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The Timet and Oregonian of last Satur day contain a tremendously interesting cor respondence between tlio representative nf Oregon Militia on tho ono side, and the principal authorities iii command of the regular forces on the other. This morceiiu of military diplomncy.'in lengib, zeal, and management, comes near rivaling tlio cbr- respbndcncc between Secretary Marcv and the Austrian Minister, about the celebrated Rosta affair. If our militia succeed as well in the open field as in forensic tactic, our "regulars" w ill be "no where," whilst our militia " ill coino home "covered all over With glory." ' " If our brave Colonel was foiled in his re cent diplomatic fencing with ilio grim giants of scientific war, he has left it upon record Ibnt it was not for the want of effort, or punk, but simply on account of the iron rule oi military usages, wmi wlncli no was of course somewhat unacquainted. The correspondence is so long that we cannot yield enough of our precious srmco to jiive it in full. Tlio following however contains the cream of it coiideiisi d : l; . ODL. NESMITII TO UAJ. RAINS. i v FoaT DiLLr.s, Oct. 22, '55. Th Governor of Oregon order me to co-operate with you in tlifa campaign. I want a cunfer euce with you. Please uarne your own time aud blate. COL. NESMITII to haj. rains, aoaiN. At our interview you requeued ms to stal in writing what I requested of you verbally, namely to furnish my command Willi subsistence and trans portation. Please notire oan the Governor of Oregon orders me to co-operate with you so far as is practicable. I wish to do so. My force will noon be ready to tuko tlio field, if wo had supplios. Our quartermustcr don't furnish them. The delay already experienced suiUfics me that if we wait for thstu the campaign must prove a failure this winter. Now I want you to furnish the supplies. If you will do so I cau fight the Indians and bring incm to terms. II you will furnish the supplies, will give my own bund, with thut of others, to stand between you and Uncle Sam. UAJ. RAINS TO COL. NESMITH. ' IIkau Quarters, Oct. 24, '55. A vast number of our horses are unfit ibrervice o we rc reduced to a minimum. , as com manding officer of the U. S. Troops, oalled upon Gov, Curry for Volunteers. He raised them, but informed me that they were not willing to be drilled into the1 IT. S. service, but chose to fight on their Owu hook. We all have one object in view to subdue the foe. Volunteers, when mustered into the regular service, can act any where, and every Where, irrespective of territorial- boundaries.. Should I acquiesce in your request I should lay my self liable to many d.lBeulties, perhaps a court martial. Your oiT.r of personal4 security is patri otic, but I beg reave to decline it. The arms at ready furnished the volunteers, at Vancouver, was tn irregularity, but will bo remedied by deducting . i i r . i .ii . r t lav uunioor iruui uio uuia miunea to irrrguu ujr law. When the savuges commenced depredations tht U.S. Troops rushed to the rescue. We culled for help, and expected to get it. We are now too few to meet the hostile Indians, who have multi plied wonderfully siuce the check upon our troops in the field. We have horses, and packs of provis ions enough for 800 men for two weeks. . If you svih be drilled into tlie U.S. service, we will take the field together j but, if pot, I ahull march on with the regulars, and leave jou, aud the citizens in arms with yon, to reconcile to themselve." and their honorable feelings any mishap that may befall us is discharging our duty to our country. , COk JiEEUITII TO IS A J. RAINS. I am very sorry you can't furnish the supplies, f have s ebjecliaa myself to being mustered into ihe regular service but this is a matter over wrhioh I have no control. Gov. Curry is expected here on Saturday : when he comes, the matter may 'be fixed. 1 dr sign crossing my men over the river .as fast as possible. I shall tliea march for the en emy's country with such facilities as are at my command. COt. RtSVITU TO UAJ. SAINS, AOACT. Dalles, Kov. 25, '55. 'deli. I have just received an express from Maj. China, asking for 150 men and two howitiers. I bam sent ed Uie men. I have also sent s request to Get. Wool to furnish the howitzers, and men te wort them properly. It may be a long time before I heart-ess Gen. Wool , I asked yen this morning t furnh tham. "The mercilcse aavages have driven our pJople,H.c ril. r. the Cot. stows quite facetious by quoting from the letter of Maj. Rains of Oct S!4ih, end thinks he has now "got kUn where the heir is DghtT V. Im AH.VMH, i AMERICA hKaews wsaiht of foUets resaWtsef UtafV ( . ....... , VBCltTlOrS, EStlor awe Proprietor. j Know bouirI ef leroaets, Mian, rr Htiias." tve Dollars a Year. VOL. 1. OaBoTlToiTY, OaBOQWTBRITOKT, ATPm.PAT, PBOBMaBB. , llBB. JtO. 34L MAJ. SAINS TO COt. NEMtlTM. Dau.es, Nov. 36, '55. Col. I acknowledge your letter, also Its face- tlousuese in your luiigthy quotations from a former letter of mine. Circumstances have altered s'uee I wrote that letter. Then we expected that we had s big fight before us certain. Now ws know that an adequate force will find no Indians to fight. If you should lake the artillery there i no proba bility that you can find the ludians. They will nut stay In their mud-built fort to be shot at with cannon. However, the whole matter Is now In the hands of Gen. Wool. I refer you to him. . P.S. lu the emergency of course our utmost endeavors will be to relieve you. cot. NEstiirn to oen. wool. Dalles, Nov. 21, '55. 0n. Maj. China Is menaced by Ihe notorious Peppermoxniox. It in reported that Peppermox mox has taken a strong hold. We want to dislodge him with artillery. Will you furnish two or three howitzers, with men to manage them? I can fur nish an ercort to conduct it to Umatilla, If you will furnish the men aud guns. ' ' oen. Wool to cot. nesxitk. Vancouvks, Nov. 24, '55. Sir In reply to your communication, I have to say that I have no authority either to employ or to receive volunteers into the U. S. service. I am, therefore, unable to comply with your request I will, however, observo that I have ordered s criti cal exam nation of U. S, troops, animals, &a, necessary to carry on an efficient campaign. Hith erto the expeditions against the Indians have been made iu loo much of a hurry unable to act effi ciently, and, without supplies, to keep the field. Unless prepared to keep the field, it would be more than folly to attempt to encounter the Indians. I have not iho power to give you the assistance you ask. Ilere ends the chapter. Our brave Col onel is outgeneraled in diplomacy our vol unteer forces are iu the field, .destitute ef supplies, their horses broken down, winter staring them iu the face, dispirited and al most dishenrteued at the prospect of getting supplies from the Valley, and no prospect of engaging the Indians without traveling about a thousand miles after theni, and then finding two or threo dozen in a squad. Oen. Wool is exactly right, when he says that it is useless to Gghl Indians unless we are prepared to keep tlio field. , Gov. Curry has his hands full just now, if he straightens matters out, and lays plans for prosecuting the war successfully with our volunteer forces, without either mustering them into the regular service, or turning out the Know Nothings. . troro, Vlah. The following is from the DuBeret Newt, of the 10th Nov. : - Massacres in Elk Mountains. On the 22.1 Sept., a Utah Indian asked a Mor mon,' named James Wiseman Hunt, to go with him from the Fort to the herd, ashort distance off, to see a bnrse that Hunt had bought of hi in. They started, the Indian on horseback and Hunt afoot, and went about a mile from the Fort, the Indiab di rected Hunt's attention to the cattle, a lit tie way off from the horses, and while , he was turned, shot him in the back, the ball ranging down diagonally and lodging in the thigh. One of the herdsmen close by started to give the alarm, and the other one drove the herd on to the Fort. In a short time sev eral of the brethren went to bring in Hunt, and when about half way buck, the Indians fired upon them, wounding Prest. A. N, Billings in thn foro linger of the right hand, Three or four of the party fell a few paces in the rear, and by occasionally firing upon the pursuers, they all succeeded in reaching the Fort wiihoul further loss or injury. Broth' er Ilu'nt lingered about thiiteen hours and died. ; . Within an hour and a half after their return, some Indians on the bluffs' near by told the men in the Fort that they would kill the two men who had previously gone out and were then returning, and immed ateiy fired seven rounds, killing, as they af. tcrwards stated, Bictliers William Behuirt and Edward Edwards, ihe two who were out. During the same day, ihe Indians burned the hay, and turned off thn water that sup plied the Fort. At daylight next morning the Indians began to gather round in great numbers, and there being no prospect of a speedy re concialiation, the remaining thirteen breth. ren, by the advice of friendly Indians, took their horses and started for Manti, lenving their enemies quarreling over the cattle and spoils in the Fort. Bish'p Evens, company were at Manti on thn 2d October. On Oct. 7th, Brother W S G.xlbecame into Salt Lake City ahead of a train f ii wagons, whieh he left on Grn river, Oct. 4lh, All the Indians on th rou'e were j friendly. He met the last missionary com pany at the fifth crossing of Sweei water, on the 22d of Sept. They were all well and getting along finely. From all 1 that he could learn, Urothor Go lb supre ses th it all of this year's immigration, including goods trains, is this side of the South pass. lion. Enoch Reese, Representative from Carson; Bis'iop N. V lones, lute President of the Mission in Hindostan and the Uirman Empire; O. P. Rockwell, Jefferson Edmunds and two other persons, arrived from 'lie West, on the 4th inst. They left Carson on the 22d ult., and came through in thir teen days. On the mornings of (he 4th and 6th Oct., ice made its appearance on still water for the first time during thn present fall, but the days wero mild and pleasant. General Conference. The General Conference of the Church of Latter Day Saints commenced in the Bowery Tabnacle, Oct. Cth ; Brigham Young presiding. Lorenzo Snow, Ezra T. Benson and Phi ueas II. Young, were unanimously voted to go on a mission to Europe next spring. ' The Conference continued in session until the evening of the 8tb, and adjourned to April 6th, 1856. ! Payer from 'Wool. A correspondent of ihe Newark Adverli- ter describes the manufacture of paper from wood, as carried on at Little Falls, New York. The paper that has been produced, with the disadvantage of improper machi nery for its manufacture, is pronounced of superior quality. The wood manufactured by this process, it is said, is capable of pro ducing all grades of paper, and, what is of the most importance, the stock costs noth ing. In this way an inch and a quarter plank is brought and introduced in its rough state into a plaining machine, from which it comes out ihree-eigbt clear planed board, worth more in the market than the plank. The shavings are the stock from which pa per is made. '''' . We believe thero are already in the Uni ted States, two mills, at Which paper is manufactured from ligneous substances, and at one time the Albany Evening Journal, by way of experiment, issued two or three edi tions upon paper made out of bass wood shavings. -The paper was of a leaden color, and was rather brittle. This was some thing over a year ago, and doubtless since that time great improvement have beon made. 'By the plan mentioned above, pa per ought to be furnished for a little moro than nothing, as the stock from which it is made, costs absolutely nothing. A learned professor has recently contributed a paper to the French Academy, in which he men lions a number of common plants, from which paper may be made. The scarcity and consequent high price of rags within the past few yearj has placed paper at an exorbitant standard, and any discoveries which will have a tendency to mako it cheaper, will bo hailed with delights. Some two years ago it was stated that a quantity of the California title bad been 8ent to the Eastern States for thp purpose ot having iu fitness for the manufacture of paper tested. We have never heard the result. Should the experiment prove successful, a new field of enterprise would be opened in Calif irnia, and our tule marshes, the disposition and use of which has been such a difficult prob lem with our law makers, would at once as sume an importance and a value, furnishing as they would an inrxhaustable amount of material for the manufacture of paper. Alta California. From Texas. We have received, says the N. Y. Tribune, Galveston dates of the 14th Oct. CapU Calluhan of the Texan Rangers had had a battle with a party of seven hundred Mexicans aud IndinnB. Four Texansand forty of the enemy wero killed, when the latter retreated- Capt. Callahan has called on Texas for assistance to exU-r-minate the Indians, who threaten to kill ev ery white man they encounter. dipt. C was expecting another attack Florida Elections. Election have to-ceil!)- been held in Florida, foroouniy offi cers. The American party sucevrded in Alligator county by 320 maj.; in Walton county by 20, in Wakulla by 40, in 'Leon by 170, and in Nasau by a majority not yet ascertained1 The democrats carried a few of the counties by inconsiderable major itirt.. N- T. Herald. The wife and youngest daughter of Chief Justice Taney lately died at Old Point ! Comfort; the former or paralysis, ano me latter of ynllow fever. They were buned in one grave. The Eareyea War. A letter from St. Petersburg slate that the evening before the Emperor left for the South a grand council was held, at which it was decided ti carry on the war with the utmost energy. The Emperor went from Moscow to Nic olaieff, the great Russian naval depot on ihe Euxiue, where on tlio 23d Sept., accompa nied by the Grand Dukes Constantino, Nicholas, and Michael, he made an Inspec tion of the troops, fortifications, and dock yards. : The fortifications,' it is stated, are to be greatly strengthened and extended. By telegraph we learn that the Czar has left Nicolaieff for the Crimea, his objeet in proceeding thilhor being doubtless to In spirit his forces by his presence, and turn the tide in favor of Russia. Various Russian and Prussian accounts state that the war is to be carried on with the greatest determination, and that the Crimea is to be defended to the last extremity. Gen. Mouravieff, now in Asia, will, it is in timated, take the place of Prince GorcbaknfT, who is to become Minister of War. : i Moscow advices' state that one hundred and ninety-three thousand men have been added to the military force of Russia. In regard to the cavalry battle on t!ie29;li Sept., it is rvmardablo that there is a des patch from Prince GortschiikofT bringing down the narrative of affairs to the 3d Oct., in which he says nothing of this cavalry ac tion, but mentions that the Allies made a movement against his left flnnk that is to say, at the other extremity of his extended line. Such movement, as he describes it, was an ineffectual one a demonstration merely, or recon'noisance, for the Allies withdrew again, and the Russian advanced posts still occupied the former line. It is plain from these operations on the two ex tremes of the Russian position, that the Al lied generals, finding the entrenchments of the enemy too strong to be attacked in front, are seeking for some mode of turning his flanks, and so forcing him to abandon a position which he has selected with consum mate judgment and fortified with skilful care. Coadllloa ot Tblass la. Ikaasas. The enormous outrages that have bej perpetrated in Kansas, during the iasMii or eight months, are a disgrace to the un try and the age in which we live. Fur thermore, the excesses that have been com milted there, in violation of law, order, and decency, with the passive sanction of the Federal Government, will most assuredly be the means of defeating the object which the authors of the bill had exclusively in view the organization of Kansas as a slave State. Messrs. Atchison, Stringfcllow, and the Missouri borderers generally, have gone a little too far in their foray, and a time of retribution is soon to follow. No one can honestly justify, or even ex tenuate, the outrages and violation, not merely of law, bit of those conventional ob servances which exist in the most rude and primitive societies, which have been dis gracing a territory under United States Government for the past six months. But this tiegative condemnation is not enough ; there should be direct and emphatic denun ciation of this condition of affairs. The class of citizens who are the friends of law and order, who deprecato the supremacy of mobs aud lawless assemblages, and who de sire to see the peupje exercise freely and peaceably the rights and privileges to which they are entitled, should, set their faces against this domination of reckless and ir responsible power. N. Orleane Bulletin. Discovery of Diamonds la Virginia. On Monday, the 27th of August, a most singular discovery of two diamonds was made at Dudley's Ferry, King and Queen county, the residence of Wm. Brooks, Esq. A correspondent of the Richmond Whig details the circumstances of the discovery of these diamond, which are, indeed, some what remarkable, It appears tl at as Mr. Taylor was engaged sawing the timbers for a boat, out of an oak root, his saw struck some hard sulitance, which upon being punched out and examined, was found to be a diamond of the size of a black-eyed pea. Shortly after, a smaller one was also found in ihe same root. The teeth of both saws were knocked out by the contact. The oak tree to which this root belonged was probably a hundred and fifty years old, and was growing a few weeks ago in the ground horde' ing npoo a swamp upon Mr. B.'t place. These diamonds were in shape octahedron, as most diamonds are in their natural state. Of course, they cut glass finely, and were translueid, apparently of the first water. When found they were Imbedded two or three inches from the sur face of the root, causing a defect in the wood of it for some distance around. Can any one stale another instance of a diamond be ing found as these wore, buried iu a root be' ncath the ground probably for a hundred and fifty years I It will be romemberod that about a year ago, a laborer, while digging in the streets of Manchester, just opposi'e Richmond, dis covered a diamond a few feet below the sur face of the earth, which proved to be one of enormous size, and was valued at some four or five thousand dollars. Connect the recent discovery with the one of last year, and it would soem that there are many of these precious stones imbedded in lb soi of old Virginia. Petertburg Exprtn. Vattea Slates Beaale. , From time to time we find In many exchanges statements in regard to the clas sification of the United States Senate, which are calculated to mislead the public. Sub joined wo give a correct list of the members of that body, the class to which they be long, and the vacancies which have occurred through default of legislative action: Clait 1 Term ending March 4, 1837. Adams, Miss., Jones, Telin., llnyard, Del., Mallory, Florida, Uriijht, Ind., ' Mason, Va., Urodliend, Penn., Pratt, Md. " Cass, Mich., Rusk, Texas, Sumner, Mass, Thomson, N.J, Toucey, Conn. Wade, Ohio, Weller, Cal., Dodge, Wis., Fish, N.Y., Foot, Vermont, Geyer, Mo., Ilnralin, Maine, James, K.L Clast 2 Term ending March, 4, 1850. Allen, R. I., Hunter, Va, Hell, Tenn., Benjamin, La, Brown, Miss., Clay, Ala., Clayton, Del, Douglas, III, Jones, Iowa, Wilson, Mass., Sebastian, Ark, Stuart, Mich., Thompson, Ky, Toombs, Ga., Wright, N.J, Erans, S. C, Fessenden, Maine, Reid, N. O- Houston, Texas, Bale, N. H. . Clait 8 Term ending March 4, 1861. . Bell. N. II., Iverson, Ga., Biggs, N. C, . Johnson, Ark,, utlet, b. U, rearce, Md, Crittenden, Ky., . Pugh, Ohio, Collamer, Vt., ' Seward, N. Y., Durkee, Wis, Slidell, La., Foster, Conn., Trumbull, III, Harlan, Iowa, Yulee, Florida. . There are now five vacancies in the Sen ate, the terms of Messrs. Fitzpatrlck, of Mabama, Atchison, of Missouri, Pettit, of Indiana, Cooper, of Pennsylvania, and Gwin, of California, Laving expired on the 4lh of March, 1855. Wathington Union. The Tttxi Coasress. Various writers at Washington and else where are calculating the material of which the next Congress will be composed. The data from which they make up their results I wa da not know. We rrive nnon thn au- - o i thority of the N. Y. Timet and tho CouHer d Enquirer the following. The former states that the composition of the next House will be as follows : Fusion and Free Soil Whigs, Pro-Slavery Whigs, Know Nothing Whigsj Free Soil Democrats, Know Nothing Dumocra(st Administration Democrats) Independents, ' Nebraska) I Anti-Nebraska 05 0 13 8 65 2 80 120 "Inspector," of the Courier it Enquirer, says: "Tho regular Apministraiion force will be 75 the united opposition 150. But there is no possibility of a uoion which will combine- more than a bare majority of the House, namely 118 members Upon the question of sustaining the Nebraska law, the best calculation gives the result of ayes, 103 noes, 131 majority 28. But as the Senate stands ready to veto any such movement of the House, the passage of a bill to repeal would be a preliminary pro-&-eding to a long and fierce contest between the representatives of the people and the Executive with its patronage and the Sen ate with its long terms. As no party will be able to command a majority, the organization of the House must depend wholly upon success in combi nation, and it need excite no surprise if a struggle should occur as long and exciting as that which convulsed the country in 1840 and '50. Alia California. tW The New York Evening Post men tioos that the hectolitre of grain in France is equivalent to I wenty-two gallons, each of eight bushels ; consequently the reported seven millions hectolitres of wheat deficient in the crops of France is equal to 1 9,250,000 bushels. mew Marat Met Ms Vat ' ; The Mnteneo of the military cotnmiasloa waa read to him with due solemnity. - He listened to It as he woulo have listened ta the cnunon of another battlo during his mil' itary life, equally without emotion or brave' do. He asked naither for pardon, for delay, nor for appeal, - He bad advanced of hi own accord towards the door, as if to accel erate the cataalropho. The door opened on a narrow esplanade, lying betweeu the towers of the castle and the outer walls. Twelve soldiers, with loaded musket, awaited him there. The narrow space did not permit them to stand at a sufficient din tance to deprive death of part of It Lor ror Murat, in stepping over the threshold of his cbsmbcr, found himself face to face with them. He refused to let his cyos bo bandaged ; and, looking at the soldiers with a firm and benevolent smile, said I "My friends, do not make me suffer by In king bad aim. The narrow apaco natural- ly compels you almost to rest tho miiztUi of your muskets on my breast ; do not tremble do not strike me iu the face ain at the heart J here it is." At he spoke thus, ho placed his right hand upon his coat, to indicate tie position of his heart. In hit Uft hand be held small medallion, which contained, iu one fo cus of love, the image of lm wife aud of hiaj four children, as be wished .thus to iaki them witnesses of his last hour, or to hare" their images in his last look. Ih fixed his , eyes on this portrait, and received the death-. blow without feeling it, absorbed in contem plation of all he loved upon earth I Ilia body, pierced at so short a dis'ance by twelve balls, full with his arms open and his i faco to the earth, as if still embracing tlio ' kingdom which be ouce possessed, and' which be bad come to reconquer for bit tomb. ... l'iiii They threw hb clonk upon the bedy' which was buried in tho Cathedral of PizxuV Thus died the most chivalrous aoldior of the ' imperial epoch ; not the greatest, but this most heroio figure among the champions of the new Alexander. A Curiosity-'. Otis Manchester, of this , city, exhibited lo us yesterday a stalk of , wheat of singular appearance and history, . It will be remembered tbut some years since. , a discovery of some kerbals of whsai iu the , , folds of cloth which enveloped an Egyptian , Mummy, was made, which must have re' , raained there at least four thousand years. ( These kernels were brought to this country , and plauted on Long Island, . The specimen here presented is the growth of that ancient , seed. , The stalk is remarbably large and j singularly shaped being nearly conical. The kernels are almost round, and wholly , dissimilar in shape and appearance, to any , grain wo have scen. Ifrica Herald, OCT The Washington Star states that ' postmasters have been instructed lo return ' all unpaid letters found in the mails, to the 1 offices from which thev were sotiL They ' have heretofore been forwarded, but the ' department consider that the public are by this time fully cognizant of tho new arrange ment of pre-pay mont. Foreign letters will . be sent as usual. ' t3T Mr. Mason, the American Minister at Paris, surprised his countrymen iu that capital by attending tlio Te Deuin ordored , by Louis Napoleon in honor of the capture of Sebastopol. Tho other ministers of neutral powers were absent, and the Ameri cans in Paris thought Mr. Mason ought to ( have acted with like propriety, considering that ours is also a neutral eotintrv. : ' Atr-iBS in New York. A Now York ' i paper says ! "A very fair fall pippin is selling at the rate of 91 per bushel, and at wholesale at : tl 50 to i a barrel. This low rate (cum' ' Parativelv speaking) may be attributed ia a great measure to the attention which has been directed to the culture of this meal excellent fruit, in this country, within tke ' last few years. Those who bare been i 1 strumentul, by this means, iu promoting , desirable an end, nave unquestionably con , ferred a blessing upon their country men." . Uses or the Telegraph. The electric - telegraph is becoming more and more use ful. A peasant received lately, by mail, a letter from his son Joseph, a &unve, before 1 Sebastopol. The young man mentioned the fact that bis legs wcro yet whole, but thai his shoes wero the worse for wear. ' The affectionate father having purchased a ' pair of nine-nnd-n-halfs, was perplexed at ' to the means of forwarding them, At last ha iho't of the telegraph ; the line lo Mar-1 seilles ran through his village. He put the address on one of the soles and slung , the shoes over the wire. A pedlcr passing by, struck by the solidity of their workman ship, appropriated them, placing his used ( up trampers in their place The next morning the old daddy returned to the spot to see if the telegraph bad executed bit ' commission. 1 He saw the substitution ' which had been effected, "I vow," be ex claimed, "if Joseph hoan't already scot back his Old onet "