Owyhee semi-weekly tidal wave. [volume] (Silver City, Owyhee County, Idaho Territory) 1868-1869, 1869-04-16
.Iudue Gilmore Hays, Of ibis place

Judge Gilmore Hays, Of this place,
who has been absent six months visiting his
friends and relatives in Missouri, returned
on Tuesday evening in robust health and
ilne spirits We copy the following briei
report on the financial and political condition
Of The country visited from the Idaho States
man of Tuesday morning:
dc reports the most wonderful change
going on In that state, almos: beyond
comprehension. Missouri IS fast filling up
with emigration from the Eastern States, and
land is rapidly rising In value. tract which
be sold ten years ago for eight thousand dol
lars Is now worth lightweight thousand.
He SAYS the rise in real estate since the war
is more than sufficient 20 pay the old slave
holders for all their slaves even ia the heayi
est slave-h0lding counties. The change is
even greater than that, for they can now sell
the land lOf more cash than land and slaves
would both have brought before the war.
Young men from Ohio, Pennsylvania, and
all tho Eastern and Northern States are rush
ing in there by the thousand. Ii Is estimated
that twenty-five thousand voters have settled
there SINCE the war, and still they come.
Notwithstanding all this, all the old p0pula-
ton are as intensely disloyal as ever. They
hang pictures Of Lee, Beauregard and Long
street in all their parlors and bedrooms and
curse thu id Yankees who are forcing pros
Ierity upon them The amount Of ignorance
concerning the history of the war that pre-
walls there among the best classes he repre-
SCENTS as most astonishing. He could not
have believed il had he not seen and heard II
himself The reason he says is because, as
a general thing, the people read only the reb-
.el newspapers during the war, and outside Of
the cities they still read but little else
except what comes 10 them through
rebel channels They do not read Republican
VI independent journals TO any extent. and
such papers have a very limited circulation.
He talked very freely with his old associates
and relatives upon political subjects. He
says there il not the slightest danger that
Missouri will ever again give a Democratic
majority during the present generation
They have a State law which DISTINGUISHES
all who participated in the rebellion, which
gives the Republicans over twenty thousand
majority at present, but the immigration
that is pouring Ia from the East will soon
overcome the rebel vote with all restrictions
removed Therefore there Is nothing left
ipr the rebels to do but 10 nurse their wrath
which ne says they frankly acknowledge they
Intend to do Another curious fact he states
IL that even IN that rebel ridden State there
was an evident feeling OF satisfaction when
The news was spread that Grant aud not Sey
mour was elected. The people Of Missouri
suffered dreadfully by the war. by BUSH
whackcrs and BY State militia. The negroes
are free the War over, and the people, how
ever much they may vrovSl nj the result "ry
Glad to got peace upon any terms. ne u"s'
of them have had fight enough Had scy-
,nnur and Blair been elected they had cause
IN expect an unsettled condition Il not actu-
nj war. 10 occur again. They therefore pre-
fer the election Of GrIntand peace thercWith
"a The election Of Seymour and any amount
Of revenge. The rebels themselves distrusted
Blair. The Judge thinks new poiitlcal
marty IN Missouri IL unavoidable There IS
no affinity between the Old Wings and Demo,
crnts. The issues Of the war which united
them temporarily are now gone and me olu
feud bceins to seethe and boil again. AZ Least
one half or the DISTINGUISHED rebels Of that
state now openly blame and curse the Dem,
ocratic pastv for the war for tile abolition Oh
slavery and in fact for all the troubles ana
losses they have incurred. They have no
faith in the Democratic party, or It's leaders,
though Welding for the time being their
unwilling support