, 1865-07-28

eled 'nineteen thousand miles by land and sea
with uninterrupted good health and success
He does not state in his letter whether he re.
turns to the coast as a minister of the Gospel
or only as a politician. Perhaps he intends to
mix those occupations as formerly We shall
| see.
| SrEAMBoArING.-A persevering miner, who
is at present infatuated after "steamboat lay
outs, and who informs US that he was among
the number of unfortunates who were badly
"Coeur dAlene-d' a short time since, says he
is not yet satisfied, and is going to push ont
next week on the line, where, he thinks,
there is ian average prospect of getting thor
oughlY steamboat-encampment Hope
he'll have pleasant trip and get richly Edo
rado-ed.'
The Circus Troupe of Lee & Ryland gave
two exhibitions in Walla Walla, last week
Their trained horses were what is generally
termed "dead poor, being living exhibitions
skeletons, nearly-of the fact that the route
from Nevada to Idaho is hard road to travel.
The exhibitions, to say nothing of the condi-
ton of the animals, were pretty fair for this re-
] gion, and were largely attended The troupe
started below on Monday.
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! The Marysville Appeal has found out why
the people of the Pacific coast have been ova-
ting Mr.. Coifax. It says they want to encour-
age emigration, and when the news gets back
to the East of his popular reception, about sixty
Congressman will Immediately start the plains
across Ashley is coming along apace, after
some of the ''ovate" perhaps, but we have not
learned that he has got much of that interesting
soft-soap article yet.
1t is announced by telegraph, unOticially,
that jeff Davis is to be tried by a military COM
mission. The civil courts are getting, it would
seem, to be useless appendages. But q ''com-
mission" hes just as much authority to try JEFF.
as any other man. Trials by commission are
all the rage just now With fair state of pro-
gress, Stanton and the rest of EN- will soon be
enabled to try men by proxy, and that other
swift institution, the continental telegraph /"
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faStidious Democratic paper in Oregon
finds fault with Speaker Colfax, because he
"did homage" to the Negroes in San Fracisco
on the 4th of July. It ought to reflect that the
darkeyS constituted the "grand feature of the
procession there on that day, and besides if he
hadn't "nig'd" a little the African-shinned
whites couldn't have appreciated him
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The horses, carriage and harness, recently
bought by the merchants of New York as pres
ent to Andrew Johnson, (Which he refused to
accept cost $6,2 and brought at auction,
So, ,735.
The freedmen" of the South it is stated
are not convinced of having obtained their free
dom; they can't sec it yet, and are shifting
about. The rebels are blamed for not making
the negroes know that they are free.
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The people of California are becoming very
patriotic as their election draws nigh, and the
nearer they can come to transforming them
selves into Africans the more loyal they become
1t lis now stated that Secretary Stanton has
no intention of resigning, and that he and the
President are on the best of terms This looks
rather as if Johnson has relapsed into one of
his 'incoherent' moods again
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Mr.. Chas. Hutchins, Agent for the
Flathead Indians is in town. He will leave
for the Agency tomorrow or next day.
Mr.. John Moar, an old and esteemed resi-
dent of this valley, left this week, with his
family, for Lafayette, Oregon, where he
proposes to make his home in future.
Ripe peaches are now plentiful in the San
Francisco market
California paper says "an ingenious Orego-
nian has invented machine for separating gold
from dirt without the use of water"
Wendell Phillips, the notorious Abolitioist,
is said to be worth the sum of $7O2, 900.
George B. Mcclellan, at latest dates, was at
Serento, Italy. During his sojourn in Rome
the General had long interview with the Pope
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1t is stated that more than half the voting
population of the State of Minnesota went to
the war.
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The President has ordered suspension
throughout the South of the sales of rebel real
estate for non payment of direct taxes.
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1t is stated upon good authority that the Gov
ernment is now feeding 200, 600 Of the inhabit-
ants of Virginia, of all classes, white and
black.
TO FARMERS AND STOCK RATSERS.