, 1862-12-27
"Hi@h TOned.n

The editor of the Golden Age, grows ju-
bilart over our prospective overland mail
from Salt Lake to Walla Walla valley, and
discourses as follows:
"When the day dawns that the merchant or
business man in Lewiston, can read his Foreign
correspondence, and discuss the topics Of the day.
at the same time that his peers are in Sacramen-
to and San Francisco, then new era will open
upon him and a new light will break into his
heretofore hidden ideas, and he will make up his
mind that he is right in the centre of the Uni
verse; surrounded as no mortal ever was before,
by all the attractions of civilization, with his
home in a wild wilderness, where the ravines and
gulches are as deep as the mountains are high"
Astonishing state of advancement, GER
tainly, when the Lewiston merchant be-
comes so we'll acquainted with the "art of
letters" that he will be able to read sat
the same time that his peers are in Sacra-
mento and San Francisco" ;" and, if lie is
really unable 20 do that now, it will not
be at all surprising if ''new light should
break in, even upon his hidden ideas - but
the idea that the transmogrifcation will
be so great that he ''will make up his mind
that he is in the centre of the universe,
surrounded by all the attractions of civili-
zation,' and yet ''in wilderness, where
the ravines and gulches are as deep as the
mountains are high" is little extravagant,
and, with all due regard for the veracity
and foresight of the editor of the Age, we
mast say that we don't believe any such
s'uf.
We infer from the following that
the editor of the Age proposes to make his
new State by delivering Oregon, ''in TWEEN
ty-one days from the east, across the
plains"
"The mails would readily be delivered in Wal
la Walla in nine days, the Dalles in eleven and
in Portland in twelve days, thus furnishing the
whole Northern section of this, soon to be great
State, with the mails, as we'll as Oregon, in twen-
ty-one days from the East across the plains"
The following is ingenious:
"Lewiston geographically, is the centre Of
great inland country. 1t can always be reached
by steam or by land travel, from all points Of the
compass"
We must believe the latter assertion;
for taking the experience of the past two
seasons as a criterion, we have proof that
Lewiston can "always be reached by steam
travel during four months of the year.
From the following, we judge that the
editor of the Age has been looking at those
''streams" through champagne bottle by
starlight, and figuring on the metal ques-
ton, with the aid of magnifying glass:
at [Lewiston] has been placed BY NATURE in
the bosom of fertile valleys, whose streams spark
lie with diamonds and from the beds of which,
millions of pounds of precious metals are yearly
extracted"
The article concludes in the following
"high-toned" style, leaving the reader to
his own inference as to whether it is the 1t
or the he that is to ''course through the ra-
vines" &c. Wejudge, however, that Lew
iston got enough of bathing in the rivers
last spring, and therefore conclude that the
iron horse is to take the next dip
SIT TLewiston] will hereafter prove the high
way of nations, and few years will roll over our
heads or our graves, and the shril whistle of the
iron horse will be heard as it courses through the
ravines, and down the banks of our streams, until
he stops to bathe his fiery nostrs in the clear
waters of our beautiful rivers at Lewiston.