Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1846-09-05

| From the Philadelphia Public Ledger we copy
the following information, which some person pecu
! liarly favored by the Executive Government ha.
evidently been allowed to copy, to abstract, from
the Official Correspondence on the subject to which
it relates:
WASHINGTON, SEPTEMBER !, 1916.
you week ago that squadron in the Pacific
would not long remain idle having received positive nsruc
ton to be up and doing have the pleasure of
nicaing the following important
Commodore SLoAT entered the harbor OF Monterey and
the 9th of July issued bis proclamation the inhabitants Of
California, calling them to remain PEACEFUL assuring them
that he did the enemy of California but their
friend That Mey destined 10 form part and parcel Of The
great Federal Union ofthe United States enjoying the
rights and privileges the citizens of those States They
should select their civil officers and magistrates and
JOY all other privileges Of freemen, Of which they now in
part or wholly deprived The laws should be
force in California the United States, by which
they would Caifonians and members Of the American
Onion, obtain provisions and manufactures Of the United
States duty free, ,oti other imports ,ootd pay duty at
least twenty-five per cent less than noU Lered the
articles by the ,cs Of Merico. Those who will not become
citizens of the great American Conedeacy depart peace
with all their property, provided they lay down their snd
remain in other respects neutral He enons them retain
dgesed the particular form Of government they wish
adopt, and have had time elect other officers in their places
All property Of private citizens and particularly that Of the
churches should be respected all supplies and provisions paid
for reasonable terms, and private property used for
public purposes without proper compensation.
The proclamation is dated Savannah habor Of Monterey
and signed JoHs b. sLoaT Commander-inchef Of the Uni
ted States forces in the Pacific
OF information of such importance as the above
we find the following ezpicif notice in the govern
ment paper of Tuesday night:
"CALIFoRNIA.-We have received information,
on which we place implicit reliance, that Commo-
dore SLoAT took possession of Monterey on the
: 9th July last"
In the same paper we find the following para
graphs:
On the 9th July, Commander JOHN b. MoNT-
GoMERY, of the Portsmouth, summoned the COM
mandant of Yerba Buena to surrender. What the
result of this summons was, we are not informed.
"A few days previously to the 9th July, de-
: tachment from Col. FREMoNTs force took posses
sion of frontier post called Sonoma, to the north
: Of San Francisco. General Castro attempted TO
dislodge them bat, after slight skrmish, and
the arrival of COL Fremont in person, he Castro
: retreated.
There appears to have been as much dissen-
sion among the Californians before the arrival OF
Com. Sloat existed in other parts OF Mexico.
On the 9th June junta met at Santa Barbara,
headed by Governor Pico, to declare California
independent; which movement was met by pro-
clamation from the Commandant General Castro,
declaring martial law throughout the country"