l)c rcgou Slrgus.
W, L. ADAMS, IPITOt AMI rSorSIKTOa.
ORE OO IV CITY:
SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 1859.
. To tho Republican! of Oregon.
' There will be Convention of lh Rrpuhlirai of
Oregon t 8ALKM, on Tniastuv, the I wkxtv
nur dat of A tail, K'J, for tli purpose of nom
inating a Delegate or Kepreenuilive to (,'oncitss,
nil firth purpose of Imii-ujctiiig inch other busi
ness M may cnia before ih Convention.
Tin Committee suggest that the follow ing appor
tionment bo adhered In in electing delegates s
Cuny I, Cooa I, Jurkson 4, ,l..ihine j, llou-
f!M 4. I'mpim 2, I J lie C, I.luo 0, Jhuion 4,
oik 4. Yamli II I, Maron 7, Clackamas Wash
ingion S, Multnomah 4, Columbal, Clatsop J,
Xillnmouk I, and Wascu 1.
The Committee nlo eornently request lint a full
and complete orgjniintion of the Republicans be
paiftCe-i iu every county 0 an tarty in), and
IhM the chaintiJii of c;ich enmity romniiltte iin
mediately send hit name and p. t -office address to
W. C. JoiiNwx, Clerk of the Central Committee,
t On-con City.
' W. T. M ATI-oec,
' " W. C. Joiinsox,
L. Ilomr.s,
' I.. H. Wakkhcld,
Rep.
Veil.
Com.
Y. L. Ansus,
)
Jar. S3, IS." 9.
Why War ttebl wa C.ul Uowa.
Jo Lane's colored Snncho Ponza (Hib
ben) has written several letters to the
Times, endorsing Lane's fuitlu'uluoss, great
ability, and sound Democracy. He shifts
the responsibility of the committee's report
cutting down the war debt, from Jo Lane's
back, and, as Faulkner, tlto chairman of
the committee, is an intimato friend of
Lane's, and ouc of the Icuding sectionalists,
Mislead of bestowing hard epithets upon
kirn, Ilibben charges the- wbolo business
npon Atkinson, the Third Auditor, who,
at the request of Congress, sent in a docu
ment upon the claims of Oregou and Wash
ington for expenses incurred in our Indian
war. Here is llibbcn's opinion of Atkin
son, given in a letter to the Times of last
Saturday;
. Air. Atkinson, (lie Third Auditor, hoe forward
ed to Congress hit famous letter in reply to the re
quest of Mr. Faulkner. The Third Auditors let
ter ie a tissue of splenetic fauatii-ism and a torrent
. of ignorance and ubiurdity. lis 'px-ks flaws,'
Irgjles ehiut trifles, and makes himself supremely
ridiculous in the weak effort to nppcar ts'ruorJin
arily wise, raqacous nnd knowing. llu is a bril
liant living example of the mrlanclioly fact th.it
the 4 foils are not all dead yel In order to
make out hie case he gleans examplce of eitreme
prion, and compotes them with prices paid for
similar articles and services in the eastern and mid
dle States. The matter is apain within the
aenaitiva fingers of the Third Auditor, and his re
port to n"xt Congress will want something of be
ing worth tho paper tipoti which it is written. Or
egon h.n voice now in both branches of Con
Ureas, and thia fuel w ill become a thing of realiza
tion when aaiu this subject conies up for ac'.inn."
' Now tho question will suggest itself to
every thinking man, if Oregon had the
roicii' of Lane, Smith, and G rover, before
the committee that cnt the war debt down,
and then refused lo report in favor of an
appropriation by this Congress, what influ
ence will the same Democratic ' voice' havo
in the next Congress ? But, as our readers
may like, to know what the ' trifles' were
that Atkinson ' higgled' about, we clip nu
item from the Washington correspondence
of thoNV. Independent: . . ,'
A document is now before me illustrating iu a
small degree the method by which wo are prese
Ing up to $100,000,000 annunl expenditure. It ia
letter from The Third Auditor of the Treasury,
addressed to the House in answer ton resolution of
tlmt body, axkingfnr information on tho claims for
Indian hostilities in Oregon nnd NViishiiigtou Ter
ritories. Tho primary cause of tho hostilities ia
not given, from the single fuct that, anion", the im
mense mass of papers weighing hundreds of
pounds in that office, not a single ullnsion ia made
to iU Oregon, in Ooloh.-r, 18.10, hns submit
ted a report to the Secretary of War, in w hich
claims for the snug little sum of $1,4 111,9 ll),33
were presented for p.iyinent from the National
Treasury. This is for Orogon only. The Wash
ington claim is more modest, but touches the hand
some figure of $l,H,47."),..ri, mnking for both
these young Territory's a sum resohing nearly $ 6,
OOO.OoO. The items in the account are rich.
The limits of my letter forbid extensive quotations.
The price of labor ia fabulous j the ordinary luhorer
$4 per dny, while clerks are awarded $10 per diem
1nvu:hbly. Horses, by iiinnt'tiis, are purchased
tor i'.iW nnd $1110 apiece hired at $1 per day;
shanties for oflicers and men are rented at from
4100 to $200 per month, nnd one little item of'ex
prsui iig mcssnge from Deor Creek to l'ort Or
ford" is set duwn at the cool price of $M00 a
liaudsome sum fur an ordinary horseback ride."
' Here follows a long list of articles with
the prieeR charged, as also the prices al
lowed by O rover and the other two com-i
inissioners for instance, $3 each for every
Blioe set hy a bitickstnitli. Unrky w as
charged 9 to $12 a bushel, and allowed
$3.50; wheat charged (4 per bushel, and
ullowcd $3.50; liny churged $160 to $200
a tou; allowed $120. Straw charged $20
Urn; allowed $20.
,, Then, to show what articles were rcully
worth in Oregon, the Auditor refers to
some of the ' government sales' uflcr the
war, as follows: ',
f ' Mr. Peters soM at miction nt Jacksonville,
Ang. 27. 18."ifi, 2il hoiws for 91,811, being a lit
tle less than TJ each t S0O mules for $ IM,U itf, be
ing at an average of $J0 each. This included
127 aparajoss and pack saddles, casting about SIS
aoh f 7 wugons were sold for $3C2, an average
f 951 70 vach; k'M busliuls wheat sold for
9.80 25 ; SGI bushels sold at 71 cents J.I85 31 1
637 bushels sold at 02 ceuU $:l4 04 ; SO riding
addles sold for $o0J Ml, the rales being from Si
cents lo 9'-9 each ; iron, f J cents ; nails, 10 cents ;
caps, 23 cents) hats f0 cent ; 12:1 pair boots, 91
55 per pair, and 20 pairs at $2 40 per pair. There
re no remarks msde as to the condition of the
property sold. Of l.'iti sheets drawing faper, for
which jil.'iO were paij,7.r sheets were used; the
remaining 75 sheets sold for 91 1 2C.M
' JWe 'h ak that if this whole war debt
business could be probed to the bottom,
and we could know to what party favorites
these monstrous prices were 'allowed,' who
pocketed the proceeds of the government
sales, and what other developments of ras
cality among our Oregon officials have in
duced the committee to cut down the debt
and deprive the volunteers of their jy,
with such honest men as turned out tltcir
property at a fair valuation, we should set
developments that would startle even a
Democrat '"Sovr we happen to know that
many articles were put into the service at
very small advance on the cash price
Dement & Co., for instance, put in several
Mdaatad dolkrs worth of food at ft
nominal advance on their wholesale cash
prices, and wo haro no doubt other mcr
chants did the samo. We also know many
fanners who put in horses, cattle, and grain,
at at low figures as they would have sold
for on a year's credit. These men mint Im
cheated out of their pay because Congress
thinks svindltrt managed the tror, stein
dlers fixed up tltt aeeounlt, and svindlers
pocketed the proceeds of government proper
ly, mid for a song.
Rut, hold! Don't sell your 'scrip' yet
(nt less thin ninety cents to the dollar, and
even that may lie Km than it is reolly
worth. If you (Democrats we uican)
don't think so, hear Ilibben:
" The government ia sadly in debt, and it la, so
they say, impolitic just now, to incrcise this in h bt
edness. This is, at least, the true reason which
cannot " slaud fire" for a great while, lien. 1-ans
isaunguine of its payment, and boldly tells the ep
ponruta of the mrannre that It ia a thing which
must be done. Now that they have se ra him en
gineer a State into the L'nion, w Inn the di ed was
regarded aa impomib'r, they h ive great fnith in his
power lo do One secure the psynienl of this debt."
There you arc! 'ow, run to that fellow
who has just bought your scrip at thirteen
cents to tho dollar, and offer seventy -fivo
cents to get it back, as Ilibben informs yon
Jo will yet ' pnss the luw.' Jo, the ' great
statesman,' got the State admitted how f
Ilibben says he 'engineered it into the
Union,' much the same, we suppose, as he
used to ' engineer' a flat-boat loaded with
whisky through tho chutes on the Missis
sippi by giving orders to the man at the
helm. The way ire think he ' engineered
Oregon into the Union, was by promising
lo obey orders this time, and givo the sec
tionnlisla his vote every time they wanted
it. They are sure of his voto without vot
ing for his war bill and so they are of De
lusion's and G rover's. What influence will
men have who will go before Congress and
tell such falsehoods as that Oregon has
ninety thousand inhabitants or more, when
every member of Congress knew it to be
false and that her population did not prob
ably exceed 45,000 at the most ? None
whatever. Tho only use they havo for
them in Washington is as tools for the negro-breeding
Democracy. So that is pro
moted, littlo do they care about our inter
ests and so Jo Lane, Smith, and 0 rover
pocket their eight or nine thousand dollars
a session as pay and mileage, what do they
care for anything further ? . '
l.ejlai the Wires.
Toor niblicn must bo nearly worn put
iu tho scrvico of his master. The last
steamer but ono brought, as we stated be
fore, a vast quantity of Lane's circulars di
rected to the futhful, besides documents and
letters almost without number. Since Smith
has drawn the sttort term, and Lane has
decided to re-elect him to the Senate, a
new burthen has been imposed upon the
colored scribe the consequence of which
is, the lust steamer brings a letter from
nihben to each of tho Clackamas members
of tho Legislature, and wc have no doubt
to every othef member in Oregon whom
they dure approach,, arranging the plan of
operations iu the Legislature which Gov.
Whilcaker will soou assemble, unless th?
clique have him so by the nose that through
him they can thwart tho election of a Lnnc
Senator by some political legerdemain.
What Ilibben has written, we know not,
but wc notice that our Clackamas members
and the Land Office oflieiuls are seized with
a new zeal for Lane all at once, and the fe
ver has reached tho boiling point with Dolf,
while Guthrie is fairly moving things in the
direction of Lane's wishes. Czapkny's
Agent is generally denounced as an ' aboli
tionist,' 4 a tool of Xesinith's,' &c., Ac, and
we arc assured by tho Lane men here that
they ' happen to know that they can carry
tho present Legislature,' and crush ont
what they call tho 'central power' ut Salem,
Thcro isn't a bushito in this city that wo
know of, except it be perhaps Powunll, but
how many they can scare up in the brush,
we couldn't tell. Such nationals as Collard
are not interested in the light, and ' don't
care which whips,' while, on the other side,
Kelly says he sympathizes even with Lane
in a quarrel with such a creature as the
Agent. . ' ; , .
Well, that's about tho history of the
state of Democratic politics around here.
We give it merely ns a matter of history,
thinking it inuy iutcrest some of our Demo
cratic subscribers, gud not that we care
anything about tho mutter.
Tho Snlem organ has, however, 60 far
hud the heels of Lane, it hasn't left
grease spot of him, in holding him up as an
ineflicicnt, unprincipled, egotistical ignora
mus. It has more than endorsed ever)'4
thing we have ever said of him, anil it has
also proven Delusion to be a two-faced ful
ificr just what we havo proved him to be
more than once. "ow, if Delusion and
Lano will retort upon tho Agent by telling
all they know of his rascality, they' will
have fairly swallowed eaeli other. They
have a fine opening for a beginning by
overhauling the 'Gardner memorial,' the
'Lelund's wife libel,' the ' Know Nothing
petitions,' the 'Jackson county returns,' and
probably some undeveloped revelations on
' Chickopee vouchers,' aud a few other mat
ters of that sort These Democrats, if they
would, could make some rich revelations
concerning cacn otucr. fciiuii we nave
them ? -
19 We have on hand a letter from the
Hon. W. A. Starkweather, of this county,
giving his reasons for withdrawing from
the Democratic party, but its length pre
cludes iU insertion this week. It shall ap
pear in our next issue.
I' t& k btB't xafti for two days past. ;
The Weather.
The weather that wo have had sinee
Feb. 7th has been unparalleled iu the his
tory of Oregon from its earliest settlement
down. Seven weeks ago lust Monday was
a clear sunny day that gave promise of our
umd sunny February. Rut, alas for hu
man expectations, on tho morning following
we looked out of our wliidowcupon a snow
clad earth and nn angry, storm-covered
canopy overhead. What wo thought nt
t'le tiino to bo only a ' short shower,' has
proved to bo tho prelude of about kcvc
weeks of ono everlasting storm of cold
south wind, making the forests moan, and
brincintr cold rain, hail, snow, fog, nnd
mist, all jumbled up together, much oft
what we have alwuys conceived to be the
order of such things in tho world of chance,
Wo have had, it Is true, an occasional
glimpse of the sun just enough to sutisfy
us that he hadn't been blown from the firm
anient, and that at some time before ' dog
d iys' ho might be expected to smile on the
world again. The consequence is that the
gras which is usually abundant nt this
season of the year has started but little, and
hundreds, wc might sny thousands, of poor
cattle and hones have concluded to wai
for grass no longer, and have gone to that
'bourne' whence no animnl returns. The
losses of stock full heavily upon ninny, but
c.ccin!ly upon an editor who, whilst at
his post laboring for his country, in addi
tion to the annoyances and hardships caused
by delinquent subscribers, hears the ' news'
(that isn't the kind or news' editors ore
anxious to gather) that tho winter litis
made sad ravages among his favorite family
cows, and that the poor horses, the pros
pect of riding which mado the little ones
dance for joy, have given tip the ghost, and
that their bones lio scattered over the old
ranch, once the home of a happy family
but long since deserted for a post where
tho enemies of our common conntry could
be watched nnd their efforts to demoralize
and enslave the jreople, crippled. But to
us, 'twill all be the same a hundred years
hence, and we hope that those who lire in
the yenr 1059 will live tinder a wholesome
Government sustained by an honest constit
uency and paying subscribers aud that
if they do happen to have such a terrible
spell of weather as wo haro had for the
last seven weeks, they may be smnrt cnoug
to It prepared for it that's all.
JIonsE-STEAi.iN'o. A horso and mule
were stolen lust Saturday night iu this city
the former from tho stable of Mr. Day
and tho latter from the stable of Mr. Mil
Icr. The locks were broken, and tho ani
mals, together with saddles aud bridles,
were taken. , The owners went in pursuit
of them Sunday morning, and tracked the
thieves to Mr. Adams's beyond Molulla,
where they were very quietly taking dinner
hiving been unablo to cross Pudding
U'.ver. They surrendered without any re
sistance, and were brought to town, aud
next morning had a hearing before Justice
Burns, who, in default of bail : to the
amount of $1000 each, committed them to
prison. X ucy acknowledged the stealing of
the animals. These same chaps a shoft
time ago stole a gnu autl watch in Wash
ington county, which they traded off in this
city. They are strangers, their names be
ing Vaughn and Mnrsels, one an Irishman
an J the other a German.
ITS"" We do not usnully regard as a conserve
live party, one, the confeksed, pre-eminent lenders
and representative men of which declare themselves
believers in the doctrine of a ' higher law.' "
Dalltt Journal.
Oh, yes, you do you regard the framers,
aiders, and supporters of the Lceotnpton
constitution as 'conservatives,' and they
are all ' higher law' men, for tho border-ruf
fian Democrats expressly decloro in tho Lc
compton constitution the authority for sla
very is 'above all constitutional enactments,
That is tho ground taken by Stephens and
nil tho leading sectionnlists, who, finding it
unsafe to base the ' inalienable right' of all
Democrats to ' life, liberty, and the pursuit
of niggers' npon tho constitution, have
abandoned the attempt at length, and, like
the border-ruffians iu Kansas, havo placed
it on tho .' higher law' basis. So you sec
you are a ' higher law' disciplo yourself.
Don't yotl cull yourself a ' conservative' ?
Our Trade with Asia.
As much has been said within a few
years about diverting our Asiatic, trade
from its present channel around Cape Horn
and directing it through tho heart of the
continent by means of a Railroad from
this coast to the Atlantic seaboard, wc pro
poso to past such of our readers as havo
never informed themselves as to what our
trade with Asia consists in, and what it
amounts to per annum by way of imports
from that country.
For the year ending Juno 30. 1 857, the
value of tea imported into the various ports
of the United States from Asia amounted
to $5,757,686; coffee, $1,150,001; linseed,
$3,000,000; cordage, $2,662,500; gnnny
bags and cloth, $2.240.G06; sugar, $1.
535.000;, hides, $1,183,107; saltpeter,
$1,008,207;" spices, $605,424; dye-stuffs,
$602,213; shawls, $105,100; silks, raw
and manufactured, $994,239; tin, in pigs
nnd bars, $550,755; cigars aud tobacco,
$140,000; india rubber, $133,258; wool,
$21,000; castor and other other oils,
$125,000; camphor, $53,000; gums, $37.
000; embroideries and clothing, $64,843;
dye-woods, : $49,500; tanned skins, $77.
000; China ware, $81,000; other articles,
$25,000; making in all $22,204,534 as oar
average yearly trade with Asia. 1
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sftT" The river is falling rapidly.. ,, , ,
Fnou Jacksonvii.i.k. Tho Sentinel of
March 12 represents the weather as coh!
and disagreeable, with considerable snow,
The Sentinel hears great complaint about
poor cattle, nnd adds 'In fuct tpiito
uumber of cattle has died.'
Davis Kvans has erected a new saw-mill
on tho north side of Uoguo Hiver, near the
mouth of ICvnus Creek. Bacon ia worth
30 cents, beef scarce and ioor, and but
littlo wheat in tho vulley so tho Sentinel
thinks they will havo to get their supplie
from this section when tho mud dries up.
Tho Sentinel hits been advertising in vniu
for a long tiino for butter, hud, potatoes,
onions, flour, chickens, and wood, from do
liiitiicnt subscribers elciiiejiU which even
a pro-slavery editor finds indispensable to
comfort, If not lo existence but as the po
tatoes and onions don't come, 1" Vault ai!
vertises that ho will sell the Sentinel ulllco
" cheap for cash" (no onions taken) and
says "an office veil conducted Iu this place
can make money," leaving one to infer that
as the Sentinel under its past ' conduct' on
negro principles hnsu't mude even onions or
potatoes, it hasn't been very ' well con
ducted' a conclusion wo and T' Vault
wouldn't fall out about.
"There are times in tho life and affairs
of man that arc difficult to solve." Sen
Unit. '
Oh, yes, of course there are nnd ono
the ' times in the lifo and affairs ' of a loco-
foco editor that is ' difficult to solve'
when, after four years and eight weeks
labor in advocating shivery under tho de
lusion that it would
tato insolvent.' '
' pay,' he finds his es-
Mount VEnxox Association. The fol
lowing named ludies have been appointor
by tho Vice Urgent of the Mount Vernon
Association in Orcgo:i, to receive subscrip
tions in their respective counties for said As
sociation:
Mrs. A linn y Holbiiook, Oregon City,
Clackamas to.;
Mrs. L. F. C.mtfe, Salem, Marlon Co,
Mrs. Anniso.s K. Flint, Hoseburg
JJotiglas to.; 1
- Mrs. S. Eu.swoRTn, Eugcno City, Lano
County;
Mrs. II. E. Stuattox, ScotLsburg, Ump-
qna to.:
Mrs. George Fi.avei., Astoria, Clntsop
County;
Miss Eli.es I. Winch ester, Coos Bay,
toon t o.
Middle Okerox. Wc have conversed
with Mr. Marshall, of Linn comity, who
went to tho Walla Walla country some
seven weeks ago, to select him a claim.
Upon his return, ho informs ns that they
havo hud very littlo ruin lit that section
within the lost two months. Once or
twice ho saw a few snow fltikos. Tho grass
was green and abundant, and tho settlers
wero making gardens when he left.
1 V- 1
JtST Tho Willamette has Irecn higher
this week by somo three feet than it has
been before this winter too high iudeed for
most any boat to go through the Bock Is
land chute. Tho Elk, notwithstandi
went through lust Monday, tho first time
in its history it has ever done so at this
stitgo of water. Tho Elk, with t'npt
Sweitzer aboard, could go, however, where
few other boats would dure try to go.
TniE Sentiment. We clip the follow
ing, penned by a California etlitor when In
ono of the moods that wo think every ed
itor will fully appreciate .
" From and after this date no job work
can bo taken from this office until paid for;
unless some responsible person assumes the
payment of the same. We adopt this rule
for tho purpose of protection from those
sharki who prey upon the public.; Those
non-producers who have never done an lion
est day's work since their advent in Califor
nia; men that get credit from every one
they can, without tho slightest intention of
ever paying for what they receive; it is
theso ghoul that cause those numerous
bankruptcies among publishers which this
country is noted for; who are, annually,
candidates for some position, and on such
occtisions they order, with cool effrontery.
several tiiousund election tickets and post
ers, and receivo tho sumo without Buying
money once, as though ink and puper cost
nothing, nnd a printer s labor not worth
mentioning. ,: '
"It was for this description of men (?)
with one or two honorable exceptions, that
wo did work lor at the late election loaf
ers who never intended to pay for their
printing when they had it done dirty, con
temptible dogs that they arc, it never oc
curred to them once that an honest me
chanic had to live as well as they, and if it
nnd, wnat diOerence would it have made
with these' unprincipled, offiec-seekinrr
wrciciies; inese preys upon any respectable
community, whether an honest man gains a
rcspcctauio livelihood or not.".
We clip the above as quito applicable to
a few cases we have in our eye in Oregon,
and we would most respectfully refer the
person to it who writes ' confidentially' to
us asking for our influence toward getting
him nominated for Congress a man who
has never paid a dollar toward supporting
our paper, and who is too stiugy, too mean
and contemptible to care for principle, for
the success of a paper, or a party, other
than it may secure his personal promotion.
We shall never ask any man to rote for
you in convention or out of it, and if you
should succeed ia getting a nomination,
you may think yourself well off if yon get a
cold support irora as. Men who are too
stingy to support Republican paper, or
too dishonest to pay us what tbey owe, are
not fit material for Republican candidates,
and we don't intend to give a warm sup
port to auy such if we support them at all.
'She isn't all that mv funcv nainted
her,' bitterly exclaimed a rejected lover.
and worse than that she isn't all that ah
paints herself.' , .:. J
nT A corrrsKndunt Iu Vnipqua, in ft
li tter to us dated March 23d, makes the
following remarks concerning the resolu
tions adopted nt the ' Republican' meeting
in Portland somo weeks since:
" As an individual I object to the fifth
resolution, but ns Jtipubliean I am en
raged at tho sitth, and I unhesitatingly
deny its Mug the true expression of the
Nationul Republican party. If I urn mis
taken, I wish you would Inform me; ami
ns soon as I am convinced that this resolu
tion is an article of Republican faith, I
ahull incontinently objure the party and all
its belongings. Hero it Is: ' 6th, Resolved,
That the icoplo of every organized Terri
tory are, mid of right ought to lie, perfectly
fn-o to establish or to exclude shivery, anil
to settle according to their own pleasure all
their domestic institutions.' AN ell, really!
I did not cxeet to see the ' Kansas-Nebraska
bill ' iu the enpuWty of a plank In n
Ui-publienn platform. Tho resolution is a
self-evident ubsnrdity. If ' the people of 11
Territory may establish or exclude slavery,'
they are no longer a Territory, but a sov
ereign State to ull intents and purposes.
If ' they can settle according to their plea
sure all their domestic institutions' (inclu
ding polygamy, frccloveism, highway rol
bcry, or what not), without being in any
way responsible to the General Govern
ment, whut would they gain, in tho name of
common sense, by becoming a Stale f
No, sir, this is not Republicanism, but the
very principle that Republicanism opposes.
If such an alisurd proposition were curried
into effect, there would bo unnrchy, confu
sion, and civil war, iu every now Territory,
ad infinitum, ns has been already tho case
in Kansas. Why, sir, tho strongest prop,
next to eternal justice, that the Republican
party has, is found in tho fact that Con
gress, and Congress only, has the right to
dictate to Territories on the subject of sla
very, or any other subject of uutionnl inter
est and iuiiortancc, or I am sadly behind
the times.
" According to the above resolution, five
hundred thieves may go into any new ter
ritory of the United States, set up for
themselves, and do just ns they please; aud
all that Congress ran do is to look on, pay
their exjieiiscs, protect them from invasion,
nnd say nothing. Oh, magnificent freedom!!
If this is American Republicanism, I would
rather bo a serf in Russia.
" lift us bo at least respectable, if not
successful. Let our platform bo such as
every honest man may claim without blush
ing. Let there be 110 concessions, no com-
iiromiscs, no giving soft huuies to villainy.
,et us take the right ground, and stick to
it, if we never succeed."
( rKnsKCiTiox ok Democrats. Tho fol
lowing eloquent nnd truthful speech, says
the X. Y. Tribun", was uctuully delivered
at a Democratic caucus iu the town of Sa: -
ford, Broome county; York State:
'Gemti.ksmn: Dy (7 J, wo are g-ing to b- st
the a d lilnca lirpublic.ina, I am going to work
tins year, uist year we were licked bec.ioso
was iu jail anil could not vote. I wna persecuted
and kept in jail becauve I was a lK niocr.it (ien-
tiemeii, the Democratic party is a perneentrd party.
Uo lo an the Jmlt ana State i'ntnni in the
country, and you wilt find nine eut of every ten
of alt the criminal Democrat: Now innrk what
1 tell you. I am not in prison this year, and you
w ili see what 1 can do." 1
. Taters. The Press says that potatoes
are up to $2 in Eugene City n price that
places them entirely beyond the reach of
editorial mastication. The Press says;
" For the last month how we have long
ed for a 1 big 'titter to roast;' how often in
our musing moods, have wo repeated that
tuvoritc song ot our childhood, we used to
sing in the hind where potatoes were
plenty, nnd cheap too:
' The greatest fun that's under the sun,
Is to sit by the fire till the 'taters get done.'
But that ' fun,' the very acme of human fe
licity, has been denied us, became there
was ' nary 'later to be had for love or
money."
That ought to entitle friend Pengra to
potatoes enough from new subscribers to
satisfy his ' longing ' for the next nine
months. We wish a dozen Republicans
who have potatoes to sell in Clackamas for
six bits a bushel, would subscribe for the
Press, and pay in advance by forwarding
four bushels to the editor by the next Eu
gene City boat. ' '
1 For the Argut,
Mr. Editor Sir: By your permission,
I will hazard a prediction that Jo Lane will
soon return to Oregon, and defend himself
by certificates, purporting to be from Ste
phens, Cox, nnd a few others, who will be
made to testify that Lane labored faithfully,
industriously, ordently, to have Oregon re
ceived into the Union as a sovereign State
lust year; and further, that ho is a very
vigilant, industrious, and influential Del
egate equaled by few, surpassed by none!
All of which will be a consummate forgery,
written most likely by his boy Hibben, the
author of his printed defense, lately from
Washington. I write this the 18th dny of
March, 1859, and mark well the prediction
and the fulfillment. - -
There is but one chance for the above
prediction to fail, and that is, if brother
Bush & Co. should become alarmed for
themselves, and pretend to be convinced
by old Jo's certificates that he was inno
cent, and even praiseworthy, in the prem
ises, nnd in effect take back all that has
been said reproachfully, then, and in that
event, the above prediction may fail, but
not otherwise. Yet there are so many
things of which he is accused, there will be
some difficulty in satisfying honest men.' '
I am now satisfied that you and party
are in the right. Set mo down henceforth
as a Republican. Send me your paper.
Ax Ou Democrat."
Mariox Co., March 23, 1859;
Mr. Editor: I see by. the Argus that
the S. of T. at Oregon City are gaining
ground rapidly. Xow, why can we not
hear from other Divisions in the State ?
We Sons up here would like to hear how
the cause flourishes in other parts. I be
lieve you would gladly publish an account
at least once a year about how other Divis-
Iom flourish, If they would onlye
nn account. Let us hear' Iroin soil,,' of
them. ,
Tho Sublimity Division Is In' quit,
flourishing condition, and I understand th,
same from the Jefferson Division. The
Washington Division (located ut the Jjb.
erty Sehool-llonso in this county) was or
ganized 0110 year ago with nino cnarUr
im mlieis, and has been laboring under .
great many difficulties, too ,imncr))l '
mention, but wo havo beeu ,u.,,jy i,,?
Ing, notwithstanding a great many hive
withdrawn on account of having changed
their residences. Wc now number twenty,
three uicmk-rs. Yours,
Oiikiiox Citv, MuHiTh, m
Mn. EiiiToit: We notice In the hist u'nta.
bcr of the Argus a news item stating tltt
J. R. Graves, author of the ' Iron Wheel'
Ac., hnd Irccii unanimously excluded from
the church of which ho was a member hov
ing been convicted of lying. This sbowli,,
we liclieve, does injustice to Mr. Graves',
and ns it has obtained a wide currency'
through tho columns of the Argus, Adrr
cale, and perhaps other Oregon papers, ,
devote a moment to a very brief statement
of the facts, which we havo token great
pains to secure from the most reliable
sources. '
Rev. Mr. Groves and Dr. IioweH wcre
both members of the same Baptist Church
hi Nashville, Tennessee. . A ptrsomim
culty has been brewing between these two
men for the last five years. Finally, in the
absence of Graves, without pursuing the
course directed in tho 18th chapter of Mat
thew concerning tersonnl difficulties,' the
matter was introduced into the cliareh.
Graves returned home, declared himiwlf
rendy to meet any aud all charges preferrve
against him in GosjmI mode; protested
against the church entertaining the matter
until Dr. Howell had come to him privately
nnd cudenvorcd to 'gain his brother' in
lawful manner. In this protest he was
sustained by many of tho best men in the
church. However, the church, by a ma
jority vote, refused to remund the matter,
and determined to proceed and hear the
trial; whereupon Mr. Graves refused, ut
terly, to become a port to any sneh an
scriptural proceedings, and immediately, in
connection with over forty other members
of the church, withdrew from the fellow
ship of the body, and formed nuothtf -
church. The ex parte trial proceeded, and
Graves was found guilty, by the Howell
faction, of havinj misrepresented Dr.
llomll. , i
Subsequently both theso clinrches or so
cieties scut up delegates to the Tennessee
and Alabama Baptist General Convention,
Dr. Howell heading otic list and Mr. Grarts
the other. This body is composed of the
best ministerial and disciplinary talent of
the two States. By a votoof about 1C4
to 26, Dr. Howell and his associates went
refused udmission; and Graves and Lis co
delegates were received, as coming front
the orthodox Baptist church in Nashville.
When officers of the Convention, were
chosen, Gravis was unanimously eltcttd
President. Wc state the latter, fact to
show Graves's standing in the dcuotuina-.
tion generally, so that the great and in
creasing number of readers of the u Iron
Wheel ' in Oregon may not be prejudiced
against the book on account of fulso im
pressions made about its author. .1"
W. C. JohnboX,
D. D. Stechensox.
Oua Financial Paoaaass. Tbe Wnsliingtoa
correspondent of the New York Post thus succinctly
sums up the downward progresa of our national 8
nunces during the Inst few years 1 , , ,
Mr. Duchatiun took the government with a fall
treasury nnd a public debt of only tweuty-five mil
lions. Peace, ns he told ns in his first annual mes-
s ige, ruled our rela'ions with ull foreijju powers.
Scarcely two years have el.ipcd, and we find the
treasury emplied, the public dibt increased by for
ty mill oiis, and tvo very expensive and uppareaily
ulmoet interminable, yet entirely useless, warlike
expeditions on our hands. Notwithstanding ita
diminution of the revenue under Ihe tariff of I85i,
and Ihe depressed statu of the business of the coua
try, there would have been no necessity fol a psr
manent increase of our public debt but for these
two expeditious. Our expenditures duriPg
last year were $81 ,585,667. The experditures of
the government during the four years or tyws
administration were only 181,316,623. Thus, is
less lhan ten years, our expenses have nearly qu
rupled. The average under Tyler was a li
over $20,000,000 i under Polk, $36,73O,0Wi un
der Fillmore, $48,600,000; under l,'Mjai;
775,000; ami under Buchansn, $M,500,000-ll
exclusive of payments upon the accoent of the poo
lie debt. Our receipts under the tariff oT IMi,
from customs, were about $12,000,000, a sum ex
ceeding Ihe expenses or the country under Mr.
Polk when, we were at war with Mexico, by i
six millions." . 1 . , ,-. c 1
M. GeiioT ox tiis Euaori Caists.-Tne
Journal des Debate of Paris recently bad "7
able article on the present posiuoa of France wk
regard to impending war, which has been 1
generally attributed to M. Guixot, th veteran mnv
ister of Louis Philippe. Il admits that the 1"
meat of France is pacific, but says that oertaia par
lies are interested ia hurrying the eoamtry
war. It then reviews the probable eonsequenees
entering upon this policy. , Austria by itself, couM
uea Ihe writer, is by no meaoa eUaopUkad
versary.' But the neutrality ef Germany eaoi
be counted on, tot those States will choose
for a guide, and her interests, alliances and jsstrwt"
prejudices, incline her to the aide of Aastns.
Kngtand, also now in elose alliance with rrs-sa.
and agreeing with Austria upon many "j
ed poiuia of Ihe treaty of Paris, would fafl
aloof. The too. of th. British publi.
Louis Xapoleosj affords additional erideaee ea
point Rue.-, wh-e co-operation with Yn'.
.0 hastily calculated npon, mors tkely to rernan,
atnclly aeutral tham any other Eum
Her th, would be -or. rVL
plunged rate war, with -M't "" 'J?
an, Stale, eieepUng po- Sardinia ,T
to, tber.hr. ssts if there '"V?"
Franc lo me erum.PuoP - JJTZ
ai futile. AI th. seme
a soar. r. the popular '1' -
hi. aacific ksoos disappoints", V "7tT.ef
Mt aa oil thotsghl. and t U tJJrJ