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 370 REVEREND EZRA FISHER or $200 with Brother Post by drawing an order on you. I have therefore agreed to make the exchange with Br. J. D. Post. The order will probably be drawn in favor of Br. Pike, the manufacturer of mathematical instruments in N. Y. I shall send the order in two or three weeks. When you send me the bill of the goods, please let me know how my account stands on your books. Yours respectfully, EZRA FISHER. Received Aug. 24. Oregon City, O. Ten, Sept. 26th, 1854. Rev. Benjamin M. Hill, Cor. Sec. Am. Bap. Home Mission Society. Dear Brother: As yet I have heard nothing from the goods I ordered you to put up for me, except a line from you stating that you would fill the bill and ship the goods the first opportunity. It is now almost a year since I made the first order. My family had depended upon them for their summer clothing and now we are looking with anxiety for them for our winter supply. We fear the bill of lading has been miscarried. I have heard nothing from you, except by the Record, for two months. Please inform me at your earliest convenience whether you have shipped the goods; also when we may expect them, if they are not already shipped. I presume you have done as well as you could in this matter, but, if I could have anticipated the results, I think I should not have ordered the goods, but made my drafts and clothed my family here. But no doubt God designs all for the best. . . . Your unworthy brother in Christ, EZRA FISHER. N. B. The yearly meetings will soon be over for this season. You will then hear from me respecting our towns ; also respecting Washington Territory, or I shall visit and report my actual explorations. Yet our brethren here are very un- willing to have me leave the Willamette Valley, in view of