Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-06-13

buU tuht uNA NAiN NNANlN VI e AAiiN
region Of country, Mr. G. "talked Republican
ism for an houf OF soin the Church." and af.
ter spending Tho night with German landlord
who had tried Oaliiorna then Texas, and now
is trying Kansas, WHICH seems to agree with
him, our editor-trsye ellet pushed on towards the
region Of sundown. He writes
We started again at 8 this morning, making
a little north OF west, and keeping the narrow
belts OF timber along the Republican and the
Smoky Hill respectively in full view for several
miles, until the 1t cams dverged so far that we
lost them in the boundless sea Of grass A
mile or two of progress carried us beyond any
road hut that traced only this spring for the
Pke's Peak expresses for ten miles onward,
no house, no field, no sign of human agency,
this road and "A few States surveyors stakes
excepted, was visible at length we came 90
whore a wre ched cabin and an acre or so Of
broken and fenced prairie showed what pio-
neer had been doing in the last two OF three
years and beside IT was taveTn--the last, |
presume, this side OF Pixies Peak 1t consisted
OF a crotched stake which, with the squatter 8
fence aforesaid, supper ed a ridge pole, acruss
which some old sail 9th was drawn, hanging
down on either side and forming cabin some
six by eight feet, aud perhaps from three to
five and half feet high-large enough to con-
tain two whisky barrels, two decanters, two
glasses, three or four cans OF picked oysters
ana two or three boxes Of sardines, but nothing
ol the bread kind whatever. The hotel keeper
probably understood his business better than
we dad, and had declined to dssipate his evi-
IDENTIFY moderate capital by investing any part
of it IN articles not of prime necessity, Our
wants being peculiar, we could not trade with
him, but, after interchange Of cOurtesies,
passed on.
Two miles further, we crossed, by bad and
difficult ford, Chapman Creek" running
south to the Smoky Hill, bordered bv a thin
streak Of timber, and mcanderug through
liberal valley Of gunously rich prairie Here
we passed the last settler on our road 10 Pike's
Peak. lie has been here two or three years;
has seventy five acres fenced and broken, grew
1900 bushels OF corn last year, has a tine stock
OI horses and cattle about him, with at least
lght tow headed children under ten years old
Hls house, judged specifically, would be dear
at fifty dollars, but L think he neither needs nor
wishes 10 be lifted.
Our road bore hence north of west, up the
lett bank Of Chapmau's Creek, on which. %
miles from Junction, we halted at "Statiun 8,
at II AM, to change mules am dlne. This
station should be five miles further on and
three or four miles further south, but cannot De
Tor want OF wood and water) There is Of
course no house here but two small tents and
a brush arbOr furnish accommodation for six TO
fifteen persons, the case may be A score OF
mules are plcketed about on the rich grass;
there Is a raIl pen for the two cows; of our
llndlady's two sun, rOwned children children
OF ten and six respectively one was born in
Missouri, the ether at LARAMIE l was told
that their father was killed by Indians, and
that Ia gfatipu-kaupap 81 uy4e l.tre l,,,
band. She gave us an excellent dinner of ba-
con and greens, good bread, apple sauce and
pie, and would have given US butter had we
passed few days later; but her cows have been
over driven, and need a few days quiet and
generous feeding. She apo o Oaized for making
eat in her narrow tent rather than under her
brush arbur, saying that the last time she set
the table there, the high prairie wind made a
clean sweep of tabecloth and all upon il,
breaking several of her not abundant dishes
l have rarely made a better dinner though the
violent rain of the second previous night came
nigh drowning out the whole concern.
We were in the wagon again few minutes
before noon (the hours kept on the Plains are
good,) for we had 35 miles yet to make to day
0hich with a mule team requires long alter.
noon.
Our hostess for the night has two small
tents as at No g. and gave us a capital supper,
butter included, but she and her two children
alike testify that in one of the drenching thun-
derstOrms so frequent of late, thew might
nearly as well be out on The prairie, and
that sleeping under such a visitation is an ort
only to be acquired by degrees Iuey have a
log cabin going up, | am happy to say. Their
tents were first located on the narrow bottom
OF the creek, but a rapidly rising flood compell-
ed them, few nights since, to scramble out
and tI,gY, l. Ill, 4. ID
would have been pItitul to be turned out 50, on
ly the shelter they we've enjoying was good for
nothing.
believe l have now descended the ladder of
artificial life nearly to its lowest round. If the
heyennes--thirtY Of whom stopped the last
Express down on the route we must traverse,
aud tried to beg or steal from it-should sec fit
to capture aud strip us, we should of course
have further experience in the same line; but
Tor the present the progress / have made du-
ing the last fortnight toward the primitive sim
plleity Of human existence may be roughly no,
ted thus:
May l2th-Chcago Chocolate and morning
newspapers last seen an the breakfast table
23-LeavenwoHl Room bells and baths
make Their last appearance.
-Toprka-Beeistefk and washbowls 10th.
er han tir) last visible. Barber ditto
26th-Mauhattan-Pota and eggs last
recognized among the blessings that "brighten
~ they tlke their Hight" Chairs ditto
2Hh-Junction City-Last visitation Of boot.
black, with dissolving views of II board bedroom.
Chairs bid us good by
2Sth-Pipe Creek-Benches for seats at
meals have disappeared, giving place to bags and
boxes We (two passengers Of scrbbing
iurn) write our letters in the express wagon
that has borne us by doy and must supply us
lodgings for the night. Thunder and lightning
from both south and west give strong promise Of
"A shower before morning Dubious looks at
several holes in the convass covering of the wa
gon Our trust is in buoyant hearts and an
India rubber blanket. Good night! no