Year: 1859

sods are to be constructed 90 soon as nav
be. Such are the shifts Of human inrenn-
ity in country which has probably not a
cord Of growing wood to each township Of
land


Six miles further up, this fork Of tho
Republican energies from its sandy bed. III
which it has been lost for the twenty-five
miles next above. or course, II loses in
volume in passing through such q land OF
drouth. Probably thirty times to-day we
have crossed the broad sandy beds Of
creeks running down from the high prairies
creeks which In Winter and early Spring
are sweeping torrents, but now are wastes
Of thirsty sand. Thus has it been for nine.
ty miles-thus is it for many miles above
and presume many also below. The road
from Leavenworth to Denver had to be
| taken some so miles north Of It's due course
to obtain even such passage through the
American Desert; on direct line from the
head of Solomon's Fork, il must have pass
ed over some 200 miles of entire absence Of
wood and water.


have seen, during the last three or four
days, several bands Of wild IndiaBs-Aras
pahoes, Cheyennes, Kiowsys, Sioux, &c;
mainly the two former. OF these the
Arapahoes have been the most numerous
| aud repulsive. Their children swarmed a.
round us at Station l6-the men Being
mainly absent on marauding expedition
against the Pawnees-tbe women staying
in their lodges. The young ones are tho
rough savages-their allowance Of clothing
| averaging six inches square Of buffalo skin
to each, but so unequally distributed (as is
the case with worldly goods in general)
| that the majority have far scantier allow
ance. A large Cheyenne village is encamp-
ed around Station 10, where we stopped
last night; we have been meeting squads
of these aud other tribes several times q
day. The Kiowsys are camped some eight
miles from this spot They all profess to
be friendly, though the Cheyennes have
twice stopped and delayed the express wa
gons on pretence of claiming payment for
the injury done them in cutting wood, eat
ing grass soaring away game, &c. They
would all like TO beg, and many Of them
are deemed not dsinclined to steal We
are to pass through several more enesmp,
ments, but expect no trouble from them
The Cheyeunes are better clad, and seem
to have more selfrespect than the Arapa-
hoes, but they are all low in the scale of in
telectual and moral being, aud must fade
away unless they can be induced to work.
| More of them hereafter.


The unusual dullness of this letter is
partly accounted for by an accident. Two
evenings since; just as we were nearing
Station II, where we were to stop for the
night, my fellow-passenger and had joe
ular discussion on the gulIies into which we
were SO frequently plunged, to our personal
discomfort. He promised that it was a
consolation that the sides of these gullies
could not be worse than perpendicular; to
which required with the assertion that
they could be and were - for instance.
where gully, in addition to its perpendicu-
lar descent had an inclination Of As de-
grees or so to one side the track just
then violent lurch of the wagon to one
side then to the other, in descending one
of these jolts, enforced my position. Two
minutes later, as we we're about to descend
the steep bank of the creek intervale, the
mules acting perversely, my friend stepped
out to take them by the head, leaving me
alone in the wagon. Just then, we began
to descend the steep pitch, the driver pull
ing up with all his might, when the left
rein Of the leaders broke, and the team
was in moment Sheared out of the road
and ran diagonaily down the pitch. In
second, tho wagon went over, hitting the
ground most spiteful blow. / of course
went over with it, and when rose to my
dered and diSheVeled, the mules had been
disengaged by the upset and were making
good time across the prairie, while the driv-
er, considerably hurt, was getting out from
under the carriage to limp after them. /
had slight cut on my left cheek and q
worse one below the left knee, with pref
ty smart concussion generally, but not a
bone started nor tendon strained, and l
walked away to the Station as firmly as
ever, leaving the superintendent and my
fellow passenger to pick up the pieces and
guard the baggage from the Indians who
instantly swarmed about the wreck. / am
sore yet aud little lame, but three or
four days rest--if can ever get twill
make all right. This is the first and oRly
accident that has happened to the Express
line, though it has run out some thirty pas
sage-Wagons from Leavenworth, and per-
haps half so many back from Denver
And this was the result of casualty for
which neither driver nor Company was to
blame.


Three days hence, hope to be at Den
yer, (l85 miles Distant whence our latest
advices are very cheering to the hearts OF
the legions Of faint aud weary gold-seekers
we have passed on the way. trust. for
their sakes that this news viii prove fully
true. But you will have heard by telegraph
] before this can reach you. H.G.



Poor ENcouRAeEMENT.-The Democratic
papers and leaders have been in great glee,
of late, over the prospective disruption Of
the Republican party in Ohio because a