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STATE EIGHTS ;DEMOCRAT.f-cn- itthe & ?m sincere Democrats, wno win never reson SATURDAY CTOBEIt 28. 1805. THE FJUECTIOXS EAST AX D THE .. UCJIUUMVY;' Tfee result of the late elections in Ohio. to discreditable or dishonorable means, even to win success. Here, the civilians. the people, not the soldiers, not the pol iticians, hold the sway and control the Pennsylvania; 'anil Iowa, shows that it is organization of our party. It is to the wots than foil for the Democracy to good sense, the honest convictions and hate tBcdViVse o policy and expediency patriotism of the people, that the Democ racy of Oregon appeal for the support which shall yield them a triumph. They will use only honorabka means to obtain, they will be willing to accept and enjoy in,, their efforts to overcome the opposi tion. s Wa thought (tad Jiopcd that the inglorious defeat sustaiued in the Presi dential election last year wcwld hav con vinced our ravir rirfthr in th States I nnW n honnmblo victorv. It is not for across the mountains that the time for offices and spoils they battle, but for prin such questionable devices had gone by. ci pies and right, and to see that these Butit senT these hist defeats were want- are maintained through the period of ing to complete the lesson, and the con- control, they mean to select only the best sequence is before us, and terribly bears land truest men for the positions to be fill pon;Xfiem. In the Presidential contest cd. They have no pet Generals, ready the singular spectacle was presented of a to turn their backs on their own conduct war man running oh ajpeace platform ; of during a four years war to eujoy a civil party, whose platform deaoaneed all of poskba in future; they have no need to the arbitrary aeU and msurpatlons of the bait their platform with something which partj MuffFer, haviag for their own can-1 tiaj catch soldiers votes; they do not iidate a man who ra foremost m arbi- propose to take to their arms the apostate tTary arrestsand who tad, without pro-J Johnson, and exease all his past excesses test, been the instrument through which Dy approving ins present policy, merely seme of the taost odious usurpations of J because he simply does his sworn duty in the Administration had been enforced, obeying a very few provisions of the Con GenJ&cClgllan wa- tendered the nomi- stitutionj nor do they propose to purchase ration upon a given platform; he acted success at the sacrifice of principle or as no candidate j?f the Democratic party party faith and duty in every manner was ever permitted to act before he whatsoever. They will not fall into a pit took the nomination and not only reject ed but repudiated the platform. It was jsylvauia and Ohio dug for themselves, by bitter dose For old or true Democrats to avowing certain cardinal principles in swallow; it was with manifest revakion j their State platform, and nominating can of spirit -that many of them supported didatcs who have most damagingly assail him. They did it in the hope that the ed those principles. The evil example evil would never be repeated, in .the! of those States they will shun, let victory trust that good might flow from it. But or no victory be the consequence It appears that the managing politicians who arranged that ' campaign were not yet satisfied with their experiment, and believed perhaps that a plan which failed from- an article we printed about the in a Presidential election might succeed State Fair some weeks a?o: in separate State elections. .The results Around the polls, busily electioneering, riven ought finally to convince them of ere of the owners and employees of The State Fair Election. The Statesman copies the following Another JYcgro C'hurrh. Tlie Congregational Church Association of California have adopted resolutions in favor of the Immediate erifnuu'liisiMiicut of all iiipii of full iiC without rcspwt to color, birth or othr circumstance who nrf not now voter, as have served in our armies during the late war, mid all other men witliout distinction, as are aide to wrifce their name and to road the Constitution of the country in English. Mark, the negro is to vote whether he can read or write or not, " all other men without distinction" provided they "are i i. .. r . , . , . aoie 10 write iiieir names ana to read t lie Constitution of the country in English." This is a persimmon above the ordinary Radical gooseberry. But we canuot im agine why the Association stipulates that all other men" shall be able to read the Constitution, unless it be to instruct them how to violate it, or at least inform them of its provisions so that they may regard the whole thing as forbidden fruit. Sure ly, the men who pass this sort of resolu tions pay no heed to the Constitution save to spurn and deride it. The Association goes on to request the Legislature At its next session to ratify the proposed amendment to the National Constitution alHilishinjr Slaverv, and h adopt (ueh ineas ures as shall give to all citizerurn! the fctate, without respect to color or other cireum stances not involving crime, the right to vote and all other rights of freemen. To escape the anathemas and inaledic- dictions of the Church, no doubt the lcg- islature will at once pass live proposed Acts. Or, if they cannot do better, the majority might frame and pass a bill which shall declare any member of th Congregational Church ot California en titled to all the rights, immunities, and privileges enjoyed by the negroes pro vided, the aforesaid members arc able to write tikcir names and read the Constitu tion in Knglish. They certainly could not grumble at such terms and conditions J t is their own pill done up in their own box their impolicy and error. . ii me eanaiaates or campaign in Pennsylvania, we have little information. It ia quite eaoagk, kowever, to know that mainly direct their energies to proeure the defeat of Jas. II. Douthit, a farmer, but a Democrat, of Linn county, for President. And adds: hpi... t .. Hi t ..c i..tU : i. -1 . the State platform, while essentially sond j ment. and perfect in point of principles, con fanned leaven which oll not but in- fffet the. wiole thing. "We allude to the endorsement of President Johnson and his policy. It was equivalent to saying not the Statesman, in copy exactly what we Now, why did quoting from us, said, as follows : Around the polls, busily electioneering, were some of the owners and employees of hft KtAm StAriMmn Thnn all annMMil tha while the Democracy of that State mainly - directNheir energies to procure adhered to- the principles of Jefferson and the defeat of Jas. II. Douthit, a farmer, but Madison, .the conduct of an Abolition a --Tv LM un-J' fo Pr?We,nt; ' i ... . and of Ia. M. i aite, of their own party, but Cfeief. Magistrate' was to be approved who proposes to publish the Plowman, for that Democratic theories should . be fol- Corresponding Secretary. Wed bv Abolition " nraetiM. Tim was This shows that paper to be guilty of r . 1 IV I : i.i- i . ftnUation, and -could' deceive no 8--S - misrepreaenuuura w maKe msible TOter. If the party in StateP" 1U4 owu 1,ow' c wlu Prmo UB CohytiohVere" ashamed- lo manfully H11 83 lt tuoted u3 of what we statcd' rrtkM their real rnients resoectia- tobe fUlsc- We 6aw tfae tickets anon m-nowM" W11 aa cnfrnm( ptsi i . J : . , . election, and which some of the owners ji imripiCT", wts cannot wunuer mai. me - 4 trionsly if not impertinently electioneered On these tickets were printed, for Tresi dent, the names of Mr. Eddy, Ralph Geer, or Joel Palmer, respectively. Bvt not on- a tingle one of them teas printed the name of Jas. IT. Donthit. This must satisfy uninformed and impartial persons that the Statesman office was inimical to Mr. Douthit's election. T3ut we have stronger proof still. We saw and heard "some of the owners and employees of the Statesman office" offer to voters, and beg of them to vote, tickets with the name of 'some other candidate than Mr. Douthit, for President. And yet strong er proof : Two well known citizens of mass of the Bterling Democratic voters ,wxq equally, ashamed to approve such -morai eewardiee and -immoral conduct in leaders, by easting their votes for therticl-et presented. , In umo, the Chicago blunder; was ;alajost,!exaetly: repeated. After passing a sound enongh platform of principles but which : was also befouled by an en dorsement of President Johnson's policy the ticket was made up of incongruities The candidate for Governor was selected, not from among eminent civilians, but from the military class a General who had held commission, and fought for the emancipation of the negroes, all through fee war. - Then among the other candi State Rights. The present Chie Justice of the United States, Salmon P Chase, made a speech in Ohio in 1857, in which he eaid : We (the people of Ohio) have rights which the Federal Government must not invade rights superior to Its power, on which our sovereignty depenos, ana we uo mean 10 as sert those rights against all tyrannical usur nations of authority. Great principles, like truths, never die Certainly the same principles which stooc' cardinal and paramount at the time of the foundation of our Government, exist with equal force in this day as they did also in 1857. There has been no change in the Constitution, no alteration of its rca meaning, by any competent authority. It 13 plain, then, that State Rights are the same to-day that they were iu 1857, Yet Chief Justice Chase and his whole party now say that the doctrine of State Rights ia a treasonable heresy. Then it was so in 1857. If tho reverse of what Mr. Chaso declared in 1857 was a treasonable heresy, it must be so still. Therefore, take either horn of the dilemma he and they please, it simply convicts him and his party of having been heretics and traitors in 1857, or they are so now. The Democracy ha3 a clear record in the mat ter it has always stood by State Rights. A Vacancy In licnton County. We call the attention of Gov. Gibbs to another vaeauev in the Lemslativo A a. -j - - o embly, which ho seems to have overlook- 1 when he issued hisordcrfor special elec tions to fill Vaeiineie in tli!it. lioilv in tVm - j j - 'ounties of Polk, Yamhill, Clackamas and Grant. There is a vacancy in Benton county. Senator llovey is no longer a resident of that county. Iliscase is made perfectly clear unon another score how- ;ver. The Constitution of Oregon says, Art. II. Sec. 10: 1 1 XT . , . . . io person Homing a lucrative omee or ippomtuMMit under the Tinted State, or im ler tins .state, Khali be eligible to a scat in tho legislative -Assembly. This only exceptions to this provision are for "officers in the militia" who have no annual salary, and postmasters whose compensation does not execed one hund red dollars ner annum. Mr. Hovev is now holding an oihee m the surve General's office in Eugene City. This disqualifies him for the position of State Senator lfn liriM-ia n'i)irid "luni-nfii-u'' -- ---- - - - - j . w - i- ii 1 1 i v. ' i t i ii 1 1 i v- office, under the United States by appoint ment. Besides, he has removed from Benton comity, from which he was elect ed, into Lane, county, which is a distinct aud scpautfSg uaboriabdistrict. A strong er case, save it would' be one of death, could not be presented. Therefore, it must have been an oversight iu Gov. Gibbs, the failure to order a special election in Beaton to fill the vacancy caused in the Senate by Mr. llovey's disqualification. The people look for his Excellency to cor rect his error, and issue the order for a special election iu Benton. So do they in Linn, to fill Dr. Ballard's vacancy in the same body. The time for the Gov ernor to act is; short, yet it is not too late. TE LE GIIAPH IC . OVERLAND DISPATCHES. DATES TO OCTOBER 19. Clubmno Himself. Thaddeus Stev ens of Pennsylvania, the Abolition leader of the lower House of Coqgress, iu a late speech said : ; The ordinance of secession adopted by aaeli State that seceded, de- flared their leparation to be final," and he contends that "to say that during the war those States were in the Union, is to utter an absurdity." Then, agreeably to Mr. Stevens own argument, the princi ple of secession is admitted. Yet his own party declare that to accept the doctrine that a State can secede is treasonable. Mr. Stevens is therefore convicted of treason by the very party of which he is a conspicuous leader. To grant tho prin ciple of secession must carry with it the right of any State to determine whether it shall of shall not secede for itself, for it is manifest that other States, or the General Government, cannot "secede" it they cannot even expel it from the Union. And if a btate can seeedi?, and its separa tion from . tho Union therefore becomes final, it stands to.reason that it is utterly impossible for any of its citizens to com mit treason-against the Union just as impossible as it is for a citizen of the" Uujted States to commit treason against England -should the two countries be at war with each other. Mr. Stevens is proving too much for his own party. His argument would acquit Jeff. Davis at once. Affairs in the South. .lackwm, Mi.-H., Oct. 17. The Stato Lrgixlature im t td-diiy unj oramzed. (tun. .S. J. Ji.hnson, of Monroe, wiim elected Cliuirman of the ei:;ito, Col. ioiont')ii, Hiicukcr of iho JIouno. Uov. liuniph- rii'S was inaugurated. Naslivillo, Oct. IS. Ornrral l i.k. Superintend ent of tho I-'ri'dlmi'ii's Iiureuu, announce, after the passaee of hills hy the different Ptatef protecting negroes in omuls, ttiiit he will aboli.su in Ins de partment all matters connected with the civil (status of the nejro. The hill permitting negro testimony to he allow ed in court.-,, passed the. Senate to-day by a vote of nine t'. ten. New York. Oct. 17. The steamers Idaho and Lee have arrived from Savannah. Of that city it if said that at no time during tho past ten years has there hjen more activity among shipping and in trade generally than at present. The report that John Mitchel U to bo uncondi tionally released is denied. The Herald contains a circular from Gen. Tills scttm-; forth certain rules for the government of meuinen. 1 bey are informed that they will not he eubrfi.-dcd iu idleness hy the Government, and the whites aro assured that they will he held to gomt faith in their just contracts with frcedrncn the Charleston Courier says : The efforts f Ju ricn Mitchel of this city, who has for some time been laboriously iirprin on tha !overnment the propriety of restoring the land? to the original own cr?, have at last tntt with complete pueeeaf. An order will he issued making full restitution. Ihe steamer IJril limit tn route for St. Lu;s from Memphis, was burned at Xew Madrid, Mo at 6 o'chu k yettolday. The flames ppread so rapidly that there was UaretT tune to ruu the lioat ashore iconic of the parfscniers escaped without clothing. Tho fire was caused hy the ex plosion of a kero sene lamp. Raleijrh, N. C, Oct. 15. The Convention yester- dav continued tho di-cuision of the State debt. A resolution was passed rc(nest:ng the President to removo all negro trooj from the State. New lork. Oct. 10. The Herald s Jackson, Mis sissippi, correspondent nays strong fears are es- presiK'd in regard to next year s cotton crop ia that State. The depredations of contending armies havo left the facilities necessarv for the production of the staple in a very dilapidated condition. There 13 a:so a e'eat scarcity of stock aud implements m difpensable in the planting, culture and prepara tion for market. Planters appear to latk the en ergy and practicability requisite for proceeding with the work under the new order of things. In ths matter of indolence the negr.icsare dispr sed to imitate those who were formerly their masters. The Herald's Charleston correspondent says the troubles on the coast between the whites and freed men continue. Gen. Bcnnet yesterday st-ct a force of fifty picked isen to Asbpnrt ,a quell a distur bance taeri which threatenea to bec-me serious. The frrsdmen are reported to ba well armed. Kew Orleans, Oct.. IS. An import nt circular has been issued from the Frecdmcn's Bureau regu lating the duties cf negroes toward their employers. Freedinco are given to understand that they must labor fr their eiist?uce, and net expect further concessions. Hen. Tulliton arrived from Washing ton, and is r-.-poftod to snccsed the prescntSuperiu tenJent of Freedmcn. Xo further military inter ferenee is expi-eted regarding registry of voters. Governor WelU has issued a proclamation call ing for proposals to reconstruct the levee, to be d'tnc at the expense of the State. A petition has been receive 1 by Governor Wells from citizens of North Louisiana, asking him to take steps to pre vent a negro iusurrcrtion in that section. General Beauregard is to be Superintendent of the Xew Or leans and Jackson Railroad. Political. ( Jackson, Miss.. Oct. 19-Thc Legis'.etnre has endorsed the course of lion. W. L. Sharkey, by electing biin United States Senator to fill the un expired term of Jeff. Davis, commencing March 4, ISti;?, by an overwhelming majority lifiovcr Ful ton mid Anderson. There were two ballets but no election to fill the unexpired term of II. G. Brown. The majority ot tb Legislature is in favor of the admission of negro testimony, Jicw York. Oct. 19.. At the Democratic ratifica tion meeting last night, ipeeches were ma le by Gen. S'.oenm. Montgomery Blair. John Van Buren and others. President Johnson's reconstruction policy was endorse'.!, negro suffrage denounced, and tbj necessity of enforcing the Monroe doctrine in rrgard to Mexico was maintained. The Times AVashington special dispatch says in formation from Louisville has been received, and that much eonfnsi n and trouble prevails ia that State, as some Parishes refuse and -it hers are relua taur to recognise WcIU as legal Oovernor. New Orleans, Oct. 19. Prominent Texans ar riving say fesrs arc entertained that Gov. Hamil ton will delay the Convention so as to leave the Texas delegation out cf Congress. DelaT in or ganizing mails has been detrimental to the political j disaffection lias been canned, in military circles by the recent order of (Jen. Grant directing the mus tering out of a large number of colored troops. By this order tho 25th corps under Gen. Weitzel loses 11 regiments of volunteer colorcl soldiers from tne Slates of New York and Massachusetts. New York, Oct. 2fl. The Posts special says the State Department has received a dispatch by the Scotia from the United States Consuls showing j that the cho'cra is rapidly on the decline in Italy, j Constantinople and elsewhere. ! A. II. Stevens called on the President this morn ing. The interview was of a private eharacttr. The fears expressed of negro insurrections in the South have betn brought to notice, but are cousid ered groundless. Aucye will doubtless be kept on matters. Detroit, Oct. 19. The Michigan Central railroad freight depot, filled with goods, was burned last night loss about Sl,"u,uu. Denver, Oct. 20. The Abolition State Conven tion have nominated AVilliam Gilpin for Governor, and George M, Chilotte for Congress. They ap proved Colonel Chivington's Sand Creel; massacre. Xcw York, Oct. 20. The North Carolina Con vention unanimously submitted to a vote of the people, the questions of abolishing slavery and de claring flic ordinance of seccssi'-n null and void. An ordinance was passed 'prohibiting any future Legislature from assuming or paying any cf the rebel debt. The Herald's Richmond correspondent says that Gen. Grant refused to restore Gov. Wise's lands as he wiil not take the oath. A dispatch to the Times says that Jo. Davis, the brother of Jeff., lias applied for the restoration of his own and his brother's estates in Mississippi. Election Return. Philadelphia, Oct. 15. John Cessna, Chairman of the Union State Committee, furnishes the fol lowing : " The result of the. Sta'e election in Penn sylvania has not been correctly reported. Ia.42 counties the official vot3 overruns the vote of 186-1, and leaves the Union candidates a clear majority of 17,000. The balance of the State 24 counties gives from 5H0O to 7000 Union majority. The majority cn the home vote will certainly execed that of President Lincoln on the home and array vote doptcd sfing tbe Pre,!, nple of Vfrtb Carolina to all solutions were ad dent to restore the people or varolina to all their constitutional riguis, w am military, and transfer civilian pris'" otaoritie.. New York, Oct. 22. The Herald hChrlert)n dat- to October 18th the day of th election fa outh Carolina for Oorernor and members of the Legislature. Gen. Bonnet had issued order, pro hibiting military officers from in any manner In terfering with it, and forbidding the presence of soldiers in the vicinity of polling places: The workin" men of Charleston held a meeting on Oct. 16th, at which they adopted n addrew to their fellow-citizens, end nominated ftde Hafcptoa for Governor. . , , The hostile attitude toward each other hi tome part" of South Carolina, of the whites tod Mcks, is represented d assuming phase thrrateumj s. rions results onless the difficulties shall be rapidly adjusted. F.speeially is this the case along por tioni of the coast opon the hea IMands where ne groes have been established on abandoned planta tions, subject to the ontrl of officers of tbe Free men's Bureau. ' A disastrons fire, attended with losi tf lrfe, took place at Charleston last Wednesday. It wat in tbe buinesi part of the eity, ana ucstroyea eTerH mercantile and manufacturing establishment, and also the Courier newspaper office. The Ion U esti mated at $100,000. From thirty to forty person were buried in the ruins ; from fifteen to twenty of whom it is thoug: ' were instantly killed. Other were extracted in a dreadfollf injured and suffer ing condition. The Fenian Conjjreas Jofca KitckellTfc, leased. Philadelphia, Oct- 2L In the Fenian Conteta to-dav communications on gorcrnment, eonstitn. tion, military affairs and finance were reported. Ia the afternoon the President of the Congress an nounced that B. D. Killigan, delegate from MU souri, vho procured the unconditional release of John Mitchel, was present. This announcement ' electrified the Congress. Tbreo cheers were given for President Johnson, three for tho United States, three for Killigan, end three for John Mitchel. When the cheerine had in some manner subsided. it was moved and seconded that the Secretary of by several thousand. The Union party will have j the Congress prepare re?o?ntions CTOTeying the, gratciui inanas oi -. nogmu for his eflorts in bnng aooui me release or jonn Mitchel. The motion was ananimously carried. In the evening, after some discussion, the reports ' of the communications, with sotne amendments, were adopted. An Irish banner was presented to the Chairman by Canadian delegates. - The Con gress adjourned until Monday. The session will continue until Wednesday, the 25th October. President Johnson's Views. New York, Oct. 22. Tbe substance of the Pres ident's remarks on tbe subjectof the reconstruction cf the Southern States during a late interview, has been given, with the President's approval, by Maj. Gen. Stearns of Massachusetts. In reply to a remark that the Democrats claimed that ha had gone over to them, he intimated that the De mocracy discovered that he u in advance of it, and now was trying to come np to his standard. He hoped it would succeed in doing so. "Hereitcr i atS his doctrine that, notwithstanding the so-called 'secession of the Southern State, they wWe nerer out of the Union, bet that by their rebellious coarse they had forced the civil government to reconstruct the machinery of which, as soon as practicable, he considers the chief duty of the time. This he say two-thirds of both branches of the Legislature The Union party gains in 3S of the 42 counties as officially returned." j Chicago, Oct. 13. Tho Chairman bf the R.epnb- ; lican State Central Committe of Iowa announces ' that the election returns thus far indicate that Stone's majority will be about 16,000. The Legis lature will be three-fourths Republican. New York. Oct. 17. Savannah advices of the 12th state that the Unconditional Union ticket is receiving large majorities in the State. Fortress Moure, Oct. 13. The elections in Nor folk and Portsmouth passed off quietly yesterday. The vote is small. Chandler, for Congress, leads his competitors with a hand3ome majority. Hurst and Langhorn were elected to the House of Repre sentatives from Portsmouth. Chandler's majority in Petersburg is over 100. Little opposition was shown to altering the third article of the Constitui tion permitting Confederate officers to become eli gible to office in the State. A dispatch to the Tribune with returns from all the counties gives Cox 2S.2S7 majority, while the average majority on the Stale ticket is about 30,000. The soldiers' vote will be counted next mouth. . The Fenian Movement. i ... . - ... . . . Xew York, Oct IC The Fenian National Con. cannot Dc done in a moment, nnr sncnreat ana rention in Philadelphia ia attended by about 500 j h'PPJ progress is being made in it, that fc resolta dc'enates, and others are arriving. They are sit- sometimes appear like a dream. He did not ex- pece lorever to aepriTC tut-in ui iuc civu - it l.J it.: 1 a- i Ufea tone itumi no fcad MstAmed ' th -M-u WUUV tut-.r wvmocrsmp uc. s-r. wbh nfW to vote tie bemo- eta P14 for bj an employee of tbe Stafcs- drs the -wr, but who man tha.fc they mjght Tot.e and re 9r readj ia enter the lists for the unsuspectingly they -voted the ticket he gave them a ticket which had not the name of Jas. H. Douthit on it, but that of another candidate for the Presidency of the Society. Of . these two votes we have information there might have been 't ih.t lo towa, we do not eount the elec tion there a Demecratic defeat, nor a real Abolition victory,1 but frimply a trifltmph arfr Fti"!il nv tlw enLlipra tlA f"rm- eervatives of ! their Wnarty, and of the othf rote3 fimi 0ncdt ?f hich oddsaad ends thatweTe:gathered under K tlse main opposing ticket. - JThere ras o re&l Deaocratie ticket in the "field,- or if fl'iret,' it was .made up at the last -vnoraenV noi Fitk., anj-hope of success, ;. BasSaa te oraclzatioB. no information has reached u?. But cer tainly we have adduced proof enough to establish the correctness of our charges. The Statesman's object is apparent. It knows we stated the truth j -it also knows that many of its readers never see our paper. Ad ia eiyiner-the denial it li'i i l. it . i i : rfnirWAts' "n Pwn-La-a'll-neW lna OUr P018 01 0Wtl - . - I-if - ii .i f --vvania-nd OKIoo-Sht to serve as a les- V"? MUMBev" .Iau l ine e?eB 01 -- 1 . . - - 1 nnnnrMS or it reanftra. I nerotnm that denial would answer its nurDOses. bad son to the. Democraey of Oregon,- It f tiould teach us that' to triumph we must - 't&sg "4a principle, and lafose nothing into our pUroi which runs contrary to the ejirit practice - of the . jpemoeratic faith and Deaioeratie measures.! Fortu- aaiely we' are in better conditioa to do 5jus" than "our party, brethren in the older .tatcs'. ;.Tbe war has been almost at their Zoon, and iU demoralizing eSecti they late notj emtiterj escaped. There are ialtary heroes" among them, and mili iary eclat ia paramouat there. Soldiers' votes are to be flayed for and caught to JBSSTft s-iccesa to any party, and unhappily there are-too inany greed j fishers for trolls ia; infiaential places in the. Demo cratic ranks who care, not so much how, they manage so that their own ends ere ftccompiishedr- To secure the votes of the v 4lsbs.-ided.and ; retume'd soldiers, ihere : Geaerals and high military men are Sfcleete l ox chief positions, on the ticket, sd if need be, an . expediency plank is .'' 1d.4f fWorm.-'; These devices isay lure some ef he soldiers and . small frj of place-hunters U Hie snDTort of the ticket, but it drives, ajray or keeps aloof, though.thcy were. But there are plenty besides us who were present at the elec tion, and who equally well ' know that some of the owners and employees of that paper did oppose Mr. Douthit's election. To come at the thing directly, however, can it, name a man connected with the Statesman office who did vote fojfas. II. Douthit for President? Now, show your band. Massachusetts Philanthsopt. There are about 700 orphan girls and grown, young women soon to arrive on this upper coast at Olympia. and Port landfrom Massachusetts, They come to find .employment and homes. They have been sent from Massachusetts. It is singular, if not .discreditable, that while so much care and so much money are de voted to indolent negroes in that Puritan State, by the patent-right philanthropists of. the Equality school, these poor white girls and young women are shipped away like so many slaves, to be apprenticed out to any who will purchase their services, on this coast. " Speculate a Little." The SUev. Granville Moody of the Methodist Church is a shining light among his class at the East. It was he that in the National Conference a year or so ago launched such terrible anathemas against all Roman Catholics, and asserted that the negroes were far superior to the Irish, and more worthy the right of suffrage. Of course his reverence must be a very pious, ex cellent, godly man. AVe propose to show thatjie is from hi own sanctimonious lips A loyal paper of Cincinnati gives a count of a meeting of preachers recently held in Troy, Miami county, Ohio, from which it appears that The Rev. Granville Moody advised his brethren . to speculate a little now and then if they could do it honestly, and thus lay something away for future use. There was no harm in it, he had done it before and still intended to. By counselling them to " speculate a little," it must not be inferred, as a mat ter 01 course, that tlie reverend man in tended that they should turn horse jock eys, stock brokers, or real estate sharpers. Nothing of the kind; certainly not. Eve rybody knows the advice the Quaker gave to his son : ."Get money, Obadiah honestly if thee can; "but get money." The pure Moody didn't exactly say this, but he did say all that there was need of saying. There are not a few of Brother Moody's pious calling Jn the country who have, during the wat particularly, " spec ulated a little," and a good deal more so Condemns Itself.-TIic Abolition San Francisco Flag says : The Stockton Independent states the case quite Btrone enough when it enys that the tyranny of England over Ireland ia such as fiends might be ashamed of. m England's tyranny over Ireland has been execrable, but at its worst it was mild in comparison to the tyranny exercised by the party in power not only over the South, butover Democrats in the Northern States. What a Question !--The Statesman copies the following paragraph from our last issue : The States of California and Oregon have both nullified the act of the Abolition Con srefs which declared lejial tender notes a lawful tender for all debts, public and pri vate recent those especially mentioned in tlie net. nnri these came not within the pur view of the State enactments. And then asks: In what respects have these States nullified the act referred to? All we have to say in reply is, that we cannot be expected to furnish brains to that paper; that if its editor cannot see tbat, for a State to declare a currency not legal tender, when Congress declares thtft it is a legal tender, is nullification, we gWe hiin. up as hopeless. Ilia delinr qacnt subscribers or debtors might prac tically illustrate the thing to him, by pay ing him up in legal tender notes at par. After what he asks, we would as soon un dertake to wash Lawsoq, as to try to con vince hhn that t and is not are not synonymous. ting with closed doors ; John Of-Meara presiding. Rurqers of the mof t exciting character are afioac. Important advices are said t- bave been received in cypher ny ftc-amt-r just arrived. Advices from Eucland 3y Fenian agitation con tinues in Liverpool. The uiectinKS are attended bv persons of means as well as the poor class, and the di?cussi"'ns conducted with comparative freedom. The fear that there is a strung Fenian feeling in the royal navy has led to viperous measure? ; tbe Liverpool Post says an investigation on board the war ship Eagle reunited jn not finding a single ease of Fcuiani.-is. The Ft-nian toot in tho hands of the English po lice, containing the pmceediags of the Fenian Con vention in Chicago, Nov. 1S63, has the names of many of the officers in the Fenian army. Philadelphia, Oct. 20. Urn. Sweeney was pres ent at the Fenian Congress to-day, and assigned a place on the platform. . A resolution was adopted prohibiting delegates from taking notes of proceedings, and ordering the destruction of all so far taken. A Committee of tbrei was appointed to prepare a report of proceeding? for lh-j press, to be subject to the approval of the Head Centre. The ri-port of tha Envoy from abroad was enthu siastically ueeived. The Head Centre addressed the Cotisre??, and advised prudence, cantion, har mony and unanimity ; tbe entire rcvisal of their Consiitu'ion ; and r.:-ad statements in relation to the dtiay in lssning bonds of the Irish Republic A correspondent to the 2iew York Herald says the Congress will probably provide for organizing the brotherhood into a military body ready to ec- operrte with their brethren across the water. Patrick J. Vt Jiclan, a prominent Irish-American rights, even to the majority oi tctose exemaea in tha amnesty proclamation, hut ir-tended tfcey should ' a.'k for pardon and thus realize the enormity of their crimes. He is in favor of allowing negroes who served in tbe army, and those who can rad and write, and those possessed of either qnaliEoa-, tion to vote ; bat he dees not think it is policy, or that he has the right to force those conditions on the whites of the South, thongh he believes he will, before long, concede this privilege to the freedmen. . The President also favors the basing of representa tion in Congress on tbe qualified number of voters, instead of on the population as at present. orgauitation of the State. Austin intelligence says j journalist, just returned from a tour of Ireland, re there is public complaint latterly of tho conduct of j parted, the organiiation thero powerful aud under Sgi,d O.CT.-rTh Statesman says the Cal ifornia Stage Company has ou- ne'r Oregon route, stage's, horses and property, to the Pioneer Company, of which Louis Mc Lane, Chief Superintendent of Wells, Fargo ACo.'s Express Companj on this coasi, is President. ; : - , ' . .Gett'SC B-. norse'Stealing and adul terating gold dust are becoming prevalent in Owyhee. The citizens mean to stop both cviIb if possible, Snubbed. Wc see in late State papers that Horace Greeley recently called at tha White House to sep President John son, and'after dancing attendance for an hour or two was obliged to leave without hoi'itrf nHnlftfed to' the bresence." Hor ace is a- radical the President is trying to build up a "conservative" party. The two won't hitch. ' - New College. The members of tho re lieious denomination of United Brethren in Oregon propose to erect and found a College on Mary's river, fivo miles trom orvains, the ensuing summer, to be called " Philo math College." ' The Ga?ette says over $18, 000 arei already subscribed for that purpose. The building is to be of brick, sixfy by one hundred feet, and two stories. Mob ExECUTioNS.-trFiye mo.u w,era recent Iy hung by tho Vigilance Gommittee in Mon tana Territory. Tho names of four are giv en, as follows: Jackson alias Jones, Mor gan alias Collins, Cooke and Cann Kirby fhrother of Billv Kirbvl t but the name of the 6thor one is not included in the account. GoloDust Prices. At a meeting held at Silver City,-Idaho, the following rates were fixed for goid dust -. --Battery dust $5 per ounce j Creek dust (clean) $12 ; Bannock dust (clean) $14. A motion to repudi ate battery dust as a currency prevailed. :'"NTrt Kegro Suffrage. The Constitution of Colorado, now about to assume Statehood, forbids ncpro suffrage.. . frtedmea. General Hews. Boston. Oct. lr.-r-Thc Post says : A. If. Stevens was entertained at a private dinner at the lievcre' IIone yesterday evening, by Oen. Fairobild, of Chelsea! Stephens said it was his policy to sup port the policy of President Johnson for the recon struction of the Union to the full estent of his abil ity and influence. "New York, Oct 1. A. II. Stevens and Reagan aro st the Astor House and have been visited to day by a large" number of persons. Those who conversed with thetu say they expressed Union sentiments. New York, Oct. 15 Gen. MoClcllan isespected to arrive in this city from Europe in four weeks. Twenty ocean steamers cleared here yesterday: two for Europe and most of the others fur our Southern ports. A late Brownsvillo arrival says the Juares eanse is considered hopeless. Cortinas is the only ener getic leader there, but is injuring the cause by his bad character. J"ew York, October 19. Information from Ilayti savs tni only ressei jenaras nao employed in ine blockade of rebel ports had been captured by a party of three hnnu."ed men. Jeffards was at last accounts at Port au Prii.;e. New York, Oct. 13. The sicamer Moro Castle, from HavanaOvith dates to the liid, has arrived. During the first week in October heavy isms and high winds prevailed throughout the island. i:or eign people shut themselves npand suspended bu siness. Great floods oocurred, covering the tele graph poles in some plaoes and damaging railroad tracks. Several lives were lost fcy drowning and much misery caused. ' New York, Oct. 16. Tho PaciSe Mail Company have advertised their -steamers for Aspipwall, con necting with their steamers for San Francisco. The llenry Chauncey sails on the 1st of November ; the Atlantic on the 11th, and the Baltic on the 21st. Through rates to San Francisco $350, $250 and.$f2. Toronto, V. W., Uct. 16. JUr. BiaeKourn, ot yel low fever notoriety, has been admitted to bail on his own recognizance. . skillfui leaders. PaciSe Wining- Interests. A meeting of gentlemen interested in mining af fairs ia the Western and Pacific States, was held to.day for the purpose t-f forming a permanent as sociation. Tho object of the organization is the developing of the resources of the ei nntry. J. P. Curry was chosen Chairman,and J. L. Douglass Secretary. The following persons were appointed to obtain signatures for a general meeting: Neva da, II. AYorthington ; Idaho, Gen. ii. 3d. McCar ver; California, G. F. Bolton; Montana, J. H. Sage : New York. Frank Fuller, Walter E. New fon, Livingston Satterlee ; Arizona, J. Silversmith; Oregon, ex-Gov-George L. Curry. DATES TO OCTOBER 21. Tbe Fenian movement. New York, Oct." 21.- The Ilerald's correspon dent at Philadelphia says the proceedings of the Fenian Congress are still conducted with secrecy. Funds are promised in great abundance. The del egates are personally to subscribe $500,000. No delegation has been sect from the Fenian Congress to Washington. Southern Intellig-ence. Richmond, Oct. 21. Gen. Turner has issued an order permitting the organization of the city gov ernment, the tbreo objectionable officers having de clined to serve. Jskson, Oct. 21. Judge Sharkey and J. T. Alcoa are chosen Senators from Mississippi. The candidate? in faror of tbe Administration plan of reconstruction havo been Ciected to the Florida Stato Convention. The Courts in Virginia continuing to whin negro offenders for trifling offences, the Frcedmen's Bu reau havs ordered that no punishment must be in- European Intelligence. General News- Liverpool, Oct. 2. At Dublin yesterday O'Bran. nan of the Connaught Patriot wu committed fov trial on a double charge of treason and felony. The Pope has again pronounced an alloeutioq which is making some stir in Europe. This timo ' he fulminates against the Freemasons, reminding (hem that several of his predecessors have pro scribed and reproved that sect, entrance into which. j they declared, should entail excommnnicatiou which tho Pope alone oonid remove. Tbe Pope denounces Freemasons as instigators of revolutions, and calls on secular governments to suppress them. The Steele, of Paris, says in Europe more than two millions of Catholics are Freemasons. - The Pope corjcemss all other societies of a similar kind. : A CorkewspapOTBys: -: The British -Government, having received information from the British Minister at Washington that large parties of armed men were coming to Jreland in the steamships City of Dublin and City of New York, the former was overhauled at Cork Haven, but nothing of a suspicious character appeared on board. The examination of the Fenians at Dublin was concluded October 2d. The additional evidence developed nothing new. Five prisoners were com mit tod for trial for high treason. The prisoners denied the imputations that an indiscriminate slaughter of the aristocraeie class was Ter medi tated. Arrests continue in various parts of tha intenor. . DATES TO OCTOBER 20. , Jeff. Dajs Asks TriaL . New York, Oct. 20. A Washington dispatch says the counsel for Jeff. Davis have expressed a desire that his client be accorded an immediate trial. The desire comes originally from Davis, who, it is sahj, has declared that he has no fears for tne issue, ana tnat tberetore tne uovernroent will do him a great favor by arraigning him at the earliest possiblo moment. The recent favorable change in his every day life is mainly the work of tho President, and at- this hour has about every thing he could tkik, save liberty iiself and the pres ence of his Itttnily. . , ; From Mexico, New York, Oct. 20. The Herald's correspon dent on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande states that a confused condition of affairs prevails. Cor tinas and other Republican leaders are still hover ing in small bands in the vicinity of Matargoras, and skirmishes' between them and the Imperials are still occurring, though not frequently. Some of the Liberal loaders iu that region are remaining in a comparatively quiet state, awaiting the result of Gen. Carvalal s mission to tho United States They are confident the result will be the furnishing them with all the men, money and material neces sary to rid the country of Imperialists within the next eight months. I hey bave already received reinforcements from some qnarters. Prisoners taken on either sido in these border contests haye little chance of life. Generally after being subjected tea mock trial they are taken out and shot. Tho reported defeat of Imperialists by Republi cans at El Haryel is confirmed. , , Six thousand Imperial troops were expected at Monterey on the 25th of September to reinforce those on tho Rio Grande. Maximilian, it is said, has issued a decree direct ing that no vessel be admitted into 'Mexican ports which cannot show proper papers from the Consul oi ins -empire in tne port irom wnicn wey sau. General News. Nashville, October 20. The notorious guerilla Champ Ferguson was hanged to-day. The execu tion" was strictly privats. Now York, Oct. 20. The Heald"s correspondent from Brownsville, Texas, and New Orleans, states that considerable sensation and apparently little J Pacific Coast Dispatches. San Francisco, Oct. 21 . Private , dispatches qnoto goM in New York on the 20th inst. at and 147. The following dispatch was received ia San Francisco to-day : ' - v: New York, Oct. 15. To W. C. Ralston: The credit of California is being injured here by exag-( crated accounts of the earthquake. It is reported'' to have been something alarming. Please have a oorreet statement forwarded to me for publication. (Signed) . H. W. CARPENTER. " On the strength of this dispatch, the President of the Chamber of Commerce -was authorised to communicate with the New Yc-rk Chamber of Cora,, merce an official account of the shock. A tele gram containing full accounts of the shock -was forwarded to-day. It Is said that $1000 will ooTer tbe greatest amount of damage done to any one building. . . -- - - Advices from the Russian Telegraph Expedi tion, just received here, report the steamer Wright at Plover Bay, Sept, 23d. The work was slowly progressing. The expedition learned from the In dians that a few days before their arrival the rebel Shenandoah had made its app earanco in those wa ters, and had destroyed several vessels. The last seen of her she was beading south. , A special order has been issued from headanar- Iters for the arrest of Capt. John T. Hill, of the 6th flieted on negroes which is not awarded to white Infantry, California Yolanteers, who 'so trial offenders. General News). Washington, Oct. 21. Lato dispatches from the U. S. Consul at Liverpool state that cholera had appeared at and about Southampton. A Uiieasjp known as tho-underpest prevailed to a groat extent among cattle about Wateree, 83 miles from Liverpool, and killed off many. New York, Oct. 21. At the Republican ratifica tion meeting last night great enthusiasm prevailed. The President's reconstruction policy was fully en dorsed. ' Tho President- to-day pardoned 280 South .Caro linians, among them P. B. Boyce. Gpn. Dick Taylor is at Washington, seeking pardon. Late West Indies -papers give accounts of the terrific hurricane whiph lately swept over some of the islands. Iu Guadaloupe it was particularly severe houses were blown down and shivered in fragments ;' a hospital was knocked over and all the inmates killed ; and on the inland between 200 and 300 liyes were destroyed, from Mexico and the CTct Indies. New York, Oct. 13. Tho Herald eityf Mexico correspondent says matters appear to grow worse for the Empire. Tho Republicans are increasing in activity and boldness, and have defeated the Imperialists in several recent engagements. Re publican troops swarm all over the country, and some have appeared within sixteen miles of the capital in Vera Crui. In one town they have a paper. The IT. S. Consul at the city of Mexico has been refused admittance to the palace, and informed that he was unknown there. It is said the rebel officers have rofused to com ply with Maximilian's Sacretary of War's request to join the army, and declared that hereafter they would fight under no - flag but that of the United States. DATES TO OCTOBER 23. JTrom the South. New YorkOct 23. jTho Herald's Raleigh cor respondent says of the jforth Carolina Convention that a singular . announcement was made by the Chairman to the effect that after a diligent search he was unable to procure a national flag to place over tho Capitol, and had to send to New York for one. Nothing bat tho timely receipt of a telegram from President Johnson saying that North Caroli na should at once and forever repudiate every dol larof indebtedness contracted to assist the rebellion, prevented the staving off by the secession members of a vote on the ordinance completely ignoring tbat debt. - I before a Military Court Martial on the charge ef murder. at.ei gea to nave been committed in Neva da. Hill claims he is in the hands of the civil au thorities of Soaomacooty, subject to a requisition from the Governor of Nevada, where he claims th right to fee tjicd before a eiva eouri. Officers and soldiers are ordered to aid in securing his arrest. It is charged that when his eoniDanv was oil tho way through Nevada, tHey foynd the dead body of an Indian woman . with a living ehjld clinging -to it. Captain Hill ordercd-tbo dead woman to bo scalped, and not satisfied with this cold blooded act, ordered the infant to be torn from the hosopi' of its dead mother and dashed over a oreciDicel The fall not completely killing the child, its braid were dashed out with stones by the order of Capt.' Hill. ' - . - ... .. V San Francisco, Oot. 25. The . Pacific Mai, Steamship Company promise to shorten the sehedT ule time of their through line between' San Fran cisco and New York to twenty-one' or twenty-one and a half days, under the new arrangement which goes into effect the first of November. The tiro between this port and Panama is not t'he lessen--ed. Reduction in the through trip is to hp effected by making tho time on tho Atlantic side mside of eight days. ' - . . . , .-i..-'--;..' A meeting of workmen engaged in. dUfereot branches of manufacturing machinery, bave called a meeting for Friday evening next, at Dashaway Hall, to protest against a repeal of the specific eon tract law and endorses the report of the Chamber -of Commerce on the same. f. . Legal Tenders, ?01T0i. ' We havo Honolula dates to the 23d of Septan ber. Private letters report the sugar season at an end, and a scarcity of the article at Honolula. Mknac-wg. The Mountaineer assails Got. Gibbs for haying called for a special election to elect a Representative in Grant county,' and argues that the call ought to be for the election of a Representative for Wasco coun ty. Borland, whose vacancy is to be filled. -was a resident of Qrai-f county. TBut the Mountaineer contends this is no reason why the election should be called in that county. In cpnclusion it says : - , ' But if it L really the intention to disfiran. chise Wasco county byprodamation, the Ex ecutive may possibly find that his power in this State haft limits, and means wUi not be wanting tn shrtar Kim .1. i:.t . rm and end. v .. "y".