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ORKflOW FREE PRESS.' Geo. L. Curry, Editor and Proprietor. OREGON CITY, SATURDAY NOVEMBER 18. ISisT COMMISSIONER'S C'OL'RT. PllC CnUil.V C'Oli- missioner's Court for this county commenced its November Term on Monday last. The several Judges Walling Grew ell, and Cran till were present. Mr. Walling was appointed Presiding Jtidire. A license wnsirranted t J Me 1 .ouhlm to sell merchandibe in Clackamas county. Sher iff Holmes was allowed $54 for sen ices ol self and depuy rendered the Circuit Court, and for rent of court room also $104, for keepinir in custody a prisoner, named Stanfield, ft. rone hundred ami four days, f ir the construe'ion uf the t vvo low er bridges on Main s re-t. Mr. Hi. hues, coutr ic tor, was paid s425, in Trritriul s rip. The c nnly Treasurer. Cat ! ilboru, re)orted ver bally upon the state of the lin.inces about $1000 in the Treasury. On Tuesd ty the court a 'jour ted to the 27th iu St., to receive Treasurer's report and to deter mine on the acoeot'in-c uf b id e No I. on Main street, which contractor is to have finished by that time- We think it is a matter of congratu lation that there seems likely to be money enough in he Treasury to meet present liabilities. CP A resolution was adopted by Congress, in April last, in favor of the coinage of quarter (liaies and the discontinuance of the coinage of cents. zcj An election to liil the vacancies in the representaion from this county, in the Le?isla ure, occurs on Monday week. 1 is an impor tant matter and should cusraufc he e -truest at tenion of the people W undeis'nnd I'v.'l elections have been ordered, by the executive, to fill similar vacancies in other counties. Cr .Voiding certain yet from Powder river report says the parly have been successful. If they are not back in the course of ten days uc shall believe so. So we can give no "gold news" of any worth t his week they slill keep picking up "pieces" down at Van couver. FLvrTnitiNC. The New York Globe presents the following daguerreotype of the personal appearance ot'lhe distinguished editor of the N. Y. Tribune: "An ol4 drab cual, a hut worn in the Harrison campaign, still worn, one hoot, and one shoe worn slip-shod, and the heel of the fool stuck fast about mid-way of the leg of the boot, and a walk indicating a powerful effort to crowd Iho fool into I he hoot, to gether with a perfect uniformity in the bullance of outside coering." At a recent examination of law students at Ro chester, the judge intimated that a minority of them ucre numbskulls, but to spare their feelings lie would admit them all to the bar. DISCOURAGEMENT TO IMMIGRATION. In the "St. Louis Republican," the leading whig paper of the slate of Missouri, we find the following 1 -Hurt to discourage emigration to this country- We have copied the article entire, because of its un tr'ilhhiln.'ss notwithstanding its show of sincerity and the spiritless philosophy it inculcates, so at vari ance willi the active impulses of the. age. Whj do people come to Oregon? What object have the in -that long and toilsome journey over desert and mountain? The chances of bettering their con dition in life. Health we presume being the chief attraction. That this is the fact, we have but to con sider, that the emigration from the States to this coun try has been made up altogether from the sickly and unhealthy portions of the Valley of the Mississippi. And those who have composed our annual immi gration have gladly ''accommodated themselves l a country" where they can enjoy the inestimable blessing of health. Never have we attempted to disguise the fact of the actual "condition of things" m Oregon. have ever found fault with those letters of "glori fication" that lnne been written and published, con cerning the country, in the states. That they were of injurious tendency, we never doubted. Further than the enjoyment of health, the comforts of Oregon are few. Society is yet, properly so to speak, in a state of formation. Ilowcver thanks to that "indus- trv" and "honesty," which Mr. Chambers, the ed itor of the "Republican," does not seem to give us credit for, our state of existence is very far from be ing precarious. It is severely true that no one need come among us expecting to "live in clover" to en joy a life of ease and pleasure. Hard work, and plenty of it, is our principle amusement and occu pation, from which springs content, the sister of hap piness. The peculiar circumstancs that surround us afford no encouragement to "loafers," and we are therefore alllicled with few or none of the gender. That "two parlies, dissatisfied with their prospects" here, attempted to return to the Stales la.t winter, we" judge to be untrue, at least we are ignorant of the circumstance if it was so, and the "winter" would seem to be a very unfavorable time for such an un dertaking, indeed they must have been remarkably "dissatisfied" to have braved the inclemencies of that period of the year. True it is that the immigrants encounter great diffi culties in their journey, more particularly perhaps, in descending into the valleys of the Columbia and Willamette: aud yet, as Mr. Chambers most sagely observes, "they do get along." Mest assuredly they do, and as early as the 7tl of September. Hut it is to be presumed that the immigrant in starting upon the trip, is well aware that it is not one of pleasure and comfort, aud therefore is not surprised in experiencing faligue and hardship, incidentals, un fortunately, to the land travel to Oregon, which it is to he hoped will be some what remedied in time by the railroad and Hie steam engine. In conclusion we would remark that there is little inducement in Or egon to any other kind of a life than that of industry