Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-09-25
FROM OREGON.
Correspondence Of tie Commercial Advertiser.
SALEM, OREGON TERRI July %, 49,

correspondence Of tie commercial Advertiser.
SALEM, OREGON TERRI july %, 1852
apprehend you hardly realize with what interest
all from the States is received here 1t almost
worth coming Oregon for that such voraciousness for
is thereby supernduced. 1t makes cormorant of
man HE literary apparatus dispose of any and
all aliment Of that description Congress Utah. Presi-
dentmaking, Kossuth, Conference Commerce Religion
in Short every thing in the form of from home flor
so yet call the Atlantic States is devoured with a
will And am informed by those who have been longest
here that is and Unsuitable the longer they
remain Can you for this 1t is not certainly
for want of interesting themes and here for
there is much STIR enterprise and interest with us in
this distant country proporonaly to the population
there is in Broadway Wall street Does il not lie
chiefly in the power Of that idea of homer
remarked in my last, that horseback riding was the
principal mode Of travelling This fact has made ali Ore
gonans fine equesrans. Men, women and children learn
to ride, and to ride we'll 1t is very common thing to
see the mother horse, with two children be-
hind her, and child in arms riding thus at pace
The men capital horsemen. Accustomed to riding
horseback daily for years. they acquire ease and
dexterity really remarkable, As fine body of cavalry
could be mounted in Oregon in any part of the States
and Uncle Sam hnds necessary TO send TO chas
se the Mormons into obedience he do better than
call for volunteers from Oregon
The horses in the country of two may say three
knds-tne native or Indian the Spanish, and the Amer
These last are generally fine horses and command an
average price Of hundred and fifty dollars per head
The Indian and Spanish horses have an easy gat and
are capable Of great endurance 1t is not for
them to be ridden thirty forty miles without feeding
and then turned out to pasture and they will keep fat on
such fare and usage The customary price for one Of
these animals is from fifty dollars TO seventy dollars
The usual gait Of the riding horses is ope or can
ter This TO stranger rather unmercifu 10 the
beasts but the horses generally do other work and
not undue amount Of this it is severe upon them
il would appear Some strangers however show great
disgust at this exhibition gentleman who visited Ore
gon few years ago. after spending few months in the
country the guest Of the missionaries returned to the
States and published book Il told,) in which he
said Of them, that they lived high dressed WELL and
rode their horses the canter believe he was rheu
matte and here during the rainy season. the most
unpleasant part Of the year. and this may for
such an exhibition Of spleen
The settlement Of the question touching the territorial
capital is fortunate thing for the country not because
several other places but because il will be likely alay
the bitterness Of party strife, which has prevailed
siyey and injurously the last few months
We have had several instances Of crime during the last
SIX months. The last one occurred some six or eight
weeks since, in Benton county Nimrod OKelley shot
another man Who he said had respassed upon his claim
Both were rshnen OKelley has been convicted Of muir
der ana sentenced TO be hung the 9th Of August He
Is an aged man, OF large family, of whom on
their way hther from the States saw him few weeks
since He expressed regret but attributed his mis-
fortunes TO Protestant influence He is Roman Catholic
The people Of Oregon are very hospitabe and warm
Go into any residence you are greeted with
nearly welcome, which makes you feel at home.