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About Oregon free press. (Oregon City [Or.]) 1848-1848 | View Entire Issue (April 29, 1848)
OREGON FREE PRESS. FOR THB VOL I.) WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 188. (NO. 4. OMiGON FREE PHBSS. ited, and the result of its efforts, perhaps, impercepti- c . blc in the general view, yet "Providence has given no Published every Saturday. man abim lo do roucn, (fiat something might be lea for Geo. L7 Curry, Editor and Proprietor. every man to do. The business of life is carried on by. ri?nic fi in,n nnr rrc a general co-operation, in which the partof any single TERMS (In advance.) dol. cts. can bc n mQre d'lslinguighlf tnan the effect of a One copy, per annum, 3 50, cash. d when the meadovws are flooded by a summer AnvrmKi?? monU)8 z uo shoiuer; yet every drop increases the inundation, and AUVLiuisimi- overv hand a(Jds (0 ln( nappin.ss or misery of man- Each square, first insertion, ... .2 do. bim, In a word, if we na not found Oregon what $2 square. A reatn- g rVgSSSS able dcducliM mode on yeadveremenls. Cur- J,?, rency and produce. Liken at their cash value. amf WQ fae aslonispd at lnc vvonderfuiiy OUR DUTY. haPPv resulls- JIr .hCi Incidents of the WAn.-There are many interesting rlhlf nS iJnc 2S.v nrf.npLhii wiTri 1 uThlornesf' incidents, that have occurred in the operations of to ask ourselves, why arc we in this wild wilderness.' rrnv ,h Pfl8.nl wnr u,uu lhp 'flViiKP? -mil We wonder why we should .deprive oursciveso. all Ihe y lh Jg. JgJ" an "ITSvL8 iM?.i,CTySnMpnd in hTst--cniovin" "ri"B of h ba"lcs- Mu!00' (half-breed,) Iho ir'" "'X "and" XZSSS? f W Jmpb "mmenee'd casing infrS K plJ.lty-where you may have your health And had he was M, rt he rephed gJeffS you your health at your former .home ! 1 her wl'J did "J"?. fhe &a of a mall bein"g WOUndcd in so you come here? tor land? You cannot as el Know ,,",'"... ,rt .... . in mnmrsnres 'n vimirnii any thing about the land; and you s SCl hffllh.byL1? ho" haSTpTnd waVSg with the country, or the people in "..l1" 0ff the saddle from his dead horse,) seemed unaccounl delay of justice from our home government. Thus - apprehensions were soon removed, bow speaks our correspondent. n ever, by his observing, as he shouldered his saddle to It is indeed too true, that numbers come to Oregon hj nrtnfb'ntI cPP mv hnrsp is killpd ? I with large expectations and incorrect ideas, formed from jJJJJ ,f,!?y' ?2rt hurt to tose hta ? the. letters of ? tforincaUon" .f "SIV, A? the baTJef ' he Tuclue ford "wlien the enemy the great prejudice of the , f " V"1 : held possession of the ford to the great annoyance of nhe01'!.': f Znd to" SST ou Spi,f?mf,; S nimn, f "Bn MS pTnriCS had took the lead, and sent a load of buck-shot (Tom says 5S?rivg u,rh ine lhcre were only about fifteen buck-shot in the load,) 5S?2?r ? fLm Ltt t0 try lhe constitution of one of the red-skins, who Snfafi so -vet that s0ed excitingly interested in his bloody business.- fhw minir The Indian fcl? from bis horse, and, though probably iSShSS no so SruSoSSj S obtain an iodcnSit mortally wounded, managed to crawl into the brush, livelilitiod As U is iiumi)ers come here and are dii- ToM Passed on for anoll!cr chance bul had l 6l far mntented' Sonm Sou W nS be olhSse Thev do boforc his Indian acquaintance sent his compliments to ? I m-ifp m, ! Sirh hi .?.?,; nrhSr or undersJind ,,itn in lnu shape of a slug of iron, that wounded Tom Sie ttSnFrtb TiFnnte$M severely in the thigh, andbkilled bis horse. It was this u7hich I akiii to it PSr ifhn sovnwly sarae lndian vvho afte-vvards shot Martin Taylor, hv!. M and, in his deadly hostility, and wounded terribly as fnfind: .ft man nature as to seek happiness by changing anything wiPj"J Ws wound and & bul his own disposition, will uaste his lite fit fruitless ?eLaNdEvVor efforts, and multiply the griefs which he purposes lo reaay ror anotner prusn snouia occasion reqmre. remove." II is most certainly the duty of all who come lo Ore- Nothing is Lost. Ii is well said Inat nothing is lost, gon, lo do all they can do towards making it the abode The drop of water which is spilt, the fragment of pa of virtue, prosperity, and contentment. This is in their per which is burnt, the plant that rots on the ground power. For their own good, if for nothing else, they all that perishes and is forgotten, equally seeks the at. should so strive. There is little satisfaction, and uo ad- mosphere, and all is there preserved, and thence dally vantage lo be sained, in grumbling and croaking over returned for use. one's discontents and disappointments. We cunitot al- 1 ways expect to be gratihed. Whenwo cannuldo as vVhcn a man chooses the rewards of virtue, he would we must strive lo accomplish the next best thing gould remember that to resign tiie pleasures of vica 1 doas wGcan; It is Irue lhal individual power is llm- part of his bargain.