New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-06-20

absurd; bis scent is too secn, his Gear too great;
bat go upon high ,>rsine, to spot whence you
can overlook nHe' "a or twenty square miles; 'ne'o
crouch IN hr dow or in the grass and hoist your
handkercb. 4ei or some red, futterng se.ri on
light pee, which you wave gently and patiently Ia
the air: soon the Antelope, if there be one within
sight perceives the strange appanHon: BIS cu''os'
ty ia excited: it masters his caution; he makes To-
ward the strange object, and keeps drawing nearer
and nearer till he lie within fifteen or twenty |ods
The rest requires no instruction.
STATION, 81, June 3, evening f>59.
Since wrote the foregoing, We have Travelled
ninety miles up the south branch Of the Republican
(Which forks Just above Station Isl and have thus
pursued a course somewhat south Of west. In all
these ninety miles, we have passed just two i've
streams making in from the Scuth--toth together
running scarcely water enough to turn grind
stone In all that ninety miles, We Ssve rot seen
wood enough TO make decent pig.pen. The bot
tom Of the river is perhaps half mile ia average
width; the soil in good part clay and covered with
short, thin grass; the blafs are naked sand
heaps the rock, in the rare cases where any IS ex-
posed, an odd cong0neTate Of petrifed clay With
quartz and some specks that resemble cornelisn.
Beside this, sore of the bluffs, where clay oyeries
and is blended, gDder peculiar circumstances, with
the sand below it, sort of rock seems to be formed
or in process Of formation Water is obtainedf,om
the apology for a river, or by digging in the sand
by it's side; in default Of wood, cOrros catte.ens)
are formed at the stations by laying up heavy
wall of clayey earth fanked by GODS, and thus exca
waiting deep ditch on the inner side except at the
portal, which is closed at night by running wag
on into it, The tents are sodded at their bases;
houses Of sods are to be constructed as may
be- Such are the shifts Of human ingenuity in a
country which has probably not cord Of growing
wood to each township Of land.
Six miles further up this fork of the Republican
emerges from its sandy bed, in which il has been
lost for the twenty five miles next above. OF
course it loses in volume in passing through such
a land of drouth. Probably thirty times today We
have crossed the broad, sandy beds OF creeks run
ming down from the high prairies-creeks which
in Winter and early Spring are sweeping torrents,
but now are wastes Of thirsty sand. Thus has 1t
been for ninety miles thus is it for many miles
above and presume many also below. The road
from LeayenwOrth TO Denver had to be taken sons
so miles north of its due course to obtain even
such a passage through the American Desert; on
direct line from the head of Solomons Fork it must
have passed over some 900 miles of entire absence
of wood and water.
i have seen, during the last three or four days,
several bands of wild Indians-Arapahoes, Cheyen.
mes, Kioways Sioux, &c.,-manly the two former.
OF these the Arapsboes have been the most numer-
Gus and repulsive. Their children swarmed around
us at Station lG-the men being mainly absent on a
expedition against the Pawnces-the
women staying in their lodges. The young ones
are thorough savages-their allowance of clothing
averaging six inches square OF buffalo skin TO each,
but so unequally distributed Gas is the case with
worldly goods in general) that the majority have |
ar scantier allowance. large Cheyenne village |
g encamped around Station 10, where we stopped |
ast night; and we have been meeting squads of |
hese and other tribes several times day. The |
Kioways are camped some eight miles from this |
pot. They all profess to be friendly, though the
Cheyennes have twice stopped and delayed the ex-
press wagons on pretense of claiming payment for
he injury done them in cutting wood, eating grass
soaring away game, &c. They would all like to
beg. and many of them are deemed not disinclined |
10 steal. We are to pass through several more en-
csmpments but expect no trouble from them. The
Cheyepn are better clad, and seem to have more |
selfrespect than the Arapahoes, but they are all
low in the scale ofintellectual and moral being and
must fade away unless they can be induced to
work. More of them hereafter
The unusual dullness of this letter is partly |
accounted for by an accident Two evenings since
just as we were nearing Station Il, where We were
TO stop for the night my fellow-psssenger and
had ocular discussion on the gullies into which
We were so frequently plunged, 10 our personal
discomfort He promised that it was consola-
ton that the sides of these gullies could not he
worse than perpendicular; 10 which required with
the assertion that they could be and were-fJr in
stance, where gully in addition to its perpendicu
lar descent had an inclination of 40 degrees SO
TO one side the track Just then Il violent lurch of
the gon To side then 10 the other, in descend
ing one of these jolts, enforced my position. Two
minutes later were about To descend the steep
bank Of the creek inteIvae, the mules acting per-
versely my friend stepped out 10 take them by the
head, leaving me alone in the wagon Just then,
We began 10 descend the steep pitch. the driver
pulling up with all his might when the left rein of
the leaders broke, and the team was in moment
sheared out of the road and ran diagonay down
the pitch. In second, the wagon went over hitting
the ground most spiteful blow. / Of course went
over with il, and when l rose TO my feet
as soon as possible, considerably bewiliered
and disheveled, the mules had been disengaged by
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