The Oregon statesman., October 13, 1857, Page 2, Image 2

For expenses of visitinr and inspectins; lights,
ad other aids to navigation, two thousand dol
lar. - For commissions, at. two and a half per centum
to such superintendents as are entitlt to same
under the proriso to the act of third March, eijrh
teea hand red and fifty-one, entitled "An act mak
fc appropriations for the civil and diploma tie
mm of Government for the year ending June
thirtieth, eighteen hundred and Ktty-two, and for
ether purposes," on the amount that may be dis
bursed by them, eight thousand dollars.
FOB THE COASTS OF CALIFORNIA, ORE
GON AND WASHINGTON.
For oil and other soppliea for twenty-three
lights, cleaning ataterlals of all kinds, and trans
portation of the same, expenses of keeping lamps
aad machinery in repair, publishing notices to
mariners of changes of aids of navigation, fortv
Bve thousand three hundred aad twenty-eight
dollars.
For repair and incidental expenses of twenty
tbree KrhU. aad buildings connected therewith,
twentyHor thousand five hundred and sixty-three
dollars.
For salaries of forty six keepers and assistant
keepers of lighthouses, at an average not exceed
ing eight hundred dollars, thirty-six thousand
eight hundred dollars.
For expenses of raising, cleaning, repairing, re
snoorinr, and supplying losses of floating beacons
and buoys, aad chains and sinkers for the same,
and for coloring and numbering all the buoys,
twenty-two thousand five hundred and sixteen
dollars. ....
For commissions, at two and a half per centum,
to such superintendents as are entitled to the
aaw under the proviso to the act of third of March
eighteen hundred and fifty-one entitled ''An act
snaking appropriations for the civil and diplomat
ic exposes of government for the year ending Jnne
thirtieth, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, and for
other purposes," on the amount that may bo dis
bursed by them, one thousand dollars.
For maintenance of the vessel provided for by
the act ef eighteenth August, eighteen hundred
aad fifty-six, for inspection aad transportation
purposes, thirty thousand dollars.
For rebuilding the lighthoure destroyed by the
gale of September, eignteen hundred and fifty
six, at Cape St. Bias, Florida, twenty thousand
dollars.
For rebuilding and fitting with first-order appa
ratus the lighthouse at Fire Island, to mark the
approach to the harbor of New York, forty .thous
and dollars.
For rebuilding and fitting with first-order ap
pearance the lighthouse at Cape May, entrance
to the Delaware Bay, New Jersey, forty thous
and dollars.
For rebuilding and fitting with suitable lens
apparatus the lighthouse at Cape Lookout, North
Garotinm, fcrty-fcve thousand dollars.
For rebuilding and fitting with suitable lens
apparatus the lighthouse at Body's Island, North
Carolina, twenty-fire thousand two hundred dol
lars. For completing the lighthouse at or near the
north pier-head at Chicago, llliois, aad for pro
tecting the same in addition to the balances of
previous appropriations made prior to the thirty
first August, eightea hundred aad fifty-two, thu-tp-first
August, thirty-thousand seven hnndred
aad eighty-are dollars.
For fuel and quarters for officers of the arm v
sei ing on lighthouse duty, the payment of which
is bo longer provided for by the quarter-master's
depatrsneut, six thousand five and eighteen dol
lars. For restoring the lighthouse works near Coffin's
Patches, Florida, to their, ronditieu prior to the
hurricane of twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth
of August, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, tw enty-nine
thousand and fifty-three dollars and eight
cents. -
- For compensation of two superintendents for
Kfe stations on the coasts of Long Island and New
Jersey, two thousand and sixty-one dollars and
fourteen cents.
For compensation of fifty-four keepers of sta
tions, seven thousand one hundred and twenty
three dollars.
For eontingenees of life stations on the coasts
of Long Island and New Jersey, fifteen thousand
dollars.
SURVEY OF THE PUBLIC LANDS.
For surveying the public lands, (exclusive of
California. Oregon. Washington, New Mexico,
Kansas, Nebraska, and Utah.) including inciden
tal expenses, and island snrveys in the interior,
and all other special and difficult snrveys demand
ing augmented rates, to be apportioned and ap
plied to the several surveying districts, according
to the exegiencea of the public service, including
expenses of selecting swamp lands and the com
pensation and expenses to survey or to locate pri
vate land claims in Louisiana, in addition to the
unexpended balances of all former appropriations,
For correetinr erroneons and defective lines of
puouc ana private surveys or xinnois sm mm-
... . . r .11- a . -
ran, as a rate not exceeding ni uuukto nuie
two thousand dollars.
For surveying in Louisiana, at augmented rates
bow authorized by law, roar tnousana seven Hun
dred and sixty-six dollars.
For surveying the publie land and private land
claims in California, including office expenses, in
cident to the survey of claims, and to be disburs
ed at the rates prescribed by by law for the differ
ent ent kinds of work, one hundred thousand dol
lars.
For surveying standard, parallel, and meridian
lines in vtastunjriou lcniwii , kch inuoMuq
fire hundred dollars.
For surveying township and subdivisions! lines
in Washinelun Territorr. at a rate not exceeding
twelve dollars per mile, twenty thousand one hnn
dred dollars. -
For continuing the survey of base, meridian,
standard parallels, 'township, and section lines in
flew Mexico, fifty thousand tnree nunorea aoi
bus.
I or surveying the necessary oase menuian,
standard parallels, township and section lines in
Kansas and Nebraska, also outlines of Indian res
ervations, fifty thousand dollars.
For contiauinr the survey of the base, meridi
an, coreetion parallels, township and section lines
in the Territory of Utah, fifty thousand one bun-
urea aouars.
For preparing the unfinished records of public
and Bnvate surveys to be transferred to the State
authorities, under the provisions of the act of
twelfth jnne, eighteen nuadreu sou tony, in moss
districts where the surveys are about being com
completed, twelve thousand and seventy-three
dollars.
For resarvey and examination of the survey of
the publie lands in those States where the offices
'of the surveyors-general have been, or shall be
dosed, under the acts of the twelfth June, eigh
teen hundred and forty, and twenty-second Jan
uary, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, including
two thousand dollars for the salary of the clerk,
detailed to this special service in the General Land
Office, two thousond five hundred and seventeen
dollars.
' For continuing the survey of the keys off the
coast of Florida by the officers of the coast sur
vey, thirty thousand eight hundred and eighteen
dollars.
For continuing the survey of the islands off the
st of California by the officers of the coast stur
vev, fortv thousand dollars.
For drawings to illustrate the report of the
commissioner of patents for the year eighteen
Hundred and fifty seven, five thousand nine ban
dred dollars.
For flooring the basement rooms in the old por
tion of the Patent Office bnDdnie- to make them
fit for business purposes, painting the interior of
mm muiaing, repairing root, ana ror otner lnci-
wentsu repairs, eight thousand seven hundred doi
lars.
For preparing the saloon of the west wing of
i rsimi wnce tor the reception of models for
patents, and for fitting up and furnishing the same
with suitable cases, fifty thousand seven hundred
dollars.
For the support, clothing, medical treatment of
the insane of the District of Columbia, and of
the army and navy at the asylum in said District
including five hundred dollors for books and in
cidental expenses, twenty thousand five hundred
dollars.
For purchase of agricultural and horticultural
implements, and for the improvement of the
grounds of the Insance Asylum of the District of
Columbia, including farm aird garden, five thous
and dollars.
For casual repairs of the Patent Office building
three thousand dollars.
For continuing the erection of the north front
of the Patent Office building, for the accommoda
tion of the Department of toe Interior, two hnn
dred thousand dollar.
For support, care, and medical treatment of
. paupers, medical and surgical patients
dred doUara!0n infinaJ' throe thousand one hun-
thou dor - .
For purchase and repair of tools used in the
public grounds, five hundred dollars
For purchase of trees and tree-boxes, to replace
where necessary such as have been planted bv
la front of (be public grounds, five thousand dol
lars. ...... .
( To be Conliuited.)
OREGON STATESMAN.
TUESDAY OCTOBER 18, 1857.
Ttve Constitution A State Government.
On looking over oor local exchanges since
the adjournment of the Convention, one
finds food enough, both for amusement and
to excite disgust. Amusement to witness
the ground and lofty tumbling the rightabout-face
and tho labored and seven ef
forts of certain men to find pretexts to jus
tify then in opposing the adoption of the
Constitntion ; and disgust at beholding the
utter and bald-faced prostitution or consist
ency and truth the abandonment of every
sense of justice and propriety, iu order to
gratify personal ambition aud private and
public Mate.
It was mauifest throughout the session of
the late Constitutional Convention, that cer
tain members were determined to render the
Constitution odions to the people, if in their
power so to do, unless their schemes of par
tisan ambition were gratified. Having fail
ed to accomplish their purpose, they now
seek as the last and only means left them
for mischief to miscoustrue, perrert the
letter and spirit, and belie the Constitntion
which the Convention has submitted to the
country. '
We have hitherto said that there are pro
visions in the Constitution which 'we could
wish other than they are. This, however, is
our individual judgment. We never saw
aud never expect to see a Constitntion which
met or would exactly meet our personal
views in retry particular. A Constitution
is itself but a compromise. In its adoptiou
by a convention, or its ratification by the
people, a contrariety of sentiment is expect
ed to exist this is inevitable, but as in
regard to ever y other matter under our form
of government the minority must yield to
the views of the majority.
We neither blame or condemn any man,
of whatever political creed, for voting
against the Constitution, if bis honest jud j
ment so prompts him. But what we, as a
public journalist do blame and condemu, is,
the perversion of truth is regurd to the pro
visions of the Constitution, and lalse, hypo
critical, revengcfp.l and mercenary opposi
tion to it. Looking to the establishment
and furtherance of the best interesU of Ore
gon, We are compelled to expose fraud, false
hood and duplicity, and to demand of those
who oppose the adoption of the Constitu
lion, that they shall state their real objec
tions, and do it fairly.
The editor of the Oregonian came to the
Legislature last winter tit favor of a State
government. lie advocated ami voted for
the bill providing for the submission to, and
the election of delegates to a Constitutional
Convention, by the people. He then declar
ed that the Territory had wealth and com
bers enough to justify her in forming a State
government; and that her present aud pros
pective interests imperativelydemanded this
step. Assuming this position, be was elect
ed a delegate to the Constitutional Conven
tion.
opposing a State government, and seeking to
justify bis opposition on the ground that the
Constitution "concentrates all power in the
hands of a few office-holders and party lead
ersj" that "the hands of the Legislative
Assemblies are completely tied up;" that
"the judicial powers of the government gen
erally are concentrated in the bands of a
single individual that " the boundaries are
conditional and undefined;" that "internal
improvements, &c., are deuied, Ac. ;" that
the party i power, &c, dare not place the
viva voce mode of voting in the Constitu
tion that "the absorbing question of slav
ery" has been "designedly covered up" by
submitting it to a direct vote of the people;
and that "weliave not men of capacitj, &c
to fill the several offices under this Consti
tution."
It ought to be a sufficient answtr to the
foregoing objections, to state, that their au
thor was, eighteen months ago, urging these
and kiudred objections to the then pending
proposition to hold a Constitutional Con
vention ; that six months afterwards he was
denouncing his own objections as false and
groundless, and heartily (apparently) sup
porting the proposition to bold a Conven
tion. But, fo.r those who may not know or
remember these facts, and, especially for
those who may not have read the Constitu
tion, it may be necessary to say that not
one of the foregoing "serious objections''
has the slightest foundation in fact!
So far from "concentrating power in the
hands of office-holders," the Constitution, to
an unprecedented degree, withholds power
from them clearly limits and defines their
duties, and fixes bouuds beyoud which they
may not pass. And so far from " tying the
hands of the Legislative Assembly," the
Constitntion leaves them as free as does any
Constitution in the Union, save and except
as it respects the chartering of Banks and
kiudred monied monopolies, and the crea
tion of debt, or loaning the credit of the
State. -
Any man has but to read theConstitu-
tion to know that the statement that "the
judicial power of the government generally
is concentrated in the hands of a single in
dividual," is a very silly falsehood. And
the same is true of the statement that "the
boundaries of the State are conditional and
undefined leaving Congress to establish the
eastern, line. &c. . The objection, too, in
regard to internal improvement., manufac
turing, &c., would lie against two-thirds of
the constitutions of the States, and is false
in fact.
The objection that the majority did not
incorporate in the Constitution the viva toet
mode of voting, is decidedly rich, and com
ing from the editor of the Oregonian, will
not only be esteemed characteristic, but ex
hibit the dearth of honest and valid objec
tions. That the "great and absorbing question
of slavery has been designedly covered up,"
is another and decidedly rick specimen !
How " covered up?" By submitting it to
the voters of the Territory? Who ever ex
pected, or desired any other disposition of
that question? It ts not a month since Mr.
Dryer, for the twentieth time, gratuitously
and pompously aBrmed that he was for sub
mitting that question to the people! But
he wants "political aspirants" to "show
their hands." Js be, or any one else, in
doubt as to where any prominent democrat
in the Territory stands upon that question?
Did not the editor of the Oregonian know
whether we had " men of sufficient capacity
to fill the several offices under the Constitu
tion" last winter when he was advocating
and voting for a State government?
But, says this editor, " we shall vote
against the Constitution" because he (the
editor) has "heard it said" that a State gov
ernment will inure to the benefit of the dem
ocratic party ! lie wonld vote against the
mauifest interest of all the people of Ore
gon because he has "heard it .said" that a
party, that embraces withiiyVbrganitation
two-thirds of the people of the Territory,
would be pleased with and benefitted by the
Constitution!
Mr. Dryer declared here in Salem, not
ten days before the adjournment of the Con
vention, that be did not know whether he
should support or oppose the Constitntion;
but that he t ather thought he should oppose
it for fear he should, by advocating it,
" lose his identity f He thought it would
not be promotive of his interests " to advo
cate the adoption of the Constitution;" to
"tail on to the democratic party!" And
seeiug a very poor prospect of dividing or
disorganising the democratic party, whereby
gentlemen of his political faith could get
into Congress, he very sagely concluded that
he would oppose the Constitution, on the
ground that there were not enough " men of
capacity to fill the several offices under this
Constitution!"
" No rogue e'er felt the halter draw.
With good opinion of the law !'
Next comes Avery's organ the "Occi
dental." "Oregonian," free State, black
republican, knownothing organ, and " Occi
dental," slave State-Arery organ! Parno-
bile fratrum !
Remarkable coincidence! Mr. Dryer bad
syren reasons for opposiug the Constitution.
The " Ox" has only six. Of these latter
the major portion are simply a repetition of
Mr. Dryer's. The few wh:ch are original
are peculiarly ArcryitJi. For instance, the
4th, in regard to the seat of government.
The "scat of government," the scat of his
breeches pockets and the "Salem clique" are
the only politics that Avery has ! "In a
word, (says this personal and local organ,)
tho jacket fits too dosdy? As the editor,
who is recently from California, has not tak
en the trouble to Kiut out wherein "the
jacket fits too elast lj," we would invite him,
or more particularly his readers, to coutrast
the Constitution now submitted, with the
California Constitution. In that State the
"jacket" fitted loosely, and the result is a
four million Slots debt, which is practically
repudiated, and the people are paying enor-
I ' V " 1 A'-yWPt nf
a I'wr, extravagant, unprincipled, lauutess,
and baukrupt government. In the lijrht of
their example, the "jacket" ought to fit
more tightly here, and that it does so, is its
highest recommendation.
But, says the " Ox," "the time fixed for
its submission is too near at hand." In oth
er words, this man would be understood to
hint that if he had a year or two of time,
he could convert the free State men over to
Aw views. That, we take it, is " all in my
eye, Betty Martini Be that, however, as
it may, is Oregon to be kept out of the
Union, and its important and paramount in
terests to be discarded or kept in the back
ground for years, in order to afford a few
strangers from California time and opportu
nity to experiment upon our credulity or the
chance of trying to induce ns to adopt this
or that theory, about matters too, upon
which we have thought aud reasoned as long
and know quite as much as they do? Upon
the proposition in question every citizen of
Oregon knows that his niiud is made up and
he is now prepared to vote.
The truth is, that the people of Oregon
have vast interests at stake which can be
secured in no other way than by becoming
a State. Snch we regard for instance, our
war debt. Xb interest alone, upon which,
for a single year, would pay the current, au
nual expenses of fire just such States I And
we do not believe that tho people of Ore
gon will ever realize the first dollar of this
war debt until we become a State. .
In view of the foregoing aud many other
important considerations, not bow necessary
to be repeated, the people of Oregon will
act very unwisely if tbey allow themselves
to be moved this way and that way, like
chessmen upon the chessboard by designing
parties. They ought not to suffer their
minds to be diverted from their interests.
Every man should ask himself what he
is to gain by voting against the Constitution.
Does any man wish to see the " slavery
question" kept up for years to come, and
the scum and flood-wood of California and
other regions, floating into Oregon, as so
much fuel to enkindle and keep burniug the
elements of strife and discord ? Does anv
mrn desire to invite discord, distrust, doubt
and uncertainty ? Does any one hope to
see re-enacted, upon the soil of Oregon, the
scenes of Kansas ? And, for the sake of
these, will any man rote to postpone, or,
perhaps wholly forego the present and pros
pective interests of Oregon in respect to
the war debt, unappropriated lands, the
improvement of our harbors, &c, &c?
If aot, let him turu his back upon the stale
slang about men and particular localities,
aud give the Constitution an honest examin
ation and an houest vote. This course, and
nothing short of this, is worthy of a think-
ng 'and self-governing American citizen.
Free Negroes. From the indications the
vote to exclude free negroes and malattoes
from the State of Oregoo, will be almost
uuanimous.
n . Pin-" Tt has been recently as
certained that 'what was supposed to be the
act 6f incorporation of the city of Baleui,
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never passed the Assemoiy, ana ctuwjwui
It never oossessed any validity. By refer
ence to the jonruals it is shown that the
bill, introduced in the House, passed mat
bodv. and was materially amended In the
sr w -
Council; that those amendments were never
acted opon in Be House, for the "act," as
enrolled, and on file in the Secretary's office
does not conts;o the said amendments. The
journals not a do not show the concur
rence of the Uo.se in the amendments, but,
compared with the enrolled "act," they show
affirmatively, that the amendments were
uever concurred in, for the bill is enrolled as
it went from the House. The House never
acted upon the amendments, and the bill
never went back to the Cottucil, consequent
ly that body could not hare receded from its
amendments.
The blunder probably occurred in this
war: The clerk of the House, when the
bill, amended, came from the Council, inad
vertently placed it with bills passed, instead
of with those to-be acted upon by. the
House, and front thence it went into the
hands of the enrolling clerk, and presiding
officers by whom it is signed. But the sig
natures o-ive us validity to the bill, as the
signing-is a 1Sfcreact of 'authentication.
There can be no doubt of the invalidity of
what has been acted under as a law,we thiuk.
We understand that the bill amending the
Oregon City charter, and the "act" creating
the office of public administrator, aud defin
ing his duties and powers, are in the same
conditiou of the Salem " charter."
Drcadfnlt
A correspondent of the Oregonian who
signs himself "An Old Californian" is
terribly alarmed for fear the people of Or
egou will adopt the Constitution before
them, One of his objections is as follows :
For instance, the first section of the article on
corporations provides, iu the context: that no
bank shall exist in the future State, that is to have
the privilege of issuing its own check ; it also
prohibits a merchant fromnavinghis accounts by
a check on his banker. Was there ever a propo
sition so absurd t
Vcs, there ' "ever was" a proposition
vastly more 'absurd" and that was one
impertinently made by jou, that the Con
stitution should permit banks and banking
for the benefit of California bankrupts and
swindlers. You "propose" that the people
of Oregon shall permit lasjr, idle and dis
honest loafers, who are being starved out
of California, to swindle them under the
protection of bank charters,and it is 'mon
strous that the Oregonians object, and
have "shut the door" on what we Lave
no use for, and what would be au unmiti
gated curse banks.
It is not true that the Constitution
"prohibits a merchant from paying bis ac
counts by a check or bis banker" there
is not a shadow of truth m the statement.
The Constitution prohibits nothing of the
kind.
Again, this sage "Californian" objects
Aoainwhv do the convention wish a sovereign
of the nation, and ask conditionall jTor tBeliound"-
ary of a State t Are the people of Oregon so much
the vassals of a few political wire-workers, that
they must
" Crook the pliant failures of the knee,
That thrift ma follow fawning ?"
Are they to descend to the came of " crab" for
few sorest Sir, the proposition is monstrous. It
is a libel on the character of vour people. The
high-minded, high-toned, honorable senators of
the United States Senate will spurn your con
temptible vsssslagc, and indignantly refnse to
listen to suen conditions. W hat! a state apply
to Congress as an independent republic, for ad
mission into the confederacy, on condition that
Congress will give them, or take from them,
little strip of Territory! Such a proposition
was never heard of before ia the annals of the
nation.
Knw wliAt 1 c all frtt.a tannnJ ami f,,w"
mock heroics based on? Simply this
the boundaries of the State, as fixed in
the Constitution, include a fcmall strip cf
Washington Territory. : ' Some of the
members thought, that at the request of
the Washington Delegate, Congress might
change that boundary so as to leave out
that strip,and that would make the re-submission
of the Constitution to the people
necessary. And to avoid that, it was
provided that Congress, if it thought
propcr.might Btrike out that small b trip of
territory. And tbis is that "monstrous
proposition" which in the opinion of this
"high-toned" "Californian" makes the
people of Oregon "menial suppliants
" contemptible vassals."
..wl
I might go on and recite many other objections
to the constitntion, but your able pen is more
competent for the task than mine. There is one
thing certain, if the people adopt the present con
stitution, every possible influence shall be brought
io near, to prevent tne California delegation tn
Congress from voting in favor of your admission;
because I do not believe the people of Oregon
want a estate with a constitution as presented to
them by the late convention.
Awful! He don't believe the people of
Oregon want such a Constitution,althougb
they vote for it he don't. ; And "every
possible influence shall be brought to bear
to prevent the California delegation from
voting in favor of our admission." Pow
erful "influence" he has. What a dust
tee kick up says the fly to the coach wheel.
We don't suppose it would be possible for
this very indignant "Californian" to make
the acquaintance of one of California's
delegation.
We think we know this "Old Californi
an," and if we do. be is a "Jeremy Uid-
dler" who owes sundry board, and other
bills in Oregon, as not a few of California's
tt Tamniw r: j.j?j5 j -
There are a number of Californians in
the Territory and every one of them, so
far as we know, are opposing our Constitu
tion, and dreadfully alarmed for fear the
electors of Oregon will adopt it. ' Now,
we wish to treat these gentlemen respect
fully ,not withstanding we think their inter
ference js not devoid of impertinence, and
we respectfully say to them, in the name of
Oregon's electors, "hands off, gentlemen;
this is exclusively our porridge, and we
don't wish to see your fingers or spoons in
it; we are, or think we are, capable of con-
ducting our own affairs, without advice
from any outside quarter, and especially
from the sons of a State bankrupt and re.
pudiating." Oregonians may be 'close
fisted," as some of you coniplain, but they
are very honest people, and if they owe
you anything you can get your money.
They don't repudiate, either collectively
or individually. We nave no bankrupts,
and no bankrupt laws, and no occasion for
any. Our Constitution may be a "close
fisted,'' and "close fitting" one, but we
intend to " pay as we go," under it, and
to make sure that we do that,we intend to
be economical and accordingly we . have
made an economical Constitution a'close
fitting one and one which leaves down
no bars for extravagance and debt. We
don't intend to have any California experi
ence here, and your efforts to pursuade us
to, will prove futile and fruitless. When
you have paid your enormous debt? and
provided for the support of your govern
ment without oppressing your people with
taxes taxes upon -your own people, and
Oregonians who visit you we may take
counsel of you; but not before. At pres
ent, we will profit by your extravagance
and knavishnees, and carefully avoid i
And that is why we favor our'close-fisted,'
"tight -fitting" Constitution. If Oregon,
like California, ever becomes a nation of
bankrupts and repuuiators, it will be when
they and their Constitution, like Califor
nians and California's, become more 'open
handed,' improvident and 'loose-fitting.'
2. It (the Constitution) places two many restric
tions upon the powers of the Legislature and the
people. Occidental. ' .
Your California Constitution didn't pos
sess "two (too) many restrictions," and the
consequence is the people, after having
ceased to pay the interest on, and virtually
repudiated a four million State debt, are
groaning beneath the weight of taxation to
support an unrestricted government. The
State is bankrupt, seedy, and desperate.
and mainly for want of these very restric
tions which our convention has wisely plac
ed ia the Constitution now before the people.
4. The evident Injustice ia locating for years,
if slot for all time, the seat of government at Sa
lem, against the clearly expresses wish of the
people. Ucctamvu.
How, it is not at all probable that Ave
ry suggested that reason ! Oh no !
The fact is, the constitntion provides that
provision 6hall be made for submitting
the 6eat of government to the people, at the
first session of the Legislative Assembly. Ave.
ry has another objection o this section
which he has not caused to be stated in the
Ox. The Constitution requires all State
public buildincrs to be located at the seat
of government. That leaves him nothing to
trade upon I
5. The unjust apportionment of representatives
to the first Legislature, by which a preponderance
of political power is given to a minority. Uz.
.Then that "preponderance of political
power is given to the minority" in the small
er counties. For there are no two counties iu
the Territory which are so far short of the
representation to which the population
-;k,r-" titl thpm . as Ttinn and Mar
ion, -jet they do not complain. The pres
ent apportionment, under our Territorial
government, is most villainously unequal.
Impudence P&operlt Met. Awhile
ago some black republicans, knownothings
and 6ofts (it would be hard to tell "which
is which") of Yamhill writ Gen. Lane
a letter, which -they published in the
Standard. General Lane treated it, as
he ought to have done, with the contempt
of Eilence, whereupon the Standard, with
characteristic impudence exclaims :
This may appear wisdom to the General, thus
to treat his former friends and partisans when
tney respectfully address bun upon tbe reasons
for their political course dnrine the last canvass.
Gen. Lane may think that he can contemptuously
a wnoie county as ne nas tne signers or tnat
letter; but of this he may be assured, that every
nae treatment to men tn Oregon will only plant
another thorn in his future path.
It is generally thought that Lane had better an
swer the Yamhill letter before be leaves the Ter
ritory. - -
This poor creature's threats are laugha
ble. When Gen. Lane takes notice of
any such correspondence, "the sky will
fall and we shall catch larks."
Thb Avert-Ox Man a Black Repcb-
ucax. It is said that the Congo Air-
goose, at Uregon City, is out against tbe
Constitution. Avery's Ox is ditto. Now
the Ox sagely reasons that because black
republicans will vote for a free State, that
every democrat who votes to make Oregon
a free State is a black republican, because
the latter chance to vote as be does. As
the editor of the Ox and the bnck of tbe
Oregon City Congo organ are going to vote
together against tne Constitution, by a par
ity of ressouing, they are both kinky-head
ed black republicans. . .
A Oood Move. The Willamette Woolen
Manufacturing Company at this place have
resolved to erect aa extensive flouring mill.
and hare voted to increase their capital
stock $16,000 for that purpose. The addi
tional stock has been already nearly all ta
ken. We believe that wiU prove more prof
itable to the company than the manufacture
of wool, and more useful to the country.
We are of the opinion that the time has
not yet come in Oregon for the manufacture
of woolens, except in families. '
DoHr Think it will Pat. Prof. Mix, of
California, but recently married with a
Portland, (O. T.) lady, proposes to start a
daily paper at' the latter place. " Oregoo
must have some daily mails, and a good
many more inhabitants before a daily will
pan out." v. . ,-x .:
Public Speaking. We are informed that
Hon. Delazoa Smith, while attending the
courts in this judicial district, will address
the people of the various counties in favor
of adopting the Constitution. ' : '
t9 Mr. Farrar, we learn, supports the
Constitution.- He was last week mentioned
as opposing it. .
Somebody has told the Ox man that
a great many StatesmansTiave been discon
tinued lately, and he is verdant enough to
believe it. We have more subscribers on
our books now than ever before, and we
don't think there were ever fewer stoppages, '
from all causes, daring any five months than
during the last five; while the additions to
our list as compared with the loss, have
been as ten to one we wonld sot be sur
prised if tbey were more than that. In
Lane county, where the Ox man thinks we
have been falling off, we bare bad consider
able increase. The fact is, bnt one man In
Oregon has ordered the Statesman stopped
on pro-slavery grounds, and we believe he
will get ashamed of the act, and re-order It
again before this volume closes. Pro-slavery
democrats are not as Intolerant as tbe
Ox thinks, and wonld have them. He
knows nothing about Oregonians.
There is one thing we wish to' pat on re
cord, and ask the Ox man to read it after
the election on tbe second Monday in No
vember. He takes bis ideas of Oregon pol
itics, (and politicians) exclusively from Ave
ry, and that ilk. He has been badly lied to
by tbem, locally, specially and generally;
and he is destined to be most wofully de
eeived. Let bio paste this np, and read it
occasionally, as the election returns come
in. - . :':.;;;;';"
' We think this Occidental editor must be
exceedingly gullible. Avery made him be
lieve (for he told members he teas a candidate,
and came down to Salem for that purpose,)
that he could be elected printer to tbe Con
vention!! He could'nt have got a votem
that body from a democratic member. He
might have got the republican and opposi
tion 'votes, but the trouble was there was not
enough of them. .
Avery has also encouraged him with the
idea that he can be elected public printer
(he has nothing to do the work with, and
wouldn't have had for that of the Conven
tion) next winter. His chance is . precisely
the same in tbe Legislature that it was ia
the Convention he can get the black-republican-opposition
vote, and no more. These
were most likely inducements for coming np
here from California to publish- the Ox
Avery fishes for gudgeons, but it is seldom
he finds one that will bite at a bare hook
He has to leave Oregon to do it.
We hope uone of oor delinquent sub
scribers will complain this year of being
"" dunned," as we prepay postage on all the
letters. We have paid the postage on over
300 during the last two weeks.
We bare also stricken from our list the
names of 30 or 40 non-paying subscribers
a good ways in the rear. If any fail ta re
ceive the Statesman as usual, they may con
clude that theirs was among the number.
In making out bills we intend to "skip"
no one in arrears. If we do so, it is unin
tentional.
Send su tk. Rrtvrn Send m tbe Return
We hope onr friends in every part of the
Territory will send ns the returns of the
election in November, in their several lo
calities at the earliest possible moment.-
Don't presume that somebody else has done
it, ana neglect u juu.uii b e
send us tbe vote on Constitntion, yes "or
no;" and "Slavery, yes, or no." The vote
on free negroes is not so important, as that
will be pretty much all "no." However, if
you can. get the vote on that, send it also.
, . x1or.se thief obot. A horse tuiet was
shot dead a few days since, in Lane Co.
He was caught in the act by a gentleman,
who, with his rifle pointed at him, told bin)
to stand until his wife could tie bis hands,
upon peril of being shot. He stood still
until the work was partially accomplished,
when he started to run; whereupon he fired,
and killed him instantly. .
- The Cosrsnrrmox Pakphlet Corr.-
Tbe 5,000 copies of the Constitution ia
pamphlet form, ordered by the Convention,
have been printed, and will be this week sent
to postmasters and auditors throughout the
Territory. They are for gratuitous distri
bution, and any one wishing a copy has bat
to call upon his postmaster or auditor, as
long as they last.
. . ? For the Ststrusnn
Mr. Editor The citizens of Champoeg
propose to take a wager of a box of cigars
that we will give a larger majority for Free
State than any other precinct iu the county.
Any precinct wishing to take as can leave
word with the editor of the Statesman.
On the Constitution we will go two to one;
who takes us; don't all speak at once.
- - ' - A. B.
The Election. The election for voting
upon the Constitntion, and the questions
submitted with it, takes place on tbe second
Monday in November, which will occur on
the 9th day. Let every one remember this.
We hope to see a full vote.
Population of Multnomah Countt,
Oregon Territory, for the year, 1857: .
Number of Leral Voters. .... .... . . . . i. . 907
Number of Males over 21 years, not voters.. 170
Number of Males under SI years, and over 10, 230
Number of Males under 10 . 375
Number of Females of 18 an upwards.......' 487
namoer ot r enuues under is and over IU... 175
Number of Females under 10,:............ 385
Total population,..
......2729
T Coswty A inert. ' " 1
We hope County Auditors will not neg
lect to issue the required notices of the elec
tion on the second Monday in November to
pass upon the acceptance or rejection of
the Constitntion. , : ,
m A Corvalhs friend, just up from
Portland, remarked to us that "the Orego
nian was down on tbe Constitution, ham
and tongs." If be had thrown in a cou-beU
and tin pan the description would have been
complete. ' - . : ; - .
Wo learn from Elder
Stuart, the
Mormon preacher, that he baptised sixteen
persons (ten males and six females) ia the
Forks of the Willamette, Lane County,
about ten miles above Eugene City, and or-
raniied a " branch," or euurcn. oix were
Mormons before bis visit, aua tne oataace
new converts. He says taey will emigrate
to Salt Lake. The work of religious delu
sion is astonishing. ' V . ;
Ttom the 8aa Presence Herald.
M Ptiaaeewr mt Oreg mm ta Slavery
; r SMttea.
i On a cerusal of the renorts and ri !.....
(cf tie Or?0n Constitutional Convention,)
it will t seen that the few members of
abolition ten racies in the convention, let
no opportrd- slip to raise, the slavery
agitation, but have been foiled in every
ttempt. Nothing ean oe ejected by angry
and excited di"ission. Slavery is a sub
ject upon whica fire J rv kms are enter
tained by ever jbod t,ik1 if the convention
FeTe o continue debatieg it for a whol
lustrum, it it not probable that any change
would be exacted in the views of any one
individual of which it is composed. Under
these circumstaneea, the course pursued
by the democratic party of the Territoryi
was the only one by which the objects for
r leo u converiuon met could be accom
t. .-.bed vix.: the formation of a State
Constitation. It was adopted as one of
the planks in the platform of tbe party
previous to t-e late election, that &e ques-
tion ot Slavery sc-ia not do raisea m tne
election of delegates to the convention,
and that the whole matter should be dis
posed of by the appending of two clauses
to the Constitution the one establishing
and the other excluding slavery. In this
way each individual will have a chance of
deciding the question for himself, and the'
institutions of the fuire State will be
modelled according to I wishes of a ma
jority of its citizens. , 1 er and fair-
er course could oe aaop, Dut it aoes
not of course meet -with" the approbation
of that class of demagogues who live by
agitation, and who hope to obtain office'
by shrieking for " Bleeding Kansas," and
vociferation generally. . All the attempts
made by these unscrupulous agitators ivS
Oregon, to substitute angry discussion for
the calm deliberation so necessary for the
proper performance of the important do
ties which devolve upon the .convention,
have hitherto proved abortive. At last
dates, a special committee of nine had
been appointed, for the purpose of fixing
the representation in the Legislature, and
devising the form in which the clauses es
tablishing and excluding slavery are to be
submitted to tbe people for insertion in
the schedule, and the abolitionists by this
means were left without a plank to stand
upon. Their machinations hare been of
no avail. All they can do is to raise a
growl whenever the expression "free white
male citizen" is used. By the next steam
.er we will in all probability receive the
intelligence of th adjournment of the
convention, and a draft of the Constitu
tion framed by it. ;
The New Constitution of Iowa.
The new . constitution recently passed in
Iowa has been adopted by a majority of
probably 5000 or 6000. The vote was
light and strict party lines were not ob
served. The republicans generally voted
for it, as did many democrats. It is a
liberal and fair instrument. The princi
pal objection to it was a clause in the bill
of rights, which nulifies the fugitive slr.ve
law. But knowing it to be void, many
national men voted for it, notwithstanding.
'" From indications thus far, negro suSran is
overwhelmingly defeated, lor instance, fecot.
Jasper county gives 400 majority for the Consti
tution, but almost unanimous against negro raf
trage. And so it is throughout the State.
This is an indication of western sentiments
npou this subject- It almost certainly declares
the result on the same question in this State.
There, as here, the republican party accepted it
as the issue the Democrats openly avowed them
jelres against it. ' The. result is completely satis-
v j . ja cuuu& uic in me wniie w ear,
yet awhile." Ckia Statesman.
Drsnsisa Household Affairs. From a
variety cf causes nothing is more common
than to find American women who have not
the slightest idea of household duties. A
writer thus s Hades to the subject: "In this
ueglect of household cares, American fe
males stand alone. A German lady, no
matter bow lofty her rank, never forgets
that domestic labors conduce to tbe health
of the body and mind alike. An English
lady, whether she be only a' gentleman's
wife or a duke's, does not despise the house
hold, and even though she has a housekeep
er, devotes a portion of her time to this,
her happiest sphere. It is reserved for onr
republican fine ladies to be more choice than
their monarchical aad aristocratic sisters.
inait i, a, lanoimuc ut luiou cntea ss la
ta! to health as the neglect of bodily exer
cise, lue wife who leaves her household
cares to the servants, and pays tbe penalty
which has been affixed to idleness, wilts
away from ennui, of is driven into all sorts
of fashionable follies to find employment for
her mind." -
t& By tbe arrival of several emigrant
trains just in, we have later and important
news from tbe Plains.' The names of those
arrived are J. W. Borland, wife and family.
Wb. King, wife and family. Georsre Berrv.
Mrs. Moore and two sons, Richard Choud,
Ira Knrget, R. Dieper, W. Adams, C. Da
rin, W. Risking. A. Tazwell. D. Bowline.
J. B. Mather, H. Lyons, Wm. Hughes, J.
T. Wright, Albert Lawsen, Andrew Law
sen, J. T. Burnett and son. r '
Mr. Burnett brings tbe intellirence of the
massacre of a whole train, eonsistiee of six
men and three children. One woman was
shot through and scalped, and left for dead,
but was found still alive by those who eamet
ap first. The stock was also, recovered front
tne Indians, in doing which only one Indian
was killed. The only names recollected
among tbe killed were those of Hallowav
ana bis brotber-in-law. . The three children.
were murdered by those fiends before the
face of their parents, and horribly mutilated.
The emigrants, to a man, are willing to join-
a company to exterminate tbose fiends.
Wirt Row a way. A daV or tun ainatV
a French gentleman came from Orcon.
and complained that his wife, to whom he
had recently been married, (a beaotifirf'
girl 16 years of age,) had ran away from
him and came to San Francisco about two
weeks previous, and aaked the assistance
of the police to find her whereabouts.
He stated that ahe was remarkably fond
of dancing, and this gave lb- facers a
clue toward fading her. . After visiting
several daaoe-boases, they went to one on?
Friday night Where they learned that a
girl exactly answering her description had
been daaeiag but had left a few minutest
previous. Subsequent efiorta to find her
hare been fruitless. The husband has
been adv:sed to let her so, but he is de
termined to find his .wife, and as he offers
a fair reward for her recovery, bo doubt
he will be placed in possession. & JtK
Heralds ' ..
Vote or the Stat e. The vote now
stands, for YVeller, 51,831: Bowie, 19.-
433; and Stanly, 20,940, Pay the Debt.
56,793: Repudiate, 16,611. Son Fran
Herald.