, 1863-07-04
Ne Canvas on the Sound.

! w e extract Jhe lOuOWlng from letLer from
one of the old gar-horses Of Democracy" in this
Territory, dated Olympia June IS.
| write to give you some information in regard
to the canvass here. Mr.. Cole made his first
speech at Utsalady on Tuesday with Mr. RaynOr,
and made very favorable impression On
Wednesday he spoke on Whidby's Island with
the same success. He spoke at Port Townsend
on Thursday and was enthusiastically received
He is everywhere well received and liked and is
making a most successful canvass.
There is a universal desire among the Democ-
racy all over the Sound to put their shoulders to
the wheel this time, and give their candidate a
larger majority than any one has ever got before
in the Territory
In Island, Jefferson, Pierce and Thurston coun-
ties our friends promise majorities-some small.
In Jefferson they talk of ftwo-thirds. Lewis coun-
ty is doubtful, though claimed for Mr.. Cole
The candidates have not visited the other counties
of King, Kitsap, Claim, and Whatcom but I
learn that the Democracy are all right and uni
ted there. If they do as well as the other coun-
ties Mr.. Cole VIII have fine majority ndepen-
dent of the vote east OF the mountains.
You will notice that the HERALD IA little 2 X 9
sheet that has no circulation outside of its own
county, is in for Raynor. 1t was in the market
for 500, and the Federal officers bought it
with Uncle Sam money most likely.
! Turney is Running the whole hog Republican.
He will do little here since he failed in getting the
nomination of the Peoples Convention His few
friends state here that his "stroDg suit" is Walla
| Walla county. with Democrats both he and
| Itaynor are about on a par-the only difference
being that Turney claims to be Republican, while
Raynor attempts the Jackson Democrat dodge.
But that last dodge won't do here where the Fed
eral officials are personally known, and known
| to be using every energy to secure his election.
! Poor fellows the drop is about to fall from
under them, and they left dangling at the mercy
OF the people whom they have so grossly m srep-
/ resented. We have a clear Democratic majority
OF 500 votes this side of tie mountains and it will
not be much divided; so Coles election is certain.
! $ writes me that Clark county is good for so
maj ajority for Cole. Xxx
The Boise Valley as a Farming Country.
Mr.. Tbos. R. Mccoy, of this valley who went
out to the Payette valley early last spring to en-
gage in agricultural pursuits returned few days
| ago and gives US his opinion that farmug in the
Boise mining region can never be successfully
carried on, for variety of reasons Mr.. Mccoy
took with him variety of vegetable seeds which
he planted under sufficiently favorable circum-
stances to give the country fair test He says
that even if the present season should prove to
be an unusually unfayorable one, agriculture can
never be extensively carried on there, for the
reason that the soil is not adapted to it. He
travelled all over both the Boise and Payette val
eys and says that it was quite impossible to find
a quarter section of good land in body in Ell
ther of the valleys. The better portion of the
lands lie along the river bottoms, and are sub
ect to overflow of from four to five feet of water
every few years The higher land, where the
soil is good generally dries out before the middle
of the summer, and thus can never be adapted to
the cultivation Of grain. For the production Of
vegetables, some portions of the valleys are good
in point Of soil; but in most places the land is
subject to heavy frosts during the early part of
the season, and this with. the dry weather renders
it exceedingly doubtful whether even vegetables
can be raised there with profit to the farmer
Mr.. Mccoy thinks it very probable that grain
enough can never be grown there to supply the
new military post now in course of construction,
and that the supplies for that place must so from
the valleys this side of there-either the Grand
Ronde or the Walla Wala. In the former val
ley, the experiment in regard to agriculture has
not yet been fairly tried, though this season will
test its adaptedness in that respect. Many things
have to be contended with there-late frosts,
heavy winds, and cloudy weather in the early part
of the summer.
The Powder river valley has not even the ad-
vantages of the Boise and Payette valleys and
agrioultursts have given that place up as unfit
for farming.
The few crops that were planted in the Boise
and Payette valleys have proven a failure. Mr.
Rockfelow informs US that his garden, in the
Boise valley, on which he has expended consid-
cradle time and money, is entirely "dried up"
and he has abandoned the idea of further at
tempt at gardening or farming there.
AFTER Mr. Raynor had received the
nomination from the "Union" Convention
he made them a speech in the course of
which be said Gentlemen you have
given me the nomination for Congress.
consider it the greatest honor that has ev-
er been conferred upon me on earth. p
Considering the fact that Mr.. Raynor is a
regularly ordained minister Of the gospel,
this is "pretty heavy" A minister who
does not esteem commission to preach
the gospel Of Jesus Chrisl TO all nations a
higher honor than the nomination for Con-
gress from an anal lgamation convention
has certainly only borrowed the "livery Of
Heaven to serve the devil in. - Washing
ton Union
WHAT HAS BECOME OF THE REPUB-
L1cAN PARTY There was time when
the Republican party was distinct from
the Abolition. Now there seems to be no
difference between abolitionism and repub-
licanism. Republicans have either gone
over to the aboliionists or are working
with the democrats. The Republican par
ty is dead-died from the effects Of being
'dyed in the wool" The conservatives
who belonged to that party are with the
democracy in the States and the ultras are
now, as they always were, abolitionists.
I
WILL DENY TIT is said that Rev.
10. Raynor will deny, in a speech he in
tends to make here, that he is in any man