, 1867-10-04
The Democrats VIctory-It. Meaning


that equipoise Of mind that denotes moral STAN
ina and that evenness of temper that gives dig
| nity to defeat. Blinded by passion and intoxi-
Gated by little brief authority, they can scarcely
realize that their war begotten bautling Of power
thrown 70 the surface amid the throes Of revolu-
ton like the debris Of the storm-swolen stream,
could be brought SO low by one fell stroke Of the
6GAot. But their Babylon is fallen. 10 this
State At least the party Of passion and prejudice
is dead. Democratic day dawns upon our coast
once mofe. The suns bright lancss rout the
mists Of morning and display the uplifted ban
ner upon whose fold is written the triumph of
the people. II is q perVersion Of truth TO say
that the late verdict of the ballot-box in this
State meang nothing more than popular rebuke
otsa few corrupt, INSCRIPTIONS politicians who
would have Hsed the machinery Of political or
ganization to foist themselves into power. 1t is
an inference sustained by the facts, that the re,
verse and total annihilation by the people of the
late dominant party in the recent election, was
simply protestation against individual trickery
ard fraud. Was the endorsement by Union men
of the wrong and outrage charged upon a few
individual members of their party, or the utter
destruction Of their organization the only alters
| native left them2 Could not the Augean Stable
have been cleansed without destroying the bull
ding itself? Did not the Convention of the 10th
OF July, which assembled at Sacramento at the
call OF Joseph N. Wood, Chairman of the Repub-
lican State Central Committee, place before the
voters of the late Union party so called a revised
State ticket, with the names of some of the very
best men the party contained, substituted in
place of Gorham, Parks Mccarthy and others,
the Objectionable candidates With the revised
ticket in the field, composed of candidates of
undoubted ability and 'trooy loyal, could not
trickery and fraud have been rebuked as well by
uniting in its support, if that especially and sole
ly had been their motive and object2 The con-
clusion from these premises is forced upon every
candid mind that the success of the Democracy
in this State signifies, if il signifies anything,
not alone the condemnation by the people of the
fraudulent manipulation of tricksIers and wire.
pullers in the late Union organizatinn, Though
that was evidently included but positive and
unmistakable protest against the extreme, unjust
and oppressive measures of a Radical Congress.
II is the voice of California in response to tha:
of Connectcut-tbe indignant remonstrance of
the elder born of the Pacific Sisterhood uniting
with that of one of the "old thirteen" against
the iuiquitous partisan schemes of the saturna>
lian revelers at Washington, who know no mo,
tive but self-interest, who acknowledge no law
but their perverted wills, and who Sampson like
in the blindness of madness are feeling of the
pillars OF the Temple whose fall must bury US
and them with the fondest hopes of humanity
beneath its ruins.
No, the party whose funeral obsequies the
people Of this State lately celebrated and whose
tfvle VI zl.y---s~-ss-.-
ephemeraI existance. 1t was the child of crisis
born of the necessities of the hour-having a
definite, distinctive object, the attainment of
which marked the boundary of its usefulness and
put period to its duration. The elements of
which it was composed were heterogeneous and
ncOngruous, and held together only by the co.
hesive power of a specific motive and purpose.
With the accomplishment of the and the
cessation of the other, its soul had fed and its
body went to decay. Peace to its ashes, dead
for certainly there was none in its body, living
1t was begotten of sectional strife, animated by
the spirit of dissention, uourished by agitation,
strengthened and made powerful by the magic
of its name, and died at the dawn of reason
among the people, from popular reflection, the
fatal return of peace, and the virus of corruption
that had spread through its organization. The
better element of which it was composed identi-
fes itself with the democracy, with which it
naturally assimilates and where it properly be>
longs. We mean that element which united
with it for the specific and patriotic purpose of
preserving the unity of the States, and from the
conviction that the necessities of the situation
demanded it, and who now from the same inns
pulse and motive find their political affinity in
the ranks of the invincible democracy-the party
of the Constitution and the people.-Aountain
Democrat.
PROGRESS OF TIN UNION fAClFlC RAILROAD
Under date of the 10th August last, the Govern
ment Directors of the Union Pacific Railroad
reported to the Secretary of the Interior that the
work on that road since their last report has pro-
gressed quite rapidly. Since the opening of the
season for work, there have been one hundred
and ninety miles of grading finished and one
hundred and forty miles of track laid and accep-
ted by the Government. In addition there has
been work done on the grading about one hun
A. f,,rtb al . frrh;, - i,
believed, will be finished, and the superstructure
and rails laid before the close of the season.
The number of miles of track finished aud in
operation at this date is four hundred aud thirty
In the month of June last, one of their number,
Nj. Garter, being detailed TO proceed to the
Rocky mountains to examine the location of the
road in each direction, reported that the road
may be constructed to the summit of the first
range of mountains this season, if the same ener-
gy is used as heretofore, and if the military au
thorties will afford sufficient protection. Atthe'
same time another of their number, Mr.. Will
Jams, was detailed to examine the proposed
sites for bridge over the Missouri river, and
give his opinion as to the plan to be adopted.
The shifting banks and changing channels of
the rive convince them that the best experience
of the country as we'll as a large amount of
money, will be required to effect the object. The
road bed and track are well constructed Two
machine shops are in full operation, one at Oma-
ha, with its machinery, costing about S25O,O |
the other at North Platte, costing about $50 900.
In the possession of the Company are forty-seven
first class locomotives, eight hundred and twenty
six freight, ten passenger, five baggage, and
sixty hand cars In the course of building are
six locomotives, and three hundred freight cars.
The report also states that the gross receipts of
the road during the month of May were S25O, ,OOOi |
in June, $3.50 900 in July, $500, 900, and during
the first week in August, $50, 900. There are
thirty-hve hundred men employed on the gras
ding and four hundred and fifty engaged in lays
ing the superstructure. Five hundred and four !
teen miles west from Omaha the town of Cheys |
enne has been laid off. 1t is expected that the
track will be laid to this town By the first of
October, and when it is completed it is the de- |
sign of the Company to erect at that place large
machine and repair shops.1
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England, the gold is instantly paid for it. fit
comes from some known person, he is asked
where be got it. If from a stranger, the cashier |