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Year: 1864

[From the Victoria Evening Express.1


THE ALLEGED IMPRIsONMENT OF A


BRITISH SUBJECT IN WASHINGTON


TERRITORY.


We felt it our duty to lay the letter
which we lately received from a person
signing himself Richard j. Wilkinson" /"
and dated at Fort steilacoom, before the
Governor of this Colony. With promp-
titude which merits the warmest thanks, his
Excellency Immediately communicated with
the Governor of Washington Territory,
with the result which will be seen by a
pcrusal of that gentleman's communication,
a copy of which We append to those re-
marks. The contemplate hoax which has
been praetised in this case cannot be too
severely condemned, and We hope the au-
thor will be found out and held up to pub.
lie odium for attempting to create i'll feel
ing between the people Of two contiguous
countries whose interests are identical.
The sentiments of good will and friendship
which Governor Pickering gives expression
to do him infinite honor, and are recipro-
Gated, we feel sure, by not only the govern
ment but the inhabitants of this Colony.
Long may such feeling of amity and
friendship prevail between our respective
governments as this correspondence mani
tests. If anything we may have said in
relation to the alleged outrage, may have
done the gallant officer in command at Fort
Steilacoom an injustice, we have only to
express our most sincere regret. The fol.
lowing is the correspondence on this sub
iect:
Year: 1864

years to come. But few of them, however
will ever fnd their way back to New Eng
land or the West, from which they were ta-
ken so that, for all practical purposes. we
may safely calculate that none of the thou
sands Of horses taken from our farms for
the army will ever return. Their labor is
entirely lost to our farmers.


Prices of all kinds of stock and nroduce
must rule high for a long time to come, but
enormous consumption OF horses must inc
vitality exert double pressure in regard to
them, and We desire to call the attention of
our farmers to the important points connect.
ed with the subject.


This scarcity of horses and consequen:
high prices will stimulate the breeding O:
| horses for some years to come, and our far
mers may be certain that colts will pay better
thai ever before. As manual labor will also
be high, it will generally be for the interes,
Of farmers TO raise those things which re.
qulre the last and in this view, the raising
of colts has some decided advantages. Each
one, however, must be his own judge as &c
whether cuitra!sing may be profitable under
his Circumstance.


F. The second point to which We wish to call
attention, is IN relation to the employment oi
oxen III place of horses upon oar FARMS
, there are hut few farms on which oxen may
aot be kept with decided profit. A yoke o.
oxen can 5e bought for the price of gooC
horse, can be kept almost or quite as cheap
will do early double the work on a farm
and, i: carefully used and well fed, will sell
after the crops ale a.. in, for a profit oyel
their cost 1ne.e are out few farmers who
could not cas- y realize profit of thirty tC
fifty dollars a yeai by purchasing oxen in tht
early part Of winter, ard selling again th'
next fall or early winter. By generous feed
ing and careful usage. they will give nel
profit on their growth, besides doing work
enough to pay for all they eat. We know
farmers who realize profit o. fifty to one
hundred dollars year, by adopting similar
course to tn It We nave recon AIDED.
/ Our object al this time is N rely to Cal
attention to these two points, which seem tc
rs TO be deserving of the serious attention
Of our farmers generally. The question o


ne comparative cost of horse and ox labor
is one of greater importance than is gener
lilly supposed, and at another time we may
consider it at greater lenght. Meantime, W.


should be pleased to hear from ou: farmer
readers upon the subject. -Nas21chuSet!


Woughman.
Year: 1864

joiced. l think Ben was not very sorry
Under other circumstances, he would have
mourned the loss of his sublimely-ugly pet
but he had new and lifelong pet in pros
pecVperhaps many other pet. after that,
and he had no need of, and no place for q
bear.
Year: 1864

NAVY YARD MATTERs.-No vessels of any
Importance have arrived at the navy yard during
this week. The Emma Virginia, a small vessel
came up this afternoon.


The assistant blacksmiths made a strike this
morning for higher wages, and threatened to cease
work
Year: 1864

SHARP ENGAGExENr.-lnA Admiral Porter's
report Of his Red river expedition we find the
following:


sWe were not molested until we had gone
about twenty miles, at a point above Cane
river. When rounding the point. the vessels
IN close order and ready 70 action, we des.
cried party of the enemy with artillery on
the right bank, and we Immediately opened
fire with our bow guns. The enemy imme
diately returned it with large number of
cannon. eighteen in all, every shot of which
struck this vessel.


The Captain Acting Master H. H. Gave
lngl gave orders 10 stop the engines for the
purpose of fighting the battery, and covering
the boats astern-I corrected this mistake
and got Roadway on the vessel again, but not
soon enough to avoid the pelting shower of
shot and shell which the enemy had poured
into US, every shot going through and through
Us, clearing all on decks in a moment.


Finding the guns not firing rapidly. STEP
ped on the gun deck to Sc whatwas the mat
ter. ] stepped down; the after gun was
struck with shell and disabled, and every
man at the gun killed and wounded. 1.-THE
same moment the crew from the forward gnn
was swept away bv a shell exploding, and
the men we; wounded in the fire room. leav-
ing only one man to fire up. made up
guns crew from the contrabands. who fought
the gun to the last moment.


Finding that the engine did not move, |
went into the engine room and found the
chief engineer killed, whose place was soon
supplied by an assistant. / then went to the
niiot house and found that shot had gone
through it and wounded the pilots | took
charge of the vessel, and as the battery was
a very heavy one, determined pass it which
was done under the heaviest fire ever wit
messed


| attempted to turn her head up stream to
attack with our two bow guns, the only guns
left. but as this was impracticable | let her
drlit around the point and shelled the enemv's S
battery in the rear.
Year: 1864

THE drains Of Paris are declared to be the
most wonderful work of the kind ever execu-
ted Hundreds of hollow tubes, each one a
marvel of solidity and skill. run from every
quarter of the town to one immense recep-
tacle of the filth and waste waters thus carried
off. Before the mouth of this hideous reservoir
is placed a grating through which the mass of
infection pours night and day. This grating is
meant to prevent the passage of fly object
beyond GER ain size, which Nigh ktherwise
Distract the tube The police reportw the past
year record the detection of NOR Fan ten
thousand new born infants throwl he mo.
ment of birth into the drains, viii iiad car
ed them to the horrid grating, thd to leave
them to be gathered as the most ydamning
evidence Of neglect and abandonmsnt.
Year: 1864

is purely scientific preparation, discovered by
long research and study, and can be depended on
as being all that it is represented is perfectly
harmless, and will not stain the finest cambria.


If the of this preparation is persevered in,
according the directions (Which will be found in
full each bottle), there will be no necessity of
any one having gray hairs, no matter to what age
the person may live.
Year: 1864

A genius Down East intends applying
for a patent for a machine which, he
says when wound up and set in molten,
will chase a hog over ten acre lot
catch yoke and ring him; or BY a slight
change in gearing. it will chop him into
sausage-meal; work bis bristles into saoe-.
brushes, and manufacture his tail into a
corksCrew.
Year: 1864

IT is worth while for people who rave
short memories, and are in danger of being
deceived by the 7ribune's false pretenses Of
love for the Union, to remember what it
said good many months ago regarding
peace-how it FASTENED to bend the knee
before danger was near: t5


"If three months more of earnest fight.
ing shall not serve to make serious i'm
preston on the rebels-if the end Of that
term shall find us no further advanced than
its beginning if some malignant fate has
decreed that the blood and treasure Of the
nation shall ever be squandered in iruitless
efforts, let us boao to oar destiny and make
the best attainable peace"


All the talk of the Tribune about the
disloyalty Of Democrats, therefore, isn't
worth copper. n ar va:sfr" 70 -
Year: 1864

Somebody says she who does not love a
garden can never be in Paradise" s' 2H


We do not think there is much point 10 this.
Those who were placed in Paradise didn't stay
there long.
Year: 1864

We are glad to be able to announce that
Major General Franz sgel has been assigned
to the command of the Department Of Western
Virginia, and will at once enter upon the ere
cutlon Of his duties.
Year: 1864

PEAK FAxnT.-The agent OF tho Peak family Of
Bell Ringers is in the city making arrangements
for series OF ent rtainmenta here. They intend
making their bow to Chicago audience on or
about the 6th OF August.
Year: 1864

Coal GAs.-When the application Of
coal gas to the lighting of streets was first
suggested, Sir Walter Scott said" It
can't be done it is only the dream of
lunatie." And Sir Humphrey Davis. on
being told that the time would come when
all London would be lighted with gas,
sail, at is all nonsense; you might as
S5ell talk Of lighting London with slice
of the moon as to talk of lighting London
with gas"
Year: 1864

/ seA The Davenport Gazette says that
about | 800 rebe! prisoners confined on
Rock Island Prison have recently enlist
ed in the service OF the United States
They are 10 be sert to the Northwestern
Territories to take part in operations
against the hostile Indians At present
they are separated for personal safety from
their fellow prisonees, some Of whom man
ilest much hatred toward them because


ey have volunteered
Year: 1864

( BIG APpLE-An old lady in the
country had dandy from town to dine
with her on certain occasion; aud on the
table was on enor,hots apple pic,


"La' ma am said tie exquisite" hoU
do you manage to make such a pic -


Easy enough" was the quiet reply
''we make the crus. in whclbarrow,
wheel it under the apple tree, and shake
the fruit down into it
Year: 1864

In addition to the very liberal interest on the notes for
three years, this privilege Of conversion is now worth
about three per cent per sunu for the current rate for
go Bonds ia not less than nine PEI cent premium and
before the war the premium six per cent g. stocks
was twenty per cent 1t will bs seen that the actual
pFo this loan at the present market rate lie not less
than ten per cent, per annum.
Year: 1864

GooD News FOR THE LADIEs-Kirkbam
has just returned from Columbia and Au.
gusta, and brought with him large supplv
of Shoes of all kinds and sizes. besides a
great number of miscellaneous articles anv
thing IN his line not on hand, when wanted
ne will procure with the greatest despatch
We think he is to be blamed for not brine.
ing lot of baby shoes-but poor felloaS
having no use for them himself he never
once thought of them and is therefore axcu.
sable so far /; but he must do better nov.
time or we wont publish his wedding wbep
1T does take place. We invite the attent;on
of the ladies to his assortment, where thon
can certainly be suited.
Year: 1864




Fort WARREN.-P lisoners lately return
cd from Fort Warren assure us that it no
longer deserves its reputation for humanity
and elemency, but ranks now with Fort Delas
ware and Camp Chase. Ninety or a hun
dred Of our naval officers were confined in a
narrow casemate, fifteen feet wide by fifty
long, and much of this limited space was oc-
cupied by filthy hunks in which there was
not even a litter OF straw to protect the s'ecp.
ers from the hard, uneven planking. No
lig its are allowed, and from half past four
in the afternoon until daylight next morning
the prisoners are in total darkness, packed
together like herrings and breathing an at
mosphere fetid almost to snfocation.-
Breakfast consists of a piece of bread about
the size of the palm of the hand, dinner is
eked out with an ounce or two of wretched
pork added to the bread, and supper is the
same as breakfast. All supplies sent by
friends are interdicted, and the prisoners
are no longer allowed to purchase from sut
lers. All the rigors of an Austrian dungeon
have been imposed on prisoners in Fort
| Warren for two or three months past and
the effects have been in maly cases fatal
Two of the prisoners who left Boston har-
Dor three weeks ago have committed suicide
-one at City Point and the other in this city
Others have gone home with constitutions
forever shAttered.-Riehmond Examiner.
Year: 1864

Pack trains are about week in making
the trip from Boise up here.


We are now having an old-fashioned snow
storm. it is coming down at the rate of two
inches an hour.


Business is dull and prices are droop-
ing.


A movement has been made towards put
ting down the rate Of gold dust and to dis
criminate between the Boise dust, worth
from Sl4 to S17, and that from Owyhee and
Florence but doubts are entertained as to
the object being accomplished, as those who
buy their goods here can pass off their infe-
rior dust on packers and then there are 9TH
ers who make it their only business to bring
dust from Owyhee and Florence and mix it
here with this. l am informed that in some
cases several thousand dollars has been made
during this last summer by persons engaged
in this trade. a.-cI


If the price is regulated it will have a
beneficial effect upon trade and the stop
ping of the importation of other dust will
bring this up to its old standard. If some
thing is not done you will hear of many cases
of dust being paid out at SIC, per ounce
that will only assay $12. TRAIL.
Year: 1864

GooD.-It is stated by the Eastern dis
patches that Secretary Chase has finally re-
solved not to issue any more legal tender
currency on any contingency whatever. This
news will be received by Uncle Sans boys
with general satisfaction. They may be able,
in case this policy prevails, to get hold of a
"piece" now and then. In this country the
soldiers have been the largest losers by the
greenback system.
Year: 1864

The following act passed by the Territorial Legis-
lature will be interesting to some of our readers:
AN ACT fixing the rights of riparian proprietors and


others on M Creek below the yellow Hawk or


South Fork Of Mill Creek, and also of those upon


Yellow Hawk and Garrison or Babcocks creek in


Waa Waa county:


SECTION l. BE it enacted by the Legislative AS
sembly of the Territory of Washington That the
rights of persons to the waters of Mill creek above
he head of the Yellpw Hawk. who reside upon Mill
Creek below the said point, and also of those who
reside upon the Yellow Hawk and Garrison or Bah
cocks Creek, in Wala Waa county. shall be as fell
lows, and the same is hereby Defined declared and
fixed to be the amount that from the first settlement
Of the country, and from time immemorial has flown
over the beds Of said streams except when obs ucted
tO-wt:


LIST. In Mill creek, below the head of the Yellow
Hawk sixty per cent of said stream, and the remain
ing forty per cent in the Yellow Hawk.


I'd. Forty per cent of the waters of the Yellow
Hawk, to Garrison or Babcock's creek, and the re-
naming sixty per cent to remain in and flow over tile
bed of the Yellow Hawk, called


SEC. 2. Any person or persons interested in lands
or riparian rights in the premises vicinity of the
premises herenbetore described, are hereby author
lied and empowered to remove from the beds or
banks of said streams any and all distractions either
artificial or other, to the flow of water and upon
the beds and herenbefore described ancient channels
of said strelms.


SEC g. This act to take effect and be in force from
and after its passage.
Year: 1864

and recommendations of the President, while
the opposition editors are nearly as unani.
nous in their condemnation As the Pres
ident's plan of Reconstruction is the most
important feature in the document, so it
very naturally comes in for the greatest
share of eulOgy ON one side and condemna-
ton on the other The Journal of Com
merce, conservative Democrat, designates
that plan as device to perpetuate the effect
of abolition measures in the Southern States,
and can can discover in it no prospect of
peace, nor, in fact, any good whatever to the
country.


The World, also Democratic conservative,
is far less pleased than even the Journal.
for, while the last-named paper can really
see in it some one or two things which it
cordially approves, the World condemns it
in toto, charaeterizing it as a document
which is only redeemed from dry and vapid
insignifcance by the proclamation which ac-
companies it. And this proclamation, in
turn, is defined as Mr.. Lincoln's trump card
for the Presidency. Looking at it in this
light, the World pronounces the manifesto
''credtable specimen of political dexterity,"
although in the next breath, almost, it de-
clares the edict to be unconstitutional in its
scope, protesting to quote the President him
self as authority for this declaration The
World intimates that the Supreme Court
will not sanction Mr. Lincolns opinions in
this matter


of the comments of the Republican press,
1t is hardly necessary to say that they are
all warmly eulogistic of the sentiments and
suggestions of the Proclamation, as well as
eminently hopeful of the most salutary re-
suits from ii"
Year: 1864

CLEANING THE AUGEAN STABLE.-Un- n
der this head the Lewiston Age of the 10th,
has lengthy article devoted to the early
history of Walla Wala county and the late
removal of Col Steinberger 1t was prob
ably necessary for the writer to review the
past history of this section and to show that
at one time there were some secessionists in
Walla Walla, in order to justify Steinber-
gers removal, to proUe him ''traitor" and
designate this place as ''the genial hot-bed
of treason" Not content with its low filings
at the Col, the Age vents its spleen to-
ward those of our citizens who had the te-
merity to sign their names to a compliment
tary letter to the Col. upon receiving the
news of his dismissal from service. The
Age man evidently acted upon the supposi-
ton that the signers of the letter were all
"Copperheads" and Democrats and he could
therefore hit none of his own party, while
it would be such splendid opportunity to
give the democratic "traitors" dig, and at
the same time give unmistakable proof Of
his own purity and devotion to his loyal
party The hotbed of treason should have
"crusher," for having the audacity-the
objectionable hardihood to be democratic,
to rote democratic in these latter days of
public plunder and abolition triumphs. But
unfortunately for the toady of the official
greenback organ, the testimonial to Stein
berger was gotten up and signed without
reference to party, and the names of several
persons were attached who have never vo-
ted the democratic ticket-out-and-ou Re
publicans


But the greenback organ does not even
prefer single charge against Steinberger.
1t merely makes low, base insinuations, and
then winds up with the devout wish that the
Administration will move right along in the
good work of removals, and after while
there "will be such a skeedaddling of rats
from Walla Walla as will astonish the native
diggers" AS to politics, Col. Steinberger
never meddled with the subject to oul
knowledge, after his appointment to the po
sition of Colonel, and the fact that he took
all the required oaths to support the Con.
stitution and the Government in his position
and 50 discharged his duties as to obtain
from his commanding General the as
surance that his regiment stood first il
the list upon the Pacific coast, is sufficient
guaranty to us of his true Unionism and
loyalty; and the man who questions beyond
that and charges both dismissed officer
and the friends who sustain him, with base
Year: 1864

DUST AT ITS VALUE.-The following is
from the Boise Neoos of the 10th inst, and
is signed by some sixty odd of the business
men of Bannock. 1t will probably have the
effect to put stop to the thinking trade" in
the "Basin," practice of swindling which
reached an alarming extent in that region:-


The merchants, mechanics and traders at


Bannock City, Boise county, in order to eff
fectually check the continual decrease in the
value of the dust in this locality, which de-
probation is owing to the importation of
dust from Florence, Owyhee and other To-
calities and mixing it with Boise dust, agree
that after Monday the oath day of Jan. next,
we will not take gold dust at more than its
actual value and that all dust must be thor
Year: 1864

ness, in the face of such facts-when be is
assured that the object of his malignity has
gone beyond his reach-is both puppy and
a coward.


As to "cleaning the Augean stable" there
is much need of that, and we will never
raise voice against the removal of any Off
Ger who has disgraced his position or who
has shown himself traitor We desire to
see all such removed. But should men be
removed because they are quietly attending
to their posts with ability, or because some
mean-hearted wretch has suspicion that
their politics are not enough this way or that
way? There is every reason to believe that
large proportion of the corruption and filth
in the federal ranks belongs to that party
of which the Age is an organ;-that class
who in the name of 'freedom," the Consti-
tuition and the Union, rob the Government
and commit all the misdeeds that depraved
minds are capable of conceiving. We can
have some respect for open rebels, but for
those deceitful, hypOcritical kDaves, who un-
der the guise of loyalty and in the name of
Union stab at the very life of the Govern
ment and Constitutional liberty, there are
not in the English language words with
which to express our adherence and con-
tempt.
Year: 1864

new iron clads should be instructed to reme-
dy, but If living in small cabin is uncom-
Portable, it Is, at any rate, more comfortable
than going to the bottom. We can conceive,
In short, no justification for commissioning
this old-fashioned and now useless three-deck-
or. If all that is wanting is afloating resi-
dence for the Admiral, that could be provided
far more cheaply, and more effectually, too. II
an Admiral's ship should still display the pomp
and circumstance of war, that condition Is
certainly not satisfied by an unseryiceable ar
marnent and a worthless hull In short, the
flag ship in the Mediterranean must, on any
assumption, be either pleasure yacht or
man of war, but the Victoria is neither one
nor the other, and will yet cost the country
far more than the best specimens of both.
Year: 1864

It is stated that the legislature in session
in this place. is to adjourn early next week
and that no election of United States Senator,
will be made, a resolution to indefinitely post
pone the election having been adopted.