The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-12-30
49,. From The OHIO Patriot.
THE MAY EMIGRATION TO OREGON.

. o.
The company Of emigrahtssanehrly 1890 strong
who commenced their journey to Oregon In May
last, have again been heard from. Dr. White the
bearer of the Oregon memorial lately presented to
Congress, also brought to the States various let
tiers from the emigrants whom he met on the Sd of
September, still advancing on their journey They
were then within four or five weeks of their Jour
ncy's end--the Willamette country. In writing
back, some of them speak of the toll and endur-
ance which is required in accomplishing such an ,n-
dertaking, hut they add that nothing like suffering
has been known to them.
Colonel Taylor, formerly Of Allen county, Ohio,
writes thus: 81 have yet rued the trip; though
II do not LIKE the country well, will 90 to Cali.
forna this winter to look around, and perhaps from,
there to the Sandwich islands" The cmigrants had
been feastlng upon fine salmon, which abound in
the waters over which they had recently passed.
They had lost only ten twelve head Of cattle out
Of about two hundred with which they started.
Notwithstanding this, they recommend tina, Gin con.
sequence OF the great trouble) none but few cows
for milk should be taken hereafter Another emf
grant, formerly citizen of Putnam county, Ohio,
writes back a Ssprighty and very interesting letter,
which is published in the Kalida Venture. We
make the following extract
"Some fifty Of our emigrant wagons took the
California road on Casia river. The British at Fort
Hall and other posts persuadng all they can to
go to California In order to do this they picture
out to them California perfect paradise, and
Oregon as poor country; and that it is almost i'm
possible for them to get to Oregon, they have a
desert of 100 miles TO cross, and Snake river to
cross twice, and 1t is so deep to owim their oxen
and wagons; that the Indians below have become
hostile, and determined not to let them pass, &c
Now, we have come through the desert, crossed
Snake river and seen men from below, who have
come through the said hostile Indians and find
be all pack of lies. The sum and substance of all
this is, that the Hudson Bay Company and its de-
pendants, do not want the Americans to flock to
Oregon SO fast as they are doing, because it will be
their death warrant. But as yet, this company is
the controlling power in Oregon; the erngrans
that have gone over have mostly become submits
| sve TO this power, and sold themselves for mess
of pottage. As one of the men from there ex.
pressed it this evening": Americans said he, are
| the cheapest commodity in Oregon-a shirt will
buy one. There is a certain DR.. Mclaughlin there
who pretends to be very much Americanized, and
| says he intends to become citizen &c. He has
large claims there, and is selling them, and some
are fools enough to buy, when the doctor has no
more right to them than Satan himself. II is sell
fish motive that makes the doctor and his creatures
pretend to take so great interest in the welfare OF
| the emigrants But this emigration will give them
a sour dose when they go pouring in by thousands.
Will you not come on them next spring, with your
thousands of the right stripe, and lend us helping
hand in roofing this monster from his DEM The
| only stores here are those Of the Hudson Bay Com
pany, and they credit largely to the settlers, and
thus get them in their clutches. II is certainly
| strange, if among all the wealthy business men OF
the United States there are not few who will ven-
ture their fortunes in Oregon"