made by a colony of Methodists. One of the principal men among them was the late Mr. or Governor Abernethy, as he was ealled, as lie was for a short time the prominent Governor of Ore- gon. Ile was the father-in-law of our genial Deputy Quartermas ter-general IIenry C. Hodges, an excellent man, and lie must not be remembered as one of those who was responsible for the shoek ing procecdiugs which wc are about to relatc. A minister by the name of Whitman, we believe, ad gono up to the Walla Walla region, where he was kindly received by the Cayuse and other friendly Indians, who, while they did not particularly desire to be converted to the Christian faith as expounded by one of Wes ley's followers, saw no special objection to the presence of the missionary. So they lived quietly along for a year or two; then the measles broke out among the Indians, and a large nnmber of them were carricd off They were told by their medicine men ihat the disease was owing to the presence of tlhe whites, and Mr Whitman was notified tliat he must leave their country. Filled with zenl for the cause, and not having scnsc enough to grasp the situation, he refused to go.

"At tlus time the people of the Hudson's Bay Company had great iuflnence with all the Iudiaus in that region, and the good old Governor Peter Skeen Ogden was the chief factor of the Com pany at Fort Vancouver. Ile was apprised of the state of feeling among the Indians near the mission by the Indians themselves, and he was entreated by them to urge Whitman to go away, for if he did not he wonld surely be killed. The governor wrote up to the mission advising them to leave, for a while at lcast, until the Indians should become quict, which they would do as soon as the mensles had run its course among them. Ilis efforts were uselcss, and sure euouglh one day in 1847, we beliere, the mission was cleaned out, the missiouary and nearly all of those connected with it heing killed

Au Indian war follows. This was carried on for sone montlhs, and with little damage, but suffieient for a claim by the territory upon the General Government for untold amounts of money. Two or three ycars later, when the country had commenced to fill np with emigration, and after the regiment of Mounted Riflenen and two companics of the First Artillery lhad taken post in Oregon, the people began to think that it would be well to stir up the matter of the murder of the Whitman family. General Joseph Lane had bccn sent out as governor in 1849, nnd he doubtless thought it would be a good thing for him politically to humor