The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1874-05-01
In INTERESTING LTTEEl FROM GEN.
TRIAL HISSOURE.
APRIL 18th, 1874.

APRIL 18th, 1874. ,
Editor Democrat:
l have had half formed resolution
floating in my mind for weeks, per"
haps months, past, to write a COM
munication for your paper. Thatreso-
luton is beginning to take form and
shape, as you can see, und 1 think be-
fore rise from my seat, or lay aside
my pen, will lave been carried out.
! am 4 constant reader of the DEMO
GRAFT, and have been for years, and
permit me to say | take more interest
in perusing its columns than those Of
any other paper whatsoever that
comes unde? my eye. No doubt one
reason that feel deep Interest in
Oregon, but another and the chief
reason take it to be, is because cf the
intrinsic merit Of the paper itself
However / dii not start out to ilatter
YOU, but really could not write any
thing Sse until ! had discharged in
part the obligation feel under you
personally for the pleasure l have de-
rived from the columns OF the DEMO
GRAFT Ohe other personality and then
/ will drop the subject / was i'm
mensely gratiHed al the ticket n0mna-
ted by the Democratic State CQnVcn-
tion, and especially so to see the name
of an Old friend OF my father at the
head OF it, together with your own for
the Office Of state Printer. Hoping the
ticket will be elected, and feeling but
little doubt on that score, hasten to
redeem my promise.
Realizing the fact that your readers,
generally, would feel little interest in
matters that concern ouly my imme-
diate ncighborh0Od Shall have little
to say with reference to local news,
only giving you such items as refer to
" e timer, crops &c, and these may be
taken us true of Il large scope Of coun-
try And first as to the weatheE We
have certainly had the most Disagree
able winter that ever the oldest inhabi-
tant experienced not that it has been
tha coolest, for it has not by any
means, but Just such Il season as is
most trying on the constitution (and
patiencc) of the hardest (and most
PATIENT Of Our race; and as my con-
stitution is not the hardest; and my
stock Of patience not the greatest, /
am about exhausted in each purticu-
lar | TO think such an0tler winter,
followed by such another spring, would
drive the old clerk of the weather
distracted. You knew not, neither.
could you prOgnosticate, or make
reasonable guess, us % what an hour
would bring forth. In the morning
you would go forth beneath clearskies,
and sunshine all around you, and in
the.eveniug you would hasten home
ward, your every breath II frost, and
every tear an iciclp. Such has been
the season past, and the picture is mott
Oyerlrawu. ] have felt within the
space Of p hours all the extremes Of
nearly all the zones, without moving
out Of the space Of mile in circun-
ference or ten feet in attitude. Bpast
OF California having the circate OF all
latitudes within radius Of 10 miles,
but recOllect you have to climb high
mountains and descend into deep
valleys To enjoy the change OF seasons;
but here all you have to do is to stand
still in the same spot and take it as it
CO mes II you can stand it. The spring
il in perfect Keeping with the winter.
A month or six weeks ago "winter was
broke,n that is so said the knowing
ones Well may be so 1t was, hut il
so, it brake like some of Grants un-
fortunate .appOlntecs to oiilce-very
full banded tthe unfortunate in the
foregoing refers to the couutry,Or 30
GRANTS fame, if he has any lrft, and
not to the aforesaid appOintees) yes,
the spring is bad. We have just gone
right ont of ons cold "suapp into
another, and we are just getting ont OF
the last at this writing. OF course,
''croppingn is backward. However as
we have had but little rain. although
much c.Ou y weather. the farmers have I
managed 20 get In their oats pretty
we'll. We sow all our wheat Ia the
fall, and there Is no other spriug crop
of small grain to interfere with ont
seeding. There has been very little
ground broke for corn, hut now that
all the. frost Is out, ! presume the .
farmers will get ut it iu earnest. - I
Strange 10 say the wheat looks well
and T. pretty safe now, ifthe late frusts /
don't catch ii, or the summer storms .
destroy Il, or the cbintz bugs, or
"middle men," eat 70 Mp Rather too
big an ''if' to suit an Oregon or Cali f
fornia farmer. Missouri has been .
fortunate w her last wheat crop, or
two, and think we may pretty sr'ely
count on another COOL one tlis season.
/ do not know whut 20 write 'y0u iu
the way Of political news, in The hope
Of interesting you and yoaF readers. ]