ACCESSIONS. 235 Postal accounts of Robert Nesmith, a brother of James W. Nes- mith's father, at Francestown, N. H., in 1817. (Preceding eleven documents presented by Mrs. Harriet K. McAr- thur, Portland, a daughter of James W. Nesmith.) Seven Documents relating to an arbitration between J. L. Parrish and W. H. Gray on August 13, 1846. Article of Agreement between John Davis and J. L. Barlow, Jan. 17, 1861. Act to provide for a special election, Sept. 29, 1849. Letter. W. G. T' Vault to Oregon Printing Association, Oregon City, Dec. 27, 1845, offering to edit the Oregon Spectator one year for $300 in currency; also minutes of said association Jan. 3, 1846. Letter. N. W. Col well to Oregon Printing Association, Oct. 5, 1846, offering to print the Spectator for $800 in "orders on solvent merchants in Oregon City, or cash at one third discount." Letters, contracts, minutes of meetings, receipts, etc., relating to the business of the Oregon Printing Association and the issuing of the Oregon Spectator, the first newspaper printed in American territory west of the Rocky Mountains, its first issue being at Oregon City, Feb. 5, 1846. Eighteen documents. (Donated by Mrs. George A. Harding, Oregon City.) Letter to Governor Gibbs, Feb. 29, 1864, announcing completion of telegraph line to Portland, signed by R. R. Haines, superintendent Oregon Telegraph Co. i , Letter to Governor Gibbs from Gen. George Wright, San Fran- cisco, Jan. 12, 1864, respecting the probable drafting of soldiers in Ore- gon for the United States army. Commission issued to George W, Salisbury as Recorder of Porter County, Indiana, for seven years, by Daniel Wallace, Governor, Aug. 17, 1839. (Mr. Salisbury crossed the plains to Oregon in 1850, went to Sandwich Islands soon after, and died there.) Letter from Miss Chloe A. Clark, afterwards Mrs. W. H. Willson, whose husband was the founder of Salem, dated "Ship Lausanne, May 22, 1840," lying off the mouth of the Columbia River, to Miss Mary A. Norton, Litchfield, Conn. Miss Clark arrived at Vancouver, June 1, 1840; was appointed teacher at Puget Sound on the 8th, and was mar- ried to Dr. W. H. Willson, at Fort Nesqually on Aug. 16, 1840 the second white couple to be married north of the Columbia River. (Pre- sented by Mrs. J. K. Gill, Portland, a daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Will- son.) Letter from Mrs. Thomas A. Hendricks, Indianapolis, Ind.^ Feb. 17, 1888. Letter of Senator E. D. Baker, Salem, Oct. 2, 1860, to R. F. Maury, Jacksonville, announcing his election to the United States senate. Letter. H. W. Corbett to Col. R. F. Maury, Portland, Feb. 10, 1863.
