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Year: 1868

We have a great liking for nice old gentle
men of complying nature, who are extremely
anxious not to make trouble or to get in the way
of the younger and the sprightlier ana among
these amiable old folks we are happy to
reckon ex-President Pierce, who Is often good
enough to write private letters intended for
publication, and to send forth from his dlgnl-
fed retreat in New Hampshire expressions OF
a touching and abiding confidence in a party
which must feel the Goals of fire frying its
polite old head, when it considers how sour
yiy it treated this fOrgiving and forgetting
recuse The thrilling intelligence reaches us
from Washington that the ex-President atore-
said has written a fresh epistle as aforesaid,
which. after a reprehensible delay of three
weeks the recipient has sent to the news
papers. The purpOrt of this missiye Is, that
whoever may be nominated for the Presidency
by the Democrats will receive the support and
the vote of +. Pierce. The latter, of course,
counts one only, but the immense value OF the
support we cannot pretend to reckon ana
we hasten to congratulate the candidate, who
ever he may be, upon this early ausplclous
omen. 1t would, we may be sure, have made
an immense difference if +. Pierce had written
that he could not think Of supporting this man,
and that his objections TO the other were insur-
mountable. Such fastdOusness we know would
have dreadfully embarrassed the Convention.
But +. Pierce. with magnanimity which does
him inexpressible honor says that he isn't nice
he will support PendletOn, or fight for Han
cock. or make addresses for DOollttle, or draw
up resolutions for Hendricks, or generally do
his best for Seymour. Unfortunately. nc does
not state whether he could or could not swai-
low Chief-Justice Chase but we presume he
would make no faces at young Mr. Adams. be-
cause that promising youth came to the rescue
of f. Pierce's party at the last New -Hamp-
shire election and achieved miracles IN the way
of speech making.


A singular feature of this letter is that Mr.
+. Pierce promises "heartily to support either
p. or II. or ID. or S. or Hendricks. This would
seem to argue that, since he left otice, the ex-
President has come into the possession of an
organ which very few people have ever sus'
roctsd him ,,,f possessing. We do not know
that it is possible to get heart into a man
by a surgical operation but we have nGard oi
ancient people who came in by the beney0'
lence of Nature for an entirely new set oi
teeth in their old age, and after long inter
regnum of artificial gums and gold plate. II
F. Pierce has developed a heart at this late
stage of his mortal existence, he iS such a
physiological curiosity that we think the DEM
ocratic National Convention would be perfectly
justified in nominating him.
Year: 1868

crops, but that he is paying too high for his
manufactured goods Yet this last point would
lose them the manufacturers hence they must
say to the manufacturers High tariffs cause
"such competition between you that your prices
"and profits are lower than ever" Now the
points that seem to us worth considering are:
how manufacturers prices can be relatively
higher and yet be destroyed by undue compe-
tition; or how, if there is even due mot to say
undue) competition between the manufacturers,
their goods can fail to come at reasonable prices
for the farmer and workingman, who consume
themq How can the condition of the working
man be worse while manufacturers who employ
them arc under undue competitionY Certainly,
the greater the competition among employers
the better must be the condition of those whom
they employ How, if the condition OF work
ingmen grows worse, does that cause labor to
flock in from abroad7 And how, if working
mems cost of living is high, can farmers and
manufacturers prices be lowP Such inconslst-
ent positions are not the language of political
economy, but of thimble-rg.
Year: 1868

" swashbuckling" Copperhead eotcmporary
insists that we shall deny statement we
never made, under The most frightful penalties
to our comfort 1t also desires us to deny n
statement made by "two Senator's of our
party" We are not the keepers Of these
Senator's; we have no concern with the dirty
linen of our cotempOrary; and we shall put
our "comfortr in peril by declining to make
any denial or explanation. until it is shown
that such necessity exists as matter of
iuStice
Year: 1868

Protection aud Free Trade are again the
subject of an interesting discussion in the
French Corps Legislatif. Theirs, an ardent
champion of Protection, made on this OCCASION
another of his impressive speeches. In reply to
him. the Minister of Commerce deprecated the
reopening of the commercial controversy.
Year: 1868

A Conference of the Principals of the Insti-
tutions of the Deaf and Dumb in the United
States was held last week in Washington. A
number of valuable papers in regard to the
proper method of instruction were read, and
the business transacted "a report of which will
be found elsewhere) was both instructive and
and entertaining
Year: 1868

Every one who has ever looked through
tn. extensive wholesale rooms Of Rebt
krauss On Second street can bear witness
to the splendid assortment Of goods there
exhibited. There is no larger or better
stock anywhere in this part Of the country
Dealers who visit the city should make .
note Of this and call and sec him.
Year: 1868

CROWN CT TREss.-lt may not bs gen.
srally known that the bodies Of trees grow
only in the fall sf the year. The sap com
msncss to run down into the trunk from
the upper branches when the first frosts
come upon Us. thus giving fresh impetus
to the body Of the tree. An examination
Of various trees about the city will show
that the bark is splitting in many plsess-a
sure indication that the wood underneath il
enlarging.
Year: 1868

New SIpEwALk.-Mr. A. G. Fulton is
tearing up the old sidewal that surrounded
his property On the cornsr Of Fourth and
Perry streets and is replacing it by . new
and substantial walk, thus greatly adding
to this comfort Of pedestrians who have
aforetimsx had such narrow escapes from
broken limbs at that place. A good move
in the right direction, and We think very
many more Of the property holders in the
city should follow his example.
Year: 1868

1T is hard for outsiders to imagine why


enough Republicans should unite with the


Democrats to strike out of the new tax bill


perfected by the Ways and Means committee


precisely those provisions which the chair


man, Gen. Schenck, and the other members


regard as OF the most vital Importance. The


committee desired to make somebody respOn-


sible for the appointment of proper revenue


officers and for the vigorous and upright ad-


ministration of the revenue laws. They ex-
plain the notorious corruption and inefficiency


that pervade all branches of the revenue
service by pointing out the fact that no one
can be held to rigid accountability for NAL
administration in that department. If the
Commissioner of Internal Revenue, as mat
tiers now stand, IS reproached for retaining
thieves in office, he replies that he can do
nothing without the concurrence of the
President and the Secretary of the Treasury;
if the Secretary is blamed, he throws the re-
sponsibility upon the President and the.
Commissioner, and the President himself
does not hesitate to shield himself in the
same way, adding to the weight of his justi-
fcation by reference to the tenure-ofofflce
act, which deprives him of the power to re-
move collectors and assessors without the as
sent OF the Senate. The committee pro-
posed to remedy this evil by making the
Commissioner misunderstanding him with
authority to appoint, suspend or remove his
subordinates without the concurrence of
either the Senate, the President or the Sec
retary. But the committee has been de-
teated. and all the clauses of the bill that
vest extraordinary powers tn the Commis-
sioner are to be "weeded out"


1t is hardly matter of wonder that un-
der the circumstances Commissioner Rollins
has felt that he could not in justice either to
himself or the public hold his position long
er, and has rendered his resignation. There
is no doubt that he has tried to do his duty
and honestly, but hampered as he
has been by President with policy to car
ry out and Secretary subservent to the Ex-
ecutive, the whiskey rings have been too pow
erfdl for him, and he has failed to collect the
tax In his letter to the Secretary he refers
to a great number of cases where his sug-
gestions respecting the removal of incompe-
tent and dishonest officers have not received
the slightest attention. No doubt his retire
ment has for its immediate occasion the ac-
ton of the House on the new bill. There
are innumerable candidates for the succession
already, Dan VOORHEES, among the rest. If
there is man in the whole country who is
believed to be able to collect even half the
whiskey tax we hope he will be nominated
and confirmed, whether he is Democrat or
Republican.
Year: 1868

ALI citizens of this State who rejoice that great
civil war has happily terminated in the discontinue
of rebellion; who would hold fast the unity and in
tegrity OF the republic, and maintain its paramount
right to defend to its utmost its existence while
imperilled by secret conspiracy armed force; who
are in favor OF an economical administration of the
State and National expenditures, of the complete
tirpation of the principles and policy OF slavery and
the speedy reorganization OF those States whose
governments were destroyed by the rebellion, and
the permanent restoration to their properpractical
relations with the United States in accordance with
the true principles of republican government are re-
quested to send Delegates to Convention to be hold
en- in City Hall, Portland, on Wednesday,
July Ssh. at II o'clock A. M, for the purpose of
nominating candidate for Governor two candidates
for Electors at large and to transact such other bus
ness as may properly come before the Convention.


The basis ofrepresentation will be as follows: Each
city, town and plantation will be entitled to dele
gate and additional delegate for every seventy
five votes cast for Joshua l.. Chamberlain at the
Gubernatorial Election OF 1866 A fraction of forty
votes will be entitled to additional delegate.


The State Committee will be in session at the Re
ception Room of the City Hall, from to II O'Clock
A. NJ, on the day of the Convention, for the pur
pose of receiving the credentials of Delegates and
to hear and determine all OF contested elections
subject to ratification by the Convention.
Year: 1868

gushing commerce must be postponed, and
that the civil service bill, with all its promise
of purifying American politics and increasing
the revenue, must go over till December. Our
national schoolboys want to go home. If they
give way to this weakness they ought to be
served precisely as good mothers serve their
onSpring when they play truant. What if
urants soldiers in the hot summer of 1864
mad desired to return home ON account of the
weather and other unpleasant circumstances
and had insisted upon doing 80? We can easi-
ly imagine why the Democratic members de-
sire to take this course. They do not feel that
any responsibility rests upon them except to
draw their salary and mileage-and stationery.
So far as they are concerned, the sooner the
country goes to ruin under Republican ad-
ministration the better. But for Republicans
some other and far better excuse must be
found
Year: 1868

AN EARLY ADJoURNMENT.-One would al
most suppose that the legislative department
of the government was established solely for
the benefit of the gentlemen who are from
time to time selected to represent their con-
stituents in Congress. There is no room to
question the fact that there is at present GER
tain legislative work that needs to be done and
done at once. There are matters pending
which touch the national interests very near


ly. Yet as warm weather approaches the ru-
mors of an early adjournment grow more and
more frequent. The heat is overpowering to
these "curled darlings" of the nation, albeit
they have the most wonderful machinery for
ventiating their luxurious chambers and are
popularity supposed to refresh their iaintlng
spirits with frequent cocktails and other re-
storatiye beverages. 1t matters not that an
early adjournment sends the new revenue bill
to "the tomb of the Capulets," that other
measures for the rehabilitation of our Ian
Year: 1868

OREGON RA1LRoAD.-The Portland pa
pers state that Ben. Holiday & Co., have
taken the contract for constructing the Ore
gou Central Railroad, feast side) and that
four hundred additional hands will be imme-
diately put to work, and the labor Of con-
struction hurried forward as rapidly as posi-
BILE. Ben Holiday is known to be one of
the largest capitalists in the United States,
and now that he has taken hold of the enter
prise, our Oregon neighbors have sure thing
on their railroad. We have here another
illustration of the working of railroad enter
prises. The men who inaugurated the Ore
gOn Central Railroad we're notoriously with,
out the means to construct a work of the
kind, but they went to work nothing daunt-
ed, and now almost at the very inception of
their enterprise, one of the heaviest capitals
lists of the country voluntarily comes forward
and furnishes the means to build the road.
So it will be with the railroad that is to unite
Walla Walla with the Columbia River. Let
US go forward and complete the necessary ar
arrangements, and when the time comes the
money will be fnrtheoming to build the road.
Wherever there is country that has resour-
ces that will give employment to railroad,
there is TO difficulty about securing the means
to complete the work. The fact is, capital
lists are on the lookout for chances of this
kind, and with the passage of the bill by
Congress, and the full organization of the
Walla Walla Railroad Company, we may
safely calculate upon men of means coming
forward and subscribing the money required
to build the railroad.
Year: 1868

ScANDALoUs ERAsUREs.-T The Newark
journal calls attention to the fact that in
the latest editions of Webster's Unabridged
Dictionary the original definitions of the
words Constitution, Congress and compact,
as applied to the government of this country
and inserted by Noah Webster's own hand
in all the earlier editions of his great work,
have been eliminated, in the interest of 'the
party of great moral ideas
Year: 1868

A CHoIcE-Goveruo Seymour's political
opponents are endeavoring, with that charm.
ing courtesy and good feeling which SO hon
orably characterize American politics, to
make capital out of his alleged hereditary
predisposition to insanity. In view Of the
premature revelations made by many of their
own leaders, it might be well for them to
inquire of themselves whether possible and
very contingent insanity would more unit a
man for the duties Of the Chief Magistracy
than chronic deiiriUH, krenlenS.
Year: 1868

A NOBLE SENTIMENT-All through the
rebellion Wade Hampton was the Chevalier
Bayard Of the Southern army, and for dash
and gallantry had scarcely peer. A brave
man, he is necessarily maguanimous, and here
is what be says of that gallant band of pat.
riots who fought throughout the war for the
Union, and now oppose the radicals in their
efforts to enslave the Southern people:


"Tbe man who fought bravely for his State
aud cause as did for mine, aud who telling me
now that his sole objects was to preserve the
Union under the coustituton-who, greeting
me on the broad and noble platform of the de-
mocracy, extends 10 that hand which so lately
grasped the the sword, the olive brance of peace
Il greet him a comrade in that battle which
we are now fighting for constitutional govern
ment aud liberty"
Year: 1868

SUIT AGAINST THE CITY.-Messrs. ]. D. Cook,
Il. P. lsaacs, and NJ. Hartman, proprietors of the
Walla Walla Water Works, have commenced
suit against the City to recover the sum of two
thousand dollars. This suit is based upon a
contract entered into by the City Council, on the
10th day of October, 1866, wherein it was stipu.
lated that if the Water Company completed their
works within a stipulated time the City would
pay two thousand dollars for the use of the
water. The terms of the contract are fully set
out in the complaint now on file. We learn that
this claim has been before the City Council on
several occasions, and that the Board declined
payment on the ground that the works were not
completed and the pipes put down within the
time set forth in the contract, and that in conse-
quence of this failure the Water Company for
feited any right they might otherwise have had
against the City. This question entered into the
late city election, and a majority of the mem
bers of the Council were elected on the ground
that they were opposed to the water tank"
The whole question will now come up in the
Court, where we doubt not justice will be done
| all parties
Year: 1868

THIRD DISTRICT CONGRESSIONAL CONVENTION
As will be noticed by the call in another column,
the Third District Congressional Convention will
assemble at Washington, Yolo county, August
III
Year: 1868

BLAIR AS A FExtAN-The Eenian members of
Frank Blair, the candidate for Vice President, a
+" bitter pill, and legions of them will on elec-
tion day substitute for the names of the Demo-
cratic candidates those of the Electors on the
ticket headed by Grant, the hero of an hundred
battles, and Colfax, the generous-heartcd pat
riot and statesman. Too many Irishmen remem-
ber that brief little talk which Blair made in
New York, less than two years ago, when he
said


"a Gentlemen, am with you in this Fenian
cause-with you heart and soul-hOpe to see
you successful in your great and patri0tic under
taking. | will do all can to assist you. / will
place myself, if needs be, at your head, march
with you to Staten Island, oversee your embark
alton, will stand on the most elevated bluff of
the coast, and as you raise the green emblem
over the stars and stripes, while your steamers
under full headway are turning their prows to
the east, will say goodbye, God bless you, and
may you be successful in your undertaking
May you lift the British lion out of his boots and
0rest from his grasp the emerald gem of the
sea but rhether or not you shall succeed in this
endearor, may you each and all remain in ireland
or elsewhere, and again set foot upon these
shores! You are canted there, and me can get
along ~ithout you."'


How strikingy in contrast with the above in
sulting paragraph is the following sentiment
from the tongue of Schuyler Colfax, the Union
nominee for Vice President


'' am for leveling up rather than leveling
down. God do SO to me and more also, if do
aught more to crush any man down lower"
Year: 1868

QuARrz ExcfrEMEST.-A gold bearing quartz
ledge of extraordinary richness has lately been
discovered by Henry Engle and other parties, on
Rich Gulch, tributary of the lower East Fork
Specimens have been received here which from
outward appearance are rich as those taken
from the famous Ish lead years ago. The ledge
IS only a short distance from the Ludwig Ledge ,
which was partially prospected in 1864 Much
excitement prevails at North Fork over the dis
eovery, and we shall not be surprised to hear
that e rich and extensive ledge has been dscov-
cred, having always entertained the belief tha:
it would eventually be found in the Rich Gulch
section if anywhere in the county
Year: 1868

Hon. A b. DIBRLE Democratic Elector made friendly
call yesterday He Is of the representative Democrats
the State and proudly halls from that stronghold Of the
party, Grass yaey.-State Capital Reporter.


Cruel as it may seem to our Democratic
friends, we cannot deprive ourself the satisfac-
tion of giving place to the response which the
Sacramento Record makes to the above item
Here it is


Is that the " Dibble Skinker, Sknker Dib-
BILE" who was the Know Nothing candidate in
1856 or thereabouts for member of Congress
That Dibble was resident of Grass Valley also,
and we presume that this is the same old coon
turned up in a new character = this time be
courts foreigners and is noisy champion of re-
ligous freedom. That is his theatrical part,
and being cast in the piece he will act out to the
best of his ability. There are on the Electoral
ticket with him two other Know Nothings-Ke-
wen and Wallace-and We should not be sur
prised to learn that Pearce and Henley belonged
to that secret, OATH bound, proscriptive, anti
republican, anti-democratic, dark-lantern organ
ization also. Who can tell?


NEW YORK NOMINATIONS. = The Republican
State Convention met at Syracuse, July 9th, and
nominated John A. Griswod for Governor over
Horace Greeley, and Stewart Wood Ford over N
B. Cornell for Lieutenant Governor. Bets were
made in New York city that if Greeley received
the nomination he would carry the State We
are sorry that he was not successful.
Year: 1868

1t is proposed that an attempt be made to wake
the business people and mining fraternity from
the Rip vanWinkle lethargy they are now indul-
ging in, and as commencement It is suggested
that public meeting be called at the Court
Room on Saturday evening, July 25th. There
are several hundred acres Of untouched mineral
land within cannon shot of the Court House,
and the meeting is called to discuss the proprie-
ty of prospecting for new diggings while there
is not much else to do All citizens are invited
TO attend, and it is hoped all will. Some pro-
pose the organization of g Bedrock Prospect
ing Company while others favor the introduce
ton OF an Artesian Borer with which to ascer-
tain whether there is a lower mineral deposit in
this Basin. Come, everybody and compare
views. The enterprise of one man-Joseph Nc
Gillivray, Esq.,-will give employment to hum
dred people between Junction City and North
Fork before year from this date We are not
anxious to have the County Seat removed to
junction Just yet. The commencement of work
by the Weaver Creek Fluming Company (they
are at it, should inspire our citizens to renewed
energy in behalf Of the object proposed. Such
an effort properly carried out will tend 20 invite
capital and labor. Come to the meeting next
Saturday night, and express your views.
Year: 1868

CANYON CREEK.-An enthusiastic Grant and
Colfax Club was organized at Canyon City on
the ltb, and that precinct may be counted on
for handsome majority for the Union standard.
bearers. The Union men of that section are
wide-awake, and count on accessions to the par
ty from the ranks of the opposition. The mines
along the creek are yielding well, and from ap-
pearances we should judge that considerable
prospecting is being done. There is undoubted-
ly great range of unopened mining ground be-
tween Pennsylvania Bar and Red Flat. Many
new comers have located along the creek the
present season, and there is room for many more
if they bring industry and perseverance with
them. We saw at Gilzean's a handsome $40
specimen taken from Dick Berkley's claim, which
had been pronounced worked out. Wolff and
partner have a rich-paying claim between Red
Flat and Pennsylvania Bar. Work has recon-
mencod on the wagon road, from the junction
City end, and there is only a mile more to build
When completed the drive from the Junction
House to the City will be one of the pleasantest
in the county.