Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-12-22
Nrms of the mrrk.
Domestic intelligence.
OREGON.

American people, has been almost lost sight OF J
since the gold fever began to turn the tide OF I
emigration toward California. We find in tho !
Boston Courier a letter from an emigrant Just !
arrived at Fort Vancouver, on the Columbia !
river, from which we have CLEANED a few passa- J
ges that may interest our readers. Of his jour-
ncy across the mountains the writer says: we
followed the Indian trail, which courses
through some of the most dreary and desolate
parts Of this barren country. We frequently
found ourselves passing along the brink of some
steep preeipices, thousands of feet high, near
ly perpendicular, the trail just wide enough to
permit us to pass along in single file. II e1-
thef of our faithful animals had stumbled, both
rider and horse would have fallen headlong into
the yawning abyss below us. Several times 1
was afraid to ride over these dangerous places,
and would dismount-but the guide and old
Indian Chief would urge us to remain seated
in our saddle, as the safest mode of getting
over these tremendous chasms. Occasionally
a loose fragment from some OF the many over
hanging bluffs would break its hold, and como
dashing down across our path, carrying every
thing before it. One of our loose animals STUN
bled and fell some 1000 feet into the rushing
stream of the Columbia, and was soon carried
down by the powerful current
He has not a very exalted opinion of the fer
t1ity OF some parts of the country:
l hardly know what language to use in de-
scribing this barren land. Its extent is almost
unlimited-but of all the accounts l have ever
yet seen of the drcary and sandy deserts of
Arabia, L have never yet seen anything that
AAould come up to the reality of the immense
barren deserts between Fort Hall and this point
most especially along the Banks of the Vol
canic Snake River. Select out the Blue Noun
tains, which to be sure arc clothed with the
finest timber, and the 'Grande Ronde,' and the
remainder of the country is incapable of the
least cultivation or Improvement. The soil is
sandy, unfit for grazing, barren of timber of
every description. The wearied traveller will
not lind a dozen trees or shrubs, in a distance OF
600 miles, sufficiently large to shade him from
the burning sun. The aytemisia is the only vcr-
dant thing that thrivcs in this whole tract. OF
all the countries that l have ever passed
through or ever have read of this bears the palm
for s~terility.
Back from the river, some four or five miles,
there is a fine grazing region. The first range
of the Cascade Mountains here commences
They are covered with the most valuable tim
beri many of the trees arc three hundred feet
high and sixteen in diameter. l have seen one
that measured "a feet.
The gold fever has created a perfect rcvolu-
l ton in this whole country. You will not find
q poor man in the Territory. Every one has
either been to the mines or sent one of the fam
; lily, and generally brought back from two to
: five or ten thousand dollars each. Agriculture
has been entirely abandoned. The finest farms
AltiC nave iob hot my OLd WIN VI lAO-
\ duce, when at the present prices, one man
Q could easily have brought forth $4,000. rl
Provisions are high: potatoes So per bushels;
tomatoes very abundant but they sell quick Tor
: SIS per bushel; flour is worth $l4 to the barrel,
\ while there are thousands OF acres of wheat
rotting in the fields, with no persons to harvest
it.
Tho Legislature has Just closed its session Of
f~ifty-fve days. They have adopted a code of
! laws, mostly taken from the Iowa Statutcs.-
r One, however, which may interest the people of
the North, ~ tho prohibiting of "negyoes and
muiattoS" from settling in, or passing through
? the territory. This i am fully convinced is
V wholly contrary to the inclination of the peo-
pie.
l have just returned from a visit to the Chi
nook Indian country, where l witnessed a most
revolving cercmony-that of burning the living
h with the dead. One of the old chiefs lost a
daughter-a finc-looking woman about 20 years
u of age. She was wrapped up in a rush mat,
together with all her trinkets, and placed in a
canoe. The father had an Indian slave bound
~ hand and foot, fastened to the body of the de-
ID ceased, and then incloscd the two in another
mat, leaving out the head Of the living one
,f The Indians then took the canoe and carried l il
/ to a high rock, and left it there. Their custom
is to let the slave live for three days, then an
other slave is forced to stranglc it by a cord
drawn around tho neck. They also kill the
lloISc tidb may nave Dcen u IdNOIlJc VI lllC uc-
ceased, and bury it at the head of the canoe
- l was DESTROYS OF interfering and saving the life
!" of the poor victim, but Mr.. Ilirris, the gentle
u man with me, and the two Indians, our com
70 panions, assured me that | should only get my
'h self into a serious trouble, and as we were
"a great distance from the settlements, and our par
ny ty so small, self-prescrvation dictated a diffcren
course from the inclinations of our hearts.
!" A SHOT WORTH MAKISG.-We understand
that Senator Beaver, who is a perfect Nimro'
SC and usually spends several weeks in November
p among the tamarak swamps of Bloomfield, il
the northern part of this county, lately shot
he buck which weighed, with the ~entrails out
be 225 lbs. Trumbull county certainly takes tn
ce lead in large productions, from Senators down
Trun;, Why.
IS EXTRAORDINARY FEoUNDIrY.-Thc wife of
p German citizen of Rochester became the moth
IN er, a few days since, of three boys at a BIRTH
TO About a year ago she had in like manner thrc
re- boys at a birth. The whole six are alive an
all doing well. We question whether this can b
parallcled in the United States. The father is
ng man Of responsibility and learning, though
. a INDECENT circumstances.-Roch. 1m., Taesdal
= sy TIL Rev. Edwin II. Nevin, addressed
os- small assembly at the Court House on Thur:
es- day last, on the subject of Slavery, and its col
ar nection with the churches. The evening WI
= unfayorable for a large gathering, but those VIII
were present were entertained by one of til
ills most able and eloquent addresses we ever lii
rse tened to. Mr.. N. is a perfect master of h
re- subject, and the truth he uttcrs carries convi,
ton to every heart. We hope he will be alb
Y to spend a few days in this place during IL
winter, as we feel confident he can do muc
good in this vicinity.-W. r. Chronicle.
III SMALL Pox.-The Batavia Courier of Il
of 10th instant, states that this loathsoIno disea
has prevailed to a considerable extent in Clcrmol
county, in the ncigbborhoods of Amelia, Ne
oi Richmond, and other places in the southcl