The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-09-24

In descending the river upon our raft, as
well as for seventy-fve miles above where we
constructed it, we passed through q success
sion of valleys from one mile to fifty in
length, where we unexpectedly found wild
oats, wheat, rye, barley, timothy, and clover
growing spontaneously, while the fine cedar
and oak timber increased in size The
mineral resources we found to be of the most
fiattering character. Time will not permit
me to enter into full description of these or
the superb facilities for making them avail
able. Soon the public will know and
appreciate these facts, and the press of the
East will no longer be led astray by de-
scriptions of the canyons of the Colorado
given by a recent explorer in this, the
eleventh hour, whose vision was so remark
ably acute that at the distance of three hun
dred miles from Green river he could see the
canyons of the Colorado, in all their length
and depth, and whose letters stated that he
was the first to ascend the summit of Longs
Peak, when it is matter of public notoriety
that women and men have gone before him
for the last ten years, the day and date of
whose ascent were marked upon the place of
his triumph. I feel that / am DEPRESSING from
my object in writing Had time 1 would
enter upon it at length, and speak of it as its
Importance demands.
The Return of Colonel POweII-The Reported
Murder of his Party.
The Chicago Republican of the 2Oth says:-
We have received brief note from Major
Powell, dated Mouth of Virgin River, August
30, announcing the safe arrival of his expedi-
ton at that point Virgin river is at the
head of navigation on the Colorado, and the
exploration therefore, of the dangerous por-
ton of that river may be considered as sue
cessful. In few days we hope to receive
from Major Powell the full report he pro-
misses of his adventures and observations
The Dese1et Ne3Cs of the 7th inst. says, as
had already been stated in q despatch from
Detroit, that Major Powell had arrived at
Fort st. George, in Utah, and the same paper
of the Sth says that it has received a despatch
from st. George with the intelligence that
three of the men belonging to the expedition
had been killed by the Indians The story
rests on the report of friendly Indian, who
stated that the men were found, very hungry,
by portion of the Shebett tribe, who fed
them and put them on the trail leading to
Washington, in Southern Utah; that on their
journey the men fell in with squaw and
shot her, whereupon they were followed by
three of the Shebetts and killed The nanaes
of the men are not given, and it is to be
hoped that the whole story is untrue. 1t does
not seem probable that the Powell party
would have scattered Immediately on issuing
from the canyons of the Colorado, and if
kept together, Major Powell would have had
sufficient authority over his men to have pre-
vented any collision with friendly Indians
If his men struggled, however, it is quite pos
sible that they may have got into trouble
The Detroit despatch, published some days
ago, announcing to the Majors family in
Detroit his arrival at st. George, does not
mention this story of the Deseret Neaos.