, 1865-04-28
Boise Corresnondence.

IDAHO Cry, April 8th, 1865.
EDS STATESMAN The continuance of the
reign of winter, so long beyond the period at
which the advent of Spring was heralded last
season, has produced a corresponding paucity
of items to communicate. We are beginning at
least to have harbingers of 'more indulgent
Skies" and an occasional small bare spot of
earth in the streets gives some token that the
deep snowy coverlet of dazzling whiteness over
lying the ground throughout the "basn,' and
far beyond it, will soon become among the
things of the past The cold, backward season
has greatly retarded every enterprise and trans
action of a business nature, cOnhning everything
in the way of mining to the shoyelingIo of snow
and sediment from portions of a few water
bitches.
For more than two weeks past numbers have
continued daily to arrive from below, most of
whom are as improyided the m1tley and null
titudinous army of the FRS de, under Pc
ter the Hermit, and Walter,
the Penniless. U nen-
hey of the wei
means of comlortablest 81 ne
diate paying employm ice and
hardship has been of nc -ns gnaracter.-
About week since some hundreds, mainly
composed of them, held some two public street
meetings, resolved in effect that there was -four
and other provisions in the city, that they must
have something to eat, and that if not furnished
with -four they would proceed forcibly to take
it, This was something like the good pious,
honest, conscientious old puritan pioneers in
Connecticut who finding the aborigines very
much in their way, held solemn conventicle,
as the story goes according to st. Horace Gree
| ley, and resolved, lst, That the earth and the
funess thereof belongs to the saints of the Lord.
| End Resolved, That 1--WE" the saints of
the Lord And Sd, Resolved, That this part of
the earth known the Colony of Connecticut
| b llngs to us.
There has been considerable scarcity of -four
and one or two other articles of diet, which oc-
casoned a Rev. dealer in groceries, formerly of
eye City of Portland, - and one or two others to
raise the price of considerable quantity to
81 90 per pound, but the honest miners wouldn t
stand it and they compelled to haul in
their high price colors, and come down to
about half that figure. This, for flour pur-
| chased last fall at $l5 per 100 pounds is pret-
ty fair profit, and would satisfy most people,
Since then some 10, 900 pounds of flour has been
brought in from Boise City and other places,
and large quantity reported on the way in, so
we have no apprehension of starvation rates
again ruling the hour. onH
| That cradle of greatness, Yamhill County, Or
egon, seems destined to serve an arsenal :,
whence the President is determined to draw
most of his trusty blades of ''loyalty," for the
benefit of Idaho. We have bad one W. B. Dam
iels, as Acting Governor for some time, Judge
Aleck G.. Smith, Councilman Cummins, and
lastly, Hon. John R. Mcbride, ex NJ c., as Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court of the Territory,
all from the classic shades of Yamhill, whose
outrageous millions of gigantic frs may yet
become as famous in story and in song as the
olive groves of Pato's favorite Academe. Sur
rounded by halo of self-glOrifcation, and ir-
radicated by glow of unattainable knowledge,
that favored region and shire, has sent forth sci
ons to over-shadow successiyely, Oregon, Wash
Il.
grow less.' We are thankful to have a real live
Chief Justice anyhow, and it will be his own
| fault if his residence among us is not a mutu-
ally agreeable one The position is a very
honorable, but at the same time very respon-
sible' and arduous one, and numerous issues
| of the greatest Importance are constantly COM
ing up to be judicially determined, Nearly a
year will have elapsed before the next regular
term in course Of the District Court here, since
the commencement of the last one, with cal
! endar of nearly two hundred civil and criminal
cases. many of them having been pending for
! over year.
Quartz is still the engrossing subject of thought
and conversation, and good deal of represen-
tative labor has been performed within the last
six weeks. All the mills in the country have
! been kept steadily at work, with most gratifying
results. Quite a number of Ledges formerly To-
Gated and believed first to be good then par
| TALLY abandoned have upon sinking shafts
| twenty-five to thirty feet in depth yielded pros
! poets of richness which cannot fail to convince
any but the most wilfully obstinate, and per-
versely blind Among these may be named the
Ethan Allen, Buckeye, and Moutezuma, all sill
! yer bearing Ledges, Jack Thompson, a Span
lard, experienced by many years labor in silver
mines of Mexico, has by industry and persever-
ance, at last succeeded after nearly two years
| patient and persistent effort in demonstrating
the truth of the opinion he at first expressed in
i falls is with the exercise of ordinary prudence in
/ fair way to realize eventually an independent
/ fortune the reward of his labors.
The Yuba Mining District, toward the head
waters of the Middle Fork Of the Boise river
J is attracting some attention. Several well de-