... The captain and crew were aboard. The captain was an Englishman; the crew, cosmopolitan a Hindostan, a Mexican named Edwin Jesus, an English sailor and an American. I inquired of the captain about the ... object of the Russian Fur Company was to have a place where they could purchase grain, as there was none raised there atthat time, and they had a contract with him, and that they were to send a vessel ... on the Democratic ticket, and that the Whigs had nominated JackHayes, the celebrated Texan ranger. Hayes had been in the Mexican war. It was told of him that when the American and Mexican armies...