Four men are missing; R., Sorel and two emigrants. They set out this morning after buffalo, and have not yet made their appearance; whether killed or lost, we cannot tell.

The most momentous and far-reaching question ever brought to issue on this continent was: Shall France remain here, or shall she not?

America, when it became known to Europeans, was, as it had long been, a scene of wide-spread revolution.

The young nobles, of whom there were many, were volunteers, who had paid their own expenses in expectation of a golden harvest, and they chafed in impatience and disgust. The religious element in the colony-unlike the former Huguenot emigration to Brazil--was evidently subordinate. The adventurers thought more of their fortunes than of their faith.

Fort Leavenworth is in fact no fort, being without defensive works, except two block-houses.

Four men are missing; R., Sorel and two emigrants. They set out this morning after buffalo, and have not yet made their appearance; whether killed or lost, we cannot tell.

We were now arrived at the close of our solitary journeyings along the St. Joseph's trail.