The Placer herald., 1864-08-13
NUMBER so.
THE "DAY.BOOK" IN CALIFORNIA.

| is now relieved Of all orders heretofore Issued
for its suppression in California. With the
last steamer we received a letter from Brga-
dier Cen Wright in answer to one that we
had addressed to him. 1t is as follows:
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF Pacific,
San Francisco, May 2Sth, 1864. (
GENTLEMEN: Some time alter had requested
the postmaster to prohibit the circulation Of THE
DAYBooK in this Department, was Informed by
the postmaster that the names of The Day BOOK
had been changed to that Of THE CAUCASIAN and
requesting my authority for denying it mail fa-
cilites in the Department. This authority de-
| clined to give. was not aware, until received
your note OF the 25th of April. that The Day
Book was still published. ! have now written to
the postmaster at San Francisco, requesting that
the orders in relation to the circulation of The
| DAY-BooK may be revoked Very resptfy
Your ob'dt servant, G.. WRIGHT.
Brig. Gen. U. S. A. Commanding
Messrs Van Evrie. Horton 4 Co.. Publishers Of
The New York Day Book, 1862 Nassau st. N. Y.
1t appears that as soon as Gen'I. Wright's
attention was called to the subject, he at
once remedied the wrong. The gross njus.
tice of stopping newspapers, thousands Of
miles from the theatre of military operations,
that are allowed to circulate in the armies,
and to do this too, on the ground of "mil'
tary necessity" is assuredly stretch Of au.
thorily beyond anything that we are ac.
quainted with in the East |, is quite evil
dent that General Wright was mised by
some bitter political opponents of the Day.
Book, and it is creditabe to his sense Of JUS
tice that he so promptly sets things right.
HIS successor General MuDowelI,* an old
army officer, is reputed to be liberal and
farminded man, and we therefore congrat'
ulate our readers On the Pacific that they
have, wthou. doubt, seen the last of the
suppression of newspapers in their States
Why the Day-Book has been harrassed with
such persistent persecution in California, we
are at some loss to understand. Our position
on the war is not dissimlar to that of scores
Of papers in the East which circulate there,
while it is hardly possible than any Aboi,
zionist, even one of the most rabid, would
deny us the right to explain our philosophy
Of the negro question. They profess to feel
that their position is so strong, and ours so
utterly untenable, that surely they can have
no fear of our making prosel ytes from their
party. The order of General Wright, we
are happy to see, now removes every imped-
ment to the free circulation of The Day Book
in every State aud Territory under Federal
control, except in the free State of Louisiana,
now rejoicing in the double rule OF Governor
Michael Hahn and Major General Nathaniel
L. Banks. We trust few more defeats will
convince General Banks that he had better
bestow all the spare time he has to the study
o! military science rather than to the sup
preston of newspapers.
We would return our thanks to our sub
scribers in California and Oregon, who have
waited so patiently for their papers. We
shall send this weeks paper to all on our
books, but as the interval has been long
since we sent them, and as some have been
received since we were stopped, some errors
may occur and some omissions be made. If
any mistakes are made let us be notified
promptly, and they will be as promptly rem.
eded. One word more. When we changed
the name of The Caucasian to the Day Book
on the 9th of October last, we commenced
sending our California mail and so continued
to do up to Jan. lst, 1864, a period Of three
months. At that time we first learned that
The Day Book has been detained all the
time in the San Francisco post office and
destroyed. As this was no fault of ours,
and as we fulfilled our part Of the contract,
we do not think we ought to send those pa.
pers twice If our subscribers think we had,
we will send them. But it seems to us pay
ing dear for "militarv suppression" if we are
called upon TO suffer its evils aud pay our
debts twice!
We trust friends Of The Day-Book in Cal
ifornia will now put their shoulders to the
wheel and give it lift. Though our circu-
|ation is large, yet the high price of paper,
&c, renders it impossible, with the most
rigid economy, to do more than to ust pay
expenses. We ask every anti War Demo.
crat on the Pacific coast to show their faith
by their works. Let the ball be started and
circulation for the The Day.' obtained
there far surprising that of any Eastern
paper. ~. Y. Day Book, June 25th.
'The arbitrary course of Gen. Mcdowell in ar
resting Chis. L. Weller, chairman of the Demo-
cratic State Committee. goes to show that the
DAY Book is mistaken rs to his fairness and lib
erality.
RETURN OF VALLANDIGHAM.-The New
York World, in speaking of the return of
Mr.. ValIandigham from exile, says: mo
reader of this journal needs to be informed
that, in this proceeding, we believe Mr..
Vallandigham has done simply what he had
right to do His arrest was an Infamous
outrage; his exile has been a long standing
shame-so deep a disgrace to the country,
indeed, that we could have wished Mr..
VaIlandigham had thought fit TO terminate
it at an earlier period, and on the very day
of his arrival at the Clifton House had eros
sed the river, and on the territory of the
State of New York asserted his rights as he
has now asserted them."
The Exports Of Treasure from New York
for the first six months of the present year
have been 29,26s. 900, against 500, ,5s7 900
during the same period last year, and are
larger than during any similar period on
record. except 1859. The imports for the