, 1860-08-24
From Oregon.

wee CLIP the IoHoWlnB items from our OIe-
gon exchanges received by last mail:
PORTLAND AND SACRAMENTO DAILY NAL.
1t is now certain that the daily mail serv-
ice, overland, between this city and Sacra-
mento, will speedily be started. George
Thomas, Esq, Vice President, and Road
Manager Of the California Stage Company,
arrived here on the Pacific, bringing with
him number of splendid coaches for this
end of the route, and will proceed at once
to prepare the line for service, from here
Southwark. The line being already in
working order and operation from Jackson
vile to Sacramento, it will require but
comparatively short time to put the live
and running stock on between Jacksonville
and Portland. There is perhaps no man
living, possessing greater or more varied
experience in the business Of staging, than
Mr.. Thomas, and under his able manage
ment, and with the liberal and extensive
scale on (which the Company he represents
transact all their business, the public can
rest assured that the mail service will be
performed with great expedition and des-
patch, and that the facilities for travelling
will be unsurpassed by any other stage line
in any other country.-Neros, 20th inst.
New ARRANGEMENr-We learn that it is
the intention of the Steamship Company,
in future, to make Portland their principal
depot, and to have a steamer running d.
rect between this city and Victoria, so that
fruit and other produce intended for the
California market will be shipped direct in
stead Of, as at present, making the route
to Victoria first. This will be q great ac-
commodation to Oregon shippers. 1t is
the intention of the company to place the
steamer Santa Cruz upon the route be-
tween this city and Victoria, to make reg
ular trips, connecting with the steamship
between this city and San Francisco. Both
arrangements will admirably suit the bust
ness community, and we also hope the en-
terprise may prove profitable to the Cali
fOrnia Navigation Company.--Adrertiser.
b1The Columbia River Navigation
Company design toput a steamer above
Priests Rapids, to run from that point to
White Bluffs, forty miles distant from the
mining region This is satisfactory evil
dence that the company have faith in the
mines. .-OJegOnian
R@-Lieut. Geo. II. Derby, of the Topo-
graphical Engineers, well known in Ore
gon, has been promoted to Captaincy.-
Capt. Derby is as much distinguished in the
world Of letters as writer of originality,
wit and humor, as he is in the service as an
able and accomplished officer. Capt. D. is
Vnd has been for some two years incapaci-
tated for duty by extreme i'll health and the
almost total loss of his eyes.-News.
EMIGRANTs ARRIVING trains from
across the "plains" have already arrived in
our vicinity. They report quite a number
probably two hundred wagons on the
way to Oregon. Our informant, from Wis
cousin. says they experienced no difficulty
either from indians or other cause. Grass
excellent, and good health prevailed. Most
of them intend settling in the upper conn
try. They could not have come in better
time. Many of them will Immediately re
pair to the mines, while others will make
themselves permanent homes in some Of our
fertile valleys. We have room for thou
sands. No country at present holds out
equal advantages to the industrious emf
grant with middle Oregon."-DalLes Jour
nal III
Our friend of the Journal should have
added: "aDd Washington Territory"
SToeK EAST OF THE CAscADEs.-We learn
from gentleman who has recently returned
to this city from trip East of the Cas-
cade mountains, that there is fully forty
thousand head of cattleNin the Walla Wal
la and other valleys East of the Cascades,
and that as a cattle raising country, that
region has excelled the most sanguine ex-
pectations formed relative to it, The crops
too, this year are remarkably good, and the
whole country in that section abounds in
health, wealth and happness.-AdUertiser.
BIThe Advertiser says apples are selling
in Portland at one and two cents per pound.