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About Umpqua gazette. (Scottsburg, O.T. [Or.]) 1855-1855 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 3, 1855)
w; mmu fiisiTTs. v- Mr r-L . is Lr r? 4 Tslellcterr. -To -nil Paybox or the Uare.UA Oa skttb : -After valaly ttruggliag for many Maths with adverse fortune, disappoint BwtU, dnaa and delinquent patrons, il be cesses or duty to larae this little sheet to .Worm yea tkit the Unrv.UA Oaikttk is bo mere. stelylag more frequent communica Mm betweea thla place aad San Francisco, we allowed eereelvea to get too near out of paper batata we'ordered more. .The conse queaee is that wa And ourselves now lit a peeltloa where il will be impossible for us to get a fresh supply or paper rhort of one or two Months. Aadaa our patrons probably weald aot faacy paying for a weekly paper which waa oal published quarter-yearly, we deem it the best for all parlies to move ear preaa and typa to some point where wa will not hara to contend with these annoy aaces. Aa boob aa wc can settle up oar business here, we design commencing tho publication ol paper at sosae point south of this, and these who hare aot received the Gaxettk to the amount of their payments, will re eeiva the proper numbers of the new paper. We regret exceedingly, that clrcutuitaces have thaa made it necessary for us to leave Seettaburg a place that we had built so aa bright bopaa upon for the future, a puce possessing so many natural advanta gee, aad so few ebataelea to a aacceMful and proaperoaa commercial city, that the com Maed wealth aad ialacBce of mil steamahip sestpaalcs wUI aot alwaya keep its riling pis, rem dawa aad althoagh its prospects, Jar the time being, nay seem discouraging, yet that a brighter destlay awaiU it, no eaewlll far a moaaeat doubt. We leave it with sassy legrtU, and ia whatever poaitioa wa may be placed hereafter, we shall nerer be slew U advocate the lalereets, and vin dicate the wrongs of ScotUburg, aad the Jmpawt harbor. v Te theae who hare patronised wa so liber, ally, durlag ear abort career of journalise iaSeeUaearg, we retara oar sincere and beartMt thaaka, aad ahall ever be bappy to leara of their prosperity aad happiness. These "BBBHaer f Heads,'' who bare takea ao sash laterest la oar welfare, who bare tat smear paper regularly aad aever paid a avfchbjag, have a plaoe ia oar memory. t seea again. BOYD A BLAKELY. PrnML1 L K aj.iamji Tav -mwrni reiwespealtestiary.whew! There- late! wawe ia wen saowa 10 ma pa. Ortgmin. JfeweWt, Mr. Oregoatan. That's farbida'sB gTeaad. Has aet Watsrmaa lib that taut was his eve t and ajkat 4W waag eiag la give as "eteraal aWjt f seea as bisredsysd promp ts ftf she werd f Oh, it were along sjafjrf mi aac geed pea will have a BWteeVag- when eaee 'tis com anassa. ' The atery af "The Thieves' HNriaf . fata etveral etar acters, whe undoubtedly will thank Mr. Waterman Tor their being broaght forward again from a well merited obscurity. We have had oar failings, and our dtlin quemeiei, the cause of all of which we can trace to heroes of "The Thieves," among whom Jonny Waterman stands "foremost." Oh, it were a long atory ! full of trcschery, lies and theft! and Jonny Waterman wss tiie pliant tool of the principal hero. And again, it ia very becoming mod eity In you, Tom Dryor, to apeak of our delinquency. We acknowledge it, 'make a clean breast,' and oar exertions will be unceasing until the "yards are squsre." Can you say the ssme t How long has it been since the District Court of Washington Coanty forced you to pay a poor printer for a year's work, who you wete trying to swindle out of his honeit wsgcsf You have just come oat of Court with that case at yoar keels, and yet that labor was per formed nearly three years since. What workman ever received his psy from you without aueing or threatening to sue you ( and how long has it been since yoa dared to put the word pro prietor at the "latter eend" of "Toddy Jep 1 " You never plead anything bat nihil debet. Every thief, ao matter how bare faced bis crime, invariably pleads "not guilty." Your lectures to delinquents are about as appropriate as was your preaching temperance with a bottle of liquor in your pocket, and both were eminently worthy of one whose unscrupulous demsgogucUm has no parallel this side of h II. Correspondence of the Umpqua Gaiette, Babbb, Vbbxo.tt, Jane 25, 1855. FbibxdBoyd: Since I left Ore gon I have keen travelling nearly all the tine, and consequently I have aot falllled my promise to yoa of writing, very often. I wrote yoa a letter frosa Washington- did you receive it t limes are better now in the States than they have been for the past .ten years. Money is plenty, and laborers and Mechanics get good wages. Pro visions are high, and gradnally increa aing in value. Politics is raging ; eve "rybody has turned pratriot and politic! tan. Knownobingisra, niggerism, abo 'litioaisre, whigism, and all the other vile isms this side of has confus ed aad distracted the good citizens of New England, until it would be taken for the concentration of the vile hosts of Pandemonium, rather than the quiet homes of oar once peaceful Pilgrim father. Such is modern politics. It has ao parallel! in the nistory of the United State. J G has sent mo your paper occasionally, the local gossip of which I read with much interest En pan lant, I see that your correspondent "Avon" takes off Jonny Waterman oc casionally in flno style. I have leant ed some items since I have been in this village, of an individual by the name of Waterman,, who formerly lived in these parts, but who left here under rather auspicious circumstances, for the fsr west. It is said that Waterman was a printer, who had a good employ vr, who had the utmost conBdetiee in the seemingly innocent W. The era pi oyer having occaaion to visit a neigh boring town, left W. in charge of the oiiice. In a few days the good old editor returned. Mr. W. had gone. On enquiry it wss ascertained that W. had collected some 300 in bis era. plovers abience, and had left for parts aaknown. He was traced to Boston, where his employers an ivedjutt in time to learn that the villain bad taken pas sage for California. Tlio white sails of tho ship that bore away this an grateful scoundrel, were bsrely visible ia the west, when tho good old man, the victim of his vile treachery, turned upon fata heal, and retraced his steps, thanking hia God that these shores had got rid of one criminal, snd that our good Penitentiary had been cheat ed of an inmate, who would have re quired board at the expense of the pah. lie. Subsequently be was heard ef in Ssn Francisco, and he bow lives ia Oregon. Frequent are the acts of ras cality by those who lesve this coast far the Pacific, but this occurred to me to be one chsraeterized bv aurh villainy and base ingratitude, tfiat it called for publication in the community where this hesrtless iugrate now atalks at large. The old man, his victim, had too high a regard for the famiiy to mako this matter public, hoping that long years of penitence aad the bar rowing remorse of a guilty conscience, might make a better man of him ; bat it leaked oat, and his name and memory are sow detested by bis former friends and companions. May he, wheat be is attempting to rise ia the estimstioa ef the public, in bis new home when his eavious nature is trying to injure the reputation of others let him bar, aye. remember that did justice al ways get her daes, that the bolts and bars ef our Penitentiary would shut him oat for many years from a cold hearted and ungenerous world. Think you, tbeso thoughts ever visit him in his more quiet moments In his dreams what does that "still, small voice" say t Na rest this side the the tomb for the Fblom I 1 will write again soon. Yours, truly, A. A. E . Fobtlaxu, O. T., Aug. 20,'1W5. Dsab Horn : Tba enclosed comsaualca tic waa reciered by last malt. You caa uas it as you ace It. As Watemaa says yoa are a renegade whig, which 1 kaew te be false, as you bsve acted coaeUssatly with the desaoeratk party ever alaceyea was eld rnnark to vote, it would seem that a truthful retaliation, ia thU iaaiaaee. weald prove of some beaelt to the egetiatwal a toawtoB of the Times." ItUaktbsrseaaS attack ia the Times" apea yearatlf weald justify a pablicatiea of my former letlsva, which are founded oa facta. I aaa'l aaaf thiaklag tkat Dagaerrcetypes," ' Furniture," c, weald look well laprsaSt use your beat judgment, however. Yours traly. AYOH". cerT.l . MorrrwiJKB. Vt., Jaae ff, 113. Dkab 8ib -Your Utter easse te. bead iesterday, aad I avail myeetf ef tba test ttsure moment to answer It, Ifyewreaea tioas concerning the editor ef the Otilw "Time," bad taken a wider raage, aad bad you enquired into the private cliawiler ef that gentleman, ay aaawer weald have been: slteaee, for thereby hears a tale." but aa you (imply ask, MIid yea kaew Wa terman ? What were hia psHwsal praam aiotu V I caa answer yea pulaly.aad with out reserve ; bat I coaieaa that I am enabls to see your object, for with a weak letelWet, almost amounting to Bataral foeliabataa, it ia impossible that Waterman eaa ever eaer clse any Influence with aay party, (kaew him wbea he waa learning te aet type, aad he was pronounced by every oae mcoetpe tent for the busiaesa. Cause Uuk fhrmmt. During his minority, be waa a raattag whig, aad for some time after. Previews fe hm leaving for California, be hswe a bet beaded abolitionist, aad aa hia faaatlcalra sy nature so admirably adapts him er aaek profession, it would be a pity. Indeed, if be . . i . x. were ever to rcUaqaua am sentiment. Yours, Ac, To , Portland, Oregon. (& Our readers will please aardoa as, if tho unprovoked attack ef the ed itor of the "Times," makes k tiii use ry for us, in self-defence, for a few weeks, to deal somewhat large! fa personal discussion. With tret est rtWr Sit A.. nlHM !. Ai " duff! and damned be he who init 'tries hold ! enough ! " We are vaia sasagh to think tkat we will make MPestr" trill in his boots like a young eahaage eft a hot summer day. Macbeth was aet the last person whose guilty sou! Je nied him sleep. There are petseaa, e'en nowadays, whose feverish dreaasa betray a heart black with crimes of ev ery grade. Yes, we "summered aaal wintered with tiie editor ef ihe.Tisaes, aad we profited by if Let hhm aet his vaia boasts afcd idle threats lata execution, and wa wUI make him drksfc of the bitter sap of hamillstiea, deep, Jeep to the very dregs. algger-leviag 8 H . (KT The articles referiaf ta she Part- land papers were pat ia typa at m Haae wbea we thought we the publication of the GASBTTB,aa4sf need be, the diMestiea. Aa this aatla sheet ends our editorial aaraar for she p-eeeiit, our "dearly beloved" Breth ren st Portland asay eajey their earn sided discussion ter the time aeief ; w hope to be on an equality wkh them agala sooa. It were a sssMfp; atft If them to cossmeaee a psraeaal wasasre when they kaew wa vara eat at peaer. Yea will aaw have a shaaaa to Mew yeartelrrs off wkheat resistance. J -r
