Owyhee bullion. [volume] (Silver City, I.T. [Idaho]) 1866-1867, 1867-08-15
NO. 40.
THE WASHINGTON ELEcTToN.

NPNh thO ois5udi ouCCeSS IlldC at
tended their performances in Washing
ton at the late municipal election in that
city. They carried everything before
them, electing every candidate that was
on their ticket. Bravol We congratu.
late them, also, upon the way it was
done. 1t was happy thought of theirs
to compel the white voters to take posi-.
tion iD the rear of the colored persuasion,
when making their way up to the ballot
box. The spectacle must have been one
TO gladden. the hearts of Mr.. Sumner,
Judge Kelley, old Thad. Stevens, and
other "white niggers," who have been
laboring so long and in SO many ways to
make Washington City what it now is,
the capital of the new Black Republic.
Ever since the election of''Lincoln and
Hamlin," it is true, Washington City
has been but little better than ''nigger"
nest; all that ever made it respectable or
tolerable in the eyes of man took leave
OF it when Southern ladies and gentle
men abandoned it towards the close of Mr..
Buchanan's administration. During the
war it was but rendezvous for every.
thing that was vicious, vulgar and vile
the common resort of shoddy "patriots,"
thieying loyal leaguers, bounty-jumpers,
cut-throats and spies. We would not
have our "cullud' fellow-citizens suppose
that the mere fact Of their obtaining DO
litical ascendency there is going to make
1t, morally, politically, or socially, worse
than it was before. On the contrary, we
dare say they (the darkies) will do what
they can to improve it. But few bar
rels of the balm Of u thousand flowers,
with judicious distribution Of some
night-blooming cereus, ought to be ad-
vertisei for Immediately, as the necessa-
ry steps to proper beginning.
Seriously, however, now that the cap.
ital Of the nation is thus becoming under
Radical inspiration, Nuisance of the
most abominable description, all decent
white men must unite in an effort TO have
the seat of government transferred from
the District ofColumbia altogether, to
some central point West, where the at
mosphere is purer and where the domi-
nation, either of black niggcrs, will not
be so easy, Washington now is no long
er place for men or woman entertaining
for themselves the slightest sense of self
respect. 1t may do little while longer
for Yankee Congressman and other mean
whites Of equally low instincts, but all
who have not Joined the nigger-worship-
ping throng will take care to give it a
wide berth. From the Capitol to the
Treasury Department, right and left,
length, bredth, depth and height, it is a
stencil now in good mems nostriIs. Away
with it 1.-THE Metropolitan Record.
A SINGULAR Posi- OFFIoE.-When
the first sod of the Union Pacific Rail-
road, for Ncompleating railroad commu-
nication from the Atlantic to the Pacific,
was dug at Omaha city, a citizen gave
the assemblage an account of his arrival
at that city, or rather at the site, in Octo-
ber, 1854. "Along a narrow path" ho
said, "cut by some stalwart men through
the tall, rank prairie, | wended my way
in search Of the Post Office. At length
| found an old pioneer seated apparently
in solitary rumination upon a piece of
hewn timber, and inquired of him for
the post Office. He replied that he was
the postmaster, ndwould examine the of.
fee for my letters. Thereupon he remov-
ed from his head a hat, to say the least
Of it, somewhat veteran in appearance,
and drew from its cavernous depths the
coveted letters. On that day the wolves
and the Omahas were the almost undis-
puted lords of the soil, and the entire
postal system Of the city was conducted
in the crown of this venerable hat. To-
day, our postal service sheltered by
costly edi6ce, spreads its briarean arms
toward north, south, east and west. o.
maha is now the capital of Nebraska.4
A Western editor wishes to know
whetherthe law recently enacted against
The carrying of deadly weapons applies
to doctors who carry pills in their :pock,
cts.