New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-02-18
Oregon.


Tp.vrrs, ~ r;.e GREAT PRAIRIE WILpgRNRss-rRE ANA.
u,,,c .rp ROCKY MOUNTAINS THE OREGON
TsRRIToRy: By T.. j. FARNHAm
work with the above title will soon be issued
from this Office, which we predict will meet the
wants Of the American public, more generally and
truly than any that has appeared for many years
with regard to the Oregon and the Far West. In
the first place. it relates to wanderings in our own
vas, Western Wilderness; performed In the years
1899 and 1910, by man not only capable of OBJ
serving and writing the truth, but who withal
could look on hardship and danger as things to be
met and never fed from. This community will
estimate the truth Of this latter remark when they
ars informed that MIR. F. is the same individual
whs, in the year 1910, found some l60 Americans
and Englishmen imprisoned, starving to death In
the dungeons of California, and rescued them by
his own energy ana bravery, and at the sacrifice
of every regard for his swn life, appears by
letter to him from the prisoners themselves, pub
lished in the papers of this City in the month Of
August Of that year. The feelings that would
prompt to such an act are interviewer through his
narrative with the thrilling incidents of journey
overland to the far Pacific.
The track which MIR. F. took over the Rocky
Mountains was never travelled before by sny white
observer. He followed the trail of the Santa Fe
traders until no struck the Arkansas, which he
assembled to the place where it escapes from the
Mountains; at that point he entered the gorges,
climbed the frozen nights, and traversed the de-
serts Of the Rocky Mountains, as far North as lat
,ude 42e. On this part Of his journey he explored
the sources of tbs South fork of the Great Platte,
the Southern branches Of the Colorado of the West
and the sublime and barren districts of country
lying about them. From latitude go no turned
towards the Pacific Ocean, through Oregon Ter
rtory, of which he tells you 80 much and so well,
that you rise from the reading acquainted with its
soil, it's trees, its whole commercial and agrioultu
raj capabilities, explored and related, you are fore
ed to believe, by an honest and capable observer.
Indeed, Oregon and the whole country along Mr..
F's track, stand out with remarkable distinctness
and interest and his descriptions of the Indians,
their manners and cus,oms-the events of his daily
travels are narrated with vigor and spirit which
will place the work, to Its interest, at least on
a level with the best of its kind.
Among other matters of statistics which Mr.. F.
and Episcopal Missions in Oregon, and q very
elaborate and interesting account of the poor In
dams tina, have been driven from their homes in
the States to the plains west of the Mississippi
The public shall have this work before them within
two weeks, and we are confident it will moro than
justify the favorable opinion which has induced US
topurchase the copyright and commence the print
ing of q large edition. 1t will be got up In the
style of the cheap works of the day, but on type
never before soiled and as beautifully can
print it. 1t will form about hundred large dou-
blecolumn octave pages, equal to a du0dscimo
volume of 300 pages, and be sold at IS cents per
copy, or FIVE for 81. The postage will BIO to
cents per copy.
PEYHsYLvANIA.-Mr. Penniman's amended