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trade and. intercourse ; v villi the. Indian tribes, and lha A R F A W Pll F F DflPCfi Tu.nliu.ltnn nP nut. lime nnnnMll.r el.nnll hn nvtnnnnil " tU W J H JL' II li U. MT O1 IJl TllSnn . ih ;.,.K:onic ihof inrniin Gsa L. Curry, Editor and Proprietor. ail uuuiiiuu nw iiintiuiiuii in iinti i 11111 j v v uv hajl previously emigrated )o U, large numbers of our , OREGON CITY, SATURDAY JUNE 24, 1818. citizens have followed Ibem dunmMhe present year . and it is not doubtful that duringrtve next and subse- , , , ... ... quent years their numbers will be greatly increased. President s Message. Through the politeness of Mr. Congress, at its last session, established post routes McKinlay, lue received a copy of the "London News" leading to Oregon, and between differenls points with- 0f Dec. 31st, '47, which contains the President's Mes- in that territory, and authorized the establishment of sagetbe only copy of which, by the by, that vvc know coasts of the Pacific, within the territory of the United of In thc vvhole territory of Oregon. It is a most ex- Stales, as the public interests may require." Post offices cellent document, and every Democrat must exult at the have accordingly been established, deputy post masters conclusive evidence it affords of the triumphant success appointed, and provision made for the transportation 0'f sevcral of the leading measures of the Democratic ot the mai s. party. The ware-housing system is in successful opcr- Indian Depredations, Etc. We have received the ation the Independent Subtreasury works admirably, subjoined letter from the Adj. General's office, from and its results, gratifies its oldest and most ardent which it will be seen that Capt. Scott and his Rangers friends. In regard to the approximation to free-trade, are operating effectively in the southern portion of tbe made by the adoption of thc tariff of '46, it is only ne- valley : ccssary to slate the beneficial consequences occasioned Yamhill, June 21, '48. by it in order to insure its unquestioned popularity. Dear Sir I left Salem on the olh inst., with sixteen 11 appears that for the first year under this tariff there men, proceeded up the valley near the Calapooia, is an excess or revenue over tbe last year, under the learned that the Indians had rohbed a house of about . . . n . 0 enA n. thirty articles of clothing, we spent two days in tar,rr of 42, amounting to 8 500,000 dollars. Dur ng searching the Indian camps between the Sanliam and the year ending on the 1st of last December the valuo McKenzie's fork of the Willamette, but could find no of imports amounted to upwards of 1 46 millions ofdol- trace of the gooils. At Spoor's I learned that two days lars, while the value of domestic produce exported ex- before, the Indians had stolen a horse. I divided my cceds 150 millions of dollars. Over 26 millions of spc- raen-sending Lt. English with eight rangers, two- cil- cie havc boen impori0( morc than 22 millions of which izens and one Indian to follow the trails, and took six , rpmnin(Mi ; tbo rountrv rangers, and gut three men out of Brislocs fork, and liae rcma nid n V e col'n!rv- mnccort . lrv flin aimed to head the thieves on the Klamet trail, in the ,n regar(1 lo Mexican affairs, the message is very full. Cascade mountains, at tbe head of thc middle fork, and President Polk will not sanction any arrangement that proceeded thirty inilesup that river. Finding the Indi- does not favor the idea of indemnification from Mexico: ans had not proceeded on the trail, I returned to the. that indemnificalion to be the territory won from her three forks. On my arrival I learned that Lt. English Dv conquest particularly the ceding of New Mexico had pressed the Indians so hard, up the north side of and Caijfornja t0 the United Stales. McKenzies fork, as to make them leay e he s o en A conc(jrnin Oregon in the message may be read horse and two more of their own. We suppose the . ,, , ?, . r n.. n. Indians lo be either Klamets or Molallas. I have no n another column. It is a matter of regret that ho doubt that the house was rohbed by the Molallas, as perfect nullity of the poslal provisions made especially they were camped in the neighborhood. I have some for this country had not been understood by the Exec rangers now up the valley in pursuit of some thieves ulive and Congress. We close with a happy observa who have heretofore stolen cattle, and 1 am on my lion made by the " London News"" A general sense way thither to meet them. I am confident that the 0f eas,; an(j prosperity pervades the Union." ranging service will have a salutary effect. 1 have re- ceived yourorder for inarching lo meet the Immigrants. Organization of Congress.-AII that we have been . The rangers enlisted lo go and meet and escort the ...... ... m . Immigrants into this valley, will rendezvous on the 8lh able to obtain relative to the organization of the present of July next.at the bridge on Salt creek, South Yamhill. Congress and tbe strength of parties in the House of equipped as required by their enrollment, with their Representatives, comes from the " London News." It borses well shod, to take up the line of march on the appcars lnal it is by no mcans certain that the Whigs ffiu 2?as j,:; sr cumpauy' lum -"t? bEI.IX SCOTT, Capt. Ind. Rifle Rangers, of Speaker, the whole number of votes polled was 220, A. L. Lovejoy, Adjutant General. "Winlhrop, (whig,) on the first ballot had 108; on tbe second, 109; and on the third, 110, which vole elected Keprfsentatives Elected. From the best means of nimlvvo m(;mi,ers, one a Democrat, having declined information we can command, we make the Represen- voting. Three Democratic candidates were nominated tation in our next Legislature as follows: for speaker, their names are no where mentioned in" " Clackamas A. L. Lovejoy, J.S.Snook, Geo. L.Curry, our exchanges, therefore we do not know who they 1 Ciiampoeg Wm. J. Bailey, R. Newell, Gains, were. Of these three the favorite received on the sue- Win. Portcous. cessive ballots, 61 ,82, and 61 votes. " Eleven members Linn Anderson Cox, II. J. Peterson. who, on thc first ballot, voted for the second Demo- Benton J. C Avery, E. F. Skinner. cratic candidate, with one of those who voted for tbo Polk Harrison Lin ville, J. S. Nesmith, O. Russell. third, joined the phalanx of the first on the second bal- ' Yamhill Wm. J. Martin, A.J. llembree, L.A.Kice. M; seeing that it was hopeless to look for a ma- Tualaty-R. Wilcox, S. R. Thurston, P. II. Burnett. Jor,ty, s"?wed lner independence on the third ballot- Vancouver-A. Lee Lewis. W$ Givmg, with thc exception of three, scatter Clatsop Thompson. Mr cpi, 0r Tenn., was elected by one vote, Lewis Smith. Clerk of lne Uouse. : ,0$$" A groat freshol occurred on the Ohio river io Decern- very unpalatable to the Southern whigs generally berlast, by which 5,000 iamilics were made Jiouteleifi