UU noaomsa ii. 'i man mi ill .jij-HX--- gkuotcir jo Ipolitirs, literature, Agriculture, Science, illoralitij, anb encral intelligence. VOL 18. STROUDSBURG, MONEOE COUNTY, PA. OCTOBER 27, 1859. T0.4$. PiiMidiPfl llV ThPftfWp Sfihocll. ! but. on attempting to cross them in a I ,n V ,,1oIt Jwngonjou find them creased and scoured TERMS. Two dollars per annum in advance Two fo J " dallars and ii quarter, half ycarlv and if not paid be , by innumerable water courses, now dry, Toro the end of the year. Two dollars and a half. ., tu.r ;n tho wp season water No papers discontinued unlil nil arrearages are paid, out cDOffing mst, ID iue wet season, naitr except at the option of the Editm. is most nhundont here. In most iustan- nr? Advertisements of one square (ten lines) or less, ... , .. , bneor three insertions $100. Each additional inser tiont 23 cents. Longer ones in proportion. JOB PR1HTTING. 'Tfaving a general assortment of large, plain and or namental Type, wc are prepared to execute every de s cription of Cards, Circulars, Bill Heads, Notes. Blank Hccciptss Justices, Legal and other -Hanks, Pamphlets. &c, prin, ted with neatness and despatch, on reasonable term nt this office. J. Q. DQCKWORTIT. JOHN IIATN, To Country Dealers. DUCKWORTH & HAYN, WHOLRSAT-E DEALERS IN CrOCCricS, PlWisioitS, LiqilOrSji&C.'ceptible slope to some point near their " " 1 3 j .: . r.:,ia- No. 60 Dey street, New York. June 16, 1859. ly AN OVERLAND JOURNEY. XXVI Prom Salt lake to Carson Valley. Placerville, July 21, IN. 9. There arc too emigrant trails from Salt c Lake City to Carson Valley and the pass thence into California the older and more favored starts north west from the Mormon Zion, passes north and west of Salt Lake, crossing Weber and Bear Riv ers near their mouths, with several small creek-, and gradually veering west and south-west so as to strike the head spring of the Humbolt, which stream it follows more than three hundred miles to its 4,sitik," within a hundred miles of the eastern base of the Sit rra Nevada. The other route leaves the Mormon capital in a southwesterly direction, touches Lake Utah on the north, passes west of tbat Lke through Provo, and thence souther ly through Fillmore, the nominal capital of the Territory, and so down by Sevier rivorand lake nearly to tbesouthcrn boun dary of Utah, wht-nce it stretcher weat, nearly upon the southern rim of the Great Basin, on wEich are tho "3Iountan Mead ows," where a large emigrant party from Arkansas was so atrociously ma-sacred in 1857. Thence thia trail turns north west to hit the sink of Carson River. (I can get no tolerable map of Utah, and the above may not be entirely coirect, but U nearly so.) It will be seen that each of these routes must necessarily be very cir cuitous, and that almost, if not quite, half the Territory lies between them. So, last year, Major Charpeuing, the contruc tor for carrying the Salt Lake and Cali fornia Mail, resolved to seek a shorter route midway between them, which he partially succeeded in establishicg. This route passes Camp Floyd, 43 miles south of Salt Lake City, and thence strikes west south-west through "the Desert," so called, which it penctrtcs.for 150 miles or morr; thence turning north-wct to reach and follow the origiual emigrant and mail-route down the Humboldt. Even thus, it is somewhat shorter than spy other traveled route from Silt Lake to Carson Valley, but still very tortuous, and at leat 150 miles longer than it phould b1. Capt. Simpson of the D. S. Topographical Corps, has made his way quite through the de?ert, on a route which makes the distance only 560 miles from Camp Floyd to Carson Valley; whereas it is 070 by the present mail-route, and further by any other. Capt Simpson is "L...1 :.. f.ti,, t..,,., uarnu DOW UHg-U " .u.uituv. 0m,v.r,nc.j he hopes to shorten the distance from Salt Lake City to Genoa, near tbe head j of Carson Valley, to about 550 mileS; and two of Major Cbarpening's superin- , tendents are now tion of this route a transfer of the f,nnafl0Jo Anx nf arss and water. , water. ... . . I trat tbey will and it passable; mean time, let me mvo oue account of so much of it as I have travelled, as I am not a ware that any is yet extant. I left Camp Floyd in the mail-wagon from Salt Lake City, on the morning of Thursday, July 21st, pursuing a south west course over a low mountain pass. Twenty miles -on, we found a small brook, making -from tbe mountains south of us axpto m iUiniiv nl nln win nil T nrp-nmr soon drank it op. Tho vegetation was that same eternal Sagebbeh and Grease- wood ( Artemisia, I think, is a more wide- i v - i , ' e u a lU&.VV ..w.wm, . - I wbich I am tired of mentioning but which, together or separately, cover two thirds of all tbe vast region betweecn the Itpcky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada. In places, tho Sagebush, for miles in ex tent, is dead and withering, seemingly parched up by the all pervading drouth; the Greasewood is either hardier, or choo ses its ground mora judioiously; for it is rarely found dead by acres. There is some Bunch-grass on tbe sides of two or m three mountains, but very little of aught that can be relied on to sustain human or animal life. The mountain and plains seem to divide the ground very fairly be- tween them-tbe soil of both being main lra white clay, while the former have .that creased, gullied, washed away up- pearance, which I have repeatedly noticed, Sometimes thev are nearly perpendicular on one or moro sides, like the Buttcs fur- ther east; but usually tbey can be ascen- ded on any side, and seeai to rise but one to three thousand feet above the plains at their bases. These plains appear from a distance to be level as so many tables; prntiMninrr the new nor !U1 UIC l8UU'' n uj uu uui ohu wuu uu- uigu, uuu eu tuuucanjr uduuuvu ui ccttlc ( tlie nr-C ever u ri ven over inis roau j j r a o uxaniiuug mtuew uui , . I P . j n . . v . . . .. , .. A,n nnA nnth no in nf fhn hills Wlllfih intundiiiPto recommend tracc 10 run mnus lurn,Jgr 6"ct uesoiate : snow us springs are lew aua generally having recently passed, and torn the Iran """" s , UlUl-UUlIlg IU r.VUUJui.ilU j . j f.i. r U..L1. J .l .: fA J- J . ..fc . J r , i . nnnrnnch if. on thfl Cast and SOUth. Bnd Moil tn 'it xKnnlf! thnv rcgionb coiupreueuu iuai ineir own inter- leeuio, uuu tuuir wuiuia uru uuuu uriuu undue to pieces. UUr icau muies wont " - . . . man 10 u euou.u w-ij . o i . , . .. . uf.- :i.u t.ir .1 u ! . h. r ., . . i . tlint. fimo will mnko irrpat chanirea in Its frr vra.nn imcl not esc, n no nooicr consiuoranon, snouiu lui- i up outore trm&iiug uuu way uuwu mcir down in a pile, DUt wore got up ana oui -- o -p . ces, a gradual slope 01 a mile or two in- i fprtronnn bptwnnn tho. font, of a mountain ; and tho ndiacent nlaiu or v'allcv: this ' slope is apt to be intensely dry, sterile, and covered with dead or dying Sage - bush. I judge thee slopes to be com- posed of the rockv, gravelly material of tho mountains, from which the lightor clay has t een washed out andoairicd off. They often seem to be composed almost wholly of small bits of rock. The val- j leys or plains arc from five to fifteeu miles across, though tbey seem in the (clear, dry atmo-phere of Utah, not half ! so much. Tbe.se plains have an impor- j course runs townrd some adjacent valley; ly obtained, but so sulphurous and gener ' in -ome cases, a marsh or naked upace ally bad as to be barely drinkable. Even near the centre indicates that the surplus the mules, I think, practice great mod water from the surrounding mountains eration in the use of it. At 1, wo har forms here in Spring a petty, shallow nc-sed up and soon were rising over a lake, which the hot suns soon evaporate long mountain pass, hardly less than ten I or the thirsty soil absorbs. The inoun- miles from the level plain to its summit, ! tain- are thiol v bolted or dotted with low ii I j 1 i e - US -l. ,1 . scruony ucaar, beiaom icuniigu uUu i - r .. .1 r - -.-, (hn xmiin Inn I U'lUll itvuiij ua Jill Kiiii tii-i.u wv. formed by three or four aalks or stems i starting from a common root. Themoun- I tnics seem to have no particular, or rath- j er, no yenerai direction; some of the val- leys being nearly or quite surrounded by them. Even in the wettest seasons, I cannot perceive that this reeion seudu off any surplus water to Salt lake or any oth- er general reservoir. Such is the region directly south-west of Camp Floyd. We found a station, a change of bor - ses, and something that wat? called din- ner, on the little stream I have already mentioned, and halted here, 2D miles or more from Gamp Floyd. In the after- noon, we came on over a higher, rockier mountain pa?s aud a far rougher road to the next station Simpson s Spring, near-; ly 50 mile from Camp Floyd, where we i halted for the nijjht. I fear the hot suns , of August will dry up this spring, and ! there is no other fit to to drink for a wea- rv distance south and west of this point; The station keeper here gave me an ) incident which illustrate- the character of j the country. Some few days before, he ascertained that his oxen, eight in num ber, had gone off, two or three nights bo fore, taking a southerly course; no he mouuted a horse and followed their trail. He rode upon it 100 mile.- without reach ing water, or overtaking tho cattle, which had lain down but once since tbey start ed, aud were still a day's journey ahead ' kali in a nearly pure state are exposed so further on, the Government bas a farm of him. If he continued the pursuit, bisjou the surface; in many places, it covers jD crop, intended for the benefit and part horse must die of thirst, and then be too the beds of shallow, dried-up lakes, and Jy cultivated by the labor of the neigh mut perish; so he turned about and left even streams, with a whitish incrustation; boring Iudians. Tbe mail-station also bin oxen to die in the desert or be found but it i more generally diffused through has its garden, and is cutting an abund and euten by savages. There was not a . the noil, and thus impregnates tho springs ance of ha v. From this station, it is ex- shadow of hope tbat he would ever see ! them again. ! strongly imbued with alkali will often miles or more in distance to Carson Val- pnerai ea anu oircBuuu, u tiuu. We had to drive the same team (mules j bring an incrustation of it to tho surface, iey, will be made, so soon as those now holdt may continue for years to be trav r -v n ,i .:. r... i,;i. i,ki. f-, ;D J . n . j eled; but I am suro no one ever left it Ul CUUlSi;', uw UUik uujf, maniljj; uu llmiv.-, but we stopt'cd to rest and feed at sub- station, only '20 miles from our starting point. It was about the forlornest spot i which coald easily be cleared of tticir I ever saw. Though at the foot of a low ! Greasewood and plowed would produce mountain, there was no water near it; 1 large crop ol Wheat, and of almosty any that v.hich had been given our mules had I thing else, if tbey could he irrigated. been carted in a barrel from Simpson's ; But they can never be. But little rain Spring aforesaid, and so it must be. An j falls in Summer, and that little is speedi attempt to sink a well at this point bad j ly evaporated from the hot earth, leaving thus far proved a failure. The statiou : the cloy as thirsty as ever. I fear it is ii i i i i u i Ku,'Per erc nves cni,rciy aiono in j when the Indians will let him sceiug a; .... . ,. :.' "cniy " i n nil-stage passe one way or tho other. He deeply regretted hn lack of books and , newspapers; wc could only give him one; P t,,era to S"PP'J e,r stations with .Andltinr ni.ltikP? Tn r. 11: In CIIPM that S100 fpeut by Maj. Cbarpfning in i a considerable stream, they may reaoh ley b a long, irregular, generally mode hupplying two or. three good journals to the plain; but only to be speedily diauk rate ascent, to a mountain divide, from each station on his route, and in provi- up by its scorched surface. Cultivation, which our trail took abruptly down tho ding for their interchange from station to j therefore, save in a very few narrow spots, wildest and ?rorst canon I ever saw trav station, would save him more than SI, 000 ! neems here impossible. erscd by a carriage, It is in places bare- in keeping good meu in his service, and; jjut wherever a chaos or jumblo of; ly wide enough at bottom for a carriage, in imbuing them with coutentment and 1 mountains is presented still more, where j and if two should meet here it is scarcely gratitude. So with othor mail-route j mountains rise behind mountains, range possible that thoy should pass. Tho through regions like this. 'behind ranee, rank above rank, till the : length of this canon it a mile and a half; We drove on that day 50 miles to . . . Fish Springs station, jut belore reaching "hich we paed one of the salt wells . w"ch are characteristic of thiB country, ' though I presume not peculiar to it. 1 hi 0DC is al'oat six t0 uil,t feet io metrr, anu pcroaps au equal niniaiicc irutu iuu and perhaps surface of tho surrounding earth to that of the water, which has a wbitish-green aspect, is intensely salt, aud said to bo unfathomable, with a downward suctiou which a mao could hardly or not at all w , . 1 ii T" resist. I had no deaire to try, uaoiy as i needed ablution, , Fi-h Springs form quite a largo pool at the north end of a low mountain range, and send off a copious stream to be drank up io tho course of three or four miles by the thirsty clay of tho plain. Tho water., woul" y lu"" is brackish, and I think sulphurous, as stream I thence traveled down ho that of a spring in the adjacent marsh, Bouth aide of the Humboldt for 225 miles, near the station clearly is. There arc and in all that distance not more than many fish iu the pool and stream, and two tributaries como in on that side, and tbey are said to bo good. I should have their united currents would barely suffice liked to verify the assertion; and tbey bite to turn a grindstone. Ibis desolation a hundredth part so freely as the uiu,ke- seems thereforo irredeemable, tees do hereabout, it were an easy matter Tbo mountains of central Utah arc to afford the' stage passengers hero a lees hopeless than the Plains. Contrary change from their usual rations of pork, to my former impression, they are fairly bread and coffee, which, wben tbe flour, wooded; by which I mean that-wood is or the pork, or the coffeo happens to be procurable on them at almost any point. oat, as it sometimes docs, renders the diet unsatisfactory, even to tboe who would , " , j . fi seem to nave neon scaaont.u to me nuc bv a passage across the Plains and the uy . . -, . . Rocky Mountain. Lusb springs arc just en -i ... r 1:. ;tV,,. ;.l... jv uiiieo uuwmiuX , and the staces nave to run at least ten miles out of their course to strike them. There is some coarse grass her, . July 23d. We have traveled this forenoon over a plain nearly surrounded by mountains. Said plain is very level to the eye, but the rapid traveler's sense of feeling contradicts this, for he finds it full of dry water-courses, which give him most uncomfortable jolts. Before noon, we camo to the spot whore the stnge mulos are turned out to feed and rest, by the side of a sink or depression in the plain, which is covered with coarse grass and reeds or bulrushes y digging in tUa ci ri nf tin a ..ink wfifor lifts hp.en casi- where a light thunder-shower that is a !:... . i n.itK li.,nmt V n A n r rvTT n r t n rk s " -J , 7 f ' 11 u W n men rnnin u rtntcn Its vVCSLUrn i.w .u.w - - - - declivity, and, a little after 5 p. m., reach- ed our next tation in "Pleasant "V' alley," a broad ravine which descends to the south-west. Hero we found water bngut, sweet, pure, sparkling, leaping water the first water fit to drink that wo had reached in a hundred miles; if bmipfon s spring ever dries up, tne dis- taucc will be at least a hundred and twen- Jty. W7e were now across what is here .' technically known as "the desert" that is to say we bad crossed the north-east : corner of it. I believe it extends at least ; 200 miles south lrom this point, and is at jlca - t as far from east to west across its center. If Uncle that tract for one Sam should ever sell cent per acre, he will swindle the purchaser outrageously, Let me endeavor, on quitting it to give a clear idea of this de-ert, a clear idea or tnia ae-erc, ana tnus or about half tho land inclosed between tho 'Rockv Mountains and the Sierra Nevada the other half being mainly covered by mountains and the narrow ravines or can- ons which separate them. The plains or valleys of Utah, then, have generally a soil of white clay, some- tisies rocky, at others streaked by "and or gravel; but u-ually pure clay, save as it is impregnated by some alkaline substance usually saleratus, but in plaoes niter, in others, salt or sulphur. Sometimes I ut rarely, considerable areas of this al- and streams. Irrigating a piece of ground nut i nun,u uu livuviu iivui it w viAjiut enced in tnat place, l thinu tne greater proportion of these plaius or valleys .1 -l a . i i ""- uuumeu to perpetual narrenness. 1 he mountains which divide these , - .. , F""" J J'" Where- ever a range is stogie that is, with a broad be noi valley each side of it it is apt to nnt. mnrn Minn nnr rn hrnn ( iniiiinnn .. i.i i . sides. If a spring is o copious, or so inn HIT ( Til On.arlltl7 firkmlilTliAfl O C f (rm I -' summits of tbo furthest that may be seen . . . . . .. .arc flecked with soow-tlicre the case is altered Spring, arc there more abuud- ant and more copious; the gradual molt- inir of the snows swells the rivulets forrn- ed by the speedy meeting of their waters; uuu iiiua cuiidiuciuuiu uiuuan mc iui uiuu , and poured down upon the subjacent plains, as we observe iu and around Salt Lake City, and north and west of Lake Utah. Thu are formed Bear and Web- er Rivers; such, I believe, is the origin of ( . l it I It. "1 k tne Jiumnoiat. iui suon instances arc far loo rare in Utah. From tho Jordan to tho Humboldt is about 350 miles by t rouie x imveicu. ui , .... uHl tance tbe brooks and rills I crossed or saw, could they be collected mto one chan- T- l. I f.. I ll ..It. i t . . . i i t r . .. ,v r.l.n.1. Allnrt it f mm Iho nrnrlnnl ttrnshmoi This wood is for tho mqtpart Cedar, six soon corrupted by its alkaliue surround- a little past midnight we were at the half to ten feet high, aud from a foot down- ings, Bnd its water, for at least the lower way station, where a well of decent brack ward in diameter near tho ground. half of its course, i about the most de- ish water has been dug, and which a droto White Pines of like size, and of equally testable I ever tasted. I choose to suffer of four or five hundred mulos reached a scrubty character, are quite common in thirst rather than drink it. Though U50 bout the time wo did. Thoy stopped tho western part of the mountains I trav- miles in length, it ia never more than a hero to rest, however, while we pushed crsed, and there is some Balsam Fir in deoent mill-stream; I presume it is the on with n fresh team for ten miles of tho deeper canons, which attains a diam- only river of equal length that never had the way, over as heavy a drag of sand etcr of IS to 20 inches, and a bight of even a canoe launched upon its bosom. as I ever endured, where a soost of this 40 to 00 feet. Of this Fir, several of the Its narrow bottom or intervale produces desert is a bard, alkaline clay. By 5 a mail station cabins arc constructed; in grass but so coarse in structure and so t tu., after riding five days and nights with Ruby Valley, tbey have one of Red or alkaline by impregnation that no sensible out rest, we drew up at the Station near Indian Pine: but thev are quite common- man would let his stock cat it if there! the sink of the Car.on. ly built of stones and mud. One on the Humboldt is built of dwarf-willow canes or wattles not one of cedar or the dwarf ed White Pino of this regien. Neither could be made to answer. j But I must hurry on. At Pleasant Valley wo turned north west up a broad ravine, and thence-forth held that gene ral course to reaoh the Humbolt, instead of still making west south-west directly toward Carson Valley, as it is proposed hereafter to do if that be found practica ble. For tho next 140 miles or there abouts, our trail led us mainly up one side of a mountain range and down tho other, thenoe across a valley of some ten 1 niilcs in width to tho foot of another chain. . I :i i. 11 au" r , xxs lue irau uunuiy ruua Up iul ii-s.i.-.-ii u-iuuuo auu utui tuv iuii- eht passie, the ascent and descent are rarely abrupt for any considerable dis- tanoe, and we bcldom lacked water, but 0Ur route was the most devious imagina- ble ranging from north-east on one ; laud to south on the othor. Sometimes j two or three hundred square miles were i visible at a glance the mountain-sides half covered with Cedar and Pine, with w;tb some dwarf Willows and Rose bush- cs, often fringing their slender rivulets; but not a tree oilier than Evergreen in eight. There is a large, pine-leaved 8brub or smali tree which a driver termed a Mountaiu Maborany and a passengor called a Red Haw, growing sparingly a mong tho evergreens on some mountain slopes, which seems about half way be tween a thorubush and an untrimmed ap- plc-tree. but nothing else deciduous above the size of the dwarf Willow. Even the 0 ouu in j v, Sagebush and Grea-ewood appear to be evergreens. Grass is here not abundant but unfailing, as it must be where water j3 perennial and wood in fair supply. The plains or valleys remain as further east, save tbat they are smaller, and, be- Cau-?e of tbe less scanty supply of water, more susceptible of improvement. At Shell Creek, 45 miles from Pleasant Val- ley, where we spent our next night, there js a little garden the first since Camp Floyd and at Ruby Valley, 50 milcB or t)ected that the new cut-off. savins 100 no""S SCrUllllJZing 16 SUail UUVU pTOUOUUSUU It practicable At Ruby, tho stage usually stops for the night; but we had been six days ma king rather loss than 300 miles, and be gan to grow impatient. The driver had his own reasons for pu-hing on, and did so, over a road partly mountainous, rough and sideling; but, starting at 8 p. m., we had reached the nest (Pine Valley) sta- f iAn All mi no liefnnf hprnfA filinrin nore wo wore detained three or four hours for mules those wo ehould have taken being astray-but at 9 we started with a new driver, and were soon entan- gd in a pole-bridge over a deep, miry -. . . r iknjinJ knn, nl and tho wagon run over, after a delay of 1. . . . Cm M m T5 inn "T n 1 the de-cent hardly less than 2,000 feet; the side of the road next to the water course often far lower than the other; the road-bed ii often made of sharp-edged fragments of broken rock, hard enough to stand on, harder still to hold back on. auu uvu iu iuio Uuu - - - ternoon is iutense, the sun being able to cuter it while the wind is not. Two or three glorious springs afford partial con solation to tbo weary, thirsty traveler I am confident no pasnengcr ever rode down this rocky ladder; I trust that none will until a bettor road is made here; though a food road in such a sluch is scarcely possible. Fifteen miles further, . aoroas a plain and a lower range oi ui!H, brought our mail-wagou at last, about 7 p. Ul., 01 US sevcniu uay irowi oaii jjucu City, to THE HUMBOLDT. I am not going to describe tho route down this river, as it is tbe old emigrant trail, repeatedly written about already. T ,nlw tcih fn renord mv oninion. that v.u.j .-iff - . - j r the Humboldt, all things considered, is tho meanest river of itB length on earth, Risinif in the Humboldt Mountains, hard- ly 150 miles west pf. .Salt Lake, it is at ....... .i rit.r u r n o in n r rnlKnr ulrnnmfl for there are two" main branehes-but ia were any alternative. Hero however, Li OR ACE uREELEl there is none. Cattle must cat this or . die mauy of them cat it and die. One! Apples "Without -Seeds, of the most intelligent emigrants I con- i The fonowiug itf published in tho Mom versed with on its banks informed me ; pWs a3 "the only method to pre that ho had all the grass for his stook du.e appleS jtbout seeds or cores: mowed, as bo had found by experience .Takc tho en(3 of tne Hbs of an ap tbat bis cattle, if grazed upon it, pulled ple troe wbere lhey Dang !ow 80 a3 t0 up much of their grass by the roots, and rcach tbo ,proUnd. di a small hole for tneso roots were tar more alkaline than tho stalks. I believe no tree of any sixo confinirjg it down fi0 that it wni remain. grows on this forlorn river from its forks Do 'lu wjnter or tbe beginning of j t0 it9 mouth I am sure I saw none while ; sprjDg. The end of tho limb thus bur , traversing the lower half of its course. ried take root and put up sprouts- or , Half a dozen specimens of a lare, worth- 8ciorjSf hicb, wben they become sufii Icsh shrub, known as Buffalo bush or ' 0ieDtly large to 'set out,' dig up at the ' Bullberry, with a prevalent fringe of Wil- , propcr sca30D and transplant thorn in lows about the proper size for a school- .tne oarcbcd where you wish them to re- I marm's use comprise the entire timber of:mnjn When they get large enough to ;this delectable stream, whoso gad-flies, uear. thev will bear aDnlcs without seeds I musKeiocs, gnais, eco., are so counties 1 t- i . P. I and so bloodtbir-ty as to allow cattle so unhappy as to bo stationed on or driven j Many have died this season of the bad water, that would have survived the wa - . v. r .1 ii t ter but for tbehe execrable insects, by , , , lL i , . j i wuiou iuu uimospoerc, at iiuies, is uarK-r ened. It certainly is not a pleasure to ; ' rido night and day along such a stream, , with the heat intense, tbe dust a constant : cloud, and the roads all gullied and ground into chuck holes; but then, who would stay in such a region one moment longer than ho must? I thought I had seen barrenness before on the upper course of the Republican on the North Platte, Green River, &c. but I was green, if the regions washed bv those streams were not. Hero, on the . e--- 1 J tliose streams i n i .lJi c : -t l 1 1 nuui liuiut, v a lu ii c sua euiuurueu, auu , .. waves uia d vi ulv i uici tfc uuuJiuivu .!. pressly named with contempt, here, a belt, even the oar-' rowest fringe, of Cottonwood would make! a comparative Eden. The Sagebush and Greasewood which cover the high, parch ed plain on either side of the river's bot tom seems thinly set, with broad space-) of naked, shining, glaring, blinding clay between them; tbe bills beyond, which bound tho prospect, seem even more na ked. Not a tree, and hardly a shrub, anywhere relieves their sterility; not a brook, save one small one, runs down be tween them to swell the scanty waters of the riter. As the only considerable stream in the Great Basin that pursues a i j . j- .u- TJ. . without a Honse of relief and thankfulness. There can never be any considerable -settlement here. After a course, at first west by south, then north by west, afterward south-west, and for tbe last .50 miles due south, the river falls into Lake Humboldt a fine sheet of clean water, perhaps 15 miles in lenath and 40 in circumference. I tried ) in circumference, l tried ' to obtain an approximation to its depth, out couiu not; cnose yu.o uuvc t lest assuring me that no boat had ever floated upon its waters-a state- i U':U iL. ilnfiiiiilirtti nf irnnri in fill - . . . wu,uu . hn region renders creumie I am satis- i j i, A rT. nrm rnor r ill u Lako is being uvu. uu;iri, mow nm- ters. A stream, not so copious as the ri ver, runs from tho Lake on the south, and flows with a gentle, sluggish current into a largo iule or reed marsh, which has no outlet, and is said to be but mod erately salt. The Lake water is account ed sweetor than that of the river. Here ' the Humboldt is said to sitifc, liko tbe Carson, Truckeo and Walker, which issue from tbe Sierra Nevada and run east wardly into tho adjacent desert; but 1 suspect thoy arc all drank op by evapora tion and by the thirsty sands which sur round them. Tho Mississippi, it it ran across tbe liicat liasm anu iepi ciear mountains, would be turoateneu oy a 5im - ilar fato. j We reached the Sink at G p. m. on Thursday, tho 29th scarcely two days' from Gravelly Ford, where we struck tho f river, having in those two days traversed 9:0 mil of vorv bad and intenso- some 220 milos of vory bad and intenso ly hot, dusty road. ;t a, wo were reauy ere read' to pass "the Desert" that 13. tho deso- .ilQ plain which seperatestho bink ot thoi conuguraiiou nuu iuu luiuwo ui n- nu LJumboldt from that ot tne uaison. uuii.angel3 Q their parlors and the Lord ono 0f our fresh mules was sick aud could -j. wfaat jn their ktcnCns." i not 00 repiaceu, Miuuu iuuuu wm. m..-. drive a tedious ouu, uuu v , . dexterous n&C in a bavou or baok-fct -ot tbo Humboldt .T" L r i,;i lib,., v to spenu iue uigu.. -.-i having been mired and tnrown uowu, , m 1 .1 J 1 " would not pull; tho sick wheeler ooultti not leaders come . & nd t k from the place of our misadventure. E7 At length, by putting one OI lOCj "XU vuariejr, euiu uuu umu icuuw iu in his nlaoc. wo made a start, anu anoiuer, - o aru gu.u iu uu a uupui " ' i - I -1 J.T 1 I 1 -t-T--' II through, finding the bottom tirni on our nouse. -jroon i mat s noiumg, he water not deep a.vard either way rejoined the other: "Pap's going to get a , onj, ,,nAar ua fr honrl ,n thn hoi ' or cores. 31 The following is a funeral sermon latef- , Pf d ,u ?L, aac.beJe c crgJ- l . , , , , , r , ! and entreated to preach this sermon, bu8 T . , A J . T ... I don t want to do it. I never did lirser , the man: I never knew nothing good of him. lie bad horses, and he run them; i he bad cocks, and he fit them; I have .heard that he was occasionally good at fires. Tbe bearers will please remove the body, and sing the following bymn: "With rapture we delight to see The cusi removed." The Paris (Ky.) Flag states that the country in and around "Head Quarters," ! Nicholas County, in that State, had been I for mnrn- -.molrc torrJSltr pvofri" nboilfc r& i ' -j - - - j "bitr wedding at which evervbodv was o .c J J rr On the aboveto 00 present, anu waica was to come on 1 Cottonwood regardless of expense. The parties to be married were Mr. James H and Miss Anna Y. J . Everything went on smoothly till the nisht beforo tho wed- ding (tbe marriage was to take place in the morning and the jollification to last all day,) when the young lady instead of going to her bed, packed up a few clothes, and at midnight left the house in compa ny with Mr. Frank C- and, as fast as horseflesh could carry them, sped for Aberdeen, Ohio, where, as day was breaking, they were married. A New Fowl. A traveler stopping at one of tho hotels in Minnesota, recent ly, saw the phrase "Fried Water Chick ens" on tbe dinner bill of fare. Desiring to know what this meant, he sent for a dish of water chickens. He tried them fouud themexcellent recommended them to the rest of the party, ladies and all. All who tried them liked them wonder fully; and almost all of them became frog eaters almost without knowing it. A Puzzled Irishman. "There is ij; "J" o - list two wavs of doing it. said Tat to u' l3,u l""l"fVu" tiiMcmr nnn rv rnT inr n inn --ii i khvr $4,000, I must lay up $200 a year for twenty years; or I can put away $20 a year lor zuu will I do it?" years. Now which way It is undeniable, (says Prentice,) that in America it lakes three to make a pair he, she and a hired girl. Had Adam been a modern, there would have been a hired girl in Paradise to look after Abel and raise Cain. A negro lately fell from the upper sto ry of a warehouse in Charleston, S. C, a distance of about thirty feet, striking head first, on the fop of a whisky barrel. Tbo result was the barrel leaked. The Frogtown Debating Society is en gaged in a discussion ou the following question; If a husband deserts his wife, which is tho most abaudoncd the man or tho woman 1 JJjA fellow was arrested for stealing ! ducks5, and after a description of them, tnc coun5el for tho prisoner said, "Why they can't be such a rare breed, for I have some of thcra in my own yard." '"Very likely," said tho complainant; have lost a good many lately. I i The following is.a toast. at a lato Pio- nio in Illinois. Its author ii a bachelor: uThr Ladies Saints in their prayera , Lowr- of pfc has been fined, under the Sunday law. for . . . u . o i drjvinS carnage to church onthe Sab bath. Ila paid his fine lide a man and a . , I i. UL t I UU t mortgase on ours. .i. .1 uu. m i., . . :.i ir.i r.ii .
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