Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-04-04


three wagon.roads provided for BY the act Of the
last Congress that lying between drt Defiance,
New Mexico TO the Colorado river near the
mouth OF the aaiave vhict liver Is the eastern
boundary Of Calf otnias that point is not re-
qulred to be constructed. by contract as are tho
others although the work viii be performed
under the direction of The Secretary OF the In
terror. This road is about four hundred miles
In length, according to the information Of gem
temen who are acquainted with the geography
OF the country, and for the construction of which
$50, COO. appropriated By Congress is deemed 20
be sufficiently 1t IS important BY. rcasonsofs its
CONNECTION with MiSSoull or arkansas
Early in Nay, large body Of troops under
the command Of Lieut., Cols johnson, list Cayal-
~, will start from the western boundary of Mis-
sour, on the parallel of SO, to run and mark the
southern boundary. Of Kansas to tho eastern
boundary Of New Mexico Tho country over
which that line passes IS mostly prairie well
Watered, and presents but few Obstacles "a tfa-
vellcrS The wagons necessary to carry sup
plies for the troops, heavily ladeneC1 with pro-
visions and stores will compel the commander
of the party to improve the crossings of the
streams and level steep descents, to make COM
parftively easy way for the trains. Thus lis
conjectured there will be good wagonsNay
constructed from western Missouri to the eastern
boundary OF New Mexico. Before reaching the
latter, the parallel of 50 crosses the great trail
leading from Independence to Santa Fe, which
has been travelled for more than thirty years.
After striking this trail there is aaeood rJ)ad
leading to Sante Fe or Albuquerque.
Fort Defiance is situated from one hundred
and fifty to two hundred miles westward Of
those places, from either of which there is road
over which the supplies for troops at the fort
have been transported, andwhich Is pronounced
by officers of the army who have Travelled over
II, good wagon road, DuEng year Of scar
city in New Mexico, the comnianlant at that
military post was compelled to SO westward of
the fort from one hundred and fiftY to two hun.
tlrcd miles to the villages inhabited by the
Moquia Indians, who raise larger supplies of
grain than they can consume, aud are peaceable
and inotfenSiye.
Thus when the southern boundary line of
Kansas shall have been surveyed, there will be
a good wagon rnad on this route, without much
labor, to these Indian villages, which are only
distant two hundred and fifty miles from the
terminus of the Fort Defiance and Colorado
wagon-rOad. tits expected that orders will soon
| be given, and by midsummer men employed in
its construction, and that the road can be con-
lStructed to the Colorado river and the reportof
the Superintendent be received in time to be
presented to Congress early in the next session.
From the west bank of the Colorado river
theTels good grazing and water, aud it is be-
lleTed that the line Of road will proceed up the
MaJaye river TO its source near the Tagon Pass.
That portion Of the road from, the head of Ma.
jave river, through the Tag0n Pass to tile head
OF Ine san Joachim river, has already been tTSIv-
eled by the wagons of the settlers in the neigh-
borhood of that Pass. On this line of road.
someone hundred and fifty miles west of Mis-
souri,, lies the country Inhabited by the Chero-
kec Indians, who raise surplus of all agricul-
tural products; and about one hundred miles
east of the River DefNOrte, the New Mexico
settlements appear.
It's said that this route can be Travelled as
well in winter as in summer.
From these statementsit appears that BY next
winter there will BIO o good wagon road to the
State OF California, Irrespective Of tho other
two-the Fort Kearney and Ell Paso-foF which
act of Congress makes provision
PUTTMG n on RATHER Tnlck.-The preamble
to the new treaty between the United States and
the Shah of Persia opens as follows:
"In the name Of God, the element and the
merciful
I" The President f1the United States of North
America, and his Majesty, as exalted as the
planet Saturn; the sovereign to whom the sun
serves as standard, whose splendor and mag.
nihccnce are equal That of the skies, the sub
lime sovereign, the monarch whose armies are
as numerous as the stars, whose greatness calls
to mind that of Jemshid, whose ,nasnificence
equals that of Darius, the heir of the crown and
throne of the Kayauians, the sublime Emperor
of all Persia, &c, &c.
If wedon't hear from the indignant spirit ofold
John Bunyan in few days we shall conclude