New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-08-13
winds With rapid, muddy cur-eat 'hr ,1sh desp,
narrow valley, much Of it ssndy and barren, but soe

tspce and two or three trading post, somew nat
ftequented by Indi,ns Of The Sake tribe Egnteen
miles more Of perfect de-olston brought u. Ia the
next Mail Company station on Backs Fork. a.
the Junction Of .a,s Fork two larg, mil streams
that rise in the mountains souih aud vest Of this
point, and run together into Green River. They
have scarcely ,Dy timber on their banks, bnt suf-
fcieDcy Of busbes-B'iter Cottonwood, Willow,
Choke Cherry, and some others Dew 20 me-Sith
more grass than have found this SIDE Of the
South Pass. On these streams i've several old
mOuIiaineers, who have large herds Of cattle which
they are rapidly increasing by lucrative trAhc
with The emigran,s, who are compelled 70 exchange
their tired gaunt oxen and steers for fresh ones on
almOst any terms. K. D., whose teot We passed
lost evening, is said to have SIX or eigh. hundred
head, and, knowing the country perfectly,
finds no dificu ty in keeping them through
Summer and Winter by frequently shifting
them from place TO place over cucnit
of thirty or forty miles. j. R., who has been here
some twenty -odd Yeas, began with little or nDth-
ing and has quietly accumulated some fhy horses.
three or four hundred head Of neat cattle, three
squsws, and any number Of half breed children.
He is said to be worth seventy FIVE Thousand dol
lars, though be has not even garden, has prooa'
bly, not tasted apple or peach these ten years,
and lives in tent which would be dear at fifty dol
lars. instance this gentleman's way Of / fe not
by any means to commend it, but TO illustrate the
habits Of clsss. White men with two or three
squsws each are quite common throughout this
ree,oD, and young and relatively comey Indian
girls ore bought from their fathers by white as
regularly ana openly as Clrcasslans at CONSTANT
nople. The usual range of prices is from $40 to,
SeO-abOut that of Indian horses. l hear it stated
that, though all other trade may be dull that 10
young squaws is always brisk on Green River and
the North Platte. That women 20 purchased
should be discarded or traded off, safety
rice nay suggest, and that they should desert or
deceive their purchasers on the slightest tempta-
ton, can surprise no one. met an Irish nan on
Big Sandy VIII, sc squaw had recently gone of with
an Indian admirer leaving him two clever, bright,
halfbTeed children Of seven and five years. TRUST
that plank in the Republican National Platform
which sffrms the right and duty of Congressional
Prohibition not only of Slavery in the Territories
but of POlyeamy also is destined to be speedily EN-
bodied 10 a law.
We passed yesterday the two places at which
body of MormoDs la.e in 1857 surprised and
burned the supply trains following 10 the rear Of the
federal troops sent against them. The wagons
were burned in corral, and the place where each
stood is still distinctly marked on the ground. 10
view of all the antecedent facts, it seems Incredible
that tie commanding officer no allowed his sup
ply trains to follow thus in his rear, utterly un-
guarded and unmatched, should not have been
brought before cOurtmartial
We have been passing for the last two
days scores Of good log or oX-chaiDs-
in one instance hundred feet together
which, having been thrown away by California
emgraDts TO tighten tbe loads of their furnished,
failipa cattle have be- in tho road Cor n,o.ths,
not years, passed ard noted by thousands, bat by
none thought worth picking up. One would sup
pose tina, the traders, the herdsmeD the Indians or
some other of the residents of this region, would
deem these chains worth having, but they do not.
/ had aresdy become accustomed ~ the sight OF
wag.D-tiTe, wagon boxes, &c, rejected aud
spurned in this way; but good, new chains thus
begging for owners have Only noted this size of
the South Pae. They are said to be still more
abundsut further on.
This morning, | was sgreeably surprised by
greetiog from three acqualDtsnces | made in Den
ver who invited me 10 sb4re their outfit and jour
ney to California, who left Deover the morniog
before did, aud beside whom / camped my first
night on the road to Laramie. They are jnst
through the Cherokee Trail, entering the noun.
tans at Cachela-Poudre and crossing Green
River by ferry some thirty miles below toe poiut
az which did. They were detained one day max
ing raft on which Il, ferry their wagon over the
North Platte, and found some rough places in the
mountains at one OF which they were obliged 10 I'M
hitch their horses and let their wagon down steep
pitch by ropes They found TIE water of Bitter
Creek-along which lies their road for hundred
miles or so-btter indeed and il some places
grass was defc ent but their horses look nearly
as well as when they left Denver. Their route has
OF course been some $50 miles shorter than mioe
aud they will reach Salt Lake scarcely day be-
hind me- l Nhh had been able to accompany
them on their rugged and litte-trayeled route.
On the other side of the Pass, we had mainly
clear, hot days; on this eide, they are cloudy aud
cool. We had little shower of rain with abund-
auce Of wind night before last, another shower last
night, and more rain is now threatened. Yet all
old residents assure NE that rain in Summer ia very
rare throughout this region.
We stop 10. night 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. II G.
FROM HAVANA AND MEXICO.