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ninth regiment was assembled by order of Colonel Ross at Fort Vannoy on the Illinois river, in order that all who desired to continue in service might be mustered in under the new organization. On the tenth, Captains Bruce, Will iams, Wilkinson, and Alcorn offered and were accepted in the order named. Bruce being elected major, his first lieutenant, E. A. Rice, was elected captain of company

A, which then stood, Rice, captain; John S. Miller, first lieutenant; J. F. Anderson, second lieutenant. Company

B, Williams, captain; Hugh O Neal, first lieutenant; M. Bushey, second lieutenant. Company C, Wilkinson, cap tain; C. F. Blake, first lieutenant, Edwin Hess, second lieutenant. Company D, Alcorn, captain; James M. Mat- ney, first lieutenant; John Osborne, second lieutenant. The mustering officer was John K. Lamerick; the adju tant-general of the command, 0. D. Hoxie.

On the eleventh of November, Major Bruce issued the following order:

HEADQUARTERS SOUTHERN BATTALION OR. VOLS.,| VANNOY S FERRY, November 11, 1855. j

Information having been received that armed parties are still in the field with the avowed purpose of waging a war independent of the executive of this territory, and in violation of law and general order No. 11, issued by the governor October 20, 1855, to wit: "It is therefore ordered that the commanding officers of the battalions authorized by the proclamation of the governor of the fifteenth of October instant, will enforce the disbanding of all armed parties not duly enrolled into the service of the territory by virtue of said proc lamation."

As the peace and prosperity of our country depends upon law- and-order-abiding persons, it is, therefore, expected and required that all persons not duly enrolled into the service of the territory by virtue of the proclamation of the governor of the territory of Ore gon, will disband in accordance with general order No. 10. It is also expected and required that all persons belonging to the southern battalion who have been regularly enrolled into the service of the territory will assist in carrying out this order.

Men under persons assuming authority are hereby notified that they are at liberty to enroll themselves under the proclamation, and, according to law. It is confidently expected that persistence in vio lation of this law will cease from and after this date, and that all