Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1860 — Distressing News from Lieut. Mulleu’s Expedition. [ARTICLE]

Distressing News from Lieut. Mulleu’s Expedition.

A letter dated Fort Walla Walla., Washington Territory, December 1, says: An express has just reached this post from Lieut. Mullen’s expedition, bringing the sad intelligence- that a severe snow-storm had overtaken the _party in the Rocky Mountains, and thatjmany animals had been lost, and men frozen by the severe cold. Two soldiers of the escort, whosvhad been left as a rear guard to protect certain quarter-masters’ stores, were so badly Injured that it was feared their feet would have to be amputated. The expedition, ' having completed three hundred hiiles of road, was still pushing on to a mild wintering point.