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Show Has He Deserted us ? And now comes the San Francisco Call and deposes and says: " George L. Woods, formerly Governor of Oregon, Ore-gon, and lately of Utah, has begun the practice of the law in this city." How are we to consider this as truthful truth-ful information, or as a base fabrication fabrica-tion to cause to rise in the breasts of 150,000 people in this Territory a feeling of deep sadness and painful regret ? Tho governor, on the spur oi the moment, packed his carpetbag, carpet-bag, and with bis family stole wei disavow all libelous inuendoes and " gouges sub toga " in the expression away, following the path of the Star of Empire. On the day after the departure, when it was first announced, an-nounced, this was a disconsolate community, a mourning people; and the public refused to bo comforted till the sworn words of his Excellency, Excellen-cy, uttered in a Sacramento polic-j court, crossed the lotty Sierras, tra versed the vast desert and sage brusn plains of Xev;ula, and wcro repealed re-pealed in the Herald. Then were we reconciled, and once more dreamed of safety and future happiness. Hope dawned in breasts whero despair had taken up its abctde, and a multitude of governorless people fondly looked forward to the approaching day when they would have a staU-ly Webfoot as a leader. And now to destroy this peaceful and confiding contentment, comes the inK Tin at ion that Gov. Woods is practicing l.'.w in the metropolis ol the far est, and hurling shifts of forensic tloquence at the beads of San Francisco judges. L'ntil the CaU's news itt-m is confirmed or denied, the suspense will be terrible not quite so horrible as b cing hair hung and wind-shaken over Hades; yet noxt to that terror. |