Arkansas intelligencer., 1843-11-25

umbia and its adjacent territory, and what efforts
have been made to dispossess then or even to pro.
tect American citizens against their tyranny and
oppression :? In view of these, and similar cases,
is it wonderful that the insolent panderers to Bri-
tish haSs should ask, "what is flag to them!'
1t was but the other day that the world was in.
formed of the desecration of our flag by Mexi-
can ofhcer-he literally sat upon it 1t is true,
tAat the captain of the vessethus insulted knock
ed the gentleman overheard for his insolence; but
lor this act OF reproof, he was thrown into Mexi-
can prison. where he may yet remain, for aught
me writer knows to the contrary, or aught. pro-
oaoly the American public cares! Our Consul at
santa re, Mr.. Alvarez, was, two years ago, abused
IN the streets-nay, beaten in his own house. bv
mob, headed BY Goyernor Armio' 'shephew and
compelled to leave for the United States in the
dead of winter, in company with all the Ameri.
cans who could escape! Wha, reparation has
been made for this act of violence and national
insult p! None thai we know of. and we have ia.
ken some pains to enquire! But we do know,
that this very relative Of the self-styled Napoleon
OF the New World-he. too, who had aided in the
capture, and attempted assassination Of Kendall
and other unofending American citizens, at San
Miguel, in 1871, has since had the honor of a mi
litary escort from this country to his own, and
that, too, at the moment when Americans were
plning in the prisons of Mexico, under the helm
GUS charge Of being Texians Mexico, like Great
Britain, rightly estimates the supineness Of our
Government, and with her may perhaps exclaim,
''what is flag TO them?"
II is a notorious fact, that while persons claim
ing to be British subjects, have been unhesta,ing-
ly liberated from imprisonment in Mexico, at the
mere beck of the British Minister, Americans
have been unable TO obtain their liberation (uness
STOPPING to fraud. and pretending to be subjects of
the former country and our Minister, Mr.. Ellis,
has been denied an audience by his Erceli ncy
s'nta Anna, when desrous of appearing in their
behalf! These are facts that are well know and
undeniable, and they should call to the choot of
every true hearted American, the blush Of shame
and indignation.
Though our government may be unwilling to
reProve foreign insult, it seems that some of its
officers are not unwilling to indulge in spirit Of
unfnlrness towards weaker neighbor, in arrogat-
ing to themselves the right of escorting the enc
mics of Texas over Texan soil, and arming the
soldery.of that Republic within her own limits.
This is a matter, however, that Texas no doubt
will call for an atonement, and it IS to be hoped,
for the honor Of our country that it will be grant
cd.
These remarks made, no, in spirit of un-
kindness towards country and form Of gov
ernment whose blessings the writer inhaled with
his earliest breath, and for whose welfare he
would freely shed his blood; but thev q re made IN
sorrow for the existence of state of things which
is believed to be seriously detrimental to our nn-
tonal prosperity. JEAN.
A Pass Through The Rocky Mouniains-The
popular idea regarding the Rocky Mountains is a
lofty, vast continuous mass Of rocks partially
cred with soil, on which impene,rable forests find
roots and suscnance. Recent explorations drec-
ted by government, havo elected the gratifying
fact that there is pass in the mountains which
makes tho transit perfectly easy-'The survey has
boon conducted by Lieut., Fremont, oftho Army.
and an abstract of his report appears n tho St.
Louis Missourian, from which the following is an
abstract:
us to the summit The ascent had been so grad
ua that with all the intimate knovodJe possessed
by Carson, who made this country his homo for
seventeen years, we were obliged to watch very
closely to find the place at which we h id reached
the eliminating point. This was between two
low hills, rising on either hand fifty or sixty feet,
When looked back at them from the spot of the
immediate slope on the western plain, their sum
mits appeared to bo about ono hundred and twen-
ty feet above. From the impression on my mind
at this time, and subsequently, on our return, |
should compare the elevation which we surmoun-
ted Immediately at the Pass, 10 the ascent Of the
oIs-
1t is difficult for me to fix positively the breadth
of this pass. From the broken ground where it
commenced, at the foot of the Wind River chain,
the view to the southeast is over a champaign
country, broken at the distance of nineteen miles
by the Table Rock, which, with the other isolated
hills in its vicinity, seems to stand on I compare.
tive plain. This judged to be its termination
the right recovering its rugged character with the
Table Rock. 1t will be seen that it in no man.
ner resembles tho places 10 which tho term is com.
monty applied-nothIng Of tho gorge like charac.
ter anu ,,,"inding ascents Of the Allegheny passes
in notwithstanding or tho ..ea' 81. bernard
and Simplon passes in Europe. Approaching /;
from the mouth Of the Sweet Water, a sandy plain
one hundred and twenty miles long, conducts. by
a gradual and regular ascent, to the summit, a.
bodt seven thousand feet above the sea: and the
traveller, without being reminded of any change
by toilsome ascents suddenly finds himself ON The
waters which flow to the Pacific Ocean. By the
route we had travelled, the distance from, For,
Laramie is $50 miles from the Kansas" ~I
The path thus described, was ascortained by
Lieut.. Fremont to be thirty miles within the Ter
ritory of the United States Its latitude is 1l
deg u min Is sec. 1t s'neary in a direct line
from the north western anglo of Missouri to the
Columbia River valley. Comparatively the an
proach TO the pass is also free from obstacles, bo
ing with the course of q small river called thu
| sweet Water. These and tho more part;c,o