Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1865-07-12

lilES-lTS OOClAL WANTS AND P0SSES- |
sIoNs-ITs AGRICULTURAL CONTRA
DICrIoNs-ITs PRICES AND ITS VERNAo.
ULAR
VIRGINIA DALE, Colorado, Junel
9th, 1865. (
There are no aristocratic distinctions
between the days of the week west of the
Missouri. The Broad Church rule here,
and so broadly that even st. Burleigh of
the modern Florence would find hearty
welcome, particularly by our rcd brethren
who would rate his scalp with its orna-
NETS at the value of dozen of the ordin-
ary sort. Sundays are as good as other
days, and no better. Stages run. stores
are open, mines arc dug and mills crush.
But our eastery prejudices are not yet al
together conquered by the spirit of the
age; and so, on reaching here yesterday
morning at sunrise, we commanded "a
hours halt. Possibly our principles had
point put to them learning from the down
stage that Mr.. Lo, the poor Indian" had
got loose up the line, stolen the horses,
and interruption communication. Atany
rate we followed the fashion of our fore
fathers, and slept through the day, some
of us in the coach, the rest stretched out
on the piazza of the only house in
Virginia Dale, clambered up high rock
in the evening to view the landscape Ger
of valley, stream, snow-clad moutain, and
fardistant plain, and closed out with more
hearty than harmonious rendering of our
small repertoire of psalm tunes. Lodg-
ings are not extensive in this locality the
speaker borrowing a bed two slept in
the coach and two of us rolled ourselves
up in the blankets and took the floor
| hit upon a board whose hard side was
accidentally put up and what with this
and hungry and dry and noisy stage dri-
vers coming at to 4 a.. m. and less vo-
ciferous but quite as hungry invaders of
our bodily peace, the night brought more
reflection than refection-to US. But we are
off early this morning have satisfied our
christian consciences, and learned that
the Indians were certainly still $50 miles
away, but leaving behind for Mondays
rest fresh stage load of eager gold seek
ers and Salt Lake merchants. whom our
scruples on the subject of Sunday travel
ing had thrown one day behind. But
they we're solaced by the argument that
we would make the paths straight for
them above, that they must stop some
where, and, also, that here was the best
food and the prettiest cook, at the least, on
the line.
Virginia Dale deserves its pretty name.
A pearly, lively-looking stream runs
through a beautiful basin of perhaps 100
acres, among the mountains, for we are
within the embrace of the great hills
stretching away in smooth and rising pas.
ture to hooks and craunies of the wooded
range fronted by rock embattlment and
fanked by che snowy peaks themselves,
warm with June sun, and rare and pure
with an air into which no fctid breath
has poured itself,--it is difficult to imag.
inc more lovable spot in natures king
dom. 1t is 100 miles north from Denver
half of the bills, crossing frequent streams,
swollen and angry with the melting SHOWS,
and watering the only really green acre;
we have seen since leaving Kansas; and
half of the road winding over and
around and between the hills that form
the approaches to the Rocky Mountain
range.
Only the station of the stage line occu
pies the Dale house, barn, black
smith shop; the keeper and his wife, thu
latter as sweet, as genteel and as lady-lik'
as if just transplanted from eastern soci
ETY., yet preparing bountiful meals foi
twice daily stage loads of hungry ant
dirty passengers the stOck-tender ant
his assistant these were all the inbabi
tants of the spot, and no neighbors within
16 miles For the day, our party ant
its escort, the soldiers, lying off on tn
grass by the water with their camp fir
and their baggage wagon, made unusua
life, and gave o peculiar picturesquenes
to the sequestered spot.
How women, especially, can live con
tentedly in these out-of-the-way places OF