The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-11-25

| hhlluSl tue uaZLllhg SIOTles winch surround the
State of California, says the Providence Jour
nal the modest and more substantial advan-
tages which the settler may find in the Territory
OF Oregon have lately been comparatively over
| looked. The placers of the Sacramento and the
trade of San Francisco have for some time past
been held up before the eyes of the world as almost
the only objects worthy the attention of the emf
grant, either from Europe or America This will
probably continue to be the case so long as the
California excitement shall last, which, for aught
we know to the contrary may be for an indefinite
period but whenever this feversh thirst for gold
shall abate, and the tide of emigration shall return
to its natural channels, the immense resources and
the unquestionable advantages which Oregon pre-
sents to the permanent settler will again attract
public attention, and draw to it the most valuable
portion of the emigrants to the Pacific. Indeed,
even amidst the general rush to the land of gold,
which has of late been made from all parts of the
United States there has never ceased to be steadv
current of emigration constantly setting towards
the more fertile lands and more heathful chimes
which belong to the neghborng Territory of the
North. Many of the emigrants who have gone to
the mines of California will ultimately carry their
new made wealth to Oregon, and will employ it in
cnitlvatng the soil and developing the resources o.
that now infant commonwealth
This Territory is unquestonably the most desi
| rahle place for the agricultural emigrant 10 tn,
shore of the Pacific to settle in the place where h
may most advantageously plant the civic virtue,
and the domestic institutions from which agricul
tural life borrows many of its most attractive
charms. Here is a climate most favorable 10 hardy
and persevering industry, the latitude which has
always proved itself the true and genial home OF
tie highest and most vigorous manhood-a soil
fitted 10 every species Of agricultural production,
and position in the great highway of the human
from the West TO the East on the shores of an
ocean that is destined to become the theatre OF
a widespread commerce with every portion of the
globe. A Territory promising such natural advan-
lagos, beneath the sway of Republican institutions
cannot long remain unoccu pied in the present mo-
wing condition of mankind, Its unsettled portions
will soon be filled up, and that too, by settlers such
as hitherto have seldom gone forth to build up new
communities. They will be men of vigorous frames
ana sturdy selt'reanCe-men who have gone un.
appalled, through the dreary trail of the western
wilderness, or have braved the stormy terrors of the
ocean, that they might reach the land of their
hopes. The trials and perlls which they will have
to meet will but stimulate their energies and rem
der them the better prepared for the grand mission
they nave to aceompIsh-the building up Of sec
ond New England on the western shores of the con.
tinent
We are inclined to predict for this new distant
Territory magnificent destiny, the outlines Of
which will soon begin to present themselves to the
notice OF the world. We look upon Oregon as the
true seat OF American empire on the Pacific, the
region IN which the richest blessings of our free in
Sututlons are to be realized, and in which the most