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IMPORTANT FROM OREGON We publish in our ma
per day some very interesting and important in
telhgence IRON Oregon, TO which refer our read.
ers 1t appears that the American settlers were in
the midst OF an election canvass for the highest office
In The government, which they have recently or
eanlzed. Another local government has also been
formed by the English settlers under the auspices OF
the Hudson Bay Company.


The American settlers are adopting the true way
to bring Oregon into the Union but it may lead ia
great dca OF difficulty hereafter if the two local
governments there should differ about boundaries
Thus fight may be got up before the United States
or England have got any thing to say in the matter.
But American emlgrants are rapidly crossing the
Rocky mountains in increasing numbers, and soon
VIII be able to drive out the British and occupy the
whole territory themselves Congress ought TO take
up tne matter at once, and make preparations for
annexlng oregon and the whole Of California-that
beautiful region, with the splendid harbor of San
rsanc'sco' destined to be OF the greatest marts
OF commerce in this hemisphere.


ERIE RAILROAD The subsc rp,ions - hi. ,o.d
now amount TO nearly two millions of dollars. and
are pouring In rapidly. Yesterday Peter LoriIIsrd
subscribed $2b,00o, ard the COMPANY are ern.c,;nu
the loan OF million from John Jacob As,or Tbere
really now seems to be probability, after eigh, or
ten years OF imbecity, exuavagance and follv ,ba,
this road will be completed to Buffalo 1t would be
most desirable thing to have it done a, once. n
completed, this means of communication would
bring Cincinnati within two days travel of New
York-one Of the most important pieces OF enter
prise yet conceived, and which would give New
York superiority over Boston, Philadelphia anc
Baltimore, with regard to the western trade, he
yond any thing ever yet devised The whole carry
ing trade Of merchandise, products and passenger
Of the great west would be oentered in New York
through this road, and the population of the city be
Increased, probably, to a million in the mex, ten
years