The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-12-18
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.


try. we essay to write you, remember
lug the while that ere these pages greet
your eyes we shall be at nome again.
On the early morning of the % inst,
while yet the coming twilight hid its
streaming locks Of gray behind the
mammoth hills, and the late moon,
with her wan features veiled ia somber
clouds, shed subdued glimmer Of hazy
radiance upon the town Of Lewiston, we
found our well-wrapped self aboard the
COlfax wagon-by courtesy those
open wagons are called stages-a ride OF
forty miles before Us, our destination
the Palouse country, our hopes for pleas
ant weather ardent, but treinulous.
All day long our route Fay through
aud over the everlasting hills, the same
seemingly illimitable vastness Of land
seape everywhere unrolling as We pro-
ceeded, until at last, after many hours,
the somber night came down upon the
closing, murky day aud shut from our
sight all subiunsry things except the
/ plodding horses. the watchful driver, aud
occasional glimpses Of the muddy and
sloppy roadway. Night falls in this
| hyperborean latitude much earlier than
in more southern regions, throwing an
impenetrable gloom over the rocky
Gallons through which the sidelong
roads go zigzagging, and over them the
wagons go careening, in a manner quite
suggestive Of Holmes
/ " First a shiveT and then "a thrill,
Then, something decidedly like a spill"
But We had faith in the horses, faith in
the driver, and faith in the wagon,
whatever might be said Of our want Of
faith in the roads. To add to the dis
comfort, the rain poured 10 torrents,
and the mad wind blew a gale. We're
not going to say We didn't exactly enjoy
the situation, but we don't mind admit
ting that we were not particularly sorry
when the last long declivity had been
safely descended aud the lights Of Col
fax CLEANED upon our long expectant
gaze, aud the driver said the danger was
over.
Entering Colfax, which had entirely
outgrOwn itself as we first beheld IL two
years ago, the wagon splashed through
the principal street, halted at the post
Office, the driver threw out the mail
bags, and hurried toward the Ewart
Hotel. This is an elegant, commOdious
wooden structure, which we were sur
prised to see in such large proportions,
although We had before read OF the
praisewOrthy enterprise that had cul-
minated in its erection year previous.
Captain Ewart, the landlord, with his
excellent wife, and their large family Of
happy and prosperous sons and daugh-
ters, both married and single, all live
here, either at the paternal home or in
close proximity to it, forming a most
interesting and pleasant social and DO
mestic group.
We spent twenty-four hours at the
hotel in rest and recreation, aud were
then installed at the happy home of the
Wolfards, another wide-awake and pro-
gressive family, whose married children
aAI oEAAAEh aAbnnh AnEAAA -AAfuAANA HlbuA
that Woman Suffrage does not interfere
with the domestic relation, except it be
to strengthen it.
Our old friend, DIR. w. w, Beach, OF
the firm Of Beach d Hamilton, is at his
post as Of yore, aud their drug store is
equal to many a one in the older cities.
p. c. Sullivan, formerly Of Salem, is
here, associated in the law business
with Mr. Ellsworth, aud is making his
mark at the bar.
Judge d. c. Lewis, OF Portland, is also
here for tue Winter, in the employ Of the
North Pacific Railroad Company as
land agent. He offers for sale vast
area Of arabic land, at the low price oi
81 60 per acre. This land lies all the
way from fifty to hundred miles from
Colfax, and in convenient proximity TO
the surveyed railway route. There
seems to be no reasonable doubt as to
the ability of the railroad company to
render a valid title to the lands, though
there is just a possibility that Congress
will not ratify their sales. And yet, as
General Sprague justly observes, there
is no more probability that it will do so
than that the United States will accept
the old terms Of the Southern COnfed-
eracy. Judge Lewis informed US that
he had, within five days, made over
seven thousand dollars worth of cash
sales.
Business OF every kind is looking up
in this part of the country, the result OF
immediate railroad prospects. What
the outcome will be, is, Of course, in the
future. The people, many Of them. ex-
press more confidence in the proposed
extension of the Walla Walla line than
any other. Bot, Of one thing there Is
no room for the ghost Of a doubt, and
that is the wonderful extent aud mar
velOus resources Of this yet almost
wholly undeveloped region, where
homes for the million are yet to be cre-
ated. The lands are rich to the very
InoQntain tops, and all the little dells
are replete with fatness. This whole
Upper Country swarms with little
children, as well as other live stock. In
fact, 1t is so prolific with incipient hu-
manity that We find ourself credited
with n new scion of the house Of Duni-
way very frequently. The newspapers
that never lie, OF course-have lately
been sending forth paragraphs an
uOunciuR Us as mother for about the