The Somerset Herald And Farmers' And Mechanics' Register

The Mormon Emigrants.

The St. Louis New Era of the 7th says:—"The General Brook arrived yesterday from the mouth of the Yellow Stone' whence she left on the 7th July. The water was falling, with scant four feet in the channel. The Brook has been gone seventy-five days on the trip, in being 2,500 miles from St. Louis. She met the Clermont 100 miles above Council Bluffs. At Council Bluffs they learned that five hundred Mormon wagons had crossed and gone on towards Fort Laramie, and one thousand more were ready to cross. They had planted barley and buckwheat near Council Bluffs. The foremost parties expected to winter near Fort Laramie, and the balance on the Platte river. At Fort Leavenworth, on the North side, they passed the five hundred Mormons who had joined the army. The distant prairies were much burned, and the buffalo ranged low down towards the settlements. Plenty of buffalo were found two hundred miles above Council Bluffs. The boat brought down some live buffalo, elk and a grisly bear, and also the stuffed skin of a grisly bear larger than the largest ox: it was killed in the act of carrying off a buffalo that it had caught coming out of the river. The boat brought down a large quantity of furs, robes and peltries of Pierre Chouteau, Jr. & Co."