• THE AUSTIN PAPEilS. 903 town as I Can git-so as to be Convenient to markit If we Should have any thing to sell I wish If I am not too Late a speaking, you would Reserve me a good sjtuation as near the town as Can be had- with a good Spring on It as that is a very particular thing with Mrs Hawkins on acct of making Butter I hope in god I shall be with you Next Summer Either with or without my family- Now we will talk of the affairs of my own Country vVe have good Crops of Corn heare this season Crops of wheat not.good the wetest Spring and Summer and up to the 10 th Sept I believe I Ever saw in this Country people very healthy through out the State in General-Mrs Brady and Scott the Lawyer was married Last :Monday Evening the 20 th Instant and your sister Mrs Bryens will be married Thurs- day Evening the 23 rd _ Instant to Mr J as F perry which I think a very suitable good Match your Brother will have to Return with out her, there is Mrs Dedrick nn other fine yotmg widow Remains, If you was here you perhaps .might git her as there Is so much friendship Existing between you and her father Col 0 John Smith T- It is supposed that Robt Brown and her will unite in the Bonds of Matrimony Shortly- Edward Brown his Brother died three weeks past in St Louis and was brought Down to potosi and Buried with his father and Brother- Major Henry has Returned from beyond the Rocky mountains he supposes he :was Last Spring on the Colorado of the west that Runs into the bay of Callaforny from the best acct he could git from the Crow Indians he brought Down something more than ten thousand dollars.worth of furs he also sent Down Last fall about the same quantity Last fall, he has left John H weber on the missouri when he Left there and thirty men with him which was to start Emidiatly after Henry left them a Cross to where henry had been in the spring there to stay until Next Spring and then Return and Come home next fall,-Henry talks of going back Emidiatly by land to try to Join weber this Ensuing winter he will pass the head waters of the arkansas Leav- ing Sttefee [Santa Fe] to the left and the waters of Missouri to the Right he tells ine he wintered last winter on the head waters of the Yellow Stone River and as soon as he was able to travil Last Spring he came Down and Cross and crossed the missouri and went a south Course about four hundred miles and there Came on this he speaks of and found beavour in abundance and saw no Indians until he Returned to the Missouri again he found a great Diffi- culty on the Missouri . Lost several of his men killed at Different times as much as between twenty and thirty first and Last he tells me a fortune Could soon be made was it not for the Difficulty of the Indians they _ar~ Incouraged by British Traders, we are earn-
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