The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1856-12-24
HOW PEOPLE ARE GETTING ALONG
On THE OUTSKIRTS or CREATION.
oregon, Washington, Kansas, NIinne.
sofa and Utah Territories.
From The Oregon Week,y Times.
Oregon and its Prospects.

II 10 but few years since lha; Oregon was
bu' little known in the annals of history.
Then comparatively nothing. was known,
save ii was wild expansive waste beyond
The Rocky Observation-Disclosures only by
the races, and visited by faw adventurous
whites occasionally in the capacity of trap
PEGS and fur traders. 1t is but few years
sInee Astoria, a, the mouth Of the mpie.tc
Columbia, was ine only Town that dored The
entire and broad domain included in The
"map Of Oreson"-and ii was called the
Capital.
What marked difference is to- day pre-
senled. Two btoad Territories--Oreson and
Wash'nsion--do,ied over with thriving towns
and villages, and peopled with seventy thou.
sand hardy. enlerptising pioneers, now oc.
cupy lis place. Six years ago It's entire pop.
ulation numbered bu, trihe over thirteen
thousand-the sturdy and enlerprising emi.
grants who have crossed the Rocky Noun.
tains since then have contributed largely in
swelling our population, in gradual and
W us pItSGHt UumptT
The industrious husbandman is here well
repaid for his toll-- mother earth here yields
bounteous return to all who speed the
pIow through her rich, or ply the axe to her
majestic forests.
The products OF Oregon alone, for expor.
tation, amount, in the aggregate, to a. least
half million dollars yearly. The item of
app'es, alone, which will be exported this
season, will not fall below one bundled and
fifty thousand dollars.
Where once the tiny Indian canoe was
the only conveyance upon our waters, we
now see tho noble steamships, sail-shps, and
river steamers in abundance. Trade and
commerce steadily acquire momentum, and
where short lime since existed but few
trading posts with limiled supplies OF Indian
commodities, We now find almost unlimited
numbers Of stores anI store. .touses, stocked
with large quantities of everything that can
conduce 10 the comforts OF civilized life.
Z Notwithstanding a devastating Irdian war
has been raging throughout Oregon and
Washington Territories during The pas, year,
which has proved disastrous 10 our general
prosperity, yet, through the abundance OF
kind Nature, large surplus Of crops have
been harvested this fail.
Real estate is maLifesily improving in
value; aud, although farm slock is raised in
great profusiOn, there seems to be but little
diminulion in its varo. Improvements are
going on rapidly throughout The Villa uelte
valley; mills and manufacturing establish
menls oil various kinds are IN process of COM
pleiion; schools, churches, and printing
presses are properly appreciated, aud lber-
ally sustained.
We occasionally hear The remark made
'Oregon is poor country TO thrive in"-but
such are fow. We know oil many who have
resided here for time, and relurned 10 the
States with the hope of being better satisfied,
who, in most cases have either returned OF
expressed their regrets Of leaving, and wish
ed themselves back in Oregon once more
Lei croakers say what they will, in the sore.
ness OF petty disappointment, the country is
sure TO prosper, A steady but sure progress
is better, in The end, than fictitious and mo.
mentary flashes of advancement.
We see additional reasons, from year 10
year, why the people here have cause TO be
conenlet and happy. The industrious need
have no fears Of coming to wan,--und the
capitalist will ever fnd abundant opporluni-
Ties for profitable investments. What more
10 Necessary?
From the Ponce, and Democrat Olympia,
Washington Territory.
Washington Territory.
GOV. STEVENS SPEECH ABOUT THE LATE INDIAN
WAR.
Substance Of the Remarks Of Gov Sievens at the
Dinner giUeh 10 Col. Shatc, and The Volunteers.
After thanking the company for the honor
they had done him, in assccating his name
with the measures o. the war, Gov. Stevens
gave history Of the causes of The war, de-
monstraiing that il was Ihe result OF wide
spread combination, and had commenced
under circumstances of grea, alrnciiy. The
relations Of The whites and Indians had besn
friendly, and but few cases OF injury 10 The
property or person Of an Indian, had occurred
since the frs, sellemen, oi The country.
Treaties had just been entered into, and
yet in violation of the faith OF them, our peo
pie, entirely nnsnspcous of danger, had been
massacred in cold blood innocent women
and helpless children even, not having been
spared. Ii was determined, all persons a.
greeing, the people, authorities and regular
troops, thut thess- tnar audefs should be run-
isbed, aud The Tribes which protected them.
The tribes in the Yakima, aud refugees
from the tribes on the Sound under Iesch
now waged war in earnest, but thanks 10 the
valor and patriotism of our people, the war
was ended on The Sound, and those who did
not surrender unconditional prisoners were
driven across the Cascades.
Gov. Stevens regretted that he could not
spprose Of The operations Of The regular troops
east OF The Cascades, which in his judgment.
brought discfedil upon the country, and low
cred the prestige of the white race in The
mind OF iie Indian,
The bright spoi in the operations Of the war
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