The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-07-10

York. He locked pale and nagR~o, ana showed osner
uomsakabe evidences Of the agooy Of feeling he has
evidently experienced since the unhappy exposure and
eeLth OF HIS wife.
Our Kansas Cor, espondence.
LEAvESwoRru, June 20, 1859.
Revival Of the Pikcs Peak Erci.emnt-Au0ed immense
Geld Discoueries-Boo the NeWs is R.ceiued-Fdcts
Stated-Erciement Ten Times Greater TAan BEFORE
Statement If the Express Rider, Lane-Ne,us from Fort
Leaun,oorth- Movements If Toops-Ths Utah Sspplies-
Malicious Charges Agoinst AerorJos Officer, &c., dc.
This city Aad regions hereabout again all excite
ment in regard 10 the discovsres Of gold in Western
Kansas. Formerly the excitement mostly Terrific
,ial-now it Is active, powerful and pervading among
own people, many Of whom making preparations to
ntsr! for the mines Your readers have the letters
and reports brought In by the last arrivals This n!or
nation, it win be Observed very different from former
intelligence in this respect gives the Of the
who Mined the time and place they mined, and tho
amounts made per day. Though the facts stated
extraordinary than anything that heard from
California-ciaims selling for $40 600, ana making
hundreds Of dollars day they generally be-
leved here. The men who have written this news
from the mines are well known here, and many Of
my friends here who know them testify 10 that
they persons Of atern integrity character and rsa
bnty The friends and acqusintances Of these letter
writer's con6de absolutely in their statements ! state
these things to show what credence IL given to the late
here among citizens, who wore themselves
during all the late excitement merely nndes sboors
OF ~hat they deemed groundless reports hopers that
things were a. reported.
The hundreds Of miles Of country covered with ns gold
waahngs show that the Of this gold bs richer
than the remote borders or outakirts Of H.,
whittier it has been borne only by the action Of
water. Up 70 the latest arrivals all must admit
that the source Of these widely diused particles Of
gold had no. been found These arrivals brinG claim
bripg intelligence from the sources, the original de-
pcss Of gold in the moantains Your readers have had
letters, and digest them for themselves; DO will
merely a,ate gathered from the express
rider, r. Lane, who came through in seven days.
Mr. Lane was until recently empoye at Fort Leaveu
worth Of Of the most eOAens and reliable officers
the army That officer had occasion and know the
character Of n. R. Lane-i was found to be beyond re
proach Upon The recommendation Of said officer,
Lane got bis position In Jones l. Russens express The
officer alluded TO has expressed his entire conf
dtnce in the rutbuloess Of Lane and Lane has to
him privately repeatedly when there could be earthly
object for Misrepresentation the statement
that here give.
The rich gold liz found in assures in the mountains
which assures the miners term leads The found by
gregory was traced across the mountains for long dis
ance This lead 10 not water course, bat have
been formed by the burning or breaking up Of the
rock. Its width would average fifteen iucnes, but
!, (the wdth) s very irregular, IL some places
O
between the rocks in other places wide enough for
rsl work together The gold is found mixed
~h the broken rock in these leads. There s shot gold
gold bearing quartz rock The deeper into these
leads the miners get the richer the gold found be-
but they have rot been able 60 very yet
ig stopped by the irux Of wates The mountain
cosswise the Leads and not parallel to them. The
Of gold taken from these leade he states
his knos ledge extends very similar to that stated
the letters which you have The soEd rock on
either side Of these leads the miners think contains god
in as large proportion as the leads only thew
hhV A than
things appearing satisfactory to our people, their excita
op In regard to the mines is hundred fold great
has been hitherto. Another Of Jones and Rus
cells expresses is expected in few days will write
you upon its arrival II it corroborates the late
mere will be stampede OF our people westward jones
Ush route and Utah mail aivergipg the east Of the
mountains, and runniEg hundred and fifty miles south
In connection with the mines few words as TO politics
will not be inappropriate. is understood a1d concluded
upon by the republican party here that Seward
will be their party nominee for 1860 II Q good
Seward mat is dominated here for the House, there
are COO in the East waiting for him He to take this
country for himser Seward. O,her men will take
OF Eastern Ksnsss could hands 10 which
the vote Of that region Of Kansas will be most important
TO her politicians The who goes out there is pledge
his efforts TO get the western hall Of The Territory admitted
independent State He ia especially 10 hold forth
the IDEA OF separase independent government for the
mining country The policy Of this is TO have two repub
hcan States mere in 1860 II the laeet news from the
mines turns out the project msy perhaps be realized
The democracy spent, at the recent election here for
in % IL
me Territory II s reported to have cone from the
On tire 18th inst AGO recruits left the fort for Utah under
Colonel Chapman OF the Fifth infantry. Fifty recruits
under Colonel May leave, benevc, TO day for Fort
Kesrpy.
In about three 60 will leave the fort for
New Mexico, under command Of Col Andrew Porter.
All the Sup plies for the Utah have been ahpped
The first rains started out about the first Of May aud the
ABOUT ago About $500 900 lbs Of supplies
have been shipped this year TO Utah.
Col j Dimck, Second Artillery, commands this post.
There are four companies stationed heretwo OK light and
two Of foot artillery.
IL connection with other military matters will state
few thugs In regard to We complaints which you say
Since against that tried, able and hODosed off,
car Captain Van yeet In the spring Of 1858 he bought
some Goo mues for government He made il inva
rape rule not to take any but good and servoe.oe All
mails the result Of which 10 tba. every adres and
speaks well OF government mulee Again, the captain
gave more to one man for mules than he did TO
another his course was invarabe he paid the market
price and This disss,isned Of the venders
they they ought to make money OF the
government than out Of ordinary vendee But the
captain stuck strictly aud honeraby to his price and the
interests Of the government they gave him up Ia despair
and then Immediately sought to con- pass his removal
hoping to get man whom they could use ss tool Taey
Hrst TO Washington and procured the appointment
of Board Of Officers to have tee price OF their mules in
creased the Board refused to do So and since then the
dissatisfied mule vendors been moving heaven and
earth agarf. Captain Van veet. 0ae of them has pre-
ferred charges against b only OF which Is worthy
of notice. That liz, that the captain received large
sums Of money from certain parties for taking their
mules. As soon as these pen saw this charge
they instantly went before a competent OIL
GER made affidavit that they had paid Cap.sn Van
veet Of money taking their mules for any
other purpose and that be bad not directly or indirectly
received advantage from their selling the govern
ment mules. These aidavis Immediately for yard
ed TO Capt Van Vleet. have seen the aod til sreore
know that they are So The captain has asked for
TO examine these charges against him. but the Sc
creary of War Ia possessed Of these adavts s prob
BILE the will be refused and the onsrgcs dismissed rs
the work Of malice.
Obituary.
Gen GERARD GossEIIN died Saturday, June H. at his
Feat in Kent, the advanced age OF ninety years He
entered the army far back as November 11So General
Gossein commanded brigade tho expedition against
Genoa under Lord W. Benlinck and It's capture WAS