OREGON TERRITORY.

Lyttelton Times, Volume VIII, Issue 501, 22 August 1857, Page 3

OREGON TERRITORY.

Intelligence to April 18th had reached San Francisco.

The following is the result of the charter election in Portland: Mayor, James O'Neill; Recorder, A. L. Davis; Treasurer. T. N. L;ikin; Assessor, John M. Breck; Marsha], Samuel R. Holcomb.

A Convention has been held in Lane county, at which resolutions were passed delaring the intention of its members to make Oregon a free State.

General Jos. Lane has been re-nominated by the Democratic party, as Delegate to Congress.

Several of the counties have made their nominations for Delegates to the Constitutional Convention to be held in June next.

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 northern route, their place to be supplied by a new regiment now on the way to Oregon.

We hear a large number of reports of rich gold deposits in the .Colville country ; many of them, doubtless, much exaggerated.

The weather continues warm and dry. Fruit prospects are looking well, with the exception of peaches. The farmers now want rain; a few weeks since they complained of the wet, 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 a convention on the 18th, to nominate a delegate to Congress. Early on the morning of. April 2nd, the boiler of the steam saw mill of Messrs. Renton and "Howard, at Port Orchard, Slaughter country, exploded, doing a considerable damage to the mill, and seriously, though not mortally, injuring Captain Renton ;ind Mr. Reily. Moee Indian Troubles.—The Washington 'Republican' says : We learn by an express from Port Townsend, that Mr. Olney, the United States' Inspector at Bellevue Islaud, had been notified by the Hudson Bay Company's agent that he was not safe there and they could not protect him. Mr. Griffin, the agent, had received a dispatch from Governor Douglass, and immediately recommended Mr. Olney to leave the Island, and addressed a letter to the Collector at Port Townsend, explaining his reasons. A number of war canoes, filled with Northern Indians, had arrived at Victoria, and a large force was said to have beeu gathered at Nanimo, where the H. B. coal mines are. Their object was an attack upon the Americans. The Massachusetts went into Victoria just 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 :—There have been several murders committed by Indians down the Sound on one another. John Adams, the Chief at Port Discovery, and another, were stabbed by one of their tribe in a drunken row, and General Pierce, the Chewaku.m Chief, shot his brother. The ' Pioneer' says:—la consequence of the recent rise in the price of flour and sawed lumberVui the San Francisco market, the mills in thm vicinity, both saw and grist, are now actively engaged in their respective branches;,