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Year: 1868

Even the emphatic voices OF the October
elections have not taught the Democratic party
the real issues OF the pending contest. Routed
at every point OF the line, they still hug tho
delusion that only their candidates, and not
their principles, have been defeated, and at the
last hour arc casting about for new leaders, in
the hope that when the battle is already lost
they can save the field by a mere change Of
standard bearers. This error may break them
ND forever. They are beaten, not because
Seymour is of doubtful loyalty and Blair n
revoutionist, but because their platform
reyives the very hercsies which the North
fought four years to overthrow. No candidate
whom they could nominate could be elected on
the Tammany platform. The principles enun-
cated in that instrument were settled once
for all at AppOmattox Court-IIouse. We have
no purpose either TO throw away our victory,
or to fight our battle over again, or to put our
trust in a party which was dishonornby for
peace in the midst OF war, and is now traitor
ouSly for war in The midst of peace. The can
didates are Of comparatively little Importance
in this election, except so far as they represent
the purposes Of those who put them in nomi-
nation and il the Democracy had any chance OF
success on the 3d of November il would lie not
in change of candidates but in change OF
principles.


In the same way it is mistake to suppose
that the Republican triumph is merely the tri-
umph OF a popular General Many good DEM
ocrats 40 doubt, will vote for Grant in spite
of his principles, because they honor the man,
though they are not in sympathy with his
party. For this, among other reasons, The Re-
publican majortics in November will be much
larger than they have been in October. But
we have already abundant evidence that, quite
apart from personal considerations, the loyal
party which stood firmly by the flag through
the long, dark days Of the Rebellion, has been
true to its principles ever since, and would be
true TO them even were there no Grant to lead
them on to victory in 1868, as he led them
through the Mississippi morasses and the Vir-
ginia Wilderness. Gen. Grant, il should he re-
membered was not accepted as the Repub lican
leader until he had given ample proof of his
thorough accord with the Republican creed.
Highly as we hOnorcd him, literally as
we would have rewarded him, we felt that
the election of this year vas TO be n great
contest of ideas, which must either settle or
unsettle the theory Of the American Govern
ment, and either complete the work Of tao
war or half undo it. Ii was not u mere test
of personal popularity, like the voting at fancy
fairs, for the privilege of naming the prettiegt
girl, on bestowing prize snuh-box. The
people were alive 10 the Importance of the
issue, TBsJ demanded Of The GhllagQ lpuYen:
Year: 1868

Few men have better earned the grateful
esteem of Republicans generally than Major
JAMES S. HAGGERTY. From the hour in which
he left the Military service of the Union, he
has been an indefatigabe and efficient worker
for Impartial Liberty every where. He has
made more speeches in the present canvass
than almost any other man, while very few
lave made better speeches than he. Being
nominated for Assembly in the lid (middle)
district Of Westchester County, he has not been
able to canvass his district, because constantly
required to speak elsewhere. We urge the
Republicans of that district to work for him
as he is working for the cause, and his election
will be assured.
Year: 1868

ton an honest representative of the loyal
policy; and if Grant were not such a
representative, they would not vote for
him. But the points of his policy, which
his modest reticence had long kept in doubt


were by this time understood. He had been
the first to urge generous amnesty to the
defeated Rebels, while Andrew Johnson was
shrieking for the AK and the halter, and the
Northern people were still infamed by the
assassination of Mr.. Lincoln. He had insisted
upon military protection for the Southern
loyalists, long before Congress recognized its
necessity. He mad faithfully enforced the
Reconstruction laws, repressed the Rebel spirit
wherever it broke out, and upheld with
all his strength the loyal officers, like
Sheridan. who had incurred the animosity
of renegade President by an honest per-
Torrance of their duty. When Orr and Brown,
and Walker, and other prominent Rebels came
TO him for advice, he proposed to them the
self-same policy which was afterward made
The very foundation of the Republican plat
fOrm-spcedy reconstruction on the basis Of
amnesty and universal suffrage. And, finally,
when the great rupture between the President
and Congress was completed by the removal
of Mr.. Stanton, Grant took his stand rcsO-
lutely on tho right side; and so we have
recognized him ever since as tho leader of the
loyal hosts When we elect him President on
the 3d of November we shall do it not to re-
ward him for his services in the war, but be-
cause we think him the best man to complete
the work which tho war left unfinished.
Year: 1868

According to the card of George A. Fitch,
lately published, Mr.. Senator Fowler is follow
ing up his vote on impeachment 10y devoting
his time to the Executive Mansion in Wash
ingtOn, meddling in all those nasty Internal
Revenue affairs. Perhaps Mr.. Fowler would
like to be informed that in the election now
pending Tennessee is State which will bear
some good work, and that the duty OF Repub-
icans is to assist in securing the success OF
Grant and COlfaX.
Year: 1868

We have been shown the broken rail from
the Hudson River Road which caused the dis
aster of Friday night. 1t was nOwise sPlin-
tered as was stated in our report, but appar-
emily sound and little worm yet it broke in
two places just over a tie. We cannot deter
mine whose is the fault, but it seems clear that
there was no lack of foresight or precaution
on the part Of the Company.
Year: 1868

Of at least one vote. Col. Shinn has right to
avail himself of this privilege, and we gladly
print his announcement. But in order to pre-
vent a multitude of such communications, we beg
to state that we shall have to refer all further
applicants to our advertising clerk, who will
be happy to give them the benefit of our cir
culation at the regular rates-inCdriabty an
Year: 1868

We have at last the official figures for the
late Ohio election and we make haste to print
them for the benefit Of those disciples OF I'll.
den who are still cphering out the Democratic
gains. The Republican majority this year is
1882. Last year it was 2983. The World eX-
horts Democrats TO continue gaining in this
way on next Tuesday. So do we. -
Year: 1868

We stated some time ago the precise position
of Chief-Justice Chase in the pending contest.
He could not support Gov. Seymour because
of the platform OF Rebellion and Rascality on
(which that gentleman was placed; and il he
gotsd at all he would vote fOr Grant and Col
FAX Every week, h9Beyeg VIC have bad a
Year: 1868

In the Episcopal Convention, yesterday, the
majority and minority reports on Ritualsm
were presented, and made the special order for
to-day. They are given in full on tho second
mage of this sheet.
Year: 1868

We see that Mr.. Richmond is again in nom
ination, as also another Republican.


Is this best Shall the district be thrown away
again9 Would it not be better to unite on Mr.
Richmond this year. and whoever may be the
favorite of the other side next yearY Don't
throw away member that it is possible to
carry
Year: 1868

THE SOUTHERN METHODIST CaURcH-uon
i. a. Il. Nelson made very severe structures
last Tuesday, in the Knoxville Chancsry
Court, on the Methodist Church South He
said that its secession from the Methodist EMS.
eopal Church in 1874 was the entering wedge
OF the great rebellion, and added that hs yvas
fearful that II the southern Church Is continued
as church organization, it will be the cause of
bringing on the country another bloody war.
He further said that there was no use for such
an organization rs the Church South
Year: 1868

MEETING OF THE SUPREME COURT Chief
Justice Chase Will return here to- morrow from
Richmond, as the Supreme Court of the United
States meets on Monday. All of the associa,e
Judges are in town, and there Will be a fulI
bench AZ the meeting OF the court
Year: 1868

1T Is EXPECTED TODAY that the public debt
statement for November will not oe made pub
lie before Monday. It's figures will not differ
materially from those heretofore given in the
STAR.
Year: 1868

UNION PACIFIC RAILRoAD.-Several of the
officers of the MON Pacific railroad are in this
-ity, and last night Were engaged in the pre-
paratIon of a statement in reply TO the report
of the special commissioners filed with the
President on Tuesday last
Year: 1868

CURE oP CoRSs.-We clip from an exchange
aremedy, which is said To be very effectual in
removing those troublesome and painful ex-
crescencPs. Should the remedy be what is
claimed for it, Its discovery deserves the thanks
OF the enure community who suffer with them:
''One teaspoonfIl of tar. one of coarse brown
sugar, and one Of saltpetre The whole TO be
warmed together. Spread il on kid leather the
size OF the eorns, and in two days they Will be
drawn out"
Year: 1868

And kindred topics. We shah also give an ex
tensive variety OF valuable and interesting mat
tsr-the best adapted to the farming classes o.
our State, which will. in a great measure, sup
ole the pIsee Of a family agricultural paper
Year: 1868

CHIEF JUSTICE CHASE ON THE SITUATION.
Tie'os on Impeachment and Politics.
following confidential letter from Chief
Justice Chase to personal friend has
been published in the New York Herald
as giving the present position and senti-
ments of Mr.. Chase ON important political
questions.


Washington. May 25, 196S.-My Dear
Sir: Iol are right in believing that l
shall never abandon the great principles,
for the success of which have given my
entire life adhere to my old creed of
equa! rights, without one jot or title Of
abatement. | shall be glad if the new
professors Of that creed adhere to it as
faithfully. ..,4


| en- amazed by the torrent of invec-
tives by which l am drenched. Almost
everything alleged as fact is falsehood
out of the whole cloth. Where an alle-
CATION has little fast in it the fact is so
perverted and travestied that it becomes
falsehoud. know no motive for all this
except disappointment that impeachment
has not thus far prnred j a success cou-
plel with belief that I have done some
thing to prevent its being success. I
have not been pestison of impeachment
certainly; but ! h4ye not been partisan
on the other side.'%


AS presiding officer over The trial, my
conscience testifss that I've been strictly
impartial, and am sure that any one who
reads the report will say So Individually
have my convictions and opinions, but[
have very seldom given utterance to them.
Indeed, | do not think that the case, in
any of its aspects, has been the subject q f
conversation between myself and more
than four or FIVE Senators, and then on y
casually and briefly. No Senator will
say that have sought to influence him.


The real ground of denunc;ation is that
have not been partisan of conviction :;
and this denunciation am willing to bear
They may denouuce and abuse me and
read me out of the party if they choose -
II follow My old lights. not the new


What the Developments of the future
may be know not. neither expect no-
desire to be a candidate for office again.
1t would, however, crafty me exceedingly
I,if the democratic party would assure the
party against all attempts to subvert the
principle Of universal suffrage established
in eight, and to be established in all, of
the Southern constitutions. Then, I
ithink. the fu tire of the great cause-for
which | have !abored so long-would be
secure, and | should not regret my abb
scnes f"on,ii political labors.


SALMON p. CHASE.
Year: 1868

A good story is told of reverend gen.
tlrman, to whom farmer complained that
ministers earned money much easier than
lie did. NV said the farmer, when
you arc called upon to marry a couple,
you never expect less sum than three
dollars, and you somctim IS get ten dollars
this for few minutes service.


Pooh replied the Doctor, i will agree
to give you half my next marriage-tee for
bushel of potatoes
4 Very we'll, said the farmer, III take
your offer. and send you tho potatoes
\ A few days afterwards the clergyman
Bas called on to splice loving couple at
ID, place about four miles from
where he lived. When the ceremony
was over, the bride groom said to the
worthy minister


We'll, parson, I s'pose I must fork
over something for your trouble. What
cay you TO- taking one of my terrier pups?
The best breed, tell you, in the county.
Shocking nice to have in the barn. Worth
full five dollars. and suppose figure
two. would do for the splice eh?


The Doctor took the. pup with joy. The
joke was too good. he FASTENED to The
farmer, saying:


Now, friend, here is my fee; how shall
We divide it,


The farmer relished the joke so we'll
lie increased the potatoes to half a dozen
bushels.
Year: 1868




The railroad track. layer is an indubitable
and decid d success. It's now working along
regularly at the rate of q mile day, and It
will do better when several small detects are
remedied = Some of its work has been done
at the rate Of two miles in twelve hours, but
one mile is considered its present working
capacity The contractors and directors OF the
Vallejo and Sacramento Railroad, although
most OF them were skeptical, and some quite
dissatisfied about the delays in getting 1t in
to operation, give it the highest praise, and
have made their arrangements in reliance up
ou it.-San Francisco Alta Calyorntan.


The machine is q Car sixty feet long and
ten feet wide 1t has small engine on board
for handling the ties and rails. The ties are
carried on a common freight car behind, and
conveyed by an endless chain over the top OF
tho machine, laid down in their places on the
track, and when enoug b are laid j rail Is put
down on each side IN proper posltion' anq
spiked down. The track-layer then advances,
s and keeps on its work until the load of ties is
exhausted, when other car loads are brought.
The machine is driven ahead by locomo-
tive, and the work is done so rapidly that
sixty men are required to wait on 1t, but they
do more work than twice as many could 90
by the old system, and the work is done quite
as we'll The chief contractor OF the road
gives it as his opinion that.when the machine
is improved by making few changes in the
method of handling rails and ties, the neces.
sty of which changes are now apparent, 1t Will
be able to put down five or six miles per day
unquestionably This will render it possible
to lay down tracks twelve times as fast as the
usual rate by hand, and it will do the work at
less expense. Z 4 -,..tJ


SOUTHERN DELEGATES. OF the conduct OF
the Southern delegates, in the Conservative
Convention, the New York World says:


s'The Southern delegations deserve great
praise for the dignity, good sense and propriety
with which they have borne themselves In the
convention. When the roll of States was call
ed for naming candidates, the Southern dele
cations announced, one after another, that
they had no candidate to present. They seem.
ed to have no desire to dictate, but to be will
ing to accept whatever candidate should be
deemed most available by the Democracy OF
the North. In the early balotings they dis
tributed, scattered and shifted their votes IN
such way as to show that they were merely
waiting and watching developments, with a
view 70 cooperate sC laSt Win lHe MalUIlIy VI
the Northern delegates. When Mr.. Pendle-
ton seemed to be the strongest they began to
concentrate upon him, as if to tell the North
that they would cheerfully accept him,
if the North judged his nomination ad-
vlsable. When i5 became evident that Pen
dleton could not be nominated, and Hancock
grew strong, they again indicated by changing
their votes their willingness to co operate IN
the nomination OF any candidate who possessed
the confidence of the party -s|
Year: 1868

FEMALE PRINTERs.-There arrived lately
at San Francisco number of female printers,
we'll versed in the art, who had been attrac-
ted to this coast in the hope of bettering
their condition. The printers of San Fran
cisco, with sad lack of galantry, denied
these female typos the privilege of working
at the business, and as a matter of necessity
they clubbed together, and having provided
themselves with the requisite material, will
conduct printing Office on their own ac-
count. We shall look with some interest to
see how these ladies succeed in the capacity
of boss printers.
Year: 1868

THR SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD Can
rA:,4- having IalIed to comply with the terms
of the act of Congress donating ce:tain lands
to aid in building the road, the Commits
sioner of the Land Office gives notice that
the lands that had been reserved for the
benefit of the Company will be thrown open
for settlement
Year: 1868




CAPT. II. W. PERKINS, gentleman who lived
in this county for several years, and who is very
generally known all through the upper country,
was killed by the explosion of steamboat on
Puget Sound, few days since. Deceased left
Walla Walla about tho middle of July with the
intention of visiting the Sound country, and as
certaining by personal observation the induce
ments to settlement. 1t was in pursuance OF
this purpose that he was on the steamboat at
the time of the explosion. An old and intimate
friend of deceased furnishes US the following
particulars Capt Perkins was a native Of
Boston at very early age he entered the U. S.
Navy in the capacity of midshipman, but being
in delicate health and the vessel to which be
belonged being stationed on the coast of South
America, he became disconnected and withdrew
from the service. This act was to him the re.
gret of his'Iifs. he subsequently entered the
merchant service, and in few yeSrs became
master of his own vessel. For maiy years he
was eminently successful and had accumulated
quite fortune, but in 1856 he met With serious
reverses and in brief space of time lost the &C,
cumulations of years. He then came to the
Pacific coast, and for a time was engaged in
steamboating on Humboldt Bay, but here again
he was unfortunate. He next started for the
Northern mines, but on his way up tie Columbia
river he was induced to stop at Cello, where he
kept a hotel for severaLyears, with indifferent
success. Subsequently be was the proprietor OF
the hotel at Wallula, but latterly he had with,
drawn from that business, and for several
months had made his home at WAlla Walla.
The deceased was generous and kind-hearted to
fault, and there was no personal sacrifice to
which he would not cheerfully submit to oblge
others. In all his dealings with his fellow men
he was actuated by the highest principles Of
integrity and justice. He left no near relatives,
but from his kindness there are those 10 whose
hearts he had found a resting place so secure
that even death and the lapse of years cannot
eface it. he was not religious man, but there
was ever an under current of religious thought
which showed that the religious teachings of his
early years had not been thrown away. Capt
Perkins was a member of the Masonic fraternity
and stood high in the order. Peace to his ashes
Year: 1868

THE SMALL PoX prevails to a fearful ex-
tent in San Francisco. The authorities are
doing all that they can to arrest the spread
of the pestilonce, but thus far without sue
cess Pest houses have been established to
which parties taken down with The disease
ore at once removed. There has been great
complaint in relation to the management Of
these pest houses, and the brutality that
characterized the treatment of patie8ts
LatterIy they have been placed under the
charge Of the Sisters Of Mercy, since which
time complaint on this score has ceased.
Year: 1868




DELINQUENT TAxEs,-Ths County Auditor in
forms US that there is a delinquency on last
years roll of twelve thousand dollars. That is,
nearly one-third of the taxes assessed for Terri>
torial and county purposes remain unpaid
This is sorry state of affairs and speaks lily for
the officials having charge of the County Imam
ees. Many of the delinquents are among the
weaithiest men Of the county, and with slight
effort, we are told, the whole amount of the de-
linquent list could be collected. The tax bills
for the current year are now due, and yet it
seems to US scarcely fair to call upon those who
always pay their taxes to come forward and set
tie their bills for 1868, while there remains such
large proportion of the tax of 1867 uncollected.
Until measures are taken to collect the delin.
quent list, we need not be surprised to find that
those who have hitherto been prompt are holding
back. The support of the local government is a
matter in which all are interested. and If one
class can escape the payment of their due pro.
portion toward meeting the expenditures of our
local authorities, another class may very prop
erly claim a like exemption. In justiee to those
who do pay, the County Commissioners should
at once take measures to have the deliuouent
taxes collected. The county is paying interest
at the rate Of 10 per cent. per annum on her ont.
standing indebtedness, and yet if the tares were
collected there would be money in the trsssnrv
to meet all demands. Let this matter ha =;
tended to now, and not leave it until a few wssL.
before the election, when any action will he "a.
garoeo as partAking of political tricksrv
Year: 1868

A writer in the Round Table argues at
great length and with much force in favor of
abolshing the jury system entirely, and leav-
inc questions of fact as we'll as law to be
decided by the judge. The writer claims
that it is infinitely easier to secure the ser.
vices of one honest judge than twelve honest
jurymen. 1t is urged that it is not mere
knowledge of the law alone that distinguishes
the Judge from the juror; it is the habit ac-
quired by years of practice of weighing evi>
dence carefully, the quick and correct judg.
ment of the character and trustworthiness of
witnesses, the wide knowledge of men and
their passions, the faculty to sift and arrange
large masses of facts according to their log>
ical sequence, the power to fix the attention
for great length of time on tedious matters
of detail, and above all, the calm self control
necessary to act wisely, and the trained moral
courage necessary to act on that decision.
Will any sane man say that in these quail
tiles, in all that makes the able, accomplished
Judge, the trader fresh from his counter, the
carpenter from his bench, the merchant from
his desk, thinking all the while Of neglected
business at home, can equal or surpass the
practiced jurist who follows the business oi
judging as profession Z And if judge
can judge better than jury, why have q
jury? To which echo answers, why? The
objection that judges may prove dishonest
is anticipated. Judges have been tyranical
unprincipled, and all that sort Of thing, but
when it is remembered that it requires but
one honest man to make an honest judge
whereas it requires twelve honest men tc
make an honest jury, it would seem that the
chances are in favor of getting an honest
judge sooner than an honest jury. We have
given the gist Of what certainly is an able
argument in favor of change in the present
system of triahby jury. The writer evidently
is member of the legal profession, and as 6
consequence is disposed to magnify the im'
portance of his own calling. The article in
itself, however, is only another evidence o.
the wide spread conviction that there mus
be change in the manner of administering
justice. What this change is TO be is diff
cult to determine. The idea of the iury is
so inbred in all our traditions that we think
it doubtful whether the public mind can evel
be brought to give it up. The absurdity Of
requiring twelve men to agree in order tc
bring in verdict, is already very generally
recognized, and the first reform in this direc,
tion, We take it, will be TO allow majority
or two-thirds to bring IN a. verdict. With
this change effected, the one or two knave:
who occasionally find their way into the jury
box would be powerless for evil, and the
honest majority would always be able to SUB.
serve the ends of Justice