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. .11.1. .. j, MdfeLtaMtflitfH MitfX'-Hi ;,V-.W' FiZf RWF 1 ti il-.i i.' V I I U. I Mm Bcveller. V HAMUT. AlWM " Aaita Task Tto i WMI MMVi WSM Ml, lk llftta A, (M) raMy wise wu tMr ayas wan bright, J-' tgaatwaafhr'a.aadlaad Ike whk k ml. 4 cried, "away UtawtolMffT y " e,B Mi for to-" M'mT ssaha, ay afca ww ate, aatl akaaaar dep AmI Wi tewa f JmhSmj fM. ! M Wmm Ai AH ft I aw a.aasasariav, a aU a nifhty atiaaraa dairy er, witk floss of aaaaaa'iaaa 1WJto taste thin li- i kyfrWf aaatdaat, tha dissolute Btaar-ayed dd men, and reckless youth, and paUicd weeseaciasy; . "Gba, give 1" Ihey cry, "pre, gnre as dnnk to drown If are are happy fat f-dmy, wa ear aot fopio-mer-fs" It fir 4o? warn their ahtaring alias , and drives away weir aadaesa, The Mfni UfBts their sunken eye, and fill their -- !!. akjlsaaaaaa Tbt tAM drop taakei thrm shout aad roar, and play MB IttfisMM aaBUCa TbeaartA drop Mb their very Wood, the A drop utiriMlr " mm tint dexaaa. "drink your fill! dniik of theaewaten mellow, They'll make your bright eyea blear and dull, ond taravoar white tkiaa yellow,. TbeyHttl year home with care and grief, and clothe roorback with Utter, They'll till your heart with erd thoughts, but nrrrr mini what matters 1" "Tnoagh virtue aiak, and reasoning fall, ondsociul ties rii ha wax friend in hoar of need, and find you homes fsafaVVflf S For 2 have bcwH three mamtoiw high, three strong ntid A JEhtmu far tha jolly aoul, who all h'u life ca Aa fteqrif! to lodge tha aot, cppreasM by pain and A wrSnttmm dangeoaa deep, where hopeless felon So laavaba. drsia th the cm aad drain again, and drown all thought of aorrow, Be happy if you can p-oay and tvr mtna lo-mor- But well he knows, this demon old, how vain is all his preaching, Even as they bear his fearful words, they cry with shouts of laughter, "Out on the fool! who mars to-day with thoughts of an ktrtafttr, ,..,.. Wa care aot for thy house three, wc live but for the ABd Merry will we make it yet, and quaff our bump. era ateaaaat." Loud laugh tha fiend to hear them apeak, and lifts hi brimming bicker, "Body Wtdaoul are mint .'" quoth he "I'll have ti un La far Haaor!" Vnr ih Omron Spectator. Mr. Editor Permit me to trouble you liU - u Mmsplra in renlv to a COmOlUni- cation of Peter H. Burnett, published in the Spectator of the 30th September last, in which he reflects upon my language in cer tain communications published in your pa. per relative to proceedings had at Oregon City to prevent trespass upon land claimM, as imputing to him opinions that ho "neither oxpressed nor entertained.' This I beg leave to dispute most heartily. He has in his com. tnunication, labored hard with words, per haps in a different form to establish the stfrne doctrine which I imputed to the orator of the Utt evening. Though he has attempted to qualify bis position by saying, that ho does not mean that a few, but that a majority, have tha ."legal right" to amend the constitution in any way they think proper, regardless of tki provisions therein stipulated. That the amiority in order to self protection, have the UM to throw off their laws, and abrogate vmt government whenever it "becomes gre--viaejf aad too intolerable to be borne," 1 do W'fJtapHto. But this is a natural, not as ftir.TBvrnett would have it a legal right, for how-"sOsa be get his legality from un act con trarytuvind destructive of the-law, it is one of ttaaaaJUKural rights too that are given up by tWpitfb in the establishment of society and tl rationof political institutions, in order to fMure protection and permanence of.riaAtiVrf import; wnon8 r,.',oh Vm K3saaa&tS of property, life, liber. tv s. thOwtWit of happiness," in all rca sonabl 1tyS ' I believe it to be a long es. tshliahiwl nrinninln tA rommon annaa. anil common law, witn which the gentleman is very inniiuur, inai buiiio ui our natural rights of minor import aro given up, in the formation of constitutions and tho establish. ment tt laws in which those or the greatest mnntont am siMMirfwl In nvrv mAmhar nt such society, and that tho former of these rignts arc never resumcu uv mo ih.-uuio wim out destroying tho protection of the latter. Now is tho cxerciso of tliut right called for in Oregon at the present time, appears to bo tho point at issuo. 1 maintain that it Is aot, but should it be, tho act would bo mitutkm, tho policy and justice of which would bo IaA alnnn in iKa twn e,( tlin (ut urn historian to dcliniato. Our land law has onco ,bcen hb.....1...1 2.. .!.. .........mh imnliul .ttt Im.t Inn amviiucj ill miu iiiaiiuui pvuiit-u mx wj mu constitution, sinco the adoption of our com pact, and it can bo dottn again should tho people uecm it necessary, uui mr. utir. nett would advise tho policy of rcolmion, 1L"M IIIU lUVUiltl'Illl'IIVl- llillll OII.1U ukiimu . could ta iiccoinplthed in tlmt way. Now he would have n sanle of war iinnicdiatcly, h-st a btatc of war ini.lit urise iik a certain contingency. Like tho mnniuc patient ho would commit suicide under tin npprehen. sion that his phy.sieiun tni'ht kill him. In his attempt to throw u shade of injustice over our Ian 1 Law, he says, the words "any per sin" in that document gives to every one, of whatever colour, from the infant to the adult, the right to claim 040 acres of land. Now "any person" in terms of law, Mr. Burnett well knon sal wins signifies persons of law. fill age, representing theiuwUo, and that where infants, minors, llmules and others, not known to the law arc included in any act, they are always expressly stated; com mon sen-e and all the statute books teafch us this. As to the injustice of this law in re quiring those who had mado and recorded claims under tho former temjioriiry arrange ment, to record them upon the proper books under our compact, it is certainly imaginary; it propose fi deprive them of no property aciiiirtd under that arrangement, that laud .w which indeed i nearly the same as the one we new have, hcintr the onlv arrange ment of imjiortancc then adopted by the pco pie, is not however directly referred to and taken up i:i form, hut all those making cluims under it were fully protected as all must uc. knowledge from the fact that twelve months time was allowed them to put their claims upon the records, where all might bo conve nient and in proper form, anil that too at the small cot of iifiy cents, paid to the Re corder, whiln new claimants were allowed only twenty days to make their records. This arrangement was made by tho majori ty of the people adopting tho constitution now in force, and I am loth at any time to admit that the majority have done wrong and who can say that an expenditure of fifty cents to one holding a valuable claim ut the time of the compact, together with 1 months time in which to accomplish it in order tose cure such claim is a hardship to him, or is depriving him of the legal right or means to continue to hold it. I am not aware but that most of these claimants have complied with the requisitions of our present compact with- mil ntii nnnli filtStllt tlin n ill It I Ifllin I fiftv cents paid for putting their cluims upon tho proper records. Those if any who hove not complied have had over two years timo to do so. There may bo a few however who would join Mr. Burnett in a convention for a new constitution in order to avoid the con sequences of their refusal to record their claims. But which is tho more convenient mwl diront rcmndv a now constitution or the payment of fifty cents to tho Territorial Re corder ? Those concerned can answer. Mr. Burnett would mako tho impression that I hud become excited with him in conse quence o.f tho legitimate exorcise ol his pro fessional duties in cortain cases to which 1 was u party, but in this ho is in error. With regard to his dutje as un attorney I have iwilliinrr In uiiv. nnr hia fitlliractor 08 a DriVBtO gontloinan, anything to impeach, nor do 1 wish to allude to his puimo opinions, or mi nf nnv n'lior individual farther than is neces sary in the illustration of principles under discussion, llu says, "in rotation m wa s.nun u-iiind Xti- Tlnll dinnnaed was under consideration 1 was careful to express no o pinion." Now 1 did not in my corntnunica. tinno aa will bo found, refer to any case liti gant between parties, but to tho caso or nub. ject matter of trespassing upon land claims, men unucruiscusmuii uuiuiu ii;wmb, why ho should suppose that I ulludcd to any nnriieular case. I do not know, unless nor. I lNcuiK.vra of tiik Hi.AcKrr.KT. Tho Black hat, from a consciousness of one Military feet generally aro accounted bravo, though . ii ' f ..ii .1 : i I...... i....... l.. .1 ...l.l ' . -.T ..II .1. .!.... case neing inn wnuia cuiimi ui nu iuu uuinu and doings of tho said meetings upon the sub ject in question. Now his refurencu to tho case which ho says I supposed was under consideration, togethor with other subsequent circumstances, probably makes it proHir for him, as well as for myself, and is due to tho community, that wu' narrow this difficulty down to the one and only caso that origina ted it, namely, thu caso litigant, John Mc jLaughlin against A. J. Vickers, myself and others, with regard to a land claim at this placo. In tho full of 1840, said Viokcrs found in this vicinity 274 ucres of land, un incumbered by the laws of Oregon or thu improvement of Indian, or whito man. lie made, and occupied it, as his claim, mid hud the same recorded as the law directs; ho was forbid by the said McLaughlin to cut timber or mako improvements upon said hind; usuit at law was enmmenerd ntrninst him and im- mediately abandoned. In the mouth of.Mav instances h:tvo hcrih known of threo or four whiles defeating large parties of them ; on diie occasion, threo trappers fell into an am husendo of theso Indiana, and two of them were iiistuntl v tliut from their horses, but tho third was left untouched, and spurring bin. animal to-tho height of its iecd, broke thro' tho whole throng and was soon out of reach. Four mounted Indians immediately start, cd in pursuit, and guined rapidly uixm hint until they cunni within shooting distance, when tho lonu trapper turned upon them, and with his doiible.burrel rillo picked oh" two ol their number, uinl again tied. Confident of seouring their intended viu. tim, now that thoy supposed hia firearms wcro uncharged, tho remaining two hurried after him, and in a (aw moments wcro within rnnge of pistol-shot. Tho trapper then again halted, and the discharge of a pistol brought the third to tho ground. Drawing forth a second Irom his licit, the ust. said" Vickers proceeded to inclose a liel'l . work of hhiuuhtt r would have been comnlu- upon the land, during the process of which ted, had not tlm terrified sJivugc, in hia turn, vari us rumors were current about town that Hod w ith the utmost precipitancy. Tho trap Mr. McLaughlin was preparing to raise a per pursuud, but was far in the rcur when mob in order to stop Mr. Vickers and eject . ihe Hhtokfoot regained his comrades1, and him from the premises; nt the top of the e-' hurriedly exclaimed : citement, the meetings alluded to were had Music, yc! lieu! It was the Big Medicine and a suit in chancery commenced ugainst I we pursued, and at his wool three of our war. Mr. Vickers, myself, and others. Of these riors brrittho not. and of lour I only havo c. suits I do not coiiipluin, nor of his attorneys, ' uaped! His Miiglu rocdicinc-irou twico sjmke hut it is that for a single case meetings iiitit i tho death-word, und ut the amo time ; then Irs called, committees npKiiuted, resolutions i with his jiipp.stcm he bode a third one go to passed, tho doctrine of Judge Lynch'sM.hool i thu Spirit Laud ; and us he drew forth his und et en tlio uhrogutKui of our govurumeut hutcher-knife to Mioot me, I lied beyond reach, iiilvornted. to nrot.ct iho suniKwod rielits of' that 1 iniiflit toll you how to iscaiie ! Haste. .. ' .... "'. ." I.i k t. Ik li' .!. Mr McLaughlin. That gcntlemuns leual c!llcc: It is tlm llig AlMlinuo that comes and juv. rights I am willing u)id an.ximis lie Irom j n ! Mcc leAl he kills us all ! should have in co 101, will his fellow citi-1 l-ullnw mg his udvice. ihu astonished snvn. .ens, though not at tbi c.jenhe of the ex- i ges immediately lied with iho gritest con citement and sUiina oKa wiole cominunity. slernation, fully per0nS.d it was their only Un refering tithe 5th article, 1 think, of the ' uwde ol reaping from certain destruction nt land law, underwhioh ho made his claim or ' lie hands of the Bio Mkiucim:! attempted to makeit at ibeWilluuietto fall, i . ,,r .rr T . . . in l J. 1 find a lirccrProhlbitiii to claims ' X ' .D-Tl1 W l i1" V d'xa S,cat being held hv anv person u.i all such mm.. ' 'a.v ,S hw world ; for "wtancc ations as thai, at 'this place! Then it is evi- j II '' f " '.l-,.ounce false teeth ... the dent that he could have constituted no law-1 1'J"'"; "f .IfiiliaU, nor in the presence o ful claim upon the land in question nmor !-d ...aids who have not hud a srmnd t.K)th m the system, und an he refuses to .h so under J lllc'r ,","I," 'r u 'iu;rter of a tury. the present organization, but still claims (Mil ! ' ,wo l d - 5o ulk b,ut llur n',s .a", acres of land at this place, und to .arrv tin, ' "" n''8 when there are C o.mecticut law und evcrv other ohMaele' lu1,""x.."- it won t ui to imagine u icgisiuiuro win comp'-l tin luniks to resume when three fourths of the members ure umong thoso who will sutler the moat if forced to pny their debts ui-tanter. It won't do to cut soup witli u two.pronged fork, or must. In-'ef with a spoon, when anxi. oil' in dine in gnat haste. It won't do Id pull a man's uo.sn until yon out iiiramst law und evcrv wcro originated the said meetings, with their doings and consequent excitements and prop- ositioos to change in an unlawful manner our present laud law. Another mode of pro- ccedurc to client thi, though in u more peac- able way is discovered in the resolution of Mr. l'lie'sl, which was uppended in the Spec. tator over the signatures of numerous iudi- i. . i ...i... 1....1 1....1 .i..... .............. ,i... VIIHIUIS WHO IIUII UIIUI.IIUll UlUM IIUIIIl.l II, I ui-- r ,, .. i- I L I . I L preamble and resolutions of the comn.i.lce, 'uru fully batW.i-d JK has not spunk enough evidently in un utten.pt in that way to bind l0 V"1 !l 'X Wwiig ynur brains out. them to Vote for certain individuals at the . U ,tt0 l lo ll,r ,l lfw "li w,1,,nk oolls. who would not scruple to carry out the ,lial ''f cannot see u hole through a ladder, principles that would best suit tho exigencies "",, '" Ma .' ,,,l! '! "'P-po' of this troubled land lui.n, But the total , "r "a-plti". and maku u speech to the multi. failuro in this respect leads us to Ibllow the aamo channel still further nud uoiu the re. port of tho refusal of tho r-ocretuiy of the Territory to attest und deliver u coiiuuihsiou to an individual presenting a certificate of o. lection to the ollice of u Justice of tho I'eaco, within our county. Yet air this proceed uro cannot avail, as tha people know too well their best intarests to sutler tlioir luws to lie subverted in this way. And finally as to Mr. Burnett s principles of returning gooJ for evil, 1 should desire to fed lhankful, yet 1 would rcminu nun t.iut u is un assumption of principles fur abovo our human natures, and that while tho white veil is held boforo tho enchanted vision, poison inav bo scattered through tho social field. ' (i. W. BKLL. Oregon City, Nov. 12, 1847. (r A rather laughablo affair occurred a few days ago, in ono ot too uosion liotcis, showing thu (K-culiar regard which some men have to rank or title in ofiieo. Several nicni bora oftho Houso of Bcpreaentatives were Footed at tho dining tnblo, (feeling rather dignified wo supposo) when ono of them said: " Will tho gentleman from Audovqr plouso nass tho buitcr this way ?" IVotty soon an other spoko, "Will thofcntman from Wor cester nlcaso puss tlw salt this way ?" when ono of our city wags taking tho Ami, turning round to tho black waiter, and Bald distinctly, " Will tho gentleman from Africa please to pass the bread this way t" t. ,,,!,. It won't do to throw ofi'llannal shirts on a warm day in January, in full belief that them will be no more coid weather until another winter. It won't do for an editor to wait for a mail until niL'ht before he commences tho preparn. tion of copy. It won't do to go too near the hind heels of u jackass who has been taught to kick ut strangers. It won't do for a lady to presume that ov. cry man is in loetilJi her who trcuts her civilly. It won't do for a man to hump his head nguinst u stone wall, unless he is completely convinced that his In nil is tho hardest. Kinully ; it won't do to draw tho cnnclu sion that our Mock of "won't do's" is cxhaiis ml, just becuttso wo happen to think it won't do to givo our readers n. lurge doso at this timu. N. O. Picayune. Goon IIumok. Good humor is the clear hluo sky oftho soul, on which every star of talent will shino more clearly, and the sun of genius will encounter no vapors n his pas sage 'Tis tho most exquisite lrcauty of a fino face u redeeming grace in a homily ono. It is liko tho green on a landscape, har moni.inff with ovurv color, mellowing tho 9 lories of the bright, softening tlio hue oftho ark ; or, liko a fluto in a room full of Instru ments, a sound not at first discovered by tha oar, yet filling up breaks in tlio chord by its bewitching inolouy. v. r" 4t! ft L'-