Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1856-10-31
LATER FR0I CALIFORNIA.
NEW YoRK. Oct. 2Sth.

New York, Oct. 18th.
The Steamship Illinois from Aspinwall
arr we'd at this port at three o'clock this
afternoon. She brings 400 passengers and
nearly 81 100000 in specie.
Business in San Francisco is improving
Mining intelligence is encouraging Ex-
Governor McDougal was arrested on bis
arrival out, on charge Of illegal voting.
The papers publish letter from Col.
Fremont in answer to letter Of inquiry,
addressed by the editor of the San Francis
co Bulletin to the Three Presidential can
didatcs. The other candidates did not
an.wer. The Bulletin says, Fremont S
letter has given great satisfaction to the
citizens generally.
The jury in the case of Ex-Collector
Hammond, on trial for embezzling the pub
ie uonies had disa reed.
Tie Grand Jury of San Matco county
has found an Indictment against Ex-Gover-
McDoucal for fraud at the May election
he was held to bail in $500.
DR. Armstrong was murdered near Sa-
cramento by man named Colebrook.-
While the latter was being examiDed, the
citizens broke into court, disarmed the
officers, and seizing the prisoner, carried
him off and hung him upon tree.
DR.. John Marsh, graduate of Harverd
University. was murdered at his rancho
near Martinez, by Spaniard.
Col Frements Letter.
The following is Col. Fremont's letter
20 he cl.tor of the San Francisco BuIle-
tin:
New YORK. Sept. 4th, 1856.
Sir II have the pleasure of acknowl-
edsing the receipt Of your letter Of the
18th of last month. Believing that its
subject comprchcnds the whole future of
California. consider that an immediate
and clear reply is due to the people of
the State, who in two months will be
called upon TO decide it.
The necessity of establishing rail-
road to the Pacific is az clearly apparent
to my mind as was the necessity of ex-
tending to it the Constitution when the
country was acquired. 1t is hardly nee
essary 20 remind you that l have occu-
pied many years in aiding to procure for
it favorable opinion. and it might reas-
onablv be inferred that would be prompt
to seize upon the first good occasion for
giving practical effect to the labor and
time have bestowed upon it. From
the day when my connection with the
Army was dissolved l have considered
my life consecrated to the construction
of this Pacific Railroad. In view Of flu
turc events which can be easily appre-
ciated by every man, this national high
way becomes indispensable as a means
Of holding these parts of the country to-
gether As to the question of constitu.
tionrl power in the government to aid
T. ar t. secure its construction. there is
IN m. mind as little doubt as of the pow
er of the government to provide postal
accommodations in time of peace. o,
means for the transport ofmunitions and
bdies of men in time of war. Entertain.
ing no doubt as to the power or the cx
pediency of its exercise, any change o
the constitution is unnecessary. Until
this great national work can be consum-
mated, every facility of communication
by postal and other arrangements should
be Immediately esta blished, as a mean:
of annihilating the distance which di-
vidcs the Pacific and Atlantic coasts. and
consolidating by indissolublc bonds the
now apparently detached and separate
parts of the American Union.
This opportunity to answer your in
quiries has given me particular salts
faction. My fortunes are inseparably
connected. BY choice as by the current
Of events. with the acifc coast. cher
ish grateful recollection of the favors
have already received from this new PEG.
pie. whose marvellous energy and pow
er. in the brief space of eight years, has
established an empire in place of the sol
itude and feeble civilization which have
to long obscured that country ant
whether in private or public life. no op'
portunity will be allowed to escape me
in which, by personal sacrifice, l can ad
vance its great interests.