The daily press. (Cincinnati [Ohio) 1859-1859, 1859-06-01
W. From the New York Times.
The Kansas Gold Humbug--The Suffer-
Ing and Starvation on the Plains.


Ing and Starvation ON the Plains.
We have already published brief telegram
relative to the suffering and starvation Of the
Pixies Peak emigrants on the Plains. The
following correspondence Of the st. Louis Dem
ocrat gives fuller particulars:
DENVER Cry, Monday, May Q, 1859.
Saturday evening last, 9TH inst, the drst and
ng-looked-for mail and passeng ger stage Of
the Leayenworth and Pixies Peak Stage Com
pany arrived here. It was out twenty days
from Leavenworth, but now that the way-sta-
tons are formed, and bridges made, IL is
thought fourteen or fifteen days will suffice 10
make the trip. The new route thus laid out,
via Republican Fork of Kansas River, seems
to be good one, according to tho report of the
Stage Company, though about the came length
as the old Fort Kearney and Arkansas routes,
billy and sandy on this end, and destitute of
timber for fuel for an equal distance with the
others, or some 100 or 100 miles.
We have had sickening rumors for week
past Of horrible suffering from freezing, star
walton and robbery of emigrants by way of
the Smoky Hill route.
Several intelligent gentlemen who have arrived
by that route, told me they themselves were so
long on the way-over sand and hills, and
without road at all, that they were reduced
almost to starvation--lived ten or fourteen days
upon prickly pears and such wild onions and
edibles as they could pick up, and also that
they helped bury several persons who died from
staryatiOn. The agent Of the stage company
brought us in word that he picked up a starving
man some fifty miles from here, Tor an Arrapa-
hoe Indian brought him to the stage line J who
had come across from the Smoky Hill route,
(which his company had started ON and tried
to follow y that when found he was in a most
wretched condition. His name is Blue, and
he is from Whiteside County, Illinois. There
were three brothers of them-6rst, one died
and the two remaining ate from his body, after
they had been rendered senseless by emncia- :
tion. The second brother died and was nearly
eaten up by the survivor. The stage agent
went out and buried the remains of the second
or youngest Of the brothers, but could not find
the remains Of the first who died.
man named Gibbs was the leader of the
starved company. Gibbs got in, nearly starved,
and supposes the rest, some nine in all, per-
ished. The survivor was left at one of the
mail stations, and the report is confirmed by
the stage passengers. Others report large
number of graves on the route, and that many
oxen have perished and much property been
destroyed and abandoned on the way. saw
| one party which lost seven out of train of
sixteen oxen. ........ ...
By receipt of papers from the States per-
ceive that the tide of emigration hitherward is
very great. The number of arrivals here to-
day and for the past few days shows IN in
crease; but the tide seems to me equally strong
in the homeward- bound direction. Most, or
very many of those now returning go by skiffs,
dug outs, etc., upon the Platte, the water OF
this river being now in q good navigable state,
do,on stream, for such craft, ... -.
| About fifty boats of one kind and another
sailed in the past week, with an average Of
four or five persons in each. 1t is estimated
that $500 persons have left here for home in
the last twenty days. This is in addition to
those who turned back before reaching here,
induced by the intelligence received from others
on their return. Probably as many more
reached here in that time; but think there
are no more peoplein the whole mining country
to-day than there were on my arrival here a
month ago. The towns (or villages which
| they all are, and small ones too,) seem quito
| deserted by whites, and as many Indians as
| palc faces are now in and about this village.
Yesterday dozen or more Indian braves, of
the Arrapahoe tribe, rode in, accompanied by
| their head chief, Raven, and two of his
brothers. They collected at the Office Of
Judge Smith, to hold a talk with tho whites,
relative to an arrangement with the Govern
ment for sale of their territory, and some
| aid to their nation to become an agricultural
and civilized one. They are already about
as civil as the whites here, and far more tempe
rate; indeed, I've not seen an intoxicated
Indian in the mining region. The interpreter,
one Antoine du Bray, was drunk at the meet
| ing, and falling off his seat as he sat down BY
the intelligent looking and dignifed Quaker
like chief, Raven, rendered any attempt at a
pow-wow a farce; and it was Immediately ad-
iourned for day until the interpreter should
become sober. I may yet be enabled to give
| you an account of the talk. ' ...'ia'7a
AS for the gold news, or reports from the
mines, nothing reliable is heard; but many
rumors of paying diggings are afoat, which
are not credited by
Yours truly, D.