No. 80

The mail steamer having just arrived, and being about to
leave again almost immediately for San Francisco; I hasten to
communicate for your information that letters arrived last night
from Lieutenant Governor Moody, dated Fort Yale 17th Jany.
reporting that the difficulties at Fort Yale and Hills Bar were
for the present quelled.

2. The Lieutenant Governor, has nevertheless ordered the
detachment of Marines and Seamen, from the "Satellite" and
"Plumper" which I had informed you had been forwarded by the
latter vessel to Fort Langley
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to proceed onwards, to Fort Hope, whither they have gone on
the Steamer "Enterprise" to the number of 100 Seamen and Marines
besides the Company of Royal Engineers which accompanied Colonel Moody.

3. The force is therefore capable of overwhelming any
factious opposition, that may be offered to the enforcement of the Laws.

4. The state of feeling among the miners generally is of the best
description, and their numbers are now so much reduced, that the
danger of any insurrectionary movements on their part, is not imminent.