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~es WALLULA, February 4, 1867.
Ep1roA STATESMAN Now that il is Ixed fact
that the present Congress intends 70 run their
"machine" into eternity, or as near there as they
can get, and BY doing SO, we, q Washiugton
Territory. and I donst know how many States.
are dsfranchised, or in. other words, we will be
declared the privilege Of having d representative
at Washington after the 4th Of March next, the
time when our present Delegate lays down his
6batou Of office, would it be well to urge
our Legislature to pass Resolution giving our
present Governor the power to appoint DeIes
gate, or if this Cannot be done, then why not
have the Legislature elect an agent to represent
our interests 10 Washington, same as Idndo has
done. am sure we have more need ofA6 agent
than idaho for she has Delegate in oongvOss,
whose term does not expire until the All Of
March, 1859, while ours expires on the Al Of
March, 1857, and our election does not Ome
off till June next. We could not by any stnta-
gem we might use, get a Delegate to Washing
ton short of the latter part Of July, or first part
of August. .-f&
Should the Legislature take the course Of
electing an agent, doubt not man could
be found in some part of the Territory, to take
the burthen of such an Office on his shoulder,
and might be of great benefit to the people. We
have large Interests at stake now before Coz.
gress, appropriations for opening roads, pay hr
property used during the war Of 1856, aid
sundry others, in which the whole community
is interested. 8, ...-
That the action of our present Congress is
wrong, iD thus extending only lat best) a skee.
ton of Congress beyond the time prescribed "
law, none deny, and by their action leaving
us and don't know how many States besides
out in the cold; California is 10 the same boat ;.
We might as well have participated in the re.
bellion, for we are served in the sams way, BY
the usurpation of Congress in overriding ths
Constitution. We will after the 4th of March mex
become a silent member of the firm, until such
times as we can remedy the evil by an election
II wonder" as Richard III said to his mother
that their highnesses f'did leave out" al eDa
bling resolution, granting extraordinary powers
to Governors Of States and Territories--whost
Representatives and Delegates terms would ex.
pire on the day on which Congress intended to
meet again-.o appoint Representatives and Del
egates to fill the vacancies until such times a,
regular Representatives and Delegates could b,
elected by the people. They could have passed n
enabling resolution granting these powers, jus
as easyas overriding the Constitution in calling
together the 4Oth Congress at IL n, on the 4tt
of March. l think Thad. Stevens must havt
been asleep, or he certainly would have though
of this glorious opportunity to have enlarged
his power, or be may have been thinking of 81
many new wrinkles of government that this, al
important matter, could fud no lodgment in hi
| already stuffed eEaninm Cr,,=,.-
, 1867-02-08
EASTERN NEWS. 4
Dates to January 50. =
z COMPILED FROM rlIE DAILY oRKoosuAs,
EASTERN NEWS.
TkRRIroRIAL. pRlsoNs.

Z The President basssigued the bin uro,,a,.-
that the net proceeds OF the Internal RevsnH.
the Territories of Nebraska, Washin eton Co,H
rado, IdsAo, Montana, Arizona and Daco,,o oSO' Nv
ring the next three years, shall be appronrs,.s
for the erection nnder the direction Of H. .u S..
retary Of the Interior, Of penitentiafy buildioS,
in said Territories,
, 1867-02-08
@oouNrY AUDI40R's' REFoRT. y

COUNTY AUD110tss w
.Sb;b, Of Finances Of Wa 70 wslla CoSn1y' Ss1y W.
r for The Ascal year ending fe9faafy ~ 1sO''
- - nrozisrs o. iHE FlAH,
Taxes. !, r,,t.. ~ bond. s's'sss s'sss 8 3
Fines and terle'set S'"N-' ~ -. 1926 IL
Liquor Licenses, 240 90
Gosts in Grim Cases, charged 70 Terry
Eerry 0n Permanent School Fund, 1st ~
slO.Ii5 50
Territorial taxes 6.24l 81
CONNER sosS2si ss2ssu.Ggs, ST,1t I2s5 3s
RsasS%eS Su GSSSs Rsds:smsa SS County Scrip 72
permanent School Fund paid 70 County ana 90
COMM s t,cA.atsd E.tsis., z as s 81 81
.,u,.u,. s89.89I 70
Leaving in hands of Treasurer, February s-o, II
masnt Is1 S0f IN hands of Treasurer, February
Total Tn IL iSSS SsSds of Treasurer. February,
,mdss, Iss; 'Ss'; SS ;oo..tandi1g Indebtedness, II !
February lst, 1866, H'4'O 70
=, of scrin issued from February, 1st, 1866 to
| February lst 1867. to wit:
Fees of Jurors and Witnessea :, - I't9I ' 90 90
ssisres sGsS and Fees of District, County and 90
| Precinct
Care ps1SsIs sSS a0oloai = l's.s'HS.' ~S -. 2lol 50
Fee. rSSpy'Si Of judges and Clerks Of Election,
| Road Viewers &cs " rses-ss 49,, .u ~
Ron, sta,,Snsrv ol So%rt fiou'' l,245 10
Improverne 1t Of Jail, lso 70 70
| CONVEYING Insane to Asylum, 90 70 W W
| Damages to I. St. John, zVO'VV
Interest on lost County Order to Catherine ~
p,r. eslSFessa; sailor 9Th l03 70 - .Cf.l So 90
| Total Amount issued during the year, l3,O28 rs
Total ... $50, as Il
Amount Outstanding February lat. 1861 z, $40 %
The foregoing report well as my an
nual report of February lat, 1866, is based on
the report of my predecessor, L. J. Rector, Esq
| extending from the organization of the county to
February Ist. 1855, from which-it appears The
outstanding Indebtedness Except interest there'
on) amounts TO 81 $40 %, which showing, how
ever is at Variance with the County Treasurer ;
books The conclusion, >tht tnefore, smust be that
the report of L. J. Rector, Esq, is incorrect and
this is not to be wondered at, and no blLme
shonld attach to Mr.. Rector, from the fact that
the data from which his report was made is OF
such a character as deGes accuracy. Tue records
of Scrip issued and redeemed for the brst year OF
two after the organization of tae County are SO
meagre and mystiied that 1t is impossible to ar
rive at the amount of scrip issued or redeemed
during that period. Be the basis of the above
correct or incorrect, the figures show reduc'
ton on the Guunty Deb,, in the last two years
of $l3,775 43. The true state of the county f.
uances will be developed by the act of the LeglS
latiye Assembly, requiring the registration o.
county scrip. J. Ii. BLEWETF.
FEBRUARY, lst, 1867.
, 1867-02-08
Notice.
Registered In Favor Of No Of Order

THERE ARE FUNDS IN TIE COUNT. 6...i, In'c0 3
j urer's hands to pay the following O0On'
, 1867-02-08

EDITOR STATESMAN ALLOW me to direct your
attention, and through you the city police, to
the conduct of gang of unruly boys, who
nightly assemble and blockade the side walk in
front of Helmuth'S new hall, on Main street.
These boys, emboldened by their numbers, take
delight in insulting respectable ci'izeus, and use
language and gestures of the most filthy and
disgusting character. The parents of these boys
would be doing them a kindness by requiring
them to remain home at nights instead of prowl.
ing the streets and assOciating with the low and
vicious. Many of these boys attend school iu
day time, and their evenings might be pro6tably
employed IN getting their lessons. Itrust this
mint will be sufficient, and that in future the
boys IN question will endeavor to make amends
BY correct and orderly department. G.
, 1867-02-08

New York, Jan. 2S.-In the Senate Mr.. Wud,
offered resolution calling on the President for
information as to how often the Governor az
Colorado has been absent from the terri,or,
since his appointment, and by whom permitted
and at whose expense. He urged that the nil
prohibiting the absence of officers, should /,
passed at once. The administration of govern
ment was more corrupt regarding territorial
officers than in any other department Mr.
Wade's bill was amended so as to apply to Gov.
ernors, Judges and Secretaries of Territories,
, 1867-02-08

1t is stated ou good authority that SO eD'.
has been made to secure the appoinlmrni
Nesmlth as Secretary of War. lufuuial Rfp''
sentatives Of the Pacific coast are certang |,
work, and, and there is not much doubt ~''
the Senate would confirm the appointment
KENTUCKY SENATOR. -.
louisville, Jan. 30.-Garrett Davis has w.
elected U. S. Senator by the democrats ana ",
servatives, receiving 75 votes to Al for bai'"
radical.
, 1867-02-08
IN oF ARMY oFFIcERs.

Senator Wilson has reported bill 10 euuali,,
the pay Of army officers. 1t gives twenty fv.
per cent. increase for two years from the lst II
January, 1861, to all officers euutled to doubs
rations, ut fity cents for all officers below ths
rank of Brigadier General, gives all officers lbs
brevet OF the highest rank ever held in tue vol.
unteer service, continues the present Pay Il
enlisted men for two years, Sbolishes all bsudI
except those Of the Military Academy abOi,hrI
the Office of Assistant Secretary oi War; AGd
regulates the pay Of officers ut West Point.
, 1867-02-08

The snow has disappeared once more and W
are enjoying beautiful weather. Surely the pee
pie East of the Mountains are blessed with ma
lures choicest gift. DALLEs.
, 1867-02-08
COMMUNICATION WITH CHINA.

The Washington correspondent of the Ore
goniaH writes as follows "Charley Newell, son
of W. II. Newell, Esq, of the Walla Walla
StdtesmGn, is the correspondent of the New York
Herald, in this city. lie was foemerly in the
Naval Academy, but left in order to follow a
more genial occupation, that of newspaper polit-
leo, and news generally. He is doing we'll and
promises to be man OF talent" / knew Charley
when be was mere boy and it affords me great
pleasure to see him occupy such a prominent
position.
TBR WEATHER.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-12-19
Especial to the Chicago Tribune.l
PIERcEroN, Ind, Nov. 80, 1857,

PIERcEroN, Ind, NOV. ~, 1857.
An outrage was committed between
eleven and one o'clock yesterday on
the person of Mrs. j. S. Barker, wife
of a we'll known and respectable citi-
zen living mile and a quarter South
of this place. A negro entered the
house during the absence OF Mr.. Bar.
ker, and asked for some apples, and
seeing Mrs. Barker was alone, drew a
revolver and threatened her life if she
did not submit to his vile designs. AT
ter accomplishing his purpose he left
the h US The alarm was given, and
parties strted Immediately in pursuit Of
the negro. He was caught IL or two
miles south ofLarwill last night, be-
tive nine and ten o'clock, and was
brought to this place, where he arrived
about midnight. He made a full con
fession of the crime, saying that his
name was Albert Saunders, and that
he lived ia Warsaw. He was then sci
zed by an excited mob and stabbed,
shot and beaten until he vas dead. A
rope was then put around his neck and
they dragged his body through the
streets and left it lying in the street till
three o'clock this morning. The body
was then taken up and put in an old
shanty where it now lies awaiting a
Coroner's inquest.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-12-19
Negro suffrago-it Cannot stand

Negro Suffrage-it Cannot stand
The New York World thinks it best
that the Republicans may as well un'
derstand, that their negro suffrage re
construction will not be permitted tc
stand. AS to the position Of Democ'
racy, on that subject, the editor tells
U.s.
"The Democratic party is q State
Rights party F.; and if the people OF ev'
cry State in the Union should settle
the suffrage question in a different
way, neither other States or the feder
al government have any right to call
them to account. The Fundamental
doctrine of the Democratic party IN
relation to the suffrage is, that its reg
ulation belongs solely to the States
and that is an impudent outrage upon
their light for other States to assume
to intermeddle. Whoever holds tbs
doctrine is a sound Democrat on the
suffrage question. Whenever this doc
trine IS accepted by Congress, the Dc
mocracy, as a national party, has nc
further battles to fight on the suffrage
The moment, the people Of each State
are permitted, without question, to do
eide it for themselves, it will disappea
from general politics, and dwindle to
local topic"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-12-19

than craftsmanship barred their own
doors to these people when they would
return. There has been peace two
years ;--and yet women and children
wander homeless on the shore Of the
bay, under the very shadow Of the ell
egant mansions which they inherited
from their fathers.
Two citizens Of Savannah have re-
Gently visited this unfortunate town, and
the report which they bring back is
most pathetic. Some of the former
citizens have just returned, after an alb
sence OF five years, and the dcsolation
which meets them is lamentable. Their
elegant houses are in the nands ofstran-
gers, and they can only obtain posses
sion by purchasing these pretended
rights. Their furniture, pictures and
books, their carriages, boats and CAT
tie, have been stolen or ruthlessly de-
stroyed. Those homes Of the warm,
est hospitality are now cold, blank
walls, sheltering the stranger and for
bidding the rightful owner to enter.
Even this is not the worst. These
poorpcopie, most of whom are women
and children and helpless old men, are
destitute of food and of the means to
buy food as well. Beautiful and deli.
cate women, once the light Of happy
homes, living in luxury and ease, may
now be seen shivering for want Of stti-
cient clothing and limiting their own
scanty means in order to satisfy the
hunger Of their little ones Those
who visited them exclaim: "They
must have aid or die of want. Also
lutely they hav. not means to give a
decent burial to their dead"
Surely the bitterest hater of the re
bellion cannot look at these homeless,
helpless and almost hopeless people
without profound compassion. What
is their crime but that they loved hus-
bands and their sons? They who dis
penscd the frccst hospitality with vel
coming hearts, now wander under the
shade Of the myrtle and magnolia al,
most in despair, having no resource for
their winters food and their winters
clothing, except in the charity of their
fcilowmen.
In Savannah contributions OF food
and clothing and money arc being
made for these sufferers and it will lie
discreditable to our richer Northern
cities if VIC do not add our might to
these contributions ;-contributions
in the present suffering condition OF
the South, we may be called upon to
make for many other places before the
winter ends.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-12-19
Suffering in The South.
ho Now York EXPRESS.

From the New York EXpress.I
Afew years ago perhaps the most
,borminG country town in America
wos BEAUFORT, South Carolina. Its sit
nation on the sea coast is unmatched
Tor natural beauty the climate, espec-
tally in the winter season, IS as de'
lipEtful as an Italian spring the lnhab-
;tants we're almost without exception
neop!c ofgreat W 81 r. rare intelligence
.nd education, and especially remarka'
HE for the graces of a social culture
rarely e g except in the highest cir.
clos of European society. Beaufort
was especially city of homes. AS
.sn,h if contained an unusually large
n.onortiou ofwomen and children and
pid ncoplc. It was no field for the ex
orion of professional and business
t.lent. and comparatively few its in
habitauts were engaged in active life
II WAS the chosen abode OF heartiesl
and the most elegant hospitality, Of
ouiet and transformations learning, OF
tbo truest and warmest social and do
mestic lite, of the broadcast Christian
charity. Whatever might be the poll
tics or the philosophy Of the visitor
10 Beaufort, he could not to love anc
reverence its people. Their hearty,
frank, broad and warm natures disarm
ed prejudice at once; and if there wa
one community in America more thai
another for which the traveller cravet
the richest bolnties of Providence, i
was this quiet society of Beaufort.
But the war came. Fortune SO or
.dered II that Beaufort fell in the feet
and aruies. Something harsher thai
the fortune of war drove its people from
theJ lrouef,' and som thu g less wiz
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-12-19
Not the thing for congressman

Not the thing for congressman.
The NV York Sun considers at the
Rump Congress Committee, who are
perambulating the Southern States with
a view to manufacture political (radic-
al) capital for the next Presidential
election The editor says:
"Nlembers ofCongress, whoare cleo
ted to represent the people, might find
better business than that Of employing
stump speakers to rant through the
South, inliaming the passions and pref
udices Of. the freedmen, and keeping
alive the cnmity between the whites and
blacks. If it were not for such impor.
ted agitators in the South, the political
excitement there would soon die out
al both W. ties and blacks yo lid &c
to work and endeayor to repair the
loss sustained by the war. Sclt-intcr-
est demands that the Southern whites
shall treat the negroes well, and tina
the latter shall resume their old indus
trial pursuits. They would naturalize,
harmonize, and forget the past. if there
were no e%xtrancous influences to hin
der mutual concessions. But 50 long
as agitators are hired to go among the
negroes to fill their heads with stories
sb 5ut their wrongs, and to array them
in social and political hostility to the
whites, so long will the South remain
PROSTATE. Every man Of sense knows
that peace, tranquility and freedom
from excitement are now the great
needs of the South and members o
Congress should be the last persons te
fan the flame of dlscord and to prevent
the return Of harmony between th'
| freedmen and the whites
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-12-19
Gen. POpc's Edict Concerning the
Press.

Among the many tyrannous and op
pressive acts ofGcu. Pope, not the least
liscreditaLlc is his partisan effort t,
build up the Radical party in the Sonth
by forbidding civil officers in the coun
ties from giving their advertisements
to any but Radical presses The effect
ofthis edict is to rob some two hun
bred Conservative papers of the pat
ronage which justly belongs to them
by their circulation and influence, and
to be stow it upon some twelve or iii
teen Radical sheets, which have only a
limited circulation, and derive their
support from foreign subsidies. Such
interference with the functions OF civil
officers is, ofcourse, new in the land,
and it is to be the shame Of Gen. Pope
that not ever his C -satraps &, to
have thought it a decent resort. 1t is
a more Iii Get blow at the liberty of the
people than has been struck for some
time, with one solitary disgraceful en-
ception in Mississippi.
The State laws very properly require
civil officers to make publication in pa
pers Of their own county, where there
is one. AS there is rarely over one
paper in a county this order, in eject,
compels sheritfs to send their adver-
tisemeuts out of the county where the
sales are to be made, and thus, not be-
ing seen by the parties or neighbor,
hood interested, for want of bidders
tanAillegaliity Of sale, property is a
rifced, and editors fail to receive
what is due them. In cases Of sales by
registers in %chancery they are compel
led to disobcy both the civil law and
the DEGREES of the court, with the haz
ard that these acts may some day
when law is restored, be set aside as
null and void.
1t is one of the curses Of military
rule that the parties who administer j
are not able to appreciate the grave
considerations we have mentioned
Looking to one end only, and at on,
side of a case, oftentimes hcady ant
violent, impatient OF COUNSEL, and irri
tated to madness by hostile criticism
they proceed by rash and arbitrary e
diets to iniict the most serious mis-.
chiefs on q community. A step of fol
ly once taken, pride comes in to pre-
clude those corrections which reAcc.
ton and public opinion suggest to tn
statesmen.
We appeal to the more decent an,
rejecting men OF the Republican par
" whether measures Of Tyranny an,
partisanship surh q this order meet
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-12-19
The Great Issue-NcgrO Suprcm'
acy.

acy.
The New York Herald expresses a
doubt whether even Gen. Grant can
succeed as a Presidential candidate, I'M
less he m out fair and square
against negro suffrage:
"The pertinent of four millions of
liberated Afri can slaves rs a anew South
ern balance Of power in our national
politics on the base o%funiversal suffrage
has been dcvelo ped sufficiently to pro
duce already q popular reaction in the
North, so powerful, indeed, as to sug-
gest the necessity to the radical party
Of hurrying up their work of Southern
reconstruction OIL this basis of the ne
gro vote, in order that these ten out
side rebel States may be restored in
ecason to turn tll., scale of the coming
Presidential election against an appre-
Lended anti radical majority from the
electoral colleges Of Ahe North. We
expect to sec this pur pose carried out,
There is something so repulslve to
the American mind, so amtaganistic to
the genius, the spirit and the manifest
destiny Of our political a nd social sys-
TEN, in this thing Of a Southern negro
balance of power, especial ~ as 1t IS es
tabl,shed on white distr. 'nchlsemen',
that it cannot last. Its u compound
ofAsiatic despotism and A hican bar
barism so monstrous that its first sub
mission to the general verdict OF the
country will result in a judghiant de-
erecting the authority and tue lnslrn-
ments for it's overthrow. tut IT t the
test, and the majority offfty thousand
AGAINST negro suffrage in Ohio, for ex-
ample. will be maintained against this
experiment of q Southern balance CT
nowcrin Congress and our Pfeslden,
tial elections, resting upon universal
negro suffrage and white d~isfrancAise-
ments. And so it will be in New York
and throughout the North excepting,
perhaps, only Vermont and Nassachu-
It was supposed at the time that the
susnension of Stanton and the reno
Wi of Sheridan and Sickles--three o,
tile leading figures Of the war-wonlt
operate to strengthen and solidity tht
republican party in our then impend
ing fall elections. But the results haV'
shownthat the eyes of the people hav'
been drawn for the time being from tn'
achievements of the war 10 the unau
thorized and unexpected rec0nstruc
ton schemes ofa Radical Congress AM
their dangerous tendencies. In view
of these facts, and Of the election o
1852, when General Scott vas over
whelmingly defeated by an obscure
New Hampshire politician, on the bar
suspicion that the leading men Of tn
whip party were not safe on the grea
Compromise measures of 1850, it ma.
we'll be doubted whether General Gran
himself can be elected If placed on thi
obnoxious platform o Southern negro
supremacy, maintained by a coerclv'
military despotism.'
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-12-19
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