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COMYERS.UA., THURSDAY NOV 9, 17.
GEN. JOE LANE.
The Man Who Ran for Vice-Pres
ident With Breckinridge—He
Becomes a Hermit-His Singu
lar Life.
The roost notable object of interest in
Oregon is nhl Gen. Joe Lane. No man
ever received such nr. ovation for ser
vices in the field us Joe Lane when he
returned imiu Mexico at the dose of the
war, ami gave the S;ate a chance to car
ry him on its shoulders f<>r his gallantry
at Buena Vista. He went Western 1856
was appointed Provisional Governor of
Oregon by Fillmore, then was in the
Senate, and had just finished bit term
when lie was nominated for \ ice Presi
dent on the ticket with Breckinridge.
Alter that defeat the hot political
and aces that knew him once knew him no
more forever. Lie bought a farm back
of Poaching, running up from the valley
of the Will Mimetic, and built him a
small frame house on a picturesque spur
of the Hogue River Mountains, wheie he
has lived ever since in perfect seclusion
Two years ago ho lost his wife, whom he
always called ‘The Madame,' and loved
devotedly. Since then his desolation
has been relieved only by a negro boy,
who cooks and keeps house for him.
be is eighty-three now, straight as an
arrow, six feet two inches in height, and
he can pick up Ins rifle and bring Home
a deer or follow down a trout stream
over the rocks about its well as the next
And then In l reads a good deal. One
room in his cabin is sacred to logbooks,
and his library is one of the most valua
ble *on the Pacific slope. Only once
lately they got bun worked up to the
point of coming down from his garret in
the clouds and making a speech. It was
on the 4th of June, at Roseburg. There
were nt least 5,000 people present and
when the old hero began, the audience
stretched their neckß as if anew revela
tion was doming, and every word was to
be precious. Only a few could hear him
for his voice had drifted inso the child
ish treble, but curiosity kept them spell
bound till be closed. lie reminded one
with his majestic presence and Mowing
white hair and beard, of Johu the Bap
tist in the wilderness crying unto the
people ‘Repent!’ The old man lias one
will left—to vote for TMen and Hen
dricks. It tiie ticket wins he wants to
depart in peace, like Simeon, for lie will
have lived to see the country’s salva
tion.
The Careful Man.
Soon afternoon yesterday a stranger
entered a Woodward avenue hardware
store and asked if they kept shingle nails
there. Being informed that they had a
dozen kegs on hand, ho further inquired:
‘Are they gemtiue shingle uails, or
only imitation ?’ *
‘They are shingle u*Hs, cf coursa.’
‘Let me see them.’
A handful was placed ou the countir
before him, and he took several nails to
the door where be could get a stronger
light. Alter scanning them thoroughly
ho tested two or tlnee between his teeth,
tried to bend them betvreeu his fingers,
and said:
‘Well, they seemed to bo all light, ami
I’ll take five pounds. I don't want to
appear captious, but l bought some shin
gle nails along here somewheie about a
month ago, carried them home, and what
do you suppose they furned out to be !’
‘Six-pennoys f answered the clerk.
‘No, sir. They were shoe pegs, sir!’
‘That was strange,’ mused the clerk.
‘And another time when I ordered
shingle nails,’ continued the stranger,
‘the clerk put up four stove handles,
three nutmeg graters and a coffee-mill.
Can 1 build a cow-shed ont of coffee
mills V Can I shingle a bam w ith stove
handles ? Can I dap board a smoke
house with uulmeg graters ?’
‘Curious mistake, that,’ said the clerk.
‘And another time, when I asked for
shingle uails, they put me up four coni
■poppers and a match-safe. These things
have sunk deep into my soul, and you
imisn't blame mo for seeming particular.
Now, these are nails, are tney ?'
‘Of coursa’
‘Shingle nails V
' ‘Yes, ait.’
‘Just write it on this card and give me
your name, the name of the’ firm, the
number of this store and the date of the
month. I don't want to make trouble,
but if I find.when I get homo that you
have put me up bath-brick and harness
snaps in the place of shingle nails, I’ll
come'back here aud make it warm for
you.!'- Detroit tree I‘reas.
Presidential Elections.
Asa general rule, says the New York
Muil, the majorities in the electoral vote
have been very decided. To Washing
ton there was uo opposition ; but Johu
Adams got iu by a close squeeze. Mr.
Adams had seventy-one votes, and Jef
ferson sixty-eight One of Adam’s votes
was Iroui \ irginu and one from North 1
Carolina. Had these two been given—
as it was r.atural they should have been
to Jefferson, the Cavalier, instead of the
puritan, would hate been Washingtons
i successor, and the Old Dominion would
i have an unbroken sncceasion of Presi
' dents for thirty-six years. One of the
.Adams electors in Mar)land was chosen j
by only four majority. In 1800 Jeffer. |
son defeated Adams by ooly eight ma- I
j jority, the electoral vote being—Jeffer- j
son 73, Adams 05. In 1812 a change j
of 20 votes in the colleges would have i
prevented the ro-elcction of President |
j Madison, who received 128 electoral
votes, while De\\ itt Clinton got 98, In
1836 Mr. Van Buren would have tailed
of an election had there been a change
in 23 electoral votes, as be had but 22
over the number necessary to a choice—
and Pennsylvania, having thirty such
votes, gave him but a small popular ma-
jority. A change of 3,000 in that State 8
popular vote would have defeated him in
the colleges, by sending thirty Whig
electors to the Pennsylvania college.
As it was, Col. Johnson, the Democratic
candidate for the Vice- Presidency, was
defeated in the colleges, because Vir
ginia would not support him, her twenty
ihrcc votes being given lor William
Smith, of Alabama. Colonel Johnson
was chosen by the Senate, the only in.
stance ol the kind known in our history.
Great as was the popular majority giv
en for General Harrison in 1840-41, he
would have been defeated in the collo*
ges had it been possible to change some
eight or nine thonsaud votes in the four
States of New York, Pennsylvania,
Maine and New Jersey. Those States
cast 88 electoral votes, which, added to
the sixty votes that Mr. Van Buren re
ceived, would have givep him just the
numb l , r necessary to a choice ; and yet
there would have been a popular major
ity of more than 100,000 against him.
The four States named gave a popular
vote of almost 100,000, though their
united majorities for then. Harrison did
not much exceed 10,000 —New Yolk
giving him rather more than 13,000, New
Jersey about 2,800, Maine 410 and Penn
sylvania 343. In 1811 Mr. Polk was
chosen through the aid of the New York
electors, who wero 30 in number; and
as Mr. Polk had 170 votes, aud tho num
ber necessary to a choice was 133—the
whole number of electors being 275—lie
would have hai but 131 votes bad New
York decided against him. Mr. • Clay
had 105 votes, and had lie received New
York’s/vote he would have been chosen
by 111 votes, or by a majority of only
five votes. The vote of New York was
lost to Clay by the running of James G
Birney as an Abolitionist candidate.
The vote of the Slnto was: Clay, 232,
432 ; Birney, 1.5,812 ;Clay and Birney,
248,294 ; Polk, 237,588. So Polk got
the electoral vote, though not a majority
of the popular vote. Tho voters for
Birney were nearly all Whigs. In 1848
nineteen electoral votes would have giv
en tire Presidency to Gen. Cass, as Gen,
Taylor’s vote was 163, and that of Gen.
Cass 127, aud some of the Taylor votes
were got by small majorities. All know
that Mr. Liucolu did.not get a majority
of the votes of the people in 1860, though
his electoral majority was very decided,
being 180 to 123 tor Breckinridge, Bell
und Douglas. The 180 electors for Lin
coln represented 1,8<’6,452 voters, while
the 123 fortlie other candidates represen,
tod 2,813,741 voters, not counting South
Caioliua, where the Legislature chose
the electors.
Little Men.
Not long before bis death Ct,.,on
Kingsley drew attention to tbo surpris
ing number of small young men to be
seen in an English crowd. According
to him it was a sign of tho deterioation
of the race. But there are two ways of
looking at everything, and, for the com
fort and satisfaction of small people, we
would point out that it might almost be
taken as an indication cf intellectual pro
gross. Many—we might almost say
most—of the great men of history have
been men of short stature, from the days
of that ancient philosopher who, as the
story goes, was so diminutive that lie
had to carry lead iu his pockets to pre
vent his being blown away. Canute the
Great, for example, was a singularly
small man ; Napolean, too, was little;
Nelson had no height to boast of and
the great Conde was short enough. Hil
debrand—Gregory the Seventh—the
mightiest of ail the popes, was also quite
a diminutive person. Then amongst the
men of letters, poets and philosopher?,
Montaigne, the essayist, was little ; so
was Pope—a little crooked thiug that
asks questions ; so was Diyden ; so was
Dr. Watts, who insisted, as we allkuow,
on the raiud being the stature of the
man ; aud so was Searrou, who, alluding
at once to his ill-health and small sir.e,
called himself an ‘abridgement of human
miseries.’ Will any one after such
names as these—and tho list might be
extended —look down on little men with
disdain ?
‘I don’t like deni goats, nohow,’ said
one darkey to another. ‘I ken steil a
sheep or a bog, an ! yonTl neber bear ’em
squall, but dew cussed goals'll ball any
tvay you can fix ’em. Niggrs better
le ive cm lon?.’
A Wicked Boy.
About tlnee weeks ago a San Antonio
father promised his ten-year old boy a
I dollar if he would learn by heart a chap
j ter in the Bible. This morning the ’boy
j asked for the dollar, a9 he had learned
i the chapter, and the old gentleman gave
it to him, not w ithout a suspicion, how
lever, that the coining circus had some
thing to do with his sudden industry in
learning the chapter.
So he inquired : ‘I hope, Johnny, you
don't intend to spend that dollar in go
ing to that wicked circus. You are go
ing to put it in the plate Sunday for iuis
sionary purposes, ain't you, sonny ?’
The boy buret into tears, and said
huskily: ‘Why, pa, yon didn't think I’d
spend money to go to_a circus V
Whereupon there was a tableau like
little George Washington and bis hitch*
et. The old man cried cut, ‘My noble
boy,' and wrapped his arms several times
around Johnny, who b'ubtered like he
bad not a friend left.
About ten minutes altenvard, while
on bis way to see a dog fight, in the
company of another boy, Johnny men
tioned the occurrence, and said : ‘You
can just hot your boots I’in not the hair
pin to pay a dollar to get into the circus
when I can crawl in under the canvas,
nor will the heathen ever get that dollar
I learned psalms, unless they cau beat
me playing euchre for it.’
Thst bay will be sent to the Legisla
ture yet, unless his parents are very care
ful. —San Antonio {'lex.) Herald.
The Birds and the Light-Houses.
April and October witness a great de.
struction of migrating birds that big
at night arc clashed to death against the
heavy plate-glass lanterns ot the light
houses on our Atlantic coast. Well au
thenlicated facts seem to render it proba
ble that this destruction of pi id-life is
far greater than most persons have sup
posed. In April thebavoc is among the
leturniug birds, along our Northern
coast, from tape May to the shores of
Maine. On the Southern coast, and
especially along the shores of Florida,
the destruction is greatest among the
southward-flying birds in October.
The 'number and variety of theso mis
guided night travelers is surprising.
The keeper of the new and lofty light on
Anastasia Island, at St. Augustine, Fla.,
informed the writer that there is scarcely
any dark night in the year that does not
witness the destruction of numbers of
birds that dash themselves against the
light, and that, often the number found
in the morning ranges from twenty to
fifty. Ducks, however, are the most
notable victim. These heavy birds are
noted for the velocity ot their flight.
The keeper found it impossible to pro
tect the lantern from the shattering
shook of their onset, and had to appeal to
the government light house board to
erect an iron network around the light.
Even this fails to prevent mischief, tor
the ducks strike the iron netting with
such force as to break through it and
break the heavy outer plate-glass of the
lantern. It is not improbable that the
destruCtiou of birds by this cause is ten
fold greater than any one who has not
made the subject an especial study has
ever suspected. At each one ofthe forty
or fifty more promineut lightsaloug the
Atlantic coast of the United States, the
number of birds thus slaughtered must
amount to uc.nly 2,000 anually—or say
100,000 a year. It shows at least
1 (what was already understood by those
who have given attention to the subject)
that the flight of our migrating birds is
accompli-bed in the night. —Hartford
' Timtt.
A laughable incident is told of a GeV
man and bis wife who were visiting
Oueau Grove recently. Going into an
iee cream garden the man asked for beer
for two.
‘Eh ?’ said the clerk.
‘Zwit glass peer.’
‘What is it you want ?’
‘Peer, peer, peer! Zwie g’asses.’
The clerk failed to comprehend, and
began to experiment by placing two
plates of ice cream before the pair.
‘Ugh! Take away dat shtuft ! We
Want peer—bger !’
‘Oh, lager beer.’
‘Yaw—yaw ! dot is richt. Zwie
glass.’
•We haven’t any—don’t keep,’
‘You uo keep him. Vere can wofindt
soom V
‘Nowhere. You can’t get any in the
place.’
‘Can’t get any peer—no lager ? Dot
iah awful places! Vot dime leaf de next
dram, ch!’
The Beauties of Alaska.
I ’erhaps Alaska is tho most worthless
patch of creation thatwas ever purchased
and passed out of oue possession iuto an
other. It does uot seem to have any
materials or capacities* for development.
It was a Russian poor-house, and Russia
sold the expensive charge. All the Rus
sians who were able to go got away: those
who were too poor lo go stayed. All the
paupera remained, of courso. Among
these were the half breeds—Russia’s
crooked family. Now and then melan
choly letter comes lrom some stranded
j‘corresp ondent in Alaska, and the name
1 gets in the papers. Otberw ise it is as
dumb as a petrifaction n\rd barren ot
1 news as the inoon. A letter oame lately.
Sitka is still sitting in a quite corner ot
ocean, behind numerous islands which
break the waves until the waters around
aic as calm nndj.Wionlcss as those'of a
milldain. Even the sea about the city
refuses to stir. There are streets
because none are wauted. There are a
few alleys—narrow ways which lead to
d.stiuction—abundant prostitution being
a Rusian heritage. And then the uni
versal smell of fish. The clouds come
up from the Pacific and pour floods of
water upon Sitka for weeks and months
without ceeaation* and the water runs off
into the sea again, but it cannot wash
away the smell of fish. And Sitka is all
there is ot Alaska worth speaking of at
all. And nobodyftver stayed there yet
to whom it was'jpossible* to get away.
So the letters from* Alaska’ always that
miserable’patch of creation has
ever been a source of poverty to its
owuors.
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