Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1845-07-05
OREGON TERRITORY.
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more entirely in all respects than fancy pic
ture of Oregon and real landscape Of that remark
able region. In the fancy picture, trees, flow
ers and shrubs most luxuriant and fresh to look
upon the rivers are broad silvery, and capable OF
bearing on their bosoms the largest vessels; the at
mosphere is brilliant that of Greece all Of animals
lively fat and abundant; and, in fine the country the
charming that the in the in his peregrnatons
has the felicity of behodng This is the picture of Oregon
that painted the OF those who have made
up their minds make that land their homes Oregon itself
presents very different kind of picture TO the eye OF artist
1t is succession Of mountains that produce volcanic
rocks and valleys of sand which produce ticks and prcky
pear Such is the general appearance Of the territory In
vain does anxious eye Of the emgant wander the
ster expase in search Of greenness He finds only in his
own person. He comes sometimes enterprsng
mount, that travelling, like HIMSELF quest Of region
which may pursue his vocation with decency and
dignity but has lost his flesh and his heart the booess
effort There beavers and muskras along the rivers but
they the only quadrupeds to be met with that
the chronological department rich in variety and character
there is region in which black ticks and mosquitoes flourish
more abundanty, and il the happiness of person is in pro
portion the number Of bites made his body by hungeng
and thrstng insects Oregon the very cline, the FL Dorado
for him.
wnlle tnat leiloW nal mas been 10
Oregon quest Of happiness manages to enough muscle
from the depredaons of levers and mosquitoes bring him
back the United States Such miraculous escapes have
happened, and may possibly again One person
recently lucky get back New York from the
yng Oregon, and ne has given the New York Tribune
account Of the country. He found that Oregon is remark
ably hard country make living in the soil is ser and
mseraby rocky Of the climate he greatly enamored
Although the winters very cold they very rany
and the nights instead Of being warm, cold and
frosty.
Now this is very true and, consequence Of the heat
the day and the chness of the nights in summer every body
addicted to the most wasting diseases Bilious fevers and
cvers and agues invade every body within their
reach Men, women, and children burn up and freeze up
every day in the alterations of disease In these diseases
there necessity to the lancet the mosquitoes
always at hand the poor devils the expense of
gca instruments and eeches They bleed him pretty eiec
tuay They bleed him in bed and in the field by night and
by day, at all times and in all places
When you in Oregon you cannot get to any spot from
which you may not mountains clad in eternal and
every night in summer well in winter, old Jack Frost
rushing down from these snowy cliffs and chs those
little rs OF blood in the neghbohood Of the human heart into
which neither mosquito, sandck, ganpper plunge
his sucker The osts kill every thing that cannot like white
BEARS live frost and cicles Hence pcky pear the
only plant that fourishes, and have just many
patches of that beautiful velvey and shin delight
ing plant pleases without mourning expense labor
Corn cannot grow Oregon, and hence the mascaon OF
dodgers and pones felicity which, like ones first love,
dream Of the past In the absence of and carbon
and buzzards very indeed these sooy birds
nubbin shall be raised in Oregon hope may be
to this part OF the world to dspove statement Of the Inn
possibility Of growing corn in that climate.
Very few men, who go to Oregon with the intention Of set
ting themselves there remain than season. not
however, because they all die during the first year. though
many do drag their miserable thther only find
miserable graves. They who have strength enough with
stand the depredaons of disease and insects leave on the
for emigrants II is said by rather unromanc ndvi
duas that there valleys in Oregon where human life il
endurable and suppose the statement true
sionay hear from persons who have conyed to live little
while in the neighborhood of the Willamette river How
they live have not been informed, Notwithstanding
long felt irrepressible curiosity to learn.
Some Of the Locoocos talk of taking possession of Oregon
That is absolutely impossible The United States Govern
ment may and hope will continue to call Oregon portion
Of its territory but to take possession of in any other
is against the laws of Nature Oregon will be divided
out into States counties townships and FARMS because such
divisions imply population, and population there is utterly i'm
practicable Mehemet Ali may well undertake to populate
he Great African Desert the United States undertake
populate Oregon which DESERT larger and ster
Sahara IL can't be populated with men, any other tribe
,f animals that know of with the exception Of chameeons
and lovers which creatures it is said can live on air All
animals, with the exceptions have made, have stomachs
which must be fed, and bloodyescls which must be filed and
ninetcen-tweneths of the whole territory incapable
producing food that will subss bpeds and quadrupcd
altogether absurd to talk of taking possession of it,
Graham has il is said, shown very conclusveIy that the
human body I've nourshed by saw-dus Bread and
entepsng philosopher shall transcend the sublime discovery
OF Graham and conve plan by which volcanic rocks and
pudding stones I've converted into Bread and the pcky
pear be elevated to the rank of edible, dgesbc and
nutricous vegetable then, grant, that human life and
other sorts Of life may become possible in Oregon But
long gasronomy remains its present imperfect state and
long science is unable oaves
bread and the pcky pear into esculen why just long
will continue TO he impossible for the United States Great
Britain any other Power to take possession Of that country
In our humble opinion, the play that is enactng worth
the candle and if Sir Robert Peel and Mr. Polk would be
good enough to visit Oregon person. have doubt they
would advise their respective Governments of the fact that the
agend of creation, about which they dspung is
not worth Of words, to say nothing Of which
the more destructive implements of warfare shall be employed
The MAN WITH THE INDIA-RUBBER PANTALooNs.
The following amusing paragraph is from late
number of the Cincinnati Enquirer: