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i f - r c 1 H ; .. : VOL. II. ALBANY, OREGON, SATUEDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1806. 6 state kmisijmMX 1 . '- V STATE RIGHTS DEMOCRAT. 1 . ITBLISHED EVERT SATCBnAT, BT ABBOTT & BROWN Office Over H. Oliver's Store, First Street. TERMS, is Advascr : Oneyear,$3; Six Months $2; One Month, 50 etst.; -Singlo Copies, 12J cts. Payment to ba made in advance in every ease. The Paper will not be ont to any address nnlcu ordered, and the term for which it shall be rdered be paid for. Xo departure ictfl le made ' frw tkete term in V tiMfnace. N. B. Timely prior notice will be gives to each Subscriber of the week on which his sub scription will expire, and unless an order for its eontinnancc, acconipaniod with the money, be jiveu, the Paper will bo discontinued to thati address. . RATES OF ADVERTISING, rsn ykarj One Column, $100 j llalf Column, j Quarter Col ninn, $33. Transient Advertisements per Square often lines or less, first insertion, $3 ; each subsequent inser tion, $1. 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Linn county Or egon, would respectfully solicit the patronage of tha people uf that vieinity. T.iu-oin WINTER & McIlATTAX, HOUSE. SIGX, CARRIAGE. AXD ORXA 31 EXT A L PAIXTERS GRAIXERS AXD GLAZIERS. Also, Paperhanging and Calcemining dvne wiih neatness and dispatch. Siiop at the upper end of Fir-t street, in Cunningham a old stj.n.1, A;tauy, Oregon. se22uo6tf J. BARROWS, I BLA1X, S. E. T0VS6. J. BARROWS & CO., GEXERAL Jb COXXISSIOX MERCHAXTS tT EALERS in Staple, Dry an t fancy uoo-xs jgJF Giceries, Hardware. Cutlery, lJovts and Shoes, Albany. Oregon. Consignments solicited. Cr-.-ckt-ry ocCnStf . W. GRAY, D. . SURGEON DENTIST, ALBANY, OGN Performs all operations in the S5- line of DENTISTRY in the most PERFECT and IMPROVED man ner- Persons desiring artiacial t-.-.-tti -would Uo well to give him a call. OiEce up-Uir ia Foster's brick. Residence corner of Second and Bker streets. - au25-ly I. O. O. F. ALBANY LODGE, NO. 4. rf-fl The Reg-alar Xtteet- 5SeSrJI?SrS5 ings of Aibany Lodge, Ko, 4, I. O. O. F., are held at their Hall in Nor cros' Building, Albany, every WEDNESDAY EVENING, at 1 o'clock. Brethren in good standing are invited to attend. By order of the N. G. au4-ly iYOTICE ! ITIOXEY TO LET. A FEW TWENTIES left, to pay for good Wheat. Highest cash price paid on delivery Jl good wheat at my ware house, Albany, Oregon. R. CHEADLE. WAITED: 100,000 POUNDS OF WOOL" For which we will pay the HIGHEST MARKET PRICE. W. W. PARRISH & CO. Albany, January 2?th, 1S66. SELLING OFF ! SELLING OFF! $50,000 X7"OIEtT3: 1 CHARLESBARIIETT, rroat Street, ri xio. 5 Washington Street, Portland. The Largest, most General, and Blost Splendid Assortment of STATIONERY, BLANK BOOKS, LETTER PRESSES, &C, "' ON THE PACIFIC COAST, RICHLY BOUND Bibles, Prayer and Hj mn BoC-kw An Immense Assortment or SCHOOL BOOKS ! Orders From tlie Interior. Filled with dispatch and care. CHARLES BARRETT. Portland, November 16, 1S65. Dissolution IVoticc. THE partnership heretofore existing between the undersigned has this day been dissolved by mutual consent All debts due the "Democrat Establishment," on account of advertising, sub scription, or job work, will be paid to Abbott & Crown ; and all debts against the firm are hereby assumed and will be paid by them. M. II. ABBOTT, M. Yi BROWN. JXO. TRAYERSE Albany, Xov. 1 6, 1 S C 6. y B. The "Democrat"' will continue regular ly to be published by the undersigned, at the same place, and on the same terms as heretofore. We rullv solicit, not only a continuance, but the increased patronage of the publio. ABBOTT & BROWT. BROWffLOw. The estimation la wmcn tna "rarson " it hold at home, may ba jndged from th following apostro phe by a Tennessee pott: Rausaek the reekinft lists of crima That stretch th world'" history along j Unerutt the eankerinsr bedp of sfime. Slow-jhad by the train of human wrong j Read on each brow the brand nf guilt Writ bv mankind's iudignant bcorn, And let tne soul within you wilt. To know no wrctcli was ever born Adowu whose life hss rnn more ;hame Thau clusters round jour bated name. What, curse you ? Ay from every stons On thi greeu swnrd of Tenneayee, Should Rush the awful monotono Thnt tells yonr monstrous infamy ; Cursoyou? Why, every monnain penk Should Bnd a tonyne to damn your name The hill? should hear the valleys shriek Your immrtali:y of cbame; Each brooklet, in its winding eourss, Should bubble its vindictive curse. We curse you ! Ay, but not with death, Tho' hell were your too certain do.m We would not have your viper breath Slopped by the gateway of the tomb ; Our wik could frame no punishment So great as tbi live on live on Live on un:il your shame is Sent From . it to west, from time to sone j lave ou-viuiil yuar deeds have won Perpetual hate live ou-live on. Live on until your vile renown Has spanned the latitude of earth ; Live on until the world -hisll frown That such a monster e'er had birth ! Live on 'till nature blush to own The burlesque on her handicraft ! Live on until the gall you've strewn By your own arid lips b quaffed 1 Liveou 'till death, a priceless boon. Were worth ttn thousand lives live on! We bear your fiendish sleuth-hounds bay Around our desecrated homes, Their fangs are whetted for ihe fray ; Wo, wo, the hapless wretch who comes Aeross Iha path your vengeance marks 'Twere better be had ne'er been bora Than dare the desolating sharks By whom our nu-iher's breast is torn j For every x and every age Alike are victims to your rage. Goon: tenr dwn the ballot-box, Aud chain the freeman's thunders fast; . Expand your jails, fix up your locks, The ba?et viMainy cinics la?t Rally your bands r f cringing knaves ! Bar fast your legislative d-ors ! Bid freemen yield themselves yonr slaves ! 6trike deep, the victory may he yours! Break down the props of freedom s cause, And human rights and human laws. Live on 'rill ail the winds you've sown Shall howl in whirlwinds round your rath, 'Till every bwlt of hste you've thrown Bur.-t on your headin righteous wrath ! 'Till every curs? yonr lips have t-sed, Shall turn to t rture on your brain; Praying for death to hide y.-nr shame. Live on the world's one branded name. Trite Snjings. When a man ld.e3 his health, then ho fut beSus tew take care on it. This is good juluieht ! this iz ! Most people decline to -learn only bi experience. I puess they are more than half right, fori don't suppose a can frit a pcrfee idee .on iuoIa?es kandy by lettin another feller taste it for him. It iz a getting so now-a-daze if a man can't cheat in some way, he hain't happy. Success in life iz very apt tu make u? forgit tbe time when we wasn't lunch. It iz jist eo with the (rog on the jump ; he can't remember whn he was a tadpole but other fulks can. , An individual, tu be a fine cfentleman, has either pot to be born go, or be brought np eo from infancy ; he can't lam it sud den enny more than he can larn to tork Injun korrectly by practising ou a tommy hawk. I wonder if thar ever wa an old maid who ever hecrftd on a match that she thought was suitable. If a man wants tu git at his acktual dimensions, let him visit a graveyard. I serpose Adam iz the only man who ever lived and wan't ppanked. I have often pet down square on the ice bi, havin my feet git out of plase, but I never could Bee anything in it to laS at (speshila if thar was rum water on the top of the ise) : but I notis other folkcs can. Precepts are like cold buckwheat slap jacks nobody feels like being sassy to them, nor nobody wants to adopt them. If enny man waits to be an old bache lor, and git tick at a boarding tavern, and have a back room in the 4th story, and have a red-haired chambermaid bring his water gruel tu him in a tin wash basin, I have alwus sed, and I etick tu it yet, he has got a perfeck right tu dew it. It iz dredful easy work tu repent ov other folks' sins, but not very profita ble. There iz more chsrstitvandbulvamuncr the fair sex than thar is good sense. (! S. I am ready to have my ears loxed for sa-" , Xas I traveled 4. months last winter through the country, and brought hum bed bugs enuff in my portmuny til fit out 2 new canal boats. Owing tu the hi price and grate skar sity ov veal in Xu York sitty, menny ov the fust familys are using artificial calves. They say it helps finish out a leg ov mut ton first rate. Josh Billings. e Active Manure. One of the most active manures, is readily within the reach of most farmers, is a mixture of leached ashes, plaster, and" night soil mixed wiih fine soil. Let them be thoroughly work ed over on a smooth spot, and allowed to stand a week before using, working it over evey other day, and you have a most valuable manure at a trifling cost of time, A handful of this mixture in a hill is ex cellent to give corn astdrt. Potatoes and garden vegitables generally feel, it very quick, lien manure, is an excellent in gredient in such manures, but it should be well slacked with water before mixing with otheT substances. Maine Farmer. Not Flattered. Mrs. Veal who had lately given birth to a son, was offended at a neighbor's inquiry for the health oi her young calf. The Oldest. Bishop Soule is the old est Methodist preacher in the world. A Hue and Cry. When an adver- used dye turns your hair a bright green LECTURES BY REV. H. H. SPAULDlli Early Oreffon 31 lionn Their Im portance in Kertirlng the Conn try to American. ; . number two. Now God knew the two women that would undertake this most hazardous work, and he knew th only motive pow er that would move them to it. That same power that separated, for the first moment, the never before separated Eter nal Father and Son. as they aw their new made world, wiih its human race, s'niking under the heavy chain of the Priuce of Death, and which raided the beloved Son to the Cross on Calvary, a complete ransom for the race; the xame power that armed, the mother? and wives on board the '"May Flower" with aufli cient fortitude to land on the unknown, uninhabited wilda of the Northeast const of New England, and cheerfully to step on shore amid the snows of win'cr, hold ing out to the wild natives the olive branch of salvation ; the power that made the nine newly married wives of the first band of missionaries to the Sandwich Is lands, willing and even happy to forsake father and mother, houses and lands, aud to turn their hacks forever upou weeping pareuts, upon home and the happiest country iu the world, and to -cuter upon a sea voyage around Cape Ilornf of 1SV 000 miles, to take up their abode for life ou the dark heathen fdiores of those Is lands, destitute of every comfort, to be exposed every day to hardhits and re volting scenes, to be hiet with only on the shores of Cannibalism and pagan despotism ; a power not found in gold but contained in those lat words of tle Savior, ,;Go ye into all the world and preach the (Jospel to every creature." Mark the hand of God in bringing for ward his agents. In l5s2 the Flat Head and Nez Perces Indians, having received some idea& of God from gentlemen of the Hudson Bay Company, and having committed five of their vounjj men to that company to be by them taken across the Rocky Mountain and committed to the school of those self-devoted excellent men, Messrs. Jones and Cochran, of the Church Missionary Society at the Selkirk settlement of the Lakes, still felt, as they rpressed it, "very htiticry tor more ol Ocd's Book," and resolved to seud me 11 tc the rii-inj sun to obtain that book, and to teach it. They seem to have Wen :nccurapd in this. also, bv Catholic Iro- cv.is Indians from Canada, a few of whom had arrived anions' them. Tin lelegatiou cousisted of one principal j chief, one sub-chief and two warriors They arrived at the American rendezvous j Ilmr, but would have pushed ou with on Green river in time to j.tu the Amer-jMr. Parker to the coa?t, would have dene ican Fur Company on their returu frotu as Mr. Lee actually did, selected the the Hocky Mountains to the States. They; Multnomah valley aVhis Gold, returned paid their passage (riding their i-wnlby the Sandwich Islands and doubtless! swimming rivers and otherwise uuLiugisoa. Our mission fields would Vuve'heeii themselves useful. Uhauged. the Nez Perce, etc., would have At St. Louis. General Clark, then Su- jbeeu occupied by the Methodist Board perintecdeui of Indian AflV.irs for the j and the coast by the American 'Board. Western Territories, received them kind- j Indeed, this was the origiual iutention of ly, having met the chief iu his own conn-(both. As was observe by a 3Iethodist try 25 years before. Two of them died j brother, to one of our uumber: "You during the winter. In tho spring, as the j have got our field and we have got other two were about to return to their I yours." nations, the chief made his last lament to General Clark : "I came to you. thetsentina: the offer of crosin the Rocky! great lather ot the white men, w ith hut j one eve partly open. I am to returu toj my people beyond the mountains of snow, j at the setting sun, with both eves in 1 darkness, and both rins broken, for teachers. 1 am goiusr back I came I without; thorn God. I came to you lor the Book of j Road by tho South Pa.is would have re You have not led me to it. You mained' indefinitely, as it had remained. nave taseu me 10 your o'.ir nouse, where j multitudes of your children assemble, and where your youug womeu' dance asi we do not allow our youug women to dance, and you have taken me to mauy ; ouier oig nouses wuere me people uow down to each other and li:ht torches to worship pictures. The Book ot God was not there. And I am to return to my people to die in darkness." This lament was overheard in an ad joining room by a youug man of tho Methodist Church, who immediately made known the fact that Indians had come from beyond the Rocky Mountains to obtain missionaries, in a letter to a brother in Christ in Pittsburgh. But just as the fact was about to come before the public, it came under tho eye of the great Indian traveler, George Catlin, w!iC, providentially, was in that city at the time, lie advised cot to publish tho statement. He did not believe it to be true, as he had traveled from the Rocky Mountains in the same caravan with those Indians j had seen them often in General Clark's ofSco during the winter ; had never understood they came for that pur pose, but he would write toGcneral Clark. He did so, and soon received the frank acknowledgment of General Clark: "The sole object of those Indians in visiting the States was to obtain religious teach ers." Mr. Catlin imniedlatcty gave the fact to the editor and told him to give it to the world. I received this from 31 r. Catlin's own lips when we met him in Pittsburgh, on our way to this country,' in March of 188G. The lament I re ceived from the only surviving ono of the delegation after I "arrived in the Nation. The chief died soon after leaving St. Louis. Only one of them returned, to the Nation. The publication of this remarkable event, that Indians had come 0,000 miles and from beyond the Rocky Mountains, to obtain the Bible and Missionaries, is proably without a parallel in our Indian history, although this race of our fellow beings, until adulterated by the sins ot the white man, have eyer shown a hun gering for the word of God, produced as will be remembered a profound seusation. Nothing like it Lad ever occurred. It was the Macedonian cry .repealed. But wuo vyiu j.uo uisasiers wuicn nau aitended every attempt to reach the Pa cific shores; the terrors of the Rocky , Mountains and the unknown beyond, rose up a most formidable harrier. The Her. Jafon Lee, cf Canada, and J)r. Marcua Whitman, of .Yates county, New York, were the first to respond to this call, in the winter of 1834. The former offered himself to the Board of Missions of the Methodist Church of New York, to cross the Hocky 'Mountains and establish a Minion somewhere : on th Northwest eoat, and when he put his Mission on the mouth of the Kooskooskee, (on the mnp) the tencrnble Secretary Said t uTh;tt point is a. thousand miles from any place." That pint, or a place very near ittwelve mile.- olV -naturally became the mission station, not of Mr. Lee, but of the writer, aud for the reasons' already given, th'e very natural conclusion of Mr. Lee that white women cohM not cross the ltoeky Mountains, and theH pronounced wild opinion of Dr. Whitman that they could. ' .. ' Mr. Lee, and' his associates, Messrs Edwards, Shepherd, and D. Lee, left the States iu the Spriug of lrf.i t, under the convoy uf-Captaiu .Wyett's caravan, and reached the American Rendezvous iu July. Hero. he met great numbers of the Nez Ferces aud Flat Head Indians who had visited that rendezvous every vear with the hof e of finding their long hoped for teachers with '"the Hook ui God." But this good man of God felt himself constrained (although with a heart bleeding with compassiou for them) to decline their earnest appeals for him to turn his steps to their Nations. And for the reason already, stated, had found the journey too hazardous for a white woman to undertake it. and lie marched with Captain Wyett to Snake river, where the latter leit a portion of his company to construct a small fort with wooden stock ades, and to trap, and prioeeded on with the mt.iMon party through the Miake Deserts, over the Blue Moantains to Walla Walla, and from theue to Van couver by canoes, where Mr. Lee saw at once the valley of the Muhuouah should be the base of his future mission, fixed not now so much on account id' the im passibility of the Kockj Mountains and burning ileserts for females, but beeauMja more desirable field than the Nez Perees on many accounts nearer the sea-board ttioi nearer supplies, and also because un doubtedly the theater of white settlements at no distant day. Mark here the hand of .the Lord, which holdcth the heart, not rf the king only, hut of all meu.and 'as the rivers of water he turneth it whither soever he will." Had Mr Lee, alter all, adhered to hi original purpose to e?tab- jlih his mission among the FUt Head and Nez Pen es tribes. Doctor Whitman would not have turned back from Greene At all events the opportunity of pre- .Mountains to the only lady heroine who wa found willu, in the United States. to undertake the fearful work, except the intenued witeot the Doctor, would have passed by. as she was then ou her way to the Osage Indiaus; and the Emigrant an impossibility. iut trod, as events have shown, had determined that the gold should be dug out aud by the agents he is actually employing. He must have the emigrant route iu the first place.- Therefore he delayed the Doctor aud his 'associate the first year, allowed Mr. Lee to chance his mind as to his future mission-field from the Rocky Mountains to the coast. This left the Doctor at liberty to chauge his proposed field, and also to ! select the Nez Percea and Flat Head Na tions, which he did at once, on reaching Greene river, meeting those tribes aud learning what Mr. Lee had doue and this gave him the opportunity of return ing to the States the same year, thus saving a year, and gave the opportunity of presenting- the offer of crossing the mountains to the only lady heroine found willing in the United States, besides 31 rs. Whitman, to undertake the fearful work. The next year she would have been in the Osage 3Iission, all of which will ap pear. . The same year, 1S34,. that Mr. Lee started from the States; Doctor Whit man, aud the Rev. Johu Duubar, of 3lass., were appointed by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign 3IissioDS, at Boston, and seat forward. But by losiuyr their horses at St. Louis, and bv other detentions, they were too lato for cither of the five Caravcns to the Rocky mountains that year. The next vear. 1S35, 3Ir. Duubar having undertaken a mission among the Pawnee Indians of the Nebraska or Platte river, Dr. Whitman was joined by Rev. Sameul Parker of New York, aud they reached the frontier iu season for the Caravan of the Ameri can Fur Company, aud immediately put themselves under its convoy. The lead ers and men of this Caraven would hrve prefered men of uy other calling than .Missionaries, and they were not backward in making their preference known by the cold shoulder and by direct attacks upon 31 issions in general. And the two-3Iis-siouaries made up their minds that they had a cold journey before them.. But God had not only the heart of the Nez Perces and Flat Head Indians iu his hand, but also the arrows of death; aud the Caravan had only got fairly out on the plains when he sent auioug them the Asiatic Cholera, and ii a very short time three men were dead and several others very sick.. The whole company Were ter rified and about to' leave, ."each man for liimsell, leaving the packs' upon the pra irie. This would hare been most disasi trous to the Fur Company. The Caravan would hate been broken up for that year. The goods would hava failed to reach the mountains that jear, and the 200 of 300 mountain trappers . who were depending upon them, and consequently tho annual return of furs from the mountains to the Company would hate failed. But God had another important work for thra Com pany to do while they were altering to their fur trades, and that was to n fiord a sSfe con toy to his imVsiomiry rervants to and from the mountains that year, and a safe aud pleasant protection, and "Buffa lo bumps" aud "ribs" the next year, to the two women He had chosen to cross the mountains and establish the desired emigrant road, and He took His own way to get tint kind of work out of them, in spite of 'their coH twoulders, very much as He made the hard-hearted Eevpuans more than willing to help the Israelites to tart their cattle aad sheep at the dead hour of midnight. As soon as the fear ful fact was apparant that the cholera was in the camp and they could get to timber," Dr. Whitman, a most skillful physician, and of untiring cnenrv,. threw off his coutf had the camp ketties filled with boiling waters iid arranged with sticks and the patients upou these and blankets over the whole, to as to produce immedi ate and profuse inspiration ; at the same time administering double doses of usual medicines. God "blessed the means aud the fearful disease was arrested as sudden ly as it had appeared. Confidence was re stored among the men and in a few days the caravan was moving again. , From that day tbe face of things changed. Dr. Whitman was "the man' and the mis sioimry work a "treat and Uoble work." Every favor aud facility were afforded the missionaries to and from the moun tains The Doctor performed several im portant surgical operations iu the moun tains for men eonuoeted with the .Compa ny. He a loug arrow-point from the back of Mr. Bridger, which he had re ceived in a content with the Blackfeet. The point had struck the backbone and bent around, fastening to a portion .of the sinew, to which-it clung, or hooked with great obstinacy after every other part was loosened with a knife. Those only who were acquainted with the good Dr. can imagine with what firmness he hell en to that cold iron hooked firmly around the great tendon ot the mouutaineer's back who was suffering terribly, the Dt ctor using words of kindness and con fidence, until by his own device he un hooked the deadly mis-He. He received the kindest regards and the liaitk aMtranee of the proprietors of the Company in ihe mountains, aud also again at St. Louis, that their Steamer to Council Bluffs the next year and their Caravan to the mountain eluuibl V10 a his service most freely should he return wijh his wLiW aud aisoeiUa iW tLe'Kutky .uouutaius ts-l't Si Scuaf or James S. Green. The following, says the New Orleaus Pieiyune of the late date, from a St. Louis gentleman uow temporarily here, aud known to all who navigate the great riv er, or travel on it, as a man of uniiueach ablo chatacfer, puts the brand of false- hood on a statement as to Senator Green which gave U9 great pain, knowing the intellectual and moral worth of that very able man : To the EJifors ofilte IW agune t I have this moment noticed the men tion, in your paper, of a vile slander, by a correspondent of a St. Louis paper, in regard to the above mentioned gentleman. Tbe Radical correspondent says he met Mr. Green coming down Chestnut street, staggering drunk, with his head bent to wards the earth, and that he makes a liv ing by being a calaboose shyster, 1 saw 3ir. Green initiated in the Swit r.eler Lodge of Good Templars, last spring, as far as we' of the lodge know, he has kept his pledge ; and his stalwart form, six feet in height, can bo seen, with head erect, every day, in the streets of St. Louis, while he practices in the Supreme Court of the United States, aud the high est Courts in the State. 31 r. James S.Green was seen 5n the Senate of the United .States during its stormiest session, during the agitation of the Kansas question. He took the ex treme southern side of that question, aud was the only debater who was able toeom but the great Stephen A. Douglas. Again, I notice that the Crescent in denying tho false statement of the St. Louis correspondent, is in error instating that 31r. Green went into the Confederate army, and died nobly fighting her battles. Senator Green never wont into either army ; ho retired into private life early at tho beginning cf the war, His brother Gen, Mart Green, a Doug las Democrat, at the breaking out of the war, raised a regiment for the South, and when he was pressed by the forces of Gen.' McNeil, combined with the forces of Fislc, he reached the 3Iissouri at the city of Glasgow, pressed the steamer Sunshine (a boat that 1 was interested in) into his service and crossed to ine soutn siae 01 the river. . Soon afterwards he joined Price's command and afterwards Gen. BoWeu's, and was killed while fighting under him at Champion Hills, where Gen. Bowen and many other brave Mis- sourians fought their last battle. H. G. C. Josh Billings says: "I never could find the meaning of the word 'collide' in Worcester- or Webster. But, riding the other day on the New York Central llailniad, I saw it all. It is the attempt of two trains to pass each other on a sin- lo track. If I remember correctly, it ft was a si nai failure." , ; : . ; . There is a great complaint in all the northern cities as to the size of bakers' bread and the price of the loaf. A wag in New York says that the bakers will soon "be able to deliver their . ten cent -ioa loaves through the keyhole." mm An Eloquent ftkefrh r President Joltiiaou. . Ileii a child of destiny, let it is 1 destiny of his own creation. . lie has been the architect of his own fortunes, and looks to the people alone for favors. My word for it, they will not dejert htm, for he hnn never deseited them. J In 1& 03, fhould he be a candidate fft, their suffrages, the toiling millions ' of his countrymen will flock to his banner. Ihe hardy sons of toil will eoree from the mountains, the hills and the dih, and from the congressional homesteads, as -autumnal . leaves come whon, forests reoded," and you shall cobnt ihem by millions. I claim the right to speak of Audrew Johnson in this way, for 1 have some reason to . know the man . - I We canvassed the State in 1853 for Governor d. Xennej'see. There is more resistance in him than any man I ever encoun- i.. rri. 1 i.'-l 1 .. 1 . tereu. lae naruer ne was pressed, me higher he rose, under the pressure, and it peenied to me the heavier he was load ed the lighter he ran. The greater was the obstacle I threw in his way, the more triumphantly did he clear it at a bound. His powers were never fully developed till we got down to our work du dead earnest," in what they calls ground seufHe. He has beaten everybody he eueonater- ed. He beat my friend, Hon. L- C. Haynes, of your city, for Congress, and I thiuk you will agree that was no easy job to accomplish. He beat the Hon. M. P. Gentry for Gororner, who had never been beaten before, and '-'great let me call him, for he conquered me," aud I predict such will I the fate of any Rad ical whJ opposes him. You know I nev er was his politicial friend. He was a Democrat and I a Whig. Oil aud water were not more opposite than we, and yet iu the new order of things, I ardently desire the success cf his administration; and if he should be the standard-bearer of that great body of conservative men h were drawn tinrether lately in Phil adelphia by a patriotie determination to save the Constitution from violation, and the country from ruin, I, for one will do "good yeomen service" in this cause, and will call upon all lovers of this oouutry whether Whig or Democrat, all of every party who would stay the wild. wave o'f radialism which is sweeping over the the laud, and -carrying away before it ev ery vestige of the Constitution and every hope of the patriot, to rally around his baaner and bear it to victory. The South owe him a debt of gratitude for the manly stand he has taken for us, and I feel confident all, of every party, will be prompt to pay it who have the lore of the country in their heart. President Johnson's whole appearance and bearing are strongly expressive of character. In statu.-e, square built, broad chested, not over tall, compact, manlv i in Ires?, decently clad in a fw and what worn black frock coat, his body seems merely a suitable pedestal for mounting his massive head. A broad brain, hair originally a deep black, but now evenly sprinkled over with a thin intermixture of white, making what is called an iron-gray ; ; complexion dark, aud a face of grave aspect, which stricks the beholder at once making the whole figure a mere appendage to it as that of a man habituated to weighty delibera tions; a face on which public responsi bilities have deeply engraven their lines. It is a sobriety and weight of character, more than brilliancy of intellect, that is expressed in Mr. Johnson's features. -One gets the impression that he must be a irian of strong, but rather slow -faculties, which a massive vigor of will holds reso lutely to their work. ' Y'itK the sober strength of his care weighted face, there is combined a certain hardness of expres sion, as if he were deficient in the softer human sympathies. This is preceptibly relieved as soon as he speaks, his voice having a quiesness and ease not expected from the square-built, hard-visaged, cold eyed statesman. But still the. predorni nent impression is that nature has formed him to be merely a publio man ; that he is a resolutely ambitious, strong-fibred soul, to whom nothing is so congenial as the cares of state. Hon. G. A. llenny. Galliant. Fontenelia, at the age of ninety-seven, after saying many gallant and aaiiable things to tho beautiful 3Iad ame Helvetius, passed without preceive ing her. "See," said she, stopping and addressing him, "how much I ought to valne your gallantries. You pass me without eveu looking at me." "3Iadame," said the old man, "if I had looked at you, I could uot have passed." What Constitutes Game. -An Ital t 1 .' .1 . 1 t ian nouieman, Doasung, me otner aay, of the quantity of game he had on his estate in the estate in the provinces, said. "I have great quantities ot partridge. woodcock, wild boar, wolves, and about )tjiy brigands. " , v . Full. A Western reporter, in describ ing a total abstinence meeting, says that "they had a most harmonious and profit able session, and retired from the hall luu of the best spirits. "3Ie too." "Anything bite "you dar ? inquired one darkey of another, while engaged in angling. "No, nuffin' at all." "Veil," returned the other,-"nuffin' bite mo too. - How -Many ? A gentleman havin asked how many dog days there were in a year, received for an ans iFer, that it was impossible to number them, as every do has his day. . Brilliant. Glim, suffering with the colic, said thet his stomach would make a most brilliant illumination if it had a can die in every, pain. ; : 4iThou rainest in this bosom," as the chap said when a basin of water wa thrown over him by a lady he was ser enaamg. How IhV, Oregon ; Territory, was s ftnve.f to ike United States. We presume it is not general known to onr citizen on the Pacific coast, nor to many people in the Atlantic States, how near we came to loosing, through . execu tive fneomi etenee, our just; title to the whole immense region Jricg west.of the Rocky Mountains. Neither has dne hon or been accorded to the brave and patriot ic man through whose ; herculean exer tions this great loss and sacrifice. wa-ipre-venfd. . The facts were briefly; and freshly brought oat during the reeeat meeting at Pittsburg of the American Board of, Conjmbsiorirs for Foreigk; Missions," in the course of an. elaborate paper, read by Mr5. Trent, one 'of the Secretaries of he Board, on'tlft i iucidctal liesalts of 3I"lS sionS.wV ';. '--:,? "- l:-i ' In the year 1830 the r Arnericon Board . undertook to establish a mission' among the Indians beyond the-Iloeky Mountains. Two misfliotaries, Rev. 31 r. Spaulding and Dr Whitman,'" with their wives the first white women who had ever made, that perilous Journey parsed over - the mountains with increditabls toil, to reach. Oregon , the field cf their . labor. After remaining there ; for a few years, Dr. Whitman began to understand the object of the misrepresentations of the Hudson Bay Company. He saw, contrary to the reiterated public statements of that Com pany. 1. That the land was rich in mineralsl 2. That : emigrants eould eross the Rocky 3Iountains in wagon, a feat which they had constantly, asserted to be impos sible. 1 1 : ' V'- --' 1 - 3. That the Hudson Bay Company was planning to secure the sole occupan cy of the whole of that country, by obtain ing a surrender of the American title in to the hands of the British Government." - Seeing these things but not knowing how very near the British scheme was to ils accomplishment, Dr, Whitman resolv ed, at every hazard, to prevent its con summation. He undertKk, in 1842, to make a journey on horseback to Wash ington, to lay the whole matter clerly ' before our Government by : personal re- ' presentations. . Being a man of great, physical strength and an iron constitu-, tion. he aeeotnp!i?hed the long and peril-" ous journey, and reached Washington in safety. The remainder of the story we ' will relate in the language of the Boston Conjrrjotionalist , Reaching Washing- ton, he sought an interview with Presi- dent Tyler and Daniel Webster, then ecaetary of Staie, -'and unfolded to them : distinctly what was going on. Here ho : learned that a treaty was almost, read v to , be signed in which all this northwestern territory was to be given up to England' and we were to have in compensation,-,-. eter-facilities m cat chin?-fish. Dr. s-jaifr-pjrviifniaii labored to convince .dr. V el- sfer that he was the victim of false repre sentations with regard to the character of of the region, and told him that the intend- ' ed to return to Oregon with a train of emigrants. 3Ir. .Webster, looking him full in the eve. a.ke l , him. if .he would . plelge himself to conduct a train of emi- there in" wagons.- He promised that he would. Then, said Mr. Webster, this treaty shall be suppressed, 'Dr. Whitman, in coming on, had fixed upon certain raliying points where emigrants ' might assemble to aecoinpajiy him on his y return. He found nearly 1,000 ready for the journey. After long travel, they reached Fort Hall, a British military sta tion, and the commandant undertook" to , frighten the emigrants by telling them ' that it was not possible for them to go : through with wagons; but Dr. Whitman ? reassured them, and led them through to the Columbia, and the days of the supre- . macy of the Hudson's Bay Company over Uregon were numoered. 1. Juven ing Post. - ' '. ; -- ' SXcu and Women. s The Marianna (Florida) Courier is not an advocate of " woman'sright," in the - .New liDgiand sense 01 tne word. . So, we , infer, at hJast, from the following article in which the Courier diseourseth on "men anI women :" - :-- -'! ""' Women may talk of their inherent , rights as much as they please, but; they can't overcome nature. They may preach , about equality of the sexes, qut they can't overcome facts and organization. , .., 3Ien and oaes were made to be twisted s and women and ivy were made to 'twins around them, ' ; ... . : ; i ; Though an equality were to he established betetn calico and cassimere to-morrow, it """ would not be a week before all the officers would be men, and all the soldiers women Females are perfectly wining ; to go y ahead provided tho men go first. Set are to a steamboat and not a yard ot dun itT will budge till cassiinere sets the ex ample. So long as the men cling to the vessel, the women will eling to tne men. But if the men plunge overboard, chemi-. ; settes plunge too. As we said before, re-! formers may prate as' . they may about ' equal right, but they can t alter the regu lations of God. It is as impossible for women to cut themselves loose from men - a3 it is for steel dust to free- itsself from its attachments, to a magnet." ' , - So far as our f observation extends, it leads us to believe, on the contrary, that the cassimere generally follows the calico; -and as for tho power of breaking away or I 'cutting loose, as the Currier expresses it, the sterner sex has little to brag of. "We make a vow to break her ehaia, - And keep it till wa meet agiia." . Mobile Gazette. . An elderly 4ady, telling her age, re-' marked that she was born cn!the 23d of Anril. Her husband, who was present; observed; "I always thought you' were A born on tho : 1st of April 1" "eoplo ' -. might well think so," replied tne hdy, , t "in the choice I made of a husband." A woman naturally begins to -bare a great antipathy for dites when she finds j herself out of date. ,