The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-03 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY: ErENING, JANUARY 3, 1846.

THE ROUTE FROM OREGON.
OVERLAND MAIL FROM OREGON—ARRIVAL OF DR. WHITE,
DIRECT FROM OREGON—UNPRECEDENTED DISPATCH
—THROUGH IN NINETY DAYS.
We had the pleasure, on Saturday evening last, of
taking by the hand our old friend Dr. Elijah White,
sub-agent of Indian affairs for the territory of Oregon,
who had just arrived with a party of only three men,
Messrs. Chapman, Brown, and Saxton, all claiming to
be citizens of Willamette, two of whom, Oras Brown
and Charles Saxton, had accompanied him for some time
previously on an interesting and important exploring
expedition, the results of which will soon come before
the public officially.
They left the beach of the Pacific on the 30th of July,
some 40 miles from the Umqua river, and arrived in the
colony about the 10th of August. They found the
Legislature in session at Oregon city, and Dr. White
being officially requested to bear a memorial and peti-
tion emanating from that body and signed unanimously
by them, also by the judge of the territory and executive
committee—to the Congress of the United States, left on
the 16th. They arrived at Fort Vancouver on the 17th,
the Dalles of the Columbia on the 20th, and on the 23d
proceeded on their journey.
At the first camp, Major Moses Harri, alias " Black
Harris," his pilot and his dependence, as interpreter for
the Sioux and Pawnee Indians in passing through their
country, without any difference or explanation, withdrew
from the party and returned to the valley. Sur-
prised, but nothin4 intimidated, they moved forward.
They met the Wallawall Indians—so much excited
the spring befo re, by reason of the violent and trea-
cherous death, of Elija Heading, an educated young chief
of distincti‘an, killed by a white man in California—
and were handsomely saluted and most cordially re-
ceive—the excitement having entirely subsided. Corn,
Peiatoes, peas, camas, and cherries, were brought
forward for the consumption of the party, and their
plantations, with those of the Keyuse,' speak well for
their advancement in agriculture and civilisation. Not
many of the Wallawallahs cultivate; they generally sub-
sist on fish. But the Keyuse and Nczperces, or Schap-
tans, under the auspices of Dr. Whitman and lady, and
Rev. H. H. Spaulding and lady, are represented as
having made most commendable advance in agriculture,
science, arts, morals, and religion ; many of the latter
reading their own language fluently and writing well,
and in the regularity of their family devotions and ob-
servance of the Sabbath, it is believed few equal them.
On the Ist of September they met at Burnt River
Captains Barlow, Knighton, and Macdonald's companies
of emigrants, the three companies comprising some
eight hundred persons, with eighty-seven waggons,
within some three hundred and fifty miles of their desti-
nation, all in good health and fine spirits, representing
the difficulties of the route as nothing in comparison
with what they had expected. While the Doctor was
giving them an intellectual treat, to which all listened
with indescribable interest, some of the ladies
prepared a rich repast for him and his little party;
coffee, sugar, bread, biscuit, buttermilk, and honey,
with bacon, rice, and several kinds of dried fruits,
were nicely spread out ; they ate and drank, talked, and
mutually cheered each other, and parted in the happiest
mood. At different points, for a distance of a hundred
and thirty miles, they met others—each party soliciting,
they all received a lecture on Oregon. The last party,
called the St. Joseph Company, were met on Snake
River, camped disadvantageously, being some two-
and-a-half miles from wood or water on the sandy
desert ; but they found them in good spirits, and
after advising them at some length on Oregon, the
party was invited to dinner, and sat down to a
table in the tent of the Reverend M. Fisher, a Baptist
clergyman, spread with a white cloth, and partook of tea,
light bread, crackers, maple molasses, dried beef, and
butter, all prepared in the neatest manner. This com-
pany were mostly New England people, had emigrated
to lowa and thence to Oregon, and carried their virtues
and intelligence over the mountains with them. All
much happier and better for the interview, the party
took their leave of this interesting group of venerable
sires, aged matrons, and smiling 3 outh, and passed on
to Fort Hall, where they arrived on the 19th of Sep-
tember, and met a cordial reception from Captain Grant.
On the 23d they passed the romantic and interesting
soda springs, were all drank freely.
On the 27th met Dr. Joseph Burk, botanist and mine-
ralogist, sent out by the English Government to make
collections, and return in seven years from the time of
his departure —dined with him—found him an intelligent,
unassuming gentleman. The party passed the divide on
the 4th of October, all walking over it, and on striking
the sweet water, all drank, not a little pleased to behold
the water once more running into the Atlantic. On the
13th of October, came in sight of a large Sioux village of
some 300 lodges, and containing 2,000 souls—wentimmedi-
ately to it—were met by several chiefs, and the party con-
ducted by them to the Soldier's-lodge, where they feasted
on the choicest buffalo meat. Dr. White exchanged a
horse with a chief, at the Indian's request, and left, after
tarrying two hours, the party being as much pleased
with their reception as the Indians appeared to be in
entertaining them. They encamped three miles below
the village, horses unmolested and nothing missed.
Next day met Smoke, a notable chief, and 200 Indians
with him, moving up to the large village which they
had passed—exchanged the usual salutations of the
day, and all went off most agreeably. On the 15th
reached Fort Laramie, where the party were hos-
pitably entertained, as at Fort Hall, by Mr. Pepin.
Left on the 16th, having purchased a sufficient supply
of dried buffalo meat and flour, with groceries,
to last to Independence, intending to accomplish the
journey with all possible expedition, and not to stop to
kill game. On the 17th met eight or nine ox teams,
heavily loaded with goods for trading with the Indians,
in charge of Captain Finch, who had a trading post
seven miles below Fort Laramie, on the Platte. On
the 18th met Mr. Spane—had also several teams loaded
with goods for trading with the Sioux ; he had buried
his partner the day previous, having died of a nervous
fever. On the 29th, met two men on an express to Fort
Laramie from the American Fur Company at St. Louis.
They told the Doctor he would probably meet the Pawnee
Indians before leaving the Platte, and if he did, that
they would rob him and his party.
On the 31st, at about eleven o'clock, the Doctor, riding
in front of the party to keep a look out for the Paw-
nees, discovered a large smoke a head, halted, adjusted
the pack animals, and then went cautiously on again ;
proceeded a few miles, when a horse was discovered
three or four miles a-head, tied, and apparently uneasy.
The party were now convinced that the Pawnees were
not far off; halted again, and each man examined his
fire-arms. The doctor proposed to leave the road and go
into the hills, and to keep on travelling all night to
avoid coming in contact with Indians, whose character
was that of highway robbers. They did so, and pro-
ceeded four or five miles in the direction of the hills,
when three Indians were seen in front of them, advancing;
the party went on a short distance, and twelve or fifteen
came up to them. The Doctor made signs to them to keep
away, and that he was in great haste to go on, but they
all came up; when the Doctor stopped, requested Saxton
to get off his horse and open a pack, get some tobacco and
give them; he did so, and gave them all there was;
mounted his horse again, when one of the pack horses took
fright at the Indians, and ran with great violence, but was
at last caught by Chapman and Saxton, and the pack
adjusted by them, ready to go on again. But an Indian,
who had been very impudent and saucy, now came to
Chapman and asked him for pawder ; he refused to
give him any, when the rascally Indian cocked his gun.
At the suggestion of the Doctor, Chapman gave him
some powder and he went off; but while the Doctor was
talking to Chapman six or seven had surrounded him,
and two had his horse by the bridle, when he asked
Brown to come to him. Brown did so, presenting his
pistol at one of them, and the Doctor motioning to them
at the same time, with his six-shooter in his hand, to
be off, they left, and the party collected their animals
and started again towards the hills, where a large Pawnee
village, of some three hundred lodges, appeared in sight,
several miles from the road.

several poor, lame ponies and mules, and gave each
man a few old garments, scarcely enough to cover him,
much less to protect him from the inclement season. E
little after Lunset they told them to be off, pointing over
the hills where they were taken prisoners.
In the lodge where Saxton stopped during the night,
while Brown was with him a few moments, an old chief
came in with a large package of papers, evidently robbed
from some individual, but he would not suffer him to read
any of them except the wrapper, which was of the kind of
paper used for envelopes in the War Department, and
directed on the envelope :—" Tangawange, Chief of the
Otto Nation." The Indian then opened the package,
and took out a passport from the United States, and a
large paper having ten or twelve seals on it, opposite to
which were many signatures, a large paper resembling a
deed, and a French passport; he then folded them all up,
after pointing to the coat of arms on each, but would not
suffer them to be investigated; putting them all into the
envelope, laid them under his thigh, gave a con-
temptuous laugh, and soon left the lodge. The party
travelled till one o'clock at night without a drop of
water, on the day they left the village on the open
prairie, taking as their guide the north star, and going
in an easterly direction.
The Doctor was very much indisposed, owing to the
violent blows he had received. Soon after the party
were out of sight of the village, the smoke behind told
them that their enemies had fired the prairie, and all that
day the wind drove the fire hard upon the party, and at
night the flames of the tall grass were seen behind them
mingling with the horizon, giving it the appearance of an
ocean of tire. One of the party kept watch while the
others slept, or rather dozed.
Next morning, taking a bite of raw corn, they continued
theircourse north-east; the party and poor animals suffer-
ing extreme want of water. About ten o'clock they found a
stagnant pool, where all the party were once more sensible
of the watchful care of Divine Providence. They continued
on in the same direction till three o'clock, when the party
struck a deep ravine and began to follow it, but they had
only proceeded a short distance when the Doctor disco-
covered two Indians far in the distance to the south-east;
the parties stopped, concealed themselves in the ravine,
Brown crept to the bank to watch their movements—the
Indians advanced a little, then also stopped. The Doc-
tor then prepared to retreat and change the course of
travel, and the party readily complied with his sugges-
tion, went up the ravine some distance, took a southerly
direction, and travelled some six miles, when they struck
a small creek, kept their course still towards the south,
and just at dark struck the Oregon road, to the great
joy of all the party. They then encamped that night at
twelve o'clock on the Republican Fork, again eating raw
corn for supper.
On the 3d of November they considered themselves
nearly out of reach of the Pawnees, being fifty miles
from their village. They arrived at the bank of the
Big Blue on the evening of the 7th, when, on enter-
ing the tall forest trees, by the light of the moon, a
large flock of tnrkeys were heard among the branches.
All were excited with pleasing anticipations of
once more tasting something palatable, as the corn,
in whatever state it was taken, for several days
had soured on the stomach of the men, and they ate it
only to keep them from starving. The next morning
Brown's well-directed rifle brought a fat turkey to the
ground. After the turkey was dispatched, they re-
turned to the corn again, as the Indians gave them only
two rifles having percussion locks, with no more am-
munition, and the other rifle was unloaded to strike fire
with the powder.
On the evening of the 13th they ate the first meal in
the house of Mr. Charles Fish, quickly prepared by his
lady, residing among the Shawneee Indians, thirty miles
from the United States line.

posite direction, and taking advantage of wind and tide,
pass through the Pentland Firth, in the direct course
to North America, in a shorter time than it would
take them to proceed to Ireland.
Jan. 1, 1845. A LOOKER-ON.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
INTELLIGENCE EXTRA.
CHESTER, 1846.
Nominations for the Tradesmen's Cup.
Eline. 4 yrs Little Cassino, 3 yrs
Anti-Repealer, 4 yrs Merryman, 4 yrs
Spur, 3 yrs Fisticuff, 6 vrs
St. Lawrence, aged Zanoni, 6 yrs
Winchester, 4 yrs Redstreak, 4 yrs
Weatherbit, 4 yrs Queen of Tyne, aged
The Roper's Daughter (late Beaufront, 5 yrs
Nix-my-Dolly), aged Sarah Rebecca
Pythia, 4 yrs Miss Burns, 6 yrs
William le Gros, aged Alice Hawthorn, aged
Needful
Milden, yrs Blackstrap (late Euston), 4
y 4 5
, rs y
Trueboy, 6 yrs rs
Pompey, 6 yrs
Inheritress, 6 yrs Lycurgus, 4 yrs
The Hero, 3 yrs Plaudit, 4 yrs
Johnny, aged Valiant
Deodara, 4 yrs Pal
Roderick, aged Stream, 4 vrs
The Warrior (bro to The Astonishment, 3 yrs
Libel), 3 yrs Intrepid, 5 yrs
Crim Con, 4 yrs Turk, 4 yrs
Sir Diggory Diddle, 5 yrs Mickey Free, 5 yrs
Punch, 3 yrs Warp, 5 yrs
Event, 4 yrs Patriot, 5 yrs
Moss Trooper, aged Polish, 6 yrs
Surety, 5 yrs Duc-an-durras, 4 yrs
Pilot, 4 yrs Flahowlagh, 4 yrs
Whinstone, 4 yrs Colleen Bawn, 4 yrs
Rowland Hill, by Slane, 4 yrs lonian, 5 yrs
Satyr, 5 yrs King Cob, 4 yrs
Little John, 5 yrs Devil's Dust, 4 yrs
The Magnate, 4 yrs Vol-au-Vent, 5 yrs
Eboracum, aged Elemi, 5 yrs
Fitzallen, 4 yrs Mongrel, 4 yrs
Extempore, 6 yrs Correct Card, 4 yrs
Pedometer, 5 yrs Laird o' Cockpen, 4 yrs
Winesour, 5 yrs Lothario, 6 yrs
Pride of Kildare, 5 yrs Peasant, 3 yrs
What, 6 yrs Muscatel, by Mus out of Guava,
Sweetmeat, 4 yrs 3 yrs
The Libel, 4 yrs Beat Bower, 5 yrs
Ironmaster, 4 yrs Miss Elis, 4 yrs
Teetotaller, aged Marquis of Conyngham, by
Portrait, aged Slane—Voluptuary, 3 yrs
Columbus, 4 yrs Blackbird, 3 yrs
Artist, 6 yrs Camera Obscura, 3 yrs
Lancashire Witch, 4 yrs Clumsy, 4 yrs
London, 4 yrs Rose of Cashmere, 4 yrs
Prince Royal, 4 yrs My Mary, 4 yrs
John Davis, 4 yrs Discord, aged
Mermaid, 3 yrs Judea, 6 yrs
Wolfdog, 4 yrs Faugh-a-ballagh, 5 yrs
Corrunna, aged Needful, 5 yrs
Highwayman, 4 yrs Salopian, 4 yrs
Vates, 5 yrs Hope, 4 yrs
Billy Purvis, 3 yrs Ould Ireland, 4 yrs
Arthur, 4 yrs Colleen-dhas, 4 yrs
Example, 5 yrs Queen Pomare, 4 yrs
Sorella, 5 yrs Cataract, 6 yrs
Petit Morceau, 4 yrs Isabella, 3 yrs
The Baron, 4 yrs Mount Charles, 5 yrs
Mervis, by Hornsea, out of Xanthus, 6 yrs
Maria Day's dam, 5 yrs Elena Clara, 3 yrs
Morpeth, 5 yrs Tell, 3 yrs
Vitula, 6 yrs Glossy, 6 yrs
Rowena, 5 yrs Flattery, 4 yrs
Bro to Sir Henry, 3 yrs Finvaragh, 3 yrs
Joe Lovell, 5 yrs Hooton, 6 yrs
C by Slane—Frill, 4 yrs Dr. Husband, 5 yrs.
Lady Wildair, 4 yrs Little Hampton, 5 yrs
Gamecock, 6 yrs Gr f by Rust out of Annie,
Javelin, 4 yrs 3 yrs
Jenny Wren, 4 yrs Outcast, 4 yrs
Yardley, 6 yrs Ruff, 4 yrs
HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.
Her Majesty's stag hds., Mon., New Lodge; Fri., Riching's
Park-11.
Durham County hds., Mon., Esh ; Wed., Tunstall; Fri.,
Brancepeth-10i.
Hurworth hds., Tues., Low Middleton, Sat., Hilton.
Raby hds., Mon., Hartforth ; Wed., Witton Bridge; Sat.,
Houghton Bank Turnpike Gate-10i.
Lieut.-Colonel Hildyard's harrs., Mon., High Leven ;
Wed., Kennels; Fri., Nunthorpe-10i.
Duke of Rutland's hds., Mon., Piper Hole ; Tues., Culver-
thorpe ; Wed., Croxton Park ; Fri., Aswarby.
Cottesmore hds., Mon., Stocken Hall; Tues., Loddington
Hall ; Wed., Elsthurpe Village ; Fri., Witchley Warren ;
Sat., Market Overton-10i.
Thanet harrs., Mon., Sheriff's Court; Wed., Ozangell.
East Kent hds., Tues., Swingfield Park ; Fri., Sweech Gate.
• Mr. Lushington's Ms., Mon., Belmont Tower; Thurs.,
Tunstall-10i.
Linlithgow and Stirlingshire Ms., Mon., West Craig*;
Wed., Hangingside ; Thurs., Lauriestown Kennel ; Sat.,
Bathgate Toll-bar-10i.
Seventh Hussars stag hds., Mon., Charafield ; Thurs.,
Brockford-14.
Sir W. M. Stanley's hds., Mon., Sutton Station ; Fri.,
Gayton Mill-11.
Monmouthshire hds., Mon., Skenfrith Bridge; Thurs.,
Cross Buchan Toll-bar.
Whitecross harrs., Tues., Betlow Lane ; Sat., World's
End.

The Doctor left the Willamette colony in a very flou-
rishing state, and is of opinion that Oregon, at no dis-
tant day, will rival many of the Atlantic States in agri-
culture, science, and the arts. In this opinion all the
prrty concur, and they intend to return again in the
spring.

A daily computation makes the distance from
Oregon City to Fort Hall BOO miles.
Fort Hall to Green River 195 „
Green River to Fort Laramie
Fort Laramie to Independence

Total.
The St. Louis Republican of the 24th ult., says:—
" Dr. White is now on his way to Washington, the
bearer of a memorial to Congress, from all classes of
, English, French, and
hciatlifz•ebnrseedins—Oaskingn—foArmtehreican extension of the authority
and government of the United States over that infant
territory. The documents are sealed, addressed to the
care of the Missouri delegation, and will, of course, not
be make known until presented to Congress."
At the time of the departure of Dr. White, the printing
press and types intended for the first newspaper in
Oregon, had not arrived, but it was daily expected.—
Fromthe Independent Press.

RAILWAY RE T URNS.
Ran.wev TAAFFIC.—The following are the Total Receipts of Rail-
ways for the past week—that is to say, up to the date to which the
respective returns are made, together with the receipts of the same
week in the previous year :

Mr. Wall's harrs., Mon., Llanstephen, Wed., Painscastle ;
Sat., Little Hill-10.
V. W. H., Tues., Seven Bridges; Thurs., Overlay Wood;
Sat., Minety Pound-10e.
Norfolk stag hds., Tues., Drayton Cock; Fri., Skeyton
Church.
Baron Rothschild's stag hds., Mon., Weedon ; Thurs.,
Littlecote.
Surrey stag hds., Tues., Maldon ; Sat., Half Moon, God-
stone.

Week
ending

Last
week.

U. 5

Albrighton hds., Mon., Little Own ; Thurs., Longford ;
Sat., Shareshill Village-10 .
Bedale hds., Mon., Constable Burton ; Wed., Thorpe Per-
row; Fri., Pepper Hall-104.
Mr. Brand's hds., Mon., Rothampstead ; Fri., Bendish
—lO4.
Cambridgeshire hds., Mon., White Hall ; Fri., Sandy
Warren-104.
Cleveland hds., Mon., Wilton Lane End; Thurs., Lackenby
Whin—l Oi.
F. B. hds., Mon., Frewithen Cross ; Fri., Croft West
Haydon hds., Wed., Midge Nook; Sat., Cupola Bridge.
Mr. Horndon's hds., Mon., Horse Bridge; Thurs., Jays.
Mr. S. Lownder's hds., Thurs., Salden ; Sat., Shenley.
Mr. Morrell's lids., Mon., Shipton ; Wed., Abingdon
Tour's End.
Oakley hds., Mon., Sherrington Toll-bar; Tues., Riseley
Village ; Sat., Bromham-104.
Lord Parker's hds., Tues., West Wycombe Park; Fri.,
Ibstone Heath-104.
Prudhoe and Derwent lids., Mon., Shield Row; Fr..,
Barlow.
Pytchley hds., Mon., Dodford Village ; Wed., West Had-
don • Fri., Sywell Wood ; Sat., Sibbertoft-10i.
dr. Roe's lids., Wed., Kingston° Village; Sat., Batis -
borough Cross.
Sinnington hds., Tues., Cowsby Wood ; Fri., Wrelton-10.
Lord Southampton's hds., Mon., Maidford ; Wed., Stoke
Plain ; Fri., Whistley Wood ; Sat., Salcey Lawn-11.
Mr. Watson's hds., Mon., Spittal Hill ; Wed., Longhirst ;
Fri., Netherwitton-104.
rushford harrs., Mon., Little Down; Wed., Goosemeor ;
Fri., Haddon End-10.
Norfolk harrs., Tues., Kelling ; Thurs., Lion-11.
Boroughbridge harrs., Tues., Leckby Carr; Thurs., the
third mile: tone on the York read-104.
BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—FRIDAY.
CHESTER Cup.-50 to 1 agst Warrior (bro. to The Libel),
taken freely; 1,000 to 20 agst Alice Hawthorn, taken.
DERBY.-6 to 1 agst Sting; 16 to 1 agst Brocardo ; and
30 to 1 agst lago.

ANOTHER RAILWAY TERMINUS ROBBERY.—Yes-
terday information of the following daring railway terminus
robbery was given to the police. Stolen, between eight
o'clock on Sunday morning and one o'clock on Monday after-
noon, from the Paddington terminus of the Great Western
Railway, the property of Messrs. Ballance and Son, of Gutter-
lane, Cheapside, a bale of orgazine silk, weighing one and a
quarter cwt. The bale was directed to Messrs. Ballance and
Son, Gutter-lane, and is valued at 2001.

FATAL ACCIDENT IN A TIMBER YARD.—Yester-
day Mr. Wakley, M.P., held an inquest in Middlesex Hos-
pital, on the body of Henry Barnes, aged 42, foreman to Mr.
Escott, timber merchant, 336, Oxford-street. The deceased,
with another man, named Goddard, were removing timber
when some logs that were piled over each other, near where
they were working, gave way, and one of them, sixteen
inches square and twenty. three feet long, fell upon the two
men, and fractured the leg of deceased, and also fractured the
leg of his fellow workman. Both were released as quickly as
possible, and removed to the Middlesex Hospital, where
Barnes died on the 23d ult., six days after his admission.
Verdict, "Accidental death." Goddard is in a fair way of
recovery.
SERIOUS ACCIDENT TO CAPTAIN PTALL.—Yester-
day afternoon, between three and four o'clock, a serious &ca.
dent occurred in Hyde Park to Captain Pyall, a gentleman
between fifty and sixty years, residing in Oxford-terrace,
Oxford-square, Edgware-road. He was riding a spirited
horse round the carriage-drive in Hyds Park, and on arriving
opposite Kensington-gardens the horse became restive, and
shied suddenly against the wood railing, by which Captain
Pyall was thrown with great violence to the ground, his foot
hanging in the stirrup. The groom, observing the perilous
situation of his master, rode up and secured the horse at the
instant he was getting off into a gallop, and Captain Pyall
was fortunately released. The fall caused some severe bruises
on the head, but he was able to walk home. _ _

As the Indians left the party they fired three times at
them, and the shot fell thickly around Brown—the
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as they still continued to dash upon them on their fleet
horses. Seeing that four could do nothing by firing on
such numbers, the Doctor told the party not to fire,
while the Indians were in great confusion among them-
selves. The first who came talked loud and boisterous,
and began to catch the pack-horses, when it was pro-
posed to go with them to the village.
In the meantime all was confusion, some snatching a
rifle from one, while another caught a blanket from an-
other, and ran off. Saxton first got under way, follow-
ing his packed horse, having many valuable papers, and
surrounded by some twenty Indians. They soon stripped
him of his powder-horn and his horse and saddle,
and put him bare-back, while a brave, with a large
battle-axe, led his horse by the bridle. Brown
followed Saxton in a similar manner, passed him,
and was the first to grace their fiendish triumph
as they entered their villages in full gallop. The
Doctor was next suffered to start towards the vil-
lage, but not until they had torn his coat into pieces, and
stripped him of his vest. One Indian then struck him a
hard blow with his bow on the right cheek; another hit
him two blows on the top of the head with a war club,
which nearly deprived him of his senses. With nothing
left but his flannel shirt and pantaloons, he passed Sax-
ton soon after Brown, with a brave leading his horse,
and a chief riding behind him, embracing him in his
arms. Chapman followed immediately after Brown ;
they struck him several times as he was riding; he was
hurried along and taken into the village. The Doctor
was last on the ground, and was conducted into the
lodge of a chief, but not permitted to converse with any
of his party ; the rest of the men were conducted to
separate lodges, and treated in a similar manner.
The party were fed several times during the evening
on boiled corn, at different lodges, accompanied by an
Indian, but were not permitted to be together, except
about ten minutes at a time. The first impression made
upon the Doctor and all the party on entering the lodges
was, that the chief would cause most of the property to
be given back, but before morning all were convinced to
the contrary, by having their packs opened and pillaged
of everything of value; not even letters to people in the
States were omitted. Dr. White lost many of his most valu-
able papers, and some twenty letters, though he mailed at
this place 541, to various persons in the Union. After rob-
bing the party of all their provisions and clothing, as well
as horses, to the morning several i'quaws, true to the
character of women, put up some corn, and the chiefs
who were at the head.of the outrage brought forward

•
ANOTHER JEREMY DIDDLER.—A person with
remarkably large head, professing to be a poet and school-
master from the neighbourhood of Welby, near Grantham,
has been enjoying himself for the last three weeks at the ex-
pense of the landlord of the Crown Inn,
Stamford, but,
it is supposed the fear of the worthy host's bill before
eyes, thought tit on Friday last to make a hastyretreat ,
having
his
leaving behind him a few paltry articles not worth one
third.
the amount of his bill, which he tried to dispose of during
his stay. The gentleman stated his intention of attending
the Stamford Dorcas Ball, but we suppose he has by this
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THE LATE EARL OF PORTARLINGTON.—In OUT
notice yesterday of the military services of Lord Portarling •
ton some surprise was expressed that a man of his rank
should have been so long in the army, and so often actively
engaged without being promoted to the rank of a general
officer. The circumstance is thus accounted for by a cor-
respondent. On the eve of the battle of Waterloo his
Lordship, accompanied by an orderly left his regiment at
bivouack and proceeded to a neighbouring farm-house to
sleep. The orderly forgot to call the Noble Earl at the ap-
pointed hour in the morning, and when his Lordship at-
tempted to rejoin his regiment, the ashes of the fire alone
marked the scene of their late encampment. Arriving at
Waterloo, the Noble Earl found his regiment (the
23d Dragoons) already in action ; and being unable
to join them, he attached himself to the first Eng-
lish dragoon regiment he met, and fought with
great :bravery thoughout the remainder of the day.
After the battle, the Noble Earl had an interview with the
Duke of 'Wellington, for the purpose of explaining his
absence from his regiment. The Duke is stated to have
informed the Noble Earl that nothing but his gallantry in
the field had saved him from being tried by :a court-martial
at the same time advising hit Lordship at once to retire from
the army, a recommendation which, it need scarcely be
added, Lord Portarlington immediately acted upon.
TRAFALGAR-SQUARE.—Four handsome bude lights
have lately been erected at the corners of the square. They
have not, however, yet been lighted, as with the singular
fatality attendant upon everything connected with the
square, there is a dispute about lighting between the Com-
missioners of Woods and forests, and the parish of St.

ANTI-CORN-LAW MEETING AT
ILFRACOMBE.
(Abridged from the North Devon Journal.)
This spirited place has been the first among the towns
of North Devon to join in the movement—now so general
as almost to claim to be called " national"—in favour of
a repeal of the corn-laws. In compliance with a requi-
sition, numerously signed, the worthy Port! eeve, Robert
William Dickinson, Esq., convened a public meeting on
the subject on Wednesday evening last, The meeting
was very well attended, and the proceedings were in the
highest degree enthusiastic.
Mr. DicniNson having been called to the chair, opened
the business of the evening by reading the requisition,
and remarking that it had given him much pleasure to
respond to the call of the requisitionists, inasmuch as
their object was in accordance with his own feelings.
They formerly had had men of talent and ability, dele-
gates from the Anti-corn-law League, who had addressed
them with sound reasoning and impassioned eloquence:
to night they must be satisfied with being addressed by
their fellow townsmen in plain homespun language.
They were indebted to the Anti-Corn-law League for
the assistance they had rendered by teaching them the
principles on which a total repeal of the corn-laws was
d mended; and they had further to thank the League
for having kept the question before the public during a
succession of bountiful harvests, when men were apt to
be careless for the future, and when the pernicious oper-
ations of the corn-laws were scarcely felt. If the League
had been idle during the time of plenty, could it be sup-
posed that the people would now be so near the accom-
plishment of their desire—the total abolition of protect-
ing duties upon corn ? He must take that op-
portunity of making a remark upon one of the
main arguments used in favour of their being main-
tained : it was this—that the repeal of the corn-laws
would have the effect of reducing the wages of the ope-
ratives, and was sought for with this object. Now there
were many around him who obtained their means of
living from their wages, and he would ask them if
their wages were less last year, when they could obtain
81bs. of flour for ls. and a peck of poattoee fur 2-/e•sl. ;
or whether they had higher wages now, when they could
get only 61bs. of flour for ls. and had to give sd. for a
peck of potatoes which, two years since, were only con-
sidered fit for the food of pigs ? He challenged any
person to deny that quantities of potatoes were now pur-
chased and eaten by the workmen and labourers, which
they would not have eaten in a gift two years since ;
and that those potatoes which they would not have
eaten at a gift, they were now purchasing for food fur
themselves and their children. Had they higher wages
now, when all articles of food were dear? or were their
wages reduced when food was cheap ?—(Cries of " No,
no.") Was there not a greater demand fur their labour
at a time food was cheap than now that it was dear?—
(Cries of "Yes.") He was sure that the most thinking
part of his audience were filly aware that it was supply
and demand that regulated the rate of wages, just as
supply and demand operated on the prices of the com-
modities of trade and commerce. The object of those
who advocated free trade was to promote agriculture,
trade, and commerce; and in promoting those departmen s
of industry, they had in view to increase demand for labour.
They were all aware that at a time when trade and
commerce were depressed, there was a redundancy of
labour in the market; and that when there were twenty
workmen waiting for employment, and there was but
labour for ten or twelve, the master had it in his power
to regulate the rate of wages ; whereas, in times when
trade and commerce were flourishing, and there was
sufficient labour for every person able and willing to
work, the position of master and operative was changed,
and the operatives, in that case, had it in their power
to regulate the rate of wages. Now if free-trade would
give an increased demand for labour, the operatives
would have it in their power to regulate the rate of
their wages when their labour was in demand. He
therefore trusted that none of them would be misled
by the insinuations of the monopolists, that cheapen-
ing food was merely for the purpose of reducing the rate
of wages : it was an impossibility for wages to be re-
duced in value, when the labourer or operative could
choose his master. The wish of the free- traders was,
that agriculture should flourish and.abound—that trade
should flourish and abound—that commerce should
flourish and abound ; and yet for years had the promo-
ters of free trade, for selfish and political purposes, been
stigmatised as destructives ; and by whom ?—the very
party who were now ready to do the work themselves
that they so vilified the League for helping forward—ay,
and by no less a man than Sir Robert Peel himself,
whose party thrust him forward as its head, and after-
wards bolstered him up in the House of Commons with
a majority of 90 ; yes, Sir Robert was going to do the
work which his party had all along called one of de-
struction—viz., to repeal the protecting duties on corn.
" If the thing must be done, we will do it"—say the
Tories, " the Radicals shall not do it—the League shall
not do it—we will do it." But they were not all come
over to the side of the League, and some of the ultra
Tories were getting positively rampant—witness the
address of the Committee of the " Wincanton and Yeovil
Society for the Protection and Defence of Agriculture,"
to the landowners and clergy of the county of Somerset,
and especially the following paragraph in it :—" Our
watchword is—' No compromise !—no surrender !'—
rest on your arms well prepared, until your illustrious
Commander-in-Chief again gives the word—' Up, boys,
and at them !' " Now the words—" Up guards, and at
them !" was an expression of the Duke of Wellington
at the battle of 'Waterloo ; and its revival upon this
occasion, with the substitute of the word " boys" for
" guards," was very significant, and seemed to threaten
something more than a battle at the hustings. He would
trespass on them with another quotation from the
Standard of Saturday last, which, writing on the sub-
iect of Lord John Russell having been sent fur by the
Queen, said:—" We had great faith in the hunger, and
consequent audacity of the Whig party—hunger will
dare anything." Oh! little did the writer think of the
double-edged weapon he was using when ho wrote—
" Hunger will dare anything." At a moment when
they were threatened with famine, he seemed to forget
that there was such a thing as hunger from want of food,
as well as the political hunger from want of office. " The
hungry will dare anything!" They would dare anything,
and no one knew better than the editor of the Standard
that the fear of human punishment operates feebly indeed
when opposed to the importunities of want, and when
life was possessed of nothing worth preserving. Surely
that was a most inopportune moment to have used
such a taunt. He hoped and trusted that the threatened
scarcity might be averted by a repeal of the protect-
ing duties on articles of food, and that their agitation
might be confined to their meetings, and desperation
might not drive some to agitation in the street, so as to
gratify the Wincanton Committee by giving them a
chance to whoop out—" Up, boys, and at them !" Their
agitation, in order to give freedom to trade, agriculture,
and commerce, had been confined to the use of argument
and reason ; he sincerely trusted that their object would
be accomplished, as he was sure it would be, constitu-
tionally by the approbation of Parliament and the Crown,
and consummated by universal public applause.
RICHARD BLIGH, Esq., on the call of the Chairman,
rose to move the first resolution. He should detain
them a few moments, while he endeavoured to combat
the plea of some of the aristocracy for the continuance
of these laws. They told us their estates were
mortgaged: now he asked them if that was- a sufficient
excuse for cutting off a slice from each of their loaves
to pay the mortgage? most assuredly not. They also
stated that it was necessary they should continue
this tax to enable them to give larger fortunes
to the younger branches of their family : he
asked them if this was not too monstrous to be
entertained for a single moment? The last plea
he should notice was that they would continue this
tax for the benefit of the labourers. -It would be neces-
sary that we should look into the condition of these poor
fellows. There were in the county of Devon about
20,000 existing upon Bs. per week ' • let them for a
moment consider this benefited class. Upon an average,
they had four children, making a family of six. Deduct
Is. per week for rent, Is. for fire and candle, 2s. for
clothes, shoes, and bedding, and they had a balance of
four shillings left to furnish food for twenty-one
meals for six human beings, that is, less than efd- Tee!'
meal. If the landed proprietors had not been the
vilest of hypocrites—if they intended really to benefit
the labourers when theyput on
tfiecorn-tar, they should
at the same time have put
on ata
upon a sliding-scale upwards, that no labourer should
work for less than 9s. sliding up to 12s. This would
have enabled them to pay the corn-tax. Mr. B. Con_
tinued:—l hold that all laws ought to be based on the
holy Word of God. What says the Scripture? Are
we not commanded not to muzzle the ox that treadeth
out the corn? Will any man in this assembly say that
the labourers in the county of Devon are not muzzled?
The mechanics of this town were
paying out of their
wages about Is. 6d. per week to the landed gentry
of this country. To show them the injustice of the
corn tax, it was enough to say that each of them was
paying as much bread-tax as he (Mr. B.) did ; was this
justice P He now begged to propose the resolution he
held in his hand :—" That the present circumstances in
which this country is placed, especially demand the total
repeal of those laws which prevent the free circulation
of the produce of the earth, and impede the commerce
of an industrious people."
The Rev. BENJAMIN PRICE, minister of the Episcopal
Free Church, in an eloquent address seconded the reso-
lution, which was adopted with acclamation.
JOHN JONES, Esq., moved the second resolution :
" That a memorial be presented to her Majesty in Coun-
cil, drawing her attentian to the anticipated famine, and
praying her Majesty that she will be graciously pleased
to direct the attention of Parliament to the present corn-
laws, with a view to their immediate repeal." It would be
nothing short of insanity in the present state of affairs,
while famine threatened their very threshold, to fold their
arms in apathetic indifference and to pray—" Give us this
day our daily bread." The duty of every patriot, of every
philanthropist, was to be active and energetic in the
use of those legitimate means placed within their reach
for the attainment of this necessary and indispensable
blessing. And, depend upon it, now was the time when
all their energies and zeal in this good cause should be
brought into full operation :—now was the time when
they were required to make every effort and all sacri-
fices, in order to convey to their rulers their unmis-
takeable and distinct determination, that they would
no longer passively submit to this unjust, unrighteous,
and iniquitous tax upon food.—(Great cheering.) He
would importune them as they valued their country's
welfare and happiness, to surround the throne with peti-
tion on petition, with remonstrance upon remonstrance
—yea, in this matter, he would have them become per-
fect O'Connellists, and " Agitate! Agitate! Agitate!'
and never hold their peace till the statute book was re-
lieved of one of the foulest blots that ever disgraced is
pages.—(Renewed applause.) With these sentiments he
begged to move the resolution he had already read.
Mr. HILLMAN seconded the resolution. Addressing
Himself to his " Brother bread-eaters,"!], remarket that
the object which brought them together that evening
was very plain and easy to be understood. No argument
was necessary to show the difference between enough