Oroville daily Butte record., 1857-04-27

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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 Nominated for Congress
with great unanimity, and resolutions pas
sed adhering to the Democratic platform, as
laid down in the National Democratic con-
yention at Cincinnati in 1896.
a Convention has been held in Lane coun-
! ty, at which resolutions were passed declar-
ing the intention of is members to make
Oregon free State.
| Several of the counties have made their
nominations for Delegates to the Constitu-
! tiOnal Convention, TO be held in June next.
The following paragraphs are extracted
| from the OregOntdR
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 a
new regiment now on the way to Oregon.
We hear large number OF reports OF rich
gold deposits in the Colville country many
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The weather continues warm and dry.
Fruit prospects are looking well, with the
exception of peaches. The farmers now
want rain week since they complained
of the wet, and now it is entirely too dry.
Nobody is satisfied with the weather.
WAsHINGToN TERRIToRY.-The dates
from Olympia and SteilacOom are to April
10th.
The Republicans were to hold Conyen-
ton on April 18th, to nominate Il Delegate
to Congress.
Early on the morning of April I'd the boil
err of the steam saw mill of Messrs Benton
& 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 at Bellevue
Island, had been notified by the lludson's
Bay Cos agent that he was not safe there
and they could not protect him Mr.. Crit
fin, the agent, had received n dispatch from
Gov. Douglass, aud Immediately recommen
ded Mr.. Olney to leave the Island and adj
dressed letter to the Collector of Port
Townsend explaining his reasons A num-
her of war canoes filled with Northern In
dams, had arrived at Victoria, and a large
force was said TO have gathered at Nlnimo,
where the Hudson Bay coal mines are.
Their object was an attack upon the Amerl
cans. The Massachusetts went into Veto
ria lust after the express left She was on
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 10y Indians down
the Sound on one another. john Adams the
Chief at Port Discovery, and another, were
stabbed by one of their tribe in drunken
row. and Gen Pierce, the Chewakum Chief,
sh OF his brother.
Crescent CRY The HerG|d says that
the company which went down, some time
since, to endcavor to turn and bring into
our harbor the vessel which has been SO
long bottom up Oft the Klamath, have re-
turned, but, We regret to say, without sue
cess They cut the chain, and at last ac-
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
For THE ARIZONA COPPER MfNEs.--The
Union says j j. Tomlinson, who has effec ed
contract for hauling one thousand tons of
/ copper ore from the Arizona mines at Fort
/ Yuma (the nearest shipping point) located
at the iucton Of the Colorado and ella
! River, arrived in Sacramenton on Friday
afternoon from Red Bluffs, with train of
seven heavy, six mule wagons and tea MS,
and sufficient extra animals and harness to
attach eight TO each wagon. There are ten
men, transfers, &C., attached to the train,
and it is understood some twenty-five others
passengersl willi accompany it. The mines
in question are distant about 40 miles
from Yuma. II is calculated that the local
ity is about G75 miles from this point, and
that about thirty days will be occupied in
making the trip The route contemplated
will be from Stockton. by the Fort Miller
road to Los Angeles, and down through San
Bernardino.