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gATL'BDAV, SKITLMDHI 8, 1855.
Agcnti for tba Argua.
J, It. MclJuinE, Ufayttte.
V. A. Itr..", AWrm.
Moroai Ui oolpii, SuMimity.
Wm. IUbww, M'tlMn.
II. 0. llAVMrt.1l, W 6Vwr.
)r. IMvis, lUoumiwjton,
YtkUt W. Hiwwm, CorvnUlt.
Anns lUsviir, Vui rWfry.
Soi).mo.n Allkn, JwiiVy.
J. K. Lvi.s, JJullne,
Joll.f MrKUWRY, Cill'ipfiOI'l.
Klivr. Wilson JiWIN, tVien 'omf.
J,. A. lll:B, Jiukmnvillt,
II. JliRRlH, Cincinnati.
Jvnnr. 8.Bi.tiJio, M", CW.
j!0. R I'KKSToN, H'l'tf C'O. HI.
It. A. N. J'hbi-ps, Galethirn, III.
T.am Concerning Newspapers.
tT If itlwribera ocd-r Ilia dineoiitiininnoe of
Ihur rpr, he ub:.lir may cui.tuiu lo seuu
them il7 W mrrtartgfie Il- .
lf U eubcribrnei;lrelor reluw totalui Ihe.r
papers from tU wl ofli of olhrr pl;e, lo which
they ore nnl, they are li-M rejiiiiile until thry
settle ill rrrnK!, lioulil there lo any.
IT If ulae-nlir remove lo other place, w..h
out informing Hid ptibliher, and Ilia paper i -ul
lo Ilia firtiiif dirw.-tioti, limy ' l ' rwpoBuble.
JT ll ii not eiihVinit for p'lma.r, wlun i
oiparia not -4lc-n mil of hb li", lo return tut
w.tli "not taken Hi" wr.llrn on Ilia niarin, but
ha mini wiil I'Har lo Hi puMmlier, ivmg th.
pumo and post-office, nl sluuiiif that the pnpor ia
not taken from llio 'li . Ollicrw w tho pl
waster la held responsible.
T Comnrol.
We received two communication from
Marlon county some two weeks sinco, which
Vy toino means ia the confusion conscquout
upon moving, l.v got tnUnid an'l wo are
unnblu to publish thoin for tho present nt
JuttSt.
Sews frnm Ike Mlaes. .
Mm. McKinuey of litis city baa recuived
n letter from her husband on Pen d'Oroillo
river, who states tlmt tho miners aro making
V f (lull)tra pur dny taeli, A ton of Mrs.
McKinnoy had tho kiudnwa to bring u
down tho lutlor, which wo should have pub
lished, in port, but having U'cn written with
a pencil much of it wa entire')' effaced.
What wo have ilntod, howuror, wa legible.
AVo givo below a portion of a letter received
liy Cnt. Wlilt from C. L. Goodrich, who
vent out from our ofllee.
If any moro nos comes in this work it
will in all probability nrnvo this nfternoou
ufter our paper ia worked off. Why thin i
no, we leave fur thewo who philosophise upon
tho influence of tho moon to determine, but
wo Lave always uoticrd that there ia apt to
bo a great runh of nows just after wo aro
iiturly through with working olT our paper.
Moirrnor Pek d'Oxh.li, Aug. 10.
Tliia plaoe b W milaa from Fort
Culvillo on tlio right tiank of tl.e Soulli fork of the
North fork of th Colmnbia, Plenty of timber
licra. Hundirila Imva arrivnl hero anil itarted
buck within th luit week nil diilieurtetieil about
making tbalr fortune) here. 1 found (ieo. I'cjiki
Mr. Ilrowa, Corby, ami Petli, iu company lure,
making about I or per day eacli, w ith a jo. .J
rucki r. I bava tukcit t claim above llii in, mil
voininencod panning, gi'ltiii w f.ir ahml two bita
to tho pan. I expact lo ala) hero all winter.
If walmd iuiikilver hers wa could inuka money
roaaonably fat. I have been obliged lo
Inugli to ae poor old men (and oil lorln, and all
agea) ronie licra and go bat k witliuut even pn
peeling, becauao aouiebwly luM llicm they could
nuke nothing. How Wilnon, Well, I'argu Si Co.'a
Kipreai man, waa humbugged! I'lour hua auld
liaro to-day for $3 piT .hundred.
Tell .Mr. Adnuia to Kiy that then aro ditrg'nga
here that will cvviiluully pay well if woiked Willi
qui. knilver, and I thiul they will pay t'nmi j.'i to s-8
wiUiout. 'l'hia u my opiuivii from wlml I ice, but
1 dou'l wiali lo auy an) thing to oillud those faint
lieartid gentlemen who came out here lo make
money, and went buck with a dirly face and cry
lug. " Vouia, iu huito,
0. 1.. liOODItlCH.
How tiy wntita tt lie
For every one of our subscribers to induce
olio more person to t.iko our paper, thus
doubling our siibcriji:ioii, and doing us a
great favor by a littlo ellbit. wl'bcro arc
... . .i i I., .
winy who navo nirenny umio much, vrrv
intich, fur a, and wo Imt o thun iu grate
ful roinenibiuneo. There aro mut.y men
yet who lik our paper, and yiiipulhiau
with our undertaking, who- cxeitso them
selves from taking it on aocount of the hard
times. As hard as tho times aro, wo should
ered tho responsibility of "about ftvo thou
sand di'llui-H, in dutoriniiiiug to print tho pa
per a year. It looks to us, as though if wo
could run the risk of losing even ono thou
sand dollars tasidr-s our time, our friends
might afl'ord to expend the pittance of fue
dollars fur the pupr, uspeei.dly u7.i (,'.,y
yef bitfk mart A.i value netiixJ, Study
it over, friends, some night after vott go to
Led.
Th WeulUi-r.
W have Lud twoilasof warm
rum
, - ., . ii-,. . i
llunilir thin U... L u .i..ti I il.. I i
- --o -1 fc'u'"' ,
in excel!,,,, pl.ght for seeding, J ar,od
th gnus. At least wo judge so, from the
fact that the cow are very busy sliK-e the
rain in gnawing at the naked knolls in our
part of the city. Although wo can see no
Cross, we judjn from their motions that
they ,uh1! U coming up out cf ;he ground.
T,. Vil IHi-j kMoi Mset
and t Uiua l ' w
"Kvcry schoolboy iu the world, who is fa
miliar with Woodbridge's old CJcOgrapby,
knows that many of tho Indian tribes on
this cast are embraced nnder the general
name of "I'lathcad.," from the fact that
thote who first diacovercd them were struck
with tho peculiar ilnpe of their foreheads,
which, instead of standing up prominently
and presenting a U1J aud intellectual front,
lik niuit other human being, all Mcd
tack fi om tho eyebrows, nt an angle of
about forty degrees, presenting very much
the appearance of a roof with something
less than a "ejuartcr pitch." As we do not
recollect ever to have seen ao account iu
print of the modui operandi by which this
sim'tilar feature is produced, or of the rea
sons that aro assigned by tho savages for
subiecltns their olT-prinL' to this cruel op
eration, we havo thought it would not be
wholly uninteresting to many of our readers
to give them some of tho results of our own
observation
It was iu tho spring of 1819 that wo, to
gether with about ono Hundred and fifty
other gold seekers, "camped out" for three
long t' dious wiks at Astoria, waiting the
motions of tho Jeantnlto and Mursetes,
which were 1 wling with lumber somewhere
up tho Columbia, preparatory to dropping
down, stowing away their piwongers iu tho
hold, and then putting to sea with sails
spread for San Francisco. At that time no
steamer had ever crosstd the Columbia bar,
and plowed tho waters of this noblo Western
river. The I'acifio Mail Steamer was then
hourly and anxiously expected by tho in
habitant of iho city of Astoria, which then
embraced probably some fivo or six old di
lapidated wood-colored building.?, which
served to shelter tho proprietors, who, full
of golden vijions of Aatoria's mighty future,
managed to keep soul und body together,
partly by taking in a little change from the
passing traveler, partly by a few potatoes
and cabbage supplied by their half cultiva
ted gnrdciu, partly by bartering with the
Iudians for salmon and lobsters, and partly
by selling now aud then a "corner lot" to
somo up country "greeny," who, in passing
that way, happened to become magnetized
with tho general fcoling down thero that
Astoria was "just at the head of navigation,"
a natural terminus for tho "highway of na
tions," and in a direct lino of Iho great
semi submarine telegraph which was toon
to encircle the globe, binding in a commer
cial tio New York, London, Canton, and
Astoria, as tho four greatest cities in the
world
No steamer canir, how-over. Day nftcr
day wo spent long hours iu straining our vis
ion, by gazing from some projecting elifl'
that obtruded its dark basaltic front over tho
obbing and flowing tide of tho broad Colum
bia, down tho river to where, ten miles dis
tant, it opened out between Capo Disap
pointment and 1 'tii ut Ad.uns iipon the
broad blue ocean, hoping that she might yet
bo seen dashing through tho whito crested
waves, that seemed lo hv-h a bar stretching
from Capo to Cnpo. Wo wcro all in hopes
tho steamer might yet cheat tho barks of
their expected passengers.
It was (luting ono of these sittings, on a
warm suuny duy in April, nfer we w-ere
sadly tired with watching for the steamer
below and tho bark above, and woro taxing
our ingenuity for somo now plan of amuse
ment by which to while away tho tedious
hours, that our attention was culled to a
sound that wo had several times heard be
fore proceeding from a Chinook lodge that
formed ono of a group which stood on the
river bank, almost in tho lieai t of the' city
Astoria, by the way, is s'iliated in the
very heait of tho Chinook or Flathean' do
minion, and is to Chinook philosophy,
belles-lettres, and iheologv.whnt Athens was
in her palmiest days to all Greece, tho
fountain head of authority.
Although upon almost every succeeding
day aineo our arrival we had noticed tho
same low unearthly wail, accompanied by a
constant thumping noiso proceeding from
somo ono of tho rude huts of tho savages,'
wo had thought nothing of it, as any thing
moro than an accompaniment of somo of
tho games w hich these barbarians aro con
stantly in the halut of playing, either as a
matter of amusement, or for tho purpose of
inning an old shu t or a blanket, which, al
though it bo tho only ono ho possesses, an
Indian is always ready to stake upon his
kill as a gambler. As wo had uothing else
totlo, aud as wo had a deire lo lenrn all
that wo could of the manners, ctitoms, and
iJe-u of this strange race, we determined to
etnbraoi what appeared to us an opportunity
eo gainer an uem, auj hastily clambering up
the rm-ka i I in..1 f... il... I . i
.vv.iv, tuu iouu, somo two
..... 3 n"imw
nunureM yanls distant. As we received no
ullrr rtf ,0 . M , 'd
Wl ir!lw lli., vn. 1.. .... I 1. ... I ..
- ... u iieiteiy uoor, llian a
eeuiing lucres, of th. noi ftJ cMWr
within, we unevremouioualy pushed aside
the "puncheon" shutter, and crawled in to
what wo soon fvund ws the penetralia, pr
temporary snc'um sauciorum.of the "Luii-
achiu 'l ie," or great
th9 nation. Keeping no further . oi.ee
from .he company w.tn.n man an om.uou.,
. i . i... I. .. I.;,.h iA,noil In aav.lour
scowl anu angry iov, " ,
"what business haie you lutruUing, we
proceeded to make ourself quite nt home by
taking a seat upon lhe floor, determined to
soe tho "bear dance," or whatever it might
turn out to be.
There were only five occupant there be
fore us.' The parents of an infant apparent
ly about three months old, together with the
"lamachin," or medicine man, nnd an old
withered squaw, which we took to bo hi.
wife. The babe, which constituted the sub
ject upon which these miserable heathen
were operating in order to give it head wi
orthodox shape, perfected the group. To
our light as we entered sat the whole gioup,
excepting tho old shriveled hag, before
mentioned, who sat upon tho floor to the
lea. She held a pole just long enough to
reach the roof of tho building, with which
she kept up a constant thuuipiug overhead,
all tho timo accompanying it with an uu
earlhly chant, that seemed to us a very suc
cessful mixture of groaning, singing, and
Her countenance seemed the very
Jo' . , 4 -
picture of misery and despair, me signi i,
which, together with tlio siriwgo music u
iM-lo with her pole and her throat, gave the
whole proceedings a iruly important and
,l(..,.n air. In describina tho posture and
mii ,f the wife of the moJieino man,
i i i . e it... .na.,.u rt
we nave oescnoeu mose oi mo
tho child, excepting that the mother, in
stead of wielding a pole, held in her arms
the acreiuning infant, which had just bocu
put to press.
Tho lamachin man sat close lohcr side,
whirling continually nround, as rapidly as
his huge, dumpy, fat carcass could bo con
veniently moved without breaking in upon
tho tuno, in which he seemed to lead off, all
the time pouring forth a hugo volume of
strange guttural sounds from his stentorian
chest, liver and anon, he paused in his
motions, placed his hands upon either side
of tho screeching iufa.it head, his mouth,
(which resembled that of ft largo catfish)
close to its fuco, blow his breath upon it with
a violence that souudod like a horse snort
ing in the distance, and made passes over it
such m we have often seen wndo in throw
ing off mesmerism from a subject which it
wns necessary to waken. This accomplish
ed, and the thumping aud singing proceed
ed with redoubled fury, apparently for the
purpose of drowning the screams of the in
fant Tho lamachin nian whirled rouud as
before, with his head thrown back, his eye
balls rolled wildly up, his mouth stretched
from ear to car, and his hands stretched
upward, every finger standing by itself, ri
gid nnd stilT as if it had been frozen in that
position. Every scream of the little inno
cent seemed to go right to tho heart of the
mother who held it in her arms, but from
her earnestness nnd zeal in tho work, and
from the expression of her coutitcmtnce, we
thought sho had entered upon tho painful
Insk from a full conviction of her duly us a
devoted and pious mother.
After some fifteen minutes spent in such
conjurations the lamachiu doctor gave tho
signal for a rcspito aud ordered tho infant
taken out of the press. This consisted of a
sort of cradle, some twenty inches long,
made of thin strips of wood laid horizontally
and bound together by thongs, ntrd resem
bling when completed a cheese basket.
After a short respite the inf ftit was again
placed in tho cradle for the purpose of re
peating tho flattening operation. Tho moth-
or nftor having carefully "tucked it in" at
the sides and feet tied it down so ns to dis
able it from moving by passing cords over
it from one side of the cradle to tho other
aud making them fast to tho sides. Noth
ing was left visible, but its fuco and head,
the rest of its body being buini up in rags
and thongs so as to prevent it U Jm making
tho least struggle. A hard roll of clotii,
similar to tho crupper of a saddle, was now
laid upon its forehead, drawn tightly down
and tied lo oithor side of the cradle by means
of cords attached to each end. Tho infant
of course screamed lustily from the excru-
dating pain inflicted by the operation, and
Inn uluft. vuntmw .minn . u .
vw... .,..j w. iu UJOIII-
mook lamachin" with redoubled fury.
Upon enquiry, after the operation for
the day was over, we wcro informed that
.hi. ,,.. f fl... ....!.. ...... , . ..
. ' V, . 811 1
z 7rren,r i b
T.. . , " 1 00
child undero-oes an onpr.U nn b
, ' " "c on
imuuuiusij neeKs De
fore it is considered finished. We were as
sured
that many infants died unJer ihe
.innr.ii;.... ,t.. l...,e. I. L I t
ziijz rr'
- b ... Iluul i ii i; uiouiu auei
ears. The reason assigned for this barba
rous custom, was a necessity for thus dis-
lltlffliuliini. ,1... ... T .1
....b...tt ,uu a, iMuvr.-ie-v uom ino slaves.
o that in a future state the one mi.d.t J 1
be taken for Ihe other.
We were so shocked and disgusted
at
Iho operation, that we
Idling tbcm tber
were consumable foole.tbe
.'MedicinoChicf-orUulas we fur, " 1
.
the woful exhibition of lavage uYgra.
r - it(W(Ji ,Dj
- - aw,yback to the Ajlan-
lie cities' bustling with teeming injrwlf
happy under the benign influences of civili
zation and Christianity, for the sake of con
trasting their condition with thnt of the
wretched ignorant object that stood before
u. we inadvertently, conjured up to our
fancy a fu,hionable, intelligent, church-going
ladv, in some splendid palace on Uroad
way, inflicting by tight lacing, a imilnr
punishment npon her daughters. Well,
thought we, the uifTerenco between mashing
in a child's skull, and nmshingin it ribs, is
too slight for refinement, by contrasting the
two ; to draw an argument from that would
either silence a savage or satisfy a sage.
So wo aroso nnd slowly walked off mut
tering to ourself, "Well, there is not o
ucA diirerence between Jow aud Gentile,
Durbarion and Scythian, bond or free, as
there would first nppeur to be 'to a man up
a tree', after all."
1 1 1 1 1 ' - n , ,
Xcw Psper.
The first number of the "Pacific Christian
(Methodist) Advocate" u on our table
., . . i -.A..,;n ,.f rtnnnr is
ino mccimuie... " .-v.., ..
goon. ieeoi .v... .v & ---
lions from temperance publications. It has
a temperance department and agrees to
make tho subject of temperance a promi-
nent item in the liat of measures it proposes
to advocate We hopo, its conductors will
enter into the work with a zeal inspired by
tho full measure of its transcendent impor
tance, nnd by precept and example strive to
forward tho good cause among those over
whom they have an influence.
We were sorry, however, that tho resolu
tions passed at the Conference, in August,
in referenco to the subjects of temperance
and Amorican Slavery were not publMird
in this issue. We, with many others who
have never seon the resolutions, would be
pleased to know precisely what ground the
organ of the church will occupy upon these
questions. Whether the resolutions upon
the subject of slavory were what aro com
monly termed mere abolition resolutions,
deuling with the merits of the system in
the attract, or whether they merely sug
gested an opposition to its introduction into
Oregon, und opposition to its further ex
tension anywhere, or simply a denunciation
of the principles of tho Kansas-Nebraska
bill, we have not been nUe to lenrn. We
hope in their next issuo thev will vo us
these resolutions in full, so that we may
know exactly where they stand.
Coder's Lady's llnoli versus tue Oregon
Spectator.
Tho August number of this' popular
magazine, which the Indies nil over the
world aro so passionately fond of, has just
come to hand, directed to the "Spectator,"
and containing the following, on a nice little
strip of extra paper :
" I receive no papers from you containing notices
of Godcy's Lady's Book.1'
No and you never will, until Mo arrival
of the mail that brings the sad tidings of
the death of poor Tat, who promised if he
died to "write, shuro, and lit thitn know it."
Tho "Spectator," wo aro truly pained to say,
is now no moro. It has long since gone to
"that boti rue whenco no traveler returns,"
having on tho 10th of hist March, at pre
cisely twenty minutes to two o'clock, gath
ered up its fuet, wrapped its emaciated and
careworn face in tho same mantle of charity
which it had already worn threadbaro in
covering up tho faults nnd frailties of poor
human nature, and calmly, without a groan
being heard, (exceptiug from a few interest
ed weeping bystanders,) was "gathered to
its fathers." It had long been dragging out
an existence more intolerable than death,
pale, haggard, and ghastly, as was its tot
tering form, plainly evincing the silent but
sure workings of that dreadful disease called
tho Tic-dollar uwe. Yat such was its deep
appreciation ff the importance of its posi
tion in society, iU uubo!'Dl'ed benevolence,'
its unconejucrablo'desire to nme'J'orato the
condition of the hutnnn familv, and
stronrr iiiintvst it C.W ;,, il. .,.,;.,.. ... i
sociai rilsr,rri( ftf fw, A, :
ar, and tho rcstof m(lnkinj - ' , ' , ., .
it continued to toil on through sunshine and
storm, through evil report and good report,
unmiiidful of the bufll ttings of iu enemies,
flnil lltll.. K.n.ifWi.wU.., .. i ..
CA '
' v...vv, ucajiiiDainyoi IU
frieuds ever watchful, vigilant, and untirimr
or s rf ,
I. would yet enable it to lay its hand up.
. 1 " "P
mo means of recoverv.
Tho fell destroyer, however. till .ni!n Jded tocutthecorre
I WM.M-j
ued to prey upon iu vitals, aud to tho oft-j
reoeaieu interrogation from iu family phj-ji.
- ! j forth.
better, the same resjonje was always made,
.ft . . . . . J
after runnins its emnriitpil l.nn.l ;,. ,
. . . na vi. - ".UK upon mm an
oow into its empty pocket, with a look of01"" entirely unenviable. If be thinks
. 7 ' T C0UlJ "ever i "
- - w. . . e. u I
lr such discouraging circumstances, as
l-nof a uarnca caUV! Ua.
would ns.mp.lt. K - ... , .'. -
Mi
,,' . , , v " vjjittito, us rnysician.
could not fbcar.WuiLinrawarhn0, trih.. 1
corutr of Lis ere. ntMIM i- 'i
due! m
V ". ...! iI.a in." warning liUl'i
r.ein ia nrtvu uu iuv
L U abandon all loPc of recovery,
i - i. ..iunin
. . . .. it. nil-inn
and immediately to tnier ,.
,T,raration.for an "excha,' J -jUj
IU friend, were all of course dreadfully
pained at the announcement o. ... i-v -iian,
but very few of them were sorry to he
extent of (lie kind-hearted Frenchman, who,
upon coming up to .crowd that had gala
em, around tho dying horse of a poor trav
..t... ...A wl.n were expressing their orrow
.1 . nt...,.
for the traveler', inhfortunc, exclaimed
"Pygar! how much you pe sorry I I
' . .i,.iiora. To make a hort
sorry
f .hat ouht to be a long one, the
old grey-headed " Spectator, " the oldct
,t..lpe in new on tho Pacific coast, with id
head whitened by the bleaching proccs. of
many rainy winters, and with it cheeKs
dreadfully furrowed by disease, care, and
anxiety, with it teeth all worn ituoolh to
the gums from grinding the bones of salmon,
laid down by the wayside in Oregon City,
and pillowing it aching head upon a " ba
saltic rock," gently breathed its last, at the
dato aforementioned.
We, by tho good providence of Heaven,
have by a lucky purchaso beroino olo pro
prietor of its "effects in law," "heir looms,"
and all. Wo ouco rend of a great genius,
who, although ho had written over whole
volumes of manuscript, containing speci
mens of poetry that crowded Ossian and
Tom Mooro back among pigmies, of history
that eclipsed the fame of Von Rotteck, nnd
of law, that shriveled BlacLtono iulo the
dimension! of a country pettifogger, who,
upon leaving the world, wns so unambitious
for worldly fame, that ho chose rather to
havo tho memory of his name obliterntcu
from the earth than to have it handed down
to posterity by a publication of hi own
productions, nnd he consequently commit
ted them all to the flames before he laid
himself down lo dio. Perhaps tho world
has furnished but ono parallel to this "gre at
er than a Diogenes." If so, tho "old Spec
is certainly that (me, for upon taking pos
session of its "books nnd papers," we find
but a slight record indeed of its past career.
Its "file," has been de-molidied, probably
for tho two-fold purpose of providing the
poor rots with -comfortable beds, aud partly
to prevent some future unfeeling antiquary
from handing its nnmo down to posterity
As no marble monument marks its rest
ing lilac, and as no volume of encomiums
proi.ounct d over its collin by "distinguished
orators," is likely to be published, its friends
have beeu apprehensive that soon nothing
would Imj left by which even a Lnyard could
bo satisfied (should ho visit us) that his
feet wero treading the hallowed ground on
which its colossal greatness once "rote,
flourished, nnd foil."
To nil such we would say, hasten to dry
up your tears 1 We have now hanging up
in our sanctum, (and which wo mean to
perpetuate,) a relic which nt some future
day will possess more healing virtue, than
the "Iloly tunic of Troves." It can bo seen
nt nil hours of tho day, by the curious, who
will be waited on by our "Devil," (if we arc
absent,) upon being requested to produce
the ''Mammoth Leather Medal" presented
to the "Spectator" with ' compLnieuts of J.
G. Campbell and James O'Neill."
S. T. MrKcaa Caves In. (3o. 4.) .
Astoria, August 30th, 1855.
Editor of the Argue Dear Sir : Attendance
on the District Court and preparation for the Coun
ty Commissioner's, havs prevented me from sooner
paying my respects lo Dr. Lockwood, nor would I
do it now were it not for a desire to assure him of
my till being oiic, and to thank him for removing
any doubt that might rest on his mind as to my be
ing mistake in saying to tho Editor that " I never
voted for a license Iuw." For the satisfaction of
the Dr. I will now acknowledge that I waa mista
ken thut I did vote for a license law bat must
insist that he is mistaken in what I told him in the
conversation at Mr. Gray's, and that he may not
rely wholly on report I will say to him that I have
manufactured, trafficked in, and used fully my
share of ardent spirits, and have also kept a gro
cery, and been a Very good customer myself but
I read that "there is more joy in Heaven over one
inner who wpentcth llian over ninety and nine
jit peit?" who need no repentance ; ' and also of
another character who went up to the Temple to
pray, and thanked hi God that he wa- not like
otner men, or even "like thot poor publican." The
equel ia known. )
I remain Yoora,
8. T. McKEAN.
We have taken the liberty of rejecting i
few of the closing lines of Mr. MeK.'s let
ter, which refer to individuals in such a
manner as to be calculated to provoke fur
ther controversy. In accordance with the
reiuest of his friends here we have conclu
1 vv VM "MUI I,. tUO
fi,ct tuat Mr. McKean stubbornly persisted
in his statement that ho "did not vote for
the licenso law," until he found that the
proof was yet in existence that ha did so
note, li.n ..rtnlnUr rfl..j .
" . 01 '"'PorUuce to have it
conceded that be did tell Dr. Lockwood an
nntrxik !.. 1 .
UUUUIU BL L H MmiftA ft M f 1 ..
..... " vn3 wesna
iur;uer contest the mitt. k... i
, i.:. m?,te!' but k've
. . . . hoi"nS that h
- iy yet repent of his sios.
' forth Ay gii V
' Artfttrl
t-Brres"''' ' "
Pwa Vau.ir, r'k co A.u- Wi '55
Ksikhd Aos-si-Uavhu Mo", I
.bought I would writ you a few line I noiM
.. ti.n, , 1 yr .!u.bl. A.oo., wbal, If I ,
...istuk. not, Mr- HuinnsKJis h.4 brought duwa
fn,m the Il!. .p-fimen. of what eouM b.
done in Ih. way of .gricullur. la Ih.t portloaof.
OrrEon. I hire not 'i'l n.y neighbor,
who .re Utter pcted In mailer, of Ihi. kM llian
myself, I'" " l'i"""'' bul 'n 0B
. littl. of my .wa cxpe.ience. I M la my W .
field ttallu ofoaUlhat iiwxiirid wg"t la
h nglh. 1 bnv be.d of o.l. Ih.t mcorcd, front
th bead joinl U th, tip, 3 feel, Si luohe Tim
oil,yl,sl. that meMured 4 feel, 3 In. .nl o
Ih. ...n. laud last ye", off f " we-ured,
I bid 108 UU.I..U of o.li which look lb. premium
t our county Fair, a. none of th. ret of th. n.iglw
bora l.d their Ihreahed.
1 will jut mention, that Ih. greater part of th
laud donated lo B"1'"-'1 In'"'.'0' fa ofth...m. '
quality u mine. Do yon think it will do for oeta 1
Lut sa I am more lulerealed in growing fruit tlunl ,
oat, I thought I would wiile you au .ccoeul of
faw experiment of my owu, hoping that om. of
your rstroiw, who .re troubled with quirrel,jny
b beinf.lcd aa much M I havo beau To prevent .
then, from bo. king or guawing Ui bodiea, make a
wash of fresh cow manure and oft loop, equal
part., and nib it on will. mop, which is awire pre
yeulitive. To keep them from climbing Ihe lree,
and taking the applra. catch them in trap, ni.de
of iwo inch stun", or in UeJ trops, which can be
rcd.ly done ; ply kin tin hid. off, tie rope ,
round ll.rir nrck, .rid h.ng ll.rm lo th. firat limb
of Ihe tree. This wre. u a warning to th. bal
ance. Dou't nuderaloud nt. lo b. in favor of oap
itul puuikhmeiil by Ihi mode of operation ! '
Lout Fall I headed in win. If n or lwlv. pe.cri
tree about one third of Iho growth. ThU, Spring
the whole of them re ucarly entirely fre fmm
blight, which iuJucei me to believe thai Ih frost
injure ih'e end or the limb, beiug louder ia eon
sequence of . lale growth j and the injured sap de
scending duwn Into Ih root, and rin'ng In the
Spring, poisons Ih. Iree, aud cawrs lb. blight
Call the attention of the c'ienlifio to this subject,
I hut w may raise Ihi most doliciou fruit, even in
Oregon.
You will dispose of this' as your better judgment
'dictate.
Your lost Asne. failed to reach u, for Ihe first
time. We are all down about it, and aro afraid
your typo ha vamosed for th. minra, thus leaving
ua destitute of a most welcomo viaitoi.
Yuuni with all rerpect, ' 1
Wh. P. WATSON. T
The real agricultural resources of Oregon
are yet undeveloped; and they always will
be, until our farmers fully make up their
minds to settle dowu, stay at home, and
make a buncss of farming. A real sensi
b!e, intelligent, orderly farmer, who takes a
pride iu laying off his ground in a tasty
manlier, putting up convenient buildings,
ndorniiig his enclosures with shrubbery that
is both useful mid beautiful, furnishing him-
self with a few of tho bw-t bonks, (and pa
pers,) which he rends carefully, an J . who
practices what ho reads, a farmer who cul
tivates no more land limn he-can cultivate
well, who loves his calling, and digs deep
nnd carefully for tho exhaustless treasures ;
that tho God of Heaven has hidden in the
soil, who is an holiest man, out of debt, liv- ;
ing at peace with his neighbors, ("ns much
as in him lies,") neither fabricating evil re
ports nor peddling those which have been-,
put in circulation by others, who under- '
stands his duties to his neighbors, his coun- '
try, nnd his God, nnd tries to tho best of "
his ability to discharge them, who loves Lis
wife, educates his children, and whose
house is always open to the poor traveler, :
whoso cellar and granary aro always full of
tho good things of this world, arid who' .
knows how to appreciate tho blessings which
a kind Providence has thrown around him t
for his happiness, who has either a well or
spring of cold, sweet water," who keeps nice,
clean beds, nnd lives up to the rules' of neat
ness as laid down in Fowlers' Phrenological,
Journal, who bonds every effort to throwing
around the sacred spot called home so many .
atiractions that it will be to his children the
dearest spot on earth, and which will cause
them in all their wanderings in nfter life to. '
look back to it with emotions of pleasure,
deep and unalloyed j such a fanner comes,
about tho nearest, with us, to filling the pic
ture of one of nature's noblemen, one of
your really happy, independent lords of ere- ''
tion, that we have ever had the pleasure of'
finding among all the varieties of the genus-;
homo. If there is any creature in this cold,,
selfish world, that knows what genuine hap-
p.ness is, it must be such a man. lie, alone,. 1
after a temporary absence from home, as be
heads his horso towards the shady Jane that .
leads down to his little white cottage, spark- :
ling in the distance like a gem, in the soft
silvery beams of sidereal loveliness, 'com- '
prehends tho full meaning of what llyron '
once uttered by the inspiration of the. ,'
muses :
" T ,w.eet 10 near ,he watch-doe'a honest bark .'
J , r u ncie-ome a we draw near
home :
Ti. sweet to know there is an eye will mark ;
I Il1f An.nin- 1 1 I ft -
w.,,g ou l00K ongnterwhen we' come." '
If such a happy man, surrounded bv such
pleasant homo arrangements, nil the result
of well directed labor, conjured up as it
were by the wand of the agriculturist, from
the little spot of terra firma the husband
man by a fee-simple calls his own, can be
found on many a homestead away down
among iho ruggod, rocky hill of New
England, and oa tio bleak, n.i.iSxa-shrcad--:.