The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1866-04-14

On motion, the meeting adjourned. .tfe
.fa-. IS. ENOCH COBERLY, President.
+ 3 E.. s.. PENWELI, Sec'y. a45 SOD
NOTES oNfA CoAcH.-Mr.d Goldrick, editor
of the Vedette, furnishes some interesting let
ters to. that paper, from Montana and the
road From one ofthem We take the follow
ing: anilfiHss 35aa ii s9. fasa ST. jt-4aI
Excuse US, please for seeming want of courtesy,
in MT Introducing to you before now our six or
eight cOnpGgnons de UOyGge. One of them Is a
ssn Of Crispin, going trom Colorado to the gold
fields farther north. Another is a somewhat gay
Salt Laker, Cent? by religion wagonsboss by
adoption, and blacksmith by design. This dis
ciple of Vulcan devetes his winters to the anvil,
but by way of change bull-whacks it every Spring
and Summer. Number three is rctlcent Rce-e
Riyerite, bolstering bis own blankets and bother
ing none of us as far as beard from. Next is an
American citizen of African descent, destined tor
the Stinkwater, like the whole of US, and lately
from the Boise cline. He went from there to open
business among the Saints p but some days stay
convinced him that their ways were worse than
Chinamen's, bas tardizing ia their habits and
more demoralizing on the whole. Number five is
a Iank old lady passenger who halls from Austin,
somewhere on Reese river, and rts the sobri.
quet of Sage Hem A short sojourn in the "City
altors'' of her were tut brute butchers OF its
chastity under the blood dyed cloak of saerieged
religion. Number six was Mss Minnie Some.
thing, quite a fashionable female, also of the com
mercial class, and hailed from Idaho City. She,
too, is en- route for Virginia City and Helena, to
leave her name embIazoned in gold letters on the
list of I" hghtoned artistes " Of the hurdy gurdy
school. Two other passengers there were, from
Boise to the Blackfoot mines, men of toll, though
too easily allured by the ignis fatuus of every dis
taDt eidOradO. l.
The Territory of Idaho, as now located, inter
venes between Utah and Montana. Its gaiter
shape, so speaking, rests solely upon Utah, while
ITS toe touches the Southwestern line of DacLtah
| (soon to be called Wyoming), and its heel sup
ports itself on the Northwestern corner of NeVa
da Oregon and Washington bound it perpendlcu-
larly on the West, British Columbia caps its mar
row neck or Lead, and the Bitter Root mountains
with "a section of the Sierra Madre, make the hy-
pothenuse that separates it from Montana. From
near Boise River Crossing, therefore, to the sum
nit of, the Rocky Mountain Pass, we travel thro
the Gem of the Mountains" Idaho. Soon after
leaving Bear River Station We climb the bare d
vide which, as a watershed, turns some streams
Southeasterly into Bear River, and thence to Salt
Lake; and others South of west to swell Snake
River Fork, thence through Idaho and Washington
to the Pacific, growing with their growth and
strengthening with their strength until they swell
that old time stream
"-Where rolls the Oregon
And hears no sound save its own murmurings.'
Idaho stretches even over close to Brdger One
OF its thriving county seats, called Soda Spr gs,
(near where, in the md-winter of 81. Gen. Connol
whipped those Indian hordes), is situated seme
scores OF miles due East; and westw lrd old Fort
Hall Notification of the Indan-fearing fur men
stands less distant the banks of the clear Snake
river. The Snake or Lewis Fork of the great &C.
umhlo (flro.ONN riV nj aS al ma EnO
within mile OF that same spring from
"Where the mighty Missouri rolls down to the sea,
and runs r an opposite direction to it till it forms
the fluid fence between Oregon and Idaho.
This curjouslY shaped river, as it runs from
Montana down through Idaho has twice or thrice
the volume of the Pixies Peak Platte 81 axe ]. ke
running through that dim diversity of country
from its Sage-land source to the South Boise, its
Indian cognomens were well named respectively
Shoslonee Crooked, winding), and the Sage
Brush river. On its way more westward, which
we hope to follow a few weeks from now, are sit
uate the Great and Salmon Falls the former OF
which Ia sublime cataract] is said to quite surpass
the great Niagara for volume width and altitude.
On that terra incognta called its head, there are
said to be seem close by, some thousand piled up
petrfactions, of the serpentine and saurian spe
cies, perfect i'll their shapes and chameeon-ike III
color. Live rattlesnakes, which were heavy on
the bite were reported m St abunuant OH this
Forks head streams, seranading the explorers
with their tails or climbing up the sage brush to
salute them with kiss-playfulness of which a
very little would suffice for sentiment with us.
BREACH OF PRoMIsE.-Before Court Of
Common Pleas case of breach of promise
was recently under consideration The diff
fculty between the parties was plain, but as
TO the "breach of promise" there existed a
slight shade Of doubt, until the plaintiff set
the matter right as follows:
Question by the defendants counsel
Did my client enter into positive agree
ment to marry you?"
"Not exactly, but he courted me good
deal, and he telled my sister Jane that be in
tended to marry into our family"
Nor CHANGED Gen. Lee, in answer to an
enquiry, whether he thought any change bad
come over the minds Of his soldiers since the