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drljflnrkilnlfli'giotrr. 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. 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