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VOL. XIV.
LOS   ANGELES,  CAL.,  SATURDAY,  JULY  2,  1864.
NO. 9.
£00 ^ngek0 Star:
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAf MORNING,
At tbe STAB BUILDINGS, Spring Street, Loa
Angelee,
BY   H.   HAffllLTON,
TB RMS 1
SubacriptionB.per annum, in advance. .$5 00
For Six Months  3 00
For Three Months  2 00
Single Number  0 121
Advertisements inserted at Two Dollars per square
of tea lines, for the first insertion; end One
Dollar per square for each subsequent insertion.
A liberal deduction made to yearly Advertisers.
San   Francisco Agency.
Mr. W.H. TOBBEY is the only authorized agent
tor the Los Angeles Stab in San FranciBco.
All orders left at his offioe, Northwest corner of
Washington and Sansome streets, Government
ailding, (up stairs) will be promptly attended to.
Iksinm Carbs.
A.B. CHAPMAN,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR
AT LAW.
OFFICE in Temple's  Building, near  the Land
Office. aug29
HOTELS.
BELLA UNION HOTEL,
LOS    A NG E L.E S,
JOHN KING & HEiVBY HAMilIEL,
Proprietors.
THg SUBSCRIBERS having leased the above
named Hotel, wish to assure their friend's
and the travelling public that they will endeavor
to keep the Bella Union what it has always  been,
THE   BEST   HOTEL.
IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.
Families oan be accommodated with large, airy
rooms, or suits of rooms, well furnished.
The Bills of Fare
■hall be inferior to none in the State.   .
All the Stages
to and from Los Angeles arrive at and depart from
this Hotel.
The Bar and Billiard Saloons
shall receive the   most strict attention, and the
patrons shall find tbat this bouse will be carried
on as a first class Hotel ought to be.
Los Angeles, May 31, 1862.
ill mil*   B.*4^anr miubi
Cor. Sansome and Halleck Streets
(OPPOSITE THE AMERICAN THEATRE,)
SAN   FRANCISCO.
THE UNDERSIGNED respectfully informs the
E Traveling Public, as well as the more permanent
Boarder,  that lie  has leased the above  well
—' known and centrally located Hotel, and intends
s\ ?ffiA t% keeping it as
A FIRST-CLASS HOUSE,
At Moderate Prices.
In the last three months tbere has been expended a
ftrge amount in
Re-modeling and Rc-fiinilsning,
the EXCHANGE, unit it will now compare favorably with
the first class hotels of the city.
I ty*1  WE HAVE SPLENDID
SUITS OF APARTMENTS
for Families; also a large number of fine single rooms for
gentlemen.
It is the purpose of the Proprietor to make tbe EX-
HANGE one of the  most comfortable and home-like
otel.i in the State, and make the
Psrtces to Suit the Times.
TUB    TABLH
VFtll be supplied with every delicacy the season affords.
Attached to the house are fine BATHING BOOMS for
Ladies or Gentlemen.
JOHN W. SARGENT, Proprietor.
Dickson, de Wolf Si Co
OFFER FOR SALE
WHISKIES:
CENTURY—JACOB VAN HORN'S.
EUREKA.
PIONEER—WM. H. DALY'S.
"XX"   FINE   OLD   RYE.
"AAA"    VERY OLD AND CHOICE.
VALLEY—"WM.  H.   DALY'S—IN CASES.
'Malso.-
wm. h. daly's club house gin.
THE above WHISKIES are all copper distilled,
from the choicest selected Rye, and are never
offered in the market within three years alter their
distillation.   Tbe stock now on hand is
From Four to Eight Years Old.
TbeBe brands of Whisky have been favorably
known in (Jalifornia during the last six years, and
the constantly increasing demand for tbem attests
to their excellence and uniformity of quality.
They are commended to the trade as among the
purest imported into this market.
For Sale by nU tfce principal Dealers   In MUs
CltT' DICKSON, DEWOLF&CO,
feb28 Sole Agents, San Francisco.
SHERIFF'S SAEE.
UNDER and by virtue of an order of sale, issued
oat of the Disirict Co'irt of the First Judicial
Distriot, in and lor the county of Los Aogeles,
State of California, on the 23d day of May, a. d.,
1864. in a certain case wherein Eli Taylor is plaintiff, a'nd John T. Mullaly is defendant, and to me
directed, as Sheriff of said county, I have seized
on and shall proceed to sell at publio auction, to
the highest bidder or bidders for cash, at the door
Ofthe Courthouse, in the city ol Los Angeles, on
MONDAY, THE 21th DAY   OF JUNE,
A D   1864, at 10 o'olock a. m.. of paid day, tbe following real estatei In said order of sale described
and commanded to be sold, to-wit:
That certain lot of land, situated in the city and
County of Los Angeles. State of California, fronting westerly on New High St. twenty-font feet,
«nd running back the same width eighty (80) feet;
and bounded North and East by the lot of George
Walters, and South by the lot of Franoisco Moreno de Lugo; be the same more or less, with all and
singular the tenements, hereditaments and aprur-
tenanoes thereunto belonging or in any wise appertaining, or so much thereof as may be sufficient.
Given under my band, in the city of Los Angeles, this 25th day of May, a. d.. 1864.
' T. A. SANCHEZ, Sheriff.
By A. J. Kino, Under Sheriff. my28-td.
GEO. W. GHAPIN & CO.,
Lower side of Plaza, near Clay st.,
SAN FRANCISCO.
EMPLOYMENT  OFFICE   AND
GENERAL_ACENCY.
Furnish all kinds of help for Families, Hotels,
Farmers, Mining Companies, Mills, Faotories, Shops
&c.
AIbo, have a Real Estate Agency, and attend to
business in that line. feb22
S.   HELLMAN,
TEMPLE'S  BLOCK,
MAIN STREET, Loa Angelea,
— DEALER IN —
Books and Stationery,
Cigars, Tobaceo, Candy,
Cutlery and Fancy Goods, Sic.
OIROUIiATINCr  LIBRARY.
GARDEN SEEDS.
DR. J. C. WELSH,
PHYSICIAN AND S.URGEON,
Office, CITY DRUG STORE,
Main street, Los Angelee.
Office hours, 9 to 12, m ; and 2 to 9, p.m.
August 1, 1859.
S.   LAZARD, &   CO.
IMPORTERS,
And Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
French,   English   and   American
Dry Goods.
Corner of Melius Row,LosAngeles. 1 62
PHINEAS BANNING,
FORWARDING and COMMISSION
AGENT,
New San Pedro and Los Angeles.
T©iHJLMI§ON  h  e©<
FORWARl m AAD tOUUlSSION
3VCSE3 1FLO £3 ANTS,
LOS ANGELES ANO SAN PEDRO.
ai.rll-1863.
WM. M. BUFFUM,
(SUCCESSOR TO GEO. THACHER & CO,)
— "Wholesale   and   Retail   Dealer   In —
W9NES J.NB UBUOftS,
Syrups, Bitters. Cordials,
ALE,   FORTXiK, AND   CIGARS,
Main street, Los Angeles, Cal.
Morris Bros StPrager
Have pleasure in announcing to the public
and their old patrons,
That they have Re-Opened at their
Old Stand.
TEMPLE'S BLOCK, MAIN Street,
and bave imported a new and extensive
assortment of
DRY GOODS, CLOTHING,
FANCY and DOMESTIC GOODS,
which tbey-offer  for sale at reduced
CASH PRICES.
FOR
San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara,
San Pedro and San Diego.
ON and alter the first of April, and until further
notice, the steamship
^m.      SENATOR,
Will Make two trips per month on the Southern
Coast, leaving Broadway Wharf,
On the 3d and 18th of each Month
AT 9 O'CLOCK, A. M.
jjgT" Bills of Lading will be furnished by Ihe
Purser on hoard.
For freight or passage apply on board, or at the
office of S. J. Heusley, corner of Front and Jackson streets.
aec9 J   H GNSLET, President.
CXjASRSK'S
INOELiBLE_PEWGIlS.
THE CHEAPEST AND REST
ARTICLE
For Marking Linen.
For sale bv the gross, at
305 Montgomery street, Room No.
2, San Francisco.
eb22
W. HOLT.
News-Dealers  and Booksellers
Read and Remember!!!
Wholesale News-Dealer,
Pa<Ski> and Forwards all the DAILY and WEEKLY NEWS
PAPERS, MAGAZINES, tie., to all parts of the country,
with great dispatch.
1 Sell at Prices tbat Defy Competition.
Every new Novel received as soon as Published.
I have special arrangements with all the different Publishers, Stationers. _c, and furnish the Trade with Books.
Stationery, Blank Books, Music, Portraits, Prints, Medals,
Melainotypes, &c.   Song Books in great variety.
I have un equaled facilities, and guarantee dealers the
closest attention.
Send Tor my Price List, and give me a trial.
Attention is called to the List of AMERICAN and FOREIGN PERIODICALS, for which I receive subscriptions.
Permanent arrangements having been made by the
United States Government for carrying of the mails from
the Atlantic States bv steamer three times a month, I am
enabled to receive subscriptions at a much lower rate
than formerly. The same care and attention willbe paid
to the forwarding of an packages, for which this establishment has gained sucn an enviable reputation throughout the Paclnc Coast.
Subscriptions received for all the San Francisco Dailies,
at Publishers' prices. .
AriV Newspaper, Magazine, or Review, will be furnished
to order Orders for Books, Music, Fancy Articles, fcc.
fllled promptly, at the lowest market rates. Subscriptions
payable invariably in advance
SVew Military Boolia Received aa soon a* Published.
All kinds of MILITARY GOODS imported to order.
Swords Belts, and Presentation Swords got up in the
finest style in thirty days, at fifty per cent, less than San
Francisco prices.
Address,  !_,  ' „__ . __
J. STRATMAN,
1,25 New6 Agent, gan Franelfts.        j
A Rebuke Administered to California "Union"
Journals of tbe IMolsy Sort.
The Territorial Enterprise, leading Administration paper of Nevada territory, recently gave
some of the load-mouthed loyal journalists lhe
following well deserved and severe rebuke. Tbe
coal will fit moie than one of tbe class alluded to :
There exists in California a class of journalists
who by lond-mouthed pretentions of loyalty,
where little if any exists, seek to distract attention
Irom tbeir own short-comings. There is another
class tbat while pretending to do all tbey can to
aid the Government, really do It more harm than
good by repeated charges of Copperbeadism leveled at tbe beads of all those—no matter bow
earnestly loyal—who do not say anything that
does not please tbem. Tbey hesitate at nothing
so long as they can gain with the unsophisticated
the bubble reputation of being ultra—loyal. It is
a loyalty of words and not of deeds, for their purpose, if honest, Ib defeated by the ill-advised method
tbey adopt. We bad always thought that the proper course for a truly loyal paper wonld be lo
strengthen tbe hands of the Administration, which
can scaroely be done by denouncing Its very best
friends and supporters, and circulating calumnies
concerning whole communities. It is a notorious
and well established fact tbat proseylytes from
Piotestantism to Roman Catholicism are always
more fanatically zealous than tbose wbo were
born and brought np in tbe Romish cbnrch ; and
so of all proselytes it will be found tbat tbey are
apt to become bigoted zealots in the cause to
which they have been converted. Tbe obtrusive
and intemperate zeal of the journals alluded to
wonld seem to indicate either mock-loyalty—by
wbicb tbey would, as it were, ''cover tbeir tracks',
or else recent proselytism. We love, admire and
respect true loyalty, and despise the trickster who
bides reason beneath tbe mask of sham Unionism,
and where we see any public journal making lood
vaunts of Its super-loyalty—as some of tbe California papers habitually do—we are reminded ot
the fly wbo perched on the hinder part ofa fast
traveling coach, self complacently crying, "Wbat
a dust I do raise 1" and of the man who sticking a
sardine in bis mouth, imagined bimsell a whale.
Now there is a "whale" of tbis sort in San Francisco which few wonld bave tbe hardihood to declare "no sardine." In fact it iB a box-full of ear-
dines tbat tbe most loyal men cannot get through
without nausea. Tbere is nothing like a paper
being "rich" and "spicy," but tbere iB such a thing
as overloading tbe stomach with articles altogether
too rich. And we think it altogether "too rich"
in asserting that it is a better Union paper than
any otber in California ; or that every paper disagreeing witb it on minor issues is disloyal; or
hat laboring men working on tbe Comanche, cr at
tbe Fort, or any where else, are disunionisls because forsooth tbey don't choose to read or subscribe for the self-styled Union paper par excellence ; or tbat all Catholic Irishmen are traitors
when we know that Catholic Irishmen by thousands
bave fallen fighting for tbe Union, and thousands
more are still battling in jts defense ; that tbe
leading Primate of tbe Catbolio Cbnrch in America—the lamented, Archbishop Hughes—who so
nobly defended our Government, was an Irishman
and tbat Meagher, Corcoran and other Union heroes were Irishmen and Catholics. All tbese
things are quite too "rich" for the true and honest loyalist wbo knows that the cause he loves
and tbe Government be supports are weakened by
suoh indiscriminately abusive writings. Tbis may
be all well meant, but is singularly unsuccessful in
accomplishing desired results. A badly balanced
compass needle is ot little account, so also ofa
newspaper. Their eccentricities may amuse, but
nobody will look to either as a true indicator of
ibe proper couise to steer. Tbe paper we allude
to is but tbe type of a class tbat blow and puff
thomselves up with self-asserted patriotism until
like the bloated toad tbey each imagine themselves
as big as a bull.
m.t '. m » n '»■»
Three Years of War.—Tbis day three years
ago tbe bloody drama of civil strife was inaugurated by the bombardment of Fort Sumter. During
these terrible years of war and devastation, what
myriads of homesteads, have been made desolate
and wbat bit er anguish bas lacerated the hearts
of fond wives and mothers and sisters at home
And still the end is not yet, there ie no silver lining visible in tbe dark cloud, and to all buman
appearances tbe sanguinary struggle is to be continued for years to come. Rivers of blood wi'l
continue to flow, aod destrnction and desolation
follow in train. Tbe publio appetite is not yet
glutted and tbe cry Mjstiil for buman gore. It
would seem as if heaven bad a controversy with
tbis nation, and that a loose rein has been given
to all tbe baser passions ol the buman heart. Tbis
cruel and sanguinary war is unparalleled in tbe
history ofthe world—certainly there has been nothing to equal It in magnitude and atrocity since
the introduction of Christianity into the world.
But we forbear any-further remarks. Tbe subject
is too gloomy to contemplate. O, wben shall
peace again smile upon a restored Union and a
bappy people—when Bhall onr swords be turned
into plowshares and our spears into pruning hooks?
Never 1 never 11—Lancaster Intelligencer.
Thb Immense Linb of Immigration.—A gentleman wbo has just arrived Irom the East, by ths
way of the Overland stage, has been telling as of
the immensity of emigration on tbe way to this
oonntry. He says that Ihe number of wagons and
people is astonishing. He found the Platte River
bo higb that the wagonsoould not be taken across.
At Jolesburg, a crossing place, he counted above
six hundred wagons; and he is confidant tbat if all
tbe wagons wbioh he saw on the route were placed
in line, they wonld extend from Jutesburg to Atchison—a distance of four hundred miles 1—Virgi
nia Union.
A gentleman reoently from Russian river valley
informs us tbat the crops of wheat barley and hay
are good in that section'
Navigation un tbe   Colorado—Explorations   or
tbe Country.
Tbe following are extracts from a private letter
in tbo Bulletin:
Harot'b Landing, Arizona, June 2,1864.
It is pleasant for me to acknowledge my obligations to yon for the active interest you are manifesting in the future of tbis region of country.
My latest advices at this point do not annouoc
as yet the arrival of tbe Josephine [sailed Lorn
San Francisco on 15tb April, and arrived on tbe
4th or 6th of June] at the mouth of the Colorado,
and considering the lack ot freight below, I would
say that none of ber freight would probably reach
this landing for three months from this date.
Capt. Thomas E.Truworthy did not visit this
point, [he went overland and joined tbe steamer
Esmeralda at tbe month of the river.] nor, as I
have understood, any other vicinity above La Paz.
Tbe Esmeralda, however, is announced safe below, and I hope to see her at this landing in a tew
days, and can see no substantial reason why she
should _ot have a busy season's trade upon the
river.
The steamer Coeopah was at this landing on the
21st ultimo,, furnishing us with abundance of supplies for present purposes, but too late for anything like a summer trade with distant parts. It
is proposed tbat she shall hereafter constantly ply
upon the river, as high up as tbis point. It is satisfactorily demonstrated tbat for steamers of light
draught, such as ply upon the upper waters of the
Sacramento and otber rivers dnring sboal seasons,
tbere exists no greater obstacles to the uninterrupted navigation of the Colorado, from tbis plaoe
to its mouth, and probably from above. To effect
tbis, however, tbe steamers must be kept constantly on the passage, and pilots familiarize themselves with its every shift and turn.
Explorations are now in progress by the indefatigable miners and adventurous mountaineers of
this region, seconded to some extent by the military, whereby we shall ascertain something more
than bas heretofore been known of tbat vast interior watered by tbe Green and Little Colorado
Rivers, and the main Colorado below tbeir junction, embracing the several tributaries, bb supposed thereto. A party of three persons returned
bere from an explorationof the river in an open
boat. They made tbeir way up the river to a
point described by their Indian guide, as about 30
miles from where the Colorado turnsjfor the'sec'
ond time to its more direot north general course,
a distance as tbey estimate, by the river—of some
240 miles, being 160 miles beyond tbe point
reached by Lieut. Ives in bis explorations; They
say tbere are no falls in tbe river thus far, end no
insurmountable objects presented against navigation, at favorable seasons, for a certain style of
small steamers.
Tbey tnrned back because tbey met tbe spring
flood with its swift current and flood wood, which
they feared too dangerous tor their frail bark
but tbey are of opinion tbat staunch steamers can
penetrate the Colorado and Green rivers to a
point 400 or 600 miles above bere. Snch favorable,
reports have induced the citizens here to undertake the construction of a barge or two suited to
sucb an enterprise, and I hope to see the navigable
qualities alluded to more thoroughly tested in a
few months.
Our ad venturers found timber on the banks in
spots and cut some, a part of wbich bas found its
way to Ihe mines on El Dorado Canon. Tbey also
fonnd pieces of float stone coal of an excellent
quality, indicating a bed of that useful article
somewhere above; but the most Important fact
demonstrated is a vast bed of mineral or natural
salt on tbe bank of the Virgin river, some three
milea above its confluence with the Colorado and
about 140 miles above tbis landing. Tbe advantage of this latter development in tbe silver mining operations hereabouts cannot be .truly estimated.
One of this party, some five years ago, traveled
with Indian guides alone from Pike's Peak west
to California, across the conntry, passing the
Oreen river above its junction with tbe Little Colorado, and tbe interior basin north of main Colorado. Whatever he found on bis travels, he has
not disclosed to me, bul it wsb evidently something
in his estimation justifying him in again facing
the perils and enduring tbe hardships incidental
to tbe explorations. Tbe same party left here a
week ago with animals aod provisions, to renew
their adventures by land. I bear of otber parties
moving about on similar ventures, and it is in
contemplation to bave one of some importance
start Irom here after tbe beat of summer—say
abont tbe 1st of October next. I have information that a party from tbe vicinity of Salt Lake
City, nnder the auspices of Gen. Conner, is now
en route for tbe region of oountry heretofore desoribed. with his ultimate destination in tbis vi-
cinity. By a union oi these efforts, it mav reasonably be expeoted that we shall not long be left In
doubt concerning the resources of tbat land, heretofore the fastnesses of tbe Apaobe, and tbe dream
of Golconda of tbe mountain trapper and other
wild treasure seekers. Let us hope lor tbe ful'
fruition of these brilliant hopes.
Old Abe's last Joke.—We do not know what
joke Old Abe made wben be heard of tbe news of
tbe surrender of Plymouth. In regard to the Fort
Pillow affair be made a Bunsby speech, but no
joke. His last joke, of wbich we have any know
ledge, occurred when Secretary Chase was starting
oo bis trip to New York. Old Abe is like Cromwell, without his military genius, and is very food
of playing practical jokeB upon bis associates. It
is said alter Cromwell bad signed tbe warrant for
the execmion of King Charles, be tnrned round to
one of bis colleagues aod smeared bis face wilb
the ink. This be thought capital fun. Old Abe's
jokes are of about tbe same quality When Chase
called upon bim to say good-bye, the Seoretary of
the Treasury asked for some information about the
probable end of tbe war, saying tbat it would help
bim greatly io getting more money in Wall street.
"Do you want more money?'' asked Abe, and then
quickly added. "What, has the printing machine
gin out V i This joke ia lully equal- to Comwell's.
—JY. Y. Herald.
Butler's Late Movements.—Tbe New York
papers are very severe on General Butler,, In their
criticisms of bis late movemeots.   Tbe Times says:
Tbere is no doubt that be first displayed nndae
confidence, and afterwards undue discouragement
—the fault of all others most natural to civilian
commanders. Tbe consequence is, tbat ground
bas been lost wbicb cannot be recovered witbont
a great expenditure of blood ; several thousand
men have been put hois du combat; tbe enemy
are again in fnll possession of tbe Richmond and
Petersburg Railroad ; and two corps of our army,
as brave men as ever trod, are cooped up on tbs
banks of tbe James river, to nil appearances almost helpless and useless. In other words, tbo
movement from the Peninsula, which obaioed suck
ao auspicious start, has not been fitly sustained by
General Butler, and has turned out a veritablo
miscarriage. This failure completes the record.
Not one solitary civilian, Irom the beginning of
the war nntil now, bas shown himself competent
for high command. The folly of trusting military
empiricism bas been written out with letters of*
blood, with illustration alter illustration dnring
this war, so that now no observing man in tho
oonntry can possibly gainsay it. Tbe troth ought
to ha ve been plain enough at tbe outset,thai military ecienoe demands as systematic and protracted
study as tbat of law or medicine: and that It il
just as absurd to improvise a General from a lawyer or merchant as to improvise a Judge from a
schoolmaster or a physioiao from a mechanic Tbo
want of professional training Is jnst as sure to
make military charlatans. It is astonishing how
slow our Government and people bave been to recognize so simple a truth.
The Electoral Votb or 1864.—Under tho present apportionment tbe following is ths electoral
vole of the several States wbich will partioipatt
in the coming Presidential election :
LOYAL states.
California  6 I Minnesota  4
Connecticut  6
Delaware 3
Illinois 16
(ndiana ..13
Iowa............... 8
| Missouri 11
New Hampshire 5
New Jersey 7
New York..........33
Ohio ,...*.....21
Kansas   3 j Oregon.
Kentucky 11
Maine..............   7
Pennsylvania 26
Rhode Island m
Maryland I'..J    Vermont S
Massachusetts 12 I West Virgiuia...... 4
Michigan   8 | Wisconsin  8
281
STATES PROBABLY VOTING.
Arkansas ,t.. 6 I Nevada..,......«(» 3
Colorado 3 | Tennessee 10
Luisiana 7 1 Virginia (part) 5
Nebraska....... 3|
3, Tbe following States now In  rebellion wonld
have been entitled to fifty-four electoral votes:
Alabama ...6
Florida 5
Georgia  9
North Carolina 9
South Carolina  S
Texas «
Mississippi...;.,.... 7 | Virginia (part)..... 6
In tbe event of a vote of all these Slates the
whole number of electoral votes wonld . bave been
321, making necessary to a choice of President
ami Vice President, 161. If we omit tbe voles of
tbe Stales and Districts in rebellion, aod include
those wblob will enter tbe Union or will bave returned to allegiance, the whole number of votes
will be 267. of whicb 134 will be sufficient loeleot.
—Sacramento Bee,
Placerville and Carson Valley Routb.—The
Virginia City papers naturally congratulate their
readers over tbe shortening of tbe route between
iheir Territory aod California. Ten miles of tbe
Placerville railway will be completed by tbe 15lh
of July. The upper terminus is known as "La-
trobe." On tbat day, also, a new branch toll roaf
thirty-miles long, will be opened. It extends
from Strawberry to Sportsman's Hall. This will
save seven miles travel. Tbe entire distance on
shortened stage route, between Virginia and Sao-
ramento, will be 116 miles. Passengers, then,
leaving Sacramento at 4 a.m., will arrive io Virgi*
nia at 10 r. m., of the same day. Tbe Pioneer
Stage Company employs some fifty men, and bave
in use 600 horses and twelve coaches. During
the year last past, according to a local paper, the
number of passengers coming into tbe Territory
was 11,103, and of tbose going to Callloroia 8,430.
Oo the route there are nioety-three hotels. Tbe
distance from point to point between the  termini
are as follows:
Milee.
To Carson ,   10
Friday's   21
Yank's , !•?
Strawberry  10
Sugar l.raf Station (new  road) 11
Bertram's M'll (new road)  13s
Sportsman's Hall... j..^Jhm^.ih*......    S
Placerville ,,.,..4........... U
Latrobe (connecting with railroad)  16
Total ..,
—Alta.
.im
A letter Irom Washington, under date of May
31, bas tbe lollowing:
"The destruction ot Madison Conrt House, a few
dayB ago, was a wanton act not warranted by any
thing done by tbe enemy. The story is not true
that the rebels fired from the bouses in that vil-
age. An officer wbo participated in the affair
says tbat the firing was purely a figure of imagination in the mind of the commanding officer of onr
troops, wbo evinced Sbe most extreme nervousness
on tbe occasion, and gave his orders in such a
mixed and incongruous manner tbat his subordinates conld not fathom bis wishes until be gave
the order to apply tbe torcb.whicb be appeared to
understand tbe use of better than be did his sword.
Sucb acts ol vandalism are a blot on the history
of any nation.    We hope it will not be repeated."
Tbe Ohio Crisis makes tbe lollowing comments
npon the above piece of vandalisms
We snppose it is all right for "onr side" to
burn towns.sack private bouses, seize cotton aad
"run off" negroes, but tt is not 'so right" for ittf
body else to do it. We do It nnder tbe "war pow»
er.'' bnt as 00 body else has any right lo Ibe "war
power," of course tbe right is all on one side. Wo
view tbe subject of "retaliation" on tbe same basis
of reasoning—only one side to it I I have a right
under tbo''quarrel power" to spit in my neighbors
faee, bat that gives him no right to spit in mine I
That ia tbe way we reason.
	
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