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?Cf-Ti, wvjr on," taidtt iage to his eld tdt. "S4 wil bow llttlo wisdom the VCll fc gnrenvl. The Twang man had jT-lJlf acquired all the knowledge which t.L:J n4 college nfTonlcJ, and stored his c W.-Jl approve! tieorio wf human nature, 1 fcZ'.llzsl economy and morals, of govcrn taesJ cSeaee, and of the -wisdom am) sacred e4 of a3 fefal'r authorised institution. lie 1 yvt f lean, in the finishing schools of nb Itm.iia mmi experience, many lessons neces sary to fatal vmom and eminence, and to nn fca m peat deal of the very unpractical views t ct and 'thing derived from honks. He to learn that there is a wide difference be Vraen theory and practice in the operations of O kaman institutions ; that knowledge and pxlssse are not necessary to the administra t"oa ef realm or a commonwealth ; that me &terfy, Wibeeility, imprubity and incapacity nary be vmphtyed in the conduct of the most iTPtant.ptthlic affairs, or of the most delicate cl l-tcite diplomacy; that offices, of the L'tcrl ti.it and distinction may be filled with VTt tir integrity or merit ; that citizens and an JCCs may be amused and deceived by spe e,a. pretexts of right and justice, and by Cim aj shadows of principle ; i'acX the world, in ahorU may be and often is, governed with vt-rv Eule wiadom, with Tery little justiee, and with "wry Cula virtue. Tie popular harangue of place-seeking demagogaes are chiefly de voted to extolling' the wisdom and intelligence of tbe people to pan egyric upon the public discrimination of the ' character of public Eieu, an i to l.tudatious of these institutions which s-x-nrc to the people the right to the exercise cf those hypothetical qualities. A little cuunir.g. and a gift of gab. are alone necessary to succeed in llattcting and deceiving the credulous masses, who arc sway ed by prejudice, while they fancy they are obeying the dictates of reason, and whose ears are captivated by a taking name or a high -tonndiug phrase, which they arc easily led to mistake for a great principle. The history cf the republican party, in the northern States, affords ample illustration of th popular sus ceptibility to well-chosen names, high sounding sentences, passionate r.p peals, nn.l vehement interjections, in which eocs'sts the greater part of the political stock r.i trade of that party. Through all its changes of name, from Aboii tion to Liberty, to Anti-Slavery, to Free-Soil, and finally to Republican, due reference has been had to auricular effect; and as the last ti tle has been least objectionable to the ear, so trader it the party has achieved a snccoss w hich H could not have obtained with any of the pre vious ones, lhe more or less pointed signifi cance of the names formerly borne by the re publican party appealed only to the sympathies ef fanatics and frantic reformers ; its present title, being capable of various interpretations, is artfully construed, by the leaders of the par ty, to mean almost anything which will jumpl with the popular hnmor. For instance, repub licanism, fas some eastern localities, means nothing less than abolitionism ; in Oregon, it means simply non-extension, or something akin to it. The very small amount of wisdom necessary ia affairs of government, may be seen in the manner of filling the most important trusts and the highest stations under on r own government. Our Territorial experience, and our observa tion of the federal policy in filling offices with ia the State, furnish abundantly convincing proof that wisdom in administration is merely a superfluity, which may very easily be dis pensed with. We have learned that one who is utterly and notoriously incapable of managing his own affairs, is an admirably fitting and proper person to have charge of pecuniary Af fairs relating to the government, provided be votes on election dty in accordance with the wishes of his patron, and devotes a reasonable share of his official salary to the furtherance of the personal ambition of the appointing- power. On the same terms, one who is notoriously nn serapaloua and dishonest in private business transactions, is received as marvellously well . qualified to negotiate government contracts and to disburse government fnnds. In like man- ' ner, for like considerations, one who has been remarkable for nothing but profound ignorance and incapacity in private life, becomes the only proper person to Eil a station which, by a pop ular fallacy, is supposed to require quick iutel Ceence and vast acquirements. And we have ever heard (except through some "opposition" Mmnwr. whieh ia ftltrnvi niekina- fiann nn.l 1 1 i - i o : finding fault) of any damage accruing to tue public interests or service, through official tiep Kgenee, ignorance, or want of integrity. If Territorial affairs become involved or perplex ed, mal-administration is never assigned as the cause ; if a few thousands or millions of public rands are recklessly squandered, no blame (as ia a railroad or steamboat disaster) can be at tached to the officers ; if a disbursing official, on a salary of two thousand dollars per annum, manages to increase his estate in five years ' from zero to fifty thousand dollars, economy and prudence sufficiently explain the phenom enon; if a rival nation, through diplomatic arts, aequires a large slice of our domain, hundreds of plausible reasons are at hand to conceal the taahecility of our diplomat. In short, it- is abundantly proved that very little wisdom. indeed, next to no wisdom at all is quite suf ficient for afi purposes of government, of party leadership, or political success. Modest. For Lane's family to send Lane delegate to Charleston, and instruct him. to rote for kimself. Wlio ever before beard of a can didate for the Presidency being sent to the con Tentioa which be desire to nominate him, and instracted to vote for himself? Wouldn't Dickinson, Davie, Douglas, and others look well as delegates to Charleston, under instruc tions to vote for themselves ? . A State government has been organized at a heavy expense to the people, to enable Lane, tfmith, G rover and Stout to get to Congress, as A few incompetent men to secure State offi ces. Our taxes are thereby increased four fold. Oregon ia. - ' Lord, fcow the world ia giving to lying." " Fonr-fUd." The Territorial tax, before the 6tate government went into operation, was one-and-eae-feaH mgls. The State tax is but two mills. That is aa increase of but one-fourth, instead ef four-foU." Tea War Debt I'rivato letters report that the third Auditor of tbe Treasury has de f&ied to report in favor ef paying one and a t-fcZf Bullion of dollars of the Oregon and v7r"!JrD war debt. Libera ! The claim a ere indebted to Hon. Stephen A. ' fBtlij documents. Personal. The Corvallis paper, of Dee. 3rd, contains the follow ing : ' We md4, weekly, one hundred and ten copies of tlio Stesmmn to rabseribeM at t'orvallis. Sfntuman. Ibe f II. informs nsthut yon dnn't do any such thing ; that yoor but is lew than eighty, and that ne.ir If ootovrik of tkrm art Bcri'SKO. I mail the Statesman, even- week, to Oregon subscribers ; and every week I direct nud put up in oue package one hundred mid eleven copies of the Statesman, ono hundred and ten copies of which nre addressed to that number of regular subscribers at the Corrnllis post oflice. The nninber may have sometimes exceeded, but has not, I believe, been less than thnt stated, witbin the last six months. Several weeks ago the deputy postmaster at Corvallis sent to this office the names of four or five sub scribers, who he said, failed to take the paper from the office. On referring to the accounts of these individuals, and finding thnt they were all, without an exception, in arrears for sub scription for various lengths of time, I informed the postmaster of the fact, and referred him to tbe published terms of the Statesman in regard to such eases. Since that time, the postmaster at Corvallis has not informed the publisher of the Statesman of any failure, on the part of any subscriber, to take from the post t.fliec the pa per addressed to mm. Further, the publisher of the Statesman was informed, last week, that a copy of his paper, sent to Corvallis, was not tnkeu out ; nud the name of that subscri ber (who, by the war, owes for uenrlv two years' subscription) was stricken off. WJI.J. BEUGS. The above beiug the facts, we nre unwilling to believe either the postmaster or the dep nty postmaster ut Corvallis both of whom bear the reputation of truthful nud honorable gentlemen have stated to the Corvallis editor the falsehood which be publUhes. It is proba bly a wanton and willful fabrication of James II. Skiter, w ho thus becomes (not for the first time) a malicious and unscrupulous falsifier, for the purpose of injuring t!iu business of the Statesman, and perhaps assisting his own. It seems to lie a part or a systematic plan, molt ed to by those worthies, Smiili and Sinter, to Lie themselves end each other up, nnd the Statesman down, in circulation. Slater's uu qualified and conscious falsehood, which wv copy above, will doubtless be inserted in Smith's paper, w itlt an additional lie or two by Dckunu, which, in turn,, will be copied back into Slater's theet. It ii a very bad cause which depends upon such dUgract fal practises for support. . slater once before, in 1856, 'or 5, set alwnt the work of lessening our circulation nt Cor vallis. We hav- now on that list thirty or Jar fjr more names than we had when Slater c-r.n - incnevd the work of getting them stopped! His etlt rtsthis time will result likewise, not un likely. This little Corvallis paper, which is barking at the heels of the Statesman, is starv ing to death npnu a forced subscription of a few- hundreds Iieffjring assistance of its frieuds through its columns, in tones that would shame a hungry Indian ; while Delazon has in t live hundred names upon his book, vith the consent of their owners. Tiiat concern is compelled to resort to every shift, journeymen taking a hat from once place, a pair of boots from smother, and a bottle of whisky from a third; the paper is sent, without order, to everybody who it is thought will not indignantly return it, (and to many who do) without regard to political or personal relations. Indeed, nt this oflice it is sent without order, to a republican with whom Delaxon has had a bitter personal quarrel for years. It is sent to this and that man, to whom a bill is owed, and advertisements of such are copied without orders. That is both a nov el way of getting patronage and paying bills. We repeat, if it was not for three kinds ot mean resorts, the Velazonian would uot have five hnndred names npon its subscription bmik the longest day it lived. And, contemptible efforts to decrease the Statesman's circulation by persistent falsehoods nre fitting accompani ments of such despicable endeavors to extt-ud their own. The Statesman, has not during the past year received so many accessions to its books, in any month as during the last one. Tt has to-day a greater circulation than nil the hand-organs iu the State combined. "And it has more than five times as many reeders as they all number. UXKOitTUXATE OX THB FIGURES. The Dalles Journal represents that the democratic defeat in Ohio w as occasioned by the party tnking Douglas ground, and adds : In this connection it is pertinent to note, that in the States where the Democracy hare plant ed themselves npon the wise and cnuservative policy advocated .by President Buchanan, they have 1een mainly successful, or nt least held their own ; but on the other band, wherever the " Douglas issue" has been interpolated into the creed of the party, there defeat und disas ter has followed. Pennsylvania must lie the State referred to in the Wrinnine of that extract. The Jetu:c- racy have been " successful" there trt.'A a ven geance ! Pennsylvania, in 133fi, g.ivc Buchan an 82,809 more votes than it did Fremont, and a majority over both Fremont and Fillmore. At the election just closed, Pennsylvania has given a black republican majority of 0,009, while of twelve State senators elected, (whose terms extend beyond the time of a U. S. Sena torial election to fill Bigler's place-) every one were republicans. In Ohio, in 133o Fremont received 1U.G23 more votes than Buchanan, and Fremont and Fillmore combined received a majority of 44,743 over Buchanan. At the election just closed, the republican majority is rcportfd nt 17.000. Iowa is another State where the democracy stood on Douglas ground. There, in 1856, Fremont's majority over Buchanan was 7,73-1. Fremont's and Fillmore's combined w as 16,064 more than Buchanan's. Abro the democracy have reduced the republican majority bclow 3,090. If any thing was wanting to show the impoli cy of netting aside Judge Douglas at Charles ton, the result of the recent elections would furnish it. MB It is common for Mr. Smith to excuse his whisky excesses at Washington by saying that several Senators, (naming them) drank as much, or more than he did. That may be pos sible; but, those gentlemen, however much they may have drank, never entrenched npon the bounds of propriety and gentlemanly bear ing. Whereas, it is averred that intoxication converted Mr. Smith into a beast. . m Resigned. A. J. Thayer, Emj., has resign ed the office of U. S. Attorney, for the district of Oregon. He is a gentleman of too much in dependence and spirit to hold an appointment at the hands of any one who expects personal fealty and service as a reward. He has made a capable and worthy officer. The foregoing delineation of facts we will be qualified to npon the Evangelists Delazon. After preaching "upon the Evangelists," you might commit upon them any offence, not excepting perjury TfliXKSOimo. Gov. Whiteaker has ap pointed tbe 29th day of December a day of MgiaakJtpvin'g and praise tb Almighty Gdd," We ask special attention to the Utters of Messrs.' Xesmith and Gordon, in this week's issue, showing up the falsehood, venality and treachery f Delazon, nnd his readiness to agree to any proposition, or to accept any terms, : however dishonorable, w Inch included bis elec tion to the Senate. From tbe testimony of these gentlemen, it is evident that they had no understanding with each other, or with third parties, in regard to a compromise with Dela- ton; since Col. Xesmith's visit to Albany, nud . his assurnnco thnt neither ho nor any r his friends could put further confidence iu the hon or or good faith of Delazon, immediately broke . off the negotiations between the latter and Mr. Gordon. Whether Sir. Gordon engaged in dealings with Delazon for the sake nf harmony in the party, or for amusement, he evidently had a good bill of sale of the would-le Sena tor! As Col. Xesmith very plainly nnd pointedly told him, not ono of those w hom Delaxon calls the 44 clique " could crwouid trust him further, under any circumstances; nor in any way ns sit him to an election to the Senate ; nor did Mr. Gordon at any time assure him thnt they would do so. In that particular Dcla::o;i de ceived himself. i That Delazon was for sale to the opponents of Gen. Lane, during the sessiou of the legis lature, nnd ready to have been used ns a wit ness against and prosecutor of Lane, is as no torious as that he was nt the seat of govern ment. "Col. Xesmith was at Albany with Lis family, vibit iiiif sums ix-lai ions. The Sax Ji-ax Affair. The Colonial pa pers of British Columbia take very little pnius to conceal their contempt of American diplo macy in the adjustment of tlio San J nan diffi culty. It is notoriously true, thnt we nre no match for the British in negotiation, and nre invariably the losers in every trial of diplomatic skill. The American policy has been, when great interests w ere ut stake, to employ iu their conduct men more distinguished for age and experience than for other qualities; nnd so our material interests have usually been more or less sacrificed to conservative considerations. The San Juan affair has been no exception to this general rule. It was entrusted, on the part of our government, to nil individual ef venerable rye, of the highest respectability, and distinguished for military skill nnd achieve ments. Unused to the arts cf diplomacy, and entertaining a strong personal prejudice against the American commander who had the pre vious conduct of the nffair, he was easily Hal tered and cajoled by the British nnthorilies into compliance with their wishes nnd desires. The foliouing extract from the government orpm (the British Colonist) at Victoria, shows the estimation in which the American commissioner is held by those who made Use of hiiu : The L'uited States Government is doing nil that it can to mnke amends for Gen. Harney's nnnarrantuble seizure of San Jnnn. It is not only withdrawing the tnvips, but has proposed to leave n company on the island, two-thirds of whom arc Irish, nnd the Commander English. Supkeme Cui'UT The State Supreme Court commenced its session in Salem, on Monday, Dec. "tli, 1?.9. Present A. E. Wait, chief justice ; It. P. Boise. B. E. Strat tou, P. P. Prim, associate justices; J. G. Wil son, clerk. James M. Pyle, John H. Beed and D. W. Douthitt were admitted as attor neys. Up t' this date, decisions have been made in the following cases, to wit : Geo. M. Bowen, pl'ff in error, r. State of Oregon. Indictment nud conviction for mur uer in Jackson county. Deft convicted and sentenced to be hung by court below. Judg ment atiirmed. Samuel Horner, pl'if in error, vji State of Oregon. Indictment fr attempt t- ext irt money by thrv-nt, &c, in Iane county. Di-f t convicted nn 1 sentenced t one year's impris onment in Penitentiary. Judgement reversed and case remands I. Abraham Laiitie, pi ff hi error, r. Ashley O. Stevens, l'ronitiiissory note deience, par tial failure of consideration. Lane comity. Judgment nCirmed. Geo. II. Armitae, pl'iTi'.i error, r. II. A. Stevens. Promissory note. .Lane County. Jndgimnt affirmed, with 10 percent, damages. C )Ai.tTi'x. The Lane faction have raised the 44 stop thief cry of coal'ttion. If necessary to secure Lane, they expect to bargain with the republicans, and to avert attention from their pi in, they get up the ridiculous charge that there U danger that the nnli-Lnne democracy will co ilesce w ith the republicans in the elec tion of the U. S. senators. The very charge is ridiculous; if there ii any bargaining done, they are the men w ho w ill do it. The affilia tion and prestige in that business is altogether with them. Their very leader are fresh from a coalition with the republicans (in the election of 133?) and know all about that party. Even the editor of one of their organs, an abolition ist by birth and education, (Slater) voted fur Lane and Logan fur IT. S. Senators in the legislature. The same individual now has the cool effrontery to ciiarge that there is danger of the anti-Lane men combining with the re publicans. If anything of that kind is to trans pire, Lane's adherents are the ones who will bo found at it ! Characteristic. Delazon assumes to un derstand Grover's disseut from the publication of the statement of Mr. Barnhart, as a denial of the facts. That is not unlike his denuncia tion, nt Chnmpoeg of the author of the story that he had 44 threatened to cnt out old Mor gan's guts, A:c., on Pennsylvania Avenue," ns 44 a black-hearted liar." Mr. Grover taid he had never said anything aliont 44 Pennsi-lvania Avcuue," but that be had sai l Smith made that threat in Lane's room. Smith simmered. Grover olTered too, if Smith requested it, to state all he did say in the room where Barnhart was. Smith didn't request ! Fuactit.kd his Skull. A serious acci dent occurred nt the house of Urial Sanders, near Bethel, Polk county, on the 19th ult. As Oliver Maylitigh was attempting to force a re fractory horse to enter the stable, the horse struck him on the head with his fore-foot, form ing a compound fracture, by forcing the cork of his shoe through the skull. Dra. Boyle and Warrincr were called, who made every exer tion to remove the spiculro of bone, but with out success. They then used the trephiue, which enabled them to remove a number of pieces of bone, together with a considerable quantity of extravasated blood. The patient, when fast heard from, was doing well nnd promised a speedy recovery. Murder. A young man named Rogers was murdered by a Mexican named Emauuel, at Williamsburg, Josephine county, on the ISth of November last. The murder was entirely nn proVukcd, tctii the perpetrator haa Mcajft&L A C'AIID. Several scurrilous paragraphs, relating to me personally, have lately appeared iu thvOrcgon Democrat from the pen of its llevcrend editor, Dclnzoii Smith. I ur.i not able to account for the thing'R assault upon mo, as I have not, in nnv manner thnt I am aware nf, rendered myself liable to its characteristic treachery nnd ingrat itude. 1 never mistook its (IJelozoii's) sono rous nnd turgid verbosity for elnqneiice, or gave it (Delazon) credit for faith, honor or truth ; and I was opposed to and was sorry for its election to the Sennte. I never rendered it n personal or political service that I am nwnre of ; nor treated it with more or less than ordinary courtesy w hen I chanced to meet it. Did the personal insults to which I allude proceed from a reputable source, I would re ply to them in the only manner w hieb I consid er" fitting and proper in all .such cases. But, coming, as they do, from n creature notoriously destitute nf cither truth, honor, or courage from one who last winter disgraced the nilicc and dignity of a U. S. Senator, by undisguised drunkenness nnd debauchery, anil by the open nnd unblushing boon companionship of pimps nnd courtesans, nnd who now unites in himself the characters of a candidate for the U. S. Sen nte nnd of the editor of an obscene paper who, without shame, in a promiscuous company, nnd in a public place, accused his oicn son of hein ous crimes nnd vices, nnd denounced him in terms which tin; most uunntural parent would blush to use towards bis child, even iu private, nnd who, on n recent occasion, when upbraid ing the same son with his follies nud vices, was coolly informed by the youth, that be was only imitating the example of his worthy father whose brains and courage lie in his mouth, nnd w ho has steeped himselt to the ears in all kinds of treachery, vice and dishonor, I cannot be cx peeted to take further personal cognizance of them, or of any assaults,, however base, which may iu future proceed from that source. I can bear, without injury, Dclazun's Ii:trmlcfs abuse, nt a distance, and from behind bis rampart of prvss nud types; if he iutrudi-s bis vile carcase into my presence, I will iiitlic-t upon liini the chastisement which such a do deserves. WM. J. BEGGS. S.vu:m. Oof., Dec. 8th, 13.VJ. A t'AKI). Having observed in the Oregon Democrat a reply of the editor of that paper to the state ment ef Mr. G rover, that he bad tendered to Mr. Smith, nt Chauipncg, an adjustment i.f the differences between ihem "in any mode recog nized by gentlemen ;" which statement was vouched by ns ; nnd having observed that Mr. Smith makes a denial el soid statement, in which bespeaks of Mr. G.'s having made n threat ngniiist him nud Gen. Lane with "n double-barreled shot gun," We submit the fol lowing ns our recollection of the circumstances ut Clinnipocg : Alter Mr. Smith and Oe:i. Iane had spoken, the audience called londlv for Mr. G rover, who. on taking the stand, said that his chief object there was to have some understanding with those gentlemen as to his persona! relations with them. That he had understood that their labors thus fur in the canvass hud been devoted to slandering himseil nnd. other democrats. They both denied the charge as to him. He protfueed a letter from a gentleman in Yamhill county, detailing their remarks nt Lafayette. They pronounced the letter false. Gen. Lane asked leave to explain, statin;; iu what maimer he bad used Mr. G rover's name. He said that he had defended Mr. G., and was his friend. Mr. Smith explained, that he had used Mr. G.'s name in no disrespectful manner. But that he had said, that file man who had uttered a certain matter, published in the " Barnhart statement, " was a black-hearted liar."' Mr. Smith was much excited. Mr. G. said, that as far ns his name had been used in the " Barn hart statement." it was without his authority. Mr. G- then stated wbat he had said in a pri vnte conversation on the point referred to by Mr. S. It did not van much (rom what Mr. S. had stated he hear i, except ns to the place of the occurrence; Sir. S. did not object to the statement. Mr. G. then said, that at the re quest of Mr. Smith, be would state nil in public thnt he had said in privnte about him, und in his presence, so that there could be no misun derstanding. Mr. S. said nothing. Mr. G ro ver then went on to soy. that he had met Mr. Smith nod lien. Lane there, to seek an adjust ment of all personal differences between them and himself. Their remarks nt oilier places, as reported in the public prints nnd i'l private letters, bad impugned his man!iod and bis character ns a man of honor, nnd he desired them to be assured that he did not avoid any responsibility which they might attach to his conduct : that he would respond to them in nd- j.istnisr their differences in nny manner they . might deem proper, ut that tune or any time nt tisrit place or anv t;lac. Hut. he said, if; titer bntit insisted upon attacking one, vX the v-tTti. t.'lli. mill '.k..t lti, ,ti',tta. ts " !, nf- j w ,lf ,; .. h, Illll!it ,,e u!o,T'ea a double- barreled shot gun." The last expression was, we snppijse, to show how ungenerous the course of those gentlemen was. Sir. G. was on the defensive. Bui, he said, that they must cease using his name as thev had been nsin: it : and tltev agreed to do it. ' XAItt'lSSE A. COB NO YE It, MILTON SHANNON, L. N. ENGLISH. Laxi Office, Oreoon Citv, ) December 7, 13r!. By last mn'l, thirty -ono Oregon Donation Patents were received nt this office for delivery to U. P. Boise, W.C. Bowcring. D. 11. Byrd", Elias F. Colbv. Jacob Cousor, Daniel Clarke, Gen. C. Chandler. .William Dodge.-M. M. Dodson, Bice Dunbar. Thos. L. Kmc. James C Gecr. Fred. W. Gecr, Geo. W. Hunt, B. V. Harding. Win. Johnson, Thomas Kelly, A. Kendal. Benj. A. Leonard. Albeit W. Luther, John McCartey. Oliver Moore, John Nash, John Biehnrdson, Xntt aniel D. Symms. Del azon Smith, David Swart, Alfred Lavendei, William Shaw, Perry Thomas, John M. Wa ters, also three Patents, in lieu of three return ed to the Commissioner for correction. J. C Avcrv, Wiiliam Glover and ltenben A. Ges ner. " B. JENNINGS, Register. JS'ic.fiER Stealer. The Eugene Press comes back nt its old co-laborer, the editor of the Cnrviillis paper, ns follows, insinuating that Slater was once nn officer on the nigger steal ing underground railroad : ' It is no use, Mr. Union, the history we gave nf your conversion to Lnueism is true, nnd you know it.. We never said you did not offer the resolution, indorsing Lane to the 44 Nation wool " convention ;, we were talkiug about a little close wa-ica you had before you went into the convention. Yon have turned around so often that you don't know your own tracks, and nre too dull to make your own reckoning. Just keep cool something may turn up better than a clerkship, and then you will be able to sec more clearly. You had better not require too accurate a familiarity with the history of your mighty self, lest somebody might discover thnt i certain Jimmy once belonged to lhe under ground railroad and held the responsible posi tion of carrying cold victuals to the secreted fugitives. You are associated with some men in whose presence it would be hazardous to expose pock eta. Delazon ian. There has been nothing stolen in this vicin ity, w c believe, since the filching from our office, about ' three months ago, of some unfinished copies of Grover's speech, which you and your relative furnished to the Portland papers. Correctiox. In tho proceedings of the withdrawing members of the State Convention, published in the Statesman of Nov. 22d, the name James W. Pugh was inadvertently in serted instead of James M. Pyle, ns member of the Advisory Committee for Douglas county. The error was corrected in part of the edition, but some incorrect copies w ere sent south by mistake. Delazon Do you think the "squibbing" is sharp enough to 44 deceive Lane and his frkwdji !'',.' I.KTTEB I'UO.I POHTI.A.in. Politict a Senatorial Vanadate the Valla Jour nal and itt editor ianhaurayt Bound over, fye. Porti,ani, Dec. 7th, 1859. Editor Statesman : Political matters in this county nro very much as usual. Our friend is a candidate lor the Senate; and to ninke himself popular with temperance people, has joined the Dasbawnys." He is quite sanguine, nnd. ns he is pretty sharp, he will doubtless make n lair run if the next Legis lature is composed of ns plastic materials ns the last one. Ho is reputed a keen bargainer in politics. The Lane organ nt the Dalles has got nuder way again, with tho aid of some charity from Lane's Portland admirers. The idea of con trolling Wasco county throtnrh the influence of such a paper ns the Journal, nnd with such a democratic editor as Newell, is worthy of men who expect Lane to receive tho Charleston nomination one expectation is about ns sensi ble ns the other. 1 see that the Journal has a cavalier paragraph devoted to the "sehoolinarm Judge," at Eugene, accusing him f being a recent convert to democracy, nnd therefore un able to appreciate und digest such hard demo cratic meat ns the Journal contains. I have half a 'mind to post the Judge upon Neu ell's San Francisco politics, and his little peculiar ity of 44 Did you speak to me?" just for the snke of the fun which might he derived from the reciprocal taunts nnd jeers of these two wor thy pillars of the democratic temple. In a controversy between them, I don't think the pot would pet much advantage over the kettle. . Mr. Newell says that the 44 calumny" in re gard to his San Francisco career 44 originated with nu individual who, under nn assumed name, attained a certain degree of notoriety iu Portland a few mouths back, nud now flour ishes in South Oregon." Whether Mr. O'Mea rsk is here referred to. or not, 1 cannot say ; but O'M. knew him well; nnd this may be N's way of retaliating. One thing is clear; that some one in Port land "knew these "calumnies' to be truths; and X. knew he knew it, nnd on their first public appearance charges the indi vidual who rnoici most about hrm with originat ing them. Ingenious, very ; almost as good as 44 Did you speak to me ?" Some of our " Dashawny" friends have gone to your place, to attend the Supreme Court. I w ish you would take some notice of them, and if you find one of them transgressing, remind lii in that the restriction extends beyond Port 'and. By tlu way, 44 Mc." wishes me to say that be has'nt joined the Dashaways, and isn't going to. As hi never imbibes, he thinks that precaution unnecessary. A man immed Franklin Heeler was arraign ed before llei.rder SI iter, yesterday, on several charges of stealing clothing, Szc. Uit was com mitted for trial, the stolen property being found with him. He formerly lived in Linn comity, ait-1 subsequently at Astoria, but has been about this city for some mouth past. A man named Hilton wits on the same day committed to answer a charye of burglary having been found m the dwelling of tine of our citizens at a suspicions hmir ef the night. When discover ed he said be " believed he was in the wrong house," of which fact there seemed to be no doubt: the question was. what was he doing there ? which will be solved at the next term of our district court. The iYer.t man ln 9M discovered who " St. Pierre is. As his hypothetical discovery seems to afford him no little gratification. I would be loath to disturb his equanimity by dis puting its correctness. I would inform Domi nie Pen., however, thnt his weakly project is indebted to its own insignificance, and not to nnv apprehension of mine, for immunity from the pen of Yours. ST. PIEItKE. Re-rejoinder. Judge Douglas has writ ten a reply" to Attorney General Black's re sponse to his Harper's article upou popular sov ereignty. It is published iu pamphlet form. The concluding paragraph is as follows : In conclusion, I have only to sifggest to Judge Black nnd bis confederates in this cru sade, whether it would not be wiser for them, and more consistent with fidelity to the party w hich plaeed them in power, to exert their en ergies and direct all their efforts to the redemp tion of Pennsylvania from the thraldom of black republicanism, than to con'innu their alli ance w ith the black republicans in Illinois, w ith the vain hope cf dividing and defeating the democratic party in the only western or north ern State whit-fi has never failed to cast her electoral vote for the regular nominee of the democratic party nt nnv presidential election. Vt'ix Popui.i. Vox Dei. Never has any thing nectired in the history of our Territory which has met with so hearty a condemnation from all classes of our people, irrespective of party nnd party prejudices, ns has the recent act of the great " pacificator," Ges. Scott, in so baclv deserting our riuht to the Island of San Juan, nnd the almost treacherous conces sions made to the importunate demands of the English. Olympia Democrat. The Charleston Convextiox. Provis ional arrangements arc said to have been made already nt Ch'irleston. S. C, for some of the linger delegations to the democratic national convention, nlthougU the day for ti:e meeting of that body has not yet been definitely lixed. The ball "f the South Carolina Institute has been designated ns the place nf meeting for the convention. It is a spacious building, about St) feet front by 130 deep, centrally situated on Meeting street, within a stone's throw of one of the principal hotels. The hall is admirably lighted and ventilated, nnd is oue of the finest rooms in the country, being capable of se tting 2.iiOO persons, including a gallery, with sofas, for ()0l. J. Haddock Smith, son-in law of Sam Meda ry. nnd successor of the Kanz:is governor ns editor of the Columbus (Ohio) Statesman, bolt ed the regular democratic county ticket in the late election, nnd was run in us clerk of the courts by republican votes, receiving 73 major ity, while the democrats had 90!) majority on their state ticket. Not Much Difference. A gentleman puzzling himself the other day over the recent ly introduced (into Oregon) distinctions ef 44 Methodist south " and 44 Methodist north." asked what the difference was. An irreverent bystander replied thnt the only distinction con sisted in one's 44 taking the sacrament from a jug, nud tho other from a boicl." In Airu.. The Philadelphia Press (For ney's paper) says it is generally conceded at Washington that tho Charleston convention will be held iu April, and that the friends of Douglas nre in favor of the earliest period. tTW An Arknusns paper says that many of the girls in that State grow six feet. Ex change. We have heard of noma very large feet, but not over ttco. ft? The Washington States newspaper an nounced the birth of Senator Douglas' daugh ter ns follows : 44 Miss Ellen Douglas received to-day a most hearty welcome from those who had the ex treme pleasure of making her acquaintance." The Book up Martyrs. Delazcn has omitted HaZon from his book of martyrs. Valton was 44 abused " by him quite as much as 44 old T ;" nud w e don't see the propriety cf putting in one and keeping the other out. Much correspondence is crowded over to future numbers. Among it nre some fresh exposures of debaucheries in Washington City. State Agricultural Society. The Oregon Farmer has a call for a State Agricul ture! Meeting, nt Salem, February 22d, 18o9. O" Gov. Whiteaker is in town, and will re main several weeks. Serenade. We were indebted to some un known vocal nnd instrumental performers for a 44 sweet eerwuadti " tme night last w eek. THEATMSTIf .We nre indebted to Tracy k Co., J. XV. Sul livan and S. J. McConuick for files of Atlantic papers. The news is not impr.rtr.nt. The detention of (he prior mad was caused by the steamer mi tin other side getting npon n reef amonc he Bahama Islands. She lay there several days. i:i-1 then got olf without damage. - Maryland Ei.i:vti n. The Mary!-. ml elec tion h reu!fed in the choice cf Wili:im II. Pur'n- ii (An'crie-in) ns (Wroth r. with a i.egis latntv which i-i democratic in lurth br.-mc'ies. Ti e '..nire-siouul delegation elands !.s iu the last Coniv, ttuutcly three democrats and three opposition. The State Legislature stands as follows: House, 25 Americans. 4'J Democrats ; Senate, 8 Americans. 13 Democrats one dis trict to hear from. Ex-Governor Lowe anil other distinguished Marrlandein express confidence that the Leg islature of that State will promptly enact such measures us will hereafter insure peaceable elections in Baltimore. Tbe recent t-lectiou was attended with bloody riots. THE KANSAS ELECTION1. St. Lorifj, Wednesday, Nov. 2, 1859. For the Constitution, 10,419 Against the Constitution, 5,5.'"0 For the Homestead law, 8,7.r8 Against the Homestead law, 4,712 BROWN'S TRIAL HIS SENTENCE. Brown was brought into the Coart-honSe, Nov. 2. which was immediately thronged. The clerk asked Brown whether he had anything to say w hy sentence should not be pronounced, when Brown stood up, and iu a clear and dis tinct voice said : 44 I have, may it please the Court, a few words to say. In the first place, I deny every thing but what I have all along admitted, the design on my part to free the slaves. I intend ed, certainly, to have made a clean thing of that matter,' as I did last winter when I went into Missouri, and there took the slaves without the snapping of a gun on cither side, moved them through the country, and finally left them in Canada. I designed to have done the same thing again on a larger scale. That was all I intended. I never did intend to commit mur derer treason, or to destroy property, or to ex cite or incite the slaves to rebellion, and to make an insurrection. 44 1 have another obji-ction, and that is, it is unjust that I should suffer such a penalty. Had I interfered iu the manner n hich. I admit, has been fairly proven for I admire the candor nnd truthfulness of the greater portion of the witnesses who have testified in this case had I so interfered in behalf of the rich, thepowir fni and the intelligent, the so-called great, or in behalf of their friends, either father, mother, brother, sister, wife, child, or any of - that class, and suffered and sacrificed what I have iu this interference, I would have leen ribt. Even' man iu this court would have deemed it an act worthy of reward rather than punishment. This court acknowledges, as I suppose, the validity of the law of God. I see a book kissed here, which I suppose to be the Bible, or at least the New Testament. That teaches me that, 4 all things whatsoever I would that men should do to me, should do I even so to them. It teaches me. further, 4 to remem ber them that are in lwnds as bound with them. I endeavored to act np to that instruction. I sav I am too young to understand that God is ativ respecter of persons. I believed that to interfere as I have done as I have always free ly admitted I have done in lK-hnlf of his des pised poor, was no wrong but right. Now it is deemed necessary that 1 should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice. and mitigie my blood further with the blood of my children, and with the blood ot millions m this slave country, whose rights nre disregard ed by wicked, cruel and and unjust enactments. I admit, so let it be done. 44 Let me say one word further. I feel en tirely satisfied w itlt the treatment I have receiv ed on my trial. Considering ail the circum stances, it has been more generous than I ex pected ; but I feel no consciousness. I have stated from the first what was my intention, and w hat was rot. 1 never had nuy design against the life of any person, nor any disposi tion to commit treason, or excite the slaves to rebel, or made any general insnrrecti.in. I never encouraged any man to do so, but always discouraged any idea of that kind. Let me aiso say something in regard to the statements made by some of those connected with me. I hear it has been stated by some of theia that I have induced them to jiwn me; but the contra ry is true. I do not say this to injure them, but as regretting their weakness. Not one joined me but of his own accord, nnd the greater part at his own expense. A number of them I nev er saw, nnd never bad a word of conversation w ith till the day they came to me. and that was for the purpose stated. Now 1 have done." While Brown was speaking perfect quiet prevailed. When he bad finished, the Court proceeded to pronounce tbe sentence. After a few preliminary remarks, in which be said no reasonable doubt could exist as to the prisoner's guilt, he sentenced him to lie hung, iu public, on Friday the 2d of December. Brown re ceived the sentence w ith compsisure. The on ly demonstration made, was with the clapping of bands, by one man, who did not live in Jef ferson county. This was promptly suppressed aiid much regret was expressed by the citizens at its occnrrciice. Gov; Willard. of Indiana, is a brother in-law of Cook, one of the confederates of old Brown. Gov. Willard visited his brother-in-law. Cook, on the 23th, in jail, in company with Senator Mason. Gov. Willard nrgetl Cook to make a full confession of nil he kuew connected with the affair at Harper's Ferry, in order to exone rate those who were innocent, and to punish those who were implicated, as the only atone ment he could now make. Cook signified his willingness to do so, and be will probably make a written confession. He told Cook that he bad nothing to hope for bat death. Mrs. Wil lard, he states, is in great distress at the con duct of her brother. A scout of 300 men had been ordered from Santa Fe against the Copper-mine Apaches. A dispatch to the N. Y. Express says : "The Pennsylvania Opposition State Committee have agreed" to call a State Convention to elect Dele gates to the National Opposition Convention of the whole Union." Tho Leavenworth Times states that the In dians on the Plains are exhibiting a hostile spirit. At one hundred and twenty miles cast of Fort Riley, and thirty miles east of Saline, a body of fifty Indians, supposed to be Cheyen ncs, had attacked two scouting parties of whites. The fate of one party, tiiteeu strong, had not been nscertained. Invitation to Ji dge Douglas. Tiie In dianapolis Sentinel has issued an extra sheet, containing eleven columns of signatures to the iuvitatiou given Judge Douglas to address the people of Indiana on political subjects. A block of about twenty-five wooden tene ments on Green street, between Fifth and Sixth streets, St. Louis, known ns the Robbers' Boost, and composed of groggerics and disrepu table dance-houses, was burned Nov. 3d. The loss is about $15,000. Another Canmdate for the Presiden cy. A Virginian writes to the Indianapolis Sentinel that there is a strong' feeling in that State, among the leading democratic politi cians, in favor of Governor Joseph A. Wright, of Indiana, as the democratic candidate for the Presidency. The Ohio Srate Journal (Kep.) thinks Chase, of Ohio, for President, and Bates, of Missouri, for Vice President, would make an invincible Opposition ticket. San Juan Question. The Administration has disclaimed having given Gen. Harney any instructions to take exclusive or military pos session of San Juan Island; but, in case of such step being taken, it is not disposed to re cede from it ; while it will be ready to continue negotiations as to the disputed boundary. Lord Kussell's letter is not offensive, and pre sents no demand except to restore the joint oc cupation before proceeding further. This is declined ; but the correspondence continues amicably, and the conviction is fully entertained that Scott's presence and investigation will re move all points of embarrassment to the satis faction of both sides. A leading Utotocws in Tennessee writing o the editor cf the Metitpnis Appeal, from Grnni Junction, in that State, sasnres-ts the following ticket for 1ST0: for President. Stephen A. Douglas, of Illinois ; for Vice President, An drcw Johnson, cf Tennessee. Forty-eijjht Indian sfpipwa were arrested on Sunday evening last in a Iioukc of ill-fame in Montreal. - It is s.Htd that about 4G3,0OO r-f tlavc pop- illation of tho South belong to the church j about one-seventh cf the whole slave popula- i tion. i At last accounts from Brownsville, Texas, ; most of the females had gone over to Matame- ; ras for safety; fithers of tiiern, who did not go over, were practicing in the use of firearms. The citizens have formed themselves into fwar ; camps, and take their tarns in keeping a strict i guard every night. . They have r.u American, ! a Mexican, a" French and a Spanish camp, j and altto have several pieces of nrlillery j well charged with canister. Twenty- J five of the "citizens went out nnd took Corti- ; nas second in command, and are going to han liita. Cortinas sent them word if they cli-l ; hang hint, he would come dow n on them with I one thousand men and burn the whole place. i The President's Message will be shorter than : the last one. Mr. Bnehauan is at the Depart- ment of State at 8 o'clock da.ly, preparing it. ; The Concord, (N. H.) Patriot, after quoting ! extracts from private letters of ex-President i Pierce, showing thnt bis determination is fixed J 44 never again to be candidate for any office," I savs that " bis name, 'u uler no possible cir- ? cn'mslanrfs,' will be presented to the Charles- j ton Convention. ;- In Alabama, several influential journals cire I Mr. Douglas n very warm support. The Mo- bile Jlegister is active and open in the advoca- ; cy of bis nomination. The Tuscaloosa Muni- j tor avows its perfect willingness to take him as a candidate ; and the Senna Sentinel quotes ; the words of Zollicotfer of Tennessee, Senators Benjamin of Imisiana, Fitzpatnck of Ala- ; bama. Brown cf Mississippi, Stephens and j Toombs of Georgia, the language nf the C'onsti- tution. of the messages of Presidents Polk. ; fierce nnd Iacbanan. th speeches of Bayard. Orr. Cobb, Morse, the judicial opinions cf Chief j Justice Taney, Mr. Justice John A. Campbell, iu support nf the correctness of Mr. D.jng!:;s policy and his interpretation of the Kansas Xe-; braska act. Senator Hale publishes a card.denyingin foto, ; all complicity iu or knowledge of Brown's eon-f spiracv, and" pledging himself tn go voluntarily to Virginia, Maryland, or anywhere else, whose a crand jury may find a bill against him. The Hon. F." P. Blair of "Missouri, a few days since, emancipated five slaves, consisting of one man. and a mother and throe daughters, at the Circuit Court in St. Louis. Roger A. Pryor, recently editor of the Wash ington States newspaper, Sena' or Donglas na tinual orann, has jast been elected to Congrea - . . . - , x l - i : . irom me n-enmonu i a. uisinci. j It is stated that another highly important di co v err has just been made near Frederick town." Mo., being a 4' vein, or, rather, forms tion," some forty or fifty feet wide, containin platinum and gold. Messrs. Kraut and Wek and Dr. Koch, of St. Louis, visited the plae last week, and declared themselves both sur prised and gratified to find such an immens deposit of mineral wealth in Missouri. Tk Arcadia Prorjtect says : " We have not a yet beard alwrnt the richness of this ore. hi presume it is the same as that formerly discot t-red, some of which, we understand, contaii abont three per cent, of platinum." Shorter Kocte to Fokt Laramie. Co Abliott, of Massachusetts, who aceompanii Col- Lander on bis Wagon-Koad Expedite across the Rocky Mountains, has returne. He look a new route from Fort Laramie 1 l Fort Randall, which shortened the distant ' some 250 miles. He thinks the new road nea ly as good as the old. - Pike's Peak. The Overland Express whir' left Denver City on the 20th nit. has arriv , bringing $3,000 in gold. Dr. Williams h j been elected Delegate to Congress from t proposed Territory. Dour. las in the South. A large port ' of the South differ more or less with Dongl f on our territorial policy ; but that they will n snpport him for President, if nominated i Charleston, is all a mistake. A few politicia nre not the South, nor the Southern Democrat " Tbe democrats of the Sooth are well aware Z the fallacy of this anxiety for protection of sla cry in the Territories. They know that it a iinmbng, nrged for the benefit of politic-tar If it be a risht. it is not worth a contest. Tb( are other things far more valuable to be gain , instead of wasting time in a useless eontest,' what can't be obtaiued. and w hat would "; s worth nothing if it were obtained. ? There has been a great deal of assertion to what the South would do. by parties tl - know very little about the South. We sh - risk lier going with full strength enough to ci ry every Southern S'ate for the nominee of t Charleston Convention, in spite of the efforts jack-leg politicians. Harder Star, M est pa Missouri. The Star's first choice is Holt, of Kentac" and next, Breckenridge. An Important Paper. The Hon. Rev dy Johnson, of Mary htnd. ex-Attorney Ge ral of the United States, aud one of the ab lawyers of the South, has just publishes1 pamphlet in review of the respective osifion Judge Douglas and ef the" Administration regard to the Territories. It is a very str argument, uniting much learning witu kf and therefore logical, exactness of statenM He fully sustains every position taken by S tor Eouglas. and multiplies the ridicule that laches to the recent copious effusions of A General Black. Advertiser. tW Col. Forney's Washington correspf ent says that Mr. Buchanan must at heart himself guilty of Mr. Broderkk's blood. ' don't believe that the President experiei half the regret in feeling himself gniltj Broderick's blood that he" does in feclirg 1 self innocent of Forney's. Louitri'le Jour tW A letter from California, noticing ( Sutter and the old pioneer's financial care' ness, says he had once given a note for $9, with interest at ten per cent, a month, t compounded at the end of each months these liberal and reasonable terms the not not long hi reaching the snm of 85,O0( w hich amount the creditor took judgment levied upon his estate. j The proposed amendment to the state stitutinn of Ohio, providing for annual ia of biennial sessions of the legislature, 1 was voted upon at the late election, is pTot rejected by a large majoritv. The Ohio Si man says : ' The shapsm which it was initted, providing for annual sessions, bi for anneal electkms, rendered it objectio to many who would have voted for annua sions and. the annual election of members Fame ABROAuWeudell Phillips, h of his recent lectures, says the Methodisf sionaries in Oregon found some way to ( the lands into their power, and then l preaching to live like priuccs. Wemf given a little to exaggeration. 1" Douglas for President, and Stephe Georgia for Vice, is rapidly becoming a ; lar ticket in the South. It would be a t nation hard to beat. 1 Homestead. The clause in the I constitution excepting the homestead fr tiichment for debt was separately submit the people, and adopted by a large lnajot Birth. The wife of Senator Doug presented her husband with a daughter, mother is in feeble conditiou, and caul friends much anxiety. ISiP Copper-toed shoes have become t able iu the States. The Hartford Timei there are spots where a shoe of that kit be 44 introduced " with good effect. Awful. A Dashaway Association hi organized in .N. Y.. with Awful Gar! president ("MS "a si r" ,,h- ft" ' i f- ( - 6 ?! 1 5. ."He " it, "' 3 sr." r.
