Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1844-01-26

family should drive along more than three
mead vi loos stock for each member com.
posing 1t; and this bore hard on families
that had brought with them cattle in grea.
numbers. The dispute resulted in split
OF the large body into tow or three divis-
ions; and so they moved on, making dis
,lnct encampments all the way. Capt.
Cant was TO receive dollar head from
the company. numbering about thousand
souls, for this service as guide; blu. few
more such expeditions. following in the
same trail, will soon imprint such high
way through the wilderness TO Oregon that
emigrants may travel hereafter without
such assistance.
We left them here abou. the last Of May.
and encountered no sign Of them again
until returning in September, when we
struck their trail on the Sweetwater. near
the south pass of the mountains. They
had followed in our own trail as far as this
point and had here turned off, our course
lying in another direction. From here,
all the way to Fort Laramee, we found the
now deeply worn road strewn with indica.
tons of their recent presence. Scaffolds
for drying meet, broken utensils throw a.
way, chips showing where wagons had
been repaired, and remnants of chrldren's
shoes. frocks, &C., met our notice at every
deserted encampment.
But one death seemed to have occurred
among them, and this was far out under
the mountains. Here the loose riders of
our moving camp gathered one morning
to e 1Ssa soe rude g sJaes FAD BEEN an
ted firmly in the earth, and those on top
were. substantially placed, SO that the
| wolves, whose markes were evident about
the pile, had not been able TO disinter the
dead. On the stone, larger than the rest,
was rudely engraved
j. HEMBER.'
And we place it here as, perhaps, the only
memento those who knew him in the states
may ever receive of him. How he died we
of course cannot surmise; but there he
sleeps among the rocks of the west, as
soundIy as though chiseled marble was
built over his bones.
On returning TO Roc!: independence. "a
point about nine hundred miles from the
settlements,) we were astonished to find
that the Oregonians had reached and pass.
ell it only four days behind US! We had
confidently supposed them full four weeks
in our rear, and their rapid progress ar
CUES we'll for the success of their enter
prise. On the rock we found painted
THE OREGON co.
arrived
July &c, l843.
At Fort Laramee, we we're told that they
were still well-provisioned when passing
there, and could even afford to trade away
flour, coffee, &c., for necessarles of other
kinds. But it was droll to hear how the
Sioux stared at the great carovan. Some
of them, on seeing the great number OF
wagons, and particular white women and
children. for the first time, began to think
of coming down here, having seen as they
suppose. the whole white village moved
up beyond the mountains.
INDEpENDENcE.-What a glorious and ami
mating word is Independence. Whisper but
distant promise thereof into the ear Of man.
and straightway, though he were sluggish,
and dull, and torpid as the sleeping s'oth, he
shall arise to grid on his armor and prepare
for the strife. The hope of Independence stir
reth up his soul; and, as the war horse that
heareth the trumpets and the thunder Of the
battle and the shouting afar off, he 'pawelh
in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength, and
he goeth on Independence is the admired, the
coveted of all, the ideal goal Of earthly happi'
ness; and we all press onward, by paths as
various as our manifold and dissimilar pass
ions and inclina,ions,to attain the prize. And
hope, undying hope, is by our side. grasping
a, shadows Of coming good, and never crying;
Lo here,' Lo there as glimpse OF unreal
things appears amid the rolling dark clouds OF
futurity All Join in the pursuit, but what IS
the end thereof. Alas! it may be compared
to the race of children, hunting the gaudy
butterfly of summer, which playetb before 'heif
eyes in tantalizing, many-colored beauty, MT
ting from tree to tree, and from flower to How
er. often apparently within reach, and then
darling away 10 characterization Weekly
Dispatch.
The N. Y. correspondent Of the National
Intelligencer, tells the following story -
..The system of ingenious beggary, SO Curl
ouslv described in Grants Great Metropo-
lis is beginning to be tried on in New York.
There is one young lady (of very correct hab-
it's, believe, in point of fact who makes
living by means that wear somewhat ques.
,ionable complexion out Of distinguished
strangers A member Of congress. or dIplo-
malist in transit. for example, receives a no'e'
T., in