The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1860-10-20
THE "PERsONNEL" OF THE GOLD
REGION.

Below We copy m interesting description
of some Of the characters who are to be seen
daily in the streets Of Denver. 1t is taken
from the correspondence Of the "Tribune," I"
written at the above place. The observing
reader may recognize some personagss with
whom he is familiar, in the spicy sketches
contained in the following:
That fine. looking, dark man Of thirtt-a
swarthy Adonis of the plnins-ha, been n
Kansas border rulfian, a Nicaraguan illibus-
ter, a prisoner among the Mexicans, wear-
ing chain and working upon the roads for
more than a year, a surveyor on the Pana.
mn Railroad, and a wanderer through the
world at large. At one time, rs he will
freely tell you, he attempted to engage in
the ocean slave trade, but was prevented by
circumstances.
Here is an elderly gentleman, pioneer in
this region. When frst met him, ten years
ago, he was wealthy Pennsylvania banker,
in broadclsth and fine linen, and had mar
rowly escaped being made Governor OF that
commonwealth, lacking only five votcs CT
tho Wing nomination, in those good old
days when the Whig nomination was equiv
alent to an election. When next saw him.
he was arrnyed in buckskin and corduroys,
in Pixies Peak cabin, cooting Aapjacks
for his breakfast. He is now candidate
for delegate to Congress, with fair pros
peot for election.
That tall, thin.face person, with mutton
chop whiskers, a few feet beyond, is the IA
nous "wheeibarrow man." an eccentric
and plucky printer, who came through
from Kansas Cityt Denver 700 miles) two
years ago, trundliug his complete outfit upon
that primitive vehicle, and bringing pre-.
cisely,ten cents in his pocket. lie, too, is n
candidate for Congress. Jes,ing? Not J.,
indeed, he has been formally announced,
and will poll a considerable vote.
There is young me chant from Boston,
who left the g hub Of the universe" soon
after an unpleasantly notorious scandal case
in which he was interested; an eI-merc chant
from Madison, Wisconsin, who, when he
suspended in that gem city of the West,
owed a single hardware house in Buffalo
$40, 200; and, brushing past them, rough
miner from California Gulch, just starting
for the States, with log pounds Of gold dust
(20, ,352l, all taken from his own claim dur.
ing the summer by himself, his brother, aud
several hired hands, One Of his neighbors
in the mines who owned the richest claims 10
that rich gulcb. left for the river few days
since with 0,000, according to current re-
ports. Ills name, Mr.. Gradgrind, was
Earl, and the one in the crowd before you
10 Mr., Thomas. Close around him are
half dozen discouraged immigrants, also
starting for home--in ihe Pixies Peak YER
nacular, 'sPilgrins bound for America"
Question them, and they aseure you they
have prospec:ed three months. without max
ing . cent; that the mines are humbug,
and breathe out threatenings and slaughter
agninst all journalists who have endorsed
them. Jostled in among these and many
more os-noticeable persons, there stands
an erect, blanketed, solemn-visnged, ma
hogany- colored old Arapahoe tprobably
Lo, the poor Indian, alluded to by Mr.. Pope,
and just on the outskirts Of the throng you
may notice his squaw, still more dirty ans
repulsive, with a coal-eyed little pappose
peeping over her shosldsr, and three or four
half f-naked young red 81 ins standing beside,
claiming her maternal protection.