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Page: of 33
446 MILITARY.
tive Californians. There remained only the battalion
of 2d dragoons, Major L. P. Graham in command,
in the southern district; Captain A. J. Smith’s company C of the 1st dragoons at San Francisco; and
Lieutenant-colonel H. 8. Burton’s company F' of the
3d artillery at Monterey. From these so many desertions took place that it became doubtful if one
whole company would be left in the service. Early
in September the ship Huntress arrived at Monterey
with 46 recruits; but as soon as they had recovered
alcalde of the 2d district of S. F. Oct. 2d; Julian Urgua alcalde San Juan
Bautista, Nov. 22d; John Sharmon alcalde dist of San Tiegos Nov. 24, 1847;
Robert Cliff, alealde of San Diego, Dec. 10th. In 1848 he made the following appointments: Stephen C. Foster alcalde of Los Angeles, Jan. Ist;
Stephen Cooper alcalde of Benicia, Jan. 3d; William R. Langley 2d alcalde
of Monterey, Jan, 13th; John Price alcalde of San Luis Obispo, Jan. 25th;
P. ©. Carillo alcalde of Sta Barbara, Feb. 8th; Charles White alcalde of
Pueblo San José vice James W. Weeks, resigned; and 2d alcalde Dolores
Pacheco, Feb. 9th; Juan Bandini Ist alcalde dist of San Diego, April 15th;
E. L. Brown 2d alcalde same dist; Isaac Callaghan sub-alcalde Sta Barbara;
William Byrne Ist alcalde at San José; Miguel Pedrorena collector and harbor-master at San Diego; Edward Gilbert ditto at S. F., N. S. Carnes ditto
at Sta Barbara; Edward H. Harrison, collector at S. F., Sept. 3d; Florencio
Serrano Ist alcalde at Monterey. Riley’s appointments in 1849 before the
adoption of the constitution were as follows: Jabez Halleck of Monterey
and Joshua B. Haven of S. F. notaries public, in May; W. M. Eddy and
Addison H. Flint land surveyors in June; A. C, Peachy notary public of S.
F. in June; T. M. Leavenworth, Ist alcalde of the dist of 8. f was susended, and a commission appointed to investigate charges against him;
orace Hawes was appointed prefect of the dist of S. F., Aug. Ist; G. D.
Dickerson prefect of San Joaquin, Jose Antonio Estudillo prefect of San
Diego, Joaquin Carillo prefect of Sta Barbara, C. P. Wilkins prefect of
Sonoma, David Spence prefect of Monterey, William G. Doud prefect of
San Luis Obispo, Antonio M. Pico prefect of San José, in Aug.; E. Crosby
Prstece of Sac.; Stephen ©. Foster prefect of Los Angeles, in Sept.; Lewis
ent, J. M. Covarrubias, Pacificus Ord, Peter H. Burnett judges of the
superior tribunal, in Aug.; Richard A. Maupin vice Dent, in Oct.; J. W.
Geary, judge of Ist instance, with crim. jurisdiction, at 8S. F., in Aug.; Wm
B. Almond ditto, with civil jurisdiction, in Oct.; R. M. May judge of the
Ist instance, with crim. jurisdiction, at San José, in Aug.; J.T. Richardson
ditto, with civil jurisdiction, in Nov.; Ignacio Esquer nicalas of Monterey,
April and Aug., Mariano Malarin judge of Ist instance at Monterey, in
Nov.; Stephen C. Massett notary public for New York of the Pacific, San
Joaquin district; Edward M. Howison, notary public in the dist of San Joaquin, in Oct.; George G. Belt justice of the Ist instance in San Joaquin dist,
in Aug.; Raymundo Carrillo ditto in Sta Barbara, April and Aug.; Manuel
Abrita ditto in San Luis Obispo, in Aug.; Augustin Olivera ditto in Los
Angeles, in Sept.; James C. Thomas ditto, with civil jurisdiction, in Sac., in
Oct.; Stephen Cooper ditto in Sonoma dist, in Aug.; H. F. Page, ‘Lheodore
Griswold, John MeVickar, Hopeful Toler, Charles C. Moore, Thomas Filden
notary publics in S. F.; John McDougal and William Shaw ditto in Sac.;
Hall McAllister dist atty for 8. F., in Sept.; E. A. King harbor-master at
S. F., June 19th; N. Wise and J. Walsh port-wardens, in June. U.S. H.
Ex. Doc., 17, 31 cong. 1 sess.; Cal. Mess. and Corr., 1850, vol. v.
MILITARY RULE. © 447
from the scurvy with which most of them were
afflicted, they, too, deserted and went to the mines.
Efforts were made to recruit in California and Oregon’
without success, owing to the greater inducement
held out by miners, who paid high wages to men
willing to be hired to dig for others.
In November, 1848, Colonel Mason asked to be ordered home, and was succeeded in the command of
his department by General Persifer F. Smith, who
arrived by the first mail steamer, the California, which
touched at Monterey February 23, 1849, and proceeded with the new commander of the department
to San Francisco.2 He had upon his staff E. R. S.
Canby as adjutant, Lieutenant Alfred Gibbs, aid-decamp, and Major Cornelius Ogden of the engineers,
Leaving Canby at Monterey, he took W. T. Sherman for his adjutant on account of his knowledge of
affairs gained by a two years’ previous residence.
On the 21st of March the government steam
propeller Edith reached San Francisco with military
stores, being the first of a fleet bringing troops for
the relief of California and Oregon. There followed
in April the ship Iowa having on board the new governor, General Bennett Riley, and a part of the 2d
infantry regiment. In May the Rome arrived with
?L. W. Hastings was employed by Gov. Mason in 1848 to endeavor to
raise a battalion of American volunteers; but as those had not been paid
who served under Frémont, they declined. S. F. Californian, March 8 and
22, 1848. Polynesian, iv. 182. Murray's Narr. 209-10. Major James A,
Hardie was sent to Oregon with instructions to enlist 800 men, but here he
found the fighting men still in the Cayuse country where they were having
an Indian war, or guarding the Willamette settlements from threatened invasion. The object of these attempts at recruiting was not so much the defence of Upper Cal. as the conquest of Lower Cal. but the treaty resigned
the peninsula to Mex., and ended that anxiety,
*Mason said: ‘The war being over, the ats . nearly all deserted, and
having now been from the states two years, I respectfully request to be ordered home. I feel less hesitancy in making the request as it is the second
only that I recollect ever to have made, in more than thirty years’ service,
to be relieved from any duty upon which I have been placed; the first was
asking to be relieved from the recruiting service in 1832, that I might join
my company in the Black Hawk war.’ U. S. H. Bx. Doe. 17, 649; 31 cong.,
1 sess, He died at St Louis, of cholera, in the summer of 1849. See Willey's
Personal Memoranda, 32; Buffinn’s Six Months, 115; Contemp. Biog., i., 317;
Burnett Recoll., MS,, ii. 60-1; Crosby’s Early Days, MS., 11-12,