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, 1863-04-25
The Boise Mining REGION.


We have seldom, of late, had extrava-
giant accounts of the richness of the Boise
mines. AS a general thing, and as is usu-
ally the case in the discovery of new mines,
the fabulous and highly colored reports
came in from Boise soon after the first gold
discoveries were made. Still, the iuforma-
ton we get from time to time from these
diggings is very favorable, and places the
diggings at the head of the mines now
worked in the upper country not so much
because of the immense yield of the pre-
cious ore from a limited number of claims,
as from the great extent of the mines and
the general good average of claims.
Mr. VIM. Caldwell, who came in few
days ago, says that he has been at all the
mining camps in the upper country within
the past three years, and believes that the
Boise mines are more extensive, and that
they will be more lasting than any of the
others. He also says that there are a great
many claims on Moore's creek, Grimes
creek and California Gulch which are ex-
ceediIgly rich, but that the other creeks
and gulches might be put down at good wa
ges This is colroberative of what we
have have heretofore gathered from what
we deemed reliable sources, in relation to
these mines Mr.. G. estimates the num-
Der of persons now in the Boise country at
from five to six thousand
, 1863-04-25
Vancouver Convention

In another column will be seen a call for
what purports to be Union Convention,
to be held at Vancouver, May 25th In
giving publicity to it we will naturally be
expected to say something in reference to
the matter; and, we have to say, that it
looks we'll, sounds we'll, and may be we'll.
We say mag be lgeU, for the reason that we
Of the upper country have been humbugged
and yictimized so often that we have come
to look upon all political movements ema-
mating from the Sound country as at least
very uncertain. NE know not what skull
duggery' may be behind the intensely pa
!riotic sentiments embodied in that call
Yet, after all, these doubts mag be ground
less. Perhaps that patriotic flow of Ian
guage was actuated by the purest of mo
tiveS-to secure to the Cohog district a
Republican delegate to Congress. But a
truce to speculations.
So far as we know the expression of SEN
timent of the people in this section, it is
averse to any further afiIiation with the
clala-eating politicians The people feel
that they have been outrageously wr5nged
by the controlling element inhabiting the
Western district. Washington Territory
has been butchered up to suit the machina-
tions Of those who play "Olympiac games
in the Co-hog region, and to give them
place and power, to the detriment of the
upper country. Our people have been dis
franchised, cheated, swindled, and griey-
Ously wionged in every conceivable way,
until they have sunk into careless apathy
in regard to political movements, and care
but little how things are managed, feeling
and knowing full well that they have nc
voice nor power to shape matters other
than intended by the pap-sucking bummers
Of the Co-hog and r0hols hog country.
With this feeling of silent indignation
in political circles, it is doubtful whether
any permanent resident of this section Of
Washington Territory can be found to par
ticipate in a Convention to be held at Van
couver or at any point on puget Sounds
lovely /: shores"
1t has been said by way Of reconciliation
that it would be better for the people ot
the upper country to consult their inter
ests, rather than their passions" What
assurance have the people that their inter
ests will be attended to in the future 9TH
er than they have been in the past: What
hope have they in afiliating with set ot
wire pullers who invariably seek their own
personal aggrandizement as the first end to
be accomplished in all political movements:
, 1863-04-25

We publish, by request, the following
call for Union Convention, to be held at
Vancouver on the 25th of May:
- The undersigned, members of both political
parties, as heretofore existing, would respectfully
and earnestly recommend to the Union and
loyal people of Washington Territory to meet in
conventions in their respective counties, at an
early day, to select delegates to represent them
in a Union Convention, to be held at Vancouver,
w, T., on the 4th Monday (the 25th day. of
May, 1868, for the purpose Of nominating Un
ion candidates. to represent this Territory in the
next Congress, and to take such other steps to-
ward effectng Union organization in this Terri
tory, as the danger now threatening our free in
stitutions may demand Each county to send to
said convention two delegates for each represen-
tative it has in the lower house of the legislature.
This call, to the loyal people of the Terrtery, is
made irrespective of all political parties and
cliques, and the tests required by the convention
IN its standard bearer, will be integrity and ca
pacity an unconditional devotion to the Union
Of the States a cordial and earnest support of
the Government in its efforts to suppress the
present wicked rebellion, and full and steadfast
determination to prosecute the war, until the au-
thority of the Government is recognized in all
our borders.
In the dangers and perils now surrounding our
country, it is believed the plrtizau should be
buried in the patriot and that we should not waste
our strength in wrangling over the merits of De,
moeracy and Republicanism while the torch is
being applied to the edifce erected by the great
arm of Washington. In this belief, and in this
spirit, this call is made.
Friends of the Union, you who are determined
to preserve the nation, with all its States and
Territories, with all the rights of States and the
people, given them by the constitution, let us
not, because of the fleeing clouds now in our ma
tional sky, despair of the Republic. Let our
purest and ablest men meet together in conven-
ton, to take counsel together, and to send from
this distant shore, a cheering word 70 the Govern
ment at Washington and to the brave soldier on
the field, who has left his home to fight and to fall
a. Lo4 .oP bo1
, 1863-04-25
The News.

The news published this week is entirely
contradictory Of that given in our last
Instead of the capture of Charleston which
was so confidently promised in our dis
patches, we have an unsatisfactory ac-
count of battle there which is nothing
less than equivalent TO defeat of the
Federals. The fight is represented to
have been in the hlgest degree exciting.
The iron-clads, from which so much has
been expected, proved of no great value
in opposition to the rebel guns of Moul-
trie and Sumpter, and came out badly
worsted in the contest-the Keokuk being
SO riddled that she sunk After this all
the vessels withdrew from the con est and
anchored in the channel 1t is worthy of
remark here that the most of the accounts of
the battle come through Charleston papers
and are no doubt highly colored in favor
of the rebel cause. 1t is claimed on the
part of the Federals that the attempt to
enter the harbor was only for reconniter-
ing purposes, and that much valuable in
formation has been gained, to be used in
the renewal Of the bombardment. If learn
ing, announced, that "Charleston is
one most strongly fortified places in
America" can De turned to profitable ac-
count, we must Gel tainly hope it may be
done; but we opine, unpleasant as it is to
console it, that the attack will prove no
more successful than the 'reconnoitre" has
been. 1t is said thet Com. Dupont will
renew the attack and expresses confidence
of success. In this he simply performs
the duty Of a commander
Vicksburg is not taken, and ''rumors''
from "reliable rebel sources" in relation
to excavations seem to be temporarily sus-
pended.
The bubble in relation to prospective diff
fculties with England has bursted but
it is probable that our next dispatches will
blow US up another one, on the subject of
the recognition question-especially if the
attack upon Charleston is regarded as a de-
feat of the Federals
, 1863-04-25
Public Burying Ground.


The neglected condition of the public
burying ground, Of this place, is attracting
much attention among citizens. OF all
civilized people in the orld, the Ameri-
cans are the most Indifferent to the orna-
mentaton of their cemeteries national
popularity which arises, perhaps, from their
frequent change Of residences. But how
ever this may be, decent degree of re-
spect for the dead requires that burying-
ground should be so enclosed that the
graves shall not be tramped upon by the
horses and cattle which roam on the ada
cent plains 1t is true that large portion
of those who are buried in our public Gem
etery are strangers the graves of many
are unmarked by even head-board to tell
whose bones beneath are slowly comming-
ling with Mother Earth but, all unknown
as they are, they claim the protection Of
their living fellow beings from desecration.
A decent regard for the dignity Of human
nature requires this much, and we ask the
Intervention of city authorities to this end.
The city has right to purchase and en-
close public cemetery, and, in the exer-
else of its functions, an appropriation should
be made for this purpose.
The Ornamentation of the burying- ground
may be entrusted to the relatives of those
who are buried therein leaving it to the
operations of the natural affections to dc
that which would be mockery if performed
by stranger. We recommend that the
subject shall at once receive the attention
of the City Council. The cost will be but
triaing, and the expenditure approved OF
by the community.
, 1863-04-25
Prospecting in the Blue Mountains.

prospecting IN the Blue Mountains.
For several years past the inhabitants of
Walla Walla valley have had reports cir
culated among them that gold had been
found in the streams running from the
Blue mountains TO the Columbia and Snake
rivers. The Walla Walla, Ro6ie's Canon,
Mill creek, Touchet and Tukannon have all
got gold on them but whether enough to
pay for working has never been demon
strated, and, Judging the future by the past,
never will be by the prespent population
of the valley. The failure to prospect
these streams is not, however, to be attrib-
uted to any want of resolution, for each
spring some person has announced his in
tentiOn to test the question, but eventually
failed to carry his purpose into effect
'Wait a moment" appears to be the rule
of action in this matter, and moments have
grown into minutes, hours, days, weeks,
months and gears.
We are constantly jibing at the Web
feet; we are inexhaustible in jokes about
big red Apples;'' we claim, most of us,
to be Californians we think we are more
industrious, smarter and more energetic
than anybody else but still we do not
prospect the Blue mountains, where there
is strong probability that there are good
placers.
Gold was once found in considerable
quantities in a canon within ten miles Of
town Some Cslifornians, who knew all
about mining, went up to prospect the place
took a look at it-didn't look like the
California gold mines-didn't believe there
was any gold there-thought their inform
ant told fb-but would sink a hole any
how-dug hole big enough to bury good
sized dog in-ate up their lunch-drank
one bottle of Old Rye-damned the coun-
try, their informant and everything, and
came back to town. Their verdict was
that if they could not find any gold no
body else need look for it. They had
mined in California, and all that they did
not know about mining was hardly worth
ascertaining; and so the Blue mountains
are yet unmolested by the pick and shovel
of the miner, and the verdict of the smart
Californians stands as the verdict of the
community.
If any Web-Foot should now go up in
to the hills and find gold in paying guam
titles, the Californians would say Fools
for lucl1;" and tell how that they had pros
pected thoroughly" in the same place
people at distance would doubt about it,
until all the best claims were taken, and
then agree that it was not as rich as Boise
or Florence, anyhow.
Admitting that no such claims are to be
found in the Blue mountains as those in
the Bitter Root Range, it is plain that
much poorer pIacers will pay here than in
the inhospitable climate of Florence for
here the laborer would have the advantage
of cheap provisions, mild climate and the
surroundings of civilized life
Ofthe effects Of gold discoveries in our
neighborhood on the trade Of this place,
and the farming interests of the valley, IL
is rot necessary to speak, as the advantages
are so obvious that they can scarcely be
over-estimated. he question now is,
Shall the Blue mountains be prospected !:
, 1863-04-25
More About the Boise Routes.

The STATESMAN stands accused of try
ing to give prominence to Walla Walla as
arting- point for the Boise mines, at the
expense OF Lewiston The accusation is
made by Mr.. Leland, in the Portland
Times, and is incorrect. We have merely
protested against the action Of Mr. Leland
and the Lewiston Age in inducing miners
to take the Lewiston Boise route, and, af-
ter getting them cornered in tie SHOWS on
Payette, leaving them to find their own
way to Boise. We view the growth of
Lewiston with pleasure, well knowing that
it will always derive large portion of its
supplies from our farming district, as the
lands which surround it, with the excep-
ton of few small patches, are as incapa-
bic of producing crop as the Age is of
enunciating practical idea We are thank
full for the natural advantages of our sec
ton of country, which place us above the
necessity of pointing travellers at snow
ridge and leaving them to their own inven-
ton to get over it. We have plenty of
means of building up wealthy communi-
ty without enticing wayfarers into our
neighbOrhOod to speculate off of their ne
cessities, and have made no more than a
fair repl lesentation of the roate from this
place to Boise, if we have even done Justice
to it,
Mr.. Leland writes to the Times that the
road from this place to Grand Ronde is
impossible, and that pack trains which
started from here are corraled on both sides
of the mountains, unable to proceed in
consequence of the snow, water and mud.
We are obliged to contradict this statement,
as we know that the road has been practi-
cable the entire winter. Knowing then
that the travel has at no time been impeded
between this place and BOISE, we only do
justice to the local interest which we repre-
sent in stating as much.
As to Mr.. Leland's geographical specu-
lations, whether printed in newspaper or
drawn in the shape of map, they are of
no practical utility as long as the SHOWS Of
the Payette mountains separate the miners
from the Boise mines. His ill-judged ad-
vocacy of the local advantages Of Lewiston
are an injury TO that place, unless he should
prove himself able to advocate about fifteen
feet of snow off of the Payette mountains.
Ardent as we know his enthusiasm to be,
we doubt whether it will melt the snow
banks alluded to; even if Don Scrantio
should elbow" Chinook wind to assist
him. Seriously, we wish no detriment to
the growth Of Lewiston, and knowing its
true interests to be in encouraging the de-
velopment of the mines at Orc Fino, Elk
City, Florence and the river diggings of
Salmon and Clearwater, we offer our servi-
ces to assist in setting forth the real ad-
vantages of those districts, which is more
than Mr.. Leland has lately done. But in
doing so, we shall try and keep some
where in the bounds of reason, and not
provoke incredulity by telling outrageous
stories.
, 1863-04-25
EstraV Notice.

TENAKEN up by the subscriber, living at the mou tn
follows
One with a bald face, with all legs white, and
branded on the left hip with a figure resembling
corkscrew.
The other light roam branded J. C. S. the left
shoulder and with an inverted heart on the right
hip. The owner can have the above horses by prov
ing property and paying charges
April I8 1868 WI JAMES WHITMORE.
, 1863-04-25

Justice of the Peace and City Recorder
OFFICE in the City Council Chamber, in tie rear
W of the Union Hotel. Win attend to collection
of debts, conveyances, acknowledgment OF deeds,
Powers Of Attorney, transfers of real or personal
property.
Office hours from A NJ to II N, and from to P NJ
The hearing of all civil actions will be set for Fri
days and Saturdays only.
Anril Is. 1863. l6lY
, 1863-04-25

RAILROAD FROM SAN FRANc1scO TO
PoRT1AND.-Mr. S, G. Elliot, civil engi-
neer, was in our town, yesterday, on his
way through from Marysville, California, to
Portland. The purpose of his journey
is to enlist the interests of various towns on
the route in the project of railroad from
Marysville to Portland, and to assist him by
their subscriptions and influence, to make a
survey of maps of the proposed route
The survey and maps will not exceed $15,
OO0 Of this sum the citizens of Marys-
vile have contributed $4,000, and lists
have been opened in Red Bluff, Shasta,
Yreka and other principal towns through
which the road is expected to pasS-Jack-
sOnviHe Sentinel
, 1863-04-25

z ETTERS of administration having been granted
IL to the undersigned by the Probate Court Of Walla
Wla county Washington Territory upon the estate OF
therefore notice is hereby given to ali persons hav
ing claims against said estate, to preseut them, with
proper vouchers to the undersigned, at his place Of
business within one year from this date the same
will be foever barred and all those indebted to said
estate are reqused to make immediate payment
E. e. KELLY, Administrator.
April 25, 1862. l9m3
, 1863-04-25
Edward III, Moronv,s Estate.

7 ETTERS of administration having been granted
II to the undersigned by the Probate court of Wal
la Walla Wala County, Washington Territory, upon
the estate Of Edward H. Morony deceased late of said
county, therefore notice is hereby gwen to all those
having claims against said estate to present them
with proper vouchers, to the undersigned, in the city
of Walla Walla, within enc year from this date or
the same will be forever barred and all those indebted
to said esate are requested to make immediate pay
ment DANIEL WEIGH, administrators.
April 25 1868 l9m5
, 1863-04-25
Competition on the Rive.

The newspapers below are apparently
much excited about the steamboat question.
Every day they TEEN with notices of the
running time of some favorite boat, and, in
one instance, recommend fair taial Of
speed between rival steamers. We look
upon all this as wrong, and fear that the
press is degenerating to the moral stand
ard of steamboat runners for what is the
difference between advocating the special
interests of corporation through the pa
pers and going on the wharf and soliciting
passengers for either of the rival lines ,
The principle is the same in both cases,
and to be carried out to It's legitimate re-
suits, the advocacy of the claims of res
taurant or drinking house on the public
patronage should also occupy place in
the columns of public journal One pa
per ought to inform its readers that the
Maccaroni Hotel is infested with vermin,
and shout the praises Of the Yermicelli
Soup-House; while a rival newspaper
should denounce the Vermicelli Soup
House as robbers roost" and expatiate
on the comforts to be had at the Maccaro-
nj Hotel. Leaders should be written, COM
mencing, buy all your drinkablss at the
Hades, where Jimmy is always to be
found and upon the other hand the quail
ty of ''Johny's' whisky should be praised
to the skies. BY an easy gradation the
press might be brought to use its influence
in procuring patronage for all kinds of peo-
pie and houses.
There is nothing we desire more than to
see a healthy competition in navigating the
waters of the Columbia, but we deprecate
the carrying of freight at ruinous rates.
The upper country is now heavily stocked
with goods which have paid high rates of
freight, and great part of them have laid
in store for several months. If new sup
plies are now introduced at the merely
nominal rate of freights now ruling, prices
will be Aattened out TO almost nothing, and
as for profits they will be entirely out of
the question.
At no very distant period freights must
be raised and then the last conner will have
goods which be can sell at large profits,
and yet below the market. When freights
are raised, the steamboat-men will charge
an increase Of freight. which will make up
the losses incurred in competing with their
rivals. In this arrangement, the people
gain nothing, the old established houses
lose money, the steamboat interest plays
even and the spectators who have 10 per-
manent interest in the country, make
money.
No amount of newspaper putting will
change the ultimate results of this compe-
tition on the Columbia river, and feeling a
total indifference in regard to the respec-
tive merits of stern-wheelers, side-wheel-
ers, OF any other kind Of steamboats,, we
hope to see its navigation based on the
principle that steamboats, have a right to
make some money, but not all of it and
we hope, further, to see the interests of old
established houses consulted by the steam
boat companies in arranging their sched-
ules of freights To this end we think that
newspaper steamboat putting should be
stopped, on the principle, if no higher one
rules, that steamboats, are able to do all
their own putting.
, 1863-04-25
EitV Taxes.

OrTY Tax Payers are hereby notified that the as
sessment roll will be placed in the hands of
J. W. Cady, City Treasurer, April 10th. Ten days
from that date ten per cent, % DC % aGGeo o TO al on
II. B. LANE, Assessor.
walla walla City, April 10th, 1868.
, 1863-04-25

REMOVAL OF THE COUNTY OFFICES
The offices of the County Clerk, Sheriff,
Probate Judge and District Clerk, have
been removed to the second story of the
Jail building
, 1863-04-25

PAID OFF.-All the volunteer forces at
this post have been paid off, up to the 28th
day of February. Companies A. and B.
were paid off this week.
, 1863-04-25

For LAPwAI.-Company B. Oregon
Cavalry, left the post at this place on We'd
nesday for Fort Lapwai, where they have
been ordered, we suppose, to be present at
the treaty to be held with the Nez Perces
Indians.