New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-08-20
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From Pixies Peak.


The st. Louis Republican publishes fetfeY Of
the 7th inst from Denver, from which we e y tract
the following:
Inc excitement concerning the recent cowardfy
attack upon Mr.. Byera, editor of the News and
upon the office of that paper, continues unabated
Ihe shootlng OF Steele one Of the ruffana by Mar
shai Pollock, IL everywhere uraised II aeema
nara 10 shoot 2 man down I'm the public streets.
Dut desperate diseases require desperate remedies
aha When man like Steele has for months out
ragged the feelings of the public and conducted in
sneh manner that the better portion Of his own
gamDhag fraternity desert him, the sooner he is
stopped the better.
The action of the Vigilance Committee II. per.
mftlng Wood to go un-tu,al Of Justice ia condemn
ed by nearly every citizen. Wood had long been
terror to Denver, and all were anxious to have
mn ., eilectaaiiy disposed Of One man suggested
Lnat ne De nung as sceundrel upon general prjn-
clpies and MS antecedent3 would seem to Justify
such course. One of the Mormon DESTROYING
angels IN civilized community, he certainly
needed hempen token Of the public regard II 10
reported that he left the Salt Lake country for his
own as well as the countrys good having made a
slight mistake while in the discharge Of lis duty.
ana killed one of the Saints.
hucker, who was captured and let loose at the
se salne time with Wood, is a criminal Ilnown to
ie1 q lle one who shot Jack 0Neil last winter.
;,..ae 1.uiaen, Wao murdered Gantz, and fed from
{91s, {ss-ee, was met last week on tie road to New
i3 nsseo. hs lola my informant that he had diff
Guity Win drunken man, and concluded to leave
n,Id ~ nu Iii iie seApeeted to return SOON If he
| should, ne VIII Hna himself speedily cone rpv
| several feet from the ground
The hioWas last week attacked psrty Of limited
states @ troops near Bents fort, on the Arkansas,
the Indians being killed and thirteen taken nYisaT.
ers. The latter were left in the fort in cfe-oe of
| slr. Bent, while the troops proceeded down the
river. The Indians threatening to attack him. M.
| Bent sent messenger, an old French guide down
| the river for assistance. $455s
| The Indians attacked this messenger and AZ
| they supposed, killed him, and then took of his
l q yrd frs HahH GnII
to, and got back TO within four miles Of the fort
where he was met by some friendly Arapah6es,
VINO took him to the post and now, under their
care he Is recovering. Mr.. Bent was Obliged to
liberate the thirteen prisoners in order to prevent
| the k1owas from storming the fort The Arapa-
hoes and CheyenDes, who were lately in Denver
are now encamped around the fort, and say they
will protect it from the hostile Indians At the
grand council Of the red men at that post in Sep
tember many tribes are expected to be present
Considerable trouble with the Kiowas for some
TIME to come IS feared, and the sooner the council
I is held the better.
There is nothing wonderful in the mining news
of the present week. Parties are now out over
Snowy Range, and several of them have been
quite successful One story related borders ON the
romantic. Some men who went over the q white
/ capped peaks found what appeared to be q hole
long since excaFated. Removing the gravel on
| the surface they came upon an old shovel which
on their attempting to use it, snapped asunder.
| Investigating further, they removed in little
| while upwards of two thousand dollars worth of
| gold Returning for provisions the story leaked
out, and now others are attempting to track them.
How either party will succeed, time will tell.
| Several miners started to-day for the head
waters of the Missouri, where one of their number
is confident of finding gold. Others propose visit
ing Dacotah, with the same object in view. and
will doubtless start before long. Now that gold in
the Rocky Mountains has become a fixed fact, the
/ whole country will be explored.
4 From California Gulch it is reported that some
claims are paying as high as $1,000 per day. Wages
range from two and half to four dollars per diem,
but the labor is very hard. In the Bobtafl Lead y
eight miles from Gregory's. sxtyeight ounces Of
amalgam, worth about s6 per ounce, we're sluiced
from twenty-oHe bushels of dirt. A ella i'm in Rus
sells Gulch in one day yielded $3.50 worth Of gold,
but my informant could not give the number Of
men employed. The Rock Island Quartz Mill, near
Mountain City, is making from slO0 to $500 per
day, but its running expenses are enormous ,'and
the cost of the mill was $50 900. doubt il many
mills are making their owners rich. Many Of them
are in the hands of men without experience in the
business and the present year will be little more
than one Of experiment. The rock is rich and can
be pulverzed without great difficulty but IN sepa-
rating the gold from the powdered quartz ay,
there's the rub.n