Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-09-04
VERY LATE FROM CALIFORNIA.
Prom rHE ST.. LOUIS nrrupIrcAs or Auovsr ae

FROM THE ST. LOUIS REPUBLICAN AUGUST 26.
Among the passengers on the steamer Amelia, from Fort
Lesvenworth, last night Gen. s. W. KEAaSY, Major
p ST. GEO. Cooks of the I'd Dragons; Capt H. s. Tua-
sER Of the LIST Dragons Major r. swoaps Quartermas-
teri Lieut. RlDronp of thu navy and Mr. Bazaar, of
Lexington, Kentucky.
This party reached Fort Leavenwor,h from California ON
the 22d instant In company far as the Fort were also
Lieut.. Col Fremont, Asst Surgeon SANDERses and the
Hon. W. r HALL, member of Congress elect from this State
We are informed that Gen Keany left Monterey on the
3lst Of May last Besides officers servants &c there was
escort Of thirteen Of the Mormon battalion
Col Fremont brought with him nineteen of the Topographic
cal party taken from Missouri in s45 number of these
the captains and other officers of the California bat
TALON"
Col Mason LIST Dragons was left at Monterey Governor
and Commander n-chief There was every indication Of
peaceable submission if there any exception il arose
from the resessness OF the American population north of
Monterey under the military government which they ne
cessary subject equally with the citizens the country
of their adoption
Gen. Kearny had returned Monterey but few DAYS pre-
vious to his departure from Angeles The time
OF the Mormon Battalion stationed there and at San Diego
expired the 10th of july when the land forces in Caor
mia would consist of Col Seyensons regiment one company
of Dragons at Angels, and Of artillery Monterey.
One of the last acts of Gen. Kearny order that Lieut.
COL Burton should proceed by sea to Lower California and
take possession Of that territory They would disembark
La Paz.
In the harbo of Monterey anchored the shps-ofwar
Columbus, Congress, Portsmouth, Warren and Erie, and
soreships Lexington and Dale. Com. Bidde Commander
n-chief on board the Columbus Com Shubrick with the
Independence and Cyane, in the Gulf blockadng the
ports of Guaymas and Mazaan 1t understood that
Com Shubrck would return to Monterey july and relieve
Com Bidde 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. Before reaching
Suffers the party forced to swim four five mountain
torrents swollen by the melting breadth of rivers
The baggage and provisions crossed in skin coats made
upon the spot Their progress slow and most laboous
AM md The
upset (save saddle and banke his entire outfit even to
papers and specie
The last rancho left the 18th of June On the
2lt they crossed the main ridge the Sierra Nevada riding
thirty five miles, chiefly from five to twenty five
feet Deep under which water running, and many
places in deep torrents On this side they buried the
mains of those who lost their lives in the horrible disasters
which there befel party of last years emgrants.
On the eastern slope they forced pass trackless
mountains Of black rock by the Trucky Cor Salmon Trout
river In the narrow pass the road made in autumn) very
frequently it Of its small branches presented
besides swimming deep torrent hundreds of yards of dan
geous bog and me. On this river they visited by the
g Digger Indians"
The party nearly out of provisions of all when
they met the first emigans at the falls Of Snake river, Lew
ISIS Fork twenty-five miles beyond Fort Hail. They passed
by that trading post the 18th of July On Bear
they obtained recruit of horses and mules from the Snake
Indians.
water from Green river Big Sandy Besides some COM
panes who round by Brdges Fort they about $40
wagons of emgrants all nearly all bound Oregon The
last between the North Fork of Platte and Sweet
Water the 2Sth oJuy they believed to he and
dered themselves too late to reach Oregon and spoke pass
ing the winter at Fort Brdger. 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 the Sd instant
Next day they met six hundred and eghyfve wagons of
Mormons, who advancing very slowly in parties Of y
they had 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 resting place of their people, In
credible numbers of buaoes passed through for
days the junction of the Plates. No Indians were
encountered after this time. II.
The party only sxtysix days from the settlements of
California TO Fort Leavenworth and made days stop,
averaging for the last 6yseven days. thirty miles whole
distance 200 miles.
We also learn that their arrival at Fort Leavenworh
Col Fremont arrested by Gen. Kearny, and ordered
Washington.