as well as the great business Interests of tlio country, demand Hint tlio people of the Union snail not for a third time bo con tulflod by another agitation on the Kaunas question. By waiting for a short time, and acting in obedienro to law, Kansas will glido iuto tlio Union without tlio llightcift Impediment. This excellent provision, which Congress bos applied to Kansas, ought to be extend ed ana rendered applicable to all Territo ries which may hrreufter seek admission into the Union. Whilst Confess possesses the undoubt ed power of admitting a new State into the Union, however small may be the number of its Inhabitants jvt this power ought not, la my opinion, to be exercised before the population shall amount to tlio ratio requir ed by the act for tho admission of Kansas. Had this been previously the rule, the couutry would have esencd oil the evils and misfortunes to which it has been ex posed by tho Kansai question. Of course, it would bo unjust to give this rule a retrosiectivo application, and exclude a State which, acting upon the past prac tice of the government, has already form.'! its constitution, elected its legislature and other officers, und is now prepared to cuftr the Union. Tho rule ought io be adopted, whether wc consider its bearing on the people of the Territories or upon tho people of the existing States. Many of the serious dis sensions which havo prevailed iu Congress and throughout the country, would have been avoided, had this rule been established at an earlier period of the government. Immediately upon the formation of a new Territory, people from different States and from foreign countries rush Into it, for tho landublo pnrposo of improving their condition. Tiieir first duty to themselves is to open and cultivate farms, to construct road, to establish schools, to erect places of religious worship and to devote their en ergies generally to reclaim tho wilderness, and to lay the foundations of a flourishing and prosperous commonwealth. If, in this incipient condition, with a population of a few thousand, they should prematurely en ter tho Union They are oppressed by the burden of State taxation, and tho means necessary for the improvement of the Terri tory and the advancement of their own In terests, arc thus diverted to very different purposes. The federal government has ever been a liberal parent to the Territories, and a gen erous contributor to the useful enterprises of tho enrly settlers. It has paid tho ex penses of their governments and legislative assemblies out of tho common treasury, and thus relieved them from a heavy charge. Under these circumstances, nothing can be better calculated to retard their material . urozress than to divert them from their useful employments, by prematurely exci ting angry political contests among mem selves, for the benefit of aspiring leaders. It is surely no hardship for eiubroyo gov ernors, senators, und members of Congress, to wait until tho inhabitants shall equal thoso of a singlo congressional district. They surely ought not to be permitted to rush iuto the Uniou with a population less than one-half of several of the large coun ties in tho interior of some of the States. This was the condition of Kansas when it made application to bo admitted under the Topeka constitution. Besides, it requires some timo to render tho mass ofapopula tian collected iu a new Territory, at nil liomegenuous, nnd to unite them on any thing liko a Dxed policy. Establish the rule, and all will louk forward to it nud govern themselves accordingly. But iustiee to tho people of the several States requires that this rule Bhould be es tablished by Congress. Lauh State is en titled to two senators and at least one rep- resentative in Congress. Should tho peo- nlo of the States fail to elect a ico l'resi- deut, tho power devolves upon the Senate to select this officer from tho two highest candidates on the list. In easo of the death of the President, tlio Vice President thus ilccted bv tho Senate, becomes President of the United States. On all questions of legislation, the senators from the sranllost States of the Union have an equal vote with those from tho largest. Tho same may be said in regnrd to the rntlliafou of treaties, and of Executive appointments. All this has worked admirably in practice, whilst it conforms in principle with the , character of a government instituted by sovcreiirn States. I presume no Amir.cun citizen would desire tho slightest change in the arrangement. Still, is it not unjust and unequal to the existing States to invest some forty or fifty thousand people collect ed iu a Territory with tho attributes of sov- t reignty, nnd place them on an equal loot ing with Virgiuia and New York in the Senate of the United States ? For these reasons, I earnestly recommend the passatce of a general act, which shil provido that upon tho application of a ter ritorial legislature, deeluriug their belief that the Territory contains a number or in habitants, which, in a State, would entitle them to elect a member of Congress, it shall bo the duty of the President to cause census of the inhabitants to be taken, and, if found sufficient, then, by tho terms of this act, to authorize them to proceed "in their own way" to frame a State constitu tion preparatory to admission into the Uu ion. I also recommend that an appropria tion may be made, to enable tho President to take a census of the people- of Kansas. Tilt ACQUISITION- Or CCBA. It has been made known to the world by my predecessors, that the United Suites liar, uu sev ril oecusont, enleavorej to acquire Cuba fro;n Spain by honorable negotiation. If this were ac complished, the last relic- of the African slare-trmte would instantly disappear. We would not, if we could, acquire Cuba in any other manner. 'I'lili is due to our national 'character. All the territory which we have acquired since the origin of the f i.rernmeut, has been by lair purcuaee from 'Vance. Spain, and .Mexico, or bv the free and vol untary act of the inden Jcul State of Texas, in blending bit destinies with our own. This course we shall ever pursue, unless circumstances should ojout, wh'ch we do not new anticipate, rendering a departure from it clearly justifiable, under the imperative and overruling law of self-prraervatloii. The Island nf Cubi, from its geographical posi t'on, commands the mouth of the Mississippi and the immense and annually increasing trade, for eign and coastwise, from the valley of that nob e river, aow embracing half the sovereign Males of the Union. With tint island under tho domiu!on of a distant foreign power, Uiis trade, of vital im portance to then States, is exposed .to the danger of being destroyed in time of war, and it has hith erto been subjected to perpetual injury ai i annoy ance in time of peace. Our relations w.ih -s( sin, which onght to be of th ui-at friendly character, most always be place j in joopaidy, whilst the ex istiu; cwlonal government over the island ihall re ana n in its present coalition. ' Whilst lbs p session of the island would be of vast importance In tlio Uuited Slates, its talue to ia m, ontrnri'etr, unlmpur'.aut. 8uch wa the relative situation of the part's when the great Napoleon transferred J-ouisisne lo lha United States. Jealous, ea he ever was, of lha national houur an 1 Intenela of France, no person through out the world has Imputed blame to him lor ac cepting n pecuniary equivalent for this cession. The publicity which has been given Iu our for mer negotiations upon Ibis eul-jt-ci, and the large appropriation which may be required lo eff.-ct the purKsc, render it eipedicut, before mak ng ano her attempt to renew Die negotiation, inai wwuw my the whole euhjeol before congress, jw is espe cially neoessary, as it may become Inditnenwblo lo succe that 1 should be intrusted with the means of making an advance to the Spanish government hum di.iu-ly afier signing the treaty, without await in Ihe ratificsiion vf it by the Sen ile. I am en couraged to make this suggestion, by tho examp'o of Mr. JcfTern previous to the purchase of Louis iana from France, and by thai of Mr. l'olk iu vw of the Bcquisiuon of tcrr.lnry fiom Mexico. I re fer the w hole subject to Congrats, aud eouuneud it to their careful cousiderat on. Till MCiriC RAILROAD. I would again call your attention lo tie construc tion of a I'acifie Kwlroed. Time and reflection have but served to confirm me in the truth and lus:ice of tho observations which I made on this - . . . . . ...I L t subject ill my last annual message, w wmcn i peg leave m eclfully to re or. . It ia f.e.-lv ad.nitted, lh.it it would ho inrxpedi- int fur this g overnment to exercise the power of ronstrucling the Taeifiu Railroad by iia own hum daesgenta. 8m ha pdcy would Increase the patronage or the executive a dnngcroue extent, and introduce a system of jobbing ant corruption, wb eh no v'gilance in the part of federal oflic nls coj.d either prevent or neicci. i u.s can oniy ot d ne by Ihe Keen eye, a id active and careful su- Million, of iuJividual an 1 private interest I he con trn: n of this rua-l ought, therefore, lo be committed to com aniee incorp mtod by the States, or o:her agencies whoso pecuniary interests would ue airicny iipoi-cu. ii-iu mvu them in the work by grante of land or of money, or both, under such condition and restrictions as would tenure the transportit'on of troops nnd mu ni jona of war free from any charge, aud that of tho I' lilted States mail at a fuir aud rcasouub'.e prlco. The progress of events a' nee the commencement of your last session, has shown how nioii difli.-ultie disappear before a firm nnd determined resolution. At that time, such a road was uermea oy wise nna patriotic men to be a visionary prrject. The grunt distance to be overcome, and the intervening mountains and deserts in the way, were obstacle which, in Ihe opinion of many, could not bi sur mounted. Now, after the L.pse of but a single year, these obstacles, it has b.en ditcovered, are far leer formidable than they were supposed to be ; aud mail stages, with passengere, now pass and repan regularly, twice ;n each week, by a common wiipon-r.md between San Francisco nnd St. Louis and Munph's, in less than twenty-five days. The seiv.ee has been as regularly performed as it was iu former years between New York and this city. Whilst tlii-cla'ming all authority to appropriate money for the constsuction of this road, except that derived from the war-making power of Ihe eonsti tu!ion,lhtTo are important codaleral considerations urging us to undertake the work aa speedily as possible. The first and mod mimentnus ofihee is. that such a road would be a powerful bond of union be tween lha States east and west of the Rocky muuutains. This is so self-evident aa to requite uo illustration. But again, in a commercial point of view I con sider tills the great question of the day. With the eastern front of our republio stretching nlong the Atlantic, und its western front along the Pacific, if all the parts should be united by a safe, easy, and rapid intercommunication, we must necessarily command a very large proportion oi ine irnae o mii of Eun D'- and Asia. Our recent treaties with Ja pan will open these rich and populous empires to our commerce j ana tne nisiory oi mo worm proves, that tha nation which has gained pwsetaon of Ihe trade with Eastern Asia, has alwaye become weal thy nnd powerful. The peculiar geographical po rtion of California and our Pacific poescasions, in vites American capital and enterprise into this fruitful field. To reap Ihe rich harvest however, it is an in dispensable prerequisite, that we shall first have a railroad, to convey and circu'ate ita pro ducts throughout ev: ry portion of the Uuion. Be sides, such a railroad through our lempere'e lati tude, which would not be impeded by the frrsils and snows of winter, nor by Ihe tropical heat of summer, would attract to Itself much ot the travel und 11k- trpde ot all nutans passing ue.weeu uu pipe and Asia. l)crcgott5Vrgu0. W. L. ADAMS, EDITOR AND FROVRIKTOR. ORBOON CITY : SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 1859. pf Alrxanlsh Dlnmno, of New Hampton, New York, is our authorized agent in the Stales, The Message. It will bo eccu by that portion of the President's Message which we publish to-day that poor old Buck still hangs on with a dogged stubbornness to tho English Bill policy a policy which was repudiated by Bill English himself and nearly every Northern locofoco who ran for Congress last fall. The whole message is uncommonly long, and we have not space this week to cither print it or review it. t3T The overland mail which brought tho President's Message made tho trip through in sixteen days, leaving St. Louis Nov. 8 th, and reaching San Francisco on the 2 ith. tQT" New Year's Day was spent in this city in making the usual round of ' calls.' The gentlemen gcnerully got a later start than nsuul, but seemed to make np for lost time by the celerity of their movements in the afternoon. The custom of making calls on Tcw Tcaf say7wlui10i bowwitrscTttfdlinliis city, was first set on foot hero by Dr. McLoughlin, who was wont at. tho openiug of every year to rap with his staff at the door of as many friends as possible and wish tho ladies all sorts of happiness. His whitened locks, his famil iar voice, and his bright eye sparkling with intelligence, are still vivid in the recollections of all, and we heard his name mentioned last Saturday iu a way that shows his in fluence still lives, though he quietly sleeps ia the church-yard. The custom of making New Year's calls is certainly an agreeable one to a majority of the ladies, and might be made so to all by doing away with the idea that a large and costly display is necessary, or even any display at all. Let the idea once obtain that the great object of the New Year's calls is to visit, instead of cat and gaze around, and no lady who, from want of means, or from a pressuro of domestic duties, doesn't feci inclined to set a costly table, need ab sent herself from homo to avoid seeing company. Let her make op ber mind to stay at home and welcome her friends with a siuilo aud as easy a grace rs though she presided over the most costly array of nice tks, and she will be thought just as much of and mora by erery penoa of sense, than as though she had taxed her mesne and strength beyond what she was really able to do In order to ' do at other folka do.' We have no objections at all to any kind of fixing up' on the part of those who are able and desire it, but ve demur to the opinion that somo ladies seem to entertain, that the gentlemen Wish to feast instead or vUItlug. Indeed, it la really a relief, after having been almost forced to cat aome forty times, to drop into a house where you can converao a moment wnn tne luoies wuuoui suffering all the while from fear of having through mere politeness to force down a goodly portion of the contents of a table groaning under pies, cakes, tarts, &c, just to Lo Iu fashion, and show that you appreciate the good lady's cooking. A s much of a phi losopher as wo sometimes think wo are, and with as little regnrd for tho formality of rules, wo must acknowledge that long be fore midnight wo had an instinctive dread of an uncontrollable- Influcnco at every hotiso that might yet induce us to violate a physical law. This being the cose with oth ers, It Is easy to see th'ut full three fourths of the ladies might d'spenso with a table en tirely, without in tha kast endangering their popularity with their visitors. Let this idea onco prevail, and New Year's day will be an agreeable one to nil. Win Doi'glas dk Elected Senator 7 It is already predicted by many journals east that Douglas will yet bo cheated out of his scat in the U. S. Senate. The Rich mond Whig snys that if Buchanan intends to buy up half a dozen members of the Illi nois Legislature, as it is said he will, Doug las will lose his election. The Whig says that nothing is easier than to buy democrat ic members of most any Legislature. The Cincinnati Gazctto is of the same opinion, and says that Buchanan, by his success iu bnying up the democratic anti-Lecompton- ites in Congress last winter, ii well ac quainted with the mettle thut democrats are made of. It has been no doubt with a view of con trolling the leaders of the party by Govern ment patronage, that the entire democratic press, so far ns we have noticed, have en dorsed the doctrine of the infamous James Gordon Bennett, that men are governed by pnying considerations, instead of a re gard for what is right. The example set by this Administration in its Lecompton policy with the united attempt of the dem ocratic press to reduce man's moral position to tho level of a pirate by constant sneers at justice as ' fanaticism,' honor as an obso lete whim, and liberty ns 'sectionalism,' has dono moro to demoralize this nation and encourage acts that have filled our peniten tiaries, than all the efforts of Atheism for the last century. No wonder that we had an uncommon religious awakening through tho States last fall. It was a natural re action of a desperate effort of the Devil through the democratic party to corral the the human fainilly as near the gates of hell as possible. Swear Theji. Since the announce ment in Forney's Press that the Adminis tration will attempt to buy off enough Democratic members of the Illinois Legis lature to defeat Douglas, the ' Little Gi ant's' orernns are in a terrible flutter. In order to make a sure thing of it, the Chi cago Times suggests, the St. Louis Repub lican endorses, and the Quincy Herald ap proves of the suggestion, that certain mem bers of the Legislature suspicioned for be ing shaky, speak out through the press, pledging themselves to vote for Douglas, so as to settle the matter. What good will that do 7 If they are for sale, of course their pledging themselves to vote for Dou glas will only have tho effect of slightly ad vancing their price, as they will hold them selves some five, or ten dollars higher, after having pMged themselves, than they did before. The locos had better Bteear them to vote for Douglas, as in that case the ad vance on the original cost will probably be some seventy-five or a hundred dollars a head, and old Buck may not be able to raise tho tin. Slave Trahe Sanctioned. In the case of the crew that were taken on board of the slave ship Echo with over 300 Af ricans and sent to Charleston (S. C.,) the grand jury of Columbia have refused to find a bill, and thus the case is virtually dis missed. The accused are however detained in custody a few days till the lawyers close their arguments on the constitutionality of the act declaring the slave trade piracy. Hereafter 'pirates' engaged in the slave trade may consider themselves perfectly safe provided they can induce their democratic captors to run them into Charleston, and hare bills of indictment drawn np by dem ocratic Attomcys and presented to demo cratic grand jurors. The doctrine that the slave trade is not 'piracy' bat constitu tionally humane and Christian necessarily follows from all the present positions of the democratic party upon the slavery question. It also follows from the position taken by Judge Douglas In his Memphis speech of Nov. 29, that ' tho Almighty had sanction ed slavery as right in the cetton-fields of the South because slavery ' pay' there,' thus ignoring the moral aspect of the ques tion and basing it entirely upon the demo cratic toueh-stonc of ' pay.' These ' pirates' who have just been endorsed by a South Carolina jury stood upon the same demo cratic platform with even Douglas, and the conclusion that the grand jury of Columbia reached that the slave trade ia right because it 'pays,' is a legitimate and unavoidable sequence of even Douglas democracy. The leaders of the slave-breeding democracy have had an eye to tho enlargement of the area of slavery for political supremacy In the U. S. Senate, and a revival of tho slave trade to furnish laborers and a three-fifths representation for this area, and they have been so encouraged by the weakness of their drircn-uiggcr allies in tho North In swallowing each successive mixture ai a moro concentrated compound of nlpgcrism, has encouraged even Stephens and loomus to think that the bitterest dose will yet go down tho throats of evcu 'soW democrats If only sutrnr-cooted with tho paying con diment, aud labeled as tho 1 Infullible rem edy of Dr. Stephen A. Pouglus. If a northern Jury had failed to una a bill against a man who had assisted a fu gitive on his way to liberty, the wholo loco foco press would have fairly howled but now that a South Carolina Jury has refused to indict the Echo pirates, we venture the prediction that not a single sectional driven- niggcr editor will dare intimate bis dissatis- Amlmn tvllll ilia flnflini nf tllA tlirv Tn sections where it will ' pay,' these fellows will even endorse the thing, while In other sections where it will 1 pay' best by keeping up the cry that ' the democratic party ain't a pro-slavery party,' they will or course 6aw away on tho old string while in Or egon such snivelers as Cznpkay's Agent will sit astride of the fence sawing away on the badly-worn string of the ' timo honored usages of our party' notwithstanding Adair's tugging away at the Douglas leg. t&" Tlio war between the Douglas and Administration organs East continues with if possible iucreased virulence since Dou glas's triumph In Illinois. Douglas has made a recent trip South, to patch op his political character there. Some of the Southern Democratic organs denounce him as a ' renegade,' a ' traitor,' and ally of tho Republicans, and declare that the Democ racy is forever dead and done for in the North, and now is the time to agitate the question of a dissolution of the Union. Other negro-breeding organs seem to think that Douglas is entirely sonnd on the goose, and ought to be taken into full fellowship forthwith. The Southern opposition organs, such as the Richmond Whig, are pitching into the Southern Democracy as ranting fanatics, and rejoicing at tho prospect of the ' elec tion of an opposition President in 1860 by an overwhelming majority.' The Rich mond Whig says that the country would hare been infinitely better off if Fremont had been elected than it is nndcr the ad ministration of the 'old dotard James Buchanan.' Some of the firewaters who follow tho Charleston (S.C.) News and the Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser, with other highly-seasoned democratic organs, flare np at the recent elections North, and go for immediate preparation for dissolving the Union; while, on the other hand, many of the fire-eaters have cooled off under the lead of Senator Hammond, who has sud denly fallen from a high-toned salamander to a puling conservative, and is hanging to the coat-tails of the more rantankcrons of the party, begging them to hold on, as they can possibly stand the election of one Re publican President some way. The gen eral idea seems to prevail that the people in the South are not yet ready for a disso lution of the Union. Arrivals. The steamships Cortcz and Pacific reached Portland last Monday. We are indebted as usual to Dr. Steele, agent of Wells, Fargo ti Co., and to Mr. Hoyt, of the Express, for late papers in ad vance of all others. These gentlemen are constantly laying ns nnder obligations for similar favors. Old Berks Getting More So. In con sequence of the resignation of Jehu Glancy Jones, who was appointed as Minister to Austria to reward him for having sacrificed himself on the altar of Lecomptonism, an election has been held to fill the vacancy in the 35th Congress, at which Wm. H. Eeim, opposition, was elected over J. B. Wanner, Administration Democrat, by 469 votes, showing an opposition gain since lost October of 450. Forney very significantly asks what foreign mission is ready for Wan ner? We suggest that old Buck create more offices not provided for by law, so as to reward a few more Lecompton traitors. Sherman stated last winter in Congress that there were already five hundred extra clerks in the custom houses, put there with out any provision of law, and we know that Nugent got a snug little post as a sort of envoy extraordinary and minister pleni potentiary to Vancouver's Island then why not send Wanner as an envoy, with an escort of Hibben and Czapkay's Agent, to test the quality and bring back speci mens from some of the guano islands 7 These fellows who swallowed Lecompton without making a wry face, and then licked their .chops calling for more of the same sort, are well qualified for just such a mission. They will, if they receive a ' paying appointment, ' test' even guano by eating a peck of it, if the President tells them that eight quart is a 'democratic measure.' Died. Hon. Benj. F. Butler of New York city died in Paris Nov. 8th, aged over 62 years. Mr. Butler has long been a prominent and ardent politician. He was U. S. Attorney General nnder Jack son's Administration, and for many years was a strong democrat, but gave in his ad herence to the Republican organization in in 1856 and voted for Fremont. He is said to have been a remarkably enterpris ing and benevolent man, imbued with the kindliest of feelings and cherishing rigid regnrd for tho right, wiiicn was profiuoiy tho reason why lie was never a very popu lar politician. He was one of that class of men who are never fully opprcclatcu till dead. New Methodism. J. O. Stewart, Esq., corresponding editor nnd traveling agent of the Pacific Methodist, called on ns this week. He informs us that he has obtained somo two hundred subscribers to tho paper, which advocates the cuuso of Southern Episcopal Methodism, since ho came into Oregon. We hear that tltero will soon be a church organization of that order here. We do not see why all professors or religion who are pro-slavery should not unite with them. Solonp; aa they agree upon the great question of buying and selling the souls and bodies of men, they ought not to let comparatively minor issues divide them. Dried Ur. The Standard office was locked op by tho Sheriff a few days ago, and has ceased issuing. We bear that Mr. Leland has sued out an attachment against it in a claim of some $100 for edit orial services. There seems to bo no defi nite opinion among those who ought to know whether the paper will ever start again. The low prices to which Oregon papers have been reduced is making sad havoc among the printers. Printing a pa per here for $3.50 a year is liko raising wheat at 60 ceuts a bushel. Second Throe. Gov. Curry, liko Mrs. Dombcy, has ' made another effort,' and tho result is a terribly eliminated editorial artl clo in the last Times clearing Jo Lane of the chttrges of malfeasance in office preferred against him by Cinpkoy's organ. The ar ticle Is as lucid as the message, and will add another feather to Gov. Curry's cap as not only an eminent statesman but a bril liant editor. He has the credit of writing the article, and it reads mightily like him. The rest of the editorial in the same paper we hear was written by a 'black re publican.' Too Much Manhood for a Democrat. P. J. M. (Pat Malone) in correspond ing with the Sacramento Union, after giv ing in a communication dated Salem, Dec, 1th, a vivid description of the foul murder of the Umpqua Indians, to which we alluded several weeks since, snys: " This case is another beantiful Instance of the justice of the law fin force here as well as in California) which allows ' the inferior races' to be murdered with impuni ty, and without a shadow of possibility of punishment overtaking tne white scoundrel who commits it, except somo white person is present to testify against him. Out npon such law I say J. Uut npon such justice! out npon such civilization and humanitari- ism, even though they are those of the boasting, self laudinp, American race! If there is a God in lieaven, sirs, there will be justice even on earth for States and nations that work injustice, having no fu ture, must and will be punished here. At least such is the faith of your correspon dent." There's too much soul, too much faith in Providence there, for a ' sound and relia ble democrat.' But here is something more that looks rather 'soft': " The news of tho defeat of the Buchan unites in Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania, received by last mail, has produced secret joy amongst the ruling politicians of the clique school here, but they dare not let it appear in the organ published in this place, It simnlv cives the returns without com ment, but, as I told you in my last, with Done-Ins' brightening prospects, it lets in a little more for him, in the shape of giving place to opinions expressed in his favor by Senator Brown, of Mississippi, and by tho St. Louis Republican. The hatred of the cliquo politicians towards their qnondam friend, Jo Lane, grows every day more in tense. 1 The General' has tho imprudence, an well as the impudence, to encourage, aid and comfort two rival shops (that of the Portland Times and Standard) of the or gan the Statesman published here, thus insuring the mortal enmity of the presiding genius of tho latter, who is the ruling spirit of the triumphant ' clique. " We have received of Andrew Post, Esq., who is getting one of the best book stores in the country, a fine pen holder, and from Brown & Wolf, the most popu lar Jew firm in the county, a splendid pen knife, both useful in the office, and both de signed to further the interests of our office, of course. Putrid Sore Throat. This terrible dis ease bos carried off several children np country. Mr. Hnghes near Albany has lost five children with this complaint lately, The Pacific Methodist says that it prevails in California. The Placerville Democrat says that the disease which baffles the skill of all the doctors is surely cured by thor oughly pulverizing a piece of burnt alum as large as a hickory nut, and mixing it with a table-spoonful of gunpowder with a teacupful of honey. Give a teaspoonful oc casionally uu me disease is cureo, X 1-" For tit Argl Christian Goaveallna. The proposition to hold a convention of the friends of religion made by Brother Henderson meeta my cordial approbation. Such a meeting, if conducted in a right spirit, could scarcely fail to be productive of much good. Conventions of thia kind have constituted a prominent feature of the great revival in the States; and in many cases their influence on the progrcn of the work of grace was very marked. "Iron sharpeneth iron." Let brethren come to gether in the spirit of Christian brother hood, and stir each other np to love and good works. Every minister may improve by the suggestion of his Christian brethren. And none however laborious cm M t, realize the salutary effects of' fhrUt.. sympathy and co-operation, But I write not to discus tha m. of such a convention, but. nnder th.: tion thut the proposition meed the appro, bation of very many of the lovers of ChrJ and his cause, to atk If there It any pi. iciurui nun cusy 01 acccsi where inch RMtt. lng might be held. If the brethren at Bt, 1cm or Albany or any other place ht U central part of tho valley would iotimaU't wish for tho convention, ao tppolntat m;giit ue mnue. wm Dot some on an effort of this kind? The place W, me convention meets will first and lurgely enjoy Its happy effects Having expressed my persona lateresta the movement, I close by expressing tat hope that the matter will not be luftWI u . . . - do lorgoitcn. Wiuoii Bl W want U be rua Any person desirinc lo renew sr ki. i tin toTuaNaw Yoaa WiMW Taiawnjai join a club br leaving $1.35 with aw befe fa next mail leavt-s for tha Slat. Jan. 8, 1801. W. C. iTinniiji. Januury 1, 1859, by W. C. Jsuasoa, Ihji coa Johkin in Miss Mabtiu Jana Lai, l Clnckama county, . dxudi In Oregon City, on Hi S7lh alt. f fa, Danikl, son of Joshua and Kroslin BownMssJ 18 months, 9 weeks, and 5 days. i" IhertTf Sato. NOTICE Is hereby (iva thai la ihidlisiiu a cerlaia omio issue f Um D Court for thr Second Judicial District f lb Tt ritory of Oregon, in favar of Wm. Anaarnat airaiuaf G sorgo (I mom, tut h sua s ban. dred and forty-niu dollar and nine! ana and accruing ousts ($149.19), t tttmL commanding ma lo sail all of th right, Ihla, 4 interest of Ucorg Groom in and lo th Mbtrief described allaohcd property, to win Tfc ar half of th fulkiwing described kind claim, to will tho treat half of th west half of mo. twaty- (36), and th north half of mo. iwsmv-mvm (IT), aud tha E. half nf th smith-east quarter af ass, Iweuly-eeven (37), and th N. W. quartor f a south-east quarter of aae. Iwealy-Mfea, aad (at N. E. quarter of th south-west qrlr f etatiea. tweuty-aeven (27), all being la Tewnalp Ira (5) south of range an (I) asst, aitaal ia CkMaa. mee county. Said sals lo lake also lb Hat day of January, 1859, al J o'clock t.m. f Hal day, at lh court-boa door In Oregna 111. A. IIOUXJMB, Jan. 8, 1859-39 ShrCktitmtCi. IN PROBATE COVKT, JANUAM Y TSMM 18)9. Order Jbr alppianito. WILLIAM ARMPHIKST, admiwlstrrtotsf th estate of J, E. Taylor, dretaasd, bat filed his petition in tha Probalr aoart for Clseta ma county) O.T., praying for aa mint I sail lb real properly belonging lo said total. It k lasr. fore ordered Ihnl all person interest! In aaal laleappear before th Probata coon of Claekam county on Taesday III rjlh day of Fsbruari, UU, and ahnw causa, if any they has, why aa dr should not be granted to th admiaiatralar toss! th real property belonging I lh MUM i t deceased lo pay Ihe di ets and chsrc efia fea (late. ROREUT CAUNELD, - - Jan. 8, 1859-393 Judge af Pnaata a. La roaur. J. .ISM LA FOREST & BACON, I General Dealers in Dry Goods, LADIES' FANCY GOOS3, Grocer, Crockery, Glewawar, BOOTS, SHOES, ft.. At th old Hnd of U FmHFrk ft, OREGON CITY. NEWJPJBM: New Attraction! a. Li soaisT. h at. as. LA F0BEST ft BAC01T WOULD inform lh eiliwuof Oregon Cay and vicinity that they hav nterd laj copartnership, and intend keeping a paaiaj sappy of everything iu th Dry -Goods, Grocery, Crockery, and Fancy line, and will be happy to mc their old fieaM them, and will promise at all timM to U goods as oheapu any other houM bt " motto being Small Profits and Quick BetorM. We would alio say to lb (th bone and new of lh land J we iatonj ksP ing everything you m.y reqnir ta tb (WerJ, Chtiing, Dry Cm, it line, lo which w offer at such pneM satisfactory to yon. Wa ! our goods for your produce, and wiU much for it aa lh market te-, VT.Il us. Do not forget tho place, but W I" "f of La For ft 4 Bonn, and tna con n , Wa would aay to tha - Ladies (God Bless Ycal) When yon wih amperior 'TCSir fancy artiolM. do not fail to call P" cV Bacon, where yon will lr T-a. will receiv their gmtrful ft" ronage. Young Men,- (Future Hope of OregonJ her.lhplMtsuDplyJw',",' rior article of clothing ia wbica w Get Married! COME AND SEE US! . Come on. and all, h J0"1?. ' , . . .i t.nih hav MO t Ann eo n w - ABU fBl a1"- "a Oregon City, Jen. I, laa ; gala of JZZ0 Y order of the U- l Cn. Y.mhjll eouuiy,lW' V'irr- B .i.. kiA,t,t al lh Court .4. rti, on MONDAT ' lying ia said county, 'rjiar boora of ton a .m. aad aay to day aalil aHia s - Tisms-N landa w.l dollar per acre. on. t maiaiag two third. 'Tm, chairs will bo required t. PlZw .pproved Mcnriiy drawing lea per GEO.W.ELMt Sanlrf Cat.8,"k Jan.!,IS5aS8w5