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THE STATE REPUBLICAN. Ths Struggle of to-day is not altogether for to-day, it is for the vast future also." EUGENE CITY, AUGUST 30, 1862. TO THE P I'D LIC. On account of ill health I am forced to with draw from the publication of the Statu Repub lican:. This business in futuro will be con ducted by J. N. Gale, and arrangement are made of a permanent character, so that the publication will continue without interruption, pre-stipposing of course, that the public will do Its part. Therefore all arrearages which are due II. Shaw & Co. are to be paid to Mr. Gale. As I am now quite an old man, and far more reduced from sickness than ever before in my life, appearing to mo to bo an indication of fast approaching dissolution j tho necessity of wind irg 'ip my affairs seems to demand immedato attention, which I could not do without a parting word with tho patrons of tho Republican. Alt my lio I have held one principle paramount, mid. that was. duty. It was my duty to do whatever was in my power for tho benefit of my suction of country. That I have labored, by ex ploratious among tho mountains, and in various other ways to improvo and develop tho resources of our country, is well known to all. A newspaper devoted to tho truth and the best interests of tho people it was evident hould be maintained here. Tho responsibility of this important enterprise I took upon my shoulders, not from personal ambition, desiro of notoriety, or pecuniary advantage as none who know mo would accuse ; but purely from tho motives staled, and how well I have performed my part is for you to judge. That tho paper will hold on to its former course, and advocate tho cause to which it has nil along been devoted 1 have no doubt what ever ; and that it may be well supported and effect much good is my ardent desiro. And finally, with grateful thanks for past favors and kindness, 1 would bespeak your support und patronage for my successor. II. SHAW. LEGAL TENOEIl TltEASUltY NOTES. Popular opinion pretty generally ascribes to bankers, brokers, ' money-changers nnd others, by whatsoever namo they may be called, whose business it is to deal in money, tho quality of seeing everything which is advantageous to them as just and right. Their stand point is their in dividual personal interests ; everything that puts money in their coffers is tho fair thing, even if it robs tho laborer of his pence, and causes dis tress to the larger part of tho community. Pop uhir opinion is not far wrong. Theso money, dealers aro they who opposo our usury laws. They regulate exchanges and pufT up or cry down tho legal currency of the land, not for the efTcd produced on or by tho regulations of com mercial transactions, but for the effect upon their interests. Just now it is their interest to deprcciato the value of the legal tender Treasury notes, issued by tho U. S. Treasury under sanction and au thority of Congressional law. They lack not for specious argument or for a venal press to sustain their course. Yet who has ever scon a clear nnd simplo statement of monetary affairs or argument, from ono of theso men in defense of n depreciation of Treasury notes, or tho rca son for tho largo premium on gold, or any other similar matter that was working injuriously to iho interests of tho community and for the inter ests of money shavers. Do they not invariably so load their argument villi technicalities and by frequent reference to commercial regulations, etc., etc., that they go beyond tho depth or the patience of their audience, and so befogging them, seem to have made unanswerable argu ment. Must gold which is shipped to Europe from tho Atlantic States, and which is in part from California and Oregon, make tho premium on all gold fourteen or fifteen per cent? Would all tho gold in tho country bo shipped to Europe and is this fourteen or fifteen per cent to be put n by way of prohibition 1 Tho banks in New York, Boston and Philadelphia aro said to have at this present timo fifty millions of gold in their vaults. Why then this panic? Or why, when Govern nent has presented us substitute for gold, in Treasury notes convertible into U. S. six per cent bonds, why rot accept the tender T Why not remove tho prohibition of fifteen per rent on mId and allow it to cot Can't we do . o v without? Is not tho noto as convenient, as safe, as seeuro 1 Can you answer no, without discred King the faith and integrity of our Government ? You cannot doubt the power of Congress to reg ulate currency ; they have regulated it by law making theso notes a legal tender, with only the exception of payment of customs, duties and interest on Government debts, and tho reason of this exception is simply that Government secu rities may bo an! aro held by foreigners and in foreign lands, beyond tho provinco of Congress. Soual law, and that duties aro subject to what is called drawbacks, which must be paUl in coin to tho importer, becauso on foreign account. It is hardly becoming a good citizen to resist tho law or condemn it becauso be thinks it wrong, ur. philosophical or unconstitutional. Tho distin guished Senators and Members of Congress who debate these laws are supposed to be ns capable of judging of these point as you or I. It is our place to obey the laws as they pnM. Shall money shavers and speculators befog tho publio mind so far as to set aside a law of Congress ? Do we owe them so much love that wo fed willing to see them enriclel at our expense? Do we wish, on principle, to aid the rich to grow richer, and the poor to grow poorer? In some of the military districts tho command ing General has forbidden the purchase and sale of merchandise, cotton ond stores for gold when such purchases had tho effect of depreciating the Treasury notes used by the army paymasters ind quartermasters. Shall we here give such unwilling obedience to our civil law, boasting that we are good citizens, which it is found nee essary to force by military power in the more disturbed portions of the country. No loyal citizen would willingly place himself in the po sition of embarrassing our Government, or in the position of thoso who to be obedient to law require military subjection and control. Is not the good citizen also in quiet times and places as much entitled to the protection of Gov ernment against fraudulent practices as the sold ier or ciltzen in Tennessee or Kentucky ? or is it expected that we can take care of ourselves without her help ? If we wero united in opinion on this subject, all who aro interested, we could compel tho money shavers to deal fairly, and our Treasury notes would be ns current at par as over the old United States' bank bills were in its most prosperous days. Not Posted. There has not been a page of tho books or records of this county posted since Undo Paul Brattain was turned out of the Clerk's oflico nearly four years ago. When Mr. Brattain, true to tho principles of an American, saw that tho Democratic party had thrown off every principle of integrity every vestigo of political honesty, he liko a veteran patriot as lie was, dared to cast his vote with tho party that was trying to maintain inviolate tho American Government. What was the result of that vote ? A young man, tho " Democratic" Clerk bluntly told tho Old White Haired servant of Lane county to take what belonged to him and "git frum thar." The consequence is, there has not been a clerk since who knew enough to post books; and it being one of the duties of the clerk for which there is no extra pay allowed they never tried to learn. It is just as impossi ble for Blcvans, or any other man to make a true nnd correct exhibit of tho county's business without the books being in an understaudiblc shape, ns for a merchant to settle with his cus tomers with unposted hooks, hence the trouble and extra labor which is imposed on our present incumbent. Fhaud. Why are we paying twelve dollars per week to a band of traitors for the pretended keeping of Dr. Ramsay, while ho is travelling all over tho State practicing medicino for their benefit? A few weeks sinco a man called on Drs. (?) L. it II. for the purpose of having a tumor removed; their skill proved inadequate to tho task, so Dr. Ramsay was called in, said he could remove it, and did remove it, and was tl'cn sent with the man to his homo in Marion county to ottend to him, where several of our citizens saw him. Is Lano county to pay for a head physician for that tory houso in P rtland 1 We hope not. Ho was sent there at first (and agninst his will too) for nothing in God's world but political preference, by tho little mincy "hafl"' judge. Leaked Out. We see by sheriff Brattain's notieo that there is a delinquent tax list for 1801, of $2,333 09. Why is this ? We can in part account for it when it is a known fact that one of tho legally appointed collectors for that year was heard to tell his tory friends on Long Tom, that they need not pay iho War tax, nor the county tax cither, if they did not want to ; for by G d thero was no government to support. That, citizens of Lane county, is the sort of of ficers you have had over you for tho last four years, aro you content to forever discard such from your county offices ? Yes, by your votes last Juno you said it, nnd now let each year sink such traitorous corruption deeper and deeper into the cesspool of secessionist! until it shall be lost amid the common mass of filth, and become to us only a matter of history. . - There has been a discaso reaching further nnd further along the sinews of our national life, in fusing itself in the blood, and gradually extend ing its away over the wholo system, until at length it has gained complete control, turned tho national brain to madness, nnd laid its vice-like "rasp upon the vitals of the Repulilie. This dis ease is abolitionism. Albany Inquirer. Pro-slavery principles nnd politicians have been " gradua ly extending their sway " fory -arc, till they have at length " laid their vice-like grasp upon the vitals of the Republic," not even thro' fear of " abilitionism," as they have publicly declared through their chosen ngents, but to establish a government founded entirely on slavery and t!ie idea of privi'eged classes. In the face of the fact that they are now putting forth all their efforts to destroy this Government, it is strange that any person can havo tho brass to utter such falsehoods as the above. Such pnl paple lies do not even carry with them the credit for shrewdness which belongs to a plausablc lie. Wt are in receipt of a new cxehango entitled U'udt't Iilustrnted Advertiser, published in San Francisco. As its titlo indicates it is devoted largely to advertising, yet it contains a large amount of news and interesting miscellany. In typographical nppearauce it is second to no paper on the coat. Success to it. Linn County Correnpoudeoce. Brownsville, Aug. 25th, 1S62. Editor Republican : I notice in the Albany Inquirer, a camp meeting notice published by the Rev. (that rev stands for reviler) S. M. Stout, P. E. of the pro-slavery, political Methodist church in which he says: "Tho undersigned in behalf of the M. E Church South, hereby publishes that theri will bo a camp meeting held at Union Poini near Brownsville, Linn comty Oregon, com mencing on Thursday, 4th of September, 18G2 To this meeting we invite all lovers of the Loro Jesus Christ, without respect to sect or order, provided tbey can leave their politics and papers at home. And everybody is invited with tho same restriction, except a class of reckless young men w ho have been in the habit of infesting our congregations. Thero is no provision made for their bed or board, nor will they be allowed on the ground unless they behave like men. With respect, your servant for Christ sake," S. M. Stout, P. E. Well, Mr. Stout, to say the least such an nd vcrtiseinent is rather complimentary to the young men of Union Point and Brownsville, for "whoso' serveth the Lord, tho Devil (Stout) revileth." Now sir do you suppose that we are such slaves, sses, or tools if yo'i pleaso, as to go out to hear a man like you talk in tho name of tho " Lord Jesus Christ," and under guise of religious liberty too, when everybody knows full well tho leading object of your hypocritical organization which stigmatizes tho sacred name of Church, in this country was for political pur poses, and it is composed of the offscourings of every creed and denomination, and we think it is as generally known as you aie, that for your meanness you were kicked out of the church at Corvnllis. Few are going to that, camp meeting for the real bonafido purposo of worship. We apprehend we go there because our neighbors go and becauso wo have no where else to go, and wo will talk nnd read too just what wo please, but, in as genteel a manner as the occasion de mands, your Jeff Davis blowing to the contrary notwithstanding. You may advertise us ns you like you may give out the impression to the world if it suits you that we are a kind of vermin that infests your congregation ; you may cheat a few old fo gies in that way, but you can't fool the Lord Jo sus Christ, nor you can't fool us. Perhaps there may have been a littlo disorderly conduct at some of your meetings heretofore in this vicini ty ; but it nil originates from the fact that sensi hie, thinking men have no confidence in you whatever, and believe that if you had an offer that you would sell your Lord Jesus Christ for less than Judas did. That very advertisement shows your estimate for ChrUtianity your in clination for meanness, and how low down in the scale of human degradation you aro capable of going all for the sake" of the Lord Jesus Christ. One of the Bovs. Wo see a growing tendency in the pro-slavery clement, and especially in the religious portion of it to bring about a union of Church and State, and they are trying to do it too by lying and deception. It is an incontrovertible fact, there is not n man belongs to the Southern Methodist church who did not vote the secession ticket. It is made n test of fellowship, no man will be re tained w ho is not a deciplo of Jeff Davis, yet they have tho effrontery to tell white men to leavo their politics at home, but you must ac cept ,; our" politics under the guiso of religion. Let every man be ware how ho Is trapped into an established, or national religion, whioh is in dispensiblo to an ctablishcd aristocracy. Letter from John Day's Itivcr. Canton Cheek, August 14th, 1863. Mr. Humphrey, Dear Sir : I sond a few lines to let you know how things are going on in this part of the country, you know we had some talk on the subject before 1 came hero ; so after my well wishes for yourself and family, I say that we, the major portion of the Luce family, ar rived on this creek, a tributary of John Day's river, on the 17th day of July, and found the diggings not only good but rich. This phue is located two hundred miles south from the Dalles, and two hundred and thirty or forty miles from Eugene City, nearly due cast. Now I will say to you that those digging aro rich and exten sive, at least that is my opinion, and I have twelve years ex erience in mining. It frequent ly occurs here that two men take out ono hun. dred dollars with a rocker in a day, and when the water is brought in, ono hundred dollars per day to tho hand will not be uncommon. Those are tho big licks, but every person here that has his diggings open is making from four to fifty dollars per day. ages aro tour dollars per day, and hands scarce. Tho gold is not only in the creek but in the gulches, nnd in the hills ; it is in tho grass roots on the flats. Tho country extends to Powder river, a distanco of seventy five miles. Granite creek is even richer than this it puts into the North Fork of John Day's river, and is sixty miles from here. My brolher John has just reutrned from there, and says that Lewis Gibson nnd the Crow boys have very rich claims. lie heard that they sold one of their claims for $1,000. lie heard that the Filderworth boys had made plenty of money. I have not seen any of the Eugene folks except Mr. Adams. Thero is near one thousanj men here, mostly Califcn.ians. Provisions are very high flour 30 cents per pound ; bacon 40 ; coffee fifty ; onions forty ; potatoes twenty. I have not seen a pound cf butter sinco I have been IvTe. You have not the least idea of the richness of these mines, and so near to Eugene, that if the people thre have the energy to open a road that will b the place where we can procure our sup plies the cheapest, and only thirty or forty miles furthsr than the Dalles, and from Eugene there oan be a wagon road made, but from tho Dalles there cannot. Tho business men of the place hould move in this matter at once. We have done very well since we camo here ; ve have up a store hero, in a canvass house wenty by forty feet. We have a train of twen-ty-s x animals, and we brought in stock of goods that cost us $1,500, in tho Dalles, nnd we sold in the first day after we opened, $850 worth of goods, and took in the cash for them in gold dust, and we only lack goods to keep up the trade we cannot get goods fast enough now. This is no humbug ; you know me, and I stake my rep utation on what I say. It any of the Eugene City folks should come out here tell them to call at our place, and wo will show them the dust wo have it here frotn twenty-five dollar nuggets to the finest kind of flour gold. Tell the folks to load their Cay uses w ith potatoes, onions, beans, eggs, butter, bacon, flour, and eoine rirht out on the emigrant road to where tho wagon road cross es it from California, then take that and itvill bring them here. Tho emigrant road is fifty miles east of here. I should like to see the people of Lane county improve tho advantages offered them. It is a great opening, and if any of the folks come here we will do what we can for them. I write this to you because 1 know you to be a man of leisure, and that you will take pleas ure in spreading the good news I write, and you may depend on every word I write to you about these mines. William Luck. Fokoetful. Two weeks ago the Register mildly hinted that this county was fcr tho first time since its organization under " republican rule." Wonder if they don't recollect that when our publio improvements were all made, that of the threo Commissioners- two of them were rabid republicans; they were Jo Davis and Thomas Kirkpatriek, and Paul Brattain Auditor. But in one year after Brock and his minions took the reins, tho county fund was gone scrip worth 62L cents on tho dollar, and so remains. The cause is two-told ; first, tho collectors favored their political friends, and second, Brock & Co. fobbed, what was collected. Immiouakts Cominq. Already a few of the overland immigrants havo arrived in the lower part of the Valley. They came via Fort Benton and theMullan road, and report that tho immi grants on that route nre getting along without serious difficulty, and will arrive in good season. Some of the emigration via the South Pass have arrived nt Powder river. In all it is estimated that nearly 20,000 persons will be added to the population of Oregon this year. Steamer Disasters ox this Coast. The Al ia says : The loss of life on this coast by steamship dis aster during tho last twelve years has not been very great. The North America was lost on the 22d of February, 1852, forty miles south of Acapulco ; but passengers nnd crew wero both savud. The independence was burned at Marga rita Island, Lower California, on tho lGth of February, 1853. Nearly 200 persons lost their lives. The Tennessee was wrecked at tho cut ranco of this port on tho Cth of March, 1853 ; but all on board were saved. The S. S. Lewis was wrecked 15 miles north of San Francisco on the 9th of April, 1853 ; but no lives were lost. The same happy result is recorded in the case of the Winfield Scott ; but with the Yankee Blade, ofrthe coast of Santa Barbara, in 1S54, 415 souls went down. California passengers, however al ways behave well in danger. The Central America was proof of that fact; and now the Golden Gate corroborates the coolness and brav ery of our citizens. With passengers, from any other port of the world, the. news which we pub lish to-day would have been tenfold more har rowing. So far ns the reports received go, neith er negligonco nor carelessness can hi imputed to tho otliccrs of tho ill-fated steamer. The sad catastrophe seems to havo been tho result of an acccident against which no human foresight could have guarded. LATEST EASTERN NEWS. New York, August 18. The Tribune1 corre spondent at Culpepper, says tho enemy appeared in force on the south bank of the Rapi d.m, yesterday. Major Keefs who occupied the front, advanced to the river, the enemy opened artillery tire on inm, killing one Lieutenant and five privates. It is thought tho passage of the liapidau will be obstructed and contested. Leavenworth, August 18. Owing to rebels in Jackson county, Missouri, threatening an attack on Kansas City, the Provost Marshall here has ordered citizens en masse to enroll for military duty. Those failing to do so nre to be arrested. Business generally suspended in consequence of compliance with this order. Fortress Monroe, August 18. The Newborn Progress states that the final result of the election in North Carolina indicates the defeat of Johnson the secession candidate for Governor, by a ma jority of 40,000. IndV.opolis, 19. The news of the invasion of Kentucky, which reached here Saturday, created considerable excitement. The rebels have en tered the State at several different Fpoints : have captured Somerset and have possession there now. They are aho moving on Glasgow, and threatening Bowling Green. Kirby Smith, at tho head of five brigades of infantry, four batte ries of artillery, and a corresponds force of cavalry, is about to march through Big Creek. It is his plan to cut our line of communication. and con: pel I, if possible, the evacuation of Cum berland uap. Gen. Morgan has retired with rartof his men to Barbersviile, to hold that place, aud asks f.r reinforcements. rt.;i...i..l.KI Aiit.. 19. The village Douald- on 88 miles above New Orleans, was destroyed by fire bv order of tho Captain of tho sloop-of-war Brooklyn, it being infested by guerrillas, whose principle business wasfiring into transports filled with sick and wounded soldiers. The correspondent of the Enquirer, from Fortress Monroe, 17th says the army was cross ing the Chickahominy, yesterday, by means of pontoon bridges, 2,000 feet long. By observation" this morning, I find with few excep'ions our entire fleet of transports havo arrived here, sol may say our entire fleet is safe. The Bulletin says a man who left Fort Mon roe last evening furnishes the following : The army of tho Potomac had arrived at tho lower end of the Peninsula without being molest ed on tho way in tho slightest degree. McClel lan, it is understood, was at Williamsburg yesterday morning. Fitzjohn Porter's division which was on the opposite side of James River, has also came down to the Peninsula. General Burnside on ived nt Fortress Monroe on Sunday, and went up the James River ns far ns Chicka hominy to seo how operations were going on. lie returned yesterday to tho Fortress reporting that everything was satisfactory. The weather" was delightful, most favorable for the move' meuts of the regiments. Most of the gunboatsr have come down the river, but some remain to guard the Pontoon across tho Chickahominy ovi r which tho army passed on their way down tho Peninsula. Washington, 20. Specials to tho New York papers say tho mind of the Government is again agitated touching censorship of the press. Com plaints have been made that new nnd impor tant movements of the National nrmies were prematurely published in some New York journals. Gen. Ilallcck has determined to order all correspondents out of Gen. Pope's lines, also from the lines of other generals. The steamers Skylark and Cally were burn ed by guerrillas on the night of the 18th, 50 miles above Fort Henry. Louisville, August 20. A tolerably authenti cated report says v Col. Garrard, with Rix or seven hundred men attacked Scott's Loisiamv cavalry yesterday, at Laurel Bridge ncir Lou don. After quite a severe fight Garrard defeated them, splitting the regiment in two parts, w hich skedaddled tiiein in different directions. No particulars have bce:i raccived of the losses on cither side. Tho Federal loss in the engagement nt Lone Jack,Missouri, on Friday last, is understood to have jbeen 150 killed, wounded and missing.. The remainder of tho force escaped to Lexiug ton. The artillery lost in the fight was retaken four times and finally spiked and abandoned by tho Federals. During the fight nt Independence, Missouri, on tho lltb, General Hughes, who commanded nv rebel regiment at Carthago and a brigade at Wi son's Creek, was killed,, and- tho notorious and brutal Colonel Bird, and Colonel Thompson wounded the former fatally. The Federal loss is set down nt 21 killed and 35 wounded, whilo the rebels say their loss was ten killed and elev en wounded. Union men declare the rebel loss to have been over sixty killed. St. Louis, August 21. A gentleman just ar rived from Lexington, Missouri, reports thnC soon after leaving that city ho beard an alarm gun fired and the long roll beaten in the Federal' camp followed by a loud cannonading. Ho is confident that the gorrison will bo able to main tain itsslf and repalse the enemy, as the garrison is fully 2,000 strong, of whom 500 under Gen. Loan arrived from Lacledo early yesterday morning. Te commanding officer at Lexington burned all tho hemp warehouses with their con tents to prevent tho rebels from repeating tho experiment of hemp bale breaseworks, tried with success by Price in the attack last tall. Our troops oc.-upy Mulligan's old iutrenchment, which havo been exteinWd to the river, to prevent therebels from attacking k the rear and- cutting, off the garrison from the water, Tho strength' of the rebel force is supposed to be about 4,000,. New York, August 21. Tho Times' letter from Fortress Monroe, dated the 19th, says 5 Tho army is already in process of embarkation for another field of operations. Porter's corps performed a rapid march from Yorktown, muking: the whole distance of thirty miles in less t han dle day. Morrell's division reached Hamptoi yesterday afternoon, nnd the wagon train witli the whole corpse were encamped before night. This morning tl.ey took up their line of march for Newport New s, w here they will immediately embark, Sy kes' division of re0u!nrs are already on transports. Sumner's corps, which formed, the rear guard of tho army, with French's brig V; ade forming the extreme rear, arrived at York town yesterday. The entire wagon train of this corps arrived at Hampton to day. The Tribune" Fortress Monroe letter say General lleintzsluian did not accompany the ar my down thcponinsula, but went olf in tho di rectionof White House. It was commonly re marked that ho was gone off to look up a fight. It is surmised that ho will appear in the neijih borhood of White House or West Point. New York, August 22. The Trihune-t respondent dated headquarters of the aimy of Virginia, Cedar Mountains, August 18, says : " Tho army is again on march that march a re treat. An order was issncd to day to. be ready to st a: tat once. Before two hours had passcd the tents and bajg.igo had al gone- to the rear. We understand that the whole a my of Vir.inia, is retreating. All sorts of rumors are afloat to fie effect that the whole army of Richmond ia rdvancingand that the rebels are attempting to turn our left flank. In a word, they are march ing straight on Fredericksburg and Washington Thus threatened on our left flank, and threafened by an army in front much superior in number to our own, Pope's army retreats to fight. By daylight it is supposed he will cross the liappa hannoek, but when once on the north bank of that river he will no longer retreat." Culpepper, August 19, 0 a. m. It was expect ed that the army would cross the Rippahannoclc by ten o'clock, but the passage of the trains waa so much delayed that it will not be attempted. Banks' aud McDowell's corps are coming up Both will await tho arrival Sigel, who covers the' rear. As 1 write, masses of troops are pouriuir in swiftly but orderly, marohing along narrow roads and over fields towards town, Sigel is not expected till I ight. Whatever happens nocross- -ing will be attempted until hecomes up In spite of delays, there has been no panic whatever "w" the trains.