Owyhee semi-weekly tidal wave. [volume] (Silver City, Owyhee County, Idaho Territory) 1868-1869, 1869-07-06

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thing on this overland journey after |
all that amounts to muchI mean ad-
jacent to the railroad, until the Ser
ra Nevadas are reached. I am tired |
of the trip already-before | am
started. ] hope to make something
out of the Mormons-t that is, a read
able letter or two. BY the way, |
met Lieut.. A. E. Woodson here to-
day. He is to be no longer at Camp
Douglas, Utah. Is generally at TT.
Randall, couple hundred miles up
this river, in Dakota. Is in the
Quartermaster 'sDepartment pertain
ing to the receiving and disburslng
the Indian rations, gewgaws and
other kinds of soothing sirup--to
be well shaken before taken blythe
authorities and legalized Indian rob-
bers. Woodson is looking well and
feeling SO has good deal of trav-
cling about to do F; says he would
have done better had he staid in
Owyhee. but otherwise, this army
life agrees with him to a fraction.
] met an Owyhee Smith also to-day,
on his way castor a visit. Through
him learned that you are all there
are yet.left that aint gone to White
Pine. ] hayn't seen .yonr paper
since | left Washington, the great
stink-pot of the world. There. were
just two redee ming features about
my visit home the enjoyment
of the sea voyage, and the oppor-
tunity OF. seeing and doing
Washington. d. c.. just at the time
did I; to- see Andy's kuklux and
guerrilias retire in force before
Grants Quakers and jay hawkers,
and the latter Disguised and swear
ing their way out Of. town by the
car load, otherwise this visit ofmine
has been very tedious affair to me.
1t has rained or showed forty days
and nights out Of fifty ever since |
landed at New York. There were
only two ways about it either fuce
il through or SIT in the house and
make mouths al ii, ali of which did
/ | expect. The next time go TO see
" the old folks at home | will try
/ the fall season-Sept. etc. But had
| remained in San Francisco, I'd
have done nothing, aud so it about
averages up and that's the size of
it. | got stuck in a certain north
west portion OF Ohio, which | never
want to see again unless ] can go
there with supreme power /; in that
case | would take an earthquake in
one hand and thnnderboit in the
other, and you'd hear the darndest
noise ever there was in the world.
such wreck OF matter as would be
seen there in five minutes, never
| was seen since Adam was boy.
Indiana wants underground ditch
ing by an earthquake, before it will
| be fit for a white man to live in,s it
is made up of elm and ipapaw
timber the former made into inch
boards would warp into corkscrews
before they could be carried out OF
the aw-mill, and would be too con-
! trary to lie still on the ground alone.
Indiana will be the q last ditch " OF
Northern Democracy, and I'll bet
on it. 1t is plainly illustrated by
the fact that the down east Yankee
element that has dotted the great
northwest alLover with nice cottages,
churches aud, school houses, have
given Indiana the cold shoulder,
| left it in its swamps and sands and
spanish needles, and frog ponds that
would discount the Great Peace Ju-
biiee every day in the week all the
year round. see.I am about to cut