Owyhee semi-weekly tidal wave. [volume] (Silver City, Owyhee County, Idaho Territory) 1868-1869, 1869-03-19
Letter from JOE.

called the city Of Boston, Massachusetts,;
and as sort Of fell in love with 1t, will drop
you a column or two for valentine. ] left
this city at four P. N. by Long Island boat
and cars from some place on the main land,
reaching the Hub at six 4. NJ, next morning
fare SO In currency. Cheap travelling is
all they can boast Of this side the Rocky di-
vide, and on that point they can give us and
discount us. ] hardly know how to boil il
down. mean all I'D like to say about Bos
ton /; TO me, the place is the most suggestive
ever saw. There is something historical,
traditional, actual, or what not, about it,
that don't know how to bcgn-yet must
say that J more than Ike Boston. Some
fellow who didn't like DR. Fell, tried 10 tell
him 70. but got as near to it as Will IN tell
ing you why | like Boston:
Il do not like you, DIR. Fell,
The reason why, ! cannot tell
But this know, and know full well,
do not like you, Dr. Fell"
In the first place, Boston has more streets
for its size, and the crookedcst OF any town
in the world The inhabitants boast of this,
and unless you acknowledge to getting lost
Ave or six times before breakfast, they'll be
apt to snubb you the FIRST opportunity. ]
accomplished this feat, as Billy Birch would
say, "quietly and easily" and didn't know
the requirements of the place till afterwards;
hence was treated as an appreciative cuss,
and WAS even asked where came FROM and
whether there were many Democrats there.
! told them there were nearly enough 10 hold
tho Offices that the Republicans had so
much other business to do that paid better
and didn't want office that Idaho was prin-
cipally made up Of Onion refugees from
Missouri, and on the whole knew OF no
place 50 thoroughly and hopefully Republi-
can This let me into the good graces OF
both male and female Hubbsts was told
by nice member Of the Young Mems Chris
tian Association that Boston contains about
five females to one mnlc-hve virgins 10 unc
y
There are no foolish ones there. thoroughly
educated and their works smell OF midnight
oil. They study hard down there to make n
living. have no doubt this was what the
chiyalry bnted al when they said they could
chaw up five To ono Washington Street is
the Boston Broadway, from which all others
radiaie-or arr supposed to. After finding
my way hack To the hotel, rummaged my
carpct-bag for a few Chinese wash.tickets,
for the purpose OF making map Of Boston.
Falling in that, dropped on one Of Fowler
.Ss Wells chronological charts Of the human
Uranium II made nm excellent nap-hoth
Illustrative OF the Thousand streets, alleys
etc, and Of the ten thousand crooks and
crotchets cmanating in that curious head
center OF human notions. Space will not
permit detailed application Of my map Of
BOSTON. but assure yOu It is graphic de
scripiion Of the place. Boston was original
ly located on three hills, and Tor a while II
was known as Tri Mountain. Il tried hard
to make something out Of the lucky odd
number, bat had TO take on another, and
from the time Of Bunker Hill we have all
heard Of Boston But Breeds Hill has the
monument and the credit OF the BATH
without the 1amc There is big Catholic
Church on Bunker Hill proper, which was a
curious innovation on such sacred Purltanic
grounds Twas directed TO a slight ridge oil
earth, as the last Of the Yankee redoubt
and the spot where General Warren fell Is
marked by a stone slab. With a bullet
through his head and the ground sideling,
couldn't sec what would hinder him or any
one else from falling The monument Is
over 225 feet high, is Of granite and looks at
a distance like 4 big chimney Of the old
fashioned steam sawmill order II was
raised by Daniel Webster and several othel
old women, IRON which event women''
rights took start You remember that par
of his speech, OF course, about the ladies
the stones and the monumcntr One Col
Prescott; was the hero Of tho battle, and. Ole
Putnam his right hand man Old Put, the
guide book says. sworp the loudest and dis
tinctesi that day that ever man did on top O
earth in the same length of time. have
read the account carefully, and conclude Il
TO have been The toughest struggle ever mad'
bv any Americans But notice ono item
,o,,.r ,acoll,et of reading beforc-the Brit
ish. on their FIRST coming and assault, only
had a few cannou-shot that fitted their siege
rms: mortal mistake on the part OF theil
en,oe AZ ordnance. A very few rounds ant