Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1857-10-23
Letter froms Oregon.


IF inserting it in our columns--hoPIng c
hat it will be as interesting to ourreaders t
As tits TO US.
We are glad to learn that things are
as lively as represented and
oplv wish that we could give our cores
pondent as good a report from this side !
Of the continent.
All that relates to private affairs We
presume our readers will take no great
interest in. And they can leave that
portion for Us to digest. l.
PORTLAND, OREGON, } +,
Aug. 80, 1857.
Dear Friend Things have changed
wonderfully since the period Of your resi-
dence in Oregon. You would now be
unite a stranger even to this town, were
YOU to pay it visit. improvements
have been very marked during the past
season especially. Brick buildings areI
taking the place of old wooden ones IN .
rapid succession. until now we do not
count their erection by one, one, one, but
halfa dozer are seen goinguP Al a time.
We have now three handsome two story
buildings ard several more are in con
templa,ed erection. Flne
wooden buildings are yet being erected
for place Of business, but the more enter
prising Of our citizens seem determined
to keep up the mania for orick. Besides
these business Improvements, tile sub
urbs of the city are looking much better
than when vou used to stroll through
them fora pleasure walk and many
"buge tree" which then stood unmo.esJed
BY the woodlands axe, and under which
YOU have sought shade from the burning
sun. to recruit the energies for the re-
mainder OF the walk, has been lsveled TO
the earth. and beautiful gardens have
supplanted them. In short, the hitherto
circunscri5cd limits Of the town have
been vastly extended and in the little
tramp we used to indulge, we see nought
save the tall frs and forbidding under
brush, were it repeated at this time, We
would behold nice little residences and
well cultivated gardens, and fruit trees
plan,ed since that time, now bearing de-
Tcious fruit. Everything has changed
materially since that time. The general
nature Of the country assimilates much
nearer to that Of California than evel
before. People are aljrs where they
we're sleeping. Business Is brisk, an6
seems permanently so. All the old
buildings have Of late filed up. unit. taer=
are none 10 rent but more wanted. Blu
we are getting too many ,hink,a.thougi
liberal in sentiment as I am, Of one par
ticular and peculiar kind Of people ts
residents-and they are Jews. Lately
immense crowds have immigraied here
and are apparently settling in business
Our town will justly soon be called nc
the beautiful name It now bears, bu
Jsvto,rH.
Politically many changes have bee
wrought since YOU left. The most in
portant to YOU. ! suppose, IS the fate {
your friend Peter. You have undoub
edIy heard that he no longer dictates ii
editorial fortunes Of tie Times. Eihe
bart c. Hibben from Indiana, Is his 81.
cessor-a man Of fair talent but yer
dull comprehension and discretion in II
matters pertaiuing 20 this country. :
Lane brought him from Washing;o
when he came la,f, for the express pu
pose Of giving him tie editorial char:
Of the Times. and no sooner did he arr1
than it was done. Lane pays the b
for editing. AMI the paper Is devoted L
conditionally 10 his interest. Pster
diiqDidafed. \ new paper or two ha
recently been started. The e Occiden;
Messenger, At Corvallis. @ r-o-siare
paper, for one, and the Jackso7viI
Herald" a neat little democratic journi
The former Is most awkvardly got up
Is printed on the old type Of tie Z
posiior and the Ezpo,i;or type was i
Slaiesman's old typo row you ha
is history. The editor of the Me=se
ger Is a Southern man in sp;ri.-has be
at loggerheads wiki the Statesman sin
almost its first issue. Bush seems 10 -
him ~" though, a. be does most O. I
editors. We have not had one here :
who possessed Hsrrs enough 10 cope n
Bush and the spoiIs Of patronage.
The Constitutional Convention is
session al Salem. The oligarchizts,
We call them-are in complete a
absolute control. In the organization
the convention, a test was introduc
which decided the position Of the party
the question Of slavery. Two undisE
table Bush democrats were placed
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