The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-05-15
Correspondence Of the New York Sun.
IMPORTANT FROM THE PACIFIC OCEAN, CALI
,FORNIA, OREGON, AND MEXICO.

tFORNlA, OREGON, AND MthltO
MONTEREY, California March 6, 1886
SIR: Since the expulsion of General Mcheltorena
from this country, the natives have managed their
affairs their own way, having the command under
Commandant General Castro at the north, and
Governor Pico at the south. In the mean time, the
wild Indians are carrying off for food almost all the
horses on the farms They prefer horse meat to the
meat of bullocks Travelling, in some parts of this
department, has become dangerous, the Indians,
with their arrows, having shot several people they
met single and unarmed Month after month,
enterprsing emigrants, (wid Indians never
trouble them,) obtain grants of several leagues of
land on the waters of the magnificent" bay of San
Francisco, purchase cattle of the native farmers, and
set up for themselves. The Sacramento at Captain
Suffers new town of New Hevetia and above there,
already teens with the busy hum Of settlers. The
soft cedar trees-even seventeen feet in diameter,
and three hundred feet high-begin to fall under
the New England axes and the western axemen.
The carting in Monterey and Yerba Buena is partly
done by Missouri men and oxen. A schooner has
been built by the Americans at San Francisco, load
ed with Californian produce, and both sold in Ma.
zaan at a high profit. Her potatoes sold at four
dollars per 100 lbs; beans five dollars an English
busheI, paid for IN specie. More vessels now
building; several saw-mllIs on the rivers are at
work. At Bodega large steam san is nearly finish
ed. Over three hundred men, women, and children,
arrived last October at New llelveta, in ffty-two
wagons. General Castro, the cOmmanuant general,
went there TO see them, and babe them welcome,
bringing down a small boy to Monterey to edu-
cate with his son. Annexation, you see, in Jit-
huO)
Ma2atan must soon receive her lumber, salmon,
bacon, grain, potatoes and vessels from the Amer.
cans the Sacramento. The Oregon emigrants
may well say their country is full of wheat and
-four II must so continue until some new nnt
powerful invention remove the bar nj the Co
umbia river, to allow a vessel to enter. Tie
Hudson Bay Company's ships have been thirty
six days from the Columbia river to San Frat
cisco, thirty of which they were at anchr,
waiting to get out. | think whale-shp
never found her way there; and if she did tie
crew might consume their supply Of refresl-
ments for the season while they we're laying
inside the bar waiting for time and wind to go o,t
Many whalers are yearly supplied at San Francisco,
but the land needs more Of the American class of
aborers to prove ts utility. The Californians ire
quietly looking on, wondering who and what will
come next, many Of them being uncertain wiener
il is best for their interest that the Yankees should
take possession best for their patriotism thathe
Mexican flag, without her laws, should yet fly over
them. They getting used to the stars and stripes,
however.
Captain Fremont and his party are now in Cali
fornia In February, he visited the United States
consul in Monterey. While there, the prdeoto
wrote TO Mr.. Larkn to inquire what business Capt
Fremont could have here. He was informed, to
find out Me most practicable route to the Pacific,