New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-08-30

b,n,s Informed He tsA, h. bad al ie- grass '"i
.,o.l mo.,d - he h,d fousd ~ exp~n-oc7 'sS.
b.. eaue if srszed upon Il, ru1en uP '"'
,s,ir sras. BY tbe roOts, aBi tes4s r'o" "o'o ~
,..,s line th,p IN. .t,lss believe % ue- o. ~!
o,ou. n, This f,rlorn river from IT, fofk' W
t.. m.u,O-I ,m sure ] "a" pone ~sse ""'e'"e
N. ,,u.r half off. curse Hal. seozee sp4eiasa'
If large, worthless -nros, kooEu a' Bih''' ousn
or Bulperry, with . prevalent irlogs u
WEJSs About the proper axe fJr sehos''
u.yu's u-e, comprise tue enhce inner oil
itis d,l.ciabie stream, whose CAD flies, nuststoas
eDsi. &c. are So eount-ss aud 20 oioodtarsii 81
~ allow ca,sle unhappy n to BE- 'tati'ned on OF
cryer aoug this river 70 ch,Doe TO eat or s'eee'
Many lsve died this season Of tie bad water,
that would bsse survived the water tut Tor taese
e1screble insects, BY ~lich the atmosphere, 81
times, 10 darker ned. 1t certaay is not pleasure
to ride pieht spd day along such sire'm, With
The hest intense The dust . constant cloud, and
tie reads al quilted and ground iato chuck NOES;
but III. D, VITO would stay 10 such reg On one mo-
mebt longer than be must
Thought bad seen bsIrebness beiore-on the
upper eour.e of the RepVblic,n-en the N'fs0
Platte. Green River, &c-but was green, IL Tue
si,ns vs,h.d by these streams we're not. Here
IN the Huuboldt. Famine tits ep,hroned, and
va7.s bi. Sc, pter over domoOn expressly made
Er bin. On the above named rivers, reg"'ed
Cotton wood with CO liempt; here . oei', even tue
,,,,ou.st t,it pe Of Cottonwood would make
eomo.r.,iye Ecep. The S.gebush and Grease
wo d which cover the high, P,rched PLAN on ei'hee
side of the rivers bottom seems TINY set, WIN
brood ,p,ces of n,keJ, SHINING, earius' oi'ndiog
cisy between then; the bills BE-! ood' WHICH oounu
the pros, ect. seem even more naked. NOT tree,
and h.roly shrub, anywhere relieves toe'r ssefii-
iiy: not brook, sase one smalt one, 'uns down
between them TO swell the sc.nty waters OF the
liver As the only considerable stre,m w the
Great BARN that pursues general east sDd vest
direction. the Huu,odt m,y continue for years to
be Travelled: but am no one ever lei1 II With
out sense of relief and tbsnsfuness There can
never be apy considerable settlement here.
After course, at fpt west by south, then north
BY wet. sit.rward southwest, and for the last 90
miles due south the river falls into Lake Humboldt
a fine sheet Of clean water, perhaps ID miles IN
lepsth and 40 ia circumference. tried to obtain
an approximation to its depth, bu. could not;
those who have s.,id beside it longest assuring me
that no boat bad ever foated upon It's wa.ers-s
statement which the restitution of wood 10 all this
region rebders credible. Ian satisfied, however,
that this Lake is being slowly filed up ffom the
gradual washing down and washing in OF the hills
which approach it on the east and south, and th''
time will make great changes in its eonhguraton
and the volume Of its waters.
"A strrsm, not 80 copious as Che river, runs
from the Lake on the south, and flows with gen.
,le current into large TILE or reed marsh,
which has no outlet and is said TO Do but mod
ers,ely salt The Lake water ID accounted sweeter
than tina. of the river. Here the Humboldt 10 said
TO sink, Ike tie CsIsoD, Truckee and Walker,
which issue from the Sierra Nevada and ruo east
vsrdIy toto the adjacent desert; but suspect they
are all drank UP BY evaporation aud by the thirsty
sslds which surround them. The Mississippi, If 1t
rau across the Gres, Basin and kept clear of noun
tans, would be threatened BY similar fate.
We reached the Sink at ID p. NJ. on Thursday
the 29th-scarceIy two days from GravellS Ford
here We struck the river, hsSlog in those two
dsys trayersed some 220 miles Of very bad aud in-
t.psey hot, dusty road. At {, We were ready to
pass "the Desert"-that is the desolate plain
which separates the Sink Of the Humboldt from
that of the Carson. Bat one Of our flesh mules
was siek aud could not be replaced, which made
our first drive tedious one, and We e0ntriyed, by
d,x'erous nisu ans cement, 10 get stuck IN bayou
or back set Of the humboldt Sinh, where We for
While seemed likely to spead the night Our lead
mules, having been mired and thrown down,
would not pull; the sick wheeler could not. At
length by putting one of the leaders
in his place, We made start, and
come through, fiodiDg the bottom firm AMI the
water not deep yard either way f'om the place of
our nisadventure. BY li;sle past midnight we
we're at the half way station, where we'll of decent
brackish water has been dug, and which drove OF
four or five hundred mules reached about the tune
We did. They stepped here 20 rest, however,
While We pushed on with a fresh team-for ten
miles of the way, over as heavy drsg OF ssnl as
ever endured, whereas mo-t Of this desert is
hord, alkaline clay. by 5 a. M, after riding FIVE
days and lights wghou. rest, We drew up at the
Station near the sink of tie Carson. &c.
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