Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1865-09-27
as if we were in training for a oannihals

Ii there is one one thing, more than
another. among the facts of civilization,
which the Pacific coast organizes most
quickly and completely, it is good eating
From the Occidental at San Francisco to
the lonliest Of ranches on the most wilder
| ness of weekly stage routes, 'good square
meal is the rule while every village Of
| 800 inhabitants has its restaurants and !
French or Italian cooks. say this with !
the near experience and the lively recol-
lection of one or two most illustrioos ex-
ceptions, where the meals consisted of
coarse bacon, ancient beans and villianous
mustard,--and where, if you declined the
two former, you were politely requested
to help yourself to mustard and the
beds could cen rise and walk with feas
and bed-bugs.
When the Puritans settled New England
their drst public duty was to build
church with thrifty thought fort their souls,
Out here their degenerate sons begin with
organizing restaurant and supplying
Ho8tetter's stomach bitters and an Euro
pean or Asiatic cook. So the seat of en-
pire, in its travel westward, changes its
base from soul to stomach, from brains 10
bowels. Perhaps it is only in obedience
to that delicate law of our later civlcza-
ton, which forbid us to enjoy or religion
unless we have already enjoyed our victu
al, and which sends a dyspeptic to hell
by an eternal regard to the fitness Of
things. And certainly the piety that as
cends from a grateful and gratifed
stomach is quite as likely to be worthy
as that ftfully fructifcd by Brandreth's
pills.
Is it not little singular that only our
forty .oddth state should bear the name
of WASHINGTON That it was left to
this day and to this cornermost territory
to enroll his name among the stars of the
republic banner?
Washington territory is the upper half
of old Oregon, divided by the Columbio
, river and the 40th parallel for the south
ern boundary, and extending to the 49th,
to which, under the reaction from the i'm
martial Polk's "54 40 or fight" preten-
, sious, our northern line was icnominious-
/ ly limited to. Its population is small, less
than 20, 00O,-and not likely to grow fast,
or make it state for some years to come
! unless the chance, not probable, Of rich
: gold and silver mines within its lines
! should food it with rapid immigration.
! But it holds sure wealth and large fu-
ture through its certain illimitable forests
g and its probable immense coal deposits.
, OF all its surface west of the Colorado or
4 Sierra Nevada mountains, not more than
ono. e.eighth is prairie or open land-the
4 rest is covered by growth of timber,
. such as alike in density and in size, no
g other like space on the earth Is surface can
boast Of Beyond the mountains to the
o east, the country partakes Of the same
q characteristics as that below it; hilly,
barren of trees, unfruitful, whose chief
Y promises and possibilities are in the cat
I tie and sheep line. Its arrablc land, this
f side of the mountains, where the forests
# are cleared or interrupted, is less fertile
q than that of Oregon and California; but
it suficeth for its present population, and
% even admits of considerable exports OF
4 grain and meat for the mining populations
= in British Columbia, and will grow in ex-
!. tent and productiveness probably nearly
4 as fast as the necessities of the territory
a require ..
Victoria, V. l., July %, 1865.
We were full day and night coming
. down Puget Sound, on the steamer from
h Olympia; lettering along at the villages
h on its either shore and studying the al.
ready considerable development of its lum.
i Der interests, as well as regaling ourselves
IS with the beauty of its gaters and its
.s richly stored forest stores, Only the up
n per section of the southern branch o.
/, these grand series of inland seas and riv'
% ers, that sweep into the continent here
a and make Vaucouver's Island, and oper
up vast legion of interior country tC
the ocean, is now called Puget Souud,---
: only forty miles or SO from Olympia north
n Formerly the whole confines went by thai
name, and rightfully it should remain tC
;. all which runs up into Washington terri
/. tory from out the strait of San Juan dt
4 Faca, for this has a unity and serves ;
70 similar purpose. 1t narrows to a rivers
j width il circles and swoons into the lane
. with coouettish freedom; and then it wi
e dens into miles of breadth carrying tn
lcl largest Of ships anywhere on its surface
!, even close to the forests edge, free of rocks
, and safe from the winds and waves---th
q home of all craft, clear, blue aud faith
d omless. ala 8A molt "a ~ nf
i. 1t is the lumber market of all the Pa
a, cifc coast Already dozen saw mill
j; are located on its shores one which W
in visited was 1886 feet long, and turns ou
al 100, 900 feet of lumber daily I; three ship
Is and two barks of 500 to 1000 tons eac
Il were loading with the product direct fror
at the mill and the present entire expor