, 1858-03-12
From OREGON.

From Oregon.
We received by the last mail three num-
bers of the Oregon Statesman, dated re-
spectivcIy, Feb. 9th, 10th, and 23rd, from
whi,h we gather the following local items:
The Statesman publishes very excellent
letter from that venerable and faithful pub
lie servant Hon. ELISHA WHTTLEsEY, Qate
Comptroller of the U. S. Treasury ad-
dressed to Gov CURRY, in which he ap-
plands the Constitution Of Oregon, partic-
ularly as regards the moderate salaries al
lowed the public officers The following
pertinent paragraph we extract from the
letter:
"Ifyou can maintain economy in Oregon, and the
simplicity Of the first settlers, you will do WELL and
greatly promote your happiness and prosperity. The
examples OF California in the exhorbtant salaries CIV
en- in the high prices for rents land, Materials labor,
board, in disregarding law, and the power of the
constituted authorities, pernicious, and II you
Withstand their influence in Oregon, you must be re-
markable people, such as do not exist in any other
portion Of the United States. Their examples have
poisoned the morals and habits Of the people in this
region of the United States"
pS-The Jacksonville Sentlnd raises the
name of L. f. GROVER, as a candidate for
Congress, subject to the decision Of the
Democratic Convention.
The Statesman of late date, says, that
a party of lawless persons, few evenings
previous, patrolled the streets of Salem,
smashing in the windows about the more
thickly inhabited portions of town. The
rowdyism was kept up, at intervals, from
IL to 2 O'Clock The authors Of the out
rages are unknown
From the same paper we learn that an
election had been held to vote upon the
question of acceptance Of the charter for
the city Of Salem. The vote stood 80 for
the charter and 81 against-ffteen major
ity only, for it. The Portland charter was
required to be adopted by q two-thirds vote
before it went into effect, and was SO
adopted
Also, that Samuel johnson, Of Linn
county, was drewneu Iuv4-.-0-I-Pv-s- 49,,
on the 25th of January.
Further, that three men by the name Of
Levens, Hunter and Creamer, were drown
ed in the Umpqua river between SCOTS
burg and Gardner, a short time since.
Although the snow lay upon the ground
but two or three days, says the Statesman,
with not more than 4S hours Of freezing
weather, we understand considerable stock
died through the valley.
We notice by the Portland papers, that
the Willamette river was frozen over, at
that place, so effectualIy, during the severe
weather, that the steamboats, could not
make their trips Both the Willamette
and Columbia riversw were subsequently very
high.
The editor of the Statesman is informed
that Capt Dodge, of the Schooner Nat
theO Vassar will make a trip to Sitka
(Russian POssessions,) for a cargo of ice
for the Oregon market.
1.-THE last Oregon Standard notices the
departure from Portland, of Col. W. H
FARRAR and A. ]. CAIN, Esq, passengers
in the Steamer Panama for San Francisco
thence to the Atlantic side They will
both probably return in few months.
The Standard has authority for saying
that the rumor published some weeks ago,
to the effect that Mr.. VIM. McKie, Of Ore
gon City, had been murdered by the In
dians, above the Dalles, is incorrect. Mr..
MrKie was at Walla Walla; last advices
from there give assurance that he is alive
and well ..L .. aar
The same paper, Of March 4th, contains
communications from three correspondents,
(JosEPH L. MEEK, JOIN T. JEFFRIEs and
C. NJ. WALKER,) in regard to the most
practicable route from Oregon to Salt Lake
City. We have fled them away for publ
cation at another time. .l N
We learn from the Oregon Standard Of
Feb. 25th, that the schooner Emily Pack
ard was driven ashore at Shoalwater Bay,
on Sunday the 26th Of February. She
was freightcd with a cargo of $500 bushels
of Oysters, for San Francisco. The vessel
and cargo is total loss ALI hands on
board were saved.
From the same paper we learn that the
Argus had published a call for black
republican convention, to assemble at Sa-
lem on the I'd day of April, for the pur-
pose of nominating officers in prospect of
State government in Oregon.
ns- A terrible catastrophe occurred in Brooklyn,
n. Y. the day before the steamer LEFT New York.
school house was burned dow and seven children
suffocated