we initial thai the
right to govern necsarily followi the rieht
lo acquire aud hold territory, and ili:H in
providing a Roverninent for a Territory
under tliii riht itlionld bo basud upon
the inalienable right of the people, and we
arraign the modern nvstem na prociicully
carried out in Kanafor i'. uitei and tio
violation of those principle, and iillirm that
the dark catalogue of wrong and crime
comihitted by the late and existing Ad
miniairation against popular rihl in that
Territory deaerve the execration of every
lover of freedom ef the present day, and,
at their jut reward it liiatory, nn inimnr
tality of infamy.
Reaolved, 8ih, That the late partisan
decisien of the Supreme Court in the case
of Dred ScO'i, which ma ken the Cuaalitif
lion a rfl'l title itm'ruinent to every
holder of aUvea, i a difgrace to the Ju
diciary of i he nation, and n stain upon the
character of our country, whuao proudest
boast tail love or liberty ill H largest
aenae and it hatred of tyranny in every
form.
Reaolved, Oth, That we congratulate
otirielve and the people of Oregon upon
Jhe reull of the late election upon the
nueetion of alavery at a iriiimph of the
Utepuhlfwn doctrine of non-exienion, anil
we nly ini"isl lliat we ought to use mir
tUfliieatfe wh?rever il can be legitimately
done teaecure to other Terri'orir-ibeanie
iprioeleae bleaaing of freed 'in which by
ucb a gratifying majority we eem o
fullv t appr:iato for oorselve.
Retolved, !th. That the reckless prodi.
tality of natiouaJ tre.aure whiuh ha char,
cterited the late aud present Democratic
Adminiatration. bringing to bankruptcy
lieaaary whoa vault have received
OOOOUper annum, and nece-itsiing a
loan in a time of peace, i clear and de-mon-tralive
proof ef thai wasu,fl extrav
agance which ha. plendereJ Hie naiiou
ndtarned it tree a ry iato a .hinpla.ier
machine, with nothing but it credit to
ustaia in finance.
Reived, llth, Tliat the PaRo R'd
road i no longer aa enterprie of Joubitiil
expediency, but ha become one of tmer
tliva commercial and national necenv;
mmi w favor ila construction on any cen
tral and practicable route by lh aid of ibe
General Government given in audi a man
met at may be bet calculated to effect it
amT corapleiion.
lUsolvtd. Uib. That wa favor eppro-
priaiiootby Cwgrs for the imp'own'os
of rivert and harbor of a national char
acter. .
Resolved, 3ih, That the political dog.
ma nought recr ntly to bo etablihed by
a party styling iheinv Democrat in
ihi Territory, which aert lliedulVof
a representative or delegate in some in
stance lo be to obey l he itislruclinns ef
Ilia constituent wlnle In oilier .pecthu'l lit
it hound lo disregard lliein and bow lu tlr.
will of ether, U daugeiou and anli-repub
Iichii in ite tendency, and worthy be
sustained atilv by a party that every where
i known as Ilia II v of personal vaaoalage
ami ill advocate of imrtiHii despot lain.
Resolved, 4ili, Thai we believe in lite
utitrainmeled right of lite citizen lo think
and vote as lie. please, and we utterly du
y thu right of any representative, under
any circumstance to vioUto lite mat roc
lion or known will of Ibe peoplu he rep
resents.
Resolved, IStli, That the present system
f voting r'ra we, introduced by that
party losulijeul the aulTiiigeof llieciiixeii
to the surveillance of partisan inspectors,
and awe him, under the penally ol being
branded as a trailer, into ulM uboiiiuii,
is a flic "f uuibarUni, which finds fit
fr'.i ti ls ill a puny whue whole organization
ia iiHvoted io Hie extinguishment of eve
ry spark of personal frrnlom, and suljrvts
It member lo Hie entire Control ol an aria.
literacy &f leaders; and lliat wilh such a
party we are proul to have neither eym
pnhy nor cninniuuiun.
Ueatoa' brtilimrnt Letter from th
AulUor.
The St. Louis Duiuocrat publiahea the
following extract from a It-tier written by
C.d. Benton a few days beforu he died. Il
relu'nalo the great Woik lo which he was
devilling the last day of his life;
"The Olh volume is ismied, and brings
down the iiliridgoii nt lo lite end nf Mr,
M nroe's first uiliiiiuistraiiuii (18'.' I). The
Till volume is printed, and in ibe biii'lrr'f
linnds (mam fur ilrfvi rv), mid w ill come
into Mr, John Q itncv A Ijtti'' adiiiiiiisiia
lion. The S, Ii tilouie is in ihe t.t.'ss. and
w ill coin" deep into ticiii'iul Jackson's ad
ministration J so that, as you see, so fur as
'he public ami If pu 'Ushers are c.'iicein.'il,
ihe gieut work is luilt hiilslnd. nut as H
ui'icertia iniaelf, I am far ahead of the
press, ami, in f.ic', almost tliruiiiih. I gave
out imliliulv that I will be (Iniin in two
in nubs, but that was in allow a iiiMfginfir
accidents nr misliikes; expect to bo done
in less i linn one ul'Ui'h, b-ing now employ
ed on the irr.-at comprouiie sea-ion of
l-t9-8:i. Lein.' the lul of Mr. Clay's
rial elfins nn the occasion. He mid I
appear as an'agniii-ts tv itll respect to lliese
niea-nres: Inn the tintnL'onisin was as to
i lie frm, and not us to the ohjeoi of the
measures, lie wished the wholu of the
measures lo be contained in one general
compromise 1: II j I wanted the same mens.
ores, (or Ihe uio.l of iIkmii, mi 'I lli'-ir J
. .... , . i i
jectsj ihe (HiinHiiis lull ini.-uariieu, out
the iuauiPK hasseil srparHluty, antl were
jnl us strong on the statute book, in sep
arate acts,' as Ihev wuulil nave oeen in a
general one. The mitagoni-m, then, was
as lo form, and not as to tnea-ures, mid
eiidul in tha establishiiienl of ihe same
mi iisuri's, ond in i he ncfomplMini'mt of
Ihe sat l ji-ct, iiNinely. Ihe pacification of
Ihe country. I lie aoriilgeil Oeliut.es win
how all this, and thut there w as a real cri
sis at the lime "a crisis big with the fate
of Rome" its puviliuutiuii wortl-y of the
last f Iforis of CI, iv, and in iiceniiiplishinu
which, his indent iiattiolisui, his devotion
lo the Union, his disregard nf self, Ilia
courageous self reliance, all appeared in
their inliMny force and splendor. It was
nwl ihe blaze of the si lting sun, but the
noonday blaze of I hut great luminary. In
these flashes of courage and patiiolism,
always struck out when the Union was
struck at, hu seemed lo me to he Ihe in)
peraouution of union, and ready lo be laid
a a victim on its altar.
' This bein5 the kiato and condition of
the woik, sn far advanced lis lo enable the
public lo judge its character which judg
ment has, in fact, been most tavoni(j: ana
also to see thr near completion of f lie
work, I feel justified in expressing the be
lief that I have rendered a great public
aenico to the Union. I have rendered ac
cessible (and I hopeatlraclie) to the
whole reading community the history of
the formation of litis Union, mid of the
spirit out of which it grew, and of the
siilril in which il was administered, carry
ing the noble vessel through every danger
for near aevcniy years. I have made all
the Knowledge accessible to every reading
man, and knowledge is power ! especially
political power! and a necessary to
adorn n public man's life, as lo enable- him
lo legWate beneficially lor the country and
avoid the mistakes and errors which often
mortify himself. Thai is one object ef ihe
altridgmeiii. and a high one, bul nol the
highest. The highest lies among the mosi
exalted of human action! among the ob
ject which would reconcile a distracted
Union bv showing the exaoiph's of modera
t'l'Mi, of justice, of condition r f defense,
which joined us together and kepi us lo
getbrr. The abridged d- Utes will abound
with tlch examples, and from men of audi
noble character as will command venera
torn and ioiilaliiin."
OCT Green Jordan, tried at the late lerm
of the Washington ((I ) Superior Court
for whipping a negro to death, has been
found guilty of murder, end sentenced to be
banged on lli 7ib of May. The day of ex
ecution "ill be pos'potied, however, to en
able hi counsel to bring the case before
the Supreme Ourt in Savannah in June.
QT A new play is nnoonced in Bos
ton, onder ihe liile rf -An Editor with
95000 The Providence Journal won
ders whether he was a rovernoeat officer,
of bad beq pbb'nj a bank,
Arraiut in Kiioph. It cannot bo de
nied that alTiilri in Europe ate asuining an
attitude of trniuu portent. The rude
shuck which the Frauco English alliance
received ; Ihe virtual rupture of the tn
ttntt eordiuli between lit British people
and the French Guvcrnmcut ; the prostra
tion of ceeunerce and finance in France;
the odious espionage and gulling despotism
lately tnauguiaied by the Htnperor ; ihe
moody, tullsn spirit of resentment which
these tyrannical measures inspire iu the
people; the diatruat lliat pervade all
clusaes; the partial iNpcnion of active
business, as though people were wailing fur
loine great event all lliete and many oth
er deeply significant fact indicate that
Louis Xupulenu is approaching the crisis in
hia destiny. There i a universal feeling
ihnt a ihundeibull is about to fall, though
no one can loll where it will ttrike.
Every week wilnestet a diminution of
the receipts of the French railroad; ihe
army i resile and thirsty for glory, iudif
furrni ulu-iher II be acquired in the service
of the Empire or in ihe service of I ho Re
publio ; the French bankers, distrustful of
the aspect ef affairs, have directed their
American agents tn remit them their bal
ance in bills on London, leal a bill on Pari
ini;ht prove to be worthies ; England is
examining her casl defenses ; ihe Empe
ror is increasing ihe strength of hi navy;
Austria is bristling with resentment at Ihe
insult implied In ihe publication of Orsiui's
obnoxious later in ihe oliiclnl Mmiitcur ;
slid Russia, confident lliat ihe alliance be
tween her old enemies it nt an end, is aug
menting her navy, and preparing to reassert
her pioalrate supremacy on the Clack Sea,
and strike as her own interests may dictate
in the general boulcversement which seems
imminent. All parlies appear to be pre
pared lr the expected crisis, and any
steamer from Europe may btisg lidings
that llie crisis has arrived.
ICsnnNifiK in Francs. That the con
dition of affairs in Franco ia growing dan
gerous and threatening, may be gathered
from i he following remarks by ihe London
Times of March 13ih t
" It can serve no good purpose for us to
avoid allusion lo a matter which has be
come the subject of common conversation,
anil which niiiy at any lime produce con-
siquencus important to ourselves, i lie
P' sin. m ut tha I' re nc Ii uoverutiicnt, and
the stale of things which now exists in
I'aria, are notoriously the cause of much
uneasiness thioughmii Europe,
" I he gny oily of I sris, the home
of social intercourse, of lively conversation
mi l fne opinions, hardly knows itself. The
outward aspect of the place is I lie tome;
there are Ihs same uaulcvnrds, the' same
fountains (lashing in the sun, the same
cart frequented by ihe same loungers, and
iu privaia life the same drawing-rooms,
and hangings, and toilets. Hut over ev
erything ihcre is gloom and uneasiness.
ft-opln are talking timidly, and with unu
sual dullness on unusually commonplace
topics.
" l-amilies are hesitating whom they
shall visit and whom they shall be visited
by. Men consider whether lliey ought to
be seen walking with a friend whom they
have know n for years. Two persons will
be speaking together, and oil seeing a ihird
uboiit lo join them, will suddenly pause
amf turn the conversation. There will be
in the midst of social concourse a inun who
herks the tniith and puts a guard oh every
longiie. J cople will lam with uim, snuKe
hands w ith bim, but they will be careful of
what ihey Fay before him. Individuals
are enrclul ol whul nook tni-y nave in
their libraries, what papers they have in
their writing desks. They do not talk af
fahly with their inferiors, as light-hearted
Frciichnirn in the old limes did. The con
citrge, the waiter at the cafe, even I lie pri
vate servants, are kept at a distance. In
a railway carriage, ii is well not t be too
communicative with a neighbor. In a let
ter it is well te confine yourself la your
own private business and good wishes for
Voiir correspondent' health. For Paris
and France are under strict surveillance,
and n one know who are watchers
and who are the watched. The Empire ia
espionage- !U incarnation isa moucnara.
It ia not only that recognized ageuoi po
lice are in every street and every public
place, that the comings and goiugs of well
know ii democrats ate watched, that the
. ,. ... t j
assemblies fcl communist ar miiueo
out, but men of every rank, every phase
of character, every shade of political opin
ions, are al ihe mercy of an immense army
of spies, who penetrate everywhere, follow
ihe individual into tne couiiaeiice even "i m
family and his private life, and who have
pread distrust and apprehension through
out the country.
GO" Prof. Felton, of Harvard Univers
ity, claims to have discovered among Dr.
Abbott's colhclion of American Antiqui
ties, in D'eadway, New York, waxen lab-It-la
w hich were used by the school boya
of Alexandria, in the lime of the Pioleiniet.
Tim in-e-lplion upoe these lablett have
bern deciphered by the Greek profeer.
and i hey prove lo be tuch proverb anj
apothegm a are now current ia ihe lit
ratureofihe day, and often aet at fctpiet
npon the writing book of pupilt in oor
public schools. What i more intrwtig
perhaps, about these antiquities. I the fact
that they are thre or fur hundred years
o'd-r thaa the oldest t be leuod is lay
Bcropeao eolleotiea.
Mexico. The city of Mexico corres
pondent of ibe Mobile Register draw ibe
following gleoruy picture ol tba ttate of
affair io the Mexican republic:
" Mexicana af intelligence and experi
rnca agiee that ihe ttate of the country ha
never been so deplorable at bow. Squads
ef soldier are incessantly an tha ' move,
impressing artisans and workmen into the
army. Tha patrols have bee a removed
from the roads, and maraudius banda have
abaolute tway almost everywhere out of
the great cities, often perpetrating cruellies
llmt make Ihe blood cu'dle. We hear tf
villages, aad even (own, attacked by hun
dred of banditti at a lime, ihe house
sacked, and women horribly mutilated
and dragged at horsea' tails by their own
hair."
The editor of the St. Louis Newt wat In
New Orleans and Texas aot long since,
and gathered some ideas respecting the
movement now going on lu the Nurlhsra
Stutt't of Mexico, which may end in their
annexation lo our country. He sty : '
" Gen. Comonforl, ihe exiled Dictator,
al New Orleans, wa in constant conclave
with the filibusters of that city. Ma de
spair utterly of any reforms or any settled
government in Mexico, lie regard its
rapid disintegration and dissolution at a
naliun as inevitable. He is most anxious
for il tpeedy incorporation into Ihe Ameri
can Union, To ihit end he i willing
henceforth la work. And this object is to
be gained, as il can most easily be, without
drawing down upon tho movement the op
position of European Governments, by
political revolutions and annexation ef the
Mexican Stales ia detail, commencing at
i he North. The co-operaltoo of the am
bilious leaders of the Northern Mexican
Slates may be safely counted on."
Tut Anglo-American Confepericv.
The question of uniting the Canada and
the British pesscssioas in North America in
an independent confederacy hat been moot
ed for some lime past on both sides of the
Allaatie. The Home Government i nol
averse lo the consummation of ihe projeel,
but hat signified its willingness that it shall
he ancoinplished even should il lead ulti
mately la final separation from England.
Recently the authorities of Nova Scotia
have opened a negotiation with ihe other
provinces in relation lo the proposed eon
federation, and the question is now fairly
presented for consideration and diacussioa.
The Canadian press is divided at lo Ihe pre
priety of the movements
The proposed confederation Would con
si si of tix provinces and three territories,
embracing aa exleet of territory ararly
equal to that af lha entire United Stale,
and containing a population of 2,7.8,1100 ;
and although the climate in general it se
vere, yet the toil in many vast regions is
very rich and productive, and there cau be
no doubt that the new empire or repubiio,
nt i lie case may be, would btcmne a mighty
power of the American continent. This
movement may bt the first step toward the
amicable annexation of these provinces and
territories lo the United States, an event
thai weald soon be followed and may even
be preceded by the addition nf Mexico and
Central America, and will ultimately lead
to the consolidation of the whole North
American continent under one Federal
Government.
How Douolas liEAtis Himself. The
editor of the New York Times writes as
follows from Washington City :
Mr. Douglas, on hit part, is by no
meant mealy. mouthed or overfastidiout in
hit expressions of opinion. Al an early
stage of his defection, while he was hav
ing inleniewi wilh the President, in the
hope thai they might come to some agree
ment, the lutter remarked to him lliat il
was very perilous for a public man to pul
himself in opposition lo his party and
ihat he must take the liberty of reminding
him of the fain of Itives ftud Tatlmadge,
who rebelled against the policy af Gen.
Jackson. " Permit me, Mr. President,"
Mr. Do' gla replied, ''permit nie to re
fnind you Ihat General Jackton it dead.."
This is very much the tone which the Illi
nois Senator ha taken throughout this
contest, end it must be confessed that it is
not eminently conciliatory.
Strong Lanouase. The Richmond
Whig, ihough a decidedly pro-slavery
journal, it getting thoroughly disgusted
with the tricks played by the Administra
tion and its supporteri in regard lo Le
compton. It says the Senate Kansas bill
'is an abomination an infamous cheat
a delibera'e fraud; and no Southern
man, with a particle af respect for the just
rights and the hener af the South, should
touch il with a forty fool pole.'
Mount Vernon. The Mount Vernon
Ladies' Association of the Union ha been
incorporated by the Legislature of Vir
itinia, and authorised to pnrcbase Mount
Vernon, which it to revert lo the Com
moDWfsllh, if from any cause the Associa
tion shall cease Id exist. It i understood
thai Col. Washington will now consent to
tell Mount Veraoo to tha Association.
Illniss or Senators. It ia said thai
Senator Henderson, ef Texas, ia far gone
wilh the consumption, aad gradually do
cliniag. Sena'or Davie, of Mississippi,
eontiauaa ill, and, it ia (eared, a DI en
titly loaa bia aye-tighl.
The Vaclte Hetireae.
Wa regret that we cannot congratulate
our readers In California upon favorable
prospects for lha racine railroad, the
vote, on Sunday last, a will be sn
by our telegraph from Washington, post
pones the consideration of tha question, to
vital lo California, and to important lo av
ery State of tba Union, North and South,
unlit December next. It will ba recnl
lec'ed that Ihi measure wat set aside early
in the session lo mako way for Ibe unfor
tunate Kansas policy. This expedient wns
resisted by Seualort 0in aud Oroderick,
al lha time, aud wat regarded by thea na
great wrong, ream that moment, de.
nunuiation and proscripiiun of ull who con
tended fur fair play in Kansas have been
the favorite weapon ef I he extreme South,
and I hose deluded men who have followed
tbia lead. Senator Gwln, from having
be a regarded aa a staunch friend of Gov
ernor Walker's position against Lecoinp-
ion, abandoued or atianged his views, and
the Legislature of California, undr tho in
fluence af councils, not Ihe most unselfish
or patriotic, deemed ia expedient and right
to endorse tie Lecompton blunder, aad to
instruct their Senatora lo tupport it. The
consequence ha been most disastrous.
The worst footing has been rekindled be
tween the North and ihe South. Section
alism, in ila most offensive shapes ha rear
ed it harrid front, and men who hav cor-
dmlly oo operated, have been alienated
and divided. Nearly every important Ad
ministration measure has been embarrassed
or defeated. The ill blood among the
Democratic member who oppose Lecamp
ton, bat finally extended lo ihose from the
South who advocate it; and the vitupera
tion poured otllin tuch unstinted bitterness
on lha first, has been turned tigntnst the lat
ter be cause of their hostility lo coilain other
measures of the Administration. Witness,
ia proof this assertion, the coarse cemmnett
of Ute members of the Washington Uuion
against the Southern opponents of the
Utah war, on the debate and Votes upon
ibo army deficiency bill. The discussion
of Saturday last, ou the Pacifio Railroad,
showed that the vast and various interest
dependent upon the success of that road,
are in imminent dauger. Mr. Drodcrlck, in
a speech of great force and boldness, poiu.
ed oiil the fatal mischief which was intend
ed to be indicted upon California by one af
the propositions of the extreme southern
men ia ixing the route of ibe road in such a
manner at to impose an enormous expen.
diture upon California. Judge Douglas
made an argument for this great work
which cannot fuil ta elevate him still high
er la the confidence of the peeplt of Cali
fornia. Forney'i Prett.
JCaTT The election of James Buchanan
ta Ike Presidency, will prove to have been
ihe most unfortunate eveal for the Demo
cratic party that could possibly have hap
pened.
Nominated by the predominating inllu
eace of the Southera element In the Cincin
nati Convention, elected by the vote of the
Slave Slates, and surrounded by a strong
Southern pressure since hit inauguration,
he has, at if by infatuation, '.brown him
self body aad soul on ihesido of alavery,
and has most completely sectienuliied ihe
whle party of which he is the head, and
to which he owes hit election.
So thoroughly Southern hut he rendered
hi ptrty, that no one can lunger deny Its
pro-slavery character, and no man who ia
not a pro slavery man can longer consist
ently ctll himself a Democrat.
Before the elevation of Mr. Buchanan,
ihe Democratic parly was pretty thorough-
ly imbued with the pro-slavery spirit ; but
now ihe very nnma of Democracy has be
come synonomout with slavery. extontion
and Southern sectionalism. North of Ma
son it Dixon's line, it is, lo all intents and
purposes, aVimcl a sickly, creeping, pow-
erless thing that requires but one more as
sault from the Republican forces to annihi
late It effeclually and entirely. Chicago
journal.
A Great Secrrt Discovered. The
Paris correspondent of the New York
Times, in a letter dated 4tb of March,
writes!
" I'lrtt a word on a new discovery.
Why it it that the present century it to
far inferior to the centuries of ihe daik
ages In the harmony and sublimity ofi's
architecture t For a longtime it hat been
an opinion ihat ibe singular harmony
which reigns In the proportions of ihe
architectural monuments of that age wat
nol the result of mere accidont, and that
ihere must have betn some mathematical
secret unknown to ihe present age. This
lecret, a German, Mr. Uenzlemann, has
found, tl waa a secret which belonged to
antiquity at well as to the Greek and Ro
man epochs. It presided at well at the
construction of Solomon's temple, at at the
Parthenont of Rome and Athens. The
discovery of Mr. Uenzlemann wat the re
sult af study. With his plumbline, square
and compass, ba traveled through Germa
ny, tialy, France, aad England, measur
ing and calculating, and finding io all the
stru:turtt of tha different agee of lha peat
the tame harrnoniout linet. He hat dem
onttrated beyond contradiction, the co-re-lation
af tha Greek with lha middle age
architecture.
Tbia aecret, which waa lha property of
le Brother Masons (Free Masons of the
present day) fr Ibe lima f tat bailing
of Solomou'a Temple down lo ihe fifteenth,
aerhtpt even lo the tixteenlh century, wat
at last loal by ihem, and the tutHine art of
architecture tnlered it age of decadence.
The Greek and Hebrew i look great pain
to keep tlit secret. Py lhagort iu Greece,
and Moaet, Dtvid, and Solomon among lbs
Israelites, were of lha snmbtrof lit posses-
sar. Ilia r roe oiasont, wno are in o.
cendauta af these Israelite Masons, Were
undoubtedly tht heirs ef the art of Hiram,'
be great architect, bul unfortunately I hey
have lost it. Ia tha Purulipomrnt$ wa
see David giving to his sou lha plant and
eaeriptiona which he bad received from
God ta raise lo him a temple at Jerusalem ;
nd, in (he proportions and forms indicated
bv the different books of the Bible, we can
(race the elements of the harmonious system
recognized by Mr. Henilcmaon,
The discovery of tho Ocrmau architect
hat excited ia much interest in Franca
ihat M. Lenoir, an architect af tbit city,
bat made a report on this subject to lha
Minister af l'ublio Instruction aad Wor-
hip. This geeileman nol enly approve
the discovery of Mr. Iltiazlemann, but ba
supports its truth aud correctness with ad
ditional proof.
OT A correspondent of thu Chicago
Tribune writing on board steamer Joba.
Dickey, near Kansas City, Mo., March 25,
1869, tsy ti
"Misnuri will toon be a free Stale. I
have heard this remark made by a scoies
or more of bor own citizens aa board tha ,
heat from Jelfuraon to Kansas Cily. It
ha been the staple of conversation at ta-'
ble, on the promenade deck, In the cabin
vervwhere. Most of ibe passengers are
natives of stave Statct. They talk coolly 1
and dispassionately on the subject, and ad
mit the pecuniary evils which servile labor
ha inflicted upon the protpeiity of their
State. There are a lew whiskey-drinking,
dog leg, tobacco- chewing loafera on board,
swearing at ihe 'Abolitionist, and defend
ing slaveholders) but Ihey are 'poor white
truali,' who never ewred a nigger, and who .
never will own anything mora valuable
lhan a jug of corn whiskey."
roi'PiNQ Tim Question. Tke Sandutky
Register think that the delicate businets of i
" pipping ihe qui ttien'' might be a good
deal simplified, aud citet lha fallowing -example
I
" U' but a at range thing it acquaintance 1'' ;
said a beautiful girl the other duy to a
friend of our. "A year ago wa had not
seen each other ; many a season had rolled
lit course, bringing hope, happiness nnd .
perchance sorrow to each, without cngni
zanco ol the other ; and nott tee art to inti
mate!" ' Oar friend said she looked so love
ly he could aet help pressing her delicate
check ; he asked her if he bad aught ta do '
with the happiness of her fuluro? " You art
in all the dreams of ihu coming days," re
plied she. Hern you see, kind render, tha '
exquisite little job was done without the '
least effort of either of the parties, just at '
naturally as ctnsequence follows cause.
We have In our mind another kind of '
proposing the ttein, business, matter-of-fact
kind. A rich did bachelor, noted
alike for bit wealth, eccentricity, and pU '
ely, one day took a notion la change hit
moJe ef life. He accordingly mounted hit
horse tnd rodo over to a neighboring plan
tation, where lived an ancient maiden lady)
dismounted in front of the boose, and re
quested her to come to him. On her com'
inj, he lold her the Lord had scat him to
marry her. She replied, "Tho Lord'a will
be done ;" and Ihe Lord's will was done. .
Iilackwoed alao tells of a nobleman who
paid his attentions to a little witch of a
girl for a long time, but could never btlng
his mind ta the terrible crisis. The moth .
er of tho girl, who taw plainly what bia
lordthip would be at, and what waa hit dif
ficulty, on day, as the parties were billing
in the parlor, turned the key on them, ,
thinking the would thut force the bashful
man to a conclusion. After tilting lha
usual time, ht arose to go but (lading
the door closed against bim, aad no alter
native but to remain, he Wat trlzcd With a
fit of ihe most desperate courage, aud, be
coming explicit just iu proportion lo hia
desperate circumtancea, he marched up
boldly ia front of the terrible liille beauty
and exclaimed : " My dear, will you have
me I" Tbeyeung lady, without moving
a muscle, and looking down wilh an air of
becoming modesty, replied: "With tha
greatest pleasur, my Lord." The matter
waa over.
Institution tot the Bmnp. There
are in the United Statea twenty.one Inttl
tutiont for ihe Blind, having one thousand
and seventeen Inmates'. There were in
19."i0, in the United Stales, seven thousand
nine hundred and ninety seven white blind
persons, being one in every two thousand
four hundred and forty, five of the popula
tion. It is said by leading National Dem
ocrats in Kentucky thai that State will ba
lost to the Democracy if the Lecomptoa,
Catstitetioo It adhered to by tha A dm in-,
titration. ,