Wisconsin tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1847-1854, 1847-09-03

OREGON AFFAIRs.-The gentlemen
who have recently arrived from Ore
gon have placed at our disposal file
of the Oregon Spectator, from March
4 to April %. They are filed with
discussions upon the relative merits of
particular routs of travel, and matters
purely local in their character.
We notice the appointment of J.
Quinn Thornton, formerly ofthls State
and more recently of Quiacy, Ill. to be
Supreme Judge of Oregon Territory,
vice p H. Burne, resigned
William HILBERT, latel y of Illinois.
died at Oregon City on the 18th of
of March,
An election was to be held on the
first Monday of June for Governor,
County Officers and members of Legs
lature. A. l.. Lovejoy is announced
as candidate for Governor.
ID. f. White, indian Agent for the
Oregon Territory, who was in the
States in the early portion of last vear
and took his departure for Oregon in
July or August, by way of Panam
had not reached Oregon City when
these gentlemen left, and fears were
entertained for his safety.
We ought to have stated Yesterday
that all the persons composing the
family of Nonners. of Springfield III.
persisted in the California mountains
last winter St. Louis Rep. 9th.
HE TIDE OF IMMTGR
continues to force into seIf-banishment
multItudes Of her unfortunate citizens-
some by lmpnverishment some throuoh
the fear of 1t. MANY who cross the At
ante brings large sums of money with
them-others are driven ont Of the streets
the garretS, and cellars of Liverpool. Dub
I'm, Cork and Manchester. into crowded
and filthy, Ill-ventilate4 ships. and suffer
privatIoas, and from stencil, sickness. YER
min. &c, only less than the Imprisoned
IN the Black Hole at Calcutta. Ills a
dreadful thing to sport with mems lives
rs the English and Irish holders of the
IRISH >oi are now doing.
At the Quarantine ground below Olo
bee, arrived last week the baroua John
Mum, Liverpool, 100 diving offnver. FIJI
rY-NrNE DEAD. and their dead bodies low
red into the salt sea 453 passenrers
sliled down the Mersey. How many Of
them will be likely to reach Hi DIS or
Michigan l-'Fhc bark Covenanter. from
Cork, brought 400 passengers so had
the famine fever and FoRrY-THREE had
lied in the hold or Storage. The Rosa
inda from Belfast, had II deaths and
"A passengers the Odessa. from Dublin
Ipat hS x-aSl,al, he
vessels with 1896 passengers less ia
who died AT a) arrived at Quarantine in
hrre davs. On the 2nd and Bird inst
ether 399 Immigrants reached Quebec.
and il Is probable that of 20 600 and up
ward by the St. Lawrence. at least So
600 will eventually settle in the States. or
buy farms from Canada people DESTROYS to
r-move hlther.
The Montreal Herald correspondence
states, that the deaths at the hospital there
are from 80 to 100 per week, and that the
hospitals at quarantine are all full, and
30 to 40 per day diving. 4" | learn | says
the writerl that 200 of the passengers of
he Terginius have died since her sailing.
and IT Is SAID that very few of her whole
number upwards of soy will recover "
Absentee Engllshmen, Scotchmen, and
/ Iri>hmen have got hold ofthe half of Ire
and they take nearly all the earth pro-
duccS and carry ii ofi,-an absentee cler.
/ gy take all they can get. and the resident
/ Patrons in nine cases out of ten use the
millions like slaves. Is it wonderful that
a feeling should have arisen in America
adverse to land monopoly