JJkJST. lO, 1800.
ffe cartsda baa at lerjth Oea upon thsj
JUsing Meae of th Harper's Ferry drama,
ir&fc iM strange intermix tare of tragic and
coast, wiiom and absurd, deplorable and lu-
. The principal actors in it have made
gsjsjtirery their hut apt ranee anon any stage,
Mkinf their last exit ia a my uadigbified
tkogh extremely eeremonloaa manner. The
ptaotfal Titlaga af Harper's Ferry haa beea
I maris1 fta Ha wonted sereaity and repose, and
to mhahitaata have doubtless, by thia time, re
eawd their equanimity and their self-con fi
tmf The aorthera abolitionists have held
Metfafs of eympathy and condolence with the
deal taaMaetora, and hare taken npoa them
arfree the ignominy and shame, w ithout the
of old Brown's treason and dishonor.
U be rcry glad if the whole mat
ter eaahl end here.
John Brown and hi confederate in guilt
Bteta apon the (allow, the ignominious death
whieh the law has ordaiued as a punishment
for the wont and vilest crime. Ther have
aCered a fate which they richly merited
There is not the slightest palliation, a hatever.
forth guilt of Brown and hi accomplice in
this affair ; not so much as there was fur tlie
srsnaowder phat of Guv Fawke t no more
thaa there waa for Herod's murder of the inno
cents ; no mure than there w as for the treason
af Arnold or of Judas. It was a delilierate
aad eoij-blooded conspiracy, carefully prepar
ed and premeditated, aad consummated in
robbery aad murder. Their punish
it ceald not hare been less tliatt it was ;
the law did not require. It I in a politi
cal point of view unfortunate, however, th.it it
became necessary toiutl'ut tho h-gal p.ualty
for aoch an offence. M uch better v ouid it Lave
been for tho future peace of the country, and
fur the moral effect produced by the f:te of the
conspirator, if they had lain slain with their
araM m their haud, and in tne cry pc rpctra
tiaa of their atrocious deed.. Nt that any
other fanatical alHtHtiouists are likely to emu
late Browu's martyrdom. ns they call it ;
bat if Brown had nut been subjected to the
laws of his country, w hich he had violated.
tf he had died in the cimi mission of hi crime,
or even had been lynched in the hent of the
excitement by an outraged and enraged popu
lace, the subtile arts of black republican paters
aad leaders would have failed to canonize hiiu
ia the minds and affections of their deluded
followers. lie would have been regarded by
republican, yas by all others, as a bold and
daring conspirator against the lire, property
aad peace of his fellow-citizens, w hout even the
poor plea of mad fanaticiin could not excuse,
moch less justify. But while he lay iu pris
oat, awaiting the process of law, the pity fur
the bodily sufferings of a brave thongh despe
rately criminal man. which was shared in some
degree by his bitterest enemies, was insidious
ly fanned into sympathy, then into respect, and
at last into regard ami admiration fitr the man
and bis character, in the nriads of those simple
fan sties, who are so easily misled by the round
af "freedom to the oppressed. " and who, if
there were no negroes in slavery in the south,
would perhaps fin. rent fur their morbid phi
laatarophy in an endeavor to civilize the
orang-outangs of the African wilds, or some
equally sensible scheme. Krown killed in the
iash of his criminal enterprise, would have
had few sympathizers ; bnt Brown wounded, im
pti waned, tried, convicted, sentenced, and exe
cuted, and displaying a large degree of firm
ness and resignation amidst all these afflictions,
(a common murderer, placed ia Brown's situa
tiosj, aad manifesting similar disposition and
conduct, wonld have been called hardened and
indifferent) is magnified into a martyr and a
hem, for political ends, by political demagogues,
who would not scrapie to rend the Union asun
der, if peradrenture they might be personally
profited thereby.
What effect John Brown's rid npon Har
per's Ferry, and its result, will have upon the
political future of the country, it is impossible
Mow to predict with any certainty. There
seem to be no bounds to the extravagancies of
fanaticism no limits to the dark and desHTate
designs of those who acquire profit and nation
by the propagation of the delusions which have
well-nigh crazed a large portion of our people.
It is almost incredible that a large number of
public journals openly defend and applaud
Brown's crimes ; that the popular voice in
many 'sections invests the malefactor w ith the
attributes of a philanthropist and a hem. and
that aven ministers of the gospel, from their
Sanday pulpits, declare him a saint and a mar
tyr, and compare. Lis deserved death on the
gallows to the crucifixion of Christ upon the
cross ! Yet tbeae things are so. The fanatic
who lighted the midnight-torch of incendiarism,
mariier, robbery and plunder, whose plans
meditated nothing less than the subversion and
overthrow of the government, with all the
added horrors of a servile insurrection and a
civil war, is honored as a hem ; his well-deserved
fate is charged to the institution of
slavery, instead of his own heaven-dnnng
crimes J and professed followers of the meek
nd lowly Jesus, pretended teachers of the
mild aad benign gospel of him who instructed
bis disciples to submit themselves ia all things
- temporal authorities to M render unto
Oesar the things which are Cseare "in their
picas Sanday iW courses applaud the bloody
aad inhaaiaa plot of old Brown, aad hold tp iu
t projector and chief actor as a model worthy of
nutation by christians and philanthropists !
-We have often wondered that the masse of
the black republican party do not recoil w ith
horror and af right from the dark abyss of ruin
aad dost'petioa into which the doctrine of their
anaoropdwa leader will, if not restrained, ir
isjcrierarAy plunge the country. - It ja indeed
atraage that any considerable number of men,
eattprast over a great portion of the country,
aad divided in pursuit, in interests and in re
ligious sentiments, should, through the common
pursuit cf a fanatical idea, be a utterly blinded
and losuo all sentiments of patriotism, of jus
tire, anil of common humauity, as to listen
wtb fsvpr to word of treason and disunion, to
eooateaance plots against the live and proper-V-
tbyr JuJUw-ciiiaens, and to appland tbe
111 illi mmmr a f , 1 lul.l.. ..S .1. .
aaatSet to kindle the torch af msvrrection,
"trtsV; H it had succeeded, wonld have quench
ad thg!:taf oor glorious Un'um forever, in
hies' aa4 flames? Yet sK.h is tle ptwitiun to-
, - w r I'umiuuia, w nanr. And,
aiuoii'j inu-Tiuuiijr, (rf t:,e nartv oro-
fesa ts sVplore
thu iusaue
chair ?
-ie---precate
Ve :nstitu-
ttas
act
aoaaijrfvt
ffiu
done, to Maw extant, the action of Brown and
hi confederate, though It leaden affect to
consider the attempt aa untimely, and as re.
suiting from aa error of Judgment on the part
of tho conspirator. 8uch i tha heaviest con
demnation tiLich fa bestowed by tho black re
publiea party, upon one of tho most damnable
and atrocious plots that ever disgraced the
annals of any nation.
Where this fanatical spirit will end, God only
know. But thia much is certain t if this latest
exhibition of the horrid deformity of black re
publicanism doe not cause a reaction in the
sentiment of it deluded followers, and operate
a a check vpoh ita mad designs, the day Is hot
far distant when all the horrora which affrighted
the Imaginations of the surprised Virgiuiaus, at
the unexpected assault of Brown and hi rob
ber hand, will become terrible realities j when
the , imple-tniiidcd fanatics of the north will
learn, but too late, the fearful extent of the
guilt into which they have been betrayed by
the specious arte of their hypocritical leader.
t
A raat iais chkati rr.
Simpron P. Mote is corresponding from
Washington for all the Lane papers in Oregon,
and for es-Gor. Stevens' paper at Olympin.
He is Lane's clerk, and is employed by Lane to
puff him, through the medium of his hireling
press in Oregon. This Motet is a fit creature for
the service he is engaged in. Hen. Taylor ap
pointed him collector at Olympia, in which of
fice he reiuniuod until removed by Presideut
lotk. When removed, he pt found to b a
defaulter for the full amount he had received.
The attorney for the U.S. for Washington
Territory, was instructed by tho Secretary of
the Treasury to commence suit against Mom-s
and his sureties. He' commenced suit in
Thurston county, and recovered a judgment
of ncer six thousand dollars. In that suit it
was in proof that Moses hail never accounted
to th government at all. Execution was is
sued on lhi judgment and sent to the Atlan
tic Slates (where Moacs had tllell goue) for col
leetion of Mnaea or his sureties. But, the exe
cution was returned mntntitjied, and is now in
the hands of the then U, 8. attorney for Wash
ington Territory. One of the most unscru
pulous of the Lane organs, for which thi Mo
ses is writing, bald faceilty asserts that Moses
was not a defaulter. If the mendacious editor
will examine the records of the Thurston coun
ty court, or communicate w ith the U. S. attor
ney, he cna find the proof of his reckless false
hood. In Dec., 1851, when this Myse was collector
at Olympia, he, iu letters to the Portland ngent,
the P. M. at Han Francisco, and the Secretary
of the Treasury, intimated that Mr. Butler P.
Anderson, postmaster at Astorin, tore subscri
bers' names from Atlantic papers, and then
sold them. Mr. Anderson replied iu a pub
lished card, from whieh we make the follow ing
extract:
" The man who has the soul to make a charct
against one he did not know to pelly. base audi
im turnout, has a heart false and calumnious to I
bear with the undisturbed fkUotphu t f a
sruunJr(l), all that could be said against liim.
vublith to the vorld Simnton J . Moses,
enileetor of the customs at L! urn via, and author
of the charge abvre memti.mti. as a man un
tcarthtf the notice of a gentleman, and as a ril
lain and a scoundrel.
IlfTLER P. AXUERSOX,
T. M. nt Astoria."
To give a specimen of the disgusting, sycho
phantie self-praiee which Iane is pending out
to Oregon by means of the letters of this paid
menial, we make the following extract from one
of Moses (perhaps Yulee's) letters in the last
Corvallis Jieef-Etter:
Your great man, Jo. Lane, is here, and
cents in god health. There is a perfect rush
to greet him, daily and nightly. Yon cannot
goto his'roiKn at any time without seeing the
good and great mau surrounded by men of all
classes, from the highest to the lowest. Never
wa man so loved as he ia in this city. Black
and white, rich and poor, old and vonug. all
seek to fain his prevence and pour forth their
greeting. We look upon him as the only hope
of the country now. lie alone can save us
from the threatening convulsion, and I think
his nomination at Charleston is certain. At
Wast so it appears from all I can learn.
Mr. Stout is not yet in the city. Judge
Deadr is here, and is very corlial!y received.
The fact is. Lane's popularity descends to eve
ry man w ho bails from Oregon.
This disgusting paraitc is neither employed
or paid by the papers here to w hieh his sickeu
ing laudations of his patron are sent. Lane
hires and pays him for this service. What is
the difference between so doing, and writing
them himself I
Coxoress. Congress had not organized
Bhen the steamer left. There had liecn one
ballot for Speaker in the House, with the fol
lowing result : Sherinau. of Ohio, Bepnldican,
6t5 ; Grow, of Pa., lit p., 4; Bocock, of Va.,
Dem., 80; Bolder, of Va.. K. X., 14; Nel
son, of Tenn., ditto. 5 ; Gilmer, of X. C, ditto.
3 ; Davis, of Indiana, and Hoftuns, of X. Y.,
2 each, and Phelps, of Mo., Hill, of Ua., Cor
win, of Ohio, Hickman, of IVnn., II. F.
Clarke, of X. Y.. anJ IVuniiigtou, of X. J.,
one each.
The straight republicans lacked five votes of
a majority. The Illinois members voted for
Bocock. The ami Lecompton members from
X. Y-, Pa. and Ind., voted for their own kind.
The indications point to the election of a re
publican, either by a majority vote, or the
adoption of the plurality rule. The southern
opposition members declare that they will in
no event go for a democrat.
Destrvctive Fire is Okegox Citt.
About ten o'clock on Thursday morning, an
empty warehouse owned by Allan, Mclviulay
& Co., in the north cud of Oregon City, was
discovered on fire. Two largo and newly
erected buildings, belonging to Mr. Daniel
Harvey, adjoining it. were consumed with the
warehouse. . The buildings were occupied by
iW. C. Dement & Co., aud by the various se
cret societies. The las of the Messrs. De
ment was six or eight thousand dollars. To
tal km about 05,000. The fire was the work
of an incendiary ; and four attempts to fire the
same building have before been made during
the two yean last past.
t3T The party engaged upon the Fort Ben
ton military road, are suowed in," in the
Bitter Boot valley. They are short of provi
sions, and reduced to the necessity of drawing
upon the supplies of Lt. White command, the
escort furnished them. The road is represent
ed to us to be nearly impassable, and altogeth
er aacle, being obstructed with deep now in
winter, and high water till late in the spring.
We look upon it as a humbug, npon w hich a
8100.000 appropriation will be wasted.
Apfleo. We are indebted to Mr. J. H.
Blacker, of Butteville. for a box of splendid ap
ple, of different varieties, int'Hing T.Na
hncking, Esopus Spitzcnberg, Wineap, aad
others.- Long may the gcnerr.us do:ior enjoy !
to eraicrai aussie ana ari-fwuy rmt r .
own)
PKBSjortAt.ITl.rtN.
; That the licentiousness of the press ha
grown to be an Intolerable nuisance, is regarded
as a self-evident truism by half the conserva
tive portion of this community. But it is only
half a troth, nriginated.by those smarting from
infliction bestowed upon themselves, nr their
friends, and fastened by a certain canting habit
of fault-finding, which seldom reasons lieyond
superficial appearances. The license of the
press is an evil, but it is much more the symp
tom of other and greater evils. Your quiet
: journals, w hich never offend any ono, never
mend any one. Sober essay on the cardinal
" virtue never loosen the hold of stnpid or cor
rupt official on the public purse-strings, nor
correct any other evils. Editorials without
any proper name rarely attract much notice.
The gold of merit is counterfeited so often,
that the hottest fire alone, attests the genuine
metal. If your hem is a standard ingot, the
nitrie acid of printer's ink w ill not make him
bubble and effervesce, but he w ill ooiuo out all
tho brighter and purer for the ordeal. If he is
bogus, the sooner he is corroded and consumed
thu better.
Wheti a fussy, gassy, bloated. prcUmtiout in
dividual happens to get pricked w ith a rusty
pen, he is npt to explode and hiss and blow for
a brief period, but no one is responsible for his
collapse except himself. He h is no right to
carry about so much w iuJ, and p i it off for
olid flesh.
In Oregon, many circumstance conspire to
create an earnestness aud bitterness of politi
cal strife, and a rirulenvu of the press, gener
ally unnecessary in older Slates. Many of our
candidate pursue office, mainly with a view to
gaining a livelihood. That w hich elsewhere is,
to some extent, the employment of leisure or a
patriotic pursuit of peculiar policy, is here too
often strictly a matter of financial business.
Out of our two-dozen aspirants to tho U. S.
Senate, probably a score are moved miicli more
by interest than ambition. Xo wonder that
such candidates are in earnest.
Again, our population is so sparse, aud the
disbursement of the federal treasury so large,
that the power of the General Goveriiiueut has
become more than a match tor the sovereignty
of the State. The ehnico of officers is more
like an even contest between so much gold aud
the residue of unbought patriotism, thou a dis
cussitHi of political principles. Xo wonder,
then, that the people and their journalists are
in earnest.
In our sister State of California, the blood of
David C. Itmderiek was a sacrifice on the al
tar of mammon, yet a faction avows the act,
an I is iiot obliged even to simulate a tear or a
rcg.vt at its result, and but for our legal nnd
soc.al prohibitions, or the iuvincihle cowardice
of foiled aspirants, similar scenes would be
enacted iu .Jregon. Who, then, shall say that
tho politics of the Pacific coast is a farce I So
far as it is a mere sq-iabble on the question of
spoils, nil p.irtie stand on a level ; but there is
a far higher q iestion, upon which no citizen ir
this L'iiioh can lotik with indifference wheth
er Or. gou shall maintain her sovereignty as an
indepemK-nt State, be surrendered up as an
inheritance of w iioever can g tin access to the
ear of tho President w hether we shall elect
our own otl'k-crs. or turn thai delicate and re
sponsible duty over to our better in formed fellow-citizens
who may have rented the portion
of federal patronage appertaining to Oregon.
Under these circuuislunees, it ia idle to talk
of a moderate press. Bat, while courage and
audicity are indispensable, society readily fixes
the measure of license that ought to be in
dulled. Ill this country oln-ccnity, Indcceui j
allusious, and the mention of private individuals
who seek mi public notoriety, are not tolerated.
But w hen any man steps forward us au as
pirant to official honors, he has ihcu submitted,
without reserve, his qqalilicatioiis, physical,
mental and moral, aud his whole life, past,
present aud prospective, to be tried by the ter
rible analysis of journalism.
tf there's a hofe iu a' your coals,
1 rvJe jo il ;
A cbiel ainnotf "ve, iiiWiii' notes.
Ami lull!) Iw II prvnl il."
Candidates afflicted with tender reputations
had better remain in the hands of their friends,
aud those having no reputation at all had bet
tor get certificates. There are several highly
responsible offices to le filled w ithin the next
year, and it is hardly to he expected that all
the apostate preachers, lunch-eaters non-paying
hiiifers aad brokeu-down hacks, who are in
tho field, will get through, without having their
sensibilities shocked. Such persons have a holy
horror of bringing private characters into poli
tics. Xow if a man's private character will
not bear iuspectioii. ho had better mend that
bi-fore he runs much on his public character.
So long as newspapers use only classic E ig
lUh, the public have no right to complain at
any dcvclopcuie nt of rottenness among candi
dates who aspire to serve them.
Turn him (old Ad tir) out ! turn him out! and
all the people will say ciiit .' Delusion.
We afterwards learned that he (Adair) was
not a "defaulter." Delusion.
We learned he was largely behind, nud you
never learned anything to the contrary.
He (Simpson P. Moses) is not and never was,
as Bush charges, a defaulter to the government
to the amount of one rent. Delusion.
He was a defaulter to the amount of over
$o.0!K), aud tho execution is now in the huuds
of the then U. S. attorney for Washington, re
turned endorsed "nulla bona" no property
found.
17 Some of the personal organs are quoting
the Memphis (Tcnu.) Avalnnche. iu support ni
Joseph's prcteiiMons. Tho Aoalanche has
about as much influence in Western Tenncs
sec as tne J. imet ami me Herj-tlater Have in
Oregon ; and the Washington Conttilution,
Mr. Buchanan's Administration orgau, ha do
dared that it is not a democratic paper. On
the other hand, the Memphis Appeal, the lead
ing democratio paper of Western Tennessee,
is strongly in favor of Douglas for the next
Presidency. The Appeal speak tho senti
nient of the Tennessee democracy.
Frozes Is. We visited Fort Vancouver
last week, and were dc aincd there several days
by the ice, which obstructed the navigation of
the Columbia. During our stay, wc were most
hospitably entertained by tho officers stationed
there. If we are to be detained anywhere, of
ail the placr on the omitiueut, wc should select
the military post at Vancouver, with its present
occupant.
' Littlexi ss." The attempt of the Port
land Times to connect the recent steamboat
meeting " at Salem with party politics, and ex
cite prejudice against the Statesman. The in
sinuations are uncandid and unworthy.
With UtU refinement of speech, bat witA nmch fitness ns
cxlly calls a hug.1 Ddurton.
yMl sad roomoccapUd by Delusion tbs night sX tbs 8tb
. nftiusj aaisMlthaaaliaa.-
DRATII OP WAassl.KOTO-V IBVI.1U,
This venerable patriarch of Amerioan liter
ature died on the 28th of November, nt Sun
nysido, hi home ou the bank of tho Hudson.
He whs in hi seventy-seventh year, nud, for
near half a century, ha stood iu the first rank
of living writen. He wn the first American
author who elicited the attention and unquali
fied approval of European criticism.
Mr. Irving' early education was acquired
in a common school; and, at the age of sixteen,
he commenced the study of law, which at
length impaired his health. 1 He sought recrea
tion by travelling 1n Europe, and . visited
Franee, Italyt Switzerland and Belgium, re
turning home in 1800, after an absence of two
years.
He was admitted to the bar, but never en
gaged in the practice, ami subsequently be-
caaie a partner hi a mercantile house of Liver
oot and New York. In 1814, hu was appoint
ed aid-dt'-cainp and military secretary of th
Governor of New York, w ith the rank of Col
At tho close of the war of 1612. the bank
niptuy of his commercial arrangements oliliired
him to resort to the labors of the pen as
means of support. A competence ami mi I in
perishable and world-wide fame have been th
results.
in 189, President Jackson nppoiuted him
secretary of Legation to our Embassy at Lou
don, which he resigned in about two years. I
ItiSi, be returned to New York, after an ab
sence of seventeen years ; when his country
men greeted him with an ovation worthy of bis
exalted reputation aud the impulse he hn
given to Ameriuan liteVature.
From lAi'-i to 1846. he waa minister to
Spain ; since which time, his declining years
hare been moslly devoted to his " Life of
Washington.". His "Knickerbocker's I if to
ry of Xew York " and his contributions to va
rious periodicals, in early life, evinced his bap
py powers of delineation, his lively humor, mid
his faculty of sparkling but genial satire ; but
his "Sketch-Book " and Bracebridge Hall
first gained biin general celebrity.
His "Tale of a Traveller." "Life of Co
liimlms," Conquest of Granada," " Alham
bra," " Tour on tho Prairies," " Adventures
of Capt. Bonneville," "Astoria," "Abhotsford
nud New stead Ahbv." " Legends of the Con
quest of Spain." "Life of Goldsmith" and
' Mahomet ami his successors" are among th
legacies w hich he has lcqneathed to the read
ing public, and which have yielded ph-asure
nnd profit to millions. Having faithTuJJf oecti
pied thu measure of years allotted to human
usefulness, his name will descend to posterity
w ith the distingiished honor of having stamp
cd a visible impress ou the literature of his
country.
too imv. Ninie tune since we nail o-.-ca-sion
to refer to the st-m s juaudeied uj on t.nne
aud Adair's military road, aud placed it at $.j0.
WW. We since learu that O?l).000 has been
appropriated. And. with tho exception of a
triflt vet mte.vp-uded, this large amount has
been squandered. The road, it was alleged
would Ih useful sheu the Columbia river was
frozen, while the fuel is. it was laid orer
route (in I lie const mope) impassable from
snow, from earlr fill to lite sprint;. Miles of
that route arc now covered with feu feet of
snow. Of course, uo mad lias been opened,
and the 70.1 HO might as well been thrown
into the sea, so far as Oiecon is concerned. If
it had been expended in the construction of
road from A--tori-t to the post oflice, so that the
people of Clatsop county could get their mail
matter, it would have lecti of some service
The law located the rood from Astoria to Sa
lem, it was commenced on Adair's laud claim.
and if the road had been opened, the people of
Clatsop (or any other county) could only have
pit upon it by going to sea and sailing up to
Adair's claim !
VST Delusion persuades Mr. J. Drigg. of
Li ii ii county, to let him publUh a letter saving
that he thinks people ought to stop the Statts
man and take Delusion's "medium of self-de
fense." The milk iu Mr. Driggs' coconnnt is
accounted for iu the fact that he is one of the
victims that Delusion deluded into purchasing
the press from which he issues bis filthy vehicle
of slander and falsehood. if "manv have
complained" to .Mr. J. Driggs that "ther have
found it impossible to get rid of the Statesman."
they have made lying "complaints." If Mr. J
Driggs desire to transact any business with
tho Statesman oflice. he will hare to communi
cate therewith in the ordinary manner, and not
through Delusion's licentious paper.
Douglas ix Ahkaxsas. The Fort Smith
(Ark.) Herald pronounces in favor of Douglas
for the next Presidency. The' Herald ia one
of the most influential democratic papers in
Arkansas. Senator Johnson nnd Sebastian,
of that State, have also announced their intcn
tioti to support Douglas, should be bo the
Charleston uoiuinee.
A JjYINO iLt.Aix. Delazon puts in our
month sayings we never nsed or thought of. al
leging that they were expressed during the can
vass of 1858. A degraded Wast who could lie.
tray private conversations of the character he
avers those to have been, is of course base
enough to manufacture them. Where he hits
pretended to Wtray private conversations, he
has. in every instance w hich has come under
our know ledge lied like a dog. A man who
for two years enjoyed the distinction of being a
drunken beast thu most debased one in Iowa
can hardly Ik expected to have truth or honor.
Another Lie Xailkd. A correspondent
at Koseburg, yi a private letter duted Dec. 28,
furnishes the following clincher to one of De
lusion's bald falsehoods :
"Uncle Billv Hutsim tells me that the state
nicnt iu the DelazQuian, in u letter purporting
to lie from Douglas county, in relcrcnoe to a
conversation that lie should have heard Bush
have with someone about Geu'l Wool, is unau
thorized bv him. ami is false totally false.
He never heard such a conversation, and never
told auybodr so. Mr. Hutsou further says that
he will say this nt any time.
I3.The Statesman ex presses some doubt
whether or uot we will support the nominee of
tho Charleston Con veutiou. 1 tmet.
The Statesman never expressed any doubt
about your having supported every opposition
nominee from the time you was a voter down
to, and including Scott, and opposed every
democratic nominee. . -
Good Advice. Mr. Bocock, the democrat
io candidate for Speaker of tho lower house of
Congress, advocated democratio harmony, aud
protested against the war npon Judge Douglas.
Delusion takes some paius, and quotes from old
files of the Statesman, to show that we were once
very much deceived in tim. There eja be no dispute
about that, .Delusion j and it isn't worth while to prove
what everybody knows.
Changed. The name of tho postofSoe at
Washington Butte, Liua Co. lias becu duuitfcd.
The Mails. A few week ago we noticed
the fact that the package of Statetmam di
rected to Kirby ville, Josephine county, wa
frequently lost or abstracted from the tnuils,
under circumstances which gave color to the
suspicion that it w as intentionally destroyed or
laid aside. By the last mail we received let
ters from several point in the southern part of
the State, eompluiuing of the unnecessary aud
suspicious detention of the Statesman, nt some
one of the postollices south of here, for a week.
aud sometimes longer. A lloseburg correspon
dent write t f-
" The last number of the Statesman has not
arrived herayet, although it came n far us the
IvH-ust urove postollices ami ns there is no
oflice iqien at Winchester. 1 conclude it must
have been laid aside by the postmaster or depu
ty at Oakland. I am a bo informed that this
bus occurred shout half the time latelr
Whether it is done through carelessness or de
sign I know-not; but I wish Von to call some
body's attention to the matter. Other pnpers
come; tho letter mail Comes; and Patent Of
fice Reports, and other documents marked
" Free Jo. Lane," never miss fire j ret the pa
per that everybody wants to sec nnd read, by
souieunaccountaule means we are Uepn veil ol.
If the fault of which our correspondent com
plains is iu the Oakland postoflice, it must cer
tainly occur through accident or mere careless
ness. The postmaster at Oakland could not be
guilty of so M-tty an act of meanness, its pur
posely detaining the Statesman from it sub
scrila-rs.
Another correspondent writes front Umpqua
City:
Your Statesman is usunllr, or ha Wen for
the last three mails, at leavt, just one week tie-
liliitlliuiKl, while the packages for olliees below.
on i lie cohh. come tiiroiin regularly. It is
rather hard for us, these dull times, to do with
out the Statesman."
And still another, writing from Port Orford,
complains that the Statesman does not come to
hand, nud demands the reason. We assure
our friends that the Statesman mail is regularly
made np, with care and diligence, legibly di
rected, and deposited in the m is t office in good
season, aud we are perfectly satisfied that it is
mniled regulurly and carefully from the Salem
oflice. There is no good excuse, of which wc
ure a an re, for its habitual detention nt any
other office. We cannot believe that any post
master, though politically opposed to the Stales
man, wonld resort to such a despicable means
of gratifying his hostile feelings. But we re
spectfully ask that postmasters exercise a little
more care and circumspection in future, and
that we may be spared the necessity of again
taking, notice of a subject which is rendered
disagreeable, from the fact that it involves both
the official faithfulness aud the persoiial honor
of individuals with whom we would much pre
fer to maintain frictidlr relations.
Oiif.uox Wool ix Xew Yonic. Dec. I,
1 8.1P. Oregon wool was quoted in the Ji.- Y.
market as follows:
Oregon. ft.
Washed fli-eces, burry. .............. I8'S.5
Unwashed do., fine 14L18
To show the relative price which our woo!
bears, w e quote from the same price current
for other States : .
California.
Washed fbt-ee - 30 5 40
Cnuaslied do., fine a ,i-S
Texas.
Washed
Unwashed HUit 4
do burrv V-i'a lli
AVt York, t'nunerlicut, Khvde Island. .Massa
chusetts, Michigan, I'ermont, Acie II. mp
thire.
Choice Saxony fh ece o2a'u
Natiieaiul t lo War-i
Common do.. ,iiord:M
tthin. Pennsutrania and t'irginia
ChiMee Sasonv lh--ce . . ...... ...TT62
Native audi do 43a4."
Common do ....:y4U
Illinois, Wisconsin. Iowa and Indiana
Sasonv fleece.....
iii a ii j
Xatii e and i do .......
4
Common do
" A Ml HKW LOOME.
Post Office. Salf.m. t
January 5th. letiO. $
Mr. EtUTfMi I discover a letter in the Dem
ocral 01 Jan. o, 10 wmcu are appeiiuetl some
remurks of the editor, censuring me la-caus'
his paers for Polk county remain iu this oflice
one week. Dclaxon is UccnlcOlv "out of luck
if he has just hecu apprised of that fact; for I
informed several of his friends of litis trouble
from the very hrst issue of his pa per. If
suvs : " We assure our Polk couutv friend that
there is 110 honest reason whv the Democrat
should not reach Dallaa at the same time the
Statesman does. This palter is in the post-of
fice at Salem everv Mondau evening, addressed
to Dallas." I assure Delaxou nud his Polk
county friend thai tlrcre is an "honest reason.
winch is tins: 1 lie Lnfavctte mail leaves this
oflice everr Monday nt 12, M.: and nsthe Dem
ocrat does not reach hero until 5. 1. M.. same
day. of course 1 canuot send il out. Mr. Shep
herd, the publisher of the paper, knew this, tor
wns loreuiau in the Statesman office, aud
knew the exertion there made to have that pa
ver ready for the mail; ami ywt knew it. too.
Dclazou ; ret you uublushiuglv assert "wc
were before fnllr owure that every effort, ImiIIi
fair nnd foul, were Iwiiiff usetl to prevent the
circulation of the Democrat." Whether it In)
fair" nr not, 1 cannot alter the hour for the
departure of the mail to suit the Democrat. If
it is iu this office as soon as 12 o'clock, Mon
day, it shall co out. . The subscribers I have
sent Delanon for his pRper are the only "foul"
menus I have lined iu connection with the af
fair. Any one with half an eye can see the de
sign in this uncalled-for and ill natnrcd fling.
It is siiuplr to create sympathy tor himself and
us dirty sheet, anil to oiler one groundless rea
son for my removal, which Delazon and his
rew meditate. Otherwise, why charge me as
postmaster with corruption 7 Dclnzon, will
ou please copy 1 A. l.lMUA,
P. M., Salem.
Xew Jersey. the acw Jersey Uazette, a
democratic paper, says of the recent election iu
that State, and the defeat of Gen. Wright, the
democratic candidate for governor :
' bN WKIOHT IN M siSEX. III SUSSCX, a
county that alone should liavo given Mr.
Wright a greater majority titan received by
Mr. Ulil en in tne whole State, ituu where the
divisions of the party in reference to Lecomp
ton had just been compromised and healed,
the wounds were opened afresh by the removal.
on the part of tho Administration, of a worthy
aud popular Democrat from a petty post oflice.
sn account of his entertaining principles iu
harmony with those ot judge Douglas, aud also
with Mr. Buchanan when he was elected in
183C. The result is, that this staunch Demo
cratic county always good for from 1.500 to
3,000 Democratic majority gave Mr. Wright
but a meagre majority of hiSo." .
We think the lute election indicate pretty
clearly that Douglas can carry Xew Jersey,
aud that no other democrat can.
Demonstrations ix the North. The
day upon w hich Old John Brown was executed
was quite generally observed throughout tho
north, by demonstrations of sympathy and sor
row. Public meetings were held, inflammatory
speeches made, sermons preached, bells tolled,
minute guns fired. &c.
E" Matt Ward, who assassinated a school
teacher in Louisville, (Ky.) some years ago,
ha become rery successful in raising stock.
nd is one of Uus uoat auterpruuoz raisers io
Art ansa .-.
TIIK MA JUArt Ql'ttflTIOI.
The paper by this arrival bring some items
in regard to the San Juan Island difficulty :
Tho proposition submitted by Lieut. Gen.
Scott to Governor Donglus w a a follows t
" Without a prejudice to the claim of either
nation to the sovereignty or the entire Island of
San Juan, now hi dispute, it is proposed that
each shall occupy a portion of the same by a
detachment of infantry, riflcmeii or marines,
not exceeding one hundred men, w ith their ftp
propi iate arms, only for tlic equal protection of
their respective countrymen on said island in
their person and property, and to repel any de
scent oil too pan 01 nosine luinaus."
Gen. Scott added in his uote that any addi
tion or modification suggested by Gov. Doug-
. ia would meet with respectiui consideration.
Lieut. Colonel Lay returned the following
reply :
" Memorandum. His excellency Governor
Douglas authorizes me to say, hating yet bad
no time to consider the proposition 1 die red by
Lieut. General Scott, nor to consult w ith his of
ficial advisers here, be is ut a gin nee satisfied
that no obstacle exists to a completely amica
ble and satisfactory adjustim nt continuing
throughout the period or diplomatic discussion
resocctiiie the title of the Island of Ran Juan,
, either upon the plan suggested by Geu. Scott
or some oilier that may be nmtunlly agreed to
alter advisement."
A copy of this memorandum was retained by
Governor Douglas, after being rend and ap
proved by him, aud sunicd by Lacut. Col. I .ay
A great concession of friendship- and peace
was made to England in the Oregon treaty ; iu
depart nig from that straight line of 4'J degrees,
so as to give her the w hole of amsouver Is
land, and the main channel around tlie soutli
eru end of it. She can hardly, therefore, ex
pect our Government to admit her claim to an
other Uihi ud which cleurly lie outside of the
object and intentions of the treaty of 1840.
The disputed little island, in a military or
commercial point of view, may be of small im
portiiucv ; but the principle involved is tlie
same a if it involved the great Island of Van
couver.
The inevitable war " predicted 011 the Or
egon question, in IS"j. Iiy lien. I ass, was
averted by the treaty of 1840. We surren
dered then all that could iu reason be demand
ed for the sake of peace. Xow, the concession
must come from the other side, iu the surrender
of an impudent claim, or this new spec of war
mny expand into a cloud darkening the whole
uorizon.
The Londirn Times upon the San Juan dif
ficulty, enlarges upoi; the general conviction
that wur between America aud England is 1111
possible. It says :
"There are some convictions which wort out
their owu truth in practice ; but there are oth
ers which tend lo their own practical refutation
We sincerely hope that the different readings
of the axiom that war with England and Amer
ica is impossible may not be an illustration of
this truth."
The editorial, after pointing out the impor
tntice of San Juan to England, and the iinpo
sibility of a surrender ol it, unless some very
different title- be brought forward from any yet
. seen, coiiciuucs ov eipresing omen sausiuc
tion that the right to this island will be coolly
discussed ill Washington "aud Loudon, while
the affairs on the spot will remain 111 statu quo.
We regard the prohibition for a joint military
occupation, made by Gen. Sosit, as unworthy
of our government. And it seem that Gov.
DonghM had more Judgment than to avail him
self of it- He has placed uo troops there.
Gen. Scott's conduct in this matter fires mel
ancholy evidence of dotage. And, when the
correspondence, facts. See., relating to the busi
ness shall all see tlie light, we more than sur
mise that Gen. Scott's extranrJiuary action will
lie shown to have her n influenced by a childish
enmity toGcii. Ilarner.
It is s:ii!l the a liiihii-tration will su-tain Geu.
Harney. Wc hope so. HuK whether it does
or not. our title to that island, tilt endeavors of
the Hriti-di to seize it, and all the fact per
taining to the matter, will sustain him; and the
American people will sustain him.
"It i estHbiuhetl lv iitilipu'itMe prjof liial tlie Ilrit
Wi authorities wrrt pre nrmj to el iee a compauT of
soldit-rs on the isluml, wlirll )ri. ILixney onivred tbe
American trou thews.
Vehv Pettv. Some time last fall. Col.
Hooker, the gentleman who superintended the
construction of the road through the Canyon,
(and the only man who ever exjtended a dollar
of Congressional appropriations for military
roads in Oregon with benefit to the country or
government) was appointed to expend the re
mniniug ;$.U00 of the 70,000 appropriated
for the Astoria military road (aud such a road!).
Laue heard of the apmintuient as be was leav
ing Oregon, and he swore terribly, (for Hooker,
although a life-long democrat, is not a Joseph
lackey) wanted to know why "the d d to
pographical engineers couldn't do their own
work.' Col. Hooker went upon tbe road, and
? montht ago reported the humbug imprac
ticable, and left it. By the last steamer, the
first one after the arrival of Lane at Washing
ton, came orders to discharge Col. Hooker ! If
tho road had been practicable, Col. Hooker wa
the man to complete it for the lenefit of Ore
gon. But, Lane cared nothing about that.
Hooker would expend the umuey with refer
ence to tho interests of Oregon, and not to
make votes for Lane, and Lane descended to
the petty act of having him removed. There
is Jo. Lane in miniuture ! How do von like
tho picture, worshippers I What do the peo
ple of thu southern counties, who know Col.
Hooker, think of it I
"Except Capt. Withers.
SIPRRTIK ft It IT Of SRKIiOV
The fol! wh additional causes hare been decided :
Jiwvitl Itrtfrmiftt, rwt'r ra tjirbin f ..TV...:..! At
resp'ts. Chancery. Jackson comity. Hill dismissed"
without prejudice lo petitioner.
Jiuiies Ilurk, pl'tf 111 error, sdva. Sam'l O. SJiafTer,
nei t nt error. Acconnt. Alultnoiuab Co. Judgment
attirnwl.
Saute advs. same. Xote. Multnomah Co. Joag-
lilt I! 1 Biiimwi.
II. M. Frisliie, vl'fT in error, advs. State of Oreiron
del t 111 error. I'olk Co. itcllin liquor without U
cense. AHinned.
O. D. Iloxie, pl'lT in error, advs. W. Hodues, deft
in error. I out. Jackson Co. , Jtiihrroent amrnwd.
S. Coffin, et al., l"lt iu error, advs. Wm. II. Frosh,
deft in error. Acliou in regard to ferry rigbU at
Portland. Writ of error dismissed.
O. il. Uowen, pl'tf in error, adt. State of Oreiron,
deft iu error. Jackson Co. Murder. Judgment af
lirmedand time ttxod for execntiou.
W. It McEwhu et al., iil'lls in error, advs. City of
1 oniHiHi, ici 1 in error. Muunoinuu cq. 10 recover
resl property. Itcversed. - '
W. . Fowler, petitioner . J. CluvKare, respon
dent. Clia iccrv. Jackaon Co. Iajuuciion. kits
niunded to Jackson Co. with advice to allow itijmic
tiin.
J. ChiKKWKe. Pl'ff trf.' W. W. Fowler, deft Ad
journed lruiu JturkHuu Co. Ejortmeut. Remanded to
await deci-nu in Uenend Lund OiKce at Washington.
- Pleasant Huwell pl'if in error, k- .-uue nf ore-
(Ton Larceny. Marion Co. Judgment reversed for
luloroiauty vt Sentence to imprisonment and a mew
trial ordered therefor. Strultoa, J., dimeutiug.
Bancroft's Lawyer axd Form Book.
We have received from the publishers, II. II.
Bancroft & Co., San Francisco, a copy of the
above work, designed for use in California. Or
egon and Washington. It forms a large and
well-printed book of 762 pages, and from a
cursory examination we aro satisfied that it is
all it claims to be. It is for sale by N. T. Ca
ton, at the postoflice, Salem.
Steamboat MKEriso. A meeting was
held at the school-house at Eola, Polk Co., on
the 30th ult., at which C. C. Cram presided ;
T. Pearce, Secretary. The meeting waa ad
dressed by A. C. R. Shaw, Esq., and others.
E. Steitman and er. H. M- Waller were
elected delegates to attend the Convention to
be held iu Salem ; and some resolutions were
pasted expreaaiva of th mum themoeUug.
LiTBiiT news.
rt r . . . .
" nteamer factne arrived 1
on tbe 2d inst. We are indebted Un
Co., and to J. W. Bultivan for oat t
which wo clean the of H
John Drown, tlie chief of the lln 1
ry outbreak, was hanged, in terms of hii
... . v " u, y a., Bl 114 O ClOCk.
M.. of 2d December.
The military assembled at 9 o'clock, and
were posted oil the field leading to the place of
execution, aud also at various points, as laid
down in the general orders. Everything waa
conducted under the strictest military disci
pline, ns if the town was in a state of siege.
Moulded scoots were stationed in the woods
to the left of the scaffold, and picket guards
were stationed out toward the Shenandoah
mountains iu the rear. Tbe military on the
field formed two hollow squares. Within the
inner one was tbe scaffold, and between the in
ner lines and the ooter lines the citizens were
admitted, no oue being allowed outeide of the
lines except the mounted guards.
At 1 1 o'clock tbe prisoner was brought out
of the jail, accompanied Iiy Mterill Campbell
and as-wtauts, and Capt. At is. tlie jailor. A
small wagon, containing a white pine coffin,
was driven up, on which lie took his seat, fcix
companies ot infantry and riflemen, and one
couipany of horsemen, aud the General and a
staff numbering twenty. five officers, headed
the procession and moved toward tho place of
execution.
Brown was accompanied by no minister, be
desiring no religious services, either iu the jail
or on the scaffold. He looked calmly on tbe
psjople, waa fnlly self-possessed, and mounted
the scaffold w ith a firm step. His arms were
pinioned by tlie Sheriff. Krown then bid fare
well to Capt. Avis and Bheriff Campbell, and
at 1 H o'clock the trap of the scaffold was pull
ed away, and with a few short struggles, John
Brown yielded up his spirit. The body was
placed in a coffin, and was taken to Harper's
Kerry, to be delivered to his wife, under a
strong military escort.
Mrs. Brown was escorted over from the Fer
ry at 3 o'clock, when the entire military were
brought out te make a demonstration. She
was received with full military honor, but her
companions were not allowed lo accompany her
from tbe Ferry. After remaining four hours
with her husband, she was escorted back to the
Ferry at 9 o'clock, there to await the reception
of her husband body.
We learn that the Postmaster General has
consented to allow tlie North Atlantic and Pa
cific Mail Steamship Companies to carry a spe
cial California mail, for which they will receive
two cents upon each, at the I'estoflice et which
they are delivered. The letters w ill be trans
mitted by tbe K press Companies at an equita
ble rate, to be paid by the persons sending
them, the proceeds to be divided between the
Steamship aud Express Companies.
The Washington correspondent of tim
Timet, says that it is understood that Secreta
ry Thompson will recommend to Congress the
establishment of martial law ever Utah, as the
only means of crushing out the terrible mur
ders and assassination constantly occurring ia
that Territory.
Jackson, the celebrated pedestrian, better
known as the American Deer " to the sport
ing fratcriMtv. has recently performed tlie feat
of walking 115 hours without rest or sleep.
He tested Lis powers of etwlurauce at York,
Pa.
Judge Douglas and wife design leaving-
Washington on the i'-ltii of Decemlier for Flor
ida, on recommendation of their ithvsiciau.
1 lie Maryland politicians are maneuvering
to get Senator Pearce of that State lefore the
Charleston Convention as a candidate for the
Presidency.
LETTER FKU 1 aOl:i.AJ t OOTV.
At IIiimf., Dooplas county. It-c. 23. IS.jG.
Mr. Ii"SH i According to my promise. I
write run a few lines to inform rou how tilings
statu! in this county. I presume rou have al
ready learned bow our List county convention
wa managed ; so I will ear but little about
that. On the old basis, our number of dele
gates in the county convention was forty-two ;
and on the basis of Stout's vote, of course it
should be more ; but supposing it should re
main at forty-two, and, after all the private
elter-writuig. ruling over the coun'r, verhal
dispatches, ice. einnlored bv the land nft-ce.
thu number of dcleg-.ttes assembled all told was
eighteen a suutll number, coinrared with
what used tn meet iu our county conventions.
I h reason of this was, that democrats con
cluded to let the thing go by default, and when
the proper time shall come, then to act as demo
crats should, honestly, honorably and indepen
dently, without being forced to act against their
convictions, or used as the tools of demagogues.
You w ill perceive, by comparing the last
Douglas county convention with former ones,
the fact that the power of the hind office has
mnch weakened; and unless something occurs
at this session of Congress to favor Gen. Lane,
lie is done going to Washington. I do not say
this out of any personal ill-will to General
Laue ; but I believe that a change is absolutely
necessary for the good of the country. He has
been iu Congress so long, that be perhaps im
agines he it chief Dictator to the good people
of Oregmi. to the democratic party especially,
and to the State Legislature particularly.
There is no doubt that if there could be a fair
expression iu this county of the democratic
preference for Presideut, Senator Douglas
would have a large majority over Gen. Lane ;
notwithstanding some of tbe Lane family speak
very lightly of Mr. Douglas chances indeed,
some of them denounce him as a black repub
lican : and as for our most prominent men,
who have lately been spoken of for the Senate
such, for iustauce, as G rover. Curry, Xesmith,
William and others they endeavor to make
sport of their chances in that connection.
There is uo better evidence or surer sign of
alarm, than to bear men speak so very lightly
of their political rivals.
I hear it said by some of Lane's friends, that
he will not be a candidate for the Senate; but
believe them not it is only a ruse. If I am
correctly informed (and I believe I am. for I
got it from a very reliable source), he is already
a candidate, aud has written to bis frieuds that
be aud Smith must be elected to tbe Senate.
in case be fails to get tbe nomination at Charles
ton. to spite Bush ! Should lie, by any mira
culous chance, happen to get that nomination,
then farewell poor Smith .' Query : who waa
it to spite n hen General Lane came in from
the mines expressly to run against Hon. S. It
Thurston 1
Smith's chances in the south stand at 0.
Tbe people south have not forgotten his tirade
of abuse against theni in times past, and that
without ai'tr just cause or provocation, ile is
certainly a dead " lion " out here ; and, if I
am correctly informed, he is no longer the
" lion " in Linn county that he used to be.
The good people of Liuu canuot be humbugged
always, especially when they fiud that every
thing centers in " dear Smith's " interests, in
stead of the " dear people's."
... . . . - , rr ,
here at Koseborg to get up clubs for the Dela
zonian ; and I believe there have been a few
subscribers obtained for it. But I notice there
has lieen no effort made by the Lane society
for the Corvallis paper. I wonder if they are
going to throw off on Slater ! Poor Slater! It
is always his luck to be working iu the fifth
lead. I am yours. Sec.,
AX OLD DEMOCRAT.
Thanksgiving. The Advocate replies
our article on " Thanksgiving " in its use
.-!. W. SNnt tli.,1 lli. J .
not quote our language without perverting
or take our plaiu statement of facta with
construing them into an assault on christu.
tr. Of course we cannot hold controvers
with such an one.
A Contrast. John C. Fremont j
towards the monument to be erected
: : - r -i , . . ... t i
act does credit to his patriotism.
ton Courier contains the foUowui
" Th mother of John C.
in this citv. aud her crave, we
roartod. " vt oat a couzrw
two ajonoarocgmu.