The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1859-01-18

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Ne 1igGings.
We kaeS sAas The Basis & sAs oldsss pap
% tAs "elops.S Had L bseo properly esndee
| -. Il might have acquired. BY this time, I
eaviable repatasiou, and, 10 matters psstainir
y the taR WesA its seassmsats might have be-
seseAt aftsr eagerly, and believed Implicitly.
That Z hes failed 70 acquire such characts
y net from any want Of opportunity; but OWN
% me fseklessne0 Of 10 conductors. W
Know that during the California emigration
some IL Or eight years since. Coupc;i BIna
| eeqesfsd some notoriety through the column
Of the Bugle, - ~ ou.6teine place for ~
e0tgfants-sAas city being nearly the onl
sewn then on the slops, and the head Of th
Acs1on Empire Of these parts.
Dat tnings have changed. Iowa has, durin
sne past lev ysars, rapidly gained in her settle
menss; ana now, throughout her western Dor
derA large population 10 located, and numer
0us thriving towns have been built IN. Counci
biufs 70 not what she once was-the centr,
OF gravitation !" for the whole Missouri elope.-
The soeptro % fast departing from that Normo,
Israel The bitterness exhibited By the Busl,
toward rival points, In better geographical DO.
sitaons. gives evidence Of the feeblensss Of ID,
struggle % maintain the supremacy ret lissl,
longer.
The Bugls complains that whom the Barring
ton papsrs speak Of the route west from Platts-
mouth, they show their ignorance OF the geo.
grspay OF the country west from the Missouri
river. Let 10 examine the facts
The Bugle cannos deny that the emieran,
route from Council Bluds passes over the hin
and valleys made BY the branches from Pappil.
lion Creek. for fifteen or twenty miles.
It Annot deny that that road passes ecross
the Elk Hern.
II cannot deny that where the Elk Horn il
orldged. the broad bottoms on either side, for
some weeks in the spring, are generally cover
ed with water too deep to be forded.
1t cannot deny that their route, striking next
the north bend Of the Platte, fifty miles north
from Fort Kearney, strikes up the valley of
that stream to the Loup Forks stream a. full
Of quick-sands a. the Platte, with as swift
current. and whieh, during the spring months,
oannos be easily forded or ferried.
1t esnnot deny that next in turn comes
W cod river, which cannot be crossed in high
Mater.
Is cannot deny that next comes the Platte
nivsr which cannos be crossed in high water
!, THESE are some Of the difficulties that present
themselves to the emigrant on the route North
'f the Platte, ere be reaches the neighborhood
u the mines; setting aside the fact that the
cad Is not % good or 90 much Travelled as
hat south Of the Platte besdesp being a few
miles the longest
NOW, let us take the route from Pacific CITY
md Plattsmoush, and follow ito course.
Leaving the mouth of the Platte, ON the
'outh side, the emigrans proceeds nearly due
rest, on the divide between the Platte and
Weeping Water-a high, dry, aad level road.
ntil, in thirty miles, be descends to the ford OF
alt Creek, near it's junction with the Platte
his creek has rock bottom, and bluff bank
a either side, and is easily forded, but will be
'ore easily crossed in the spring, a. good ana
abstantial bridge 10 to be erected there this
inter.
On leaving Salt Creek, the emgrant takes the
woe between wahoo creek and the west fork
t Salt Creek, and the head.watsrs of the Blue.
nd follows this devde until be again reaches
10 Platte Valley, opposite, or nearly opposite.
he mouth of the Loup Fork From thence be |
roceeds up the Platte Valley, passing by Fort |
carney, wAich is on the south side of The Plate.
nd cannot be reached BY emigrants from the |
orth side, in the spring of the year. Thence |
IL route follows up the Platte and South Platte
alleys to the gold region-withomt crossing |
ny stream that cannot be jumped.
The advantages of the South Platte route are !
having but one stream OF any account, and |
'at but forty yards wide, to cross, and that
ream bridged also, in having a good dry
bad all the way, and fifty miles in distance
wed, by cutting across the extrene north bend
the Platte.
The Disadvantages of the North Platte Route
re, in first crossing the dividing ridges made
= Papillion creek; crossing the Elk Horn and
8 low bottoms; the doubt Of crossing the
cup Fork At all in high water, Or delays at
'osslng, and the risk Of losing outfits, teams,
agons and all at the crossing Of this stream,
J well as Wood River and the North Platte,
These are difficulties that no smigraHt unac-
lstomed to the Plains would wish to encounter
hen they can be 20 easily avoided.
We have letter from Chicago, in which it
stated that map is being engraved for pub.
cation in COUNCIL Bluffs, in whish New Fort
carney is represented as being due west from
at city, and the editor of the Bugle himself
- that the Fort is nearly west from that place,
'emont's Reports locate the mouth OF the Platte
latitude Al deg. min. IL sec. north. Stans.
Try reports New Fort Kearney to be in lat.
deg. 80 min. As sec. north, or ala miles
nth of the mouth Of the Platte, and thirty.
( miles south Of Council Bluffs. Now, in ira.
ling on the North Platte Route, from the
utfs, fifteen miles mere northlng has to be
ade, making fifty one miles north from Fort
carney the emigrant must 60 to circle round
g north bend, which 10 entirely cut off by the
nth Platte route.
In n~rA m he k.A- L. 4 /
we have daily line of stages con-
citing with the Railroad at Fairfield, in dis
nee of two hundred miles, against sri.,ceekly
le from Council Bluffs to the same points
stance, by stage route, of two hundred and
yhty- -four miles. Perhaps, Mr.. Bugle, you
rget that papers in this section may be issued
veraf days later than yours and by our "ope-
rse wagon" mail, reach Burlington ahead of
urs. We might here add that four horse
aches run from Fairfield to Charlton, on this
ute, and early in the spring four horse coaches
II take the place of the two-horss hacks now
ed between here and Charlton. |,
As to hotel accommodations at Pacific City
d Plattsmouth, We can state that there 10
snty Of accommodation for all, and At prices
ting not SO high as At some hotels not ten
les from Bl1f City; and We can further state
At as good table can be found here as there,
q u more reasonable rates, 10 suit the emil |
anti Pacific City Herald. |,
II the telegrsphie summary Of the contents
the instructions given BY the Navy Depart
mt 70 Com. Mcintosh, and just laid upon the
bic ofthe House, can be ~ all relied upon,
. Navy Department would seem to have been
aging directly into the hands of the fllibus-
70. The entire DRIFT Of these Instructions 10,
Nv not to do it. The Commodore is express
directed not to seize any vessel, nor to do |
J act upon mere suspieion-as though in most
see Of this sort suspicion was not the sole
ound Of procedure. He 10 also Significantly
minded that the President regarded the seix-
e Of fllibuster Walker By Con. PAulding, as
''grAve error" which Com. Mcintosh is thus
lemnly warned TO initiate. He 10 warned fur.
o., not to interfere on land, nor in any hsrbor,
z fha nurnnsa of arraatinn anx 6llihnstarin1 |