Richmond Indiana palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1837-1839, 1838-10-20
LYNDE ELLIOTT, Sec'y

Facts for the consideration Of the people Of the
United States in general, and those Of Missouri
in particular.
The English have taken possession of the Or
o.-on Territory, properly the Missouri
Ter tory. (tor If the Territory west OF Is at
tached any part of the United States it Is to the
State of Mis- ~our) They have established ira
ding posts throughout the country, and erected
forts at various poia:s. They have village at
Fort Vancouvre, contaiaing about 500 inhabitants
with picket forming arena OF 100 by 4oo feef,
inclosing 81 buildings including ofhcers dwelling
houses, workshops for carpenters, :vheelwrlghts,
coopers, timers, &c. they have saw,n'li erected
never failing stream falling into the Coluni-
III. which 1000 feet of lumber daily, employ
ing % neo; the depth of the water at the mill be-
ing 25 feet wher, .hc company s vessels can take
in their cargoes for the sandwich ISLANDS marke..
They have alarm at Vancouv.c containing 'ooo
acres fenced and under cultivation o. "hich are
employ 100 hands--a large ship arrives L -"''a'
ly and discharges at MISUNDERSTANDING Ia
to our country millions of dollars worth of Eng
iIsh goods free of duty--which are placed in COM
petition IN the Indiana market, with the goods OF
the American fur dealer, which he has paid
a heavy duty to the government The COM
pany's ships which remain on the coast are the
Nercide, the Lama, and the Coborough, with
the Steamboat Beaver. built in London last year
these vessels well armed and manned
An express, as it is called goes out annually in
arch on1o do l,-l s.,sin in
paIleanx ;-generally under the command OF
Chief Trader Mcleod, who meets the assem-
blages of American hunters and trappers. $50 or
800 in number, in the mountains, and Is enabled
to undersoll the American trader who purchas-
es his goods at St. Louis, subject TO the gov
ment duty; Mcleod having advantage over
{, the American trader the American ground of
% 80 per cent.
1 With regard to the soil, climate and product
tons of the country it is asserted that era dis
hax of
e along the coast we'll inland and it can now
be said without fear of contradiction, that it will
, prove the finest grazing country In the world
that the climate of Oregon is far mder than that
d OF the United States, resembling more that Of
r, France-that there are three large rivers falling
d into the Pacific Ocean south of the Columbia
$ within our own Territory, which are not now
J. laid down on the map, and 1t is believed tina
the vallies ofthese rivers contain at least $4,000,
/; 600 acres ofand of the best quality equa to the
n beat lands in Missouri Illinois. Last year tn,
a. Codborough entered ono of these rivers with
r feet water and found good harbor, far bette
n, than can be obtained at the mouth of the Column
'g bia. Lastly, Col. Dodge, who is well acquainte
re with the Rocky Mountain region, is decidedly @
al opinion that army could arch with case, from
c our western confines to the Pacific ocean, takin
at with it all its artillery, munitions of war; and pre-
if visions. With these facts which obtain chic
ID, ly from Dr. Llnn's report to Congress, sha
ri leave the subject to the deliberate considerable
e, ofour readers. Some persons may be unable I
I'm see any danger to our prosperity peace froi
IN the fleets armies of Queen Victoria in Hor
or durns, Jamaica, Bermuda Halifax. Saint Johns
n Quebec, Montreal, Kingston, or Vancouvre, bt
10 we must be permitted to say that cannot a
he together approve of girl of nineteen getting he
he arms around in this kind ofstvle.
Ell,
a. Thc~editor of Bicknell's Reporter in speakin
at of the business Of Philadelphia, remarks:
We The Pennsylvania tolls for the present fsc
We year, amount to about 100000 A month Ions
DC er. and they will exceed million. These fac
alone speak trumpet-tongued, to the trade b.
tween Philadelphia and the West Property
mounting TO millions upon millions, must hav
70 past from this city during the last year: viii
no that fertile region of country beyond the Ohioh;
IN poured Il rich equivalent into the bosom of o,
~, tlourIshing metropolis True, State Worl
m hive been constructed at an expense Of $50 GOO
- 900. And what of that? Philadelphia, the who
: State. & the community at large, have been bel
" gifted to twenty times that extent, by the;
u glorious monuments of public spirit and huma
enterprise. New York also appears to be dom
ed an excellent business. The tolls collecIed c
'rt her State canals dulng the third week in Sc
or tember, amounted TO upwards Of 1853 600, exh
AT ting handsome increase In the amount for II
~ same oeriod of las, year.
The Highest Inhabited Places irr the know
lie, world are in Peru The cottages at the source
e. the Ancomaca. are at an elevation of l512O fe
lie above the level of the The village Of Taco
IN is Ia 276 feet high Potosi. containing Il
of population of O00 is 5000 feet abos the lie
es ell of the
BEET SreAR MANurACroRy.-The Newbur
port, Mass. Herald states that the Beet Sug
Company of Northampton are getting their bu
dings ready to operate on large scale. The
paw 50 ton for Bcets, and some of the farmc
have raised 30 tons to the The Danufa
.ure is carried on upon the German principle
driving, grinding, and making of tho powder
strong detection Of syrup for crystallising-