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Mr Organ gtatcgwag. MONDAY MORNING. AUG. 23, IBM. Thtltttiimtn hat t Larger Circulation than any other Paper in the State, and it the Beit Medium (or Adeertlsers. Th V. ! Laws and Eesolutlons are pahliihed in the .. Bisteso.au by Authority. ' . , L WHO SHOULD GOXTKOL TI1K NATION. It W during the darkest hoar of th? Rev nlutionarp war, that Gen. Washington, in mak ing hii order for the protection Bad lafoty of hi noble little army of patriots, directed the oflloer of the watch to "Put none hot Amerl eaiw on guard to-night." It ie not now the darkest hour of the last great trial of our Fed eral Union, tint it is sufficiently Impqrtant to retiolre the order, that none but Union men should be p'luocd on guard duty, ubootthe por tal or in tlie ball of oor government. It wa bnt a little time ago, especially about the time General Lee was advancing upon Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, that we heard prominent and leading Democrats declare that "the Union has gone up," "the Southern Confederacy is now an accomplished fact," and sa on until their re joiced and satisfied iou Is were entirely and ful ly relieved of the exuberance of good feeling with which tuch thflught oppressed them. Others, more reckless, might havo been heard declaring that, "now we have uo country, " and nil the members of that party, without distinc tion came to the conclusion that the Union waa of no particular value, miles it was perpetu ated by some kind of a Democratic compro mise with slavery. . Many of these ardent Democrat! were like Heriah Brown, their1 ad viser t "They didn't want to be citizens of this country," and would rather go to Mexico and livo among the "greasers" ahjeot subjects of a uiushrooo prinoe from the old world. Many such in Oregon contemplated an early move to ' Mexico, and a final shaking off of dust against the land of their birth. Money wae freely con tributed, a tax of a dollar per bead levied upon the members of a certain secret Demncrutlo society, to sent an agent down to Mexion and "e py ont the goodly land," and one A. J. Uabb, a leading Democrat of Lane county actually went down to Mexico, as la generally believed the duly aocredifed agent of the sturdy Oregon Democracy to the court of his royal highness, Duke Gwin, the spurious Prinoe of Sonnra. We hope our (Democratic) "Southern breth ren" will not iieny these matter at the next election. We will just put them on record now for convenient reference. Snub, facta don't show a very ardent love for this country t not very trustworthy patriotism. It would seem Impossible to find any one born, reared and ed- nested under the protection of the stars and stripes, who could ever oonteinplute the idea of quitting their native land forever. Sir Walter Scott foroibly pots this question I . Lives there man with will so deed Who sever to himself hstli eld This Is "f won, wf nalin land. ,-. Aniimmediatoiy follows a reflection for Mr. A. J. Babb t Whose limit hath ne'er within him hnrned, ' ' As home his footsteps he hsth turned, I From wsuuiriuK In a foreign strand T And for this whole class of Mexican Demo- erata the poet adds : If Sin n there lie, ifomsrk hlin well ; For him no minstrel niplmi-s swell j ' Hitrh thimxh his titles, prmid bis nsme, Bciuudlcs liis wealth as winb can claim) Despite thiM title, power and pelf, The wretch fwicenl'ml ell In self, Living, forfnt "" ", And doubly dyliijt. iuf ivifoisa To the vile iiut from whence he sprung, L'mrrpt, huhoHored and utuHnf. And now where are these fellows who had no country," the chivalrous gentlemen who didn't want to be citizens of a country whero f Lincoln was President. Whore are these stur dy Democrats which the Review bad to afvis swt to go to Mexioo.atid at loast.to make ample Investigations of the onuutry before they start ed I Wbers are tba politicians whose party alooeoould save the nation by a "compromise"? Where are the men who canvassed over in Pnlk, and elsewhere establishing secret socle ties, and collecting a dollar a head to send "two agent" to Mexico ? Are you gentlemen yet willing to abide tlie issue you have made J Do yon believe you have a country now? and, If so, who lias givo you the onuutry agniu ! If ' country, an undivided indivisible country, a ' land where "Union ar.d liberty, one mid iusep- rrnble," ba bveu giveu you, has it uot beeu restored by the courage and patriotism of a Union party President and his brave soldiers ? If yon bare a country again, was it not that sa cred good man, whom you reviled above all other, and hi faithful soldiers and supporter, that have given yon back that ooiintry and it government, even freer and pnrer than when it came from the band of Washington and Jefferson t - Hut these gentlemen will not abide the issue they have made. They insist no longer that they have "no onuutry," 'and Urns by ceasing tint treasonable ery tliey really aud virtually admit that the Union parly hat laved the country. They not only cease to decry their native land, but a change more extraordinary van. la so short a time, la quite manifest. They not only Urns admit they have a country sew. and that the Union party saved It, hut they ooiue forward with indeoeut baste and im pudently offer their sertioes to govern lii's (which to them) waa no country a few months ago. They are now anxioo to share th bur then el the country especially the burthen of oflio. To bo rur they hale the Abolition government, bat it Abolition law, and espe cially the Constitutional Amendment, a th devil balea holy water, bat Uu-y are now will ing to withdraw this opposition, at the com mand of their new bora patriotism, and cheer fully relieve Union men of all the toils of oflioe, aad aot go to Mexico. I thi just I and will Uaiea men permit it I And ie it amaibl that thesewen, wbn bav stood by with folded arm aad sneering Hp while th great struggle for national life aa going on around (hem, now hat tba graceless assurance to com forward aad attempt in dictate th policy nr control th legislation nf the fltat or nation f Will the I tea wb cried eat for a disgraceful peao and &aorbl omavomie, wbil th traitor were murdering ia cold blood th Union sol. tftri al Fort I'llUw, and starving th helplee prisoner at Andermnville, and while JVff Da vit was plotting the kirning of Northern ollle aad the poisoning of hundreds of tbMaad of wma and children at New York, and the foal ( -jlnation of a merciful and hemaae Fred. ( tin oo me forward, after lb Union party t - -irirewa th enemy and seeered aa boa r : J lasting peace, and preseme u Mv t a - --t or iiLi! ofif nit" to lie oW f . ,.' J l - -gentleiuen, of tch para hands as to decline to have anything to do with the "Abolition war," and who used the liberty guaranteed them by magnanimous govcrnanent to villify and trnduoe that government, and to stir up sedition and strife In the roar of the Un ion armies, and to endanger aud sacrifice the peao of society aud the welfare uf the State will these men now, after the war is over and ended despite of thejr guerrilla opposition, in the hour of victory, and when the existence of the nation and the perpetuity of its glorious Uniou assured, and when the stars and stripes which they declined to exhibit on the national nuiiivereury, now (louts over every foot of soil within the Republic, now, when all their efforts to divide and destroy have been defeated, enmc forward aud attempt to dictate the poller to be pursued in governing the "Republic without a slave." Certainly, consistency, modesty, and consideration of propriety would suggest that such person should take a "hack seat" for a short time ; should cuter upon a "state of pro bation" for a proper period, and surreudur the oontrol of the aliuirs of the oouutry to those who have struggled to save it, who have fought its battles and maintained its institution and protected it honor. That "Union men should control the Union" wo believe to he for the present the fixed determination of the Ameri can people, aud while wo would abridge no man's privileges, nor trench upon the right of any, we hope to see the propriety and consist- enoy uf thi course recognized all over tho Union. Tho country is not yet saved ut least the peace of every section and the liberties of all its people are not yet secured biyoud perud venture. The enemies n(tliu government have only uhnnged front. What they failed to se cure by open warfare they will now attempt to secure by political strategy. Failing to per petuate slavery and nristooraoy by the sword, they will now attempt to secure the slave and maintain the old aristocretio class-rnle, by en trenching themselves behind their doctrine of States' rights. The Southern politician are already hastening their States, so a to get a recognition in the Union at the earliest duy possible, and thus get rid of tho surreillnnoe of President Johnson. They havo not accepted the overthrow of the military power as the end of thu contest. And with these Southorn lead ers, th Northern Democracy Is in the most heurly sympathy. And while they are thus united to rostore the old order of things, if pos sible, orory instinct of patriotism demand that the friend of the onuutry stand firmly united together. An exchange forcibly remarks, "to dismember the Union party now i to invite the return of chant and hold nut temptations for another revolution which will secure to th Southern traitors and Northern Copperheads, by political frauds, all that they sought and failed to gain by armed rebellion. It would give them the majority inCongress.disarin the Pros dent entirely, confer the elective franoliiso up on every rebel officer, open to the lender th door of ollioo. give them the next President, sole oontrol of all the Southern States, and end at last in fastening upon the loyal State their prorata of the Confederal debt.whiuh amounts to three thousand million." And who is the enemy that snoceed at the next election, if the Union party I defeated in the State and nation I The tamo paper con tinue s ' The same precisely that wo have been fighting for four years. He ha not in the slightest degree mndcrated hi principles. He still insists upon it that the war was wrong from begimiiug to end, and that the South was right ; be is a mooh a secessionist to-day as on the days that he exulted over the surrender of Sumter And the defeat of Bull Ruu. Give him his way, and he would strike from tins pon- ion litt every wounded Union soldier, and de stroy every monument erected to our patriotio dead. He would, lu tho name of tho resolu tions of 'Od '99, repudiate tho national debt, aud pay the debt of the rubels. Ho would Ig nore the war bonds in every loyal Stale, tram ple the emancipation proclamation under foot, and tax the whole country to pensiou and build monuments to every Confederate thief of dis tinctinn." Then we say, let Union men stand shoulder to shoulder, and firmly maintaining tba right, deteriuiue that Union men, and that Union men alone, shall oontinue to oontrol the affairs of the nut ion. OllKUON CENTUM, MlMTAUY ltllAls. From recent loiters from tho exploring and surveying parties on this roud we learn that tho country oonlaiua a far greater amount of valuable land than the most sanguiue friends of the road bad anticipated. Many exceedingly fertile and beau tiful vallrrs, together with linn enso tracts nf the finest graxiug land, bus beeu found nu the line of the road. This proves a two-fold ad vantage to the Company : first, iu the intriusio valuo of the land (three sections to the mile ol road), which will become tho property of tho Company ; and, seooud, In the largo ponula lion which will be attracted by these valuable lands to (ettlo along the road, thus orealing permanent aud Increasing ooiumerue that will always use the Company' mad. on thi great central highway to the mines of Idaho. These facts give a permanent value to the stock of this Company and make it a desirable invest' inent. Davis' Disai-poikteu Expectations The Woonsocket Patriot relate a conversation that ncoured in th Smithsonian Institution in Washington in 1854. when Jeff Davie p redid ed that I' p Union would toon be divided iuto two republics t Where will th division nr boundary line ne I Interrogated f ml. Jewell, the iihrarlan, to whom the conversation was addressed "Tba liue separating the (lava and free States." answered Mr. Davis. "Then," said the professor, "yon expect to claim tn national capital." . "Uf course." was the reply, "and thi very aniiinsonian institute win be within the South ern republic" "But." asked the professor, "how will von bring abnat such a division of the country J l) you think tho free .Slates will agree to ll without a resort la arm I" "Sir." said Jederton Davit iu hi teuteiitioos manner, "the North will never light us on that question. There will lie no bloodshed. When tlie South lays she will secede and become a distinct nationality. Ibis north will be glad to let us go. and peaceably. It will be a blood ies revolution. Wrix RiPURlt. The Colombo. (Ohio) Critit, an old secession sheet, said lately i "Civil freedom hat bean assassinated while it slumbered in fancied security t justice has been made a mockery liberty baa been out raged, asurped, hetrared i aud every tradition uf lb people Insulted and spurned." Whereupon lb Union I'tdttti replies! "Talk it a it I, and say treason has been qaelebexl, traitor psniebeil, lh right to dis solve ilea Unie been deek-d, and he old wy a( allowing slav driver to whip th North into every meaenr they pirated has beeo arrested. Ti.t s just it Lit ht Inn iloiu'. aud ' lli.il waai'a th matter with th like of yoa !'" A M liSSTATKM ENT COKUIil TKII. A recent issue of a copperhead sheet contain ed the following extraordinary and inexplica ble attack upou one of the most oprigbt judges that can be found iu nny State of the Union : In st least nno ilistrlrt of the Hutu, we helluva fully iine-tliird of Hie elti.i'iis thereof nlirink from entering lti'iiirt. lirrtily liclievinir that tlie imttiral iiilirinities of the presiding JudKe his intnlernure ol diltehllg opinion, extreme prcjuilke und iuipluimlily resentment, render ll aiineuii.irniit iinp'iiiic,nirniin inuojiwuec to un enemv especially in times of high party excite ment, like the present. And this Indxe roughly rides over the tinie-hon. red precedents, ami tramples np'jii the remedy the law Intended to provide lr such a slate of things, hy pulilicly proclaiming tlmt he will grant no elm uge of venae, on the sworn alliduvit of a purty mat tie believes lie eannot uuvc justice, unless ne the Judge feels that lie U no prejudiced that he can nut render Justice. Judgo Bnisu it the man at which the above thrust i made ; and the matter it noticeable ouly on account of the manner iu which the at tack it tnn de, and Its author. At a matter of fact the chnrget in tho article are entirely with out any foundation whatever. So fur far from th truth it the statement that "this judge" hat prtoUimed a rule that he will "not grant a change of venue, unless." dec, that no rule of any kind hut been proclaimed, ond in at least one case that we know nf, a change of venue ba been tendered the defendants upon making the formal adidavit required by the statute. Instead of any one shrinking from the court of Judge Boise, we are well satisfied that he enjoy mora generally and fully the confidence of citizens of all parties, than any other judge which hat ever honored the bench in Oregifti, tince tlie organizations of the State oourtsj not that Judge Boise it pre-ominenLrJi're " above hit associates of tlie Supreme Court, bjy that he is more widely and generally knownVt upon and enclosed all outside of siioavJ The gentleman who penned this Intiduout at tack upou Judge Boise, limy not be so familiar with "time-honored precedents," at to make him a competent Judge nf what ought to be done in ull cases. If a criminal arrested for murder, can, upon his own motion, tweur tlie right nf trial away I ruin the people in whose midst he committed his crime.we then hold our lives and property, not according to law, but at the will and pleasure nf the desperadoes of the country. What caret the man, arrested for murder nr rubbery, for bit oath ? He will twear to anything to get bit case removed may he to a oounty whero the sheriff is hit friend, or that delay and removal for trial may afford means nf escape, and for many other reasons entirely inconsistent with the certain nnd speedy atlmitiistralion of jhstice. Benle and Baker made their affidavits that Judge Boise wut prejudiced ngainst them, nnd they could not get a fair trial ; when the truth was, the judge was totally unacquainted with eilber of the men, aud could not identify the men nt flrtt light and nt the end nf their trial they both admitted that they bad received a fair trial. But if the advise of these gentlemen of the Arena bad been followed in that case, it would have been t int to Polk county and tried before some nther Judge, and witli no other re- suit than adding three or four thousand dollars additional tnxes lu tho bill for thit oounty. In the matter of a change nf venue In criminal trials, Judge Boise hut follows tho practice es tablished iu this district by Judgo Williams, which is founded on the "time-honored prece dents" prevailing in nil civilized countries for the past five hundred years. We can tee no other purpose of thit article in the Arena than tn create if possible a little prejudioe against the gentleman at whom it wnt nlmed, and to that end it was worded with much more circumspection and moduraiion than is generally observable in that paper. But it will entirely fail in its pur pose. Judge Boiso it loo well known j and this poisoned arrow will full harmless at bis feet. He enjoys an enviable reputation for in tegrity and ability ; and before we would tee one such fearless and impartial Judge stricken from the Supreme Bench, we would gladly lose a dozen Governor! aud Senators. Willi nn in corruptible steadfast judiciary our right aud liberties nro always tafe. THE CUOLKKA PLAbTK From the Intelelegraphio and other news, we learn that the cholera hat again made Its nppenr auco in the fur East. Some time ago. we ttated that a great plague had appeared at St. Peters burg, Russia, and which, from the number nf dentin caused by it, bad created a great panic After running a course of several months, and without producing, auy remedy, (hit plague turned westward from St. Petersburg. From mora recent intelligence from that part of the world, wo conjecture that tho plague of St. Petersburg win nothing more thau the devel opulent nf the old scourge of the East epi deinio cholera. Dispatches -from our Amerl can Consult iu Russia, and likewise iu Iudm to the li n eminent uf the United Statet, ex press the opinion Ibtt tho chulera it sgain upou the highway of empire and civilitation.mnking itt way westward, and that iu a Very short time it will reach the United State ; and advise the Government to take such precautionary meas are a will prepare our great cities for it ad wot, and render it umveloomu visit at harm let aa possible. A few facts relating tn the history of this most extraordinary disease, will not be uuiuter esting to the general reader. From a late au thor, treating uu tba subject, we eitrnot the substance ol tho following, Cholera is prnba bly the most fatal disease known in the annuls nf medioiuo. It it generally believed to be of Eastern origin, having first made its appear ance iu th delta of the river (Janget in Iudia. Au Kutliih writer says I ll approach was dis oerued afar off, as distinctly at a storm it dis covered by the rising clouds from th horiion in th direction uf the wind. Th diturder bj- gan to rag with terrible severity in India. From India it can be distinctly traced In our own (Euglish) shores i toward which it ap proached with slow aud halting, but with sur steps, in a north west direction. From India it spread to Persia j from llienoe to Russia ; and across through Poland to Germany ; .and at leogtb it was found at Hamburg. , It had been predioled brfora that lim that the dis temper would at length reaoh Great Britain The English Governmeut sent two eminent physloian Into Russia In meet it, and lo inves tigata it nature, lu th fearful anticipation that it course across tho earth would continue progressive ; and according ly at the expiration or luurlreo years it did reach Englaud. as had been foren aud fortold Crossing th Atlantic it invaded America turning at the tarn time, in a southeasterly di reotion. ll ravaged Franc and Spain, and thi north coast of Africa and Italy. Moving ihns onward, at it did, in defiance of all natural or artificial barrier, under opposite extreme of MO, temperature and shout. In th teeth of advert winds, over lofty mountain chain, acre wide , through "hot, cold, moist and dry." lu -their general oouris and character, th three epidemics of IrJUl 'US, 18IS-W. ""I 1853 '54, manifested a strong mutual resetn- blauce,, .Each had a period of invasion then a pause anil then again a subsequent fiercer outbreak, determined opparently by atmos pheric condition. All three fell with unequal severity upou different parts of the country ) and the parts which tulfered thu most aud the parts which suffered the least, were, with few exceptions, tho same in all. In each epidem ic thu mortality was the highest in the months of August and September. More persons died in lr34!) than in 18:J2, and fewer in 1854 than 1849. At it tccond visitation, seventy thousand person died of cholera in England. As an epidemic, it has never proved very fa tal on tho Paoifio coast, and bat therefore nev er been feared ; but to the emigrants on the Plaint, iu 1852. it proved a toourge a hundred tiiijet worse and more dangerous than all others. Ill'DbOX'S BAV COHPAXrS CLAIM. Yoncam.a, Ogn., Aug. 6, 18G5. Dkak Silt : Were I one of the Commission ers, I would refute tn consider the claiint nf the II. B. Co.', a based upon -the Memorial nf which you have sent me tome copies. It is full of uiitreprusentatioD, if uot of downright falsehood. I The Company never had, nor never could have had an ezclutive right to anything in this country. under the joint occupation that subsist ed prior to the 15th of June, 1840. Under that arrangement, neither Briton nor Ameri can could acquire a riiht to the toil, nor an ex clusive right tn anything else both parties ere "squatters" on linds to wulcli the Indian nii ill existed. rr doet pottetsory rigmt ucli case extend b-vnud the spot actually res is perfectly free to nnv one white or red. I Ins is the law til the neutral ground along tlie border everywhere even nn our nwn undil uted domain, the squatter held only what m ncloted until G'nDgres, by pre-emption laws extended hit claim to a definite area, and, in case a pluco or lnl was abandoned hy one uo oupaut, either builJiiig nr enclosure might be occupied by the nextoomur, As lar as 1 know, no ouo aonng ny authority of the United States has ever disturbed the II. B. Co. in itt possessions; hat ever interfered with its navigation of tho Columbia; with itt trade; or prevented itt animals from grating on the common, it hat, in every case, anau- limed its posts south of tho 49th parallel vol untarilv. The year 1805, I believe, terminated itt li cense under thu British crown, and lis sojourn In Uregon being bit temporary from the first, its improvements have all heen temporary also. Vancouver, tlio most valuable nt lis posses tions, was an ill arranged map nf old tnmble- lown buildings of rotten wnou at the date ol the treaty. Some of them were propped up tn prevent them from fulling, at lar hack as ItHJ. Of Fort L'mpiiua (tn my knowledge) what re mnineil ol it, utter tlie nre, was rotten anu worthless. For three years before it was altan doncd, the iinproviiincnts.with a section of land attached, only brought a rent ol MMJ per an num a positive proof of value at the improve uienti paid a rentot only ten per cent on VI. 000 yet I see hy the Memorial, the Company values Fort Umptma at XH.WH) '. I entertain high respect and esteem lor many of the gentlemen of the II. B. Co. I have no treiudice against them, nut tint claim it pre posteroits. Except the nnnnyance suffered rom soldiers quartered near its posts, the I o, has had no'hing to complain rt, cither Irotn tn American Government or American peoplc- It abandoned none of lt posts until they ceased to he profitable. The improvement left was of no former value to It ol no value whatever to the United States. The Company's improvements I no not be I'eve cost one'eiilh of what is claimed for them and when the Company ubandoned them, they were not worth nne tenth ol what they would have been if new. and tlie changed cirouin stances nl the country r quiring no inch ttruo tures, they were of no valuo whatever. I mil. therefore, of opinion the 11. II. Com nany is not entitled In any compensation from the United States for their possessory rights south of the 4! "ll parallel, except wheie mil itury posts have been rstnhlislied nt Its places of trade, and tins Humid not exceed a lair con sideratiou for the use of the premises occupied np to the expiration ol their license tn trade on tint tide nl the continent. At 1 understand it, the right of the II. II. Company to trade out side the waters nf Hudson Hay. washy licenso expiring every twenty years, llns (Jomi.a uy could claim no more from our government than was granted lo it ny it own. it is well known fact, that up lo tlie tune Its license expired, in no case hail the Co. heen onsted hy the United .states irnm any ol Its posset sions. nr prevented from the full enjoyment of any right it bad under the treaty ol joint oocu pation. Very respectlully yours. IKKHB Al'PI.EOATN. A. C. Gums. Gov. of Oregon. FOB Kill The election return nf the 19lh in England shows 745 members returned of ahum 'Mi are liberal. A gain of two. D'lsrneli ha been making a speech in which he expressed hit conviction that the result nf the election wouldn t dimmish confidence us the coiiservitive parly. 11 asserted that the conservatives in Parliament would be superior to those elected in ItOi). When the House falls into its position and is weeded of those III eral members agaiustwhom corrupt practices have heen charged, ne uelieved the political situation would be ideutioal with what it was two mouths ago. Concerning the power and strength of the govermueut, be contended that the returns nf to large an opposition party was fullr as milch as could have nren expected The ohob-ra bad broken out in llirmingham Large numbers of people are laid have heen attacked. The Spanish notes, relative to the recogni tion of Italy, will contain no condition nr re striction of an essential character, and prngrei siiai is sure. Meetings will soon be held at Madrid to determine what course to pursue at the next election. There was an earthquake nn the Kilh of Ju at Capena, Italy. Several lives were lost, am there was great damage tn property Iu France, the late elections which bav ta ken place ar favorabl tn lb government. The Italian Uoveruiueul ba received aspe eial dispatch from the ll.ilish Cabinet recog- niling the Kiugdom ef Italy aud expressing friendly feeling toward it. Spain and Franoe hav exchanged treaty ratihcations (or reducing Ibe customs and tar 111. The cholera in Alexandria was subsiding-. The weather in Kuglaud has becotu iuciom cut, much rain tailing New Yitrh. Aug. 13. The Warsaw Journal announces thai lbs plan for a telegraph line Oetwecu ltustia and America baa beeu ap proved and signed by the Ciar. The Russian Government undertakes tuoouiplels the line far as Nieoladewski, the remaining portion San Franoisea being in charge of an American oompanv. Th capital of the latter amounts taiti.uui.lJU; bouds, representing fS.-tit MM, nave already been leeued. It H) intend' that this route shall be finished in fir year. pRCRRM-n or MiNit. Tho. Nisbet, bro ther of the late Jaroet Nisbet, who was lost the Jonathan, hat received a h-tler from a gen tlenian at Crescent Lily, notilyinr bun lb among the paper band oa tho body of M NisIh'I, na a will written ia lead pencil, am evidently written alter the ship bad struck The will make hit brother sole executor. Thi I an unusual instance of self-possession am tneoghlulness in ths hour of deadly peril. Not Disohaiuki). The Walla Walla SUitiman states that Ferd. Patterson has not been discharged from custody, although the Democratic special grand Jary refuted t in dict. Jndg Moflrid ha ordered lb sneriff Ie hold on to him Until th svssiou of th Belt regular graud jury. TIIK I'llLST VYOHI) FOR Til K "ORKu'ON AblllllbTlBISI." Eu. Statesman : Will you permit me to ppear in the column oi your exuriiem p mce again ( My democratic friends ay that have a constitutional itching lor newspaper otoriety, hence I have been "scrnmiing on II tubieots for s long time past. Well, as they nre never known to tell a fib, I had better con fess judgment,' and let the community pass sen- nce on me, nut. at niv siioieci mis un harmless one, I hapo to nffetid none My text it thit : AN OHEOON FAKMElt 8 PAPRIt. I see you propose to issue an agricultural pa per in Salem shortly, to be called the Oregon Agricultural, aow, mat is uie very muci have been thinking annul lor some time post, oping that some nno wouiu taae uie nuusi m am . We all recollect mat on ogriouuurai journal was started at Portland some years ago, and that it labored through several yeartol ex istence, and that it died. Thit wae not on ao count nf uny lack of talent, energy, or steal. But there teemed a strange tort of apathy on the part of the very nnes who ought to have given the paper vitality and strength, hy tub scribing liberally, and paying, at well at writ ing, for it. Too many persons, when ouce a paper it under headway, look upon it as a sort of thing having Inherent vitality; and, if they subscribe for it ut all, think that act It very meritorious, and hence they often neglect to pay for months and yeart. and sometimes never pay at all ! Now, printers, editors, and pub lisher are just line otner men tney eut, unoa, iniirrv. and wear clothet. if they are to lucky as to get all these good tilings especially wives. Their capital, tune, anu nisn a greai deul of anxiety nro in requisition in tbtir en terprise, una tliey uo not wish in inn iu uusi- ness. As to political, relieiont, scientific, or nther publications ol the day, 1 am not now writing mean to come right out, anu say urine tann ers, gardeners, and stock raitcrs of Uregon that it it a sname to them that nn agricultural work ia uublithcd in this Statu. It it not the funlt of editors and publishers, for tome uf them would be perfectly willing And ready to go iuto such an enterprise, it they coma ne as sured that the paper would be well sustained. The internal ullairs ot Uregon are winery uu- ferent frnm what they were somo years ago. Now. namcrout and rich tuinei are aisoovcreu all ahne onr mountains: roads are being con tructed through the hoart of onr country, the tide of emigration is setlmg hard to our statu, took hears a hue nrice. and there is nn assur ance that agricultural product will henceforth command very fair prices in Uregon. The cheapness nf our rich arable and timber lands, our climate and locality, nro nttrncting the ot tcntion ol people alar oil. and very soon ur. egon will number thousands of people, where he now counts only Hundreds. I lie wool ousi- nest it assuming a fixed condition, nno mo beep-raisers have waked up to the importance nf this staple ot Uregon. Mow, tliero is noen of a farmers' paper here, that will advocate all these growing interests, that will open Its col umns tn the producers ol Uregon, nnd tau deep and abiding interest in the wellare ot all its mends, nnd, incidentally, til nurwnoie oouutry and her best interests. And are there not men enough alreudy here, who would at once subscribe and pap down a sufficient su for a well aud ably gotten up agricultural pa per amongst us? We know Unit funning, gar dening, and fruit-raising must all be learned, nnew here. Then, a " medium" is required, through which the "experience" nf farmers may be made known tn all others ut to the best modes of culture. Oltentimes one single arti cle from the pen of a nurd fisted farmer, tho he might not write as fluently as a jciicrsnn might be worth to Mr. A, Mr. B, or me, twice the amount of our yearly subscription to such paper. it it not worth while for mo lo " scribble" much more ou thit subject, but I will just say In the Farmers, Stock raisers, and Urchardislt of Uregon, come right np tn the work, and sustain tlie Uregon Agriculturist sustain it with material aid, and with your comiiinnica lions, right along. And to its publishers, would say, go ahead .'for I have had good chances tn know the sentiments ot many larm ers and others iu the Willuinette valley this year, in relation lo such a paper, and am satis tied you will be tupported. David Newsom. August 24, 1 605. FROM IRKSIENT CITY HORE BODIES FOINU. Jacksonville. Aug. 2t. The following it an extract taken Irom a private letter to tho Ure gon Sentinel fur publication, which give statement of all the bodies found near Cresuent City from August 17th to 20th : No. 42. A white woman, apparently ahnu forty-five year old, five feet eight inches high, rather lleehy, light brown hair, long and mixed with soma whitfe : had nn a dark woolen dress ribbed, the bottom embroidered with red an black buttons with white set; gold ring mend ed on luside with a piece of silver. No. 43. A white man, from thirty-five I forty years old, five feet four inches high, hair worn off head, black goatee, face could not be described, gold teeth ; had on purple oassunere pants, pegged boots, nne half-soled ;' one gold hunting natch with vest chain attached, one gidd lady a watch with guard and chain attach nl, one silver Math, lour Brother Junathan checks for trunks Not. 5. 34. SI and 64. Coin in pocket amounting lo JO 75. Hau nn alsn n black oatsimere vest aud white nvershirt. Found four miles below Trinidad t!:ehodyof Isaao Well, brother of David eil, of Fort laud ; also a young lady supposed to be Miss N. bhriser. Found at Gold Willi, a whiti man, six feet two inch s high, would weigh about one hundred and eighty pounds ; hts gut no oilier description. The supposed killing ef a man near Klamath nver.who came ashore on a piece of the llroth ir Jonathan I untrue. Creeoi ut City. Aug. 20. To the editor o the Oregon Sentinel: I was wilness to the find ing of a body nf one of the passenger! of lbs Brother Jonathan on the I.Mh lust., near Che co, iu Uregon, a few miles above the boundary line. He was a lull sued stbh-lie man. wit dark red hair, goatee and "lusters under thi i liin ; features large, round and rather heavy He bad ou only a knit gurnsoy shirt, drawers and pants and a lifo preserver. In his pockets we louiid a coiuh. a ten dollar gold piece an two small papers mujcu worn and torn. Vt also look from bis fiuger a gold ring, with the device ol a double heart and inside ol it en graved the name Irwin. One nf the paper was au inventory nl men t and women s cloth iug on board tho steamer Golden Rule with th cost ol each article, amounting in all to f 347, 23. The only name on thi list was that nr Calhaiiue Itwin. Th other piece of paper wai folded within th first and was lorn ou the side and bottom ; it was perfect on the top and contained Ihie writing : "John It. Ferguson, Soullieast corner of Howard aud Thompson sire ts, Philadelphia." The items for w hich Mr. Ferguson waa in debted to John Irwin did not appear, but were lorn off. The body with the articles found were left in poxeesion of Mr. A. F. Miller.wbo live at th month of Chrtoo creek. Mr. Mil ier would pmcceed to bury the body is soon as a cofjin could lie made. The steamer Gelden Rule, yoa will remember, was in the Nicara gua in and was Inst on Ihe Atlantic tide. I hav a full copy of lb inveutory of clothing, nnd I all mad a heavy pencil sketch of tba leaturetof Ibe deceased which I will teud to any relative desiring them. I shall communi cate these fact to Mr. J.B. Ferguson, nf Phil: adtlp ua. Perhaps if they ar published in Ihe Uregon paper they may lead to lh identifica tion of the person. Your, very respectfully, Sukrman Dat, No. 57. Montgomery Block. San Francisco. rTGen. F.well I among the latest appli cauls for Presidential pardon. He states as an exonse for his rebellions conduct. Ihst North ern Copperhead newspaper and public men did and saiJ to ranch lo encourage the disola lioo of th Union, that he. among many other, thought il would be ateless to stem the current of rebellion, snd to he Hosted with it. Democratic Editor ar txpectod to pray for Gtn. Ewtll. mM.KU'llH' NKWH. Fiirtro: Monroe, Aug. 5. Clark's cotton factory uf Petersburg. Va.. hns beeu destroyed by fire. Loss $20,000 ; insured. New Orlennt. Aug. 5. Tho Galveston Bul letin nf the 4th says yellow fever was prevail ing to a considerable extent at Havana, and thu proportion of death was greater than usual. Thu army worm it threatening entire de struction to tho cotton crop in Galveston ooun ty, Texas. The Hcruld'i special says a call Tor ft Na tional Convention, composed of three delegates from each Congressional District in the conn try to devite measure! for securing voting priv ilege! to oolored people, it being extensively circulated, and ligned in Portsmouth Rtut oth er plaoes in fcnsiern Virginia. Th Herald't Galveston correspondent tayt nt Provisional Governor-Hamilton reached tlmt place July 21st, Un the 23 lust, he issued proclamation to rile people announcing uie inointmcut by the President, and forcthad- owing hit course of procedure in the perfor mance of hit utiliet. ne mentions Do nine ror ection or convention, hut sayt that will he eld as toon at practicable. Ho notifies Tex an of the delusion under which many nf them are laboring that slavery still exists, inform ing them that slavery il effeotually dead and that if they fail tn treat the negro ai lest than freeman, their representative! win in vain leek admission tn Congress. Washington, Aug. 7. I he Secretary of the Interior Department and Commissioner of the Indian Bureau, with other officials, have under advisement the plan of adjustment of the rela tion with tribes in New Mexico. It it repre sented that oertain propositions from tho Socie ty nf Friends have been received by this De partment, wuicn poiiiie iu oeri-aiu reiunue in lioverumeni jegisiuuon nnw in vogue id me Indian country, and which asks tho privilege nf aiding the ro-ailjustment proposed. It is said that Secretary Harlow left last evening for Philadelphia with a view of personal oontuua tion with the Society. New York. Aug. 8. Ihe Tribune i corret nondont from Richmond tayt evil ipiriti have been let loose upon the United States tince the the unceremonious nnd justly deserved fato of the lute eleotion wnt pronnuiioed joining men and citizens together to waylny and assault every colored man they meet, while older headt uivereally adopt tho plan ol lighting our toi lers, aud at the sumo time hissing nut their bitterest denunciations nn the negro. The most stringent orders of General lorry are made nuate tn meet the growing abuse. Senators r osier, Jjnoiutie anu rtnss, tent in investigate Indian affairs in New Mexico aud Colorado, have returned from the plniut.-k-Wiiile ahsent.tliey investigated tlie Sand Creek affair, and informed the Indians interested, that the Government disapproved of Col. Chiving- ton's action. They invited the Indians to meet them in council at (;ow Creek, near Fort Lar- ned, Septemper I (Jill, nnd arrange terms of penoo. Favorable resultt are anticipated. Col. Sam'l Tapptui of the 1st Colorado cavalry accompanied the senatorial delegation. The Timet' special dispatch suyi the Presi dent is in good health. A military commission it trying easel of pris oners confined in the old Capitol prison. The receipts of Internal Keveuue yesterday were oue nnd a quarter millions. The Treas ury hot enough funds to pay all indebtedness of the army. The Kenuhlican snytthat Mexican armies, large and efficient, hold undisputed possession of a great portion of tlie territory of the coun try, while guerrilla bauds still roam through every section. New York. August 10. The Commercial says. Mrs. Douglas' appeal to the President for the pardon ot 11. V. Johnson, who was on tlie ticket with her liutiiaiio, at vice rresident.nai proved successful. The Potl't Washington speoial dispatch tayt advicet received by the State Department to day, frnm the American Consul at Malta, states that the cholera wut raging mere to a learlul Kent. CnmmnnicRtion with neigbbonug u- lunilt it suspended. Washington, Aug. 10. Mosby was arrested last night iu Alexaudrin, and is still held iu custody. New York, Aog. 14 provisional liovernor William Marvin of Florida, issued a proclama tion to the people of that Statu August 3d, in forming them of the ncuessnry steps to he taken In restore civil govemii cut, und the day fnr the election of delegates to the convention. I he tunc for Its assemblage has not been do cided upon. It will he named as snon as the proper tune shall have been given tor the peo pic to take tho oath at allegiance. New lurk, Aug. lo Ureal excitement pre vails in financial circles to-day. A number of failures are reported ; among them that of Graham & Co., and Ketchnm Ic Son'; the lat ter firm havo over issued gold checks to the amount of $2,000,000 and left for parts un known. Stocks have fallen off 5 to 31 per cent. New York. Aug. 14. Th Herald't Rich iimnd enrrespondent says six weeks or more ago, General Lee lelt this city anil prnoeeded lo tlie village of Cartersville, Buckingham Co., on the south side of James river, forty miles from Kiclimond. where he is living in seclusion, scarcely answering the myriads of letters ad drested to him. He resides in a small onttnge, the nranertr of Mrs. Cox. adiaoent and belong ing tn which are some four acres of land, which he hnils some recrealinn in cultivating. Gen ersl Lee is unusually retired. It is possible be will rarely il ever emerge from Ins seolo Sinn. The Herald't special dispatch says grave difliclties are arising between th citxens of Meekleuberg county. V a., and the freed men heretofore living as slaves. Washington, Aug. 6. Tli General com manding the Department uf Texas ia enjoined to a strict and faithful observance of th in structions heretofore issued, winch require hiiu In forbear from any show of intervention or war between France and ills sovereign power of which, duarex continues to be recognized as chief. Portland. Me., Aug. 13. The Democralio Convention to-pay. unanimously nomiuated J. Howard of Portland for Governor. New York. Aug. 17. Preston King yester day executed bonds at Collector nf the port of Now York, and will enter upon the duties uf his office on the 1st of September. The Herald't Qneliec correspondent toys the Canadian debt exoeeda seventy five mil lions of dollars. Political affairs are represent ed tn be in a very critical condition. Memphit. Aug. 17. A shock of an earth quake was lelt this morning, shaking buildings, tumbling down chimneys and upsetting loose articles. The sbaks waa stronger at Hoiley Springs, Miti., and Lagrange, Tenn. It tatt ed about ten seconds. No particular damage wut done as far as known. Nsw York. Ang. 15 The State Depart ment hat been informed that Spain having fail ed in her efforts lo subjugate St. Domingo.now demaudt an acknowledgment that th want there to take possession at the request of ths people. The Domiuicians refused tn make s humiliating an acknowledgment, and per ports bav beeu declared blockaded. THE PL.ll.iK. San Kraneiecn. Ap. 23 Th Collector of Custom has rrorienl a communication from. Ihe Atsitslant Secretary of Stat, enclosing a dispatch from th L'nileJ State Consul at Port Mahon, dated May 31, in which he says that he hts learned from rarions tourers that lh Itueeian Plagu it elleujiug westward more rapidly than is generally snppoeed. Soto of the faculty pronoane it oottioos t other d nut. . The Consul ujceu that all caryncs ar riving in the United States from Russian or Turkish port be luhjeoted to a rigid scrutiny before landing, especially bedding, clothing, rags, HO. Tb disease It said to he the ssme as that which visited LnnJoo orer a century ago. Mayor Coon has taken all lh necessary precaution to guard against the introduction of th Russian I'lagn and all other infectious disrate into thi city, though so far a tb plagu I concerned, lull precaution I acces sary, as further investigation hat shown that first report regarding thi diseaeo were great ly exaggerate)!, lb lieaiUi Otfioer ba in- structed the pilots to keep close wntoh for all diseases of an inf'ectiout character in vessel which they board; and as lor vessels from Rus sian ports, there is not on an average more tbnu one arrival in lix month nt this port. Hv the arrival of tho bark Mermaid, twenty. one ilayt from Shanghae, we have files nf pa pers frnm that city to July 20. and Bombay ad- vioet to May 23d. Uhlliese news presents no feature uf interest. Tho papers were calling attonlion to the neoessity of preparing for the readed advent of tlie Uussinu 1'lugne ny oleansing tho cities. Thu Bombay Gazette says that tb losses In that oily consequent nn he cottou bubble, amount to not less man one hundred and fifty millions of dollars, Ruin irj wide spread and overwhelming. A lormiuanie list of failures in commercial circles is re ported. U.S. 7-30 LOAN. BY AUTHORITY Of TIIK KKCKKTARV Or TIIK TKnAB ury, tlie undersigned has assumed Ihe Qomirsl subscrip tion Aiicncy for the ! of United States Tresiury Nntei, besrlnK seven and three-tenths per cent. Interest, pit snnara, knova ss the These Nutes are Issued under date June IMh, 18S5,lnd sre ptyshle three years from thst time, la currency, or sre coa verlible, at Ihe option of the holder, Into U.S. 5-20 Sis pcrccnl. GOLD BEARING BONDS. These bonds sre no worth a preminm of nine per cent. Including gold Interest from November, which makes tho se tul prollt on the T-00 loan st current rslcs, Including Inter est, tbout ten per cent, per snniim, besides Its hsmptiok rnou urns iso wisicmi. nmrios, wmcu iiws rsoa oh tothsrxpss ctsv. moms, according to the rate levied on other property. The Interest is payable la currency, semi snnuslly, by coupons attached to each note, which may be cut on snd sold to sny bank or banker. The Interact amounts to One cent per day oo s fiO note. Two cento " 10O " Ten a 300 a 20 " 1,000 $1 ' ri,IHI0 " Nutet of lit the denominations nsmed will be promptly fur nished upon receipt of subscriptions. This Is ths ONLY LOAN IN MARKET now offered by the Government, nni! It It eunHdeiitly expect ed that Its fui;rior adTrintngci will mnlie It the Un than f 800,000,000 of tho Iood authorlied by the lait OonKrcBi, are now In the market. Thli amount, at the rale at which It If belnf abeorbed, will at) besubicrlbe't fur within foar monthi, when tlie notei will andauMetlljr command a premium, u bat uniformly been tlie ease on closing the subscriptions to other Loans. In order that citizens or every town and section of tho country may be alTordi'd facilities for tnklnff the loan, the National Banks, State Banks, aad Private Bankers through out the country have generally agreed to receive subscrip tion, at par. Subscribers will select their own agenU, In whom they have confidence, and who only aro to be respoD sihle for the delivery of the notei for which they receive or ders. JAY COOKE, Subscript loo Agent, Philadelphia. March 25, ISfift. ADDEXDtm. Tku Ovicrlamo Tklsuiupu : pHiLADiLPifti, May 17ih,l8M. 9d Series all sold. Commenced on ttd Series. Two Hun dred and Thirty Millions (ftfc.OiMMIon) precisely like other two Scries, except dated ftih July, and Government reserves) the right to pay six per cent. In (Jo Id Instead of T-80 Curren- CJ JAY COOKE, Subscription Agent, Philadelphia. &IO Howard. Y STRAYED from the fin.lerei trued about the sCllhetriniiintf of hint stilly, aliilit, blood buy horse, filmut 0 years old, about 15 hands high, heavy foretopy and has a very nice earring, no marks or brands visible. I wilt pay the altove reword to any ont who will return the said horse, or give me any Information sn that I may net him. Salem, August ft, Mw8 If, LF.VT. PUOSPECTU9 or thi SUFFICIENT encoti nijrement Mtinff been offered, there will beisaned frnm the Statrman Job Of lice, on or about the Hrat Momltiy of October next, A semi monthly AfriciiUurul journal, with the above) title, and nf the size of the Oregon Stntctmnn, The paper will be devoted exclusively to the interest of the Farmer, Stock Kuiser, Wool ft rower. Miner, Me uliHiiir, nnd Mtttiufiicturer. It trill Aire no connection trtth nolttici or politicians, tnd will be mnde ana ceptublo and welcome vtaitor to tlte homes of all. The Miner will be under tlio editorial control of m irentleman in every way qtialinVd to make the paper readuble and instructive, and wlto will be a Minted by original papers from tome of the most Intelligent and miclicttl farmers iu the State. Oregon Is now popa on etHHitfh to support its own agricultural journal, mid this paper etmll be made worthy of a generooa pntronasre. The subscription price will be 3 per annum, Ineoln, pnyabie invariably in advance. Leva) Tender note will lie received at current rates. Money inclosed io presence nf Potmaterm, sent at oor risk Advertiaers will observe that the AgriUttrut will nil'ord the best means ol reaching the Farmers, Me chanic, and others ihronghout theHtate. A limited) uuaioeror advertiseuieuta will be received. Address, Oregon AgricHlturitt 2tf Saiem, Oregon. Teams Wanted, TO HAfL TIIK QI ARTZ MILL HOM HEN nese's ro Qiisrti'.Tille 12 or IS ions. Ir. nrofj iisilinns rhis weei with .H'NKS. WOOPWOKTH. or MOOIiKS. Selem, Ane. SU. IKiiS. Vm2 Mattresses, Spring Beds, &c, C. !tl. Pnrmnnlt'r JS bow enguifed iu manufacturing HAIR, WOOL, PUI.V, EXCELSIOR, and STRAW MATTRESSES. Also, WOOL, GR1IX, ANB FlOCR SACKS,' Trntft, Wagon Cover. &c. . Shop at Watt Sl Bolter's Furniture Wre rooms, oo Commercial street, fil.F.M. Aiar 31 . 1865o3 STARR BROS., -Importers, and Wholesale and Krlall DEAI.E1U IX Stoves, Tin Plate, Sheet Iron, COPPER, LEAD, AXD IR0 FIPI I'orcr? and Lin Fiimpa, SHEET LEAD AT) Ziyc, COPPER, BRASS, If IKOX WIRE; And Muntifsftors of Tin, Copper, Sheet Iron, and JAPANNED WARE. At P0BTLA3D PRICES, fOR CASH, OS FARMERS' KICRAMH. Ssl.m. Angus! M , lStii. jfiif Kept Constantly on Hand, A VERY LARGE STOCK OF Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils, Glass, Varnishes, Kerosene Oil, Alcohol, Perfumeries, Fancy Soaps, Toilet Articles, and . Tatent Medicines of all kinds. Tho liest "Wines and Brandies. Prescriptions reliably componnded, at nil hours, day or night, hy a skillful prescriptionist COX fc LADD. Sttkiu, Aug. 20. 4Ctf.
