Daily national Democrat., 1860-11-01
aailv National 1rmutrat
The Stage Coach Roorback.

Our readers will recollect that, some time
ago, the following item appeared in the Sac
rarneAto Democrat:
Dol. Washington, who passed through this
city on his return from a visit to the north
ern counties, states that he was informed by
passenger in the stage coach, direct from
Oregon, that Col Baker read letters which
he had received from Mr.. Douglas, expressing
the hope that his (Douglas) friends would
vote for Baker. Upon some one doubling
the truth of the traveller, the Colonel offered
20 bet one hundred dollars that the fact was
as he stated it, such was the confidence in
spired by the manner and appearance of the
relator.
Abiding to this paragraph, the Daily Ad-
vertiser portland, Oregon observes as fol-
lows:
"a passenger in the stage!" what myth {!
Why didn't Col. Washington say he had the
foregoing statement from the oldest inhabt-
ant? :" it would have been about as explicit,
and far more respectable; but the reader
will notice that Col. B. F. Washington does
not father this falsehood by no means, he
only heard it from passenger in the stage"
Well, for the Information of the Sacramento
Democrat, aud all other papers who have in
serted the foregoing electioneering roorback,
we can inform our contemporaries that one of
The passengers who travelled from Salem to
Sacramento on the trip alluded to by Col
Washington, returned to this city on the Or
egon, and he assures us that such circ,tDl
stance was not even limited at during the en-
tire trip n
We have the most positive, Hying, truthful
evidence that no such news ever Travelled by
the stage on which Colonel Washington and
Mr.. C-k, of Jacksonville, Travelled outside
TO Sacramento. We hope, therefore, if they
have any honor left, (Which we doubt) the
LOlting organs will cease to play any more
upon the stage coach" string.
We are authorized to state that several
gentlemen in this city are ready to take up
Col. Washington's bet of 800, or any other
amount he may wish to wager upon the say
so of his new found friend, the ''stage-coach
passenger"
Since the foregoing was written we have
received the following, which corroborates
the statement made above. The writer is a
leading merchant, and treasurer of this city ::
Correction.
PORTLAND, Oregon, Oct 23d, 1860.
EDITOR ADVERTISER:
SIR-My attention has been called to a
paragraph in the daily Nation, San Francisco,
of the / 5th inst, to the effect that Col. L. F.
Washington, Collector of the port of San
Francisco, had stated that passenger in the
stage. directly from Oregon, informed him
that Col. Baker had exhibited, at Salem, LETT
ters from Hon. S. A. Douglas, urging the
Douglas members of the Oregon Legislature
to vote for him (Baker) for U. S. Senator.
took passage on the stage in this city, on
the 4th inst, for Sacramento. At Shasta,
Col. Washington took passage, and learned
from me the fact of the election of Nesmith
and Baker. But never stated to him that
Col. Baker had exhibited letters from Mr.
Douglas or any one else. in order to facilitate
his election; nor did even hear of such a
thing uatl saw it published in the Califor-
MIA papers. l have never heard it vouched
for as true, and believe it has no truthful
foundation.
was the only through passenger on the
stage from any place north of jacksonville,
on the trip alluded to.
H. WASSERMAN