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Latest from the Mountains---
Travel on the Plains---A Count
of Teams met in a Single Day.
Loss of Stock "A Graveyard of
tle--Indian and Mining Mat
terS,

Loss OF Ot0OK IA traVeyaru OF
attle--Indian and Mining Mat
terS.
lCorrespondcnco of the Obi engo Tribune
OMAHA, Nov. 4, 1864.
nm justin hero from "thc mountains"
and as your readers Urc glad to obtain
scraps OF intelligence from our Western
regions, send you word from this
place.
The amount Of travel Westward, and
the rapidity with which our new Terrific.
ries arc being pcoplcd, can scarcely DO
conceived Of by those who nrc dwelling
quietly at home. | took the pains 10
count the ox-tcnms which we met on the
road in one day, uutward.bound, They
numbered by actual count sixteen hun.
drcd and seventy cattle n! They were
mostly loaded with machinery owned by
gold companies in Colorado, though some
were going further West.
do not know whether the train met
ON tho day counted them would more
or less than average, but it onc-half the
number only should be met every day
/ through the season, all can s,e by sim
/ pie act OF multiplication that the census of
the road alone is beyond the reach of
ordinary minds TO comprehend its vast
ness, aud SO is scarce worth the cout. -
Yet | ain told that there is lying at
/ AtchiSon, Lcavonworih and Kansas
Cily more machinery than can be freight
cd out this season by all the means
within reach, Wagon masters are Offer.
ing from 800 to Si2b per month to the
drivers OF ux teams, and yet cannot get
supplied.
4 present is that the Indian dcprcdatlons
stopped all frcigthing for several of the
best weeks in the season, aud though the
road is now open and quiet, the season is
SO far advanced that the way will be
sircwcd with dead cattle before spring.
We met one train near Fort Kearnry
which lost twenty-five oxen in day or
two during tho last snow.storm. II is
melancholy to see these noble and patient
brutcs draw as loug as they have life aud
strength, aud then lie down on the cold
road to die. hut the loss Of stock is now
only begun. Feed is very scarce, and
the ranches are all deserted for two hun.
dred miles hey ond Furt KCSruey, Most
OF the hay which has been gathered up
has been pressed by the military for
Government uses, and from Atchison to
Denver there will be nt lenst 800 miles
OF road which viii be con,inuou, grave
yard of cattle.
n The attack of the Indians on this loue
i, stretch Of the road was nearly simultnne,
Gus, showing concert of action IN many
of these independent tribes, which caI
only be accounted for on the suppostiol
: that it was planned and stimulated b,
cmissaries from the rebel Ststes, Denver
the two Bannocks, aud Virginia Cit
: were all first settled from Tho Slay,
! ststes, and almost all the 6rst settler,
. were sectssionists, OF the vast number
OF bandits hung by the vigilance com
nittees al Bannoek aud Virginia City, /
cannot learn that ono was Republican
Several Of them hurruhed for jeff Dsvi
as their last words before they were hung
These have had immense facilities fO
Operating on the savagcs through th'
French and other whites who have set
tied among them. But the worst is prob
ably over. The election Of Mr.. LincolI
by the home vote has produced an i'm
preston to suppress the savsges, whethel
white OF red beyond dozen victories BY
, our armies.
In haste, yours respectfully,
Ia rE... J. BLANCHARD.