Edgefield Advertiser

[From the N. O. Com. Times, Feb. 8]

ARRIVAL FROM OREGON

We learn from St. Louis Republican that Mr. Thos. Glendy, of St. Charles county, Mo., arrived at Fort Kearney, Missouri Territory, on the 17th ult., having encountered and overcome all the dangers, privations and difficulties incident to such a trip, direct from Oregon City, Oregon Territory.

Mr. Glendy, with only one companion, left Oregon City on the 23d day of September last, and with that daring spirit of bravery and enterprise so characteristic of the hardy sons and pioneers of the West, started on his distant perilous journey to the States, over mountains and plains, covered with snow, tenanted only by the wild beasts of the forest, and the still more savage and hostile Indians.

This little company left Oregon with six mules. Before they reached Fort Hall, they lost, by death, all their mules save one, and they were compelled to make use of him for the purpose of packing their little stock of necessaries and provisions, while they travelled on foot through snow (as they represent it) so deep, in many places, as to reach above their knees. At Fort Hall, they were disappointed in their expectation of procuring other animals, but nothing daunted by difficulties, they again started on foot, making slow and tedious progress, on account of the great depth of the snow, and their being compelled often to take circuitous and distant routes, to avoid falling in with roaming bands of Indians, and arrived at Fort Kearney safely, with the exception of badly frost bitten feet.

Mr. Glendy is a practical woodsman, and well acquainted with Indian character, and was thereby enabled to make the entire trip without seeing a single hostile Indian.