New-York daily tribune., 1843-03-29
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can Presbyterian Mission In that ierritory.
slieht glance at him when he entered our olce
would have convinced any enc that he had seen all
,be bard.bins of life in the wilderness. Hewas
dressed in an old fur cap that appeared tc have
seen some ten years service, faded and nearly
! destitute of fur; vest whose natural color had
long since fled, aud shiFt-we could not see that
he had any--an overcoat every thread OF which
could be easily seen, buckskin pants, &c.-,he
toughest man that we have seen this many day
too poor, in fact, to get any better a7ordro6e
The Doctor is one of those daring and good men
who wen, to Oregon some years age to teach the
Indians religion, agriculture, letters, &c noble
pioneer do we Judge him TO be.-a man fitted to De
chief in rearing moral empire among the Wild
men of the wilderness We did net learn what
success the worthy man had in leading the Indians
to embrace the Christian faith, but ne very mod
esty remarked that many of them had begun 10
cultivate the earth and raise cattle.
He brings information tha. the settlers on the
Willamette doing well; that the Americans are
building town a, the falls OF the Willamette;
that Mr.. Moor, of MIR. Farnham's party, some
sixty years of age, occupying one side OF the
falls, in tho hope that Government would make
him wealthy by tha passage of pfc-emPtlon law
tina, the old man Blair, another member OF the same
party, was living comfortably short distance
above as ell who have read Mr.. F.'s travels will
know he deserves to do DR.. W. left Oregon six
months ago; ascended the banks of Snake or Lap
tin River to Fort Hall, and was piloted thence to
Santa Fe by the way of the Soda Springs, brewR
Hole, Colorado Of the West, the Wilma, and the
waters Of the del Norte. From Santa Fe he came
through the Indians that have been removed from
tbe States 10 Missouri. The Doctors track among
the mountains lay along the western side OF the
Anahuac range; and he remarks that there Is con-
siderable good land in that region.
We give the hardy and seifdenying man
hearty welcome to his native land. We are sorry
to say that his first reception, on arriving IN our
city, was but slightly calculated to give him ia
vorable impression of the morals Of MS kinsmen
He fell into the hands Of one of our vampire cab
men. who. in connection with keeper of q tavern
house in West-street, three four doors from the
corner near the Battery, Heeced him out of two of
the last few dollars which the poor man had
ooPOiS NHS'NN'N
Newbufyport have been loud in their commenda-
lions of Col McKenney's discourses on the Origin,
History, Character, Sc. &c. of the North Anaerl-
can Indians. If any man can throw light upon
this universally interesting subject, that man ls
Col. McKenney. We are not surprised therefore,
that calls 10 every have made upon him by the
clergy, in conjunction with the most distinguished
citizens of these places, to repeat his disceurscs;
nor that the Churches should be thrown open to
him for the greater accommodation of the crowds
that pressed to hear his graphic deneations the
character, condition, and prospects of that itated
race. Every body knows that Col. Mckcuney was
at the head of the Indian Department at Washing
Ton since the Administration of Mr.. Madison,
called to preside it by that patriotic states
man, and that he continued at that post until 1880
that he has travelled among the Tribes of the North
west, ana the South and the Southwest, negotiated
treaties az Joint commissioner with the then Gov
eraor, now sx-Minister Cass; given to the world
nest popular work Of over 500 pages, illustrated
with drawings and has now in of pubica-
ton the largest and most splendid work on the In
iians OF North America, that the world has ever
seen.
VIII not some of our citizens, friendly to the
Indians, take measures to secure Col. Mckenney's
public illustrations Of the all-absorbing subject In
this city? The writer of this has regularly received
the papers of Newburyport and Portland, and if The
one half of what they say is true, (and the high
" honorable names that are published. clerical and
Others IS guarantee that all is true, then may our
citizens promise themselves treat OF no ordinary
sort. Should Col. McKenney respond TO call TO
address the citizens Of New-York, we hope that
Immediate steps may be taken to secure to cur ct-
sens the same treat that our Eastern friends have
enjoyed. l.. Z.
The WHIc CANDIDATE FOR MAYoR.-Ihe
nomination of i" Bob Smith, as his numerous
friends delight to call him, takes like wildhre.-
Honest, capable and faithful, combining in him
self all the qualifications considered requisite by
the Jefersonan creed, he is just exactly the sort
Of candidate the Wings ought to have selected
The illustrious paper-sna,oher will find he has
got hold Of something exceedingly "hard to beat
this time.
FIRE AND Loss OF L1rE,--A slip from the Office
OF the Trenton State Gazette mentions the desruc-
tion by FIRE OF the old True American Inn, on Mill
Hill yesterday morning, while the inmates were
all asleep. John Bozer, bcarder had barely
time to escape with his life after running to the
front room and awakening two men who were
lodging there. These men did not escape, and
their black crisped remains were taken from the
r,iins The trunks Of the bodies shapelesS and