, 1863-01-03

Everybody has heard of Victor Smith, who
commanded at the bomhardment of Port Town
send. Smith is Salmon P. Chase's man, or a man
after his own heart, l forget which, Of course
everybody is familiar with his removal of the
Custom House from Port Townsend to Port An
gelos. | may mention, BY the way, that Port
Townsend is a small place, difficult TO find, some
where on the Sound, which dragged out a some
what precarious existence from having a marine
Hospital located near it. Smith is revolutionary
in his system of administration; cutting off small
leaks, each of which had a small fellow attached
to it sucking with all his might routing out sin
ecurists, who are on the steal and making him
self generally obnoxious. He has a ship-of-war,
the Shubrick, with which he reduces refractory
places to obedience and visits neghboring states
and provinces His mania for Retrenchment and
Reform is the marked popularity Of his. charac-
ter. l have noticed that financial reformers are
generally more awake to other peoples mistakes
than their own. Howsoever, Victor has made a
great saving and has gone to San Francisco,
where he is looked upon as a curiosity. He is
said TO be feeding at a restaurant and where they
sell three plates for a quarter, to see if he can
not find some plan by which the expenses of the
San Francisco custom officials can be reduced
He has my best wishes to reduce them to lust
such diet as will tone their stomachs down to
bacon-and greens view of life. This of course,
people will consider levelling inclination; but
it is needed. Most Of Uncle Sans civil officers
out here are something great deal worse than
l shall call them.
WASHINGTON TERRITORY OFFICIALS.
There is a Kilkenny fight going on among the
Federal officers in your territory at this time
By unanimous consent they have iahawked the
Secretary L. ]. s. Turney, and are now plotting
contrivance to cut each others political throats
l wish they may succeed. However, Tuney will
not give u Office Of Secretary He contin-
ues to send ertefs to the Legislature, in which he
refuses to ct them any postage stamps refuses
to get them two maps; don't believe they have
a right to one map and determines that he can't
ge- correct map anyhow, and they shall not
have any. Evans sends letters to the Legisa-
ture he will get postage stamps; he can't get
two maps but can get one, and wants them to
give it back when they are done with it
KENDALLs SHOOTING AFFAIR.
OF course you have an account of Kendall's
shooting-affair. l do not know how "Dick" may
view it; but l think Kendall is exactly right
l would have every editor confne himself to the
bounds of decent expression, ard then if any
rufian touched him. he ought to shoot the scoun-
drel in his tracks, 1t is only by the conductors
of newspapers placing themselves in the van of
PUiiO OPi"'"A '1'e' '4i'S'0S anu Nila4lS, puullc
and private, can be restrained. This being the
case they have a right to speak without intmida-
ton, and if the public does not support them in
it, they ought to support themselves in it. These
are my sentiments to a nicely. The time for
beating and intmidating public journalists hope
is past
MORE ABOUT KENDALL.
have just met gentleman from Olympia,
resident Of the upper country, who informs me
that Kendall is sustained by the popular voice.
He has not been arrested, and Howe is getting
we'll One Federal official had posted himself
to see the "fun," as Kendall calls it, and when
Howe was shot the trucuent old scamp turned
| and left. REGULAR