, 1862-11-29
"Web-Foot" Correspondence.


mania. and cold, wet Spring, the statistics will
show an average yield of the staple products
which farmers dispose of at prices sigtly in ad-
vance of those of last year. Wheat from 62 l-2
to 81 25 cents per bushel according to proximity
TO or remoteness from the valley Commercial! en-
porium. Oats valued by the same law from 40
to 80 cents potatoes IS cents and 81; Apples,
best quality 29.2 cents per ID. delivered.
The times are dull, except in ortland where
the up-country trade keeps things moving. Far
mers seem to be engaged in carrying their grain
and fruit to market and in seeding, anticipating
hard winter, though the present autumn is repre-
sented, as having been, so far, most delightful
Many are pressed down to the earth with ponder
Gus loads of debt. Many lost by the waters and
the snow, of last winter, well-nigh all but their
debts; and some now casting their heavy long
ing eyes to your part of the country-some from
love of change, others to improve tn cir health or
actuated from love of gain, have already coneu-
ded to "strike out" thitherward. in the Spring,
with wives schidren stock and effects, while others
are seriously pondering the propriety of the same
removal. Be not surprised, therefore, if you hear
OF numerous trains, next Spring, on the road to
Walla Walla, Grand Ronde and Powder River
But they will be compelled to pay heavy freight
bills from Portland to the Dalles unless the pres
ent opposition is sustained, or to cross the Cascade
Mountains per Barlows Gate at the expense of
great labor and delay. Neither of these contin-
gencies should exist. The river navigator Of the
o. S. N. Company ought not to impose runous
rates of travel and transportation upon the peo-
pie from whom they draw their vast wealth. Such
course on their part will confirm opposition of
sufficient bottom to bring down freights. Wheth-
freights are high or low, on the Columbia river
those to whom the blame is attributable are to be
reprehended for the non-constructon Of passa-
ably good wagon road over the Cascade Noun
tains or along through them by the Cascade Falls
Had such road been made five years ago, more
than its cost might have been gathered from
moderate toll by this time, while the people would
have saved immense sums of money. The inter-
est fthe people demanded such a road but thou
sands of their money was expended in the bunkum
Astoria, Salem and Cascades Portage Military
roads. The frmer is of no conceivable use nor
will it be for years, if ever and the latter has
saved more money for and put more money into
the pockets of steamboat owners than it has con-
venienced or identified the people at large Let
the people of the two sections of our State and
Territory see to it that We have a road leading
east and west of the mountains, that they can
travel with every independence. No thanks to
O. S. N. Company for the present low rates of
passage and freight; because before the opposi-
ton was put on, both were very high, and on nom
opposition days they even now, go up suddenly.
and as suddenly fall, on the successive return of
those days. The peoples interest leads them to
sustain the opposition.
Compared with the condition of thnns before
the June election, politics are asleep, if you ex-
cept the religio politico element which works like
the active principle that gave order to chaotic ma
tnre. This processes undying love for the Union,
but at the same time bends all its energies to the
work Of freeing the last negro and terminating
the waning fortunes of Gorgeous Rising Orator"
By reference to your paper, see that Mr.. Wood
your School Superintendent, is fully awake to the
Importance of district schools. This is as it
should be, and no better time in the future to be-
gin than the present. Foundations of the best
material, and well laid, will support the ponder
Gus edfce well constructed, through all time
No system of instruction can fill the place of the
common school system. The cheapest is the best
and that which costs most costs least. Et uice
gerSa. This is true of school-houses, of sites, of
books, of districts, of teachers and education In
vestments in this line are never lost. They bring
in compound interest for the benefit of individu-
ais, families, communities and nations. "They
pay in every pursuit, position and department of
life. The rapid advance of improvement in
Wala Waa shows that you cannot begin the
work of intellectual and moral development too
soon. Your boys and girls must be educated or
they cannot be saved from degradation, for igno-
rance and vice are twin sisters. Pay rather to
educate children than to support paupers, build
and support police courts and prisons One of the
two it is necessary to do to great extent. That
man who hordes up money while he raises his
children in ignorance is bad citizen, and is but
preparing the way for their ruin for what intelli
gent man desires an ignorant wife, and what re-
fined lady can give her hand to the debased Be
sides, without general education your children
cannot avoid moral, intellectual and physical lep-
rocy. Educate if you have nothing left after ed
ucating and when you die, whether poor or
rich, you will have the happiness Of knowing that
you have discharged your duty to the representa-
tiveS whom you leave to propagate your name.
QUEEN VICToRA.-The abdcation of Queen
Victoria is again seriously talked of abroad. The
Patrie says that the discussion of the measure
with her German relations is the cause of the
Queens visit to Germany The act of abdication
-cf course, in favor of the Prince of Wales
will it is said, take place next Spring, immediate
ly after the marriage of the Prince with the Prin-
cess Alexandria of Denmark
CoUNoILMNN Simms left FOR Olympia on
Wednesday.