The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1859-11-19


"a flow of spirits, and swell hic-make-
hic-'er, night of it. Hi, boys-ho, boy.
hic."
Birth marriage, and death, all come an
90 with drink.
Surely, surely-are We not a nation 0
drinkers3 We guzzle and swiil, and absor
and soak; We brandy it, gin 1t, wine i,
punch it, smash it, whisky skin it, and run
it, and rarely water it. The American
drinker is copper. fastened, bol,ed with wa
ter-tighs compartments. The drinks b
swallows in year would kill, burn up,
score of Englishmen. Verify, we say unit,
you, oh disciples Of freedom and apostles
of the star.spangled eagle-you are . natiol
of drinkers. You punctuats your speeches
oh orator of the people, comma cocktail
a seni-coIon brandy, colon whisky, and
period Of "high old time."-Sunday Atlas
SIMPSONS OVERLAND ROUTE.
We clip the following from an extended
notice of the above route in the Buffalo
Commercial Adrertiser of the 2sth uls.
! On the 10Th August of last year, imme.
diately on his arrival at Camp Floyd, Capt
Simpson reported himself for duty to Gem
johnson, commanding the Department Of
Utah. On the 25th he reported himsel,
ready to make an exploration for a new
wagon route from Camp Floyd to For
Brldger, great desideratum, both on tht
score Of avoiding, if possible, Echo Canon
and Salt Lake City, and getting better
route in respect to grade, wood and grass
IL was generally believed that no such route
could be found, but Gen'l johnson coniac
tured differently, and on the same day were
issued the necessary orders. On the 25tt
Of August the party under Capt. S. started
days, new route was found and opened
and Immediately the. General Governmen,
and contractors trains availed themselves
of it, and were thus enabled to reach Camp
Floyd before winter, without the loss OF
stock which must have taken place on the
other route on account of snow, insuficien,
grass and waller, and high grades.
Six days after Capt. S. returned from the
performance of this duty. he left Camp
Floyd, October l9th, in obedience to orders
from Gen'l johnson, to make some explora-
tions west, on the Great Salt Lake Desert,
preparatory to more extended explorations,
the ensuing year; the object beng, if pos
sible, to find a route intermediate between
the branches already referred to-, of the
great California rout-, from Salt Lake VAL
ley, and which, besides shortening the dis
tance to San Francisco, might furnish more
wood, water and grass than are to be found
on that route. Capt. s. pursued his e1plo-
rations for distance of 81 miles, when,
October 2Sth, while on the Great Desert, Il
Try o{o fro fha
north setting in clear across the desert, he
deemed it prudent, for the safety of both
men and animals, to return to Camp Floyd,
and defer any further exploration till the
next year. The fruits of this exploration
were the evolution of short cut, by which
the Humboldt route was shortened about 100
miles, and which Chorpenning & Co., the
California mail contractors, Immediately
availed themselves Of, and after being driv-
en- by deep SHOWS from the Goose Greek
mountains on the old route, last fall were
enabled tn carr the mail through during
the winter to Carson Valley without inter-
ruption.
On the Cd of May of the present year,
Capt. Simpson resumed his explorations
west from Camp Floyd to California, and
by the 5th of August, in about three months,
he had explored and OF rened two new wagon
routes to California, either of which is quite
$50 miles shorter to San Francisco than by
the northern or old Humboldt river road,
and $50 miles shorter than that by Film ore
City and Los Angeles, or the southern
branch route. And not only so, but in re-
spect to the great essentials, wood, water
and grass, this return route to Camp Floyd
is incomparably better than either Of the
other routes, and in grade equally good, if
not better. Already before Capt. S. left
in August last. the emigrants were taking
his route, and Jussell & Co. were driving
their stock over it to California market.
1t is this route which Mr.. Greeley, in one of
his letters from California, says must be-
come the great route for carrying with dis
patch the great overland mail; and it is
doubtless the same which the telegraph re-
ports as having been already stocked by the
mail company, and over which they will
henceforth carry the mail. The time gained
by the mail over this route will be from two
to four days, and by enigran's it will be if
teen.
1t is gratifying, also, to learn from Capt.
s. that the Overland Telegraph Company,
Of which Col. Fred Follett, Of Placerville,
Cal, is president, have adopted his route as
the one along which they intend mediate
ly to extend to Great Salt Lake Valley the
wires which are already in operation $50
miles east of San Francisco as far as Genoa,
in Carson Valley. at the east foot OF the
Sierra Nevada. The mountains are cover
ed with branchiform cedar, the limits of
which will furnish telegraph poles of from
oIr fn faa nd in or Can
pines and fir Of any desirable length. The
maximum length of haul will not be over
ten miles, except over the Carson Lake des-
ert, where it may be as much as twenty and
even here, the probabilities are that furthe,
explorations will reduce it to a. little as
ten.
1t will scarcely be believed, but it is fac.
that the distance from St. Louis to Sar
Francisco by the way of the South Pass ant
Capt. Simpsons new route from CamI
Floyd is 450 miles shorter than by the way
of Fort Smith and Ell Paso, the route ovel
which Butterfield & Co. carry the mail. Tn,
former is 1926 miles, and the latter 2,76;
miles. according to the best of data--tha
furnished by General Government officials
What is there then to prevent the mails be
ing carried over the great Central or Soutl
Pass route fire days gnicker than on tn
Southern or Fort Smith and Ell Paso route
Capt. S. reports that SO far from fndinI
the whole intervening region between Grea
Salt Lake Nalley and the Sierra Nevada, al
unmitiga.ed desert, he found it intersecte,
by mountain ranges, running general.
north and south. covered in many instance
pine, fir, and with what the Mormons cal
the Mountain mahogany and lying betweel
these mountain ranges, valleys of good soil
covered in many instances with luxurian
grass, and in some places with clover. Botl
the mountains and valleys furnish, for tha
intermountain country, very good suppl
of water and grass, and excellent spring
are not infrequent.
| "BEESWAX."
A newspaper correspondent residing in
part of this State, recently perpetrated
'smost interesting epistle" in the followin
style:
DR.. to Rev. Mr.. To good prayin
and preaching to date, $5; to one sermo