, 1863-10-10

the first number of the Boise Neps, pub
lishsd at Bannock City, 1. T., by Messrs.
T. ]. & J. S. Butler 1t is printed on
sheet half the size of the STATESMAN, and
is we'll filed with interesting news items.
The subscription price is $12 per year, and
81 for six months. Cheap enough for that
far away, golden region.
The press on which the Nea0s is printed
has history: 1t is one of the first that
was brought to the Pacific, and made the
voyage, from New York, around Cape
Horn, to Portland, Oregon, in the "early
days" 1t was brought to Portland by
T. ]. Dryer and used by him in the estab-
lishment and publication of the Oregonian,
when that town was in its infancy; when the
tall frs stood a dense forest upon the
ground where many of the principal streets
of the city are now built, and when the fa-
cilities for receiving late news from the At
lantc States were far behind those which
its present proprietors have in their primi-
tive town amid the snow.clad mountains of
Idaho,-then wilderness almost unknown
to the white man its wealth unthought-of,
and its future unpromising The tales that
it has Impressed of the early history of Or
egon and Washington-which, with Idaho,
were one when it commenced its career of
usefulness-are, we believe, all among the
archives of the Orsgonjan office, and,
printed upon white, brown and yellow
sheets-or whatever colors could be OBJ
tanned amid the emergencies of the early
tlmes," when the San Francisco stocks used
to give out-bid fair to last as long as its
old iron frame will hang together, and will
be read, perhaps, by future generations,
long after its tracks" are worn down, and
it has been laid aside as "old iron, and be-
come food for rust Many an incident it
has related Of Indian massacres and of suf-
ferings and privations endured by west
ward bound immigrants, while travelling
through the wilds of the Territory where it
has now gone as a harbinger Of civiiiza-
ton and progress, still remains fresh in the
memories of some of the actors, now settled
in the quiet and peaceful enjoyment of the
homes they travelled so far to find; and
the many fantastic sayings it used TO "get
off for TOddy Jcp, as its original owner
was facetiously called by his contemporaries,
will never be forgotten by old Oregonians
Many typO in Oregon, Washington and
California could recount. pleasant stories of
hours spent beside it in the Oregonian Of
fee, paying their deroirS to sparkling bot
ties of champagne and rich cake sent in by
young and old couples who had put their
foot in it, or by some dealer, anxious for
''noatis ;" or still better, in eating mother
IS pies and doughnuts, bountiful
supply of which she never failed to furnish
on publication nights And they could tell
unpleasant ones, too, about how its first
owner used to get lazy and detain them
on Friday nights until long after the ''wee
sma' hours" waiting for his " leader
which was almost universally "crasher'
on Bush of the Oregon Statesman and the
Salem eli que, - and in which, in particu-
larizing some new member of the ''junto," "
rehearsal of the story of Poor Tray al
loays occurred, and familiar quotations from
Shakespeare were as often placed Just where
Shakespeare OF ''any other man. would not
have used them. 1t followed the "Star of
Empire" westward to the remotest corner
of the Pacific, and two years ago we re-
versed the order and brought it to this
place, where it did us good service and
now it has taken another stride of three
hundred miles, over the mountains, toward
the land from wherce it started Its place
in the Oregonian office is filled by power
press. and daily paper, bearing the orig
inal name, now appears in the city which
was only small village when it made its
first impression of a weekly there. Who
can foretell its future, andwhet her or not
the same rapid strides will mark the on
ward progress of the place from whence it
has sent forth the first number of the
Nc,cs Approaching, from our first expe-
rience here, the many disadvantages under
which the publishers of the NeVs will la
Dor in publishing paper at Bannock, we
heartily wish them success in their enter
prise and full remuneration for their la
Dor.