The daily union., 1856-01-23
DEPARTMENT. NEWS.
IsrEalon psrAnrarNr.

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appointment ef Registers and Rseeipey--Ale1ander ID.
Anderson, of Iowa. 10 be register OF land Office
buque Iowa, in the place Of George McIenry removed
John H. Crease, OF Arkansas TO be register of the land
Office at Little Rock, Arkansas in the place Of Robert A.
Watkins removed
VIM. A. Beyins OF Arkaasas, to be receiver OF public
moneys at Batosvie, Arkansas, in the place Of John c.
Claiborne, removed.
Alexander w Rush be register OF the land Office at
Palmyra Missouri in the place OF William p Harrison,
signed.
General Land 0es-Lstter from Washington Territory
Additional Information Respecting the Iadian Digieaiss
6c-The Commissioner Of the General Land Office has
ceyed an interesting letter from Surveyor General Ton
Washington Territory, which dated Olympia November
1885, and which states that the surveying business both
in the field and in the Office greatly impeded by pres
| ent general Indian war.
All health and spirit in the Territory are bearing
against the ssages Three clerks the surveyor gen
erals Office (Messrs. q. X. Bright, Ed. Gibson and j.
Lodge) have laid aside their qus shoudered their musket
and taken the field and the general himself in ad
dton to his duties surveyor general has been performing
duty general TO the volunteer forces the Terri
tory and during the temporary absence of Acting Governor
Masop (now Oregon consulting with the governor of Ore
gon has been governor pro of Wasbngon Territory
The is stated to be very general aud includes all the
aborignes nhabng the country each side of the Cas-
cade mountains with the exception Of few tribes the
Sound Upper Columbia and the shores of the Pacific
At least six thousand Indians (ghtg men have taken tho
field settlers their claims the
Olympia is being fortified with stockades, garnished with
basons and the like, which small shipcannon
to be mounted. 8'.u
Ii is also stated that surveys progressing east of
Puget sound the Columbia river that but party
is at work Shoawater bay, the Pacific and
that all the tribes who nhab the Shores of Paget sound
vacatng, and will join the strongest party they
discover which party that is
Agricultural Dioson of The Patent Office Mama Sugar
The following interesting letter handed to the Com
missioner of Patents by Dr. Bernhise 1t Is from Mr.. Aaron
Daniels who resides in Provo city Utah Territory and is
dated August IL, 1855. We copy follows:
according agreement send you small cake Of the
sugar made from the sup honey found cotton wood
trees and you requested will give few particulars
concerning the in which discovered it, As passed
along and from my cornfed, (Which is situated about
mile from town. discovered white substance the cot
wood which, upon examination, found to be sweet
substance somewhat resembling the honey dew in the States
but greater abundance and possessing other proper
of the cakes being thick knife blade or
window glars thought, from the quantity there on
the trees that sugar might be made OF it, and signied the
number Of my neghbors, who all rideuled the
idea thought would try and what could do with
II. took home two bushels and washed the twigs and
then strained and holed down the water which made
and quarter pound of sugar Since that time most of the
one hundred pounds Of sugar II makes excellent moas
and good vinegar ever saw averaged about
eighteen pounds per day with two three gallon kettles
Although the quantity OF sugar made from this srup
small, yet assured that it is still profitable from the
that sugar in that region of country is worth forty
pound.