Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-08-17


bondsto be given for the amount of the sub
scriptions, and the route by which the road
should traverse the county, from the Pennsyl-
yania line to the City of Wheeling. But under
these two points thus indicated, there was
ample space aud verge enough for the terms and
stipulations to which we have referred, and
which were in perfect consistency with the
plans and views of the company, and might
have averted much of the loss and disaster
which have since befallen both the county and
company.
Was this done at or before the making of
either of these subscriptions? And if not, why
not? But We have asked questions enough
for to-day, and although we hardly hope that
any one will be kind enough to answer them,
we shall pause here, and will endeavor at some
future day, whilst in the course of discussing
other material matters relating to the subject in
hand, to answer them ourselves.
BROTHER GREELEY progresses Interestingly
along on his overland journey. His last letter
is dated at Fort Bridges, Utah, and some parts
of it are quite readable. For instance, he tells
us of couple of characters he met at the cross
ings of Willow and Choke Cherry Creeks who
have driven thrifty business out of herding
cattle and selling and trading them with the
California emigrants-as well as having done
considerable in the way of distributing Anglo
Saxon blood among the aborisinies:
R D., whose tent we passed last evening, is
said to have six or eight hundred head, and
knowing the country perfectly, finds no diff
Guilty in keeping them through Summer and
Winter by frequently shifting them from place
to place over circuit of thirty or forty miles.
j. R., who has been here some twenty-odd
years, began with little or nothing, and has
quietly accumulated some fifty horses, three or
four hundred head of neat cattle, three squaws,
and any number of half-breed children. He is
said to he worth seventy-fve thousand dollars,
though he has not even garden, has probably
not tasted an apple or peach these ten years,
and lives in tent which would be dear at fifty
dollars. instance this gentlemau's way life
not by any means to commend it, but to illus
trate the habits of class. White men with
two or three squaws each quite common
throughout this region, and young and relative
ly comely Indian girls are bought from their
fathers by white men as regularly and openly
as CircaSsians at Constantlnople. The usual
range Of prices in from $40 to $so-obout that
of Indian horses. hear it stated that, though
all other trade may be dull, that in young
Squaws is always brisk on Green River and the
North Platte. That women so purchased
SI4OuIu O6 ulSGuTueu Ol lTaueu Ol, as SAFETY Ut
avarice may suggest, and that they should de-
sert or deceive their purchasers on the slightest
temptation, can surprise no one. met an
Irishman on Big Sandy whose squaw had re
Gently gone of with an Indian admirer, leaving
him two clever, bright, halE-brced children of
seven and five years. I trust that plank in the
Republican National Platform Which afirms
the right and duty of Congressional Prohibition
not only of Slavery in the Territories but of
Polygamy also is destined to be speedily embo-
died in law.
An other item ofirterest is this one:
We have been passing for the last two days
scores of goodlog or ox-chains-in one instance
hundred feet together-which, having been
thrown away by California emigrants to tighten
the loads of their fnmished, falling cattle, have
been in the road for months, if not years, passed
and noted by thousands, but by none thought
worth picking up. One would suppose that
the traders, the herdsmen, the Indians or some
other of the residents of this region, would
deem these chains worth having, but they do
not. had already become accustomed to the
sight of wagon-tire, wagon-boxes, &c, rejected
and spurned in this way; but good, new chains
thus begging for owners have only noted this
side of the South Pass They are said to be
still more abundant further on.