Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-10-03
the mountains to find new road. we fthe sir,


the mountains to find new road We 1.-THE sir,
had to pass over an UNEMPLOYED region.
We struck across the country, travelling thirty
miles day, got along pretty well, made some
discoveries, and reached Soda Springs before the
rest OF the party. These springs taste like soda
water, and. with little sugar, 1t is better than
what you buy at home-it Is cold and refreshing
In coming over during the nights, we had frost
every night. and the thermometer at day break,
generally stood from 15' to 200 above. We
were so high, that sometimes we were above the
snow. Yet even there we found flowers and cur
rants, and occasionally bee getting honey. This
part of the trip was decidedly the most pleasant.
We saw little game, but got plenty of fine front,
and occasionally a sage hen-very much like a
prairie chicken, but larger. The mountains,
where there isno timber, are covered with this
wild sage, which in the morning used to remind
US Of sage tea and sore threats.
AT Soda Springs we rested a couple of days.
There met Tom Adams. He is web, aud trad
ing with emigrants; owns a bridge and has a
partner. Mr.. Lander engaged him for two months
as a guide to the other party. John Powell is
also in this neighborhood trading. So that re-
port of his death was false. At Soda Springs,
we hired some fresh mules and horses, and start
ed back for this place and got here yesterday.
Tomorrow we start for the mountains again to
examine another gap, and will probably be here
In ten or twelve days to meet the main train. We
have met but few Indians, and they are friendly;
though, IL they get chance, they will steal your
animals. We thought one night that they were
gone, and that we were left afoot in the noun
tains. But the next day we found them ten miles
away from camp. never was better in my life
than have been here In the mountains. / send
you some flowers from the summit of the Wa
satch Mountains, where, probably, there never
was pair Of shoes before. ***.
THE SUBMARINE TELEGRApHrc CApLK.-A
letter was received this morning at the Navy
Department, from Capt. Hudson, reporting
that the Niagara was hauled into the Keyham
basin, on Sept. Is, preparatory to landing the
telegraphic cable, with the massive append
ages of machinery, steam engine and boiler,
which has occupied her quarter deck, the COM
pany having definitely determined not to lay
out the cable this season, but to defer it until
next summer. The work of landing would oc-'
cupy thirty five days or more.
Should the company desire it, Captain H. an
nounces his intention, unless otherwise direct
ed by the Department, to leave the fixtures
now in the Niagara for coling the cable, &C.,
as they stand, and return with the ship to New
York, where she will be in condition if required
for another and more successful effort at laying
the cable.
In postscript Capt. Hudson announces that
q telegraphic despatch had just been received
from the Admiralty, not to hsvo any of the
cable removed until further orders. He says:
81 can only conjecture, as the company have
IT may have been disposed Of to the Red Sea or
East India Company, for laying out to India"
The decision of the Board of Directors to de-
fer another attempt at laying the cable until
next summer was made in view of the advanced
period of the season ; the uncertainty of sufii-
cient quantity of the best seasoned iron wire
being procured for the use Of the manufacturers
to furnish the company with further length of
cable this autumn, and the improvements re-
quired in the paying-out machinery
FAIRLY HOAxED.-A few days since we pub
lished, without the written explanation, that it
was merely hoax which our assistant pre-
pared, famous letter from General Horace
Randall to General Washington, bearing date
January 20, 1871. The mistake was such an
one as frequently occurs in newspaper Offices
There is fellow up in Fauquier county, Va,
named Norris, precious wag in bis way, who
amuses himself in getting up innocent news
paper hoaIes. In this case our opinion is that
the Horace Randall letter was designed as a
special quiz upon our friends of the National In
telHgencer who, like ourself is an ardent wor-
shipper of revolutionary "reminiscences Hor-
ace Randall is, in verify, bu ry fellow aged
about A. and the idea of his having had cor.
respondence with Washington in 1881 is too
good to be lost. No other brain than that of
the indefatigable Norris could have conceived
it and SO arranged it as to have fairly caught on
his pin-hook nine tenths of the press Of the
country, as he succeeded IN doing. We owe
him IL GA
ington this winter.
DIsBURsING AGENTS APPoINrEp.-The Sec
rotary of the Treasury has appointed Chas W
Hail. Esq, Disbursing Agent for the new Court
House and Post Office at indianapolis, Ind
The Secretary Of the Treasury has also ap-
pointed Charles Chaplin, Esq, of Brattleboro',
VT, Disbursing Agent for the new Court House
and Post Office now constructing at Windsor
and Rutland, Vt.
The NAVAL Courts OF IyoUIRY-Court
No. l, was not in session to-day, on account of
the indisposition of Com. Lavalette.
Before Court No. 2, the case of Lieut.. Bissel
was resumed; but little progress was made in
of the absence of witnesses.
In Court No. 3, the evidence in the case of
Lieut.. Relll was closed. His defence will be
read on Monday noxt at IL O'Clock, a. m, by
his counsel, r, X. Scott, Esq.
RECOVERY OF STOLEN LAND WARRANTS
The Commissioner of the General Land Office
morning received the following tele-
graphic dispatch from Hastings, Minnesota,
dated LIST instant, from which it will be seen
that nearly all Of the land warrants recently
stolen from the registers Office at Faribault
covering some 30 900 acres of land) have been
60 The robber of the Faribault Land Office is
under arrest all but five Of the warrants recov-
cred. CAvKRLY HALE,
-.. especial Detection Police.n
SAILING OF CALIFORNIA MAIL STEAMER Posr-
PoSED.-The Postmaster General has consented
to delay the departure Of the California mail
steamer of the 9Th instant from New York, until
Wednesday, the 7th inst. This detention has
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