Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-08-16

ven garden, has probably not tasted an an
PIE or peach these ten years. and lives in a
tent which would be dear at fifty dollars. I
instance this gentleman's way of life not by
any means to commend it, but to illustrate the
habits OF class. White men with two or
three squaws each are quite common through
out this region, and young and relatively
comedy Indian girls are bought from their f..
thers by white men as regularly and openlv
as Clrcassians at Constantinople The usual
range OF prices is from $40 to S80-about that
Oh 1huian horses. hear it stated that, though
all other trade may be dull, that in young
squaws is always brisk on Green River and
the North Platte. That women so purchased
should be discarded or traded off, as safety or
aVarlce may suggest, and that they should de-
sert or deceive their purchasers on the slight.
gSt temptation, can surprise no one. met an
1rlshman OF Big Sandy whose squaw had re-
cently gone Off with an Indian admirer, leav-
ing nm two clever, bright, half breed children
of seven and five years. / trust that plank in
the Republican National Platform which af
nrms the right and duty of Congressional
prohibition not only of slavery in the terrific
PIES, but that of polygamy also is destined to
De speedily embodied in a law
we passed yesterday the two places at
which body of Mormons late in 1857 sur
prised and burned the supply trains following
IN the rear of the federal troops sent against
them, The wagons were burned in corral
ana the place where each stood is still dis
unctly marked on the ground In view of
all the antecedent facts, it seems incredible
That the commanding officer who allowed his
supply trains to follow thus in his rear, utter
ly unguarded and unmatched, should not
nave been brought before court-martial
we have been passing for the last two DAYS
scores OF good log or ox-chains-in one in
stance hundred feet together-which, hav-
ing been thrown away by California emigrants
to tighten the loads of their furnished, failing
cattle, have been in the road for months, if
not years, passed and noted by thousands, but
by none thought worth picking up. One
would suppose that the traders, the herdsmen,
the Indians or some other of the residents of
TINS region, would deem these chains worth
having, but they do not l had already be.
come accustomed to the sight of wagon-tire,
wagon-bo1es, &C., rejected and spurned in
this way; but good, new chains thus begging
Tor owners have only noted this side of the
south Pass. They are said to be still more
abundant further on
This morning, l was agreeably SURPRISED by
greeting from three acquaintances | made |
IN Denver, who invited me to share their out
lit and journey to California, who left Denver
the morning before l did, and beside whom
e"Apeu my nrst night on the road to La |
marie. They are just through the Cherokee
arall entering the mountains at Cache-la-
Poudre and crossing Green River by ferry
some thirty miles below the point at which / |
dld. They were detained one day making a |
RAFT on which to ferry their wagon over the |
North Platte, and found some rough places in |
the mountains; at one of which they were
Obliged to unhitch their horses and let their
wagon down steep pitch by ropes They |
found the water of Bitter Creek-along which |
hes their road for a hundred miles or so-bit- |
ter indeed; and in some places grass was de-
hclent; but their horses look nearly as well as
when they left Denver. Their route has of
course been some $50 miles shorter than mine,
and they will reach Salt Lake scarcely a dav
behind me- wish had been able to accom-
pany them on their rugged and little-traveled
route.
On the other side of the P SIS, we had main
~ Clear hot days; on this side they are cloudy
and COOL We had little shower of rain
with abundance of wind night before last, an |
other shower last nirht and ,,,nr ~o;,, =
that rain in Summer is very rare throughout
this region.
We stop tonight at point only 100 miles
from Salt Lake, with two rugged mountains |
to cross, so that we are not to reach that |
stopping place till Monday. H.G.