The Express.
London, England, 1852-10-20 00:00:00

fig, OCTOBER 20, 1852.

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1 EMIGRATION TO CALIFORNIA.

4 laarasy, Nebraska territory,
gives ll_ derriptios of tibio overland

fa Calabash':
"Son of the present season is post and
gems. . .7 throng that crowded the roads from
east to west ft e.o league seen ; the mormarlog of 'men,
the etedles of chains and waggons, the lowing of thirsty
omefte I•at_ daily passed our garriee, are heard no more.
• 11904•0 'Ulises pervades everything mooed. Petty
opoilfteee has omented nod laid aide their tens and their
leguipelik and only regret that the fifteens harvest is so
lUMS eeer. Money was mode upon every trifle. What
wadi be _dear is New York at 96 costa., was considered
.hoar has at 1 dol. and 1 del. 50a. The blacksmith was
paid hem 10 dole. to 15 dela, fee two or three hours'
work, sad, after making a tertian in this way in a
sem* of months, deserted tho United States army,
sal ie being now closely pursued. Some speculated in
wawa% previsioss, itc. ; others purchseed lame or broken
down harem, mules, and oxen at from 3 dollars to 10 dol.
fare, and 'old the same a few days after at from 40 to 70
dollars. The prices charged to migrants for soft goods,
cutlery molasses, de., at the sutler's store, were beyond any-
thing I have ever seen : from 2 dollars to 4 dollars per
gallon for molasses (I am credibly informed), which you
will acknowledge without doubt to be exorbitant, altogether
unreasuable, and everythieg else in proportion. Whisky
or brandy is sometime' essential for medicinal Use, but if
taken otherwise, cholera, diarrhea, end other diseases in-
eidut to the prairies are the sure result. These things
emigrants should consider, and provide themselves well be-
fore starting on such a long and wearisome journey across
the plains. Anti.scorbutic-s are also very necessary. They
seldom run short of clothes, and are, generally speaking,
well provided with arms and ammunition, notwithatandirg,
frequently by cowardice, !autoroute by a misunderstanding
of hike habits of the Indians, they submit themselves to
be robbed openly. Many, on this account, ere compelled to
return to the States penniless. The wisest eourse, on occa-
sions of encountering Indians, le to caution them, by signs,
against approaching ; if they do some on (it seldom hap-
pens, however, th.y will be almost sure to 'ramose), raise
the unerring ride. If th still persist shoot one of them
dawn. This is a certaia of putting them to flight,
if their number is t that of yours. 'Tim au se.
Out, by ex pauses, that sin cool and
acorn men, say 'oldies, eon rout twenty-five or thirty of
them .It is a week pokey to give item anything
kg they bog; for, if you should condescend to waist
amiss more you give the soon they want. Motion to
them to
_go, use a little force, and then they comply at
once. Have the sentinels vigilant et night, and,
although an Indian, when plundering and acquisitive
are large, might tteal easuaret through the
Crilassems,l46l. with the view to shake the buffslo robe to
UM
meta from their Meanings, sad afterwards catch
them with larias, he will NM sneak May on discovering
4111 armed man on his psi. Trading with them is at oft
reset unadvisable, and &edit haseeemese which is likely
awl la a swim d.i liege 01E10 of your many
ads, who lama this way nut epees, will
yolk by the 'brae These ftturairg glom the
geld diggings, who tepert that the cadet body
of the tie time, mailed their
meld :=9 ride= hel thew gee etill many
alto awed get 'Nagle west of gem it them
animals, the glazing having bees devoured it ilia ea both
aides of this goad by those goes a-head. No emit tib• suf-
feriae amens this portion is intense. They also este that
mewly.made graves meet the eye in every direction.
Mira, asilea, sad small-pox have felthfally performed
air dread ellen, and many a stout, noble, and brave
heart, lately &meat with hope, lies mouldering now in
dint dartLOW of cursed andi deluding grad, maze:
earn be And aie early grave, in a country scarcely u
but by the red sea of the forest. Three or four days ego
a man arrived here alone, the only one that accompanied
him having been shot through the breast by a party of
Sioux or Citemmas Indian, fifty miles west of the plus.
Me had ia hi p=on four mules which were kanasell-
g that hie eseapaaion was deed, he
:=1 el lee, cad busty moped the bee of his
ealantla Oittila Wharton, who is ever ea the alert far
Ist of ofeadtailediens, imiteatly deepatehed
twelve or fount/ea men to when this atrocious etudes was
committed. Whoa they came to the epee, his body was
found unharmed by wolves, but slit sad sell in yon. Car-
ing for the melee Soy left his wary. She party
having gone eat of lipids W.'s dimities, men bad to
return without taking them. Nis hems is seemewhere in
Missouri, where a wife and soma children the to deplore
his km. The unrelenting area of *tie ought, ere
Lag, to deal properly wine these anew simmuss. As
regards the agricultural remerese of emaatry, vegeta-
bles of every description have been raised the Ism and the
present zaz ineseensfully ; bat the
mash retarded r growth et several
droalbe Name aplisimait
whisk ainially
_wear is May and Spee. I have em
sewed Mass ill as Maw ea a small boa's egg. Oar water
le imaellent, and ma be found pens sad else, at any part of
the prairies, two sr thne feet Mimi the surface of the
. Fire-weed is 'belied here with rem tumble ralesadead waggles have le Mill the River Platte, whisk
is fill efoliacicksatsad, sad emeelieme three feet deep. Num-
ber of , die., whisk pared this Post from the let
May e present tints t-19,000 mon, 4,400 women
5,606 children ; total number of persons, 2•995. 7,800
horses, 5,000 males, 74,539 cattle, 23,990 sheep. 6,479
wagons, 1 hog; total umbel of anima* 111,319, all la
May and beginning of Juno, except a few Mormon trains
on their way to the( (heat Salt Lake City, the valley of the
Latter-day Saints, who now and then
~Treres:sti themselves,
slowly wending aloe' from the meet . The emi-
gratioa on the other tide of the Platte is computed to be
equal to SU above."