Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1859 — A Grand Voyage. [ARTICLE]

A Grand Voyage.

Certvinly we ought to be very liberalminded people to dwell in a country that has w ithin its bo-ders a river navigable for a distance of more than three thousand miles' The St. Louis Republican announcing the return of the steamer Spread Eagle —or once a befitting appellation—haa the following: “The steamer Spread Eagle, in connection with the Chippewa, has just completed one of the most remarkable trips on record in the navigation of the Western rivers, having traversed the Missouri river from its mouth to Fort B >nton —a point within sixty miles of the head waters of the Columbiiy and three thousand one hundred and twenty miles above the mouth ol the Missouri. This is nine hundred miles above the mouth o-t the Yellow Stone, and seven hundred miles further than any other steamboat has ever been. “I he Spread Eagle left St. Louis on the 28th day of May—three days after the Chippewa, and returned, having made a voyage of more than 6.200 miles in-seventy-nine days The Ind ians we e quiet, and expressed themselves well satisfied with their presents. Game, above the aiouthof tl>e Yellow Slone was very abundant. Large hands of b-offiriov elk. and mountain sheep might be seen at any moment, together with any quantity of grizzly bear. The trip has been demonstrated to be practicable, the Chippewa having made it in low water.”