Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1845-12-24

TuE OREGON QuEsrloN.--A condensed report OF cor
responde this important question: between our Sc
cretaries and the British Ministers is gwen III
davis paper. The claims both sides are suicen'y
strong enough show that title to it is not entirely
AZ .clear and unauesonabIe of the hot Ol'e-
oo, family pre,end to assert, and that If obtain the
s,hole of it, by force The ocooco reasons OF
TIVE rant it and must hare it,, may be .cear enough
for them but in carrying those reasons out 1t viii uh
aucstionably be found to result III WAR ne ioo"hs
remarks of the Ne,p York Tribune, are to the point
This OREgoN QUESTION is complicated, anu lis
settlement dangerously pro,racted to suoscrVc
Tho nurposcs of gambling dcma gogucs, VINO woniu
acrl(icc hundred thousand lives 10 secure them
solves three moves forward on tho political chess
boar Wo may 90 TO war about Oregon, oufh
;f,y towns CAPTURE two thousand ships on each
sid d ,troy thousa nds thousands OF lives ana
millions after millions OF property. yet IN Inc ehu
we shall mako peace, as we uid i'o fiSt ''i',e'
without any important CONCESSION on c'ther s'u''
Great Britain cannot conquer u.s. VIC cannon con-
oucr her Very probably, after two or three
years OF dcsoatng warfare. we shouiti accept In
mediation of some mutually friendly Power. ana
submit our Oregon boundary to arottratlon-a re-
sort which Great Britain has recently offered Us
and we have rejected. At all events. that ooil-
darv will finally be fixed either ut tho 18th de-
gree, the Columbia river, or ''na"hcrc pc'"ceh
them WHY not re fer its settlement TO unoXccr-
lionabIe arbitars! VIGOROUSLY, the claim OF
either nation is not s.cicrr and lndisputabe. cisc
il would no. have been so Tong and earnestly DIS
puted. Tho strip OF land beiwcon tho ooiu!i.-
bia and tho 49lh degree with ports on Pagoti
Sound secured 10 In any event) Is OF llie value
at any rate--ccr,anly not worth ono Thousand
human lives. Let US show our confluence IN Inc
Justice of our claim by promptly agreeing to ar
bitratc with a reciprocal limitation. IT deemed eX'
pedicnt to the strip actually IN dispute mere
is nothing to 90 to about bu, PRIDE, obs'nacy
pa rtv intrigue. and criminal ambition. The wiso
aud good must not surrender to these.
r=Commodore Jesse D. Elliott, commandant of the
NAVY Yard at Phadep died in that city on the 10Th
instant aged about sixty two years. Com Elliott bore
conspicuous part the glorious battle of Lake Erie un
der Com Perry, and has figured extensively IN the naVa
history of his country up to the day OF ms deai'
y,rraa for the Extra Ono of the Smiths, mot
John but Extra Billy Smith, has been elected Gov
of Virginia by the Legislature, by majority of IS The
Governor is called Extra Billy, from the fact that he
paid many fat Extra Allowances by fostmastei
General BARRY.
Miss 4Lbev Keller and Mr. s. s. Foster.-The following
is the latest news have received of these coworhers
since they city. seem that they are mol
married yet. The Rev Luther Lee, OF the True " es-
eyan, himself aboltonist OF me oid oI sai@d''o-'
very coolly says:
..Tbe story of the marriage of Abbey Kelley and :
Foster is pronounced false in the An-Savery Standard
We do not know started the story, but the author
thought they ought TO be married.
CoLpSnow, the depth of 40 feet and then falling
sa f.s. that il was impossible II i------
feet the 5h instant, and the thermometer Gown
ten degrees below zero; says the Quebec Gazette.
The Term wH,c-The word WING, says an exchang
paper is made up of the initial letters of the motto
all good men: 1--WE Trust In GOD
Funny-The editor of the Indiana Democrat hope
that the State Bank will to Chapman full paymen
for all claims which may hold against -and that
will fork the specie him all occasions-for tn
that Chapman distressed about holding tn
..f,hv rays of said Bank! Ha ha ha. ''Crow, Chap
man, crow like a Jassack.
/ Mr. Ewing the whig candidate for Congress IN tn
Nashville (Tenn district elected over his loco com
pettor Mr. Tousdale, by a majority OF about l2oo
The DAYTON Transcript says: 1T said that IL barrel
of fish were taken at haul of sen in the Miami rive
in the vicinity of this city. the l.th-'
In 1854 the Legislature of Pa. passed resoluto
that uo thereof should to the house bare
foot or eat his and cheese the The PEG
pie State have progressed since THIS prohbitor
Tariff resolution