Year: 1865

mittee.


The Union State Central Committee have issued
the following address to the loyal men of Cali
forna


SAN Francisco. August %, 1865.


On the 9th day of September next. an election
will be held in this State, at which will be cho-
sen members of the Assembly for two years, and
one-half of the members of the Senate for four
wears besides the county officers in every county
throughout the State. 1t would seem to be
necessary for this Committee to indicate to you
the importance of this election Our success or
defeat presents to us simply this question Shall
we abandon to the enemy the fruits OF our four
years struggle, or shall we by one more united
effort assure loyal future to our young State ?
+ 1t is useless for us to disguise the fact that
there exists within the party in various counties
Of the State, much dsafection, 1t has been said
that there issues before the people,
that the mission and work of the Union party
are finished 1t cannot be that this is the judg-
mcnt of the loyal men of California Never
there more momentous issues before any
party What more important issue could pos
sibly be presented than whther you shall be gov
crned by loyal men traitors If no principle
were involved this alone should call forth your
most earnest and enthusiastic exertions.


For four years the Union men of California
have done battl6 against party composed of the





have been victories, because were united.
In the flush of full success, and before the fruits
of our hard field have been secured, are we
about to voluntarily lay down our arms, and
take to our embrace defeated but still defiant
foes 1t cannot be. 1t is not possible that Cal
ifornans can be guilty Of such political suicide
Losing sight of the work of reconstruction yet
before the Union party, ambitious men have al
lowed themselves 80 be drawn into q course OF
action which cannot be other than the destruction
of the Union party, and the triumph, not alone
of its enemies, but Of the deadly enemies of the
country. Office acquired by the aid of traitor
votes will only prove legacy Of shame. There
is no middle ground You must be for the coun-
try through the Union organization, or against
the country in the company of traitors Division
can only res ult in disaster. No political friend
ship or political jealousy can justify it.


Any success outside Of the Union organization
will be, not the success of Union men, but OF
traitors for it will be the first step towards pla-
cling the latter in power. Defeat the regular
nominations in any considerable number of coln-
ties a the approaching election, and your State
Government will inevitably pass out OF your
hands at the next State election Believing that
this disaster can only be ayerted by union and.
harmony in our ranks, We earnestly urge and
implore all Union men to stand firmly by the
regular organization. If sacrifices Of feeling are
necessary, let them be made. Higher questions
than individual qualification and success
are involved in this contest let there be union
complete, perfect, fraternal, ana let the most
loyal be the most-earnest to accomplish 1t. Lett
the harmony that existed among the representa-
tiyes of party at the late State Convention,
and the earnest desire exhibited by that body
that all true Union men should discourage and
avoid irregular, Independent organizations, apA-
peal in the strongest manner to the calm Judg-
mcnt of all true Union men, to lay aside ali;
private and personal considerations and stand as
of old, shoulder to shoulder in solid phaianA,
while we nfct on the same old enemy one other
and final Gettysburg With this, California will
be worthy of the proud position she has so nobl.
won as the most loyal State in the Union-with
out it, she must accept the shame of defeat and
all the train of evils that will inevitably flow
from it. WM II. PARKS, Chairman.


ALFRED BARsTow Secretary


4 SENSITIVE MoNARCH.-The New York Times
of June 10th was suppressed by the French pos
tai authorities, by order of the Emperor, and
not one of its subscribers in France could get
copy of either the daily or scmi-weekly issue to
see what was the matter. Following is
tract from the offensive article. It is suggested
by the suppression of the two-sous subscription
for Mrs Lincoln in France and after compass
sionating Napolean III for the i'll success of his





Prince Jerome, remarks follows


We doubt very much whether there is another
government in the world which would consider
itself endangered by the collection Of penny
subscription to a widow living near the extremity
Of civilization. There could hardly be better
commentary on the futilty Of the efforts which
have been made during the last fifteen years to
found Napoleonic dynasty in France, than the
fact that it still trembes before the collection of
a few hundred sous for the family of the Illinois
rai-spliuer.


The government alluded TO has added a new
chapter to the commentary by suppressing the
few copies taken in its capital, by travellers and
foreign residents, Of journal printed in a foreign
tongue, containing comments upon its action
which whether published or not, must occur
naturally to the mind of every observer OF its
policy.


Mason AND HExRY.-These rebel guerrillas are
still committing their depredations in the neigh
borhood of Visala and seem to come and go al
will. On the sth, the Delta says they came to
McFarlane's house in the Pass just beyond Linns
v,,1ov nnt nm their horses, ordered supper, in
ouired for the McFarlane brothers, and after
oot;re, and drinking TO their heart content, they
LOT taking what money there was about the
bouse and told the cook to charge 1t to Mason
and Henry While eating, they LETT their shot
ouns in another room and one resolnte man
might have secured them till aid arrived


"


LET not therefore, any youth be discouraged
if he have to make his living even TO
support, lbesides, a widowed mother, or sick
sister or unfortunate relative, for this has been
the road to eminence of many proud name.
This is the path printers and teachers have often
trod thorny enough at times, at others so beset
with obstacles as to be almost impassable ; but
the way has cleared, sunshine came, success
followed-then the glory and renown !-Horaee
Greeiey.


THE Springfield Union nominates Gen. Butler
for Governor of Massachusetts, il adds


From the hills of Berkshire, and all through
the Connecticut valley, we hear his name men,
ar,nda tLn al1a Ill 1tlan thn