Idaho semi-weekly world. (Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho Territory) 1867-1868, 1867-10-09
WHAT DEsPoT1sM COSTS.

Despotism is a costly luxury and the people
are beginning to appreciate the fact. 1t il
strange that people who boast of their free
dom tolerate and sanction the worst form Of
despotisrn, instead of protesting against and
crushing it, as they must soon if they would not
!. make slaves Of themselves. The National In
telliqencer has the following, which we com
mend to the serious consideration of tax payers:
j aCongress appropriated half a million OF
dollars to defray the expense of registration
under the military reconstruction acts It is
estimated by some that this amount will fall
| far short of the actual expense; for we hear il
stated that single military department in
the South has three hundred boards of regis
tration- There are five departments, and
1880 boards in all. They have already held
their sessions for weeks, and will hold them
for many to come. Each member is paid eight
dollars a day. Estimating ten members upon
each board, including all the runners and at
tendants, and three hundred boards to each of
the five m0narchies, and we have daily ex-
pense of one hundred and twenty thousand
dollars for these boards alone" g9
/ Millions upon millions is to be the cost of
the North's governing the South by soldiers,
instead of civil government. But the people
of the North, by voting to retain the Radicals
in power, have no one but themselves to CEN
sure for having the enormous expenses of the
present Government fastened upon them BY
voting for the continuance of Radicals in power
they have imposed a military despotism upon
the helpless South. Let them reflect that it
was their own act when these Radical rulers
impose similar despotism over the North.
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FROM OwYHEE.-The following items are
extracted from the Owyhee 4Udlanc7e of last
Saturday:
Joseph f. Colwell was shot and scalped, and
his lifeless body shockingly mutilated, within
half a mile of Orc and Owyhee cities, in Flint
District, on the night of Oct. Sd, by Indians.
He was formerly of Missouri, and came from
Jacksonville, Oregon, to Owyhee, in 1866.
A Miners League has been organized in
Silver City. The League fixed the rates of
labor, per day, in gold coin or its equivalent
as follows: with board, So so; without board,
S. so. Work was almost entirely suspended
for four days. but finally most of the hands re-
sumed work, some at the old rate of S. per
day, others at the new rates.
At meeting of merchants and business
men generally, in Silver City, Sept. 30th, it
was resolved to reduce the rate of greenbacks
from 80 to IS cents, from Oct 1st
VIM. H. Odell and party of Is men, en-
gagged in surveying military road from Eu-
gene City, Oregon, to this Territory, 500 miles
long, were encamped at Boonville, near Silver
City, last week
w. III. Angel has received the appointment
Of County Clerk of Owyhee in place of A. E. T
Woodson, resigned to accept Lieutenantcy
in the U. S. Infantry service.
A party who went in pursuit of cattle stolen /
from Jordan creek last week by Indians saw
plenty of fresh Indian signs between Flint Dis
trict and Smith Mountain
Wells, Fargo & Co. took $83,000 from Sill
yer City over the Hill Beachey and Central
Railroad line during September.
1t was uncertain whether the October term
Of the District Court for Owyhee would be
on the 14th inst, the regularly APP
pointed day-or on the 21st-by special order