A Model Senator

The people of Oregon have taken tip the case of Senator Mitchell, of that State, in deep earnest, and have sent a memorial to Washington to be presented to the United States Senate, making a terrible arraignment of his personal record to the following effect. It is addressed in printed forni, " To the Honorable Senators of the TJiiited States," and, upon alleged information and belief, recites : 1. That John Hippla was recently elected to the United States Senate under the, assumed name of John Hippie Mitchell. 2. That said Hippie was formerly a school teacher iu Butler County, Penneylvania, where he seduced one of his scholars by the name of Sarah Hoon, whom he was afterward compelled to marry, after the birth of a child. 3. That said Hippie practiced as a lawyer in Butler County, Pennsylvania, where he seduced a school teacher named Maria J. Brinker, and run away with her to the Pacific coast, taking with him four thousand dollars in money belonging to the clients of himself and partner, leaving behind his wife, penniless, and two children. 4. That he lived with Miss Brinker as her husband in San Luis, Obispo, California, and in 1860 abandoned her in San Francisco, and taking his eldest child by his tirst wife, left for Oregon. Upon his arrival in Oregon, he represented hiinself as a widower from Pittsburg, and said that his -wife had recently died in San Francisco. 5. That said Hippie, on February 25, 1862, married Miss Hattie Price, of Portland, Oregon, with whoni he lived in bigamy until April, 1869, when his first wife, Sarah, obtained a divorce from him. 6. ïhat when he first ran away from Butler County, Pennsylvania, with Miss Brinker, he assumed tlie name of John H. Mitchell, by which he has since been known. To substantiate these statements the memorial claims that all the witnessesare still living, and will confirm thern so far as each is concerned, when required. - None of theee things, it is declared, were known in Oregon when said Hippie, alias Mitchell, was elevated to the Senate ; otherwise he would not have received a single vote for his election to that high office. That State, itinsists, has been disgraced, and an outraged people respectfully ask redress at the Senate's hands. - The petitioners therefore respectfully pray the Senate to present this statement to said Hippie, alias Mitchell, and if denied by him, that a cominittee of investigation be appointed ; and if they are found true, that he be expelled from the Senate as a memberfrom Oregon. Senator Kelley, his collegue, is requested to present the memorial to the Senate. It uncovers about the worst Senatorial record of scandal of the times.