The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-05-09

Spectator of January 10th and the 26th. The civil
government of that Territory is represented to have
reached crisis. The alarming fact is announced
that the country is state Of total anarchyno legal
protection for either person property. There are
no civil officers, and, what is worse, no way of
creating any.
The only remedy (says the SPECTATOR for this
unhappy state of affairs at least in this city, is in
the revival of the city corporation. We do hope
this last call will be Needed and city officers be
elected. If this is not done, then murder and rob-
berry may be perpetrated, and no security can be
enjoyed except in repelling force by force. With
proper board of city officers degree Of order may
be preserved until other officers created When
Gov. Lane is gone Marshal Meek will be the only
Territorial officer at the Seat Of Government. How
people can thus rest quietly on volcano, while
the means of escape are at their option, past
comprehension.
By the words, means of escape" we understand
is meant severance from the parent government,
and an independent setting up for themselves. We
trust that the Government, at Washington, when
informed of the unhappy state Of things in Oregon,
will Immediately apply the proper remedy.
On the Goth of January there was meeting of
the citizens of Oregon city, at which resolutions
were adopted in regard to the navigation, by steam,
of the Columbia and Willamette rivers. A propo-
sition was introduced to test the feelings of the
meeting by opening subscription for steamboat
company A sufficient amount of stock was in
stantly taken for the purpose contemplated. A
Board of Directors was appointed; and Gov.
Joseph Lane unanimously elected agent to proceed
forthwith to the States and act, under the direction
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the objects of the company. Gov. Lane accepted
the appointment; but subsequently, account Of
receiving private news which rendered his leaving
Oregon inexpedient, resigned it. Another APP
pointment was to have been made.
About the LIST of january, four young men, re-
turning from California, where they had been en-
gagged in mining, were unfortunately drowned al
the mouth of Columbia river. The party consisted
of Mark Ford Esq, of Polk county, two young
men by the name of Stephens, whose friends re-
side at Portland, and John Plummer of Oregon
city. They had with them large amount o.
specie and gold dust, which was also lost.
David Carter, residing at Salem, Marion county
disappeared about the 10th of January in fit o.
monomania. No traces of him had been dis.
covered and it was feared that he had been drowned
The Spectator states that in Oregon City drunk
enness, gambling and vice are fearfuly on the in
crease; that not temperance meeting has been
held for ten months, although there were " five
ministers and goodly number of intelligent and
influential Christians" in the community.
The brig Josephine, with full cargo of lumber,
belonging to the Oregon City Milling Co., was
wrecked near the mouth of the Columbia, early in
January. The crew were saved.
A great rise in the Willamette river swept away
nearly all the mills in the Territory. The Oregon
City Mills were damaged to the extent of several
thousand dollars. Houses on Water street, in Ore
gon City, were much injured. The loss is esti-
mated at $4,000, and the whole loss by the freshei
at 100000.
The falling of the river left the bark Louisiana
high and dry on the beach.