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member we have been living on pills; anything rough, ex- cuse us—we have taken any quantity of iron. While it may not be a serious matter to you, it is anything but a joke to us. March 8, 1862. Not Dead—Obituary Praise Retracted Lewiston, July 7th, 1862.

Editor Times:—I see in the daily issue of the 2nd inst., of your paper, the obituary notice and Coroner's inquest, held over a dead body found at Portland, from which you say it "leaves but little doubt that the dead body was that of Col. T'Vault." As to my obituary, I am thankful for your references. But few men live to read what is said of them, after death; however, I assure you that I am still alive, and expect to live to occupy a high and honorable position in the Pacific Republic. w. G. t'vault. By request we copy the above from the Portland Times. Well, Colonel, we are glad to learn that you are still alive. You may live to occupy a high position in a Pacific Repub- lic, but we have serious doubts about its honorable nature. We don't believe you will ever occupy either. July 19, 1862. W. G. T'Vault had been editor of the very paper in which these mean things were being said about him. He was the first editor of the Oregon Spectator in Oregon City, and in 1855 started the Jack- sonville Table Rock Sentinel, which in 1858 became the Oregon Sentinel. Married In Jacksonville, at the residence of A. E. Rogers, Esq., in the evening of Oct. 24th, 1862, by the Rev. M. M. Stearns, B. F. Dowell, Esq., to Miss N. A. Campbell; all of Jacksonville. One more unfortunate, Lonely and troubled, Rashly importunate, Went and got d