ljc tcgoti Clrgu
w. L. Arum, aoiToa and raorairroa.
oimoow CITY I
SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 1859.
To tha Kepnblicana of Oregon.
Tticr will bo a Convention of ilia Republican! of
Uregoa am.L.li.n, oil iHiiuiur, mi i wiNTr
rim bat or AniL, 18.V.I, for Iho purnoteof now
lading a Megnla or Itepresentatlve to C'onsreM,
a I fur lb purpose of transacting such oilier busi
Ucea as may ouiii before Iho Convention.
Tlio t'oinmiiiee augi cat llul iho following armor
l:otimcnl t)j adhered In In electing delegate:
Cur 17 I, Com 1, Jneltonn 4, uWphine 3, Dou-
fM 4, rnuxpiu si, i,ane u, Unit 0, IJcnion 4
'oik 4, Yamh.ll 4, Mnrion 7, Clackamas 3, Wash.
In gum 3, Multnomah 4, Columbia I, Clatsop 1
Tillamook 1, atid Wasco I.
' Tin Committee also earnestly request that a full
and complete orr.inijition of Iho Itenublicans ba
perfected In every county at a tarty day, and
dial tbo cliiirinan vf each county committee iin-
mediately send hit name and poet-office addrcae to
W. C Joimsoi, Clerk of Hie Central Commlllee,
( Oregon City.
Vi. T. Matloc,
W. C. JllH.HtUft,
L. IIoi.Mra,
I.. II. WtMrigLD,
W. L. AoAVi,
Rrp
Ctn,
Cent.
Jan. 53, 18J9.
Cnba.
The Committee on Foreign Affuira re
ported to the Senato, January 24, a bill au
thorizing tlie President to negotiate with
Spain for the purchase of Cuba, permitting
hira to promise Spain whatever ho chose,
and also placing thirty millions in the hands
of the President with which to close the
contract. The House Committee on For
eign Affuirs reported a similar bill on the
same (lav. In tho debates which arose
opon the bills accompanying the reports, as
also In the reports themselves, Is clearly ex
pressed tho sentiment that this negotiation
for sale which Spain will never agree to
ii merely for tho purpose of lessening the
infamy that will attach to a forcible seizure
of that island alter all negotiations prove
abortive. The bill is gotten up as an elec
tioneering hobby for 1860, and is suggested
by the golden rulo (Xo. 2) laid down by
Douglas, the N. Y. Ilcrald, and Democratic
papers generally' Will it pay ?' The re
port of the Senate committee goes into a
lengthy parade of statistics to show the
oceans of golden wealth that are constantly
being drawn by England, Spain, the United
States, and some dozen other powers, from
the productive resources of this rich island
resources which for 1854 amounted for
exports alono to the sum of $32,693,989,
only $7,867,680 of which went into the vo
racious maw of Uncle Sam. Cuba is dis
covered to be tho ' golden egg' itself, and
Spain tlio 'goose' that laid it hence the
Democracy, who have found out that the
squatter-sovereign egg was a ' bad' one, aud
didn't hatch out much under the ' sittings'
of the Supreme Court, are in 1860 to be
furnished with swords and Democratic bowie-knives,
with which to rip open Spaiu for
her golden eggs. Southern fire-caters have
Jiatchcd out this project as a felicitous pro
gramme for the contest of I860 a contest
which, if it succeeds to their liking, will
give them full control of tho enormous
revenues of the Government for another
term, strengthen the slave power, and ena
ble them to plunge tho Government into
.such hopeless bankruptcy that it would
liardly be worth the efforts ol a Republican
administration to redeem it a programme
decidedly ' Democratic' as it appeals sole
ly to the 'paying1 sentiment by which their
organs represent all ' Democrats' to be gov'
crncd aud bids fair to unite Southern fire'
eaters and filibuster?, with such Northern
noodles as always want to bo understood
as 'sound on the goose' besides inviting
a swarming immigration of pirates from cv
cry foreign shore to help elect a Democrat
ic President by stuffing ballot boxes In our
large cities, from which they will then cm
"bark immediately in their black crafts for
Cuba, with commissions in their pockets
from a Democratic Administration author
izing them to rip open the Spanish goose
and divide the golden eggs among them.
JJo wonder that before such a gigantic
scheme for spoils and plunder the section
olists have concluded to cut down the Ore
gon war debt and swamp the Pacific Rail
road in order to raise the funds to carry out
their project. That it is proposed to do
the latter, we quote from a speech on the
Cuba proposition, made by Scuator Toombs,
a leader of the Black Democracy, January
24, in reply to Win. II. Seward, who had
objected to tho enormous expenditure that
would be incurred by the purchase of Cuba.
Toombs said:
" I tuke it for granted that many of the
objecU of expenditure, to which the Sena
tor has alluded, may be dispensed with. Ho
speaks of $125,000,000, or $150,000,000,
for a Pacific Railroad. That is a fuct not
yet accomplished, aud I do not suppose it
ever will be. I agree that in every argu
ment of public policy the expense is a ma
terial element, and it ought to be considered
by the legislative department of tho gov
ernment, and more especially when ho him
self, I think, bos satisfied tho Senate and
the country those who wcro not satisfied
before that it is ntterly worthless for all
pecuniary purposes or commercial transac
tions. That $125,000,000, therefore, I
propose not to spend at all. That is a very
easy way ofvmtting rid of that $125,000,
000. If irwere a wise expenditure if it
were an expenditure which would be ad
Tantngcous to the nation I should not
consider, even in our present circumstances,
that it waa too great; but a I see no ad
vantage to the public commensurate to the
expenditure, and no commercial advantages
of any sort, I aimply pro)ose to get rid of
that $125,000,000 by letting it stay in the
pockets of the people."
How excruciatingly Democratic Let
the hundred and twenty-five millions for a
Taclfie Railroad ' ttay in the jxxlets of the
people.' The people of Oregon want a Pa
cific Railroad-but, as the party has other
uses for the mout-y, how the gaping Demo
crats will roll up their eyes, clap their hands
on their pockets, and grin their assent,
when Delusion mounts the stump and tliun
thunders, Let the hundred and twenty five
millions stay in the pocket! of the rsoi'Ls'l
But let us see what Toombs is willing to
give for Cuba:
" I do not know what it tho Govern
mentl will pay, but, looking upon the aC'
munition as a matter or sueb vast silvan
tnge to tho country, to every portion of the
Union, to every interest iu the United
States, I am willing to rink tho $30,000,
000, for the purpose of buying it at a fair
and legitimate price, and if a treaty should
come to me proKsing to pay $250,000,000
for it I will weigh that amount of money
in one balance and the great advantages of
the acquisition to the republic in tho other,
and decide accordingly."
Here Delusion willl of course pass lightly
over two hundred and fifty millions, speak
ing in a subdued tone, but swell prodigious
ly on the following ' mailer of su h vast
advantage to the country lo every por
lion of te Union to ivery interest in
the United Slates' At this the faithful
will of coarse off hats, and ' Hurrah for Cu
ba, hurrah for Deluzon hurrah for Jo
Lane, Jac!;son, and Douglas and d n
llie Pacific Railroad!'
The Prodl Rime aaa BlUe.
The poor, sorrowing prodigal Standard,
in trying to crawl into the kennel of what
it last year called the ' federal, anti-demo
cratic, iniquitous, inquisitorial junta,' meets
with a varied reception from the old in
mates. o sooner docs it poke its nose
inside than the forgiving
TIMES HISSES IT,
" It will bo seen liv a perusal of the
lender of the Standard of the 2d inst. that
a course is laid down by its editor which,
for the future, is to be followed by that pa
per. It contains the announcement of the
virtual decease of the organization of the
' national' pnrtv, and a pledge on the part
of the editor to support hereafter the nomi
nccs of the democratic convention. This
determination will be a source of gratifies,'
tion on the part of the friends of the dem
ocratic ennsc. e have no doubt of the
democracy of the editor, but still he is mor
tal, and may err as well as others.
At this, the Doctor's Agent bristles np,
raises his nose from the 1 porridge pot and
disputes the right of the Standard to ken
nel room, iho fallowing is the way in
which
czafkay's okoan dites it.
" The Times seeks to justify its eager fel
lowship or an opposition sheet, by saying
that it bore ' a democratic name,' and was
' pledged to support the principles of the
democratic party.' What docs all that
avail ? The Times editor, if he will in
quire, can ascertain that the editor of his
ally Inst June ' bore a democratic name,'
' national democratic ) and averred that
he was 'unwaveringly advocating demo
cratic principles,' and at the same time his
throat was hoarso with feeble denunciations
of the democratic ticket and organization,
and ho was the candidate of the black re
publicans, and opposition of every hue.
It has no more reason to suppose the
paper it fellowships will support the demo
cratic nominations and the democratic party
nt the coming election, than it has that the'
Oregoman will." '
The Programme.
In reply to a friend in Linn connty, who
wishes to know what is to come out of the
strife between the sectional organs, we
give it as onr opinion from watching somo
of the ' straws,' that tho Standard, Times,
Crisis, and Sentinel, are all in Lane's inter
est, and the friends of Jo Lane arc to crush
out Cznpkay's Agent by outnumbering his
friends in caucuses and conventions. Dea
rly, Harding, and Nesmith, with a ftw oth
ers, we regard as tho movers who arc using
the Ageut as a tool to scalp Lane with,
while Jo's money has finally encircled the
Agent's party with a coterie of editors
sworn to support Jo and crush out his en
emies. Those who use the Agent have de
termined not to surrender, but to fight for
possession of the party citadel to the last,
and when overcome by superior strength, or
a siege, blow the fortress to atoms, and re
tire on the money made out of the Govern
ment, or leave for a more inviting field for
plunder. This may account for the 'new
light on the part of Lane's friends about
'reforming abuses in the organization.'
Wait and see.
Mult.vomah. There was a Republican
convention held in Portland lost Saturday,
and the following gentlemen werechoson
delegates Jo the Snlera convention of April
21: E.D. Shattuck, L. II. Wakefield, S.
Coffin, and A. I,Ankeny, withrT. J.
Holmes, J. Withcrcl, R. W. Crandall, and
E. Ii. Calhoun as alternates. The county
committee appointed consists of Charles
Uutehitis, II. W. Corbett, J. D. Stephen
son, Dr. Kelson, and E. L. Quimby.
Dryer, Wakefield, Shattuck, Corbett,
and Holmes addressed the meeting, urging
an organization. , , .:
Our space precludes our publishing all
the resolutions adopted, but we select the
following as showing the second sober
thought of our Multnomah friends:
Resolved, That the great Republican
party of the Union is the only true conserv
ative party of the country.
Resolved, Thut a thorough organization
of the National Republican party in Ore
gon is called for alike by considerations of
expediency, and by regard for the public
good.
CorttT. Judge Williams has been hold
ing court in this city this week.
Arrival or the Mail. The steamer
ortheraer reached Tortland Tuesday
morning last, bringing sews from tht At
lantic States to FeU IS. .
faclOe tlallvea tutlra
8rsT. Jan. 37. Tlio Pmiflo Railroad b II
waa lukin un and various verbal amendment
were made, nnpiiliv In the direul vo;e un the bill.
Mr. IKmlilllo, of W.sconsin, added an addition il
ration illicit led to proven! aMaulaon flom keep
Inn back the Unda from settlement aa they did
with thoae granted to the llllnola Central llailroad
Adonled.
Mr. Dtwllille then moved thut the Secretary of
the Interior, on Ilia iiateaga of thta net. be author
lied to lake pmnwila fur llie northern nnd aoulhorn
routes, h aving llie central route lie now, aad report
In Cowrrena at llie commencement or the neit a
aion. The advertisement to be published for eight
months in two paiera or the district or Columbia.
Mr. lfciolittlea amendment prevailed. '
Mr, Douglas, of Illinois, offered an amendment
nroviding that the en-called deaert landa within
forty nuiea of tho mi Idle auction of llie road be
open to pre-emption righia, at tha rule often oeuta
per acre. Adopted.
A protracted Hieeune'on enaiied on the varioua
propositions, in Ilia eourae ot wnn n Denature mi
nn of Mnatai'liunelte. Hale of New llampdiire,
Ifciuglaa of lllinnia, Muaon of Virginia, Trumbull of
llliuoia, Konaenrien of Maine, Cameron of I'ennayl
van'a, J'ugli of Ohio, Hamlin of Muine, lloualon of
Tenia, Vt ard or 1 eiaa, and olliera kj.
The action nf the Hennto waa na follnwe:
Mr. Dtmlililn'e amendment to adverliea for rati
mntee for the three rnutea having been adopted aa
a final ai-clion to the bill,
Mr. Sinimoua, of Ithodo lalond. moved to elrike
out all between the enacting chiuee and the enid
final aection, which wua carried, thua killing llie
bill yew :tS, nave SO.
The bill waa thi n put on Ita final paaenge, Mr.
Brodrri k, of California, anying. ironically, that aa
hie name would be called More thai or nia em
league, he waa den'mua of knowing whether Mr.
Uwin approved of the bill aa It now atood, ao thut
he (Mr. Hroderick) m'ght vote naaiiut it.
Mr. Cwin replied that hia colleague could not
learn hia aeatimeuta until h a nnmo wai called
Mr. Broderick. Then, I ah all reierve my vote.
Lanehter.l lie nftcrwarda voted with Mr. Owtn,
Mr. Seward (Inuirbinir) enid that oa he had fol
lowed the lead of both the California 8cnatora, he
could not now tell which to follow. However, aa
found in command, and aa ha had alwnya voted
for every meaaura which appeared to offer the
beat chance for a Mad to the Pacific, and aa tlna
waa the beat, in fact the only oue left, he would
vote for it too.
The bdl waa read three timca and finally poasej
by the following vote:
roa tiic aiLL.
(Democrats In llornnn ; Republican In Italics ;
Know rtotlmig in anull capitals.;
Dell, Tennessee. . Bigler, Tenroylvania.
litight, Indiana. ' Broderick, California.
Cameron, renntylvania.CAanrffrr, Michigan.
Clark, New llanipahiru.CairrtNDKS, Kentucky!
Dixon, Connecticut.
Voolillle, Witconiin
Douglas, Illinois,
t'ftenden, Maine.
Fonlrr, CmineclivuU
Durktt, Wifcunun.
Fool, Vermout.
(iwin, California.
Harlan, Iowa,
Kennedy, Maryland.
Kicc, Minnisotn.
Stteard, New York.
Hamlin, Maine.
Houston, leius.
Jones, Iowa.
Polk, Missouri. -
Sebastian, Arkansne.
Simmon; Uhodo laland.
Shields, Minnesota.
Trumc. ll, lllinnia.
Wilton, M.IX.-31
Smart, Mich gan.
Wade, Uluo.
AGAINST THE BILL.
Bayard, Delaware,
llniwn, Miai'asippi.
Benjamin, Louisiana,
Chesnut, South Carolina.
Clay Alabama.
Clingmun, N. Caruliuo.
Grceu, Missouri.
Iverson, Georgia.
King, New York.
I'eurce, Maryland.
Reid, North Carolina.
ritzpatnck, Alabama.
Hunter, Virginia.
JohiiBon, Ttmieasce.
Mason,. V Iri; na.
1'ngh, Ohio.
Kliili ll, Louaiana.
Thompson, New Jersey.
Toombs, Ueorgia.
lulee, rlonda. 20.
Paieed Or. Filch of Indiana, with Ham
mond of South Carolina ; Collamer, of Vermont,
with Johnson, of Arkansas i Mallory, of Florida,
Willi w right, oi iew Jersey o.
Absent oa Not Voting. Messrs. Halt of New
IIaniwhire; Sumner, of .Massachusetts; Allan, of
Rhode Is'and ; Bates, of J )eluware : Davie, of
Mississippi : Thompson, of Koutucky i Ward of
Texas 7.
RECAriTCLATidN. For the bill, 31 : aeninst it.
SO; paired otf, 6; absent or not Toting 7 Total 64.
The result caused Mr. Gwin to remark, bitterly.
" Little aa this gives, it is all 1 ever expected to get
from the Congress of the United States.'1
Mr. Iiieu moved to lay the bill on the table.
Lost
Mr. Gwin moved to recommit it. Lost
Mr. Trumbull moved to recommit the bill, with
instructions to report back the bill with alicht mod-
ificaiiona, ao oa to obtain a direct voto on it Lost.
Mr. Douglas said hia sentiments were aeninst
recummitine the bill. It waa now ao late in the
session thut, although nearly all seemed to favor
a road, there was no hope of agreeing on any one
route in that limited time. Tha bill was dead; let
it be decently buried, at least for the present.
The following is the eubstunce of the bill, which
ia the same aa that recently proposed by Mr. Hell,
viz : That advertisements be inserted in two pa
pers of each State and the District of Columbia, in
viting estim ites for the three routes, and that $3,
000 be appropriated to pay the expenses.
Tho almost unanimous vote of the South
ern Democracy against the bill, even in this
most unobjectionable form, is proof posi
tive that the sectionalists will never favor a
acific railroad. . Forney's Press, in speak
ing of the final vote, iiJ'St
"Notwithstanding the purely prepara
tory character of the measure, nnd the
strong recommendations of the President in
favor of it, it will be seen that on Its final
passngo but two Southern Democrats, Polk,
of Missouri, and Sebastian, of Arkansas,
voted for it, and they did so only because
they represented States which have a very
deep interest in its passage. Only one
member of the Opposition, King, of New
York, voted against the bill, and all the
North, in the Senate at the time, voted for
it. It is evident that on this question,
which is one of the most important that
have ever engaged the attention of the
country, the Southern Democrats have not
allowed the wishes of the President to
weigh one feather in the scale against their
own judgment and convictions. They have
scouted and ignored his recommendations;
and yet there will be no harsh epithets or
fierce invectives hurled against them for
this conduct; and no mnn will dare to ques
tion their Democracy on account of their
wide difference with Mr. Buchanan."
The New York Herald, with all its sub
serviency to the negro-breeding interest, is
compelled to look these glaring facts in the
face thus;
" This, we say, is a remarkable division
of the Senate. For the bill we find only
two Southern democrats Sebastian of Ar
kansas, aud Polk of Missouri two States
directly interested in the road; and against
the bill only one republican, and, strangely
enough, that one is Preston King, of New
York, whose residence is near the St. Law
rence outlet of the Northern route the
three South Americans voting with the
body of the republicans; and the paternity
of the bill appears to belong to Mr. Bell, of
Tennessee. Upon the whole, the vote indi
cates that the Pacific Railroad, upon its
general merits, is repudiated by the South
ern democracy, and that it is not likely to
assume any definite shape in which It can
be made a plank in the national democratic
platform." -
The Herald well knowi that it was not
made a plank in the Cincinnati Platform,
bat the ' plank' reported by the committee
in its favor was voted down, and it was
tlwught best to adopt a substitute declaring
hi favor of a ' military road' of mum sort,
starting iu somewhere East, nnd coming
out somewhere on tho Pacific coast, and
then bamboozle California by a letter from
Buchanan, written just In time to read
California before tho election, and Just lute
enough to prevent its being republished
the South till after the election, Tho sue
cess of the last sell will of courso suggest
something equully 'Democratic' to
Charleston Convention,
the
The Black Democracy rode Into power
in 1800 on what any man who was
blind could seo were two pretenses, mere
shams viz: 'Squatter Sovereignty' and
the Pacific Railroad. 'Squatter Sover
eignty' has been buried, the Pacific Rail'
roud killed, the Oregon war debt cut down
and yet tho programme prepared by the
firo-eatcra for 1860 will be much the same,
but fixed up to suit the progressions of this
wonderful party. Here is the way the
platform looked In 1850:
Squatter Sovereignty
racitic KailrottU.
(Cuba.)
Here is the platform for 1860:
Cuba! Cuba! Cuba
MILITARY ROAD.
squatted sovereignty.
Tha t Debt Cat Dow.
In the report of Congressional proceed
lugs we find the following:
In the House, on the 5th, the Committee on
Military Affair olTered their report upon the sub
ject of the Indian wur in Oregon and Washington
Territories. The report atates lhal the exiensra of
the war amount to nearly a million and a hall
dollnra, They recoiiim ud the reference of lln
aubjecl to the consideration of the next Congress.'
A New York correspondent of the San
Francisco Bulletin writing Feb. 5 says:
I The House Military Committee at Washington
are ferettmg out extensive frauds connected with
the Oregon War Debt, Of the whole debt, which
is said to amount to six millions, not more than one
million, it ia alleged, ia justly due. Some of the
items present astounding dilTcrencea between ill
nrces charged fur no article, nnd its market value.
Thus, pistols are charged at $55 each t muskets at
$r.'. : nata ut $.) per bushel i liny nt ''IIU per Ion
and ntber thing in proportion. Mr. Faulkner, the
Chairman of the Committee, is, it is snid, prepared
to do his whole dutv in this matter, and wili op.
post the payment of the claims until every charge
is reilueul to Ita proper dimensions. Aa the
charges now stand, they make an average claim of
$11 ill per day for each man s mil iary service.
Yetrntny, the Committee referred the c'ainn to
ihe Auditor of the Treasury for revision, te report
to next Cuiigieva."
So it seems that Faulkner, Jo Lane's
particular friend, and a prominent leader of
the black democracy, has, in spite of Jo's
tears, Delusion's ' highfalutin,' and G rover's
'great ability' and groans, ferreted out such
extensive rascality aud frauds in the man
agemcut of our Indinn war that the debt is
to be cut down so that it will amount to
'nearly a million and a half of dollars'
that is, something over a million about
one fifth of our demands, and then the pay.
ment of this turn is lo be left to the thirty
sixth Congress a majority of which will be
opposition.
we have shown over ana over again
that everything thut has ever been done to
ward the payment of the debt was done by
the oppositition Congress over which Banks
presided, which appointed the Commission
ers to ' audit and allow' tho same, and, not
notwithstanding Jo Lane came home imme
diately after the adjourmcnt of that Com
gress, nnd said in speeches all over the Tcr
ritory ' God bless your democratic souls
could have done a great deal for Oregon if
it hudn't been for the 6 a c k republicans,
we now find a purely black democratic
committee sayintr to the Commissioners
yonr awards are villainous, not a dollar of
it shall be paid by this Congress, but if the
next Congress, which is to be black Repub
lican, is disposed to do anything for you
it may pay a little over one filth of your
demands.' The fact is that the sectional
ists at Washington have so drained the
treasury that they are hard pressed to meet
the demands of the government even with
another twenty million loan, and as the
democratic caucuses havo agreed to a bill
placing thirty millions at the disposal of
Buchanan, with which to foot tho first In
stallment on any sum he may choose to
promiso Spain for Cuba, they are of course
hard up for money, and cannot afford to
pay Oregon which is weak, and will only
cast three votes iu the Presidential elector
al college some four millions of money,
which can be so profitably used in buying
slave territory and carrying elections in
large States like Pennsylvania.
OnEcoN Not a State. The Oregon bill
was before Congress Feb. 10 and 11, but
had not yet come to a final vote. Dis
patches from Washington say:
" Tho bill is strongly opposed by some
members on the ground that a precedent
has been established in the case of Kansas,
that no State shall be admitted which has
not a sufficient number of inhabitants to
entitle them to a representative iu Con
gress under the general law." "'
The National Era favors our immediate
admission,' while a goodly number of Re
publicans it Is said will vote for it, notwith
standing the mean precedent adopted by
the Democrats regarding Kansas. If the
hill ever comes to a direct vote this session,
it will no doubt pass. Owing to the short
ness of time and the great press ' of busi
ness, there is a good chance for it to fail,
, The Mississippi Closed. 'Indicator
writes to the Alta California under date
New Orleans, Feb. 12, that the waters
have become so low on the bar at the
mouth of the Mississippi that vessels are
nnable to cross it, and that no less than
fifty ships were then lying on either side of
the bar waiting for a deepening of the
channel. Not less than fifty millions worth
of cotton, sugar, tobaceo, breadstnffs, 4e.,
had accumulated at New Orleans awaiting
shipment. r ; ' - ,
m Hoa alt l,ae.it
The lust mail brought out a batch of
printed circulars headed 'Letter of Hon,
Joseph Lnno to the People of Oregon.'
This Idea of sticking the 1 Hon.' to his own
nnmo, although disgusting to every well
bred man, is In good keeping with tho ego
tism of Jo Lane, and an excellent accom
paniment of Democratic sauco to make it
go down tho necks of such men as tho lead
ers of Democracy nlwnys conceive their
constituents to bo. Judging from tlio mail
bags, we think there must have been about
seventeen bushels and a hull of these 1 Hon.'
missives. Counting 8,000 to the bushel, it
would make 62,500 Jtt.it one for every
man, woman, and child in Oregon, with
enough left to bed the cats and dogs of
each family on. Tho pamphlet is devoted
to clearing himself of the charges mado by
sham Washington correspondent of Cznp
kay's organ of last August, charging Lane
with neglecting to get Oregon admitted in
order to make double milcntro. Instead of
getting certificates from Cox and other
Democrats whom he begged to vote against
the admission of Oregon, as stated by Cox
in his Newark speech, in order to clear
himself, lie devotes tho whole letter to the
most sickening laudations of himself, pro
testations of his love for the people of Or
egon, and his great desire to servo them
with a few severe denunciations of his en
emies. He says that he has been permitted
to labor with Senators, tho President, and
tho heads of Departments, for Oregon, and
ho bus tugged away at them all, removed a
vast amount of prejudice against Oregon,
helped to get the Oregon bill through the
Senate, and felt so flabbergasted because
the bill failed In tho House that he would
have cheerfully yielded up everything lie
had on earth rather than it should have
fuiled.
Wo quote as many extracts ns we have
room for, to show his views and present pa
triotic feelings. Among other reasons why
we ought to love him and still keep him in
office is that we find
' JO AS OLD OFFICE HOLDER.
" Ten years ago, commissioned by Pres
ident Polk for thut purpose, I arrived in
Oregon, and put the Territorial govern
ment in operation. Since that' time I have
linked my fortune and my destiny with
yours. 1 have had no other, and a desire
for no other home but Oregon. Under her
sky I wished to live; in lior bosom I wish
to repose when the cures and toils of life are
over. Hitherto I have not sought repose
and I will not seek it while a duty remains
to be pcrtormccl."
Setting aside tho fact of h's having held
office ten years, we prcfumo that Gribble,
Officer, or Dolf could use the same Jan
gunge about having linked his fortune and
destiny with Oregon, wishing ' to repose in
her bosom,' &c, Jo Lane isn't the only
sectional fanatic in Oregon who 'hasn't
sought repose' when an office was to be
' sought,' or dirty work done for the nigger-
drivers. Notwithstanding the old hero hns
iu his ten years of arduous toil nearly worn
himself out in 'performing duty,' we see
by the following thut his bosom is so dis
tended with the milk of patriotism that
OFFICE STILL (RATIFIES Jo's FEELINGS.
" I put my trust In tho people. They
called me into their service, when they
thought mat i might be uselul to them
They have continued mo in that service
with a unanimity most gratifying to my
leeungs.
When, five weeks ago, we noticed the
letter that Delusion had written to the
Sentinel stating that he nnd Lane intended
to pilot the emigrants across the Plains the
coming summer, we stated that it was all
gammon, and they would both trot home as
fnst as their legs could bring them to fix np
the party wires. From the following, we
see that we were right, and
OLD JO WILL BOOK TROT HOMl,
"In a few weeks from the time this
reaches you, I hope to stand again on the
soil of Oregon, and to take ray friends by
tue nana once more. '
All we want to know is whether that
dymmycratlo cannen botn off the Scny
rota' was ' botn' with Jo Lane's money or
not, and whether it will be hauled out from
under the-slab pile to bellow a welcome
to Jo? . . ;
Dovglas and FiTcn. Douglas and
Fitch of Indiana had a flare np in the Sen
ate January 21. Douglas in a speech de
nounced all of Buchanan's appointees in
Illinois as a set of corrupt scoundrels said
that be had franked fifty thousand docu
ments to bis constituents in Illinois, not one
which had reached its destination, and
he would give $100 for every copy that
could be shown and that Senator Green
had written him several letters directed to
Chicago which be had never received, '. He
intimated that they were destroyed by
Cook, the Chicago postmaster. Fitch,
who has a son in Illinois holding office un
der Buchanan,' denied Douglas's general
charges as pntrue, and said Douglas knew
that they were untrue. Ppon this, a gen
eral tirade of abuse came from both parties,
After the adjournment, Douglas addressed
note to Fitch demanding concessions.
Fitch wouldn't concede. After a series of
notes, in which both seemed anxious for a
settlement, the whole thing was adjusted
without a duel.
Union. The prospect now ia that Dou
glas will coon be fast united to the old
Democratic party. He has generally gone
into the party caucuses in Washington, and
shows signs of crawling back in time to
sare his bacon at the Charleston convention.
Many of his old friends are disgusted at his
course, and i orney. in an article oa tat
Presidency, io which he intimates that
Donglua ought to bo noiniT.t,.-i
hall lilt 1-lllninll L!.......lr a. .1
" 10 1110 immort nf
nnyPnrtlc.,l,,rmanyet,,,lhcw1J";
change, bribery, and corruption, It
be unsafe to pledge himself. Forney ,J
properly thinks that a 'Democrat,' Ilk,
Imllan'i white man. la 'mlirl.t. L
B-y "ocvriain
Good Definition. Last lmmt ' '
gave an account of a Dcmccratlc coDven!
tion held In Springfield (III.), june 9 .,.
as reported In the Missouri Republic
leading organ of tho Democracy In MiiiZ
rl. Mr. Bouncy, of Peoria was one of tb,
lending Kjieukcrs, and laid down the prll(i '
bits of modern Democracy clearly and fuj.
ly. An there is now much dispute In Or
gou as to who are Democrats, we copy M '
extract from his speech:,
" II ia characteristic of a good Deinoewi .1
he i. .. perjtc, f, Mitttt , h,
command. While he la . (,, "
feel.it lo b. hiaduty lo I. Yat
parfy; when he r. promoted to leadership
aula mplte,! obedinc, to the authority whick Hi .
been vested in hiiq." ' "
Tlio correspondent of the Missouri
publican, in speaking of Boiincy'i rpeecb
says: ,
' Mr. Uonney, in the course of his n marks Hj
that ours waa a government of law and order' w .
of popular clamor, and an far aa I understood U.
declarations, he repudiated llie oofemoaly recsi.U
doctrine lhal the people rule, and that thslr-T
ions and will are law.'
This Bouncy is a 'national (AdminBtrt,
tion) democrat' and as he advoeatci (U
precise principles of the Satem clique, it It
perfectly natural for the Stanrlrd to'anite
with it, now that it has found out tlit
what it called the anti-demoeratie, Mi?af.
tous, inquisitorial junta,' May 6, IBM, be
cause it held to such sentiments as Bonney
taught, is really Just like the national dem
ocracy Enst; while the Standard 0f last
year in favoring tho doctrine that tk'ftt.
pie are sovereign, und nofa ' caucus, ud !
that it wns not the duty of a 'private into
ranks to obey the behest of his party,' when
those behests required him to do wrong,
was reully occupying Republican ground.
Kmigraxt Roads. Walker, Clipmn;
nnd company, who got a charter from '
the Legislature for ojicuing an einigrani
road throngh the Cascades north of Mt,
Hood, began operations this week. Tin
road crosses Sandy some distance below the
'first crossing' on the old route, and foDowi .
np a divide to near Mt. Hood, and then
takes down a divide in the vicinity of Dog
river. The toll will lie. for a wntron and
si.i animals $5, a wagon and four animals
(4, a wagon and two animals $3, with per
haps $1 for each man and horse, and 25
cents for each head of loose stock, or there
abouts. We also see by the Press that a
company has been chartered on much the
same footing to open a road through the
mountains near the head waters of the Wil
lamette. Converted. Gen. William Walker, tin
filibuster, lately united with the Roman
Catholic Church in Mobile. Walker wis
raised a Presbyterian. Fred Waymire, of
Polk, formerly a Methodist exhortcr, bat
for many years past an infidel a man who
is said to have cursed a blue streak fur
ten yeors has, we learn, been reconverted,
and joined the Methodist church again.
There is still hope for 'hro.' Cnutonwiae.
. . i
Utah. The Legislature of Utnh adopt
ed a resolution January 21 complimenting
Gov. Ciiinming for his gentlemanly deport
ment toward the Mormons, and for his pop
ular and satisfactory administration of the
government. ,
Tub WuATHEn. We have bad little else
than an almost incessant strong south wind
which has brought cold rains, snow, and
hail for the last five weeks. The like ba
never been known to the ' oldest inhabitant'
at this season of the year. We have had
do snow that has laid on the ground mow
than two or three days at a time, afr
though we have had many snow stormi.-
The warm sun has shone out at intervals,
but has soon hid its face again behind tfn
clouds. It has been a terrible tuns oa
stock, and VC7 many cattle have died,
while hundreds more are candidates ror w
..1 T
bone-yard. This depending on cauie win
tering themselves without feed at this day
when the range Is eaten out, will not do.-'
Our farmers seem to learn little or nothing
from experience, and we don't know that
they over will. When the cattle get poor
and weak at this time of year dry feed
seems to do them but little good. Weh,T
known man that have been foundered and
died from eating too many sheaf oats when
first got np weak and poor from tte rangr.
Now if everv farmer would sow a a few acrei
of June wheat, he might have an excellent
pasture on which to turn his poor cowi and
colts at this season of the year. The wheat
would be much better than sheaf oats or
dry timothy hay, and would be like intro
cing the poor cattle to a Jane pasture.
i.TTt-nnvri Tt will be seen from the
following clipped from the Alta California
of March 5, that we have pot been alo
in an unpleasant February:
" We are having none of onr usuallyo"
and genial February weather this year.--The
spn shines seldom and the rata i
raineth every day'-not with the reft
ifl..- r Anril ahower. but wita u
cold, icy, agueish effect of a wn'S
The streets are almost impassable, ana
is the predominant element.
icjfic UNiviBsrrr.-We forgot to
mention last wecx tnai iue -this
institution commenced March .
institution is now under charge of Re. '
u :f. vwuMilar as a teacKTi
JjYIumi, iiiwb I r ,, . u
and under whose control it l w "
flourishing., v