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