the offspring of men who feed and fatten at
the public crib and tax unmercifully tlie
public for their fidelity to platforms. The
consummation of Democratic liberality Is
found in resolution th, and in nearly these
words: Demoeratt may freely speak or
write their lentimentt for and against the
adoption of slavery In Oregon, provided
they do not sympathize with black republi
canism or abolitionism. Gracious resolu
tion! Somo few Democrats did write and
tomo not, vtryfrevly, but straightway their
standing was impaired. This resolution
would belter express tho liberty intended
to be given, did it read, Democrats, be-
waro how you speak against the adoption
of slavery In Oregon. Tho Clique itself
could not have spoken freely against tU
adoption of shivery and stood an upright
Democrat. The fuct Is that free-state Dem
ocrats are so disciplined as to forbid a bold
and manly opposition to tho adoption of
slavery anywhere The Democratic party
has become the home of all pro-slavery
men, and they control the liberty of speech
on the question of slavery. Whero is the
Democratic editor or statesman that speak,
freely his sentiments in opposition to slavery-extension
f Though there Is a large
free-state vote in the Democratic party, yet
their political leaders and their presses are
hushed to silence by their connection, or
forced to profess that they have no objec
tion to slavery not local; and, if of New
England origin, it is required that they fre
quently denounce Northern fanaticism.
This last sccrai a most lucky artifice to
catch votes, and is ono of the most silly
and successful humbugs of politicians.
Disapproving, as I do, of the pretended
indifference of the free-state leaders of the
Democratic party with regard to the spread
of slavery, and of the sentiments of the shv-
Tcry-cxtensionists of the party and of
their newly-adopted article of fuith, that
the Constitution makes all our territory
slave territory and of the expenditure of
$80,000,000 per annum by the General
Government of their action toward Kan
ens of their non-payment of our war debt
and believing that neither the Democrat
ic party at home nor that of the nation nd
hcrcs to its profession or subserves the pul-
lic interests, and being unwilling to have my
political faith a mutter of yearly convex
tional legislation, I thonght it my duty to
withdraw from tho organization, and to
Jiold my political fuith subject to my own
personal control.
W. A. Starkweather,
UriT.it Moui.u, March 25, 1859.
Fiiom the South. Tho Washington cor
respondent of the Philadelphia Enquirer
writes: ,
" I have within a day or two met with a
.Northern gentleman of intelligence and rep
utation, who has just returned from a visit
to North and South Curolinn, who reports
a highly mvoruolo state or tceling in the
portions of those States he visited. Like
(tens of thousands ut the North, they have
come to the conclusion that sectional ngita
itieu has been purposely kept up by politi-
cmus for mere political effect; and as to
disunion, they scout at the idea the people
or the fcoutli desire any disruption ot it.'
'This gentleman sinks that in coming North,
itlie railroad trains met generally had two
masscnger curs, each about halt' filled, and
usually two or three cars packed full of no-
gro 'S, going Ssoutli. I was told tho day
before by a gentleman from Baltimore, that
Jorge numbers or negroes, were going South
groin Maryland; and at the present rate of
emigration, the Mate would won direst her
self of tho whole of her black population.
J. Ins is the cllect of the high price of cotton
and the consequent high price of negroes;
a price altogether nbovc what they are
worth to grain growing and stock raising
farmers. Li t this state of things coutiue
for a few years, and we shall have free
States south of Mason and Dixon's Hue."
HIS AHIRTV fllll.UUX 1-ROJECT. IUO fll'W
York Timet offers the following exji'iiualion of Mr,
Sliikli's scheme :
" A a iinpulM stronger an1 mire inuncdiale than
Him reunite suggestions ol political auiu lion now ap
mare l account for the Congressional agitation.
J ho bill graining tho l'res.dpin control of thirty
millions of the pulilio money ii a mousuru of specu
lation, not violiiica. Tliu fuuils thui placed at
the uimrriinn il Iho chief niiigtm:e, who now
.itamls, na his .New Vork organ confesses, 'almost
.alone,' looking ubout hini in vain for a parly, are to
be umm, not tnwarde tho purwini-e ol tubn, but
ivimply to act on fiMil a gran I m licnio fi r buying
nip jSiuinUli bonds in Europe a' their present rato
.ol Jeprvciniion, nmi rairng their tnai kit value by
(forcing tne ppanmn oov. rnmcnt to pay them m
ifull or unvinler Cuba as an equivalent. In order
1o reconcile the public mind of America to this no
table transaction, fundi will be freely used, and
topicul applications of n.Uatu of silver made wild a
Presidential probing to the vocal organ of public
opinion."
9 The Hnmcslend Kill, which primed the
House of Representative by a vote I i!0 to 76, and
tliae yet to be acted upon in the Senate, ie highly
iiiniurtatit in in provisions, which have been some
what iimundcratnod. It donates, free of cost to
every head of a family or person of legal ngc, na
tive born, or uu al.en having declared hia intention
to become citixun, one quarter section, or one
iunJred and aixty aoren of vacant, unappropriated
Jau.lJ. Alter five yea's' reaidence upon it the
land are finally patented upon the payment of a
fee of ten dollar for th iaiuing of the patent, and
the landa thu acquired " shall in no event become
liable to the antislaction of any debt or debt con
.trncted prior to the issuing of the patent Uierefor."
.A the public domaiu ha been systematically
-aquan Icrml and plundered for many yean, this bill,
il'puascd, will enulil every euergoiic man to leave
the overcrowded Rut and provide a fiee home for
bis family, which with proper industry will be in
alienable for ever. It there is not sound and lib
crul policy in these provisions, we have not correct
ly understood the provisions of the bill. I: seems
to us just the kind of legislation that is wanled to
bind the valley of tlie Minisippi to the I'acific
Sta'rs; to open up the route for a railroad to Cali
fornia, an I to populate the Western Territories.
Xouitcille Journal.
j3 It will hardly be believed, but it is,
nevertheless, true, that an elopement took
flace, a few days ago, at Albany, New
Yorfc, between a couple of children, aged
respectively fourteen and fifteen years!
The youug Romeo actually provided hira-,
vlf with a package of arsenic, to commit
suicide in caso of a discovery, but fortunate-,
ly the father of the youug geutlcmai over
took tsiui at Vtica, got possession of the
jmison, had the girl locked up, and gave i
tip bo J good cowbiding. j
ttlje rcjou 5trgu0.
w. u. aua Mi, luiTflR and raorsirroa.
OJUBOON OZTTi
SATURDAY, APRIL 0, 1859.
To the Republicans of Oregon.
There will be a Pnnvenllon of tho Republicans of
Oregon at .SALb.il, on IiieasuAV, tiik 1 wkntv
riasT dav or Aran., lHjtf, for the purpo-e of uom.
inaling a Delegate or Uepreneuuilivi- to Concre",
and for the purpose of transuding such oilier busi
ne ns mny come before the Convention.
The Committee suggest that the following appor
tionment be adhered lo in electing delegates:
Curry I, Coos I, Jackson 4, ,ikphiiie , Dou-
fie 4, l'nipua 3, Lane 6, Linn tl, HnCon 4,
oik 4, Yamh II 4, Mar on 7, Clackamas S. Wash
ington 3, Multnomah 4, Colunib.e 1, Clatsop I,
Tilmniook 1, and Wasco I.
The Committee ala earnestly request that a full
and complete orgimitntiun of the Republicans be
peif.-c.ed in every county al ait early day, and
that the chairman of each county committee im
mediately send his uanie and post-office address to
W. C. Jounson, Clerk of the Central Committee,
at Ur gon City.
W. T. Matlock, 1
W. C. JuHKaoN, Rep.
L. IIoi.Hr.s, . Cen.
. II. VVaKINKLD, Com.
W. L. Auaus,
Jan. 22, 1809.
Kind, Viav. " Cpon our recommendation, the
Committee on Military Afliiirsiu the House will re
port in fuvor of paying the Methodist Church twen
ty thousand dollars lor their Dalles niis.ou landa.'
-Smith'$ Litter to thi Timet.
Inasmuch as the " Methodist Church'' haa no
legitimate claim Ui any land in Wasco county, w
arc surprised, to say the least, that Delnion Smith
should lend himself to twindlt the Treasury out
of twenty thousand dollars. Daliet Journal.
If tbis la an attempt to 'swindle the
Treaiury' that 'surprises' you, why are
you not equally surprised' that your pet Jo
Lffue was engaged with Delusion in this
' swindling pperation? Now that Delusion
has become an outcast from the bushites
on account of his having been induced to
become Lane's attorney, it would seem
that Lane's friends would naturally serve
hira as they do 'Old Jo' walk buckward
and scratch a few leaves and chips over his
blunders. But if Jo Lane hasn't deter
mined to shove Delusion overboard, now
that ho has used him, we arc at a loss to
know why Lane's special organs are now de
nouncing Delusion. The Standard devotes
considerable space to rending him out of
the Lnuo party. Tho Standard, which,
like the Dalles Journal, is of the thorough
bred Southern extremist stamp of politics,
to which Lane has dually attached himself,
uses the following language: .
" We regret to find that with some sterling Dem
ocrats the belief has partly obtained credence that
Gen. Lane will use his influence to secure the re
election of Dclazon Smith rut U. 8. Senator, and
considerable feeling is manifected in consequence.
Vt e do not believe that there is a shadow of foun
dation for this allegation against our worthy Sena
tor. Dolaion believed himself the great
man of Oregon, until he got to Washington.
There he fohud to oppose Gen. Lane as
an unsafe operation. At Washington,
as elsewhere, Gen. Lane had reputation, Dclazon,
most plentiful kick of it. He did have notoriety.
In case he drew the short term, he would stand lit
tle chance for re-election if Gen. Lane s friends
steadfastly opposed him. By following the lead of
his honorable colleague, the friends of that gentle
man in Oregon, might be induced to support him.
He must turn in some way to secure a re-election,
which wos his highest ambition, and na such per
sons generally do, he turned against the very friends
to whom he owed his elevation. '
The fact is that Delusion isu't a thor
ough-bred negro-breeder naturally, but
serves because he is paid well for it. If he
was hired by a Georgia planter to superin
tend his plantation affairs, he is just the fel
low that would leave the moment his 'pay'
stopped coming a man whoso instincts
would be suspicioned even by his employer
as inclining him to strike for the North
Stur somo dark night, before his time was
out, provided ho had been paid in advance
while Lane would be sure to stay his full
time out for which ho was ' owing service,'
and would probably then beg for a new
contract.
Lano has assured the party in Washing-.
ton city that the Democratic party in Ore-
goo was mado of such stuff that it
would readily adopt the Charleston platp
form of 18G0, be that just as black and
sectional ns even Jeff Davis and Stringfcl'
low might want it, and that they would cor
dially approve of the martyrdom of Dou-
glas, the acquisition of Cuba, and whatever
else tho fire-eaters demanded provided he
said the word. Tho rabid pro-slavery men
murly to a man are now strong Lane men
all over Orexon, while the officials, who
ore dependent in a great measure upon
Lane for their living, have agreed to do tlie
whole bidding of the fire-eaters as made
known to them through Lane.
Tho Democratic elements of Oregon, like
those of the Atlantic States, are discord
ant, jumbled, and chaotic, and no man who
ms the least political sagacity can fail to
see signs of an early dissolution of that par-
ty. The great conflict between sectional
despotism and human liberty, between ar
istocracy and the hnrd-handed Anglo-Saxon
yeomanry, that has been preparing for the
battle for more than twenty years, is soou
to come off, nnd it needs no prophetic eye
to pierce the smoke of the battle-field, and
see the nap; or victory waving over me
teeming and shouting millions of sinewy,
armed laborers, that eat their bread by the
sweat of their toil, and make the wilderness
bud and blossom as the rose. In view of
this conflict and in view of the complete
and overwhelming overthrow of sectional
ism, disnniouism, and negro-breeding fanat
icism that now stows away its sable wor-
hipers in the black hulk of modern Democ
racy, onr more intelligent and honest labor
ers are casting about for excuses to desert
from the army of fanatic led on by disnn-
muusU and their pensioned tools, to join the
ranks of the patriotic Itepuldieaa hosts
marshalled ander the flag of the Uniou and
treading on ground hollowed by the foot
prluia of Wasbiofto ami his noble com-
peers, and sacred as the soil that germinat
ed tho tree of human liberty that bore the
Constitution and Declaration of Indcpcn
dence. The pro-slavery fanatics that ex
iled to raniro themselves under the lead of
Lane, with Ilibbcn in the rear to scourge
them on with an Alabama cowhide, ore
fust being mustered into a squad by the
Sentinel, Standard, Times, and Herald,
with the Union as an indirect whipper-in,
preparatory to being led np, branded, and
turned over as tlie ' property' of Jeff Davis,
Stephens, and Faulkner, In consideration of
services rendered to Jo Lane by way of
putting him in a favorable position to first
run his arm into the U. S. Treasury, and
then run his nose into the Charleston Con
vention as a candidate for tho 1'rcsidency
or Vice Presidency. Such Is the use that
is being mado of the rabid pro-slavery cle
ment by the organs aforesaid, while such
Northern dough-faco driven-niggers as are
holding office at Lane's recommendation,
and such other dough-faces as are hungry
expectuuts, and are impregnated by Lane
witlt the Idea that they ought to look to the
Government for support, instead of relying
upon their own industry, aro intimating
their willingness to turu traitors to human
liberty, denounce the land that gave them
birth, and eat just the kind and quality of
dirt set before them ' without asking ques
tions are occasionally sneaking into the
motley herd. The Salem organ, on the
other hand, after having cried ' Good Lord,
Good Devil,' 'neither slavery nor nnti-sla
very' with one leg on the Administration
and another on tho Douglas sido of the
fence with one eyo cocked foxily at the
South, another squinting approvingly at the
North, and with its nose always in the por
ridge-pot, finds itself at length about to be
forced to take position, and, having gone
too far to rally under tho leadership of
Lane, has shrewdly counted all the chances
of the coming campaign, and has coolly
made up its mind to lay tho wires for n
Douglas campaign, provided Douglas, as is
possible, should bolt tho Charleston Con
vention, and then, out of the ruins and
smoke of the Douglas fizzle, crawl into the
Republican party, ond, after swearing that
it had sympathized with tho Republicans
for years, prove it by publishing confiden
tial letters it had written to its intimate
friends in the spring of 1 8-"9.
Such is our prediction concerning the as
pects of parties this ninth day of April,
1859, and, without claiming to be a proph
et, we submit the case to a candid world,
and if it doesn't turn out so, you may say
that we haven't carefully ' read the papers,'
or else that locofocos are ' mighty un
certain.' Tartlaad Ctly Election.
At the Portland city election last Mon
day the Democrats carried evejy word by
large majorities, excepting tlie third ward,
where the vote was light and close on ci
ther side. In this word our old friend
Ocn. McCarver, the Democratic candidate,
was beaten by Shattuck thirteen votes.
The ticket that was run against the Dem
ocratic ticket, we hear was made np of di
verse kinds of political material and called
the ' Voters' Ticket.' We suppose it ran
on the 1 Multnomah Platform? as a matter
of experiment to try tiie strength of its
plunks. The result is just what we should
have expected, nerc it is:
DEM, VOTER.
Mayor,
S J McCormick 428 A P Ankeny
Recorder,
Nllubcr 470 J M Brcck
Treasurer,
JnoMcCrackcn 443 S M Smith
235
205
230
Assessor,
895 IIKuelitz
Wm Knpus
242
Marshal,
413 SRIIolcomb 239
J n Lupous
Dan Wright
A II Ilnllock
Port Warden,
447 Richard Hoyt 220
Conncilmrn,
224 CHutchiiis
68
52
63
53
J M Vansycle
J Davidson
A D Shelby
M M Lucas
J C Hawthorne
M M McCarver
A C It Show
John Blauchard
212
199
156
157
158
81
97
86
T Mvers
JSWhito
11 Fniling
E J Northup
J P Hughes
D Sbuttuck
S Coffin
64
60
94
80
77
John Thessing
Hoe Dili.
Charles I. Roe, the wife murderer, was
hung at Salem last Saturday. His execu
tion was witnessed by a crowd or some
fifteen hundred people, several hundred of
whom were women. Roe freely confessed
his guilt on the scaffold, expressed his peni
tence, declared his belief that he had been
pardoned, exhorted the audience to repent
ance, and then offered np a fervent prayer
to heaven for forgiveness. He desired to
die, and not to live, and bore up with his
apparent usual strength till the halter was
put round his neck, the cap and shroud ad
justed, when be became 60 weak that he
sat down in a chair and remained there till
the drop fell. He struggled but a few mo
ment, and was a corpse. His spiritual
advisers were Revs. Roberts and Waller,
who attended the poor man, praying with
and exhorting hira to the lust.
A correspondent, In speaking of the ex
ecution, says : " The yelling aud carousing
on Saturday night did not indicate that tlie
moral (?) example of the day had done
much good." Tlie 'moral example' of
public executions never did do good. It
has a degrading aud dawning effect upon
public morals everywhere, and is wisely
forbidden by the laws of many States.
Rowdyism, fighting, aud even murder, are
more eonimoa upon the dislxaoding of
' hang ing bees than any other kind of con
courses, and wo wonder why a lady should
ever desiro to see a man choked to death.
If it is uecesiary to gratify a morbid appe
tite, a lingering remnant of (avngcism, by
feinting tho eyes of such as chooso to at
tend such neck-stretching ceremonies, why
not invite hi the ladies ns spectators every
time a leg is to be cut off, or any other
bloody surgical operation is to bo per
formed f
Amur? to EscAi-r. Tlio horse thievci
Vaughn and Mursels, who aro confined hi
the city jail, made an unsuccessful attempt
to escape last Friday afternoon. Tho mo
ment their kcccr, Mr. Day, stepped Inside
of the jail with their supor, they both seiz
ed him in such a manner as to pinion his
arms, and mado an effort to stow him away
in one of the iron cells. Mr. Day, not be
ing inclined to go there, resisted to tho best
of his ability for several minutes, when,
getting hold of his revolver In his pocket,
the prisoners were suddenly Induced by its
click in cocking to forego further ojierutions
for the present. Mr. Day has since had
pretty good job of bhieksmithing done for
the gentlemen, anil we think they will stay
till court sits. This letting prisoners break
jail has been quko common in the country,
and ought to be stopicd. When a man is
committed for a serious crime, he ought to
bo securely fastened by irons, and a failure
on the part of the Sheriff to thus secure
him, ought to subject that officer to a fine
equal to tho whole expenso of retaking him,
provided he escapes.
Not Ouhs. Every uiun ought to know
that the appcarunco of a communication in
in a paper is no positive evidence that the
editor endorses everything the article con
tains. ' It would be a very illiberal and nar
row-minded journalist who would reject
everything that didn't agree with his no
tions. We sometimes print articles differ
ing materially from our own views, without
a word of comment, when the errors it con
tains arc not considered by us vital ones,
thinking it will be better to leave the ex
posure of them to some of our clear-headed
correspondents than to notice them ourself.
At other times we pass them over at the
special request of the correspondent.
We have received a lengthy communica
tion this week from an intelligent writer for
whom we havo often published, upon a
matter that has never yet been rfiacusscd in
the Argus. The writer says, in a private
note, in spcuking of one of his leading
ideas,
" The idea mny be contrary to your opin'on, as
it is to that of very many. I eWt want you to
pitch into me if yen dilKr but anybody else,
whatever his ubilitics, I would like to enlsrUiu."
Of course we will accommodate our
friend, should wo publish bis article, by
leaving others to point out hia errors, if
any, on ' capital punishment.' This much
for our true relations to 'correspondence.'
By the way, the war on ' woman's rights'
is waxing rather warm. The mails arc
flooding us with enough matter to occupy
half our space. Tlie articles ore generally
too long, entirely so. We wish our cor
respondents would crowd their articles into
two pages of foolscap, and not exceed three,
certain. We always prefer to print arti
cles over tlie true name of the author, to
inserting anonymous ones. This isn't
always best, however. Wo prefer to be
tho judge of the expediency of it, and
would like to have our correspondents leavo
it with ns to give or withhold the real
name. What we write goes to the world
as our own individual production, and why
shouldn't that, written by others f Most
articles aro read with five times the interest
when signed by the true name of the wri
ter that they are when not thus endorsed,
while some, if over the proper name, though
in themselves good, would carry little
weight with them where the writer wqs
known.
In conclusion, let all inexperienced wri
ters study brevity, which is the soul of wit.
Give us ideas instead of words. Pay no
attention to ' sound and fury,' so common
to florid and verbose writers, but deal in
naked ideas and stubborn facts. Cut out
every useless adjective, and use a short one
in preference to a long one. First make
np your mind what you will write about,
and then plunge into tlie subject as you
would dive into cold water, without crawl
ing into it through a dozen lines of stiff
exordium. After you begin, stick to your
text till you have said what you want to
say, and then stop, leaving episodes to Ho
mer and perorations to Everett. Use soft
words and hard arguments in replying to
our correspondents, for they are our friends,
and we don't want to hurt their feelings.
Leave all the skinning to be doue, to us,
and we will take their hides off whenever
we think it necessary. If we correct your
articles, we do it for your benefit, and for
the credit of our paper, and you needn't
growl about it, and say, ' There, he has
spoiled it.' What some of our correspond
ents consider elegance of diction and elo
quence in expression, tee call insufferable
bombast, and we will neither punish, onr
compositors, torment our readers, nor dis
grace our paper, by giving it room. But
cnongh. '
t& A Washington corresjiondcnt of
the S. F. Bulletin says:
"Smith takes it as a matter of course
that the Legislature of Oregon will imme
diately re-elect him for a full terra of six
years. If Oregon wanU one half her rep
resentation in the npper branch of Congress
to be a nonentity, she undoubtedly will
gratify Mr. Smith's ambition."
3rNo bacon in this market, and there
hasn't been for a long time. "
News rram tka f.aat.
By the arrival of the uteahicf Pacific nt
Portland on Wednesday night hist wo liaro
dates from the East, to March 7th,
Awui'tiKUKNT of Co!totiKs. Congress
adjourned at noon March 4, after having
come well nigh blocking the wheels of gov
ernment by a blow up ou tho best Demo
cratic method of raising a revenue. The
South overruled Buchanan's effort through
Bigler and other Northern Deinocruts to
rcviso the tariff so as to meet the govern
ment expenses. Then there was nothing
left but to authorize another loan of twenty
millions, to keep the government going.
The Senate passed a bill raising letter and
newKpn)cr postage, mid authorizing a re-issue
of twenty millions of Trensiiry notes.
Tho House voted three times during the
very lust night of its sitting not to involve
the Government any further in debt by
agreeing to the Senate's Treasury noto bill,
but the President and most of his Cabinet
entered the Capitol and mesmerized enough
Northern Democrat, who had all tho time
voted against tho loan and declared they
would do so to the bitter end, to get them
to change their vote, and the Treasury note
bill was finally agreed to by a voto of 94
to 83, as tho only method left to carry on
the Government after the South had put
its foot on tho tariff revision. The Senate,
in order to increaso the rules of postage,
tacked a provision raising postage on letters
some 70 per cent., and a still greater in
crease on papers, upon the post ofllco ap
propriation bill, but the House sent it buck
to the Senate, ou the ground that it was a
bill for raising revenue, which (lie Cwwti
tutiou provided should originate in the
House. Tho House passed tho usual post
office appropriation bill, without the ol
noxious n)iendago put to it by the Senate
increasing the rates of postage. The Sets
ate became sullen, and refused to fnfto up
the bill in time, and the consequence is that
Congress adjourned without appropriating
anything for supporting the postal depart
ment of the Government.
The Homestead Bill, giving every poor
white settler 160 acres of land, which pass
ed the House by a voto of 120 to 76, failed
to pass the Senate. Upon a motion to
take it tip in tho Senate, every Southern
Democrat and six Northern Democrats vo
ted uguinst the motion, while Dotiglua voted
with the Republicans. Lane and Smith
found it convenient to be absent. The no-pro-raising
interest had decided not to favor
free laborers thns, and our Senntors chose
to skulk nwuy rather than have their mimes
seen by their constituents as recorded witli
their Southern masters' agaimt the poor
white man's interest.
The agricultural college lull, which ap
priiitcd hinds to snpport agricultural col
leges in the different States, wos vetoed by
Buchanan, after having passed tho House
by 104 to 100 and the Senate by 20 to 22.
The South went against it almost unani
mously, and BochauAfi of course vetoed it.
Ho also vetoed a bill mnk'ngnii appropria
tion to improve the St. Clair Flats.
Slidofl withdrew his Cuban bill from the
Senate Feb. 26, after Kittling it wa no-go,
New Senate. A new TJ. S. Senate
wo convened by the President in Wasl
injrtoii, Murch 4. The session will last
but a few days, and will bo devoted to con
sideling treaties, appointments, and Execu
tive business. Eleven of the old Senators
having been re-elected, were on hand to
take their seats and pocket mileago and
pay for the extra session.
Post Master General Brown was said to
be dying March 6.
Tragedy la Watktailoa City,
Great excitement was caused in Wash
ington City by the shooting of Philip Bar
ton Key, U. S. Attorney for the District
of Columbia, by Daniel E. Sickles, member
of Congress from tho third district in New
lone, on feunday, cb. 27. Key was
killed while standing near the President's
house, by means of two Derringer pistols
and a revolver in tlie hands of Sickles, one
shot entering the groin, another the right
chest, and tho third barely grazing the skin.
It seems that Key had long been on such
intimate terms with Sickles' wife as to
arouse the suspicions of other parties, but
Sickles himself had never suspicioned any
thing criminal up to a short time before the
tragical occurrence. An anonymous letter
from some friend aroused his suspicions and
set him to ferreting out the matter. He
soon found that Key had been in the habit
of meeting Mrs. Sickles at a room iu the
negro quarters of the city, which he bad
rented of a negro some months previous for
that purpose. A watch was set, but no
thing being discovered, Sickles charged his
wife with improper intimacy with Key.
She at first denied it, bat opou being in
formed of facts that had come to the
knowledge of her husband, she acknowl
edged all. Key, not suspecting anything
of what was going on in the house, passed
along several times in front of it, and
waved his handkerchief, his usual signal for
a meeting between himself and the guilty
woman. Sickles, who was already driven
to desperation by the revelations just made
to him within, no sooner saw the signals
from without than he armed himself, went
in pursuit of Key, and, npon approaching
him, said, " Key, yon scoundrel, you have
dishonored my house, and you shall die!"
and immediately fired the shots that killed
Key, who fell, begging Sickles not to kill
hira, and crying 'Murdcr!' Sickles imme
diately gave himself up to the authorities,
and was .lodged in jail.. He was to be
tried in a few davs, as the Criminal uran
was aliout (o hold It, Ht wioil. , The mper,
mostly justiry 1,1m, tnj think he WIH ne
cleared, if indued the grand Jury even Audi
a bill against him. i Key wu a nep10w ,
Chief Justico Taney, , rorty-twoyeari
old.hovingafuinlly and a large circle of 7
friends and fuHhioimblo relatives, I)oln
Sickles and Key wero intiniuto politic,!
friends of Buchanan, frequent ' tVmw, ,t'
thfl Whtlil ITnoui mi.. I ...ill'. '!.. s
mh urging
were favored guestD at Presidential levees '
fushiuunblu bulls, costly dinners, and iile.l
did solrrea, that mnke np to much of fbtV
lonnblo life In Washington City.' A cor
respondent of tho N. Y. Tribune says;
" Mr. Sickles mnrried his wifp when nht
was sixteen years of age. He took Iter 0
England with him when ho wns SeereUrr
of Legation nt London tinder Mr. Buchan
an; introduced her to thu (necii; carried
ner to mo Loniinciii ami Introduced her
into the most fashionable society, Mr
Sickles loved her with great devotion, and
lavished all his mean iihiii her. They lit.
cd in elegant style here, omipyimr LuJ
of $3,(100 rent. Mrs. Sickles rode 7
splendid carriage with outriders; wore jew.
eht to tho value of $5,000, and seemed to
want nothing that she did nut have."
The affair has spread a general gloom
over fashionable society in Washington
aud has added to the already heavy bar
thens of trouble that lay on the heart of
the President.
Te llrtalta at the Memiua ti Uaireta.
Wasiiixoto.v, Murch 4. All the gener
al appropriation- bins winch vmed both
1 J 1 - i i .
iiomna raxicr mo rresu eiil s aiimattim
i uu j tw yineo appropriation tad post
runic uiiik iuiicu to iH'Conio laws.
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i no lurmiT appropriated ahout twenty
millions. Whether an extra session will ha
called in consequence of its Iom, b a natter
for Executive consideration. So far, no re
liance can bo placed on the rumors to that
effect.
Amid the confusion in Use rirrls' offices,
it cannot be definitely ascertained whether
any private bills which passed hh lisuirt
failed to receive the President's signatasp.
The miscellaneous appropriation hill con
tains the section extending the treasury
note law for two years, and ay,rtiriitfs
$Jj2,000 for the eoiust survey, which wis
agreed to with singular unanimity, kiidoi
appropriations for the light-linuse wtublinb
incut, survey of the nuMic lands, aad an
appropriation for taking the next me
sus, i tc.
Th i' ocean nitsif strainer bill tins killed,
but tin re is appended to the hill t carry
into t llVct thu treaty with the Doettali aua)
Toiiutvonila Indians appropriations, ' for
complying with existing contracts for car
rying the moils via Puuaiwi and Tchiiantf
pee, to dilil'Maiia,
The President was at the Capitol Uii
morning, ntteudieg to his business,
MM.- II - P..tl...l !... I - I .
uu- iiuiisu iuiicu, us nun nerctuiore uecsj
the practice, to send the President a ine
snge, uskiiigwliothtr there wns any further
coiiimimittifion tormiko, and that Congrtna
was ready to adjourn, several gratl.miB
having objected to the suspension of the
roll cull oil the private hill which was de
feated, in order that his cenrtesy might be .
extended.
The House has removed every trace of
the abolition of the franking privilege anJ
increase of ptag
The galleries were densely crowiM t
witness the closing scenes. Many menv
ners leave mis uiiernoun lor tncir uoraes.
SlUKSP-EAREA.N READINGS. M'llo Duifl
gave one of her grand drawing-row enter
tainments to an unusually crowded limine in
this city lust Wednesday night. As
reader lw if perhaps seiiietiines exec lied,
but ns on actress she is seldom equaled.
In the tragi; sketch of the ' Maniac,' her
theatrical tafcnl rcnchctacarly irnot quite
the culminating point of perfection, She
entertained her awlieiieo i almost breath
less silence for three hours, and alt went
home satisfied, so fur as we have heard.
Yamiiiu TADF..-The Elk wo bcUer
has mado her last trip up the Yamhill for
the present, and will hereafter make regu
lar trins to Salem. . The Hoosier however,
is now permanently attached to the Yam
hill trade, and will continue to make regu
lar trips to Lafayette and Doyton every
Monday and Thursday. , This arrangement
will accommodate a large scctioo of country
rmnifi Davton. Lnfiiycttc, and Jucmin-
ville, and we hope that the shipping bust
... . :n ki ifaiihled evert
nef 8 Ot tUOl country ni.iuv
year to come. Copt. Miller of the Hoosier
is noted for bis gentlemanly bearing and
faithful attendance to business entrusted to
his care. .
Tv.r,,"rm.The citizens of Lafayette
and vicinity have made np by subscription
the sum of $5000 for the purpose j.-.
up on Academy buiHiug. JtUtooe
of brick. Lafayotte U determined to taka
a start. Whisky is what has olways cursed,
that place and kept it back, but as
friend informed us this week that her. wa.
chance w ueic. -
. hnnoa that the PRC
springt we nave t . ,
will yet become qu'te iiu(wi"". , ,
c.-vmv. We received a nota .
from a subscriber at Washington Bute th
asmwI our bill, and
week, requesting us
promising us that it should be Pa.d ".
the Salem conventiop. The note eontame
slamv wth vhith to pay postage o
Now that is a specimen of honor,
and mi, dealing that we h.
met with from those in aircer , w
cannot forbear mentioning tto .
thy of imitation. Jc bwr" ,
be a sound Rcbublican.
. tr nnder obligations to
1IU.1U- " " s. f
Dr.Stle,AgentofWells,Frgo4Co;.
in this city, Mr. Hoyt, of the wpn-,--to
R. E. Ball, of Tortland, for late nape".
-J. W. Sullivan, of San Francisco,
has as usual supplied us with ""P"
the latest papers.