# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1848 10 03_S24
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body sees that it is an Immanuel congregation in deed and truth, that is, a congregation with which the Lord is, in which He dwells with His pure Word and Sacrament, and out of which He gathers for Himself a great, eternal church in heaven.

Church Dedication.

Pastor Seidel has just reported to us that he has had the joy of being able, on the 10th Sunday after Trinity, to dedicate solemnly the newly built church of his dear filial congregation at Wittenberg, Franklin Co., O., and on the 11th Sunday a like one in his Neudettelsau congregation, Union Co., O., the latter with the assistance of the Reverends Ernst and Heid. May our beloved fellow-believers there never leave their new houses of prayer without being obliged to join in the exclamation of Jacob over Bethel. Gen. 28, 16. 17.

Conference Notice.

This year's pastoral conference of the Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio and other States, District of Fort Wayne, Ind., is to take place on Wednesday and Thursday after the 17th Sunday after Trinity, the 18th and 19th of this month. The members of the conference ask the friends who take part to remember them especially in prayer on these days, that the Lord may grant His blessing to their meeting.

(Submitted by Rev. Fick.)

Oregon.

(Conclusion.)

Mr. Spalding's Flight — Deliverance of the Captives.

I was at Utkilla, twenty miles west of Waiilatpu, when the murder took place; I visited the sick, preached to the Indians, and remained there until Wednesday morning, then I betook myself to the dwelling-place of Dr. Whitman. When I was about three miles distant from the station, I met a Roman Catholic priest, his interpreter, and a Cayuse.

After a short conversation the Indian turned back, and betook himself with great haste to the house of Dr. Whitman, while the priest informed me of what had happened. He told me that he had arrived there the night before, that on that morning he had baptized the children of the murderers, while the hands of their parents were still wet with the blood of their pious Protestant teachers, after which he had helped two friendly Indians in burying the slain. He said that ten men and Mrs. Whitman were killed; a Frenchman who had been in the Doctor's service was spared, as were the women and children; no Frenchman, nor any one of the Hudson Bay Company, would be harmed, but only Americans. This he had learned from the chief. After I had asked him to take care of my pack-horse, I took some provisions which he had prepared for the night, and gave myself into God's hand and turned my horse toward the plain.

Meanwhile the Indian had returned to Dr. Whitman's house, to load his pistol again and to wait for me to come thither. He had gone away with the priest with the intention of killing me; but when he halted to smoke, he had, in lighting his pipe, accidentally discharged his pistol and neglected to load it again. After he had waited a while, he set out again upon the way and followed the priest, who by divine providence had hurried much and had already made ten miles before the Indian overtook him. When he did not find me there, and also did not learn from the interpreter what direction I had taken, he turned back again to the place of our meeting and took up my trail; but since darkness was already falling, he had to give up.

Enough! The Lord delivered me from my pursuers. I traveled by night and lay hidden by day. On the second night my horse left me. I had still ninety miles to go, without anything to eat; I had to leave everything behind, even my boots, because they were too small. But praised be the name of God! on the fourth night I reached my house without great exhaustion.

At once a special messenger was sent from Walla Walla to this place. Mr. Ogden came with two ships and a great quantity of goods in all haste to Walla Walla, sent for me and my family and the Americans at my place, that we should unite with him without delay, and had the Nez Perces asked to convey us, for which he promised them goods on his return. In forty-eight hours we were on the way with a part of our property. A part of it was left behind, a part was plundered by the Indians, and something was given them to appease them. We reached Walla Walla in four days, escorted by about forty Nez Perces, to protect us against the Cayuse, who demanded a great quantity of goods, which was delivered to them at the Fort. Here we found the captives from Waiilatpu, rescued through the swift and prudent exertions of Mr. Ogden. He paid the Cayuse fifty woolen blankets for the captives, together with a great quantity of other goods. To the Nez Perces he paid twelve woolen blankets, together with other articles. My party raised the number of the rescued to sixty; on the next day we were on the way to this place in three boats. God gave us the finest weather for this season, and we arrived here today.

On the tenth of this month we go to Oregon City, where Mr. Ogden will deliver us to the Governor. Too much praise cannot be given to the Hudson Bay Company, especially to Mr. Ogden, for their timely, swift, prudent and Christian exertions for our sakes. We owe it, under the guidance of kind Providence, to the exertions of Messrs. Ogden and Douglass that we are alive and at this place today. May the God of heaven reward them richly! The property at Waiilatpu has been entirely plundered and the buildings destroyed. Four hundred soldiers have already been gathered, and are on the way to take possession of the land of the Cayuse and to punish the guilty. Messrs. Cells and Walker have been advised to flee to Colville. God guide us in grace!

News of Worldly Affairs.

The only gratifying thing that is reported from Germany is the armistice with Denmark concluded on the 26th of August, which is to last six months and, may God grant it! to prepare a lasting peace. On the other hand, the news from France and Italy sounds rather warlike. For after the Austrian government declined the proffered mediation of France and England, the French government has declared that the French army will cross the Alps if the mediation is not accepted at once. The armaments in France are being continued in the most earnest manner, and the army intended for this purpose will be brought up to 100,000 men. Russia, on the other hand, is said to have directed a decided protest to all the great powers against the intended interference of France in Italy, and to have declared that in this case it will take sides for Austria. Thus the apprehension of a general European war might indeed be realized. While men seek to establish peace in Italy, there is fresh ferment in Paris, and the great precautionary measures which the present government is taking betray how insecure it may feel itself to be. This time nothing less is said to be aimed at than the overthrow of the Republic and the restoration of the Bourbon family, expelled since 1830. In Hungary the civil war continues; the Hungarians were repulsed by the Raitzen (that is, the Slavic insurgents), and 6000 Serbs crossed the Danube and advanced toward Temesvar. Great consternation is said to prevail in Pesth. As for Germany, the German Reichstag at Frankfurt does indeed continue to build the welfare of Germany (?); but success has thus far not crowned its labors. The part of the people still Christian in mind, especially in South Germany, entertains serious anxiety on account of the legal overthrow of the faith of the Bible, and numerous petitions are going to the Reichstag against the intended separation of the Church from the State; the Republicans pour upon the Reichstag every imaginable abuse and intend to drive it asunder. In this spirit a congress represented by 44 democratic societies was held on the 15th of August at Altenburg. Besides this, there have been more or less alarming disturbances in many cities, as in Berlin, in Vienna, where six persons were killed and 100 wounded, in Munich, Cassel, Trier, Weimar, Heidelberg, and others.

The cholera is raging most violently in Asiatic Turkey; it has also broken out in Riga, Stettin, Berlin, Leipzig and Paris.

Notice.

The Second Synodal Report of the German Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio and other States for the year 1848 is to be had, the copy at 10 cents, of

F. W. Barthel.

Received

$1.00 from an unknown person for the mission on the Cass River in Michigan, through Rev. P. Schürmann.
$1.25 for the Synodal Mission Fund from Sch. and Ill. in New York.
$1.31 for the congregation at Palmyra from P. H. and H. in New York.

Paid.

The 2nd half of the 3rd year. Mr. Aug. Fischer.
The 2nd half of the 4th year. Messrs. Conr. Wöbbecke and Martin Krauß.
The 4th year. Messrs. Jacob Conrad, Aug. Fischer and P. Selle.
The 1st half of the 5th year. Messrs. Fr. Almeyer, Mart. Krauß and P. Selle.
The 5th year. Messrs. Fritz Buuk, Ernst Buuk, Joh. Grösch, Peter Hofmann, P. Jäbker, Chr. Kiefer, Conr. Könemann, Ludw. Kaatze, Joh. Merz, Chr. Puscheck, P. Schürmann (3 copies), Ernst Stoppenhagen, Hermann Wefel, Nicol. Zelt (to No. 17).

Printed by Arthur Olshausen,
Publisher of the Anzeiger des Westens.