The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-09-02
From the st. Louis Republican Aug 10
Very late from California.

Very late California.
ArtUdl of Cen Kearny and stnteICos frfmom ar
rested al Fort Leavenworh, and ordered 70 Wah.ng,
ton-Situdtion of California.--Cot Mason governor
and an Position Of the emlgrdntS 10
Oregon, and of the Mornons.
Among the passengers on the steamer Amelia from
Fort Leayenworh, last night were Gen > W. near HearhE
S. Turner, of the list Dragons; Maj T. swords quar-,
master; Lieut. Radiord, OF the navy; and Mr. Bryant OF
This party reached Fort Leavenworth, from California
on the 22d In company far the fort were also
Lieut. Col J. c. Fremont, Asst Surg. Sanderson, and
the Hon. w. p Hall, member OF Congress elect from
this State.
We are informed that Gen Kearny left Monterey on
the 3ls of May last Besides officers, servants, nc,
there was an escort of thirteen of the Mormon battalion
Col Fremont brought with him nineteen OF the topo
graphical party taken from Missouri, in 1915. number
of these were the captains and other officers oil the Cali
forna battalion"
Col Mason, lst Dragons was left at Monterey gov
and commander-n-chi There was every ndica-
ton OF peaceabe submission; II there was any eXcep-
on it arose from the restessness of the American pop
laton north of Monterey under the military government,
to which they necessarily were subject, equally with the
citizens of the country OF their adoption.
days previous his departure from visit to Los Ange
les He found there that the reports OF the approach OF
an army under General Bustamente, which had long
kept the native population IN excitement, were dying
away The time of the Mormon battalion, stationed
there and at San Diego, expired the 10th OF July,
when the land forces in California would consist OF Col
SteVenSOns regiment company OF Dragons, lat An
ges) and one of light artillery, at Monterey. An expec-
ation entertained that about one hundred of the
Mormon battalion would re- enter the service.
One of the last acts of General kearny to order
that Lieutenant Colonel Burton should proceed by to
Lower California and take possession OF that territory
They would disembark at La Paz.
In the harbor OF Monterey anchored the ships OF
war Columbus, Congress, Portsmouth, Warren, and Erie
and storeships Lexington and Dale-Comnodore Biddle
commander chief, on board the Columbus. Commo-
dore Shubrick with the Independence and Cyane, were
in Tho ad no n
Ian. 1t understood that Commodore Shubrck would
return TO Monterey in July, and relieve Commodore Bid
die in the command of the Pacific squadron, when the
latter would sail for home in the Columbus
There colder weather In March, IN California
than had been experienced there for twenty years Be
fore reaching Suffers the party were forced to swim fou
five mountain torrents, swollen by the melting snow
to the breadth OF rlvers-he baggage and provisions
were crossed in skin boats made upon the spot. Then
and one of the officers, Major Cooke, lost by upset
saddle and Blankets his entire OUTFIT even to papers
and specie.
The last rancho was left on the 18th of June On the
21st they crossed the main ridge OF the Sierra Nevada
riding thirty five miles, chiefly snow from five &c
twenty feet deep, under which water was running
and at many places IN deep torrents On TINS sde they
buried the of those who lost their lives in the
horrible Sasers which there befel party OF last years
emigrants.
On the eastern slope, they forced 10 pass rackess
mountains of black rock, by the Trucky (or Salmon
Trout river In the narrow pass the road (made II
auumn) very frequently crosses 1t; some OF It's sinai
branches presented, beside swimming deep torrent
hundreds of yards of dangerous bog and mre. On this
river they were visited by the Digger Indians"
The party nearly out of provisions of all sorts
when they met the first emgrants at the falls of Snake
river Lewis's Fork,) 25 miles beyond Fort Hall They
passed by that trading post the 18th of July On Bea
river they obtained recruit of horses and mules from
| the Snake Indians.
| The party came the new road-about SO miles wthou
water--from Green river to Big Sandy. Besides some
companies who went round by Bridgers Fort, they me
about $40 wagons of emgrans-a nearly all, bount
TO Oregon. The last met between the North Fork
of Platte, and Sweet Water, on the 2Sth July; they
believed to be- and considered themselves too late
to reach Oregon and spoke OF passing the winter at For
Bridger. They left St Joseph about the 9th of June
AT Fort Laramie the party found many lodges OF Sioux
who quite friendly, They left that fort on the 80
inst. extday, they met 6S5 wagons of Mormons who
advancing very slowly in parties of fifty; they had
come all the way by the north bank of the Platte. They
expected to winter the great Salt Lake; and this, they
assert, is TO be the final restngplace of their people
Incredible numbers of buiaoes passed through to
several days, near the junction of the two Plates. Nc
Indians were encountered after this time.
| The party was only GO days from the settlements o
California TO Fort Leavenworth, and made not day.
sopaveragng for the last 81 days 81 miles: whole dis
lance near 2 200 miles.
| We also learn that on their arrival at Fort Leaven
worth, Col Fremont arrested by Gen. Kearny, ant
ordered to Washington