STATE RIGHTS t)EMObRAT.
SATURDAY, OCTOBEIt SI, 1835.
JVGF.I AM) COSDEnSED
MIS J 11 at-uw"" 1
e the
la a recent issue
bune said :
It is a deadly assault upon the funda
mental requirements of political morality for
a party when in power, not to lie governed
by the - principles it professed and pro
claimed when seeking power .
Now then, let us apply this Very rule
to the present party in power, and see
what the'resutt will show:
. This party came into power in 1861
upon the principles and doctrines enunci
ated in the Chicago platform adopted by
the Convention which nominated Abra
ham Lincoln for President That plat
form says : '
The Federal Constitution, the Rights of:,
the States , and the Union of the States, must
and shall be preserved.
The Constitution of the United States
declares that to the States respectively
Bhall be reserved the appointment of offi
cers in the State militia j that no bill of
attainder or ex post facto law shall be
passed j that the trial of all crimes, ex
cept in cases of impeachment, shall be by
jury, in the State where the crime was
committed; that no person shall be con
tacted of treason unless on the testimony
of two witnesses to the same evert act, or
on confession in open court ; that no at
tainder of treason shall work corruption
of blood, or forfeiture except during the
life of the person attainted ; that citizens
of each State shall be entitled to all the
privileges and immunities of citizens of j
the several States; that no new State
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euiut ihj iwruiuu sumu me jurisuicuon 01
any other State, without the consent of
that State ; that the United States shall
guarantee to every State in the Union a
republican form of government ; that no
law shall prohibit the free exercise of re
ligion, abridge the freedom of speech, or
of the press ; that the right of the people
to keep and bear arms shall not be in
fringed; that the people shall be sceQfe
in their persons, hoiscs, papers, and ef
fects; that no persaa shall be deprived of
life, liberty or property, without due pro-
tions the accused shall have a speedy and
jpublic trial by an impartial jury of the
State and district where the crime wa-j
committed, with the privilege ot counsel
and witnesses in his defence : that cruel
and unusual punishments shall not be'
inflicted: and that the powers not dele
gated to the United Statgs by the Consti
tution, nor prohibited by it to the States,
are reserved to the States respectively, j
It is an incontrovertible fact that the
party tn power have violated each and' all
F these express provisions of the Consti
tution. Therefore, they stand convicted
npon this first eount,. and of the trans-
.gression of each -o the specifications in
cluded in it. Not only is this the feet,
fcoi they now turn npon their own plat
form avowal of the State Rights doctrine
And repudiate it, thus adding treachery to
their crime of violation of the Constitu-
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Constitution, trampled on the Rights of
the States, and perverted the Union of i
fhe States from the spirit and intention
of its founders, to a Union in which
twenty-four States are made m -ennne
doctrines and sentiments, given to the
world at that time, during their lease of
Federal control. I
- And in order that their exeusists or
champions shall not have any chance to
escape by declaring that the war necessi
tated the numerous violations of their
own set rules, we will show that they have
been equally, falae to the doctriues and
sentiments proclaimed in their last Na
tional platform, adopted at Baltimore in
1804. That says:
Resolved, That the national faith pledged
for the redemption of the public debt, must
be kept inviolate ; and that for this purpose
we recommend economy and rigid responsi
bility in the public expenditures; and a
rigorous and just system of taxation; that
it is the duty of every loyal state to sustain
the credit and promote the use of the national
currency.
Already has Horace Greeley, the
greatest popular leader of the party, pro
posed to keep Punic faith in the redemp
tion of the public debt, by reducing the
pledged rates of interest seven and
three-tenths, and five and two-tenths per
cent, per annum, respectively, to four
per cent, per annum and this proposi
tion will of itself shake and impair the
faith of the moneyed world in the re
demption of the debt, and further, it car
riea with it the recognition of the right
to wholly repudiate the debt, for if part
can be rightfully repudiated, the whole
THE PKESIDEXT'S POL1SV.
From all that we can gather it appears
that President Johnson intends to rid his
bauds almost entirely of the actual work
of " 'reconstruction " in the South, and let
it devolve upon Congress. He has con
tented himself with putting in motion the
machinery by which the rebellious "
States shall re-form their local govern
ments under the Union, elect their Rep
resentatives, and choose their Senators ii
Congress. The question of the admission
of these Congress must, in either House,
determine. This is. at least, in somcthhicr
like conformity to the Constitution, which
declares that " each House shall be the
judge of the elections, returns and quali
fications of its own members."
We opine, however, that it is not
any sacred regard for the Constitution
which actuates the President to this
course. He is well aware that upon this
question of the admission of Representa
tives and Senators from the Southern
States, the party in power is almost cer
tain to divide, and become, against each
other, the most malignant of warring fac
tions. To avoid actual responsibility and
escape the maledictions of both factions,
whatever may be the final reiult, he holds
aloof from any inter firence in the matter.
In this he may be cunning, but certainly
can be with equal right." The last sen-pot frank. "Were his motives good, the
tence of the resolution hits with crush-'people would approve the man as they may
ing force the Abolitionists of Oregon and
California, who have passed Specific Con
tract Acts which, instead of sustaining
the credii and promoting the use of the
national currency, have the effect to im
pair ;is credit and retard its usefulness.
The Baltimore platform again says :
Resolved, That the foreign "emigration
which, in the past, ha added so much to
the wealth and development of resources,
and increase of power to this nation, the
asylum of the oppressed of all nations, should
be fostered and encouraged bv a liberal and
just policy.
In violent antagonism to this, the Abo
litionists of nearly all the New England
States have set upon foot a scheme by
which the negro is to be elevated above
the foreign born resident or citizen, in the
political as well as social sphere, aild
their views are reflected by a larste ma
jority of Abolitionists scattered through
other States. ,
And lastly, we copy the following from
the Baltimore platform :
That we approve the position taken bv
hhe Government, that the people of theT'ni
ted States ean never regard with indifference
the attempt of any European power to over
throw by torce or to supplant by fraud, the
institutions of any republican Government
on the Western continent ; and that they
will view with extreme jealousv, as men
acing to the peace and independence of this
our country, the efforts of any such power
to obtain new footholds far monarchical gov
ernments sustained by a foreign military
force in near proximity to the Lnited states.
This is intended as an emphatic ac
knowledgement and approval of the Mon
roe Doctrine. What is the position of
the party m power, and of the Adminis
tration itself, upon this very Doctrine
now? lint recently the telegraph in
formed us that President Johnson and
Secretary Seward had concluded to recog
nire the Imperial Government of Maxi
milian, and they asserted that to do so.
instead of being an infraction or repudi
ation of the Monroe Doctrine, would be
actually in strict conformity with it!
Thus they added insult to injury, and de
clared virtually because then asserted that
black was white, the people must here
after recognize it to be so.
But we need not extend these remarks
any further. We have tried the partv
"i power by the very rule announced by
f:s chief organ and leader, and incontestibly
hewn that its members, its State authori
ties, and its Federal Administration, are
;ach and alt alike and equally guilty
""non the counts and specifications prc
ented. The Tribune dared enly to put
orth the rule as if it were in earnest in
ts expression, and in the trust that the
aeopltf would be gulled into the belief
Bat its party observed that rule. But it
tared not essay to show that in a single
itance," except in the interest of the
CTO.its party has ever clung to its own
proclaimed principles, policy, or senti-
nents; that it has not, on the contrary,
n turn, violated, spurned, and repudi
ted, every doctrine or pledge it ever ut
fered to the people, by medium of its
platforms or Conventions.
r It is stated that Maximilian wrote a letter
F condolence npon tho death of President
of Mexico, which President Johnson re
.'used to receive, on the ground that he knew
ao such personage as the Lmperor of Mexi
"o. Eastern paper.
The event related above must have oc
arred some months aso.
saooountaouuy is indispensable to arrestrthe
systematic plunder of thepublie treasury by;
favored partisans while the recent startling
.developments of f mud -and corruptions at
the 'Federal Metropolis, show that an entire
change of administration is imperatively de
manded. ' ' "-V ; ;':':- - J. '- -
The party whieh solemnly declared this
as the party which has been in power
finoe March 4, 1801. ' From that time
to this, it is admittfidby their.wn lead
ers and organs that, in no country' and in
no age has there been so much fraud and
corruption as at the Federal -IetrepcD;a
jisd throughout the whole Norti, xd
that never in any age . or country has
there been a parallel to the " sy&teiatic
plunder of the public treasury.
In our present limited space, this is all
we can give from the Chicago platform of
""1800. But we. have quoted enough to
exhibit to readers the almost total iiband
niiacnt and repudiation by fhie party in
jwwer of their own expressed principles
Things have
Ranged Binee then. Now, President
ohnson recognizes " suoh a personage as
he Emperor of Mexico," and further
eeognizes Maximilian as that Emperor
He was elected on a platform pledged to
the maintenance of the Monroe Doctrine
but what of that ? It is just as easy for
President Johnson to violate that Doctrine
Is it is for him to violate the Constitution
and ilea ?en knows he has done that very
many tames. - :
Even if the tales of suffering among the
blacks wheh the advocates of human bond
age tell of, be true, the negro is still better
oa than he was before. Oregonian.
Then, of course, the Oregonian thinks the
poor wretches spoken of in the following
much better off now,: with "freedom," than
when honost, virtuous servants ;
It h estimated by old policemen of Rich
Eiond, Ta., that not less than 2,000 colored
prosiimtes have taken to street-walking since
forces. These poor wretches were once re
spectable house sen-ants, but with freedom
came licentiousness, and they now fill the
streets at night, polluting the air with the
vilest language. .
lpLr'Bi3fCprxTT. Valuable discoveries
of iron ore and coal have been recently made
near St. Helens and in other parts of this
lower river county. Columbia is rising into
increaseu imiuriajn:e. -
his course ; but when they are satisfied
lat it is as an aspiring politician and not
as an honest public servant and virtuous
tatcsman he adopts this policy, while they
may accept the act they will not applaud
be actor.
If it is to replace himself in the aflcc-
ions and confidence of the Democratic
party that President Johnson is pursuing
his present policy towards the Southern
tatcs, he will most siernallv fail. The great
mass of Democrats all over the Union will
not again receive and repose faith in the
man who sought to make himself foremost
and most notorious in the days of wildest
icence, among the many odious and infa
mous public men who bent all their cner-
ies to the destruction of the . republican
form of government the Revolutionary
fathers founded, and who alike violated
nd trampled upon the Constitution and
aws, and outraged every impulse of hu
manity, tight and justice, both towards
their countrymen in the South and their
brethren in the North.
Whether lie ean succeed in his appareut
purpose of gathering to his support and
building up a formidable party devoted to
his own political fortunes, from the fac
tions into which his policy will undoubted
ly split the present Abolition party, re
mains for the future to decide. We think
lie will fail as signally as John Tyler fail
ed in a similar effort. He may have at
his heels those who still class themselves
; War Democrats," and the "conserva
tive Republicans. But these two are
simply organizations of office-seekers and
political charlatans neither birds nor
beasts, but bats ready at any moment to
abandon any sinking cause and rush to
the ranks of any victorious one. Mr.
Johnson can depend upon the adherence
of such factions to himself just so long as
he ean dispense favors to them, or have
the almost certain promise of being able
to do so, but not one moment Ionsrer.
There can never be but two really great
opposing party organizations in the coun
try. One of these will be the Democratic
party. It alone, of all the other parties,
has withstood the test of time, the dissen
sions of the designing, selfish demagogues
within itself, and the most terrible assaults
of its implacable foes. It is the only party
which has risen from the prostration of
repeated defeats, accomplished by frauds
or treachery, and again bore itself erect.
united, firm in its faith, and confronted
and triumphed over its enemies. The de
feats of other parties have proved their
death knell. This is the certain fate which
awaits the Abolition party But the Hy
dra will appear with another head, and it
is under that the opposing hosts of De
mocracy will mainly gather. If Mr. J ohn-
son can manage to create himself the new
head-piece of the Hydra, he may find be-
hiud hiin a formidable army of adherents.
But this is his only chance. He can never
again be the accepted, recognized leader
of the Democracy.
We have diliecntlv searched the last num
ber of Mr, O'Meara's Confederate Democrat,
and fail to find a word of revilement about
Secretary Stanton. We must be permitted
to express Sn unfeigned surprise at this, no
doubt, unintentional omission. Oregoni
an, Oct. 18th.
It is not because there was any lack of
material, anxious man '. But we concluded
to rest awhile and introduce the testimony of
Abolition witnesses to prove the infamy,
atrocity and treachery of the distinguished
butcher who presides in tho War Depart
ment. Therefore, if the Oregonian will look
upon the outside of this issue of our " Con
federate" Democrat, he will find what the
Hon. Montgomery Blair, and Mr. J. II.
Browne of the New-York Tribune, say of Mr.
Stanton, : They are eminent and noted mem
bers of the Oregonian'a qwn party. Does it
propose to impeach their testimony? They
simply corroborate what we have, charged
against tho brutal Secretary.
Sexatqr Wilm as. This individual made
a speech at a meeting of Abolitionists in Iowa
some weeks ago. As the party in that State
have adopted a Negro Suffrage platform, it
is fair to assume that the senator's speech
was in accordance therewith. Here, his
nnrtv declare .flffainst Neffro Suffrage. Do
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they think their Senator represented or mis
represented them ?
NEGRO SUFFRAGE.
Some weeks ago the telegraph reported
the following views of the late Abraham
Lincoln on the question of Negro Suffrage,
communicated by him in a private letter
to the late Gen. Wadsworth, who was kill
ed iu the battle of the Wilderness. In that
letter Mr. Lincoln said :
You desire to know, in the event of our
complete success in the field, and the mime
being followed by a loyal and cheerful sub-1
mission on the part of the South, if universal !
amnesty should not be accompanied with
universal suffrage? Now, since you know
my private views a to what terms should be
granted to the South inthccontingencylucn
tioned, I will here add, if our success should
thus be realized, and followed by such desir
ed results, I cannot see if a universal amnesty
is granted, how, under the circumstances,
we can avoid exacting in return universal
suffrage, or at least suffrage on the basis of
intelligence and military service. How to
better the condition of the colored race has
long been a study which has attracted iav
serious and careful attention. I am clear
and decided as, to whnt course I shall pursue
in the premises, regarding it as a relisious
duty that the nation shall be the guardian of
these people, who have so heroically vindi
cated their manhood ..n the battle field, where,
in assisting to uave the republic, they have
demonstrated in blood their right to tfie bal
lot, which is but a humane protection of the
flag they have so fearlessly defended.
Since the publication of this letter in
this State we have watched for some ex
pression on the part of the Abolition press
of Oregon in reference to the sentiments
therein contained. But we have watched
in vain. They have not paid it the poor
compliment of even an editorial notice
Has a " change come over the spirit of
their dreams?" It used to be denounced
as treason by them for any person or paper
to disapprove or fail to accept as final
whatever Mr. Lincoln declared. Have
tiny become traitors f Or, has their re
gard for Lincoln become as cold and dead
as his own mortal remains ? Is his coun
sel no longer respected ; are his precepts
and sentiments contemned ? Do they re
fuse his memory the poor reverence of
even an allusion to his living words on
the main issue now agitating the couutry?
It is for our Abolition cotemporaries to
answer these questions.
In action, we grant, they have answer
ed them. In the Wadsworth letter gi
above, Abraham Lincoln advocated the
right of the negro to vote. The Aboli
tion organs of Oregon, without exception
we believe, say that the negro ought not
to be invested with this freeman's right.
In this, they repudiate the sentiments of
the man they have politically canonized
as a " martyr to freedom," but whom they
now virtually contemn. They were most
clamorous and eager in demonstrating
their unqualified approval of everything
he said or did whilst living. He is dead
and they now contemptuously pass in si
lence or insultingly reject the politica
views he uttered. And vet these very
men demanded and shrieked for the bloo
of Democrats who refused to bow to the
baneful and odious enunciations and de
erees of the same Abraham Lincoln, whose
memory is so derided by themselves. Nay,
more, they howled for the sacrifice of Dem
oeratie lives to atone for the assassination
of their now derided idol, as human sac
rifices are required in Dahomey and the
Feejee Islands to appease the manes of
their dead black monarehs.
Abraham Lincoln advocated and favor
ed Negro Suffrage ; Ihe Abolition organs
of Oregon repudiate and denounce
Their party brethren in all of tho New
England States, in Iowa, in Minnesota, by
their State Utforms, and in mass conven
tions in several other States, have pro
claimed their devotion to Negro Suffrage.
It is the paramount measure which they
contend for. It is the Aet they are de
termined to enforce if they acquire the
power to do so.. And yet, in order to
blind the people to their real iutentions,
to deceive and lure voters to their sup
port, the AhtUtiou organs and leaders of
Oregon assert that they do not favor Ne
gro Suffrage, and protest against its being
made an issue in the approaching cam
paign. The mass of their party are in
favor of it, here in Oregon, as well as in
the States East. But they dare not avow
the fact here" because the popular senti
ment of the whole State is against it, and
they want first to triumph, after which
they will be bold and open. TAenafter
triumph-they will prove their present
falsity, and demonstrate their real devotion
to Negro Suffrage, by enacting in the Leg
islature, and by the approval of their Ex
ecutive, a law which shall seek to override
tho Constitution, and give to negroes the
right to vote. They have acted thus in
the Test Oath law ; they purpose to act
so in regard to the Emigrant voters who
have lately come in. to the State.
Dare they let the people know, these
Abolition organs, what they think of Mr.
Lincolu'a letter ? The people will see.
THE SUPER-tOYAL CHURCH.
The General Conference of the Metho
dist Church of California recently closed
its labors for the year. A report of the
proceedings i'h given in the San Francisco
Flug, the Abolition organ of that city,
from which we make some extracts. We
regret that we have not the space in this
number to comment as fully as we wish
on the action of the Conference, but in a
subsequent issue we may do so.
From the proceedings it is "difficult to
etcrmine whether it was a Church Con
ference or an Abolition Convention. The
hief distinguishing feature is the mention
of more " Reverends" than are usually to
e found in Conventions on this coast ?
u most instances this prefix of Rev. seems
burlesque, for the individuals them-
clves displayed no Christian attributes or
virtues, such as devotion to the Gospel,
the love of truth, justice or mercy, or the
desire to spread peace anil goodwill among
the people ; but, on the contrary, they
copied more the custom and style of poli
ticians who seek to disscminate their own
peculiar doctrines and act as propagan
dists of them. But to show our readers
ust what they did, we quote from the re
port. Their second of a string of resolu
tions is as follows :
Jtesolced, That we hold as sacredly inio
ible these cardinal elements of personal
liberty, free thought, a free toiigue, and a
tree pen
Now, who needs to be told that the
very same canting hypocrites and sancti
monious demagogues who resolved thns
have, for from four to five years, advocat
ed and clamored for, with almost savage
zeal, the suppression of these very " car
dinal elements" as against Democrats par
ticularly, and all who did not bow and
worship before the shrine of Abolitionism !
They applauded the act of the military
authorities when Bishop Kavanaugh of
the Methodist Church was seized and im
prisoned in Fort Alcatraz; they endorsed
the act of the Government when 3IcKay
Kewen, Gillis, and other Democrats, were
thrown into the same dungeon for simply
denouncing the course of Lincoln's Ad
ministration; and they approved most
heartily the fiendish work of the San Fran
cisco mob when in April last the cowardly
ruffians, destroyed the Press, the Catholic
Monitor, and three other journals, for no
cause whatever save that Booth had as
sassinated Mr. Lincoln in Washington.
We could multiply instances, but these will
answer here, l lie nun resolution rcaus
Resohed, That we will steadily maintain
the right of colored citizens, and all other
citizens, to that inestimable franchise of free
men the ballot power.
Is this Gospel and Christianity, or is it
political and fanatical? Readers will de
termine for themselves. But all must ad- j
mit that it is strange matter to find place
in a Church Conference. Pertinent
enough in an Abolition Convention, or in
a Negro mass meeting, it is altogether
impertinent, improper, and very censura
ble in an ecclesiastical council. They
were kind enough, we are glad ta notice.,
to add " ail other citizens" after "colored
citizens " a piece of condescension for
whieh they deserve the thanks of the add
ed classes obviously the adopted citizens,
the Irish particularly and no doubt they
will receive them. ' This resolution is
worthy of especial consideration when we
reflect that if is the Methodist Church
which thus ;-ially and officiously, we
ought to add-.-; eaks, for it is that Church
which governs the Abolition party, here in
Oregon as well as in California.
To show wore clearly just what they
think on the suffrage question, however,
it is necessary to refer to their adopted
preamble, which says the negroes are enti
tied to the elective franchise "because their
average intelligence and thrift are equal
to some classes who already enjoy the right
of voting." The : some classes " here in
sultingly struck at are undoubtedly adopt
ed eitizenst-the Germans and Irish. "All
men are created equal " say our Puritan
demagogues and pulpit howlers, but they
m effect add nevertheless " us Puritans
are superior to the men of the South, and
negroes are superior ta the Dutch and
Irish. That s 1 ankee or Puritan Equal
ity logic, and the Methodist Conference
of California receives the ritual, and to it
shouts Amen ! The preamble further
says that
" We, as publio teachers, will enforce the
obligations of Christian integrity upon the
consciences of all men in their political and
commercial as well as their social and reli
gious relations,"
Faith if some of their "public teachers'
would but take the trouble to come to
Oregon, they could apply themselves in
raded the Bible for ostentation,, or from
usage, upon their pulpits, but it has been
from Abolitiou texts they have harangued
and expounded. For a Conference of
' reverends to thus noitt their own pe
culiar sanctity and excellcnfi the faces
of the people, is in tliejf J.irit ot tne
Pharisee who thankcH4-wJt he was not
ike other men.
The Dally ? H Contract.
The Statesman is in favor of subdivid
ing the long route from Lincoln to Port
land into five or six contracts for carry
ing the mail. Has the Statesman really
given reflection to this subject ? It is
one on which every person and every
journalist in the State ought to exercise
his judgment or influence entirely free
from political or paOsan considerations.
The President of the California Stage
Company is a member of the party in
power, but we think no less or no more
of the Company for thireason. It is
only as faithful mail contractors we care'
to consider any of the Company; their
political sentiments have nothing to do in
the premises. We trust this is also the
position of the Statesman and its fellow
organs in the State. And now we a.k,
does it believe the service can possibly
performed as well by five or six differ
ent contractors, as by one Contractor
Experience and common sense alike an
swer, no.1 Out of the five or six, one or
more might fail in a faithful performance
of duty, and the failure of a single one
would for greater or less time interfere
with and obstruct the performance of
the others. Then there would frequently
occur difficulties, perhaps wranglings or
combinations among some of the con
tractors, to retard the mails, to slight
their duties, or to break down an objec
tionable co-contractor. And it would
not be easy always to speedily enough
trace out the delinquencies or wrongs.
Justice might at last be done as between
the parties but nothing could ever com
pensate the thousands who depend upon
the mails for the injury or loss sustained
by their temporary obstruction or stop
page. There are other potent reasons
why the contract ought not to be let in
IT 1.1..?
suoaivisions, out let these sutnee now.
In the case of a single route, if any ob
struction or failure of the mails occur.
there is no difficulty in at once ascertain
ing where and upon whom the responsi
bility rests- It cannot be shirked off
upon some other contractor.. And better
means can be taken to assure dispatch
and faithful service over a route entirely
under the control of one head, than can
be expected where there are several
heads, with separate and perhaps con
flicting rival interests, to control. Manv
are better than one to counsel, but one is
much better to execute than many ean
be. This principle governs in this very
matter.
What we all waat is a ssfe, quick,
faithful mail serviee. This the Califor
nia Coni.pa.3y Ixas for over five years given
us,, ,1s not better to continue in serv
ice the faithful one than to esay the ex
periment of trusting to half-a-dozen
trange hands, the failure or nou-per-
fornianee of any one of whom may cause
delay or temporary stoppage to all the
rest, and inflict serious annoyance or real
oss upon those who depend upon the
mails for their business correspondence,
remittances, and valuable papers, to say
nothing of ordinary letters and printed
matter: e think it is, and hence we
favor the single contract plan, and speak
in favor of the California tage Company
as the best contractors for the service.
OVERIjANDJDISPATCHES;
DATES TO OCTOESft 13.
Election in Pennsylvania.
Pittsl.nrz, Oct. 13. The Xw aj the Honm
will ftan.l h follow ; 65 Ksul.Kcn and 34 Ie
raocratn. Of the 1 1 Fcnafors elect. 8 sire Repub
licans nl 3 iJcmccraU. The Senate will etaad,'
20"'Kcpub!:caBsf V2 Democrat.
General Newa.
Xcw Yorlt, Oi-t. 13. Geo. Oram bad ordered ft
distribution of troops. All the hintecr cavalry
cast if the MUs-ks'l'l'' 0 ke sf ce mistered out of
service ; all & fort f ouih of Forties Mtmroe, ex
cept Forts Taylor and Jefferson, to 1, garrisoned
In- colored troops all other colored troop to t
mustered out; the M Artilh rj- will garriaon tha
forts in Maine, New Hampshire and itaachnettjif
the 1st Artillery to garrison Xew York harbor j the
4th Artillery at Fort Delaware, iranbington and
Foote; tlie ''.ith Artillery at Fortres.Mc0roc, Fort
Taylor and Jefferyon ; the 2d Artillery to u,e P.
die eoast; the 2d and fith Cavalry to report to- "
Gen. Sheridan ; the 4th Iiifaotry to the Cunadiaa
frontier. . ' ' .
Marshal Goodloc, just from A or;h Carolina, de
e'ares two-thirds of the report of cruelty to tho
ncgroea in tbat Mate w oe iaiw.
Advices from Richmond indicat: that two of tho
Congressmen eleet will not take the oath.
The Secretary of the Treasury is considering
plan to permit bonded good to be transferred from
Atlantic to PaeiEc ports. r
(Jen. Thorna. commanding in Tenoe?eo, ayr
no black troops there will be disbanded nntil their
time is nearly oot; 'they will be retained on tho
same footing" with white troops.
Quarters are King prepared in Forrre? Monroe
for Clay and Mitchel, preparatory to their removal:
from casemate prison.
The Fenian.
Xew York. O.-t. 1?,. A nnmber of dctcctire
frora London arrived on ffto Iat i-teatnet to wateh
the Fenians and report to the British Government.
One or more will go to Chieago, where it is thought
the Fenians are ia greater foree tian eUCK here out
of Xcw York.
' Pacific Coast Dispatches. .
Steamboat Explosion.
Sacranicuto. Oct. 13. The large new steamboat
Yoseinite exploded her boilcre last evening, jurt a
she was leaving Eio wta, on her down trip from
here to San Franeifeo. The following it a lit of
the killed and missing : ffn. Ftevenwm. J. M.
Fallon, John E. Myers, T. Majr, V, g. Suther
land, Louiss LHlie, H. Konnber?-er, D. Barrett. M-
Champion, Henry Kefhcl, C. C. Jacks, C. L. Smith;
II. M. Dakin, Isaac liam. Minor Jloore, 1 strict
Crowell, J. 11. Barnes, M. M. Mccreary, Jo Butler,
G. AY. Beaton. Sccator of Amador county, George
h. Smith, and a number of Chinnmen. A number
of passenger were fcvcrvly or slightly scalded and
injured by being 'knocked away by the ehoek
Wells. Fargo 4 Co.'s messenger wa blown across
the rirer nninjured. The we nnded and suffering
were taken on board the Chrysopclis and brongt to
this city. The steamer was damsged $2d,W0s.
Election Rc turns.
San Franei?o, Oet. IS. Terr few refcrna in as
yet : total vote ab iut 11.000. StEdersoa'snjajo-x
ity will ajif-roximate 1500.
General II etc.
Ths Overland line down beyond Laramie.
The Golden Ci?y took away 801 passengers and"
$1,661,565 treasure.
Jte-elerk of the Yosemite reports 16S cabin, 45
steerage aswengers. and do ( fSeers and crew on
board at the time of the cxplosicn.
A telcgran from New York says the Hambleton
iaa hore IX'X'er trotted a m ileTfaf 2 :1 S l-o, Oct.
10th, beating Flora Temple's besAitme 1 1-20. It
was a match against time, $5,W'0l to f 10,000, to
beat the fastest on record. Tire horse won.
Legal tenders 71 1 a decline.
Trimming Their Sails. We hear
of one or two prominent ABolitioniets in
in thia county one of them ar llepre-
sentatiye who have lately changed base
on the Negro Suffrage question. A few
months ago they were very strongly in
favor of that measure. Now they pro
fess to bo opposed to it. These gentle
men will really deceive no one. Although
the foolish oBtrich may think it has sue
cessfully concealed itself by poking its
head out of sight, any spectator would
know the bird had merely deluded itself.
People hereabout generally ape aware
that the " nigger ts in the woodpile" of
these gentlemen.
Columbia Bar Pilots. The Board of
Pilot Commissioners have revoked license to
all pilots, except Paul Corno, Moses Rogers
and An drew Belmont, the owners and navi
gators of the Bar steam tug.
Postponed. The Washington county Ags-
ricultural Fair is postponed to Wednesday
next, the 25th inst., and will continue until
triday alterooon.
studious labor for a year or more iu the
single work of enforcing " the obligations
of Christian integrity upon the conscien
ces" of very many of their own reverend
calling in their own Church with good ef
fect, in the matter of their ' commercial "
and " social " relations particularly, And
mere is not an oia rcsiaon' or me otaio,
who will tell the truth, who will not cor
roborate what we say.
To recur again to their resolutions : the
sixth says :
Resolved,- That we rpcogn.izo special ur
srencv in the present calls of Divine Provi
dence for a tireless, fearless, unencumbered
ministry in this chastened and redeemed
land."
With all our heart we say Amen to this
There ts a special urgency tor such a mm
istrv, and we can think of no religious de
nomination in which there is so much of
it as in this same Methodist Church. For
vears the so-called ministry of that Church
have so entirely devoted themselves to
nnlitics and fanaticism in manv ways, that
they have quite utterly failed to serve
(Jocf s holy cause, or be ot the least bene
fit to their congregations in Gospel teach
incr. They responded not to the calls o
Divine Providence, but to the appeals of
A Dilemma Presented.
In the next Congress, soon to convene,
a curious dilemma will be presented in
the ease of Western Virginia. Early in
the war that portion of the State of Vir
ginia was, in defiance of the express dec-
aration of the Constitution, erected into a
separate State, and Senators and Kepfe
sentatives from it were admitted to seat:
in Congress. The Administration now
maintains that the "rebellious" States
have never been out of the Union. Agreea
bly to this, the State of Virginia has all
the time preserved her place in the Union
Therefore, when she sends np her two
Senators to the ensuing Congress there is
no reason why they shall not be admitted
to seats in the Senate of the United States.
Are the two Senators from Western Vir
ginia also to retain their seats? If so, the
State of.Virginia will have four Senators
in Congress-two more than the Federal
Constitution permits. The Administra
tion party must either perpetrate a great
wrong in refusing to admit the regularly
chosen Senators from Virginia, or violate
the Constitution by admitting four Sena
tors from that State, or repudiate their
own act of creating the State ot V estern
Virginia. Which will they do X t is not
a twQ horned but a three prongod dilem
ma. In its solution the question mus.t also
occurrr-wheth,er Congress can, by an Act,
wipe a State out of existence. There is
in fact, agreeably to constitutional provis
ion, no such State as Wester n Virginia; but
the party in, powpr created and do recog-
.11 CI. V. .1
nize inai ntaie- iow iney must continue
to recognise it and thus give the actua
State of Virginia four Senators, or do viq
lence to their own past act, and declare
the State of Western Virginia entirely
out oi existence. Ipej have a very snar
ly subject before them--a gordian knot
that cannot be untied. Let us see if they
will out it.
FROM ffALLA WALL.I,
The following synopsis of news Is extracts
ed from the Walla Walla Statesman of
Oct. 13th.
A meeting of the Bar of that Judicial Dis-i
triet met in Walla Y'alla on the lfth inpt.
pas! resolutions condemning the eocducfc
of Judge Wyche in refusing to hold the rcf
jruiar term I court this rail ; cliarjrine frfc-
mient delinquenc-v of csficial duty against
him ; proposin; tnat that part of Washings
ton Terntorv tieunded on the north and eat
v Cohir.il.: and Scake rivers lie embraced
n the StateVf Oregon ; and. if it shall not
a. pctmcnitit tne President to remove Judjra
Wyehe and appoint " some competent lavr
ver in his stead."
A mass meeting was called to assemble in
Walla Walla, on the 8th inst. , to adopt meas--
ures in fatherance of the petition of the
nar.
The Statesman argues that it cannot he-
true that Senator Ncsmith is the originator
of the scheme to annex Walla Walla to Ore-.
gon, because that event would in no wav in-.
ure to the benefit of the Senator in view of
his attempt to secure a re-election. It fSjs
the movement originated -with the citizens
there. mf ..
Lard is selling at farty cents per pound
n Walla Walla, and scarce at that. Verv
little pork is raised iu that Valley.
Two pack trains, laden with 'provisions
lately left WaUa Walla for the Blackfoot
country.
Freights to Boise and Owvhee have ad
vanced from one to two cents per pound.
A new public house has leen onened on
the summit of the Blue mountains, on ? the
Boise road. j "
Gold Creek. A company has been incor
porated in Portland, with a capital stock of
$500,000, of 5,000 shares, representing 34,
000 feet of gold and silver quartz claims on
Gold Creek. Inis new mining region ia in
the Cascade range, seventy -five miles from
John Mitchel's son has been denied "an in.
terview with his father in hi prison at Fort
ress Monroe. Exchange.
Certainly the poor lad was refused. What
else could have been expected ? It would
have been humanity, decency, propriety, to.
have granted his request and when has hu
manity, decency, or propriety, been prae
tieed by Stanton or his human bloodliounds ?
Did not the wolf slay the lamb on the ground
that its dam, the poor sheep, had injured the
ravenous beast? It is the rapacious wolf and
tiger that Stanton emulates, not the mastiff
or lion. Young. Mitchel ought to thspifc his,
stars his visit to the grim fortress was not
seized upon as thee occasion for his own in-
earceration. To be sure, he i3 charged with
no offence, guilty of no crime : but this is
jiist the reason why Stanton imprisons his
victims.
The Latest Ritual. Col. Thomas
Assistant Commissioner ef Freedmen" in
Mississippi, has instructed clergymen
that hereafter, in marrying'" " colored
persons," they must add o the usual
ritual these words, viz : " In accordance
with the ordinance of God, and by au
thority of the United States of America,
I pronounce you man and wife." Wo
presume that God's ordinance is good for
nothing, in Col. Thomas' eyes, without
the addition. The "United States of
America" had better open a marriage
brokerage shop.
Jefferson Davis. It is now report
ed that this gentleman will never be -brought
to trial ; that the Government"1
will not attempt to arraign him ; but
that,-after ome further imprisonment, he.
will be set free. It is likely, however,
that in the meantime Stanton will con
tinue his efforts to cause the death of his.
distinguished victim by severe prison dis
cipline and reg;.men. 1
Portland. Quartz from it has assayed from
Abolition leaders, and to the temptations $40 to $150 per ton. mostly silver. About
of political fortune. They may have pa-j twenty lodes have been developed.
Struck lLE."The borers have struck
petroleum in Humboldt county, California.
The deepest well ia 150 feet.