To the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Oregon--
    Your memorialists, the People of the Town of Jacksonville, County of Jackson and State of Oregon, would respectfully represent unto your honorable body that the Trustees of the Town of Jacksonville, under the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled "an act for the relief of Citizens of Towns upon the lands of the United States under certain circumstances" (U.S. Statutes at Large, Vol. 5, page 657) have entered in the U.S. Land Office and paid for the same, a certain fraction of land, lying within the corporate limits of said Town, described as follows:
    Being the fractional North West quarter of Section No. 32, in Township No 37 S of Range No. 2 West containing One hundred and Fourteen acres and Fifty-five hundredths (114 55/100), for the benefit of the occupants thereon.
    And your petitioners therefore pray your honorable body to pass an enabling act authorizing the Trustees of said Town to issue title deeds to the occupants upon said land and also to dispose of all unoccupied lots within said entry for the use and benefit of the said Town Corporation of Jacksonville.
    And your memorialists as in duty bound will ever pray:

	William Hoffman	Henry Klippel
	L. J. C. Duncan	R. H. Haines
	U. S. Hayden	P. Donegan
	W. H. Pyle	C. Davenport
	L. S. Thompson	I. D. Haines
	C. C. Beekman	James D. Fay
	James T. Glenn	P. P. Prim
	J. M. Sutton

Undated, circa 1865. Joseph Lane Papers, Lilly Library.


    SPECIFIC CONTRACT LAW.--We learn from the Sentinel that meetings have been called in Jackson County for the purpose of disapproving of this law. One speaker had denounced the Sentinel and threatened to read it out of the party unless it should come out against the law. The man who aids in creating or fostering divisions in the Union party is no better than the rebel or copperhead that chuckles over them.
Oregon Statesman, Salem, January 2, 1865, page 2


    SECESH CHANGE.--The Yreka Journal says P. J. Malone, of the Corvallis Union, suppressed some time ago for disloyalty, has taken old T'Vault's place in the Jacksonville Intelligencer, and changed its name to the Reporter. Malone is the vilest of traitors, a blackguard and a disgrace to any cause.
Morning Union, Grass Valley, California, January 3, 1865, page 3


    OREGON REPORTER.--Under this title we receive the first number of the new Democratic organ at Jacksonville, published and edited by P. J. Malone, Esq. The leader is a well-worded salutatory, in which the editor, professing Democracy to the core, seems to conclude that the American people have decided against him. He says the question being no longer of argument, [but] of "horse, foot and artillery, the Reporter will have but little to say about politics." At the same time, if the Reporter will fairly discuss the questions of the day, we hope to occasionally hear what it has to say, if only to comment on the progress of the "horse, foot and artillery." Mr. Malone was editor of the Union, at the time that paper was suppressed at Corvallis by order of government, has been a Democrat for some time, and possesses a sharp enough pen, when he pleases to use it, though we have thought him at times unscrupulous in its use. No doubt he will succeed in the management of the paper quite as well as his predecessor would have done.
Oregonian, Portland, January 6, 1865, page 2


    ALEX. BLAKELY was elected Speaker of the House in the Idaho Legislature on the 16th November. The Argus says: "Blakely is a practical printer, and has distinguished himself as an editor. He was editor of the Eugene (Oregon) Herald during 1859 and 1860, in which capacity he wielded influence and won political friends. He is an old editor and the founder of the Jacksonville Sentinel."
San Mateo County Gazette, Redwood City, California, January 7, 1865, page 1


    We have received the first number of the Oregon Reporter, which takes the place of the Intelligencer. Malone's salutatory is a decided curiosity. We have concluded to reproduce a portion of it. From reading it one will hardly be able to decide whether a change has really "come over the spirit of his dreams," or whether it is merely a strategic movement, intended to beguile those who are acquainted with his past history into his support. Speaking of what is to be the policy of his paper, he says:
    "This being the condition of things--the process of 'molding American society' having been reduced to a question, not of argument, but of horse, foot and artillery--the Reporter will have but little to say about politics.
    "By organization, by education and by instinct we are a Democrat, and could not be anything else if we tried; but it is useless folly to preach Democracy to a people who have already accepted despotism.
    "The Reporter will be a different paper, in tone and temper, from what the Corvallis Union was."
    After speaking of his own course while conducting the Union, and of the conduct of Democratic papers generally, he says:
    "How much better and wiser would it have been had the public press of the country lent itself to conservativism, to reason, and to statesmanship--to justice and humanity--rather than to the work of demagogism, folly and fanaticism? Had it done so, how different might have been the condition and prospects of our unhappy country today? Even had the Democratic press done so, unanimously, at the beginning of the war, it would not now have to bewail the utter futility of voting as a means of preserving popular liberty.…
    "We feel that the remedy for the present deplorable condition of the country has passed out of the stage of discussion and argument, of newspaper articles and stump speeches. We shall, therefore, lumber our columns but little with political discussion."
    It is hard to tell what the unterrified Democracy will think of an organ that is to be merely "literary" in character, and not devoted to the defense of their "principles." It is doubtful whether they anticipated this when they turned out T'Vault and appointed Malone "boss." One thing is certain, he now holds the reins in that party. O'Meara has retired and T'Vault has been dismissed [from] the service. Pat is monarch of all he surveys--the only Democratic exponent in the state of Oregon of any talent or respectability. It is hard to tell into what measures he will lead his party from anything in the first number of his paper. If that party should come into power, which is altogether improbable, his great aim will be to thwart the schemes of his ancient enemy, who assays to rule the faithful in the "cow counties." The bone of contention between the two would be a seat in the Senate and in Congress. Pat would desire to see these offices conferred on persons whom J. Davis & Co. could trust, and not on demagogues, who change their tactics with every shift of popular opinion.
Oregon Statesman, Salem, January 9, 1865, page 2


    CEMENT HOUSES.--We have been informed by Messrs. Howard & Smith that they will soon be prepared for building the celebrated cement houses in Jacksonville, which for neatness, cheapness and durability surpass any other material yet discovered in the building line.
Oregon Sentinel, Jacksonville, January 14, 1865, page 2


    ED. STATESMAN: In my late communication I expressed the apprehension that a large influx of disloyal persons from the East might place the Pacific states under rebel rule.
    In such event, is it likely their rule will be peaceful? Considering the elements which compose the party here already, and those likely to join it, there is much reason to fear it will not. Some men of property, more perhaps from prejudice to Mr. Lincoln than sympathy with the rebellion, voted for McClellan. These generally accepting the decision of the people at the ballot box as final, in respect to the mode of obtaining peace, are coming over to the support of the government, and though they add strength to those wishing to maintain peace and order on the Pacific Coast, leave the party they abandon without a conservative element to restrain it within the bounds of law--leaving in the hands of unscrupulous leaders a class of men having nothing to lose by anarchy--who are at all times made to respect the rights of others by the logic of force. These here are mostly foreigners--the largest number Irish.
    No race of men have more good qualities by nature than the Irish; open, frank, generous and confiding, their ignorance enables the designing to use their good qualities as aids in making them tools to accomplish their wicked purposes. Their government at home being administered by a people not of their race or religion, they are taught to believe their ignorance and poverty are due to its oppression, and that it is meritorious to hate their oppressors, and to resist or evade their laws--being too ignorant to discriminate between laws protecting the rights of others, and those taking away their own, they hate all law. They come to America not to enjoy liberty secured by law, but the liberty of the savage without its restraints--not the liberty to enjoy the fruits of its own labor, but the liberty to appropriate the labor of others. Hence it is, Irishmen are always foremost in mobs and riots, and form a large percentum of the inmates of state prisons, and the victims of the gallows.
    Unfortunately for the peace of the country, some of the most virulent editors in the service of Jeff Davis on this coast are Irish, who know how to appeal to the prejudices of their countrymen and stir up the worst traits of their characters. These men, having nothing but their worthless lives at stake, seem bent upon urging their ignorant countrymen to acts of violence. One of these [P. J. Malone of the Jacksonville Intelligencer/Reporter] known among decent people (from his low, brutal and fiendish qualities) as the "reptile," edited a sheet in this town at the commencement of the war. For its open and flagrant treason it was denied a passage in the mails, and for its gross indecency was excluded from the houses even of its patrons. Though forced to give up the publication of a paper, the "reptile" did not give up his design to cause a rebellion on this coast, but exercised all the influence he could use with his countrymen, both in this state and California, to form combinations to resist the laws, and set the governments, both state and federal, at defiance. This "unclean beast" is now editing a paper at Jacksonville, where it is supposed treason "most flourishes." That he is alive and at large is sufficient evidence of the misplaced mercy and forbearance of the government. No one who knows this man doubts his desire to bring upon this state all the horrors of civil war, and should he succeed in his wicked purpose he will take such a part in it as will shame Quantrill in atrocity. Yet men claiming to be staunch supporters of the Union advertise in his paper, speak to him, and even shake his hand when they meet him in the streets!!!
Oregon Statesman, Salem, January 16, 1865, page 2


    By request of Father Blanchet we publish the following letter, which will explain itself:
    Rev. Father:--I am in receipt of your favor dated October 4th, by which you manifest a desire to have Sisters establish a school of their order in Jacksonville. It is quite probable that you can have some of them, but we are so circumstanced here at present that we can disburse nothing towards paying their fare to Oregon. If you send money for the fare of three Sisters of Charity, they will be ready to leave Montreal in the coming spring.
    I remain, Rev. Father, with consideration and respect,
Rev. Father Blanchet, Jacksonville, Oregon.
Oregon Sentinel, Jacksonville, January 14, 1865, page 3


    A NOVEL WAY.--A friend from Jacksonville tells us that a drove of two hundred and forty-three fat hogs were lately driven by the new road over the mountains from Jackson County to the mines. They were a month upon the road, and were kept in good order by being fed on beef. A drove of cattle were in company, and these were killed and fed to the swine, which were thereby kept in good order all the way.
Morning Oregonian, Portland, January 17, 1865, page 2


    Recruiting for the Oregon cavalry is going on briskly in Jackson County. Last week thirteen recruits were sent to Fort Klamath.


    WELL DONE.--Two heavy freight wagons, loaded with merchandise for our merchants, arrived in town on Saturday evening last, direct from Crescent City over the mountains. The like has not been done for years. They report the mountain road as frozen and hard--very little snow.
Oregon Sentinel, Jacksonville, January 21, 1865, page 5


    COIN FOR TAXES.--Mr. John S. Love, one of the County Commissioners of Jackson County, has recently deposited with the Treasurer of the state the taxes of Jackson County for 1863 and 1864. That county has taken advantage of the law passed last session, granting ninety days for the counties who had offered greenbacks to make them equivalent to gold, and Jackson County has now about $10,000 legal tenders and $5,000 in gold deposited to her credit, on account of her taxes due the state for those two years.


    To the citizens of Jackson County:
    I have the pleasure to announce to the public of Jackson County that the number of men called for to fill the quota in the First Regiment of Oregon Infantry have responded to the call, and the quota is now full. In the discharge of my duties as recruiting officer, I have met with but very little opposition; in fact, I have had the assistance of persons of all political proclivities. They assisted me, not only by their influence, but with their money. It is because I have been so cleverly aided by precept and example that I am enabled to make the above announcement. But when all have so nobly and generously aided me in this work, I must not forget that among them were persons who, by giving their time and money, and by canvassing for volunteers, have kept alive the proper spirit. To Harrison B. Oatman of Phoenix I am under great obligations for exertions in my behalf. To Messrs. Dowell, Fay and Jacobs I am indebted for speeches in favor of enlistments. I have received in money contributions about three hundred dollars, of which about two hundred and twenty have been expended in the recruiting service, and for the comfort of enlisted men. The residue, by a vote of the enlisted men of the company, has been set aside for sanitary purposes, for the comfort of sick and wounded in the company.
Oregon Sentinel, Jacksonville, February 4, 1865, page 3


    THE OREGON MINES.--The Jacksonville Sentinel of Jan. 28th says:
    From every mining camp in Southern Oregon comes cheering, golden news. Water is abundant, and all hands are at work. Take the mines, in the aggregate, and they will yield, this winter, at least five dollars per day to the man. There are at the present time, exclusive of Chinamen and Kanakas, from five hundred to eight hundred men employed in the mines of this county. There are probably a thousand Chinamen. The flood did the miners much injury in carrying away flumes and reservoirs, but there was a compensation attending that injury. Accumulated deposits of tailings were swept away, and old channels cleaned out to the very bedrock.
Morning Union, Grass Valley, California, February 9, 1865, page 2


    We learn from persons who were present that the ball given at Rock Point, by L. J. White, Esq., was a brilliant affair. Sixty-one couples took part in the ball room, besides a great number who participated in the more solid comforts of the loaded board, which was spread at one o'clock.
Oregon Sentinel, Jacksonville, February 11, 1865, page 3


To the Editor of the Oregon Sentinel:
    SIR--In the Reporter of the 18th instant it is my misfortune to be mentioned, in connection with others, in terms of commendation.
    As it is evident the Reporter aims thereby to foment discord, which he supposes to exist among the supporters of the government, it will be well for those gentlemen, as well as I, to examine their past conduct and their feelings carefully in order to reform so far as not again to deserve the praise of an enemy.
    I have been unable to discover in anything I have said or done why an obscure farmer, in no way before the public, has received so large a share of this damning praise. It is true, I would have all the measures of the Administration the wisest and best, and all its appointments to office the ablest and most meritorious--with some of these I have not been satisfied--but if by a word of censure I have offended a friend or given pleasure to an enemy of the country, that word shall be spoken no more.
    The Reporter says I am the "most consistent partisan." While there was even the appearance of patriotism in the party calling itself Democratic, I have treated its supporters with the tolerance and courtesy I claim for myself, but since the fair issue made up and presented to the people in the late presidential election, I have considered those who arrayed themselves against their country upon the trial of that issue as unworthy of either tolerance or courtesy--those who understood the issue, because they are traitors, and those who supported the wrong through ignorance, because they have not qualified themselves to discharge a high political trust understandingly. With a man I believe to be a true friend of his country I never have nor never will quarrel because we do not agree in the mode of best promoting its welfare; and even now, when political parties no longer exist, and men are for their country or against it, I feel more of sorrow than anger towards those who, through ignorance and the prejudices of birth and education, array themselves on the side of its enemies.
    The Reporter says I am "the deepest thinker"--"of great depth of thought"--which seems to be an admission that my thoughts are correct. I have told the editor of the Reporter that I thought him a traitor of as deep a dye as Jeff Davis, and certain others, his present patrons, were no better. As these thoughts are based on better evidence than the admissions of the Reporter, I think, sustained by these admissions, I have a right to consider them well founded.
    I think further that it is no credit, even to a "copperhead" community who would turn out a native-born citizen, who "has done the state some service," and put a "foreigner" and natural traitor in his place. The "old man" about whom the Reporter uses the refined terms "drivel" and "slobber," whatever wrong he may have done or said in the heat of controversy, or by following false lights, has a heart in his bosom which in times past "beat true to the music of the Union."
    In Oregon, twenty years ago, when as now there were no political parties, when all were British or all Americans, and the side of wealth and advantage were with the former, that "old man" and myself stood shoulder to shoulder for our country, and for his sake it grieves my heart if we do not so stand now; and I am grieved there is a community anywhere so forgetful of past services, so steeped in treason that would turn that "old man" and faithful servant out, and put a "reptile" in his place, who cannot write three lines without betraying the bitterness of his hatred to our country, and the grossness and filthiness of his nature.
Oregon Statesman, Salem, February 13, 1865, page 3  The "old man" is W. G. T'Vault, recently ejected from the Intelligencer.


    JESSE APPLEGATE UPON PAT MALONE.--The card of Mr. Applegate, in which he so pungently expresses his repugnance to the hypocritical praise of Patrick, the Puritan Hater, we copy from the Sentinel of last week. No word of ours could add to the force of that brief letter. It is a volume in itself.
    The Arena seizes upon this letter as another pretext for discouraging enlistments in the army. Its fulminations will have about as much effect upon this as upon the price of potatoes, or the next change of the moon.
Oregon Statesman, Salem, February 13, 1865, page 2


    RECRUITING IN JACKSON.--We learn from the Sentinel that 65 men have enlisted in Jackson County for the First Oregon Infantry--ten more than the quota of that county. Besides these, about 20 have enlisted in the cavalry under the new call. The Sentinel says:
    "Jackson, Josephine and Douglas counties have furnished more men for the United States service during the past three years than any other portion of Oregon of the same number of population."
Oregon Statesman, Salem, February 13, 1865, page 2


 

    GONE.--Mr. J. Waldo Thompson, who has had charge of the telegraph office at this place for the last nine or ten months, started for Salem on yesterday morning, to take charge of the office there. We commend him to the good people of Salem as a young man worthy of their highest confidence and esteem.
Oregon Sentinel, Jacksonville, February 25, 1865, page 2


    ROAD TO OWYHEE.--From our exchanges we glean the fact that considerable interest is being manifested in other portions of Oregon, and in California also, with regard to the Owyhee mines and the several routes to them. We have just been shown the tracings of Col. Drew's route of last summer, from Ft. Klamath to the Owyhee region and back, and from this, taken in connection with his official report, it is obvious, to us at any rate, that the route by which he returned is decidedly the best that has yet been found. From any portion of the country between Red Bluff, California, and Eugene City, Oregon, it is quite direct--from Yreka, Jacksonville, and Roseburg, more direct than it is possible to find another. It has, also, less desert, more grazing and better water than any route of which we have any knowledge. It is of the greatest public consequence to Southern Oregon, and Northern California, that the route should be opened at once, as a regular thoroughfare, as among the many benefits of a public character that will accrue in such event, the distance of the overland immigrant route to this portion of the Pacific Coast will be greatly shortened and otherwise improved. We hope, therefore, that this route will receive early attention on the part of the generals commanding the District of California and the Department of the Pacific, and that an ample military force will be placed upon it early in the coming spring, to guard it effectually from the Indians. General Wright, commanding the District of California, and at whose instance the Owyhee reconnaissance of last year was made, we known to be fully alive to the interests and welfare of this frontier, and we trust that through him the general commanding the department will also become fully aware of our wants and necessities.--Sentinel.
Morning Oregonian, Portland, February 28, 1865, page 3




    ORATORS.--It will be remembered that the people of Jackson County, Oregon imported their orator for the Fourth of July from Yreka, and that the leaguers of Yreka got theirs from Jacksonville. Everybody here speak in the highest terms of the oration of Mr. [Orange] Jacobs, but the Reporter of Jacksonville does not return the compliment. In its observations upon Mr. McDougal's oration delivered at Phoenix, that paper says:
    "A collection of fifty dollars was made among the generous, God-fearing 'Yoonyun' men at Phoenix on the Fourth, for the relief of Archer, who lost nearly all he had by the fire, while the same canting crew made up a purse of three hundred dollars for McDougal, one of these clerical pests who infest almost every community nowadays. This man McDougal was invited to Phoenix from Yreka to deliver the oration, and took occasion during his address to spit out a lot of Billingsgate about Copperheads, etc., which would disgrace the most abandoned fish woman that ever plied her voice and calling in the purlieus of Wapping. The reverend vilifier and calumniator was enjoying the hospitality of Democrats as well as Republicans, who were equally strangers to him, and as a stranger among men of all parties who were showing him every attention and courtesy, and were at least entitled to respect and common decency--should have restrained the reverend blackguard's tongue, if no consideration for his calling could. But when lies and slander, vilification and abuse are rewarded by a fat purse, Messrs. Howling Parsons are not proof against temptation to bear false witness. In the meantime, the man who lost his all may bear his burden as best he may. Such is puritan philanthropy and charity."
The Semi-Weekly Union, Yreka, California, July 15, 1865, page 2


    "THE CATHOLIC AGAINST PROTESTANT EDUCATION.--We find the following in a notice of the Catholic school at Portland, by the editor of the Jacksonville Reporter, in his correspondence:
    "And a Catholic education has this advantage over all others: that it cultivates the heart and the affections as well as the intellect and deportment. The tendency of the American mind--ever since Dr. Franklin's day--has been to materialism. There is nothing of reverence (in the Yankee mind at least) for anything but worldly success. Virtue, faithful service, devotion to convictions of duty--all these, according to our modern godless philosophy, are but things and themes for abstractionists. The spirit and influence of Catholic teaching are against this sort of thing. Hence it is that Catholic education and Catholic literature cannot help benefiting America. We think, too, that America will benefit Catholicity. Not its creed, of course, for that is unchangeable; but its practices--or rather, the habits and practices of its ministers. In our opinion, Catholicity and American democracy will mutually benefit one another."
    It is not proper to permit such a thrust at all Protestant schools, and Protestant teachers and scholars, to pass unnoticed. We presume that Catholic education, like Protestant education, will produce its best fruits where it is unembarrassed, and in those countries where it is the education of the state, and the only system tolerated. Judged by this standard, what are the fruits of Catholic education in Spain, Mexico, Chile and Italy? The Spanish heart and affection is but another name for bloodthirstiness and treachery. Under a Catholic system of education, Spain produced the horrors of the Inquisition, and although it sent hardy navigators to the New World, it sent them only for gold. Under the Catholic system, Spain has retrograded from a first-class power to an insignificant fourth-rate nation--and it does not now  possess a single railroad, nor any other signs of an existence in the nineteenth century. How about Mexico? The Catholics have always controlled both the schools and churches of the nation, with unbounded wealth besides, and what is the result? Constant civil war for forty years, brigandage, guerrilla robbers, and cowled priests. How about Chile? Any better than Mexico or Spain? The priesthood itself has become notorious for licentiousness and all manner of debauchery. How about Italy? Alas! The heavens above are pure only because of their distance from Italians. And these are countries where the Catholic system of education has been patronized by the exclusion of all other systems. Catholic literature has been the only reading permitted in those unhappy countries.
    Now what fruits has the Protestant system of education borne in the United States, because this is the only country where there is a free and independent Protestant system of education. Does any American need to be pointed to the glorious fruit of our free schools? Does the Catholic foreigner who edits the Reporter, and finds an echo in the Arena, need to be pointed to the Sanitary and Christian Commissions, novelties in the history of the world, yet, nevertheless, the outgrowths of our American (a Yankee, if you prefer it) education. Does not these glories of our own land and education bespeak no cultivation of the heart? Is there no "virtue, faithful service, and devotion to convictions of duty," in that education which prompts men to go to the battle field and gather up friends and foes alike and minister to their wants; or which prompts ladies of the highest rank and education to seek out the suffering soldier in the military hospitals; or which prompted the women of America, from the palace in the city to the log cabin in the forest, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific, to pour out the labor of their hands and the contributions of the purse, to relieve the sick and wounded of the great rebellion, all the time for the last four years. Is there no heart in all this? no affection? no devotion to convictions of duty? Take back your insult to American teachers and their precepts, thou foreign ingrate! The Sanitary and Christian Commissions may be justly claimed as the crowning glories of our system of education; but in them we believe it may be asserted as a truth that no Catholic teacher or Catholic priest has ever taken any part. They doubtless have their reasons. We hope they are sufficient. We do not wish to draw any invidious comparisons; but we will certainly not permit any Democratic paper to draw them against Protestant schools without denouncing the insult.
Oregon Statesman, Salem, July 17, 1865, page 2


    P. J. MALONE, Esq., editor of the Oregon Reporter, published at Jacksonville, arrived at Boise City a few days ago. He will be in the Basin in a short time and will canvass Boise County for subscribers for his paper. Mr. Malone is well known on this coast as an able political writer, and we have no doubt the Reporter will receive a large accession to its list of patrons.
Idaho World, Idaho City, July 22, 1865, page 2


    CANYONVILLE, July 25th.--On Sunday an Irishman claiming to be a Methodist minister, and having recommendations from several Methodist ministers of the northern part of the state, stole a horse from a Mr. Curnott, another Methodist minister of this place, and started south. He was pursued and captured at Phoenix, south of this place, in Jackson County. He was brought back to this place and remanded to jail to await the action of the grand jury.
Daily Alta California, San Francisco, July 26, 1865, page 1


    The pests known as the "army worm," says the Oregon Sentinel, have made their appearance about Jacksonville. They are eating all before them on Rogue River, in the vegetable line, and are even attacking the fruit trees.
Walla Walla Statesman, July 28, 1865, page 2


    ROAD TO KLAMATH.--A detachment of twenty men, under command of Captain Sprague, started to cut a road from Fort Klamath, intersecting the "Rogue River and John Day Wagon Road" at Union Creek. By letter from Captain Sprague we learn that an excellent road can be made with but a slight grade. He says teams can draw as heavy loads over it as they can over the Crescent City road.
    The Captain says he would be very thankful for any assistance from the citizens on this end of the road.
Oregon Sentinel, Jacksonville, July 29, 1865, page 2


    The fight between the [Jacksonville] Reporter and the copperhead leaders who support it on the one hand, and the little squad of miscellaneous scavengers and "Live Long Tomers" on the other hand, who are running the rebel organ of this place (into the ground) is waxing warm. Two weeks ago "Coast Fork" (the Governor) commenced the laudable but very disagreeable and dangerous work of "punching the wind out of the vain little man." This process produced a kind of internal convulsion and a "wail of despair," which seems to have disgusted "sturdy Democrats" more than ever. Thereupon their wrath kindles, and they wish to have it "distinctly understood that they will resist the leadership of such men"--namely the "vain little man" who is so "puffed up like a bladder" and his associates. It is a veritable "tempest in a tea pot." The following extracts from a long article in the Reporter will give the reader some idea of the nature of the trouble which is distracting the "harmonious Democracy."
    "The Review and Arena are very much exercised in regard to certain correspondence which has appeared in these columns in reference to them. In the last issue of the Review the editor thereof publishes a long defense, and coolly asks us to republish it. If we don't choose to do so the little man of the Review commands Democrats to 'spot' us. The Arena approves of the article in question; so, of course, it is in favor of the 'spotting' process. Well, gentlemen, although we don't know what terrible species of punishment 'spotting' may be, we shall nevertheless take the desperate chances of being 'spotted,' and won't publish the Review's effusions. We wish the Review and its fellow martyr, the Arena, to distinctly understand that their wails of anguish shall not deter as from publishing any correspondence, etc. The Review's article does not require and is not worthy a reply from us, and we shall leave 'Coast Fork' to attend to it, which undoubtedly he will do in due time."
    Now is your chance, Governor. "Attend to them in due time," certainly. If you don't you are not the man you pretend to be. What, get the Reporter into trouble, and then desert it--never! No, sir, teach these inflated scrubs that you never back down when the principles of "sturdy Democracy" are at stake, and, furthermore, that you are not to be trampled upon by the likes of them. Waltz in on the rascals, and chastise them for fleecing you "financially and otherwise." Let the world know, for the credit of your party, that a Democratic Governor cannot be deliberately fleeced out of his substance in broad daylight, and then look quietly on and see his means squandered to break up the party by a "vain little man," or set of men, "puffed up like a bladder." Teach the impudent vagabonds that they can't play such high-handed tricks on a live Democratic Governor.
    The Reporter continues:
    "At the peril of bringing down our devoted head the terrors of 'spotting,' we distinctly avow our determination to resist the leadership of such men as are referred to by our correspondent. We should prefer to see the party defeated nine hundred and ninety-nine times while standing firm to the principles it upheld during the stormy scenes of the last four years, than triumph under the leadership of that crew of traitors, the Butlers and Dickinsons of the East, or their servile and unscrupulous imitators in Oregon."
    We presume this war-whoop, and death knell of the "servile" creatures referred to, is from Fay, "the leader of the Democracy in the House" during the last session of the legislature, as Pat Malone is east of the mountains. With the Reporter on the south, that "new Democratic paper" looming up on the north, and the Governor in the center, the "wailings" of these "servile" rebels can't last long. Let them wail while they can, for all the wind will soon be punched out of them, and then what a collapse there will be.
Oregon State Journal, Eugene, Oregon, July 29, 1865, page 2


    "THE COMBAT DEEPENS."--Last week the Reporter made a thrust at a certain set of politicians in the Democratic ranks, naming out Mr. Caton and others as being guilty of foisting a war plank into their platform some three years ago. This week the same paper, in replying to the Review and Arena's advice to "spot" the Reporter, says:
    "In the meantime we will add that this terror of division in the Democratic ranks has ere now saddled that party with a host of unprincipled bloodsuckers, who grew fat from the party spoils, and then betrayed it in the hour of its sorest need. We candidly assure both the Review and Arena, and all else concerned, that whenever and wherever we find the attempt made, or have reason to suspect that it will be made to transfer the party organization to those who betrayed it to the enemy, we shall warn Democrats of it."
    We admire the candor and fairness of the Reporter, no matter how much we disagree with his politics. Give us an open foe always. But the Reporter will find more difficulty in putting those "unprincipled bloodsuckers" out of his party than he imagines. The gentlemen aimed at by the above are readily identified in this locality, and having secured considerable "blood" from "sucking" the Democracy, are now determined to rule or ruin the party--what is left of it.
Oregon Statesman, Salem, July 31, 1865, page 2


    TWO SOLDIERS LOST.--The Sentinel reports that two Fort Klamath soldiers went out hunting some time since, and got lost in the mountains. They were out fourteen days. One gave out entirely with hunger, and was left by his companion, who managed to reach the fort nearly famished, and thus assistance was sent out to the one abandoned.
Oregon Statesman, Salem, July 31, 1865, page 3


    The Democracy are actively engaged in the political campaign. A ratification was to have been held at Idaho City, July 29th. The speakers were Judge J. J. May, Hon. S. A. Merritt, Frank Ganahl, Hon E. D. Holbrook, and Pat Malone, editor of the Oregon Reporter. A Democratic mass meeting was to have been held at Pioneer, Aug. 5th. Things political are lively in Idaho.
"Idaho Intelligence," San Francisco Examiner, August 12, 1865, page 1


     CELEBRATION.--The Odd Fellows of Jacksonville are to celebrate the 5th anniversary of the institution of their lodge on the 18th inst. An oration by the Hon. Elijah Steele, of Yreka, Cal., a procession, dinner, and ball in the evening are among the matters on the programme.
Oregon Statesman, Salem, August 14, 1865, page 3


    The Jacksonville (Oregon) Reporter, Aug. 12th, says that Marius Smith, a lad 11 years old living in Jackson County, Oregon, was killed recently, while leading a horse to water. He tied the rope around his body and the horse ran away, dragging the boy against a tree, fracturing his skull.
San Francisco Examiner, August 17, 1865, page 3


    The Oregon Sentinel says that hostile Chinamen met recently on Applegate Creek to have a war talk and fight. The dispute was originally about a reservoir, but it finally merged into a religious discussion, of three hundred on one side and sixty on the other. The small party retreated.
Marysville Appeal, Marysville, California, August 20, 1865, page 2


    The Reporter tells of the killing of Marion Smith, eleven years old, son of David Smith, in Jackson County, on the 9th. The boy was dashed against a tree by a runaway horse.
    The California Stage Company have reduced the fare from Portland to Sacramento to 50. They before charged $60.
"State and Coast Items," State Rights Democrat, Albany, Oregon, August 21, 1865, page 3


    In Jacksonville, Aug. 4th, John Crosby, aged 40 years.
State Rights Democrat, Albany, Oregon, August 21, 1865, page 3


    RETURNED.--Father Blanchet has returned from Portland, bringing the sisters with him. We understand that St. Mary's Academy will be opened about the first of September.


    THE VISIT TO JACKSONVILLE.--During the last week several of our citizens visited Jacksonville for the purpose of participating in the celebration of the anniversary of the organization of the Odd Fellows Lodge at that place. The ceremonies consisted of a procession, oration and ball. The oration by Mr. Steele was a masterly effort, so replete with the true feeling and principles of genuine Odd Fellowship, that in this era of political animosity and party zeal it was truly gratifying. The ball was all that beauty, good fellowship and gaiety could make it, while the genial hospitality of the citizens of Jacksonville was such as forever to render the visit to the place a pleasant reminiscence. Indeed, the citizens of Jacksonville of all parties seemed to vie with each other in their attempts to render the stay of the Yrekans agreeable, and we have been requested to state that if there was any suspicion of want of appreciation of such kind treatment, it was because the visitors were treated so much better than they either expected or deserved that surprise prevented them from exhibiting the extent of their gratification.
"Home Intelligence," The Semi-Weekly Union, Yreka, California, August 26, 1865, page 3


    O. JACOBS.--This gentleman is now on a visit to our county. He is, as we have been informed, stumping the county for the Republican ticket. Mr. Jacobs is favorably spoken of by both parties in Jacksonville where he resides, and wherever he may address the people of Siskiyou County we bespeak for him a courteous reception and a respectable attention. This we can promise him as far as the Democracy are concerned. The Democracy will never permit the many excellences of the man to be obscured by the badness of the cause, and they will also remember that Mr. Jacobs is in no way responsible for the want of ability in the Republican Party, or for the occasion that has rendered his importation necessary. The leaders of the Republican Party have at length been aroused to a consciousness that their home speakers are played out. Some change had to be made, and from all that we have heard, their choice could not have fallen on one who was socially a finer gentleman.
The Semi-Weekly Union, Yreka, California, August 26, 1865, page 2


    The Reporter says the Odd Fellows of Jacksonville celebrated the anniversary of their institution on Friday, Aug. 19th, by a public procession, an oration by E. Steele Esq., of Yreka, appropriate exercises, and a ball in the evening. They had a gala time generally.
    It is stated that the postal agent of California has arranged with the California Stage Company to carry the daily mail between Sacramento and Portland until the Department makes other arrangements. The company receive $1,250 per day for the service.
    The Sentinel says Avery & Strang of Willow Springs Diggings, in Jackson County, found a $290 lump of gold in their claim a few days ago.
    The Rev. Father Blanchet and the Sisters of the Sacred Heart, who are to institute the school in Jacksonville, arrived there on the 16th inst.
"State and Coast Items," State Rights Democrat, Albany, Oregon, August 28, 1865, page 3




    STRANGE, PASSING STRANGE.--An event occurred the past week never before known in Jacksonville. For several days during the past week there was not a lawyer in town. However, O. Jacobs, Esq., can now be found at his office, ready to attend to any disputes which may arise.


    THE ROADS.--The roads are very heavy between this place and Jacksonville, and the stage drivers are having a rough time of it, being compelled to remain on the box about 21 hours out of the 24. We think that 60 miles is too long a drive for one man, and the agent should have a "swing driver" put on this long and difficult route. We urge this for the better comfort of the drivers.
The Semi-Weekly Union, Yreka, California, December 9, 1865, page 3


    VOTE OF FORT KLAMATH.--The boundary between this and Grant County should be changed so as to include Fort Klamath in Jackson County. Hon. Jacob Wagner, our Senator, passed through town on Tuesday last, on his way to Salem. He informed us that he would introduce a bill to change the boundary between Grant and Jackson counties so as to include in Jackson the waters of Klamath River, Lost River and all their tributaries, branches and lakes.
    This bill ought to pass because there are nearly one hundred Union voters at Fort Klamath who have been quasi deprived of the right of suffrage at our two last elections. It is at least two hundred and fifty miles from this post to Canyon City, the county seat of Grant County, while it is only about ninety from Jacksonville to Fort Klamath. A large portion of the soldiers at the Fort are volunteers from this county, and cannot vote for county officers in any other.
    Give us the vote of Fort Klamath, and we will clean out the Copperhead Anti-Johnson Democracy of this county at the next June election by a handsome majority.--Sentinel.
    We hope to be able to report the passage of the proposed bill before this paper goes to press. At the last election there were sixty or seventy votes at Fort Klamath, who belonged in Jackson County, and who would have been in Jackson County and voted there but for the interference of certain gentleman [sic], and would have voted the Union ticket and saved Jackson County to the Union cause. But another and entirely sufficient reason for making the proposed change is the fact that, as present situated, the people at Fort Klamath are deprived of the benefits of civil law, being too far removed, and separated from the balance of county Wasco by an Indian country, virtually preventing the transaction of civil business with the county seat. Fort Klamath properly belongs to Jackson, and all its business connections and relations are with Jacksonville.
Oregon Statesman, Salem, December 11, 1865, page 3


    DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.--On Saturday night last, the barn of N. C. Dean, near Willow Springs, was consumed by fire, burning all hay and unthreshed oats, and four of his best horses. There is little doubt but that the fire was the work of an incendiary. Mr. Dean, as soon as the fire was discovered, rushed to free his horses, and succeeded in getting them all loose from their stalls and three of them from the stable--his most valuable horse and three colts--but the other four were so frightened that they lay down and refused to get up. His loss amounts to about twenty-five hundred dollars.
    Samuel Goheen was arrested for the commission of the deed and required to give bail by Justice Hayden in the sum of 2,000 dollars to appear and answer to the crime at the February term of the Circuit Court, and in default of bail was committed to the county jail.
Oregon Sentinel, Jacksonville, December 16, 1865, page 2


Oregon Statesman, Salem, December 18, 1865, page 3


    THE WOOLEN FACTORY.--The people of Southern Oregon will soon be accommodated with a factory for the manufacture of their wool into clothing. We hear it rumored in town, says the Jacksonville Reporter, that some of our capitalists are bestirring themselves in the matter of starting a woolen factory in this neighborhood, and for that purpose have been looking up an eligible site for the field of their operations. We understand that the neighborhood of Phoenix is likely to be the place selected. This is a move in the right direction, and if the gentlemen whose names are connected with the enterprise only exert themselves in the matter, it will not be long ere the busy hum of commerce will be familiar to the ears of the residents of Jackson County.
The Union, Yreka, California, December 23, 1865, page 2


    The Jacksonville Reporter of the 16th has the following:
    "We hear it rumored in town that some of our capitalists are bestirring themselves in the manner of starting a woolen factory in this neighborhood, and for that purpose have been looking up an eligible site for the field of their operations. We understand that the neighborhood of Phoenix is likely to be the place selected. This is a move in the right direction, and if the gentlemen whose names are connected with the enterprise only exert themselves in the matter, it will not be long ere the busy hum of commerce will be familiar to the ears of the residents of Jackson County.
    "The quantity of rain and snow that has fallen in the past four weeks has resulted in unusual activity among this important and industrious branch of the community. On Jackson Creek, Willow Springs and the various mining localities in this and Josephine counties, the miners are busily availing themselves of the early break of the season, and we may soon expect to see the town assume a livelier aspect than it has borne for some time past."
Morning Oregonian, Portland, December 23, 1865, page 2