smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1863

prospecting IN the Blue Mountains.


For several years past the inhabitants of
Walla Walla valley have had reports cir
culated among them that gold had been
found in the streams running from the
Blue mountains TO the Columbia and Snake
rivers. The Walla Walla, Ro6ie's Canon,
Mill creek, Touchet and Tukannon have all
got gold on them but whether enough to
pay for working has never been demon
strated, and, Judging the future by the past,
never will be by the prespent population
of the valley. The failure to prospect
these streams is not, however, to be attrib-
uted to any want of resolution, for each
spring some person has announced his in
tentiOn to test the question, but eventually
failed to carry his purpose into effect
'Wait a moment" appears to be the rule
of action in this matter, and moments have
grown into minutes, hours, days, weeks,
months and gears.


We are constantly jibing at the Web
feet; we are inexhaustible in jokes about
big red Apples;'' we claim, most of us,
to be Californians we think we are more
industrious, smarter and more energetic
than anybody else but still we do not
prospect the Blue mountains, where there
is strong probability that there are good
placers.


Gold was once found in considerable
quantities in a canon within ten miles Of
town Some Cslifornians, who knew all
about mining, went up to prospect the place
took a look at it-didn't look like the
California gold mines-didn't believe there
was any gold there-thought their inform
ant told fb-but would sink a hole any
how-dug hole big enough to bury good
sized dog in-ate up their lunch-drank
one bottle of Old Rye-damned the coun-
try, their informant and everything, and
came back to town. Their verdict was
that if they could not find any gold no
body else need look for it. They had
mined in California, and all that they did
not know about mining was hardly worth
ascertaining; and so the Blue mountains
are yet unmolested by the pick and shovel
of the miner, and the verdict of the smart
Californians stands as the verdict of the
community.


If any Web-Foot should now go up in
to the hills and find gold in paying guam
titles, the Californians would say Fools
for lucl1;" and tell how that they had pros
pected thoroughly" in the same place
people at distance would doubt about it,
until all the best claims were taken, and
then agree that it was not as rich as Boise
or Florence, anyhow.


Admitting that no such claims are to be
found in the Blue mountains as those in
the Bitter Root Range, it is plain that
much poorer pIacers will pay here than in
the inhospitable climate of Florence for
here the laborer would have the advantage
of cheap provisions, mild climate and the
surroundings of civilized life


Ofthe effects Of gold discoveries in our
neighborhood on the trade Of this place,
and the farming interests of the valley, IL
is rot necessary to speak, as the advantages
are so obvious that they can scarcely be
over-estimated. he question now is,
Shall the Blue mountains be prospected !:
Year: 1863

The newspapers below are apparently
much excited about the steamboat question.
Every day they TEEN with notices of the
running time of some favorite boat, and, in
one instance, recommend fair taial Of
speed between rival steamers. We look
upon all this as wrong, and fear that the
press is degenerating to the moral stand
ard of steamboat runners for what is the
difference between advocating the special
interests of corporation through the pa
pers and going on the wharf and soliciting
passengers for either of the rival lines ,
The principle is the same in both cases,
and to be carried out to It's legitimate re-
suits, the advocacy of the claims of res
taurant or drinking house on the public
patronage should also occupy place in
the columns of public journal One pa
per ought to inform its readers that the
Maccaroni Hotel is infested with vermin,
and shout the praises Of the Yermicelli
Soup-House; while a rival newspaper
should denounce the Vermicelli Soup
House as robbers roost" and expatiate
on the comforts to be had at the Maccaro-
nj Hotel. Leaders should be written, COM
mencing, buy all your drinkablss at the
Hades, where Jimmy is always to be
found and upon the other hand the quail
ty of ''Johny's' whisky should be praised
to the skies. BY an easy gradation the
press might be brought to use its influence
in procuring patronage for all kinds of peo-
pie and houses.


There is nothing we desire more than to
see a healthy competition in navigating the
waters of the Columbia, but we deprecate
the carrying of freight at ruinous rates.
The upper country is now heavily stocked
with goods which have paid high rates of
freight, and great part of them have laid
in store for several months. If new sup
plies are now introduced at the merely
nominal rate of freights now ruling, prices
will be Aattened out TO almost nothing, and
as for profits they will be entirely out of
the question.


At no very distant period freights must
be raised and then the last conner will have
goods which be can sell at large profits,
and yet below the market. When freights
are raised, the steamboat-men will charge
an increase Of freight. which will make up
the losses incurred in competing with their
rivals. In this arrangement, the people
gain nothing, the old established houses
lose money, the steamboat interest plays
even and the spectators who have 10 per-
manent interest in the country, make
money.


No amount of newspaper putting will
change the ultimate results of this compe-
tition on the Columbia river, and feeling a
total indifference in regard to the respec-
tive merits of stern-wheelers, side-wheel-
ers, OF any other kind Of steamboats,, we
hope to see its navigation based on the
principle that steamboats, have a right to
make some money, but not all of it and
we hope, further, to see the interests of old
established houses consulted by the steam
boat companies in arranging their sched-
ules of freights To this end we think that
newspaper steamboat putting should be
stopped, on the principle, if no higher one
rules, that steamboats, are able to do all
their own putting.
Year: 1863

MAD.-Scrantio, in his issue of this week. wakes
wroth at us-calls us pusillanimous barking
eurs," all because we have exposed his lying about
the Lewiston-Boise route and for this reason, he
thinks he must occupy high posisition in our
Uranium = So he does, for though we have seen
him when be was Iow eaough to be feeling up for
the ground, we have never seen him when he
was not HIGH.
Year: 1863

Two BANNoOK CITIEs.-There are two
places called Banncck City. One Of them
is situated on the Grasshopper fork of the
Missouri river, and the other is in the Boise
mines. Both of them are in the new
territory of Idaho, and one of them will
doubtless have to reIinquish the name.
Year: 1863

The apologizers of treason-men whose pro-
slavery instincts lead them to justify assaults
upon the Government, but whose circumstances
or want of manhood forbid the overt act-have
organizations, of secret nature, throughout the
North. Their object is to counteract the efforts
of the Administration in securing a permanent
peace BY means of the war power. which would
result advantageously to the whole country at
the expense of their rebel brethren. The sensi-
tiyeness Of this class of men, in this particular
is pretty certain indication that rebellion is an
offspring of slavery. Hence all their efforts in
opposition to the anti slavery attitude of the
Administration. That these secret coadjutors Of
rebellion exist in the very heart of loyalty, none
can doubt. Every civil process known in our
courts is rcsorted to by these creatures to shirk
the responsibilities of citizenship in this hour of
necessity. Facts have come to light, thoroughly
convincing that they are furthermore bound to a
forcible resistance of any compulsory acts of the
Government. Bloodshed is thrcataped by them
if the conscription is attemfDf to be enforced.


The conscription will speedily be enforced.
The volunteer system has drained the country
Of the thoroughly loyal, leaving lukewsrm and
unfriendly mass of people subject to the opera
tions of the conscription. Not all are thus, but
a sufficient number TO create difficulty. Their
threats, then. will soon eliminate. It behooves
loyalists to be organized and prepared for the
threatened emergency. The recent demonstra-
tions in Ohio, over the arrest of Vallandigham,
but evince their earnestness.


Union Leagues have been formed all over the
country. Our number should be known, in view
of the fact that loyalty treason must soon have
the ascendancy. By notice in another column
it will be seen that they have such association
in Manhattan, and we know not why Davis
County should be behind. Our numbers should
be added to swell the column. Loyalists should
be prepared to meet the worst.


A circular appears in the Leavenworth papers,
signed by E. N. o. Clough, Grand Secretary Of
the Grand Council for the State Of Kansas, Civ
ing the following directions for the establish
ment of subordinate associations: Let petition
be prepared, signed by three men of known and
undoubted loyalty, to the Grand Council of the
U. L. A. for the State of Kansas, and directed to
the Secretary, setting forth the state of the
Union sentiment in their vicinity and requesting
charter, and that some one be deputized to
open an organization at place stated, and
agreeing to pay the expenses of such person and
the regular fees for the same. Also, if unknown
to the Secretary, referring to some person Of
persons of known loyalty in Leavenworth t.
establish their reputation.


Cogent arguments have been produced agains
secret political societies, but where the issue il
narrowed down to loyalty or disloyalty w
cannot think patriot will have any compunc
tion, when, too, counter societies exist.
Year: 1863

A correspondent of a cotempo-
rary says: ''It is my duty to i'm
press upon you the certain fact
that one-half of our young people
lose their senses when they lose
their hearts. One of our party
has already written five letters to
his lady-lOve, and he goes about
groaning and signing in a most
pitiable manner. He has no an
petite, and sleeps up at the top
of the house, close to the moon.
He cannot stand by one of the
columns of the piazza without
putting his arm around it's waist.
and | caught him kissing an apple
to-day because it had red cheeks.
Year: 1863

A PROvINCIALc cOtemporary says
there are hundreds of people who
become religious when danger is
near, and adds: we know Of a
man who fell from a bridge
across a certain river, and just as
he found he must go and no help
for it, he bawled out at the top Of
his voice, Lord have mercy on
me, and be quick, too p
Year: 1863

GEN. SCOTT's DECLINE.-Gene-
raj Scott's health is said to be fast
failing him now. He is confined
to his apartment in the Fifth Av-
enue Hotel, almost entirely help
less, and what is worse, it is said
that his mind at length is break
ing down under the weight of
years and mental bodily trouble.
He receives few visitors, and
these are only his most intimate
friends.
Year: 1863

attorney and Counsellor at Low.
Has resumed the practice of his profession in
Aanitowoc, and car BOW promise to give
prompt attention to all professional business
entrusted to him.
II Collections made in any part Of the State
For a few weeks bis Office will be found ST
his dwelling Louise.
Year: 1863

the $500 Clause, Why Its Repeal is
Advocated.


The Washington correspondence the
New York Independent furnishes the
following statement. of the reasons which
impel certain Congressman to so earn
estly urge the abrogation of the section
of the Conscription law which provides
for commutation: -fi


The most important subject before
Congress is that of the Conscription act.
1t is urged with much persistency that
the proposed amendments to the act
should be considered immediately. with
in few days, before the next draft.
The President viii, if it is necessary.
postpone the draft for twenty days The
Western members very generally. favor
the abolition of the Communication clause
of the bill, and the Eastern members,
with exceptions, favor its retention. Ii
will probably be repealed, and the next
draft will-give to the Government men
instead of money, and the war will make
itself felt at the North as itlnever has
before. A canvass to-day of the Senate
and House would probably reveal the
fact that the military men in Congress
are opposed to the repeal of the clause
General Schenck and Schofield in the
House incline to the opinion that it is
better to give the people the chance to
escape compulsory service in the army.


Gen. Farnsworth entertains the same
opinion. Mr. Wilson, in the Senate, has
declared his opinion-he advocates the
retention cf the clause, but is ready to
vote for its repeal if the Government de-
sires that it should be- repealed. The
Secretary of war is non-committal upon
the subject. The. Provost Marshal Gem
eral recommends the repeal, but his
opinions are worth no more upon this
subject than those of any other Colonel
in the service The present law would
not be disturbed were it not for the fact
that large number of members of Con-
gress were obliged to meet their oppo-
nents in the recent canvass upon this
very question, and were unable to con-
vince their poor constituents that this
This is the secret of the agitation for a
-9ps4-l ef the contamination elauee. IT,
Government does not demand its repeal,
bat some of the politicians 10. Which
ever way the contest is decided, all loyal
men viii quietly acqniesce. NE
Year: 1863

THE LEAF TOBACCO Taxa meeting
of the receivers and exporters of Wes-
tern leaf tobacco was held in New York
last week, at which Mr. Joseph Fatman
presided Its object was to affirm the
inexpediency of the excise tax of twenty
cents per pound on leaf tobacco, as re-
commended by the Commissioner of In
ternal Revenue, with no-drawback on
exports. 1t was asserted that the sta
tistics of American and foreign tobacco,
the experience gained by long dealing
in the article, and especially the result
brought about by the high prices of leaf
during the last two years, prove that such
a tax would not only injure but almost
.annihilate the export of the American
product, resulting in great loss to the
agricultural, mercantile and shipping IN
terests of the country, and benefiting
alone the foreign growers of tobacco,
and would tend to throw the balanca ot


exchange more than ever against the
| United States to the great detriment OF
| our national currency. The meeting
| also expressed hebehef that the injury tc


the trade of the country would more than


counterbalance the revenue obtained from


the proposed tax, which was iRexpedien


in every point of view. A committee


was appointed to visit Washington anC


consult with the Committee Of Ways anC


Means, laying before them such facts an


statistics on the production and expor


of leaf tobacco, as will best serve the OF


iect of the Government and interfer


least with the interest of trade and con


merce. The cooperation of the trade q
Louisville and other cities was invited
and we are happy to know that this in
portant subject is attracting the deep a
tention and earnest consideration Of on
citizens who are interested in this branC


of business. .-LouisviIIe Journal
Year: 1863

ham, saw board with This cottage for
sail painted on it. As he was always
ready for pleasant joke, seeing wo-
man in front of the house, he stopped
and asked her very politely, When will
this cottage sail?f Just as soon as the
man comes who can raise the wind,
was the quiet reply.
Year: 1863

Eg- 1t is considered to be cool to take
a mans hat with his name written in it,
simply because you want to get his auto
graph, The remark applies as well to
any one who will steal an umbrella with
the owners name in it, for the same
reason, and bad umbrella at that.
Year: 1863

> Eg1 We don't wish to alarm people


but one of those everlasting searchers
for spots upon the sun has discovered


that the face of that luminary is. as thieklv
covered with spots as though it were


marked with small pox, sufficiently to
impair its business capacity for liehfinp
Year: 1863

CARS1vA1 At TIE CESTRAL.-A grand Car
nival comes of this evening at the Central
Skating Park, upon which occasion the full
Light Guard Band will do the musical, rs
sisted by the entire drnm corps Of Camr3Douss-
las. A hinge time Is anticipated.
Year: 1863

RATHER HARD HIT.-Ministers catch
it sometimes, as well as other people A
minister was travelling where the road was
difficult to find, and requested man by the
wayside to direct MIN, naming the place
where he wished to GO


Well" says the hedger and ditcher,
20 keep on just as you are now going, about
a mile and half; there. at the crossroads,
you will find minister, who will direct you
to the left couple of miles, and there at the
fork of the road is another minister, who will
direct you to the right about three miles,
and so on; at every fork and cross of the
road is a minister to inform you which road
to take"


All ?, says the parson, "What do you call
ministers 2"


"Why," says the other, "those things
which stand up at the cross and fork of the
road, with something like hand on them"


Finger-bOards, you mean; why do YOU
call them ministers p said the preacher.


Because they are always pointing the
way to other people, and never go them
selves ]"
Year: 1863

COMMON SENsE.-It has made more
great men than book learning. Washing
ton never saw the inside of a college, and
yet he has left a higher mark in the temple
of fame than any other man of his age, be-
cause he excelled in good common sense
Napoleon Bonaparte was scarcely better ed
ucated, except in what concerns the art of
war, and was man Of erratic genius, and
yet his great practical shrewdness, or com
mon sense, did more for him than anything
else. He was rarely ever borne away by
passion or genius in a manner to hide from
his view the true relation of things around
him, or the practical connection of cause
and effect. AS Macauly says, ono man ey-
er knew better than he what men and hor-
ses could do" Caesar excelled as much in
common sense as in genius. And, indeed,
no man was ever truly great who lacked this
quality.


Even in the ordinary callings of life, how
manifestly has common sense more to do
with our success than any of the rarer quail
titles of character What can a farmer of
genius do in comparison with one who takes
practical view Of what his business re-
quires, and who prOsecutes it accordingly? !?
Merchants may, indeed, now and then, be
made rich by venture, but if lacking in com
mon sense to guide them in their new posi-
tion to know what is fitting in the expendi-
ture and investment of his money, and to
sober their ideas upon all subjects, they will
just as soon become poor again. So of min
listers, lawyers, physicians, and men who
live by their wits our experience is that of
common sense.-N. y Chronicle
Year: 1863

, a dreary place would be this earth r
Were there no little people init;
The song of life would lose its mirth,


Were there no childrento begin it.
No little forms, like buds to grow,


And make the admiring heart surrender;
No little hands on breast and brow,


To keep the thrilling love-chOrds tender;
No babe within our arms to leap,


No little feet toward slumber tending
No little knee in prayer to bend,


Our lips the sweet words lending.
What would the ladies do for work


Were there no pants nor jackets tearing
10 tiny dresses to embroider?


No cradle for their watchful caring
No rosy boys at wintry morn


With satchel to the school house hasting
No merry shouts as home they rush
Cd No precious morsel for their tasting.
Tall, grave grown people at the door,
. Tall grave, grown people at the table;
The men on business al intent,


The DANES lugGbrious as they're able.
The sterner souls would get more stern,


Unfeeling natures more inhuman,
And man to stole GOODNESS turn,


And woman would be less than woman.
For in that cline toward which we reach,


Through times mysterious, dim unfolding,
The little ones with cherub smile


Are still cur Fathers face beh0lding.*
So said his voice in whom we trust


When in Judea's realm preacher,
He made child confront the proud,


And be in simple guise their teacher.
Iife's song, indeed, would lose its charm
Were there no babies to beginit;
A doleful place this world would be,


Were there no little people it.
y There angels do always behold the face of m
Eafb rubi h ici in ~ A TIT
Year: 1863

A speculator has got badly bitten in buy
ing claims ofsailors to prize money After
paying out about $4,000 for claims worth
ten times that amount, he has discovered
that there is law to prevent the paying of
the money to any but the sailors them
selves.
Year: 1863

TAENEW YORK TIMES snOw recognized through
out the country as conspicuous among the Journals ef
the City of New York for the


CHEAPNESS OF ITS ISSUES
ENTERPRISE OF ITS MANAGEMENT,


THE
Year: 1863

CHATTANOOGA, March "a .tremendous hail storm
swept over this region last evening. +Outhouses and
trees were blown down and window panes generally
smashed On Saturday evening there was tornado
at Shelbyville. The Depot and telegraph office were
blown down and the operator badly injured One
man was killed. The cars were blown of the track
and much other damage was done. ~


THE MOVEMENTS OF THE ENEMY--The Savannah
Republican says "a profound quiet reigns along our
coast. Hardly Yankee vessel is to be SEEN and all
the iron-cads have departed to parts unknown Eve
rybody asks what can be the intention of the enemy
where are they going-what do they intend
to do, &C., &C., but no body can answer 1t is not
known whether the Ogeecee fleet went north or south
Some think south, for a movement against Mobile;
others think for Hilton Head preparatory to an at
tack on Charleston, whilst others believe they have
turned their prows in the direction of North Carolina
Nothing is known defntely-in our opinion even by
the enemy himself He seems to be floating about at
random from point to point, with the hope like Mcaw-
ber, that something will turn up give him an oppor-
tunity to move with success"
Year: 1863

TIE YANKEES AND THEIR CoLoRED BRETHREN AT
PENSACoLA.-We learn through trustworthy private
letter from Pensacola that there has recently been
bloody light in the streets of that city between
Maine and IA New York Regiment growing OH: of
some difference in opinion between them relative to
the treatment of their negro brethren. Many of the
soldiers ofeach regiment ard number of negros were
killed in the melee The affair terminated to the
satisfaction OF the contcsting parties by claiming
gether fifteen negro men and driving them the point
OF the boyonet off the end of wharf into the bay,
where the water was fifteen feet deep The negros
are beginning to taste the sweets of universal freedom
with a vengeance
Year: 1863

The foreign exchanges were Of course unsettled
by the violent fluctuations " reNA NFN4,.


The gold market was also in a state of ferment
to-day and the rush of sellers has not been greater
upon any previous occasion. Lots of all sizes,
from five thousand dollars to quarter of million,
were offered but buyers were chary and not dis
posed to risk to any great extent, particularly as
there seemed no hope for contradiction of Gene
raj Grants dispatches. 1t will be seen that the
market opened at 354 down from the closing sales
of Wednesday but rallied little, only to submit
to still further decline. slight reaction took
place in the evening as will be seen by the follow
Year: 1863

Great efforts were made to rally the price dur
ing the day, and the attempt will no doubt again
be made tomorrow, which may be rewarded with
temporary success; but the moment the market
evinces buoyancy large amounts are offered for
SALE which sends prices down again.
Year: 1863

tt IS reported that the fty millions OF TWO years
Treasury notes will be delivered to the banks in
about ten days, and that a part of the one year
Treasury notes will be printed SO as to be ready
for distribution in a few weeks.


The following table shows the operations Of the
United States Branch Mint in San Francisco dur
ing the third quarter of the present year, ending
ON the 30th of September


Total value OF gold bullion received SO 447 c9J 21