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C APT AIM MARCY’S EIPEDITIOXThe telegraph brought the news last Fri-day that Capuin Marcjr mid his 'company of , picked men, after tifty-aeven days of hard travel, bad arrived at tbe end of their journey. Of sixty-six mules, with which they started, fortv-four were lost.The expedition, it will be recollected, was undertaken on account of the great loss of animals which attended the arrival a* Fort iiridger last fall. That circumstance seemed to render it indispensably necessary that supplies of animals should be obtained from New Mexico; and for that purjiose Marcy started on the 28th of November. The dis-tanee is seven hundred miles, and the routeis one that w as supposed, by many people, tobe impassable in tbe winter. One-third ot tbe way the troops had to wade through snow from two to five feat deep, and were ten days in getting thirty miles. The sufferings of both men and animal? was dreadful. A writer in the New York Herald says that, “ before reaching the Kuteh-e-tope pa-3 all the rations of the party were consumed, and foreleven consecutive davs the men subsisted♦*utirclv on abandoned and starved mule* and horses, without bread or salt. Coining, a* this party did, without tents, and hivcuack-ing every night, they were entirely at the mercy of the chilling blasts that swept over those elevated si?rra«, and must necessarily have suffered greatly. One of tho party died on the route, and many had their feet badly froaen. Notwithstanding all these hardships, we are told that the men were continually in Wgood apirit* and ready to perform the hardservice allotted to them, having the utmost confidence in the ability of their commander to carry them 6afe to their destination ; and they express the deepest gratitude for the kind attention and sympathy which ho uniformly manifested for their sufferings.’'
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Daily Times
Dubuque, Iowa, US
Mon, Mar 15, 1858
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