Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1872-04-27
LETTER FROM PORTLAND.

Correspondence Of the Standard.
How BEN. RULES A ClTY-THE MAN
AND HIS STYLE-THE PREss-MR.
AND Mrs. DuNNrwAY-HorEls AND
WAY OF LIvIN0-PORrLAND's LATEST
SENsATION-DowN IN THE DEPTHS
Ere, Ere.
sm 10 Ben. Holidays city. In other
words, I am 10 Portland. Sam. Coulter
will know what mean, even if you, unfor-
tunately, do not. got over the stage to
Kalama, pretty we'll shaken up. l regard
the road, on broad principles, as worse
than Olympia benzine." Could I say
more? Should say less?
Ben. Holiday, / am told, has some
money. That is probably, unfortunately,
true. His daughter has recently married
some sort Of a small French nobleman--s
Count, l believe. OF course, Ben. isuat.
urally very much disguised. Mr.. HoIls-
day, among his other vices, adds Rcpubli-
canism to his misrule. lie has nm "ele-
plant" of his own. Among his mens gerie
he keeps O'Meara? Can I say more 3?
Should say less?
Without a single trait that Prince,
Erie's" blighted career, closing in DEATH.
darkened, am told that this man, Holla-.
day, has contrived to find plenty Of sub
servient tools and fools. As you are &C
quainted with the Survcyor.G General and
that Ring of small politicians in Olympia,
you will not need that say much more.
Their magnificent generosity, their habit
ual muuifcence, and their style of doing
things, are as familiar to You as to the in
valid who essays to pen these lines.
I cannot say that Ben. Holidays style
of ruling q city imprcsses me with any
sense of the magnitude of his brains.
When you state that he has acquired
money, you have said about all that there
is to be said about him, if We except
coarsencss that is native to him and po-
litical truculency that is all his own. He
is far greater misfortune to Oregon than
the late Col. Fisk ever dared to be to New
York. The Bulletin, of this city, has of
course no owner but Mr.. Holiday. Who
owns, or runs, Mr.. Scott, is more than I can
say. AS he is Republican, from obvious
motives of delcacy desire to lot him
very severely alone.
l interviewed Mrs. Dunniway this morn
ing. I found her very much of lady.
l can say little more, and l would be un--
candid if l said much less. She has a
pleasant residence and a well-appointcd
office, and is in reality one of the most in-.
telligent editors upon this coast. also
met Mr.. Dunniway. who looks like any.
thing but hen pcckcd husband, and has
evidently forgotten more than some men
who discuss him will ever quite know or
understand.
The Herald since Col. Taylor's advent.
has been growing in influence and deepen
ing in favorable impression. Its local edi-
tor, n son of the editor of the Walla Walla
Statesman, is admitted to have no equal
in his line on the Portland press.
You know me we'll enough to know how
how hate putting. should, however.
be very vngrateful were l to omit mention
of the kindness and courtesy by which
have been treated at the Russ House. 1t
is unanimously admitted to DO one Of the.
best hotels on the Pacific Coast.
The telegraph hus doubtless already IN,
formed you of the death Of the diver. Geo.
Carroll. He was employed 10y Mr.. Lewis
to dive down and examine the wreck Of tho
Resolufc, little tug that had been sunk at
the foot of Morrison Street. He was.
somewhat under the influence of drink
when he descended. The depth Of the
water was 48 feet. He was two hours and
So minutes under the water. The life line
attached to his person had got befouled.
In the attempt to raise tho man. by pump
ing in too much air and being unable to.
use the safety-vnlve, there was too much
atmospheric pressure, causing congestion.
He was in dying condition when brought
to the surface. Death ensucd in about.
twenty minutes.
Portland is very regularly laid out and
boasts of some very fine buildings, It i'm
presses me very favorably. l leave for
San Francisco in few days, from whence
you will hear frem me again.
Il. +. LovERIDGE.
Russ House, April 81, 1872.