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TU13AT, 1. ITS. T bU mmm bee eatjre ail toasscratJe organization reprobated Mm nasi mode tt Mr. Stoat's imIuMib. and 4 mI regard Uiui nomi wee ef tomiwnrtw party. Maay mch laart II Mr defy to wtiboM their rates Aw ana while UmmmmuT tttoegfct it to MMMIHTMitMinlMlMlMMrt. We thiak ww or with) Mm tratk. whet wa say Mwl Cm reat Wjt af Mm received by Hr. stntt hi C V.Zactto cwmiM, tar eon- hfewlMNWlMl rNrnnliikirub . wbe eU no iwi mi m hir and regular i" ef Mm iMmuitt party, bet who pre fernd Usb to Legos, bttoef kit asrteeedetrU mm Mm tomiti nun of kSk ajnrlaatirm. It kdw Mm Mmm WmU Ml rote for hies. (fiW.) Martina Uimimmn etb party. Tfcew itttwerak. tee wba nte4 for Slant, m! Mmm wba iU feat, pnerti apoa Mm at upMaa Mm! re aVtsaciatlo mvertion tu WUtt Salens Mat April. aad that there baa bee m iiaaacratic sMsnbiee ia Mm ieU at Mm tltctita jat OntL These raea eeenpriee the tntest, esaaJiiit, end the mm name rims e ttoa af Mm democratic party, V lac conglomer ation af " nationals, outsider af every kind, and Vmocrata, can be called taca ; tuey com prise the nnmbere, and constitute Mta back-hone of the Oregon democracy. Firm in thoir poei tioa, aad boid to actios, they " ask nothing but what la right, awl submit to nothing wrung." Their aKaiwt, aa wilt be seem, entirely is taore tiia meeting at the eeert-aoose ia Salem Mat April as a democratic convention ; that they deny Mm authority af any of iu acts, or tli power af any af its areata. Bat, that tbrr will t deem it racambeot apoa Mmm to redact these art naii a KtrraHy to atactica, we cannot say ; ml weald net, now, aa advise. Caring for the sabatasce, and not Um farm of thing, wilting to concede aon-cssca rials to the promotion of the aeeca of aVmomtio , principle, we treat Mmt 01 waive ponctnio, wherever it ob atracta anioa aoi sUrmoor. IWierinj, as tker Jo, that tke " ceatral eoinralttcr"' npiioint rd bj the April meetta;, are aot pmpor oVlc SatoaV and in rested with the eaatomarr a- thaiity to call ewrealiaua. v aravt tbrr wilf vUBtur to wsuttb that imrtitritr. if i aiaaB be called mmmrn a Jaat and fair That ther drill particinate ia aar ea rtmixm haard apaa Mr. 8tot't vote, daaot speet. aad do aot ooaaat-L Na cootpsmmb abaald ae bated apaa) the rote of a candidate except ho woe aaaeaUonabtT fairly aad rega anr Bwanaaiea. wr aa otaer aaanmatMa at re farded at hiadiii apoa demecrais. It is dfaiahli that a large aeetioa af the detnorracr, ia a hodr, hoU that aiminartia aa imxiar aad. tea MiaeaasaderaMeexteat, hare treated naadrada who have heard Qeveral Laaet haraagaea orer Mm Btoto. hare kft martlftod at the dkgnatiaf oiklM ef teW-praiaa aad tnaaii, Oao afhisawa rvaprtert autkM him Mr. at I-ortiaad. (aoy be said it, ia tab- ttaaoa ahaoat everywhere,) the futlowini; i Ocn. Lane maJe a enr aaVntire ima h. TT detaiM his aarriawa in the pulUiu errrk-ea aiaee ae entered palilie lire, ia 1KB. in the tog. isiatare of Indiana, in the war with Mexico, in the wikk of Oregoa, both ia the eauip and in Mm exeearire chair his bringing to condign pomaoment roe inuiaa nranierers or w unman his eoaaaeat over the Kogue river Indiaaa, aad hi other many acts of duty and generosity m ine peopie ec uregon, at a peoples aou at iu divMhu, , . Lane was always a rain Man, bat he former h had the goad eease to araid oftWire exhim tioaaafit. Bat, tarreanded aa he ia at VTasVt togtoa by a swarm of flatterers idler who their Bring by Ucklinr the willing ear of a vain oM man with adalatkm, it it ineritoble that his vaaity aad egotism should inereaso ia rapid ratio. And thia will explain to many bow Gen. Lane coo Id talk for boors a boat him sWand kit itrrict; a handred fold magni6ed. The HUhmi and the OarreU, who feed by nattering him, tell him almost erery boar of Ua lire, that be it a very extraordinary man, a marreloaa patriot and wonderful statesman. and it it not strange that he has conceived the idea himself, and become inordinately egotistical. Th'r reporter proceeds with Lane's speech "His tertkf in Conrres were also referred to. He was now an old man, and a poor man to boot.' . This has beea another leading feature of Lane's demagogical appeal. ' lie wat a poor man, and didn't eare for money. Gen. Lane doea not care for money txrtpt fir pmtmt stses; that ia his repatation among the people, ami knowing that, he has made the most of t!iat material hat rang the change apoa it, with all the art and industry of ahk-h he l pot vett ed. He has tramped Bp man of gtrate, anj , rare txta ir overt ne assDmetl tnat he a as accused of keeping the State oat for the pnr- pose of getting doable constructive mileage, and j then asserted that he wat a poor man, and i:um eare lor wealth, and annealed to tli : : of Mm three t-U f rart la tTJa Btato wtkJi are at thai pre at at time la Mm ray aad ewrOe of Oen. Joseph Lane, it edited by a tpscal solw!er ef fortaao named James II. SbnVr. lUrmerty a post matter at Corrallit. This little aheet it very ardent la Its profession f i Lane) democracy, and very tealuut aad ' Xerj sere re in itt condemnation and abase of repaUioauiim, to Hbich it usually prefixes tlie assertive 'black." It endorse (Lane) demo cratic doctrinee. It tappnrta (Lane) deraocrat e candidate. ' It rejoice orer (Lano) demo cratic trims pha. It tUpa its wings and erowa as tastily at a rnang barnrard rooak-r, at raeb succettful tscUevemeal of (Lone) democracy. It becmaea duauroua. and indignant, and wrath liil, by tunas, over defeetiotM to (Lane) datnoe- ' racy. . In like manner, and in baa measure, and with Rke display of ignorance and editori al debility, it oppnsct republicant aad republi canism. Its enmity toward anything which has the least odQr or taint of repablieanUm ia The new editor of the Portland 7Ys dsasovrred, in the column of the Arkanta$ TYorWrr, where it grew poutaneouly. aa "ex. eellent letter, written by a Jacksonville lativ." If we hadn't the lady's word for it, that she ft a lady, we should suspect her, on the "Internal erhlenoe" contuincd in her letter, of being no other than V. 0. T'VauIt, ttnior editor of the 7VrWfr, hertelf. At all crents, we're quite paaitiva the is neither ttued nor Mnslmr, . Our "" starts out with a diluted extract from Mitchell's Bchwd Geography. Then "she (Oregon, not"the lady) feels proud at so early aa age (shouldn't Wonder !) to be amply able to furnish a Trodden! to fill the highest teat of our nation the Marion of Mexico." (Whew! what a redundancy of verbiage quilt tend- nine.) Here wo have it established, on the an thority of lady and who will Trnlure to dis pute the faiy's veracity f that the highest seat of our nation it the Marion of Mexico, and that we hare a President who is "amply able" to indeed surprising. As a young peppy, which hlJ said "Marion." And the Portland 7W it at each at tae prflt ; thongs, f. reasons stat ed above. Mm poll-books do aot iaaiicate the real extent af this opinion among the democrat M Messrs. e unpartiai. candid think, will deny that Mr. Stoat's aontinatioa. effected by a ndo caaeaa, containing a bare majority of the roaventioa, (to throw eat of the OfBfotisw Mm bribery which was resorted to.) tao ateaabert of wbteb fett their action in cea vewfjoa to be boats! by Mm tmai lasitiit of-tbat was acewplahed Uroagh hvegaktr m m vMattoa of omecrati aaas-e At At very least. Bono will dear that sock ac tMB aad sack acswraatioa ia foeattMssiofe. . At Mm very leant aooe (we speak of impartial aad mmm mew.) win deny that Mr. G rover was, and Mr. Stawt was not, the cbesee of the deeao cratic masse af the State, Tbenaaads of demo- erattstoa ssshitsia that the will of the was sVaWd aad defeated by faregalar action, trickery, bribery, and eernrption. If they age eerreet, ft fiirniahea a conclusive reason why ae eoaveartaoa aboald be based apoa that eandi date's rote. If they s.- mietaken, the very ntiatake faraiahee a prudential reaaoa why no apportionment abauKI bo made npon ue vote of a candidate whose imtmnatspa so maav, for plomnile reasnna, at the very lecU, regard as fibvoig been irregular and without binding force. The late election wat also a jcial election, aad far that reason, ordinarily, delegates to coavestzoa ought not to be apportioned opvu the vote thrown at tt. Ordinarily, party cea rentiona are aot based npon the vote thrown at apeoial elections. The vote of the latest regu lar election ia the common, and iur aegbt we know, nuversal, bans of representation ia par ty coat enUohs. tthajever irTegularitM.'S may be sired, whatever may be conceded or umuo Uuaed. whatever coamiittee may call future conventions, eon rent ions called between this time and the election of 1SG0 should be based apoa the Tote of Gov. Whitcakcr, er that of some r:1-- mx the last aannsl election. fcst Mr. Backs na a has aa ungrateful pack to deal witk. it most be coofeserd. He latelr appointed Joha F. Barnes of Alabama one of the visit ott to the West l'oint academy, and the feisw writes a letter dechniug the honor, aad indulging ia strong impudence generally. We nod the above paragraph ia aa eastcra paper. Aa aa reason it assigned for Mr. Barnes' intliaiag the appaimaiusl. we are heft to infer that has prejudice against color had mem all i ng to do whh it. lie doabtatm felt him-aebT-iaealted .at being placed npon terms of equality with Hibben, and hi "indulging ia strong impaaenee" ia kit letter to the Presi dent was the boaest outburst of a jantifiable iadignatioa. It ia indeed aurprisuig that any bigbanaded aantbern gentleman, ar, indeed r reoftxlmhU vnile man, oeold consent to take aa appointment oa the aaae board, aad on terms of eqaality, with Lane't body arrant, the dar key appointed from Oregon. t7T There ia in the State af Oregon 135 flmrr miUa, with a capacity of producing 2,500.0U) barrela per annum, We clip the above bit of statistical informa tion from the West port (Mo.) Border Star; into which it was evidently copied from some The information most bave eame Joseph, for certainly none etber (baa the aaarrelloas genius which, at the dis tance af Waabkujtoa city, Jiscorered ninety three th sassa i ietw handred and twenty u-kiu gnhahitaata isi Oregon "no ehinamea or nig gers csmated naald have foaad so many floor xojTJs, with e-seh laliamilmaiy capacity, in our State. We presume the two grist-mills which Joseph reported .at Besehttrg. are iuclueed ia the asnaber gives above. XT Tie Portlaad J!ew .fmit faclt with the Oregon paper for giving to muob apace to fo cal political affairs, 'and so little to infurtoaiiag for the benefit of peopie in the States. The; Xcm forgcta that Oregon papers have their chief circulation in Oregon, and that the com- jraodity is Tnann factored for tbe juaae raarfceC Jdver. andienre to know if that wat not hi ehnnrter. We have always disclaiuied that the mileage was the ttrotnc in keeping out the State as serted that we diJn't believe it but that per aonnl ambitraa was. - . Dot. we don't think the ease will bear a mnch dwelling ape as Gen. Lane has bestow ed. It M true, that be cares not for money af itself, 6af he needt e rf ?. HU Washing tna system cannot be kept up without it ; and there have been men who didn't core for money, bat yet who needed and used a great deal, ami bo would resort to questionable mean to ob tain it. Aaron Dorr was perhaps more lavwh snd careless of money than any man who ever fired t at the same time, he used more ml wmy tented it! i And the talk about being " a poor man" is piece of demagogism in bad taste, to say the least. If it were true, (and, strirtlv. it is not. it ia certainly no fanlt ef the people cf Oregon and no merit of his own. Gen. Lane has, since his nominal residence ia Oregon, drawn from the publio treasury aeer one kind red themoand doilart, for which he has rendered next to no service, except to enjoy n most lux onooa life at Washington City. That be ha seen fit to expend tbe most of his munificent salary for bis gratiacatiori. er bestow it upoa a bead af aarpie who were therebv pan based to praise aim. aad as be supposes, ininistcr to tbe furtherance, of his ambitious asniratiotis. ahk-h have become aa all-absorbing passion with him, has conferred no benefit npon Ore gon, and is not a matter with which he ought to go before the State, makinr a merit of. and claiming future support for. Politics Ore gon have cost him very little, if anything, ex cept what he has bestowed upon such creature a Hibben imported and paid to nerve Jo lAtne o'ene, aad not the democratic partv. With sach exception as that, whatever nf Lim noanbtul pay lie has expended in politics has been done at tt'usnineton. and exnremlr for , r io s-e-se. Laae assumes, what is not the fact, tliat lie has been charged with keeping eut the Stnte to fret the doable mileage. Our "Mt-tmnolis" , 'i.i : .... correeponuence saw mat ouc an (lie coust,uen ec of the failure wat to entitle Lane to double mileage, ho it was ; bat tbe correfpnndent did not say that was the motict with him. We snid that we did not think it was, but that we tlwup.t tbe motive was ambition. If he had been beaten Ur Senator, tt would have dcstrtiv- ed what be. iiihben, Garrett, the junior Yulee, ore., understand to be lus ckanee fus tiie Pres. idencv ! lint, again we ask, ha not Lane overdone tli is rirtooo indtgnatioa" on the score of con.4rrtive mik-age? lie says, in hi har-rans-uea, " I am aa honest man. God know I am. I know I am. and you. fellow -citizens, knuw atn." But, notwithstandinc- tiiis, be tu Hib ben appointed from Oregon, with the knowl edge that be will and the lutcntion that be shall. raw mileage trom ami to Uregon ; at the same time Lane not onlv know that Hibben will not perform a mile of that travel, but he know s that Hibben is not a rendent of Oregon, and nertr expects to be. Will some Lane casuist inform n of the moral distinction between Lnt-' draw iii? uiat both constructive and fraudulent mileage himself, and thus enabling Hibben to ao tt ! Ilibocn. whom be feeds. and whom he would hare to feed from hi own pocket, if it was not done from the treasury I We assert, that in the face of Lane' un seemly praise of his honestv, be has erer prac tised more chicane ami trickery than all the rest of the men engaged m politic in -Oregoo. ami we conmienuj appeal to anv who bare acted with him for the afiirmation of the state ment. He has. for kit oirn pergonal end, defied the public seutimcnt and disregarded tbe public weai, in a score 01 ways no ocoer man would have dared to have done. He has appointed ignorant and intemperate men to important othce, to the sad detriment of the public inter ests. He has recently coiiferred an appointment upon a personal adherent, whose bad character is a household word in Orceon ; who has been tried in our courts for one of the highest crimes in uie caienaar ; io wuom common lame at tribut.s prison-breaking in one of tbe States to escape arraignment upon charge of a still higher. He has removed faithtul and compe tent public officers to make place for his crea tures; be has kept back appropriations; through him tbe fetate loses the value of its 500,( WO acres of land ; he has voce voted airainat the homestead bill, and euee dodeed it; he has left the war debt (bke the Mate bill at the first ses sion) to sleep undisturbed. All these, ami many more things he bat done fur ends personal to himself. And yet be hat the hardihood to prate of his disinterested parity, and assail and denounce honest men and democrats, who would not serve hitu. freemen of Oregon ! ana KOT TUE8C THIXC8 0 ? Deowked. The -Yen? learns that a Mist Cunningham was drowned on Saturday, the 9th inau. at a place called Warren's Point, on Sasvies' Island. She was taking a batii, aad got into a deep bole, where she drowned before assistance could be rendered her. Men no ox the Umatilla. Tbe Portland Adiertitcr aaya that a party of miners hare commenced operation on the upper Umatilla ha been frightened by baring the slufled skin of a wild beast thrust tuddculy iu its face, when it discover that the object of itt dread la with out life or motion, and incapable of doing harm, never emits an opportunity to worry it and growl savagely at it, so Slater's little sheet nev er wearies of "pitching into" and beating and kicking (we might also add biting, gouging and scratching) it unresisting foe, black republi canhmi. lit buffeting are bestowed with at much vigor as uuskillfulnes ; and when it tire of punishing the passive and nncomplaiuiug object of its hatred on one tide, it turns it over, and renew the pummelling, with unabated en ergy, on the other. Iu treatment of block re publicanism is intrnarfi to lie very barsh and cruel, and doubtless would lie so. if its editor's skill was commensurate with bis intention. No one, having no other mean of Judging than the tone of his little sheet, would fr a moment tup pose that less than four months age Mr. 5 hit or was a republican a black republican, and ao avowed opponent of everything bearing tbe name of democracy Lane democracy, ttalcm detnoeracr, Otvtrou detnorraer. and tl t inocraov generally ; or that he now hold the position of licptYsvntative in the Hate legislature, by the sutlr.ige of the black republican voters of ll n ton coatitr, hating been fleeted on the only black republican ticket in the field, no longer ago than the firit Monday of J one of last t sr. by tbe Very party which be now so bitterK de nounces and oppose. ? sliaiuc, Mr. &aer! liesign your place in the fiat? b gtslature, er cease to rerile the party and the voter who, deceived by your professions of faithfulness to tSeir cause, conferred the honor ami the trust upon a recipient so unworthy and so ungrateful a you have proved yourself to be. No one, judging from the manner in which Mr. Slater' little hect now espouse the cause of the Lane society, and particularly of IV la son Smith, and from his present denunciation cf. and opposition to David Logan, a a "blnck republican," would suspect that it editor is the tame Shier who undertook to measure knee w ith iK'laxon last year at Con allis, and was painfully and completely demolished ; who af terwards, in the Stale Legislature, nominated and voted for David Logon for I". S. Senator in opposition to Delnxon Smith; and who, oa several oecasious, has di-clarvd bis opposition to Lane. Only a year ago, Mr. Slater nominated and supported Mr. Logan as the representative of hi own principles, and those of his party. Since that time Mr. Igau'i political principle hare not changed in the slightest particular. Now, however, he and the party who nomina ted him are denounced by Mr. Slater in the moat unsparing terms. It may be that Mr. Slater is desirous, as is the wont of recent con verts, to testify by bis teal, bis devotion to the cause of his new master. But it is both unfii ia) and unseemly thus to betray the cause to which he is indebted for all the political stand ing and notoriety he enjoys, and to "curse the pap that gave him suck" during hi political bahvhood. Notwithstanding; tho Lane society hare promised Avery that the seat of govern jient tksrfl be located at Corvallis, doc that justify Slater ill his matricklnl onslaught upon the black republican party, which gave hiiu po litical being? Notwithstanding I.oiie aud Smith have promised Sinter that his little sheet, lately the organ of the opposition faction, thall be inc recognized organ ol tiie (Laiic) demo cratic party, and that (Lane) democrats shall support it "fur the good of the caose," w hether tliey want it or no, shall this bo deemed a suf ficient excuse for Slater's black ingratitude and treachery towards his fonnercomradea and tap. porter 1 If Mr. Slater' political principles aud conduct are governed by no higher consid erations than those of present power and patron age, his latest purchaser would do Well to keep a watchful eye npon their bargain. Sinter soys (lie don't say it publicly, and therefore, reader. please consider it a strictly entre nous) that Jo. Lane is an old humbug, aud as for Dclaton Smith, he ablmrs him both personally and polit ically ; but that he is lending them hi support now, for the purpose of securing the South and Linn county for Corvallis for the seat of gov ernment. We presume, from all the fact w ith- in our knowledge, that the bargain hat been fairly made, and that there is a perfect under standing among the parties as to the considera tion. &c But eareal emptor, is a motto which all tiie parties to this contract should heed. They are all notorious covenant-breakers, and the principle of "honor among thieve" find no abiding place with them. The Lane influ ence ha doubtless been promised to more than one town-site, with as much sincerity and good faith as it has to Corvallis ; and tho promises will be as easily broken as were those of a judgeship to one and a postal agency to another of the delegates to the State Convention, as a reward for similar treachery to that which Sla tv is now practising. . And as soon as Slater finds himself deceived and humbugged by the sjiecioQ promises of the Lane society, he will cut loose from them as he did from the republi cans. Slater it one who makes pretention to a good deal of principle and honesty of motive ; and be will not continue in a dirty business, . political er otherwise, unless be thinks it will pay enough to compensate for wear and tear of OirriKience. Therefore, if the Laue society de sire to retain his services, they had betur keep their hook well baited, lest a higher bidder step iu and take him. , endorse the tateun nt. But neither the 7'imrs, nor the Traveler, nor the lad g, iu forms as rAat the "Marion of Mexico," is, except that it is "the highest seat in the nation." We have a tlirory of our own in regard tn it, which, in the absence of any other explanation, w e w ill ven ture. It ia well known that the admirers of Gen. Lane are wmt, when tpeakiugof him, to style him "the Marion of Mexico" and our conjecture is, llitt the "Marion" is some mag nificent trophy pel Imps the golden throne of th Slontesunins captured from the degene rate descendant of the Aztec. Says the lady : "Our sunt ere long are to CU the places of a Lane, a Oeady, a William, a Stout, a Logan, and a host of like kindred spir its too numerous to rm-ntinu." If time and space permitted, the lady would no doubt hnve filled out the list with the unmet of "a T'VauIt, a Mother, a Chapman, a lleeJ," Arc, tie. Delazon Smitb' name is left out, (some whose name are in would rather have been left nut) because, Laue and Smith being a ''unit," the mention of the furtin r left it unnecessary to name the lutter. "But Lord flid." says the lady, piously, "that w e should nourish poisonous Uushet, with their kttnlnil shrubbery, to pul lute the atmosphere of a coiiimuuitr ! 1'ltick out every root and bramk." says the lady, tir tuously, "and cast tlieui out of your nurseries. Endeavor," says the lady, fervently. "to culti vate and cherish shrubs that Sitid forth the pleasant odors (sweet scented and highly per' fumed) of truth, honor, integrity and virtue Excellent lady ! "Our example and canvermtion," tar tbe lady, reflectively, "should be high-toned and above censure, instead of meddling with what i none of our business." An excellent senti ment, most worthy lady, although not at all in accord mice with yonr previous observations. "We should nuke it a rule." says the lady, proviugly, "te speak evil of no one." Admi rable ad i ice, good lady, which vou would do well to follow. Finally, "w e should select a channel hili. pure and straightforward for our thniicbta and conversation to mn in," to enforce which excellent precept, the lady lends the aid of her example, by Icitiu; her tl'ionglits origi nal and borrowed "run in" tho Arlansar TrareUr, ami, trickling thence, to distil their precious waters through the I'urtlaod Timet. A rnnriTi.F.s Mikkiox. Moshcr's mission to Coos and Curry counties, to tir up sympa thy for the sinking cause of his father-in-law. Gen. Lane, did not result very successfully. The fruit of making the Lane issue in those little coui-is is, that Curry gives Logan 17 majority, and Coos gives Stout only 11. Last year Coo county gave G rover ." majority, and Curry gave him 110; so that Mother's appeals in be half of Lane produirrd a change in those two counties of 1!1 vote against tlw candidate for whom he wa electioneering. We predicted nt the time that Moshcr's electioneering would in jure Mr. Stoat, and the result prove that we were right. Mosher is. by Lane's appointment, a tenant of tbe Winchester land oflice, and. singularly enough, ran read and w rite. He is the only tenant of thnt oflice who knows nn thing about its business, or is iu auy war capable of doing duty lieyoiid tilt' regular receipt ef hi talary. l ct for the hist four months he ha neg'ect"d bis public duties, which are important, and ah seated himself from liis office, to assist in pack ing convention, to thwart the will of the peo ple, and build up the cause of Jo. Lane and his personal party. This is That Lane appointed him fr. And he is not tiie nulv one of Lane's appointee who neglects tbe duties of his oflice, or perverts its wtninage aud influeiiA- to the personal service of his master. Tnrttto to Co van VP tub Traces. The Laae orgaaa are getting alarmed at the inter fereace of the venerable paMverer's"bongbten' trAifetrasArrs. The last Timet Intrtduces a let ter pulling Joseph, written by bis man Garret, with the statement that the cntbor "never wat in Oregou." That is a mistake, which.tue ed itor of tbe Timet, baring jutt come here, hat fallen into. Garret, like lli'iUu, was once brought out here by Lane a spy und servant; like Hibben, he became "disgusted w ith tbe country;" tike Hibben, be went back; like Hibben. Lone got him an appointment, aud. like Hibben. be write Lane' puffatory letter. Tliit letter follows Lane' lead, and represent that Lane and Donglo are very dear friend, and asserts that " Lane is Douglas' preference for the Presidency!" Great Heavens! the idea of Stephen A. Douglas favoring Joseph Lane fur the oflice of President ! ! ! The Ais- touri Republican toy. " if the democratic par ty I reduced to auy such shift as lbs nomina tion of Jo Lane, the sooner it goes into liquida tion the better;" and that "no respectable man would think of supporting hitn if be was nominated." We know Ihniglas opinion of our Joseph Is not what the Lane society would have ns believe. By the way, the pertinacity with which Lane's Washington strikers play upon thia Douglas and Lane fellowship string, would argue that Lane had told them that there were a good many Douglas men in Oregon. O ! Mosnr.R ! With several new subscrilH-rt received from Dongla county by Monday mail, came the name of ao old one, a good democrat, (he'll ret over beiiie a Laue man when he find him and hit out.) and an intelli gent man, fur renewal, with the message that "be stopped hi paper when the land office did, but finds be ean't do without the Statesman." It i very short sighted illiliernlity, that of de priving yourself of thf reading of a paper yon can't help wanting to tee, because you see scme- Ihing that don't suit Von. There I a great deal in tbe Statesman that everybody wants to see. inclnding Mosher, and tlint even b sly ought to se, iuclndiug Joseph. It glean and winnow etervtliing astir comes the herald of a i!oiv world, new s from all nations lumber ing at it back" aud last, but not least, thinkt n-hatit pleettt. and tayt uhat it thinkt! In short, it Is an Oregon inttitntian, ami Oregon wouldn't be Oregon without it. Wc knew when the name of anr friend siwve re' erred te came for iliseontir nance, that it wordd seen tie open eur book again, lor be is a nun ef mteSli gence and independence, and he mnll read and profit by the Statetman, whether it suits Joseph and tbe laud on ce. er not. 17 For several year Lane ha promised the I "l.UOOcitixeus" of Iloscburg, in Douglas coun ty, that the land oflice. (which bad leen located at a little family town at Winchester, fire mile north, in the aummer time, and ten in the win ter.) should be reinori-d to that place Kose burg. Of course it was not removed, aud the matter hot been a cause of disfltifaction in the county, and a tnarce ofireakness to l.ancuw. Since Lane returned, the matter hss been press ed so strongly that he has felt forced to redeem his long neglected promise, aad order the fami ly to remove to Koeebnrg; consequently when I the last mail left, Roeeburg corresimiideiits in form us that Winchester was coming in there I en masse, ia obedience to orders. Mr. Smith and Gen. Lane both assured the audience that there were several absurdities, double eutrie, and other error in the audited accounts of the war commissioners, which Mr. ( rover, when called npon to account for, at Washington, before the Third Auditor, and the committee on military affairs, was not able to give any explanation of no more, in fact, than one who hud never been on the commission Could do. He could my, "perhaps that i a clerical error, or it i a mistake which the com mission overlooked," the tamo a anybody else would Say. Portland Correspondent of the Arkansas Traveler. That M one of tbe device of Lane (who stated that he would have Ut get np some ex cute for not getting the war debt ) to cover op his own Iguorance of ever) thing connected with the war debt. No "absurdities, double et'trics or other errors," were complained of by the Third Auditor, in connection with the Ore gun account j. Ob the contrary, ke speak in tbe very highest term of the mechanical accu racy ef tho accounts. We quota from bis " Iteport." a copy of which we bare at band : " The neatness and elegance with which the nccouut of Oregon are executed eould hardly be surpassed, aud it is evident that the clerical force employed wa of the most accompliihed and erperuneed Uiul could tie procured." It is fair to presume that neither Smith nor Lane know w hat the Third Auditor does coro- ulain of in the war accounts. And if thev did. it would be all the same tliey could furnish no more explanation of them than the man in tlie moon. It is very small hnsineM Messrs. Smith and Lane are engaged in, retailing falsehoods and misrepresentations over the country in re tard to Mr. G rover' efforts in behalf of the war debt, in order to draw public attention from the ir own ignorance and inefficiency. Was Lane called npon to explain "the heavy ri-dacticu of majorities" when linsb was elected State Printer, mid if so, upon what ground did he explain them I Onion, lie might hiive explained, by saying that hit (Lane's) " billing and cooing" with the black republicans and "nationals," to which the Onion man belonged, that be (Lane) might be safe for Senator whichever party was success ful, was a heavy load that the democratic ticket had to carry ; be might have explained by say ing that inch democrats as yon are, tuppf r ed and voted tbe opposition ticket in conjunction with Hack republican! ; be might have ex plained by saying thnt hit (Lane's) lackey and retainer endeavored secretlr to defeat Bush, and that his (Lane's) own sea and name sake vote,! agraimt him. In s'jort. be might have explained by saying that Bush was "free and independent," could not be reduced to sub jection and service by Lane, and therefore the extreme I-ane persuasion made aa unsuccessful endeavor to prevent bis election. TUB StElLT. Counties. Stout. Marion, '-!! Linn, 723 Lane, Utt Multnomah, 4.J4 Wasco, S:il Polk, 284 Vamlilll. 318 Clackamas, 379 Josephine, 411 l'mtHua, 44 JmAton, OKi i Curry. 87 Benton, 423 Coos,' 03 Columbia, . 72 Washington, SOI Clatsop, 34 Tillamook, 5 Douglas.f 149 moj. 5.900 5,11 Ixgan. tm fi32 &m 114 2.S4 412 30 211 132 219 54 222 tt! 350 54 10 5.221 Stout's majority. 9 The Coo return is not strictly official, bat wat sent us by a reliable gentleman, who aaya be got it from the county clerk. It is probably correct. f A letter from judge Chadwick say Douglas has given tout Hit majority. No official re turn ha been received. FT Tlie escapade from tlie San Q oen tin. Cal.. Ptate Prison, mentioned in our lost, re sulted in tbe final escape of about forty priso ner, of whom several were afterwards recap, tured or killed. The escapade wo confined to tlie Mexican, Indian and negro prisoner, of whom there were at one time one handred and Ixty outride the wall. One of two piece of cannon (armouuting tbe prison wall wa find into tlie crowd, killing one convict end wound ing several other : aa the other piece was brought to bear npon them, the greater num ber of them returned within the wall. It is (apposed that the w atit of a thorough under- ctandicg among the convict prevented the es cape of alL None of tbe white convicts were privy to the affair. The Totai. Vore. The total vote of tbe State, with tbe exception of Douglas County, which we have not yet received, is 10,291. Tbe highest vote given in Donglas county last year wo CM. If it ha given tlie same thia year, the total rote of the Ptate will be 11,223 nearly 900 more than ever before thrown. Marion County polls the highest 1,353 s Lino eoond highest 1.325; Lane third 1,067. No other ef'Stity rive 1.000, thooeh Multno mah, tbe fourth, come very near it VfJi . say even- lhy J Letter frox a Lrxx Democrat. We have on our table a quite lengthy letter, plain and sensible, written by an intelligent democrat of Linn county, npon the issues and persons connected with the late election. We shall en deavor to make room for it next week. A Youthful Pair. Mr. Wheeler Green, of Ashley Falls, Mass., at the early age of 100 years, waa lately married to Mrs. Schermcr horn, of Norfolk, a blushing widow 1 of 80. The yonagfcdks were decidedly greet. ' ts"A Ketbyville correspondent "Smith and Ijinc spoke here ou Sunday ing. June 20th, to a small audience. doubtless injured the democratic ticket in this county. Neither of them mentioned the Slave ry question." Of course not. The only question tbey cared almut w as the Laae question. Thev did not even oppose Logan upon the stump ; but only made use of Stout's nomination as a justification and approval of themselves. Their speeches throughout the ute were devoted to their own praise, and to the denunciation aud abuse of all prominent democrats w ho refused to support Lane's personal party, and to np prove of tho treachery and trickery of tlie Lane grocery caucus. Lane ha caused more injury to tbe democratic nartv than anv other man in the State, but the result of the late election has curtailed his power for evil. That auy sound democrat voted for Logon, is rather problematical, and will need a little demonstration before being believed Onion. Mr. Slater, the author of the above, last July nominated and rated for Logan for LT. S. Sen ator ! Well might he, with his black republi can record, question whether a man conld be a democrat aud vote for a man that he did ! But, i there not cool effrontery in a man voting less than a year ago for Logan, and now claiming to be a democrat, and questioning a man' de mocracy on account of having voted for the some Logan ? We have beard the phrase "as surance of tho devil," but never before quite understood it. ' The Penitextiakt Biu. It is charged by the Lane society, that the bill to lease the pen itentiary was gotten np by tlie "cliijne," on pur pose to injure Sykes. The following is the vote on the final passage of the bill : Senate: Ay em Bristow. Brown, Colby. uomeuus, twins, r lorence, uoziey. Grim, Lanison, Mclteeny. Waymirc, Well and Will iams. Nay Berry and Kuckcl. House: Yeas Bonhnm. Bowlbr. Burch. Cozad, Crnzan, Craner, Dryer, Harding, Hoyt, j-asaicr, aictce, mcimncn, aiomson, aivuois, Norris. Rinearson, Shuck, Stevens, Thomas, Tichrnor, Trevitt and Zicber. Nay Coch ran, Crooks, Holton, Patterson, Slater and T Vault. WW Leland has reproduced his old " Alge rine" Standard under tlie name of Daily Adver tiser. Leland and old King are crazy on tbe subject of " Solum clique." The "Tex Dolxar" Hibei.ixo. Tbe last I Inter of the ten dollar Dugald Valgetty, who I writes letter fur a black republican paper at Sacramento and the one at Corvallis, has the I follow ing t A few dara ago Lane and Smith sent posters I all over tbe county ol folk, announcing the I tunes and place when and where thev would address the people. An ex-federnloflice-hohler I a rival of I Jiuo'sfor the I'nited States Senate. and one who has been recently removed through the General's instrumentality sent messengers at convenient distnnce after the bill posters to pull them dow n nearly as soon as put up. .M. As the author is not much known, wc will I take occasion to any that the ttatcuieut U a low lived falsehood. Dei.azo!cs Trac es There are in the last I Jacksonville Sentinel two boras letters, one I dated Salem, aud the other Portland, both de voted to the praise of I-ane and Smith partic ularly Smith and tho abuso of democrats. The one dated Portland, nearlv all devoted to I Smith, wa pretty certainly written by Smith. As in the modest "life." of Smith, in tla Vtm- orratie Hrrirur. we have Mr. Smith's opinion of I Mr. Smith! If be didn t write that aiuresaid ' life," then his name is not Delazon blilitu. r Mr. Faulkner of Virditin is here, and I snys that be fully anticipated a re-election to I t onrres till the vcrv tluv ol the votinir. He I thinks that the War Department treated him I nail Ir in the matter ol removal nt Harpers I rcrw. If a th ik eton Cor. Gen. Lnnc also "fully anticipated'' a vindi cation by his ' dear people" ut the lute election. till the vcrv dnr of the votinir." Wonder if I he doesn't think the executive, or somebody else, ha "treated Aim badly in the matter of I removals," &c ? Volunteers xr the EtrunpEAX War. I The New York Evening Post pays that quite a I uumbcr of well-to-do Itulinu citizen of that I city arc wiuding up their business, and prepar ing to return to Europe to participate in the ex pected hostilities. A number of young Ger man, who sympathize with Austria, were also I about to leave for the seat of war. State Abms We lenru that on the day of election a largo niimner ot tbe Mate arm were taken from the hall of the court-bouse, in Sa lem, br the citizens of Marion cotintr. Tbe arms were boxed up aud stored under tbe care of ill - V- M. t.eneraL Slater's little Onion. The arm were not "stored under the care of they. M. General," or anybody else. The legislature, last winter, practically almtished tlie office of Q. M. General, by imposing upon it conditions nnder which nobody would accept the empty title. The new ly elected officer de clined to qualify, and tbe office is now vacant by the neglect of the old incumbent to give Iionds, a required by law; consequently no one is responsible for the arms, or other proper ty of tbe H- M. department. Tbe legislature also refused to provide for the storage of the anus, which have lain in the court house on cared for and in tbe way. The county ought king ago to have sold them to pay storage. New Aoext. E. W. Tracy ho been ap pointed agent of Wells, Fargo & Co.' house in Portland, in place of J. M. Vansycle, recall ed (removed ?) to California. Report hath it that Vansycle wa recalled on account of dab bling in politics, to the injury of the Corrpany' business. With such residence in Oregon as only a temporary California agency gave hitn, ami, it is said, always belonging to tbe opposi tion, he represented Multnomah and Columbia counties in the late Oregon dmmcratie Lane caucus and convention, and cast two votes gainst Mr. G rover. Aresuch the kind of men tn select officers for Oregon t Osukosii. The village of Oshkush, Wisconsin. has recently becu almost destroyed by fire. A Western paper snys Last February two hous es cf prostitution were burned in Otdikosh by the citizens, and the inmates, twelve girls and man, taken to in;!. After the liberation of the girls a convention of this class nf " artists' was held, at which a solemn oath was made to burn the city from end to end, before the sum mer was over, in revenge for the burning of tbe two houses aforementioned ; and the deed was consumhiated last week, w hen every store and viuce iu iuc puce was uunieu. Pike's Peak. The reported gold diseove- riet at Tike's IYak have turned" out to be a magnificent humbug ; and its dupes are making their way bock, as best tbey roar, to (heir homes. It is reported that two prominent wri ter of letters, who hod encouraged the del a- sion, were seized and hung by the exasperated emigrants, and that they were threatening other with their vengeance. A Smart Ehitor. It is said that down on the " Eastern shore " of Virginia is aa editor who is his own compositor aud pressman, ia commander of a fishing smack, sells clams, teach es school on week days and preaches on Son days, delivers temperance lectures, and politi cal speeches occasionally, is justice of lbs peace, aud yet finds time to take care of a wife and sixteen children. Godet's Lady's Book. We are in receipt of the June No. of this excellent ladies' mag azine, which fully sustains the enviable reputa tion its publisher has earned for it through many year of increasing pubik) favor. Tbe "Book" is too well known and appreciated by the ladies everywhere, to require commendation at our bands. DrxutAL Cl RRF.xcr is Caxada. The Ca nadians have adopted a decimal currency, and have beued coins of the value of twenty, tea and five cents. Thev bear on one side the image and superscription" of Queen Victoria; and on the other the denominational value of the coin. Their design is quite neat. ' Coxvicted of Murder. At the late ses sion of the Circuit Court for Jackson comity, judge Prim presiding, George M. Bowefi was couvictcd of the crime of murder in the first degree. Abel George was indicted for tho same crime, but took a change of venue to Jo sephine county. A "Phat Take." M. Eastis, who mar ried the half-witted daughter of Mr. Corcoran, the Washington banker, received with bis wife a bridal present of 1,000,000, Xo wonder the little Spanish secretary, whom Corcoran kicked out of doors lat w inter, wauled to car ry off the prize. CP Tho Washington letter-writers toy hat efforts to compromise between Messrs. Buch anan and Douglas failed that the former de manded eonccsiuus which the latter would not accede to. The same authority states that strong movement is now being made by South crn democrats, without regard to the adminis tration, to bring out a ticket for I860 with Hun- tor, of Ya,, for President, and Douglas for A ice, w ith the succession to Mr. Douglas in lsG4. This movement it is thoucht will be suc cessful if Douirlu will consent to run for Vice President. . . . The EorrATtuNAi, try A correspondent, sending us tbe election returns from Unipqna county, say : "Smith' breeches pocket' would very easily contain all the Lane stock in Umpqua county, and not be crowded. Stout got considerably more than the Lane vote." Bilxiarub. Wo have received a copy of Phelan'a admirable "Manual of the Gamo of Billiards," with the compliments of Messrs. Hughes Sc O'Connor, agents iu San Francisco for the sale of Phelan'a combination cushions. said to bo the best vh use. A Falling Off. The votes of Jackson and Josephine counties show a falling off since hist year. We presume that "6000 miners were absent at Pike's Peak, and ever so many thou- I sauds out iu the Klamath country after In dian." M. K. Conference. The annual Confer ence for Oregou and Washington commences I its next session at Albany on the 10th of Au gust. Some Bishop (rrhat ono is not yet known) I ia expected to arrive on the first steamer of that I month, to preside. Er Kev. Alexander Campbell, the founder of the sect bearing his name, is over 80 years of I age, but retains bis mental faculties unimpaired. and preaches with great vigor and power. t3f Deputy sheriff Hendcrahott, of Josephine county, passed through here with G. W. Craft, sentenced to the penitentiary for five years, for I robbingr sluices. Est The jail here is rapidly approaching com- pletion, aud will soon be be ready for the recep-1 tion of customers. Test. The educa tional test the requirement that vo'ers shall be able to read is becoming quite popular in the Northern States. Upon this subject, the X. Y. Day Boole truly savs : Tho qonlitv of citizenshin the ruzht of the Irancbise, resides not in learning or culture. but in the nohlo spirit of manhood which feels aud knows that all the members of God's hu man family of white men are, and ought to be, equals, aud knowincr, dare maintain the rizht with the spirit of a soldier and the devotion of a martvr. Election in Washington Territory. The election for Delegate to Congress, in W. T., occurred on Monday, Julrllth. There- turns received indicate the election of Gov. Stevens by a largo majority over his opponent. Col. Wallace. Population New York ranks first in point of population; Pennsylvania second; Ohio third, and Illinois fourth. Oregon hat proba bly the smallest population of any State in the Union, Florida being next to her. IT The McKenzie Fork aud Cascade Moun tain wagon road is now opened, and emigrants to tlie Walla Walla valley, with their stock. arc availing themselvis of it. A I.IK HEFITKO. Napoleon, Oregon, June 28th, 1339 !" Mr. Bl'sn Dear Sir : I found, on my arri val home from the Legislature, a statement which was substantially aa follows, circulating among my constituency : "Suffice it to say that yonr honorable Repre sentative acted with the' UupIi party from be ginning to end, aud voted fur the abolition cf t'lu office of Inspector of the penitentiary.' I voted against its abolition. So you see we did not act together." (Signed.) W.li. rVALU. Now as tins was sect here on purpose to in jure me directly, I wish to set myselt right. The record will show how I acted and voted w hile in the Legislature. I did not act with. Mr. Bush, nor did I vote with him. I acted and voted w ith what I deemed the true demoo- rncv of the State ; aud, so far as I have been able to ascertain, the democracy of Josephine county endorce my action in relation to the election of a C. S. Senator. The statement that I voted to aholbli the oflice of Inspector of the Penitentiary is as base a lie a the man's heart is black who wrote it, - The record will .- show how I voted., I voted against the bill. . I was opposed to it from the time it was intro duced. I was sincere in casting my vote. I was opposed to leasing oat the Penitentiary without an Inspector; and I did not cast my' vote merely for political effect, but for what I deemed the best intervals of the State. If I had been seeking for political popularity, like the. vile miscreant who is trying to' injure me by his New Race Track. At Hartford. Conm, a misrepresentations. I should have voted for its gentleman proposes to construct a race track I bill; lor I believe a majority of my constituents npon a new plan, so that no horse can get the advantage of the "inside track.' It is to be made in the shape of an elongated figure 8. i large number f The friends of Mr. Logan have it that he will contest the election before the State canvassers, and, if unsuccessful there, before theHonen Emigration East. Quite of families are emigrating, with their stock, to tlie east of the Cascade mountains. The Walla Walla country is fast becoming popu lated. iy The N. Y. Pott savs, the readers of the Ledger set very little corn in Drouartion to the i amount oi uss are satisfied with its provisions. I do not consider it any couorto nave voted with a man of T' V suit's infamous character: but it happened so in this iL stance. T'VauIt has succeeded in exciting tlie prejudice of Mr. Svkcs, the democratic nominee for Inspector of the penitentiary, against me, by telling him in private conversation, that I originated the measure, and voted with the Btiirh party to carry it out ; which is false in every particular, and "T'VauIt knewjt. So far as I understood, it was never looked upon as a party measure. By publishing the loregouig. you will oblige. Yours, D. S. HOLTON,
