tho people of the territory. Jane was a vigorous, resolute, West- ern man, who lhad been a gencral officer duriug the Mexican war, and he then had Presidentiul aspirations. So the governor came to Fort Vancouver, where the head-quarters of the department wcre established, under Colonel Loring, of the Mounted Rifles, and procured n small escort, with which he proceeded to hunt up the Indians concerned in the massacre, and demand their sur- render. By tiis time the Indians had begun to comprehend the power of the Government; and when the governor found them, and explained tho natnro of his nission, they went into council to decide wbat was to be done. After due deliberation, they were convinced that if they were to refuse to come to any terms they would be attacked by the soldiers, of whom they thcn had dcad ly fear, and obliged to abandon their conntry forever So they met the governor, and tho head chief said that they had heard what ho had to say. It was true that his people had killed the wbites at the mission, but that they did so for the reason that they really thought that a terrible disease had been brought among them by the whites; that they had begged them to go away from them, for they did not wish to kill them, and ihat they only killed them to save their own lives, as they thought. He said that for this the whites from down the Columbia had made war upon them, and killed many more of their people than had been killed at the mission, and they thought they ought to be satisfied. As they were not, three of their principal men had vol unteered to go buck with thec governor to Oregon City to be tried for the murder. This satisfied the governor, and the men bid farewell to their wives and little ones and to all their tribe, for they very well knew tlhat they would never see them again They knew that they were going among those who tlirsted for thcir ood, and that they wero going to thcir death, and that death the most ignominious that can be accorded to the red mau, as they were to he hung like dogs

"The governor and his party left. The victims gave one long last look at tlhe shore as they took the little boat on the Columbia, but no word of complaint ever came from their lips. When they arrived at Fort Vancouver we had chargo of these Iudians. They were not restrained in any way no guard was ever kcpt over then, for there was no power on earth that c0uld have made them falter in their determination to go down to Oregon City, and die like men for the salvation of their tribe.

At Orcgon City these men walked witli their heads erect, and