The recent escape of slave Charles Mitchell from Olympia to Victoria forms part of the context for this article. Victoria blacks had arranged the "underground railroad" by which Mitchell escaped.

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Sub-head on the letter reads: "Practical demonstration of Abolition-Republican principles!"

On the same page, Presidential Election results from Oregon. Lincoln pulls in more votes than Breckinridge.]]>
The Legislature passed an act to punish parties who refuse to take Legal Tender Notes at the value expressed on their face. The punishment for depreciating the Government money is 6 months imprisonment and a fine of $500. (An earlier report stated that the punishment for depreciating the Government money was 6 months imprisonment but a fine of only $5.)
A contract for carrying mail on the Sound was awarded to P. Keach. ]]>
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Report says, "Jo Lane's followers are scarce here" and that Stevens got little support. Members voted for Columbia Lancaster, Union Democrat, to run for territorial delegate.]]>
Their chief Seschi was bold, daring, sagacious, and duplicitous. Toward the close of the war of 1856-57, he was taken prisoner and executed.
Although the "Siwash" are still formidable warriors, they seem to be submitting to the superior whites. Many families employ Indians as servants, and their cabins near houses of whites "suggest a certain institution generally supposed to exist south of Mason's and Dixon's line." The author consigns the natives to history, suggests that the Indians deserve their new subservient status, and urges the conquerors to be magnanimous.]]>