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WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 1s. 1880

WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 1G. 1s50
Long March Of an Army Detachment.
The st. Louis Republican publishes the following
letter, addressed by an army officer on duty in
Oregon to friend in St. Louis:
CAMP GaAsD Rosnz oxEsos,
October ], 1870, (
My Dear Doctor have not written to you for
some time, for the reason that have been far in
the interior of the country that there was chance
of communicating by express with any post-office.
am now so nearly home that can venture to send
a man into Fort Dalles.
arrived here yesterday, with loaded wagons, in
twenty-four travelling days from the Valley of the
steamboat navigation the Columbia river,
making twenty-nine days for loaded wagons, or
five hundred and thirty-two miles. One hundred
and elghty-fonr miles Of this land travel can be
avoided by placing steamer on Snake river from
tle mouth Of Burnt river to Salmon Falls reducing
the land transportation to nineteen days. From
the Missouri frontier it takes about three months,
at rom twenty-thrce to twentyeight cents per
pound 1or freight. BY my route, over a good
road, well supplied with wood, water and grass
We can make three trips to one from Missouri,
therefore at great reduction in the cost per
pouhu. can see 70 reason in the world why
the Columbia river
nave now been out four months and it will still
take me from fifteen to eighteen days to get home,
as move slowly to save my animals as much as
possible. Most OF my dragoon horses, in our ex-
ploratlons through the country will have travelled
on their return to Walla Walla, nineteen hundred
miles, about the second longest march on record
IN our army, in one summer. General Kearney
made twenty-one hundred miles in one hundred
consecutive days, if ] remember correctly, and
that march has never been equaled in any country.
do not remember hearing of anything coming up
even to nineteen hundred. We have not lost a
horse on the trip. All look well and could go
further if required. This speaks very we'll for the
grass in the country over which we have passed,
as they have had nothing else. visited Salt Lake
took dinner and tea with them can assure you
that felt far more secure in the mountains, sur
rounded by hostile Indians, than in the valley of
Salt Lake, surrounded by Mormon population.
There was scarcely day passed while was there
that some vile deed was not perpetrated upon a
Gentle. At Camp Floyd, forty miles south Of Sail
Lake City, met many of my old army friends, and
spent few days quite pleasantly. General John
ston is an agreeable gentleman and very popular
as commander; justly so, | should think. If he
had his way he would not hesitate moment to
drive those Mormon people, with all their mon
strous and rebellious ideas, out of the valley and
break up that iniquitous people. can scarcely
describe to you how much incensed the army and
all good people are against Brigham Young and
those miserable leaders Of Mormondom.
Besides performing the service of survey, we
have protected the large emigration into Oregon
this season, the Indians not having committed any
acts OF violence, although they avowed their de-
termination not to allow the emigrants to pass
through their country. have with me now four
families, whom found destitute hundreds of miles
from their destination without transportation and
without food. l have brought them in and fed
them for long time. They keep continually say.
ing, what would we have done if you had not
been on the road? There are nine men, -four
women and fifteen children. -
Yours, respectfully,
l n ii WAJJEN