Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1844-03-26
WISCONSIN, TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 1914

and printing department another.the publish
ing and financial department another; and
then let each member of the firm be paid
according to the skill, capital, or labor which
ne brings to the concem,-think YOU that
such an enterprize would not soon grow into
an extensive and wealthy establishment?
Next, let there be added to it, department
tor making paper, and department for cast
ing ype, so that what was before only an az
gregation, would now be GROUP and its
economies would increase in efficiency. Yet
simple group, of similar pursuits of this
kind, would be nothing compared with a Sc
RIEs of groups, with all the additional force
that would be derived from the enthusiasm
of contact and rivalry.
Now it is series of corporations that VIC
propose, as the means of our social reforms.
u is not mere league on the part of the
followers of a particular calling; it is not
treaty of amity between the members of dis
tlnct classes; not the promiscous comming-
ling of all branches of trade, that we vind-
| cate; but it is the voluntary union of the
whole of humanity, on definite and scienti-
tic grounds. We contend for the soliditary
OF the race in organic forms; we desire the
universal association of man, according to an
universal principle; we aim at the thorough
reorganization, not of a segment but of the
whole Of society, on basis of individual in
dependence and freedom, and collective har-
mony and progress.
THE OREGON EMIGRANTs.- We notice
the following letter in the Chilacothe Ad-
vertiser. 1t is The Attest intelligence we
have from the Emgrants.
Fort Hall, Oregon Territory.
September II, I843.
| Dear Sister.-It will no doubt be long
time before this viii reach. The earliest
opportunity of its being conveyed to the
States will probably be the express bear
ing the dispatches to our government from
| MAJOR Fremont, after he has planted the
| flag Of the United States at Fort Vancouv-
er. | know not where | shall then be, but
wherever it may be, trust shall be more
pleasantly situated than am here. We are
now laying at Fort Hall, in the midst Of a
country which, even to its streams, has
been robbed OF the means OF subsistence.
Here are We almost destitute Of provisions,
with hundreds Of miles Of destitute country
before US. We must either procure pro-
visions from the Fort, or siarve for the
want of them. With n considerable sur
plus of fat cattle running upon the prairie,
they demand of US near Two hundred dol
lars for an OK; at such prices We have not
the means to purchase. Such is the char.
acter of one at least,of the members ofthe
Hudson Bay Fur Company-such is their
| Disposition towards those who would set
tie in this TerrltOrv-a after receiving from
the United States Government the millions
which they have from the benefit Of the
fur trade. They would willingly see her
citizens peiish before their doors FOR the
want Of the means OF subsistence. Blu,
we have right to live as vel as they
the world owes us a subsistence, and we
will certainly collectihe debt, by fair means
if we can, by foul ones if we must.
Since we left the Fort upon the Platte,
4 distance, the way we had TO travel, Of a.
bout eight hundred miles, we have been in
the mountains. The road thought these
mountains has been very circuitouS and
unevcn;at one time we would be winding
along the narrow valley Of some mountain
sream, and at another climbing UP or de-
scending the steep ard rocky sides Of the
mountain itself. In every direct on as we
approached the grand summit where the
waters Of The Eastern and Western rivers
are divided, the peaks Of the mountains are
covered with ice and snow; here we found
the atmosphere much cooler than upon the
| plains. Water froze in our camp kettles
the one eighth Of an inch thick, and quaint
ties OF snow fell frequently upon the noun.
tains in the middle of August-this kline
of climate continued until we reached For
Hal
The Country through which we have
Platte. until we came to Fort Vasqu s,situ
f ated fifty miles west Of the summit Of The
? mountains, is composed chiefly Of noun.
: tains of rock and valleys Of sand. From
Fort Vasqucs TO Fort Hall, through nc
less mountainous, the country is gradually
improving; manv of the valleys. though
: narrow, are quite fertile, and in time vii
5 probably be settled Fort Hall is situated
! in an extensive valey,and is built similar
to Fort Platte.
We are about to roll; William and | are
packing. We are bound for the WaIla
WaIla valley, (the Mission five hundred
miles from Fort Hall, we will make it il
about twenty days. From the Mission We
will 60 to mouth Of the Columbia, land from
thence to Monterrey.in Upper California
10 which place you will write Send your
letters 10 some one in New Orleans, anC
have them forwarded to New Mexico.
Make not track towards Oregon unit
| return. 1t is likely that we will not re.
: main long on this side Of the mountains
All hands stout and hearty. Our respects
TO every body. and w will write more ex-
Iensiyely when We enter port.
Your aftctionate brother.
o. JOHNSON.
: II. w. Johnson, Concord, }
TiPpecanoe, Co. Ind.