Fathers Congiato and Brouillet dined with us yesterday; they both desired to be most kindly remembered to you. Father Congiato is to spend the winter in California and will return to the mountains in the spring.
I have sent the maps to Washington and Governor Stevens has promised to have them published. Your sketch of the Coeur d'Alene Mission I inclose; pardon me for having retained it so long.
The general desires me to express his warmest remembrances of the good offices you accomplished for his command and he assures you of his highest esteem and friendship always. For myself, I felt in separating from you the loss I incurred, for your benevolence and goodness deeply impressed me and disposed my waywardness to desire the
same. Let me then cultivate your friendship in the hope of realizing from my honest intentions the unspeakable benefits that fixed principles of virtue and religion always confer.
With my humble prayers to God, to continue his blessings to you, I remain, my dear Father, with the kindest feelings of consideration and esteem,
Your sincere friend,
A. PLEASONTON.
The Reverend P. J. DE SMET, S. J.,
St. Louis University, St. Louis, Mo.
Headquarters, Department of Oregon.
Fort Vancouver, W. T., June 1, 1859. Special Orders No. 59.
I. The Reverend P. J. De Smet, chaplain, etc., having accomplished in a highly satisfactory manner the important duties confided to his charge in Special Orders No. 4 of October 28, 1858, from these headquarters, and