The legislature of Oregon adjourned a few days before the 3d of July, having passed some important laws. One of its acts is: "Any person who shall make, sell, or give away ardent spirits in Oregon, south of Columbia River, shall forfeit and pay $100 for each and every such offense." The legislature is called the "Legislative Committee," and consists of nine persons elected by the people. The officers of the Oregon Territory consist of three governors, called the Executive Committee, a Supreme Judge, and a Legislative Council. The laws are the same as those governing the Territory of Iowa. The government is purely democratic republican. Doctor Babcock is the supreme judge. The name of only one of the governors, Doctor Bailey, is mentioned. On the 1st of August a Belgian brig arrived at the Oregon city, having on board a number of nuns and several Catholic priests from Antwerp, sent out to Oregon by the church of Rome. The colony is in a most encouraging condition. The crops were giving promise of an abundant harvest. People were coming into the territory in large numbers, and the country is filling up with thriving and energetic colonists. Doctor Babcock, "the supreme judge," went to Oregon as physician to the Methodist mission family. Doctor Bailey was from this city, where his family now resides.--_New York Evening Post._ * * * * * From _Cherokee Advocate_, February 27, 1845. A large company of emigrants are expected to leave Independence, Missouri, about the first of May for Oregon. * * * * * From _Cherokee Advocate_, Tahlequah, Cherokee Nation, February 27, 1845. PRINTING PRESS FOR OREGON. We see by the _Commercial_ that the proprietors of that paper forwarded one of Hoe's best printing presses to Oregon last week, with type, printing ink, paper, etc., for the newspaper about to be established in Oregon. The paper is to be connected with the missionary station there.--_New York Sun, 27th ultimo._ * * * * * _Missouri Statesman_, September 1, 1843. The _Western Expositor_ is the name of a new Democratic paper published in Independence. Editor, Robert G. Smart, Esq. It takes the place of the _Western Missourian_. * * * * * CORRECTION. NOTE.--"William Marshal," on page 11 of the March QUARTERLY, should read "James Wilson Marshall." THE QUARTERLY OF THE OREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY. VOLUME IV. DECEMBER, 1903 NUMBER 4 THE ORIGIN AND AUTHORSHIP OF THE BANCROFT PACIFIC STATES PUBLICATIONS: A HISTORY OF A HISTORY.--I. By WILLIAM ALFRED MORRIS.