Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1847-09-09
ARMY INTELLIGENCE.
ft4m The ~. Lonis ReppLiicnn. .7nR. %.
VERY LATE FROM CALIFORNIA


Arrival of Gen. Keamey and sulie.-Col Fremont nr
rested at Fort I.elyenaurih, and ordered to Washing
ton-Sifuaiinn If Clliiunia-Col. Mason governor
aad Commander IN ~chloi-P,sllion u the efnig'antsio
Oregon, and II The M5unous.
Among the pJs senoets on HE steamer Amelia. from
Fort ie-venworih, lasi night, were Zen. ;. W Rear
ney: MAJ. I. 81. &c, rye Cooke. afile Sd dragopnsi Capt.
lis 1ufncI, Of the LIST ~dragoor"; MAJ. y. swords
guar %crnas'rr; Lieut.. RidfJr1, If the navy; and Mr..
Bryant, Of Lexington, Ky.
This par y reached Fart Lcavenwoih. from Califor-
nis. On HE I'D inst. In company AS far As the tort. were
also Lieut.. Col. J. &. Fremont. ASA. Surg. S~anderson,
and HE Hon. W.P. Hall. member Of Congress elect
from his State.
tl,e3lst ofAIay last Besides officers. servants, SC,
there was an escort II thirteen Of the Mormon battalion.
Col. Fremont brought with HIM nineteen Of the lopo-
graphical parry taken from Missouri, in 1915. \ mum
trto II llirse were the captains aud othor officers Of the
Calf mia battalion
Col. Mason Isl dragons. was left at Monterey gov
ernor and commander IN cl,ief. There was every iudl-
carton Of paaceable submission; If there was any excep
ton. ii arose irm the rsilessness Of the American p,pu-
lallon nelih Of Monterey, under the military government
10 which they necessarily We're subject, equally with the
rillzersu Of the country Of Then adoption.
Gen. Kearney had returned 10 Monterey but a few
days previous 10 his departure, fruma visit 10 Los Ange-
Is. lie found there That the reports of the approach, Of
an army under General Busiamcnte, which had long
kept lhe naiivf pulatlon IN excitement, were dying 4
way. The time oi the Mormon battalion, stationed here
aud at San Diego. expired on the 10Th Of July, when the
land forces III California would consist Of Cod. Steven
Suns regiment, one company II dragons, (at Angels,
and one Of light artillery AT Monterey. An expectation
was entertained that about one hundred Of the Mormon
battalion would lie enter the service.
One OF thela acts of Gen. Kearney was to order that
Lieut.. Colonel Burton should proceed by sea 10 Lower
California. aud take possession of that territory. They
would disenlarh at La paz.
In the harb1r Of Monterey We're anchored the shii sof
Wal Columbus, Congress, Portsmouth. Warren, and i.
RE. and storcshrls Lexington aud Dale-Commodore
Iiddle. commander in chief, on board the Columbus
Com. SInbreh, with the Independence aud Cyane, were
in the gulf, b~lockading the ports of GuayniaS and AIazat
Ian. Il MAS understood thai Conn. Shlbrick woull re
turn 10 Monterey III July, aud relieve Com. Biddie in The
command ol The Pac flc squadron, wlle1 the latter would
SAL fer home in the Columbus.
There WAS colder weather i'll March, in California
than had been experienced theIe fH twenty years. Be
fore reaching Suffers. the purity were forced To swim
tour or five mountain torrents. swollen by the melting
SHOW 10 the breadth OF rifors-thc baggage and proyis
IONS Were crossed IN skin boats made upon the spot
Their progress was slow. and must Iaborlous and haZ
ardous; and one Of the officers, MAJOR Cooke, lost by an
upset, save saddle and blankets, his entire outfit, even TO
papers and Specie.
The lasl rancho WIS left on the 18th of June. On
The 3lst they crossed the main ridge oil the Sierra Ne
vada, riding tliriy five miles, chiefly over snow from
five 10 twenty five feet deep, under which water was
running, and at many place In deep torrents. On this
Side they buried the rcn1ins Of those who lost their lives
III the horrible disasters which there betrl a part, OF last
years e%migrants.
On the eastern slope. they were forced To pass track
less mountains otback rock, by the lrucky (or 81 lmon
Irou) river. In the narrow pass, the road (made in
au'unDD very frequently crosses II; some of lis small
branches presented, besides a swimming deep torrent
hundreds of yards of dangerous hog aud mite. On this
river iley were visited by the Digger Indians"
The party were nearly out of provisions of all sorts
when they met the first cmigranls AT the falls Of Snake
river, (lewis's Fork - miles beyond Fort hail.
they passed by that trading post on The 18Th of july
On Bear river they obtained a recruit OF horses and mules
from the Snake Indians.
The party came the new road -alrmt 50 miles with
out water-from Green river to Big Sandy. Besides
$ me companies who went round by ~Brigadicr's Fort.
they met alb Ut $40 wagons of emigrants-all. or nearly
all, bound 10 Oregon. The last were met between the
North Fork of Platte, aud Sweet Water, on the 18th Ju-
~; they Were believed 10 be. and considered themselves
too late to reach Oregon; and spoke Of passing III e win
ter at Fort Brldger. They left ST. Joseph about thu
10Th Of June.
At Fyri Laramie the party found many lodges of 81
onx, who were quite friendly, they left that fort on tn,
Sd inst. Next day, they met 6S5 wagons of Mornons
who were advancing very slowly in parties of fifty; they
had come all the way by the north bank of the Platte
They expected to winter m the great Salt Lake; anc
this, they assert, is to be the final resting place OF then
people. Incredible numbers of hutfaloes were passe,
through for several days, near the junction of the tw,
Plates. No Indians were encountered after this time.
The party was only G6 days from The settlements q
California 10 Fort Lcavenworih, and made not a day
slop-avoragiug for The las, 81 days 81 miles; Who'll,
distance near 2.2OO miles.
We also learn that, on their arrival at Fort Lcaven
worth, Col. Fremont was arrested by Gen. kearney, an,
ordered 10 Washington.