Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-05-28

are 1ioting as ever, many OF the returned
miners pronouncinp the whole thing a humbug
Of the first water, and others all their "iancy
painted IT," Two newspapers, the Cherry Creek
Pioneer and the Rocky Mountain News, have
been established, and both speak in hattering
terms Of the gold prospects. The News states
that large fo-css are at work on the Cherry
Geek ditch and the Platte ditch, which, when
completed, will give facilities for washing to
hundreds of miners; and the Georgia company
have completed a small ditch across a bend Of
the Plate river, aud with a "tomi' got about
an ounce of gold in one day.
The News reports too much snow and ice
yet in the mountains to operate to any advan-
tage, aud that the accounts from prospecting
parties are very conflicting.
The Express Stages sent out from Leaven.
worth by Jones aud Russell made the trip back
from Denver City in ten da-t, leaving May
10th, aud arriving on the 2Oth without the
slightest accident. The Leavenworth Times
says.
The news is Of the most cheering character,
the mines are turning out better than was
dreamed of, and it is estimated that nearly
$4,000 in dust was brought in consigned to
various parties.
A panic seems TO have seized many of the
emigrants newly arrived at the mines and those
en- route. A letter from Denver City, May
10th, to the st Louis Democrat, states that the
number of arrivals is still large, but the tide
seems to be equally strong in the homeward
bound direction. Many of the returning 60 by
skiffs, dug-outs, &C., down the Platte. Some
fifty boats carrying four or five persons each,
mad left during the week The writer says;
Il is estim ted that $500 PersOns have left
here for home in the last twenty days. This
is in addition to those who turned back before
reaching here, induced by the intelligence re.
ceived from others on their return. Probably
as many more reached here in that time; but
think there are no more people in the whole
mining country tO day than there we're ON my
arrival here a month ago The towns (Or VII
lages which they all are, and small ones tnO,)
seem quite deserted by whites, and many In
dians as pale faces are nov in and about this
village.
A 81. Joseph letter of the 2lst to the Demo
crat gives tue following account of the returned
miners aud mining reports
The steamer llesperian came down to-day
from Omaha with FIVE hundred returning gold
seekers, and they represent the same depOrable
condition of the emigrsnts that wrote you of
last week. ghcre is considerable uneasiness in
those border towns lest these destitute and des.
perute men commit violence.
Arrivals here to-day from the mines confirm
former favorable reports. Statements from par
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gion are quite fatteriGg, while those who have
,ny been to Kearney, got discouraged and re-
turn, until now che returning ide seems great
as was the outgoing thrOng six weeks ago.
The misery, starvation, suffering, and death
among emigrants on the Smoky Hill route are
almost incredible The Denver City letter 10
the Democrat records as follows
We have had sickening rumOrs for a week
past OF horrible suffering from freezing, starva
ron and robbery of emgraTts by way Of the
Smoky Hill route Several intelligent gentle
men whs have arrived by that route, told me
they themselves were so long on the waY-Over
sand aud hills and without road at all, that
they were reduced almost to starvation-lved
ten to fourteen days upon prickly pears and
such few wild onions and other edbles as they
could PICK up, and also that they he ped bury
several PERSONS VINO uleu nom hldENoblOUs nb
agent of the stage company brought US in word
that he picked up a starving man some fifty
miles from here ,(Oran ARA ,ahoe Indian brought
him into the stage line,) VIII had come across
from the Smoky Hill route (Which his cOmpa-
ny had start on, and tried TO follow; that
ruhan fnnnd he soc - rnnst Wrat"hSd oOEI-
dition, and reduced to a mere skeleton from
starvation. His name is Blue, and he is from
Whteside county, Illinois There were three
brothers of them-drst, one died, and the two
remaining ate from his body after they had
been rendered senseless from emaciatiOn The
second brother died and was nearly eaten up by
the survivor. The stage agent went out and
burie the remains of the second or youngest
Of the brothers, but could not find the remains
of the first who died A man named Gibbs
was the leader of the starved company. Gibbs
got in, nearly starved, and suppOses the rest,
some nine in all, persisted The survivor was
left at one of the mail stations, aud the report
is confirmed by the stage passengers. Others
report large numbers Of graves on the route,
and that many oxen have perished and much
property been destroyed aud abandoned on
the way, l saw one party which lost seven
out of train Of sixteen oxen.
A letter from one of the stage company TO
the Leavenworth Times represents the man
rescued by them as but shadow. They found
the remains OF the last brother he had eaten,
and buried them. The bones were gnawed
perfectly clean, and the brains we're taken from
the skull. The letter, dated Denver City,
May sth, says;
| have seen man named Thompson, who
came the same route and who lived twelve
days upon priokly pears and wild onions. He
too, Is mere walking skeleton. There are
others here, too, who for three weeks, had
nothing to sustain them but one hawk and the
remnants of dead OK, whose bones the wolves
had almost entirely cleaned
lady and gentleman from Leavenwor rh
City Informed us that on the road--the same
roai-in one camp there were lying dead,
wrapped in their blankets, five human beings
THIS is indeed horrible, but not in the slightest
exaggerated.
There are many other instances equally as
heart rending. Those who took the Platte
have been more fortunate, generally getting in
looking we'll, excepting the wear and tear of
the Trip, which was, in most cases, very long,
Murder near New COmerstOwn
We learn by the Tuscarawas Advocate that
some eighteen months since a school teacher,