New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-10-10
Later from the Kansas Mines.

The Pixies Peak Express which left Denver Cty
on the I'D ut. arrived at Leavenworth on the 30tb
The Mountain City Gold Reporter OF the 18th has
the following:
The mines are being very energefically worked and
more gold is being taken out weekly than at any
time this season.
Messrs. Cotton Co., on the Cotton Lode. on PROG.
pect Hill are making about sl2 day to the hand.
They have to wash in small gulch that only affords
water to wash half the day.
Messrs. Ky & Co. inform US that they have made
$40 per day to hand since June.
Messre. Baker Il Co. washed two pans of dirt on
saturday last from one they got s., from the othe.
So so their claim is about three hundred feet west
Of the Bates Lode.
MIR. Thos. B. Price informs us that Saturday las,
three men on his claim, in dry dggings near Chicago
Creek, took ont ISL pennyweights.
Messs. Burgher, Myers & Co., whom we reported
last week as making So to the hand, are now making
from IS to $40 i; they took out handsome nurref
on Monday weighing % dwt.
The Leavenworth Times publishes IN interesting
letter from its Denver City correspondent, of which
the following is an extract:
Fights, rows, braws, shooting and stabbng at1rays
are the order of the day. The frequency or blood
collisions on the other side of the Creek where most
OF the gambling saloons are located, has become
fearful. crisis is evidently approaching, in con.
sequence of the intoerable boidness with which law
and order are at present fed in that quarter The
Vigilance Committee will doubtless step in before
long and submit the foul atmosphere Of that locality
to thorough publication. If the citizens Of Aurara
town, let them be aroused from their present indif.
ference, and sweep the Augean stables without
delay.
The election returns are now complete. A majority
OF nearly three thousand is figured up against the
Constitution and that piece of folly is thus finally
and fortunately disposed Of second Oxford has
doomed up in this region. A mystic locality by the
name OF Fountain City, has returned nearly eleven
hundred votes. The true number of the votes then
and there called would probably be obtained by cut
ting off two figures to the right
somewhat lively business has been done of late
in the line of politics. Qaite number Of candidates
ior the Delegateshlp to Congress have made their
appearance, Among these, Gen. Larimer and B. b.
Williams, late Superintendent of the Express Com
pany, figure prominently. sort OF nominating
Convention Was to be holden yesterday at Golden
CITY, the result OF which has however thus far failed
to transpre. Denver city is not represented in it, It
Is more than probable that most Of the candidates
now announced will run Independently of the action
OF any conventional body, and | should not be sur
prised it half dozen individuals, claiming to repre-
sent the people Of the gold region, should appear in
Washington City in December next and claim ad.
mission. The election Of Delegate itself is to come
Oft on the first Monday in October. Party issues
have not thus far been raised between the several as.
pirants to the honor, and perhaps, profits of Dele.
gateshp. Tho only difference of opinion between
them seems TO consist in the higher or lower degree
Of enthusiasm they display with regard to the future
OF this country.
On the l4,h inst, Mr. John Steiner, of westmore.
land county, Pa, an old steamboat institution (the
same person whom mentioned in my last as of
the lucky miners, he having realized about $4,000
worth Of gold in less than eleven weeks) departed
down the South Platte in u sort of fiat bnttomed
scow, for the purpose of taking soundnRs. etc, with
II view of running lght.dlaught steamboat up to
this point the lower crossing Mr. Steiner is full
of confidence in his object to do so.
A large band of Arapahors returned the latter
part of last week from an extensive and protracted
hunting expedition into the buffalo country. They
do not appear to have realized much in the way OF
meat, hides, tlrs ETC., during their long absence.
Left Hand and Little Horse. their two chiefs, con.
tend that most fatal disease is raging among the
buffloes, which covers the plains with ten thousands
oil crcasses and is SO contagious that it ia even dan
gerous to eat the meat of those that were killed BY
their people.
In consequence of this fatality and the failure-at
east the two chiefs assert-to obtain their usual
snnna, presents at the hands of their agent, (Col.
Bent, from the Arkansas) great desttutiOn prevails
among the red skins, which forced them to appeal to
he charitable disposition of their white friends
talk was held with the principal warriors of the
'and by the leading citizens of Denver on the subject
which resulted in the raising OF subscription for the
} netit OF the poor 1adians.n On Sunday morning
learly hundred dollars worth of provisions were
distributed among and received by them with visible
1elsht
Mr.: Frank Kershaw returned on Sunday morning
ast from the head waters of the Blue River tribu
AIRY OF the Colorado of the West after an absence of
nearly month"; He says that over five hundred
miners are at work in that vicinity, turning the
stream, panning, etc.
He has found prospects as high as from l0c to
GO to the pan. He thinks that next year as much
mining will be done the other side of the range al
IN this side. he miners had built large and strong
nrt to protect their persons aud property from the
Jtahs. Mr.. Kershaw has already taken the back
rack for the new diggings.
From the Omaha Nebraskian of the 2sth nit. VA
extract the following:
MIR. y. I. Witcher, of Richlaud, Iowa. arrived in
his cy on Friday direct from the mines ia fourteen
lays ald eighfeen hours. He came through with q
single team and reports the route in excellent cond
ion. The Platte river is very low, and he found no
d Ill 'ulty IN fordhgt. Mr. W. is an old California
INNER, having worked in the Pacific mines in ls49
He reports his experience, and that OF every other
California miner. AS entirely vaueless in the dgsiugs
on the eastern slope, He IN quite enthusiastic in his
opNus"n of the new diggings. aud brings abnnt $1,000
ia dust, ube product Of two months hbnr) us a
evidence of success. He thinks these