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iiljc rcgou drgu0. w. I. Aruxs, KiMTon. OJLTOOIfOITYl SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 18C0. Tk DUttalta Traitor. We ore glad to see that in the present contest Tar Speuker the leader of the iluvc-brccding Democracy are showing their hands. They huve relieved us of the lutmr of showing, a heretofore, tlmt the only disutiioiilsts or real toric In this Gov eriiinciit urc to be found among the bogu Democracy, excepting pcrhnp n i.iero handful amon their nut urn I nllies, the red mouthed abolitionists. All Iho.-e who h ivo read report of the duiiij ut Wu.tV i:ton this winter, can now see, if they are not too blind to see anything, tlirt Uu real Issue between the two political parties now struggling fur the ascendency Is, Shalt the Constitution be maintuinrd and the Gov ernment be perpetuated, or not! If any rdit is to be given to speeches ol leading politicians, and the course of poliiieul jour nals, every honest, Intelligent mun must conic to the conclusion, that there ure now but two parties, the one a Union party, and the other a Disunion party. No man who has read anything at ull of the action of political leaders need be told that the Republican parly is tho one pledge ed to the tnitinteimnee of the Un'on and the sacred inviolability of the Constitution, uud that the Democratic party, U.icly so called, is the one which aims ut the over throw of the Government and the violation of the Constitution. We say that there are but two partita, b:cuuse ull voters who go to the polls cast their votes so us fille r directly or indirectly to favor tho objects sjught by either the Republicans or the sectional Democracy. The handful of sec tional, Union-hating abolitionists we rank with the Union-haling, sectional Democ racy. They are oil fanatics of the Mine slr'pe nil equally banded together to overthrow the Republican party, and ruin the Government und whilo they nro one in syinpnthy, and one in purpose, thcro is no reason why they should not bo a unit in action. We ore far from charging, how ever, that the greut body of the Demo cratic parly Is in favor of a dissolution of tho Union merely for tho lovo of treitson, or that all of the five thousand abolitionists who assisted (Jerrit Smith In his effort to defeat tho Republicans and elect the sec tionalists in New York, arc ready to tram ple tlm Constitution under foot, except upon a contingency. The abolitionists urc only ready to do so upon tho contingency that slavery is not forthwith abolished while their brethren of the Democratic school are only threatening to lay their polluted hands upon tho !; of tho Union on such a contingency as tin- ehetion by a iiui'onty or American freemen of Ihc man oi ineir cnoico for the ProM-iicy. Jf there is the least shadow or un exeuso for these treasonable enunciations on tho part .f either wing of the d'wuuionisls, the abo litionists have ten times more of plmisibil ily In their excuses for treasonable demon strutions than their co-laborers in the Dein oeratlc vineyard have ever been uble to Rive. The abolitionists wish to overthrow tho Government because' the people arc not rouuv to remove tho foul blot of shivery beyond our limits, und their Democratic brethren nro equally willing to drag down ine pillars ot our social fabric, to the dust 1..W..I,..,,. ll i.. . . """,m 'tiuu uru now renuy 10 wipe out mut loul iiiot upon our national char- iie-er eullcii llio "Democratic party." v nen wospcuk or the Democratic party us being implicated in treason, wo refer to the lenders of that party, comprising ev cry Democrat in Congress, excepting a mcro handful of niiti-Lreouiptou Demo crat, and every Democratic editor both North and South, wilh, so far as we aro informed, not a single exception. Wo be lieve thnt the open avowuls of treason in Wtishiuglon this winter have been confined to the Soul hern leaders of tho Deinneraev, with perhaps the exception of 0 win aiid one or two other Northern traitors but tho fuet that not a single Democrat in good standing with the party dared to rebuke the utterances of treason by the siihuunn- uers, nut rather applauded them, as also the fact that not a single Democratic editor at. uas mired to condemn the disunion throws of these men, fixes tho brand of treitson upon the foreheads of these leaders as in (lelil)ly as wus fixed the mark of Jeror upon that of Cain. ni i i i iiiix nemg cieuriy established, it of vourse follows that every man who votes tho ticket of the llluek Democracy is guil ty of indirectly aiding und abetting treason. We bvleve every Democratic jourmd in Oregon is more blatant for dlsunionism tluin for the Pacific Railroad. Although they have not yet the hardihood to openly avow their attachment for disunion, they are constantly filling their pages with the insane threats of their Southern disunion drivers without a word of condemnation of tliein. We believe they all occupy ground m common with that most servile and con temptible of sheets at Corrullls, which jus- lines me salamanders' threatened destruc tion of the Government by saying tiiat "The disunion sentiment at the South is the natural and nsorssART result of the Intolerant and persistent aggression of Northern public sentiment." This w e take to be a fair specimen of the manner in which Northern dnghfarr treat thetreawa of their Southern driver. While they publish tho disunion speeches and official pajiers of men who deserve the halter, With a Very feeble statement that they don't fully "endorse theld," they tell us that it Is a " luctuary cuut'f nct" of imoglnnry grievauce. The flippancy with which these coxcombs talk about " North ern aggression aguiust the South," would muko one believo, who thought thcro wor thy of any credit, that the North was try ing to commit some unconstitutional out rage upon the South when tho fact is tlmt the North ha no issue with anything but tho Democratic party of the South. We never hear any threats of disunion from the opposition to the Democratic par ty South in case a Republican President is elected. The opposition vote in tho slave States in lS.ili amounted to 4H0,(i;VJ, while the sectional Democracy polled only CQ9, 587. No these four hundred and eighty thousand voters aio not only all Union men, but they ure so disgusted with the disuuionism, rottenness, and hollow hypoc risy of the Democracy, that, instead of considering the election of a Republican President a just cause for dissolving the Union, they actually prefer tho election of a Republican President to that of a sec tional fanatic. They knowtl.ut the dis union politicians representing them in Con gress are a class of low huckstering dem agogues, who have wormed their way into ofiice by appeals to the ignorance nud prejudice of the poor whites, a clars unfor tunately numerous in a country where free schools are scarce, and where tho Democ racy toleruto neither freo speech nor a free press. Theso disunion Democratic leuders aro a set of luzy vagabonds, who have been so long in office and grown so fut on treasury funds tlmt they look upon be ing weaned from the public teat and turned out on tho commons as little better than death itself hence they bellow lustily iibout "Northern aggressions" to keep Southern fools voting the Democratic tick et, and chime in with an occasional terrible disunion howl to keep Northern fools doing the snme thing. They havo mounted the slavery hobby, in obedience to the sugges tion of Culhoun when in 1832 ho advised them to dismount from the tarilT structure and get astride of the nigger. While they and their Northern allies aro apparently ohuning in their boots for fear of "B l a c k Republican aggressions," and fairly foam ing out their burning desires to ' save the. South" by defeating the Republicans, their hollow hypocrisy becomes fully apparent when they refuse to elect Gilmer, a South- em man, owning a hundred slanet, became he wasn t a ' Dimmycrat." Theso arrant demagogues vunt the South dimmyrrnlic. ally sand, or not saved at all. They hnve always been trying to uuito the South as a unit on sectional i.-sncs, by tulking about "Northern aggressions." In 1S32, the lurid' was considered a terrible "Northern aggression," whilo tho ordiunnco of '87, winding shivery from ull the Kot thwcst Territory, was a wonderfully Democratic measure, becnupo it originated with Jcffcr- soita mo great rather of Democracy. In 1H0I1, tho people of Indiana Territory pc iti i -.. .. . . . titioned Congress to remove the restrictions of tho ordinance of '87 from that Territory but John Randolph, ns chairman of the commit tec to which the memorial was re ferred, reported that it was "highly d.in-er- a mtir- vun nun nic.euieui id impair a provision wisely instituted to promote the h.tmihess ami prosperity of the northwestern country, c'b.i I'.re sirtnsiti ami r u ... ive frontier:' Then tho South almost to a mau applauded tho Randolph renort AW such a practice is a terriblo "North ern aggression," that makes noor slinks shake in their Loots and squeak out that southern Democratic d ISiminnum to i- "- in d necessary conseaurncn" of it. In ISis Southern Democrats applauded the slavery restriction act in the organic act of Oreiron and Northern spaniels never thought of raising the howl of " Northern aggression,'' necau.se their Southern masters hadn't vet crueiicii meir whips, I rom 1820 down to 1854, leadine noli. tieians of all parties, North and South, ac quiesced in tho Missouri Compromise that 'iciuJui slavery forever from all territory north ol 30'. and with Clnv ta'..i....: Reulon, Ruchunun, Polk, and poor Piereo' they applauded the enactment as not onl ttjso but a 1,-gitimate and clear exercise by Congress of a Constitutional power. Then thcro was no No.iheru paltry party vnga. bond that tuned hi penny whistlo to the tune of "Northern aggressions" and joined in the weak howl of disunion that occasion ally came from the rice swamps of South Carolina; because tho Democratic party . .oi u-i occonioaone idea, sect ioual nero-breedlng disunion party. From l'n .1 i i.i-. .i ' "n iu i3j4 inero was scarcely a single Democratic Convention in mo -Onn. Bill ,.nr..ol. . 11 , ,,v m isuildlTUUC peeeti mde, but what advocated the precise pMlt,on of the present Remibliean !..., v iu quest,,,,, of slavery extension r.il ...... " ' - rii riianieu never tl,n.,l,i r . .....Sn. v, now ung about " Northern nre;.-. )..., they rather wtpgti their tails w itl, M-u n I ah !...! a . u.e.r orators took auti-blavery eteu. sion ground lo p,ove th,U th, Democratic party teas the real guardian and defender of the interests of the l.tborin , ,. Ti.. Democratic party then professed, as the Republican party does now, to tnd up as a wall f flre .round the interest of the millions of hard handed American freemen to protect their rights against a crushing couhmatlon ot capital. But the moment a new party ia fonnebard open tb.- ,in. gle Idea of the im!veral, omnipotent power of in aristocratic slavo cnpitul, to ride rotighhod over ull tho territories, and plant the Iron heel of d-spitism on the necks of fret white, laborers, and In place of the old Democratic party, np rise the Re publican party as the friend and sdvo cate of tho white race, tho paid IscurioU of a hireling press drop their old tuuo about the Democratic party being the friend of the laboring clusses, and the alpha and omega of their whole song I " Southern rights" "Northern atrirressions" and "neeger eijuality"!!! From the ditto of the destruction of the Missouri Compromise it: 1854, to the Pres idential canvass in 1 851, the Democratic parly North and South felicitate itself upon the discovery of thut " happy concep tion," squutter-sovereignly, and 'their ora tors, scribes, and purty whippers In general bawled themselves honrso and wroto their fingers sore In lauding the docrine that henceforth "the people of it Territory, like the people of a Stule, should regulate their own domestic institutions in Ih'irovn teny; but the moment that tho Supremo Court ut the behests of the slavo iswer, gnve political opinion for party purposes advene to squatter sovereignty, taking the ordi, nance of '87, the Missouri Compromise, and the Nebraska Rill, and rolling them all up together handed them over to Southern liulumanders to be destroyed, the cringing vassals of shivery in the North " dried np" their praises of squatter sovereignty, looked solemn and wise, and ml vised Democrats to " submit to save the Union." When the Democratic party In Misfouri sent five thousand armed ruffians iuto Kansas to put a quietus upon squatter sovereignty there this bloody band of assassins wus cheered on and excused by nearly every Northern Democratic editor, on the ground that the peaceable free State "squatter sovereigns" of Kansas were a set of "Northern ng gressors." When, uftcrwurds, the infa inous Lccomptou Constitution wus kfore Congress, and the whole power of the ud ministration was exerted to force slavery H ion an unwilling 'people, bucked by an overwhelming majority of Democrats Congress, and when, to intimidate the handl'id of Douglas Democrats that noblv united with the Republicans to resist it, Southern salamanders raised the howl of disunion, uud the Governor of Alabama sent word to tho Democratic members of Congress from that State to telegraph tho fact to him immediately if Congress refused to force I.ecoui)to:i through, so that he might iniiuediutely convene the Legislature to take steps to go out of the I u:o:i, the dirt-eating Democracy, like Delusion mid Muter, were ull suddenly seized with the conviction thnt 'ultras a question ol no practical importance any'into not " really a Democratic issue," and for fear the sala manders would consider the resistance of Lccomptou a "Northern aggression," nil "good Dimmyerals hud better submit to save tho Union." Since these Democratic silauiiuulers have openly declared on the floors of Congress thnt ''Northern laborers oniht to be owned by their employers, thut iwiuern muorers wero a " servile1' set ol fellows, that Douglas Democracy was ns "rotten os Republicanism," that the great body of Northern Denini-i'iitd ivm-n i-,,tt, nbolitiotiized, nud unreliable," and that the Northern opposition to the slave code, nn.l the recent Republican triumphs were suffi cient pretexts lor initiatory steps by South ern Democrats to break un tho Union. plungo the country into civil war nnd del uge it in blood, nud since Southern Demo crats have not only mobbed, tarred nnd feathered, and driven out many Northern Democrats Irom their midst, but have driv en out of Kentucky some sixty of her own peaceable, quiet citizens for holding iinti slavcry sentiments, wo sny nfter nil this been done, theso Northern diit-enters full upon their marrow-bones, roll np the whites of their eyes, and with an obsequious pup py glance tell their renders thut although they were a little while ogo Union men, that now, since Southern Democrat are fretting around terribly nnd threaten to de stroy the Union in case tho Democratic party is beaten, " they don't exactly ap prove of disunion" perse, but they will havo to excuse it at least ns a " necessary result of Xorthcrn aggression." Now, all WO llllVC to SUV to Ihrin trnllnni is that the Republicans will elect their 1 resident, and restore the government back to wiiat it wus in the davs of .I,.f. ferson nnd Jackson. Thev will do it strietlv on tho ground of States' rights, and a per- P....1 1!.. -t -ll .i .. .. !. en niu.imj oi an ine Btntes In settling tho Territories. They will turn every black Democrat out of omV in tlm r IllMl nnd place iu their stead honest and capable men, they will institute a thorough reform in the reckless expenditures of everv de partment or the government, they will eiv courage home industry, put down fillihn. ters nnd piracy ou the hiirh seas, enltlv.itu iiuiicuoio relations with all foreign powers ouiid the tueilic Railroad, give land to the luiuness, give tno whole machinery of irov eminent anew impetus iu the of incvittiMe ilcstinr. milt tho h',i. .hl: ii . . 1 loiisuiiiiionn i v. wisp y, niul permanently, iitey will then allow Dem ot-rais to groan, grunt, and threaten to their, hearts content, but will say to them teheneveryuu really yet in earnest', and icant to uissmve tne t nton ji st trv it ox! Tht Mall. The mall system of the United States, currying Intelligence swiftly, surely, and often, into every nook und comer of the country-! no small Instrument iu disscmlna ting the mctvnry information to enublo the people to hold their public agents to proer account for tho performance of tho duties required of them. Tyrant are op poscd to the circulation of intelligence among their subject. They bumper the press tho inuils aro subject to their cspl oiinge. Nothing is eriniltcd to go to the nconle. but what suit their musters. A freo press and a free circulutiuii of intelli ppnen will make a free people. Whnt a would become of the honry thrones of Mu rope, if tho press was free there? Hero the press cannot be wholly con trolled by. government. Government ''nil only subsidize, a portion of it. This is done by its patronage. It is done so here. Not ull tho presses, but some of them. There ....... lil . are presses in tins stale which every civn officer of tho government bleeds to suit- port. His own bread is dependent on ins subservience. Let him withhold, and his head would be in the basket before he could say his prayers. Who doubts tho character of a press sustained hi this maunrr. It in the humble tool of its tipsters. That of Delazon Siu'tii is a perfect illustration of the instincts of such a press. Hud the owners of thnt press, and the party of which it is the or- Kiin, tho power, the people w ho dure to oppose it, who now regurd with contempt its insane ravings, would be looking thro' grates, if no worse- fate should befjll them. Next to the press tho muds ure used as engines or oppression. no uoes not know that the mails of Utah are systeumt- itally violated? Did our government over complain? Does it not permit every petty post-master in the southern States to ran sack and rob the mails ut hi pleasure? Who docs not every week read churges made against post-masters in Oregon, and which ure never investigated by the proper agents of government? We do not charge that tho mail facilities aro cut olT in Oregon to prevent the diiVn- sion of knowledge, though wo fully un derstnud that the diffusion of knowledge is fatal to Ruchnnun and Lane democracy: and we are quite sure, that Senator Lane, w ho tukes upon himself to cut off the head of a messenger in the hind office, knows nil about the curtailments of mail facilities in Oregon. tJ"No administration would dare to cut olT nearly liulf the nciil facili ties of a Slate without consulting its Sen ators. But we tell the udmiti'sf ration-yon can not by these measures forca Oregon to go for Joseph Lnne and Dehizon SnlJlu for United Slates S?nutors. The people uf? in a fair way for being iiroused to tho ini' quity or your machinations. 1'iev are not to bo used to cniiblo you to d;spcnsc put ronnge to the "dirt outers," who do vour bidding. The next election will tell u tide which will scatter all vour schemes and hopes to the four winds. Ctarkama Airlcwtlwrut Hoclrty. We announce with pleasure thut meas ure have been adopted for tho estulihsli mcnt of tho Clackamu County Agrlcultu ml Society. We trust that a hort timo only will ellipse before every county of the Stute will have It agricultural society. State societies urc of great beiufit, but they don't come homo to us as do our county agricultural societies. There is no truth more apparent than thut the great interests of agriculture have been neglected iu Oregon. We havo fine hinds Tor wheat and all tho other cereal grains, grosses nnd vegetublt. Our cli muto is favorable to the raising of ull kinds of stock. We have only to improve our natural advantages to inuke Oregon one of the most productive and choicest spots on earth. This is only to be done by labor skilfully applied continued, earnest, intel ligent labor. It is the part of agricultural societies to stimulate the efforts of farmers iu procuring the best stock; In raising the best crop of grain, grass, fruit; in increas ing in excellence uud quantity tho produc tion of the dairy; in extending home man ul'uttiircs; in promoting every measure alculated to render the farmer successful in his profession; and to muko him take thut position in sociily which jiis'lly be longs to him. Wo rejoice to witness till movement . . . . . . . ii- among the lurmers in mis county. c hojto to sec a large gathering at the ad journed meeting to bo held iu this city on the 12lh April for the adoption of tho con stitution and election or officers. iiCt there be no holding back. Let the word bo sent into ull the settlements, so thut there shall bo a largo assemblage of the intelligent and hurd-woiking fumu'rs of Clackamas county. SiMtiots AcciiiKNT. Wo learn trom S. Francis, Ksq., that on Sunday night lust a serious accident occurred at the resi dence of Win. S. llussey, Ksq. in M'Miu- ville, Yuinhill County. A child of the family was sick, and Miss Maria llussey was sitting up to uttend to its wants. She fell ushrpiii her chair ami on wu king found till her clothing in flames. She was severe- burned and she died the next day. Mr. llussey iu the effort to save his daugh ter, was so badly burned that lie is not ex pected to survive. Sirs, lln-wey wxs in jured also, but not seriously. The friends of the family will learn with pain these sad incidents. The Laxe State Convention'. Some very funny facts are leaking out about tho meeting of the democratic central commit tee at Kugeno. The committee consists in alt or nineteen members. Ihere was at tho meeting, certain, tho chairman, W. S, Brock, nnd ono froxy from this county; nud, perhaps, another coinniittee-inan. The Statesman repudiates the cull of a convention by this meeting. The object- to whip into Senator Lane's support those democrats who have dared to think and act for themselves will fail. IVS" The Mountaiueer slivs that horses iu iiuiucuse uuinbers can be had at Dulles, and in ninny instances at the cast of brlii"'- mg nuiuiais irom be-low. We caution miners not to rely too much in obtaining upplies up the river. Avarice, when it has the advantage, ha no conscience. Bkei. Mr. Harvey, of Polk county. tell us thut the destruction of bees by yJl- oir jackei it easily prevented bv allowing the bees t,ut 0ue hole flr going in aud out of the hive. A Hroa Mi-sciuisKs. Th. Pnnl,.n,l Advertiser sayj that "a lame maioritrnf the people of Illinois aided with Senator Dongla in the late election in that St.i The "aidinj" was entirely the other way. j Coibt. llio Clackamas Circuit Court has been in session nil week in Oregon City but the docket has been a light ono. Tho lawyers in attendance are Messrs, Kelly, Johnson, Holbrook, Loekwood, El- Hot, and Matlock, of this county; Williams, age, and Douthit, of Multnomah; nnd liridgcs, of Wasco. During the trial of a cause on Wednes day, a witness, a little boy ten years of age, ...l.:l. ' . .1 t . I n nuiio passing inroiigii tne lire or a cross- examination, fainted, nud was carried out of the room. Ur River Steamers. The Onward will commence running on Wednesday next, taking the place of the Surprise. The lat ter will be laid i;p. Capt. Pease will com mand the Onward for tho present. The Surprise will leave Canemah to-day for Corvallis. The Jas. Clinton, dipt. J. D. Miller, continues to make regular trips to Lafay ette, three times a week, leaving Canemah on Mondnys, Wednesdays, and Friday. The Relief has taken the place of the hlk in the Lpper Willamette trade. PiTiiin Soke Throat. This niahidy has made its appearance iu Yamhill comity, and proves almost universally fatal. Gar ret McGary, near Lafayette, bus lately buried two children Dr. Wisterfield of Lafayette one ami J. W. Shnll of La fayette his wife nnd two children, and at lnut nccounts another of his children was in a very crimen! fWidillou all occasioned by this disease. Delusion- Has Left! The D.,mocart snys thut the editor is absent. Very l'Jf' ly, for we sec thnt the Democrat has tak en occasion to puff him to tho most beara blo extent of his skin and breeches. It says that ho entirely demolished Judge Williams in a late discussion in Linn coun ty. The truth is, that he quite demolished himself, a fact apparent toev ry body but Delusion! Tfct rarlle Hatlr..4 Senator Lane, In his Insane attempt, t securo southern influence in behalf ( i. aspiration for tho Presidency, u t,wJ! by the Chicago Time with hostility to proposed Pacific Rail Boad. A coinniiti!! of friend ol thut Rail Road in Xew York city, prepared a eynnpshior a plan fur J rying the measure into effect, whicli ' approved by distinguished men, ut atj west. Tho committee, not doubting tu Senator Lnne wus in favor ol the road ho Imd previously professed to bo, phJ his inline to it, with numerous others endorser. Having learned the fact, t J. dered, that when tho document wa tin' luted, his mime should be erased or cromci Hon. J. C. Uurch, of Culifornla, It frniikingthis document to liiTi-renUuarieB of the country, "with four distiuct mark, across tho Senator's miinc." Theso statements urc distinctly forlt iu the Chicago Times, a democratic pap,,. We udd them to numerous othcrs.ii, which it is shown thut Semitnr Lnne.in seeking secure the favor of the south, totully for gards tho interests of his constituent,... Had it been known that the Senator for Oregon wus opposed to tho projected P. clfic Rail Road, a measure iu w hich hi. constituents have nn interest too high fa estimation he would never have been sent to Congress from this Stato. Orcon ;n not repeat the same suicidal act. tdiT Senator Lane' "Mail Iniirot, menls" do not go down with the pco)Ie. The Portlund News snys that there mail be an increase of mail service, or there will be a general abandonment of the mail, aud express companies will monopolize tlit entire business. tvT The Jacksonville Sentinel 0f tb, 2.)th ult. contains several notices of recent discoveries of qnurtz rock, and also Antler, ing gold mines " neur the head of Apple gate." The people seemed to be greatly excited with the discoveries. Fine Stock. We arc glad to learn that a Mr. Lano has lately brought to this State a thorough-bred Morgan horso of great beauty und value. Mr. Rockwell, of Ver mont, has also brought out six pure-blood French Merieo sheep, which yield from 12 to 20 pounds of wool each, and which when fut weigh from 150 to 200 pounds. This lino stock has ull gone up to Salem. CSrE. It. White und Win. Moore hnve lately arrived nt tho Dalles from tho Simil kaniecn. Mr. Moore roports tiiat he found no difficulty in making from $8 to $20 a day at the Similkamcen mines. A fine specimen of gold bearing quartz had been found there. A line of stages is to be es tablished to run between Priest's Rapids and the Similkamcen mines. PSfDe. A. U. IIenhv has resumed tlie practice of his profession iu Yam HdlCo'y. Poiuund t.orvciipaniltare. Poetunii, March 8, I860.' Dear A net's: Tho steamer is not ex pected till to-morrow, or perhaps luter. We ure anticipating important new, by this arrival. We hope the wheels of Con gress will be unlocked, and the business of the country be permitted to go on as usual. It is understood here that (Jen. Lane (ftl Mr. Stout hare done ull they could to pre vent an organization of Congress. Law, mid of course Stout, belong to the disnn ionists of the South ut present. There appears to be some movement among politician. Gov. Curry is hereto d.iy. He has been a good deul with onr trends, uud it is rumored thut in the pres ent disorganization of parties he hope to p'ck up some handsome position. He is so near being a Republican so near being a Rush ninu und so nenr being a Iinne nun that he thinks he can join any party without much wear nnd tear of conscience. I have Ici'ti told an anecdote, but I (lout believo a word of it that ho went to a certain Republican, nud suggested thst lie should bo taken np by the party as a can didate for Congress. "And what starch CiJii rou bring us''' "Oh, 1 thall bring my self." T.'lil' colt won't run, anyhow. A great iui"f arc moving to the Simil kameen mil.. ' They nro generally yong men and farmer'. 1 M'wve th7 Mtni secure their own coitii''t llU ,,lnke T" gold the present season br S'WS 111 m and working on their farms. Io. 5 The "Mountaineer'' thinks it very strain that an Arkansas Rpnninr clm.,i.i v vuuuiu introduce into the Semite a bill "to create the ofiice of superintendent of Indian af fairs iu Washington Territory.' Senator Lane is too intent on his private affairs just now to give attention to public business. After tho middle of June he will be more at leisure. Tim Sisiilkajieen'. The Dalles Moun taineer says that the current of adventur ers bound for the Similkamcen is constantly gaming force. Thus far, the greater num ber of miucrs have followed the route for the new mines by the way of Walla Walla. but lately uuinbers have crossed the Colum bia at the Dulles, with the intention of co- ing by way of Fort Simcoe and the We- natche. Horses at tho Dulles coaimaud from $1 j to f(iO. The Lane Scheme. We here it stated that Lane's friends are willing to cive one of the enatorships to a republican, provid ed the republican will support him. We can't think of doing it. kS The Jennie Clark has laid np a few eeks for repairs. The Express is now running between this city aud Portland. Deixsion's Rascality. The Statesman charges that some "scoundrel" at the in stance of Delusion, violated the mails, and enclosed in the Statesman "republican tracts" for circulation. Delusion can do good service iu this way, and if his "sconn- urei win let the letters go safe, we ought to be thankful. Cassics M. Clay ox Disinion. Tin' following sentiments were recently expressed by this outspoken Kentuckiun: "So far as all these boyish threaff disunion ure concerned, upon tho contingeu cy of the election of a Republican Presi dent, they will perhaps frighten those who only see the lion's skin; buttons behind tho scenes, tho uss is too plain for proper stage effect. I do not know what other may intend, but for myself, if Wise or Jeff. Davis or nny other man aspires to play tho ' General' in such a cause, as some of their friends intimate, and which I am willing to believe, they will turn out abler stratczist than thoy have proven themselves states men if they mnnngo to keep their neck oat of the hultcr! Iu n word, the Republi cans, when tbey constitute the number, the wealth, intelligence, tho worth of tho the country, will rule tho country; and if war is the consequence inevitably I say, with Henry, 'Let it come.'" 63 Superintendent Geary retBrnedtest evening from a general tour ofoliscrtationy in the course of which be has visited nearly every tribe of note in the upper country. ine limning generally arc represented. disposed to be friendly, but impatient at the failure of the Government to meet h treaty stipulation. Mr. G. speaks of thft Nez Perce as having the largest and finest reservation on the Pacific coast, embracing as it dots fertile valley aud magnificent hunting grounds. The reservation covert a space eqtiul to a thousand square miH and altogether the condition ol the Set Perec is one of comparative comfort. Mountaineer, Feb. 22. The Mail Curtailments. It is hinted by some of Senator Lane's friends, that the contracts have been taken from the old con tractors, who are opposed to him, for the purpose of giving them to reliable friends, and iu a reasonable time additional service will be required at a great advance of pay. We shall see. US Favorable new has been received from Lieut. Miillau' expedition. The de tachment he sent to Fort Benton bad re turned. It waa gone 49 days, and crossed and re-crossed the Roekr Mnnntain in December and January. Tho Lienteuant expect to resume work on the road in the prest nt month. Revival. During the past week a pro tracted meeting has been eoine on t th court-houe, conducted by Rev. Fisher, Gruwell, and Kolbe. An unusually large congregation has been in attendance, and much interest manifested. Some forty ha united with the Methodist Church, Sooth, since the commencement of the meeting. A protracted meeting has also been go ing on at the Methodist Chnreh, North, but with what success we are not informed Corvallis Union, March 3. MA&nxss: On Ftb. 27, by Rtr. Thophilm Powell. Mr. E. T. IYrkin,of Dals, 1'o k cuuDty, and Mn-CoT" nlU Anvm.oT Marion county. On the 20th ulL, hy Rer. B. C. L'ppinenlt, R D. L. Upaldinj to M a Harriet E. Smilb, of Sp frd. Sew York. DISS: At I afajrtttc Yumlnll county, om tho I9t - Cor Wwertiel.I, ad 4 Jmn aaJ 3 diT. In Ctackimaa eointv, n tho 7th nit of e01 rampt on, Rebecca I nn, fa h- r Hi year,