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Rh comprehensive knowledge and ability to successfully coudacfc such intricate, complicated and multifarious matters as have been intrusted to Mr. Dolph within the last few years, and it is understood that while he possesses in an unusual degree of friendship t)f his clients, they justly regard his election to the United States Senate as a circumstance unfortunate to their interests. In October, 1864, Mr. Dolph was married to Miss Augusta Mulkey, a beautiful and accomplished woman, who, rejoicing in the success of her husband, still graces his elegant home. They have six living children, the eldest a daughter just entering womanhood. Mr. Dolph has long held the foremost place at the Oregon bar, and has been for many years the hardest worked lawyer in the State; without genius in the common acceptation of the word, he is a good example of what integrity, industry and determined application will do for a man under a government whose highest positions are accessible alike to all. In personal appearance Mr. Dolph is large in figure and of good presence, grave in demeanor and earnest in expression. As a lawyer, he is devoted to his profession, and has for many years enjoyed a large and lucrative practice, from which he has realized a competency. His family residence, recently erected at Portland, is the finest in the State and would be a credit to any city. It is understood that independent of his profession, and in addition to his salary as Senator, Mr. Dolph will have a property income which will enable him to dispense in a becoming manner the hospitalities due to the high station to which he has been called.

Our present Representative in Congress, while not born in this State has resided here since but two years of age, and ought by rights to be classed among our Oregon boys. He is possessed of all the necessary qualifications to entitle him to this distinction, viz: energy, integrity, ambition, perseverance and unsullied honor. He has had much to contend with and may well be called a self-made man, and the success that has attended his past life is due only to his own personal exertions. Good fortune has had little to do with it, and we detect in his make up those principles, partially inherited but more generally instilled in him by his own perseverance, which go to create the sinewed mind and talent of our fair young State. Slowly, but steadily, he has advanced in the estimation of the people of Oregon until to-day he occupies the proudest position that a grateful people can bestow upon him through their inalienable right of suffrage. He was born in Noble county, Ohio, May 13, 1849, his father being a native Virginian and his mother of Puritan stock. The family immigrated to Oregon in 1851, the trip across the plains occupying nearly six months. They settled on a farm near Lebanon, in Linn county, where he resided until he became of age, laboring during the summer months and attending the Santiam Academy during the winter. He also attended school at the Willamette University at Salem, and took a commercial course at the Business College at Portland. In 1S70 he was the unanimous choice of the Republicans of Linn county, m convention assembled, as candidate for Representative, and received his full party vote at the polls. H«> was defeated, however, being