Owyhee semi-weekly tidal wave. [volume] (Silver City, Owyhee County, Idaho Territory) 1868-1869, 1869-08-24

deep thinker, and an eloquent and
close reasoner, however a king
among these many headed divinical
beasts. He believes in the inspired
origin Of Shakespeare as much as in
the Savior-in other words, thinks
one God enough toiworship suecess-
fully at time. That is neither here
nor there. Railroad is the theme
words of the text in 10th oh. Isaiah.
Substance, mountains 10 be leveled
low, and the valleys exalted high
the paths made straight, saith the
Lord. Words and music to CORES
pond-see I3sth in Hymns for the
Sanctuary. Horatio has more phi
losophy and poetry in him than you
ever dreamed Of, and speaks out in
meetin' at times in way that would
astonish Wendell Phillips, yet he is
apparently the most conservative
old cuss you'd see in a long time. |
like him-he always says something
that one will remember at least
week. Big house, including, Train,
myself and two other Cinnamon.
| Slight sensation at us four celestials
without wings tails in abundance.
Horatio just returned from visit
East, like myself. He had never
been in the interior before, hence
railroad big thing, ETC.; has a
moral aspect-a big one too. Ex-
tract No. will best explain:
The humble Pagan cropping forth
into the world beyond the walls of
an exclusive civilization, and feel
ing his way with pick or shovel along
mountain galleries or through .tnn-
nels of living rock, breaches gos-
pei of earlier and later date than
Confncius or Mann-as he builds q
highway, not for Joss, but for the
Almighty One.
Social intercourse and eommunica-
| ton between communities and States
are among the divine and providen-
tial methods for the Improvement OF
the human condition. | commit no
violence, then, when interpret the
ancient Scripture to the modern time,
and bring in financial enterprise, en-
| cheering skill and pagan industry
to fulfill it. | lay my course rather
by provideutial suggestion, and my
sails fill with the wind Of prophetic
ideas.
OF the Importance Of the work,
which he thinks is yet unappreciated,
| No. 2 viii best illustrate the speak
er's idea:
The social, moral and commercial
influence of the road upon us and
upon this western coast, is subject
OF complicated interest," and one con-
corning which the mind naturally
runs into vague enthusiasm. it is too
large. The mind slips on it as a
| child's hand slips on an apple. Its
relations are so many-sided, so re-
mote, yet so near, that all our
thoughts concerning it have some
thing of the nature of speculation.
The completion of the road was
received by the country with a kind
of vague satisfaction. 1t did not
have that clear voice and distinct ac-
cent that hailed the ocean telegraph.
One reason for this undoubtedly may
be found in the fact that the country
at large is more deeply interested in
European communication than trans
Atlantic communication. Another
reason was the general and indefinite
conception of what had been accom-
plished. And still another reason
may have been the general ignorance
and consequent indifference con-
corning the Western coast among
the people OF the country at large
But q more substantial reason still
is the grandeur of the work itsel
and the inability of the mind tt
grasp or indiyidualize it. We appre
ciate it a little at a time, and mor'
and more correcting our misconcep
tions as we go on. Before it wa
completed, we thought of it chief,
in connection with the rise of prop
erty, thus repeating the experienc,
of almost every town that feels
railroad coming towards it.
: And third and lastly, be prick
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