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Remarks 125 days more hard work, brought them to the crossing of Peu d' Oreille, (or Clarke's North of the Columbia,) where they left the Hudson Bay Company's train, and struck across the country for this point. Eleven days more, (during which they subsisted chiefly on roots) brought them to Walla Walla - where their hardships may be said to have terminated. Most heartily they endorse the concluding words of Mr. Jones' article, "Let emigrants by all means avoid the Saskatchewan route." two lines Mr. Chas. Goodrich, of one of the partners of Smith and Burnham, arrived, at the Dalles Aug. 31st. The Season was so far advanced when they arrived at Fort Pitt, as to preclude all possibility of Crossing the Mountains. They started late in the unclear and reached the foot of the Rocky Mountains on the 1st July, and came up with a party of four, that had wintered at Red River. They crossed the mountains through crossed out Sinclair Pass, and reached Tobacco Plains, or Mountain Fort on the Knottancies River, where they found a party of fifteen, that had also wintered at Red River. The party of fifteen came through the Boundary Line. Goodrich's party do not complain of suffering any from privations. two lines