Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1846-06-13
Oregon and California Expeditions.

A correspondent OF the Missouri Republican
writing from Weston, May IL, gives an en-.
couraging account Of the progress and propects
Of the Oregon and California emigrants.
The wcother has been favorable as could bc
expected at this season OF the year. and the
grass on the prsires has been good for two
weeks past. They commenced leaving about
tho fret Of the month, and continued passing
the Iowa Agency daily until about the l0,b,
when the last Of the main bcly left the, pidce;
All have iefl, and are at least seven or eigt4
days' journey from the frontier, except forty
wagons which were TO have been al st. Joseph
last night; I saw three OF them, who toad mo
they were enc day in advance Of thirty others
with whom they started from Iowa and the
country East Of il and had been delayed by bad
reads. There were seven others in the neigh
bcrhocd waiting for enough to form . compa
ny. This, think, will form the rear, as cout
hear Of no others. '1
On hundred and seventy -four wagons hav,
passed the agency, and there are forty still t.
cross. This will give two hundred and ifty.s
wseons, exclusive Of any which may have cros
scd at the Bluffs; oil that have passed the
gency were oxteams, with generally four yok
OF oxen TO each team, and the emigration frol
the upper country consist principally Of fa'nilie
and many ofthem large; allowing FIVE to . ",
gon-and all with whom cosversed ttnssgl
this fair es,imate--sbout 1900 souls ha,
lcft these points, exclusive Of the number iro
Independence and the Bluffs. from which lat,'
place, hive no doubt, from all can learn.
least from ten 10 twenty wagons have gon
They are all as we'll provided as tho nature
the journey will admi, OF; the quantity Of loo
stock is very great probably double the numb
in the teams; including work.oxen, at Ice
5000 head have gone out
learn from good authority, that nine hun
red lodges of the Sioux Indians are On III,
way to make war on the Pawners. who are p
pairing tor them; ESQ, they will meet the CT
grants. and we fear the next news we hear In
thcm will be that the Indians have murdei
and robbed some Of them, strung out As they'
upon the road for two hundred miles
OF, the one hundred and seven,y.four wage
which parsed The Agency, twelve were sup
eed to b. Mormons. with large lot Of TO-
stock. which il was believed they intcnled
herd on the prairie and fattcn, until the m
body came up; this, however, is only conf
ture.
The Sac and Iowa Indians stole four hesd
work oxen and horse from party whilst Il
were near their villages. Major McClin'o
being absent, four head from the governm
farm were given in their place, and their VI
charged 10 account Of the lndians. The h
was recovered.
should think that 600 able bodied and p
Lutte men were leaving or had left this front
within the last three weeks. for the Pac
including those that had loft Independence.
Capt. RrssErL writes the Republican ir
ference to the California Emigran,s as folio
FouR MILES WEST OF KANSAS RIVER
100 miles West Of Independence, 18th May
Col A. n. CHAMBER-We crossed the
sas Yesterday, and the two or three last pre-
ing days being excessively warm. and our
malls good deal j,d.d. | considered it pr
to halt to day, which affords me another OF
tnn,y, and perhaps the last one for some |,
of giving you IA imperfect account Of our
wells.
You have been informed, I suppose. ths'
company, by large ma jority, were indie
enough to select me a. their command
Justify which hatiering distinction as far
could. have imposed on myself inces.ar
Dor. by dsy and ~ night, and il blessed
health, shall net in.ermit my watchfulne,
ill We reach the point Of our destination.
Nothing At all Of interest has transpircd
my Inst letter. Our jonrneyings are re
but very slow not averaging more than f
miles q dsy. considered il propef on y
day. to divide the company, in con'equer
the great numbers Of wsgons and the an
| Of stock. | retain with me nineiy-eigh,
cient men, forty woman, hhy-seven chill
three hundred and twenty Oxen, fity-six
on, Company quite large enough Of i'se
I have my other divisions always within
venient resch, so as to enable nie to concci
in few hours, at any time, though ! ha
fears that such an emergency will eve
pen.
Our perigfination, though pfovokingly
tonous, so far as driying oxen and formir
ais are concerned. isyet occasionally m
with good deal Of excitement, and rae
We are attfpcted almost every hour by
OF the prairie denizens, most gaiidly
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