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The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1868-12-31
THE INTERNAL REVENUE LAW.

Below we copy an extract from leading
article in a recent number of the San Frnncis-
CO Times, the ablest, most respectable, best
conducted, and handsomest Radical organ pub
lished on this coast. The Times is devoted to
its party, but it candidly and heartily condemns
the present odious Internal Revenue law,
through which the people are not only forced
to support huge standing army of supervisors,
assessors, collectors, agents, &c, but are be-
sides annually plundered out of their earnings,
profits, and possessions, to degree not en-
dured by the people Of any other country on
the face of the globe The Times says:
The exigencies OF the Government during
the rebellion led to the passage of what's known
as the Internal Revenue Law imposing taxes
on personal income, occupations. banking cap
ital. deposits of money, transfers of property,
gross receipts of business. and on domestic
manufactures. Since 1862. when the original
law went into operation, various amendments
have been made from year to year, the more
important of which have been adopted through
the influence of the lobby, and in the interest
of the various rings" which now seem to
control the legislative and executive branches
of the Government. The law, as it now stands.
is an outrage upon the intelligence and the
moral sense of the nation, and its influence
upon the taxpayers and the revenue officers.
upon the members of Congress in both Houses,
and upon those connected with the Treasury
Department, to say nothing of the President OF
the United States is very corruptlng, and be
comes increasingly 80 in geometrlc ratio. The
political nominating conventions are more or
less controlled by whisky and tobacco rings"
and nominations even of State, county and mlI-
nicipal officers and legislators, are secured by
exchanging votes for national candidates III the
interest of ring" Thus it is that the de-
moraliZing influence of the law increases
yearly, and the tendency is to perpetuate cor
ruptiOn.
ANY law which has such tendency, which
offends the public taste, and blunts the moral
sense-which offers premium upon fraud and
chicanery-cannot be too soon repealed. There
fore one of the first duties of Congress Is TO
sweep the present Internal Revenue Law from
the Statute Book and enact another simple in
its provisions, uniform i'll IFS operation, and
effective for the collection of revenue by virtue
of its own simplicity, without the Intervention
of an army of officials, who only taclhtat" the
commission of fraud, and who are under every
temptation to aid such as may be guilty OF 1t.
| The present law is cumbersome and oppres-
sive. Certain classes of business, entirely le-
gitimate, are forbidden; while the prosecution
of others is made contingent upon the incur
ring of expense and the wasting of property in
manner which 1t is doubtful whether Con
gress has the power TO require.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1868-12-31
HIGHLY COMPLIMENTARY-T Lancaster

HIGHLY COMPLIMENTARY.-The Lancaster
(Pa.) Inteliigencer says:
A Washington correspondent intimates that
Simon Cameron is likely to be made Secretary
of the Treasury under Grant. God save the
mark! What an appointment that would be
The man who laid the foundation of his fortune
by palming off Middletown bank notes upon
the Winnebago Indans-the man whom Liza.
coin had to turn out of the War Department
to stop the wholesale plumber of the public
treasury-the man whom Thaddeus Stevens
described in his grimly humorous way by de-
claring he "acOuld not steal a red hot store -
such man for Secretary of the Treasury
ANGELS and ministers of grace defend u.s."
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1868-12-31
THE DIsINFECTANT NUIsANCE.-'Thc V

THE DIsINFECTANT NUIsANCE-The Nir-
gnia City (Nevada) Enterprise says:
These smallpox times there is much talk
about town in regard To disinfectants, Men
are going about the street with vals of carbolic
acid and other diabolical Installations in their
vest pockets, which they from time Ia time
smell at rub upon the palms of their hands or
sprinkle upon their clothes. A smell of coal
tar, camphOr creoSOte, chloride of lime gin,
garlic, aSatptida, turpentine. muskrat. pepper
mint, and skunk, pervades the moving mass of
humanity upon street. and instead of curb
stone brokers We have curb-stonc Doctors all
with walls uncOrked and exchanging opinions
and smells. Where half dozen of these walls
of wrath are uncOrked, the eHiuvium for some
rods about is worse than the odor from a pros
porous slaughter house in dog days Then
these pestiterous pest disnfectant dissemina-
tors are not content to keep their internal com
pounds to themselves: they take 4 devilish de-
light in dislntecting all their friends and &c
quaintances on the sly and without their knOwl-
edge and consent Yesterday one Of these
curb-stone Samarltans poured about an ounce
of some Internal mixture down the coat collar
of q leading G street merchant being deter
mined to dIsinfect him. Shortly after, our
merchant smet leak of gas, and started out
to hunt it up. Up stairs and down cellar he
hunted, but it smellcd about as strong in one
place as another, and finally in despair the
puzzled dealer in dry goods sent boy for Mr.
Kaneen, of the gas works The gas man smelt
the leak as soon as he came near the merchant
and together the two hunted over the premises
for the break in the pipes and perhaps would
have been hunting till now if the gas man had
not caught Mr.. Samaritan trying to pour some
of his carbolic acid down the back of his neck
These curb-stone doctors, with their dsinfect
ants are getting to be a nuisance, calling for
the interference of the city authorities-the
are enough to throw the whole population into
the putrid fever.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1868-12-31

THE REASON.-Business called the sd,,.
from his post, to which he has not been able
return in time to make up the news for ii,
issue, and a sudden rush of transient WV,
prevented those remaining from supplying i,
place. The paper was necessarily made uva
matter most easily obtained from exchars.
and such as required no vriting-e1ceDtr,
such articles as he provided before be W.,
called away.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1868-12-31

TIE MYSTERIES OF ALASKA-The Jour
nal Of Commerce is telling of some wonderful
"reminiscences of antiquity, which one of the
officers accompanying Gen. Rousseau to Alas
ka has just been unearthenng tacre-such as
wooden helmets, masks, with dlaboica faces,
made of iron and copper, with swords. and
other warlike implements of ivory, exquisite.
y carved. The editor has seen these articles
with his own eyes, and hence, as if in amaze
ment, asks:
"Who were this now extinct race of ivory
carvers and iron forgers Their habits and
tastes seem to have been quite unlike any of the
Indian tribes of this continent They did not
build tumui, like the mound builders, ofwhom
the Indians have no traditions. 1t seems prob.
able, from all the facts known, that the original
Alaskians came over from Northern Asia in
canoes. There is a line of islands looking like
stepping stones on the map, stretching from
kamchatka to the extreme southwestern point
of Alaska. The old Alaskians, like the present
race, made large and strong canoes, and were
bold navigators; and the achievement of n
passage from Asia by way of Kamchatka across
the Aleutian Archipelago is possible"
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1868-12-31

TWENTY-FIVE years ago George D. Prentice took a
boy. W. n. Haldeman. into his Office clerk. The
clerk now pays his former employer $40 week to
write.
We clip the above from an exchange, 1t is
only another case to show that the Urah Heep
tumble ones are not all extinct But fortu-
nately for the veteran Prentice, circumstances
have fortutously rescued him out of the clutch
es of his Heep, and he is at ease in his declin-
ing years
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1868-12-31

GREAT SPEED-To accomplish certain
object in the great Erie Railroad war, Fisk,
the Chief of the Board Of the Directors in pos
session, caused the road to be cleared, and then
got an engineer to take him Lightweight miles
in one hour and forty-one minutes, with only
the engine, the tender, and Directors car.
The ride was made after midnight.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1868-12-31

ANOTHER DEVELOPMENT Spir-
1t Of the Times emphatlcally asserts that the
terms of capitulation made by Gen. Sherman
when Gen. Jos. Z. Johnston surrendered, for
which the Radical press so vilely denounced
Gen. Sherman, were directed by Abraham
Lincoln, and insisted upon by him contrary to
Gen. Sherman's wishes; and that Gen. Grant
conceded with Lincoln in regard to the matter.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1868-12-31

A FEATURE OF THE REVENUE TAx-The
rich man can afford q gold watch; the tax on
it is only one dollar. The poor man must have
Tea for his family. On the worth of as much
tea as would pay for gold watch the tax is
fifty dollars. The Radicals call this iegislating
for the poor man. 1t is certainly the way to
legislate to compel the poor man to support the
rich, and pay the expenses of government.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1868-12-31

PROFESSOR NEWTON, Of Yale, aays that a comet
which is travelling at the rate of 600 900 miles per
day. has just whisked its tail in faces and made
us see stars.
A holiday time-keeping friend of ours says,
after reading the above, now he knows what
it was made him see things so very queer and
confused late on Christmas night 1t was that
tail that did the business for him, and he don't
want any more of it.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1868-12-31

4 SHAMEFUL CLAIM. - One VIM. GLAND
Bourne, of New York, stoutly asserts his claim
to the authorship of the Infamous verses usual
ly known as " The Haunting Lie" which were
published in the New York Tribune in 1854.
Bourne is a bran-bread fanatical philosopher,
somewhat of the Greeley stripe. We knew
him, years ago, to clothe his wife and children
in common fannels, in the midst of summer,
and to starve them on a diet which a vigorous
chicken would have rebelled at. But he is a
:" philosopher" being a Radical. After his
claim to the authorship Of the most traitorous
verses ever written against the American flag,
we shall not be astonished if, in few years,
Wendell Phillips or Charles Sumner will claim
the credit of having instigated Old John Brown
to his work of murder and treason, or if STAN
ton and Holt and Bingham will quarrel over
the honor of having had most to do in the ac-
complishment of the murder Of Mrs. Surratt.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1868-12-31
ASHLEY WITNESSING clip the following

ASHLEY WHINEs.-We clip the following
from Radical exchange:
Congressman James NJ. Ashley, of Ohio, is
out in long statement in which he makes the
strange admission-for Western man-that
" ne never was at horse-racc, never in gam
bling house, never purchased and drank glass
of spirituous liquors during any canvass &c.
No wonder he was defeated
We do not wonder the miserable hound has
no small vices" His unredeemed baseness
and villainy are concentrated into perjury, and
other grave, heinous villainies. Better men
than Ashley are hung every week
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1868-12-31

FRED. GRANT, son of Ulysses, now at West
Point is a wild boy, and it is whispered in
Newspaper row, Washington that the General
is going to place him in Harvard, his further
connection with West Point being inconsistent
with the discipline of that institution.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1868-12-31

THE Prince of Wales, his wife andlthree
children and servants, have started on a pleas
ure trip on British war ship which was fitted
for the purpose at an expense of $125, 900.
John Bull growls, and wants to know why he
should pay the bills.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1868-12-31
ONE OF THE WASHBURNES.

We clip the following 1roin io'o
paper: o ,co
The Washington correspondent OF the M3 Is
sou,; Democrat says that the Hon. Charles D.
Washburne, late Minister to Paraguay Is !ne
third of the four Washburne brothers, oeng
older than Israel, but younger than Emu anu
Cadwallader. He early left his nome III
Maine. and settled in California, where ne De,
came an editor. He was engaged IN PolIlca =
and personal quarrels early in life, ana iougE'
one or more duels therefore WIN D. f.
Washington, Virginian, wherein ne was Sc: Sc,
yerely wounded in the hip, and announcer WIN
Austin Smith, son of Extra Billy Smitn' VI
VIRGINIA. These wounds have annoyed MN
yerv much down to the present tlme' wheh n Il.
is in his forty.eighth year. He was an anu
slavery man from the beginning, ana BIS Ca..-
fornia troubles arose out of his obnoxious attl-
tude towards the pro-slavery leaders OF inc
State.
So far rs Washburne's career In Caillorhia
is concerned. the correspondent is only parity
correct For several years Mr.. Washburne
sought every opportunity to bring himself 'h.o
notice, by writing for any paper that "oula
publish his "Peregrne Pilgrim" letters whlch
always contained leaven of Aboltlonlsm to
mass of inert and sluggish matter on current
topics or sketches Of travel he hhal'y oe-
came editor of the Alta California, and as
sucb was nude to stand responsible (by David
n Rroderick) for an article which was actually
written by George Wilkes, now OF wakes
Shirt. and in which Col. Frank Is. Washing
ron was Wiley and slanderously assalled.
duel was the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and
Wilkes having forced Washburnc to the held
The parties fought with rifles, and the aiiair
terminated by Washington shooting WASH
burna through the left shoulder. Throughout
the whole scere on the field Washburne Dc
trayed the most pititul fear. lie fired hve
times 10 Col. Washingtnn's three tlmes-hav-
ing discharged his rifle twice without The word
and clearly through trepidatlon and the tremor
of mortal fright And at every discharge he
lodged and squirmed like hound under The
lash As spectator remarked, II was Ike
shooting at chipmonk,' for Washington, who
could have pierced his shiyering and craven
adversary with ease, but he too much pitlcd
the miserable stool, pigeon set up against hun
and disdained to more than wing" him. Wash
burne never fought another duel. He never
went out on the field with Austin +. Smith nor
had the two any personal quarrel. Equally un-
true is the statement that his duel with Col
Washington, or his California troubles arose
ont of his obnoxious attitude toward the pro
slavery leaders of the State" The fact is he
was never of sufficient Importance. PERSONAL!
or politically, while in California, to cause any
Democrat the least concern, one way or other
Among the Republicans, some toadicd to him
because o: the influence his brothers in Con
gress were supposed to have.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1868-12-31

BIG NUGGET.-A seyenty-ive pound nugsr
containing about one-third gold. was recent
found near Eldorado city, Willow Creek Ii
gings, Oregon.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1868-12-31

THE Milwaukee Sentinel relates that re.
cent convert who thought he had a call to the
ministry, decided the matter by splitting on n
chip and clipping" it up. If the Iwet side
came up he determined to consider the CALI
genuine. 1t did, and another theological stu
dent was made
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1868-12-31
NAUGHTY WAsHBURNE-AC Chicago name,

NAUGHTY WAsHBURNE.-A Chicago paper
says:
1t is reported TINT the man who invented
Grant, got himself outside of a quantity of
something hot enough to match the last half of
his name, iq Washington the other day and rode
about the streets wrapped in the " stars and
stripes. !" He forgot the rest of the programme,
as Kirby used to play it at the Bowery, long
ago, viz, to Z" fire two pistols and die like a.
Radical
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1868-12-31

DANIEL T. DICKINSON, nephew OF hon
Daniel s. Dickinson, has been arrested for
robbing safe in Ellicottville, n. Y.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1868-12-31

THE citizens of Augusta, Georgia, recently
gave complimentary supper to the troops I'M
der the command of Gen. L. W. Sweeny for
their soldierly behavior and general good con-
duct while stationed in that city. The people
speak in terms of commentator of Gen. Swee-
nv and his entire command.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1868-12-31

Hoe CONTAGIoN.-Th Walla Walla States
man of late date says:
We learn that within the last month great
fatality has prevailed among the hogs in this
Valley One settler tells us that he has lost
sixty head. The disease is an affection of the
throat, known as the qunsey.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1868-12-31

THAp STEVENS is reported to have said
that Ben. Butler is destined to immortal fame
or fame, he did not know really which
Case of both likely. Fame like that of Eros
tratus, anG fame like old Thad's spirit is zen
loving, ~ if we believe in revelations.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1868-12-31

NEGRO SUFFRAGE.-A Washington paper of
Dec. 18th says:
The negro suffrage amendment is not likely
to pass Congress \ canvass Of the House, by
some of ia supporters, shows that ii will not
get ajority vote-to say nothing of the re-
quired two-lhirds. The proposed amendment
is pending before the Judiciary Committee of
both Houses, and that of the Senate is expected
to report adverse to il, ut an early day. Among
those who oppose the amendment are some OF
Grants strongest supporters.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1868-12-31

HENRY WARD BEECHER says Boston rell-
gion is as cold as ice, because the Puritan Fa-
theirs preached Calvinism instead of Christ
And his is as warm as the basement OF the
tropics, because he breaches the gospel accord,
ing to Satan instead of the gospel according to
John
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1868-12-31

EDUCATED "CUssEs. Among the con-
victs in the Iowa State Prison, are nine grad.
yates of colleges, one of them an ex-clergyman.
and some of them excellent scholars. Among
the books furnished them for reading are Latin,
Greek and Hebrew which they read fluently.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1868-12-31

ANOTHER BURLINGAMER.-A Boston paper
of Dec. 5th says:
All Shove, young Chinaman, who came
here before he was eighteen years of age, has
recently been naturalized in the United States
Court
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1868-12-31

WHO FISK Is,-A New York paper says ::
James Fisk, Sen, of Brattleboro, Vt, the
father of the notorious Wall street Spectator
in Erie stocks, is in lunatic asylum, and it is
predicted that his son, the financial genius of
Wall street, will some time or other bring up
in similar place. He and his father began
life rs coupla of Yankee dry goods pedders,
driving their teams from town to town; finally
young Fisk got into the dry goods store of Jor.
don, Marsh q Co., in Boston, from which he
went, with fortune of 100000, to Wall street
as a stock speculator, getting control of the
Erie railroad as lever to work with. He
would issue great quantities of new stock for
speculation and make great corners" BY this
means and by locking up currency. He has
won fortune of millions for himself and ruin
ed the market value Of the road. He ia about
40 years old and immensely fat.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1868-12-31

SURE OF CLIENTs.-A young lady, of wealth
and beauty, has been admitted as student
of the st. Louis law-school.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1868-12-31

HoMAN, who married Ole Bulls youngest
daughter, in August last, and one of Norway's
best lawyers, committed suicide recently,
while temporarily insane.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1868-12-31

ONE OF LINCOLN's JUDGES.-The Ian
caster (Pa.) Mtelhgcuoer says:
In Mobile the other day the lawyers and
other officers attached to the United States
District Court assembled, but no judge was
present. The notorious and mserably corrupt
wretch, Dick Busted, was detained at Wash
lngton to answer serious charges which have
been made against him. Lincoln gave some
queer specimens of Judges toSouthern Courts,
and Dick Busted was one of them.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1868-12-31

THE lale Ex-Gov Todd, of Ohio, lett Tor
tune of $500, 000-more than his 1rlenas nad
supposed he was worth.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1868-12-31
NJ AISRIE>D:

In Boise City. Dec. Path. 10y the Rev. Vim. Roteru
the following named persons y. p. DoJD 70 Ms
IsAEEILAN '. SPRAGCE. RICHARD LlPsC0NB = Ms
SARAH BALDWIN, and 4. J. BOYAKIN 20 Miss EEt
FIT. HaRnIs
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1868-12-31

THE CHURCH UNIoS."-Cnder the hesd Of "y,
Advertisements" Will be found kind Of Prospe.u
OF paper Of the above name, which gives comrls
description for itself Persons wishing 70 send ar.
paper Of the kind can leave their names al this ose
until club OF ten or more is formed, when tie d.
per will be sent for The paper is one Of the k,gs
size, printed on clear type and is well worth the Sd,
scrip;ion price Read the advertisement
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1868-12-31
ALASKA CoRnrrTIoN FrND.-A Washing

ALASKA CORRUPTION FtND.-A y ashlng-
ton dispatch of Dec. 18th says:
The Committee an Public Expenditures were
directed by the House. to-day, to send for the
persons or papers and investigate the charges
made III the Worcester Spy. that corruptlon-
fund was spent among the members. newspa-
per men, lobbyists, and others, to secure the
passage of the bill paying for Alaska. Mr..
Hubbard. Of New York, is Chairman Of the
Committee, and intends to proceed at once in
the Investigation.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1868-12-31
Henry Ward Bccchcr's Sermons,

which il does every week, just as they are dtA7GA
without qualification or correction by him. AA-n
Gates universal suffrage union Of CHRISTIANS D. -
polls and the rights Of labor II has The bes, ayr
cultural Department Of any paper III the WoFN, L.s
fishes stories for the family. and for the desFac-
Of social evils It's editorial management Is lnr
sonal: its writer's and editors from ever! N---
Of the church. and from every grade Of socaeT
has been APPLY ;crEcd the freest organ o; iAoa7--
the world. A.
Such paper offering premiums q *Wls
chimes. Dictionaries Appleton's CyclopediA hAr4
Organs for Churches. etc, makes one Of the oes'*
pcrs for canvassers IN the world.
Every Congregation may obtain coian uh'o-
vice. an organ a melodcon, bible, or Lie 4Is
ancc policy for its Pastor. alnlos; any oiAe! Nv
iul thing. by club of subscribers.
Send for a copy. enclosing 10 cents, to
HENRY F. CHILD
Il PARK Row. New Yea
R.-Snbscrirtions received a. This ofhce, Ao-
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1868-12-31

BOARD or CoMMIssIONEKs.-Pers interested IN
again notified that the Board Of County Commiss.s.
ers will meet III the Court House on Monday ne-i
and that this is the last meeting Of this Board
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1868-12-31
Aew Adrertisenlente.
THE CHURCH UNION.

u,HIs PAPER HAS BEEN RECENTLY ENI-ARGE
to mammoth proportions. II Is now the lA'gts
religious paper in the world; is the leading organ
the Union movement. and opposes rtasAsn' cls
communion cxclusiyeness and church caste. !
the only paper that publishes