appropriated oat or any money in the Treas
ury not otherwise appropriatcd.provided they
b famished at prices not sicwr' ;j t-.se
for which they were heretofore plieC and
provided alio that id books U tbrwtrded
bV the clerk to each public libUr? in the
district of each of said ronbars and dele
gates as may be designated by said member
and delegate.
Contingent expenses IIouso of Represen-
For stationery, eight thousand fire hun
dred and my dollars. -
For miscellaneous itema, Oro thousand
dollars.
For the purchase one hundred hiid forty-
, two copies or the Brst and tenth volumes of
the works or John Adams for the members
or the thirty-second Congrees six hundred
ana tmriy-uiue uounrs. -
For the reapprOpriatloit or five hundred
and eighty-fire dollars heretofore carried to
the surplus fund, being the amount appro
priated for the engraving of fifty-one thou
sand five hundred and twenty copies of the
mechanical part or the Patent Office Report
for eignieen nunarca ana nny-one.
To supply a deficiency in the appropria
hod lor nooks tor members or tho thirty
tuira vonjrrcss three thonsand dollars.
, For capitol police two hundred dollars.
- To enable the clerk or House or Repre
sentatives to pay to .John c Kircs the ad
ditional compensation ror the Congressional
- urooe ana Appendix provided In the six
tenth section of the act making appropria
tiona for certain civil expeuscs or the gov
erument tor toe year ending inirticia June
eighteen hundred and fiftr-seven, eleven
thousand one hundred and seventy-four dol
. Ian and sixty-nine cents.
To enable John C Rives to pay to the
reporters of the House the usual additioual
compensation for reporting the debates or
tne present session, eight nuuurea dollars
each four thonsand dollars.
For the completion oT the printing? here
tofore ordered by the Senate and House or
Kepresentatives and paper for the same, two
Hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
- For fees or witnesses in behalf of the rot
eminent in the Court of Claims and of agents
or attorneys to be appointed by the solicitor
thereof to attend to tho taking ot deposi
tions, five thousand dollars. ,
ARMY.
To meet the expenses of nurses and at
tend ants, authorised by the third section of
the act of sixteenth August, eighteen nun
dred and fifty-six, entitled An act provi
ding for a necessary increase ami better or
ganisation of the medical aad hospital de
partment of the army," from the date or said
act to thirtieth June,. eighteen hundred and
fifty-seven:, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For the reappropriation of fifty thousand
dollars of the balance of the appropriation
ror the medical acd hospital departments
which was carried to the snpins fund tbirti
eta Jane eighteen hundred and fifty-three
ror the payment of claims applicable to said
department accruing during the war with
Mexico and not yet settled by the Treasury
Department, fifty thousand dollars.
For transportation of the army, including
the baggage of the troops when moving ei
ther bj laud or water, of clothing, camp and
garrison eqnipage from the depot at Phila
delphia to the several posts and army depots
horse equipments aud of subsistence from
the places of purchase and from tbe places
of delivery under contract to such places as
the circumstances of the service may require
it to be sent, of ordinance or ordinance
stores, and small arms from the foundries
and armories to the arsenaU, fortifications.
frontier posts and army depots; treignis,
wharfage tolls and forages, for the purchase
. and hire of horses, mules and oxen, aud tbe
purchase and repair of wagons, carts, drajs,
ships and other sea-going vessels aud boats
for the transportation or supplies and ror
garrison purposes; for dray age and cartage
. at the several posts hire of teamsters trans
portation of funds for the pay and other dis
bnrsing departments tbe expense of sailing
public transports on the various rivers, the
gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic and Pacific
and for procuring water at such posts as
from their situation require that it be bro't
from a distance, seven hundred thonsand
dollars.
For completing the repairs of the branch
. mint at New Orleans, and rendering the
same fire proof, one hundred and twenty
thousand six hundred aud sixty-one dollars.
For seamen's wages, repairs and tncidcn
tal expenses of light vessels, occasioned by
damages, loss of moorings, and for necessary
expenses in recovering said vessels broKcn
adrift during the late storms and freshets,
and by floating ice, forty thousand one hnn
. dred and five dollars and sixty-two cents.
For expenses of raising, cleaning, paint
ing, repairing, re-mooring and supplying
losses of buoys, and for necessary expenses
in recovering and restoring buoys and their
appendages during tne late storms and
freshets, and by floating ice, thirty-seven
thousand fire hundred and sixty-two dollars
and sixty cents.
- For restoring spindles and repairing day
storms, freshets and floating ice, fourteen
thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.
For defraying expenses of the defence of
suits against tbe United States ror lands oc
cupied by marine hospitals, lighthouses, and
fortifications at the harbor or San Francis
co. California, tbirtv thonsand dollars.
To defray expenses incurred in preparing
plans and estimates of cost of a new jail for
the District of Columbia, and of a building
for tbe proper accommodation of the Depart
ment of the Interior, five hundred dollars.
Sec 2. And be it further enacted, That
the extra compensation given by each or the
two Houses of Congress, the year eighteen
hundred and fifty-six, to its officers and em
ployees, shall be paid by its disbursing offi
cer out of the contingent fund, and his ac
counts therefor shall be allowed by the ac
counting officers of the treasury department.
But nothing herein contained shall be so
construed as to repeal the joint resolution of
twentieth of Jnly, eighteen hundred and fifty-four
" to fix the compensation or the em
ployees ia the legislative department or the
government, and to prohibit tbe allowance
or the usual extra compensation to such as
receive tbe benefit hereof," which said reso
lution is hereby declared to be ia fall force
and effect, except so far as herein provided
for. .. -.
See. 3. And be it runner enacted, That
tbe provisions or tbe thirteenth section of
ctvii expenses m we guTcr-uueus wr
year ending tbe thirtieth of Jane, eighteen
hundred and fifty-six, allowing to tbe seve
ral disbursing agent for the late California
Land Commission, the same compensation
for the receipt and disbursement of moneys
aa are allowed to other disbursing officers of
the government ia California, was intended
to apply and is hereby declared to apply,
and give said compensation as well when the
fiisbornnar svsreat wu a. mumtm. J
0 o w fin
mission aa in other cases.
Approved March 3, 1857. :..",
' children for circus train.
iBg has been
stected at St. Louis.
OHEGON STATESMAN.
TUESDAY, JULY T,- 185T. (
Ws stall sooa send tvl ant annual circular to
I a'ellnquent patrena. Before we da so, we hone
mat many now in arrears win nave paid up, for
we dislike to " dan," aa bad as any man can to
ha " dunned." Our published " tonus" will show
tho advantage of advanca payment.
The letter need not be registered, but tho money
' niimuiui wtmw na mom nv bmii mt
uouiu va mnuHv in presence oi a nostmaiir,
una w, ioui. AnAIIKu lIUiMl,
- Tave VMIUeal CUrgr A -
Tho last Salem Christian Advocate has
an editorial article (a reply to what we said
upon the above subject week before last, in
connection with the conduct of the Rev.
Mr. Ktugslcy at the Portland primary
meeting, and at the election. The Advo
cate's article abounds in coarse epithets, such
as unscrupulous," "corruption," " infidel,"
" atheistical," " cowardly," Ac, and in uu
fairucss, and disingenuousness. We propose
to make a Tew extracts from it, and briefly
comment upon them:
8vh attacks eshibit rross ninliirtiity. Their
author know that thU wholesale traduction and
aspersion of tho entiro protectant clorry of our
Units obviously Intend a blow against all true
their nrinciple In the dust of political
r, and do the behests of party, right r
v nrtm ounce alt aach wholeaalo dfa-
epodiT,
mathjn. Watler whaluvrr name it ia indulged, as
innueiuy.
We. there fare, soldi v deaoaaea such indiscrim
inate assaults upon the ministry as essentially
intolerant, per cuung, oiaeisuc.
The editor or the Advocate knew wucn
he penned the above that it was based upou
false assumption, and raise statement. He
knew that there had been no " wholesale
traduction," " wholesale defamation" or, or
indiscriminate assaults" upon tbe clergy.
He knew that we did not so Intend. We
referred to a portion of .the clergy, designat
ing them by a common, appropriate and de
scriptive title " Political parlous," or " po
litical ministers." . Can any man confound
with "political ministers" those who are not
such, and claim that the denunciation of tho
first class is an "indiscriminate assault"
upon all? In censuring' a political priest
hood, is it necessary to a correct understand
ing, to specially explain that there are some
clergymen who are not politicians! Justus
necessary would it be in reflecting upon a
uaud oi norse tiucvcs to add that there arc
some men who are not horse-thieves.
We havo reflected upon the political char
actcr of political preachers, yet the Kpisco
palian and Catholic clergy, who rarely ever
are politcians, hare not understood them
selves to be referred to. Nor has there
been any more occasion for the Methodist,
Congrrgationatist, Baptist, or clergyman of
other denominations, who was not a politi
cian (and there are some who are not) to
consider himself included. As we before
said, the editor of the Advocate knew this,
and was guilty of a wilful perversion or our
language. When we speak of " political
parsons" we mean such, and none othcr.-
But the assumption of the Advocate, far
fetched, that " these assaults obviously in
tend a blow against all" ministers, "all true
religion and all religious men," with its ad
raptnndum appeal, marks the small dema
gogue and uncandid man. From the " ex
cept those ("religious men") who will trail
their principles in the dust of political ex
pediency, and do the behests of pnrty, right
or wrong," we understand that the editor of
the Advocate holds that a man can " trail
his principles in the dust" and do " wrong
and still be a " religions man." Wc can un
derstand nothing else from his language.-
U that is the " truo religion" he is so con
cerned about, we hope to be spared from its
effects. , .
It is cowardly ami nnmarnaninioas to asrail
ministers as is sometimes done, because it is well
Known tncy are, as a eiass, non-resistant, it Is
base thus to attack them in reneral terms, and in-
nendo, because their success as mi it is tor depends
upon meir isir tamo, upon their character tor pu
nty and integrity.
mi t . . . . ...
me pmpu is me last place irom winch a
charge of " cowardice" should emanate. It
is a charge which has been ever laid, and
justly laid at its own door. It is the com
mon practice of a class of miuistcrs to deal
oonoxious assaults irom ibo ocsk, knowing
that the assailed cannot be permitted to ex
plain or reply before the same auditory, and
to refuse an opportunity for reply, if sought.
" Cowardice" should never bo uttcrrcd iu
that quarter.
ir his " character for purity and intcgri
ty" is kept unspotted, tbe clergyman need
never rear " attack" or " innendo," however
"base" or "general." Junius says: Re
proachee have no power to afflict either the
man of unblemished integrity or the aban
doned profligate; that it is the middle, com
pound character which alone is vulnerable;
the man who without uprightness to avoid
a dishonorable action, has reeling euongh to
bi ashamed of it. If tbe editor of tbe Ad
vocate will " examiue his own breast," gen
erally, we think he will be struck with the
correctness of Junius' knowledge cf the hu
man heart.
Whence, then, this -tendency to the wholesale
defamation of ministers f Why is occasion so
frequently token, to hold them up to public sus
picion and scorn T
There is no such tendency, and frequent
occasion is not taken to bold tuem np to
" suspicion aad scorn." On tbe contrary,
the reverse is tbe fact. A portion or the
secular press" carefully exclude from their
criminal record the names of clergymen
whose acts have earned them mention there.
With rare exceptions their. crimes are not
published to the world as those of other
classes are, except in cases of gross depart
ure from morality on the. part of such as
have turned politicians, and boasted or ex
tra morality. It it natural that in such in
stances an; "ungodly"; opposition press
should give prominence to their deeds. "
A general reason lies in the spleen cherished
against Christianity itself. .
Thia "reason" is moss-covered .with age.
It is as eld as the earliest opposition to the
pretensions of priesthood. Differ in any re
spect with aa Intolerant and bigoted (now,
wa don't mean those who are turf so!) cler
gyman, and yon are an " infidel," " atheist,"
and opposer of " Christianity itself." The
Parrishes aad Osgoods of 1812, whose pul
pits resounded with treasonable doctrines,
Land Impious prayers ror defeat and Hizzrtzi
upon American arms, crfcd out " luOdelity,"
" atheism" and enmity to " Christianity it
self," when a brave pecple and a patriot
press denounced their treason, and reviled
their teachings. When the noble Douglas
administered a rebuke ns withering as3t Was
merited to lie " Three thousand Mint
who prostituted the name of the Most High
to tho service oT a traitorous party the
whole blasphemous, pack yelped .J infidel
Douglas," and ," infidel democracy." And
parrot-like, the editor of tho "Christian
Advocate" chimes In, " iufidelity,"; " athe
ism" and " spleen against Christianity itself."
Hut a more Siwlc rause may be assigned -
l'olitical tttou and parties sometimes awk ends
and adopt nieaures of qiientionnlile nionUKy: i. .
qnestionahlo to men who r'(riird chriatian morali
ty nltovc all mere nrty discipline, and a nr
mouut to all mere convenlionnl rules and regula
tions, and as more imperative than fealty to par
ty. MinUtcrs and 1-firintiann can never subject
their religious principles to the eoiitrul of nwtvt
they will brook no such trammels, as
- I -r
party jnay
iiius tnrow around tiiein
' Here Is the old charge we rebutted, and
tho old prtlensiou wo exposed. That poli
ticians, ns a class, were corrupt and " iui-
moral," and that milliliters roust tnru pollli-
morality." We tnaiutninedthat-thejHiad
everywhere corrupted hud debased whatever
in politics they had touched, and wo appeal
to the history of politics in tho United
States for the last three years for abundant
proof. -
The Advocate talks about " christian mo
rality" being " above party discipline," and
" more imperative than fealty to party." It
must be recollected that we were discussing
the conduct of the He v. C. S.-Kincsley. i
voluntarily going into aud taking part in
democratic primary meeting, and virtually,
if not in terms, giving assurance that be
would abide by the action of the county
convention, of which it was a constituent
part, and then faithlessly spurning his obti
gations. In reply to this, the Advocate
talks about "christian morality" beinir ",mr-
amount to conventional .rules," and !m
pliedly justifies the conduct of Mr. King
ley. If "christian morality" consists of bad
faith, fraud, and deception, not to say mora!
iierjury, it will bo fortunate for the world tf
its propagation is limited. Nobody cotn-
(iclled Mr. Kingsley to tako his " christian
morality" into tho primary meeting. Ana
when he did so he knew upon what condi
tions it was done that he was bound is
honor, aud by all "morality," except "chris
tian," as defined by the editor of tho Advo
cate, to abide by tho action of the meeting
hen ministers turn politicians, they ought
to be bound by just as good faith an areoth
cr politicians. Tlicy hare no more right to
cheataudlie iu polities, than would the politi
cian have in the church. And if there was net
such a siivinor and pardoninir irrace in "chris
tian morality," it would be quite as bad for
the clergyman to falselypretcud. to belong
to a political party for the purpose of be
trarlng aud disorganizing it, as it would
be for an " ungodly" man to falsely pretend
to lie a christian .for the purpose of disor
ganizing and dishonoring the church.
Minister have as crcat a slake in the welfare
of the country, as thorns who follow politics a a
iraue.
Any politician" we know of has quite
as much reason for accusing the Adrocote
editor of following preaching " as a trade,"
as be has to thus accuse tbem. We are vastly
mistaken if we do uot follow publishing,
and the editor of the Advocate preachinir.
for one and tho same rcasou to obtain
livelihood, as the principal.
It is utterly vain fur political men to iiunirine
there is no connection between their political
cunuiict ana tncir mo
And it is a base slander to assert that
political men, as a class, do so imagine.
I here are corrupt politicians, as there are
corrupt lawyers, or preachers, but they are
the exceptions and not tho rule. We rep
robate the saying that " all is fair iu poli
tics," and hold that politicians should, of
all classes, be upright, honest and worthy
We scout the idea that a man may bo dis
honest in politics, and honest in other mat
ters. The character he exhibits in the one
respect he will exhibit in the other. But
the Advocate editor, with pharisaical com
placency, has prated "I am holier than
thou," until he has strongly impressed him
self with the notion that his journal com
prises all tbe piety, virtue, morality, &c, to
be found in the Oregon press. We believe
a portion of the " secular press" has exert
ed quite as moral and beneficial au influence
upon the Oregon public, as has the Advo
cate, although the latter claims a monopoly
of the christian graces.
"They who cry church, church, at every word.
Have no moro piety than other people.
The daw is not reckoned a religions bird '
Because it sits cmwimg on a steeple."
It is a " fellow feeling" which brings the
Advocate to the defense of the reprchensi-
blo conduct of partisan clergymen. - The
" things of this world" occupy uo small
space in tbe editor's affections, and not least
among them, is a love of rnle and power.
.Naturally a demagogue, essentially a trim
mer aud time-server, he proceeds cautiously
and as he thinks the public mind will bear
it, to the advocacy of the " legal suasion"
and fanatical doctrines, of which his heart is
brim full. An ardent Maine-law man, be
says little about it, as it is not now popular.
A warm free-soiler, he follows at a distance
the Western Christian Advocate, an aboli
tion sheet, published at Cincinnati, G ' and
contents himself mostly with copying freedom-shrieking
accounts of Kansas affairs,
and denunciations of the supreme court. To
do more now might" occasion a loss of sub
scribers. But ir ever the popular breeze
chances to blow in the direction of his fa
naticisms, we shall witness Beecherism on a
small scale. In perfect keeping with tbe
character of its conductor, tbe Advocate is
half-and-half something, nothing ; part "re
ligious" and part " secular," and .both, like
the sailors praying and swearing in a storm,
so mixed hp that neither does any good. ,
Those having Caynse claims not set
tled are referred to oar advertising columns. 1
. Whistling Iu er-Tjrsril.
The Standard set up a shout of victory
at soon as it had heard from the httitually
Cf position counties about It, but lengthened
its, face powerfully when tbe full returns
exhibited the largest majority for the demo
cratic candidate for delegate (running on
the ' Saltm vlatfrrm") he had ever received
a larger than common real democratic ma
jority In the. Assembly,' and o large demo
cratic preponderance to the convention. It
if however trying toj rally again, by boost
ing, on the principle that the boy whistled
In going through a graveyard in the dark
to keep up his courage. It says t
' in case nono of the candidates have chance
tbnir view s and become favorable to the Salem
jtolicy siiico I ho commencement of the canvass,
ana the returns of tna election have been cor
rectly reported to lis. tils nest IIouso of Repre
sentatives will stand IV members favorable to the
Salem policy and ( the Itush fnclion, and 14
apninxt, who aro Democrats. , Four whigs are
also eiectea. ' ;
Our figures stand thus i members of the
House who are unqualified democrats, an
hearty endorsers of the democratic orguui
r.ation aud its platform : Woodsidcs, Able
Coolcy, Cox, Craner, Brown, Whitcaker
Mack, Hnydcn, Butler, Gates, Matthews,
Kiikpntrick, Brown, Hughes, Bpear, an
Belknap It.
Jhi addition to Jliese, we ffjo assured that
(Jillilnnd is, like theiil. an adherent of the
orpanir.ation and endorser of the platform,
which, if correct, will make 18. We thin
Collard will also adhere to the democratic
organization, and know not but Mr. llerse
will do the same ; though not undcrsl
to have been original friends of the plat
form entire.
Opposition members of tbe House, being
black republicans, kuownothiiigs, and "what
nots :"
Hill, Slater, Shuck, Allen, Jeffers, Dry
cr.KIng, Johnson, Warren, Colo 10.
The Council will be four Hnlein men, three Na
tioiml Democrats ana two higs. .Vitmfarrf.
The Council will stand as follows : Sliicl
Drain, O'Bryant, Berry, who aro original
supporters of the platform, and Wait, who,
objecting to a portion of the platform before
Its adoption, as we understand, acquiesced
in it after iU adoption, stood squarely and
unwaveringly upon it durinr the canvass,
and now stands nKu it, and unqualified
ly supports tho organization. Five demo
crats.
Scott, Ford, Smith, Cornelius, Opposi
tion 4.
Tbe I'onstilutionsl-t'onvention will have twen
tv-ix Halem men, (riving tlietn the doubtful
ones) twenty-seven NalionalDemovrats, six Wbigs
and ono ltepuuia-aii. .vssrfsrrf.
The convention will contain, of those who
were supporters of the platform, before
adoption and after. Williams, (J rover, Pee
bles, Joseph Cox, Shram, Shannon, Miller,
Smith, Crooks, Elkins.J.H. Brattain.Shields,
Coyle, Holt, Bristow, Jesse Cox, A J. Camp
bell, Kelsay, Babcock, Boise, Waymire
ltim;h,II.Campbcll,Meig",Hcudersliolt,Dun
cln, Head, Ncwcomb, Packwood, Dcady
Chadwick. Fitxhush. Whittcd 33. Per
haps to this list should be added McCor
miek. niakinir 34. If McCormick has dis-
seutcd from any of the Territorial resolu
tious, it was simply as to the propriety of
the one relating to the Standard. He nev
er questioned tho correctness of the charges
contained in the resolution we believe, aud
sustained those relating, to organization
Lovejoy aud Kelly, and probably Bobbins,
also stand unequivocally upon the plulform,
as we understand, and adhere strongly to the
organization. So unquestionable was Love-
joy's position, that, as in tho case of Wait,
the opposition refused to vote for turn,
though not having a full ticket of their own.
Farrar adheres strenuously to the organi
zation aud endorses all the resolutions
but the unti Standard one, and personally
dcnoiiuccs that sheet. These make 33. Paul
Brattaiu, Moorcs, and Oluey were elected
upon the oppositiou ticket, but, tho first aud
last, at least, and perhaps all three of them
claim to bo democrats and it is said endorse
the Territorial platform, aud will support the
democratic organization. W e are uot cer
tain that Moorcs thus stauds. Oluey was
called upon duriug the cauvsss by the oppo
sition to oppose the platform but declined to
say anything about it. Of Prim, there are
contradictory reports. He was a whig, cloc
elcctcd unon the democratic ticket. Wc
understand that prior to the election he an
nounced himself opposed to tho platform,
but subsequently, aud before the electiou,
we are informed he recalled that and endors
ed the idatform. We don't know how to
class him.
Opposition. . members, : Lewis, Matzgcr,
Nichols, Olds, Short, Kinney, McBride,
Dryer, Logan, Shattuck, White, Anderson,
Watts, Watkins, Lockhart, Scott, Apple-
gate IT. Olney, Paul Brattaiu, and Moorcs
were elected on opposition tickets, as above
stated. Starkweather was elected ou the
democratic ticket, but it is said does uot ad
here to the organization.
. iinmiivno.il ara Mr. Wait's notation . that the op
position would not vote for him, although they had no
canaiaaie.
Unequal Divisiox. The Standard claims
nearly all the glory and spoils wou by the
opposition. Dryer and the uregoniau are
nearly driveu out the ring, iour ornve
members are tenderly put down as ' whigs,"
for Dryer, while Leland claims the rest as
his kind. Dryer's party will be greased and
swallowed by the sore-heads, the first thing
he knows. V" 1 ,'r!,-.".
any Leland writes a couple of letters him
self from Yamhill county in one or which he
says : . :i. . r
Most of those who found fault with your adhe
rence to tbe Territorial organisation during the
lato canvass, ore now satisfied that you did light,
under tbe peculiar circumstances which surround-
you. it . - 5 t' , - j .. -
Indirectly supporting Logan; Xing, Law-
sun, &c, is adhering to ids organization,
but it is that of . the colored repablicao.'op
position party; v ' '''' l A-ga . f
Such correspondence aa tbe Statesman of June
S3d Contains over tbe signature of "Benton,"
which reflects upon tbe character of a private cit
iscn of Cor vallis. SUmdmrd. t , . ,, , l
' BcntoD,"- we believe, epoke or "Hart-
less' nigger," and we infer he is the " private
citizen" Leland refers to. .
A Mo m roaabesa mt the Council.
Arrv " -f y Edward Shell.
U i Clackamai Counties-Aaron
K. Walt i
Ynmk-.nd Clatifp Countiti "Thomas
Scott.
PM and Tillamook Counties--Nathaniel
Ford.
Unn County Charles Draiu.
lienton atuf Lane Counties Avery A.
Smith.
, Umpqun, Douglas, Coos and Curry Co's
Hugh D. O Bryant.
Jackson and Josephine Counties A. M,
Berry.
Wa$kingtnnt Multnomah arid Columbia
Counties '"Thomas It. Cornelius. ?
Those marked with a star () are oppo
sition. Those not so marked, are democrats.
A Ilt of BtemlM-rs or I he House of Hepre
t - - uttttsllvcs.
Marion County Jacob Woodsides, Geo.
M. Able, EH C. Cooley.
IJnn Co Anderson Cox, N. H. Craner,
1L M. Brown.
J lent on Co lleubcn C. Hill, Mames II.
Slater.
1mm Co John Whiteaker, J. W. Mack.
Polk and TUlamook Co's Benj. Haydeii.
TM Co Ira P. M. Butler.
IWiitf Co Andrew Shuck, William
Allen.
Clatsop Co Joseph Jeffers,
ClarJiamas Co Oco. Ileesc, F. A. Col
lard, S. P. Gilliland. ;
1 Vatkingthn a nd Jlf- V "Thomas J.
Dryer. U
Multnomah Wm. M. King.
- Washington II. V. V. Johnson.
Columbia Francis M. Warren.
Wasco X. II. dates.
Umpqua James Oole.
Douglas Albert A. Matthews.
" Coos and Curry T. O. Kirkpatrick.
Jackson II. II. Brown, Wm. M. Hughes.
Josephine J. O. Spear.
Jackson and Josephine It. S. Belknap-
Those marked with a star () ore opjo
sitiou. . -
To the Constitutional Convention, which meets
oi Salem, on the Third Monday in August,
1857: .
Marion County d'eo. II. Williams, L. F.
Orover, J. C. Peebles, Joseph Cox, Nicho
las Sbruui, Davis Shaanon, Richard Miller.
Linn Dclnzoii Smith, J. T. Crooks, Lu
ther Elkins, J. II. Brattaiu, Jas. Shields,
Jr., It. S. Covle.
Lane II. Holt, W. W. Bristow, Jesse
Cox, A.J. Campbell, fl. B. Moorcs, fPaul
Brattain.
Denton John Kelsay, H. CXewis, II.
B. Nichols, William Matzger
Polk and TdlauumkA. D. Babcock.
PM It. P. Boise, F , Waymire, Benj. F.
Durcn.
Yamhill M. Olds, U.
C. Kinney, J. It. McBride
Clackamas J. K. Kelly,
1W. A. Starkweather, H
V. Short, It.
A. L. Lovejoy,
, Campbell, Na-
lliauiel Hobbies.,
Washington and Multnomah
-Thomas J.
Dryer.
Multnomah S. J. McCormick, Wm. II.
Farrar, David Logan.
Washington--,-. D. Shattuck, John L.
White, Levi Anderson.
H'nsro C. B. Meigs.
Clatstp fCyrus Olney.
Columbia John W. Watts
Josephine S. Hendershott, W. II. Wat-
kins. .-..'- . -
Jackson LJ.O. Duncan, J. H. Beed,
Daniel Newcomb, P. P. Prim,
Cms'V. O. Lockhart.
Cnrrti Wm. II. Packwood
L'mpqua Lcvi Scott, Jesse Applcgate.
Don etas M. I. Deady, . r. CUaUwick,
Solomon Fitzbugh, Thomas Whitted.
Those marked with a star () aro oppo
sition.
fElectcd on opposition ticket, but claim
ing to be democrats, and understood to np-
Erove of the platform of the last Territorial
lemocratic Convention. This may be a mis-
taks In respect to Moores
t Elected on the democratic ticket, but
said to be opposed to the Democratic or
ganization.
Position not known
t3u We hove received two pretty long
letters from John T. Crooks, of Liun Co.,
in reply to the Advocate's attacks upou him
ust ou the eve of the electiou, and too late
for him to reply. We intended to have pub
lished one this week, but was unable to make
room for it. We shall get the first in next
week, unless proceedings of Fourth of July
celebrations shall crowd it out. At any
rate we shall give place to them as soon as
we can make room.
Xfju During our absence a letter from
Linn County was published making honora
ble mention of Dclazon Smith in connection
with the overwhelming result in that county.
The Standard has averred that Mr. Smith
was the author of the letter. We find by
reference to the manuscript that he was not
the author. The author js a gentleman well
known to us. ;
Johu Bueson has published a pam
phlet of 150 pages in X. Y., consisting of
yams concerning the Oregon war, which
have bceu imposed upon him. To contra
dict the statements of the poor old man,
would be small business. .
The post office department has in
vited proposals for carrying tbe entire mail
overland from the Mississippi to San Fran
cisco, in four horse coaches semi-monthly,
weekly, 6emi-weekly. ; The Interior De
partment has nearly completed arrange
ments for the construction of a wagon
road. ; ,
Mr. Dawson, mate of the steamer
Columbia, who it will be recollected was
wounded in firing a salute at Portland in
April, ou the occasion of Gen. Lane's arri
val, died of the injuries received.
Tbe men elected from tnis ( X amhill I county
will go to tbe Convention and the Assembly with
their faces set as flint against tho Salem nolicv
and those men who act upon that policy. Stand-
rtf.
With faces or wood" would better de
scribe the Assemblymen. , V
Ch&mpoeg outdid herself at the
late election. '., Out of about 90 votes, Law
son got but five, and of about the same num
ber Magoon, who ; opposed Sheil for the
Council, gotwtc.' J . ,
From -the best we can learn, several of tbe
Whiirs elect are wUluur to stand unon tbe Cincin
nati platform, but repudiate the 6th, 6th, and 7th
resolutions of tne Salem Convention.
Yon don't say so I"
Gov. Carry was here last week.
I Vats at the Terrttarr an Ihe Con vest-
acstion ana for Dclsajai
COt'MTICS,
Marion,
Lion,
Iianc, - -
Benton,
Polk,
Yamhill,
OB COH
TKKTKIU. 185
1049
800
535
61T
548
509
ConvkmtV
271 699 313
68 . 785 345
76 518 333
50 314 284
82" 402 81
JB5 254 425
121 809 . 298
9 niO 329
163 ' 18ft
33 49 60
12 67 13
68 98 1ft
77 18 103
130 381 134
180 581 ; 125
63 358 183
7 30 24
9 109 6
1679 5602 3471
Clackamas,
Multnomah, 580
Washington, 383
Colombia, 66
Clatsop, 125
Wasco, 57
Tillamook,
Umpqua, 160
Douglas, 408
Jackson, 553
Josephine, 408
Coos, 40
Curry, 108
Total, 7617
Cobvallis, June 27tb, 1857.
Dkb Bush I see in tbe last issue of the
Occidental Messenger, under the caption of
Jieoton in error," tbat the editors state
"It ia true that we do uot know Mr
Avery as well as wo will after we have been
awhile iu Oregon, but thus far we have heard
nothing to his disparagement, save through
tbe columns or the Statesman."- y " '
It is strange, at least, that two democratic
editors should reside iu town no larger
than this for the period f four
weeks, and not have InsTz' , the
disparagement of J. C. Aery political
character, when it is notorious that lie, with
his band or sore headed democrats, who, be
mg highly incensed at not being able to con
trol the Democratic Convention ia this
county, bolted the nominations thereof, form
ed a coalition with BiJJle's and Hovey's
bands of factionists, and with the black re
publican party, and thereby was enabled to
defeat the entire democratic ticket.
I hardly think tbat the editors of the Oc
cidental Messenger will tolerate a course of
this character without censure. Yet they
have got to swallow that and far more, if
they undertake to defend the political char
acter of Avery.
I understand that Buckingham has come
to the conclusion to contest the scat of Col.
John Kelsay in convention to form a State
constitution. He was very uncertain and
indefinite about the matter, until after he
had a conversation with Avery. The thing
was then settled, and the uncertainty van
ished. .Nevertheless, Avery is very anxious
to keep, what they have done in the premises
a profound secret He thinks by taking
that course they can induce tbe CoL and his
friends to join their little, contemptible fac
tion. Yours, &e, VERITAS.
Spencer's Creek, Lane Co., O. T.
Editor Statesman Sir : The season
having so far advanced as to show to tbe far
mers of this vicinity tbat the wheat crops of
this season are more or less affected with
smut, it is high time that all were casting
about for a remedy, either in tbe form of a
preventive or cure. I have tried an experi
meat, trifling as it may appear, and I am
am willing to let it bo known.
I sowed wheat on fallow ground. Sept. Ctb,
and Oct. 1 3tb. Sowed old seed (that is,
seed that was over oue year old at tbe time
of sowing) harrowed twice, relied once, and
left it to the mercy of grasshoppers. I treat
ed both sowings alike, and tbe land was the
same; but iu finishing on the 13tu, sowed
one east across the piece of new wheat. It
now Stands thus : that sowed Sept Gtb, fine,
large beads, aud ne smut, i Tbat sowed Oct.
13th (old seed) not quite so heavy headed,
with some smut. The one east through the
piece of new seed is one-half smut. ,
I also served a piece of stable ground, of
fall breaking, with the same kind of seed, and
same kind of land, en tho 30th of October.
The wheat is probably not quite so heavy as
that sowed 13th, a little murv smut than the
old seed ptoduccu, but not half so much as
tho ono cast of new seed.
From this I conclude that early sowing
and old seed aro to some extent remedies, or
preventives: and I might add summer fat
towing. I conclude that Fall plowing, and
late Fall and Spring sowing are calculated
to create weakness aud disease in wheat, and
hence, smut. From. what experiments
have tried in a small way, I am satisfied that
Summer sowing, say May or June, would
soon prove au enectual remedy aga
smut. . Wheat should stand iu the ground
fully twelve months, and if longer, so much
better.
Yitriol is said by some to be a cure for
smut I should be glad to get the experi
ence of some one or more who has used vit
riol with good or bad results. . I think tbe
question is one of sufficient importance to
call for the experiments of practical farmers,
and tbat they should be made known through
the public press.
If tou should think the foregoing worth
preparing and giving to tho public, you will
do so ; otherwise, not.
1 remain, sir,
very respectfully,
yonr ob't serv't.
JOHN WHITEAKER
IUu C'onitljr Agricaltmral Society.
The Linn County Agricultural Society
met pursuant to adjournment, on the 27th
of June, at the court-house, in Albany, for
the purpose of electing awarding jurors.
The following named persons were elected :
Horses. Wm. McIIree, A. Hannon, H.
A. McCartney.7' -::-?--......,.
Cattle. Martin Looper, Joel Ketehum,
Olney Fry, sen. - -
Sheet. a. Cox, A. Uolver, Joseph Ham
ilton. : " 1 -- '- -: 1
Poultry. Wm. Mellree, V. Watson, A.
Hannon.-' - " ,: '; 'r """
Fabms axd Fixtcres. Luther Elkins. S.
8. Markham, John McCoy.
Fruit and i acrr Trees. J. U. .Lincoln.
G. H. Baber; J. W. Pugh. -
Daries and Gardens. Olney Fry, jr.,
A. Hackleman, Wm. Allphin.
Mechanism in Wood. A. Celver, Martin
Looper, Walter Ketehum.
Hardware and Saddlery. -G. H. Ba
ber, C. Burkhart, Thos Boggs. -
Needle-Work and Hosiery. Mrs. Del
ason Smith, Mrs. Baber, Mrs. Lines.
. On motion, the Secretary was ordered to
send a copy of the proceedings of this meet
ing to the Statesman office, for publication ;
and also to give notice that there would be
a proposition made at the next reeular meet
ing of the society to amend the 9th Article
of the Constitution so as to invest the Exec
utive Committee with power to fix the time
of holding the annual fair, and also the 17th
Article, so aa to make it the duty of the Ex
ecutive Committee to appoint awarding com
mittees or jurors ; also, Article 20th, so as
to invest the Society with power to alter er
amend the Constitution without publishing
a notice in some newspaper. On motion,
the Society adjoarned to the time and place
of holding the fair, to wit : the 23d and 24th
days of Sept., and on Oak creek, about five
miles- southeast of Albany, near Fry's school
house. : - DELAZON SMITH, Pres't.
D. H. Bodink, See'y. : . ,
Tbe War Claim Commissioners have
returned to Fort Vancouver.
a sarassi tfr aa m.urr e o.
SaclOa Coart.
Accompanying tbe act to enable tbe peo
ple of Minnesota to organize a state gov
ernment, was one passed in the House, dur
ing, the last few weeks of Congress, to au
thorize the people of Oregon to take simi
lar steps for that Territory. It defined the
boundaries of the State to be tbe Colombia
river on the north, the 120th parallel of
longitude on the east, and tbe California
boundary on the south, making an area of
46,000 square miles, or about tbe same ss
New York and Pennsylvania.- The remain
ing 140,000 square miles of the Territory
were to be reserved as an Indian country, or
for a territorial organization whenever it
should aeem desirable. , Tho bill was taken
up in the Senate on the 2 1st of February,
and so amended on motion of 31 r. Stnart of
Michigan, as to make the area of the pro
posed State 94,ooo square miles, the bound
ary running down Uw Columbia river 280
miles to the 4Cth parallel of latitude, fol
lowing tbat parallel, eighty miles (on the
present boundary) to Lewis's Fork, and
then running down Lewis's Fork to tbe
Owyhee river, where a direct line for 115
miles would meet tbe present southern boun
dary. The Senate also amended the act by
throwing the remaining western portion of
the territory under the jurisdiction of Wash
ington Territory, but the bill was then drop
ped and was never passed,
v The people of Oregon, at our latest advi
ces, bad heard ofahe passage of. the bill ia
the House, and never suspecting its loss or
defeat iu the Senate, were actively engaged
in a campaign for tbe election of a consti
tutional convention. The House bill pre
scribed a convention of CO delegates, and
arranged the districts for their election; bat
the legislature, at that time in session, dis
approved of the delegate districts, and divi
ded tbem anew, according to its own idea of
the fitness of things. Under this latter di
vision nominating conventions were being
called, and an active campaign was being
wstred for the manufacture of a free or a
slave constitution, the democratic party very
generally going in for tbe latter.
The Oregon Statesman, edited by Asabel
Bush, late of the Westfleld, Mass., Stand
ard, a gentleman who was one of the rank
est pro-slavery democrats that tbe democra
cy ever boasted in this State, leads off in
the pro-slavery movement, denouncing the
Wilmot proviso which the territorial 4:t
threw" over tbe Territory, declaring that "it
has been utterly without influence or effect'
iu forming the sentiment of the people or
preventing tbe immigration of slaves, ftome
of whom are udw in the Territory, it ssy?,
held nomiually as rreemeo,) and joyfully re
cording tbat " there has never been so strong
a party in favor of slarery in Oregon, as
there is to-day." The Statesman complains
most bitterly tbat the enabling act makes
tbe State limits no larger, and many of tho
nominating conventions censured Mr. Lane,
the delegate, because be used no inflnence to
increase tlie area, lue btatesmaa, howev
er, defends Mr. Lane by saying that be was
" himself dissatisfied with the boundary, yet
made ho effort to change it because be saw
it would be of no avail," and then spreads a
plaster over the wounded feelings of the de-
mocracy, uy biutmg that if a slave constitu
tion is adopted it would not be impossible to
?et an extension. When the Oregonians
Gud out, as the j have doubtless by this time,
that no enabling act has been passed by
Congress, they will probably be contented
to wait for admission as a slave State nntil
a suflkiient popriJatiuu enables them to de
mand it. - -
The course of the Statt saiau and the dem
ocratic party in this matter of slavery, was
enlarging tho republican or "free state"
ranks by hundreds, or, as a correspondent of
tbat papef very" aptly calls it, " purify ing
the democracy." The republicans were hold
ing meetings iu all parts of the Territory,
and were preparing for au active conUst in
favor of freedom. A large meeting at Eu
gene City was presided over by D. M. ltis
don, one of the local officer? in the Territory,
late a prominent leader in the democracy,
aud a larger portion of the persons in at
tendance were recruits from the same party.
Tbe hunker whigs ia Oregon, as at the cast,
are joining the pro-slavery democracy, and
are "doing a great hardship to the party,"
a a correspondent of the Statesman says,
" by overdoing tbe thing." All in the con
test is working for good, for by the time the
people find oat that they have no constitu
tion to make, the democracy will have shown
its true spirit and intent, aod greatly "puri
fied itself' to the advantage of freedom.
We copy the above from the SpriogSeld,
Massachusetts, Republican, & leading black
very black republican paper of that
State. It is quite a pretty piece of exag
geration, and we insert it, to let Oregonians -
see what black republican " mare's Bests"
are made of in the Atlantic States. The
j . . f . . . 1 1 ...
reaaers ot toe otatesmna wilt reacuiy per
ceive wherein the picture is over-painted.
Among other things, they will smile up ia
Lane county at the announcement that D.
M. BJsdon was " late a prominent leader ia
the democracy!" The Republican seems to
be possessed of a good deal of information .
respecting Oregon matters not known to
Oregonians. ' .What benighted creatures we
are " ous Here in the timber?"
t& A large family of colored persons.
manumitted by the will of their late mas-
ter. a ereutleman of Montc-omerv. Ala.hs.raa
hare been provided with a borne and means ! .
or support at New Haven, Ct. Their mas-!
tcr left about $12,000 to tbem, with their
freedom, on condition that they should re-1
move to a free State; and one of tbe execn- i
tors has recently purchased one or two boo- .
ses and several lots for them, and the chil
dren are now attending one of the public .
schools.
If any one will take the trouble to wat "
tbe fate of this "family of colored persons"
for twenty-fire years, ia the free States, we -are
confident they will be compelled to ac
knowledge that their condition was made '
worse by manumission mat tney would
have fared better, and stood higher in the
scale of being, as slaves, than at the end of i
that period they do as " freemen. ; '
Delazon Smith delivered an oration
on the 4th at Eugene, Judge Williams, at
San tiam Forks, J. G. Tower, "at Albany,
and Amory Holbrook, at ButtevCle. r
Those in the vicinity of Eugene City
wishing daguerreotypes, are referred to the
advertisement of Parka & Haft
McMillen, accused of the murder of
A. J. Masters, or Washington County, has
been acquitted. The plea was self defense.
The election, in Washington Territo
ry occurs next Monday. . -
The area or the State of Iowa is as
certained by recent calculations and surveys
to be 56,080 square miles, or 5166 square,
miles larger than had been supposed.