NAVIGATING THE PLATTE RIVER

July 18. Mr. Campbell "of the firm of Sublette & Campbell," arrived on the 15th inst. He left for the mountains April 9. Deducting days lost, it took only three months "for the accomplishment of this perilous adventure." "By and by we shall think nothing of making excursions to the Mountains . . ." He was not molested by Indians. He remained "at the company's post at the foot of the Black Hills" about fifteen days. "Returning, he resolved to attempt the navigation of the Platte river-a means of transportation which has heretofore been, by the traders generally, deemed altogether impracticable. He accordingly constructed a batteaux, loaded it with a large number of packs of Buffalo robes, and, by the occasional employment of small boats made of skins, he was enabled to descend the river a distance of six hundred miles, in safety. The navigation of the Platte is made very difficult by its great width, its shallowness, the absence of a channel in any part of it, and its quick-sand bottom." The traders and trappers in that part of the country were generally successful this season. From Snake Indians he learned that Indians had murdered two of Wyeth's trappers-the only outrage on Americans in that country this year.

INDIANS

August 18. Declaring against the formation of "the Western Territory," for Indians, states that a man who had intercourse with them for fifteen or twenty years says they "derive very little benefit from the furs and skins they are enabled to take; and when the Government pays out an annuity to them, the traders, and particularly the whiskey smugglers, soon get it, giving little or nothing in exchange. The whiskey venders immediately on the frontier, produce nearly all the misery which exists among the Indians, and are the cause of the bloodshed which so frequently assails the ear. It is no unusual

thing, just after an annuity has been paid, to find the guns, blankets, powder, horses, in short everything necessary to the comfort of the Indians, transferred to the hands of the whiskey trader; and the wretched savages rioting in bestial intoxication."

And William Clark was superintendent. Opposition to these criticisms was based on the ground that the "veteran" must not be turned out.

Aug. 22. Correspondent. Major Benj. O'Fallon, a Jackson elector in 1828, "but I believe the party have mustered him out of service for refusing to join them in their paltry scheme of personal aggrandizement."

STEAMBOATS ON THE MISSOURI

Sept. 19. Chian, for Missouri River; Chariton for Independence.

April 9, 1836. Iowa on the 10th and John Hancock the 14th, for Missouri River; May 5, says will go May 7; the Howard also for the Missouri.

April 28. Quotes Gen. Jesup's recommendation for Indian defense in the west-from Fort Snelling on the north to Fort Jesup, near the Red River. Would reoccupy Council Bluffs, "as a post having command of the movements of all the tribes of Indians in the neighborhood." Indigenous Indians "within striking distance of the frontier," 150,341; removed to that quarter, 31,348; yet to emigrate, 62,181; total, 243,870.

STEAMBOATS ON THE MISSOURI

May 21. Howard, for Chariton, May 21; Kansas, and Hancock, Missouri River very soon.

June 21. Howard, for Independence June 22.

June 23. Iowa, for the Missouri, June 23; Boonville, for the Missouri, June 25; Chariton, for Chariton, soon.

June 25. Kansas, and Hancock, for the Missouri river, June 27; St. Charles, Liberty, June 25; American, Chariton, June 25; Iowa, Missouri River, June 25. July 2. Tiskilwa, Missouri River.

July 5. Chariton, Independence, perhaps to Blacksnake Hills; Howard, Independence, July 7; Dart, Missouri, July 5.

July 28. Booneville, and Dart, Independence, July 28. Beginning September 20, 1836, the Republican was "published every morning [except Sundays] by Charless & Paschall, -at ten dollars a year. ""

Nov. 30. Five steamboats lost on the Missouri this season. November 26, the John Hancock, heavily freighted, struck a snag near Bellefontaine and sank in ten feet of water.

"IOWA COPPER MINES"

Jan. 31, 1837. Located one mile from Mineral Point, thirty-five from Galena, "embracing four hundred acres of land; in which copper has been discovered at various points, in great abundance.

"The great road and mail route from Galena to Green Bay, via Fort Winnebago, passes through Mineral Point, and a railroad has been projected and an appropriation made for its survey from Milwaukee on Lake Michigan, to some point on the Mississippi near Galena, which passes through the mines. The lakes and the Mississippi are now struggling for the mastery"-of this very fertile country from Green Bay to the Mississippi, which includes the mineral section.

Signed "S. C. Stambaugh." Dated, "Lancaster, Dec. 27, 1836."

On and after Tuesday, March 14, the name is "Daily Missouri Republican."

April 18. Thirty-three steamboats busy at the wharfs on the 17th; eight arrived in the course of fifteen hours. June 26. No returns from the Santa Fe traders this season on account of raiding by Apache.

July 3, the Republican is transferred by Charless & Paschall to Chambers, Harris & Knapp. The name is changed, on the 4th, to "Missouri Republican," with "Daily", in smaller letters immediately under it. Continues strongly Whig.

July 8. "The established seat of government, for the