Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1846-10-03
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Two DoLLARs years One DOLLAR for the first regular
session oeach Congress- and FIFTY CESTs for the final
sloa OF each Congress- and the for each Extra Ses-
sion--payable in all cases in advance.
The CALIFORNIA REGIMENT.-This forlorn
corps, which for month past has formed the
subject of rdcule well the puzzle of the good
people Of New York, has at last commenced its
voyage round half the world to carry civilization
and liberty to California. We have already no
ticed some Of the disreputabe incidents attending
its departure Whatever else it may have taken
away, it does not appear to have carried with il
any great share of public confidence and from all
the accounts of it we have seen, there is to
apprehend that it is destined to confer little credit
as benefit on the Government and country. From
the New York papers Of Monday we copy the an
nexed notice of the regiment and its departure
The California Expedition is of last shorn somewhat OF
It's numerc force has long been almost wholly of its
moral It's departure has been sgnazed by proongaion
OF That unhappy compound made up almost equally of mis-
fortune and misconduct which has attended it from the be-
ginning and requires very abiding superstitous faith
in believe that the issue will he useless and inglo-
ous in strict conformity with the inception and progress
What the expedition is to accomplishor what object
with what purpose has been got UPS the unanswerabe
We heard suggested the other evening by very intelligent
gentleman Of the Democratic party that the scheme
purely of colonization that these merely
form kind Of nucleus in California, around which emgra-
ton may gather and consolidate, bring in
years the coveted establishment of American laws and repu
lcan institutions with OF course the subsequent formal
nexaton or incorporation territory and then State of
the Union The military form he supposed to be adopted
only device to bring the project within the pale OF
stuona ability the Government having, he argued I'M
questionable right to organize military expedition but none
at best very doubtful one, plant colony This the
DRY accounts for of the absurdes pertaining the
movement but does nothing relieve from the almost posi-
tive certainty Of hopeless failure in the end.
We put record at this time unhesiating confidence
that, specimen Of utter hopeless failure, this California
expedition will stand without superior perhaps without
equal in the annals of any nation We do believe that
onehaf of the board the vessels will reach Cali
na and do believe that those who get there WILL by
the time of their arrival be in of dsorganzation
ready shift for himself his own fashion and
for his interests COL Stevenson, If he is not deposed
killed, set shore at intermediate place, will he
colonel without regiment and in less than five years the
whole corps will be dsbanded broken up and scattered all
over the Pacific. Some of the will marry Californian
wives and establish themselves here and there mechanics
traders agrculturss will aggle away Sand
witch Islands some will ship on board whaers others will
loaf along to Oregon in way and another before five
years out the whole will be in fragnen:s
wretched of Governmental absudiy and extra
agance-Coni,nerciai Adp.
The CALIFORNIA; ExPEDITIoS.--So hurried the de-
parure of this expedition, that thirty Of the
fcers who had furough until 10 o'clock left behind
they chartered the yacht Pearsa and the
ships They did succeed and returned yesterday
ing sorrofu enough, for all their money and baggage
on board The distressing case however, that Of
womap the wife of Of the prvate who had infant
board She had shore by permission purchase
some decacie for the child and when she the
landing the ships far down the bay Her agony may
imagined words fail describe it, and the mpathies
of large crowd who gathered around enlisted in
ing off south, with flowing Sheets the Preble leading under
opsas and the prospect of those left behind cherries
enough.
We understand that Of the companies board the Loo
Choo had but sergeant the others having forgot
when their furoughs expired.
This certainly extraordinary the part of
the of this monge expedition In the fist place
he forciby resisted the service of civil process and followed
that up by equally disregardng criminal To avoid
punishment for these high offences he the signal for
sailing be given while he perfectly that many
his shore by permission, whose leave did
expire until 10 o'clock, and that they be left behind
Efforts being made to have the oreshp Mount Vernon,
GERS and men who were left behind.--N Courier.