?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
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