The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1854-02-18
OREGON CORRESPONDENCE.


Tor the laft Jour weeks, and Will continue In
session four weeks longer, at the expiration
Of which time the pay Of the members will
stop, and they will of course ADJOURN
Among the questions that will come before
the Legislature, is the question of taking the
iniiiatOry steps towards applying for udmis-
sion into the Union. Oregon is progressing
SO raPidly in population that there seems to
be no reason why she should continue in
state Of territorial vassalage and colonial de-
pendence on the Federal Government. II
is time that she should don the bright robes
Of sovereignty and take her place in the
mighty sistcrhood.
The Legislative Assem- bly, consists of two
branches denomnated the Council and the
House Of Representatives. The formed con-
tsins eight members; the latter twenty five.
The members Of the Council are generally
elderly gentlemen, farmers merchants, law
yers, and one physician, DR.. Wilcox, who is
President. The members Of the House are
q younger class Of men of various occupa-
tons, including three members of the Bar
ard two physicians. Their speaker is Capt.
d. c. Bishop, now the proprietor of a milling
establishment. lie is well qualified for the
station he fills, as is also the presiding officer
of the Council, DR.. Wilcox. The Governor
Of the Territory is Hoosier, Hon. John w.
Davis. He arrived in the Territory about
four weeks ago, and entered Immediately up
on the discharge Of his dulles. He is SO well
known TO most Of the readers of the Journal,
that it is unnecessary to describe him. tits
sufficient to say that his appointment gave
great satisfaction, and have no doubt that
he will make popular and efficient Cover
nr. t"
The Supreme Court Of the Territory is
composed of three judges appointed by the
President. The present incumbents are
Williams. Chief Justice, Olney and Mead
den, Associates. NJ. S. Deadly of
the first appo;ntees of President Pierce; but
for some cause, as yet unexplained, he was
removed, and Judge McFadden appointed in
his place.
Since | last wrote to you the autumnsl
breezes have ceased to blow; and "pale con-
GLIDING winter" has brought forward the
closing scene Of the expiring year. SHOW
dead the vegetable kingdom lies; how dumb
the tuneiul." Not SO in Oregon, assure
you. Nature wears not here the mournfui
dreary aspect in which old winter arrays her
in the States. Her winter garb in Oregon
is not robe Of snow, gemmed with ice. She
wears the "sober livery of autumn" tinged
with vernal green From the window where
] write the distant hills and mountains may
be seen, crested with ice and snow, and gilt
tering in the sun light as ridges and mounds
of Furnished silver; while the broad valleys
below, decked in perennial green, rival in
beauty and fertility the rich wales of Andalu.
STA and Cashmere. Strange spectacle this
in mid-w inter. Singular winter scene
What would the sleigh riders of Vermont say,
iftold ofgreen grass and the blooming straw
berry in Oregon in December! What would
the Delaware skater say! lie would say as
the king of Siam said to the Dutch ambassa-
dor, when told of ice in Holland, "it's lie."
Now, the king OF Siam had never seen
ice. and therefore could not conceive how
the water could become hard and solid, as re.
presented by the ambassador of Holland. i
SO the people Of the States cannot credit the |
statement, that the grass is green and the |
flowers bloom in Oregon i'm December; be-
cause it is contrary 10 their experience that
such things should exist in so Northern a lat
itude. And yet the fact is as slated. Ice
has appeared but once this winter, and Their |
of the thickness Of wafer or knife blade
OF frosts We have had few; but they are |
not shifting, killing frosts" as described by
Shakespeare. They are slight and gentle,
and shrink so timidly from the fiery light of
Phebus wheels ascending the Eastern sky,
that only early risers are made aware by ocu-
lar demonstration that we have any Grosts at
all. The sluggard who hugs his pillow and
folds his arms, and says"a little more Sleep"
may indulge the hope Of beholding the noe.
turnal creations of mischievous Jack; but
while he SAUNDERS the frost-work melts into
dew drops glittering in the clear mornir 9
light, the lark carols her matin song, and the
Iiimsy creations Of the geni Of the nigh, are
by Southern zephyrs into the
vernal beauties of an Oregon winter.spring.
To one accustomed to the biting f-os,s and
chilling blasts OF the Atlantic States, the
genial warmth of an Oregon winter is an I'M {
qualified luxury. It must be experienced to
be appreciated.
But let me not be understood as advising
my person TO come to this country. merely
tate facts. | wish every person to act ac- :
ording to the dictates of his own judgment. J