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The new Territory will contain obout 100,
000 square miles, and, leaving in New
Mcxleo about 130,000 population, Arizona
will be represented b; about 10,000.
Jan. 18. Mr. James M. Crane, delegate
elect from Nevada, lias issued a clreulur to
members of Congress, presenting a long ar
ray of arguments why the bill to organize
that Territory should become a law. Its
length is about 000 and width 450 miles.
The population ranges from 15,000 to 18,
000 souls. He gives a glowing description
of Its mineral and agricultural features,
saying, In conclusion, he can enter into 116
bargain or arrangement for oinutbussing tiic
Territories through Congress.
The llousc Committee oil Territories this
morning ordered the bill to provide for the
organization of a Territorial government in
Dukotuh to be reported with a boundary
extension west to the Rocky Mountains.
Representative Colfax, and Mr. Graham,
the delegate elect from Colona, apearcd
in the committee and addressed it in favor
of the organization of the latter Territory,
but the committee arrived at no conelus'on
in regard to it. Should the action ulti
mately be favorable, the Territory will, it is
supposed, be made to cover a larger area
than Mr. Colfax proposed in his bill.
PACIFIC RAILROAD.
A Washington letter-writer says:
" The Pacific Railroad bill now pending
in the Senate is growing in weakness every
day. Senator Foster of Connecticut said
this afternoon that as it was stone dead,
having received a mortal wound in the hit
, position of a third line among the projects
which it proposed to execute, ho thought it
ought to be got ont of the way with till the
speed the sextons could make. Uuless the
bill be saved by a recommittal, it will
doubtless perish of collapse, ond will not
pass the order of the body in which it orig
inated. The Honse is too bu.-:y to discuss
the subject at this session."
The correspondent of the New York
Jonrnal of Commerce says:
" I learn from Seuators that the prospect
of the passage of any bill, in that body, for
a railroad to the Pacific has become very
bad. Tho personal, political, and party
topics which have been iutroduecd into the
discussiou by Mr. Iverson, are likely to be
come the chief subject of remark. In the
debate that may follow, the merits of the
bill may be obscured, or wholly lost sight of.
THE TREASURY.
Jan. 16. The Committee of Ways and
Means met yest'-rduy, and had under con
giderntion the National Treasury, its dofi
ciencles, and the best mode of replenishing
it. The deficiency by the first of July,
18G0, it was thought, would be over thirty
million dollars. Treasury notes or a loan,
together with somo increase of duties, seem
inevitable.
The Ways and Means committee have
beforo thcra various propositions regarding
the tariff under consideration, but thus far
they have been nnable to come to any de
termination. It seems to be settled that a
new loan of not less than thirty millions
will be needed to meet the demands of the
Government for the next fiscal year.
EXTRA 8ESSIO.Y.
The N. Y. Herald's correspondent says
"There is some npprchension from the
opparent indifference of Congress to the
actual necessities of tho government, aud
from tho limited term of its existence, that
the President may be under the necessity
of callinjr an extra session. Such an anom
aly and disgrace to the party, as a demo
cratic President having to call a republican
Congress to his nid, through the neglect of
a democratic Congress uo;iig its uuty, woukl
be unprecedented."
The Washington correspondent of the
Philadelphia Press says:
"This is now the 13th of January, and
the country will see that nothing has been
done by Congress. About six working
weeks remain. The Senate will doubtless
pass the Pacific Railroad bill : but it is des
tined to excite a violent and protracted de
bate in the House. Ao move I) us yet been
made toward a thorough amendment of the
trriff of 1857. - The French spoliation bill
is on the tablo of the Speaker of the House
now. These, with tho heavy incidental de
bates certain to arise on the Oregon bill,
the English bill, points of order of all vori
cties, party polities, Ac, will consume the
timo most remorselessly. Consequently, an
extraordinary session is everywhere dis
cussed as probable. Extra sessions have
always been fatal to the administration full
ing them. Tho celebrated hundred days
session under John Tyler killed a great
party. Mr. V un Ituren was greatly dam
aged by that which he called. The pres
ent Executive knows these things, and be
injr naturally very superstitious, he will
hesitate long before ho consents to this ex
treme ond rnot doubtful ulternative.
Should he do so, some most boisterous scenes
will tako place. A number of States have
not yet elected all their Representatives to
Congress. Tho administration will be
hopelessly iu the minority, nt all events in
tho next House; und if" the extra session
should be called, say iu May, thut branch
ot the government will be exclusively con
trolled by the llepunlicans."
HISCIl.LANtOl.
The chance fur an eitra session of Congress v
now seriously calculate! in high qunrier.
The article In foreign papers touching the viwi
of England and France have excited a lively in
terest here. Mr. Barbdale' cull for corroepoud
eucc is designed to ami rtiiu if our government has
been notified of lb etc vie wa, aa alleged by the Taiii
Prute.
The recall of Lord Xap'er la now attributed, In
the boat informed circle, to French influence.
Senator Oouglaa reaunied bia scul in the Senate
to-day. Ilia reception wa studiously cold few
Senator approaching to welcome hia return.
There wa a alight attempt to applause in the gal
lery, but it waa promptly checked.
By the interposition of mutual friend, the diffi
culty between Heart English and Montgomery,
member of Congre, haa been amicably adjusted.
Mr. English expresses regret for hi haaty attack,
which waa considered by Uie friends aforesaid a
unwarranted by the circumstance.
Th America Colonization Society held ila an
ens'. tlWtinjr, Jan. 18, in Washington. The re
ceipts' of th last jrar Were nearly $li'.fkA. The
Secretary' report Mats that there b aa Increasing
disposition among th black at the North to in
igrate.
KilimaU fur th Fust OftVc Department for
the next fiscal year amount to nearly $17,000,
000. Tut doe nut luclud ocean mail steamer
service.
Tho Senate' Test Office Committee have
greej to report a bill Increasing the postage rate
to fir cent for all distance under three thousand
mile. Thi felur wa opposed by Messrs. Uiglcr,
Dixon and IUI. Th committee are unsninioua
aa to restraining th franking privilege, and pro
pose tu authorize the I'os'master General to make
bids o.-i the best term, without regard to particular
mode of conveyance, as now designated by law.
This bill, it la (aid, will aave a million and a half or
dollar to th department There 1 no probability
that Congress will increase th ratee of pustage.
Majority and minority reporla have just been
mails on the Oregon bill by the member of the
Hons Comm'ttee on Territories.
The House Naval Committee I engaged upon
a proposition submitted to them of reducing the
number of n .vy yard. The committee will prob
ably report in favor of a considerable reduction.
Political divisions do not interfere with the so
cial enjoyment of Governor Seward. He enter
tained at dinner to-dny a number of guests
among them Secretary Floyd and Senator Critteo-
ell aud their wive.
The expense of the United Statee Supreme
Court for the hist five year, exclusive of the Jud
ge' salaries, amount to $112,509, of which over
$21,000 ha been paid to the clerk.
Gen. Henderson, of the Marine Corps, died sud
denly, last week. He ha been in service about
fifty years,
The till introduced by Senator Seward for the
more effectual suppression of the (lav trade is a
ery rigid one, an! can hardly fail to accomplish
its purre if it becomes a luw. The bill embra
ce vnrious measure for cheeking the many eva
sion of the present law which are constanly prac
ticed, and then provide for such a fleet if small
ileaiiicr a will securely guard the Slave Coast.
It s'.so makes the neccessary provision for meeting
and defeating the newly-flexed scheme fur re
opening the .SLive-trsJe, regardless of the luw, re
lying upon public sentiment In sundry localities of
the South to save the criminal from the legal con-
quence of their crime.
Tne House has (truck the Fenian Minion out
of the Diplomatic Appropriation bill. Home will
probably be served in the same way.
Wasiiimuton, Jun. 6, 1S59.
In the Senate. Mr. Ivprsun rend an
elubornic speech on the Pacific Railroad,
which caused much surprise by its Irea
S'uiabld doctrines. He opposed the en
trul routu because; its eflcct would be to
strengthen the Union, ahich ihn S'Milh
meant to dissolve. He proposed to build
Northern and a Southern road, so
that when the Stales separated, each sec
tion niiht have its on roid. IU said
that all the Northern Suites were aboii
lionized ; that even Illinois was lost to
the National Democracy.
In tho House, Mr. liryan of Texas
declared with vehemence ihnt Texas would
leave the Union if the Indian appropria
tion which she asked were not voted.
Mr. Giddings kindly suggested to Mr.
Bryan to move the repeal of the resolu
tion by which lexss came into tho Un
ion, promising to vote for it if introduced.
The gentlemen from TVxas, however,
with all his bluster, did not seem ready
to take so decisive a slop. He said
that the resolution annexing Texas was
in the nature of a treaty.
Mr. Gi'ldings remarked that since 1854,
when the Missouri Compromise was re
pealed, the most solemn compacts by
resolution might be considered open ques
tions.
Jan. 8. Mr Trumbull made an excel
lent sptech oa the PuciGo Railroad, in
which he denounced Mr. Iverson' sec
lionul speech of yesterday. He declared
that it was such speeches that were
prejudicing the Sou'h Bgninst the Repub
lican parly. He denied ihat the princi
ple of the exclusion of Slavery from the
Territories was unjust lo the South, and
denied, a ho, llm nyht of Mr. Iverson to
declare that such disunion sentiments as
he avowed were those of the State of Geor
gia. He was not prepared to believe
that Georgia clung to the Union only for
the pecuniary atlvantngo the derived from
it. I le denied the charge that Republican
Urn in Illinois is Wliipgery under anoiher
name, and declared that both the parties,
old Whig and Democratic, died in 1S5-1,
asserting that new parties, comprising
parts of both, arose on the issues then pre
sealed. He wag surprised that Mr. Iver
son should have expressed such a horror of
U lnjj;erv when he was associating so in
timately with the Sena'ors on that side of
the Chamber who were old Whiff. He
believed that Mr. Iverson' speech, sec
tiots.1 and treasonable as it was, represen
ted tho sentiments of the Administration
Jan. 11. Mr. Wil-on made an elaborate
speech upon the Pacific Railroad question,
aid in reply to Mr. Iverson sectiona
remiirk. ,
Senator Wilson' speech is admitted on
all sides to have very badly damaged the
prospects of the Southern or Desert and
Disunion route. A Southern Senator said
to-day that the speech had ruined the
Southern Road.
857 It is reported that Senator Bro&
crick, in speaking of the Democratic cau
cus on the proposition to buy Cuba, said
that it resembled the meeting of a gang of
burglars.
JCQT The recent assaults on the troops nt
Camp Floyd, U. T., have caused the
War Department to issue au order by
which all soldiers on duty at public places
are required to be so armed as to resist an
armed mob. The officers which were re
cently injured at that place by a party of
rioters Lieut. Sanders and Ass't Surgeon
Carey have so far recovered as to be able
to resume their duties.
tt2P King Lndwig, of Bavaria, " pro
tector" of the Catholic Society for German
Missions in the United States, has made
the society another donation of C000 florins.
Of this sum the Benedictines are to receive
3000 florins to establish a missionary sta
tion in Kansas, and 3000 florins are to be
devoted to founding a Benedictine Convent
at St. Cloud, Minnesota.
IC3-Tbc valuation of Missouri in 1857
was $281,980,032; in 1858, $355,621,5
lxtinjr an iner ae of $fi7.ft 1.540 lat year.
2H)c rcgon 5trguo
w. L. aoam. iito and rnorniKTon.
OXXOOXT OZTTl
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2d, 1859.
To th KepubUeani of Oreron."
There will be a Convention of the Republican of
Oregon at HAI.KM, on Tneasnsr, rut Twkktv
riser dav or Area, I8MI, for the purpose of nom
ination a Delegate or Itepresenbillve lo ('enrrexe,
and for the purpose pf trautacling auch oilier busi
n as may come before llie Convention.
The Committee euggeet that llie following appor
tionment bo adhered to in elecling delegates:
Curry 1, Coos 1, Jackson 4, Josephine 2, Dou-
f'si 4, I'mp ua 3, l.ane 6, Linn 6, lienion 4,
'oik 4, Vamh II 4, Mnron 7, Clnckamna 5. Weeh
inglon S. Multnomah 4, Columbia 1, Clatsop I,
Tilismonk 1, and Wasco 1.
The Committee also earnestly request that a full
and complete orguniuiliun of the Republican be
peifietM in every county ot on early day, and
that the chairman of each county committee im
mediately send his name and p"Sl -office address to
YV. C. Johnson, Clerk of the Central Committee,
at Oregon City.
W. T. Matlock,
W. C. Johnson, .
L. Iloi.Mrs,
L. 11. WiaaniLD,
W. L. Adams,
Jon.22.lSi9.
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Cent.
The Desaacraey a at th Facile Railway.
Froofs of the opposition of the Democ
racy to the construction of a great national
railroad connecting our Atlantic and Pa
cific territories accumulate bo rapidly re
cently, and are so decisive and convincing
in their character, that it seems even the
blind duvotccs who worship at the Demo
cratic shrine through the influence of sheer
ignorance cannot fuil to perceive it.
We shall undertake to establish this fact,
notwithstanding we conceive it to be so
self-evident, because there ore honest and
hopeful Democrats who, somehow or other,
still cling tenaciously to tho delusion that
their party will do tomdhing for this the
greatest work of the age, and who cannot
bring themselves to believe that its success
is intimately aud entirely dependent npon
tho triumph of the Republican party. To
such we now address ourselves, and all we
ask at their hands is a candid perusal of
the arguments we shall present.
It will be recollected that shortly after
the admission of California into the Union
in 1850, the project of a railroad connect
ing the extreme Eastern and Western
States first began to assume the proportions
of a question of general and national im
portance. Tho rapid accessions to the
population of the Pacific const, and the
immense trade which it immediately gave
birth to with the eastern side of the conti
nent, made the project, when once before
the public mind, almost immediately one of
tho most important and practical questions
of the time, and necessarily forced politi
cians and parties to give it some attention.
So universal was the feeling of the impor
tance of this subject that a large appropri
ation was made during the administration
(and we might add at the recommendation)
of Mr. Fillmore to enable the Government
to survey the different routes which had
been proposed for the location of the road,
in order that future Congresses might be
possessed of all the requisite information to
enable them to judge correctly and wisely
of the practicability, cost, and location of
the work. Even at that early day, the
South, whether Whig or Democrat, were
against it, while the North and West were,
regardless of politics, as unanimously for it.
Accordingly we find that in the canvass of
1852. which resulted in the election of
Franklin Pierce to tho Presidency, the
Democratic party in the East, North,
and West especially, urged the election of
their candidate on the gronnd that he was
favorable to the construction of the Pacific
Railroad through the aid of the General
Government, and would lend all the influ
ence of the Executive department to its
early commencement and rapid completion.
When Mr. Pierco came into power, it
became his duty, under the law passed du
ring the preceding Administration, to which
we have alluded, to appoint suitable per
sons to survey the different routes and re
port the result. This much he did. But
from the day in 1853 when he signed the
commissions of these officers, created be
fore he came into power, and sent them for
ward npon their errand, the Democratic
party has never appropriated one dollar or
taken one single advance step toward the
commencement of the great work. The
Democratic Administration used the money
which had been appropriated by the Whig
Administration which preceded it, and then
its mission in favor of the project ended,
and the action of the party as a party has
from that time been in opposition to it. '
No sane man can doubt this, if he only
turns to negative proofs to establish it,
The Democratic party have had the entire
control of the Government in their own
hands, and, if they had chosen, could at
any time have forced the measure through
t;i spite of the Opposition ; but when it is
known that tho opposition to the Demo
cratic party have been unanimous in favor
of the construction of the railway, the last
shadow of an excuse for their failure van
ishes away, and the conclusion is inevitable
that as a party they are opposed to the
measure.
But we do not rest our case on this nega
tive but satisfactory proof. We go fur
ther, and by their acts, their votes, and
their platform we convict the Democratic
party of positive opposition to it. Presi
dent Tierce in bis first message to Congress
took occasion to say in advance that appro
priations of money in aid of the great
work, from the national treasury, would in
his opinion If unconstitutional: and that
tV f.ime objection applied to nil upprcvri.
aiium of the public lands thus going en
tirely over to the South on this question,
and plainly Intimating In advance that he
would veto any bill to give the aid of the
General Government to the scheme. The
consequence was, all nope or anything du
ring his administration ceased, and the
friends of the measure looked only to an
Executive change for any success. But
when the Cincinnati Convention met in
1858, utrongly M thry ;were urged that it
was indispensable, for their future success
that they should endorse tho Pacific Rail
road, they voted a resolution favorable to
it out of their plutform by twenty majority.
Here, then, we havo the party in lU na
tional convention spurning the measure, in
tho fuce of the most strenuous appeals of
those Democrats who wcro its supporters,
thus conclusively establishing its hostility
to it. It is true, tho convention afterward
passed a sort of a willy-wonty, donty-canty,
milk-and-water, meaningless resolution,
commending a road in general terms, but it
was voted for by those who were known to
be opposed to any and every scheme for a
railway, and therefore cannot throw a doubt
npon the conclusion to which the train of
evidenco we have submitted most force the
candid mind
Again, at the first session of the Con
gress after the induction of Mr. Buchanan
iuto office, when the measure was proposed
in the Senate, the Southern Democratic
Senators voted in a body for its postpone
ment, and finally succeeded in throttling
the measure for that session. At the ses
sion which is now near its close, when the
matter was again brought forward for ac
tion, the staunchest friend of the Adminis
tration in the Scnato again moved to in
definitely postpone the whole subject,
which move was defeated only by tho uni
ted votes of the Republicans and anti-Le-compton
and Western Democrats.
Iu the face of facts like these, what
Democrat, who is in favor of the consum
mation of this the grandest and noblest
enterprise that has ever commanded the at
tention of the American people, will longer
delude himself with the hope that his party
will ever give any encouragement or sup
port to it f He sees his party acquiring
territory, in the fnce of a violent opposition,
on our Southern boundary, and paying for
it millions of dollars, when it is intrinsically
worth nothing they can do this, yet, with
the Opposition to help them, he sees them
powerless to do anything to improve the
communication between the two extremes
of our continent by binding them together
with a railway of iron bonds. He sees
them offering to buy Cuba, by incurring a
debt which posterity only can discharge,
and entangling the foreign relations of the
country by negotiations for routes through
the land of strangers by which to approach
our Western possessions, and Ignoring en
tirely the improvement of a far better,
shorter, and healthier ono through our own
territories, and can he remain unconvinced
that his party are utterly ond entirely op
posed to the construction of the great Pa
cific Railroad ?
We might follow this subject further, and
show that this opposition to the great en
terprise grows out of subserviency to the
interests of Slavery and the South, but the
length of this article at present forbids.
TaaUtU Plata.
The Tualatin Plains, commencing some
nine or ten miles south-west of Portland, is
considered by many to be the most beauti
ful portion of Oregon. The plaius embrace
good portion of Washington county,
and consist of a series of prairies, all sur
rounded by an nbuudnnce of fir timber,
with occasional groves of oak along the out
skirts, and plenty of ash, maple, and older
on the streams that meander through the
timbered sections. The prairies aro from
one to two miles wide, and from two to
sevcu or eight miles long, with a rich soil
well adapted to irruss or eralu. Some of
1 u -
them ore quite flat, which renders them
muddy and disagreeable in winter, while
others are sufficiently rolling to carry off
all the water daring the heaviest winter
rains. The greatest objection to these
plains is the scarcity of stock-water during
the dry summer months, as there ore no
living streams running through the middle
of the prairies, and perhaps no springs.
Stock in pastures are watered by means of
wells, while those outside resort to the
streams in the timber. These Plains are
the oldest settled portion of Oregon, and
are now nearly all fenced np. Many of
the old settlers have sold off portions of
their section claims; hence we find a good
number of farms embracing only half a sec
tion of land, while some contain even less
than a hundred acres. The houses, barns
and out-buildings are on an average the
finest iu the Territory, and the country
generally presents the appearance of an old
settlement of wealthy and Independent hus
bandmen.
One would naturally imagine, in passing
through this country, that all were rich
intelligent, and well supplied with ready
money. That all or nearly all are rich, or
well off as regards property, thcra if no
doubt, although there is just now the great
est complaint about hard times that we
hare heard in any other , section of the
country. As to general intelligence, the
settlers will compare favorably with those
of any other portion of Oregon, but, in
traveling through the Plains a few dayi
since, we were surprised to see so many
who seemed to be uninformed in regard to
the real political issues of the timesLThe
people of this nection are gr-neraJly hrti
oposcd to the corrupt dynasty called tho
Sulem Clique, and, since the labs outrage
at Salem, public sentiment lias becomo so
wrought npon that we should judge from
certain ominous muttering! that can occa
sionally be he heard by applying one's ear
to a 1 knot-hole,' that soma of the leaders
of border ruffianism who practice the fine
art of ' gouging,' might sooner or later be
come ' softs' from the fact of their having
' seen Snm.' Cowardly and bloody ruffian
ism that slinks behind such combinations
of puppyism ns arc generally termed ' gangs'
to striko its blows and wield the bludgeon,
is sooner or later bound to meet with a Just
retribution, and drink the bloody cup it
hnd mixed for others to its very dregs.
The ruffians in Kansas, who blanched even
tho faced of demons by their bloody atroci
ties, were all marked at the timo of
their assaults upon tho defenceless
victims of their malice, and most of
them have since been dealt with according
to justice, whether always through the tar
dy process of legal formality or not.
There are several rensons that hare con
tributed to the present scarcity of money
in the Plains. The people havo expended
most of their means building fine houses
and capacious barns. Many of these build
ings are yet unfinished, and it will require
the proceeds of another crop to foot the
lumber bills, and settle off with the mechan
ics after the completion of these jobs. The
people here hnve lieen rather deficient in
the business of fruit-growing. Ihere are
ns yet but very few orchards that are old
enough to yield their owners anything of an
income With such orchards scattered all
over the Plains, as somo wo might mention
in Clackamas and Marion counties, Wash
ington county might'hnve a yearly income
from fruit sold of two or three hundred
thousand dollars. There Is but little stock
turned off, from tho fact that most have
abandoned the idea of stock-raising where
range is principally confiued to the enclos
ures, and where the value of a given
amount of range is illy proportioned
to tho worth of the same area for producing
grain. The experience of the people in the
Plains has fully demonstrated that at no
distant day the business of stock-raising in
this valley will be entrusted to those who
live upon tne outskirts, and where, in addi
tion to their own rugged claims, too rough
for successful funning, they have a good
outlet in the mountains. Our farmers will
soou find that land has risen in value till
five hundred acres of their present 'sections'
will yield them more than double the profit
when sold nnd judiciously applied to other
puqwscs, that it will if devoted to grazing
a limited amount of cattle. o man but a
simpleton would think of retaining his five
hundred acres of land for pasture, provided
it yielded him only five hundred dollars a
year nett profit in his stock, when he could
by selling the land at twenty dollars an acre
get ten thousand dollars for it, which being
put out at ten per cent, interest would yield
him a thousand dollars a year with less than
half the trouble and anxiety that the five
hundred would cost him. That just such
a state of things will exist in this valley
before many years we think is quite certain
The consequence will be that our large
claims will then be sold off, and we shall
have men cultivating from forty acres to a
miartcr-section each. Tho land will be
principally devoted to producing fruit and
graiu, and a man will generally keep just
as little stock as tho comforts of the family
and the necessities of the farm require.
Arrival of the Mail. The steamer
Columbia reached Portland on Saturday
night lust, bringing dates from New York
to Jon. 20. We are under obligations to
W, Sullivan of San Francisco ond to
Dr. Steele of this city for files of late papers,
Clatsop Co. The Republican county
commitee of Clatsop have called a conven
tion on the 9th of April, to appoint dclc-
trates to the Territorial convention, &c.
The call will be published next week.
Lectures. Judge Williams delivered
lecture before the Young Men's Literary
Association of Oregon City last Monday
niurht on the subject of Washington. We
learn from the Standard that the Judgi
will deliver a scries of addresses in various
towns of the Territory in aid of the Mount
Vernon Association.
Drs. G. A. and Ada M. Weed delivered
a series of lectures in this city during the
week, and go from here to Portland, where
they propose to lecture, and probably to
Vancouver nnd the Dulles. It u their in
tention to visit California, and return after
an absence of two or three months.
The Yamhill Trade. The many friends
of the steamer Hoosier No. 3 will be glad
to learn that she has been withdrawn from
the Tualatin River trade, aud is again run
ning to McMinville.
$& M. Hoyt, of the Express, has our
thanks' fct late California and
papers.
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Umfqca, O. T., Feb. 16, 1859
Ed. Argus: Since it is probable that
some people yet remember something about
the Dick Johnson murder, and that I stat
ed, as my opinion, that the Indians were
killed for their property, -it may not be so
perflnous for me to say that the persons ac
cused bavins: obtained bail, one or them,
Mr. Smith, has settled down upon the In
dian's claim.
H There ie no flesh in man' obdurate heart ;
It cannot feel for man."
But tell m not: it A bo feel;
lot 'tis oratt for wumef.
- IPSE JUSTS.
.States I
v ukj wreriaai Stag,
The steamer Pacific arrived at iw .
on Monday night, 21st Inst., bringing
four days later from the Atlantic StatT '
Tho overland mall stage reached Bin fcT
w..- . w, . i, u iiuii-ijant o , h
We are Indebted to A. Holbook fc?
of this city, for the Alta California VT
18, from which we extract the mJZ
intelligence: "
He U Ik Heist.
mi
Nr.w Yon, Jun. 22dA
ii
cussion arose between Judge Dou,fM7S
Senator Fitch, when wnrd. -ZT m.
ngrvdV
which, It Is thoiiL'ht. must ii ?
ubuto occurred on tt.. .
eonfirinintr Pulton f rti.t-
of Toledo. Mr. Pugh op,d fK
nnminntinn aa th titan l.i.t a
frirml. He Huid If tU vJa j v""
iKsnu with Imn fPnghJhewasreadyK
Ha (lenotinrMl the o.,.,:..i. . w ."
tired .4,
1 for It,
Jallti
ft i .
ne uenounceu tne awKiiiitnifftt and etllsi
u. every oe.iuwr Who Was his (PaA.
friend to vote against It. Mr. 12
ponded, saying that ho would vote iut
the Senator from Ohio, no then brsticU
off on the Illinois aupolntmcnt..u ,Cl
were dishonest, corruntand !.,..77
Senator Fikh said it was outrue W
glus again reiterated. Fiteh aitain uMt.
was untrue. (Cries of order, Ac) il
tions were made of vorious kinds Jrfl
son Davis said he had listened with faZ
nation to the languago used, and It wu
that of a highwayman and bravo It k
said the lie was given, and most severe oe
Bonal remarks made. , ,T
The Kaatat Tronbltt . ,,.
Leavenworth Citv. Jan. snth
Montgomery has voluntarily a-ivm t,i
up to the authorities to await trial npoo
the charge of complicity in tho retttrw.
blcs on the south borders. Capt. Brown Ii
reported to have left the Territory. Ko
further difficulty Is opprcheuded.
We make the following extracts fronti
letter of the Alta's St. Louis correnood-
cnt, dated Jan. 24:
DOUGLAS TO BE KILLED.
The altercation in the Senate is retranU
as disgraceful in the extreme. It is iwrt
ed that a determination exists to rlHv.
Douglas to a fight, and by that meant pt
him out of the way. This brings no to
matter which may not be inapt at this
point, lorney says that Administration
Democrats are asking whether Douclai will
support an Administration Democrat if be
be nominated at tbe Charleston Conven
tion. To which Forney answers by asking
whether the Administration will support
uougia8 ii ne dc tne nominee or that Con
vention. The question seems to be a 'poser.'
THE CDBA QUESTION.
Since the adjournment of the caocni it
Washington, without taking dt finite action
upon the appropriation asked for by Mr
liiieliannn, that sniiject may be said to be
indefinitely postponed. . Though the scbtroe
for the purchase ot Cuba is supposed to be
the pet one of the Executive, the applica
tion for the $30,000,000 was looked npon
as nothing more than for the purpoie, if
successful, of being used for the resoidUv
tion of the waning fortunes of the Adminis
tration Democratic party of the Piorth.
Mr. Slidell's bill, may however, be regarded
as a failure, notwithstanding the imprenioi
lias obtained that a sentiment prevailed i
the caucus fuvorablc to it.
Late dispatches from New Orleans bring
the statement of the Havana ' papers that
Gen. Reneau had offered Concha, the tap
tain General, a large sum of money to de
clare the Island independent. At the same
any American conspirator is threatened
with instant death. This at once is inaicf
tive of the hostile feeling existing toward
us, and how hopeless would be the attempt
of fraternizing with her people, when their
religious tenets are considered. Mr. Dot
glas's filibustering expressions in caucus ap
pear to have surprised other members. It
is thoutrht that Spain, aware of the exist
ence of such a sentiment, will be very cm-
tions how she allows her agents on tne is
land to commit any overt act which might
lead to such extremity as declared bjr the
Senator to be the only method of acquiring
the Island.
tw.th A ilm. T.Er. Col. Francis Lee,
of the 2d Infantry, died in St. Louis, Jan.
21, of a chronic disease, coiuracieu m
ico during the war. Col. Lee was, it the
time of his death, at the head of then
tnry department of the West. He wu
highly esteemed. ' ;
Spain. Further details of the debate is
the Spanish Chamber on PresuleW r
anan's message show that O'Donnell ex
pressed great surprise at the jnm
regard to Cuba, and declared that the g
erumeut was disposed to demand titfoi
fftrBnhn insult, ne declared .empUt
Ically that Spain would never cede wj
her territory. ' Ju .ntart
The Spanish government . - ,
addressed the Cabinets i
France on the subject of Mr. uocnaiw
remarks in regard to Cuba. ,
P0LmcAL.-H0n. Hen7 Wilson b-
been reflected to the U. & ""
Massachusetts for six yean from we t- -March
next. ' 9J
In the Louisiana legislature, Jan. ,
... w memhers met w
caucus of tne uemocmw -
nominate a candidate for U. &- .n
fill Mr. Benjamin's place. Forty-two
loU were taken without a cbo.ee.
Benjamin was two ahead.
The Vice Preswest's Standiw-'V"
that Vice President BwaW-T
sundashighasheought
of the President aoo
rhich the Vice Pwa-:
glas along last fan.
. Aft A I
j-The Arkansas Senate,
. test vote, laid on the Uble
ntrncUng their U.S. Senators Dd2
ing their Representatives to
for fully snprwnngjl '
ta- The fires fa the United Stat-
year, in which the loss 4
$10,000, produced aa H
W0M0tAWr ST- :
ttenthelooft!:erT,,,,,-Wr-
""aaJ nald
I opinion
that letter
to help Don
1 a