Owyhee semi-weekly tidal wave. [volume] (Silver City, Owyhee County, Idaho Territory) 1868-1869, 1869-06-18

there, 400, that the ex-rebels over
look, material education that al
fects their bellies more than their
brains, at first.
Dean swift shows conclusively the
effect Of mechanical operation
OF the spirit, of which was much
reminded while wandering over
Lookout Mountain, near Chsttanoo-
ga. discovered there an old Ohio
boy from my ncighborhood, in the
act of getting house ready to move
into, preparatory to doing big
business selling Yankee farming im-
plementS. He had been through
the war;" &c., after which he con
cluded to stay down there. In &c,
he sold just one reaper, one thresh7
i ing machine, and a few other items
in 'G7, he sold about SO, 900 worth;
4 in '6S. 500, 600 worth, and this year !
he expects to double that amount.
Now. he is one instance Of the enc
chanical operation. which is better
understood than Yankee school
books down there. OF course, he
} SAYS he has to talk good deal at
| times, but be has something TO show
! for it. saw genuine Yankee
, wagon or two up ON that historic
| mountain, and thought the war had
not been a failure by darn'd sight.
+ This sort of thing stands out more
: clearly than the best of Sumners
$ speeches on reconstruction. Ii oc-
+ Cured to me that that Ohio boy was
e doing more good towards recon
l. stuction than all the representatives
It in Congress from this great state.
d Perhaps am mistaken, or preIudi-
i ced because of my recent visit to
n Washington but ! do seriously
n think that is about 4" the size OF 1t.
At Nv friend from Ohio, from the sun
Is nit Of Lookout, told me many ol
e his mental-material encounters WITH
re live rebels that sounded better ioi
lie the South than all heard at Wash
as ington. Ny friend on Lookout
an active missionary there for SIEVE
as raj States, and be argues the cas-
Up face TO face with the ku-klux, ans
rs makes money by the operation, an'
en- that's the size Of it"
a The queerest case of ex-rebel o.
u southern Copperhead-call 1T wha
n yo will; don't know / met OF
Ie- the train from Chattanooga to Nash
vile. He was good company, too
an and furnished good item. IL
M would not go into the war on relie
le- Gus grounds, though be seemed
til have kept inside the rebel line
at mighty well. He owned cotto
til mill of some kind south Of Nashville
of When that place fell, he conclude
he that the Federals ought to burn h
he machine but they wouldn't, so !
tie moved il down into Alabama. II
ce- fairly got it set up when Sherma
his made raid in from the Mississippi
10 he got scared and moved il to @
,od lumbus, Ga. when about the time
d | got it in operation, Sherman can
md IN Atlanta. This was too much
a he thought that by moving IT IN
- the interior OF South Carolina,
the would be safe. 1t so happened Id
tn there was Just where Sherman war
till ed to 90 and did go but what "
be the serious part Of the Joke, u
he 8. buInmers" did burn that iden
ven cal cotton concern. The Old reiIi
oys Gus man laughed as much about u
II it affair as did. He reminded me
tho the rebel newspaper that kept Ia
ing back and taking new name
me- fast az the army took up new pe
the ition--you remember ii. Ny eoil
ooi factory man was very thick with