Daily national Democrat., 1859-04-20
Washington Territory.
FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT


and anderson.
VANCOUVER W. T., March 3Oth 1859.
DEAR RIDGE Again l attempt letter to
your valued journal from these Hyperborean
ATTITUDES, hoping that it may interest your
readers. The Northerner has arrived The
Intelligence that our neighbors over the river
are citizens of State, has been received and
reduced to possession. No manifestations of
JOY on the part of the people marked the
event in any of the neighboring towns, or
indeed at any point in the limits of Greg on
The responsibility and cost of supporting a
State government, though deliberately as
sumed by the Oregonians, are such that
many, very many, now openly regret that
they ever favored the proposition to change
their form of government. For my part,
am glad fit, as it adds greatly to the i'm
portance and influence of the Pacific Coast in
the halls Of Congress The statement of G en-.
Lane in Congress, that the population of Or
egon reached $4,000 is remarked upon very
generally as being not warranted by the facts
of the case, and it is asserted, by those who
ought to know, that it does not reach to one
half that number. One good effect it is said,
that will result from the act of admission
will be the indefinite rotation" of crowd
of Territorial Federal appontees. OF the
character of these gentlemen it is sufficient
to observe that they were appointed
by James Rer. Gen. Lane, in drawing" to
the "hand' dealt him by the State Legisa-
ture, filled" while the Hon. Rev. Delazon,
alias Deusion, alias "the lost Minister,
didn't and has only "bob-tailed flush, or a
"Shwassee full" "He calls for another deal,
and it is problematcal, if he has any luck at
all, Judge Williams, late Chief Justice of the
Territory, and very worthy gentleman, in
forms me that he will be a candidate against
Smith. | believe he will be elected He
would be q man of influence and note at
Washington.
In this Territory we are to elect Dele
gate in July. Stevens, the present incam-
bent will, be a candidate for re election. He
has enthusiastic friends and inyeterate enc
mics. venture on the prediction that the
Democratic Convention splits wide open
when it meets in Olympia on the nth of
May next. The grounds of objection to
Stevens are, that he declared martial law in
1855, and that he has done nothing for the
Territory of any Importance or utility As
to the first though perhaps an unwarranted
and illegal abuse of power, it was doubtless
done with the best motives, and as to the
other charge, though it be true that there
has been nothing done by him, it should be
remembered that no one else could have done
more with the present effete and corrupt Ad-
minstration.
The voters of this Territory, though
scant in numbers, are surprisingly "game,"
and were something more than wroth, when
they saw that while His Royal Highness
could spare onethird of his Message in at
tempts to overturn verdict rendered by the
people against that luminary in respect to
Kansas Territory, he could not say syllable
about Washington Territory, which, in view
of the congregation of several thousands of
British troops at our very doors, and our
general surroundings should be the subject
of the very greatest solicitude 10 the-Iucus
non luceado-head Of the nation.
The winter has been very severe. l am
assured by Hudson Bay men, who have been
here for twenty five years, that it has beea
season of unprecedented inclemency This
view is likewise sustained 10y the "oldest in
habiant." 1t has certainly been most afro
cious weather.
1t is said that Kamiakin, the great war
chief of the Spokans is only waiting the de-
parture Of Gen. Harney to commence hos
tilities again 1t is only a question of time
when it is to begin.
Your Legislature, l observe, "stll lives"
comforting immortal honor upon your State,
and imperishable glory on Speaker Stratton,
whose ruling on minority reports stamps him
as being undeniably one of the most original
parliamentarans of any age. Long after he
has passed away and we have nothing of him
save his fame and memory, that decision will
be recolleeted. Had he been born in Vir-
gina there is no telling to what distinction
he might arise, if B. f. Washington would
continue to "boost" him, but being only
,'Chiyalry" by suiferance, and that of the
nutmeg kind at that-a species despised by
everybody, but most by Southern gentlemen
there is a probability that he will go the
way of all Lecompton from candle box frauds
down to Buchanan, saved only for day
from utter oblivion, for the purpose of Icing
more thoroughly despised
| notice in the Senate, that certain two
penny gentlemen hold a cheap carnival now
that they have it all their own way Such
timber as Merritt and Anderson knew better
while poor Ferg. was alive.
AS ever, CHARLIE
"THE SENATE BLAZER The committee bnl-
letin board of the Senate chamber was yester
day ornamented by an extensive sheet of pa
per- on which some wag had displayed his
wit bv outtiuor frnr 80 y