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 Diary of Rev. George Gary — III 297 Saturday, 3. Delivered these letters to Mr. Stark, 28 Supercargo on board the Toulon. Sent postage $1.00. Sabbath, 4. Four p. m. married Mr. George Neal and Miss Millie Stephenson. Mr. Neal has been in this terri- tory a little more than a year. Miss Stephenson less than three months. Girls find quick market in Oregon. $1.50 Wednesday, 7. Received letters from Bros. Waller and Brewer. They give accounts up to Jan. 1, and it appears they had not heard of the death of Rev. J. Lee. Bro. Waller has very large views of enterprise and labor among the Indians at the Dalls. It is rather my opinion he will always be uneasy in his situation with the appro- priations which shall be deemed necessary for sustaining the Dalls appointment. Saturday, 10. We are having warm pleasant weather ; it freezes a little at night, but the shining sun by day warms the earth ; it is very much like the pleasantest part of April in the state of New York. Here we are consid- erably north of our friends in New York. They are shivering with the cold, or breaking through snow drifts ; or possibly shut in their dwellings; their roads being blocked up with snow ; but in this land, an excellent time for ploughing and sowing. The sun shines so bright and warm in our windows, Mrs. Gary has just put down the window curtains. A year ago, our winter was rain, rain, rain. But not so, this. Considerable fair pleasant weath- er. We are somewhat put to it to keep our feelings along with the winter, so as to make it seem like winter. This day I receive a letter from J. L. Parrish. More than a month since I wrote to him proposing to employ him for one year in the ministry, to be associated with Bro. Leslie in labors on both sides of the Williamette above this place. On the following conditions : the mission is to pay him his disciplinary quarterage, that is to say, $264. He is to depend on the people with whom he labors for his 23 Benjamin Stark. The Toulon, Captain Nathaniel Crosby, was in the Columbia frequently after October, 1845, trading with the Islands.