, 1858-03-12

February says that the Indian Agent Of
the Southern district of Oregon, Capt.
Tichenor, has been busily employed in com.
pelling the Indions on Chetcoe and Win
chuck rivers to go on to the Reservation.
He has had a body Of U. S. troops with
him to enforce his orders He left on the
4th February for the Reservation, with one
hundred and sixty Indians in charge, sixty
Of whom he got on the Winchuck, and the
balance on the Chetcoe river.
An OPPONENT OF DUoGLAs.-Ex-G Govern.
or Matteson, of Illinois, says the Chicago
Democrat, intends to be candidate for the
United States Senatorship in opposition to
Mr.. Douglas
B6- Ex-President Pierce having been
named for United States Senator for New
Hampshire, the Concord Patriot announces
that he would not accept the Office even
if he could receive the vote of every men,
ber of the Legislature.
BNGHNuToN, Jan. 16- Hon. D. S.
Dickinson was thrown from bis wagon last
night and was badly injured, but it is
hoped not dangerously. No bones were
broken
DR.. AnsOn Jones, ex-president of Texas,
committed suicide at Houston on the Sth
Of January, by blowing out his brains.
Fernando Wood, the other day, after
finding that the administration would not
espouse his quarrel, left New York for
Richmond, whence he returned after con-
ference with Gov. Wise He returns to
New York to organize q movement in IA
Vor Of Wise for the Presidency.
Gen. Walker has left Washington city
for the South and threatens to return again
to Nicaragua.
INDIAN MATERs.-The following is an
extract from an exchange in noticing the
recent report of the Commissioner of In
dian affairs. 1t will be well for Congress
to follow out the recommendation given:
''The necessity of speedily coming to
some settlement with the Indians in Oregon
and Washington Territories is also strongly
enforced by the commissioner. He repre-
sents the state Of affairs in those Terrific
ries as exceedingly critical, owing to the
non-ratifcation Of our treaties with the
different tribes"
The OREGON INDIANs.-The Commission
er of Indian Affairs hes -~~-i--i lAtfor
from j. hoSs browne, Esq, special agent
of the Treasury Department, dated San
Francisco, October 10th, in which that
gentleman states that he had returned from
Oregon and Washington Territories. Mr.
Browne visited the Indian reservations west
of the Cascade mountains, from Southern
Oregon to Bellingham Bay, and the DalleS
east of the Cascades. He reports that the
Indians are in a comfortable condition, but
that considerable confusion had arisen out
of the contracts made for supplies, owing
principally to the credit system. In refer
ence to the war debt of these Territories,
amounting to about S., ,O00, 600 in the ag-
gregate,) he was satisfied, after thorough
inquiry into the causes and history of the
war, that it must be paid. The notes Of
his investigation are very voluminous.
ARRIVED IN THE PoRr OF New YoRK-
The whole number of vessels arrived in
New York in 1857, from foreign ports, was
3,908, being an increase over the number
last year of I0l OF these, 2,082 were
American and It's British The number
of passengers arrived from foreign ports
during the year was 03,5O0. The num-
ber of passengers from California was IL :
265.
New York IS SOME.-Two hundred
and fourteen thousand, seven hundred and
sixty-fye passengers by sea, arrived there
during the year 1857, and four thousand
vessels from foreign ports.
NIcRoLoGY-Among the notable persons
who died in the United States during 1857,
were William L. Marcy, late Secretary of
State, Mr.. Dobbin, ex-Secretary of the
Navy, Senators Butler, Bell and Rusk,
Honorables Preston S. Brooks, John Bar
ney, Andrew Stevenson, Franklin Dexter,
Louis McLane, II. L. Turney, Commodores
Newton, Parker and Smoot; Doctors Kane
and Scoresby, Arctic explorers; Gliddon
and Leigh, Eastern travellers; Lieut.. Strain,
explorer of the Darien isthmus; Andersen,
the Swedish traveller; Crawford and Ranch,
the sculptors; West and Ranney, the pain
ters; Brunshof the botanst, and Play
fair.
R9rIt is stated in the New Orleans
Crescent that the sugar crop of Louisiana
for 1851 will bo from 225, 900 to 250, 900
bids, against about IS, 900 hhds. in 1856.
Prices are, Of course, much lower than last
year, but, nevertheless, planters will realize
about s., 100000 more from the crop Of
this season than from that of 1856, while
consumers will also gain largely.
b0-The Chicago Times states the value
of property lost on the lakes during the
year 1851 at 81, ,92O,3l5. 22l lives have
been lost
E9-There we're sixty murders committed
in New York city in 1857, and but one ex-
ecution, and that negro.
R9rIn 1856 the population of France
was at a stand-still, and there was in that
] l.. 4 Il