The Rhode Island American, And General Advertiser

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WASHINGTON CITY, JUNE 28.

THE WESTERN EXPEDITION.

The St. Louis Gazette, of the 26th of May, states, that the Steam-Boat Johnson, passed that place on the 19th ultimo, with troops, &c. for the Yellow Stone.

A gentleman at Fort Osage, on the Missouri, in a letter to us, under date of May 17, on the subject of this interesting enterprise, observes, that "Colonel Johnson is expected to be at St. Louis, with his Steam Boats, by the 15th of this month. If he succeeds in his enterprise (of which I have no doubt) he will have done more for the benefit of the western country, indeed I may say for the whole Union, than any other man (except Jackson) ever did. He will have opened a safe and easy communication to China; which will give such a spur to commercial enterprise that ten years will not pass away before we shall have the rich productions of that country transported from Canton to the Columbia, up that river to the mountains, over the mountains and down the Missouri and Mississippi, all the way (mountainous and all) by the potent power of steam. These are not idle dreams, rely upon it: to me it seems much less difficult than it was universally considered, when I first came here, to navigate the Missouri with sail boats."

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