Columbia gazette., 1854-02-11

guilty, so they squatted about on chuncks
wasting thar sweetness on the desert air
Not coon nor deer was left in Pike.
The possims emi grated to the contagus
counties, even the warnuck trees, which
had afforded coloring matter for our
woolsey, had been uprooted and hurried
amid mighty variated conglomerate
masses Of fiood-wood down the father Of
waters. AS climax of our misfortunes
Kit Billiards. still-house had shared the
inexonerable fate of the settlement and
left us entirely spiritless.
| 1t was in the middle of this catastro-
! phe, trial and misfortune, that our stur-
| dy ancestors, prompted by love of life,
liberty and something to live on, deter
mined to brave the antedcluvian plains
and demonistical savage, to find new
home and establish thar patriotic princi-
piles in the Pike of the mighty Pacific,
and here their posterity had reason to
Fexclaim with the poet
There is a destiny which shapes our ends
rough,
| Hew them as we will.
Pass that jug this way.] shall not
attempt feller-creeters, to enter into the
detail of our corruscating the mighty
mountains and circumadjacent country
which supports the arch of heaven, in
the Rocky Mountains, suffice it to say
that our mocasons soon became in high
state Of delapidation by the exuberent
taking it foot, that the prickly-pair
stuck our feet, and in short tried our
souls. After perilous trip to which
the voyage of Columbus, in the ship In
dependence, bears no comparison; we
landed safe on the "Rockn at William
cite Falls, bursting our way through the
Cascades like the principles of civil and
religious liberty, in shattered basaltie
fragments, and it was only by the kind
ness OF Providence and few other gen.
tlemen, that we succeeded in obtaining
Z small quantity of boiled wheat.
But let us revert to the object to-day
-four veneration. Pass the jug again.
Ascend with me the gentle cminence
that o'erlooks the creek, nesting in the
repose ofhappiness at its feet. 1t is but
short time since, situated on the brew
of hill you mi ght have watched the sol
itary bark to its puintescent base and
there in all his native grandor, seer Sla-
comb tote the still animate salmon to his
oderiferous lodge.
"lle was lovely beast I cess,
To see,
The painter in the wilderness,
| Was not more fierce than he."
Yes, feller-citizcns, our destiny has
driven us out of the crack, to make room
for the Quaker-banoing and witch
burning offspring of the land of wooden
nutmegs. And while we have become
the pioneer founders Of new Pike, the
hallowed spot on which we first pitched
our tents at the Willamette, has been
desecrated by vendors of beech hams,
horn gun fints, wooden nutmegs, bass
wood cucumber seeds, and cast iron beet
seeds, warranted not to rot in the ground.
\ Josepheus says in his life of Gen.
Scott, "slck transick glorious Monday
morning"
| AT this part Of the Grafton squire
Dogberry complained of being fatieued,
and his remarks were continued in rath-
er an inaudible tone, which our repor-
ter found difficulty to transfer to paper,
as they at intervals escape from an old
crockery crate
One of the audience then sung in the
most admirable and impressive manner,
seldom equalled-never excelled--the
following hymn, by mrs. somebody, we
disremember her name, native Of Po-
sey county:
Hush dear Bctsey, don't you cry,
III be back again byme-by,
| After the song the folding doors were
thrown open, and what sight met the
eye. Several tables nearly groaned un-
der the delicacies that would have tempt
ed wooden nutmeg pedlar to have in
vested in his last "scad.n Conspicuous
among the viands were those truly Pike
county dishes--s'possum pie" and "corn
dodgers. Two hundred and fifty
guests, more or less, comprising large
portion of the masculine, beauty and
chlvalry of Pike county, sat down to this
feast ofreason and flow of soul At five
O'Clock, the president Tugmutton, esq.,,
rose from his seat on an inverted candle
box, and welcomed in few eloquent re-
marks, the invited guests to the hospital
tiles Of the sons of Pike and Posey. He
too ferred in happy style, to the COM
pliance of the aforesaid guests, in adopt
ing the yallar warnuck colored unmen-
tionables, the uniform of the sons Of
Pike. He also referred in magnani-
nous style, to onehorse supper, gotten
up by few Of the sons Of the land oi