Butte record. (Bidwell, Butte County, Cal.) 1853-1858, 1857-05-02
JAMES S. GRAIN, Secretary
Later from Oregon and Washington.

The steamer Commodore, from Oregon ar
rived last evening about 10 O'Clock.
The Democratic Territorial Convention of
Oregon met at Salem on the 18th inst Gen
Joseph Lane was n minated for Congress
with great unanimity, and resolutions pas
sed adherng to the Democratic platform, as
laid down ia the National Democratic con-
vention at Cincinnati in 1856.
Convention has been he'd in Lane coun-
ty, st which resolutions were passed declar-
ing the intention of its members to make
Oregon free State.
Several of the counties have made their
nominations for Delegates to the Constitu-
tlonal Convention, to be held in June next
The following paragraphs are extracted
from the Oreg0ntan
Several companies of the Ninth Infantry
are on the move, to relieve those Of the
Fourth Infantry the latter being ordered
to cross the plains (as we learn) by the nor
thern route, their place to be supplied by
new regiment now on the way to Oregon.
We hear large number of reports of rich
gold deposits in the Colville country many
of them, doubtless, much exaggerated
The wea ther continues warm and dry.
Fruit prospects are looking well, with the
exception of peaches. The farmers now
want rain a week since they complained
of the wet, and now it is entirely too dry.
Nobody is satisfied with the weather
WASHINGTON TERRITORY -TLe dates
from Olympia and Steilacoom are TO April
10th.
The Republicans were to hold Conven-
ton on April 18th, to nominate a Delegate
to Congress.
Early Oh the morning of April I'd the boil
| ,.f 4 MI IF MasSrS Rpuran
& Howard, at Port Orchard, Slaughter Co.,
exploded, doing considerable damage to the
mill, and seriously, though not mortally,
injuring Capt. Benton and Mr. Reilly.
The Washington Sentinel says Mr. o.
ney, the United States Inspector Mt Bellevue
Island, had been notified bg the Hudson's
Bay Cos agent that he was not safe there
and they could not protect him Mr.. Crit
fin, the agent, had received a dispatch from
Gov Douglass, and Immediately recommen-
ded Mr. Olney to leave the Island and ad-
dressed a letter to the Collector Of Port
Townsend explaining his reasons A num-
Der of canoes. filled with Northern In
dams, had arrived at Victoria, and "a large
force was said to have gathered at .nimo,
where the Hudson Bay coal mines are.
Their object was an attack upon the Ameri-
cans. The Massachusetts, went into Victo-
JUST AFTER tue eApFeSo lelt .(i1 MAS Oh
her way to San Francisco, but we presume
if this news be true will remain in our
waters.
The same paper says that there have been
several murders committed by Indians down
the Sound on one another, John Adams. the
Chief at Port Di-covery, and another, were
stab bed by one OF their tribe in drunken
/ row, and Gen Pierce, the Chewakum Chief.
sh OF his brother.
CRESCENT Cry The Herald says that
/ the company which went down, some time
since, to endeavor to turn and bring into
our harhor the vessel which has been so
long bottom up off the Klamath, have re-
turned, but, We regret to say, without sue
cess. They cut the chain, and at last &C.
counts the vessel was drifting out to sea.
Sheriff Holt, of Klamath county had ar
rived at Crescent City, and Was taken up to
Orleans by the way of HUMBOLDT Bay