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of starvation, and in some instances the surviv [[cutoff]] preserved their own lives by eating the dead bodies of their former companions. I conversed w[[cutoff]]a returning emigrant who saw and spoke to t[[cutoff]]insane survivor of three brothers by the name Blew, from Whiteside County, Illinois, who h[[cutoff]] eaten the dead bodies of his brethren, and w[[cutoff]] found by the Indians in a dying state, and by the carried to the nearest passing train. These repor[[cutoff]] are confirmed by old and reliable mountainee[[cutoff]] and there is no reason to doubt that the full sto[[cutoff]] of the emigrant's wrongs and suffering is yet to told.

We hear that some of these deluded men, infur[[cutoff]]rated by the deception practiced upon them, hav[[cutoff]] risen in their might, and in Denver City have vi[[cutoff]]ited a terrible retribution upon two or three of th[[cutoff]] prominent actors in the drama. It is also reporte[[cutoff]] that the conglagration o the town is threatened. 
Beore closing this article I desire to refer to th[[cutoff]] advantages of this central, or, as it is termed, South[[cutoff]] Pass route, as a convenient road. Many years ag[[cutoff]] it was adopted by the old Northwest and Ame[[cutoff]] ican Fur Companies as the route of supply for the forts. It was selected and traveled, ater long exploration of the mountains, by beaver hunters, wh[[cutoff]] set traps upon every stream, and whose experienc[[cutoff]] justified its adoption. Fremont followed this old trail in his passage to Oregon, and the overland emigrant pursues it at this day. When the Congressional act was passed it at this day. When the Congression act was passed to construct a wagon-road to California through the South Pass, all that could be done to better the road was to shorten it where the travel had been compelled to pass around the dense forests of the Wasatch Mountains. This was done by Col.Lander's party, after a long exploration, and the bridges and ferries of the old road avoided. The next step is to bridge the Platte. The route is equally short to Oregon and California, and passes far enough north to avoid the fenced inclosures of the Mormons, giving the overland emigrants pasturage free of cost. 
In connection with the danger of crossing this river, we have just received the distressing intelligence that two young gentlement attatched to the expedition, Gilbert B. Towles and John Marshall Wislon, sons of leading citizens of Washington, both taken ill from the inclemency of the weather and sent home from Fort Kearney, have been drowned, in the attempt to ford at the lower crossing.