The editor, in his original article, claimed that farmers on Puget Sound could and were doing very well. He was teasing his readers, but he was also doing his job - as his newspaper was sent south and east in exchanges, his editorial would be excerpted and reprinted, encouraging migration to the area. "Farmer" argues that farm prices are no higher than they should be and institutes comparisons with New York, that the editor takes issue with. A good-natured disagreement, that tells us much about the antebellum economy on Puget Sound.]]>
Here the "Farmer" responds tartly to an article entitled "High Prices" in issue #33, October 22, 1858, page 2, 3rd. column. The editor had claimed that farmers on Puget Sound could become well-off, charging the prices that they do for vegetables, milk, and butter. "Farmer" rebuts these claims, and the editor responds at length..

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"But little business in the way of legislation will be transacted until after the holidays. In the meantime the most important matters are being discussed freely on the outside."]]>
Politics of Washington Territory - The correspondent thinks former Governor and incumbent Territorial Delegate Isaac Stevens will likely be renominated as a Democrat [he was not] but acknowledges that many people think Stevens neglected his duties as delegate during the Presidential campaign. Stevens worked to get former Oregon Governor and current Senator Joe Lane or anyone else nominated by the Democratic Party, other than Douglas, and when that effort failed, he served as the campaign chairman of the Breckenridge/Lane ticket advanced by the anti-Douglas Democrats. (See Richards, Isaac I. Stevens - Young Man in a Hurry, pp. 345-357 (1979). It is no wonder that he lost the support of many Democrats.)]]>

Additional information:
Sen. Gwin, a southern Democrat representing California, did not retain his Senate seat. Later, "[h]e was arrested by order of [U.S., California District] General Sumner at the beginning of the Civil War on suspicion of disloyalty and was imprisoned at Fort Lafayette from November 18 until December 2, 1861. In 1863 he went to Paris, where he met Napoléon III and interested the Emperor in a scheme to colonize Sonora with Southerners. He drew up plans for the project which were approved by Napoléon and submitted to Maximilian [who disapproved of them]." Online Archives of California, www.oac.cdlib.org, "Guide to William McKendree Gwin Papers, 1833-1897"]]>

On p. 2, "Arrival of Gov. Wallace," reports that Wallace has returned to Washington Territory.]]>

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In the aftermath, Kendall's friends were considering lynching Howe's son.]]>