Owyhee semi-weekly tidal wave. [volume] (Silver City, Owyhee County, Idaho Territory) 1868-1869, 1869-06-25

up about right, when he proposed TO
a girl doing washing for living
be told her that he wonld marry her
at once If she would agree 10 keep |
him II besides he would give her ball
she could make at her tradei Well,
she didn't marry him at last &C
counts. But now that the railroad
is done, the distance will be over
looked in the short space of time It
will take to go the plains across !
and Betsy from Pike will not mourn
over the loss of the old folks at
home and the bully corn-bread. l
had the pleasure of wintering once
in the Big Willamette, among the
old settlers who had young ones and
to the manner born, old enough to
vote for 10. Lane or any other man,
who called Gods country home,
just from hearing their parents make
so frequent use OF the word. How
absurd Yet that is the size of it.
and has been the one great drawback
to the Pacific Coast. There is no
better cline or country under the
sun in which to make homes than in
that same land of red apples and
things, but the folks can't see it un-
til they've tried every place else.
Then there is California and the Ter
ritories. Idaho is better climate.
and q great deal more healthy than
Ohio, Illinois, or Iowa-that il, all
this country that is from two to five
hundred miles south of Sn Ike river.
The most provoking thing | met
with in conversing with those old
settlers (and voung ones too Tor that
matter) is their objectionable ignor-
ance 9 the geography OF the Pacific
coast not one in thousand asks
aboul any place except California
its all California, or the Mormons.
They seem to have no sort of idea of
Nevada, Idaho, Oregon, elc., and
scarcely ever meutien them il at
all, in some way inclusive of" Cali
fornia. =" Hang california; ex-
pect to live aud die in that Golde n
State, unless these people disgust
me with mentioning il TO the exclu-
sion o every place else. They seem
! 10 pitc.i into the MOrm0ns at Salt
Lake in an exquisie spirit of ven
gance so much so that ! have abont
concluded to join lh. cause OF Zion
the first opportunity. 1t may be a
shirt Of cussedness natural with me
but somehow or other / have always
bad a sort of admiration for per
son or Institution that everybody
else seemed 10 hate. There's Beast
Butler hes my idea of a politiclani
and has more brains than any man
in that desperate conclave of a Con
gress, in the Senate, Slmner has no
friends, yet when that body of all
dead beats, wants a display Of brains
on any particular subject, they are
glad to have Sumner turn loose, and
whrnever hear some blatant Black
| Republican chaw up the 'down-trod
den South. my sympathy goes with
the down troddeu every time; Tor
the time being, | am as good Dem
ocrat as anybody. 1t costs me moth
ing to sympa:hisr with anything SC
! | lust turn il loose rlet her gusb. o.
course, IL | were called on to fight
for the "lost cause to shedding
blood, etc, should say as Vallan'
digbam did and as Grant does--le'
MS have peace" But the amount OF
knowledg. these people in Gods
country display in regard to the ge
ography and resources OF the Pacific
coast is enough to drive me mad;
have answered the same question