Logansport Journal (Newspaper) - February 21, 1852, Logansport, Indiana PEN IS MIGHTIER THAN THE 3 LOlANSPORT. CASS 21, 1852. 45. JOURNAL Is Every Saturday H. On And itt S in After the the - 2,.".0 it p discontinued until all arrearages ' arid by in which P. F. another of these 12 took the wife of of this to and have lived as husband and wifie Uut your space will not permit me to begin to instances of that kind that have come to my personal of it should termed run And all these charges I stand ready lo by of Hon. in this part of tae to and which will be so soon as Jan. 1. 1852 j ahle protection can be over them by The great number of letters 1 am constantly making inquiries in to the Territory of has induced me to embody in the form of a such as very interesting portion of Oregon hes north ni the and is being rapidly The which rises in the Cascade at tho option of the square 3 3 - - 12 - - - that I may thus be enabled to of the TOna through a large it mure promptly and more in detail than j tract of arable entering the tlie that due attention lo my other public duties would allow were I to endeavor to give a forty or fifty miles from ita French of years answer to each 1 hope ibis will be near this thirty miles the earth can absorb but a The considered to my and now made to in pursuing it. 1 will more and satisfactorily serve which is my IIAUP THAT TAK h e ot ' 11 as mute ou Il Au Now Irci Ih it uo more t i ih ul l h Il livio flows upon the surfuce lo the brook or river toward which the slope of ihe land at the moment of its is the of all i but in flowing over it carries great ol by pure having j iw snow-clad It is - they have a certain over tiie sur country h more face of grass they are to a f and and the pan of iho ' the From April all pans of this that in no case should they suffer themselves to be taken by or the least advantage had of them by the Indians for the least carelessness or want of proper precaution otten seriously endangers the safety not only of their property but their who contemplate emigrating should be ready to leave St. on the ouri with a by the first day of Ox teams ore much to be for the and blankets for with such tools only as are necessary to repair a should Each man should also take his gun and plenty of The journey is a long and tedious valuable also within the last b. U and undertake it must to endure Oregon Is a mountainous and aro doing The country is | privations and 1 would many and level and and interspersed with or at every and Palmer's valley of the Chahales is also and Well adapted to it the country is level and well - ed. with small This matter IS upon but n one 0! the and harbors it. falmer s ly lays down the fords across the the camping and also the places where wood and water can be No article not necessary for the journey should be as there is great i ho of from the shin inf. an down the Uip soils r they I winters are rain v. but | portion of the Surrounded i furniture and farming a soil is constantly i bv a district of in with ' of all are abundant in ' ' ' immense of the timber in the i should think of taking such things country is and tlie soil very j anii be supposed better than that derived Iroin because in the case a wnich tlie grass if well d to the of all irrigation is by a i and other flowing over a sandy soil good j yielding most provided the sand is mixed with it often happens that water carries Indian com. which is not d as a successful Many of hills and wah it quantities of which can to marshy To ihe use of rain fir and Those AN the of the late for the purposes of irrigation there are two serious the irregularity of the and then tiie great foreign mailer carried along liy it during frequently skirt the valleys and well the Columbia is the only great river on tlie Pacific and f it is destined to at no dis- | inconveniences are to be by one of the points on i after they arrive These are Pacific A low pass in thr incident to of new a route lor a good road the but Sound to of the a road Would be important for and would also he a saving of distance and time to emigrants going to the and Pugel or to any other north to the Oregon than usual in the of new sea coast lo the Rocky r r 111 its j ants are to take the road hat led treasonable of the i to the a of about one j the Cascade south of the obviated inst ine of iw shown by 1 situations be rep rts of Uie L biales i 1 ana the water retained until the however strange and and until form Mu i appear aii lo those have had an on i 1 1 ami the may from and it R i practices bul are tho the i hy tJ years wr lor a-i 1 bien lg for a time lo j make derived iroin melting is also to he considered as on account of its iir and his called twelve end 1 o. upon and is an for of the l iie W into the about ninety miles trom its This river is for the largest vessels lo fif miles from and many as high as seven miles ihe risk of some little it may not be improper or to give a more detailed und minute description of the lev of tins and some 01 the other of come alter a detention in ihe il or it to | Willamette conversations m the cv 10 tiie bo shmc whu ii is dep on of perhaps better r. many lo a returned fiom a w vd in regard lo their great 1 scl.'ishnc'.s and are sUp believe and teach mat a in a a branch of ihe of through lHe of of Joseph and 5 up -n work c and Iwo su it. his the on the east. The is and is not if by uny ti of tue in ils to the and Potatoes are pr in gn and nre ol a superior qu dity w hile whe is a er- p. lo the nucen s It 111 Ihe It 1? 8wa\s tuli and nee ilie tlie bv w hft upon the XN Disease had d one of ihe a little ami ho was soon stricken down by and laid by the sorrow ing pareils in H little dug in the bank of the the ot child leaving the the and on Hence ail those and destructions i ill the the of sohd and not fall In ot the c diy two Olle of an the absence ot rain dui mg the ci misnamed the Mormon Joseph claims lo have | found m she shape of upon in an unknown WHS She was in a strange l he husband of her and the born son uf her hope hud lo the land of and their s- were in their s vale of a H- r earthly but l to him and history of this rs pr d the pre of the American In- d for Tne of the j greeted the of this of i 10 the but in u Mormon regard M the government and laws of this they are roady al any and all limes lo hands tiie farmer is enabled to gather in liis grain without valley is about 160 miles in and five ir. and is its whole tine are which will richly re pay the labor of the thrifty Natural as unt by the hand ot t and rich for immense herds of The valley is skirted by beautiful groves of while through its centre runs the - valley is distant from the Willa mette about twelve and is from 11 by the It is about ty miles in and varies five M into the face of and fe and ihe Stairs of and ' ' 11 , 1 i a trust in and lus took in It is made up of a he sweet lovins eves of an looked up 1 1 1 i 1 oi hills and furnishes but little in a natural luxuriant growth of tiie and South Umpqua rivers run thr ugh this and lortn a junction forty I Irom the bay ot the same Phe entrance j So this bay is found to be as lo Dregon from whence it is as by a road almost tO Puget as it would be from U by the road east of the Cascade north and south the now in possession of the large districts of country finely ad to with occasional good tracts of farming which no ere lung be by city is situated at the Great Falls of the Steamboats run daily from this place lo and those of a also run up the above the l- from lo and in some I am they have even gone up 150 small judicious expenditure would render the river constantly for boats that population ot including the of last is probably 2U.000. I iie is rapidly 10 advantages of but to the liberal provisions made for actual by 0 bite law of By that law liberal of land are made to all who will sell e upon them previous to the first day ol 18.,3 l o a single man 160 acres and to a married man 320one half in his own and the other half to his wife in her own upon n oy will live upon and cultivate il for lour population is of a substantial much betu r ih new people are and of the earliest set tiers have well cultivated farms everywhere in Ihe may be said to be in a flourishing remarkably so for a new and Sandwich islando and good prices for all our surplus and will undoubtedly tor years to c of the various denominations have in the to some one of which the ol the settlers rest also u manifested by people in the establishment of d and admirably have succeeded in laudable Institute at under tiie patronage of the Episcopal and the at Tualatin .Am correspondent of the Washington Republic tlie lust sitting of the Academy of Sciences a Very remarkable paper was read II was pre sented by a well known who has made many public experiments on air as a for steam on railways 1 give you a resume of the contents of this It is entitled or the Visibility of the Molecules of the Some of the deductions in a point of are 10 the highest degree M proves by a very simple the air is rendered By taking a piece of colored and piercing it with a fine this interesting fact is If we look through the hole at the on a fine or at a strong having a ground we see a of trans parent globes moving in in the midst of confused Those little some of wich are more transparent than are of Some of these are surrounded with a kind of says are the elements of continuing the observation for some we shall see detach themselves tind disappear in says M. are atoms of This phenomenon of it la to passes wilhin the eye tlie molecules of air which are observed are which float in the which occupies the anterior part of lhat According to the author of the discovery is not in merely as a but may be applied lo important in He The phy will one day make use of as an important means uf which are the forerunners of will be announced by perturbation in the of Lady conversation with an aged lady of an anecdote was related to rhe Mrs. ao entertaining and that it must be Mrs. the daughter of who has been mentioned more than once in these my and although laboring under the of age and the anecdote was with even first husband's mother the wife of Joseph whose monument may seen in the burying was a sensible and agreeable whose company was much even by those owing to their moved in moro fashionable Among other frequent visitors the lady of Captain in the British is described as a lady of affable manners and ol and much day she visited Mrs. and tho usual compliments were hardly passed before she what do you Mrs. I have been to see Lady tell mo all about how you found her how she appeared and what sho I will honestly tell never was 90 ashamed in all my You and we would visit lady and as she was said to be ao grand a wo we must put on our best bibs and dont you think we found her and wilh a apron She received us very and but after the compliments were she resumed her There we were without a stitch of work and sitting in but Gen. Washington's lady with her hands was knitting stockings for herself and that was not In the afternoon her took to in a way that we could not that at it was very important that American ladies be of industry to the because the from ihe mother country will drj up the source whence many of our comforts have been We must become Independent by our to do without what we cannot make Whilst our and brothers are examples of we must be patterns of to s Washington grave her visitor some the meanwhile adding force to her words by withal in such a way that they could take In this her self more worthy to occupy her distinguished position than she could have dono by all the graceful and elegant which are often found in and n the relations she her and her check were queenly and we may be proud to know that such a woman aa Martho Washington set such admirable example lo her country have 1 for not wuh against for il with a father's care ' steamers have at its control ot ihe are and a love He fed and and fl Salt Lake was got up for tho name of purpose ot placing without buoys or A acci the pale of this all have occurred the waM can't believe in said an we related some things to her that we had that appeared to us very can't believe about I know if Paul could come he would envelop himself to me and wouldn't make me run a mile lo gel a few dry Strange the world should be so superstition al to believe such a or think a sper ret can go knocking about like a boy in I can t believe it. and I don't know if I could if lhat teapot there was to jump off the table be fore my She and through the of approaching darkness we could see the determined expression of her flight was heard upon the the black teapot moved from its two 111 Oreg ed slowly up the and then hung passively and other j by the side of Ihe profile of the ancient g lod they are in dreaming that it was so soon lo be his he ' A port ot entry has been q ine population will justify a of that that they could the 1 ^^ appropriations have been a grant of land was made by the last their treasonable and at 1jj^^^^jjjlj j the endowment of a I. the sue lime the petitioned 1. 1 r for aid for the emigrants from a but none were disposed bay is lo be an lor am tor ina varcai the care of it. and he mi- urging in that petition the importance the outlet for the s the southern portion of re wdl lie at has been by the emigration from ihe States to California That petition can be seen by examining the files of the Mormon paper printed in England at that the regard to it has preached among for years if it were I could give you cases of the separation of husbands and and breaking up of demoralization of young women by some of these twelve in this city and that would almost chill the teach and avow openly that marriages performed out of lhat are null and and can be broken ai the pleasure of cither or parties There is no order or about it. The heads of the church manage to secure to themselves the most of the females that join the and when tired of gice them over to the laymen of the and not know of one instance of a from this where the and two daughters were used as wives by one of these Heber he at the same time living with 1 know of f ( lui qua valley here will be trains are already Simp j j the f goo is and provisi this point to the on and Scott river which takes its name river passes thn ugh it. is about bv the main traveled route from the fraternity is growing more numerous the valley is well hy never i ing streams the soil is generally g and it and interspersed with groves of fine the little facts in this case are touching and suggestive without any comments from oor pen. Christian Tree Masonry is in a very and prosperous slate in every part of the it has ever been There is now certainty that the unhappy division which heretofore in the Slate of New York will lu inc 1 1.. and the two Lodges be united must eventually densely popula again in one common St. John's I it no white it borders upon a rich gold region while VI ' V but is occupied bv the river No. 1, of New York the oldest in oui is u uy v rendered U the seat of much trouble gave in its two weeks ago to the party which is now so immensely in the been followed by many of the other and the will soon be St. John's Lodge is in possession of lhat copy of ibe Bible on which Washington took his oath of to the of the United when he was inaugurated as first man who had lo lower his shirt collar to pass uoder the bridge arrived in last from their is no portion of the and indeed I may almost add of the adapted to grazing than this In extent it is about fifty by thirty Surrounded iie Indians b or near ilie are and well have nothing to fear trom Those upon river are troublesome lo those passing through and will so until a garrison shall be lo and keep III I I soon be their upon travelers have already caused trouble and ere upon great Irom a of leads to Kort it road traveled by emigrants lhat tii the jear suffered considers biy from Snake who infest the great road west of Fort aud who over a large extent of territory through which road The of a garrison in their country fa necessary to the of and the The old lady could not but held up her hands in while her snuffbox fell from her nerveless grasp and rolled upon the She left the room to procure a and as soon as she had gone tiie was lowered by the invisible hand to its original and Ike stepped out from beneath the table slowing a long string away In his and grinning Of oard in a Cleveland addressed to those who are looking for higher from the spiritual that yielding to the frequent urgent request of the a Convention o ' Spiritualists will be held at the Forest City for the purpose of calling together the mediums comparing of counselling together in re lanon to recent and strengthen ing the cause of The Invisibles have promised to be present to give auch demon will pui at rest the doubts and objec fions of the skeptical and spiritual is is said to be a popular name for the who make use of the take of the lives and property of persons passing to those of the softer who from number of emigrants Press the Stated Service thus speaks of our its infancy to its present most most gallantly have the officers and men in the of America held up the honor of There is one action in which the slightest can be on any They have never avoided their when it would have been the height of impudence to have faced They have fought with tho the most determined They have in many been successful over a nation which held undisturbed the command of the ocean and this very circumstance of combating an enemy flushed with almost universal victory adds a great laurel lo the Navy of the United somewhat eccentric being engaged in defending a hard and nof being altogether pleased with the rulings of the presiding remarked that he the Court could be bought wilh a peck of The of took this remark in high and ordered the lawyer to ait and demanded of him an apology this contempt of threatening him with for the if he did not The lawyer after a little remarked that he had said he believed the Court could be bought with a peck of that he said it without - and wished to take it back said I had put it at Half a I never would have taken it back in tho gentle pat of the cannot be to mean any ill or aware that it Is the eye seldom rests upon a and dunng the been murdered by to within a few miles of the j and of their animals other to sending you to the and T stolen from Emigrants was the ancient popular name for a kind of lie west the Cascade and south exercise great care and prudence in parsing mon or devil the so that this of the through this district of aud they the of which so tew also many small j it is to their bas et least ito to recommend Wife of Sik John Ann Porden was born 1795. She early manifested great talents and a strong and acquired a considerable knowledge of and other Her first the ' was written when she was next was the Artie which marriage with Capt. Her principal work is the epic de which appeared in 1825. Her display much elegance and richness of The fore- ' going her life Id a biographical has recently the excited the admiration of the world by her energetic and ' vering efforts send relief to to her adf ' husband in the frozen regions of or his fate and of his ' affection deserves to be by the safe return of her and all WAuld rejoice to hear of warmest hopes being it of note that the only trace of John has been by American load of tan bark of a
