Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1845-09-27
From the National Tnteligencer.
CAPTAIN FREMONT,s SECOND EXpLO-
RING EXPEDITION,

The expedition had now travelled 900 miles
from the DaIles of the Columbia The descent
! from the mountain was one of extreme difficult.
| ~ and danger, and accomplished under great
! privations and sufferngs. On the 2Jth 'the
! forest" says the narrative
"Wss imposing in the nagnifcence of the
trees some of the pines bearing large cones,
were 10 feet in diameter; cedars also abound.
| ed, and we measured one 3SI feet in circnm-
! ference four feet from the ground.-This noble
tree seemed here to be in its proper soil and
climate We found il on both sides of the 81.
ezra, but most abundan; on the west"
On the 27th, and several succeeding days,
we have the following particulars Of the deplo-
ruble condition OF these hardy adventurers
Ave lad with us large kettle and mule
being killed here, his head was boiled for sever
al hours, and made a passable soup for furnished
people.
( below, precipices on the river forced us to
the heigths. which we ascendcd by steep spur,
1000 feet high. Ny f8vorite horse Proveau.
had become very weak. and was scarcely able
/ TO bring himselfto the top. Travelling here
was good, except in crossing the ravines, which
were narrow steep ard frequent. We caught
a glimpse of deer, the first animal we
had seen; but did not succeed in approach.
ING him. Provcau could not keep up. and
left Jacob to bring him on, being obliged to press
forward with the party, as there was no grass in
III, Va Ioy
advanced and no grass appeared, Cor the lives
Of our animals depended on finding it tonight.
They were in Just such condition that grass
and repuse Tor the night enabled them to get on
the next day. Every hour we had been expec.
ting to see open out hefre US the valley. which.
from the mountain above, seemed almost n, onr
feet. new and singular shrub, which had
made its appearance since crossing the noun
tain, was made very frequent to-day. 1t branch
ed out nea- the ground, forming clump eight
to ten feet high, with pale green leaves Of an
oval form, and the body and branches had a
naked appearance, ms if stripped of the bark,
which is very smooth and thin, of chocolate
color, contrasting well with the pale green of
the leaves The day was nearly gone we had
made hard days march, and found no grass
Towns became light beaded, wandered of into
the woods without knowing where he was 90
ing and Jacob brought him back
Near nghr-:all we descended into the steep
ravne Of handsome creek thirty feet wide. and
| was engaged in getting the horses up the op
pose hill, when heard a shout from Carson
who had gone ahead few hundred Yards
= "I.ife vet" said he. as he came up, "lte yet;
i have found hill side sprinkled with grass e
, nough for the night" We drove along OH
horses md encamped at the place about dark
and there was just room enough TO make place
for shelter on the edge of the stream. Thre,
horses were lost to-day"
On the 1st March, one of the men, named
Dorositr, who had volunteered the day betor
to return and bring mp Capt. FREMoNr's fave
rite horse Prorcou, had not come back to In
camp, and uneasiness WAS tclt a, his absence
fearing he might have been bewildered in tn
woods he however made his appearance in III
IS evening
ale came in, and setting down by the FIR
" began 10 tell US where he had been. lie luna
glned he had been gone several days, an
thought we were still at the camp where he ha
leit us and we were panied to see that hi
mind was dcranged. 1t appeared that he ha
been lost in the mountain, and hunger and IA
tigue, joined to weakness Of body, and fear {
perishng in the mountains had crazed hin
T. The times were severe when stout men los
u, their minds from extremity OF sutiering-whe
q, horses died-and when mules and horses, read
TO die Of starvation, were killed for food. lt
re there was no murmuring or hesitation"
y The fate of poor Dorosier was a melanchol
one.-On the 23d of March he wandered ava
fl from the camp, and never returned to il again
e nor has he since been heard of. Capt. FRl
MONT calls him one of his hes, men, whose ste
DIV good conduct had won his regard.
-. Among the items noticed at the sitting of Il
,m Paris Academy of Sciences, on the llth ult W,
'es the following
". VI The Baron d'Hombres- -IIirmas, a correspo
,ut ding member of the Academy, informs 1t that
ns has made experiments to ascertain the truth
r. ~ falsehood of the reported prejudlcial effect
in. the proximity of the walnut tree to man and v
las getation. He states that if man RENAL
a. long near this tree, he becomes affected wi
headache and nausea, and that if corn be SOW
near il, it becomes less productive than il wou
be il equally close TO tree of an other kir
'"' He attributes this to peculiar emanaton frC