New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-06-23

-. Ccu,userce Of the Plaius-Appear"@Cst
-. ox.rinnd Trmiss-The Josrsey
n, staae.Coach-In uenithfu'ne-s-
Great American Desert--' Gsnivanszed
YenkcssY- Among the Antelope = a
Thrilling Ride Across the Continent
Reception In Denver-Pvesident Linz
r.Iw,s Last Message 70 the Miners.
Prom Our Special Correspondent.
DENVER, Colorado. Monday, May 90, 1868
The Commerce of the Plains is worthy OF N.Y.
Iincolns favorte quotation from Virgil Res magma es'
which he rendered in the vernacular: III Is VIE
thincp Our route from Atcbison is only one VI u''
half dozen great thoroughfares from the Missouri " VIZ
mountains. The Indian massacres ana de'as'a''o"'
last year. the raids and murders during inc p'e''I"
Season have almost stopped migration, anu gro"'
diminished reighting. Yet the road Is do''eu VAN ~o
white covers of wagoDs-sRowy sails oil the great h'u
fleets that for half the year move weetwaru over o
vast ocean of prairie and desert WITHIN 'ne as' 10"
ask more tbsu six thousand wagons have passed f@t
Kearney-nipe hundred of them in three days. lhey
are each drawn BY from two 10 twelve oxeu, mules {"
Aoes aud carry from eight thousand pounds oil
machinery. goods or provisions.
They toll YEARLY along from twelve TO twenty miles
per day. The long bearded shaggy drivers tanned 10
the hue of Arapaboes look like animated pliSrS I"
earth and seem under the perpetual sentence; pus'
,hou ART and unto dust shalt tbou return. Each keeps
his trasty rifle shot gun within grasp and OF nsn
the wagons are parked in circle and the cattle driven
into the extemporised yard which they ino'ose as
protection against Indian surprises. Eternal vigilance
is the price of travel The children of the Immigrants
reye in dirt and novelty but their mothers cast eager
,ong;ny ev.s tosy ard their new homes There is pro-
found truth in the remark of Denver lady that
.plapstra and frontier life peculiarly severe
spon women and oxen
A stageeoach of the Overland Line, filed with pas
sengers and weighed down by half tun Of mail, starts
daily from Atchsen, Kansas going West, and anotner
from Folsom California, coming East. The Stations
average about enmes apart You roh up TO one "i
them four fresh horses all ready in the harness are
exchanged for your painting. smoking team and IN
from three ten minutes you are again Whiring along
Three times every twenty hours you stop half an
hour for mes-oten culinary maryel-of good coffee
sweet milk fresh butter and eggs canned fruits. ham
and yenison-bu with other detentions you go on,
on, on sitting bolt upright for upward OF twenty days
and nights.
Ihsy. been Six times over 100 miles of the route. and.
after the first night have always found my sleep nearly
a. sound, end quite as refreshing in bed at home.
After such an experience it is easy believe that the
Esquimaux and SOME other tribes always sleep from
choice in the sitting posture. AT the end Of the jour
ney bath, clean clothing and two hours in the hands
of the barber make one forget his fatigue. and feel
fresh and elastic.
The trip Is often made by and children. j
once rode from Denver Atchison for six days and
nights In charge Of lady with infant of Il weeks
and boy Of four years. When we started, the mother
so weak and rednced. from long siege of typhoid
fever, that she coud barely walk and her thin face
wore almost the palor Of DEATH She found the first
"a hours very hard, but then rallied. developing
ravenous appetite. Before reached the river. the
had back her cheeks and the vgor to her
frame. Nature is very kind when trust her fully
and the breeze Of the Pains-so dry that colds and
rheumatisms become only tradition pure that fresh
meat cut in strips and exposed to it will perfectly
and may DO carried all over the world without smoking
or satng-bears healing and vitality upon Its wings
Western Kansas is full Of openings for the farmer.
At the crossing OF Big Sandy where the soil will pro-
duce from thirty forty bushels Of to the
that grain commands three dollars per bushel. and
Is sometimes higher. The soil of the prairies
grows thinner and thinner, until you strike the Ameri
lean Desert-a vast dreary expsnse Of cactus and
crossword .andhis II seems worthless for farming
but nature designed ii for the grand pastuTsge Of the
continent Even the frosts of Winter do not destroy
the nuritivs qualities of It's dry shriveod grass which
1 sucort and fatten stock during almost every month
Oftbe year. ... ,..
TIE Desert ranches and stagestatons are Of sods,
which the sun bakes almost to the hardness Of bricks
In that treeess region they make excellent dwellings,
cool in Summer and warm in Winter. Few have been
rebuilt since the Indian derredsons Of last year. and
many graves. with rude head.boards and wooden rail
ings tell their own sad story.
-Four csyalIymen accompany each coach, and at
every station is little detachment of infantry They
are all Rebel prisoners or dcserers who have taken the
oath of allegiance and enlisted in the United States
service. They style themselves Galvanized Yankees,
and make excellent soldiers
. The antelope still abounds On the Plains Far away
when you cannot distinguish the rest Of his earth
ooored body YOU see his white ;nft Of tan huterng 10
the air. Galoping over the hills he Is grace persona
6ed--the very embodiment OF the poetry OF notion
From nearer view you read ineffablc tenderness and
pathos in his gentle liquid eyes. Many rifles and shot
guns have made him shy hut he Is naturally tame and
easily donesticatsd. Once, on the lonely mountain
trail from New. Mexico to Denver long herd OF ante
lopes slowly crossed the path before 30 near that
could have hurled pebble 10 them. They were In
single file and some were spotted with wite--a rare
and exquisite combination of color. / stopped my
horse 10 let them pass. and counted l27 OF them.
Europeans would find amusing American incongrui'
ties in the Overland trip. as reached one station
our driver enjoinel the waiting hostlers; Gents We
are four hours behud and want to make up the time.
We must change these teams in three minutes by the
watch AT the last telegraph station the operator said
TO Mr. Colfax and his party: "The Denver people
making preparations to give yoa }'aOr' grand reeep
ton"
The Plains afford the best natural roads in the world