, 1864-01-02
THE WASHINGTON STATESMAN
eATURDAY MORNING, JAN, ?, 1864

SATURDAY MORNING, JAN, 2, 1864.
We have recently learned that the Idaho
election did not give the Republican Union
party so large a majority as was supposed.
Recent developments show that the returns
from some of the Precincts were wholly
spurious, and that the vast majority para
ded before the public by the "Golden age"
was based upon returns false upon their
face For instance, the Fort Laramie Pre-
cinct reported as having given majority of
four hundred and seventy y-nine for Wallace
has turned out to be a regular sham, prac
ticed by some of the loyalists of the Repub
lican party, aud suspicion strongly duplicates
the Governor as the prime mover Of the
"patriotic" scheme. Before the news OF
the result of the election at Beaver Head
reached Lewiston, a rumOr was circulated
that Mr. Cannady had obtained majority
of thousand votes in that section. This
appears to have stirred up the parties inter-
ested and something desperate had to be
done to overcome Cannady's reported ma
jority hence the returns from Laramie
But when the Legislature convened, Mr..
n.
elected from a section of the country includ-
ing that Precinct, filed his petition to be ad
mitted as a member of that body, certifi-
cate having been awarded to N p Lang
ford, his opponent; and upOn an investiga-
tion of the subject it was ascertained that
the returns from the Fort Laramie Precinct
were not sworn to nor signed by any one
having authority, and afforded no evidence
that an election had been held in that To-
caity Besides, the number of votes re-
turned was more than twice as many as there
were people in that Precinct, as ascertained
by the Marshalls returns, and about five
times as many as there were voters there
The Committee, therefore, dsregarded the
returns entirely, and gave Mr. Edwards
(DemocraO his seat in the Council 5ra
If the officials Of that newly organized
Territory succeed in convincing the "dear
people" of their unconditional Unionism,"
they will have to change their practices very
much, in order to establish character for
honesty and integrity. Such tricks are
rather "low down" for high public function
aries to be engaged in, and are triAing with
the dearest rights of free people If the
right Of the Elective Franchise can be in
terlered with in that manner its mainten-
ance would b5 Of no benefit whatever.
The loyal 'jayhawkers" of the Jennison
school Of politics propose to hold an emanci-
patton Convention in Louisville, Kentucky,
on the Sth of January next. All the red
handed radical Jacobins of the surrounding
States are invited to be in attendance The
movement originated with the CharcOals of
Missouri, and the object of the Convention
is to devise ways and means to bring about
immediate emancipation in the State, and
that too, against the will Of the people of
that commonwealth The Louisville jour
nal has stoutly objected to, and bitterly de-
nounced the movement. A radical paper
in Indiana noticing the denunciations Of the
JOtWhdi says:
"However much the Journal may de-
nOunce the Missouri proposition for an abo-
lilion convention in louisville on the 8th Of
January, we shall find that the great soul Of
John Brolen iSmarehing on" I'D
To which the Joprnal responds =
"That's exactly the idea of the Missouri
projectors OF the convention and their friends
JOHN Brownism But we can tell them,
that, if "old John Browns soul" in its
marchings on, shall march into this State, as
old John Brown himself marched into Vir-
ginia, to incite the slaves to insurrection and
massacre, those who dare to make their ad-
vent under its guidance will fnd their doom
quicker than that wretched old fanatic of
their idolatry found his at Harper's Ferry. "
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SLAVERY DEAD.-Some of the abolition
newspapers Of late state that slavery is not
only dead in the United States but that the
question now is whether it shall be "recon-
structed" or not Their argument has al
ways been that when slavery become 4wiped
out" there would then be nothing to fight
about and the war would at once close and
the Southern people resume their allegiance
to the Federal Government. Now if sla-
very is really "dead" as they contend it is
there snould be no war now, but as the war
still goes on with its usual intensity we are
left to infer that either the radicals tell a
great lie about slavery being dead or that
their theory about the war is a great lie y
The idea Of demonstrating slavery" is in
sane enough but it is 20 more so than
that other idea of the radicals that sla-
very would have to be entirely "wiped out
before there could be peace. .a
In LIMBO Report says that J. J. Stan
defer and party who some time since left
Boise to 90 to JEFF" are confined at mil
itary post somewhere in New Mexico. The
story goes Il at Standefrr and party visited
the Fort and boasted Of their intention to 90
and help fight the battles of the Confeder-
acy, whereupon the commander of the post
deemed it prudent to declare warupon them;
made them prisoners ofwar," and confined
them in the guard house.
PLAcEBvILLE MAIL.-The mail to Pla-
ceryille Boise Basin) is now in operation,
making weekly trips from Auburn. Messrs.
Wilson & Co., Of Wilson & Co.'S Express,
we believe, are the carriers. The mail to
Auburn goes from this city Uia La Grande,
and leaves every Wednesdays hence, we
have a weekly mail now i'm 0Deration from