, 1863-05-09

The estimate of prices is based on the
present low rates of freight, which are not
likely to continue. and the danger of the
Willamette produce coming in competition
With that of this valley. If freights should
advance to the old rates, the effect would
be to increase the aggregate of the agricul-
tural products to the value of about half
million of dollars.
But the products of this valley are but
portion of the means by which wealth is
brought into our midst. The profits on
the mining trade; the earnings of our pack
trains and teams /; the trade in cattle, hor-
ses, sheep, swine etc, all tend to swell the
accumulations Of money and property
among us. The rapid settlement of the
hitherto neglected lands along the foothills
of the Blue mountains nyomise to largely
increase the agricultural PRODUCTIONS of the
valley, and vast area of gr>zing lands,
yet untouched by stock, invites Me stock
raiser to bring hither focks and Reyds.-
We estimate that the maximum Of y
duction in Walla Walla county will SCI
ly be reached in a genera ton to come
that, from six to ten times our prese3
ulation will find homes and abuH
among US in the next twenty years.
RETURNED Mr.. Jones, of w p
Co., whose travels on the Payette and
tie Salmon, on his way to Boise ON II
iston, have attracted so much attention, =
at length returned He left Lewiston on
the 5th of March for Boise, and proceeded
to Little Salmon, where he was stopped by
heavy fall of snow. After providing
snow shoes for himself and party, he
started a-foot for Boise, and travelled twen-
tE-tws taeys, when he brought up at the
head Of the Payette valley, from which
point the trail proved to be utterly imprac-
ticable, and, being out Of provisions, he
returned to Lewiston, after three hundred
miles of most fatiguing travel. Now we
want Don ScranhO and A L. to own that
their much vaunted trail from Lewiston to
Boise is failure, or we shall take further
measures to render their deception of in
nocent travellers unpleasant to them We
never will, and never did, object to any
journal making a fair representation of the
local advantages of the place where it is
published, but when it tries to prove that
it lays on the shortestroute to everywhere,
we intend to combat so mischievous a
course. Nor do we intend to have any
maps of this country made to prove the
value of Leland's saw mill property, or lead
the travel past any particular ferry, drink
g-house or wayside hostslrie We in
tend to have the travel 60 by the best trail,
whether it passes Walla Walla or not.
CRAZY SCRANTIos LAsT.-The Dement,
ed Don gets off the following in his last
Age: "We came to Lewiston for high
and noble purpose, and told you some facts
when in Walla Walla in your Office" We
admit that you are high" often enough to
prove part of what you assert; but for
"noble" we read ignoble; and as for your
ever telling any "facts" in the STATESMAN
Office, or any other place, we do not be-
lieve you did. You have never been ac-
cused of telling the truth since coming to
the upper country, and have probably put
in circulation more "whoppers" than any
man of your age now living. We have
from time 10 time, convicted you of so
many silly and often disgusting falsehoods
that you have a lower reputation than Tom
Pepper for varacity, and everybody has
heard that he was kicked out of the infer
nal regions because the Father of lies was
envious of his superlative mendacity. In
stead of nominating the Don for Head
Chief of the Nez Perces, he should be Il can
didate for Liar Extraordinary and Blower
Plenipotentiary at the Court Of Beelzebub.
SOLDIER SHoT.-A soldier named Clary,
was shot in the streets of this city about
half past 10 o'clock Sunday night last for
disobeying an officer. He was absent from
the post without leave, and on being COM
manded to return to the post attempted to
resist one of the officers by force, when he
was shot. He was shot through the abdo-
men, and has since died from the effects of
the wound. Military law may Justify Off
GERS in this style of shooting men; but it
seems to us that little judicious hammer
ing over the head-especially in cases
where the unruly man is unarmed, and,
perhaps, ntoxicated-would be much
more humane way of treating them.
PERsoNAL-Mr. L. j S. Tourney late
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