Year: 1863

LEWISTON, Jan. z, 1865.


EDS STATESMAN The aspiring politicians,
and political bummers of this city have at last
succeeded in getting up grand mass meeting
at which they passed a memorial to Congress,
asking that


"Your Honorable bodies do grant US free and
loyal citizens of the United States, a separate
Territorial Government; that the natural advan-
tages of climate and SOIL the richest mineral
POI ton of our whole country within our boun-
Diary lines, we may soon be able to adopt Con-
stitutO1, with a State form of Government and
ask for admission into our GREAT AND GLORIOUS
UNION"


This quotation will at once convince you that
the schoolmaster was not thar. Neither were
some of the principal movers in this division
matter-their local habitation being at Olym-
pa; but the man that sees diamonds in Snake
river, and prints them in the .Age, was on hand,
fact of which the "great and glorious" style in
which the memorial is written gives unmistaka-
BILE evidence Without boring your readers with
long report of their proceedings, l will en-
phateally assert that the persons who are here
agitating this division question do not by any
means represent the voice of the people. The
movement had its origin in Olympia, among
class of property holders who have an interest in
retaining the Capital of the Territory at that
place; and it is now being carried out by set of
political bummers who hope to create places for
themselves in which they will be able to swindle
the Government. They might as well drop the
matter for they can rever accomplish their end,
when the people come to be consulted. There
were good citizens in the meeting to be sure, but
they were there for other ends than political ag-
grandzement Some of these aspirants-ac-
cording to their private expressions, not their
printed ones-might do for mail carriers in the
service Of jeff Davis


The holidays passed away quietly, and accord
ing to the .4ge-we take it as orr bible up here
when we have nothing else to read-"The New
Year greets US l0lthom any erertion on our part,
it oeing in accordance with the creation of the
world, and while we, as atoms upon the face of
nature, behold the wondrous changel"


At Lapwai an unfortunate occurrence marred
the pleasure of their Christmas day there. A
soldier, named Nichols, in sport, was swapping
his gun at one of his comrades, named Sprague,
not knowing that the gun was loaded A second
cap was placed upon the gun when it went off
taking effect in the neck of Sprague infictng
wound from which he died soon after.


We have news here that rich hill diggings
have been lately struck at Orc Fino, but we have
so often had reports of this kind from that quar-
ter that the present one may be taken with some
allowance. The story goes that the diggings
have been found in the streets of Orc Fino, and
that claims have been staked off there prepara-
tory to working next spring. One thing is very
certain, the mines at Oro Fino have been greatly
underestimate the past season, on account of
the rich discoveries made elsewhere.


Jim Glascock, an old typo" left yesterday for
Fort Benton, with Haggard & Dennee's express.
He goes via the Coeur dAlene Mission.


Items are not abundant hereabouts now, and
not being connected with the .A-e, nor known
here even as a correspondent, am not made ev-
erybody's whisky-tester, and consequently cannot


fill up this third page with items descriptive of the
"high-toned" punches made at the various sa-
looms in our city, so you will have to take Johns
word for it--making all due allowance for bad
grammar. More anon. ITEMS.