The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-07-31

| clio! FOR OREGoN. - Oregon emgyuns--From
a gentleman who arrived here yesterday, on steamer
Gen. Brooke, from Fort vermiIlion we have the fol-
| lowing statement in relation to James Emmet's COM
pany Of Oregon emgrants, which started from near
Iowa city in January last:
Our informant states, that on the 5th of January
last, James Emmett, Tennesseean organized a
company, consisting of one hundred and three or
| four persons, men, women, and children, (most of
whom were from the States Of Illinois, Kentucky,
and Iennessee,) and with twenty-five wagons a
number OF horses cattle, farming utensils &c. start
4 ed from the neghborhood of Iowa city, for Oregon
Emmet, by the unanimous consent Of ALL was elect
ed, before starting, pilot and captain of the expedi-
ton; rules and regulations adopted for the Sc
curlty and preservation of the company during the
journey, and the property and effects of each indi-
vidual were thrown into joint stock. The compa-
ny mustered forty-fve men and lads who were able
to do military duty; these we're deemed sufficient
protection, and, after some delay in arranging mat
ters, they started, taking northwest course, which
soon carried them out of the settlements.
After travelling for some twelve or fifteen DAVIS
they bore little the north, and struck the
Iowa river, which they assembled for a considerable
distance, and then changed their course due west,
plungng into an ocean Of wilderness and prairie,
without compass anything else to guide them,
except the rising and setting sun.
In this condition they travelled for about 40 days.
when, no prospect of speedily reaching the Missouri
offering, some of the men became unruly and mutt
nous, and nothing but persuasion and the severest
threats of the leaders and others who willing TO
prosecute the Journey together with the fact of get
ting SO far into the wilderness that the road back
had terrors than the ahead, did this mu-
hnous spirit finally subsde, and oil were again in
tent upon reaching the great goal-the Missouri.
But they were delayed by difficulties and dangers UNI
thought of-bridges had TO be made and roads OPEN
ed; browse and provisions became scarce, and star
vauon began to stare them in the face In order to
obtain sustcnance for their cattle and horses thew
| were compelled to keep near some stream which
carried them often out Of their course and increased
the difhcues OF travelling; and for better than eight
weeks the only provcnder the cattle and horses could
| get, was the buds and boughs Of young trees cut
| down after an cncampment for the night, with pri-
vations and difficulties almost unheard Of and which
IN the route caused large number of the cattle and
horses to die or give out.
After journey Of over three months, they reach
ed the Vermilon, about two hundred miles from it's
mouth; when they took down that stream and at last
encampcd at the fort its mouth, with eighteen
men and about half the number Of women and chill
dren with which the expedition started.
Many left the company on the Iowa; and others,
becoming completely worn down, pitched their tents
high up on the VermiIlion and concluded to hunt
buffalo until they recruited from their fatigues
Our informant says, that for six weeks his daily
allowance OF Indian corn was pint Tin cup half
tull; ana when they reached the fort their whole
STOCK amounted to about three bushels Here they
thought II most prudent stop and therefore made
no attempt to cross the Missouri The company
had been some fifteen or twenty days at vermillon,
when me steamer General Brooken arrived from
the Yellow Stone, on her way TO this r;,v num-
Der were anxious to come down on her but were
prevented by Emmett and his connexions. who num-
Der some six or eight men, and who still persist in
going to Oregon, and are doing their best TO keen
the handful they have under their command from
scattering Since their scjourn at vermillion, thew
have busted themselves hunting buffalo, the flesh Of
which they have mainly subsisted on.
| While the boat was at Vermilon, the strctcst
watch kept over the disaected to prevent their
going on board; but our informant who is a young
and active man, with young and sprightly wife,
managed by some means to get her first on board
and then he gave them the Slip leaving everything
behind, except the clothes they wore. They are
from Washington county, H., and are now making
their way back perfectly satisfied with their tramp
| TO Oregon ST. Lotfis Era