The Nevada journal., 1861-07-26


Hackensack On. W Journal, at the late
town election in Hackensack, received one
vote for road master, and was not elected.
Whereupon he publishes the following:
We return our thanks to the friend who
intended to elect us road master, and there
fore cast his vote in our favor. The can
vass was very close, standing as follows
when all the ballots were counted:
R.P. Terhune, 2s6
J. C. Baldwin,
Had the vote been reversed, we would
have been elected by very handsome ma
jority. Mr.. Terhune was chosen by a small
majority. He owes his popularity entirely
to new cutting box which pleased the
farmers, and they came down in large num-
bers from the rural districts to give him
their support. This, together with the fact
that he was run on both the Democratic
ard Republican tickets, rendered his cleo
ton quite certain. We shall not qualify
for the position. The following is more
detailed statement of the vote:
Whole number Of votes cast,.........2S3
Necessary for Il choice. AS
1crhUn ,. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
Ourself, ...........-.......-.l
Scattering, ...............................l
1erhunc over Us,.........
over alI............... .....................ZSi
Excess of votes over an election PSI
Number of votes not polled, jO2
Mr.. Terhune was elected. He had held
the office before and performed the duties
to his own credit and to the satisfaction of
the public. If we had thought there was
any chance for his election we would haye
made an effort to get to the polls and cast
our own vote for him.
An INCIDENT AT FORTRESS MONROE
One evening lately, at Fortress Monroe,
says a letter to the Bulletin, woman was
observed carefully advancing step by step
across the bridge from the encampments is
towards the fort. She seemed either to be,
or was pretending to be, blind. The form
er proved to be the case. She inquired
how far she was from the fort to which she
she was going,and then in answer to ques-
tions, revealel her story. She was from
/ New York and had an only son in one of
+ the regiments encamped on the outposts.-
( Though blind, to use her own words, she
had accomplished the whole journey from
New York, and had just been out to the
camp to "see" her son. On her arm was
an empty basket, in which she had borne
/ him little delicacies which the occasion and
/ mothers love would suggest. She had
/ had guide, but his ''pass" would not per-
| nit him to accompany her further than the
| further end of the bridge; so that she was
| left, blind and alone, TO find her way in the
/ twilight, back to the fort--a distance OF
more than mile. Presently a couple OF
priyates going in the same direction, ap-
preached. On her case being represented,
one of them most readily and respectfully
| offered his arm to the devoted mother, and
they passed on,
| LOYALTY TOLERANT; TREASON INToLER-
AxT.-Seyeral of the Secession journals are
discussing the Constitutional right of every
citizen to write and speak what he please;
being responsible for the abuse therefore
only to the law. Nobody else, that we have
heard of, ever doubted that right, and GER
tainly never denied it; but as many fthese
gentlemen have, in the past, denied this
right to others, they evidently fear that the
poisoned chalice may be returned to their
own lips. While in the rebel States, no
man dares avow his sentiments, or Union
PAPER dares be published, lest the gallows
should be the doom of the one, and the fire
the fate of the other-in all the loval
States, men speak and write as they please;
being responsible only to the law. And
And here in California, the Secession press
talks treason of the rankest kind day after
day and week after week, and no man mo-
Tests them. They even make County and
State nomino here without fear of being
mobbed. Yet in the rebel States, Union
tickets dare not be run. This is one of the
differences between loyalty and treason
Bee.