Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1845-06-07

OREGON Tho following paragraph from
the Independence (Nissour) ErpoSit0r will
give some notion Of the tide Of emigration now
setting togards the Oregon
A train Of upwards OF two hundred wagoHs
left our town OH Tuesday and Wednesday
last, for Oregon others have been departing
Yesterday % more passed this town
4he neighborhood of Fort Madison, Iowa
Territory. From ST. Josepbs we learn that
200 wagons have crossed the Missouri at that
place and its v~iciti'y, and departed for the
same destination. Whilst we write. a friend
informs Us that fifty more wagons are cross
ing at the lower ferry, and will pass onward
Tomorrow.
As The main company has started at least
two weeks earlier than Usual, and many in
tending ~toemig9le psqg$ BIZ diverted from SO
doing by this fact, we will state that parties
will c~ontinuettd Start unt1f Jdne(and that ami
mails, provisions, and every thing for complete
equipment are TO be obtained in abundance,
and on the most moderate terms, in this coun-
ty.
This would seem 10 indicate that the West
ern people are earnestly making good Mr..
PoLK's statement, that our citizens were a.
bout to perfect our title to the Oregon by oc-
cupying it with their wives and children.
1t is pretty evident that the question Of
right to Oregon must be brought to an issue
speedily. If the matter is not soon adjusted
by negotiation, there will be constant danger
of a collision between our settlers in the ter
ritory and the people under the control of the
Hudson Bay Company. Such a collision
would, of course, embarass the negotiation
very much, and add to the difficulties of the
question.
The following is from the st Louis Repu6-
Iican of the 18th ult, which paper calls upon
the Government not to leave the Oregon set
tiers without protection:
A few days since, we saw an illusion made
in the New York Evening Gazette, to the
Bots BruLes of the North west, and what The
Gazette then said ofthose men, we have heard
substantially sustained by men from the
mountains. These Bots BruIes are half
breeds or mixed bloods, for the most part the
children of the Scotch, and other white men
in the employ of the company, by Indian moth.
ers. The paper from which we quote, says
that the Hudson Bay Company ''has mounted
FIVE hundred OF them, between the ages of Is
and 35, every man of whom can read and
write, and all so trained to arms that any one
of them could take command of a cavalry COM
pany and such companies can at once be
raised among the uneducated Bots Brules,
who number some 10000 in the North West.
Washington Irving, in bis Astoria, years ago,
called attention to this new race which has
sprung up on our continent-he did not call
attention, however, to the fact that not a male
Indian child of the full blood has in years
been born between Hudson's Bay and the
mouth of the Oregon, bat these hawk-eyed
north-westers have their name down in ethelr
books, TO turn the nursing TO account some
day as a full grown and able bodied British
subject. If we had had these same sagacious
men to manage our Indian policy-manage it
with the same s~teeplesS zeal, the same
searching shrewdness and bold ability, there
would be now no question, "What is Mr..
Polk to do with Oregon !'-Bahimore Amer
lean.
A man named James Arnold, of Lancaster,
Mass, a cattle dealer, was knocked down
near that place on the 10Th ult, ty W. men,
and robbed Of $1,000. The ROBBERS attempted
TO remoy a loose plank from the Lancaster
bridge and throw him under, but The approach
OF persons prevented the consumation Of their