The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-12-09
Suspension OF the Saratoga and Sacketts IIar-
Dor Observation-Disclosures Of LabOrcrs.

From the Albany Atlas, Dec. III
We learn that this foolish enterprise has been
stopped by the inability of the company and con-
tractors to pay the men. This is not unexpected,
nor matter Of regret except that 1t has produced
great temporary suffering. The contractors adver.
tised, two months ago, for five thousand men and
an immense number of laborers who had been dis.
missed from other works, gathered to the line. An
extraordinary number Of women and children &C.
comps nied them. We hear that these laborers
have not been paid-that late in September they
received some $40 900 In Lewis County Bank money;
and that since then, they have been put off, from
week to week, with promises and with false IS.
surances Of help.
On Tuesday the work was abandoned by con.
tractors and hands. The stores of the contract
were even before that exhausted. There are, we
learn, thousand women and caild,eu scattered
through the northern wilderness, WAC are utterly
destitute. They have nothing to eat-literalfy
nothing.
In the almost unpeopled region through which
this road passes, there are no farm houses no vii
lagos, no class that relieve the extremity of dis
tress. The scanty population import their food.
The snow storm has fallen upon these poor labOrers-
. new misfortune. The men are wading through
the drifts bartering their clothes for food their
there, ~ 30 much waste paper. All day, and all
night, hundreds are tramping on towards the
villages. But the women and children stay behind,
and II our informant is correct In his
they have not day 5 supply of food.
We know how generous the people Of the villages
aud the farmers are there and every where through
out the country They are ready to share their food
and clothing, and &c extend the shelter OF their
homes and the hospitality of their 6resides to every
distressed fellow citizen; but we learn these poor
women and children are far from any neighb0rhood,
and are not able to reach the poornouses to which
the masses Of them will have to be consigned during
the winter. They may die OF starvstion-some VIII
20 die.
The company which undertoo to build this road,
aided by immense grants CT land from the State,
have spent about $4,000, and owe about $3.50 600.
M 1~A~ L. -. 2 mn
II is well that the foolish experiment has been ar
rested, but the reckless and deluded spectators
who have been engaged in it are bound to see that
humanity Ii not outraged by their folly, and human
life 10 not sacrificed by their cupidity.
The Late Indian Murders on the Plains.
In connection with the recent news Of the attack
on the United States mail train, near Fort Laramie
by the Indsns, the Hartford Times Of the 7th inst
has the foilowing:-We are informed BY Mr.. Henry
p. Allen, Of this city-a gentleman who has twice
travelled the overland route to California, and Is
well acquainted with the Indians along the line
that be was In the vicinity OF Fort Laramie less
than Eve weeks ago, and that 1t Was then under
stood that the Indians would not allow the United
States mails to pass there again this winter. The
cause Of the difficulty WAS this Last summer, two
intoxicated Indians. Shortly after these boys were
found murdered, and the act was traced to the two
Indians. They were tried and sentenced TO be
hung. The chiefs Of their tribe came m and begged
t06t tue 0utuOIlbteu WOuO BuO0t Ok DuIH tne0-
they look upon hanging With the utmost horror,
believing that the spirit OF person who Is thus
strangled TO death goes into the next world In
foul manner, and that il assumes 5eastly form.
The chiefs were willing tnat the guilty Indians
should be punished by the penalty Of DEATH but de-
marded that their souls should be sent into eternity
by some other means than syrangulatton by rope.
The laws, however, we're imperative; they must be
hung, and were hung, though the ropes broke
twice before life became extinct. The chiefs then
said that IL their Great Father treated them In that
way, his mails should not pass through their cou1-
try, and his bra should fall under the tomahawk
and Arrows OF the Indian warriors.
Mr.. Allen says Mr.. Kincaid was ne o. the princi-
pal merchants of Salt Lake City. He also gives
singular account of Jamison. Mr.. ]. once had .
left arm was shot and shattered so that he lost 1t
entirely. JAmison subsequently, practiced with a
pght Car Dine, and In another encounter shot and
shattered the left arm Of his father-in-lsw, as
also TO ruin 1t entirely. Jamison has now fallen by
the hands Of the Indians. Mr.. Allen, who il very
intelligent gentleman and close observer thinks
from what he has recently seen OF these Indians
that our government will have much trouble with
them and that it is not safe for an ordinary partv of
whites to pass through their country.
THE BANK OF COLUMBUS, ONO, AND THE CovrRs.
yENr DhrosTs.-We hear that information has been re.
ceved Mt the Treasury Department that the Bank of Co
umbus, Ohio, against which there il government suit
pending for the recovery Of the Sl00 600 deposited with
by order Of Secretary Corwn has made
the benefit Of its creditors or In other words taken
that means of preventing the United States from
vering by due process OF law We learn, further that
IL is the opinion OF the law officer Of the government in
whose charge the business IT, that such assignment
will hold good 10 the prevention OF the United States
oltytQ EFuff Thl tod