The daily mountaineer. (Dalles, Or.) 1861-1866, 1865-12-19

Gov. Lyon commences his annual message
with hi talutsn exordium, which reads as
follows:
The temple of war is closed No more shall
its iron mouthed and brazen tbroated cannon
peal forth dread miserere's over half q thou
and battle fields. where sleep their last sleep
the victor and the v8nGuisbed. No more
shall the ear of night be pierced with the
echoes of fierce assault ans stubborn defence
from encompassed and beleagurei cities.
The connict is over, and with it expired the
cause. They who appealed to the last argu-
ment of kings, appealed iii vain. The Corr
/ stitu;ion of our COMMON country has been
viudcated and he Union has bsen sustained
Tie -destroyers have become the restorers
and those who were the last in war have been
the first 10 hail tbe g glorious advent Of peace
Each returning State is welcomed with ma
ito nal joy; each renewed tie of the ancient
fraternity of feeling is another evidence of
the wisdom of the Government in its posi-
tioh that statehood may be suspended but
can ouy with annihilation die | hear
tly Congratulate you rs source of pro-
found gratitude 10 the God of nations, that
the representatives of thirty-seven sovereign
ties will assemble this December as of yore
at the Capitol in Washington, over which the
old flEg floats with newer splendor, lighted
by the stately stars of perfect constellation.
He recommends the raising of funds by
taxation to place the cause OF education on
irm basis he urges the passage of militia
law thinks divorce cases ought to be left en-
tirely TO the courts road franchises should
be guarded and means taken to compel pro-
prietors of roads to expend certain pro-
portion Of receipts in their maintenance
and improvement lie recommends the pas
sage of memorial asking Congress to- i'm
prove the navigation of d" Shoshonee" River,
between Wallula and Lewiston. He thinks
that road can be constructed from Lewiston
to Helena, Montana Territory, by the Lo Lo
Fork route, and says that pack animals have
passed from one point 10 the other ain twelve
days" The Mullau Road ought to be cleared
out, and railroad built on the porages from
Wallula, on the Colulnbia River, to Salt Lake
City, "by the way of the Grande Ronde Valley
and Wnlla Wallay over the lowest pass of the
Blue Mountains" II he really intends to find
that "lowest pass he will have to- go a good
ways off the route he proposes for a railroad
The Governor makes some sensible suggss-
items in regard to the maiB communications
between Idaho and Nevala, and as might be
expected, claims the establishment of O
branch mint as O necessity for Boise City.
The message tapers off with the following
paragraph
A birds eye view Of the sccumulating dis.
coveries in our mineral resources, reveals tha,
We have no less than three thousand gold and
silver bearing quartz ledges, graded in theil
value as in their richness, and new discover.
les and new locations are being made amos
daily. The width of these leads or lode!
vary from three TO thirty feet, and they pros
, peet from twenty 10 1--we huadred dollars pei
ton. Located usually where WATERPROOF er anC
timber are in abundance, they offer the high
est Inducements to the enterprising capitalist
I whose investment can rarely fail of being O
the most remunerative character. Among th
other useful ores which have been discovere,
, within the past year, tin, cinnabar copper
: lead and iron in many forms are of the frs
: value, yet plalina, antimony, nickel, bismu.l
r iridium aud rhodium, simple or compounded
with other minerals, are found in various 10
- calities but this is not all : beds OF the bes
: of coal, both anthracite and bituminous, wit
d rock salt, sulphur and gypsum, (better know
g MS the plaster OF uommerce,) while the mos
precious Of gems, the diamond, has been di
q, covered in our gulcheo, all give you feelin
u feretaste of the llimitable extent of Idaho
: varied mineral wealth when the hand or ma
g shall have uabosomed hen hidden treasures
j., The wide extent of our auriferous, placer
. only nsoiety Of which have been we'll pro-
:, pected, eheokered as they are by nurIfero,
" quartz lodes and leads, are rfvallsd only /
argeHtiferous mountains ledges strinted, IAN