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OREGON STATESMAN. TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1838. flfcir The editor is absent. Illl Appealing- The Oregon soreheads appealed from the action of an 8th of January jubilee in 1857, concerning their disorganizing and destruct ive coarse, to the Legislative caucus of the Democracy, and from that to the Territorial convention, and from that to the united op position to the democracy, which they called "the people," both In I85T and 1853. Their appeals to "the people" were supported, last year and this, by the opponents of the dem ocratic party of every shade and color, bnt tit Terdict against them was affirmed on every appeal, by the sturdy democracy of the eonntry.' "We thought they had reached the court of last resort, and would hereafter confine themselves to a bionnial appeal to the black republicans, under constantly changing names and pretences. But it scenMBOt. The San Francisco Globe chanc ed to say (the most that any California dera ocratic paper ever has said in support of the party here) that the successful ticket here was the democratic ticket; whereat Leland, of the Standard, comet to the rescue of fls- rurindumdom, and claims that tho black re publicans are the democrats, and the demo crats are "federalists;" and closes with an anneal to the Saw Francisco Globs and Herald, Washington Globe, (a neutral paper) "and the whole vorld " to decide whet the democrats of Oregon constitute the democratic parly here, or whether the black republicans do? And in doing this ha goes over the old misrepresentation and mistification respect ing the 5th and Cth resolutions of the con rention of 185T; he asserts that those reso lotions contemplated the consideration of ordinary questions of legislation in a party caucus, and the binding of the action of members by the decision thereof. In doing this he otters, for the thousandth time, a wilful falsehood. The resolutions contem plated nothing of the kind, and declared olbing of the kind. They simply declared that it was the duty of democrats to support democratic nominations, regularly and fairly made, aod that they could not bolt them and still maintaiu their standing in the party. They declared that men could not be in the democratic party and out of it at the same lime, or out of it, and in it, at the same time nothing less, nothing more. But, owing to the misrepresentation of this sorehead faction and their colored allies, the Democratic State conrention held last April, adopted the following rcsolntion: UsoirrJ, That a thorough and firm organisation f the 1 Vmocrntic party is necessary to the suc cess of Democratic principles, and that we adhere So, and will cherish those usages which are essen tial to tho harmony and onion of the party, ami while we do not recede from the resolutions adapt ed by the last lVraocratie Territorial Convention, npon this subject, wo repudiate and utterly dis claim the perversions and misconstructions of such resolutions by onr enemies, and maintain and aiHrm their true intent and meaning to be: Thnt a representative in matters cf legislation is bound to obey the will of his constituents, bnt as to party omimations be is to represent the will of his par tisan constituency, and endeavor by all fair aud honorable means to carry out and effectuate that will in the conventions, and caucuses of the party; but if be is overruled by a majority in a conven tion or caucas, and another, not the preference of ' his constituency, is fairly nominated, we hold it the duty of such representative, to acquiesce in, 'and rote for the nomination so made upon the universally recognised doctrine, thnt aconies eence in Democratic nominations is fealty to dem ocratic principles." But, it is space lost to porsno this subject farther. It is the same old story that orery democrat in erery State has heard from disappointed aspirants, who have left the democratic party and gone over to the ene my, and still wish to wear the name of democrat, only the more successfully to op pose as. Who erer Leard of a renegade who did not declare that he was "unchanged, bat that his party bad left him?" But this waa Leland, of the Standard, who takes this appeal to the "rest of mankind," cannot be called a renegade even ; he has not the merit of having erer been a democrat, though lit talks about the ' candor and sincerity of democratic heart." He was an Algeriue in Rhode Islaudr aod has always been that, r worse, in Oregon. Gold Everywhere. Mr. Ellsworth, of Eugene City, says gold Las been discovered la a spar of the Cascades about twenty-five miles from that place, and that a party have gone out from there to dig for it. A party of Californianx, on their way to Fraziei's river discovered gold on the Des Chutes, and come into Eugene for supplies, and have returned to work. They said nothing about the richness or extent of their discoveries. They hare "humbugged" ns once about gold discoveries near Eugene, aud we can't be expected to believe in this second discov sfc W vr 1 1 riAnf KsaTnri f n f"r 7 ell ei m 'nn! m ntt " j w tkuvu v wvi s u i i tints . va cjvm tu . u A large gold bearing quartz specimen would be preferred. Indeed, this age is so given to lying respecting gold mines, that every report of new discoveries must be accompa- Diea wiid ' someuunr tangible," to insure publication." The coming contest in Missouri is beginning to wr.rm up. The only parties are the Democracy and the Emancipationists . All shades of opposition to the Democracy nnited with the Emancipation movement The Emancipationists have brought oot Col. J. M. Richardson, of Richmond, recently Secretary of State, for Congress, in John S. 1 nelps district; James is. uardcnbise, in the 5th district; Albert Jackson ioCarutb ers'; Harry Branch in the 4th, and Frank ' Blair, Jr., ia the St. Louis district. We apprehend the Emancipationists will not elect more than two of their candidates, and probably not more than one. According to the Herald of Free dom no reasonable mode of figuring can re duce toe present population of Kansas be low 100,000, and the editor believes it is nearer 120,000, and that it will certainly .j . i . f , i . - axeecu mat ngore uy an'uner suiamn. jar-Mrs. Goldsmidt (Jeony Lind) re cently gave birth to twins ote of each sex. Here we bare another edition in two vol umes of "Goldsmith's Animated Jfatnre." For the Oregon Statesman. Deceived anrt the Ueerlvers of the late Tfc '. Canvass. Mr. Bi'srt t lla lug been it constant and faithful render of most of the newspapers of Oregon during the Into political canvass; and having, also, listened to a n timber of the speeches delivercd bythe Stntq canvassers, and learning thence the union or Incongru ous fin-lions against the democracy of the country the falsehood, double-dealing, pre varication, personalities, deception, misrep resentation, abue, slander and detraction, on the part of the "Va" candidates particularly Jelly and CfMe.ira tnperin dueed by the spirit of selfishness, ambition and hate, controlled and governed by th native promptings of the demtgfigue;-and having, more especially, noticed that the es pecial aim and effort of these unscrupulous malcontents was to beat yon, by placing falsehood, detraction and calumny under rigid 'contribution, I have been somewhat disappointed in perusing the issues of the Statesman subsequent to the election, in that vou have dealt with the vile calumniators o verv leniently ns yon have. It is true thnt you have uttered truth so far as jou have gone in regard to these false-hearted, selfish and ambitious slinks, but you may receive the assuraneo that tbe genuine, un purchased, firm and incorruptible democracy of the rural districts, are looking for and fully prepared to receive and digest much stronger meat 1 You may forget aud for give, but the democracy of the country, gen erally, will not I Through the medium of the press and the "stump speeches" of the late canvass, togeth er with my personal knowledge of men and parties in Oregon for tho six or eight years Iat past, I think I am so thoroughly furnish ed with facts that 1 can judge of men and things in our new State, without a whereas, pcradveuture or proviso. It is at once ludicrous, contemptible and villainous that (knowing that goggle-eyed Leland was supremely .despised as a wcuk headed churl) the little California interloper should pretend that he had bought vut (?) the obnoxious disorgnnizer, and, in order to make the peoplo believe it, he almost every where denounced Iceland as coward, dog, puppy" making "Leland, coward, dog, itntipv" convertible terms I And yet, during ull this time, and up to this prescut, this same Alonzo Leland is editing the Standard, whilst "Jim (J .Mcara" is residing at can Frmeisco ! Iu the mean time, every child iu Oregon t-nn detfet the ear marks of Li land's editorials I Of course he discourses a it Iceland or a year ago, about the dm and CM Resolution," "federalists," Ac, seizes upon every occasion to foment disaffec tion ami personal distrust and local jealous ies and partisan difficulties talks about the hand-writing upon the wall," and pre diets the defeat and political death of dem ocrats whose election is and was insured ly the votes of Jire to one in their favor! In short, his style is well known by his bald perversion of the truth his opposing mid condemnirg every tiling democratic, and his unblushing denunciation of men whom the real democracy of the country delight to honor; and his bold prediction of events which are sure never to come to pass the improbability or impossibility of which is sufficiently apparent to nil other men, and last, cot least, his publishing his vvn torn muntcations, dated salem, and elsewhere 1 The country should understand, as a fair and legitimate realization of the predictions of the democracy during the late canvass, thai Leland is still the lying editor of the Maud ard newspaper, whilst O Meara is halo! But, to return to Kelly and O'Meara, the late opposition campaign orators. From all that 1 have Ix-cn able to learn of their past history, and more especially of what 1 raw, heard and reaJ of them in the late political canvass, J do not hesitate to say (and in thus saving I have every assurance that I speak the convictions of three-fourths of the proi lc of Oregou under the exercise of the sober second thought) that they arc sys tematically and on principle tricksters, deceit' ers and bnffvons. Both profoundly ignorant or the real character of the people or Oregon they believed them as stupid as they knew themselves knavish! Their notion of the common muni (!) aud heart is tbe result of no exercise of wide sympathies or sagacious insight, but is the product of pharasaic su perciliousness, acting on mental isolation. L?y adopting the arts of the demagogue, they acquired, for the moment, a certain kind of popularity with a particular class of our people. Iu the end their influence has prov en as superficial as their management of the canvass was mean and their vulgar eloquence ridiculous. I Hey have, ere this, doubtless, leurned that the knaves and fools constitute a very lean proportion of the great body of the people of Oregon, lhey may yet learn that the education of a democracy in the art and scicuce of government is the noblest and most important branch of public education, and that tbe people will repudiate all teach ers of vulgarity, falsehood, scurrility and personal vitujK-ratioi), all heads of faction and all schools in which the peoplo them selves are regarded as fools, and knaves, and dolts, and their government a trick! They mny learn that the vox pepuli demand truth "fair statements, consecutive reasoning. honest advice wit that is not personality, linmor that is not bufToonry, eloquence that is not rodomontade!" That the people would have these newly fledged self-styled national orators aspiring to public honors by the help of democratic votes know that they, the most-thinking and self-governing yeomanry, can appreciate something in logic but fallacies, and something in language be sides balderdash! Mr. Editor, your "hard" democratic read ers expect you to assist these "national ex penmeuters to go to iheir own place!" I trust yon will not disappoint ns. It is true that, ordinarily I would hesitate to kick a dead ass, but these were too assinego and too mulish, not to be kicked when dead 1 Lvery dog has his day," aud these have had their. One thought more. I perceive that you are stirring up aud arousing the pure souls of the Aduirs, by putting them in remcmber- auce of their short comings. This is right exactly right all right. Auy professed democrat who could not. find it iu his heart to vote, at the Sate election, the democratic ticket, and the vcholt democratic ticket, is ia my humble judgment, unworthy and unfit to hold office under a democratic admiuistru- liou ? Turn him cut turn him and them whoever and whatever he or they are, or may have been, our, aud all the people will say. amen. Too severe things cannot be ottered or published, and too summary a proceeding cannot be instituted against prominent men and office holders in Oregon, professing to be democrats, wno lound. it convenient to af filiate with our enemies aud refuse to vote tbe democratic ticket at a crisis so big with the fate of tbe democratic party and iu cher ished and time-honored priuciples as the present. Kow and-ever, yours truly, E. Santiam, Oregon, July 31st, 1858. X& Prentice of the Louisville Journal Las been made a Soc of Temperance. UoodI Better if he will stick, to it. . The I'liloii of ttie lriuotracy. We commend the pel usnl of the subjoin ed artielo from tho Sim I runcisco Herald to our democratic readers. Its counsels nro worthy of heed in Oregon: As the Democracy are to meet to day in their several districts, to elect delegates to the State Convention, it mny not be alto gether inappropriate to offer a few remarks noon tho ntiestion bv which the party Is now agitated. In the first place, we would j enquire what cnue for dissension exists? By the passage of the i;ngnsn mil tne wan sns question hits been definitely settled. It has no longer vitality. It cannot ne galvanized into life, by the mot Ingenious process of political jugglery. The decision of the wholo matter has been transferred from tho Halls of Congress from the na tion, to those who alone ore competent to decide upon It, viz : the people or Kansas, and to interfere in it any more, can bo re garded in no other light but flagrant violation or tho great Democratic doctrine of non-intervention. The people of KnnRas are the only persons who by right can in telligently pass upon the question in con troversy, ami next month an opportunity to do so will lo afforded them, through the medium of the ballot bov. What, there fore, can we have to do with their internal concerns? Why should we interfere in the disposition of n question in which the peo ple of Kansas, mid no others arc Interested: Why should we gel iv me ears upon nn j issuo which has been finally disposed of by the last Congress, nnd iu which w e cannot now intermeddle without violating one of the fundamental principles of our party creed? Why should we divide, distract and plit tip the Democratic party of Califor nia, anil secirc tne liimnpii oi our political foes, merely for the gratification of express ing our opinion tipon a controversy which has now happily been brought to a close? Why should we seek to reive nn agitation which atone time threatened the disruption of the Union, nnd finally, with what grace can we Democrats, professing 'the political creed, taught by Jiukson and Jefferson, Madison nutl Munrnc, turn round nud mu tate the example of t:io-e whom w-e have alwavs denounced the agitators who live by agitation, and who for their owu aggran disement would barter the pence and tran quility owl, prosperity of the country? A large majority oi the Democratic Journals both here nnd in the Eastern States, have accepted the English bill, as it 'n generally known, as a Until settlement vl the Kansas question. Mr. Donglus himself has express ed the opinion tliut the Kansas question was a past issue, nnd that "every good citi zen should te saiiMieit witn wnatever decis ion the people of Kansas should mnke at the election, on the first Mouduv of Au gust. The fact is, tliut neither, Mr. Doug las, nor any of the journals to winch we have alluded, could consistently with their Democratic professions pursue any other course. loaiirmpi now to inane political capital out of Ivan-ins is to do exactly w hat the IJluck l.i'pui'Iicans have been trying to do for the lust three years with this d.liVr et.ee, that it wai then uu open question, but is not now. We nrc fully pitrsuadod that if the scenes which have been enacted in some of the County Conventions, should be repeated iu the State Convention, iioilnng but disaster and defeat await us iu September. H it it may be said by some, that the cause of dis union i not upon the ub.truct ouestioii of Lecoinpton, but - because it is the intuition of those w ho are struggling to obtain the control of the patly machinery to convert the State Convention into an engine for the elevation or prostration of somebody. Jf Mich intention be cherished, ami if such course be pursued, we have only to stir. that the Democracy if these plotters is bogus in its character, aud demoralizing in its tendency. The motto of the Democra ry is "principles, not men," nud those' w ho would seek to convert a Convention for the nomination of a Supreme Judge, into an en gine for the gratification of private Fpleen, or the accomplishment of personal nggran dizemcnt. are unworthy of the name of Democrats, aud should be spurned from the party. lo be Hire we hear it often said. that if you are not a lirodcrick man you must be a lwiu man, and that n you aie not a Gwiit man rou must be a lirodcrick man. In reply to such absurdities, we have only to ask by what process Uicfc mcu ac quire a preemption right upou the 1'emoc racy of 'California! Cannot a man be c Democrat unless he be somebody s man; Does Democracy imply servility to sonic in dividual w ho bus attained a higher position than his fellows, and is inan-w orship, pure et tempt f, its essence r Away w.th such i cr sonalities and individualities! Democracy hat higher nin e and nobler objects to ac complish than individual aggrandizement. A Democrat may bo a Democrat without being anybody's toady. A man mny believe in all the cardinal principles of Democracy without entertaining a ferocious desire to immolate Mr. lJrodcriek, or au insatiate am bition to elevate Mr. Gwiu. There is happily a cojnnion ground upon which all Democrats can stand viz: that by the, passage of the Knglish Hill, the Kansas question has been definitely settled, and that acknowledging the doctrine of non intervention, we cm have nothing more to do with it. In accordance with these views, some sucii resolutions as the loiiowing, adopted in the Xavada Convention, might be passed at the State Convention: lltsolctd, lhat the Kansas controversy is now settled, and we deprecate any issue be tween Democrats upou that subject. Jiesolced, That to censure the Adminis tration in its Kansas policy woutd be assist ing the enemies of the Democratic party, and lending uid aud comfort to lilac k lie publicans and Know-Nothings. Resoh-ed, That James Uuclianau nnd Lewis Cass, the tried and faithful leaders of the Democracy iu times past, when our fath ers sustained them, have now our confidence and shall hav our support. Resfdred, That we arc for the Union, for our party, and the union of States, for equality in power aud equality in right among all citizens nnd all sovereignties which compose our confederacy. Rcsolred, That our delegates to the State Convention ore instructed to reflect the above wishes of the Democracy of Xavada county, who in Conventiou now renew their iodorsemeut of the just, wise, and liberal principles of the Democratic porty, the har mony and success of which we believe insep arable from the peruiauenee aud prosperity of the Union. Resolved, That we pledge our support to the nominees of this Convention, and of the State Conventien. Death, Insanity, and the Dcnceon.- Miss Harby, the daughter of the old man who killed U. II. Stone, her seducer, in Xew Orleans, is now a niauiae. - Stone . is dead, the father iu prison, and the woman crazy 67"" An old sword, a. wax candle from Cornwallis's stores, and an undischarged bomb, revolutionary relics, have been sent to Got. Wise.by a citizen of Virginia. From the ItMiiwratlo lteylew. lloldtitsa In StMeni. Timidity is ns fatal. In politics as it is in battle, lt courts defeat it Invites nnuilii lation. It deserves it and it gets what it deserves. This is just ; it should be so and it Is. A timid man never docs a great thing seldom a wise or safe one. Statesmen must do both, or they ruin parties always, nud sometimes Nations. It mny matter lit tle where tho general is when tho army is in winter quarters nnd the campaign Is over. Hut when the enemy is to be met, the com mander must be on hand and ho must un derstand his business. All the great events of the world happen quickly. O rent balling hang on moments. One irresistible onset of the i or mans on the field of Hastings changed tho history of the world. Nearly every great victory of Napoleon wits won in ten minntes. The lust word of Columbus touched the heart of the beautiful Isabella, and the New World was discovered. When the Son of Man bowed llts head on the Cross He dragged tho pillars of Sntau's empire to the dust. Ood set the Universe in motion by four worth : "Let there bo light." These last two instances aro cited with reverence to show that onii k work is the law of the Uni verse wo live in. ' - Uveitis are Heaven's de crees, and when the moment comes for an event to happen, the agencies nro always ready. If tho jnnn who should do it is not on hand another springs to his place. The Rubicon is to be passed, nnd Cicur stands ready to lean tno bank. Hie hour comes when he must die, nnd Ilruttis is in the Sen ate House with his dagger. An Lnglish battle-ship Js waiting to sail with the boy Washington from the I'otomoc to serve in the I5rin.-li navy, but ono gesture from his mother after all the farewells had been Riiid bronaht the destined savior of his country back to tho shore. Cromwell Inn packed his trunks for America nnd sent them aboard a ship lying in the Thames to sail the next ihiy. Napoleon was ready to throw himself into the emmiip, because he Inn: iust come humiliated iroui a jpw, wiui pawnbroker ticnet in ins potKci. nut Au-terlilz and fet. Helena were yet to come and he did not die. I he Universe is brist ling with fuels to show two things first that (tod, who sees the end from the begin ning, cfnlrois mo wono, aim, eeconti, inui when great events are about to burst upon the world great men arc always on hand to consummate them. And our republic gleams with illtistra lions of all this. Never have events of so much moment to the human nice been en acted in such marvelous siiceesjion. A glance at few of these events, and the men who have guided idem, will illustrate what we wish to sav. What nation' was ever so wonderfully planted? What period in time so auspicious for lavi'g the foundations of a great l.m iiire! When n New World was wanted for a new and nobler development of Humanity Columbus cnuit? from tbe shores of the then i::ot ancient of the K-pnblic?, in that fur off purple clime, to show thnt world. Kuropc had d.ed after the fall of Koine; but iu the middle of the Daik Ages thcCruude had once more brought the Promethean fire from the Ka-t. The full of Constantinople stnt the Circtk scholars to lviropc, and they came bearing their precious scrolls with them. These were caught up by the then iust invented Printing Press, which render ed all ancient learning e ternal. The marin er's compass rendered the ocean plain truv eling. tiunpowder had subjected the bar barous to the civilized races. Luther broke through the frowning barriers of hierarchic al superstition, and intioduced mankind to "the (treat High Priest whoever trieth to make intercession for us." What a mo ment for a great world finder to appear! lie came. In tracing down our history we find all through a record of daring, boldness, hero ism and tltciMon. All the work on this Continent yet done every new nere of for est redeemed from t lie domain of the w ilder ness every conquest over savage tribes the repulsion of the armies of France while contending with England for tho mastery of the Western Hemisphere tho assertion of those eternul principles of liberty laid down iu 1 TIG the toil and achievements of the Revolution the second victorious struggle w ith England in 1812 the establishment of Democratic Institutions and their vindica tion for nearly a century against the preju dices and jealousies of the world each aud all the eras of our progress, have been the result of decision of character that could not be weakeutd ; of boldness that w as never intimidated; of power that could not be par alyzed; and heroism which knew no danger. Let us look into the characters of some of the men who have flourished before us, and wo may find a suggestive contrast with the nerveless, feeble timidity of the present day, which scans to have settled like the palsy ot death, or the dreamless, sleep el Lethe, upon the statesmanship in America, with rare exceptions. In, discovering this contrast we can learn wisdom; and it mny be of practical utility, for in delineating the weakness of the structure we have raised we may readily learn how to fortify the edifices we have yet standing, nnd construct iu the future of mure enduring materials. Washington, who as a whole, was nn ex ception to all oilier great men, formed no exception to them in the nttributc wo nre speaking of Huldiicss in Statesmanship. He displayed this quality in every important military and political crisis. During the march to the West, which ended so disas trously in liraddock's defeat, he ncted with as much promptness Mid rapidity nst'upo leon when he crossed the Alps for his first campaign in Italy and his safe return as tonished the oldest generals. The campaign in New Jersey, and the bold and apparently reckless movements which ended in the glo rious battle of Treutou, bufHed the compre hension of the enemy at the time, nnd they amaze us still. Napoleon once spent a night in studying the history of the Hetreut of Washington from Long' Island with cor rect maps and accounts of the achiemeut ly iiig before him. "It is a greater feat," he ex claimed, when he rose from the investigation, ''than Xmphoii's retreat with his tcu thous and (J reeks." And so all throughout the Revolution, we meet with instauces iu which by deciding at a flash, and moving like elec tricity, the great American General saved bis . army. At the battle of Monmouth, when the cowardice of a General had throwu tho whole army into the jaws of death, the eagle eye of Washington saw it from a dis tance aud striking, his spurs iu his horse's flanks he dashed to tbe front of the stagger ing column in all the terror and majesty of his. lion nature cashiered the commander on the spot rallied the battalions and sav ed the cause of liberty. It was all the work of five minutes. The whole scene has beeu maguificeutly portrayed by thealmost match less genius of Leutze, the painter of the bat tle of Monmouth. Had it not been for the firmness of Washington, the disbanding of the army would have ended in rebellion aud the camp would have broken up at Val ley Forge. We are often told that the blandness and humanity of b is character. a talisman by which all hearts were won. Hut a more fatal mistake could not be made. lie was phu'id in his tempcru incut, nnd so the hike is often culm iu its glassy beauty. Ho was grand in his humanity and so is (lod. Dnt the tempest soon lashes the nlmest Fen into a surging sepuleher for the proudest navies and "tho lamb that was slain" in his love will be "the lion of the tribe of Judah" in judgment. Washington s tears flowed when he took the pen to sign Andre's death-warrant, but he wrote his name a usual. Of Jefferson the writer says; Thomas JeflMrsnn was immeasurably the greatest statesman iu our history perhaps it would not be too much to say the great est of all. nges. His mission consisted in two things, nud in these, and these only, did he excel all other men. He was the founder not of Heptibliettnisni, but of Democracy nnd it was under his udminislrution, by the lights of his counsel till old age, and the mighty power oi ins example, mat tno spir it of Democracy was breathed into this He ul. lie. If Hamilton could have swayed the administration of the new Republic, it would have been nn Aristocrary in fact while a re public in form. Hamilton had a symmt tri- cnl nnd classic mind, and in reasou and logic and learning he has no equal. His mind was Oreek but hn was n monarchist in spirit ho did not understand the people and had no confidence in their ability to gov em themselves. He thought somebody must govern them. Jefferson was exactly his op posite. They could net agree; and tney never diil. Hamilton actually believed Jef ferson to bo a demagogue he accused him of "always flattering the people and court- inn- the mob." This sounds strange in our cars to-day. Hut Hamilton was not to btumc, he was made so, and he could not cnange tne texture of his character. The great balance wheel of his mind revolved one way, Jeffer son's the other, and when they met there was of necessity a eollission. Concerning Jackson, we have this among other things: .Tiu kson bectmc President. He came in as a representative of Jefferson's principle nt.d he earned t iem out. veore tci ion familiar with his eight years administration to render any detailed account of it ncccssa We shall seize, therefore, on some of its snllcnt noiiits: ns we cast dances at a castle when the traces of a reeeut battle can be seen ou every bust ion and upon every lorer. Jackson cave rrsnreetion and life to Jtfl"- erson's policy nnd principles. So deeply did he sympathize with the feelings of the great mass cf t lie people, their welfare lay so uenr his heart, nud so deeply were tnev persuad ed cf nil this, that they acknowledged aud received him as their political guardian nud leader. Time, which tries all things human nud nnder wlms nivsteriou nud irresistible strokes everything fills but truth Time, the ennt regulator of human opinion, has its eciion, and' the great political mens tires nn I principle! of wen. .lacKsnn ore now estiibbshed nud incorporated i-ito the settled policy of the Republic. The issues he made no otlur man of his time would have dared to make no other man could have carried through, lie knew nnd felt that the people had called him to the control of the wovern ment; and the result proved that he wns n pilot that could putrid?) the storm. When he laid his hand cpon the helm the country felt safe. Did Nullification rear its head in South Carolina? he annihilated it with a single blow t'ie l'ni-m tnusl and shall be m.t'til-tn ed. Dul prance refuse to pay the nine mill ion indemnity? He dismicsed her .Minister and in taking his leave of (Jenernl Jackson, as the Embassador .inquired, "What shall I tell the King, my Master. Motwicnr l'resi- ident?" "Tell the King, your Master, that lie must pay or fight, by the eternal 1" The King paid. Did cliques, and committees, nnd delegations rush on to Washington to get htm to interfere in the appointment of Collectors he sent them all buck with the fame reply : "Gentlemen, von had belter go back and attend to vour business, nud leave menloue to carry on the Government." There was no "thimble rigging'' iu those days no trifling no low tricks no eking out the scant lion's skin with the fox's. It was all mailr. straightforward woik. It was so through all departments of the (lot eminent. Tho best tulent of every State was called into the public service. All tl strenni3 were clear as the Central fountain, and the great Republic came up out of the wilderness, and took her seut at the Council Hoard of Nations the Pharos of the future for all mankind. The Xext Prsioescv The Washington correspondent of the South expresses the opinion that the black republicans will be able to elect tho President in the election and that he need not again be a mere tool, like r remont, but a principal, most proba bly Seward. Tho writer then proceeds to quote an article of the Xew Yoik Evening Post, a lending frcesoil organ, boldly avow ing w hat is next designed by the party. They expect by 1863 a President aud both houses of Congress of their own stripe; then nn act of Congress railing a national convention of the United States; the co op eration of tho majority of the Stato Legis latures, it is expected, might be easily se cured to appoint delegates to the Convcn tion, and the Convention might proceed to "amend" the Constitution by abolishing the slnve representation and the surrender of the fugitive slaves, altering the nportion ment to correspond, and remodeling the Supreme Court, so as to vacate the Dcnch at once, and require new Judges to be ap pointed, and then simply order the next succeeding election to be held under the new schedule, the returns to be made nud elections certified by the Prcsideut of the Convention.'' "On the 4th of March, 1S65, tho Government" adds the Post, "would be peaceubly inaugurated on the new basis, ready for harmonious and resistless action in all its branches legislative, executive and judicial. And any minority of States would Uud themselves irithout remedy or deliver auce. jiiclimond DtspaUh. Health a Religious Responsibility I have a thought of suggesting to our very eloquent pastor, Mr. Wyatt, the preaching of a sermon on 'the care of oue's own health ns a religions responsibility. Most human illness, no doubt, could, with timely and easy precautions, have been avoided. Nature gives her warnings which we will fully disregard"fiist symptoms," of which every one knows the import and the remedy. Is not this trifling with the health, which is the most precious of God's temporal gifts? Nay, more: is it not an almost umversal shorteniug of the lives that have been sa credly iutrusted to us, do we not thus re motely nud indirectly, but still in some pos itive degree come under the same reproba tion as the suicide? Might it not. on this ground, be most usefully and properly nam bered among the child's moral lessons at school; to pay a minute and ever watchful attention to health, as a duty no' less to himself than to his God? iV. P. TVWia in JIoum Journal I.atrx from I'nnr Over the !. Tho very lntest news we have received from Fruzer river is vety encouraging. Our informant W a man of undoubted character and never was actually caught in a lie in his life. He tells us that lus brother, ror- merly a resident of Slippery Slide, ou Kern River, went to trnzer Kiveruy way oi bait Lake and the Sandwich Islands, nome six months ago. aud since the gold discovery has been packing ft jackass train from Fort Lope to Fort llangley, by way of Pitt creek end the Cascade valley. During the first two-months of his residence in thot country he made four canoes full of coarse irold and nuartz amalgam, trading beads, jijwshnrps, and watchman's rattles with the Indians, under a license rrom the Hudson Ray Company. After his license expired he took to playing the bass drum for the (Jari ison at FortlJale, and mnde eight hun dred and thirty-seven dollars in six weeks, besides board, clothes, and poker money. Some four weeks ago he recommenced his old business of packing jackasses, and just before the sailing of the Cortes he went with a load of Hardinrs nnd Petaluma butter lo the Pig's dry digging, on the ens- fern slope of the Raid headed mountains, and there at the foot Of n dern rale, shut out by lull pine trees, he found four Sydney ducks washing out gold in an old sugar trough. He hnilpil them nud thev invited him cordiully to their camp. Ihey were en tirely naked, having cut up all their clothes to make sacks for I heir gold, of which they hail some eleven tons. When he arrived at the ground one of the party was engaged in culling fo.nnre chunks of gold out of a side hill with a coll chisel. Ihey were all in the last stage of inanition, nud willingly gave for his sardines uud butter their weight in gold, large piles of which were lying Around loose upon the ground. After linving re ceived his gold he wus at a loss how lo car ry it off, having no sucks or anything to make them of. While in this dilemma he and the Sydney ducks espied si.v Esquimaux Indians on an opposite hill, all of whom they instantly shot, and after cutting their legs off below their knees, skinned them down, nud forming sneks of their uiitrfiimd hides, filled them Willi gold, with which on the following day he reachttl Relly-njt-Ray, right side no with cure. He still remains at his old stamping ground, and expects to do well iu the country if he has no very se nous set-backs. Suite Kecord. Female Accompushmexts. Every school for young ladies rejoices in its teacher of drawing, painting, Vc, as well as its teacher of music; and, under the hands of these two individuals, the whole school, as a gen eral thing, is desired to pass by teachers nnd parents. Trench is studied n? an ac complishment. The result usually is, lhat w hen a young ludy is finished off," she can piny six tunes on the piano; has executed three pieces of drawing or printing, which papa buys frames for and hangs up in a par lor lor exhibition to visitors; lias done a little portfotio of water colors, in whieh the teacher's hand is frequently visible; has learned to dance; and has achieved a free run of nineteen French phrases, whieh she could not pronounce correctly to save her life. So far, there is nothing but show. Principles have not been comprehended, anil she has in her hands nothing, not even the instruments for winning tho accomplish ments which she and her friends imagine she posses. How many misses can sketch from nature! How munv arc taught to sketch thttsl How miuy, who return "accomplish ed," can sketch even the old domicil in which they were reared. How many paint the tiger lily that occupies a corner of the garden? How many can take a simple piece of music nnd play or sing it nt first sight? How many go on from tho foothold they have achieved arid become mistresses of the delightful art, soothing the husband when weary and alone, or entertaining his friends vw Inn they call upon him? How a its-. tunny rcnii a l-reiicn boos oner leaving school? We suppose not one in fifty. Their accomplishments are a gilded cheat. The money spent to obtain them is a deod lor and the tunc which they have occupied should have been devoted to more solid studies, in which three fourths are deficient. from the simple fact that their time has been so unprofitably occupied. The Qvr.r.s or Holland. This wearer of of n crown, who has recently been on a vis it t-i -Pans, is forty years old, and is yet a fine woman, tall and full in face and iu per son. Jler Hair is goidcn, and she wears short ringle's on the forehead. Site dresses with extreme richness, and with n certain degree of coquetry, and yet 6hc wears a sud expression that bly comports with her ap parent attention to Tier toilette, and with her sunny complexion. Rut for this Her Majesty has no doubt a reason. King il liam of Holland is not the best of husband: A circumstance occurred, three yenrs ago, which is well known in diplomatic circles, but which never appeared in print, that may have been the starting poiut of the queen's I sadness. The king had n lady favorite to whom he was almost a sluve, bnt he bad managed to keep the fact from the queen's knowledge. He was jealous of this girl, uud for a reason; one day by a ruse he de tected one of the young gentlemen of his court in the lady's private apartments. On j the instant the king plunged his sword throngh his courtier's body, and killed him. The news of the terrible event, and of the king's'infidelity, fell upon the queen with an I-Sect that may be imagined. Hwii Like. Rayard Taylor, while iq the Arctic region iu winter, nsed to cat a halt pound of butter at a meal to warm himself. He thus speaks of the cold which he endur ed in Lapland: 'I should have frozen at home in a tempera ture which 1 found very comfortable in Lap land with my solid diet of meat aud butler, and my garments of reindeer. The following is a correct scale of the physical effect of cold, calculated for the latitude of G5 deg. to 15 dcg. North: 15 deg. above zero: UnnTesant- ly warm. Zero: mild and agreeable. 10 deg. below zero: Pleasantly fresh and brac ing. 20 deg. below zero: Sharp, but not se verely cold. Keep your fingers and toes in motion and rub your nose occasionally. 30 deg. below zero: Very cold; take particular care of your nose and extremities; cat the rattest food and plenty of it. 40 deg. below zero: intensely cold: keep awake at all haz ards, muffle up to the eyes, and test your circulation frequently that it may not stop imewnere oeiore jou snow it. 50 de. be low zero; A struggle for life. The papers of East Teunessec are discuss ing the propriety of forming a new state to be called 4?rankland. The Memphis Bulle tine tavors a division of Tennessee, aud the formation of a new state from the westeru portion, with North Mississippi aud the western, corner ot Keutucky. The JNew Orleans Crescent approves the plan, "be cause we need another southern State." Sf A resident of St. Thomas has an nounccd in Cuba tSat Gen. Sauta Anna had purchased an elegant residence in the first uamed island, for which he paid $40,000 casu. - - - A California Academt. The catalogue of the Academy of Notre Dome, San Jose, California, shows an extensive mixture of nationalities, for its pupils. The native places are as follows : Mexico, 11 ; Chil, 5; Peru, 1; France, 1; Germany, 4; Belgium, 2; Canada, 1; Australia, 5; Oregon, 2 California, 39; other American States, 103. These "other American states" are 18 in number, so that in reality only 13 btates oi the Union are unrepresented. ' iM.ti E.vnENCE. Polk. O, O. t. Eniton Statesman I presume it is s matter of little consequence ts some persons whether we receive the Statesman or not. Rut from the appearance of persons at this office wheu they receive the word no States man, I should judge they were sadly disap pointed. One person informs me that lie has failed to receive seven no's iu the last six months. It but seldom comes -in due time. It is rather singular that the Statesman can not be transmitted twelve miles, when tbe Portland papers arrive in due time. Where is the fault? lours, 8.8. We can't account for this. The paper is regularly mailed. Will thoso lu fault cor- rcct? . The Dai-cuter or Aaron Bcfr. I'he' Carolina Spnrtan supplies a new incident in the life of Aaron Burr, regarding the death of his daughter. It professes to derive its information from an old distinguished citi zen of Charleston, now dead: Burr, in his many intrigues, compassed! the ruin of the wife of the captain of a coaster between New York and Charleston.- To remove the captain. Burr corrupted! his sailors to mutiny and destroy him. Oil the ontward voyage no opportunity offered. aud the execution of the plan was deferred tjli the return trip. Unfortunately on this very vessel -Mrs. Alston toou passage. Jler fate was an awful retribution npon her abandoned father. He never looked op af ter, and doubtless from the conviction that the sin? of the father were visited upon tbe child. Our informant went to New York to look np the wife of this captain. Hear ing that Burr knew her. he sought an inter view. The mention of the name was the signal for silence; nor would' Burr keep a further appointment, or impart any iufor-. uiation ou the topic." A Bashfct. Bridegroom. The following account of the marriage of a yonng man to a woman twice his age in New Orleans, we recommend to be read at the opening pray er at the next woman's trights' convention: "The guests were assembled, the minister as ready, the happy pair stood up to be tied, and the young man bolted. He ran into the street, but was pursued and caught bv the crowd, foremost of whom was the bride. Again they stood forward, and again the minister began, when away went the. youngster the second time! He was pursa- ed, caught and brought back as before, and a third time the minister begun tbe awful ceremony, liut, would you believe it, tne young man once more staiiApeded! This time the bride alone gave chase, caught, brought him back and held fast to him. The fourth effort of tle minister was soccessfal. ' He made the twain one, blessed them and left. After being married, the young man became perfectly docile, and permitted his antique bride to lead hitn off like a sheep to the s'ang'.iter." A Si.irPERY Negro. The abolitionists should not take it for granted that every black skin covers a saint. The desperate black convict Dade who escaped lately from the Michigan State prison, claimed to be a. fugitive slave, and at Sandusky. Ohio, the abolitionists released him by habeas corpus alter lie had been caught and lodged in jail. At ISellefortain he was again arrested, and the abolitionists were jast ready to sec a re him and mob the ofSccr, whea the latter for-. Innately obtained proof of the troth of his assertion that Dade was an escape convict. Dade was taken back to his old quarters. He states that he preached a sermon the next Sunday after his escape, lo a large ant dience, and took up a collection, the audi ence subscribing a sufficient sum to enable him to buy a horse, with which to proceed as a fugitive slave. A New Platform. The woman's rights convention adopted, after full and explana tory debate, the following platform: Rcsolred, That the most sacred and im portant right of woman is the right to de-i cide for herself when, how often, and under what conditious she shall assume the cares of maternity. Douglas Jerrold, once writing on the idea contained in this resolution, said: "It is not wonderful that, down, to the present time, women have never discovered their owu tremendous strength? They have only to be of one accord, and in some bun- -dred years at most, the human face will fade clean from tbe earth fade like an old mul tiplication table sum from the school boy's slate." Singular Accounts from Liberia. Two negroes have returned from Liberia to Priuce Edward county, Va., and give a bad account of their trcatmeut in the African republic. They say they, received only a half acre of land each, iustead of the five acres promised them, that their own provis ions for six months, sent out bv the exeen. tor of their master's estate, were taken from them and sold to them again at exor bitant prices, and that they endured rnuc ill trcatmeut and many hardships. Thej say that the President of Liberia is either engaged iu the slave-trade, or connives at it. nnd that seven eights of the Liheriana would be glad to return to slavery in the. United States if they had tbe means of get. ting here. . ' ' 5?- During two hundred and thirt. years after the foundation of Rome, it is. stated, no man attempted to leave his wife. nor any woman ber husband. At tbe ores ent moment, there are two thousand people, from other States, sojonrniug in Indiana and. Aiuuois, tor me express purpose ot getting rid of their wives aad husbands. It takes, but six wrecks to put a divorce case through, in one of those States. A man or a woman, is a "citizen" as soon as he or she arrives, in those States; a notice is printed in an obi scure corner of a country paper, the pa sage of six weeks time is awaited, and tha "bill" is granted it matters little what the cause and all without "the party of the other part," knowing anything about it. $S"Tbe Canadian parliament has passed a bill to amend the naturalisation laws rednc-: ting the period of residence subsequent t which foreigners can claim naturalization from fire to three years. This is intended to give emigrants inducements superior to. those offered by the United States. ISTThe last thing Mrs. Cunningham-Bur? dell has done is to bay a farm in Carroll coun ty, Ohio, paying $5000 down upon it, and tha paper says she is going to take immediate possession.