The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1859-09-01
x The ace of hearts is the winning

XXI The ace of hearts is the winning
card. Whoever turns the ace Of hearts
wins the S20," &C., &C., persisted in at
all hours up to midnight, became at length
a nuisance, from which craved deliver
ance at any price. Then the visitors OF
that drinking and gambling room had
careless way, when drunk, of firing reyol-
vers, sometimes at each other, at other
times quite miscellaneously, which struck
me as iucopvenent for quiet guest with
only a leg aud half, hence in poor con-
ditiou for dodging bullets. So left.
"Hox DO you live in DenverW | in
ouired OF a New-York friend some weeks
domiciIed here, in whose company | vis.
tied the Mines. 90, I've jumped cab
in," was his cool, N after rof-course reply.
As jun ping cabin was rather beyond
my experience, | inquired further. and
learned that, finding a cabin deserted. and
tenantless that suited him, he had quietly
entered and spread his blankets, eating
at home or abroad as opportunity might
suggest. | found, on further inquiry that
at least one.tbird of the Inhabitants In
Denver and Auraria were desolate when
we came here, (they have been gradually
filing up since); some of the owners hav-
ing gone into the Mountains, digging or
prospecting, and taken their united sup
ply of household goods along with them;
while others, discouraged by the poor
show of mining six weeks ago, when even
the nearer mountains were still covered
with snow and ice, rushed pellmell down
the Platte with wild refux of the Spring
emigration, abandoning all but what they
could carry away. 1t is said that lots
and cabins together sold for $3.50 long
as there we're purchasers; but, these soon
failing. they were left behind like camp
fres in the morning, and have since been
at the service of all comers.
Soiu company with a journalizing friend
I, too, have Jumped cabin" and have
kept to it quite closely, under doctors
care, for the last ten days. 1t is about
ten feet square and eight feet high. rath-
er too we'll chinked for Summer. consid-
ering that it lacks window, but must be
a capital house for this country in Win
ter. l board With the nearest neighbor,
and it is not my landlady's fault that the
edible resources of Denver are decidedly
limited. But even these are improving:
To the Bread, Bacon and Beans, which
formed the staple of every meal short
time ago, there have been several recent
additions: Milk, which was last week
twenty five cents per quart, is now down
to ten, and hear a rumor that eggs, ow-
ing to recent increase in the Uumber OF
hens within FIVE hundred miles from four
or five to twelve or fifteen, are about to
fall from a dollar dozen to fifty cents.
On every side, l note signs of Progress
Improvenent--MaDifest Destiny-there
was man about the city yesterday with
Luttuce to sell-and | am credibly as.
sured that there will be Green Peas next
month actually Peas--provided it should
rain soakiugIy meantime whereof hazy
lowering sky would seem just now to af-
ford some hope. P S. The hope has
vauished) But already sadly behind
and nearly able to travel again-must
turn my back on this promise of Injuries,
and take the road to Laramie to-day, or
at furthest tomorrow.
HORACE GREELEY.