Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-09-05

THREE GREAT RIDES.
raai kevere's TO Lexington. sher,.
dans from winehesfer. aud whit.
mans from Oregon.
fChicaeo Inter -O.esn.1
Lonefelllov bas embalmed in death.
lesS verse Paul Revere's ride to LAxino.
ton from ChArlestovn on the ui1n. ~
April 10. l775. Ii was about tvalvs
miles long, and was probably accom-
pushed III an hoor. When the ,roops
left the common that night. on their
fatal expedItIon, DIR. Warren disp.tched
REVERE to Lexington via Charlestovn
~ alarm the coantry. Ihs n ier's ao
count 10 more menR-r than sa,isfac,ory:
a lev spear-poInts here ami there vould
nave gwen life TO the matler-of fact
narrative:
On tuesday ev vsning, April Is. l775.
u was observed that a number of sol
oilers we're marcsIng toward Bo-ton
Common. About 10 o'clock DIR. Warren
sent IN great haste for me and beppad
tnAt 1 would immediately set out for
Lexington, where were Hancock and
Adams, and acqQaint them Of the
movement, and tnat it was thought
they were the objects. Tue SUNDAY
before, by desire of DIR. Warren, had
oeen TO Lexington to see Hancock
ana Adams, who were at the Rev. Mr..
Clark's.
returned at night through Charles
town. There l agreed with a Colonel
Conant and some other gentlemen that
II the British went out by water We
would ahow two lanterns IN the North
Chureh steeple; aud il by land. che, A
sIRnal; for We were apprehensivc il
would be difficult to cross Charles river
or get over Boston Neck. I left Dr.
Warren, called upon friend aud desired
him to make tue signals. then went
home, took my boots and surtout, went
to tbs north part of the town where |
had kept boat.
Two friends rowed me across the
river tive minutes before an order came
to stop hIm) a little to the east ward of
where the Somerset lay. Ii WAS then
Young Hood, the ship was winding and
the moon was rising. They landed me
on the Charlestown side. When | got
into town / met Colonel Conant and
several others. They said they had seen
our signals"
sHTRIDAN's RIDE.
In 1864 Sheridan went swinging down
the Shenandoah valley ON his black
charger, and Buchanan Reed immortal
lzed him in verse before the music of
the flying hoofs died away. The world
knows the story by heart--the consuita-
tlon at Washington, Sheridan's lodging
that night at Winchester ON his return,
the leisure mount in the morning, the
flying fugitives half a mile out, and
then whip and spur till Winchester, in
stead of Sheridan, was twenty miles
away"
We have always taken a pardonable
pride, not unmixed with envy, in the
record Of a New Jersey officer who WAS
at Antietam, tysburg, and the battles
of the Wilderness, and about every hard
fought field in Virginia, and had scoured
up and down the shenandoah valley
with the famous sixth Corps. Ga the
morning of October 18th he was stand
ing st Il point in the line where sheridan
arrived bloody with spurring,' and
heard him shout In assuring tones, which
no one knew better how to use, its all
right, boys; we'll fax them tn hell in
tw, nty minutesT 1hey took southerly
DIR. otion IN about that time.
wHITMAS's Ride.
For like spirit and z illant adventure,
and romance and poetry more glowing
than John Brent's famous ride. com
IN, nd us to Marcus Whitmsn's ride III
1872. Whip and spur-dead Of winter =
four Thousand mllss-hve months from
the Columbia to the Potomac-tne fate
Of Oregon In the btlanoe. We have
just flushed Barrow's admirable oontri
uution TO the Com nonwsalth series;
that We should think OF Theodore Win
throp's magic pages Rraces the cordial
tribute We wish to pay the distIns uished
writer. Prior TO 1912 the Unit. q States
and England were In joint occupation
of that country. rhers b d been much
dispute over the long vexed bound ,ry
question. From the Rocky Mountains
10 the Pacific. and through Sritish Amer
Ioa the Hudson Bay COMPANY WAS with
out rival, aud acknowledged even no
peer but tue East India Company. Its
policy WAS to discourage settlers aud civ
liz ,tioD from the United States.
In 1886 Whitman aud Spaulding. with
their wives, went to Oregon under the
auspices of the American Board. IL
WAS a sridal tour, began in May and
ended in September at the gates of Fort
Wa.la WallA. A curious feature of the
trip was an o.d wagon, known in his
tory as
wHIrMAN's WAGON"
He was determined to get ii through to
demonstrate the feasibility OF emiRra-
ton. he Hudson bay Company dis
aged every turn OF its old wheels,
and threw every obstacle IN the way.
They held absolute sway over the ceun
y, and we're hardly less inferior 10 the
power Of the throne, but they verify
auaked at the sight of the old wagon.
IL was dlsmembered, dragged by pieces,
iuRloriously dwindled to tue dimensions
of a cart, but, through the indomitable
will of its owner. kept rolling toward
the Pacific.
IL was generally understood that the
country would be English or American.
according to the tide of emigration.
One day In October. 1912, DIR. whitman
was called on professional tour TO Fort
Walla Walla, twenty. i've miles from his
home. IL was trading post OF the
Hudson Bay Company. and was quite
jubilsnt just at this time over the arri-
val of the annual line Of goods. Tables
were spread for the feast, at which the
Doctor found himself solitary Ameri-
can. The festivities were At hoodtide
when an express courier rushed into the
fort and shouted that an English colony
of 40 persons was on its way mp the
Columbia. In the excitement OF the
moment young Enelishman jumped
to his feet aud exclaimed: Hurrah for
Oregon! America is too late. We have
got tue countryr' The Doctor excused
himself at the earliest possible moment
aud in two hours pulled mp his foam
fiecked pony at his cabin door. de
made known the English plot before
ciismounting, aud his determination 10
set out for Washington and return the
uaxt summer with caravan of emf
grants. None could dissuade him; he
must 20; the Webster -Ashburton treaty
,xas pandinc: the Oregon question must