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i. THE OREGON SPECTATOR. Advantages or Inwtotey. TIio mochaiiiu whooo hammer ' heard from 4 o'clock in tho morning until 10 at night, if in debt, will noon got out' Rut ho who has plenty of work on hand and in noon lounging about tlto trtrcets, may look out for Hylt! , i For the Oregon Spectator. Mr. Editor In resigning tho office of Marshal of Oregon, justice to myself and to the public requires, perhaps, that I should give my reasons for doing bo. There is no tie that binds a civil govorn- ment in tho bonds of amity and peace, that insures its prosperity and elevates its char actcr so much as that contained in tho sin glo word justice. In offering my reasons tor resigning tho office, it docs not come with, in my province to speak of tho general prin ciples of government, but it docs to speak of one principle which has received, in nil re. publican governments, the support of the most virtuous men, the highest minds, the nblcst cn.i, and most eloquent tongues. The good aro ever its advocates ; tho wise kiunv wril its benefits ; and oven they who are guilty in the eyes of justice, admit tho ne-i-ossify f her presence. But, alas ! the for mcr urc too often heedless of danger, while tho hitter aro violating it. Tho faithful pages of history furnish in. numerable examples of the baneful effects of private as well as national injustice ; and wo fear that our own history will add to the examples of both. From the first organiza tion of this government up to tho time of my appointment as marshal of Oregon by the legislature, I served as sheriff. The duties of iny office I discharged with alacrity to the lst of my ability, and which were by no means light, and were performed at no small personal sacrifice ; for which I received a few dollars nominally nothing. I feel as sured that justice to the government does not require, and duty to myself will not al low mc to hold the office longer without re- numeration, as my personal circumstances will riot permit of my making any longer such a sacrifice. , ' And here I would ask if the evednand of justice has borno on all officers of the gov. crnment alike ? If the principles of those who govern seem to have been written by tho hand of virtue and their subjects equal lv expoundedjry justice? And if the acts of those wjfcpat in the hall, sacred to jus tice, hamUJstun such as to brighten our page of history and such as should be transmit ted as examples to the rising generation? or do they not, on tho contrary, appear to have k'cu in opposition to tho American charac ter, and such as to soil tho sacred robe of justice tarnish tho brightness of tho sword, and force the scales she holds from their equal iiosition. J. L. MEEK, Ex. Marshal of Oregon. February fl, 1840. From llw" (Jliudw (M lMt LEARNING. " Would you l Mill nioru lentiirtl limn the leitniril, leam writ to know lion- imicli nrril not tic Irunicsl." At this late day nobody need ho lectured I about tho importance of learning every one facknowlodgns it. When, then, men every- when appreciate the advantages of learn ing, and aro ready to avail themselves of v ory opportunity to obtain it, w need not tell them to do what thev know ought loin! done. Wo need not tell litem to lalstr, ami labor without ceasing,' for a treasure m valuable and one that cannot Ihi obtained without it. Money cannot buy it money may purchase books and employ touchers, but lalior must do tho most essential purl it must glean from the books and tho instruction of teach ers tho Ltun.MNii which they ihnssss. Rut how to learn is a secret not known to all how to select tho wheat and reject the chaff how to sift truth from error, and store tho immortal mind with nothing that wil! not bo useful in our journey through life. If wo take every thing indiscriminately, as taught by books or living instructors, wo will take much very much useless, nay, hurtful trash. Few men have ever soken or writ ten nothing but truth few, even among those, who have made teaching a business, and who ought to lie, and htIius are, as ie feet as it is irssible tr frail man to liccome. Our lawks and teachers of law, medicine, religion very thing arc full f errors ami should bo watched with scrutiny receiving tliu good and rejecting tho bad treasuring up truth and discarding error. And finally, if you would lx more learn ed than your looksor your teachers, ami the wholo world before you, Irani rccll to know how much nerd not be learned. A Nuisance. (if all nuisances 'on the face of the globed airth,' crhaps there is liono that quite comes up to that of the pro fcsscil public wrangler on religious topics. By this term, we mean the man who makes a business of going around the country and challenging every minister of einiiienco to a public discussion on some mooted jioiiit of theology, and sometimes even on the na. turo, designs, and attributes of the Dkitv. Not many divines of standing have ccumm1 a challenge from some one or other of these religious lazaroni; but few, if any, to their honor be it written, have ever bestowed any notice on such challenges. Once in u w Idle, however, some otic of these over-zeulom champions of a cause that needs not their aid, meets with a brother wrangler of a ilif. feront faith, who is not unwilling to meet him in a public discussion, at u .shilling head. But such occasions almost invaria bly end in quarrels and personal uhusc; ami then the two combatants not unfrequently cxhibit the effect of their own religious faith on their own tempers uud practice in suck wise as to call up the Idush of shame on tho countenance of the truo christian, con- liilPIK'llt.'il toerasii a loose iNianl ntHunJeiHT uud thinking it was Idiom, he commenced timing with an energy pei uliar toiueii when Uirmr stricken in drink. "Stop! stop! stop! Simon," said the oilier a gaiu, " Keep cool! keep cool! look, I believe she is only wooding after nil!" Without any joke at all, tho two boatmen were confusedly if not slupidl) blue, but with the faintest glimmering of soiiso left, and just sight enough to sen ami I; now the steamboat chimneys towering with their broad white tops right in front of them. As if to complete the illusion, a large steamboat came pulling down the river, close in shore, at the motion!, wiin a loud xrhuh! whuhf vhnh! that at once confirmed the terror of the lienighted naviga tors. Look out! look out there!" bellowed Si inoii, with desMruto and shrieking energy of tone, "Hack her, strunger! Imek her, or by thunder you'll Is over us!" They both mo pulled oil their coats in rapid haste, and went to work at the loose bourds, rowing uavuv at llieiu ready to break their Itacks or strain their shoulder blades. "What in heaven's uume, are you doing there, mun?" said utr'iiitouished piuser-by, who stopped to observe these uxtruordinury proceedings. "Lend a baud! lend a hand!" roared Si imu and his companion witii one voice; "all lireil wrath, don't you set- the stcumhout right over us? There, by thunder, the thing's oiit here we go!" A section of the oT fence had lieen sway nig with their united elliirt- amotion which they imagined wus the :ckingo('!he flatlsmt in the steamboat swell ami now gae wuy with a crash, falling inward, ami pitching the two baccbutialiaus into a puddle of water in the lumber yard. Theie our inforant left them, to find their way out its soon a-, they were damp and cold enough to get so. Iter. They were thoroughly convinced that their Isiat was smashed uud that tln-y were hound for the little hack parlor of I u il Jones, Esq., for the lust words they uttered as they grasjM'd hands in tin- puddle, were "llezekiah, good by, lleyckiuh.'' "(lood hv, Simon, Amen!" Ni:cntTi:s. I.iiii.mj:ii Sunn. We have hsh sione sllllke stories, bear stones, till olls of Moiics, and now for u change, nupsise we have a lob. ster story: A man hud just received a large lot of lob. ster-, fresh amhlivcly, when a Ixiy stood look. . ing at tho critters,1 accompanied by. his dog.' "Siipsisyoti put your dog's tail between the lobster's claw," said the man; "Agreed," said the Ihij. Tho peg Wus extracted from thccluw, and the dog's tail inserted. Awav went the dogoll'linine, howling lit-the Mliccc his tail got Irotn the lobster. " Whittle mum dog hack, oii young scamp, you," cried the man. "Whittle Mnir lobster back," cried the hoy, and iibsiUiitiihiled. The Ihi made ulobsier supper that night. . Tah'Imi. After a eonsultutioii, several physicians decided that a dropsical patient Hhould be "lapped." 1"mhi heiiring'of the decision of the doOtors.u miof the sick man approached him and exclaimed, "l-'uthoi, don't submit to theotieration, for there never wus any thing tapped in our house that lusted more than u week." Aiiskmck op.mi.mi. A geiitliiiaiioiiThinl street intended to take it dose of Omuii' llnlicsct I'jlls on going to bed, instead of whudi, belaid the pills on the bed, ami swallowed himself, lie did not discover his mistake nil be tried to dress himself in the iiioriiuig. A clergyman catechising the Miuthof his church, put the first question I'muii tin- eaic chisiu ton girl: "What i- oiir consolation in Mb' and qi till I lie ixior -'irl siulleil, but oi'l mil lentil; Uncertainty of tme Law. A man falls into a dispute with his neighbor ; runs to his counsel; tells his story in his own way; for gets those facts which are against him ; re lates tho rest with that sort of exaggeration which is natural to a party ; undertakes to prove the whole case as ho has stated.it, and asks for legel redress. After suction ex animation, a suit is instituted; tho trial comes on; tho plaintiff's witnesses are heard; they reduce in a groat dogrco tho coloring which i? tho party himself had given; the defendant's witnesses provo many new facts, which to tally change the complexion of tho case-it is deci(ktUoJfcv';r of tho defendant, and tho plaintiff ever after complains of Ac uncer tainty f (to law. Tho fault, it is evident, was in himself. If ho had told the truth in the first instance, he might Imva saved hit money, timo and tern per. . firm tho old infidel in his unbelief, and muk ten new senmers, while their labors convert not a solitary sinner from the error of bi ways. Tho presumption of many of these itinerant disputants, is hardly exceeded hj their ignorance, great as that frequently is; but their vanity and self-complacency fur outstrip cither of these qualities. A friend tho other day, in describing one of these re. ligious glutliators, wlio the by bus beer, striving for the lust twentj yours to make t noiso in tho world, but without success, oh. served, that he belonged to that class of be. ings who are always chin deep in difficul ties themselves, and vet funcv thev uro rs. pecially sot apart by (Jou to help out of dilemmas.' Amercer backer, From the Newt Mean I'icuyuiif. A STEAMBOAT AOROUND. Every person who has ut uny time passed upTchoupitoulas street, near St. Marv'smar- ket, must have observed the pair of tall steam. boat chimneys elevated over tho door in front of Long, Aldrich & Smith's sheet-iron and stovo establishment. Tho other night two drunken fiatboatmen camo round the corner of St. Joseph street, arm in urm, with a wide lurch, and brought un against a fence. "Hallo! hallo! hullo!" said one of our he. rocs, staring with all his eyes at tho chimneys across tho street "Simon, my lioy, stick her in fast for shore, or wo shall bo run over hul. lo! there ahead! stranger, give her u lick back or you'll boovorus!" Simon rolled up his eyes, and thought tho stars Wero sparks from the chimnnvs. while Jllio firedore below remained closed. Mrj i UK KIUIIU.V llliillTKol's. Who is perfect.' or xo perfeebthul he can say to others, " be us I am, righteous in all things. Think, act, and speak as I do, mid thou art perfect." lie that would assume thiy to himself uoirlll lie set down by all the world us a sclf.io). portanl simpleton, yet it is nothing more than muny arrogate to themselves, though ingeni ously concealed, when they ure complaining of the vices of others. If more virtue were practiced uud less professed, the woild would Imj better. Qurnrnherry. One kvii. iikttkk than two. A merchant having .sustained a considerable loss, desired his sou not to mention it to any body. The vouth promised silence, but ut the same time requested to know what uilvantuge could ut. tend it. "If you divulge this loss," said the father, " we shall have two evils to suprt msieaii oi one our own griet, ami the joy of our neighbors." (Ji:Stilitv. "I'd have you to know, Mrs. Stoker, that my uncle was a hunuhter of the ' law!" "A fig for your banninter, retorted .Mrs. ('rubb, turning up her nose, and putting her arms a-kimbo, "bavn't I u cousin as is a cdrridor in the nuvy?" fXr Eels have been skinned ever since Nouh came out of the ark; and printers have lieen cheated out of their just dues, ever sincn the Orientals printed with blocks of wood; yet'neither do the eels get used to be. ing skinned nor printers to being fleeced. This urgues great obstinacy on the purt of eels and printers. A FLAME. Riisticus wrote a letter to his love, And iill'd it full of warm and fond desire; He hnp'd to ruiso a flame and so he did; The ludy put tho nonsense in the fire. If a friend nsk a fuvor, you should grunt it if it is reasonable; if it is not, tell him plain ly why you cannot. You will wrong your self, uud wrong him, by equivocations of any kind. Never do n wrong thing to make a friend, or to keep one; the man that requires you to do so, is dearly purchased at such a Kucrifico. iieal kindly but firmly with ull men; you will find it tho poliny which weurs best. AIkivc all, do not uppcar to othem what you arc not. lajfrl bed at hv bat tie v ii par i if replietl er. I lie pi lost insisted. Veil, then." suiiMic. "-nice I must tell. it isthe Miiing I'rinteron Walnut sired. It.Mt Ei.nijt'r.M t:. "May it please the hu "ruble mirt and gentlemen of the jut v the defemleut iilihisrase, wSlfullv andmalii ems. lv, with at I the furv ofa lic-ml, i merged I'nun the w dd vv ihleruess u itb nlflhe terribc (Jihii .) of a M-ariOL' Iwi, ami vnb his giaute slreanglh hedid liieii and lliere, scic m in-oi-iisie client b the cullar and I'dV hissliy-t!'' Tin: Fhkm ii La M.i ai.i. ' P.iV' saJk lahiuiialilcfibtcati d farmei 'sdaie'lnN. 'Vu.' if I sboithl fnairv a m r, what -bjill I do i with inv I'renei" "tfall the dm k. o -.!! t sv, call' th'bV l.ens!" iiod baiA'rnr Is-iug l tv of pretty girls, Mid tin! suiull totutiNs7 "We iiiav bj. small iilat7 oi Hie llllllilells, inil We are, MVcel noes. No Dot'liT. "I see,"huiil a Mumg hidv tix her mother, "lllUt soijie lsml,sellers udveilie hlank deelarutiont for sal e I wish I cuiihl' get one." "Why." asked her mother. "llccuiisc.Mr. II is too molest toastt me to luar-FAT Iihii, and icrhapsif I could fill' a blank declaration, with ii .'.Wii," bit would sign it." "Suy, I'ncle lieu, what o' animals are iliem 'ere itiukiiis that are all over black, n'most blu and a little reddish?" "Them, Jiui than, arecalled egg plants vvcgctiihlecggs." "Eggs! Well, swan, I should like to .see one on 'em hatched, loscc what sort o' critters wegelahlcs urn." "Halloo, .Mr. Engine man, can't von stop, your steamboat a iniiiinvor two?" "Stop tho liout! what for?"' " Wife wants to look at jour Isiiler: she's afraid offits bursting.' 4n (sld sort of n genius having stopped in u mill, wasliNikiiig with apparent astonishment ut the rotary movements of the Machinery, when the miller, thinking to qui, liiu u.sked him if he bud heard the news'? f "Not as 1 1cuow on," says Jonutban, "what is it?" "Why," replied tho iniller,"'cy say the devil is dead." "By jings," he exclumed, "is he? who tends the mill?" THE OREOON SPECTATOR In iiililinhril Hclni-miinllily, nl (lr,j;iiii City, Oregon 'IVrrilory, by Jons Fi.kmcso, lor Itm Orrgnii I'riuling Awociutiiiii. Tkkmh. Fivn ilollarN in uilvmirn; if not paid uilil. Ilm riMliiii of thrci' iikiiiIIih, six ilnllars, mill if imt Htiil ut Ihn exiirntiun of nix mouth, III" iliticturs ri survn llm ri(,'lit In ilincoutiliim. II I' AilviTtiwniciitH iiiMTleil ut nun ilnllnr uiul fifty ctialH irr Mjiinrn of lixtnnn lint-tt or Iiwh, fur lliu lirst inwrtioii, and nevrnty-fivn crnU fur euch HiiliwNiiPUt iiurrtiiiM. A lilM-ml itwtuctiou lo yvnrly mlvf rtiiwis. tt. All kliiiln of Jt)H U'OltK liuiiilHoinvlyuxccii. ted ut tho shuitviit notice (mymuiit in udvimce.