The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1866-12-08
MISCELLANEOUS.

D1ED.-Hon. B. N. Sexton, a prominent citizen |
of Walla Wala, died November 24th.
RANK INJUsTIcE. The Keokuk Constitutional
pronounees Beast Butler common thief. This is
unjust. He is a very uncommon thief.
CoINAGE-During the month of October the
San Francisco Branch Mint coined total of
$2,312 900 Of gold and silver.
THE population of Memphis, Tenn, isnow about
10000. It has grown faster and Improved more
within ten years than any city in the Southwest.
TIE University of Georgia is reported to be in
a prosperous condition, the income from students
being large.
NEARLY eight Thousand buildings have been
erected in Chicago, Illinois, during the last season
at a cost Of about seven millions of dollars.
GEN. TocHMAN. with number of Polish exiles,
lett New York lately for their new settlement in
Virginia.
A Methodist preacher named Haskell has heen
sWindling .he people of Minnesota, Kansas City
and Memphis, He is still on his weaving way
THE Mountaineer says DalIes City is rapidly
filling up, and that all the houses will be occupied
this winter.
LEMHT gold assayed in Portland gave over $l7
per ounce. It is said the digging cover area of
twenty miles, and pay good wages all along.
THE Rev. Father Kelly is giving a course of
The Vedettc speaks highly of the eloquent divine.
GEORGE N. SANDERS and Robt. Toombs are in
Paris, in fine health and condition. Toombs pro-
poses to return to Georgia.
JUDGE ALExANDER Of the Circuit Court Of Mary
land has decided that legal tender notes (green-
backsl were issued in violation of the Constitution
of the United States.
IT. is proposed to change the Constitution of
New York SO as to allow all negroes of suitable
age and residence the right of suffrage The Con-
vention will meet early next year.
correspondent Of the WalIa Walla Statesman
says new pass, known now only to two Indians
will shorten the distance between that city and
Lake Ceur d Alene about forty miles.
A sea captain and his mate, of Massachusetts,
ship, were lately acquitted in San Francisco after
a trial, for hogging two sailors very badly. The
seamen were white-hence doubtless the discharge
of the master and mate.
THE Superior Court of Connecticut has con-
victed white man for refusing to let q negro
play in his billiard saloon. 1t is, perhaps, lucky
for the sufferer that the negro did not ask for his
daughter
GENERors.-Barney Williams, the celebrated
Irish comedian, besought Jas. T. Brady of New
York, the eminent criminal counsel, to defend the
Fenians on trial in Canada, and agreed to pay the
whole bill out of his own pocket
The N. Y. Herald predicts that Chief Justice
Chase will be the Radical candidate for President
in 1861 Gen. Grant the Conservative candidate,
and Mcclellan the Democratic candidate. The
ultra Radicals may run Fred. Douglass
The latest Masonic statistics report that there
are 100000 brethren of the mystic tie in the
world, and 5 900 lodges scattered over the world
in Europe, Asia. Africa, North and South America,
Oceanica and the Indian Archipelago.
A widow and two of her four children living
near Montgomery, Ala. were permitted to starve
to death lately, by the Federal officers whose duty
it was to provide rations for the Wretched family
The poor woman was white.
A thunderbot from a perfectly cloudess sky
struck church and three dwelling-hnuses at
Rising Sun, Ind, a few days ago. Il killedIa girl
outright and stripped all the clothing from boy :,
whom, strange to say, it only stunned.
The negroes who served as soldiers and sailors
propose to hold Convention in Philadelphia next
year, to take measures to enforce their right to
suffrage. We hope they will permit white men to
vote as usual.
SENATOR SUMNER was married to Miss Alice
Cooper, in Boston, Oct. 18th. We hope he has
recovered from that complaint which caused him
years ago to visit Paris, when he pretended that
ne was suffering from the little tap Preston Brooks
hit him on the head.
MONEY ORDER OFFIcEs.-The following post,
Offices in Oregon have been authorized to issue
uouSy OEueTS !. Auburn, La GranQe, QmAtll1a,
Dalles City. Canyon City, Portland Oregon City,
Salem, Albany, Lafayette Dallas, Corvallis, Eu.
gene City, Roseburg and Jacksonville.
HEAVY DRAIN.-The sum of 1852 900 in gold
was paid in San Francisco for duties during Octo
Der, and for Revenue taxes for the same period
u, 100000 in greenbacks. No doubt about this
being Government; it makes everybody feel
that it is, and costly one, too.
L. Jay TURNEY, who, as acting Governor of
Washington Territory in 1861, wanted all the
Democrats hung without trial, is now keeping q
hotel in Salem, Oregon. Wonder if he would let
Democrats board at his house? He might put
poison in their food.
W. @. SToBDARD, who was private Secretary OF
President Lincoln, declares that President John
sons policy is the same as, and that of Congress
totally opposed to, the policy Lincoln favored to
wards the South. Maybe the Radicals think Stod:
dard a traitor, too. Then Lincoln put his closest
trust IL traitors.
SCOTLAND, with onehalf of the population of
ireland, consumes annually 1854 900 gallons of
whisky. while Ireland drinks only 2,26O,00 gals
long. Yet those who are fond of sIandering the
irish for whisky drinking. never think of telling
how much more the Scotch gurge down, man for
man.
The FREEDMEN.-There are 25 900 Freedmen
between Washington and Richmond who are not
supporting themselves, and the Bureau has or.
dered Them to remove from the lands they occupy.
What is to become of the Wretched negroes? The
same power which forced freedom on them yirtuo
ally forces them to starve and die. In slavery
they enloyed good houses and pIentve. Freedom