shore by
a heavy gale, and imbedded in the sand, where she must remain till
Spring. The Napoleon had arrived from Saut St. Mary, with provisions and
stores for the winter.

Texas papers of the thirty-first of January state that Judge Rollins,
the United States Agent, had effected a treaty with the Indians,
providing for a cessation of hostilities, and the restoration of all
stolen property and prisoners. Lieuts. Smith and Mechler had completed a
survey of the Rio Grande from its mouth to a point about four hundred
and fifty miles above Camargo. They report that the river can be made
navigable for boats of light draught to a short distance above Loredo
for several months in the year. Col. Anderson, of the corps of
Topographical Engineers has received orders to make a survey of the
Brazos and Guadalupe rivers. A fight had occurred between Lieutenant
King, with seven men, of the Texan volunteers, and a body of Indians,
who were driving off a number of stolen horses. They were pursued for
fifteen or twenty miles, when they abandoned the horses, and escaped
with the loss of three or four of their number. The total vote on the
Pierce Boundary Bill, as officially reported, is 9,250 ayes, 3,366 noes.

On the eighteenth of December the whole of the American Boundary
Commission had arrived at Paso del Norte, with the exception of an
ox-train carrying supplies. The military escort, under the command of
Col. Craig, was encamped on the American side of the Rio del Norte, but
was soon to start for the copper-mines near the headwaters of the Gila.
The Mexican Commissioner, General Conde, with his escort, was quartered
in the town of El Paso. Several conferences took place between the
Commissioners before they could agree on the starting-point for the
boundary, the existing maps being as inconsistent with the terms of the
treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo as with the topography of the country
itself. The winter, throughout the valley of the Del Norte has been very
severe. The thermometer fell to six degrees at El Paso on the sixth of
December, and the Rio Grande was frozen over for the first time in the
memory of the inhabitants.

The settlements of New Mexico are threatened with scarcity. On the tenth
of January corn was selling at three dollars the bushel, and vegetables
not to be had at any price. The appearance of the agents for taking the
census of New-Mexico had occasioned great alarm among the pueblos or
villages. They feared that