The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1861-11-15

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Though we are now on our way to Sc.
dalia, pursuant to orders. there is a veIy
strong prospect of our being Immediately
ordered back to St. Louis. upon our arri
val at the former place. Captain Cons
table thinks there will be nothing for US
10 do where we are going. and will exert
that we may go down the river and have
a. Chance Of showing ourselves, or if that
is not required that we mar winter at ST.
Louis.
Halo! we have run aground and must
back out and try it again. The officers
of The boat say there is no doubt that we
will have to tighten our load before we
get to Bonneville, as the river is very low
We are under way again. 1t i little
trouble as rule, 10 get off of :. sand bar
going up, but a big job coming down this
stream; SO they say.
| Thousands OF ducks are now to be seen
flving and swimming about in every di-
rection. Think it must be fine sport COM
| ing down stream in a skif hunting them
AS they do here. AS l don't know whe
or where will be able to mail this letter,
l shall now lay it aside for the present
and enlarge it as incidents of interest oc-
cur, until such an opportunity offers.
Thursday, Oct. 3lst.
We met with no serious obstacles after
closed yesterday. We arrived az St.
Charles just at dark and then laid up for
the night, As miles from St. Louis by riv.
er, IS miles by air line. Nothing worth
y of mention occurred during the night.
Started at six this morning and after
proceeding mile and half. ran aground
on the shoals of which the captain had
warned us. 1t took six hours to back
out, and are free, and make another mile
Got under respectable headway again at
e and with the ext option ofanother sand
bar which detained us another quarter of
an hour, we have been doing well ever
SINCE We have now altogether made a
bout fifteen miles to-day.
Though had heard much of the mud
dy, miserable character Of Mis- ouri had
really no idea of it. The banks have
much of the appearance of quick sand
which they really are. On top there is
a soil Of sand ioam from six to ight ft ct
thick, and as rich as that Of Paradi e: be
low stratum of pure gray sand thatruns
to the water, and how much further |
can't tell All OF this is constantly shell
wing and coming in (aground again } and
mingling with the current. In many
places the bed is spread out mile and
half to two miles wide, and with half a
dozen channels cut through the sand bars
One of these which is but small stream
to-day, may to morrow be the real chan~
ne! of the river, the pilots tell me, and
they do not hereas, on the Mississippi O.
hio. and other large rivers, learn the chan
nel and then keep it,but they have to tell
where the deepest channel is by the ap-
pearance. "The Battery is the only
s'freight and passengers on board and
it makes heavy load. All of our car
riages are loaded upon barge which is
in tow. One of the men, Obadiah Clouse
who has been ailing for several days,
broke out with the measles yesterday. l
have him guarded in room by himself.
as far from intruders as possible and am
using every exertion to prevent the mai
ady from spreading, but fear that my
efforts will prove fruitless. A probably
two thirds of the company have never
had the disease, it will be the D-l to
pay if it gets fairly at work among US.
With the exception of those who are more
or less 1ndisposed, the health Of the COM
pany is unexceptionaI and all in the best
OF spirits, Among those on the sick list
are two from WyanGat Jacob Everhart
and Ira c. Swayze. Their condition is
not serious, both able to be about and
make fair hands at rations.
Continued neIt Week
CAMP NEv1N, HARDEN Co., KY,
Oct. 90, 1861.