New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-02-29
Correspondence of tbs st. Leafs Democrat.
From P7sxe,x EsenE.

AuK4atA AID Dsxyxa esrY February o. 1850
Z. meeting Of citizens, held at Apollo Hall. in
sn HI, s. 1sy On Saturday last written pFoposi
WI w, W. received from Capt. Parkinson TIurrsan.
1 tsi os9efs 10 make peace and renquis
s slss Jsaaplhg clam On the Denver town sita
fos5 w W. sn,elnfaittee, composed of Major Brad
fxed up the whole matter without tl,e osa "A h1d
SeeWEssasy Ct p ne Denver Town Company, Richard
on his own shonders hrsna Nv s,s sxng, almost
successful close. Everything aro,riar ~ - ~
jumping case excitement aid tse AnraTsa nr
is now abou. settled and quiet MI fhsre Y Y
telling what future week, or even day nav i5fjr
| forth = 80 ~
As ! have said before, If yoa are determined IL
start out for the gold mines before the early psst
Of April, would advise you to do 80 from Wyan-
dotte, Leayenworth, or Atchison BY way III tke
old Santa Fe or great Southern r0ute-bscau5e Il
will afford the mdest weather, and because there
is more old grass, and green grass underneath.
than on the great Northern route, by the Platte
river and Fort Kearney, from st. Joseph or Omaha.
Strike down and converge az soon as possible on
the regular old Santa Fe road, and 30 along with,
or wait for-until say four to six wagons are col
lected to accompany each other.
Burlingames on the road from Wyandotte and
Kansas City, will be the first goodsized town y0u
City. 75a7S 7Ss
Council Grove forty miles further west. Is the
next and last town and settlement tal you reach
Bents Forthwith the exception Of very small
village called the & Diamond Springs some six
teen miles westward from Council Grove
At Big Cow creek, some LILO miles from Council
Grove, is the very last house and store, or rather
grocery, which is to be found till yon reach Bcnts
Fort.
at some $40 miles from Kansas CITY, 400 miles
from Council Grove, or $50 miles from Beach Val
ley Station, you will find Bents new fort, where q
few articles may be purchased and a heap of In
dams may doubtless be espied all around but Gov
fhdrn will Eacr
interests all right. From here yen still come on
along the great Arkansas river until you get to the
mouth of the Huerfano river-iis entrance from the
west into the Arkansas, some thirty miles further
on-on the west side of which junction there Is q
small village of some forty mud houses, inhabited
by Mexieans, most Of whom speak English here
also is the store Of Vim. Kroenig, who owns q -four
mill, and has most excellent and fruitful garden
right adjoining the village. Twenty 1--WE miles
further on, and you get to Fountain City, where
thriving. American population and an American
town 10 located. ss5 a.is
My advice to you all il, to drive right through
and on until you cross the Fountaine qm BouIlie
or Boiling Spring river, some five or perhaps ten
miles further, and then and there decide yourselves
according to your purposed pursuits and business
capacities, whether you shall drive still further on,
the right hand lbest) road over the Divide, y to
Denver City. There is northern road that
branches off toward the mountains from or near
where you cross the Boiling Spring creek that
gees over to the immediate base Of the Peak and
| to the adjacent new city 81 Colorado. 1t also
keeps on north, closely along the mountains to
Denver City But this western road is not near ID
| good wagon route for Denver City Is the right
| or eastern one over the '.Digide.n This know
| because have tried both to my sore experience
| Getting up outfits Of wagons and mules or oxen
and going up to trade with the Sioux ii getting to
| be one of our every day occurrences here ut Den
City this winter season. If You push me to the
wall to tell, must state, in the language of De-
mosthenes about action in ofatorF slightly altered
that the first chief staple for the trip is whisky
the second chief staple is whisky, and the third
| and last is-whisky. However, sugar, coffee and
tobacco thrown in, of coHrse, by way of adding
an appearance of variety to the outfit.
Denver City time is IS minutes and 10 seconds
faster than St. Louis time. ArevivaI or protracted
meeting has been going on In the Methodist church
here nightly for the past three weeks. The Rev.
Jacob Adriance, preacher in charge, starts to Com
ference at Leavenworth next week.
What are panes of glass, 10 by IL, worth in your
market? They would fetch a dollar apiece here
easy Also any quantity Of shingle nails, (s0c. per
pound here) window sashes, etc. VIII somebody
look to this when they start for here very earlyz
They can make great thing out Of those ARTICLES
here in the early spring.
| CuRIosITIEs AT DENVER CITY.-A card or pack
| of cards that is not marked.
A child, between the ages Of seven and twenty
one, that does not everywhere and always wear his
1 belt and navy shooter.
1 handsome woman over the age Of thirteen
summers, that marshals less than ten or twenty
| beaux.
A mountain man who has not ten or twelve
gueh claims Y for sale, and which he g knows
| will not average over five dollars to the pam