The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-05-20
g WESTWARD, HO! "-EXPEDITIONS T.
OREGON.

In the act passed by Congress- three years ago,
"making appropriations for the support of the army
clause introduced, appropriating $4,000 "for
military and geographical surveys west Of the Mis-
sissipp." Under the appropriation for this purpose,
Captain (thcn Lieutenant) Fremont was called into
service under the instruction of Col. Albert of the
typographical corps. He has carried out two expe-
ditions, and is now preparing for third. He has
left Washington for the purpose of accomplishing
it, and expects to leave St. Louis perhaps early in
June The subject is of character to interest pub
lie attention; and under this impression we sought
an interview with Captain Fremont, and we trust
that readers to reap its benefits in the nfor
nation which we hope to give them at some future
period. For the present, the Captain has placed in
our possession the following introduction to the
ports of his two first expeditions, which were sub
mitted to Congress, and are now passing the press
in this city. As we can obtain copy of the
documents, we hope to lay few interesting extracts
from them before our readers. 4alH
Report Of the exploring expedition to the Rocky Noun
tans in the year l642 and to Oregon aud North Cal
iforna in he years l843-'44. BY Brepet Captain j.
C. Fremont Of the typographical engineers under the
orders Of Col j. J. Albert chief Of the Typographical
bureau.
HousE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
February 49, ls45
Resolved That the clerk of this House be- he here
by directed to receive in the of Congress- the
Of aad & 10 aad
the shall be furnished from the War Department. and
that ten Snsand saa copies thereof DO printed together
the for the of the members Of the Con
gs.s and also the report Of the ,ams ocsr Of his esPsd
with the report Of the last expedition without the appen-
dix of astronomical baromerca and meteorological obser-
vations.
Clerk Ho. of Reps.
BytD GOLD,
Chief Clerk.
NoTIcE TO THE REApER. w
The Senate of the United States, and the House
Of Representatives, having each ordered ten thou
sand copies of the reports of the two exploring ex-
petitions conducted by me, to be printed together,
have deemed it regular and natural to place the
report of 1912 first in the order of publications. al
though heretofore printed it being first in the order
of time, and first in the progress of actual explora-
ton. The two reports naturally 20 together, the
second being continuation of the first and the two
constituting parts of a whole, which will require a
third expedition, now commencing, to complete.
The first terminated at the Rocky mountains, and at
the two points of greatest interest in that ridge
namely, the South Pass, and Fremont's Peak; the
former being the lowest depression Of the noun
tains, through which the road to Oregon now
passes, and the latter the highest elevation, from the
base of which four great rivers take their RISE and
flow in opposite directions, toward the rising and
the setting sun. The second, after approaching the
mountains by different route, connects with the
first expedition at the South Pass, and thence finds
the great theatre of its labors west of the Rocky
mountains, and between the Oregon river and North
California. The third expedition, now commence
ing, will be directed to that section of the Rocky
mountains which gives rise to the Arkansas, the
Rio Grande del Nore, and the Rio Colorado of Cal
forna; and will extend west and southwest Of that
section, so as to examine the country towards the
Pacific ocean, ascertain the lines Of communication
between the mountains and the ocean in that lati-
tude, and complete the examination of the Great
Salt lake and Of the interesting region which en-
bosoms it, ~ a,.a,f -
The map which illustrated the report Of le42 is
now extended to illustrate the entire expedition of
l643-'44, so that view of both expeditions will be
presented together. This map may have meaere
and skeleton appearance to the general eye, but is
expected to be valuable to science on that ac-
count, being wholly founded upon positive data and
actual operations in the field. About ten thousand
miles Of actual travelling and raversng in the wilder