New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-07-17
FROM THE PIXIES PEAK GOLD REGION
From Our Own Correspondent.


TIE recent Geographic report that Mr.. baac V.
Fowler had been seen in this region cannot have
excited more surprise ia the Esst than 1t caused
here, on its arrival in the border papers. 30 far
az can learn, it is universally considered an un-
mitigated hoax.
Tie intelligence that the mail contract for sup.
plying this region from the st. Joseph and Salt
Lake route has been let at the nominal pdce OF
$500 per annum-about one twentieth OF the esti-
mated cost of carrying it--causes good deal Ut
disappointment. The prevailing belief is, that the
PIe's Peak Express Company will continue TO
monopohze the transportation of mall matter, and
that the people Of this region will still be Compelled
to Day them twenty-five cents each TN the Ten
thOutand letters arriving and departing weekly.
1t is shameful that Congress aud the Department
should, by their mastery inactivity, permit popu'
laton of fifty thousand TO be SO long subject to this
OnerOus burden.
Attorneys are very numerous here, as in all new
countries but their practice is confined exclusively
~ the ing giohs where they frequently reap
rich harvests from contested claim cases. Tee u
$500 Was paid few days since IN one Oh these
cases, which required but little labor The Courts
are held in the open air, presided over by judges
elected by the people and administer only the laws
enacted by the miners themselves. AS the laws OF
each mining district vary materially FROM those Of
al The others they open rich beld for litigation.
Gre at jealousy is felt toward legal authorities, and
a thOughlltss young attorney is laid to have lost
very promising case by injudciOusly citing Green
Leaf Upon Evidence"
Ohe of these claim lawyers named A. z. Swift, o
person not unknown to fame in Eastern Kansas,
has been erioying very lu. raiiye practice until
few days since, when, having grown o little
too much interested 10 suit in which he was re-
retSined, he found guilty Of attempting to gain
it BY forging q deed. The excited miners would
have hanged him. but for the sympathy excited by
his family They permitted him to depart, with q
warning not to app, ar in the district again. at the
perm of his life.
"lone widow" from the State of Missouri, re-
Gently arrived in this region, having Travelled alone
from the Missouri River to this pomt-her " train"
consisting Of yoke oi oxen ana wagon, few hens,
aud quantity Of provisions. She mad taken care
Of and driven her cattle without assistance, and
made the trip without annoyance, either from In
dars or white men. by selling eggs to emigrants at
81 per Dozen she had accumulated considerable
money, and from small quantity of Hungarian
erassseed purchased at the river for Ia cents she
realized $l4. She was about 50 years of age. At
ter remaining few days, she went On toward Cali
forna, where she once resided aud now proposes to
spend her days.
The somewhat notorious mountaneer, capt jim
BecBw ourth, Is residing i'll Denver. Though near
ly white, he was for several years q resident and
chief among the Grow Indians, and il his published
narrative OF adventures among them il true, he has
fought, bed, and died, Oh nnumerabe occasions.
He was married in this city last week, to a lady
from one of the Yves ern States, notwithstanding his
assertion in the narrative alluded to, that he had
already eight wives among the Grows.
A meeting was held few days since to consider
the increasing Indian depredstiOns Considerable
ThetoI ic was ventilated but nothing was done ex-
cept to appoint Committee to wait upon the Ara
pabOes and warn them 10 desist and to conmunl-
the appointment Of government agent for the
tribe. Il be speakers generally seemed 10 be about
as familiar with the Indian character as that
sanguine Frenchman who prepared to start upon
journey among the COmanches without arms, and
with only one attendant When asked how he
would protect himself against their attacks, he
piled that he would exhibit the flag of France, and
they surely would not dare offer an indlgnty TO that
One humane Individual was 10 favor Of celebrating
:" the Fourth by "wiping out all the Indians; but
the original suggestion was not adopted.
TRADE is reyNing; nearly all staple articles com
nand very high prices. A gentleman who recently
took $50 TOO stock Of groceries, provisions, aud
buildibg hardware into the Gregory Diggings sold
g, DDS to the amount Of s. 900 within a week after
his arrival at prices frOu Two to three times greater
han those ruling ON the Missouri River.
Gaming is carried On openly and vigorously.
81 900 aud valuable house and lot in one Of the
gaming saloons, as the result of an hours anuse-
meat.