Arizona citizen., 1871-09-16

short, The Unions attacks on the Gen. tral Pacific Railroad Company have really seized upon the nation itself. This paper has walked over the track with a great war-club, as it were, mashing one head after another in either party, until 1t has nearly con- pleted its mission on this score; for l repeat that a reaction will follow all this, and I think soon after the com ing election in this State, though it is not probable the corporations will ever again have so open field as i'll the past. But to the point. The Union deliberately defeated the Re publican ticket in 1867, and elected Haight. It has as deliberately re- nominated Haight, in the face of every Democratic opposition, and then came out in a loud Header entitled Vic tory Number One" It then took up Booth, and in spite of all Republican opposition, nominated him, and fol- lowed with its thundger " of Vic tory Number Two" Now, it firmly believes it will have the pleasure of announcing fortnight hence, in still louder tones = Victory Number Three!"
 Who IS this man behind the scenes, more powerful than the mass of the popular talent of the State, with the great accumulated wealth com bined ? Samuel Seabough, a native of Penn sylvania, and one of t1e most agreed ble conversationalists and pleasant gentlemen to meet ill California the heaviest political writer, and one who can do the most of 1t and enjoy it. His smooth-shaven, intelligent face, bright eye, and generally prepos- sessing person, with human weak nesses and his own worst enemy, are the chief characteristics of his outline in every day ife The slight lisp in his speech seems to set it off in fas- cinating way rather than otherwise. Liberal to fault, and a pleasant good word for whoever, high or low, may have ought to say to him. He has the worlds affairs philosophical down to a scratch, and when his pen drops from the harness, he will turn the final corner of 1t all with a joke, and the obituary and his reward will all be summed up under the caption (per- chance "small-cap" head) of "A Prominent Journalist Gone" But the work of such men never die, though their bodies may have often suffered for the common necessaries, and the dirty world they instructed or amused, may refuse them decent sepulchre. It Is curious to contemplate the life of an able and we'll fixed newspaper. Last week several hundred men of means i'll Sacramento protested pub. licly by signature against the course of this paper toward the Central Pa cifc people. The Union treated them with scorn, and already their effort is good as forgotten. It looks over the entire field for its sustenance and will flourish when its founders as we'll as its enemies are all dead and gone, and forgotten.
 1 like to meet Seabough when he has any leisure at all, and night be- fore last I besieged him in his den. Talked over the Apache question, etc., and got his private opinion of the po-
 itical mill here. He has always dis tinctive way of expression-can state a common subject in new light, the want of which qualification is so gener- ally observed among even leading speakers in public. He said that this excitement about Booth was not worked up by money, but was spontaneous ebullition of enthusiasm" and there fore would do to bet on. This morn ing's paper comes out with a leader " using the words quoted, and in con- nection with the monster meeting last night, it certainly has a significance not generally felt through these means. There is but little gambling on the result as yet, though SC far as the papers show, the odds are offered by the Republicans, who are as united as ever they are, and working at least up to the ten-hour law system in this case, though both platforms are sub stantlally similar on all questions. " Platform jugglery," as The Tribune calls it, is as broad in the one as the as the other; both parties stultifying their records in important features al together amusing, and more or less disgusting. Bnt that is the old thing, to certain extent.
 To recur to The Union again. l ,,iolyad if nm not on hOur apO at hrea k