Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1847-08-19
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FROM OREGON AND CALI
FORNIA

Accounts from Oregon direct, to the 9Th of
May and from California to the 25th of Nav.
have been received at ST. Louis.
The emigrants to Oregon and California were
making rapid progress
From California we have intelligence that the
differences between the claimants for supreme
authority in that new government, were BY no
means djusted. Gen. Kearney, it is stated, had
arrested COL Fremont for dlsobedicncc of orders,
and ordered him to be sent home for trial.
Com Stockton was on his way home.
The u. s. Fleet was engaged against" MAJ
atlan Acapulco, and other Mexican towns on the
Pacific
The troops ordered 10 cooperate with Gen.
kearney, we're expected to return home in Sep
TENDER. Every ding was in a very unsettled
state.
Additional accounts had been received in CAL
lorna OF the suffering of the emlgrants, who,
1t Will be remembered were left in the mountains
last winter. Seventy five of the unfortunate
party are said to have persisted by starvation and
cold-the survivors had subslsted on the dead
bodies of their friends!
EMiGRATroN 70 CALFoRNfA. The Western
Expositor, Of the l4h inst, contains letter writ
ten by Peter Quivvey, Of Jackson county, who
went out last year with a company of emigrants
to California. This letter was dated on the 9th
of March last at Lower Puebla The writer ar
rived at the first settlement in California on the
18th of October, after very long and tiresome
journey. Very soon after their arrival in Cali
tornla, hearing of the revolution, and that the
American colors were raised, these emigrants en-
listed as volunteers in regiment formed under
Col. Fremont, with the paomise of % dollars per
month-sergeants, thirty five. He speaks very
favoraby OF the country over which he has pas
sed, and says, that 1t he was now back in Mlssou-
ri with his family, and with his present knowl-
edge of the country, he should not hesitate to
move there. The charms ofthe country must be
very great TO counterbalanCe the difficulties
which the emgrants encounter in getting there,
and of which he gives some account in this letter
tie went out with Moran and Boon, who chang
ed their minds OH the route, and went to Oregon.
Governor Boggs reached California about the
same time Mr.. Quvvey did, after much difficult
ty having lost his cattle, party of emigrants,
who went or started, with Colonel Russell suf.
fered almost incredible hardships in the noun
tans last winter, having been prevented FROM
crossing them by the snow. This company was
composed OF twenty three Wagons, and left In
! dian Creek on the 18th day of May, 1876 About
a month previous to the date of the letter, five
women and two men arrived at Capt Johnson's,
the first house of the California settlements, en-
| tTely ndked aud their feet frost bitten. They
stated that their company had arrived at Truck
ey's Lake, on the east side of the mountains and
! found the snow so deep that they could not trav-
el. Fearing starvation, sixteen Of the strongest
(eIeven males aud five temales) agreed 10 start
for the settlements on foot After wandering
about Il number Of days, bewildered, their pro-
visions gave out Long hunger made it neces-
sary to cast lots to see who should be sacrificed
to make food Tor the rest, but at this time the
+ weaker began 10 die which rendered the taking
of life unnecessary. AS they died, the company
{ went into camp and made meat of the dead bod
les of their companions. Nine of the men died
and seven eaten. One of the men was car
rled to Johnson's on the back of an Indian
From this statement, it would seem that the
women endured the hardshps better than the
men, and none Of them died. The company lief
behind numbered sixty souls ten of them men
the others women and children They were il
camp about one hundred miles from Johnson's
Revolving as 1t may seem, 1t is stated that one
of the women was obliged to eat part of the deaC
body of her father and brother, and another saw
her husbands heart cooked! 1t ought to be
very fine country to justify an exposure to sucl
, suiferings and horrors. 81, Louis Republican.