Boise news. (Bannock City, I.T. [Idaho City, Idaho]) 1863-1864, 1863-11-03

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contains, how wide and how low long It Il
and low long il would taRs aalnanasO traveI
round it, &c. 2 Wsare not going to tell yor
these things. but as tar aa.Ne can Ne will tracs
the boundaries By the organic act and those
who have creased the plains will be enabled
to form some estimate of the magnitude Of
the Territory we live in. The initial point ia
| in Che middle Of Snake river nearly opposite
the mouth of the oyhee, and following down
Ithe-river to the mouth of the Clear Water a
distance Of two hundred miles, and ontinuiag
on due northlnearly three hundred miles fur
Their to the 10th parallel making the western
line from where it leaves the Oregon line at
the head of the Oyhee to the northwestern
corner 700 miles inlength. Fromtbe north
western corner to the northeastern corner
along the 49th parallel aof latitude the dis
lance is 700 miles; this latter corner is with
in fifty miles fthe great bend Of the Missouri
river below the mouth of the Yellowstone,
taking in the whole Of the Milk river country
and part Of the White Earth district, From
here the line runs due south along the 9th de-
gree Of longitude 700 miles to the northern
boundary of Colorado Territory, crossing the
Missouri 50 and the Yellowstone 100 miles
above the junction Of those two rivers, taking
in Fort Laramie and great portion of the
Black Hills, crOsaing the two Plates about
100 miles above the forks. Flom the SOUTH
east corner, the 10th parallel Of latitude forms
the line Of demarkAtion between Idaho and
Colorado for distanceiof $50 miles, taking
in Longs Peak and crossing the Rocky Mts.
near tie divide between the South Platte and
the Arkansas. The line here turns north
$50 miles along the eastern boundary Of Utah,
thence west 400 miles along the northern
boundary of Nevada. Territory to the south
east corner of Oregon, thence north along the
eastern line of Oregon down the Oyhee to the
place of beginning. It is twice asslargs as
Oregon or California, and as large as Illinois,
Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ala
bama and Georgia combined. #asa ha'-
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MORE Observation-Disclosures that the cleo
ton is over, it matters little who e had the
largest torch-light prOcession-the Democrat
ic or Union party, The story has been told
a: the ballot-box with much greater potency
and power than pomp and parade can tell it.,
yet we feel that it would not be out of place
to notice the extravaganza estimates made by
the friends Of the respective parties with re-
gard to the size Of these tofch-light process
IONS One man commended in our hearing
thatOne Of.the processi0ns bore four thousand
blazing torches, when we had ourselves coun'
ted every light as it passed particular point
on Main ST., and know Of our own knowledge
that there we're less than six. hundred, One
party, however, is not behind the other in ex-
and over-estimatiag the demon
STATIONS Of their friends We have been I'M
able to count six hundred torCheslin any pro
cessiOn that has marchedsthROught the streets
during the canvass. The Democratic demon
stration. on Thursday evening was grand and
imposing, while the Union party were, consid-
ering the inelemency of the weather, not be-
hind them On Friday night: The snow fall
ing through the glars Of the torch Eight made
q picture surprising anything in grandeur we
have ever seen1Of the, kind. The view from
our Office perCheda s we are nearly over the
city, and looking down through the pine
smoke, blaze, aud falling snow, reminded US
Of the phantasmagors, pantecnstheca, presti.
digitator and all.,he my steal, mythical, and
views and appearances, Of which
We ever heard Orsread- bully Ssyt'sb