Idaho semi-weekly world. (Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho Territory) 1867-1868, 1867-07-03
REVENUE AND CURRENCY.

esSS REVENUE AND CURRENCY.
The Boise City Statesman Of last Saturda
WAS long article on the Revenue Law an
Territorial currency questions. It appear
that Boise county is the only county whic
complies with the Territorial Revenue law, i
paying in its dues to the Territorial Treasur
in gold coin or its equivalent, and that Ada
m0wyhee and other counties, pay their dues il
legal tenders at par, agreeaby to the singh
decision of John Cummins, Judge. Itabpear
further that Treasurer Sterling, under thes,
peculiar circumstances. pays to the account 0
Boise county the kind of money which Bots,
county pays into the Treasury, and does ex
snactly the same thing with Ada, Owyhee, anC
4 the counties which pay greenbacks in at par
Thatis, he pays Boise county warrants out O
the gold or equivalent currency which Oul
% Boise county officers pay over to him as Treas
urer, and pays to Ada, Owyhee and the other
counties, helegal tenders at par which the
officers of these counties paid into the Treas.
ury at par. In doing this Mr.. Sterling does
exactly right. He would be doing a wrong to
Boise county to give her greenbacks at par for
her gold at coin rates, and so would it be
wrong to pay Ada and the rest of the par
greenback counties in gold at full value for
their deprecated currency. It would be
equally wrong to average the total receipts,
and pay to all alike--thus really rewarding the
par grcenback counties for paying in the de-
preciated currency, and extracting from Boise,
which pays her dues in gold rates, the sum
given as reward or premium to the delinquent
counties The Territory is not supposed to
play money broker, and receive, we will say
100000 in gold from Boise county, and an
other 100000 in greenbacks at par from Ada
and other counties, and then to pay out the
100000 all in greenbacks at par value-or at
profit of over $4,000 made as the difference
between the gold Of Boise county and legal
tenders at San Francisco valuation. Inasmuch
as the officers of Boise county take pains to
collect and pay in to the Territorial Treasury
the county dues in gold or it's equivalent, as
the law directs, it is just and proper that the
warrants drawn in favor of Boise county eff |
GERS should be paid in. similar currency I'll
the officers of other counties choose to receive I
greenbacks at par for taxes, contrary to the
revenue law of the Territory, and pay the
same into the Treasury, they certainly have no
right to expect that the warrants drawn in
their favor, upon the Treasury, will be paid in
gold, or in currency at oldequivalent They
cannot expect to be paid in any other kind of
currency than that which they themselves re-
( ceive and hand over to the Treasurer.
PULPIT PoLITICS The Radicals eof San
francisco called a 1grand ratification mass
meeting" on the evening Of June 25th, in that
city, to ratify the nominations made at their
late State Conventions Among the list of
speakers the names of the following clergymen
appear: Rev. DR.. Stone, Rev H. Stebbins,
Rev u. G Briggs, Rev. DR.. Cox, and Rev. DIR.
Eells. No doubt the Radicals of California {
want'the'beneft of the clergy, but what's the
.,use Of so many to preach the funeral sermon ?
Pulpit politicians are the ones best calculated
to send party to Hades, however
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e FROM LENHI.-Mr d. D. Williams, Trav- Q
cling Agent of the large mercantile house of i
Hosmer, Goewey & Co, San Francisco, came :
here from Leesburg last Saturday. He thinks I
the Lemhi diggings little better generally than
Chinese diggings. Trade is greatly overdone t
there, stampedes to reported discoveries occur f
every day, Leesburg is built up on speculation, !
times are very dull there, and nearly all are
disappointed in their hopes to do well in Lemhi.
SHABBY. MAIL-From the Owyhee Ara- d
Eanchs Of last Saturday, we learn that Mr..
r.. p. Benjamin, of st. Louis, has the contract
for carrying q weekly mail between Silver 7
City, Owyhee, and Chico, California, and
weekly mail from Owyhee to Jacksonville, q
Oregon, to commence July LIST. Weekly mail n
service these days is very much behind the t
times f.
TIE FAsTEsT.-In match lately contested t
hatUaan the celebrated tr0tterg Ethau Allen AZ