The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1859-09-16

Start-The Party Dxide-Crossng the Mountains.
Editorial Correspondence Of the Pioneer and Democrat
PEMBINA, July "a, 1859.
A week has passed since the expedition
reached this point. The preceding letters
which, for convenience OF subdivision as to
time and place, I have dated at various
localities along the route, have been all
written here, and have employed so much
time that must leave my observations here
to be recorded another time.
The interval since the arrival of the party
has been spent in abusing the boundless hos.
pitality of the Hon. JOSEPH RoLETTE and
JAS. McFETRIDGE, ESQ.,, and in befttipg and
recognizing the expedition preparatory to
another departure into the limitless wastes
of the desert.
Some of the party, including WILLIAM
CALDWELL, JAS. CHEEvER, PATRICK DIG
NAN, GEORGE REED, NELSON HARRIS and
GEO. McCULLY, here separated from the
main body under Col. MOBILES, and on the
2lst took the road to Fort Garry with the
expectation of joining party of Emigrants
whom we have since learned had not got
there, and they must therefore pursue their
Journey alone. What direction they intend
to take 1 do not know. The party as now
organized under the leadership of Col. No
BLEs upon its original footing are prepared
to act with more efficiency, and to Co oper-
ate with more cordially than heretofore.
This result is largely due to the tact of Col.
MOBILES, and to circumstances which have
shaped themselves to the satisfaction of US
all.
Nowhere on the route, not even in St.
Paul, has so much interest been manifested
in the expedition as here at Pembina-where
they have substantial way OF showing their
interest, which puts your mercenary eiviIiza:
ton to shame. scarcely know in what Ian.
guage.to express our sense of the kindness law
ished on the party by Mr.. RoLErrE and Mr..
MCFErRIDGE. About the Pembinese, and
JOE, and jim, and all the rest by and by.
am off now two hours after the train, to
the Saskatchewan. Adieu, then, gentle
men of the Press, and adieu all the brawl.
ing world about you. For we are pushing
out into an unknown sea. The route We
take-I had almost forgotten it in the
hurry of this scrawl-is due west from
Pembina to Turtle Mountain, and thence by
an original track to the sonth bend of the
Saskatchewan-Go and the cursed Sioux
permitting.
The party has been delayed so long by
Unforeseen causes, that it will be hardly
able by pushing forward with the utmost
speed, to pass the mountains before the snow
sets in.
The recent experience of emigrants there
will have the effect of preventing any rash
experiments with the mountain SHOWS. You
have doubtless heard of the sad catastrophe
which resulted in the death of two young
men, who started from Faribault last fall
one named SMITH, and another whose nam,
| cannot recollect. 1t was not the SMIrI
and BuRNHAM, however, whose letters have
appeared in the PIONEER. A party of forty
five emigrants, who wintered at Selkirk
started in May, fully equipped, and with al
excellent guide, by the route marked b.
Capt. BLAK1sroN, in the instructions pub
lished some months ago in the PIONEER AM
DEMOCRAT.
If you can read these sheet lightning pen
Gil scratches, adieu, then. Au revoir.
J. A. ".