The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-07-18
a Storm, on tne PIairis.

| Demas Barnes, Esq, writing from Den
yer City to the Brooklyn Eagle, thus de
scribes the climate of the plaius, which
the emigrant crosses before reaching
Denver, and gives an account of a storm
in which he was caught:
From Julesburg three hundred miles 70
| the gorges of the mountains such thing
as tree, shrub or bush is not TO be So n
The result is. the land is swept by the
most terrific gales, and the soil being
| free aud light, is either driven III clouds
of dust and sand, OF washed by bursting
clouds of rain into the ravines ard rivers,
thence to the Balize and Cuff ei Iexico-
thus denuding these plains of vegetable
life and creating the rich alluvial bottom
lands of the Mississippi. 1t is geologi-
cally proven that the land from the june
ton of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers
down has been formed in this way from
what was once the Gulf ofMeXico. Evi-
dence is here indisputably furnished in
what are denOmiuatel the "Buttes
when the soil is of Il more solid character,
composed of gravel orclay. small platans.
or peaks rise silent and alone in the prai-
ries-with sides washed like the banks OF
Gulshus Bear in mind then, that this Is
not the land flowing with milk and
honey that we have embarked in semi
barren plain-with a climate more tictlr
than had believed existed on the iatr
of the earth. II was near evening "' "a'
second day, calm, delightful J. 81,
was sitting with the driver or ts'd". lo-d-
ing an umbrella to protect ime fron. the
tropical heat while in but 4 linen COAT
A cloud appeared III the south east. a sud
den and intensely cold hrr, ze =-ruck MS,
and | will venture to say the 'nermome'
ter sunk forty degrees IL ten miGutes;
the whole heavens werc streaked with
forked lightnings; tho wind rose - %
hurricane, that seemed about tosnap aha
start the sodS from the earth, while as 70
rain, it might have rained harder before
and it might have rained harded since,
but | didn't happen TO he ont III it. A
ship might as well proceed under full sail
in Il typhoon as stage across the plains
in one Of these storms. The teamsters
understand themselves, wheel the horses
heads from the wind, and lay to, until
its fury is passed This is no fancy
sketch Twice during our passage were
we compelled TO make his Kind of an un-
certain anchorage. Stages are frequent
ly Capsized When occurring in the
night time as did finally both of ours, and
which is more usually the ease, the Egyp-
tian darkness interspersed with vivid
lightning. the most incessant ever wit
messed and reverberating thunder that
seemed to make The very earth quake and
tremble-with no voice audible from the
clatter Of the pelting rain-it strongly
reminded one that home would be a very
comfortable place to be in.
Immense fresh gullies and washes are
thus constantly occurring. A high wind
is of nightly occurrence at this season Of
the year. 1t rains once or twice almost
every daS-it is disagreeably cold once
in two days, andintensely warm in about
the same proportion The scene shifts
with the rapidity of a drama, and pan
Drama of beauty presents to which the
pen OF Irving or the pencil Of Hogarth
cuuld not do Justice