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About The Oregon Argus. (Oregon City [Or.]) 1855-1863 | View Entire Issue (June 7, 1856)
ffilje rcgou 2Vrgu0. SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 1850. Otr Errit by WmImI 8ueb li the heading of an article in the Standard of lut Tliur!By, In which that paper seta forth thnt whereas tin official rcportf of Wool and Palmer aro doing much al Wetbington lo prejudice tin Gen eral government against our Indian wtr claim, tltcrcfore tht people of Oregon, ought lo get op tome kind of demonstra tion, in order to counteract these Influence. It bn( been niggled lo lh Standard (pro bably by Gov. Curry,) lhat tin citizen of the prominent tuwru io the Territory bold meeting, and lake elrpn for fcuring affi davit from "responsiblt men'' In regard to tbo rive, and progress, to far, of Indian ditturbincet, and niut full report of their researches, to be handed to Gov. Curry, who is about to kava for Wellington city, to help Jo Lane "pas the Ihw" fur Hrfr dy ing the expense of the war. Tb Standard want just a many "responsible men" ai possible, to make oath that Wool but mi rcpretented us, and that Palmer told a false hood when he aiid that "the cauie of the present difficulty in Southern Oregon it wholly to be attributed to tht acti of our awn people," that llii war "baa been forced upon those Indium, against their will, by a set of v;bond for pecuniary Mid political object, and sanctioned by a numerout population who regard the trea sury of tho United Stales t legitimate ob ject of plunder." Although the Standard aya nothing about it, we would suggest - whether or riot, a few men b got to swear, that a certain General Ordet No. 10, be ginning with "Information laving been re ceived," itc.and that "armed parties have taken the field, indiscriminately slaughter ing friendly Indians on their reterralion, without regard to age or ten," tie-, was strictly true, because the information came from Bush and bis satellites, in direot con tradiction ai it was to the official report of Dr. Ambrose, Indinn Agent in Rogue river, and also whether affidavits are to be taken to show, that the "favorite rifle" was well bushed and fired at the Know Nothing and Whig who were in tho service, in or der lo make a "party war" of it, and wheth er the policy of Gov. Curry in counter manding his order of Oct. 13, toCapl. Wil son, to proceed lo Vancouver, to be motor ed into the U. S. servioe, nt the inctigation of one Ne smith, as alto the policy of sur rendering the ' whole business into the hands of Delusion Smith' Legislature, at the instigation of one Bush, and of picking up a long train of official from grog shops and gambling establishments, through whom Ibe volunteers have been fed on horn beef ba been sufficiently justified by the "atembio of lime" or not. Now it so happen lhat the statements made by Wool and Palmer in regard to the origin of the Southern war, art in harmony with each other, and with the statements of the Stateiman for month after the first out break. Gen, Wool ha bolstered hi po sition, wilh letter of private correspondent One of these men we btlievt to be Ne mith if it is not so, lei him deny it, if he daro. Jo Lane in his speech in Congress give the lie to the stxtiments of Wool, Curry, Palmer, and bush, in reference to the dfficulties South. A committee of pet tifoggers had probably hotter be sent into these "prominent towns" to re that the affidavits are not so conflicting, thnt Instead of bolstering up Curry, and bolstering down Wool and Palmor these "affidavit" don't bolster down Gov. Curry, and the whole people of Oregon together. Now, in behalf of a very respectable portion of the Orogonians, we beg leave to suggest two or three things to these affida vit laker, which they probably never thought of. In tho first p ace, the opinions of men in Washington are made up from official rejwts, and not from common ru mor, from newspaper article, (unless the newspaper is sent on by an official as sup porting his position, as we hear the Statei man has beon used by Gen. Wool,) or from affidavits of private citizen. The official report! of Wool, Curry, or Palmer, cannot possibly be set aside by all the affidavits that could be raked up in Oregon from men who art now looked upon at Wash ington as "n-eotary rubbers, because they re asking for money, and at a great aet of asset, because they elected a Legbdsture that act Delusion Smith in the Speaker's chair. Gov. Curry has already eommuni eated either a true official statement of the beginning of Indian disturbances in the Stuth, or he hat sent on a false one. If trot, it will have iit weight In Washington; if aha, he it not likely to ttultify himself by packing a hundred affidavits lo Wa.h ington contradicting what ha hat already stated. It doea not matter at all to the people of Oregon wkother the war waa brought on by a fow "n-cklesa vtgtbonds" In Iho South or not. 11 justness of the war It no more a concern of ours tkan waa Iht justness of the wtr wiih Mexico, ind tht same reason thai is urged against the payment of our volunteers, on this account, might have brn nrjjed tgninst the pay ment of the volunteers ho fo-ipht al Due. na Vwla and Cerro Gordo. BV, the citi tens of Oregon, hd no mean, of knowing thai the war wat orjU!., au 1 e had no right to injtt,n tht Executive authoritv that called for volunteers and our properly to support them. It wa enough for ut to know that t)i$ war txiiltd, that our whole frontier wa Jumlnou with the camp-fire of tavaget, who wtre dancing over tht scalp of our brethren, and holding our women and children in captivity. It was enough fur us lo know lhat the Governor of Oregon, La only recngniwd represen tative of the Genertl Government in I his Territory, tent here by that Government, an I mad command! .In-chief of the mili tary department, had made a call upon us to shoulder our rifles and mtrch to the con flict, and turn out our property lo feed and clothe our brethren in the field. It was no more our butinrs to inquire into the poli ty of Curry's plan and the justice of the war, than it would have been the business of the marines to nk such question of Com. PeiRY when he ordered bis ship cleared for action. Wt acted In good faith, believing thiit wt were right in obeying or ders, and we do not believe that the Gov ernment will try to sneak nut of paying lit. It It not our business to either bolster up or pull down Curry, Wool, Palmer, or any body .else. Let all of these tubs stand on their own bottoms. This is the view our Delegate ought to take of this matter, instead of sticking his nose Into the private quarrel of Wool, Curry, it Co. If our citizens haven'l confidence in their Delcgnte (o believe that be "will pass the law," as he say he will, and if they wish to ad vance their interests nt Washington, let them get up petitions setting forth these arguments, and send ihem to some man in Washington who will lake the trouble to present them, and who is capable of urging our claims. We hope we are understood. Otr Election. The election lust Monday passed off more quietly than any election we have ever wit nested in Oregon. Among the hundreds that thronged our ttrcett we saw but two or three drunken men, and but one knock down. Aa thit wat between a Jew and a brother loco, it was toon happily adjusted, and by an external and internal ablution of cheap wlikyl tcnaonnbly applied to the injured mun, he was induced to shake hands wilh the' Jew, nod amicable relations were restored. In this prtcinct Matlock and Post ran ahead of their competitors, alt ho' the Jews to a man, true to their instincts, and burning with a great love for their "county," did all they could to defeat us. One Frenchman voted the whole Temper ance tickot after witnessing the fight be tween the Jew and his fellow. Although we are beaten in the county, we Lave gain ed a great deal of vantage ground. Our defeat it solely attributable to our own in difference and negligence. In several pre ciuctt in tht county we hear that there were no tickets for our candidatet, nnd no friends to urge their claims. Some waited a long time for ticket, and went home without voting, while others, wearied with waiting, and vexed at our indifference, vo ted the loco ticket. The majority of the. Temperance lickett are now in our sanc tum, which we propose to tell cheap for cash, to at to get enough to pay our Prin- ters' board while they were working on them. We believe that with the tame in dustry used by our opponentt wa could have triumphantly carried this county. At all events, we feel quite encouraged by the result. The way lickett were scratched on both sides, argues a wholesome state of public sentiment. The peoplo are begin ning to get their eyes open to the folly of auppomng "party" blind. They will vole (many of thorn) just as they please. Our representative!, elect made tome capital by stealing our thunder in reference to submit ting the prohibitory law lo the people. If they evaded our ground, like the man who "barely set hit fox trap on Sunday, they "barely" evaded it. They made more cap. ital by their open hostility to "bushism." Take them all in all, they tre a pretty de cont aet of follows, but capable of much improvement. Our Legislature next win ter will be a decided improvement on the last. The "democracy" everywhere are worn out and disgusted with the miserable "bush- te" fuction that has kicked them around as "excrement," and by itt villainous rulo dis graced Oregon in the eyes of all Cliriaton dnm. We hope for t betterorder of things. indeed, we expect, it. Lot those members who are elected on the opposition ticket, act with the discretion of terpentt aud the conciliation and harmlessness of doves in our next Legislature, and all will b well. The good of our country is what we go for, and if the Nebraska "locofocot" will accomplish this, and try to build up Ore gon insjead of a clique, we will swing our hat and halloo "hurrah I" just at long at they are rijiht. Tht tasl Maniai Trial i. BsatqnarUrt Previous to the- election on last Monday, Mr. Murphy (the Surveyor) informed Mr. CravfordofChampocg that he, Murphy, should tiippon him for the Legislature. un me morning of the election, Murphy went to Crawford and expressed himself sorry lhat he could not support him, for tht reason, as Murphy ttid,' I hive just re wived a letter from my son, who is in the Land Office at Salem, who tells me that Uuah had ju called on him, and lolj Lim thai if I voted for Crawford, he (Bush) woold hre him turntd out of the Land Office." Wo havt this from Medarum Crawford ho got ii from hit brother John Crtaford! '.Lt candidate. tW The election return are not all In from the precinct in this county up to tho time we go to press, but a near as we can barn Collard it elected over Matlock by about 40 tout. Holbrook it probably betttn 73 volet. Hatch and Fish are con tiderably behind Holbrook and Matlock. Lovejoy, Collard, and Starkweather, "dem ocratio" representatives are all eloctod. The only doubt expressed by the friends of that ticket ii in relution to the election of Carey Johnson at School Superintend ent over Post. The Idea seems to be that Post i elected, but the full return may possibly (how a different result. The vote in this precinct stood nt fol lowt: rOl REPRESENTATIVES. Dt.T). Tempersno. Whit. Lovrjoy 1C8 Matlock US Holbrook, 107 Starkweather 119 Match 71 Collard 113 Fish 80 AUDITOR. Holland 154 Whitlock 64 TREASURER. T. Johnson 13S Pope 99 PROBATE JVDOE. Cau field 183 Bacon 80 ASSESSOR. , . , Beattit 139 Brock 89 SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT. W.C. Johnson 107 Post 114 COUNTY COMMISSIONER. ' Miller 137 Bryant 93 Election Returns. " As we have no later newt from tbocoun ties below, we copy the following return fmin the Standard of Inst Thursday. From the returns of Multnomah, it would teem that those "tried and convicted demo crat" of the "bushito" order didn't poll a very heavy vote. We hear that owing to I lie nbseneo of Pat Mulone the polls were not opened in their precinct : Multnomah County Official returns are not all in, and from two precinct wa have not heard from a reliable source. But from the data we have before us we are well assured that nil the Democratic ticket is elected. The only doubt aliout any one it that of Joint Representative. From the best we can learn, Dryer it elected in this county from 3 to 10 votes. Belknap has somewhere liom 30 to 40 majority. Brown has over 100 majority. The county hat given about 250 or 300 majority for i'ortland for Ibe Seat of Gov ernment. Washington Countt. Cornelius has about 130 majority ; Dryer ha about 60 majority, and Johnson lias about 10 maior- ity in Washington county. The Democrats elected their Sheriff, Assessor and Treasurer. Thit account is not authentic, but a report orougul in by a gentleman who gays thnt it wat so given to him at Hillsboro. For Scat of Government the vote was very much divided. Vots or Clatsop County. Council man, J. R. Bailey, Dem., 55 ; W. W. Park er, Tern., 66. Representative, J. W. Mof fill, D., 60 ; Jas. Taylor, T., 64. Prose culing Attorney, Win. L. McEwan, D., 49; no opposition. Seat of Government, Astoria. Precinct : Eugene City 18: Salem, 61 : Astoria 14: Corvalli 7. Vote op Clatsop County. Furnished u by the Multnomah. Councilman. T. R. Cornelius, Whig, 52 j Belknap, Dem., 28. Representative, 8. IS. Barr, W., 49 ; Geo. Merrill, U., 80 ; Sheriff, D. B. Sievens, W., 62 F. Perry, D., 86. Corvalli had the majority of the vote for the Seat of Gov ernment. Kteetton U Benton. Mr. Avery furnishes ut wilh the follow ing returns from Benton county ; FOR REPRESENTATIVE. Avery, dem., 404 I R. C. Hill, W., 210 J. A, HelMet, p., xbu i AUDITOR. Odencal, dem., 292 I Biddle, W, 214 SEAT OF GOVERNMENT. Corvalli, 633 3 Eugene City, Buena Vista, 15 Salem, 1 One preoinot waa yel lo bo heard from, which Mr. Avery thinks would give Hill 20 majority over Bennett. The whole demo, cratiu ticket is elected, excepting for A sensor. Ihe abuse which the Statesman has heaped upon Avery has had the effect to run him ahead of his own ticket. We learn ihero are only six "bushiies" in Ben ton county. Three of these are Jews, one a penitentiary '-convert," and the other two are "greasers." Well may the State, man say, "all the virtue and morality" in Benton county belong to the opposers of "our parly." "And to it is of all Hit other moral questions. They belong to our opponents." Statttman. So you have admitted at last just what we have contended for all the lime. You stuck out pretty stoutly for about ten months that we had "lied" when we charg ed you with being the special advocate, of everything dirty. At the same time that you fought tit, wt noiiced you also tlrug. gled hard against overy instinct in l lie back part of your head. ' Your instinct has pre vailed al last, and finding it is hard "to kick against the pricks," you have caved iu, and now acknowledge that yon lay no claim to "morality." The people have found out that such was the fact, and endeavored to select such men for the Legislature last Monday as did claim a litile "decency and morality," and you will probably bt furnished with t "past" "t "inter lo the "Points" from whence you came, and where you piglulv belong. Th Kotite, Tho. friendt who are ordering on Fowl er t works, ninsl remember, thai we n,v, to tenj the money, when we order the works, and the money Ku be tent to us before we ort'er ihem, at e not " "flu.h" jusi now. We would be h.rr, to furni,h the funds, jst to accommodat. and tbtn trust our friends, if we in tile. Via a. On our outside wt give tome interesting new from Utah. . From this it will be seen thai the it already knocking at ibe door of the Union for admission. Her domestic institution jirs regulated by tbot sodoni. lies in harmony with the principles of squat ter sovereignty, as laid down in Douglas' Nebraska bill. We have el way contended that this bill bad an eye to polyifO'ny ,n Utah, as well a tlavtry in Kanta j but, till vtry recently,. we bave not been able to find a eiugla Nebraoktite, except Jo Lane, who was willing to admit it. There is something so revolting to human nature in the idea of embracing Utah in all her sod omitish filth as a sister of this great politi cal confederacy, that the great mas of the people of this Union are not prepared to assent to becoming politically married to this harlot till they have been schooled up to it by locyfoco politician, who are anx ious to get tho vote of Utah at the next Presidential election. We have a squatter sovereign paper before ut now, which broachelhe question, nnd argue it just at we should expect tuch a paper would. The following extraot from a long edi torial must suffice : - . "Under the principle laid down in the Ne braska bill, that the people in a Territory have a riirlit to fix nnd establish their own social institution, Congress would seem 10 he bound by its own act to admit I he State o'Deseret without inquiring into tho social or religious habit of the peoplo. If a Con- xlitution it offered which guarantee! to the peoplo a republican form ofgoverniiK'iil, is nol lhat all ihatConuress can ask f "It is an embarra-tsinz and troublesome quextion, and one which our wjae men nt Washington will he greatly puzzlvd to know how lo dipose ot consistently with (tonsil tutional obligations and moral forling." Under the order of thing Introduced by ihese Douglnsitet we art glad to tee ihem admitting that they have run afoul of some "troublesome" and "embarrassing'' diflicul ties, and thnt there must be a great atrug gle to reconcile loccfocoism with "Consti tutional obligations and moral feelings." Under the wholesome .policy of the gov eminent, in regard to Territories, at advo cated by Washington, JehVson, Jackson, Clay, and Webster, and practiced by all Administrations up lo that of Pierce, there would have arisen no difficulty in the mat ter. But strange as it limy appear, while these modern "democrat" can tee very plainly where Congrest derivet hor consti tutional power, lo legislate banks out of the Territories ut the does in Oregon and Wash ington, and legislate foreign Govomors, Judges, District Attorneys, Marshals ds Sec retaries, into Territories at it dot in all the Territories, giving the Governor of Kansas and Nebraska tbo veto power, besides limit ing the number of members in these Ter- rilorial. Legislature, and declaring all law null and void, that are not in harmony with "organio acts" or Territorial constitution made by Congrest, and forced upon the people of taid Territories we say that while tneie locofocot can see very clearly where Congrest get her power for doing all these thing and many more, they can not possibly tee where Congre can 6nd any power in tht constitution for legislat ing slavery, polygamy, or cannibalism out of any Territory. Oh, locofocoism! you an a jewel. No wonder that the corrup tiom which have been saddled upon that party by Douglat, Pierce, and other dema gogues, in a mistaken attempt to strength en in stakes nnd lengthen iu cord by pan dering to the lusts of the Mormons, bas driven-lent of thousands of truedemocrats from the party, and caused a hundred "dem ocratic presses" in every part of the Union lo thunder their final farewell to the old democratio ship, which so proudly outrode Ihe storm when such men as Jefferson, Jack son, and Madison atood nt the helm, but which under the Gubernatorial conduct of Pierce, and Douglas as first mate, is rapid ly approaching an awful political macl strom, where she and her whole cargo of moral "reptiles and creeping things" are about to be swallowedp together. Such men a Benton, Fremont, Blair, Went worth, Donelson, Wade, Chase, and a host of other great statesmen hnvo nl ready abandoned tht old rotten hull, Stale after State has snatched its floating ensicn from ner creaking masit, till tho freemen of Newbampshira have rushed from her gran ite hills, and bid their own litile''Frank"a a political farewell, notwithstanding the beseeching of "Souih Carolina elonuence " nnd the crocodile lean of ' Bad Rum." . Reward. Offered. Almost every Saturday about half a dozen subscriber in this city call on u. for an extra paper, com plaininc that turn- body bat "hooked" their paper. There are about half a dozen -'locofocos" in thit ore. cinct who are loo stinjy to subscribe. ht who never miss reading The Akgvs . They aro to much interested in t that 'tre hear thoy frequently sneah into .h. and pick .1 p ,o0 M it dra d b carrier, while the mercW ,, Ll,. customer, and either keep possession of it twooruree hour, n. .... take's, and off with it. Now we hror 10 t to all such customers who are too mean to patronize a home paper, if they will c, II at our office and give at their names, and promi9 to steal no more. Iht mural nriiuM..).. . . ---r--- r,r-" wvocste ma? hav. some influence over them ; if ot, lL ' ill over their children, if they carry the Paper home. ' Prr home, KT Fo7 news from iho .... j iv ma our n ascppam correspondecce. rtoiry. Orecon It creat country for poelt. must bo that tho lovely scenery by which we art nvcrywbero surrounded, with if Infinite varietr of aspect, from Hit eternal- ly tnow.capped peakt that lift their head in awful grandeur from tht dark outline of iho eastern mouutains, to the level, un dulaling prairies, green itb perennial ver dure, and odorout with o thousand delicate flower, skirted by forests of gigantic firt ind wide peading oaks, that mark the conrtet of rivert that go dashing over cat ctdet nnd roaring over cataract, all con. tpira to stamp ihelr poetio impres upon our wlcrn ettlrt and wake up Ibe ideal bumpt of thou who never dreamed they possessed ihe ' ul of poetry" till Oregon scenery developed it. As Oregon unites the wild grandeur of Norway wilh the gi ninl mildness of Lesbos, it will doubtless be left lo her to produco what the world has always been looking lor, a model poet; one who combines the lowering sublimity of an Ola Bull with tho melting sweetness of Sappho. There aro already a hundred nnd oiio candidates among us, all ambitious to reach this acme of poetic perfection, and tread the climax of half human and half divire excellence. Who will be the successful person, is now known only to the gods. Whether we shall bd permitted, even in our old ago, to look through our spectacles and tee Ihe queen nf the "Snored Nine" dissolve the nubila that now envelope him, weaie not alio even to offer a reasonable coiijeoturo Perhaps a majority of the candidates hnve already asked us to spread before the world some choico ".specimens" tliatWe to be en tered at the "Poet 'a Fair" fur prizes. Many of these, for wain of ipnce, and di- vrrt other reasons, we bavo "inserted" in our stove instead of our paper. But here comes one, which our render shall have the benefit of. it comes to ut as purely anonymous from tome author in the eastern part of Clackamas county. The merits of the piece will be a sufficient excuse for our departure from the general rule. It is a very appropriate apostrophe to the "piclcr" that headed the locofoco ticket 00 lust Monday. We wish the "pome" hud been printed on the ticket just over the bird. The Ef le of oar Country's Bag. 1 Hail glorious bird wbicb proudly soar Above the oluuds above ourihors We trace thy form wilh a searching eyt When for up in Ih asurr sky. 3 Thou glorious bird so bold so fret Upon my eouotreyi flag I set -Thy noblt form which shnwes lo me That my country now ii fret. 3 Upon the Ocean's stormy main Tbert on our dag I tot the asm Tby form Ihy glorious mioatur Yes there to sail wbil tim endures 4 Hull glorious bird forever bail Columbias sons will never fail j To keep tht from til fulurt harm While bound to gather wilh freedom's arms Rock Creek Clackamas Co. . Another toot Move. Friend Rudolph, in writing to ua from Sublimity, tnyi: It may not be uninteresting to vou to say we had a meeting last Friday at Sub. limity, to see what we could do in regard to an institution of learning. After the preliminary steps had been taken and a sub scription wat presented, there wa nearly two thousand dollars subscribed, which speaks well for Sublimity. We want lo get up something in opposiiion to that dis tillery ; we must do something." Indeed it is nof "uninteresting" to us lo hear of this move in the Waldo Hills in be L.i r .- t. . . nun vi euucHuon. ii interests u more than it would to hear of a battle between Col. Wright's command and Kamiakin, re sulting in the death of a hundred Indians. With the great mass of the people, the all absorbing theme for the Inst few months has been ibe war. "What's the news f What's the newt from the seat of war I" has been the interrogation, which has met us at every turn and corner, where we happened lo run afoul of somebody lhat we handn't seen for several hours. The Indian war new is now getting stale, the war is probably pretty much over, the election is over, tho In dians are badly scared if not whipped, so are tho locofoco, and we now turn our at tention for new to the great battle-field, where truth girds on her celestial armor to combat error, and where science brandishes her burnished ' blade at the monster Igno rance, who sulks abroad at noonday under mining the substantive basis of our social and political fabrics. A victory in thai di rection, or even a marshaling of the host preparatory to a conflict wiih our country's enwnies, we hail with unspeakable de'.ight. ; Our friends in the Waldo Hills, have wisely concluded that it is tyiBl, ,: ' J get up something" t0 counteract ;'ne M,Is that turround , hem. . ,Jg I," P' SO innl ,U. b 8 Ul 8 f .;' ';y nve "got Up" the very best tk,g they could. Ignortnee hd vii mu oe jought rrem thit out, ad driven from the field, by mean of schools, and the public pren. Long,f:er the Indinn war s over, there will be a great deal of "fiht ngto be done." And just here w. will - hhi .necoote that was related to us 7r.H.i of Marion', best men, when we passed ihmK s,.u::. last summer. It ran in thi, wise : On the morning of the merourabl. h.m. r .v.. Thames, Gen. Hirbisoh exhibits I.;. ! ti -its f attack, .ccurau-lj drawn ,,p. , Gov. Shelby of Kentucky, and asked him whst he thought of it r Shelby replied ' I dos't know anything about fighting on pape'r - wrrr anyjtgkhng to I, done, Ut dent bat probably ever btn published, and we publish it now, that ft may pas mu hi.tory, tod (hat wa may liavt good j, lustration of our poinlr Tbtre is fighting to be done, and nonilsttke, before Oregon is redeemed, not with carnal weapons, w hope, but wiih such at are mighty to the pulling down of atrong holds ; weapon that while they kill they make alive, Dd while they disarm our opponents, and strip ihem of theirtcaly integumcnta, they p(M in their hands weapons more effectual than iho hilbert of an A jot, antf cover them with a breastplate thrice- three. fold mor impenetrable than the brazen shield of Achillea. "If tliero't any fighting to be done, let ut get at it." A good school, nnd a good newspaper, will do mora good fighting In a family or neighborhood, for the causa of virtue and intelligence, than the most gifted preacher lhat lias ever harangued an audi, ence tioce Paul made the ihrono of tht Clears teinble with hit eloquence. ; Their influence is sometimes almost imperceptible for a season, but they are just a sura to work wonder In molding and shaping, public sentiment nnd in forming the opin ion of the young, at a long summer ofcon tecutive days of sunshine nnd seasonable showers are sure to reward the diligent husbandman with an abundant harvest We have already seen enough of the fruitt of labor of this kind in Oregon, lo with they were more univcrtiil. We have no particular partiality fur any particular portion of Oregon ; it is all good, hII beautiful, and every neighborhood in it ofl'ors an inviting fit-Id for ihe labors of the philanthropist. Bui we have sometimes been templed to think while riding through tho Waldo Hills, and remarking the love liness of the country, and the apparent in. Ielli.'cnce and thrift of the citizens, lhat, it was just such a country as ought to afford several excellent schools, and furnish us i wo hundred paving subscribers. Money invested in the cause of education, is belter far better, invested than that which is loan- rd nt throe per cent a month. We want lo live to see Oregon dotted all over with nublio common aehooU. urtli a l.i.ih r.t.nnl . ' P" "-"-v. ill every couniy.and a college to every fifty thousand inhabitants, with good roads, biidges, and other internal improvements, with fifteen millions of inhabitants, brought here by the great Pacifio Railroad, and all freemen, independent of the shackles of party, uncontrolled by demagogues, vir tuous-. Intel llorcnt hrm-o ami hanni- lli.r. we shall havo witnessed the travail of our soul, and being satisfied, we-will be ready to go hence, bequeathing to our children the blessings we now strive to secure. Ctok Mr. Avery informs us thnt the Yamhill tickets printed in Ihe Statesman offte were finished up by putting Sales on aa the Seat of Government. Now we have no objections to the peop k voting for Salem, or any other point skey choose but the beauty of the thing coniieta in making; any locality a "dtoucrmiit candidate." Thit wa the last kick of the "ism" called "bushism," whklkthe people have so easily throttled.. . Messrs. Kngman and Hedges bave nearly completed the plank side-walk from Cunemah to tho break-water. They have made an excellent job of it, and we hope all subscribers will fork over immediately. The improvement will probably be contin ued by out city authorities so as to connect with oun side walk nt Dr. McLougblin'a. Such improvements ns this speak well for our citizens. We notice, that John Gibson has accept cd our dmltenjre, and painted hit building,. -and we publish him according to contract. Wchly HtAWractwry.. ' . . Portland, May 30th, 1856.. Ma. Editor Will you please to stale in your column what I declared to be my principles upon tliu location question, some time in 1852, and whether or not,! publish ed in ywr paper the fact lhat I was then a Whig, and would be found so, when the party lines should be drawn. Your ob't scrv't, THOS. CARTER. ( In a communication inserted in the "Times", in May, 1852, signed Thomas Carter, the above statements in substance appeared under bis signature. Ed. of THB Times. ...... r If anybody has seen anything equal this, in the way of political correspondence we should like to have him send it on.- Carter asks the Mudze" to'.tato. "what I declared ,0 be my principles' upon the'l Hon question," and "whether or not I pub- lished in vour r--. ' The '-judge'i repjM in tjg usnBj and lucid style, "You announced the about ocmimcnis in titostance" The only parallel case to this we have ever seen, was that of a "Judge" or Presi dent of a debating society In1 Vermont;' who after hearing the argument upon the question, ' Is punkin piee pizen.or good and wholesome victuals V decided it in the negative. ;l ' NL PoaTLAtfD, June 4, 1855. Deafjbvu I hubs In mmmiiniMlt the melancholy fact of the death of J. G. Rilet, a memberof the Sons of Temperance in this city, and a Printer in tha Ortaanian office. Last nik-ht aa ha m wtimw in the Hall of ihe Sons of Temperance. !ia became convulsed with spasms, and died in less thsn ten minute. The Phisician bad not tinw to reach her before he expired. He is sup posed to have died from an affection of tbo heart. H wa an estimahla rnnnr man. and tie low i fch by us all. eiat,u 1 his U the firm time this ' mci- Soj or Tehplsancs,