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- A " ' : 2 2 w. u. nut; uito xd Morurroa. yooiff OZTTl SATUUIMY, AUGUST 18, 1855. es-a ""?"""'" " r Agents for the Arris. J. Jt. MclSllIPE, htfayette. J. A. JlKRO, .S'arVfrt. MoHiiAN Kl'IMLPIf, Sublimity. "'m. Harlow, M'lltilt't. II. C. IUynond, WW Gwf. IR. Davis, Utoominyton. KlAMK W. Rkow.i, C'orriillii. Ana IlARVitr, ' Ku.iVy. Somixos Allen, I miry. J. E. Lvi.e, . Jon .McKi.iNcr, Calapnoia. Kkv. Wilson Hlaim, fnion 'dint. J.. A. Kick, Jacksonville. II. 1Ia0I5, ('iisliinati. Law Concerning' Zffcwapapcrs. IT If uWritien order Ihe ilieonU'im.iiie of their paper., the pnblialier may continue to kiuI (hem aiif antoraget ait paia. IX If auUenUere neglect or refiiM loUke llirlr pepen hum Hi. port oftVe, nr other plane, to which hey are pent, they ir beU rep:iilile u ill II lli.y Httl ill erre-amir., ehould Ihere be tnjr. (7 If Mili!rilirr remote Li ollr place., with ut infomiiuf lh pi blirlier, anil lli ;x r a tent io the former direeinm, lhry are held riipoiiib!e. IT It hi sot nuflicii'ht for (NMlmiuter, when .... I. n Ink. 'ii mil nf liia filfire. In return nh. with "not laka-n out'' uri'len on lh margin, but Ik miut wnle aiter to tha publisher, Hiving tne name and fjoat-oflk., and (biting lluit the paper i not taken from lbs oflle. Uiherwioo tho p t meater i held rf tqnnnblo. Breastk of Ike Squatter Hove rrlualy " I'lilform. the recently avowed doetrine nf territorial mreiriy broad enough, to thnt it w.ll permit us freely to my whether Will ooine into tho I n inn, ur whether wa will remain without, anil be come separate frurn it I" The foregoing interrogatory was recently propounded by a writer in an Oregon pa per, who seemed honestt y enquiring after a legitimate method by which our people can ever tlicmstilvoa from their printout con nection with tho General Government, and bocotn an independent power. I Io seems at a loss to find tidier in tho Constitution, the decisions of the Coy r Li, tho "opinions" of any of the official adviiter of the nntion's Executivo, oroven in legislative precedent, eatHhlithed hy I'otigrrni, tlm enunciation of priticitilo that uiny h used ns a linn tn to drive nut toino pin in the cable that linila Ul to the c'li.ft .lerney, unliaa thn (leii..ra turn inny ho fount in the Kansas-Nebraska bill , Tho tii'Ktioa lie propounds in rog.trd to tho practical nitturo of tho doctrino of ''ten i- torinl sovereignly," einhrnred in this bill which has bucn ri reived with great npplauso by many well meaning men, who have been captivated by !ho title, which suggest prill, ciple entirely 'antipodal Io thoso really found in the bill, shows that he, in common with many others, has never as yet had his attention closely directed to an investigation of tho real merits of thu hill. Tho organic acta by which Kansas and Nebraska received territorial governments, while they boaMingly claim to have very much enlarged the privileges of the citizens of theso Tcrtilories beyond those enjoyed by the settlers of oilier Territories, are dis similar from our own organic act in but few particulars. Where there is a dissimilarity, with but aolitary exception, so far as theoxercike of Territorial privileges is concerned, tho ad vautago is in our favor. Neither Kansas nor Nebraska possess any rights or privi leges midor their organic acts which are not enjoyed by us, with thu exception of the in traduction, of slavery and polygamy into their territories, and in order seemingly to oiuet these privileges by an equivalent sac rilleo Congress hits very eeriously curtailed ttieir privilege m other respects. For tho purpose of placing the positions which the General Covommont has made us to occupy upon these "domestic institutions" to plain contrast, wo niako tho following extract from tho organic acts of tho two Territories : M an tj t,f. 14 tJHrVarl of ,te. 11 of lit Artrsilii ael. (h'onct. i iui me eoiKiiiiNion, "llie inhabitants of no an me laws or the iwid Territory halltecii UnM HlatM which are.liil. dto enjoy all and sin not locally Inapplireble.'julnr the rights, prij. iall have the M1i,fu,ce,leBe., and advantage ndettn4 within the aaul'tranlej and ecured lo l ermoryof Nebrakaailhe eiple of the Terri eleewheiewilhin thel ni-ltoryof the I'nited Stale. Ud bletea, exrrp tli,;N.a-,.WM the river eijhlheectn.il , tho act Ohio, by the nrlictee of Jireparalory tu the a.lnue- cmnrwet contained in the Jionof M oiiri intv the ordinance for the eovern liuou, .p,.n,,,J J,rrll ,,,,., f ,lld T ' "M '" in- on the 3thh day of Ju!v conwient with Ihe urm. 17H7. .n.i .1..11 1 i' .ph, of noa.mterw.utw, j . ,H lh, eolldlllollli by 8r,ih.l.,r, ,,,dn,rK,i,,h . pn. iuU..N.t and Term., h biikm. in 7,i ariit nea. a. KrmirM by Ihe'of eon,, art i,IW1 ' " monlyealleJlbeeomiire-tory " ' ' U'tl- lUM n.ea.ure. ie hereby Thordin.nonThT dro aredMLLM,, ...J art. 4. cnl.u , fo,': 1 It Iwuif ih. Uw in. kiwmv 1 lent and iiie.nii.x , , .. rUl ,, fc act uot to legale .l.very th.r riawy n itulun. into auy I ernlory ur lry ertiiu.lr ,t 1 Klalr, nor I. rl.,de it T.rrilory.oH,,,, ,h,n "'"' u 10 Hare 111 me puu linirm ... uienxu per-ciiiuea, wheieol toiii nre 10 lorn, .j )y ,tlu ,, krfB reulale their ileuH i.li,. coiiv rti-it." ineniuuuiu iu lih ir .a Way, euhjecl enly lo t, riiMMuiH.rihe I uilrd Klalee," 1 Tie people of K..unu 10 not tee pwt,, har rA.uH mm ii . . r " 'i .iaf fo- art in u,.y ilfaiattawU!, butkt i, compe lled te.ii1vU.oiiitfgv,romenl,do(.ion- Tniurwb, fA,rWr,o.xamiucd. ow when added to all tU tin Unittd Stuta, whilst on th other hand the jxojile of Oreyon, Wiuhinglm, uui Mimittuta are not required to u-ait the ytion otlie Kxecutive, mien the Ltyitla. turn of their reujieetive Territuriet may have required the Oovernor'e tommiuion hy exjtresi Irgiilative tnaeimtnti. This is proved by contrasting the follow ing: Part '. J lie-Part tfeae.it Ike Or Keniu anil Ntliratka egon ael. tel, "lie (tlie Governor) "II (O'e Gevernnrj shall eoiiiiiiiMiou all ofli. hall conimMon all ofTi-jeers who (hall be p een who ehsll be appoint-! pointed to office under the id lo oflica umler the laws of the said Territory, laws of the said Terriui-jteWe 6y earn ry, and slutll take care miHion ihall be reqni tint the Inwsba fsitliful-W, and tball take care ly executed." that the laws be faithful- ly executed." Ia Kansas and Xubraska tho Governor eonetitutre a part of the legislative power nnd authority, whilst in tho other Tcrrito lies alludud to, if i alone veettd in a Lnjie lathe Aeetmblif chosen by the people. When an imported appointee, whose ap pointment to oHiee depends merely upon the whim or caprice of tho President, is made a pait of the "Icijhlative poieer and authority" of a Territory, it Would rook as though the pcoplo had littlo occasion fr ranking any groat noise about the blessed privileies of "iMiuutter sovereignty." Purl of tee. 4 of the K. Part of tee. 4 oi Or tiilnatkn art I egon act. ' "The lef'ilatire power "The legitlalive ower and aiithunly of said and authority of mil J er. Territory shell be vieted riiory thsll be veeied in in A Coventor and a le(uJatie axeinbly. Ir i,lulie anembly." I l'.ut let us coiiltubt the real "sovereignty of the peoplo of these Territories by a little further examination into tho comparative powers of their (Jovirnors, Part of nr. fi of the tntand Nthratk A'lM- Pari of tee. C of the Or ratka net egon ael, "Kverybillwlikhihall "All the laws punned hare psaed the eouneilihy tho Iginlatire At- and hoiiM of reprpwiitu weiubly shall be lubmiilcd lives of the said Territo ry, shall, before it be 10 the ConLTiMi or the United Slain, nud if din- come a law, be prevented to the Govemer of the upprovtij, eh.ill be null and or no etlect. Territory i if he approve he shall eiin it; but ill uot, he ihall return it with his objections to the bonne in which it onip ua ted, who ehall enter the objections at laruo on their journal, and proceed lo reeonnider it If, afier mich reconriileration, two thirds of that house ehall iign e lo pjre the bill, it hall bo sent, tO(fther w ill tho objections,, to the oilier houie, by wliieh it sliiill I kewine berccon sidereil, and if approved hy Iwu-thirds of thai houoe, it shall become u law." What a beautiful exhibition of squatter sovereignty ! I he penplo of Kansas and Nebraska, 110 matter what their necessities, and no mailer how imperative their wants, aro not permitted to uiako any legislative provision for thorn whatever, (if their im ported Governor oppose,) vnlae they tan carry it by a two thirde vote I Tho "legiblativo assembly" of Kansas and Nebraska is composed of thirty-nine mem bers each. Now, if tho Governor of either, by bribery, or by the exercise of any other undue uilluenco, can barely securo tho co-op. ersition of fourteen of thoso members ho can hold at defiance tho will of the wholo people of those Territories, aud render it im possible for tho remaining twonly-fivo of their representatives to pass any act what ever. The people of Kansas and Nebraska were uot even allowed to locato their seat of eov crnnicnl whero they chose, provided it was not agrecablo to their Governor. If their Governor and fourteen members of the lew. Ulntivo assembly chose to lay cHita town, or embark in a speculation in tow n property, at any point whalover, and no matter how inconvenient to tho people and unsuitable for tho capital, those fifteen gentlemen had it in their power to say to the wholo Territo ry, "If you will not locate tho seat of gov- ernmenl upon oursito, you shall not locale it at all. Here wo find hy the organic act of Kansas- anil Nebraska that fierii , onto whom true appointed by the President of' Ihe I'm ted States, held the balance of iK.w.-r ,1, their own hands, and were able aucocssfulli . to resist the will of llw wholo people, no matter if they numbered fifty thousand ! This is "squntter sovereignly with a ven geance. But here is the proof, and in order still to keep up tho contrast between the rights of these Kansas sovereign and our own, we will again place them in contrast Pa, t . trr.p of IK, Par, , ,,.. 13 o ,h, AaHiat-Aetrukaacl. (),,,..-, J . " And si and firrt om-I d al .I . . eion, or a. a.n thereafter ou. or a. soon thereafter M they ah.ll J, , lhry ,, Uv Native .. . .... Trrnor aim uie.it. the Iririahilire aa- Uv slative a mblv ihall .1..11 . . a. .7.. V I, ' M ,h,v msy d.-em Aem ehg tu., h,cl, elble; w'h,ch plac, Me, however, however, ehall tl,w R after fc. wh t to be .ubjtt b. ch.nse.1 by Ih, aaid by d legl.,i,, l.overn. aud H-r.Uative Wv " . It must b, borne in miud that tho wJu,h '1 we remember that not only tho Governors, but also the Secretary, Chief Justices, and Associate: Justices, Attorneys, and Mar shals, of Kaunas and Nebraska Territories, aro, like similar officers of other Territories appoiuted by the President, instead of being elected by tho people, we are compelled lo look around in vain, for an exhibition 01 me boasted principlo said to have been discover ed by Douglas and Co., and to be contained in the Kauas-Nebnika bill. U'e fitid there no privilciM expressed, excepting that of regulating the "domestic institutions" of tho Territory, (which embraces not only slavery but polygamy, as is proved by the action of Congress upon the "Act creating the ofiico of Surveyor General," Ac, for Utah,) that docs not already belong to the pcoplo of other Territories. Hut on tin- other hand we find many valuable priviligi which we enjoy, wrested from the hands of tho citizens of Kansas and Vbrnka, ami retained by the Cieueral Government. The whole thing shows it-elf to bo a pro slavery, pro polygamy, tyrniiical humbug, artfully coiicalod umler a specious and do- c prise title, in oi jer to carry out the wishes of I hi' most ard-iit advocate of an unlimited slavery extension, and deceive the simple. minded dupes of party into the support of it. Tho mow we examine thin 'squatter sov ereignty' tho more glaring h conies its decep tion, and iu-sb'tnl of lenring its head in the conscious dignity of truth, it settles lower and lower, until it asutnes a position that may well entitle it to the appellation of Sfinttiny "Sovereignty." In fact we think wo have proved it to be such, and shall here, after consider it to ba best represented by that name. We rather think that by this time our old "mountaineer" has pretty well given up the idea of finding any thing "in the recently avowed doctrine of Territorial Sovereignty" that will justify Oregon in cutting herself entirely loose from the Union, and setting up upon her own hook. If Oregon wishes to take a position on the platform of "Territorial Sovereignty" as sot forth in tho Nebraska hill, she must oc cupy a platform composed of only two solitary planks, (and miserably rotten ones al ihnt,) composed of No. 1, Slavery, No. 2, Polygamy. Hurrah for Squatting Sovereignty t Another Indian Outbreak U Roiue River Valley. Wc learn that on or about the 3d inst. tho Indians shot a white man in tho vicinity of Jacksonville. A company consisting of Dr. McKiuny and eight others went iu pur suit of the Indians, whom they soon over took in large numbers. A fight ensued, which resulted in tho slaughter of tho Dr. and seven of his party. Only one man es caped to tell tho talo. A strong party of whites had gotio in pursuit of the savages, This shows that the apprehensions of the Yrcka citizens, that the Roguo river and Klamath Indians were acting in concert, wero not altogether groundless P. 8. By recent advices from Vreka we learn that a heavy train of animals loaded with merchandize, drc, is on its way from that city to tho Colville mines. Dr. Lock woo versus Meliean. Upon tho reception of the short note from S, T. McKean contradicting the state ment previously made by the Dr., we hauded it lo Dr. Lock wood, iuforming him that wc should publish it as a duty to Mr. McKean, and also informed liim if he had any thing to say in reply, he should be heard. Mr. McKean 's letter and the Dr.'s notice of it aro iu another column. For Ihe information of thoso unacquain ted with the parlies wo may as well state, perhaps, that the Hon. S. T. McKean is an lix-Coui:eilmun of Oregon. Any further than that wo are not alio to say, as he is an entire stranger to us. Dr. LocU.ioJ is a resident of our city, and from uur own acquaintance with him and from In ar-ny we take him to be a "en- tloman of undoubted veracity. Tlio Dr- ns t bo a consistent .l rft1..i....i .1 Mb U- vocale of U it.peranoe ; Hon. S. T. McKean ;rncjrj to be the same. They both claim to bo democra's, iu puliiics, but which of them is really democratic, (JelTorsouian,) u leave it tor others to m l"e. School Master Wanted. 'We have nolrarsbui ih.t if u.i .1 1.. , . , -si w'd "rf"' hi" briu oul "',h b buut"'-'"' v-uu. ,ou 00 ,0 good as to inform us to which of the dead language, this term u. W belongs V take it t be Laiin, and should have been placed with vourotli er Latin quotations, which would have giv. en quite a classical finishing touch to your learned disquisition, by such a pathetic apos trophe as the following : JJ'T' Mom! 0 Burning I- u , hop. that the world will still wag on." r,..i 1 1 Ul.kly Important trom smklit-i Murderers ot Rev. Mr. Clark's family l.tov.r- Tillamook In.U- kuui at l-af.yeu.- y 0M uw Ike mountains in searckef Ike baUncs f tke Murderers. It will bo recollected, that three weeks ago we gave an account of iho turning of Rev. Mr. Clink's cubiu on the head of Soulh Yamhill, and the mysterious destruction of his fumily, consisting of his aged wife ana a grown ion, which took place in the night during the abscuce of Mr. Clark from home. Hccent'dcvelopmenti have fully justified the suspicion we then expressed, that this horrible deed had been perpetrated by a party of Tillamook Indians. We uro indebted 10 J. H. McDride, Esq, a resident of Yamhill, for the following in formation : ' It scdiiH that tho Sheriff (of Yamhill county perhaps,) had occasion lo go to Till amook, t ) servo a legal pro ss upon soino defendant wl 0 lived there. Tho Indians heiiijj aw.iro of h's i fiiciid charucter, and noticing his apparent earnest conversation with the whiies, during which he exhibited certain papers, became supicious that he was alter tho murderers of Clark's family, and in their anxiety to rind out, whether it was so, proM)iinded qu stioiis to tho whites of such a character, as at once fastened suspicion upon them for having committed tho murder. Tho Sheriff immediately summoned tho chief and peremptorily de manded tho murderers. Tho chief at once acknowledged thatono of his tribe had committed tho murder, but that he was then gone out of reach. Tho Sheriff in formed him that if he was not forthcoming immediately the w bites would soon be over the mountains' t,o take vengeance on . the wholo tribe. Upou this tho chief sent out a party, which soon returned bringing the culprit, and delivered him over to tho Sheriff. A coustdcrable quantity of the clothing taken from the houso of Mr. Clark, was di? covered with tho Indians, l'lunder was the only cause alleged by tho savages for having destroyed the family. The captured Indian confessed that he was a party iu the transaction but implicated two more as having assisted, lla said they stabbed the old lady in bed with n knife, and then cut her throat. Tho young man it seems they stabbed in the breast, but the knife not en tering by reason of tho breast hone, they wero compelled after a struggle, to cut his throat. Tho house was thon robbed of all its valuables, and fired. The Indian excused himself, on the ground that bo was poor, and not alio to buy clothing for hjs squaw, who was very clamorous as to her desire "to have things like other squaws." The Sheriff was accompanied to Lafayette by a party of whites, having tho prisoner iu charge. He was fully committed after a full hearing before Esquire Campbell, and placed under guard. During the following night he was taken from tho custody of the guard by a party of men, in disguise, nnd nothing more was known of the Indian un'il the next morning when ho was discovered dangling to tho limb of a tree iu tho sub urbs of Lafayette. 0 unilcrxtand that a party of some twenty-five men had armed themselves nnd gone to Tillamook in order lo bring the ba ance of tho murderers to justice. It would bo hard to make us believo that only three Indians were concerned in that bloody tragedy. The Tlouecr, or California. Monthly Maga line. Has been laid on our table by S. J. Me Cormic, of Tot tlaud, who is an agent for ihe work. We have not had time to ex amine it enough to form an opinion of its merits, but from a hasty inspection it looks as though it might be worth the to 00 per j ear 11 costs, its selections sermrfo be well made and mostly of a decided scientific character. "euro at a perfect loss to discover the exact peculiarities 0f tl,e editor's tastc, By a reference to the "Kdiu.r Table," we see 1 . it . . . . niiecuotes ot "inspired Idiots," "Bills of tare fr "Oxtail soup, mutton, tan........ boiled ra-ira, HU( roasted mrUi .l - .v .. , vt;iiie:r with n dreadful necounl of one "Stubbins, who satisfied his appetite on n .,,,' ,,, nier'a dav by eating thirty-six ears of corn," ..11 I., II ' u.i ucnuuiuny mixed up with a "gem" of poeiry oy r rollock, with notices of "admi table pieces of music," such as the "Sou. veuir de L'Opera," and an anecdote of one Hendricks who resided many years ago in Florida, was a very profane'man, got "con verted, joined the Methodists, and aRer wardsfell out with the Almighty for send ing a hurricane and destroying his crop-, hopped upanddown.sworo bitterly, called on his wife to fetch his coat, as ho was go ing straight to town to have his nam. off tho church book "and he did it." He seems to be niun nfm: viiiuiiwjbi an- petite, and from a "table" groaning under such a burden of literary salmagundi, every txxiy can certainly find something that the'y can swallow. . ' SIT Seme eerrtrreckiice crowded (mi. tii. miliary tt rum Astoria lo MaUm. I Lieut, tieorge II. Derby, of the Topo 'graphical lit.gi.iecn., reachcJ this ciy on 1 lust Tuesday, haviug just completed his review of tho Astoria and Sulem rondos 1 far south as the Tuahtiin plain". Tho 'distance from Astoria to tho edge of tho ' plains by the nearest route is sixty-five 1 mih-s. Lieut. Derby informs us, thnt the greut. st obstacle to be encountered in open ing tho road will he tho removal of timber. The siefpost grade upon the wholo route is thought not lo exceed 0110 huudrcd and twenty feet to iho mile. Tho country from Astoria to the I'lains is generally heavily limbered, with an excellent soil. Upon thu Nehalitn river thcro is n prairie one and a half miles wido, and sonio twenty miles long This river empties into the ocean a short distance south of Killamook head, at tho southern extremity of Clatsop I'lains. At the point where tho road crosses it, it is on-' hundred and twenty feet wide, nnd from fivo to thirty feet deep, flowing with a moderate current, and having hanks well suited for a good ferry. Tho Indians from tho cast are iu the babit of navigating this river to a poitit only ono and a half miles distant from the head of the Klaskatii, whero their canoes are hauled out and carried over tho ridgp, and they aro soon paddling down 0110 of iho tributaries of the Columbia. There is an excellent stotio quarry n short distance above the crossing of the Nchalim. Thirty thousand dollars have ulrendy been appropriated by Congress for making this road, and with an appropriation of an ad ditional fifty thousand, Lieut. Derby, thinks it can be completed to the plains. A mere trifle, will complete, the balance of the road to Salem, which will pass through a henuti ful prairie country. Tho wholo distance from Astoria to Salem is about ono hundred aud fifteen miles. Hear II in Mind, That tho yearly examination of Academy and College classes will taho place at Forest Grove onlhe 20th nnd 2 1st of August. On Wednesday, ihe 22d of August, tho Presi dent of the University is to be inaugurated. Exercises to commence at 1 1 o'clock, A. M. Public speaking by tho students in the evening. Wo hope. the friends of education will "turn out" in suSh numbers 11s to exhibit thu right kind of zeal iu behalf of education iu the w hole country adjacent to tho Insti tution. From tho celebrity of tho geutlc men having-charge of tho various depart ments, wc shall expect an "exhibition" thnt will justify the effort. We will try to meet you all there. To Those Who are Leaving for tke Mines. Nothing is more common than for these who nre about to start out upon an important enterprise, or upon a dangerous and difficult journey, to be offered all sorts of adiico by their well wishers, as to their outfit, conduct on the way, ic, &c., in order to crown their efforts with the best results. We presume that you will bo reminded over and over agaiu by your anxious friends of every thing necessary to be done before startinc ex cepting perhaps one, and this one thing, as strange as it may appear, ice look upon as a matter of the highest importance, and from our peculiar position before the public, per haps the duly of putting you in mind of this one thing devolves very naturally upon us.. Need w say that our ntlention has been lately forcibly called to the necessity of an immediate discharge of our duty, by the tact that Urecn Davis, of Da ton, Yaniliill County, Oregoti, has absquatulated for the mines, sending us word to "stop his paper," and making no provisions for paying us the -",00 ho owes us. If ho should happen to be killed by the Indians, (which we fear he will,) what an awful future reckoning awaits him I The man who fails lo settle up with a poor printer, if there be any justice in Heaven, must, sooner or later. m.Cct with ;Smo sad calamity. No person going to the mines unuer such circumstances has any j'iiiii 10 expect tne smiles of an overruling roviuencc. in tact, wo sometimes almost tremble when we hear news from thoso on tho road, for fear that we shall bo comoelled to chronicle tho fad that the vniaim of aven, ever vigilant, nnd sure of its mark, j aireuay overtaken Davis. Convalescent. We are truly gratified to learn by Gov unmes, wno paid us a visit on last Tuesday that the Key. O.Dickinson, of Salem, who" "is imgi, nroken some weeks since, is w aoie to get around the house. We hope Mr. Dickinson has not been forsaken by his friends during his affliction. Ho is agenueman, wno is entitled to m.m- f, . of the .rue sort. As a man of consistent unwavering principles, and as a minister of me gospel, wno practice, the virtues he rreaches,hemaywc!l do as. pattern fur some preachers wo L ...1 , . vi, uo mane a great "Ml docs. more "noise" in the world than he Our friend C, A. Reed, 0f Salem, beats any man m Oregon, a littl,., in sen(li . nw subscribers. Another Indian Outbreak! Ceneral M t Miner en Ika ILL. alk-Ml Ika Houlkern Trluet Hnapott to ba Combine-Tremeuaotu fcxellt. meal In Vreka S. Ceneral War V.. uecuaTka Vbol UlaU'Ully HnpuMtt lo kave Orliftoale In n Quart nf Wkl. kyl Tho Yrcka Union of iho 4th inst. brings tho sad intelligenco of a roteut outbreak among the savages on tho hluninth and its tributaries, which threatens lo bo a matter of 110 trilling import. News had reached YruLa that ten miners on tho Klmnulh had been sacrificed by tho savages, nnd it was also thought from the best information that could bo obtained that "every whito man on the river from tho mouth of Humbug down had been murdered, nud that lhry (the In. diaiis) were still nigagod in cutting off those who might be unprepared for tin in, nnd ig. uorant of tlm outbreak." Cflpt. J udah, with twelvo of his uicn, and a company of vol untcors, had gotio in pursuit of the Indians, but nothing had bcru heard as to their suc cess. It was pretty satisfactorily ascertained that the lioguo Rivor, Shasta, and Klamath River Indians had combined, and were ta king rcfugo in a cave some twenty miles from Yrcka. The names of those who were known to hnvo been killed were, Peters, Kdw. Punish, Thos. Gray, Win. Hennessey, and l'etcr Hignight, besides six others, nttines unknown. Tho Union had been un able, owing to tho iutcuso excitement, o ar rive at the real cause of the outbreak, but says, from its best information, it originated in n difficulty between Peters, a miner on Humbug, and three drunken Indians. It . seems that the Indians in question, (one of tlietn on horseback and the others on foot,) had approached Peters and his pariner whilst they were at work, and attempted to run over them, and maltreat ihem in diverse, ways. Peters threatened to shoot if they persisted iu their conduct. This aggrava ted tho savages to nn increased violence, whereupon Peters drew his revolver nnd shot the Indian in tho breast, at the same instant receiving tho contents of a revolver in tho hand of the savage. Peters survived but a short time. The Indians made their escape, but were soon pursued by a parly of whites and brought back to Humbug. Tw o of them made their escape, nnd upon joining their tribe reported that tho whites had massa cred their partner, whom they left in custo dy. This was a signal for tho general on slaught, which has since been made. The whites seem to bo engaged in an indiscrim inate slaughter every Indian that falls within tlrir reach is either shot duvvu or hung. The Indians were said to have re ceived their ammunition from negroes who lived in Y'reku. Colville Mines. Nothing new this week, We have etft gaged the services of some able writers as correspondents, who will, if they remain in the mines, keep us regularly posted up as lo matters out there. Importance ot n Reliable Ttcwspaner. The following embraces sections 4 and 5 of nn net parsed by tho Legislative Assem bly of Oregon in January, 18-"4, concern ing weights and measures; and it will be of use to our reade.is who are not iu post-essiou of the statute. Wo sec that the "Standard" has published a similar table, taken from some exchange paper, which differs very ma terially from this. It gives 35 pounds of oats to the bushel instead of 30, barley 48 p'Uiuda instead of 46, huc!:h- at "2 pounds instead of 42. If any . f our subscribers happen lo hnvo neighbors who are selling their produce by "Standard'' weight, we bopoyou will bo good enough to loan them The Akgus, so that they may see the law. Now, supposing your neighbor sells his crop of 500 bushels of barley, by "Standard'! wclS'.:t, at the moderate price of two dol lars per bushel he will lose just $43 47, (a sum sufficient to pay for our paper for about ten years,) and all in consequence of takia a "cheap paper." We have always thought it a poor way for a man to try to get rich by buying "cheap articles." Now don't understand us to lay all the blame upon the. editor, for we are certain thnt if his s'ubscri bers would pay him a fair living price for the "Standard" ho would have much mora time to devote to it, and instead of being harassed and tormented about his pecuniary affairs, so that the poor man is well n,Vh crazed, and hardly knows what he docs se lect, he might be better able to avoid such mistakes as sending Wise to the U. S. feenate, and selling barley at forty-eight pounds to the bushel. Sixty oound for k.-i...i . Mej . - - ""v.-i ui wneai or clover- "ty-ix pouuda fur a biiO.M f .... corn : iuu.au llurtv-aix pound, for a bushel of oats i orty-x pound. for , bu,he rf fc Forty-two poond. for bushel of buckwheat : 1 WeutV-einhl rnnnJ. f. - u... . . , 7 7 nl... n. aZ.a " i . " BUSe' oi lined ap- X-IIogsare now running at laro in our city, destroying much of our peace, and ome of our potatoes. Where is the Mar-. a.ij !