Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1846-09-30

United States Treasury Notes are OF a discount Of one
aud a hall per cent ~ this city. Those In circulation have
found their way from New Orleans. where they wsro paid
cut IN floods, to take up the duo-bils and other obi cations
Of Quarter-mtster HUSH. The money market was Oyenun,
and they suffered q depreciation Of four per cent, and NJ
the last dates they were at discount Of two and a half per
cent. II the credit Of tho Government is Of such doubtful
repute az homo, what will be the value u the million Of
Treasury Drafts sent % Santa Re 10 pay of the "Army of
the WcsN Will not the soldiers be compelled to suffer a We.
~ considerable shave before they can transform them into
sPeciol or, Is 1t expected that the traders will each them,
mofeyto aceomm0daie the Government
The U0rmoHs-Wo have a most dismal account Of tho
condition Of the MofmOns who undertook 10 IN gra.e to
California, bot stopped az a place agreed Un between them
aud Col. ALLEN, when the latter was d5sirOus d raisiog q
battalion Of iniaury from among them. They were 20 To-
cate on tie Platte river, and there 10 remain for 40 indcd-
niiC period " Time. They attempted 10 raise q crop Tor
their sobsistence, but failed % do ~, md hsve abtneoned
the Platte, and are now Of Bellevue, on the Missouri river
near the Council Bluff They are said % b. 100 o starving
condition, and nothing bot the ad yf tho Government dI.
nng the coming wiutor, will save many Of them rom death.
President Polk, It's UNDERWOOD, some lime 90 despatched
an agent 20 heir camp, 70 inquire into Hcf condition
probably with "a view OF granting them s.u. u.r-and
he BE- said 90 have returned 60 ths city on .be Gen. Bfogls.
frE CoNfASY koBBsD The lrdeDsuf'fee EIp.eItor,
OF the l2h, says that tho company i Mss.fs. Lfo4.fd. Of
that county, and Shaw, Df g. LDIH., sfs near % hand. srsr
q long and tedious IMP. Mr. SlaV returned from ihe
plains early last spring, but vas unable % bring ht bufaIo
robes With him on accuuui Of tr Iowncss OF me water In
the Biz Pate river tie was Obliged 10 send wagons 10
tons2ou them across 10y land. Th.ss wagons were pot n
charge d eight men on their return. and were getting on
pretty well until the Pa~u.r ludfara. seeing thr.r weak.
ne-s, stole one hundred and forty pscksU of robes from them.
Tic company conuivod 60 retain possession II one hundred
end twenty-five OF one hundred and thirty packs, which
were expected % roach Independence in o. low days.
LtrE Ts9H MAEcY's FlHLy 1t s stated here by some
d~sehsfged drivers who rescued this place night before last,
on the Winons, that Gen. T0ulmin, duauemastcr NJ Mo-
bile, on Saturday last, met the commander Of the Csorgia
Mule Regiment 81 Blakoiy. and brought tho whole concern
loa hAU' NJ more mules arc needed on the Rio Grando /!
% nine 'eoihs Of the purchase money II those 800 is lost
70 mo government Persons hero spesk n going down Ia
Peesiat' ~ mules. Hurrah FOR Polk, Marcy and iho Goor-
y" MuIe Regimont-Moateonpg (Aia) Journal
lWo Iuguves from justice In T~cGss-James Buok.
.satReu WIN ne commission 81 two murders, and Thomas
murphy, 10. SON" other oHsnce-bsyo been ntrosted in
'." Vheans' Tins . quito chsnge In the order of things
-l"n''S' people Ned from tho United States 10 Tetas-
now hey rn from Texas To- New Orleans.