Year: 1867

and E. Wadsworth, two of the delegates from
Siskiyou county to the Union State Convention
Of the 18th of June, and two of the most ardent
supporters General Bidwell had there, publish
the following appeal to the Unioaists of that
county in the last Yreka Journal:


As delegates to the late Union State Conven-
ton, and as members of the Union party acting
in good faith, who most uncompromisingly op
posed the nomination of Gorham, Parks, Howell,
and Mccarthy in that Convention observing
with sorrow and regret the course pursued by
Union papers in not sustaining the ticket con-
sidering silence on our part any longer as politi-
cal and moral cowardice, we herewith present
our views. We believe it to be our duty as
Union men to sustain the State ticket presented
by the late Union Convention all personal OBJ
jections sinking into insigni6cance when COM
pared with the overshadowing Importance of the
living, vital, national issues at stake upon the
successful termination of which hang the hopes
of millions of the present generation, and the
future welfare of generations yet. unborn. As
members of the great Union party, which has
record of patriotism written in the blood of her
martyrs, we must remember that the fruits of
victory are not yet fully secured, and we cannot
by any disaffection of ours cast our votes and
influence as to directly and indirectly aid in or
countenance the election Of the so-called Demo-
cratic ticket, thus inspiring Johnson and others
of his ilk with the hope that the Union men of
the nation may yet repudiate their past record
of loyalty, thus rcviving rebel hopes delaying,
if not endangering the triumph of liberty, Union
and manhood rights. Great principles, which
will be revered through all the future of history
are at stake, and even though the platform may
not fully express the views Of some of US, even
though the manner of securing the nomination
may not meet our approval, and some of the
candidates may be Objectionable on minor issues,
yet we believe it our duty, patriotic, sensible
men, to support them a thousand times rather
than the far more objectionable nominees. stand
ing on a platform totally at variance with the
enlightened progress and spirit of the age.
Firmly believing the contest to stand in Califor-
mia between the Union State ticket, headed by
Gorham, and the Democratic ticket, headed by
Haight, and always remembering that there are
many uni just things said in political controver-
sizes, having implicit confidence that radical
Unionism will triumph in the election Of our
present State ticket, we shall stand by the ship
as long AS there is a plank afoat. We believe
this to be imperative duty I'uion men,
in all sincerity we appeal to the members of the
Union party, co-workers in the success Of prn-
cples to pause, ponder and reflect. Discard
passion and prejudice let reason once more
sumo her sway, and we fear not the result.
Unity of action will again be watchword,
resulting in Union victory and Democratic
rout California shall stand in the future on
the reconstruction question, as in the past on
the maintenance of the supremacy of our Ma
tional Government, in the front ranks of the
solid phalanx of patriotic States, whose motto
will ever be liberty, Union and justice to all"


MURDER AND WHAT CANE OF Ir.-Last week
we itemized the murder Of a man named Isham
Harris, at Buckeye, Shasta county. Further
particulars relative to the matter are gained
from the Shasta Courier of July goth, and they
are condensed in the following: Peter Little, a
man whose disposition is reported to have been
anything ba: amiable lived in the neighborhood
IN which the murder was committed. Little
had said that he intended to kill two men who
lived at Buckeye and then leave the country,
which recent attendant suspicious circumstances
had gone to prove he meant to do. Everybody
living there except Little attended the inquest
and funeral. Everybody therefore suspected
him of being the murderer of Harris, yet not
one was anxious to risk the chances of becoming
Little's second victim. There is a sequel to this
affair, and it may perhaps be found in the con-
cluding portion of the Courier's notice entitled
Mysterious Disappearance, which reads as
follows -'' Affairs continued thus until one
evening last week, when several persons in the
vicinity were startled by noise and confusion
in the direction of Lttle's cabin, and by hearing
some person cry out: ooh, don't for God s
sake, let me gor No one ventured near the
spot from whence the noise proceeded and moth
ing more was heard during the night. The
most mysterious feature OF the affair Is that
Little has not been seen since the night alluded
to, and no one about Buckeye appears to take
any further interest to his whereabouts.
The probabilities are that he has paid his last
poll tax"