The North-Carolina standard., 1845-10-29
LETTER FRoM OREGON:

sertsd snd enforced = q j. s--e- s. 90
~ For the Argus.
Mr. HAYES: send YOU letter from Hugh
Burns, Esq, "a citizen o5 Oregon,) which reachea
me on Sunday lasGl by The sea route, and post
marked ,nt,. New Bedford, In connection with
,ha INTERESTING subject of. Oregon, will take the
liberty Of contradcting story, which has taken
the round Of the newspapers of the Union, 10 the
effect thai Mr.. A.. A.. Robinson, of New York,
and another nerson attached 10 the last company
Of erniqrants had been slain by the Indians
This story is calculated 10 create unnecessary as
tress. and deter future emigration to some extent
Ii is wholly untrue, and had its ori9ln' as / all
credi4ly informed. in quIzzIcal le1'er "lN'eA
here, and purportjng to be from oregon: MI
,.' .... .,.s 49, MultnomGA City, Oregon Territory
MIR. ALLEN McLANE -..... T.. -,
- Hv old Friend: am yet in the land OF mllk
and salmon, and expect to remain, Tor II Is tne
best land that ever resided in. l was IN noPcs
TO have heard from you before wrote TINS lettHr'
as several of the emigration arrived on the TN
inst AS vet however, none have come IN rom
Platte county. But I cannot wait, as the h. B.
-C"s annual vessel from Vancouver Tor London
leaves in two days Those who have come IN
from the States, say they had no trouble IN COM
ing. They also bring some news from the States
but none that interests u.s. We hoped Inc nrst
that came, would bring US word that Congress
had done something for US, but we are doomed 10 10
another long year Of suspense. What does all
tlis mean? Has the United States right to TINS
country-and if so, is she afraid to assert her
riobt2 Our case is indeed Il dePlorable one
We are in an Indian country, and in measure at
the mercy of the Hndsons Bay company.
do hope that your new Senator, Judge AtchI-
sony will be enabled to do something for u.s. Ii
any man in Office hints such thing, as making
the Columbia river the dividing line, send hln 10
us. The gentleman in Congress, who termed
our country. Botany Bay, ani heap OF sand
brnks. should know that we have but few idle or
vicious people, and they are from his states. Ii
is hoped their correspondence with him: Will pre-
vent him from coming here .
There is one very important thing, that en.
grants to this country, should bear IN mind, and
it is starting early in the spring. They should
be one hundred miles, at least above the settle
mcnts by the first day of May. BY so doing, they
will accomplish the two things, that will be of the
utmost importance to them. BY starting in April,
they will be enabled to cross all the rivers East
of the Mountains. before the melting snow swells
the streams Secondly. if they manage well,
and don't get too law they can get here by the
first of September. Thus they will reach here IN
fine weather, and can build their houses and sow
their wheat before the bad weather sets in. LII
they are sure to meet the freshet, and this
will detain them some three or four weeks. Be
sides il d. !1ys them much, that they cannot get
here until late in the fall and in crossing the Gas
cnde mountain, which is by far the worst noun
tain they have to cross, they will meet with raIn
or snow and the mountain torrents from those
snow capt mounds which overhang the way.
The emigrants should come by water from the
Dalles and send their animals over the mountains
'ThaU shonlh venturn on the Columbia river
either in boats, or otherwise. until they get to the
DallesY for it is dangerous stream. 1t any OF
your friends coming across, tell them as soon
as they can get ten wagons, and thirty men to-
gether, to put plenty provisions and ammunition
in their wa gons and start Ten wagons are E.
nough. All this bugbear about Indians is got up
by mountain men who are in the States, and want
to get back to Oregon or the mountains and get
paid for it say again that Ten wagons, and
thirty men is better than five times the numbers,
for the small number can always move along
with more rapidity. equal safety. and harmony,
and what is particularly desirable always obtain
plenty of good bread and meat. Let them give
their -----soap tubs to their friends, for we
don't want any of their soft soap here. Some of
the last years emigration actually brought their
old wash. and soap tubs all the way from Clinton
county. ''f. .r.'. .-.-
Intmy last informed you that had laid off
town. and named it Multnomah City. On the
opposite side of the river east of this is Oregon Ci
tY which is Improving rapidly II already boasts
ofthree saw and two -four mills, Zone with four
run of stone) withAthe best machinery [ ever saw
ina mill; one hundred and forty houses; tan
yard, brick yard, and mechanics shops of all me-
cessary trades. We have also brig of two hun.
dred tons under way, and house building IS only
retarded by the want of nails. In every other re-
spect, too, our country improves beyond descrip
ton fInever saw such harvests 1t would gra-
tifyIyou to see the loads of wheat that pour into
this section 10, be manufactured into -four for ex-
poEtation The emigrants of last fall did not Sc
cure their claims until Christmas, and many built
their cabins, made fence, broke up the new
ground, and raised as much as thousand bushels
of wheat. wish l could send you a sample of
this. We can plough all the winter. The
working cattle get nothing but grass through the
winter, and keep in fine order; some of our far
Iners own as many as FIVE hundred cattle and few
less than fifty The times are very good here.
Produce and labor both high. Flour ten dollars
per barrel. Beef six dollars per 1o0lb Pork
10 do.ig Wheat one dollar per busheL Potatoes
ffycents do. Peas 100 do Coffee 25 cents
per pound. Molasscs SO cts per gal! Salt 81, 90
per 9ushel Irop f2.l- cts per pound. Cast
steel SS cts do. Bonrd $4Oo per week Com
mon iaborers $500 per day. Mechanics "a 90
-per.day. By this list you can Judge yourself
Besides1I should statesthat we are debt paving
people, and ought to be happy people. But one
thing is wanting and this our government should
long since have extended to us. Imean it pro-
lection - l-