Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-10-06
CALIFORNIA OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
services Of California In the War.
Secret Traitor ORGANIZATIONS
Their lseiiigerent fhre"'s.-Ar-
rest OF IA DISQUALIFICATION
IA New MineA, kc.
san Joaquin, Sacramento County, CAT,
August Is 1864.

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Angus, Is, 1854
Editor Rutland Herald Amid the null
titude of "war correspondence and
"war news perhaps a W notes from
the shores OF the Pacific may not be UNI
interesting 10 your readers,
California, though far removed from
the scenes of deadly conflict is neVertho-
less one of the loyal states of our slo-
rious old Union, She has thus far re-
spouded TO every call which has been
made upon her for troops, but owing to
the great distance that ii is necessary to
transport them, her forces have not all
vet been engaged in the battles against
treason. Two or three regiments are
now stationed at different points in
Utah, New Mexico, Idaho and Colorado.
Some of these have rendered the Govern
ment signal service in quelling Indian
disturbances. Furthermore, no State in
proportion to her population has con-
trlhuted more literally to the Sanitary
Commission and in various ways TO rem
der that pecuniary aid of which the adj
ministratlon is at present so much in
need When we take into consideration
the fact that more than one third of the
inhabitants of California are from the
seeded States, and that they have
brought with them all the hatred of
liberal institutions which they so care
fully cherished at home, we cannot but
think that the loyal people here are de-
serving of no small credit for the enyi-
able position which California now holds
among her sister States. ....
Emigration this season across the
plains bids fair now TO exceed that OF
any previous year since gold was dis
covered. Those who have arrived thus
far come principally from the border
States of Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri and
Arkansas. 1t is reported that a MAORI
ty of them are Copperheads, who come
out here to avoid the draft at home, and
to co operate with the secessionists here
in inaugurating a civil war upon this
coast, 1t is also currently reported and
believed that leading secessionists are
now engaged in melting their timid and
vacillating followers to oppose the ac-
ton of the Government in raising volun-
teers under the last call. Gen. Mellow
ell, now in command of the Department
OF the Pacific, recently caused the arrest
of C. l.. Weller, formerly postmaster of
San Francisco, and brother Of eX-Gov-
ernor Weller, for uttering sentiments in
a public meeting tending to arouse a
spirit of resis' ence by force TO the militia
ry authorities He is now confined at
Fort Alcatraz, in San Francisco harbor
| where he as we'll as all other men OF his
ilk are compelled to assume virtue
though they have it not" His friends
have petitioned for mis- release, but their
| petition has not been granted, and Wei
| Ter yet remains within the grim and dis
NAL prison at Alcatraz.
Bold and belligerent threats are made
| that he shall be turned loose or bloof
will flow. Secret organizations are on
foot and it is rumored that companies
are now drilling in the mountains for
anything but legitimate purposes
| Whether this be true or false, little
doubt need be apprehended of the ulti-
mate result. Traitors on this coast are
not handled with gloves, and the last
| skrieker for JEFF will receive a shock
which will cause him to skulk bowling
to his den SHOULD an outbreak ever take
place.
Six months ago one of those periodi-
cal stampedes to the new mines" took
place here. Those men who had so many
times been deceived before, could not
profit by their experience, and thousands
of those Adventures who were formerly
the victims of Frazers River, Poweler
and Salmon Rivers, Carriboo and a
dozen other golden humbugs offered
themselves again to be duped by the
glittering visions of untold wealth in
the vicinity o. Boise River, In the Terri
tory of Idaho, thousand miles to the
northeast from here. Every man-near.
ly-who could own horse and pack
mule might have been seen last March
or April, vending his way up the Sierrs
Nevadas, and across the long and dreary
plains of sage brush which intervene
between this and the Boise country
These men usually go on horseback
and with a pack animal convey thei
provisions and camp equipage. Thei
method of travel on the return trip
| somewhat different, in most cases.
9 Many are already coming back to Ca
ifornia, nearly all on foot, with all thei
worldly effects upon their backs, penn
less, ragged, dirty and discouraged. Ate
= hard summers campaign in chasing
! will-o-the- wisp, they return more d,
t moralized than before, and the cons'
quence Is that not a few of them havin
: become desperate from i'll success, TAX
: to the highway and turn robbers, or 6
e they mildly term themselve, "roa
Y | apents"