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JOURNAL & MESSENGER, \ S. T. CHAPMAN A S. KOSE, Editors. COL. FREMONT AND HIS PARTY. Authentic Particulars. Letters have been received from Col. Fremont,cov erin'* the two months (from the last of November to the 2d of February) that he was not heard of, and giv ing the terrible events of that time. They are written, says the Intelligencer, from Taos and Santa Fv, New Mexico, and addressed to Mrs. Fremont, at Washing ton ; and, in her absence, (lor it was deemed probable that she might have set off to Cafifornia by seabe bre they could arrive,) to Senator Benton, and ;n hts .bsence to William Carey Jones, Esq. The letters tune from St. Louis last night, having been brought to tuat place by Mr. St. Vrain. Mrs. Fremont fortu nately was gone : Senator Benton had delayed his departure for Missouri,confident that letters were on ne way ; and in his hands we have seen the originals, and we propose to give extracts in the order of their , dates. The first is dated . “ Taos, New Mexico, January 27,1849. “ I write to you from the house of our. good friend Carson. This morning a cup of chocolate was brought to me while in bed. To an overworn, overworked, ■ itigued and starving traveller, these little luxuries of the vorld offer an interest which, in your comfortable home j . is not possible for you to conceive. “ I have now the unpleasant task of telling you how [ cune here. -I had much rather speak ot the future, vvvith plans for which lam already occupied,) for the lind turns from the scenes 1 have witnessed and the itferings we have endured ; but ns clear information i due to you, and to your father still more, I will give you the story now instead of waiting to tell it you in California; but I write in the great hope that you will not receive this letter. When it reaches Washington i you may be on your way to California. “ Former letters will have made you acquainted with j our progress as far as Bent’s Fort, and from report you , will have heard the circumstances of our departure from the Upper Pueblo, near the head of the Arkan sas. We left that place on the 25th ot November with ’ u pwards of one hundred good mules and one huudred and thirty bushels of shelled corn, intended to j support our animals in the deep snows of the high mountains, and down to the lower parts©!’ the Grand river* tributaries, where usually the snow forms no obstacles to winter travelling. At Pueblo I had enga- j ged as a guide an old trapper, well known as “ Biff j Williams,” and who had spent some twenty-five years of his life in trapping in various parts of the Rocky Mountains. “ The error of our expedition was committed in en-! gaging this man. He proved never to have known, or ! entirely to have forgotten, the whole country through which we were to pass. We occupied (after passing the mountatn) more than half a month in making the progress of a tew days, blundering along a toituous course, through a deep snow, which already began to choke up the passes, and wasting our time in search ing the way. The lhh of December we found our selves at the mouth of the Rio del Norte canon, wliere ; that river issues from the Sierra San Juan—one ot the highest, most rugged, and impracticable ©tall the Rocky Mountain ranges, inacc ssil.de to trappers and hunters, even in summer. Across the point ot tins elevated range our guide conducted us ; and having still great confidence in this man's knowledge, we passed onwards with fatal resolution. Even along the river bottoms the snow was already breast deep for the mules, and falling fieqaently in the valley and almost constantly on the mountain. The told was extiaordinary. At the warmest hours of the aay (between one and two) the thermometer (Fahrenheit) stood, in the shade of a tree trunk, at zero ; and that was a favorable day, the sun shining and a moderate breeze. Judge of the nights a nd the storms ! “We pressed up towards the summit, the snow deep ening as we rose, and in four or five days of this struggling and climbing, all on foot, we reached the naked ridges which iie above the line of the timbered region, and which form the dividing heights betweeen the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Along these naked heights it storms all winter, and the raging winds sweep across them with remorseless fury. On our first attempt to cross we encountered a pouderie— (dry snow driven thick through the air by violent wind, and in which objects are visible only at a short distance) —and were driven back, having some u-n a twelve mon vanoualy frn/pn —KnntU.or feet. The guide came near being frozen to death here, and dead t ules were already lying about the camp fires. Mean mte it snowed steadily. Tlie next day (December —) - we renewed the attempt to scale the summit, and were .tore fortunate as it then seemed. Making mauls, and beating down a road,or trench, through the deep snow, we forced the ascent in defiance of the driving poude rie, crossed the crest, descended a little, and encamped immediately below in the edge of the timbered region. The tiail showed as if a defeated party had passed by packs, pack saddles, scattered articles of clothing, and dead inules strewed along. We were encamped about twelve thousand feet above the level o! the sea. Westward the country was buried in the snow. ‘Fite - orm continued. All movement was paralyzed. To , ivance with the expedition was impossible; to get jack, impossible. Our fate stood revealed. We were overtaken by sudden and in evitable ruin. The poor animals w'ere to go first. The only places wliere grass could be had v.ere the extreme summits of the Sierra, ; where the sweeping winds kept the rocky ground bare, : and where the men could not live. Eelow, in the timbered region, the poor animals * could not get about, the snow being deep enough o ‘ bury them alive It was instantly apparent that we t should lose every one. I took my resolution immedi ately, and determined to recross the mountain back to the valley of the Rio del Norte, dragging or packing the baggage by men. With great labor the baggage was transported across the crest to the head springs of. a little stream leading to the main river. A lew days were sufficient to destroy that fine band of mules which you saw me purchase last fall on the homier of Mis souri. They generally kept huddled together ; and, as they froze, one would be seen lo tumble down, and disappear under the driving snow. Sometimes they would break off, and rush down towards the timber nil stopped by the deep snow, where they were soon hid den by the pouderie. The courage of some of the men begin to fail. “ In this situation 1 determined to send in a party to i the Spanish settiementsof New Mexico for provisions and for mules to transport our baggage. With ecou- i omy, and afrer we should leave the mules, we had not two weeks’ provisions in the camp ; and these con sisted of a reserve of maccaroni, bacon, sugar, &,c..in tended for the last extremity. It was indispensable to send for relief. 1 asked for volunteers for the service. From the many that offered I chose King, Brack enridge, Creutzfeldt, and the guide, Williams: and placed the party under the co*mmand of King, with directions to send me an express in case ot the’ least delay at the settlements. It was the day after’ Christmas that this little party setout for relief. That day, like many Christmas days for years past, was • spen jy me on the side of tlie wintry mountain, my hear: tided with anxious thoughts and gloomy forebo- ; dings. You may be sure we contrasted it with the; Christmas of home, and made many warm wishes for f your happiness. Could you have looked into Agrip pa’s glass for a lew moments only! You remember! the volumes of Blackstone’s Commentaries which I ‘• took from your father’s library when we were over looking it at our frienl Brant's? They made my Christmas “ amusements.” I read them lo pass the time, and to kill the consciousness of my situation.— Certainly you inay suppose that my fit si Jaw lessons will be well remembered. “ The party for relief being gone, we of the camp occupied ourselves in removing the baggage and equipage down the side of the mountain to the river in the valley, which we accomplished in a few days.— Now came on the tedium of waiting for the return of the relief party. Day after day passed, and no news from them. Snow fell almost incessantly in the moun tains. The spirits of the camp grew lower. Life was losing itschann to those who liad not reasons beyond themselves to live. Proue laid down in the trial and iroze to death. In a sunshine day, and having with inm the means to make a fire, he threw -his blanket down on the trait, laid down upon it, and laid there liil tie froze to death ‘ \V e were not then with him. .Sixteen days passed away, and no ridings from the party sent for relief. I became oppressed with anxiety, weary of delay, and determined to go myself both in search of the absent party, and in search of relief m the Mexican settlements. I was aware that OUr troops in New Mexico had been engaged in hostilities ‘ with the Spanish Utahs, and with the Apaches who range in the valley of the R,o Del Norte and the’ mountains where we were and became fearful that j *A krk of the Colorado of the Culf of California, j they (King and nis party) had been cut ofl by these Indians. I could imagine no other accident to them. Leaving the camp employed with the baggage,under the command, of Vincenthaler, with injunctions to follow me in three days, I set off down the river with a small party, consisiing of Godey, his young nephew, Preuss, and Saunders, (colored servant) We carried our arms and provisions for two or three days. In the camp (left under the command of Vincenthaler) the messes oulv had provisions for a few meals, and a sup ply of five pounds of sugar to each man. If I failed to meet King, my intention was to make the Mexican settlement on the Colorado, a little affluent of the Rio del Norte, about halt a degree above Taos, (you will 3ee it on my map,) and thence send hack the speediest relief possible to the party under Vincenthaler. “ On the second day after leaving the camp we came upon a fresh trail of Indians—two lodges with a con siderable number ot animals. This did not lessen our uneasiness for our long absent people. The Indian trail, where we fell upon it, turned and went down the river> and we followed it. On the fifth day (after leaving .he camp) we surprised an Indian on the ice of the riv er. He proved to beUtah, son of a Grand River chief whom we had formerly known, and he behaved to wards us in * friendly manner. We encamped near them at night. By a present of a rifle, my two blan kets, and other promised rewards when we should get in, 1 .prevailed on this Indian logo with us as a guide to the Little Rio Colorado settlement,and to take with him four of his horses to carry our little baggage. The horses were miserably poor, and could only get along at a slow waits Ot) the next day (the Cth of our pro gress) we leli the Indian lodges late and travelled only some six or seven miles. About sunset we discovered a little smoke, in a groveef timber, off’ from the liver, and, thinking, perhaps it might be our express party (King and his men) on their return, we went to see.— This was the twenty-second day since that party had j left us, and the sixth since we had left the camp under Vincenthaler. We found then:—three o! them ; Creutz feldt, Brae.kenridge, and Williams—the most miserable objects I had ever beheld. I did not recognize Creutz feldt’s features, when Brackenridge brought him up and told me his name. They had been starving! King had starved to death a few days before. His remains were some six or eight mile's above, near ihe river. By aid of the Indian horses we carried these three with us down to the valley, to the Pueblo on the Little Color ado, which we reached the fourth day afterwurds, (the tenth day after leaving the camp on the mountains,)! having travelled through snow, and on foot, IGO miles. “ 1 look upon the feeling which induced me to setout from the camp as an inspiiation. Had I remained there waitiHg the return pool King’s parly,every man of j us must have perished. “The morning after reaching the Little Colorado : Puebla, (horses and supplies not being there,) Godey j and I rode on to the Rio Hondo, and thence to Taos, about twenty live miles, wlieie we found what we , needed ; and the next morning Godey, with four Mex- j ieans, thirty hoises or mules, and provisions, sat out on : his r turn to the relief of Vincenthaler’s pnriy. I heard from him at the Little Colorado Puebla,w hich he reach ed the same day he left me, and pressed on the next morning. On the way he received an accession of eight or ten horses, turned over to him by the orders of Ma jor Beali,of the army, commandingofficer of this north ern district of New Mexico. From him I received the offer of every aid ill his power, and such actual assist ance as he was able to render. Some horses, which he ‘ had just recovered from the Utahs, were Ibanedme.l and he supplied me from the commissary’s department I with provisions, which I could have had nowhere else. ! 1 find myself in the midst of friends. With Carson is 1 living Owens. Maxwell is at his father-in-law’s, doing i a prosperous business as a merchant and contractor for 1 the troops. I remain here with these old comrades’ j while Godey goes back ; because it was not necessary j for me to go with him, and it was necessaty tor me to [ remain, and prepare the means of resuming the expe dition to California as soon as he returns with the men ! le ft behind. 1 expect him on Wednesday evening, the 31st inst, this being the 17th. “Say to your father thtt these are my plans for the ! future. “At the beginning of February (Godey having got back at that time) I shall set out for California, taking the southern route—the old route—by the Rio Abajo, the Paso del Norte, the south side of the Gila, enter- : ing California by tire Agua Caliente, thence to Los 1 Angelos, and immediately to San Francisco, expecting t£> gPt I 1A in Mwre'U, nn/1 r> rnvn lir . April. It is the first lime I have explored an old road, j but cannot help it now. I shall move rapidly, taking’ with me but a part of my party. The surteyf has been ‘ uninteiTupted up to this point, and I shall carry it on consecutively. As soon as possible after reaching Cal ifornia I shall goon with it. I shall then be able to draw up a map, and report of the whole country,agree ably to our original plan. Your father knows that this is an object < f great desire with me. All my plans remain entirely unaltered A home in California is the first point, and that will be ready lor you in April. “Evening.— Mr. St. Vrain and Aubrey, who have’ just arrived from Santa Fe, called to see me. I had the gratification to learn that St Vrain sets .out from Santa Fe on the 15th of February for St Louis ; so that by flint I shall have an early and sure opportunity of sending you my letters—the one I now write, and oth ers after the return of Godey, up to- our departure for California on the 9th of this month. He probably car ried on with him any letters that might have been in his care, or at Santa Fe, for me. “Monday, January 26.— My letter assumes a jour nal form. No news from Godey. A great deal of fall ing weather—rain and sleet here—snow in the moun tains. This is to be considered a poor country, moun tainous, with but little arable land, and infested with hostile Indiana. “I am anxiously waiting to hear from my party, and pr much uneasiness as to their fate. My presence kept them together and quiet: my absence my have had a bad effect. When we overtook King’s party, Brack enridge said to me, ‘ He felt himself safe.” So far from the extracts from the first letter, and they arc mournful enough. The next, written after the re turn of Godey, with the survivors of the party, will be still more so. Though written with-rapixlity, and con fined to events—the mind recoiling from the descrip tion of scenes and the details of wo—it is still too much for this night's paper, and must be deferred till our next. Farther and Final Accounts. We resume, says the Intelligencer of this morning, the extracts from Col. Fremont’s Letters, prefacing them with seme brief description of the localities made memorable by disasters, for the information of those who have not recent maps at hand. It is known that the great Rocky Mountain chain, with a general direction North and South, sends out a branch towards the South-easf from between the heads of the Arkansas and the Rio del Norte; and thisbrnnch forms the dividing ridge between the upper valleys of these two rivers, and between the head waters of the Red River and the Del Norte ; and having accomplish ed these purposes it subsides and disappears in the plains of Texas. Thejiighest part of this branch chain, and the governing object in it to travellers, are the Spanish peaks, first made known to American geogra phy by the then young Lieut. Ftke. These peaks are about in North latitude 371 deg., and West longitude from London 105 deg., and about on a line longitudi nally with the Pueblos of the Upper Arkansas, distant from them half a degree, and in sight. Ti.ey are seem at a great distance, and are guiding objects to travel lers. The road to Santa Fe passes below these peaks, and crosses the chain about two degrees South. Col. Fremont passed obeve them, and entered the Mexican settlements, and above Pike’s stockade, and intended to follow the Del Norte to its head, and cross the great Rocky Mountain chain through some pass there to be found. He was, therefore, so to speak, going into the forks of the mountain—into the gorge of two moun tains—and at a great elevation, shown by the fact of the great rivers which issue S*>:u the opposite sides of the Rocky Mountains at thnt part—the Arkansas and Dt*l Norte on the East, the Grand River forks of the Colorado of the Gulf of California on the West. It was at this point—the head of the Del Norte—where no traveller had ever gone before, that Col. Fremont intended to pass, to survey his last line across the con tinent, complete his knowledge of the country between the Mississippi and the Pacific, and crown the labors of long explorations by showing the country between the great river and the to be inhabitable by a civilized people, and practicable for a great road, and that on several lines, and which was the best. He had been seven years engaged in this great labor, and wish ed to complete it. It was the beginning of December that he crossed the chain from the Arkansas valley in to the valley of the Del Norte ; and, although late, with the full belief of the old hunters and traders at the Pue blos, the guide inclusive, whom he there engaged, that + With a view, among other great objects, to the Mis sissippi and Pacific highway. he would go through. .He was provided with every thing to carry the inert to California, anti with grain to , carry the animals across the mountains into the valleys of'ihe tributaiies cf the great Colorado of the West, where the snows would be light, wood and grass suffi cient, game abundant, and the hardships of the expe dition all surmounted and left behind. In two necks he expected to be in these mild valleys. Unhappily, the guide consumed these two weeks in getting to the head of the Del Norte—a distance which < nly required four or five days of travel, as Col. Fremont showed in coining back. This was the cause of the first calami ty—the loss of the horses and mules. The same guide consumed twenty-two cays, sent with the party for relief, in making the distance which Col. Fre mont, (with Godey, Preuss, and a servant,) without a guide, on foot, in colder weather, deeper sno ‘‘s.nnd half famished, made in six. That was the cause of the second and irreparable calamity —the death of the men. The immediate scene of suffering in this great dis aster, where the ascent of the great mountain was forced and its summit scaled, must have been about North latitude 334, and West longitude from London ]O7, the elevation above twelve thousand feet, and the time, that of dead winter—Christmas! From this point th<* noted objects, Pike’s Peak and the Three Parks, would bear about E. N. E. and the Spanish Peaks about E. S. E. With this notice of localities, to which a mournful interest must long attach, we proceed to give extracts f om the remaining and final let'ers from Col. Fremont. The first of these is dated “ Taos, New Mexico, Feb. 6,1319. “ After a long delay, which had weatied me to the point of resolving to set out again myself, tidings have at last readied me thorn my ill-fated party. “Mr. Vincent Haler came in last night, having the night before reached the Little Colorado settlement, with three or lour others. Including Mr. King and Mr. Proulx,* we have lost eleven of our party. “Occurrences, since 1 left them, arc briefly these, so far ns they came within the knowledge of Mr. Haler: I say briefly, because I am now unwilling to force my mind to dwell upon the details of witat has been suffer ed. I need reprieve from terrible contemplations. 1 am absolutely astonished ot this pcrsistance of misfor tune—this succession of calamities which no care or vigilance of mine could foresee or prevent. “You will remember that I had left the camp (twen ty-throe men) when I set off with Godey, Preuss, and my servant in search of King anJ succor, with direc lions about the baggage, and with occupation sufficient about it to employ them for three or four days ; after which they were to follow me down the river. With in that time I expected relief from King’s party, ii it came at all. They remained seven days, and then started, their scant provisions about exhausted, and the dead mules on the western side of the great Sierra j buried under snow. “Manuel—(you will remember Manuel—a Christian Indian of the Cosumne tribe, in the valley of the Sun j Joaquim)—gave way to a feeling of despair after they I had moved about two miles, and begged Vincent Ha ler, whom I had left in command, to shoot him. Fail- * ing to find death in that form, he turned and made his way back to the camp, intending to die there ; which he doubtless soon (ini. “The party moved on, and nt ten miles Wise gave out—threw away his gun and blanket—and, a few hun dred ynriis farther, foil over into the snow, mid tlfoU. Two Indian boye—countiynten of Manuel—were be hind. They came upon him, rolled him up in his blan ket, and buried him in the snow, on the bank of the river. “No other died that day. None the next. “Carver raved during the night—his imagination wholly occupied with images of many tilings w. ich he fancied himself to be eating. In the morning he wan dered off', and probably soon died. He was not seen again. “Sorel on this day (the fourth from the camp) laid down to die. They built him a fire, and Morin, who was in a dying condition, and snow blind, remained with him. The*e two did not probably last till the next morning. That evening (I think it was) Hubbard kill ed a deer. “They travelled on, getting here and there a grouse, but nothing else, the deep snow in the valley having driven ofi the game. “The state of the party became desperate, and brought Haler to the determination of breaking it up, iil orrlpi l *• kvn f. o*> living r Bc h other. He told them he had done all be could for them—that they had no other hope remaining than the expected relief —and that the best plan was to scatter, and make the best of their way, each as be could, down the river: that, for himself, if he was to be eaten, lie would, ni all events, be travelling when he did die. This address had its effect. They accordingly separated. “With Haler continued five others—Scott, Hubbard Martin, Bacon, one other, and the two Cosumne In dian boys. “Rohrer now became despondent, and stopped. II i ler reminded him of his family, and urged him to try and hold out for their sakes. Roused by this appeal to his tenderest affections, unfortunate man moved forward, but feebly, but soon began to fall behind. On a further appeal he promised to follow, and to overtake them at evening. “Haler, Scott, Hubbard and Martin now agreed that if any one of them should give out the others were not to wait for him to die, but to push on, and try and save themselves. Soon this mournlul covenant had to be kept. But let me not anticipate events. Sufficient (bl each day is the sorrow thereof. “At night Kerne's party encamped a few hundred yards from Haler’s, with the intention, according to Tap lilt, to remain where they were until the relief should come, and in the mean time to live upon those who linn died, nnrt upon the weaker ones as they should die. With this party were the three brothers Kerne, Captain Cathcar’, McKie, Andrews, Stepperfeldt, and Taplin. Ido not know that 1 have got ail the names of this party. “Ferguson and Beadle had remained together be. hind. In the evening Rohrer canie up and remained in Kerne’s party. Haler learned afterwards from some ot the party that Rohrer and Andrews wandered off the next morning and died. They say they saw their bo dies. “Haler’s party continued on. After a few hours Hubbard gave out. According to the agreement lie was left to die, but with such comfort as could be given him. They built a fire and gathered him some wooJ, and then left him—without turning their heads, as Ha ler says, to look at hint as they went off. “About two miles further Scott—you remember him; he used to shoot birds for you on the frontier—lie gave out. He was another of the four who had covenanted against waiting for each other. The survivors did for him as they had done for Hubbard, and passed on. “ In the afternoon the two Indian boys went ahead— blessed be these boys ! —ar.d before nightfall met Godey with the relief. He had gone on with alispecd. The boys gave him the news. He fired signal guns to notify his approach. Haler heard the guns, and knew the crack of our rifles, and felt that relief had come. This night was the first of hope and joy.— Early in the morning, with the first gray of light, Godey was in the trail, and soon met Haler and the wreck of his party slowly advancing. 1 heat that they ail cried together like children—these men of iron nerves and lion heaits, when dangers were to be faced or hard ships to be conquered. They were all children in this moment of melted hearts Succor was soon dealt out to these lew first met ; and Godey with his relief, and accompanied by Ilnier, who turned back, hurriedly followed the,back trail, in search of the living and the dead, scattered in the rear. They came to Scott first. He was yet alive, and is saved 1 They came to Hub bard next: he was dead, but still warm. These were the only ones of Haler’s party that had been left. “From Kerne’s party, next met, they learnt the death of Andrews and Rohrer ; and, a little further on, met Ferguson, who told them that Beadle had died the night before. AH the living were found—and saved— Manuel among them—which looked iike a resurrection —and reduces the number of the dead to tkn —one- third of the whole party which a few days before were scaling the mountain with me, and battling with the elements twelve thousand feet in the air. “ Godey had accomplished his mission for the peo pie; a further service Had been prescribed him, that ol going to the camp on the river, at the base of the great mountain to recover the most valuable of the bag gage, secreted there. With some Mexicans and pack mules he went on; and this is the last yet heard ol him. “ Vincent Haler, with Martin and Bacon, all on foot, and bringing Scott on horseback, have just arrived at the outside Puebloon the Littl ■ Colorada. Provisions fir their support, and horses for their transport, were left for the others, who preferred to remain where they were,regaining some strength, till Godey should get *This name was printed Prone in our last— ; t is writ ten both ways. back. At the latest, they would have reached the little Pueblo last night. Haler came on to relieve my anxieties, and did well in so doing : for I was wound up to the point of setting out again. When Godey re turns T shall know from him all the circumstances suf ficiently in detail to understand clearly every thing But it will not be necessary to tell yonanything farther You have the results, and sorrow enough in reading them. “ Evening. —How rapid are the changes of life! A few days ago, and 1 was snuggling through snow in the savage wilds of the upper dd Norte—following the course of the frozen river in more than Russian cold —no food,no blanket to cover me in the long freezing nights—(i had sold my two to the Utah for help to my men)—uncertain at what moment of the night we might be roused by the Indian rifle—doubtful, very doubtful, whether I should ever see our friends again Now lam seated by a comfortable fire, alone, pursu ing my own thoughts, writing to you in the certainty ot reaching you—a French volume ol Balzac on the table,a colored print of the landing of Columbuabe fore me, listening in safety to the raging storm with out ! “ You will wjsh to know what effect the scenes 1 have passed through have had upon me. In person, none. The destruction of my party, and the loss of friends, are causes of grief; but I have not been in jured in body or mind. Both have been strained, and severely taxed, but neither hurt. I have seen one or the other, and sometimes both, give way in strong frames, strong minds, and stout hearts ; but, as here tofore, I have come out unhurt. I believe that the re membrance of friends sometimes gives us a power of resistance which the desire to save our own lives could never call up. “ I have made my preparations to proceed. I shall have to follow the old Gila road, and shall move rapid ly, and expect to be in California in March, and to find letters from home, and a supply of newspapers and documents, more welcome perhaps, because these things have a home look about them. The future oc cupies me. Our home in .California, your arrival in April,your good health in that delightful climate, the finishing up my geographical and astronomical labors, my farming labors and enjoyments. 1 have written to Messrs. Mayhew &. Cos., agricultural warehouse, New York, requesting them to ship me immediately it threshing machine; and to Messrs. Hoe & Cos., same city, requesting them to forward to me at San Fran cisco two runs or sets of mill stones. The mill irons, and ihe agricultural instruments shipped for tne last autumn from New York, will be at San Francisco by the time I arrive there. Your arrival in April will complete all the plans.” [These extracts in relation to Colonel Fremont’s in tended pursuits are given to contradict the unfounded supposition of gold projects attributed to him by some newspapers. The word gold is not mentioned in his letters front one end to :he other, nor did he take gold mining the least into his calculation when he left Mis souri on the 21st day of October last, although the au thentic reports brought in by Lieut. Beale, of the navy, were then in all the newspapers, and fully known to him.] February 11.—Godey lias got back. He did not succeed in recovering any of the baggage or camp fur niture. Every thing was lost except some few things which 1 had brought down to the river. The depth of the snow made it impossible for him to reach the camp at the mountain where the men had left the baggage.— Amidst the” wreck I had the good fortune to save my large alforgas, or travelling trunk—the double one which you packed—and that was about all. “ Santa Fe February 17, 1819.—1n the midst of hurried movements, and in tne difficult endeavor to get a party all started together, I can only write a line to say that lam well, and moving on to California. I will leave Santa Fe this evening. “ I have received here from the officers every civil ity and attention in their power, and have been assist ed in my outfit ns far as it was possible for Them lo do- I dine this evening with the Governor, (Col. Washing ton,) before l follow my party. A Spanish gentleman lias been engaged to go t o Albuquerque and purchase mules for me. From that place we go on my own an imals. and expect no detention, as we follow the old G ila route, so long known,and presenting nothing new to stop for.” Ingenuity of the Germans. The following are some ot the inventions which have originated in Germany : A. V. A. IJ. 850 Saw Mills, 1500 Etching, 898 fcun Dials, Bolting apparatus, 999 Fulling Mills, 1527 Gun locks, 1070 Tillage ol Hops, 1535 Spinning wheels, 1100 Wind Mills, 1546 Almanacs, Oil Painting, Stoves, 1270 Spectacles, Sealing wax, 1300 Paper of Linen Rags,ls9o Telescopes, 1312 Organs, 1616 Wooden bellows, 1318 Gunpowder, 1620 Microscopes, Cannons, 1638 Thermometers, 1350 5V ire making, 16-13 Mezzotint engraving, 1360 Hats, 1650 Air pumps, “ 1379 Pins, 1651 Electric machines, 1389 Grist Mil's, 1655 Pendulum clocks, 1423 Engravings, 1690 Clarionet, 1436 Printing, 1706 White China ware, 1439 Printing Presses, 1707 Prussian blue, 1444 Copper-plate Engra-1709 Stereotyping, vings, 1715 Mercurial thermome -1450 Printing ink, ter, 1452 Cast types, 1717 Piano Fortes, 1497 Chiming of bells, 1736 Solar microscope, 1500 Watches, 1753 The gamut, Letter posts or mai15,1766 Lithography. Besides these there are several German inventions of which we cannot ascertain the date—such as door latches, the modern screw auger, and gimblet, the cra dle for harvesting, &c. Surely a nation which lias made such contributions lo the interests of literature and the arts must occupy a high rank in intellect and ingenuity. Manufacture of Gold. We have read that Boyle once very nearly succeed ed in making gold ; that he showed the experiment to Sir Isaac Newton, when both became frightened and threw away the ingredients. A gentleman communi cates to the editor of the Mining Journal, that having experimented some ten years ago on the stratification of the earth and the formation of mineral deposites, he believes with truthful results, he tamed up oue of his old experiments accidentally a few days ago* when he found, running in a kind ol spiral string through oue part, a small quantity of gold. No gold was used in the experiment, and the conclusion arrived at is, that it had been formed from some of the other substances. This, however, is nothing to what is asserted by an iion-founder of this town. This gentlemen must have discovered the true philosopher’s stone, which so many sages of the olden time spent their lives in trying to obtain. He declares that he has found out a process by which he can change any quanitty of iron into gold. Before three months are over, lie says we shall hear more of this marvel. He promises to produce gold in tons—in short in any quantity.— Liverpool Albion. The American Flag. When our flag was unfurled from its staff in Tampi co, an aged Spaniard was heard inveighing, with lugu brious earnestness, against the pertinacity with which that flag had pursued his fortunes. In broken English lie exclaimed, ‘ I was the Spanish council in the Lou isiana, when dat flag he was raise, and I go to Pensa cola, but soon dat flag he was over me dere. I live den in de Taxas, but dat flag follow me dere. Says I, Igo where dat flag never come. 1 come to Tampico, but here is dat flag again. I befieve if Igo to the devil dat flag will follow me dere.’ Business First, ami then Pleasure. A man who is very rich now, was very poor when a boy. When asked how he got his riches, he replied, “ My father taught me never to play till all my work lor the day was finished, and never to spend my money till 1 had earned it. If I had but half an hour’s work to do in a day, I must do that the fitst thing, apd in halt an hour. After this was done, I was allowed to play; and I could then play with much more pleasure than if 1 had the thought of an unfinished task before my mind. I early formed the habit of doing every thing in its time, and it soon became perfectly easy to do so. It is to this habit tiTat I owe my prosperity.” Let eve ry boy who reads this, go and do likewise, and he will meet a similar reward.— Anecdotes for Boys. The Poet Campbell, —Campbell the poet once said, “ I believe, when I am gone, justice will be done to me in this way, that I was a pure writer. It is an inex pressible comfort, at my time ot life,to be able to look back and feel that I have not written one line against, religion or virtue.” * A Great Rise.—The editor of the Aurora Boreal is. in speaking of J. 11. Prentiss, recently deceased, says he was he was once a member of Congress, and by force of character rose to be editor of the Coopers town Journal,which he has conducted lor forty-.me years. MACON, GEORGIA. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 25, 1849. Correction. The Savannah Republican of Saturday, announces the existence of several cise3 of Small Pox in this City. It was only one of the many blun Jers of the Telegraph The despatch was dated Atlanta, and referred to the existence of the disease at that p'ace. We need scarce ly say, that there has not been n single case of Small Pox in Macon, nor within one hnndred miles ot Ma con, nor is there any reason to believe that the disease is extending even at Atlanta. Found Drowned. J. N.'Gamble, a Drover, from Polk county, Tennes see, who had been missing for a week, was found on Sunday last drowned in the River opposite the city He came here on the 20th of March, with 19 horses and two six horse teams loaded with bacon, and entered at once upon a career of dissipation which ended in the destruction of his character and life. The Heron Family. We are requested to state that these youthful per formers will visit Macon in a few days, for the purpose of giving a series of their remarkable entertainments. The Editor of the Muscogee Democrat of the 19th says: “We went to Concert Hall, last night, with decided prejudices against all precocious specimens of human ity, that have become wondrous in the show-line, by a forced and hot-bed culture of their talents, but these prejudices vanished like mist before the morning sun, on witnessing the very clever representation of the family now exhibiting in this city. The histrionic powers of “little Agues” especially, are so far above mediocrity as to astonish and delight the audience. She is certainly a prodigy in her line—having taken to the comicalities in a natural way, and not by inocula tion. Miss Heron, too, sings prettily, and has much sprightliness and versatility of talent. The Troupe will remain but two nights longer.” Col. Fremonts Letters. We offer no apology for publishing to-day the very instructive, and thrillingly le'ters of Col. Fremont, giving the detailed account of the disasters which betel his party in their attempt to cross the Rocky Mountains, by the Northern route. The sufferings of the party seem to have been extreme,and the narrative ,s quite as readable as any of the best romances of the day. By the way, our friend Mr. Boardmajj, has on his counter a New Guide to California, containing a late Map of the Country, which exhibits the localities re fered to in these letters with much distinctness, and which will be examined to with profit by all who desire a corret t knowledge of the great Western region, now coming into general notice. The Crops--- 4 he Weather. Our intelligence from all quarters, both in and out of the State, in regard to the destruction of the crops, fruits and vegetable, is of the most disastrous character. The crops of small grain are almost, if not entirely, de stroyed. Corn will have to be generally replanted, and a similar course would be pursued in regard to cotton, j if seed could only be procured. This however is out oftbe question,and we are lorced to the conclusion that the cotton crop the present year must fall materially short of an ordinary average. The Mails! The Malls ! We have unceasing complaints in regard to the non arrival ol our papers at the several Post-offices in Ran dolph, Early, Stewart and part ol Marion—in fact, at all the offices supplied through Columbus Our Agent I writes from Cuthbert, that the Journal 6f Messenger j due there on Friday is invariably detained some where I until the following Tuesday. It is not the fault of this Office, nor of the Postmaster in Macon. Our papers are always mailed on Tuesday night, and sent off in Wednesday morning’s Cars. Reaching Columbus on Thutsday before day, tl.ey ought of course to be sent directly through. Why this is not done, we are at a j 1 oss to understand. There is one consolation: the people of South-Wes tern Georgia have a remedy in the Post-Office Depart ment, if they will only use it. The construction of the South-Western Road renders a change of the whole Mail service for South-Western Georgia absolutely ncccMoiy. Even now, before this work is completed, a proper system would supply the people of the South west with their mail matter, from twenty-tour hours to one week sooner than by the Columbus route. The planters of this region nearly all trade at Macon. In a year or two more, they will send their entire crop to market by the South-Western Road. Why, then, should a large portion of them be compelled to receive their lette rs and papers through Columbus I W’e have no doubt that, if they were to circulate petitions,set ting forth the facts of the case, ot the several Post offices, they would be universally signed, and that the Department would cheerfully change the wholesystein assoonasit could be done consistently with exising contracts. Disastrous Fire—Serous Loss of Property. A few m mutes past 9 o’clock on Wednesday evening last, the kitchen attached to the premises occupied by Mrs. Seymour, coiner of Poplarand Second streets, was discovered to be on fire. The flames soon communica ted to the wooden sheds in the rear formerly occupied by Wynn & Seymour as a Warehouse, and tempora rily used by Field & Adams for a similar purpose. In the sheds were about 550ba!esof cotton, owned, one half by planters, and the remainder by shippers.— The Engines, which were after some delay, brought : upon the ground, were found comparatively useless, jon account of the scarcity of water. The fire, there- j ’ fore, spread without any check, con-uming the sheds and all their contents, except about 60 bales of cotton, j From the kitchen the flames also extended to the brick tenements in front, occupied by Mrs. Seymour and | Mrs. Smith. Both buildings were destroyed. Several | small buildings on the alley were also consumed. A wooden shed belonging to Charle- Day & Cos. con taining some ten bales of cotton, was partially torn down, but the flames communicated to the roof, and the parties were compelled to desist and leave it to its fate. All the sma 11 wooden buildings with one or two ex ceptions, upon the entire block, were either torn down or consumed. buildings on the opposite side of the square, occupied by Mrs. Hollingsworth and Mr. Tindall, were for a time, supposed to be in great dan ger; but the parties escaped with the destruction of their out buildings, and the usual damage incident to I the removal of furniture on such occasions. The entire loss by the fire is estimated at about s‘22,- | 590, less than one half ol which was covered by insu-. ranee. |V\ e are requested by Messrs. Field &. Adams | to state, that all cottons left with them from the 18th j of January to the 18th of February inclusive, and not I sold, were stored in this warehouse, and have conse quently been destroyed. Planters, therefore, by refer-! ring to their receipts, can ascertain the extent of their losses. Wc would simply remark in this connection, that so far as we have been able to ascertain, not a sin gle planter, having cotton stored in these sheds, had taken the precaution to while the merchants, in most instances, were nearly if not quite protected against losses. It is singular, where the premiums aie so small, and the risks so great, that our country friends should be so negligent of their best interests in this regard. Messrs. C. Day &, Cos. were fully insured on their cotton sheds. Mr. John D. Wynn holds a po licy for SI,OOO on the Brick Tenements and Ware houses on Third Street. We have not been able to as certain that there was any insurance on the small buildings in the rear, owned by Mr. Lunsford and others. The result of the fire clearly proves that the Fire De partment is greatly in need of the immediate attention* ol the city authorities. The Engines are too small, and two of them are not in good working condition. Be sides, engines are of no earthly use without water. — No where could cisterns be more cheaply or generally constructed than in Macon. The numerous bold springs in ana near the city limits, would furnish an unfailing supply of water, and the cisterns could be so constructed 1 as to be both useful and ornamental. Another matter we have been requested to bring prominently before the citizens, and that is, the general want of energy manifested by the great mass who fre quent our fires. We are assured that if every tenth man who was at the late fire had gone seriously to work, thre.e-fourths of the cotton which was burned could have been saved. Delicate females were seen carrying heavy articles of household furniture into the street, while hale,hearty, stalwart men were walking about with their hands in their pockets, and even refu sing to aid them when asked. These are trmy humil iating developments, but we are constrained to make them, hoping that in future men may not stand idly by, and see their neighbors rendered houseless and penni less, without making at least a leeble effort to render assistance. here should the Convention be Held ? In our paper two weeks since, we very respectfully proposed that the approaching Whig Convention, should assemble in Macon. Our cotemporary of the Recorder takes us roundly to task for our temerity, and charges us with acting for the the “adcinsemsat of local or private interests or convenience.” It is an old adage-that ssifish men are always prone to charge others with their own tailings. We will not disguise the fact that we would like to sec the Conven tion held in Macon, and we hope that if so held it would contribute somewhat to the interests ol the place. Our neighbor ot the Recorder, with all his affected pu rity, we have no doubt, is impelled by similar motives. It has become rather notorious of late years, that how ever little he may have done for his friends during a canvass, he i3 always ready with an extra sized ladle to dip into the pap. Admitting then that he is equally seif-interested with ourselves in regard to the place of holding the Conven tion, we beg hitn to point out a single good reason why it should be held in Miiledgeville, in preference to Ma con. We mean a reason which will influence the hon est, disinterested people. Lei us look at the question on the score of ‘economy. Suppose the Convention to consist of 175 members. At least 129 of these will have to pass through the city of Macon, on their way to the Capitol. It takes the great er part of two days to go and come, and the expense of travelling to each inan will be from $5,59 to $7,00. Delegates-from Western and South Western Georgia generally conae as far as Macon on horseback, or in private conveyances, and thence take the Cars. Each one of these delegates will be compelled to spend about $2, extra for feed and attendance upon their horses To this-we must add two days extra board, say $2. To say nothing, then, about loss of time or the diffi culties of getting to Miiledgeville, each Delegate,of the 129 who concentrate at Macon, would be com pelled to pay from $7 00 to sll 00 tor the indescribable pleasure of going to Miiledgeville, and contributing to the “ local or private interests or convenience” of our very complacent and disinterested friends of the Re corder. Now, why should the people of Georgia annually incur such a contribution for the benefit of our neigh bor at the Capitol ? One thousand dollars by each Gubernatorial Convention, is a considerable item, and we think that our friends of the Recorder ought to be satisfied, especially, as they have enjoyed this, among many other Capitoline favors, lor the last quarter of a century. But-the Editor declares, with due solemnity and dis tinctiveness, that “ innovations of the kind contem plated” £yc. , “ must be discountenanced /” and his as tute correspondent gravely tells us that the holding of the Convention in Macon, will identify the removal question with party politics, and place the Whigs in a minority in the next Legislature! We are af a loss which most to admire, the cool dictation of the Re corder, or the palpable softness of its correspondent.— We tell both these gentlemen, that we care not a fig about the removal of the State House. Macon offer ed ten times as much two years since, as the Capitol is worth. She will hardly be guilty of like foily in fu ture. She has seen, and weighed the influence of the State House, in making Miiledgeville a great place, and is satisfied. But this is no reason why the Con ventions of the several parlies should continue to con tribute hundreds and thousands for the support of our dieinterebted coteiupor&tieaot the Recorder, and their equally disinterested friends. The Monroe Meeting. The Chairman of the Committee of 21 which report ed the Resolutions at the late meeting in Monroe, trav els very greatly out of his way to cnarge the Journal i? Messenger with a lack of courtesy to the meeting, because we did not publish the proceedings. We need only state, in reply, that no copy of the proceedings was ever received at this office. If any one has a right to complain, it is the Edit< rs, and not the Chair man, who it seems was only the feeble instrument used on the occasion to present 10 the meeting a set ot bor rowed resolutions, one of which admits the right of Congress to abolish Slavery in the District of Colum bia ! We congratulate our Whig friends ot Monroe on the prospect which they seem to have, of getting rid of the said Chairman, as we feel assuied that he is about the only member of the party it: the county whe holds doctrines so adverse to common sense, and the well known sentiments of Southern men generally. More about Removals. Home of our lOemocratic contemporaries affect to believe that Gen. Taylor is violating his pledges, be cause he is dismiss’ng some ol their political associates from office. They say that be promised to be “ the President of the country, and not of a pat ty,” and that he declared that he “ had no friends to reward—no enemies to punish,” See. True, Gen. Taylor has said this,and perhaps, much more of a similar character, but why should that pre clude him from dividing the offices fairly between the people of the country. To be President of the country, it is not necessary that Gen. Taylor should become the patron and protector of the Democratic office holders, who have for the last twelve years, been rioting in the Government spoils. Nine-tenths of the office holders ol the country are now Democrats. Even in the City of Washington, where capacity is so much more im portant than political bias, five out ot every six ot the offices are held by Democrats. The National Whig gives the following statement of the Whigs and Dem ocrats in office there: Ist Comptroller’s office 2 W’higs 19 Democrats. 2d do do 2 do 11 do Ist Aud. do 3 do 15 do 2d do do 4 do 42 do 3d do do 7 do 25 do 4th do do 3 do 15 do sth do do 5 do 6 do 6th do do 8 do 61 do Treasurer’s do 5 do 12 do Register’s do 8 do 20 do Solicitor’s do 2 do 8 do Comm’r of G’l L’d do 10 do 52 do 59 do 286 do About nineteen out ofevery twenty of the sixteen thou sand Post Masters now holding office, are Democrats, and yet, every time that one ot these men is displaced fora W’hig, Father Ritchie “ rolls his eyes” anu pro claims the return of the “ reign of terror A cotem porary whose judgment on such matters, is generally very clear, speaking on this subject, has *iie following sensible reflection: “ Suppose it be assumed that the public offices ought to be equally enjoyed, by honest, faithful and capable men of all parties. In that case the Whigs have much to receive, before they are placed on a footing of equali ty for the future, and more still, if reclamation be in sisted upon for the past. Those who groan loudest, and are the boldest in denunciation, are tiie very men who have participated in the monopoly the longest, and most fear that if simple justice is done, they will be among the first discharged! Many of these are also conscious that on the score of honesty, capacity, and a faithful discharge of official duty, they have no just claim to he retained in the public service. Reform has been called for by the people, and reform is exoeci ed, whether the unjust cry of proscription be kept up, or suffered to subside.” % W’e are no advocates of proscription, but we are greatly mistaken if Gen. Taylor or his Cabinet will be guilty of the absurdity of keeping their avowed ene mies in their employment. In the Dapartments at W asliington, and in the Post Offices, particularly, re liable, honest, confidential agents are wanted. Change is not only necessary in the leading offices, and those W pecuniary importance, hut also in the inferior offi ces. During the last Presidential campaign, it was al most impossible to get Whig papers and documents to their proper destination. They were allowed to accu mulate.in the. offices, and in many cases, were sold as waste paper ! Now, we ask no retaliation of this kind upon our opponents. All we desire, is, that the Gov ernment should select honest men who will deal fairly by all parties. The T tlegraph and lite Press. The disposition on the part of the Press to abandon the use ol the M agnetic Telegraph entirely, is becom ing more and more apparent daily. The Columbia Daily Telegraph has the following : “The treatment of jhe Press by the Directors of the Magnetic Telegraph is beginning to produce its legit imate effects. The wires cannot forestall the types in the dissemination of tiie news, byany restrictions how ever stringent and oppressive—but the conductors of the Press may be driven universally to adopt the sys tem of “Non Intercourse” recommended below. In the N. O. Delta we find the lollowing paragraphs on this subject. “The newspapers of Syracuse, N. Y. have abandon ed the publication of telegraphic reports in consequence of the great expense at which they are obtained, “In doing this the newspapers at Syracuse showed their good sense. Apart from the expense and irreg ularity of these reports, they are little better than enig mas, an most cates- when they do come.” Washington Correspondency Washin*ton, April m Messrs. Editors ; You wish to know wi here—lo be furnished with glimpses from i curtain, for the gratification of your own cm* ! that of your readers. As to what is btino * 1 telegraph will inform you from day to day all I can tell you, so that what Imay j nothing but a thrice told tale. As to ] the curtain, to any but those in high stati j few and far between, and so brief tha< one , s in doubt what they really saw. Stils, who are here upon the spot, may not be m a , i pared to the occupant of the pit in a theatre k curtain rises; they can occasionally see so I hear the note of preparation behind the curtain therefore guess with more certainty what ‘■■■<’ 1 We daily see signs and hear rumors whichtr’ not be tiue, but which, if true, as they sov j to be, shadow forth coming events and a Occupying this position myself, and bein-... : observant of passing events, I shall occas; ‘ | you such information as may be in my i ewer such remarks and conm ents upon the “ g,.. doings” here as suggest themselves to nty n Judging from the constant outcries of the t such papers as echo whatever it utters,you w j that the Administration is doing nothing f, a . removals and appointments—punishing e ne rewarding friends; and yet, were you tohe.v ‘ plaints of those who think they ought to be i: rewarded for their patriotic % exertions to wrest try from the misrule of Locofocism, of the ta the Administration in removing bad men f you would be strongly inclined to cast sever upon those who have been selected to carry, measures and cleanse the Augean stable of tion which has so long defiled it. That one so long sang peans to the practice of turning from office, whenever and wherever the. found, and, Richard-like, crying “off with as the venerable political hack,Thomas Rite I now, all at once, become so extremely hu; commiserative as to shed tears and cry aloud . one of his own party is made to undergo then I process, is not a littie amusing. For myself, I look upon the election of a \\ dent and the defeat of a Democratic can..., \ verdict of the people against those who Im ruled the destinies of the country, and fan what they have been pleased to consider ‘ of office ” —a verdict not merely against the n j for President, but against all who have either j that time to politics which they were paid for ; to the duties of their offices, or who are inco:;. discharge those duties; and I therefore look be the duty of the President to enforce the ver believe the greater the speed with which it is ? J the more satisfactory it will be to the people,; | time enough is taken to select good and com; ! to fill the places of the bad and incompetent. > to supjiose the great Whig party of the Union so vigorous an effort as was made last year.; 1 effect a change in the offices of President, E 1 Departments and a few minor ones, is to ini-;, j “ Old ocean into tempest tost, To waft a feather or to drown a fly.” I trust that neither Gen. Taylor nor any me:, Cabinet entertain any such notions, though i some reason to fear that tiie idea bad found a. in the heads of one or two members of the C. - ’ their first appointment. That the President came here fully detenu, administer the government as to allay, as far a.- be in his power, party animosity, and to ei: amalgamate parties, I have no doubt: that n< s ,l be most happy now to bring this about, I air. * sj persuaded ; but that he begins to see the im;,,- ‘ of accomplishing so patriotic and praise-wor ik* object—to percieve that, however pure his mo: if unexceptionable his measures, the one is to bes resented and the other condemned by the L ■ press—is pretty plain. What effect such nn-cnJ| condemnation and misrepresentation is like t ; upon his mind, it requires no prophet to prec m illustrative of this I cannot refrain from repei;. m following anecdote, not yet generally knowc §1 said that while the Cabinet were in session,*:. || ago,and discussing the proprietv of removing"® office-holders resident in the city, a member ret. f that he held in his hand a paper containing the; ; ings of a Locofoco meeting, held in this city mer, at which some of these men figured cm eminence; whereupon the reading was t, as resolution after resolution, offered by different holders and abusive of Gen. Taylor, was rea ,t ter, surprised and indignant at having been ti,. famed, would exclaim, “ Let him go!” At 5 after passing sentence upon several in this it. came the resolution denouncing him for into, the blood-hounds into the Florida war ; upon which he most indignantly exclaimed, “ Let :.. go—let them all go, the calumniating icliow.- pend upon it that all who have thus made tiie: conspicuous will go —and the sooner the better It is represented by the Locofoco press that the of the office-seekers who come here is legior have the means of knowing that the number c cations for office under the present Administra: not equal those made in the same length of turn Polk four years ago. The number is cert*:: large, as compared with 1829,1841 and 1845, an upon it as a favorable omen that it is so, indicau disposition to look to office as a means of liv. was manifested during those years That the be a large number of applicants is not surpri.r it is consideted that the Whigs have been f from all participation in the offices of the Feiie ernment for the last twenty years, with the f of a month or two in 1841—absolutely ptosc: treated as aliens, and worse than aliens, wi:ht contumely. There is a steady stream of a. coming and going, but as few of them remain : -P the number present is by no means large—lar - the hotel-keepers would be glad to see. Your fellow-citizen, Mr. Crawford, who ei comparatively unknown to Northern and V men, has made a favorable impression upon have come in contact with him, and is generc liked. His influence iu the Cabinet will by i be inconsiderable, and Georgia may well be him. I have no doubt he will prove himself wo name he bears and the State he represents. The members of the Board of Mexican Cl Messrs. George Evans, C. B. Smith and C< ore now here aud prepared to proceed to bu?. You are probably aware that anew Whig to be commenced i.ere by Messrs. Win. Bu. O. Sargeant and George Gideon ; the two fir tors, and the latter as financier and publisher be an able and spirited journal, advocate and of Whig principles and Whig men. It is currently reported that anew banking about to be established here by Samuel Jnude: sively and favorably known as an able fiuar.c: most courteous gentleman. Mr. Biatchlord, Street, New York, will probably be conne him. Messrs. Corcoran &. Riggs having nu hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, as the Government, no wonder others are attrac locality. Hand, the robber of the Government jewi Patent Office, has been convicted. The weather has been extremely cold for : • past—a dry, piercing N. W. wind having which has destroyed the peach crop, if not kindsol fruit. Many trees look as if fire had ra; them, so completely are they killed by the co ter froze, same nights, half an inch in thiekne* Mr. Anderson, late Chief Assistant Cler* House of Representative, has accepted the Chief Clerk ol the War De parlment, a p!*‘ < more laborious than hi3 former position, and k : A five. lie yielded, however, to the solicit*tier-- Secretary of War. It should be noted that about one-half, per than half, ot the Postmasters appointed by master Genera!, have been to fill vacancies £ resignations. Mr. Ewing and Mr. Preston are both no* having gone to their respective homes for their .a . Yours truly, OGLETHf | COKMC.MCATED. Messrs. Editors :—You will confer a favor families residing in the neighborhood of ‘• Wagon Yard, in the South-western part ol if you will inform tiie Boys, both great amis l2 out any exception, that tiie Ordinance in f Firing Guns, &,c., within the city limits, will force if there is any more hunting in that city, regardless of the fate of women and cht* to the eminent risk of life and limb, to on net hke to be a ‘**