1862

Primary Sources
Miller, Joaquin. “Executive Power.” “By B. R. Curtis.” Eugene City Review [Eugene City, Oregon] 3 January 1862. [OHS Microfilm] [MCK]
-----. “The Mines About Florence” by Mr. H. Miller to the Oregon Statesman [Salem, Oregon] (14January 1862) [MCK]
-----. “From the Mines.” The Oregon Statesman (24 February 1862) [MULT micro] [MCK]

“Mr. C. H. Miller, of Mossman & Miller’s Express, gives us a few items
from the mines. He states that the snow is from ten to fifteen feet deep on the mountain from Slate Creek to Florence, but that travel in and out has been constant enough to keep the trail in a passable condition for animals. - Provisions seem to be plenty in the mines. No mining is being done, excepting an occasional attempt by some, with the use of fires and the constant application of hot water to keep the rocker free from ice. At the mouth of Slate creek Mr. Miller met a party just in from a point above that place on the Salmon river, who reported the discovery of better mines than those in the neighborhood of Florence. They had quite a large quantity of gold, a specimen of which worth four dollars, the expressman brought down. They came down to the mouth of Slate creek for provisions and immediately returned. The precise situation of these diggings could not be learned from the discoverers.”

-----. "From the North..." The Sacramento Daily Union 22.3408 (1 March 1862): 3:4. [Files to be further explored] From C.H. Miller in the Walla Walla Statesman. [CAL] [MGK]
-----. “The Mines.” Oregonian (31 March 1862) [OHS Microfilm] Reprint of “The Mines About Florence” by Mr. H. Miller to the Statesman (14 January 1862) [MCK]
-----. After All. Democratic Register (26 Jun 1862) [OHS microfilm] [MCK]
-----. “The Crusade Against Slavery.” Democratic Register (12 July 1862) (Editorial). [OHS Microfilm] [MCK]
-----. “Lecture: T. Starr King…” Editorial comment by C.H. Miller on article from the Red Bluff Independent. Democratic Register (26 July 1862) cited in OHS Quarterly 32.1 (March 1931): 106-107. [MGK]
“…But the Rev. T. Starr King is coming, and we suppose with the other of the journalists of Oregon, when he arrives, we must rise up to do homage to the great expounder of abolitionism or be denounced as traitors.”
-----. “Letter From Lewiston. Dated August 3, 1862.” By “J. B.” Oregon Weekly Times
[Portland, Oregon] (9 August 1862) [OHS Microfilm] [MCK]
-----. Midnight Pencilings. Democratic Register (23 August 1862) [MGK] [OHS] [HGT]
“The only poem that can be quite certainly attributed to him [Miller]”
(HGT 55) [MCK]
-----. “Watchman, What of the Night?” Democratic Register (30 August 1862) (Editorial). [OHS Microfilm] [MCK]
-----. "Important Action under the Late Instructions of Gen. Wright." Daily Evening Bulletin. Eugene, OR (12 September 1862) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “Instructions to Gen. Wright of the Pacific from Washington.” By C.H. Miller, Editor. The Democratic Register (27 September 1862) as rptd. in Pacific Historical Review 19 (February 1950): 32-36. [MGK]
“…There is hope that no arrests will be made in this State, but when any one of the citizens of Oregon is arrested by order of Gen. Wright, simply for expression of opinion, we hope to be among the first to rush to the rescue. We pray and trust that no attempt will be made to trample upon our civil law by the soldiery, and we beg the Abolitionists not to push things too far…” Rptd. in Pacific Historical Review as “Joaquin Miller: Sedition and Civil War.” Edited by John R. Dunbar [MCK]
-----. “A Letter from John Days Mines. Dated Canyon City, October 1, 1862.”
By A. J. C. Eugene City Review (1 November 1862) [OHS Microfilm] [MCK]
-----. The Authoress. Eugene City Review. (1 November 1862): 1 [HON] [MGK].” By “De Weiver.” [OHS Microfilm] [MCK]
-----. Only a Private Killed, They Say. Eugene City Review. (1November 1862) [HON] [MGK] By “De Weiver.” [OHS Microfilm] [MCK]
-----. "Salutatory." Eugene City Review. (1 November 1862) [HON] [MGK] By the Editor. [OHS Microfilm]. Note that subscribers to the Register that they will now get the Review. [MCK]
-----. Eugene City Review 1 nos. 1,2,5-16 (1 November 1862 to 14 February 1863) [FST: "OHS Library"] [MGK]
-----. “Curious.” Unsigned. Eugene City Review (1 November 1862): 2. [OHS Microfilm] [MCK]
“On the slope of a spur of the Cascade mountains, near the farm of Mr.
Hulings Miller, of this county, stands an oak tree . . .”
-----. “Death.” By “De Weiver.” Eugene City Review (1 November 1862): 2. [OHS Microfilm] [MCK]
-----. “The Farmer’s Column.” Unsigned. Eugene City Review (1 November 1862): 1 [OHS Microfilm] [MCK]
-----. “Jeremiah the Webfoot.” By “De Weiver.” Eugene City Review (1 November 1862): 1 [OHS Microfilm] [MCK]
-----. “Maria Louisa.” Unsigned. Eugene City Review (8 November 1862) [OHS Microfilm] [MCK]
-----. “Morgan.” Unsigned. Eugene City Review (8 November 1862) [OHS Microfilm] [MCK]
-----. “Finish the Picture.” Unsigned. Eugene City Review (8 November 1862) [OHS Microfilm] [MCK]
-----. “A Fragment.” Unsigned. Eugene City Review (8 November 1862) [OHS Microfilm] [MCK]
-----. Happiness. By “De Weiver”. Eugene City Review (8 November 1862) [OHS Microfilm] [MCK]
-----. “Letter from Lewiston.” By “A Florence Miner.” The Washington Statesman 1.47 (8 November 1862): 1-2. [MGK]
“I passed through [Lewiston] on the 13th of April last…I left Florence two weeks ago…”
-----. "The Betrayer Betrayed." Eugene City Review. (29 November 1862) [HON] [MGK] By “De Weiver.” Short story opens: “Six years ago, while attending court in San Francisco, I was retained to defend a certain criminal charged with murder…” [MCK]
-----. “Great Battle in London.” Unsigned. Eugene City Review (29 November 1862) [OHS Microfilm] [MCK]
-----. “John Brown Guards.” Unsigned. Eugene City Review (29 November 1862) [OHS Microfilm] [MCK]
-----. “A New Poem.” Unsigned. Eugene City Review (6 December 1862) [OHS Microfilm]
Reprint and Review of The Departed Hero by J. N. Gale, which had recently appeared in the State Republican. The Reviewer accuses Gale of plagiarizing Byron [MCK]
-----. “On to Richmond.” Unsigned. Eugene City Review (6 December 1862) [OHS Microfilm] [MCK]
-----. “Trials of an Authoress.” By “Cora.” Eugene City Review (6 December 1862) [OHS Microfilm] [MCK] Short story dated Portland, OR October 27, 1862.
-----. “The Message.” Unsigned. Eugene City Review (13 December 1862) [OHS Microfilm] [MCK]
Comments on Lincoln’s speech to the 37th Congress which had been
printed elsewhere in the paper.
-----. Oregon, a Domestic Poem. Eugene City Review. (13 December, 20 December, 10 January, and 17 January 1862.) Signed, "Agricola." [HON] [Frost 1967:48-51 reviews and criticizes this poem in depth.] [MGK] Oregon. Part 1. By “Agricola.” Eugene City Review (13 December 1862) [OHS Microfilm] Oregon. Part 2. By “Agricola.” Eugene City Review (20 December 1862) [OHS Microfilm] [MCK]
-----. “Names of Northern Mining Towns.” Unsigned. Eugene City Review (13 December 1862) [OHS Microfilm] [MCK]
Reference to J. C. Franklin of Mossman’s Express naming Lewiston
-----. “The President’s Message.” Unsigned. Eugene City Review (20 December 1862) [OHS Microfilm] [MCK]
-----. “Telegraphic.” Unsigned. Eugene City Review (20 December 1862) [OHS Microfilm]. Humorous article that responds to accusations of suppressing a part of the telegraphic news and in part reads: “Washington . . . . It is now pretty generally believed that Lincoln did not blow his nose, but sneezed . . . ”
-----. The Lost Fairy of Lake Alkah. Golden Era (21 December 1862) Signed “ Sitcum Siwash.” [MGK] [FST 51] [MCK]
-----. “War - It’s [sic] Evils.” By “Pax.” Eugene City Review (27 December 1862) [OHS Microfilm] [MCK]

Secondary Sources
“Admirable Impudence.” Oregonian (27 March 1862) [OHS Microfilm].
“The Democrat wants to be circulated by the United States Government, while it shouts for the Confederate Government, as the ‘glory of the land.’”

Note. Oregonian (31 March 1862) [OHS Microfilm] [MCK]
“Mr. Miller does not speak of striking a good claim - which was so stated in
some of the other papers.”

“News From Lewiston and the Mines.” Oregon Weekly Times [Portland, Oregon] (31
May 1862) [OHS Microfilm] [MCK]

“O. S. N. Company’s steamer Rival arrived yesterday from Lewiston and Salmon River mines with about $40,000 in treasure - $15,000 in care of Mossman & Co., the rest Wells Fargo.”

Wallipta [??] “Correspondence. Walla Walla, June 11, 1862.” Oregon Weekly Times
(21 June 1862) [OHS Microfilm] [MCK]

“We hear of another successful enterprise for the country, that is the extension of Mossman & Co.’s Express to your city. It was, by some, considered a visionary move to attempt the establishment of an express in opposition to Wells, Fargo & Co. but thus far, these sentiments have been groundless, no new company could have met with more flattering prospects; that company is well patronized, and now for the first time I send my letter by this express. Their envelops, which have just arrived here, are decidedly beneficial, having a table of distances, price of fare and freight from Portland to the most prominent points in the direction of the mines. Success to their enterprise.”

Note. Oregon Weekly Times (21 June 1862) [OHS Microfilm] [MCK]
“Mossman & Co.’s now run their express through to the mines, running regularly. It is their intention to establish an armed escort to accompany their messengers in and out of the Salmon Mines.”

Letters and Archival Papers
Miller, Joaquin. Letter to John D. Miller from Eugene City (11 November 1862) [HUN, U.6 B10 L.F., HM 19108] [MGK]
-----. Democratic Register (Eugene City, Oregon): 1 nos. 2, 10, 16-20, 22- 24, 25, 28 (22 March to 20 September 1862). [FST: "OHS Library"] [Unexplored microfilm: MGK] [Vol. 1: Nos. 2, 10, 16-20, 22, 24, 25, 28, 29 (March 22 to September. 27, 1862). All issues except the last, which is at The Honnold Library, are at the OHS Library] [FST 130] [MCK]
-----. Printed matter, articles, poems, letters, stories, etc. arranged by year 1862-1900 (incomplete). [HON has in JM Box 8} [MGK]
------. Printed matter, articles, poems, letters, stories etc arranged alphabetically. HON has in JM Box 9: A-H; Box 10: I-O; and Box 11: P-Z] [MGK]
-----. Portraits of Joaquin Miller. [HON has in JM Box 12] [MGK]

Advertisement for Mossman & Co.’s Express. Oregonian (30 May 1862 & on) [OHS
Microfilm] [MCK] Express to Portland, Dalles, Walla Walla & Lewiston.
Bledsoe, R. Letter from R. Bledsoe [known to C.H. Miller] “Letter from Florence June 13, 1862.” The Washington Statesman (Walla Walla, Washington Territory) 1.29 (5
July 1862): 2:2 re the mines in Florence. [MGK]

Advertisement. Democratic Register (12 July 1862 & on) [OHS Microfilm] [MCK]
C.H. Miller Attorney and Counsellor at Law Will practice in all the Courts of Oregon and Washington Territory. Particular attention paid collection of claims in all parts of this State. Office --- Register Building, Eugene City, Og’n.

“A New Enterprise.” Oregon Weekly Times (9 August 1862) [OHS Microfilm], [NAOSUB] [MCK]
“We are informed by Mr. Franklin, of Mossman & Co.’s Express, that they will dispatch a Messenger from Portland on Monday, August 11, for the purpose of meeting the immigration, and all those who anticipate friends coming can have a good chance to communicate with them by letter. The messenger will carry Letters and Archival Papers only.”

Advertisement for Mossman & Co.’s Express. Oregon Weekly Times (9 August 1862) [OHS Microfilm] [MCK]
This ad reads “The undersigned now extend their express from Portland to
the Nez Pearce, Powder River, John Days River and Salmon River mines.” The location of offices are given as follows: Offices in Portland at the Post Office, in Dalles at W. C. Moody & Co., in Walla Walla at Howard and Cady.
Note. Oregon Weekly Times (9 August 1862) [OHS Microfilm] [MCK]
“Messrs. Mossman & Co. are now prepared to pay coin for any amount of gold dust. See their advertisement in another column.”

Advertisement. Democratic Register (23 August 1862) [OHS Microfilm] [MCK]
Same as (12 July 1862) Law Practice Ad. Office located at Register
Building, Eugene.

Advertisement for Mossman & Co.’s Express. Oregonian (2 September 1862 & on) [OHS Microfilm] [MCK]

“Mossman & Co. are now prepared to transport ten tons of express freight tri-weekly to Dalles City at twenty dollars per ton, and six tons weekly from Dalles City to Wallula.

Capt. Gray’s new light draught steamer will commence her regular trips within a few days to Lewiston, at which time we will again receipt for freight to that place.”

“Bully for Mossman.” Oregon Weekly Times (6 September 1862) [OHS Microfilm] [MCK]
“Mossman came in last night with his express, through from Portland in
four days. - Golden Age.”

Advertisement for Mossman and Co.’s Express. The Oregon Statesman 12.281600 (15 September 1862): 4:5

“The undersigned now extend their express from Portland to the Nez Perce, Powder and Salmon river mines.
Offices in Portland with……..Parrish & Co.
Offices in Dalles with………..Moody & Co.
Offices in Walla Walla with…Howard & Cady”
Letters intended for any of the above mining localities addressed to our care at Portland or at the Dalles will be promptly forward to the place of their destination.
Portland, May 30th.

“Prospectus.” By A. Noltner & Co. Eugene City Review (1 November 1862 & on) [OHS Microfilm] [MCK]
In part the Prospectus reads: “The paper will be under the editorial charge of C. H. Miller, to whom all correspondence, contributions, etc. should be addressed.”

Advertisement. Eugene City Review ( November 1862 & on) [OHS Microfilm] [MCK]
“C.H. Miller
Will practice in all the Courts of Oregon and Washington Territory.
Particular attention paid to collection of claims in all parts of this state.
Office - Register Building, Eugene City, Og’n.”

Cummins, Henry. “Diary of Henry Cummins.” Yale University. Cummins was a printer for Miller’s Democratic Register in July and August, 1862. [FST] [MGK]

Himes, George, Curator of the Oregon Historical Museum. “Life of Most Pioneer Papers in Oregon Country was Very Brief.” OHS Scrapbook 54, p. 124.
Note about the Register, Miller’s editorship and its suppression. The Eugene City Review is also mentioned but Miller is not named as the editor. [MCK]

Marriage Certificate, C.H. Miller and Theresa Dyer, Curry County (12 September 1862) [OHS Library] [FST] [MGK] [MCK]

Letter, Wright, General George. The Oregon Statesman (13 October 1862): 2 [FST 32] [MCK]
"The general “calls upon San Francisco Postmaster S. H. Parker to exclude the Register and two other Oregon newspapers from the United States Mail”

 
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