New-York daily tribune., 1858-12-11

Suddenly you see some cid bal raise his head, look
around sruif the air, then commence paving the
grourd. Inst< nty the whole band raise their heads
snd tails. and witt most unearthly roaring. away
tLey go ara co lot stop until they longer smell
you. They care nothing for seeirg you, but at the
tart e tie cir they start umsdiiey. We succeeded
il kllirg yOurg one AMI for the first time in my life
'asted tbat far-fanei stic,e Of mountain fare the
buffalo hump and mus. say that il Is very delicious
The uest il quite fa but there Is something peculiar
abou. the ia; which DO not recallect fuding in auy
otter srna-,he absence Of tha, oily tsse which is
,lmo,t universal 10 meat both taue ami wild.
Aswe col tir ued on W. occ piously went on shore
for game and ound some besntfal spe linens of al.
Iu fact for distance of 800 miles the coal crops
out along the river fuay and TIE finest Kind of
carrel cos is found in considerable quantities, a5oa,
TIE mouth aud 10 the valley Of the Mara River Thi.
i rot, strictly speaking, wooded couutry, but the
IL mense quantities Of coal ia $ billy aci good
quality furnish sll that cal be wanted fOr fuel and
tier is timber enough for OF purposes. Ga Of
our 81 ore e1cursicus one of our treed by 81
olo grizzly bear ard hal considerable su.usement
before We Televei hin iom his po. .ton.
After strp Of nine days from the Judith We arrived
safely at Fort Union, having found 10 difficulty in
There are few rocks here that should be removed,
snd then the Missouri would be nayigabls up 70 Fort
Benton FOR as crest psr Of the yeara. /, now to
Sioux City. Fort Uoon belongs 70 tie American Fur
Company ard is one Of their Oldest posts on the river.
II les oppcs site to- and little above the mouth of the
Yellow Stone and is the distributing center for the
whole region above the goods for all tie different
forts beng from here. Net long before ari-
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cary the Iudsr Agent and the annuity for the Crow
Indians The boats crew hai troqble themselves,
but some poor fellows came to them AID begged hard
for passage down, saying that TIE Crows hai robbed
item Of sll that they had TIE Cross, as well the
Sioux, are much the habi, of forcing trade upon
II an, 'ssirg any thing new that they may fancy, and
replacing with sonethiog not quite good, per-
lrps fog ttirg to replace with any thing, either new
or Old.
Dung our stay at Forts Benton and Union,
talked will tie gentlemen in charge about the aspect
Of the country aud the probabilities of danger from
the Indian. Their option that they wat
ing to Rear from the ether side Of the mountaus aud
would be guided entirely by tie result there. II the
isirg in Oregon should prove successful, it would not
be safe TO tra tie Crows Sioux or any other of the
savage tlbes. 1t was rather dissgreeabe for Us to
being robbed and a, the Indian gent fer the Crows,
who bad started down some five days aheai OF u,
lad encountered very lesvy head winds it was
thought that he had made much progress AID that
we could probably oyertake him. We therefore
pulled down a. rapidly a. possible for the first two
days On the third day, aboot ncon, We saw small
party Of Indians upon the bauk. As soon they
discovered us they fred # their guns to -hog that
they were f,ierdly and we roxed along tie shore,
gave them sou.e tobacco. spoke q few words with
them ard passed on, very happy to escape without
molestation.
On the fifth day we reached Fort Clark, having
passed Fort Grovouts, about six miles below Fort
Union, without stopping. AT Fort Clark, as at all
the posts OF the American Fur Company, the oppo-
stor con paDy have also trading post, and during
the trading season you would think them the moet
iuyeteIste enemies ia the world; but as t5at
is over they visit each other in the forts aud le
time very pleasantly. Around almost every fort there
i sr all Indian village, the inhabitants Of which
raise co. siderable Quantities Of grain for wnch they
receive an enormous price. Tire character OF the
country is much the same from this place to the head
Of the river, ami Is Of lot much value for anything
but Wild st.ok. Ii is poorly waterei, and Tor great
part Of the year all the animals have to come down
To tie Missouri for their drink. The poiuts, however,
are well tiubered and abound ia game of all kinds,
which furnished us the most Of our food.
Ou- next storpin, placs was a Foit Pierre. Here
we found our friend, the agent lon whom we had
.iued Fl We days follow ing bin ten ard great body
Of Sioux Indians assembled to see hiC. Tney are
large, fire looking men, but net very ml'cnlar, the
IN. t Of their exercise being their horses backs
Although their women occupy the position OF all
Indian women Il at Of slavs, being made 10 do al the
w. H. they all 6ne. formed, acd some OF them are
very beautiful. They are however all very dirty, and
tie yernn are more plentiful than | ever ssy them
amoug the Spsnaids in California, who are generally
supposed by those who have been much with them, to
outdo the word in THU respect.
Our next place of recruit at Fort Randall,
Government station where met old friend whom
had not se.n 'or years. aud after nysdying him for
.one two or three hours, left him. still trying to End
out who the person lld be, dressed in skins like an
Itdisp. who knew all bis friends. We nov began 10
fud the Log cabins Of the setters on oil the bottoms
end hill sides and to see some signs of civilization.
We went ashore a small point to if We could fnd
aryti ing TO eat. The fr-t bou.e that stopped at
had the appearance OF belonging to weIl'to do
nap, snd saw quite bevy Of girls standing around
the DOR, but before reached the house they had all
disappeared and could find one, nor could hear
sly one. II is not an unusual cise out West to see
women fIigLterej aud all vsp.h at the sight Of a
usn which fact does rot speak ray well for the
character Of tie men. In spite Of all my efforts no
one appeared, AMI gent down 10 the next house by
land while the boat dropped down the stream. Here
/ found very rce family, and the mother came out
and gave II al that we reeded-anong other tbiogs,
zone fre watermelons. The young girls, in''ead OF
into