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r STATE j u1 j .ralDjl. MICA DEVOTED TO THE POLITICAL AND GENERAL INTERESTS OP THE PEOPLE. VOL. I. EUGENE CITY, OREGON, JUNE 28, 1862. NO. 25, THE STATE REPUBLICAN Published every Saturday by H. SHAW & CO. Term, of Subscription. Th. RiruiLiCAX will be published at ti SO Tear in ad Vane ; $3 00 if paid at the end of aiz month ; or f 4 (JO t th. do, of the year. One dollar additional will be barged for each rear payment ia neglected. No paper discontinued until all arrearages are tjiaid, except at our option. Rate, of Advertising. I9n. square (ten liues or lea) one month, 4aoh additional tawrtion, - -busine. Card, o.e square er less, one year, " ix month, four iquares and upwards, one year, per square, " ' six mouths, per square, m " " three months, " iVdministratafi Notices, and all advertisements ro uting to estates of deceased persons, which hat. to b. sworn to, one square, four insertion, 13 00 0 12 00 8 00 10 00 7 00 6 00 6 00 All communications to this office should be addressed to 11. S11AW A Uo., fcuRene city, Oregon To Adtibtissrs. Business men throughout Oregon and California will nnd it greatly to their advantage to auver- tine in the tat. KKPiTDuruy. OUR tlMOX. A cloud has gathered in the sky And loud the tempests roar, Which sweeps and desolates the land Where all was peace bofore Yet yonder Bug is waving! Amid the angry blast, And storm ana tempest braving, Clings closer to the mast. Thus may our Union stand When storms assail our land ; Ever with heart and huml We will protect our Union 1 If foes within should strive to break, Or rend the chain asunder, Together binding us as one Or taking from the number If Reason's voice should not prevail In this dark and gloomy hour Then United should we stand, To crush Disunion's power. Thus may our Union stand, When storms assail our land ; Ever with heart and hand. We will protect our Union 1 Protection of the Northern Border. There csn be nothing clearer thfin that a war with England is one of the possible cont'mgen ciea of the dav. nnd that in such an event our northern frontier would find itself in nn almost unprotected condition, for i he laclcof some chan nel bv which ships and gunboats may be con- veved with alacrity to the great lakes. To meet this want a bill was recently introduced into the Now York Legislature, proposing the enlarge- j-jmuai of the cuuals, which has been favorably reported by the Committee on Canals, By this report it appears thai the aggregate length of the canals ot the State is BOO miles ana iney nave been constructed at a cost of $58,3G 1,700, ex elusive oi interest, without aid of any kind from the Government of the United States. The aud itor of the Canal Department reports that the commercial tonnage borne upon the watarsof these canalsjn 1860 was more than TOpercent.tho wholo import nnd export tonngo of the United states, These works are supposed to be adequate to meet the requirements ot this immense com merce, and nil its ordinary increase for years to come, but they are not by any means adequate to the requirements of the country in time of war. The American shore line of Northern lakes, including bays, sounds and islands, is 3,620 miles. me untisn snore line, including bays, etc., is 2,629 miles. Our whole coast is studded with flourishing cities and villages, surrounded with fields rich in harvests of grain, and these great Like, well termed inland seas, are crossed, in every direc tion, on both sides of the boundary line, by large but unprotected fleets of steam and sail vessels bearing freights already nearly equal to those of our seaboard. INow, while by the terms of a treaty made between the United States and Great Britain, supplementary to the lreaty of Ghent, the naval force to be maintained by both Gov emments is limited to four vessels each, not ex ceeding 100 tons burthen and one IS pounder, it appears that in case of unexpected hostilities, there is no channel, East, or West, or South, from the seaboard or the Mississippi, throngh which gunboats could be taken to the Lakes in time to prevent the total destruction of our cities, villages, harvests, fleets, and commerce. On the other hand. Great Britain has secured herself Against this danger on her part, by constructing canals and locks of sufficient capacity to pass gunboats of ample size for the protection of the cities, property, and vessels ot her subjects. The .enlargement ot these canals, becomes, therefore, n act of national necessity, which the State of New York, munificently proposes to accomplish At her own expense. It is a's-i a matter of national interest that, in conjunction with the proposed enlargement of the channels of navigation between the Atlantic and the great Lakes, an increased commerce will be turned toward the seaboard through two im portant outlets which are to be opened from the Mississippi river to the Lakes. One is the im provement of the Fox and Wisconsin rivers through the State of Wisconsin, from Green Bay to Prairie du Chicn, now nearly completed. This will be the outlet of the upper Mississippi. The other is a proposed ship canal, from Chicago through the State of Illinois, by enlarging the present canal, and improving the Illinois river. This will be the outlet of the Lower Mississippi. The necessity of such outlets has been demon strated by a rebellion which wilfully closed the Lower Mississippi against the richest sources of her prosperity. The whole work will cost some even or eight millions of dollars. California, both in the matter of coast defenses and the Overland Railroad, might profitably imitate this grand example, Herald and Mirror. Thi Confederate troops on the battle field consist pretty much of flying artillery, flying favalry, end flying infantry. DIXIE DEMOCRACY. An address signed by fourteen members of Congress, who call themselves Democrats, urg ing the organization of a " Democratic" opposi. tion to the national Administration, during its deadly struggle with rebellion, appears in another portion of our present issue. Of the signers, three are Representatives from Illinois, six from Ohio, two from Indiana, two trom 1'ennsylvania and one from Oregon. The California Senators, both conspicuous members of tho old Democrat ie party, did not append their names to tliat doc ument, and we are inclined to think that they have too much political sagacity, if not too much patriotic ardor, to sanction such a movement at this juncture of affairs. Ihe leading spirit of the factious fourteen is Clement L. Vallandigham of Ohio, tho bosom friend of Breckinridge, the persistent apologist for treason and the lynxeyed critio of all vigorous efforts to suppress the armed destructives of the South. Associated with this individual, from whom nothing better than trait orous utterances could be expected, we find Wm. A. Richardson of Illinois, the fugleman of Doug his in the Charleston Convention, who seems to have forgotten that his political idol and oracle, standing upon the verge of the tomb, declared that there could be but two parties during the continuance of rebellion, ono party tor the Gov eminent, tlie other for its destruction. W bile the gallant McClernand, Logan and other Douglas Democrats of Illinois are acting in accordance with the counsels of their great leaders, and but tling and bleeding in defense of the Union, we find Richardson caucusing with such disloyal partisans of Davis and Breckinridge as Vallading ham, and using what influence he may still retain to weaken and cripple an Administration that is intrusted with the threatened and endangered ark of our Iib.Tt.es. Perhaps the reason for this unpatriotic somersault may be found in the dis tribution of military appointments among the Illinois Democrats. Richardson desired to be a Brigadier General ; tho President preferred Mo- demand, and his choice has been amply vindica ted. We do not propose to enter upon an elaborate review ot tins address. All the secession jour tials are profuso in their praise of the document. It meets their views and suits their purposes ex actly. Every rebel in Dixie, who can obtain a copy, will peruse the address with infinite satis faction, it might be adopted and issued in pain phlet form by the Davis Cabinet, as an argument tor tho secession of South rn States from the " tyranny of the Lincoln Government." Us au thors profess extreme reverence for the " Consti tution, and unflinching devotion to " liberty. Yet from the exordium to the peroration, there is not one word of condemnation bestowed upon the wanton, wicked and murderous movement of Davis, Cobb, JMoyd, loombs, Yancey, Breckin ridge and other good " Democrats" of tho Val landigham stamp, tor tho abolishment of the Constitution and the division of the Union not one word. The great army of brave men who are laboring, amid the perils of war, to restore the supremacy of tho Federal authority, are not honored with the slightest expression ot sympa. tny. I lie persecuted loyalists ot the South are utterly ignored. Tho extraordinary measures the Government has been compelled to adopt to suppress traitors in tho loyal States, rid itself of spies and strengthen its hands for the crushing out ot its malignant and barbarous toes, are sin gled out for denunciation. One would suppose, after reading this document, that treason should be considered highly constitutional and eminently ustiliable that the mildest and most generous of Presidents is the most merciless, arbitrary a'id infamous of tyrants that the only " liberty" worth preserving is the liberty to violate oaths, betray, murder, hang, imprison, plunder and destroy, and that a Government should abandon all eflorts to defend its integrity and preserve the ife of the nation, because the struggle may be attended with an increase of taxation. Is this Democracy 1 If the fourteen sponsors for this address were desirous of making that word a stench in the nostrils of all honorable, and patri otie citizens they could not have devised a more fitting expedient. But we are gratified to have many assurances that the true Union Democrats repudiate and trample under foot this factious fulmination. In Congress, through the press and upon the field of battle loyal Democrats are giv- ng the Government a generous support, lhey have united with true men of other political or ganizations to put down that monstrous violation of the Constitution, armed rebellion. They mean to rescue our country from division, from anar chy, from the insidious designs of arrogant aris tocrats and their ellort to overthrow our tree Constitution. They know that the future peace, power, prosperity and liberty of the American people depend upon tho suppression and punish incut of treason, and regard all attempts to tie tho hands ot the national Administration as prompted by sympathy for traitors. It may be fely predicted that the tourtcen signers ot that address will be duly remembered after the close of the war, and practically banished from any ealthy and loyal political organization, fcven now Vallandigham could not be chosen Constable in the Butler district of Ohio, which he professes to represent. Sac. Union. Cocrtino in the country is altogether a differ ent institution from the city article. In the for mer place you get rosy lips, sweet cider, johnny cake, and girls made from nafire ; in the latter collection of starched ph ruses, formal manners, fine silk, great jewelry, and girls got up secun dum artem. The man who undertook to blast his neighbor's prospects, used too short a fuse and got blown up himself. ' We are commanded to love the whole world. Occasionally a married couple have to club their affections to obey that precept he loving all the women, and she all the men. THE SLAVE TRADE TREATY. The following abstract of terms of the new treaty between the United States and British Governments for tho suppression of the slave trttde, as concluded at Washington on the 7th of April, 1862. The treaty has been signed by the Queen of Great Britain, and ratifications having been exchanged, is now a law : A limited reciprocal right of search is agreed on in the first article, which is that such ships be longing to the respective navies as may be au thorized, may visit such merchant vessels of the two navies as may, upon reasonable grounds, be suspected of being engnged in the African slave trade, or, of having been fitted out for that pur pose ; or ot having, during the voyage on wiucn they are met by the said cruisers, been engnged in the African slave trade, contrary to the pro visions ot this treaty ; and that such cruisers may detain, and send or carry away such vessel in order that they may be brought to trial in the manner tho treaty speciltcally provides, The right of search shall never be exercised only by such ships ot war as are expressly au thonzed to exert it; and in no instance shall it be exercised with respect to a vessel of the navy of either of tho two powers, but shall be exercised only as regards merchant vessels ; and it shall not be exercised bv a vessel of war by cither contracting party within the limits of a settle ment or port, nor within tho territorial waters of the other party. In all cases of search the searching officer shall exhibit to the commander of the vessel searched his special authority for doing so; also deliver certifications of his rank in the naval service, the name ot his ship, and a declaration that the only object cf his search is to ascertain whether the vessel he wishes to examine is employed in, or fitted up for, the African slave trado. The rank of the searching officer must not be below that of a lieutenant, unless the commander be of in fenor rank, but holds his command by reason of the death of a superior ofheer, or other cause. The searching officer, in case he finds the vessel searched is employed lawfully, shall make entry to that ehect in tho log book thereof. The right of search is not to be exercised only within the distance of two hundred miles from the coast of Africa, southward of the 32d paral- el of north latitude, and within thirty leagues from the coast of the Island of Cuba. The respective Governmen s shall furnish their ships with tho authority to search in terms of the treaty. Each shall from time to time communicate the names, etc., of the ships so authorized. liy the third article the contracting power. bind themselves mutually to make good the los ses their respective citizens or subjects incur by the arbitrary or illegal detention of their vessels. The succeeding article specifies that, in order to bring to adjudication, with as little delay and in convenience as possible, the vessels that may be detained, there shall be established, as soon as may be practicable, three mixed courts of justice formed by an equal number of individuals of ot the two nations, named for the purpose by their respective Governments. Theso courts shall reside one at Sierra Leone, one at the Cape of Good Hope and one at New York. Each of tho two contracting parties reserves to itself the right of changing, at its pleasure, the place of residence of the court or courts held within its own territories. Theso courts shall judge tho causes submitted to them according to the provisions of the trea ty, and there shall be no appeal from their de cision. Subsequent articles specify what articles found in the equipment of vessels searched shall con stitute prima facie evidence that she is intended for, or engaged in the slave trade. If any one of the specified articles is found on board a ship she shall have no recourse for damages on the score ot detention. Article cghth provides for the breaking up of an slave ships adjudged and condemned, unless either of the contracting powers should desire to purchase her for the use of its navy. uiiiccrs and crews of condemned vessels are to be punished in accordance with the laws of tho countries to which they may belong, as shall also be the owners and persons interested in ther equipment or cargo. Each of tho contracting parties binds itself by the treaty to send home the masters and crews of condemned vessels, with tho evidence of their guiltiness. The same course shall be pursued with regard to subjects or citizens of cither contracting party who may be lound by a cruiser ot the other on board ot a vessel of any third power, or on board a vessel sailing without flag or papers, which may be con demned oy any competent court for having en gaged in the African slave trade. Iho negroes who are found on board ot a ves sel condemned by tho mixed courts of justice, shall bo placed at tho disposal of the Govern ment whose cruiser has made the capture ; they shall immediately be set at liberty and shall re main free, the Government to whom they have been delivered guarantying their liberty. " Eves ik Her Ashes (Coles) Live Her Wonted Fires." The Monitor having been invented, constructed, and triumphantly proved in Hampton U iod-t, l ! an ingenious Ilinglish youth, yclept Coles, arises and claims the in. vention ! Coles conceived the turret idea and all that, long ago. How quiet he kept about It! Real live Coles, but cuningly smothered, no doubt, till the time came to tire up. And the British Government backs Coles, of course ! The B. O. believes that her Coles had the first light on the subject, of course. Go away, Britannia-Rulet-lhe-waves ! Carry your Coles to Newcastle if you like I But don't go for to try for to heap any such Coles on Ericsson's head. Now don't ! Vanity Fair. Ethiopian Eloquence. A case in the Sacra mento Police Court, of Moses Ward tho boot black, charged with assault and battery : J. L. Goods said he appeared as counsel for Moses, and Moses pleaded not guilty. Tho Court ordered the officer to call Prestly, the prosecut ing witness, but that individual tailed to respond The prosecuting attorney said he had no other witness, except Captain Watson who made the arrest. . Goods " 1 ask that Moses be discharged and that he be allowed the privilege ot making a statement." Tho Court " Very well, Moses ; do you want to say anything 1" Moses (rising slowly and majestically and placing his chair in Iront ot him, after the fashion of a minister a desk)" Yes, sah ; I do." The Court" Weil, don't be long." Moses " No, sah, Gentlemen I (looking around with a dignified wave of the hand) 1 have come here to-day as soon as 1 ex pected anything could happen. This hyar gen tleman was a foolin' with another man ; he want a foolin' with mo at all foolin with another man and he shoved me onto him, nnd made my nose bleed, and rather than do any injury to him what I ought to done, same as 1 did yesterday I didn't do it. But I goes out, sah, and I gets some blackin' and oil, and I mixes urn together to throw onto him, so as to let people know what kind of a man he was, and ho felt 'so disgustu ated at that that he thought he would kill mo ; then he returned there Sunday evenin', ond he said to me, says he, " You black son of a , I intend to murder you." Me V says I. Says I, ' You brought it all on your own self ; you brought it all on your own self, Jim.' Says I, go away, go away from me ; I am old enough to be your father, Jim ; and you orter be ashamed ; you orter be ashamed, Jim.' Hero Mose's tears began to flow. He let it run to the next day, yesterday, and then he come to me again. Says 1 to Captain Watson, says I, ' Mr. Watson, them fellows is arter me' says 1, nnd they think 1 am asleep, but I an't. I am awake and 1 am a goin' to do jist what I orter do, and says I, look out. He called me a son of a , yesterday. and so look out, says I. He called mo it so much that it made my head go like my temple was a gwine to bust oil', nnd made my head whirl round like a tin cup on a mining stream. Here Moses again wept, while all his auditors exhibited exactly opposito emotions. If you don't make that man let me alone, Mighty God I'll hurt him. He came to me, and I had a boot cleaning right In this style. Here Moses vivid ly illustrated the mode of cleaning boots, and says he to me, says he, ' You s of a , I in tend to murder you.' Says I, What?' Says he, 1 intend to murder you.' Says I What V again. And he said it again, and I throwed this arm right out between us, so. Here Moses took the position of 'Ajax defying the lightning.' And I keep in the shade so as to not let him see my statue, and I took tho stick and held it out right so. Ancther illustrative posture,! and come down on him so. Now if I an't justified for what I did on my part on that occasion There Moses' voice becamo solemn nnd impressive, then I tell you there ain't nobody in tho world any right to kill nobody whatsomevcr hero Moses struck an attitude of great dignity! ; and its no more than self defense in the first degree, Dy ine law oi the devolution and tho platform oi mo constitution! Applause. It it ain't such an ollense, I say its assault snd battery against tho regulations of the Constitution. It showed particular, snh ; it showed particular how this character had been raised from his youth ful prime of life. He has showed it decidedly. He hasn't disgraced me, but he showed that his soul, like old John what is dead and gone, and marched on " Judgo Gilmer " That is satis factory, Moses. I will discharge you. You can go home." Moses "Certainly that's so." I Liaugnier.j JMoses gathered himself up and lett the txiurt room, exclaiming " 1 knowed it would be so, if I could spluin de caso to de Court !" Conditions or Peace. The Portland Adver tiser, which was the leading advocate of tho sccesh Democratic ticket in Oregon, says in an Issue three days after the election : There is many hundreds of men engaged in this rebellion who would "ground their arms," but they must have some conditions. They art not to blame ; Republicans know this to be true ; the original cause must rest in the' northern section of the Union. History is our support ; and in order to c fleet a speedy peace, tell those South ern men that if they will " ground their arms," and meet for amicable settlement, thy can have it trom tho federal Uovernmcnt. Do this, and the war will end. That is the treasonable argument, more or less frankly expressed, of every Democratic paper of the school of the Advertiser and Express. The mendacity cf the Advertiser is equalled only by its ignorance, as evinced by the ungraniaticisms it perpetrates in the above extract. The rebel friends of this rebel pnper have been told by the President to "ground their arms," and promised an "amicable settlement." All they have to do to secure the fullest protection for their rights is to return to their allegiance. The majority of the insurgents would never be molested if they would lay down their arms and cease their in sane attacks upon the Union. Marysvillt Ap peal. Gen. Scott thinks " Davis will not be caught. He will probably escape through Texas into Mexico. To the more prominent traitors who may be taken, I would mete out a system of ju dicious but liberal hanging." Mrs. Partington, on reading an account of a schooner having her jibboom carried away on Long Island Sound, one night lately, wondered M why people would leave such things out o'doon to be stolen, when there were so many burglars about filtering everything they could lay their b.indj to," - 1 Our Government refuses to allow such news. papers as are opeuly in favor of the rebellion to have a place in tho mails. This is right. Com mon sense approves it. But treason is cunning. Ic is fertile In expe dients. In the loyal States there are managers of newspapers, who, deeply sympathizing with the rebellion, or cherishing a .deep anxiety to make money by ostensible sympathy with it, are wary and prudent enough not to declare outright in favor of it, and at the same timo are doing whatever they dare in the way of promot ing it. They are evidently performing the work of the Knights of the Golden Circle. Their wholo aim manifestly is to commend themselves to rebel favor and do rebel service. They mako every effort to render the U. S. Government odious, distorting its acts and misrepresenting and maligning its motives, and publish whatever tney can lind that is calculated to encourago tho rebellion and discourage tho Union causo. Now, in our opinion, all such newspapers should be as much excluded from tho mails as newspapers openly ndvocating tho rebellion. W hat a traitor is not nllowed to do directly ha should not be allowed to do indirectly. Crooked treason is no better than the straight article. Let the Government fix its eye upon all disloyal publications and stop the spread of their venom. The Government can and should, at a timo liko this, decide for itself what shall and what shalf not be carried by its mails. Disloyal publications, wearing a thin mask of their disloyalty, are sought eagerly and circulat ted extensively among the rebels, and rebel-sympathizers of Kentucky nnd no doubt of other States. Let an extinguisher bo clapped Upoir them. Louisville Journal. Tub following from Harper's Weekly, of April 19th, describes poor old Jo. Lane as accurately as if it was specially and alono intended for him : Infamy. Thero are persons whom no' tempt ation could emerge from the obscurity into which by tno consent ot their country, they have re cently or long since fallen ; persons whoso hope less fate it is to be pilloried in history ; since history must name them, nnd can only namo with scorn. They are persons who. for no merit but from tho very obscurity of mediocrity, havo been raised to high public, positions, despised by those whoso tools they were, nnd shunned by those who resisted their bad designs. They stand conspicuous, as a man upon tho gallows stands ; out tney havo no lovo, no respect, no sympathy. Mo man would be lad to welcomo them in his homo, nor call his children by their name. For a few years they may havo dazzled tho public eyo by an inexplicable success ; but their career, end ed beforo their lives, deludes no ingenious youth and allures no noblo ambition. Their names become gradually the synonyms of dishonor nnd contempt, thero is a fato so pitiful that whenecer they stir obscurity and remind living men that thoy are not dead, those men do not willingly mention them, but leave thorn to the charitablo forgetfulncss of their cotcmporarics and the' tragical fidelity of history. Beauty ok the Sea. There is a charm on tho sea. Tho freedom thero is its sweep, tho grand eur there is in its billows, tho musio thero is in its roar; its round horizon, headed with white foam, red with the mine of morning light, tinged with tho ruby sun that descends into its waters and dissolves. Tho ship, so liko a bird, thnt spreads its whito wings and skirts tho sea encircled world ; tho wild talo of strange adventures ; tho gems nnd gold. that fill its caves; tho coral groves touched with eternal sunset; the bubbles that havo bro ken upon its surface nnd released tho parting souls; all these havo shrouded tho ses with a mysterious charm. And then to think that tho sea is the memory of tho world; that an angel's voice shall sum mon it, and shall surrender its dead to light nnd life again ; that the lower half of heaven is hid den like a jeweled cup in its bosom ; and tho ever-going sun has worn no path thence, nnd tho long caravan of ages left no footprint as It Went. . The editor of tho New York Ledger wrote tr Gen. Di.x to inquire as to tho origin of the famrms order, "If any man nttemps to haul down tho American flag, shoot him on the spot," this order having been attributed by tho Ledger to tho fer tile brain of. Secretary Stanton. In reply to tho inquiry, Gen. Dix writes as follows : " You will find the original ' shoot ' him-on the spot ' order at tho houso of my son, Rev. Mr. Dix, 42 Charlton street, framed nnd hanging in his parlor. Whenlgavo tho order, I had no idea thot such an importance would have been given to it, but whon I found it making a stir, I inclosed the original to my son. No man sug gested a word or saw it until after it was writ ten. Some months rgo it was attributed to Mr. Holt now, I understand from you, to Mr. Stan ton, by the Ledger." A country editor speaking of a steamboat, says : "she had twelve berths in the ladies' cab- ." "Oh, my life!" exclaimed Mrs. Parting- ton, on being informed of this, " what a squalling thhere must have been on that precious boat." The Winchester Virginian puts forth a mys terious boast that tho Southern Confederacy will soon " make a grand haul.'' We guess that it will bo by hauling down her flag and haulii.g in her horns. " I say, pnt, are you asleep f "Divil the a quarter." sleep." "Then bo alter lendin mo " I'm asleep, be jabers." Hi bbixo the eyes with an onion will most cer tamly mako them spring a-Ieek. - Miss Doens says that the sweetest line she ever read was her Simon's name written in mo lasses on the front stoop.