New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1866-01-25
FROM THE MISSOURI TO FHB PACIFIC-24


Prom Utah u Msstans-Tbe Coach and
the Concord Wagon - Sleeping II .
sitting Ps.turc-" Stage Crsxiness ~
Mernssu Villages aud Fsrms-Norris-
vile and its History A. OGshoet Of
Mormenism-Gcn. Conner mad His In.
dim PeIicy-Bcnr Biver-3ceses ss the
Road-A Capsizr-The Port Neuf Rsb.
bery-snake or shsshonee River-The
Three Tetens - catering Montana
Bannack City-A weil.Wsrs Gni'sws
Quarts Mills md miaes Montana
Ci,y-Ra,tiessaks Silver District-Ar.
rival I'm Virginia.
From Our Special Correspondent
VIRGINIA CITY. MONTANA. Saturday. Oct. q. 1868
From Salt Lake City, Virginia, the capital OF
Montana, lies AIS miles nOrth Boise. The capital Of
Idaho 40 miles north west The road 10 Ike the letter
Y, at Bear River so miles out the main stem forks
the right stroke leading to Montana and the left to
Idaho. To both. run Ben. Holidays tri.weekly mail
coaches: fare. 500, meals about 81 rs each
The od.fashioned stage coach 10 used from the Mis-
souri, westward. GOO miles to Denver, Colorado, and
from California eastward 400 miles 10 Austin. Nevada
Over the intervening gap Of the great Central route
and UPON all Its branches plies the Concord hack. Gov
cred with duck or canvas the driver sitting In front,
at slight elevation above the passengers. Bearing no
weight upon the roof It ia less sopheayy for mud holes
and mountain.sides where preserving the center Of
gravity becomes with Falstsfs instinct "a great
matter" Like human travellers on HES highway, II
gtes best under heavy load. Empty, II lolts and
pitches like ship in raging sea, filed with passen.
"a the rack behind and under The drivers feet is
ton Is easy and elastic Executing every other IN AURA
bity and strength. this hack Is used all over the
continent. and throughout South America In dozen
success but never eQuaed. The lite capital OF the
Granite State alone knows the art Of making vehicle
which, like the one-hoss shay don't break down. but
only wears out"
Istart with two buffalo robes, for already old King
Winter Is abroad, aud bis white pumes wave fron
every mountain which looks down upon the City Of the
Saints The feather pillow, too, must be taken-tbe
great indispensable Of overland travel Its Rrtta percba
substitute Is an abomnation to the fesh-worse than
block Of wood or slab OF granite The PASSENGER can
ton The first night Is hard and trying; afterward,
with head resting against his pillow. in corner, ones
repOse IL ample and refreshing the end OF stage
tourney If twenty days and nights after BATH clean
clothing and an hour In the hands o the barber more
hale and vigorous than when be started. be compre
bends how the Esquimaux and some other nations r
choce spend their nights IN sitting postare But Tor
very few exceptional organizations u murders steep
sometimes Inducing "stagecrazness" Under rs IN,
fuence passengers have even fed rom the ooacn and
For hoars. along The north bank Of tho Great Salt
Lake. VIC view its shining mirror OF water Its purple
mountains Of island the pale violet peaks OF s inrher
Shore and stiI beyond gauzy clouds Of parest white
against sky Of deepest, serenest blue. Pass thrifty
Mormon villages Of dull brown adobe houses. With
fonrising orchards and shading cottonwoods. their
streets watered by little artificial streams; and valley
farms with broad fields great shocks OF corn and huge
stacks Of baey Of ha
men with guns their shoulder passing from house
to house. show preparations for the grand military nus.
ter Of the Saints TO begin on the morrow at sat Lake
CITY Worthwhile was built by Mormon f,hsvsrs Of
Morris strange fanatic, who ont Brghsmed Brigham
Persuaang them that the world with all Its people ex.
cept themselves about 10 be destroyed ne taught
them to sezs the horses cattle and grain Of their neigh
bor upon the theory that the earth and the fruits there
belong to the chosen Of the Lord. II was par OF
their religion ut in the Autumn 81 isos tne MOT
fought them bravely In pitched Dstte Ine propnet
fell with bullet in bis brain; number OF bis deluded
followers intending women and children, were Killed;
Brigham learn from this that religion n no panopy for
what the whole civilized world regards as crime
Let him ponder the lesson. He who viii not be ruled
by the rndder must be ruled by the rock"
Gen. Conner who still commands the United States
forces In Utah. fed and sheltered the surviving Morrs
ties until spring then gave them escort and transpora.
ton Soda Springs Montana where they now reside.
think they do not try their old practice upon their In.
dian neghbors; for that diversion at which the
uoOe savage can beat any white man. ser giving him
several point, in the game. The TRIBUNE eroneonsy
tie Indians. brave and worthy officer who by merit
alone has risen from the ranks to . hgadier general
ship he 10 the most successful Indian fighter since Har
hey B be neither advocates nor practices the muir
mutation OF women and children, like the alleged Sand
Greek massacre Of Colorado. by soldiers wearing the
National uniform and carrying the National flag.
From the Rocky Mountains ~ the Pacific almost every
body talks IN favor OF determination. Every commu
nifty has known Of stock stolen. men shot and scsped
burned to death. and women violated. In general
IL. L.
unjust sometimes publishing the Innocent, often reward
ing the guilty with blank and annuties and appoint
ing agents who stole alike from the tribes and the
treasury with equal and exact impartiality.
Put the Indians uvon reservatons keep them there
and keep the whites off; educate their children when
they arc peaceaole punish every white man who com
mils outrages upon them when they are hostile. fight
them vigorously and unsparingly till they for peace
chastise them for every crime aud reward them for al
good behavior In short treat them Justly and merc
fully and the Indian troubles viii speedily and surely
be cured. This 10 Conners policy, the policy Of CON-
mon sense aud common humanity. few tribes like
the Comancbes. Kiowas. and Snakes are uDpromsiug
subjects: but the Wyandottes, Delawsres. Shswnees
Potawattomes Kicsapoos. Choctaws. Cherokees. Cay
uses, and Neg Perces once all wariike have become
measurably civilized. until IN general life and property
are safer among them than In border white communities
Ourffrst night, dark and cloudy Is marked only BY |
the unbng down Of horse aud the rest falling npon
him In strange, struggling mass Hall an hour suices
for embarrassing all, uutargng the novel knot and
setting each upon his own proper legs Our daylight |
breakfast ut Bear River 10 shared by coachIoad Of
passengers from Montana aud another from Idaho. |
Before starting again change vehicles A coach, |
like railway carriage, needs rest and should not be
run continuously more than hundred miles. Orr
course winds pleasantly through grassy valleys. be
tween mountains rugged and gasted. which knit their
frowning brows, while little streams shaded BY shrub
like eedss leap and sing and fash down tae dark ra-
vines. They wear deep gulies and form mry .loughs
which obstruct our road for bridges come only with
civilization We meet many creaking wagons, whose
once white have lost all their original brightness
whose patieot oxen and brow ned drivers trudge
YEARLY along; for when the Wild geese ny southw ard
the frontiermcn move toward "the Stahs." No dwell
ngs except low adobe stations with their huge stacks
Crossing low, bare divide We leave the great basin
of Itah behind aud are in Idaho waters which run
W .ha paci6c usr dark In the tWiukIinR OF ere