, 1865-09-15
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Letter From Portland.

attempt made by the Democratic pass g
/ drive Judge Deadly from public life, and de.
feat his long-ch4rsbedl ltenton Of getting
himself elected United States Senator from
Oregon. lie appears to have laid himself
opou to censure in the Code dc Deady, by
epitomising in it about all the crudties Of
law-tinkers from Draco to himself 1t unites
in itself so many Objectionable features that
neither saint or sinner can endorse It, and
the only chance for lawyer to understand
it is to first 90 insane and then read it up
while the frenzy is on him. 1t is well
/ known that Deadly is a monarchist, an aris-
tocrat, law-quack and ''scholar learned
In Blackwoods magazine and the cyclopae-
dias. Originally he was a Democrat (by
/ proiession) Joe Lane man by allegiance
] and secessioniSt $40 rosa, but he has read
/ Blackgood until he has gone over to the
Ebony Party, aud can now prove from his
favorite periodical that Niger Equality is
! the normal relation Ofthe races He is also
accused of a serious ofense in writing for
the newspapers, and, in one case, uudoubt.
edly made great mistake in doing So [
refer to his "NO. 9 Letters" in wkch he
actually spoke Of a citizen of the a oient,
heroic city of Milan-a gentleman @ pure
| Longobard descent-perhaps DESCENDANT of
Theodoric-as Ga Piedmontese peasant If
| he had only known that the word peasant
is obsolete in Western Europe he would
have saved himself from the righteous in
dignation Of worthy and outraged man. -
To call freeman of the Western Nations a
peasant is deadly insult, and if the
Judge had been in Italy he might have felt
the uncomfortable sensation arising from the
insertion Of a stiletto in his bread basket in
consequence Of it Fortunately, however,
the gentleman who was iojured took the
wisest view OF it, and attributed such hor-
ribe bull to ,be Judges Celtic derivation
/ And he has had the further satisfaction bf
expressing in the the purest Anglo Saxon
| bis opinion of "No 9" and his actions. j
was present at the time nv Lonsola7d
friend first heard that Deadly was the author
of the letter in question, and l ana free d
state that the speech which he made III
consequence was one of the most eloquent
outbursts of vernacular English that ever i
listened to. 1t wound up by an expressed
intention to leave on an unmentiona6e part
of Deady's person the imprimatur of the
toe of his boot, after which he
proposed to blow the Judge to the internal
regions with bomb shell peculiarly applied.
Thanks to mutual friends, this catastrophe
was averted, but the feud is still at boiling
heat and no one knows what may come of
it yet. So much for the versatile law gver
of Oregon who intended doubtless to rival
Lyeurgus and Draco in invention, Justinian
or Nicholas of Russia in industry, and Kell
say or Judge Sweet in legal acumen.
OTHER OREGON BIG GUNS
Before the Solemn Humbug was elected
United States Senator he was looked upon
as quite an ordinary mortal, but now he is
viewed by all True Patriots as a Political
Messiah The time must come however
when he viii sbrnk back to his original po-
sition.
His Rotund Pomposity views the attack
on Deadly with much complacency, and
Kisses on the hounds when he thinks that no
one is looking The departure Of the Holy
Cobbler was also very pleasing to the Gov
ernOr, for the reformed cordwainer was re
ally his most formidable rival for Nesmith S
place.
LITTLE PITTOCK AND THE STATE PRINTING.
Little Pittock has got himself into a mud
die about the State printing 1t appears
that the State ordered certain number OF
copies Of the State laws to be printed, and
proposed to sell them to the legal profes
sion to reimburse the expense Of printing
them Little Pittock could not get these
copies worked in time on account of the
lack of paper Of the right kind; but he did
have worked, from "the forms composed
for the State eight hundred copies, Of the
Criminal Code, which he was about to offer
for sale, when the State intervoued and
stopped him-olaiming that the laws could
only be published by order of the legsla-
ture, aud all copies not authorized were of
no more value, as authority, than Mother
tioose's Melodies, and the one hundred and
tbirty.ninth Psalm. Little Pittock has
been much troubled at the structures Of the
press on his conduct, and it is truly a mat
ter of regret that this little man, who pre-
served his good name when he could scarce
ly stagger under his financial difficulties, by
regulating his conduct on the incest princi-
pies of honor, should now be open to suspi-
cion when fortune is smiling on him. Poor
Little Pittock it was black day for him
when he became an unconditional patriot and
struck hands with the Ebony Loyalsts An
opposite application of the story Of Poor
Dog Tray might be made here Many
causes are cited for Pttock's wayward con-
duet. Among which are, his connection
with the great Sanitary SwindlerA the
School Fund Diddler-His Pompous Ro-
tundity- the Sanotimonious Cobbler and
the Purely Patriotic Party of Ebony Idol
Worshippers My own opinion is that Lit
tie Pittock has, been so much distressed
about the state Of our Bleeding Country that
his notions of right and wrong are sadly
confused.
SOMETHING OF INTEREST TO TEE UPPER
COUNTRY.
The project Of putting a steamboat on
Pen Oreile Lake to connect the road
from Snake River to the lake, with the sec
ton running east of thence to Black foot
mines, is exciting much interest. believe
the boat will be built, and, in all probability,
a valuable trade secured.
OUR MORAL AND POLITICAL, PERFECTION.
AS people we are gradually approaching
perfection in a moral and political point Of