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W. I- AlltMi, SUITOl AU fdomlKTO.
0JLBO0W CITY I
SATURDAY, NOVKMUKK 14, 1857.
ttT D- W. 1''"" ulbnriwJ lo do any ju-
luc cooneclsd Willi TL Afjiui Ofllos dtr.'mg my
btfuc. W. L. ADAMS.
fJT Tbo Comiltutlon is probably ad
opted by majoriiy of four or five thou.
banJ, and slavery voted down by a largsr
majority.
tJT Some follow at Salem hai told the
Y. Tribune in a Icltor published lo tbut
paper, datod August, 20lh, 1607.
. In speaking of tbo resolution offered Ijr
Mr. Applegate, to exdudo all discussion 00
slavery from tbo bill, the writer says :
" Tlio resolution foil like a firebrand !
Members (ProSlavery) roso to their fed
with flashing eyes and distended nostrils,
and with frantic esgornoss shouted, or rnth
or yolled forth their disapprobation of tbe
resolution ; timid members left the boll io
Jl.igust J whilu those who remained, con.
titling of all tha rabid Pro-Slavery men
ind a few others who would bo called in
Kansas " freedom shrieker," waxed warm
ir, till tbe diionmion rota to such a pitch
that the cry of Ordor, order, was called in
vain, and forboarance on tbe pari of. many
censed loboa virtue; bowie knives, dirks
and pistol were drawo ; tlio vilest person
.diiies wera indulged in ; tba most acur.
i-iloni attacks w ere mndo upon Free Slate
men ; tbo most bitter invective was hurl,
ed indiscriminately ; the most infamous
calumnies wore banditd by reckless Border
Ruffians, who sssmed to revel in their na
tive element. Several shots were fired,
and two members ware slightly wounded.
One Tree Slato Democrat, the champion of
Umpqua County, received n scvre stab in
the abdomen. About fifteen shots were
fired during the mclce. Many wero more
or less injured by jumping from tha win
dows, and by rushing in great numbers to
make their carets by the narrow stairway
leading from I ho hall. For sevoral hours
the utmost consternation prevailed in our
usually quiet town. '
"Tho authorities wore Appealed to to sup
press this di9graoeful riot, for sucb it must
be called ; and the Mayor of the city, a
most enorgetio man, immediately called out
the Salem Bund, an independent company,
nnd marshaled them in front of the Court
House, with loaded weapons, in time to
prevent a gcnorul scene of bloodshed.
While ihoso blood. thirsty villains were
thirsting for human Free Stnto gore, they
wero approached by tho Marshal and Sher
iff, led on by our intrepid Mayor, who de-
; serves tho thanks of our community for his
fearless, heroic conduct, and were disarm
ed amid iho acclamations of the populace,
who, I nssureyou, felt grateful to a retrib-
'Utive Providence for arresting Ibis evil in
the nick of lime."
The Tribune says the writer was not
one of his " regular correspondents from
Oregon," but seems lo have written "at
tho request" of a " regular correspond
ent." Most people here think that the
letter was written by some black-aVmo-
cratic wag in Salem j but after carefully
comparing it with the Tribune's general
" correspondence" from Oregon, we are in
doubt as to what to think of the author
ship. If it was not wriltrn by a " regular
correspondent," tho rascal who penned it
had studied their productions so as to know
very well how to imitate their style.
Cov. Walker' I.lituor mil.
. On tin 25th of May, 18.V7, the City
Council of Leavenworth, K. T., passed a
resolution lendoring to Gov. Walker the
hospitalities of tho city, as he bad visited
them, and it was thought but genteel to
feed him at tho ptiblio expenso during his
Btay. , Gov. Walkor's bill for liquor alont
at tho Planters' Hotel was $210. This
the Cily Council very proporly refused to
pay, and gnvo the following reasons for
.thoir refusal !.,,. ,. , 1
" Wo are first opposed to the allowance
of this bill, because it was not contem
plated by tho City Council thnt the hospi
tality of this city, so generously tendered
iliis Excellency, Bhould be thus abused.
"And in the second place, thai it would
establish a dangerous and pernicious pre
cedent. . . i
" And in the third place, we will not
give our influence nor open tho City Trea
sury for tho encouragement of iuteuiper
ance tho mother of crime,"
These facts were published in the Ad
vocate at Salem in its issue of Nov. 2d,
-which brought down npon its devoted head
;the following from Czapkay's organ :
" I.nsiuuous Partian Opposition and
Politic:"! Abolitionism. The Salem
Christian Advocate professes to be a nou
tral paper in politics, while in fact it is an
insiduons, snae-ia-the-grass, blnck-repub-llcan,
abolition e.hcot. There is hardly a
number of that paper that does not con
tain moro or less political nnd partisan
matter, and it lsinvan'.bly directed against
democratic men, and pleasures. In the
Inst issue of the Advocate we find a long
article headed, in bold face, 'A merited
rebuke Kefusal to pay Gov. Walker's (of
Kansas) liquor bill. -"
The idea of denouncing a " religious"
editor as an 41 'insiduous partJzan",
"snake-in-the-grass," " black-rrpublicai?"
- nbolitionist," an "enemy of sound and
reliable democracy," because Lo had pub.
lUhed tho fact that the Leavenworth Coun
il refused to pay 8310 for " rot-gul" sup
plied to a locofoco official, is decidedly in
good keeping with the character of the
man who edits a slwct devoted to black
democracy, free whisky, licensing houses
of ill-fame, and publishing libels on re
electable females. ' '
. To Sportsmen. Mr. Eudey has some
tame ducks running on the bottom before
his house in the lower part of town, which
be requests tha boys and allien who go
gunning not to k rll. . " ' '' " ,
ILBOXION KaVV&MS.
Clackamas t'.tuutjri
Tha returns are not all lo up to our going
to press. Two precincts are yet behind.
No county can beat this for the imbecility
and inexcusable laziness of tbe judges of
soma of our precincts In sending in elec
tion returns. The looofoco law gives them
ten days, and wo shall probably get them
somo time before Christmas, provided any
ox carts happen to be coming in with
pumpkins and sour crout, so that thay can
be put aboard. If the judges of election
had any public spirit, they would always
have tho returns all in tha next day after
tha election, at farthest. .
So fur as heard from, the vote stands as
follows :
OBEOO.I CITY HICINCT.
For Constitution,
Against,
Majority for, 100.
For Slavery,
Against,
Maj. against, 201.,
For Free Negroes, , .,
Against,
Maj. against, 159.
LINN CITV.
For Constitution,
Against,
For Slavery,
Against,
For Free Negroes,
Against,
MILWAUKIB.
For Constitution,
Against,
For Slavery,
Against,
For Free Nsgreea,
Against,
LOWH MOLALLA.
For Constitution,
Against,
For Slavery,
Against,
For Free Negroes,
Against,
103
87
41
242
03
212
21
27
2
48
0
30
45
12
. 1
6
23
34
20
22
11
41
6
45
This county may bo safely sat down as
giving 330 majority for tha Constitution,
uud about 500 majority against slavery.
aablll County.
Lafayette, Nov. 10th.
Eo, Abucs The following ara the re
turns for Ibis county one preeinct not
heard from and tbo vote on tha constitu
tion in South Fork precinct, which gave a
majority for it, as wa have heard, net
counted in:
For Constitution, 320
Against, 254
ForSluvery, . 102
Against, 548
For Free Negroes, 73
Against, 404
The precincts to hear from will increase
the majority for tbe constitution and a free
State. J. R. MoBridi.
' MwMueaMh.
For Constitution,
Against,
For Slavery,
Against,
For Free Negroei,
Against,
490
255
00
652
01
556
wasautua.
We have heard from only the Hillsbor
ough nnd Forest Grove precinots (through
the Standard). The aggregate vote of
these precincts stands
For Constitution, ' '
Against,
For Slavery, 1 : !'
Against, t
For Free Negroes, .'.
Against, ..:
; Csinmbia. ,
For Constitution,
Against, ' ' ' " : '
For Slavery,'' '' ! !
Against, '' - - 1 1 ;
For Free Negroes, -
Against, .... ' . ' '
153
111
' 40
227
S2
225
21
50
11
60
15
56
- r.utsep.
(Astoria Precinct.)
For Constitution, 54
I Against, . 21
' For Slavery, . , , 20
Against, . i . 2
For Free Negroes, 17
Against,' ' 75
v Marina.
In South Salem precinct the constitution
received 238 majority, and free Slate 200
majority, with a majority of 271 against
free negroes.
poik.
We have heard nothing from this county
excepting that at Eola there was 50 ma
jority for the constitution at 4 o'clock P. m.
ou Monday. , . ;. ., ., , , ; - 1
03 We are indebted for election returns
to Judge Campbell, Joel Burliagamo, T.
D. Rickey, J. R. McDride, Isaac Wheal
don, and several other friends. ,
r7" Cxapkay's organ and its nether tail
at Portland have fallen upon a felicitous
plan of getting their editorials before near
ly as many readers as the other journals
of tho Territory have. By copying each
other's articles, they flatter themselves that
they will be seen by almost as many people
.as read the weekly Issues of the Standard,
at all events.
" Doubling teams" is sometimes expe
dient ou a " hard road to travel," but we
have Kttle faith in carrion fed dog teams,
excepting among the Esquimaux, even if
they art " o'oubled." - v .
03" By tbe extracts we make from the
organs of the black democracy this week,
it will be scan that they are in a dreadful
muss. We' feel truly grateful that, by
publishing a journal devoted to no party
that advooates wrong, wa are enabled to
live at peace with all mankind. .
03" George Walling, three biles below
this, has raised a pear weighing 4 peaods.
Tbt Way U Msk him Uoller.'1
" But from Intimations given on tho 00.
casion by bis Hibben's ministering at
tenrfunti, wa are promised another attempt.
So be It. We shall neither seek nor shun
it. But when It comes, we shall be in town,
and wa hope prepared for the emergency.
Neither our fears nor 'pheulinks' are yet
aroused." Standard.
There is a difference of opinion up this
way among tho two wings of the blnck-do-mocracy
as to what you mean by being
" prepared for the emergency." The
Czapkaites contend that you mean to be
" prepared" for death while tbe bolters
think you mean to be " prepared" with a
pistol. '
If you will take the advice of a " black
republican" editor, who is pretty well
posted as to the vulnerable points of this
" raco," you w ill only think of " preparing"
yourself with a heavy pair of "stogy"
boots, ind the next time he attempts to
spit In your face, just " kick him on the
thins."
The Future of the Pro-Slavery Tab
tv. C. E. Pickett, in a letter in the Occi
dental, in speaking of what they may yet
accomplish, says:
" Which the pro-slavery party in Oregon
can yet bring about, oven if defeated on
0th of November, provided they get up a
separate organization, stick closely to
gether, make nominations of men from the
lowest to the highest offices only of those
who come out boldly and uncompromisingly
in favor of their creed, and vote for them
in all cases, even where by so doing it en
sures) he election of a black republican
for better one of thee open enemies shall
succeed than a falsehearted, professing,
treacherous friend. This is the true and
oaly way to succeed." . - . I
Jf" Czapkay's organ never howls on
tha track of any person without waking
tba Times, which is sure to make a fceblo
echo. The first named paper has been
full of the foulest and silliest abuse of the
Advocate, The Times at length sends
back its echo, in the following strain :
" Brother Pc-rino,' of the Advocate,
whoe ideas of a pleasure trip to heaven
are inseparably connected with a ride on
the back of the impression of an eagle on
a ten cent piece, has taken it into his pre
cious noijgiii to protrude his paw from his
clerical etige for a grab at us. Of course
he does not mean lo be disrespectful or un
gcnilomnuly. ' Oh an, not net Brother
l'e-rine means no good when he swears,
and no barm when he prays, and only a
little too anxious for a sweet pretext to cry
persecution he is a! nays fishing for a muss
with some one. It shows his wonderful
watchfulness of the watch and prey' or
der to say nothing of how much sense
and prudonce it don't show. In this case,
perhaps he has flushed game for which he
wes not hunting. At all events, we think
that his saintly excellency should have
squared his little account with the States
man before squaring at us. There is a
luscious question of veracity pending there,
that ouaht to be settled, so that he come
ww
1 at us v. tin clean nanas. However, we re
member that poetry and will waive this
little omission, and give the Advocate go
wiusachanca to glut his pious thrust for
avongement.
BiothorPe-rine,' did it over steal over
your pure heart that it was not quite the
exact thing, religiously speaking, to bear
false witness against vour neighbor! ; The
Bible is on excellent institution, and if
vou studv that precious volume as it is your
duty io do, you have but little lime for
gulping up theiiise ana calumnious smug
of theOregonian and Standard, and spew
ing it out as your own characteristic con
position. 1 You are false on tbe importation
question, and you are silly about our resi
dence. How long we have been a resi
dent of Oregon, should in no wise affect
us, and it is very contemptible puppyism
to use that question to arouse a prejudice
against us. JF came an American-bom
cili:cn,and all this Union is our home.
Our coming was a thing of our own voli
tion, and the thug spirit that dictates the
meanness of a reference to our presence
here, comes with disgracefully ill grace
froma foreigner. Do you understand ?
This stuff hitherto we have refrained from
answering, under the belief that no one
assuming to be a gentleman would give it
a moment's cntertniiunent ; but now that
you parade it, allow us to say to you, that
as ' to the manor born' an American citizen
we claim the same rights here that we
should eluim upon a residence of a thous
and years. Besides this, dear brother Fe
rine, these rights, everywhere this sido of
the grave, we ure able and ready to main
tain. Have you any doubt of that I"
We copy the above not as an endorse
ment of it, but for the purpose of showing
our rcadors what these locofoco papers are
equal to. We must not, however, be un
derstood as expressing any sympathy for
the editor of the Advocate. ; He is reap
ing what he richly deserves. We recol
lect in the case of the Times editor, as in
several others, he seized upon the first op
portunity, after. he landed upon our shores,
to dreg his slimy carcass from a reeking
doggery and cover it all over with kisses,
much to the disgust of the moral part of
community. ' The Advocate of June 15th
says: :-.
" We welcome Mr. Hibbcn to our ranks,
and hope his talents and energies which
we doubt not, will shine resplendant
through the columns of the Times will
be fully, appreciated, and win for him that
respect and good feeling, which his pre
decessor has so universally enjoyed." . i
A short time aftex, the Advocate con
tained the following : .
" Wa recently had tha honor of a visit
from the editors of the Occidental Messen
ger and the Portland Times, both of w hom
were actually in our sanctum, last week.
We were gratified with the review. If
gentlemanly bearing, and real cleverness,
are deserving, then these gentlemen ought
to succeed, for they are, really, both court
eous sod clever." .
The editorial we have copied frem the
Times we think will satisfy the Advocate
as te Ilibbsn's "gentlemanly Wring mnd
real cleverness," as also that his u Uihntt
and energies shine fesphndanC through
those "columns of the Times" devoted to
throwing filth on his gsrmsnts.
03" The steamship Columbia arrived at
Portland with the mails last Wednesday.
We are indebted to J. W. Sullivan of San
Francisco for files of papers -.
1 1 1 1 ' .1 I
Califoiinia I'bices. Flour is worth
from 90 to $10J per bbl. Sugar from 0
to Hi cts. Candles from 2 1 lo 22 els.'
03 Three more survivors, Messrs John
Tice, Alex. Grant, and J. W. Dawson, from
the Central America, were rescued after
floating eight days and twenty hours with
out food or drink. Full particulars next
week. , , '
03" Merlin's saw mill nnd dwell
ing house at Tongue Point, just above
Astoria, were burned down last week
Th u rsdav (by accideni
03" Our friend Thompson Haley, a gA
dua'.e of Bethany College, arrived on the
Commodore this week. He designs to
engage inTeBchittg, , . r ,
05" Mr. Campbell has opened1 a new
market house in Hood's building in this
city, which has caused quite a decline in
the price of beef. ' : '"'
03" Enoch Fruit has been sentenced to
the Penitentiary frem Polk county for steal
ing stock. It was this Fruit, or his brother,
who introduced the toast in the "Jackass
jubilee" at Salem "The border ruffians:
sound oa the nigger question, and some
in a bar fight." . . ..',.
. 03"Mr. Wilde's gun smith shop, in this
city was entered by a burglar a few days
ago and robbed of three Colt's revolvers. -
03 The weather since last Monday has
been beautiful clear warm days, and
frosty nights. . ' .' "',,' .
03" The ignorance of our country and
her institutions often displayed by trans
atlantic journals is truly amusing. .The
New York Herald notices the following
samples: . . . t
The London Morning Chronicle, speak
ing of the late collision between Mayor
Wood of New York cily and the newly,
inaugurated municipal authorities, says
that " New York is in a slate of revolution,
Tbe revolution began by street barricades
composed of mud instead of paving-stones.
This took place early in the by-gone spring
and is one of the most serious coups d'etat
which the United Slates have uudergone
since the war of Independence."
Tbe same paper proceeds to inform its
readers that the Mayor of New York was
a " man of highly democratic predilec
tions, and canvassed strongly on the Fre
mont ticket"; also that the majority of the
New Yorkers were of the same political
faith, and viewed with complacency the
zealous efforts of Mayor Wood to defeat
the Buchannnites. The Buchanaiiites,
treated with disdain by the Mayor, fell
back for refuge to the Legislature of the
State, in which Buchanan's friends held a
large preponderance. Upon the death of
the street commissioner, a republican nam
ed Conover was elected, but, being repudi.
atcd by the democrats, the streets wore
left uncleannd, but the sturdy democrats
truujed through the mud with tho same
jubilant spirit the inhabitants" of Boston
must have felt in the December of 173,
when they went without their tea. ,. , ,,y
. Another London paper talks of a shoot
ing excursion lo " Baltimore and the prai
ries." Another says that a monument has
been erected to Henry Clay.nt "Lexing
ton, the site of the first of the Revolution
ary battles. ....ftJ,, .,.,,:
A leading paper in France condemns the
exceeding bad taste of the Americans
in setting up statues of ," Monsieur Daniel
Webster, whose only claim to celebrity was
his murder of le docteur , Turkman in, a
professional imbroglio." ., , , ,
, 03" Mr. Taylor, of the rescued passen
gers on board the Central America, slates
that he was in the water about ten hours,
and after floating on a plank with Another
man, a New Yorker, for about five hours,
with scarcely a hope remaining of being
picked up, his companion addressed him
in the following query, in the most non
chalant lone: "Well, Taylor, where are
you going to put up to-night ,, 7 j
'".'Ax Important Decree. The Russian
Government has issued a most Important
decree with reference to a future commer
cial intercourse between the United State's
and the people of Siberia."' It is ordered
that the teaching of the German language
be discontinued in the public schools of Ir
kohtsk, and superseded by the English, Or,
as it is officially called " La Langue Atner
icaine," as the people on the banks of tho
A moor river will have a more profitable
trade with the United States than with
Germany in a short lime.'
John Qcinct Adams and the Bibliv
In a letter lo bis son in 1811, he says:
" I have for many years made it a practice
to read through tbe Bible once every year.
My custom is lo read four or five chapters
every morning, immediately after. rising
from my bed. It employs about ao boor
of my time, and seems to me the most
suitable manner of beginning the day,
In what light soever we regard the Bible,
whether with reference to revelation, to his
tory, or te mortality, it an iovalaable and
inexhaastiWesniieef knowledge and virlae.
The Occidental 90 wzapuy vui.
Tks l.yla uuie7
. 1 ; i , v
But whcV we ak, is thls editor of tha
Statesman,' who assume se mighty an tin
portance la the rariks of the democratlo
party, as lu chief organ and enptsin gen.
are! I - A few year age be wes ao abo
litionist, in an aboliliou district of Massa
chusetts, officiating as secrotsry at aboli
ion meetings. Meeting at lbs Cily of
Washington with the late Hon. Mr. Tburs
ton, congressional delegate to Congress, he
imposed himself upon that gentleman as
a proper person to conduct a pnpor, and
was brought bore and established In busi
ness. Mr. Thurston dying during his ab
sence from the territory, the news of his
death bad not been received more than
three hours before Bush made a publio an.
nouncemcnt that he had espoused the pre
tonsionsof one as his successor who had
always been hostile to Mr. Thurston.
This want of proper respect to his benefac
tor, shows what degree of sincerity is to
be attached to his professions of friend-
hip. .
When the Indian war broke out, and
men, women and children were being
butchered by the savage foe, he contended
that the Indians were not to blame, that
the fault rested with lha whiles, who were
the aggressors, and he continued to de
nounce and ridicule those who favored the
war until ha was forced to desist through
the overwhelming power of public opinion,
thus furnishing members of Congress ar
guments and reasons for opposing tbe pay
mc'nt of the claims of our citizens for ex
penses incurred during the war.
We next find liim circulating a petition
for the removal of persons appointed to of
fice in the quarter-master's department,
and both he nnd the pelitioos treated with
the contempt deserved. .
" . A short time niter this he indulged his
i propensities for evil by the publication of
scurrilous articles in relation to Major
i Gaines, for which the Major rubbed. the
diity eud of his cane under his nose sev
eral times. This indignity he 'trembling
ly submitted to with the meekness of a
non resistant. 1 " ' " :', ' ' ' ." ' ; ; ,
Ho next assailed Gen. McCarver thro'
his columns. The General repeatedly
chased .the miserable culprit through the
j streets into his (Bush's) own office, lut
could never gut near enough to inflict the
chastisement he merited.' ' 1 - ' '''
One would naturally suppose that being
I constitutionally so timid, ho would exercise
j some degree of prudence over his pen
I but, vojorous son of New England ! not
I withstanding the white feather would ex
i lii bit itself in his combats with men, he
' was rVterrnincd to find a salvo for his woun
ded honor in another quarter. He meas
' urcs lances with a woman II To his ever
I lasting disgrace, be it said, he assailed the
. wife of one of his coternpornries by the
publication of an article couched In Ian
, guage positively disgusting, and making
! charges which, if they had not been uui
; versally acknowledged false, would have
; banished her from society forever. ' For
ibis damnable offence he forfeited all claim
, to manhood. ! The slowly-moving finger of
scorn will point him out 10 mankind until
he sinks into an unhonoredgrave. , .,. ...
Tnese charges Bosh will deny. But
sue, are mauers 01 re.
L.nn.. 1. . ... :o .t .
the timer.1 A man so crusted over with vil
iiti.iy, is unfit te he associated with gentle
men ariywfiere, and least of all to have
control. of , the organ of a party. . The
sooner the democracy of Oregon repudiate
both editor and paper, the better it will bo
for them .A man that submits toindiemV
j ties the most degrading, and assails tho
I reputation of r'espeotable females through 1
, his paper, should he placed beyond the pale;
0
nf cnpinl vmnat Ka AAn.tu. I. lU ....
and nostrils of every correct man. "
The.countenance given to a paper that
'. opens jts columns to the defamation of tbe
j wives of our citizens, tells not well of pub
lic, sentiment' in Oregon.. . In any other
community,' both office and. editor would
j have ,run the hazard of being dipped in the
, noaresl stream, if no worse punishment be
inflicted. Occidental Messenger, , !
Ineffable MEANNEss.The ' slubber
degullioh of the Statesman the ' craven
who, when assaulted .by those of his own
species, " betakes himself ' to' 'inglorious
flight, ondl shamelessly assails the charac
ters of viilunus females through tlio pros
tituted columns of his paper, is so envious
of the few' crumbs' lhat are likely to fall
into' our lap, that he has resorted (0 down
right 1yfng, to divert patronage from the
Messenger. 1 We have been informed up
on reliable' authority that a number of
gentlemen formed a club and delegated one
of (heir number to proceed to Salem with
the money'to forward for the Messenger'.
Happening in conversation with Bush on
the'subject.he told the gentleman .tha'i the
Messenger was started by Avery, only to
operate on publio sentiment relalive'to the
seat of government question, that its pub
lication would cease soon as that question
was settled, and thai if he sent the money,
subscribers would receive nothing in re
turn for it; .An editor, who, to injure a
cotemporary, would resort to means so base
and unprincipled, would scruple at the com
mission of no act where the possibility ex
isted of evading the punishment which the
law inflicts. He is so crusted over with
rascality,, that his feelings can only be
reached through hiiskiD. -Th fngslub-
berdrgvllhn may yet receive tha punish
ment he 'so richly merits. Oecif&niaJ
Messenger.
.:. 1 , 1 1 -T
Ouoiit to Know Dkttks. C. E. Pick
ell, the "lahmaelite," having consignee
California to general destruction, ind left
her to her fate, has gone to Oregon to set
our Territorial neighbors to right. JJ
now writing long esssys in favpref thesis,
vary clsuse In tha proposed Constitution
or, In catm that will not go down, tba re
juution of the State Government,, alto,
geiher. He warns the Oregonians that
State Government will prove enormously
expensive, and points to California as ag
example in point. Here, he says, "s groan,
ing, suffering, demoralized people are cry.
Ing with one voice, Would lo God we hid
not till this day attempted what bisprovsd
so ssd a work." '
' In proof of tbe manner In which the Cal.
ifornisns are burdened, Pickett uafortu.
nately furnishes soma figures, lie says'.
" In San Francisco the taxes this year, In
cluding Slate and consolidated city anj
county amount to Jive and one-third per
cent whilst in Sacramento they amount
to five and three fourths dollars on the hun.
dred f" ' ' ' - - ' 1 it. ,
New we dislike much te interfere io the
little sorimmages of the Ishmaelite, be
cause we know he enters into them merely
for his love of them in the abstract, being
neither . f 1 -...,"
"gritvad
NoriWtoloeorgio( imuiill .- . ...
Fig Kit 00 for hours." , ,'.
But we cannot refrain from setting him
right when he makes abroad such ao inju.
rions and nntrue a salcment as the shore
in regard to our rate of taxation. Inst'sid
of five and one third per cca., the people
of San Francisco only pay 92 30 or less
than two and one-third. Nor U Pickett
correct with reference lo Sseramnte. Is.
stead of tive dollars and seventy-five ee'sts
to 1 he hundred, the Sacramentans pay (bur
dollars and ninety cents. "'Tis a vile
bird, that, fonts iis own nest.'.' Pickett
should be ashamed to tell fibs upon bis
own people to strangers. San iVonciieo.
Evening Bulletin.
' . r -A '
The Worthlessness or Gold. It is
stated by many of the survivors of tbe
Central America's psssengers, thai there
was seldom so large an amount of money
owned by passengers as wis iu lbs case of
those who came by the Central America.
Many were persons of targe mesni, and
there were but very few whose immediate
wealth did not amount to hundreds, while
numbers reckoned their geld by lha thous
ands of dollars. ' Tbe irreatcat noriinn or
j ,,10 pas4eng(,r, were returned mii'iers, some
- con,inff ,i,,er i0 invest (he capital they
had realized in hopes to live a life of great,
er ease as the resitlt of their industry, and
others to pot their families and once more
go to the land of gold. . But as the storm,
continued to rage, less and less of gold was
thought of, and when, en Sunday it be
came evident that they were likely at any
moment to be buried under the wresr
wealthy men divested themselves of their
treasure belts and scattered the gold upon
the cabin floors, tolling those lo lake it who
would, lost its weight a few ounces or
pounds carry them la their death. Full
parses, containing in some instances 2,.
000, were laying untouched on sofas.
Carpet bags were opened by men and the
shining gold and the shifting metal wis
poured out on the floor with the prodigali
ty of death's despair.- ; .Ooe, of the pass
engers, who was fortunately rescued, open-
j e( bflgand das)f(1 akou ,he f8r
j 000 , god dw, nd ,oM who w,Bt.
eJ to tifV W j fof gold l0 lak, j, .
fc , wa d fc ntouch ed Mlh yeri,
'
est dross. A few hours before he would'
have struck down the man who would have
attempted to take a grain of that which he
now spurned from him.
Foreign Immigration. The numberef
foreign immigrants who had arrived at
' k f .1 n.J O
W orK n.s year, up 10 me o.j.r
- . , . . . .1 ...
wai Jo,805, "1DS i,,mo
rived in ,ne sf,me lenBlh of time ,Mf 7"!" '
11 ia probable that the Immigration thie.
year will exceed lhat of last by 70,000.;:
03" The New York Times ssys that
there are nearly a thousand professed Mor
mons in the city of New York, and that
they have their church organiaatioo meet
ings on the Sabbath, and Conference gath
erings, and are obedient to the will
Brigham. ' ';: - "'';!:''
03" The proprietor of a forge, not re-'
markable for correctness of Iangusge, bnt
who, by honest industry, had realised
comfortable independence, being called ne
on at a social meeting for a toast ga!
" Success lo forgery.",
03" A pedlar calling on an old lady
disposed some goods, inquired oC be' uT
she could tell him of any road no peddler
had travelled. ' ' Yes, said she, I kaow one,
and only one, and that's the read to belt-en."-
-.'! ' V ' v
,,''03; Speaking of the merits ef a waeb.
Abel says be had one once that g
enough in three weeks, to pay for iwlt j
v A Scobi op PaiNTEBa The Cine""
nati Union thus takes off the printertpnsl
' profession :" " Ia this 'office are engag
ed twenty printers. Only look at th"1
In ages ranging from twenty to for'7 "
size' arid complexion, from ihe "ordinary
stout ('we neer 'saw' a'fsl prfnfer) to
thai might crawl through a greased fjotej
some as white as Circassians,
as brown'or rosy as your " Georgia Cre
er" or rnnsylvanian publican. Some
"bearded like l.he para,' elLers ssaooA
"the Greek Slave. . - - - " -V .
. One has traveled all over the V
American co tinenl, bunted bears m
knuas aa i Vilef bofw in tbe rnE 91 ,