New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-07-01

mtO nNlon upon hr tended bue ~
MN ~ p,sr -'vec, but which proved 70 be d,sa.
.e,urn-,al"umy T. loading and governing fss
uoe"y .,Sos., ,o,'t. cross The great unknown
region disgonaly through 10 "''' t@ex'9g Inns
from the Low.f Columbia to Tho upper COLORADO
Of the Grlf e California;, wa bis b. '" ",u'"
twenty five men lths same VAC had CONF IN ya"
fr, m the United S,etasD ard hu,dred borsss, ~ie
his equipment and the commencement OF W'nsfr tbs
time Of s'ariiDg-all without guide, relying rpon
beii guile for support; and. in the Iss resort. upon
then bCrsev-euch sls,ud give out Tor cn@ tDaa
could carry msn, or q pack could not BE- spsred sx
food
All the raps up TO that time baG shown this region
trav,r.d from sast to wes-from the base Of the
Rocky MOuntsins TO the Bay Of San FraDciyo-by
great nver called the BHna Ventura. which nsy b
translated, the Good Chance. Governor McLsnghns
believed in the existence Of this river, and made out
coIjeduisl manuscript map 10 show its place and
courre. Fremont be'ievso in il, spd his plan was %
reach before the dead Of Winter and then yberus'e
upon il. As great river, be knew that II mus, have
some rich botoms covered with wood ard grass, whese
the Wild animals would collect aud sbeter, when the
SHOWS and freezing winds drove them rom tbs
plains and with tbese animals to live on, and
grass COR the horses and wood for hres he expected ID
AVOID suffering if not 10 enjoy comfort during his sol
i'aIy soourn M that remote and Proiound wilderness
He proceeded--soon encountered deep shows which
mpeded progress upon the high lanos-deseended into
low country Ia the left (siterward known TO be ths
CIR, al Basin, from which water issues 10 any seal
skrted an enormous chsin Of mountain on the rgtt.
luminous with glitteriDg white snOw-saW strange 10
dials. who mostly tled-toupG ctsert--no Buens
Ventura; and death FROM cold and famine staring HIM
in the face. The failure to find the river, tdngs
of it. and the pOesibiy Of ts existence scanning 20 be
forbid by the structure Of The country and b., berna
ton in the inhosptable desert being Impossible.
and the question being that OF life and tisath, some
new plan Of conduct became indispensable. His &C.
lestia observations told him that he was in the sti-
tude of the Bay of San FrancscO, ard only seventy
miles from il. But what miles up and down that
snowy mountain which the lncisns told hun no mea
in h. pta hieh sno
upon it as deep as the trees, and places where
people would Zip of, and fall bsf . mile at
tme-a fate which actually befell mule. packed with
tie pre- cous burden Of Botanical spec mems. collected
Along q travel of two thousand niles No reward
could induce an lnoian to become q guide IN the
perilOus adventure of crossing this mountain. Al
rec Fed and fled from the adventure II was attempted
without guide-n the deac Of W;nter-accomplished
IN forty days-the men and surviving horses woful
procession, crawling along one by one; skeleton men
leading skeleton horses-and arriving at Suffers Settle
mept in the beautiful valley Of the Sacramento anf
where q genial warmth. and budding flowers, and
flowing streams, and comfortable fsod, made fairy
contrast with the fsmine aud freezing they had en-
countered and the lofty Sierra Nevada which they had
climbed Here he rested and recruited; and from tais
point and by way of Monterey, the frst hdines wers
heard of the party since leaving Fort Vancouver.
Another long progress to the south. skuting ths
quainted with the noble valley Of the San Joaquin.
part to that Of the Sacramento; when crossing
through gap, and turning to the left, he skirea the
Great Baein and, by many deyiatlons from the right
lire hone, levied neessant contributions 10 science
from expanded lands not described before In this
eve ntfu exploration all the great features Of the west
ern slope of continent were brought 10 ightthe
Great Salt Lake, the Utah Lake the Little Salt Lake.
at all which places, then desert, the Mormons no"
are. The Sierra Nevada, then solitary 10 the sno~
row crowded with Americana digging gold from its
farks: the beautiful valleys Of the Sacramento and
San jos qun, then alive with wild horses, elk, deer
and wild fowls, now smiling with American cultiva-
ton; the Great Basin itself and its contents; the
Three Parks; the approximation Of the great ivers
which, risiDg together in the central region OF ths
Rocky Mountains go of east aud west, toward the
rising and the setting these and other strange
features of new region, more Asstic than American
were brought to light aid revealed TO public view ID
the results of this exploration. Eleven months hs
was never ont of sight of snow; aud tomefimes.
freezing with colo, would look down upon
sunny valley, warm with genial heat-scmetimes pant
ing with the Summers heat would look up at the
eternal SLOWS which crowned the neigbboriDg noun.
tain But il was not then that California was secured
to the Unot to the greatest power OF the kew World
to which it Of right belODgee but il was the irst
step toward the acquisition and the ore that led to IT.
That second expedition led 10 third, just in time 70
sratch the gocen California from the hsnCs OF the
British, ready to clutch it, But of this hereafter.
Frenonfs second expedition was BOW over. lie had
leH the United States fugitive tOu bis Government,
and returned with name that went over Europe and
America, and with discoveries bearing fruit which tue
civilized world is now enjoying