, 1855-02-24
NEWS ITEMS.
BY Stuart'S Express !

from the Atlantic cities to Jan. 18th.
The Oregon Times announces the return
of Mr.. II. Il. Thompson, Indian agent at
Umatilla and the Dalles, bringing a report,
on authority of some friendly Indians, that
seven chiefs of the Snake tribe had banded
together for the purpose of resisting the
whites coming into their country. Mr.. Il.
deems it unsafe for small parties or trains
to enter their country.
The Times announces Gen. Lane aud
Judge Pratt, as the most prominent candi.
dates before the convention for delegate to
Congress, and also mentions the names oI
Dclason Smith, Judge Williams, j.. X. Kel-
ley and Dr. Drew, as being faNorably spo-
ken of by their friends as candidates for
that position.
The wings of Oregon have called ter.
ritorial convention, to come of at Corvallis
on the 18th of April,
To the San Francisco Herald, Times QHd
Transcript, and Alta California. We are
mainly indebted for the news, European
and from the Atlantic side and elsewhere
from which it will be seen, says the San
Francisco Herald, "Sebastopol still hold.
out-thc rains were constant, and greatly
embarrassed the operations Of the besiegers
fever and cholera were carrying of fifty
or sixty of the Allies acknowledgements
were constantly reaching them-the Rus.
SLAMS made q sortie almost every night
principally against the French, but were
regularly beaten back, ut times, after O
fierce conflict and great loss--the English
are about to enlist German and Swiss mer.
cenares-the French have sent a division
of the Army to the Danube-Omer Pacha
was on the eve of departure for the Crimeo
with thirty-fve thousand of his best troops
the Russians lost forty vessels by hur-
ricane in the Sea Of Azoff two or three
Of their war steamers had ventured out oil
Sebastopol, and attempted to lombard the
French lines-Austria is as usual playing
a double part the terms of her new treaty
with the Allies are equivalent to declar.
alton of war against Russia, yet she ex.
plains them away, to the Car, so us to
mako them mean nothing her army of oc-
cupation in the Principalities was approach.
ing the Russian army on the Pruth and
Sereih, and another Russian army had ad.
vanced to her frontiers-the war like tribes
of Central Asia and Afghanistan have to.
ken sides with Great Britain--the Panama
Railroad has been completed ere this
Ecuador denies that she has sold the Gala
pagos Islands to the United States-Peru
is still in state Of commotion the revo.
lutionists under Generals Castillo and Elias
were near Lima threatening every day al
attack upon that city the last stronghold
of President Hchinique--a revolution has
broken out in Bolivia against the Govern.
ment of President Belzu two regiments
of cavalry under General Acha headed the
movement, which had been swelled by &c.
cessions-Chile is quiet-another civil wal
has broken out in the Argentine Republic
the army Of the Confederated States under
the Presidency of General Urquiza, has in.
vaded the seeding State of Buenos Ayres
and been rcpulsed with loss-the revolu
tionists of Acapulco are in great spirits ;
more than one thousand of Santa Ana's
troops have deserted to the rebels and Joined
the forces under Alvarez's Lieutenant
General Moreno march on the city Of
Mexico is expected"
The Legislature of California have moi
yefsucceeded in clecting U. S. Senator.
The thirty seventh ballot is reported as fol.
lows Gwin 80 Edwards SO ;-Brod.
erick l3 ;-McCorkle s ;-Whitesides l3;
-McDOugall ? Morton /.
Judge Lynch still appears to preside,
and no doubt dispenses a considerable
amount of justice in some of the districts
in California. Two men were recently
hung at Los Angeles for a violation Of
penal law. Another was hung near Oak
land, Cal, for aiding in the escape of pri-
soners confined in the Oakland Jail, besides
several others, who have been summarily
executed in different portions of the State.
FEARFUL STEAMBOAT ExPLosfoN.-The
steamer Pearl, from Marysville, just as she
passed the conAux Of the Sacramento and