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Year: 1862

We received many expressions of en-
dorzcmcnt and approval Of the rccom1ncn-
tations in our last Issue. that 1he forth
coming municipal election be fought and
carried On a stTaiglt-out Republican
ticket put il 'llc field by a convention TO
1c forthwith called It is no time for anl-
bush fighting. Let us know who is on
the side Of Freedom and Loyalty, and sup
rort such, taking care that it be no one
u ho carries On his shoulders the Infamous
constitution with the Egyptian breed Of
seeessiuaists aiding Lis scheme. The mu-
nicila1 election must not be "a prestige Of
the success Of tho constitution in the Statc'
There will lie Il Republican Convention.
Year: 1862

The REPORT OF THE VAN WICK COMMITTEE
The "Litte Villain of the Times is compelled at
last to acknowledge that it has deliberately re-
fused to print the report of the Van Wyck Com
mittee, duplicating Fremont and his friends.
The testimony is on oath. 1t is not contro-
verted. The frauds are stupendous. Why is
the report of the committee held back? The
Times and Tribune defend the abolition chief
tain and identify themselves with his course.
They are consequently involved indirectly in
the transaction, and do not want the report to
see the light. The other abolition journal, the
World, will not publish it, and does not want
any other journal to give it publicity, because
the report shows how the World for fifteen days
fed at the public crib and fingered quarter of
a million Of the peoples money. "They love
the darkness rather than the light, because their
deeds are evil"
Year: 1862

or later If not abolished Immediately it viii
soon die natural death, and none but the least
reputable of its members will regret that Its
career has been brought to an inglorious termi-
nsson. Y
Year: 1862

In another column of to-day's issue will be
found a call for mass County Convention to be
holden at the Court House in this city on Satur-
day next, the 2lst instant for the purpose ofnom-
mating suitable men to fill the various offices of
the county, and representatives to the Territorial
Legislature. The call is respectfully signed by all
classes of citizens. 1t ignores party associations,
and invites the people generally to participate in
securing the end proposed. We understand that
there are no County Committees holding over,
and hence the necessity for the call which has
been made. 1t is presumed it will give rise to
no cavIng on the ground of informality, mas
much as it is a call for a mass Convention in
which the people without distinction may have an
equal voice, and bring out such men to fill the
various offices as they may deem fit. Means have
been taken to give ample circulation to the call
throughout the county, and it is hoped the Con-
yentiol may be generally attended
Year: 1862

The policy Of the General Government touch
ing the volunteer forces which have been recruit
ed in Oregon, Washington and California, has
been most singular one, and as it seems to us,
one productive.of no good whatever It may be
claimed that they have indirectly aided in sup
pressing the rebellion by succeeding the regular
soldiers at the different posts who were called
east at the commencement of the war. But the
truth is, there was no necessity for volunteer or
any other kind of forces at the posts vacated by
the regulars, more especially if the same line OF
policy which has hitherto marked their proceed
ings-that of a total inattention to the interests
of settlers ard a condition of the most powerful
inactivity" was to be continued. That policy
thus far has been continued, not only at an enor-
nous legitimate expense to the Government, but
beyond this it has furnished opportunity for pri-
vate peculations and frauds An old adage has
it that Incidence begets vice. and we believe
this is true in all classes of society. Take regi-
ment of men, for example, who enlisted for an
active campaign in the field, and place them in
quarters where the entire opposite of this prevails
and nothing but Generalization and vice can be
expected to result from their inactive confne-
ment. Besides, it seems to us that Uncle Sam
particularly in these times, should find something
for his men to do besides lying idle at numerous
garrisons where their presence is not needed, and
where employment is out of the question. Some
show of usefulness, at least, should be made o1
these volunteer forces. If they are not to be
called east and are designed for any practical use
to the Government or anybody else, then in
heavens name let a totally different policy be in
augurated, and the companies distributed at diff
ferent points where they will be Of some benefit
to settlers. Let them be set to work at some
thing. There are points in the Territory where
they might be employed to the advantage of the
General Government as we'll as the citizen settler
Let company now and then be started out tc
protect the industrious pioneers in the develop
ment Of the abounding resources of the country
from the danger to which all of them are liable
rary posts be constructed here and there, which
may be done without great expense to the Gov
ernment, and be Of vast utility to the country
There are settlers in the Grand Ronde and Pow
der river valleys to whom the Government has
promised protection, and while it may be afforded
as well as not it should not be withheld These
are both fine agricultural valleys and must in a
few years be settled up, if settlers are not butch
cred and driven off by Indians


We repeat that the policy hitherto pursued in
reference to the grand army" of Washington
is productive of no good to the Government nor
the country, is needless expense, and demoral-
izing and ruinous to the men. The forces should
be employed at something, or Immediately dis
banded
Year: 1862

5 Again in the progress of time the American
people are brought to the eve of their great ma
tional anniversary-the day they have been won


to celebrate as one which developed the existence
of a nation independent and untrammeled BaseC
upon the sublime doctrine that man is capable o
selfgovernment, that day gave birth to new prin
ciples and new institutions. The fathers of tht
country placing full reliance in the soundness o
this proposition, resolved upon the experiment
and committed to after generations the fearful
task of testing the mmutabiity of the superstguc
ture upon which the temple of American liberty
was reared. How nobly the brave men of the
revolution struggled foT the prevalence of this
sentiment, and how well the sacred heritage re
ceved from their hands has been nourished ant
treasured, are matters laid up in history


We like to see this ever-memorable day cele
brated, and most ardently hope that even so long
as the sun continues TO shed its light upon om
land, vast millions of peaceful and contented
American citizens may gather at its annual recur-
renee and with thankful hearts bestow their ben
edictions upon the altar of their country. But
we are not fond of gunpowder celebrations
While we will yield the palm to no man in love
of country or in devotion to its hallowed institu-
tons, we can SEE no appropriateness in these
times of national disaster and anxious solicitude
in jubilant revelries over gunpowder and cannon.
The present is not time for bombastc display
and over-joyful hilarity Our brothers are still
involved in a sanguine struggle for the mainten-
ance of our beloved institutions and although
we have the fullest faith in the ultimate triumph
of the right in the supremacy of the wisest gov
eminent ever committed to human trust, it is
maintained only through the most desperate con-
ficts of blood and carnage. While they are thus
involved, they should have the sympathy at least
of those who are not called upon to make equal
sacrifices. The day should be celebrated quietly
and unostentatiously. No violent ebulHtions Of
feeling should characterize its proceedings. Hence
we think that all needless displays, which would
be well enough in times of national prosperity and
advancement are not in good taste in the present
condition Of affairs. A quiet celebration with an
appropriate Grafton, music and dinner, is far pref


cradle 10 one of pompous show, and involves no
useless expenditure of means. We understand
ii is proposed to expend some six or eight hun
dred dollars for gunpoWder and fireworks, and
citizens will probably be called upon to contribute
for this purpose. Moderation is commendable in
all things, and it seems to US if the people are
inclined to make donations, there are far more
important objects requiring public contribution
than the one proposed. Last year it was estma-
ted that six millions of dollars was expended in
the United STATES for the single item of gunpow-
der, which we regard as so much money thrown
away, at a time too when there were thousands O
human beings in our own country without EN-


ployment and suffering for want of food II
view Of the fact that better celebration may b.
Year: 1862

WILSON'S GULcH, June s, 1862.


EDS STATEsNAN-In compliance with your
wish to receive a statement from a miner in this
locality of the yield of the different claims that
are being worked, and also the prospects gener-
ally in the Powder river mines, l will endeavor
to filth request that you may be better able to
convince the increduious that this is the place for
the poor man to get fair compensation for his
labor, with fair prospect all the time of making
what is generally termed "bg thing"


There are but few claims as yet where sluic-
ing is done and all the claims that are opened
properly are paving we'll There are several
claims being what l term properly worked, on
Blue Canon which are paying from six TO thirty
dollars per day to the man. Kirk patrick and
company have been taking out from two TO ten
ounces per day. Other claims above his are pay
ing from five to thirteen ounces per day with one
run OF sluice. They have but a very light sluice-
head on these claims There is about nine fiet
of dirt to be thrown aside before they reach the
pay dirt. The time of stripping is considered in
the above statement. There are several guches
already discovered that are dry at the present
time, that prospect equally as we'll Wilson's
Gulch on which l am now located, prospects very
well. After having a drain cut to my claims,
ground-sluiced three days and half; during that
time picked up So One day while picking up
bedrock, panned out $3.50; second day pickle
up $3.50; third day, washing up with rocker,
S25,00; fourth days washing, $3.50. l then
procured sluices with which the first day l gath
cred $26,94; second day, $26 so. The last half
days work finished cleaning up all the bedrock
had cleared off, and obtained S6-making in
the aggregate $l24,94, from about l6 by 20 feet
Of bedrock.


There are other claims on this gulch that pros
pect equally as well, and some on the flats above
considerable better. There are three bitches
being dug into these diggings which will afford
plenty of water during the whole summer.


The miners on Union flat seem to be well sat
sied with their prospects. There are more pros
poets being obtained farther up the river. which
it is thought will surpass everything yet found
There is also being a ditch brought into these
places. l think two more weeks in these parts
will tell big tale. have mined four years, and
can truly say that 1 would not give my chances
here for any of the chances for a new beginner at
Salmon river. VIM. G. Wills.
Year: 1862

ROAD MEETNG.-Agreeably to public notice
some of the citizens of the city met on Saturday
evening, to devise ways and means to open road
direct between this place and Grand Ronde val
ley. As the result of the meeting, men have been
sent out to open the road who will report in a
few days. A subscription has been successfully
circulated about town to defray the necessary ex-
penses incurred in opening the road Upon the
return of the men who were sent ous, another
meeting should be held to hear their report, anC
take such further action as may be deemed expe
dent
Year: 1862

had without this expenditure, we hope the amount
proposed to be raised may be appropriated to
some one of the various improvements in the city
and county which call for public contributions.
Year: 1862

FROM LEwIsToN.-We learn from men just
down from this place, that the water is from two
to three feet deeper there than was ever known
before. In Trevtts building the water is eight
feet deep, and the greater part of the town is sub
merged. Ross, Dempster & Co., firm from
San Francisco, have just completed new build
ing, into which they are about moving their goods
But little building is going on in consequence o
the high water. Mr.. Chamberlain, from the
Lapwai Agency, was in this city during the week
having been sent to the military post here to OBJ
tain company of soldiers to go up to the agency
10 enforce order between the whites and Indians
in that neighborhood. He states that several
Indians have recently been killed by whites, and
that horse-stealng is constantly going on says
that the agent at the Lapwa has no power what
ever to enforce obedience to the laws. As the
disposition of the forces is under the control Of
General Wright, whose headquarters are at San
Francisco, of course no company was sent up
but we hope one may be dispatched as early as
practicable, and thus prevent the disastrous re-
suits that will inevitably follow prolonged con-
tinuarce of the present state of affairs.





tzy-'' siskiyou county is better mining county to-
day than either Salmon or Caribou Yreka Union.


How do you knolO that, Mr.. Editor If your
assertion is true, you should have been able long
before this to have backed the statement by the
facts and figures necessary to convince the people
whom you address, and you would thereby have
prevented the large exodus to Salmon and Carl
boo from your county. As it is, so many have
rushed into the northern mines that it is possible
the few miners who remain in Siskiyou county
will do better in the aggregate than those who
left. But even if this proves to be the result, it
will by no means demonstrate the truth of your
assertion. From what we have learned, we think
almost any section of the northern mines is better
than those of Siskiyou county, and we have no
doubt the developments of the present season will
amply sustain this opinion.


THE ELEcTIoN-T following is list of
county officers to be elected at the ensuing cleo
ton in July:


Three Representatives,


One County Treasurer,


One Assessor,


One Surveyor


One Coroner,


Three Commissioners,


One School Superintendent.


The different precincts VIII be entitled each to
elect one Justice of the Peace and one Constable
Election, Monday, July 18th, 1862.
Year: 1862

VIZ understand that there was one Of
the most pleasant pic MICS Of the Fourth held
on the beautiful grounds Of Gris~ old College
It vas composed Of some half dozen families
-relatives-and some Of the College students
II was one Of those agreeable family re uniops
which brighteus up the face. gladdens the
heart and makes one hsppy "to meet our
friends once more"
Year: 1862

gers of foreign intervention and inva-
sion. 1t is therefore recommended to
the people of the United States, that at
their next weekly assemblages in their
accustomed places of worship, which
shall occur after the notice Of this proc
lamation shall have been received
they shall especially acknowledge and
render thanks to our Heavenly Father
for these inestimable blessings, that they
then and there implore spiritual conso-
lation in behalf of all those who have
been brought into affection by the cas-
ualties and calamaties Of sedition and
civil war, and that they reverently in
woke the Divine guidance for our ma
tionaI councils, to the end that they
nay speed gresult in the restoration Of
peace5 harmony and unity throughout
our borders, and hasten the establish
Ement Of fraternal relations among all
the countries of the earth.


In witness whereof, I have hereunto
setmy hand, and caused the seal of the
United States to be affixed.


Done in the City of Washington, this
10th day of April, in the year of our
Lord 1862. Signed


ABRAH A M LINCOLN.
Year: 1862

ATbe following is from an article
by Oliver w. Holmes:-If the reader
of this paper live another year, his self
conscious principle will have migrated
from his present tenement to another
the raw materials even of which are not
vet put together A portion of the
body of his which is to be, will ripen in
the corn of his next harvest. Another
portion of his future person he will
purchase for him, headed up in the forpl
of certain barrels Of potatoes. A third
fraction is yet to be gathered in the
Southern rice field. The limbs with
which he is then to walk will be clad
with flesh borrowed from the tenants of


many stalls and pastures, now uneon


seious OF their doom. The yery organs


of speech with which he is to talk SO
wisely, plead SO eloquently, or speak


effectively, must first serve his humble
brethren to bleat, to below, and for. all
the varied utterance of bristled or feath-
cred barn yard life. His bones them-
selves are, to great IN posse and not M
csse. a bag of phosphate of lime, which
he has ordered from Prof Mapes, for
his grounds contain large part of what
! is to be his skeleton. And more, that
all this, and by far the greater part Of
his body is nothing at all but water. the


main substance of his scattered mem
bers is to be looked for in the reservoir,
in the running streams, at the bottom


of the clouds that float over his head,
are dif'used ameng them all. .s
Year: 1862

THE TAX BnL-PRoPosED AMESDMENT.-Iti is
stated that the cause Of delay in the Tax bill is
an objection to the taxing of SO many articles
instead of limiting the burthen to few in
general use, as is done in England and France,
where taxation has become a science. 1t ap-
pears that Mr.. Chase has bill in preparation,
limiting the articles to be taxed to some twenty
in number used by the whole community. This
would certainly be less vcxatous to the people
than the bill already reported while IL would
be equally productive, and at the same time it
would effect saving of twenty-five per cent on
Year: 1862

APPoNTMENT OF GENERAL HUNTER TO THE
DEPARTMENT OF THE SoUrH.-General Hunter
has been appointed to the command of the
Department Of the South, comprising Florida,
Georgia and South Carolina; and General Sher-
man, who formerly commanded in South Caro-
lima, is now subordinate to General Hunter.


This is good appointment, and its fruits
will soon be visible. General Sherman, though
a very good officer, seems to have done nothing
in the military line since the occupation of Port
Royal He has been more engaged in the pro-
secution of romantic philanthropic ideas about
the negroes than in overthrowing the rebellion.
The object of the war is to put down the white
rebels, and not to occupy the troops or gene
rails with visionary projects about blacks.
General Sherman, instead of marching upon the
enemy, has become entangled with fanatical
missionaries and their silly dreams about the
amelioration Of the negro race, the truth being,
that this race everywhere at the South are more
civilized, more moral and Christian-in word,
far better off in body and soul-than the same
race at the North In the South the negroes
have had somebody to take care of them. In
the North it is otherwise; and we see how
wretched and degraded the Northern negro
population generally are. As soon as the
negroes Of the coast of South Carolina are
left without their natural guardians and
protectors, owing to the events of the
war, they show how helpless they are,
and how unfit to shift for themselves. Will
missionary efforts remedy this! On the con-
trary, they will be likely to render the negro
worse and worse If the negroes had anything
in them they would cultivate the plantations
themselves, and thus produce abundance of
food, instead of coming to our troops, in vast
multitudes, for rations, and adding to the ex-
penses of the war; What is wanted for the
lazy negroes Is not missionaries but a little
coercion, to make them work. They ought to
be all compelled to cultivate the abandoned
farms till the war is over, and then the State
could take charge Of the shiftless creatures. We
trust that General Hunter. who is not only
good soldier but a sensible man, will set the
matter right; that he will put an end to sys-
TEN which Is likely to lead to great mischief,
its smallest evil being to clog and embarrass
the operations Of the army. II he would pros
per in his department. by all means let him
Danish the missionaries.
Year: 1862

REBEL BARBARITEs-The details furnished
by our Washington correspondent Of the mu-
tilations committed on the bodies of Colonel
Slocum and Major Ballou, who were killed at
the battle of Bull run, make the blood boil
with indignation. Coupled with the scalping
of Union prisoners at Pea Ridge, the fashion
ing of drinking cups and spoons out of the
skulls and tibia of our dead the general poison
ing of wells in their retreats and the laying of
mines for the Wholesale destruction Of our
troops previous to the evacuation of their
strongholds, these facts demonstrate on the
part of the rebels savage and demoniac
spirit, such as is usually only to be found
amongst the most barbarous tribes. They will
make the checks of every Englishman and
Frenchman tngle with shame at the bare idea
that it could have been contemplated for mo-
ment to lend the aid and countenance of their
governments to movement, the actors in which
have proved themselves so utterly destitute Of
reason and self-control. Even towards each
other the rebels seem to be devoid of all feeling
of humanity, as witness the disgraceiul in
difference of their surgeons to their own
wounded at st. Louis, which elected from Gen.
Halleck such q severe order the other day..
What difference does their conduct present
from that of our Northern soldiers. We have
vet to learn the first instance in which an indig


nifty has been offered by the latter to a wounded
prisoner, or where anything but respect has
been manifested by them towards the dead
The civilization of the North and South has
been placed in strong contrast by this rebellion
The result shows that ii we were to leave the
South to carry out its aspirations Of inde'
pendence and self-govcrnment, the uncon.
trolable passions of its people would soop
reduce it to condition of barbarism.
Year: 1862

sincere and heartfelt thanks that re-
ceive these splendid testimonials that
now lay before me, the source from
which they come makes them doubly
dear to me. 1t is pleasure TO me to
know how much confdencsis reposed
in me by my command, and1 pledge
my word that these precious tokens
shall never be disgraced by me-"


lie then expressed his deep regard
for each and every member of his
company, and his qualification ofthcir
brave and noble conduct at the battle
Of Roanoke Is'anl.


Here he very touchingly alluded
to two deaths that had occurred
in the company since his absence
Again he expressed his heartfelt
thanks for the beautiful gift, and
the company's kind regard for his at
tempt to do his duty, and his wish thai
when this war was ended, we migl.t
return together to our homes, satisfied
that we had done our whole duty tC
our Country and our God.


The cost of the sword was $3.50.
Year: 1862

WARES, Sc, Sc.,9
at his Store. on Main street. next door to Bank Of
Smyrna, and that


EDery article is Fresh and Genuine, and of The Best
Quality that can be prOcured each being selected en-
PreSSty for Pyscians Prescriptions and Family use.
u is his determination to sell everything in his line
at the lowest price.


His connection with the best wholesale houses in
Phlladelphia and New York will enable him 10 do
so he therefore respectfully sOlics the Public Pat.
ronage which. by strict personal attention business
and an accommodating disposition it shall ever be
his study to deserve and appreciate