Columbia gazette., 1854-03-18
LATER FROM LOWER CALIFOR-
Ai1a3N.l} MA.

BY the Goliah, we have intelligence
from Lower California 70 the 9th inst.
When seven days ont from Utah, Col
Babbit encountered Col Fremont, who
was making his way by the central route
to San Francisco. Col. Fremont had
lost seven of his men by starvation and
exposure. His party, when overtaken by
Col. Babbit, were subsisting on a dog
and pint of flour given them by.Am-
mon, the Utah chief, brother of Wal
ker.
Col. Frcmont's party were compelled
to eat eighteen of their mules.
Col. Babbit has the field notes and
other memoranda of the lamented Gun
niSon. He it was who recovered the
r"mains of that gallant officer, and gave
them burial These notes and memo
randa arc highly important.
The latest intelligence concerning
Walkers movements is rs follows:
After leaving fort McKibbin. it pro-
ceeded towards San Thomas San Vi
centa. The force, which was then short
Of one hundred and forty, has been re-
duccd to some ninety men by daily de-
sertions. The attempt to assemble a
convention ofthc ranc,eros at San Tho
mas, was an entire failure, not single
inhabitant attending.
The rancheros of the district invaded
by the expedition, are represented as
being unanimous in the expression oil
indignation at the proceedings of the in
vading force sd r7ar 9g4 -a,e
From the best a,lvices, learn that
after this the force of Walker, driven to
desperation from the want of food and
disappointment incident to an expedi-
tion so ill-judged and improper, became
entirely deinoralized and uncomfortable
A letter now before me from one of the
Lower Californians, statesinumerous in.
stances of outrages perpetrated.
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GEORGIA, u. s. SKNAToR.-Alfred
Ivcrson, of Columbus, Georgia, las beer
elected Us. Senator, in place of VIM,
&C. Dawson, whose term expires in Marcl,
1855. DR.. OWNS term expires at the
same time Wonder if it is unconsti.
.tutional in Georgia to elect the q. S.
Senator a year or more in advance:-
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=. The readers Of our contemporary miph,
infer from this that the editors of that
print were ignorant Of the fact that the
Legislature of Georgia only holds bien-
NAL sessions-and that Mr.. Dawson's
term would expire before the next meet
ing of that body But no such thing
The editors are fully aware of this fact
and it is only one Of those clever at
tempts at gammom which go so far tc
create and sustain the dignifed position
of that paper as a pattern Of honesty
and fair dealing.-Er. Nws.
We find the following paragraph in
the San Francisco Herald OF Wedncs-
day: 'ati 'IHo3 - lo iectl n
The French have powerful feet in
the Pacific at the present time. On the
23d January last, there lay in the har-
Dor of Papeetc, at Tahiti, the French
frigate Forte, the corvettes Moselle and
Sareelle, the war steamers Duroc and
Catinat, and the war steamers Aydro-
graphe, Nouhiva, Papeete and Kane
hamelia. Admiral Febyere-Despointcs
Commander-in-Ch of the French ma
val forces in the Pacific, had just return
cd from his fliblister trip against the
important groupe Of New Caledonia, Of
which he has taken possession in the
nancsof the Emperor Of the French,
and which doubtless are to form hercaf-
ter part Of the fast-sprcading French
Empire in the Pacific.