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Correspondence Of the Missouri Republican
From the Plains.

Correspondence Of the Missouri Republican, !
From the Plains.
News from the California Emigration-Im-
menSe numbers F'revaleace Of Cholera Lisl
Of Deaths, DC, dc.
INDEPENDENcE, Saturday, June l2, IS53.-|
By the politeness of Mr., Josiah Collins, who|
has just returned from short distance be-
yond Ft. Kearny, am favored with the fol-
lowing intelligence, which may prove OF
some interest to your readers
Mr. C. has taken much pains to gather the!
lmost valuable information, and that which,
lhe has given me (although to some extent
painfully is calculated to give much satisfac-
stion to those who have friends or relatives
on the plains.
From an account kept at Fort Kearnyl
from the time the first emigrants passed ,un- /
ltil the 10Th May, and from that time, accord
aing to MIR, Collins own notes, until his re-
turn here, the llth June--there had gone
lover the roads from this place and st. Joseph,
l6,362 men; 3,242 women; 4,266 children /
a5,325 wagons; 6,53S horses; 4,6O6 mules; i
ahog; 59,392 cattle; l0,523 sheep; from 100
Ito l50 turkeysj ducks, and Guinea fowls
Besides this number of living beings on the
aroad, it is known that very many more were
lon the routes North, those leading out from
aCounci Bluffs and old Fort Kearny. No
estimate of them will reach you unless it be
afrom Fort Laramie.
4 The bulk of the. emigrants was near and
Ion either side of Fort Kearny-that which
passed through from the Southern route, and
(which more Immediately came under the
sicognizance of our informant was well littet
8 3out--cattle and wagons generally good. In
aaddition to other matters, am sorry to ado
sthat quite an amount of sickness was founC
{n many Of the emigrating parties, which
sswas supposed to be, and no doubt was; chol
8eru. Some companies had buried many o
Ntheir friends, and as long as Mr.. c. was il
Htheir neighborhood, there had been no abate
Nment Of the disease. give you below the
Enames of the persons buried-their ages ant
Hplaces of residence, as far as they could bt
Hascertained:
8 Fines Bloyd, Arkansas; ]. Miller, Hamil
Eton Co., Ohio; II. Dutton, Ohio; p. A. Nc
8Williams, aged II; Malinda Moore; W..
NBradley, Pulaski Co., Mo-, aged So; Teri
HSperry, Michigan; Josepe Conkleton, Della
Eware Co., Ohio, aged "a; John G. Brown
EIllinois; Amos North, aged So; w. Fl. Ne
zville, aged 81; Enoch Griffin, Mo-; JOSEPH
EMoon, Jackson Co., Mo-, aged SO; John Sot
Fillmore, Tippecanoe Co., Indiana, aged 81
HOwen Warren, Chlhoun Co., Mich; George
HBall, Portsmouth, Ohio, age 90; ]. Johnson
Iroquois Co., ILL.,, aged 80; j. Skidmore, ]
Gutter, Mo. John Manor, Gibson Go. Tenn.
Eage l8; John Anderson, H., and Mary w
Anderson, Randolph Co., do; Jacob Rush
NWashington Co., Ark, age 4S; James Nc
IWillams, Washington Co., Ark; F. Robin
B Son, age "a; John l.. King, Erie Co., Pa.
I'M. K, Ohio; Samuel Spencer, Martin Co,
4Tnd, age %; Elizabeth Turnbow, aged 90
RDIay berry Splawn, aged 81; Amanda M
ERobins and her two sisters, Mahala Robin
land Batha F. Barnes, aged 30, % and 81
ided the same day, May 80; ]. c. Canon, Ill.
II NJ. w. Williamson, Mary Thatcher, Kno
HCo., KY, age 81; r. Martin, D. Wood, Mr.;
NC. A. Minor. Laporte, Ind, age 81; d. A
II Hill, ILL.,, Mary A. Daniels, Butler Co., Pa.
ASandy Bernard (child . years old0 Moblet
.NWm. Donohoe, Niles, Mich, age %; Amc
EHenshaw, Clinton Co., Ohio, aged 33; Mf
lEria +. Birch, Erie Co., Pa, age 80; one bod
Eround covered with wounds made with bucl
M shot and knives, five feet 6 inches higl
tH SANDY complexion, weighed about 35 pound
pHurge nose and forehead receding; one ma
.Hrom Illinois, drowned in Big Blue Crcel
tHnear Independence.
III Besides those thus specified, there were 9
cHmany as from II to 30 graves with no il
Inscriptions, respecting which nothing cou
-Ebe known. The most of these graves wei
rHiound on the road leading from st. Josep
Has only four were to be seen on the part g
eking out from here. Among those who wei
oEsick, Mr.. Childers and wife, from Jackso
mCounty, Mo-, were very i'll, Mrs Chlde
rHnot expected to live.
"a Whether, when the large body of efd
-Hgrants get fairly together on the road, the
Hwill be able to progress any more safely al
r rMexpeditiously than heretofore, remains to
-Hseen. | am apprehensive the reports tn
dHwil reach us respecting their passage owe
: Ewill be filled with sad details.
IA An exposure to the bracing atmosphere
n Mthe mountains aud the salubrity Of the hig
gEtable lands beyond Forts Kearncy and La
ItEamie, may, and no doubt will remove all eau
eHes orsickness and apprehension of suflerin
lon the road out West towards Santa F
dHthere was still some sickness with the SC
i -Ediers--Aubry's train, some of the MeXict
cEtrains, as also that of McMunus. Mr.. Men
ltHhad buried two of his hands, otherwise e
$, ,Aerything going on right in that direction.
IA Yours, &c, in haste,