The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1870-04-08
NEW NORTHWEST.
DEER Lodge CITY, FRIDAY, ArHlL 8
THE LEWIStCLARK EXPEDITION
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IulliskeA for the First TIoe.

LADIES AID CExTlEHEs;
have deemed that an hour this evening
might he appropriately spent in gehearstng
the principal events and incidents, the Ob
jcct and results Of the first and greatest ex'
pediiion that has ever taken place ecJosi
the American Continent, viz that Of Lewii
and Clark.
EETRosrEcTlvE.
What memories arise, what associations
spring up NJ the very mention OF these no.
bic n,cni Whist sch0Ol.b0y 10 not familiar
with the movements Of such bold pio.
necrs towards our western ocean? Who
within tie sound OF my voice has not read
and rc.rsad with pleasure the simple and
unpretcnding narrative Of their long, tire:
some and marvellous j0urncyinGs, their hair.
breadth escapes and life fraaght with dan
gers and privatiOns? The date and ciIcum.
stances attending the starting Of this Expo
dilion are worthy special remark. showing
% they do that, even Ut the beginning Of
the present century, the disposition Of our
Government was to explore new and fur dis.
tsnt regions ut any cost. peril or danger.
This Was period when We had but re.
emily emerged from Colonial condition,
fined 70 tho eastern slopes Of the Ale.
ghenies, and when the periis Of western
frontier life Ut that day can lie read IN the
present histories of kcntut Ky. Tennessee,
Ohio, and Illinois. The hands If rowing and
ever savage Indian tribes still occupied the
vast regions from the foot If The western
water shed OF the Allegheny mountains to
the summit Of the Rocky range, and when
their light bark canoes alone disturbed the
still wsicrs Of the great Mississippi, Nilsson.
ri and Ohio. This Was period when the
sxcman's stroke was for the first time heard
in the great priiueval forests Of the west, and
when The daily incidents and enactncnts In
the lives Of Daniel R,Onc, George Rogers,
Clarke and the frOnticrsucn OF that day
formed equally the topics OF daily conver.
sstion and gossip In Cabinet sesslons while
gnvc affairs Of State were being discussed
This was period when France and Great
Britain equal with ourselves were joint
claimants 10 the vast domain extending from
the Mississippi towards the setting sun, and
only limited by the bold waters Of the Pa,
citic on the west. This wss period when
the great geographical and commercial. cen.
ire Of orr nation, St. Louis, the starting
point Of tho expedition, was the site Of .
small French village of rude frame tene-
n,ents, and when iis merchants were con.
tent with barter If whiskey and powder
for turs and peltries. This Was period
when the mind and affairs OF our citizens
were rivettcd upon home and the drcsfdc
where had eat their fathers and g1andfath.
ers before them. This was period when
the wild power OF steam had not been
caught and harnesscd to tho wheels aud
shafts aud spindlcs OF y commercial and
manufacturing world, and when the cleo.
trio pulse that by It's ceaseless heatings was
To add . new lfe to q torpid world still
lay Numbering In tho womb Of the future.
II Was period when new mould OF the
worlds activity and ingenuity was to b
cast, and when man was 10 demOnstr ate by
his works of art and invention that the de-
vclOpment Of mind formed ono Of the great
objects Of mans habitati0n of the world.
It was such period Of the worlds history
mined that the broad and unknown region
living between the Allcgi and the Pm
aific should be explored ny the thousands Of
industrious citizens and aliens whose hands
still chung to their own affairs ut home, and
from whose feet had never fallen the dust
of their own h0mcstcads .. -
TERRA JNccGSITA.
Before tho cessIon Of Louisiana to tie
United States by France IN 1905, truly no.
thing was known Of the grcat interior
whence flow tho Missouri, Mississippi and
Columbia, the thrce great arteries Of our
country. No bold geographer he'd u yet
threaded the long and tortuous windin0 Of
The two former and though speculation had
Oft and for years asserted that great river
rose in the great rocky range and poured
it, tribute towards the western ocean, and
river ''6sn Rogue" Il Was now for the
40 sso,n >.,ah1nei~>1lv ,,sool.ssn>d "a el.n
world that our majestic ColnmLia existed.
Expeditions BY scs carried On under the
flags Of tho English, Spanish, Russian. and
Mexican governments had c0asted along
our western shore from the tropics to the
O0(h parallel Of latitude, and though the
coast WAS welt marked and observed, still
no parties were ever sent on shore % ex.
rIOre it, great interior. Although Gray -
cured % 10 BY the right Of discovery, IL
cosptxy through which The Columbia 0ows,
yel he could tell % nothing Of the interior
ave what hc saw from tho deck Of tho lBrst
vesael that was noated upon tho watc3 Of
The river that now beass ID noble name.
yEspEasox's YlEv2 u
When the former mystical river. Gan
Roque Was now no longer subtecs Of
doubt e ;R:cs:os but ~. xSss att w r.
md ID magpihoence and importance pso.
Reeioss JeAeesos, Who vs. tier ptsaidest
n the Cnitcd States, had detesmlned II HI
owu mipd that tho valuo OF snsh treasure
should not only b secured toua, but should
Is appreciated BY 10 ~ making knowa y
lie world through the eitoIts a6d lAboGS Of
m Americas exDloraaieu The exoEnt, char.
.cfer and reooufcee Of That vosf feRion N.