Columbia gazette., 1854-02-11

Aids. His Exellency. 2 Aids
Gov. Swinebugger.
Secretary Of Pike Club.
Officers of the Third House,
Ex-Officers of Pike Go.
Officers Of Oregon Militia and Navy.
Rank and file of same.
Members Of "Ihird House,
Editorial corps Of Oregon and sucl
guests as were willing to be
seen in such company.
Sons OF Pike, natural eyed
Sons of Posey.
; Aids Balance of the crowd. 3 Aids
At one O'Clock the procession com
menced moving to the tune of "We're
all toddling," BY the Ok Horn Band
After moring about from one grocery tt
another, as is the custom of Pike anc
Poscy, the procession finally arrived a
Yell Hall, where the following origina
song was sung by its author-Fairl,
Painting, Esq:
Twas gloomy day, and almost night,
Nayworn and nearly lost.
An old OK team rolled slowly on,
towards the roaring coast.
But the whip was in thy hand, o Dad!
To drive our cattle thar,
10 smooth the rugged path they trod,
Until their feet grew bare.
The dern was first upon the "tongue,' ,
+ When broken on rock,
You cussed the bull that did the wrong
The widest Of our st ock.
Through sand, sage brushes, and through
pains,
In misery not alone,
You said God darn the tarnal plains,
| wish we were at home.
But now we're here, both youth and age,
And turning up the size,
Fed in our weary pilgrimage,
That grub depends on tile.
Teach US, 0 Dad, for to believe
That We no more shall cry
Show us, O Dad, that we may live
On corn bread and "old rye.''
The song was sung ia excellent style
the performer putting in the base through
his nasal organ, which was decidedly O.
riginal. After the song, squire Dogberry
one of Pike county's brightest sons 60,
off the following
Fellou- Cili@ens Of Pike and Posey:
We have fotched ourselves together
on no ordinary occasion We are con.
vened to commemorate an epoch III
Pixies eventful history, which may chal-
lense the inquiry of comparison for fu-
ture, in the inf uences it has exercised
upon the fortunes, and will yet exert or
the unrevealed destinies. not only of ;
whole continent, but Of every portion o
the earth where hog and hominy is known
We have met under 20 ordinary con
catinat;on of circumstances, on the still
untamed shores af the Pacifc-the Ju
piterannum of waters We have com,
| together to render tribute of distinc
professions of lively and exetatic attach
m mt to the early prognosticators Of an
cestral, bee-hunting, coon catching, ane
Injin scalping progenitors. Eminently
appropriate it is that we should not in
actively remember the prolific occurrence
OF the anniversary of our self sacrificing
Dads Decentralization at the Dalls from
the fust ox-wagon that trayersed the
mighty carniverous plains.
Never shall land trust that no sor
of Pike or Posey will ever be so reluc-
tant to his excrutiating ancestors, as tc
forget the time when the range begin tc
b, eat out--when steam fxins skeereo
the game from the big bottoms--wher
the primeval bee, the pertinacious coon
and the internal redskins began to
make themselves scarce in our diggins
Add to this the periannual frantic fa-
naticism with which mighty Missouri
came down in all its magistifcal gran.
dure, like a two year old cub from the
top of tall blackberry, sweeping away
our cabins, harth-stones, and bee-gum:
of futer generations. Yes, feller-citi
zens, the sturdy sycamore, as it is in
liected with the caving banks, amid the
ambiguous food, does not present +;
more grandiloquent picter of moral gran
der, than is extenuated in a washed Of
settlement Of our ancestors. The trust,
rifles and unering butcher-knives, which
had sent the redskins to that place from
whence they don't come back, and sup
piled our fathers with game, ever since
they left North Carolina and Racken
sack, now stood appalled,. Our ances
tors consoled themselves with the refec
ton that
Truth masht to yearth
Will get up again.
| But the, fall of the river didn't cit d
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