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 Fnim llio riallu (Mn ) Argus of Aug. 1!J. 
 ORKOON. 
 LETTEH FROM TETEll II. lirilNKT, K.SQ. 
 
 The fdllowinjr letter was rocrivcd yesti^nlay liy 
 a citizen of this coviiity. I'roiii Mr. Diinict, hv tin; 
 I way of Ouliu.t, and forwarded hy tin; Ainerieari 
 consul. The details will he deemed intercstiiif; hy 
 his old friends and iiei(ilihors, and are indeed of 
 impo.'taneu to all who lake an interest in the alfairs 
 of Oregon. 
 
 Knlatiiio IMiiiiis, Oregon, Niiv. 1, 1»;4I. 
 • • • The einijjranlu are now dally arriviiiir, 
 and will all he here in a few weeks al farthest, 
 and I expect to receive other letters and (laperB, 
 which I am informeu are on the way. 1 have now 
 an opportunity to write a hasty letter, as one of 
 II. n. Co.'s ships, the ("idumhia, leaves Vancou- 
 ver ill a few days, for the Sandwich Ishinds. 
 
 Our country is most heaiilifiil, fertile and well 
 watert^d, with the most enuahle and pleasant cli- 
 mate. Our population is ra|)idly increai-iii<r, and 
 tlio country is inakinjf preal pronn'., ;.■ wealth 
 and refineineiil. I have never yet .n In." *i'en a 
 jiopnlatioii so industrious, siiher and honest a this. 
 1 know many, very many yoiinsr men. who vere 
 the veriest vairalmnds in the stales, who :.re ..ere 
 respeelahh? and doinu exceedingly w>i;. Our 
 crops the. past year (IHll) have heen mosi houii- 
 tiful, and we ' ve not eiily a full supply of wheal 
 for our e(Uisuin|.lioii, hut a V.irpi' ipiaiitity for ex- 
 portation. Larye iiuiiihers of cattle are raised 
 .here, which are never fed or sheltered. Many 
 I iiien have from three to fov.r hundied head of 
 cattle. Sheep can he had here in any desirahle 
 nnmher, as the 11. H. Ciunpany have a laru'e lloek, 
 and many private individuals have them. 
 I Kro this reaches yiui perhaps yon will have 
 I learned that we have a reiinlar (»(ivernmeiit in 
 most successful operation in Orejjon. When I 
 first reached this re(;ioii, ahoul a year ajjo, I 
 thou^rht anv nlti'iiii>t al oriiani/atlou mit>hl hi; pre- 
 ' mature. I had not, however, lieeii here loiip, 
 hefore I was conviiiced that a fioveriimeiit ot somo 
 kiiul was inevilahlc, It grew out u( xli.rn, incvila- 
 
OREGO.V. 
 
 613 
 
 bit nfcess'ily. Oiir commercial and business tran- 
 sactiiins wore considcrahlo. Difliciiilics were daily 
 occurring between individuals in rclatiuu to llieir 
 "claims;" tlu: estates of deceased persons were 
 daily devoured, and helpless orpbans plutidcred ; 
 crimi's were committed, and the base and unprin- 
 cipled, the reckless and turbulent were hourly 
 trampling upon llie rights of the honest and peace- 
 able-. A cit'iliznl population, numerous as we 
 were, could not exist without goverimient. The 
 tbin<^ was impossible. We, therefore, organized 
 a ijovernment of our own. 
 
 We had no money, no moan.s — I was a member 
 of the lejrislature. I bad most of the business to ! 
 
 and disjTuise nothing. We are well satisfied that 
 the I'uited States )rnvcrnmcnt, as well as Great 
 Hritain, could not object, and would not ol)ject, if 
 wo form an independent govermnent for o\irselves, 
 situated as we are. Treaties must be made with 
 the Indians, and many other things of imjiortance 
 must of necessity be doner 
 
 Our population about dnnldes every year, and 
 our business trebles. We will soon have a 
 printing-press, and a paper of our own ; we can 
 then publish our laws. 
 
 The practice of the law has commQuced, and I 
 have several important suits on hand. 
 
 I have a fine " claim," perhaps among the best 
 
 do. We passed a tax-bill, appointed an assessor, I in Oregon, situated in the centre of one of the most 
 md I ermitted every man not to pay a lax, if he ' beautiful prairies called the Falatinc Plains. I am 
 
 in excellent health, contented and happy. Mrs. 
 
 chose so to do. but if he did not pay, being able, 
 w(! debarred biin from suing in the courts as plaiii- 
 tilT. At the same time we passed acts to protect 
 all liiinafide settlers in their claims to the amount 
 of (ilO acres. The tax-bill o|)erated like a charm. 
 Nearly all the whole p"pulation jiaid without hesi- 
 tation. We selected a tall Kast 'J'etiiu-sseean, | the last accounts from the United .Slates the heat 
 Joseph L. Meek, for our sheriff, lie had been in 'appears to have been intense. The I3th of July 
 the mountains with William L. Sublette for eight ! has already acquired the soubriquet of " the hot 
 
 li.'s health has improved, and my children are all 
 well, fat and fine. 
 
 Your friend, Peter H. Hi'rnet. 
 
 Heat and Cold — Amkric.v and Pkiisia. — Hy 
 
 or ten years, is exceedingly good humored, very 
 popular, and as brave as Julius <Ja?sar. The very 
 first warrant he had delivered to him, was ifsued 
 for the apprehension of a very quarrelsome and 
 turbulent man, who resisted Aieek with a broad- 
 axe, hut Meek, presenting a cocked pistol, took 
 the fidlow nolens folnis. The next, and only case 
 of serious resistance to our laws, was on the part 
 
 Sunday," the thermometer having reached 98 
 degrees, in the shade, at tlireo P. M. There are 
 strange accounts of the weather from Krzeroom. 
 On the 21st of June a heavy snow storm set in, 
 which lasted for eight and forty hours. The ther- 
 mometer fell to 271 degrees Fahrenheit. The snow 
 in the town itself was a foot and a half deep, and 
 on the tops of the mountains fiuir or five feel. The 
 
 of Joel Turnham, of Mo., son of May Turnham, weather in the Hlack Sea was at the time wintry 
 of Clay county. He had assaulted an individual, and dreadful. Many persons perished by the cap- 
 
 and a warrant was issued by a justice of the peace 
 Turnham was himself constable, and Jolin Ed- 
 monds was deputized to arrest him. Turnham 
 resisted with a large butcher's knife, but Kdmonds 
 had a |)istol with six barrels well charged. He 
 shot Turnham four times, the last hall entering 
 above the temple, when be immediately expired. 
 These arc all the obstructions to the administration 
 of justice we have h;id, and in Edmonds' case, ho 
 was fully justifiable in killing Turnham, even if 
 he had no warrant, as T. assaulted him first, and 
 pursued him with great violence to the last. 
 
 We have now Jirc counties, and two terms of 
 the Circuit Court in each county in every year. 
 Wo have but one judge, who discharges the duty 
 of probate judge, chancellor, and what not ; in 
 
 sizing of boats ; and it is apprehended that the 
 blockading squadron of Russia, on the coast of 
 Abascia, 'vill have suffered. 
 
 Fle.misii Buriai. Cl'sto.ms. — At Willsbccck, 
 Vyve, St. llavon, and other villages near (,'our- 
 trai, a curious custom is observed, \vhi(-h obtains 
 in other parts of Delgium. VVhen a person dies, 
 the clergy of the parish come in procession to con- 
 iluct the body to the jdaco of interment. If on 
 their way they come to a spot where four roads 
 meet, the bearers of the coffin set down their load, 
 kneel in silence, and utter a short prayer. Their 
 reason for doing so, arises from the belief that 
 those who have quitted this world may yet returii 
 
 to it; hut, as there might be some difficulty ii: 
 fact we have only as yet circuit courts and justices I the dead man finding his way home again, his 
 of the peace. Our government was intended only friends pray for him in the cross roads, that he 
 as provisional, to exist until some regular govern- may hit upon the path the more readily, and not 
 ment could be established. We adopted the statute he misled by evil spirits — " K waedegeesten." Hut 
 laws of Iowa, where applicable to our condition at Oostinallen, near Turnhoiit, a far more extraor- 
 and not modified by our legislature. dinary custom exists, for which it would be diffi- 
 
 We are now waiting most anxiously for the cult to assign a salisfictory reason. When the 
 result of Pakcnham's mission, and if the two gov- ' husband dies, bis widow seats herself astride upon 
 emments have not settled the (|ue3tion between the bier, and in this demonstrative manner accoin- 
 them, the moment that fact is known, there will | panics tlio corpse to the grave ! — Castillo's Valley 
 bo one universal movement made. A regular of lite Mcusc. 
 
 } convention will be held and a constitution adopted, 
 ^ (republican no doubt,) and an independent govern 
 J ment put in operation at once 
 ■, compel us to the stop 
 
 MrTi'Ai, Wrono. — Mr. James, the novel-spin- 
 Nc^cessity will jiier, has, by advertisement, offered the sum of ten 
 The population of 1'., is pounds' reward to whosoever will "prove whence 
 country are no doubt desirous to live under the ithe report first emanated," that ho — Mr. James — 
 government of the United States, hut if she will had "undertaken to edit the periodical work, 
 never do anything for us, wo must and will do it 'called, Ainaworfh's Ma<:minp.^^ We understand 
 for ourselvt^s. The people here are worn out by that the proprietors of the said Mag;r/.iiin have 
 delay, and their condition becomes every day more ! offered a like sum for the detection of the offender, 
 intolerable. I speak to you with great candor, for I Holh parties feel themselves equally injured,— 
 you know me, and know that I withhold nothing | Punch,