New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-09-08

g 300 for himself as he can accumulate ~ NJ,
money. He is marvel Of culinary ace,mnE.I
me nts; and there also vague rum0rs OF h;s rn.
dcrful skl in connecting certain to0tbsorue bevs.
ages with straws in them. He reads nuenns
writes little, and, in point of brains 4, dec,doI,
superior to the average among white men. INK,
wife, who lives in the cabin hundred yards awar
which you see from the window, wa. tormerIv',,
slave Of The Rev 4" Tom johnson" If me Kao.,.
Shawnee Mission, but FROM her earnings as , Ian"
dress, saved and paid $500 in hard cash for b~.
freedom. In her arms you observe little IMAGE a
God cut in ebony, with astonishing white syes~,a
infant which has recently been pronounced bv a
jury of competent matroos the - cunningpst' baba
within their large experience and observation.
Here is the morning newspaper, damp from TIE
press in season for our ultimate cups of coffee. IA
is about one third as large az THE TRIBUNE; delig-
cred by the carrier at 80 cents per week and edtd
by gentleman of English extraction, who is FREQ
from any absurd pTejudices in favor Of Lndey
Murray, and cherishes malignant and deep seatad
antpatby against the letter h. In two or thra,
weeks, we are to have two more daily journals Il
be editors escape being shot in the interim. Here
comes the milkn an in whose fluid, furnished at one
dime per quart, the aqueous element prepOndsrats
largely over the cteal: and be is closely followed
by the ice man, and the vender Of vegetables. We
are not quite ont Of the world, You perceive If ve
do live at Pixies Peak. In three months, the tl
cgraph will be within 800 miles of u.s. and in eight
as we devOutly hope the correspondent Of The
TRIBUNE will he able to send dispatches through
from Denver to New.YOrk by lightning.
Now we will stroll down and see the lions.
BUckling on our revO,vers Most certainly. Bar
barousi OF course it is; but a journalist here who
means TO tell the truth is unwss to step into the
streets without converting himself into a walking
arsenal upess fascinated by the recent experience
of Mr.. Byers of The Rocky MOuHtrin Nevs, who,
Won remen ber 80 narrowly escaped beingshot down
IN his own Office 1t may shock you, who have
lived only in a state of utter civilizations; but va
regard it as healthy precaution.
Here, within a stones throw Of our dOmicile,
frame Catholic church is rising. walk Of q
third of a mile, past lumber yards and scattered,
pebulous frames daily developing into spacious res
licences and neat cottages, brings Va TO Larimrr
street One square to the right is the Br0adweU
House large wooden structure, where you ea9
obtain tolerable accommodations at Astor Houss
prices. Behind you, to the left, among other edi.
fees you may see The new brick Methodst church,
several stores, and two brOthes, in close proximity
temples to God, mammon, and the devil almost
side by side. Here is the City Drug Store, with
spacious hall above and the first floor only requiring
gas 10 render it credtable to st. Louis or Chicago
If inclined to throw physic to the dogs, you can
find upon one of its counters medicine 10 a mind
diseased, in the shape Of all the leading news and
literary publications of the day--tbe latest papers
TN days from New-YOrk, and sold at 20 cents
apiece About 10, 900. Eastern papers are taken
weekly in the Pixies Peak region; and that huge
pile of TRIBUNEs precudes the necessity of assur-
ing YOU that in circulation here it leads all coteD-
pOTaries.
Look down + street FIVE squares to the shining
Platte, with its green banks dotted with immigrant
tents and Indian lodges The mountains, which
rise abruptly beyond the smooth prairie, do not seem
more than four miles away; but the first range is
really fourteen. See the Dew buildings complete
and incomplete. First the large frame store Of
Tappan & Company, packed with hydraul pumps,
betting, and rubber goods. A huge Rocky Mountain
op an appalling species of the panther stuffed into
fe.Ike appearance, and duly saddled and bridlei,
stands before the door, the wonder Of boys and the
terror of dogs. Below, on the opposite corner the
elegant three-stOry brick store of Gerri.h & Co.,
30 feet in depth, and occupied exclusively as O
Wholesale grocery. Beyond, adjoining 1t, the block
If SOule q Kerr, of the same material dimensions
and for the same purpose, rapidly approaching coh.
)letion. Half a square further, upon a corDe. LOT
Is feet by 100, purchased last week for 81 300 che
prick store of u. ID. White, an old freighter, who
has cross. the plains II times, has already risen
DDe story above the ground. Still beyond, add To
he right and left in Blake street. more brick build
ngs commenced and completed. Behind yoa, on
Larimer street dozens of others. Far to the lett,
across the dry bed of Cherry Creek, others still, Of
elegant and imposing appearance, one Of them a.
ireprOOf st0rebOuse 1872 feet in depth, just COM
,leted by Jones g. Cartwright, the great plans
reigbters. Ard then, through East, West, aud
Worth Denver Formerly known as Denver, Auraria,
md Highlands many frame stores Of imposing d.
nensions, nterspersed with smaller frame buildings
nd few mud-rOOfed lOg.cabins-relics of the an
iquity Of twelve months ago. No other city Of the
anne age ever exhibited so many spacious and sub
taDtial edifces--a fact readily comprehended when
Gu learn that while lumber commands 81 50 and
Is hundred, excellent brick are abundant at S.
Id 81 per thousand.
Walk down MacGaa to 6 street. Here Is Clark,
Iruber & Company's banking house, assay office,
nd mint another ample brick building. Within,
sn you behold " the ocular proof OF the products
the Mines in the shape of bags and vessels of the
hinins dust, and piles OF yellow CON- manufactured
the basement. About 81 600 in dust daily flows
ITO the establishment, and half dozen other bank
,g-bouses in town, are also doing fair business.
D any of them You may see nuggets ranging il
aue from S25 to SIS.
Next, on the corner Of Blake street, is the huge,
anne, twOstOry Express Office, with low, one
tory wing, running up nearly square upon G..
here are the two windows of the postal Depart
lent Two weeks ago, you would have seen, ex-
.ndng from each of them, a string of men forty
ards long, all patiently waiting, sometimes for two
ours, the privilege Of paying "a quarter apiece
)r letters from home. But now, we have United
tates mall so while the Post-0fice on Larimer
treet is constantly besieged only few straggers
lquire here, and Mr. Steck, the Postal Agent, sits
D his deserted apartment in green aud yellow
bordering the mutability of human
fairs One door below is Hincklay & Co.'S Ex-
ress Office, through which twenty thousand miners.
ntil the arrival of the first mail, received their
,tiers.
Further down, on the corner, hundred people
Ie gazing at the Concord coach of the Centra,
overland and Pixies Peak Express Company, Just