Year: 1863

FRIENDS REEs On my return to this
place, found matters moving along apace,
and much in the same manner as theyused
to; but still with the rest of mankind on
the Pac fc, we are progressive people
However, the same old logs are in the old
Hudson Bay post above the falls that graced
it when for the first time, with the senior,
l stood within its precincts in the summer
of 1855; and the deep roar of the waters
of the Columbia as they tremble over the
kettle falls are no less monotonOus now than
then and some at least, of the same In
dians that we then watched, in wonder
ment, as they speared the salm below
the falls, are playing the same game there
to-day But there have been changes
since then. The new Fort down in the val
ley, and the town of Pinkney have grown
up and are tie aristocratic places instead of
Mes old "pile Of logs" and in place of
squaws and half-Ureeds Exclusively to do
up the honors of our kitchens and parlors,
we have limited number ot the fairer,
dearer, but that won't do for batch de-
scendants of the anglo-saxon race. We
then, you know, had no communication
with the "outer VERDI and only heard of
the fall of Sebastapol six months after the
news had reached Portland, when the H.
B. Cos brigade made their annual trip
to Vancouver for goods; but now we have
a semi-monthly express, under the manage
ment of Uncle Son." who you will re-
member was, with Col. Frank Shaw and
all the other "big guns" at that time en-
in M hull Il. = 20 III
war with the Yakimas on che plains Of
Walla N'alla county. We have post Of
fee here too, and an obliging postmaster,
Park W.-but we have no mail and we
are here in blissful ignorance of the cause
Of its failure to reach us, though we are
snre it is no fault of our Postmaster.
Can't Ned give US some light on that sub
ject Another change is that the miners,
who were then all on the Pen d Oreille are
noy mostly on the Columbia "a place
which we would not then have thought of
trying to work-and they are making bet
ter wages than then, and there are great
many more miners too. The Pen Oreille,
though is not yet worked out, and in some
new hill diggings lately found there the
miners are making good wages.





found that the news Of the nominations
for the delegateship had preceded me and
hat will please you mole to learn is that
ALL the votes here will be cast for Geo. E.
Cole, and the number is no mean figure Ell
ther | believe | am as well acquainted
with the sentiment of the people here as
any man in the valley, and do not know
of more than two men who would be like
ly to vote an ancipation proclamation
ngger-soeer ticket. George E Cole may
safely count upon from l25 to 200 rOtes
in spokane county, ard his election is re-
garded here as a fixed fact. We are emf
nenily democratic people here and we
want no more clique or corrupt Federal
official rule, and moreover we want to see
our Union restored and we never expect to
see it done otherwise than by the Demo-
cratic party.


The news from the mines on the Colum-
bia is favorable. though not so much so as
it will be two months hence, when the wa
ters fall. | learn that a party will soon
start from here for the purpose of pros
pee ing for gold in the Rocky mountain
range not far from the Boundary pass If
any paying mines are discovered | will
let you know in due time.


Yours, Respectfully, M.