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, 1868-08-07

VAMosED.-We understand that Tim. Lee has
sold out bis bridge on the Spokane and left for
the Saskatchewan country. In the hurry of des
parting Tim. forgot to settle sundry little bills,
among them a printers account. "Och, Tim,
isn't it ye that's ashamed o. yerselfP'
, 1868-08-07

A MILITARY GOVERNMENT General
Grant has written a letter recommending an
increase of thirty-thrce and one third per
cent. in the pay of army officers. This, at a
tine when the country is groaning under a
weight of taxation such as never before
crushed any people. Reader, how do you
like the idea of a military government, with
an army of shoulder strapped gentry, paid at
the rate Grant proposes
, 1868-08-07

THE election in Idaho Territory for Dele
gate and county officers comes off on Monday
next, August 10th.
, 1868-08-07

SICKLY.-The Montana Post says there is
at present more sickness in Helena than has
been known for long time before, what is
crlled mountain fever" being the prevail
iuH malnAg
, 1868-08-07
Oreron and Idaho TeIegraph COMPANY.

Oregon ana luanO 1eAeBkdpn Compauys
1t is quite generally known to our readers,
that this company was organized and incor-
porated about the first of April last. Sub
scription papers were sent to the different
towns along the proposed line and subscrip
tions solicited. Some of the towns respond
ed literally, among which Walla Walla
stands foremost. The line was completed to
the Dalles and there halted. The Portland
dailies seem to be reviVing the subject again,
and it is now believed that the bushes men
of the city will aid the enterprise proportions
ably with other towns along the line. Let
the towns and citizens along the line unite
and give aid according to their ability-or
interest-and we may soon be able to do
business by telegraph, as do our more favored
neighbors. The Company are confident now,
that with united effort the line can be put
in working order in a few months. The
Western Union Telegraph Company offer to
furnish the wire and Instruments for the
whole line, and take lein on the line for
the amount, (propably about 100000 on
five years time. The estimate for the work
OF putting up the poles and their cost would
be about S25, 900. Thus about 500, 900 IN
cash or labor, for which each contributor res
ceives his amount in transferable stock of
the company, to be received in kilograms,
will efectually establish this great enterprise.
The press is specially interested in this en-.
terprise, and we suggest that our cotempO-
raries along the line of the proposed tele-
graph lend their aid in setting forth the facts
and arguments that make in favor of the
telegraph. The present is an age of prog
ress and it becomes US to keep pace with the
times. The means of communication that
answered every purpose few years back are
now "played out" Railroads and tele-
graphs have taken the place of stages and
horse expresses, and it becomes us to accom-
modate ourselves to the changed condition Of
affairs. When Richardson, the bacon opera
tor, run of, telegraph would have saved
the people of this county more than double
the sum they are expected to subscribe. This
is only one instance. The facilities the tele-
graph offers in the transaction of business
cannot be overestimated. A few weeks since
prominent merchant of this town remarked
to the writer that telegraph to San Fran
cisco would be worth $500 to him." We
trust that our friend will now come forward
and subscribe at least half this sum. With
a telegraph inaugurated the railroad is SURE
to follow, and then Walla Walla, instead o.
being an outpost of civilization, will at Onct
take her place in the centre of the grea
world of commerce and arts. Referring tt
the progress of civilization, and the comforts
that result therefrom, an English'poet says
Better fifty years in Europe,
Than cycle in Kathay."
So, too, we may exclaim, "Better tel
years of railroads and tclegraphs than who'll
lifetime of isolation and exclusion from tn,
| world "
, 1868-08-07

DAVID MARTIN, iu a fit of insanity, COM
mitted suicide at Boise City, on the 3Oth ult.
Deceased was a native of Virginia.
, 1868-08-07

A CoNvERrI-A radical exchange grAyely
announces that Gerrit Smith will vote for
Grant aud Colfax. The next thing these
radicals will be bOasting over the acquisition
Of Wendell Phillips and Lloyd Garrison.
, 1868-08-07

Hon. T. j. BUTLER, radical candidate for
Delegate from Idaho Territory, has gone to
Northern Idaho on an electoneering tour.
, 1868-08-07

A horse can be trained that be is to trOt and
not break up.-GoIdriek.
We think it would be we'll to put men through
similar course Of training. We know several
who are terribly given to &" breaking mn
, 1868-08-07

DICK BUSTED, one of the " troOly loil," /"
who was appointed from New York to hold
the position of U. s. District Judge in Ala
bama, is likely to fall victim to impeach-
ment. He is now arraigned before the U.
S. Senate on the charges of ignorance of law
arbitrary and tyranical conduct; corruption,
and of soliciting suitors to bring their causes
before him, and of comforting with them and
their counsel ss to the disposition to be made
of the causes. What makes it bad for Judge
Dick, these charges are preferred by one Of
the d" trooly loil."
, 1868-08-07

NORTH PACIFIC RAILROAD. - Congress
has extended the time for commencing work
on the North Pacific Railroad. The Com
pauy is required to commence work within
two years from July ID, 1868, and construct,
equip, furnish and complete not less than
100 miles each year thereafter, and complete
the entire road from Lake Superior to Puget
Sound inside of nine years.
, 1868-08-07

FAsr.-Ada county, Idaho Territory, has
an indebtedness oGs4l 900.
, 1868-08-07

ALAsKA.-The bill appropriating 81 ,2OO,-
900 for the purchase of Alaska, has passed
both Houses of Congress and is now law.
Uncle Sam now hedges in British Columbia
on both sides, aud whenever so disposed can
make British occupancy of that quarter very
uncomfortable. Our Government is still
endeayoring to settle the title to San Juan
Island by diplomacy. We suggest as COM
promise, the annexation of the whole country
, 1868-08-07

NEWELL of the Walla Walla STATESMAN being
decently sober on the Fourth of July, delivered
the oration at the celebration iI Walla Walla
city. Persons who heard him, say that be was
bitterly partizan and coarsely severe on Congress
against the President. In fact the oratiou would
have passed in the most benighted section of the
Soap Creek Confederacy for regular copper
head speech.
We clip the above from the Salem Unton-
ist, and give it place in our columns in
order that our readers may understand what
unmitigated liars occasionally control news>
papers. The editor of the Unionist is rem
egade Southerner, and "shOrt-card gam>
bier by profession. The hundreds of persons
who heard the address, and the readers Of
the STATESMAN, can all bear witness as to
how much truth there is in the statement of
this three-card monte sharp"
, 1868-08-07

NARY A ONE.-The radicals of Helena,
Montana Territory, made desperate efforts
to scare up an Israelite who would consent
to take nomination on their ticket. Like
other people, the Jews have mean men
among them, but in the whole town of He
lena not single Israelite was found mean
enough to accept radical nomination. With
the nomination of Grant. the very few Jews
who favored radlcalism withdrew from the
organization. A race that for six thousand
years has preserved its purity is not likely tc
endorse negro equality
, 1868-08-07

81 All orders promptly attended to.
Plans and estimates made, and contracts taken in
town or country, and all work warranted.
WM.- GDASFORD.
34-tf Alder street Walla Mala. ". T.
, 1868-08-07
49bpsirtans' CARDS.
DIR. w. :. MINEER

DHYSICIAN, SURGEON AND ACCOUCBEUp
Il Graduate Of Jefferson Medical College, Pbis'
delphia. Also, member of several State Medical
Associations and has had several years experienea
in both Hospital and ivate practice
~ DR.. Miner has permanently located at Wall,
Walla. Office next door to +. W. Colman's Drno
OtCTe l5-U
, 1868-08-07

RADICAL CoLpoRTEURs. - The N. Y.
World gives an accurate list of the agents
and clerks of the Freedmen's Bureau estab,
lishment, showing that there are 703 of them,
receiving salaries amounting in the aggregate
to sSO9,34O per year. :. large number ol
these agents manage, l,so, to swindle their
living 10 Government rarions and perquisites
The cost Of this swinde is put down at clever
million dollars per year. 1t is mere politi'
cal machine, and an injury rather than 8
benefit 10 the negroes, who neglect labor auG
are engaged in attending political meet
ings, or are marching to the polls with mus
kets in their hands to vote as they are direct
ed by their masters, the paid agents of thu
Bureau. The election of the radical ticke
in November means a continuation of thu
Bureau and the taxation of white men Il
support negroes in idleness.
, 1868-08-07

M P. HORTON, JUSTICE OF THE PEICp
W. Will attend to collection of dsS,i
eonveyances, acknowledgment of deeus, bowers :;
Attorney transfers of real or personal propertv
Office on Main street, directly opposite the Po,.
oHce' Ssy
, 1868-08-07
COOPER SHOP

90 . z Il O , n . +.
T WOULD RESPECTFULLY INFORM THE CITI.
IL zens of Wella Wslla and vicinity, thAt am pre-
pared 70 do all kinds of CoOPEkING to order.
Tubs, Churns, Barrels, Cheese-Hoops,
aud all other articles manufactured in this line at
short notice. Shop on MAIN STREET, WALLA
WALLA, opposite l. T. REEsEs Warehouse.
23-u J. N. RITTENHOUSE.
, 1868-08-07
UN DERIT NC.

have just procured HEARSE and am pre-
pared to fill orders in the Undertaking line. Charges
in all cases reasonable.
, 1868-08-07

THE ESCAPED MURDERERs.-We have
already noticed the escape of three men, who
were confined in the Deer Lodge Jail under
sentence of death. A paragraph in the
Montana Post intimates very distinctly that
the authorities of Deer Lodge county con-
nived at the escape. The fugitives are sup>
posed to be coming this way, and in order to
further the ends of justice we append deN
scription of their persons: Owen Mullen is
about feet inches high dark complexN
ion weight about 165 lbs; is about 80
years of age; slightly pock-marked, and
speaks with slight Irish accent. John Sui
livan is about 5 feet IL inches high light
complexion; blue eyes; hair cut short
straight built; weight about lis pounds
age about 30 years Thomas Bagg is about
81 years old hight about six feet; dark
hair and mustache thin pale features, large
black eyes; stoop shOaldered when speak
ing speaks low.
, 1868-08-07
]. H, BLEWETT.

County Auditor of Walla walla Cow
INTILL write Deeds, Mortgages, Power of .,,'N
wv ney &c, and take Acknowi iedgempts 70 A',Si ~.
anne. ue
fed aokno wledged under the seal 3f tbe r. ees
District Court
Willalso pay particular attention the sale. ,aDy
nd care of real estate and town properly Of 2o-
esidents and persons temporarily absent ''D'
Office in the Court House Walla Walla W n
June 80 1865. 2g-v
, 1868-08-07
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N. T. CATION,
ATOM & ROSS.
A { { o T. N Us at
WALLA wALLA, W.T..
Office formerly occupied by J. II. Iass,.,
, 1868-08-07

r N g g w a 5 h or.
am agent for the PIONEER WASHER, and am
prepared at all times to fill orders for the same.
, 1868-08-07
EditnrInI Paragraphs.

GRANTS DRUNKENNESS. = During the
whole term of Johnson's administration the
radicals have been prating about the shame
of having drunken President How much
honesty there was in this defamation is evi>
denced in the fact that they have placed in
nomination for the highest Office in the peo>
pies gift man who, according to their own
statements, is drunkard. The first author
ity we quote on the point, is Theodore Tilton,
editor of the New York Independent, who
stated in letter to his paper from Washing
ton, that Grant had been seen on the streets
of that city, on Sunday morning, in " state
of beastly intoxication." Senator Henry
Wilson, of Massachusetts,, when he was
Chairman of the Military Committee during
the war, charged "Gen. U. S. Grant with
being an habitual drunkard, and called on
President Lincoln to induce him to remove
Grant from the command of the Army of the
Tennessee on the ground of drunkenness"
Wendell Phillips, and Anna Dickinson, both
shining lights in the radical armament, have
repeatedly charged Grant with drunkenness.
and it was the fair Anna who originated the
story about his dancing on the sidewalk for
the amusement of a miscellaneous crowd
Now, if our radical friends were sincere in
denouncing Johnson for his Incorporate hab-
its, we ask with what consistency they can
support man who is cursed with the same
weakness? Let it be borne in mind that this
charge of drunkenness is not based on demo.
cratic authority. Whatever the country
knows about the habits of General Grant is
derived entirely from the giviDgs out of lead
ing radicals; and it is upon their testimony
that he stands convicted on the charge ol
drunkenness.
, 1868-08-07
" Better tifty years in Europe,
Than a cycle in KathAy."

So, too, we may exclaim, "Better tel
years of railroads and tclegraphs than Who'll
lifetime of isolation and exclusion from tn
world"
, 1868-08-07
DIR. C. M. STEINBERGER,
PIONE Err DENTIST
DR.. CHARLES HERLOG.

ESTA BLISHED, go: 1861
The Van Buren press., 1868-07-31
The Common Carrier Bill.

During the last week bill passed both
Houses Of the Legislature, and we Under
stand has since become law, Furnishing
hotel-keepers and public carriers, for re
fusing to grant upon the tender Of the
usual rate " fare equal TO first class, t.t
We neither endorse or approve this
act. in the older States, it has never
been found necessary to pass any special
enactment for the protection of Irish or
German immigrants, and we do not think
our black any better than white men
lfthcy have money enough, steamboats,
will be provided with AS good accommo-
dation as they may desire to pay for
All the Legislation in the world, will not
compel white men TO eat and sleep will,
them. We, to free them, have buried
quarter of Il million of the best white
men in the nation, have made a quarter OF
a million Of white widows and orphans,
have many Of us, wasted our best years,
and shall carry 10 our graves, the battle
scars received in ther cause. rst.t.a
Why ask so much? why not have
waited, let time adjust, for in the end, he
will be the only arbiter, why when on the
eve Of tremendous struggle, have NC
been saddled with this 9 humbuggery,"T
twill effect nothing, except 70 engep-
der strife and hatred between the races.
We have been the friends OF the black
race, and are still SO. And we advise
them to be patient and use their new born
rights with moderation and good sense,
and not seek a social equality with white
men, for il can never be.--Ds Yars Bius
Journal. ..., ..-- q. ....... ~ =,
We are glad 10 know that there is .na
Radical paper in the State, that il inde!.
pendent enough to rcbuke the arrogant
demands OF the Blacks Of the Legislature,
of Arkansas for social equality with the
white race, The act is unnatural and can
not be maintained. There is good sound
sense in the Journals article. . s,- p
The Van Buren press., 1868-07-31

NTf IT y rr'''S' w IVY Avs4
Congress Il earnestly at work, and WIN
close the ccsSicn on Wednesday next.
tofuTcAL. -
Nothing ofintcrcst is transpirins be
yond an elaborate. preparation by each
party Tor The Presidential CANVASS Re
spective National committees are. enef.
getlca!ly arranging for the libern distri
button of campaign documents.
The feeling over the New York nom.
nations which inspired the Radicals with
hope Is no longer heard. Chase indorses
the ticket; Doolttle likewise, and Tom
Ewing Jr., is enthusiastic v oorhees
neartlly INTO the contest, and President
johnson signiiied to your correspondent
TO day that the ticket had his best wishes
ana would secure all the support the Fed.
ersl Executive WAS able to give. f $50 c
The Chairman of the State Central
Committee of Pennsylvania is here. and q
says Pennsylvaniais as certain for Scy.
mour as New York, but by smaller ma -
iority. lie repdtts ratification meeting N
at Philadelphia, on Saturday last, as the
largest and most enthusiastic ever known
IN that city, while the Radicals have thus 4
Tar failed to- get up any ratification for
Grant. Philadelphia is good for ten q
thousand majority for Gov. Seymour F
It's confdentialy stated by well post
ed politicians that Chase's Endorsement
OF the Democratic ticket secures the clcc.
toral vote of Ohio for Seymour
Illinois and Indiana politicians who
claim to know, say their States will go
enthusiastically for Democracy and
Grcenbacks.
The political aspect is completely
changed here within two days, The
nominations are becoming as popular as
that Of Polk and Dallas in the better days
of the Republic. Not a breath Of ,lissat
isfaction is heard, and the greatest enthu
siasm prevails
uH CmeAao, H., July 16
/ There was an immense Democratic rat
ification meeting here 10 night. 1t was
the largest political gathering ever held
in this city; over 10000 people were
present The heavens were ael6w with
fireworks, the roar Of cannon died the .
'air, and an immense procession, with
music torches, transparencjcs and ban
ners passed alopg. ''.A - g ...+a
z The streets and sidewalks were tirorg-
ed with enthusiastic spectators, and
constant roar made sa the MfSIkn nrlgg TbS
pyrotcchnics. The meeting was address
ed by several Of our most prominent 10
cal speakers, who were applauded to the 5
very echo. ..4,,r ~s.,
. Look out for. n rousing Democratic
majority in Chicago iiext November.
| t...., INDiASAroLIs, July l5.
Senator Hendricks, the Democratic
nominee for Governor, will return home
within ten days, and ut once enter upon a
vigorous canvass of the State His first
speech will be delivered in this city. "a
The Van Buren press., 1868-07-31
By THE USE OF THE
MISSISSIPPI DIARRHEA CORDIAL

DiarrhTa-one of the most fatal diseases known
in the valley Of the Mississippi, is rapidly and
radically cured--hence its name. II will. also,
when taken according to directions. most assuredly
cure all cascs Of Cholera, Cholic Cholera Morbus
Dyscntary, and all diseases Of the Bowels.
II is prescribed by the first Western and South.
ern physicians, and used in the hospitals of the
country as a standard remedy
1housands have been cured by the use Of this
Cordial; and it may properly be termed the Great
Medicines Of the South and West
The Van Buren press., 1868-07-31
~

IJ- The New York Brooklyn Radicals
tried TO convene Grant ratification
meeting" the other evening But the au
diencc was composed of Democrats, anil
wgen the orator OF the evening mentioned
the name Of Seymour the applause was
so energetic as to totally interrupt for =
time the speaking. Great is tho enthusi.
asm for Grant - World. ... .t...rs
The Van Buren press., 1868-07-31
$4,000 REV ARD

To any one who can produce or ever have produc.
ed remedy which bears any resemblance to this
in point ofyalnc.
The soothing and healing influence Of the Mis-
sissippi DiarrhGa Cordial is almost instantaneous.
ly felt and within'a few minutes a'ter taking it,
the suAerer ON any of the disorders hich it pro
lesscs 10 cure is not only couyacscent but we'll 1t
acts upon the internal surfaces with which it
comes in contact like an cmolicn,, quict'iug the
whole system and producing healthy action in
the digestive and sccretivc organs
The Van Buren press., 1868-07-31

ED-Within tho month the National
Debt has increased S9,000,000. Within
the year the revenue has fallen below the
estimate Of the Revenue Commissioner
S35 100000 Thoro can be no mista&ing
the direction in which we arc tending. II
the Radicals continue TO retain power
for four years moro they may be willing
to surrender, for there will be little left
TO find "
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rr ur J"AsiiI SSroS, ,luly H.g
Congress Il earnestly at work, and win
close the ccssicn on Wednesday next.
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DEGINNING anew we feel determined to
ID offer better Inducements than euer before.
Approaching the friendship shown to us by
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fJ Grants call for I" peace means
nothing except that he wants to holdehia
own +. rs.e s'ffH y.lgcs
The Van Buren press., 1868-07-31
INDIANAPOLIS, July lJ.

Senator Hendricks, the Democratic
nominee for Governor, will return home
within ten days, and Mt once enter upon a
vigorous canvass Of the State. His first
speech will be delivered in this city.