New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-09-26

"'HW " re (young, cOmely, anu WhVb, '" 49," ~
sPeatss proudly, though somewhat ooscure'y' aS
" LADY Bcchwourth."
That 6ne-loesing, dark man of thrty-a swarthS
Adons of the plans-has been Kansas border
rufian, n Kicaraguan flibuster, prisoner among
the Mexicans, wearing cham and working upon
roads for more than year, a surveyor on the Pan
anna Railroad, and wanderer through the world AT
large. At one time, as he will freely tell you be
attempted to engage in the ocean trade, but
was prevented by circumstances. There is youth
from Providence X. l., and though his chin is still
white with the down of adolescence" he owns a
valuable quartz-mi in the mountains Two years
ago he was working upon an Illinois farm al
SIS per month. He is most sanguine in regard to
the success of his crusher and would not dispose OF
it except at large advances while the very man
with whom he is cOnyersiDg, has just sold his mil
in the mountains for half its cost, aud is return
ing to the States disheartened and Disguised
Here is an elderly gentleman, pioneer In this
region. When first met him, ten years ago, he
was wealthy Pennsylvania banker, in broadclotf
and fine linen, and had narrowly escaped being
made Governor of that commonwealth, lacking
only FIVE votes of the Wing nOminatiOn IN those good
old days when the Wing nomination was equivalent
to an election. When / next saw him, he was ar
rayed in buckskin and cordurOys In Pixies feak
cabin. cooking hapiacks for his own breakfast. lie
is now candidate for Delegate to Congress, with
a fair prospect of election. That tall thin-faced
person, with muttOn-chop whlskers, a few ieet De-
yond, is the famous /" wheelbarrow man, an &C.
centric and plucky printer, who came through
from Kansas City to Denver t1C0 miles TWO years
AGO trundling his complete outfit upon that print
five vehicle and bringing precisely ten cents IN his
pocket He too, is Candidate for Congress.
.Jestingl Not ], indeed; he has been formally an
nounced and will poll a considerable vote.
There is young merchant from Boston, who left
that s'bub of the universe" soon after an unpleas-
antly notorious scandal case in which he was in
terested; an ex-merchant from Madison, WiscOn-
SIN. who. when he suspended i'll that gem city OF
the West, owed single hardware house in Buffalo
$40, coo; and, brushing past them, rough miner
from California Gulch, just starting for the States
with 106 pounds of gold dust $3.50, 1922, all taken
from his own claim during the Summer by HIMSELF
his brother and several hired hands. One of his
neiphbors in the Mines who owned the richest
claim in that rich gulch left for the river a few
DAYS since with $50 900, according to current re-
ports His name, Mr.. GIadgrind, was Earl, and
the one in the crowd before you is a Mr.. Thomas.
Close around him are half dozen discouraged i'm
migrants, also starting for hOme-in the Pixies
Peak vernacular, Pilgrims bound for America" "
Question them, and they assure you that they have
prOspected three months without making cent;
that the mines are a humbug and breathe out
who have indOrsed them. JOstled in among these
and many more not noticeable persons, there stands
an erect blanketed, acknowledged, mahogany
colOred old ArapahOe probably 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 and repulsiye with cOal-eyed little papp0se
peepinp over her shoulder, and three or four half
naked young redskins standing beside, claiming her
maternal protection.
The suave Superintendent, JONES' hands up the
way-bill, the passengers endure the ultimate hand
shakngs and final valedctions, the whip cracks the
coach rolls away, and the crowd disperses.
Let us walk down Blake street, toward Cherry
Creek. busy scene, you perceive-a mingled
maze of men, horses oxen, mules, wagons and car
riages in the midst Of which four auctlOneers are
hoarsely and bewilderingly crying their wares
Liquor stores and saloons confront you at almost
every door, In that grocery window you observe
rich yellow pumpkins-a production to which our
valleys are peculiarly adapted-a stalk of corn ten
feet high, though cut long before maturity, and an
ample display of new potatoes beets turnips, cucum-
bers, tomatoes, melons at 81 % each), and 80 on
TO the end of the succulent list. One OF the by
ISLANDERS to whom introduce you attempts t. sell
you horse Another dexteriOusly leads the con-
yersation TO town lots, and afterward to mining
claims, Dsinuatng several tempting opportunities
for investments there is evidently speculation in
those eyes which he doth glare with. We drop into
this well-appOnted restaurant, and obtain tOlera-
bic dinner for fifty cents. The regular bOarders
pay IS per week. How so much board can be
afforded for so little money, in region where pOta-
toes command Is cents q pound flour a. sugar %,
and butter so, is profound mystery which we will
not seek to penetrate.
Here is Denver Hail. one story, 35 feet by 120,
which rents for $3.50 per month. Within, you see
merely bar and few deserted tables with here
and there gambler vanly seeking to attract the
stragglers But come in this evening, and you will
find twenty or thirty of that fraternity busy at
their mahgn art in the midst of dense crowd OF
SPECTATORS and hear the cOnfuted ringing of dol
lars and eagles, the clinking of glasses the often
amusing rignarOle of the gamblers, and the NUT
tered curses of the losers all half drowned by the
steady strains Of music from the band upon plat
form in the extreme rear of the long Apartment.
One OF the gamblers left for the States, few
weeks since, with $4500-the proceeds of his
three months labor at three-card monte" Last
year this edifice had a,iOor of mother earth, walls
of logs and roof and windows Of common shee ing;
but it was the first class hotel of Denver. Soon
after Mr. Greeley's arrival be was called upon to
address the accidental audience in its great saloon,
and il was peculiarly refreshing to hear him, while
standing up between the bar and the gaming tables
Cat which operations had been suspended for the
purpose of isteniDg) make an earnest anti gambling
and anti drinking speech. The habitues took it
very kindly and the outsiders were vastly amused.
That ,all, expatriated European in black, smok-
ing meerschaum, and looking on so Oraculary, is
The Count" Murat who claims to be a relative of
the King of Italy. He formerly resided 10 a city
on the Upper Mississippi which he left to the great
bereavement of his creditors. He is now specu-
lator; last year he was a barber, and his wife a
laundress ] shall never forget a June morning
upon which he entered the room of the editor of
The TRIBUNE, in this very building, with basket
upon his ann.
COUNT have brought your washing home,
Mr.. GIeeley-ten pieces.
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