The North-Carolina standard., 1843-10-04
saturday,, September 80, Is4s.
NEWS FROM OREGON. /

NEWS FROM OREGON.
The descriptions given of this Territory are of
the most glowing character. 1t consists, is said,
n q great extent of mountains in magnificent
,noes and of deep vallies of the most fertile kind
The Columbia is its principal river, and south of
that the forests give place to all open rolling coun
trv, with ridges and magnificent trees. There is
canal in contemplation between the Atlantic and
Pacific Oceans, through the Isthmus of Darien,
and should this channel of communication be
opened, Oregon will be reached by steam naviga-
ton. in about fifty days from England, and in two
thirds of that time from the United States.
We have been favored, by the politeness of an
esteemed friend with the perusal of letter from
Oregon. 1t is dated "Falls of the Willamuist,
Oregon Territory March 18th, 1843." 1t is
pos-marked Montreal, and was not received until
five months after it was written. The writer gives
quite an interesting account of his journey out.
Hesays that in crossing the Rocky Mountains, the
caravan in which he travelled was greatly annoy
ed by the Sioux and Black Feet Indians, hund-
reds being on their rear at different times but they
came to no engagement. Their guide and con-
ductor Fitzpatrick, was, itseems, known to the
Indians as the "Lame-Hand;' - they had both felt
and heard of his proves, and were therefore kept
off BY their dread of him. The writer says, furth-
ermore. that the climate of Oregon is extremely
mild and balmy, and that the country possesses
great advantages for trade. 1t is the best country
he says that he ever saw for the cultivation of
Wheat The soil seems peculiarly adapted TO 1t
and the climate is proptious, for during the time OF
its ripening, no rains fall and it escapes all rust
and miIdew. Flour, he says, will be made at the
WilIamius4, and also lumber of all kinds got out
to supply the islands Of the Pacific. The sal
mon trade is also represented to be in flourish
ing condition. and the salmon are said to be Of the
most exquisite flavor. At the time the letter was
written seven hundred barrels of salmon were
leaving for Boston.
The writer has settled near the Falls of the
WilIamust and says, that if Congress should
grant him. in common with others, his GAO &C res
of land it would be worth in ten years double as
much as three thousand acres of the best land in
Wake county. Full of the spirit of enterprise
and speculation-that mighty spirit which has
feled all the forests Of the West, and let in the
SIN upon innumerable villages and cities-he
talks largely of selling lots on which to construct
some future City, and boasts that he has one Of
the best Salmon Fisheries in Oregon.
The writer says that they have as yet but few
of the convenences. and none of the real luxuries
of life in Oregon, beyond what is supplied by the
teeming hand of Nature. He says he had been
without shoes during the whole winter; and al
though he had not been shoeless before since his
boyhood, yet his health was good-better than it
had been for ten years. He exhorts every body
who comes out to bring good shoes, and says he
would give fifty dollars for pair He says also
&" Let no man come here without a wife" Good
advice; and he might have added, let no man go
any where without wife. He desires the un-
married ladies' however, to go, and, by way of
lnducement, says they can get better husbands
there than they can among the sand-banks of the
Eastern States. -.G H.. f ,5y
Upon the whole we are much pleased with the
descriptions given by the letter-writter He fully
and abundantly corroborates other accounts all of
which concur in representing Oregon as one of
theEdens of the world. Room for pOsterity is
the word We have no fear of bad results from
the progress of American settlers, so long as the
first great principles of civilization and good gov
ernment go along with them. But the eye ol
England is ON Oregon; and deeply most deeply
would we regret to see her pirate-fag planted up
on its mountains or waving over its extensive
and glorious valIies. The whole country, and
especially the people of the West, seem desirou:
that Congress should take some decided steps with
regard to this Territory. The next Session will
perhaps, determine its destiny, . .......t....
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