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THE ALBANY PATRIOT, „ rtjiusHZD mn wuimibit ho* ran, IT NELSON TIFT h 8ETH N. BOUGHTON, v Editors < * ~ TERMS. <' TWO Dollars per annum, if paid in advance, or Dollars at the end of the year. Adrertisetnents not exceeding twelve lines, will ■.■inserted at One Dollar for the first insertiun, and nity cents for each continuance. Advertisements r .t hiving the number of insertions specified, will published imtil forbid. (Sale* of Land and Negroes by Executors, Adminis- tn tors and Guardians, are required by law to he jdvertised in a public gazette, sixty days previous to (bcday ofsale. The sales of Personal Property must be advertised ia like manner forty days. Notice to Debtors and G Notice that application will be made to the Court rf Odinary for leave to sell Land and Negroes, most (uililislied weekly for four montlis. Monthly Advertisements, One Dollar per square (or each insertion. jl'AII Letters on business must be post paid. I Creditors of an estate most demonstrate COTTON. We were shown, yesterday, cotton of which eight bales week, by J. L. Swinnoy, Ei , the top price of the market, beautiful cream color and good the plantation of J. M. Gouder, of Hancock . l V enl8 111 speed end regularity, and par- is to be provided with Capt. Huntei county. ticularly on the western waters. That {merged propellers, including the recent ______ We were also shown the samples of measures ought to be taken also for the valuable improvements added thereto by alias “Black Harris,” his'pilot and"his "de- eight more bales which were sold at the PJ 0U *P l extension also by Government of the talented inventor. He are not of the pendence,as interpreter for the Sioux and same price. They were from the plants.; l [ ,e Magnetic Telegraph into or throughj number who believe that steam can be ap-, Pawnee Indians in passing throug their lion of G. H. Griswold, of Jones county, '“ e Mississippi Valley. i plied to men-of-war so as to entirely super-1 country, without any difference of expla- and ginned through Griswold’s improved -M*. Resolved, That the Marine Hospit- sedo the use of sails, from the fart of .the nation^ withdrew from the party and rd- gin. jals on the Western and South Western. impossibility of carrying a sufficiency of turned to the valley. Surprised, but notlt- Our reason for noticing particularly the w “'ers, whose construction has been coin-: fuel for long voyages; but we do not tier- ing intimidated, they moved forward.— ■ ^ It...!. * I • .t . ! monroH nr nsil lmriva/1 kit Pnnirnuia juifflst I MlUSt nfku enUo find al Mm I ! Tit... — iLw ^YqJJq "Indian^ C 0 . his and other _ Oregon very soon. Very respectfully, i * our obedient servant, * ELIJAH WHITE. At the first camp, Major Moses Harris, above cottons is, that we may bring to the, - . . „ minds of planters the importance to them J° prosecuted to completion with the of handling their cotton carefully <tnd puck-1 “Cost possible delay, ing in square bales. With both these lots i }?\ Resolved, f hat Congress should es- every care appears to have been bestowed tabluh a National Armory .rad Foundry, at in handling and packing—there was not 80l “ e P° lnt . °J* 'be Western waters, at os a particle of dirt to be seen in either and if; car v “period as possible. ~ 13. Resolved, That efficient steps should MISCELLANY. WONDERFUL OPERATION. Our son, who has just returned from Richmond, informs us, that an extraordin ary tumor w as extracted from a man’s arm, in Richmond, while the patient was in the mesmeric state, under the influence of Prof. Do Bonneville, without any sensible pinto the subject,and which was unknown to him after the sleep wus thrown off, until he was informed of it. Mi. Dc Bonneville itimsclf writes: “I last night magnetised a gentleman before seventy persons, when » chirtirgicnl operation was performed on hiinhv Dr. ** any tiling of a lot was offered of the same !. *«». Resolved, That efficient steps should description, we have no doubt it would, to. “ *®“ en by the General Government to morrow, bring 8 cents per lb.—all of ) of a I remove and prevent the recurrence of t he cent per pound more than the same quality ; obstructions in the Mississippi River, oppo- of cotton would command if indifferently *** ', {| Jf of St. Louisas© that the hnr- handlcd and packed in round bales. Savannah Georgian. ceive wny satis and steam may not liar- they met the Wallawalla'Indians—so monizc with Hunter propellers, the buckets i much excited the spring before, by reason being so constructed that they may shut! of the violent and treacherous death of Eli- into the sides of the vessel so soon* as the I jolt Heading, an educated young chief of engine is stopped, retarding not|in*tlic least |distinction, killed by a white man in Cali- the headway of the vessel while upder canvass. bor thereof may be at all limes accessible, as objects of public utility and of a nation al character, and entirely beyond the abili- . . ty of Missouri to accomplish. mg lastof taking by (tic hand our old friend, 14. Resolved, Thai a Dry Dock and! Dr. Elijah While, Sub-Agent of Indian convenient arrangements for the repairs Affairs tor rite Territory ofOregonj who had and refiining of government vessels, should ** From He Independence Express, Not. 17ti. OVERLAND MAIL FROM OREGON. Arrival of Dr. While, direct Jrom Oregon— Special Messengers to the U. S. Congress —Through in ninety days. We bad the pleasure on Saturday even' ' Id Hcndrce, assisted by Dr. Thom- d. THE SEASON AT WASHINGTON THIS WIN- • TER. A correspondent of the Boston Traveller, writing _ from Washington, predict, that the session of Con->be eslabli-ficd at somcsuitablcpointon grass this winter will pus away without that fiuh-! the Gulf of Mexico. ionablo folly, extravagance and dissipation among 15. Resolved, That Rail Road commit- , . , ,. “the higher classes" which have prevailed forsevc- niention from tile valley of the Mississippi' hail accompanied him some lime previoua- ral years. He says: j to the Southern Atlantic prrts, in giving ly* on an interesting and important cxplor- pjtrVfrf- l .i-1 j»!.- , - > • ” ing expedition, the results ol which will soon coinc before the public, officially. , They left the beach of the Pacific as and Dr. Mills, of Richmond. The op- < ration was the cutting ofiT a very large tumor from the fore part of the left arm. The patient was imtnoveably during the operation; his fealtires remained like wax; lust arrived wilh n party of only three men, Messrs. Chapman, lirown and Saxton, all claiming to be citizens of Willamette—two of whom, Onts Brown and Chnrles Saxton, u well ed me mended in the department of the saloons this winter, i fluences on the commercial, social nul po ts this kind of dissipation is congenial to the feel- hlicnl relations, strongly urged on 'he con- ings neither of herself nor her husband, who regular- sidcrnlion and patriotism of the people of ly retire by eleven o’clock. Ulic West, and they arc the more recoin- „„ „„„ “Tl»>•«*■» d>o composition of the Cabinet in mended as works within the power of pri- h'js pulse did not vary much. Every thingj** retatio0 - „ Mre * vale enterprise to construct, and as afford- ted to the silent dust a blooming daughter—and \ lun i, y nMly | >e afforded for private individ- an only one, it not an only child. Mis. Buchxnun unis aud enterprise to direct their captial —there is no inch lady, for the Secretory of Stoic tt „d energies to the completion of the voynnee is triumphant.” We rejoice in his* success, ns well as in the triumph of truth, which was so roughly treated by Dr. Warner, iind his friendssome short time since in that city. We have not much credulity, but we cannot help thinking that “the seventy” spoken of bv Dc Ronnevillo, will perform the snme office for mesmerism in Richmond, that the seventy disciples sent out, instrue'ed by our Savior, did for Chris tianity ESTABLISH THE TRUTH. Old Dominion. THE GOOD WIFE. She conintandeih her husband in any equal matter, by consinnly obeying him. She never crosseth her husband in the springtide of his anger, But slays till it be ellnng-water. Surely men, contrary to iron, arc worst to be wrought upon when they nro hot. Her clothes are rather comely than eosly, and she makes plain cloth to her \elect by the handsome wearing it Her husband’s secrets she will not di vulge : especially she is careful to conceal Ills infirmities. In her husband’s absences she is wife and deputy husband, which makes her duuble the files of her diliigencc. At his return he finds all things so well, that he won ders >o see himself at home when he was abroad. Her children, though many in number, arc none in noise, steering them with a look whither she listclh. The heaviest work of her servants she makeili light, by orderly and seasonably enjoining it. In her husband’s sickness she feels more grief than she shows.—Dr. Fuller. CHARCOAL AN ANTIDOTE TO POISON. An old English paper contains a state ment that charcoal possesses the power of ‘ il I Five grains of arsenic in „ strong mixture of charcoal were swallowed lasting. Heal and great thirst fallowed, hut the pain was allayed by swallowing another glass of .charcoal mixture. At noon no bad effects were felt. Let it be tried in cases of mineral poison. SORE TUROATT the 3l)th of July, some forty inilefi from the Uinqua river, nnd arrived in the Coluny a- bout the loth ot August. They found the Legislature in session at Orcgou Ci<y, and Dr. White being officially requested to bear a memorial anti petition emanating from that body andsigned unamimotisly by them —also by the Judge of the Territory and Executive Committee—to the Congress of the United Slates, left on the 16th.* They nrrived at Eon Vancouver on the 17th, the fornia—and were handsomely saluted and most cordially received—die excitement having entirely subsided. Corn, potatoes, peas, camas and cherries, were brought forward for the consumption of the party, and their plantations, with those of the Key- use, speak well for their advance in, agri culture and civilization. Not many of the WaDnwnllus cultivate ; they generally sub sist on fish. But the Key use andNez- K rccs, or Seheptatis, under the auspices of - r. Whitman nnd lady, and Rev. H: H. Spaulding nnd lady,, are represented as having made most commendable advance ment in agriculture, science, arts, mentis ond religion many of the latter reading their own language, fluently and writing well nnd in-dte regularity of their family devo tions and observance of the Sabbath, it is believed few equal them. On the Isr of September they met, nt Burnt river, Capt. Barlow, Knighton-, and McDonald’s companies of emigrants—tho three companies comprising some eight hundred persons,with eighty-seren wagons, within some three hundred and fifty miles of their destination, all in good health nnd fine spirits, representing the difficulties of the route as nothing in comparison with what they had expected. While the Doc tor was giving them an intellectual treat, to which all lisf sound Presbyterian. He goes practically for commends to the Delegations celibacy, and is not carried on the current of fashion and pleasure." esenl, (o the duty rcs- con- struct sucli roads as may pass through their iss political Romanist quad hot, though otherwise ponanl roads projected, the Convention re-' Dalles of the Columbia, on the 20th, and * J n — —“ — *i - r — • ■ — • • on the 23d proceeded on their journey. Dr. White has found time, iri the follow ing letter, to answer our inquiries, in part touching the prospects and tion of the new territory, his way to Wushinglon, the bearer of a memorial to Congress, from all classes of citizens in Oregon—Americans, English, French, and half-hrccds—asking for the extension of the authority and government of the * ~ lory. MEMPHIS CONVENTION. , struct sue, roaas as may . We publish at large the scries of resold- Slates; and to ask such aid and lions adopted before the adjournment of from said Slates as may, in their discretion, this body, and which will show at a view, be necessary nnd proper to aid in the con- thc subjects of its deliberations and the ex- struction of the works, lent of ns proposed influence. ! 17. Resolved, That as many of the 1. Resolved, That the Reports of the Roads projected pass through the public various Coroiuiiices presented to the Con- domain, this Convention would respectful- vention be printed, and such documents ao- ly urge on the consideration of Congress companying them as the Committee ap-; the equity of granting the right of way- pointed to supervise the proceedings of tue | end alternate sections in aid of ihe works Convention shall deem necessary. Iso situated, such grants, in the opinion of 2. Resolved, Thai the safe communica- 1 this Convention, being no more than a fair tion between tue Gull of Mexico and the compensation paid by the proprietor for the interior afforded by the navigation of the enhanced value imparted to the sections of Mississippi and Uhio rivers and their prin-, land retained by the government. cipal tributaries, is indispensable to the de-: _ 18. Resolved, By this Convention, that fence of the country in time of war, and.il is expedient that Congress should make essential also to its commerce. | an appropriation of money for the purpose 3. Resolved, That the improvement and : of completing the Military Road from the any the count r ry, and that such improvements!military posts on the western frontier, are deemed by this Conventioaiiupracitea-1 19. Resolved, That the President np- istened with indescribable in terest, some of the ladies prepared a rich repast for him and his little party: coflcc, sugar, bread, biscuit, buttermilk, and hon ey, with bacon, rice, anti, several. kinds of . dried fruits, wete nicely spread out: they political enndi-1 nte and drank’ talked aud mutually chccr- Ho _is now mi ,.J ouch other, nnd parted in the happiest mood. At different points, for the distance of a hundred and thirty miles, they met. others—each parly soliciting, they all re ceived a lecture oh Oregon. The*last par ty, called the Si. Joseph company, wero met on Snake river, camped disadvrrnloge- 1 lie documents ore sealed, address- ouslv, being some two and a hnlf miles from edtothe care of the Missouri delegation, wood or water, on the sandy desert: but and will, of course, not be uiudc known un-; they found them in the best spirit, and after til presented to Congress. advising them nt some length on Oregon, Dr. White heard of Lieut. Fremont’s ■ the party was invited to dinner, and sat party to the south of fort Laramie, uli well, down to a table in the tent of Rev. M. St. Louis, Nov., 23, 1845. Fisher, a Rnbtist clergyman, spread with Sir—I received with pleasure your po- a white cloth, and partook of ten, light lile note of inquiry regarding Oregon, from bread, crackers, maple molasses, dried b:ef the consideration of the warm interest you and butler, all prepared in the neatest nian- have manifested in favor of that new, 'dis- nor. This company were mostly Ncw tantandinteresting purl of our wide domain, England people, had emigrated to Iowa and am most happy to assure you, and and from thence to Oregon, and carried through you, the good citizens of St. Louis their virtuesnnd intrlligcnrcoverthc moiin- and Missouri generally, who have saitl nnd tains with them. All much happier nnd done so much to advance our interest, that better for the interview, the patty took their aside from some inconvenience for the want leave of this interesting group of venera- of a circulating medium, or the establish- ble sires, aged matrons and smiling youth, rnent of proper commercial regulations, our nnd passed on to Fort Hall, where they ar- little colony of 8,0‘.HI, are going folward rived on the 19th of September, and met a 4. Resolved, that the deepening of the 2't. Resolved, That the President ap- mouth of the Mississippi; so us to puss ships point a Committee of members of of the largest class cost what il may, is a this Convention, to address our common work worthy of the nation, and would constituents on the same subject. greatly promote the general proe| 5. Resolved, That the projec neciingthc Mississippi river wilh I ject of con necting the Mississippi river with the Lakes, by a ship canal, and thus with the Allan- IRON STEAMERS OF WAR. The Military and Naval Chronicle (New York) speaks os follows of the iron steam tic Ocea'n is a measure worthy of the en-' vessel, building at Pittsburg, under direc- j tion of Lieut. Hunter: rein- counicracting the effect of ““““'“l P° lson - lightened consideration of Congress. half a glass of Resolved, That if the policy of rein- ! “We lutd the gratification of visiting not forcing ttur Navy with war steamers be long since, while sojourning at Pittsburg, adopted, the western waters are proper in the State of Pennsylvania, the iron war sources, of supply, as they abound in iron steamer now being constructed under the the best material for their construction and direction of Capt. william W. Hunter, of in lead and copper, important materials for the United States Navy. It is conteraplat munitions of war, provisions also being cd that this vessel will be ready for sea in cheap, and the skill required for their con- the early part of the spring of 1846; and it struction and vavigation being ample in is to be hoped that the Navy department this region, which already possess the lar- will direct ner commander to visit i “ We have known several instances in which this distressing complaint, even in its worst stages; has been immediately allevia ted and speedily cured by the following remedy : Mix a pennyworth of pounded * be pr camphor wtlb a wineglass of favandy, pour j e inili £ a smalj quantity on a lump of sugar, and a „d additional li| all the most vigorously and prosperously, and, so cordial reception from Capt. Grant, far as the On .. lie accumulation of property is cun- the 23d, they |<assed the romantic and in- cerned, 1 know of no people so rapidly ad- (cresting Soda Springs, where all drank vancing as those who have pi rated them- freely. selves in the valley of the Willamette; nor j On the 27tn, met ur. Joseph Burk, bo- do I know of any like population so uniform- tanist and mineralogist, sent out by the ly pleased wilh'lhc country of their adop- English government to make collections, lion—none, sir, of the sober, industrious nnd and return in seven years from the time of intelligent part of our cheerful little colony, his departure—dined with him—found hint but are greatly pleased with Oregon, and : nn intelligent, unassuming gentleman.— its prospects, uniformity extolling the cli- The party passed “the divide” on the 4lh mate, soil scenery, &c., &r. And, sir, of of Ociotirr, nil walking over it, and on this vou need not* bo surprised, as from a ~ residence of nine years in that delightful valley, I assure vou 1 know of no country possessing so mild, equable, salubrious mid agreeable climate^ nor a country of such varied and beautiful scenery, nor one of such certainty or uniformity of all kinds of crops peculiar to such latitude, save Indian corn, which, though more certain from the uniformity of cool nights, does not in growl h yield more than an average New England crop. Nor do I know of a country every where possessing such purity of water, or, allow it 4o dissolve in the mouth every hour. The third or fourth generally en blcs the patient to swallow with ease. Medical Journal. NEW INTENTION. * Church'bells can now be made of steel, as has gest steam commercial marine in the world, principal cities on the Atlantic coast,-in or- 7. Resolved, That the intercourse be- der that the people here may witness the tween the Gulf of Msxkoand the Atlantic capabilities, to some extent, of that great, ‘ - — be preserved unimpaired, section of country lying west of the- Alle- luilitaiy and naval defoa- ghany Mountains. I(.would indeed be a j considering its e'xtem, more valuable w ater mat light-houses and bea- novelty-to belioM in the water of N.-York,'.privileges. Of its natural and commercial cons should be established along the coast a large war steamer of eleven hundred tons ' of the Gulf of Mexico, at the most eligible burthen, bark-rigged, built on the head wa- pointp. | ters of the Ohio, more than two thousand 8. Resolved, That millions of acres of miles from the ocean. Her model is of the public domain, lying on the Mississippi surpassing beauty, and we hnzardan opi.n- river and on its tributaries, now worthless ion that there are few, if any vessels, now been moved Vr'in ingenlons American mechanic, for the purposes of cultivation, might be re- in our navy thal will outsail her, even while in ni,u to, . in an ttoBJ. newepa- claimed by throwing up embankments, so tinder canvass without the aid of her steam as to prevent ovsrite# ; «ml vbur tfafe^ priWet. , , , _ _ . , f _ . will cost only about thirty ddfenTsad can he heard vention recommend to Congress to take When completely wemipped for serrtee, two mile or more. TOe advantages of this ioven-- such measures as may he necessary to ac- tumamrat allon board^er draught of wa- tuoareaaidtobetwofcld: first, it is so cheap that comphsh that object, by. gnurtof said lands ter tydl be thirteen feet—enabhng her to were rW-J. iMf We a bell of a dear, brilliant or appropriation of money. cross the bar at 4he mouth of the MisstsMp- uritotutod 1 kmc laecond it» so light, and being 9. Resolved, That the Gulf nnd Lake pi at all times. On her spar-deck are to swj-ni- «tn ndUn it.' awn are greater in extetn than the Allan-' be four sixty-four pounders, mounted on SnnraS bTac^and tid seaboard, thal the interests to be.defcn- j carriages, fitted in wen taxes, which re- aay fey ctoObltWwdB ss a rttfriw parUi beO- ded i» the one qparte. are quite an WUppjH valve on pivots, enabling them-to bear up- timc! >a8 The guns are »j“gvr. Pc 'WWWls contiguity to the Snndwhtch Islands, Chi na, Peru and all the western world, it will be seen at a glance that these am very great. I do not deny that, at the first .glance, a r t portion of tho eastern and interior of territory -appears of little worth, nor would otherwise say than that in the Wil lamette Valley, the garden of the world, possesses more deph and strength of soil, and less waste land than any country of like extent; that three months out of twelve, arising from the continuous rains, are disagreablo ; but sir, the time is comin and rapidly advancing, when domest herds will take the place of tbo immense herds of buffalos, and provo a rich source nf revenue. Experiments at Fort Hall Bases striking the Sweet Water, all drank, nti a little pleased to behold the water onr« more running into the Atlantic. On tbu 13th of October, came in sight of a largo Siotix village, of some 3d(> lodges, and containing 2,U0(> souls—went immediately to it—were met by several Chiefs, and tbo party conducted ny them to the Soldiers Lodge, where they feasted upon the choic est buffalo meat. ' Dr. White exchanged tv horse with a Chief; at the Indian’s request and left, after tarrying two hours, the par ty being as much pleased with their recep tion as the Indians appeared to be in en tertaining ibenL They encamped three miles below the village, horses unmolested, and nulling missed. Next day met Snako a notable Chief, and StlO Indians with him, moving up to the large village which they had passed—exchanged the usual rela tions of t he day, and all went off most agree ably. On the 15th reached Fort Laramie where the party were hospitably entertain- ed,«sai Fort IlaU, by Mr. Papin. Left on the 16th: having purchased a sufficient supply of dried bufialo meat and flour, with groceries, to last to Independence, intend-. mg to accomplish the journey with all po— Bible expedition, and not to e!s p to RH) game. On the LTth, mot eight or nine ox teams, heavily loaded with goods for trad ing with the Indians, m charge of Captain F rich, who had a trading post seven miles below Foil Itaramic, on the On