New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-06-28

svr) which looks ike s'eelyar pose ard !. 80
.ir.t,-d As worth SJl0-I adhere 70 my lJ0gsst-
,ea conviction tia, mex. 10 outright and udi.pu-
tsbl. gambling the birde.t Obonsh sometimes The
qnske.t, way TO obtain gold sio mine Tor l;-tha.
a good saimer or me cbsbic vii usually make money
fa.ter by sticking TO his own business than b. de-
sertne il for eold-dcging-and ths' The man who,
hating failed IN some other pursuit, calculates on
retrieving bis fortunes By gold'mlnibg' mske'
m.tske which he vii be Lkely 10 rue 10 the end Of
bis days.
We bad famous gitberioga feF rolls from
this tent this evening. The estimate OF safe nen
mt the number present al | 500 20 1000. Though
NV name was made the excuse for II, brief and
forcible addresses were made by several others.
wherein Mining, Postal and Express facilities, the
Pacific R.iIroaJ, the proposed new Becky Mum
tam Stale, Temperance, Gambling, &c, &c, were
discussed with force and freedom. Such gather
ing, Of men suddenly drawn hitber from every
section and nearly every State, IN gen where
the first axe was raised, the first ten. pitched by
| white men, lees than Fix weeks ago, should have
Inspired The dullest speaker with earnestness il ut
with eloQUeIce.
| Mining quckens almost every department q use
full industry. Two coal pits are burning close at
hand. 4 blacksmith has set up his forge here, and
is aki0g good thing of sharpening picks at 80
| celts each A volunteer post office Is just estab
lished to which an Express Office will soon attach
| itself Provision Store will soon follow; then
Groceries; then Dry Goods; then a Hotel, &c,
until, within ten years, the tourist of the Con
tipent viii be whired up to these tl5gOgs oser
| longer but far easier road winding around the
nlountain-tops rather than passing over them, and
will sip his chocolate and read his New-iork
| paper--not yet five days old-at the Gregory
House, in utter unconscousness that this region
was wrested from the Elk and the Mountain Sheep
so recently as 1859.
DENVER, June 10, 1853.
We left the digeings yesterday morning. and
came down to the foot of the mountain in spite Of
a drizzling rain from noon TO > or clock, which
at one time threatened heavy shower. We made
a poor shelter Of builalOskin and a rubber blan-
ket, stretched across a fallen tree, aud there waited
half an hour but finding the rain neither stopped
nor grew violent, We saddled up and came ON.
| Two accidents which might have proved serlpls
happened to members If our psrty-the first 10
Mr. Willard Of Cincinnati, who riding az some dis
lance from all Others, was thrown by his mules
saddle slipping forward and turning under him, so
that he f, heavily on his left aru, which was
badly bruised, and thence dragged rod with bis
heel fast in the stlrrup His mule then stopped;
but when rode up behind bin, dared not ap-
proach bin lest should start her, and waited .
moment for the friend who, having heard his call
for help, was coming up in front. Mr.. V. was re-
leated without further injury, but his arm is tenn
porary useless The other casualty happened to
M KeTsdaw of NeW-loTh, who riding t. my as
sistaDce at Clear Creek Crossing at nightfall was
thrown by bis mules starting at the rush of saw
age dog, aud considerably injured, though he is
nearly we'll today. 1t would have been to me
source of lasting sorrow had his fall resulted in
more serious damage.
When we reached Clear Creek ~ our way
up three mornings since, though the current rush
ing from the mountains looked somewhat fJrmida
be- | charged il Ike a ZOuave, and was greeted
with three ringing shouts iIoI the assembled Pixies
PeakeIs, as l cane up, gay and dripping, on the
north shore. But now, though the water was
but le~ inches higher, the starch was SO com
pletely taken out Of me By those three days rough
experience in the mountains, that / had neither
strength nor heart for the passage. felt that the
least stumble Of my mule over the round, slippery
stones that fill the channel would fling me, and that
was unable TO stand moment in that rushing tor.
rent So, driving in my mule after the rest OF the
party, and seeing her reach the south bank safely
though with great misunderstanding girth aud
spng saddle, blanket, &c, into the water be-
took ny self 10 spot Ia { mile up stream, where
the creek s split by iscts Into three channels, aud
where rude fjotbrljge of logs affords dFy-shod
passage Here was met BY my friend with his
mule and in few minutes rode TO our wagon, be-
side which we tuuLd supper in an emigrant tent
and lodging in seversl and at o'clock this morn
ing harnessed up and drove into DenSer-jus' three
whole men out of party of six, and all as weary
and care.worn as need be, but all heartily gratlhed
with our experience of three days in the Rocky
Mountains. t.