| Show the bastean ma mail il arrived armed on monday two daison ai s in advance of schedule time our risers danei from the states are up to june ath and t he ta test dates dales from larode are per steamer Arne america arnerich rici ilver liverpool pool may up tomay to may the position of affairs in italy had not materially altered since on our last advice louis napoleon vi was as still at alessandria ahe the austrian Austri ants were their positions eions and collecting besand are evident ay waiting to be attacked our extracts from the kastern eastern papers pre tent a summary of the general nes eighteen little chil chitren Iren from 2 to 8 yem years old aj the survivors of the mountain meadow inai inas sacre cre left hereon here on tuesday for the states the rhe first arrangements contemplated their transportation to the states i ith ox OIL teams but gen Johr sion kindly kindl k and promptly aptly responded to a request fiam DrY or jorney orney and has furnished tor for their better accommodation j three spring ambulance sand and one baggage bagg age wagon with teams of six mules each ibe abe change in in the mode of transportation will v e think contribute greatly to the eum cum fort of the children and those in charge of them from the circumstances connected ii iab their orphanage op hanage they are peculiarly objects for sympathy and we w e are pleased to see eee the efforts of dr forney to make the load on which they travel in search of relatives la tives or friends as smooth as possible the will travel with and are under the protection of capt R drago dragoons onsy who is 19 en route to ft kearney with his 4 command mrs worley mrs nash kash and two other ladies have been engaged as matrons matrona mat rons to attend to the wants of the little ones and three men also accompany the party as camp assi assistants stants the names of the children so BO far as aa can be learned are as follows john calvin lewis and mary sorel their father being held in in remembrance as joe JOB So sorel relf ambrose miram and william i I 1 frances horn charles and annie grancher rr Fr ancher richer betsey and jane baker rebeccar rebecca louisa louis and sarah dunlap sophronia or mar mary y and ephraim IV huff fluff angeline and annie surname unknown and a little boy of whom there Is no account ac countr the people with whom he was found called him william the children are supposed to have re tided aided in in the same neighborhood and in in john aton county arkansas these chil children drAn have been in charge of dr 1 I 1 forney since since lait fall ard and we know that he ali ha t given his interested and personal supervision lr in order P that they might be properly and comfortably cared for we learn mai cover that dry forney has obtained the guardianship of 0 these children there was a large amount of property in in the possession of the party massacred at the mountain tain and the children have now an agen fiere who will undoubtedly use uge his best endeavors to recover the property of which they have been despoiled I 1 we have be been informed that horse in 1 is is being practiced to a considerable considerable extent te nt in in the vicinity 0 of camp floyd flod stealing 1 one ata at a time has been rile rife for some time but nav the thieves have become sufficiently bold to run them off in in bands we trust that some of them will be caught and be made ads an example of i ita it w be well for persons persona buying horses or mules to be quite sure of a valid title col F r W lander was at laramie on the I 1 ith mat capt R 11 II andersen Anderso nm with ith two companies of U S ad dragoons left camp floyd on the auth dinst for fort kearney another company will also join his big command at fort bridger we have received the report of the re marks of orson II 11 hyde de at the tabernacle on i sundays bunda june from want of space we will defer it until next week neek the waters north are still high bear river is six feet higher than it ever has been known by the ferryman major lynde and command crossed last week four of his in ules nudes with their harness on backed off the ferryboat ferry ferr boat boar and were drowned although we w e did not intend to comment on the correspondence taken from the N Y herald published in in the valley tan our attention has been called to the portion reflecting ting on judge sinclair and accusing him of fit threatening to quarter troops in this city to protect his big court to be held in in may and we have been reliably informed that the accusation cusa tion is 13 groundless and that judge sinclair did not even intend to hold court in mayr may as tie lie was awaiting the arrival of chief justice eckels which fact of itself is 1 all sufficient to refute such an allegation aas as has been made and show what nhat credit can be attached to th the statements of the writer if one portion of the testimony of a witness is is invalidated it is held that the testimony in general is 13 worthless so that writers should be careful in in regard to all their statements in connection with this in in reference to the correspondence from this place to the states we are led to remark that so far as we have seen the tenor of the letters would affix the character of alarmists alarmiste alar mists to the writers thereof they make mountains of mole hills and act on the principle of penny penn a liners aliner who she exaggerate every trivial item which comes to their ears without reference to the i cred credibility ability of its source in in order to give a I 1 fictitious interest to matters otherwise 1 1 fo te resting far better would it be if they would mate make themselves perfectly sure of the correctness of every item and then state it without imputing the worst motives and without exhibiting quite so much bitterness ann conn audi TO THE EDITOR OF THE VALLEY vat VAN the storm of excitement over gold discoveries in in the regions of the rocky Moun mountains which aich raged so furiously a few weeks weeke since may now be considered as fairly subsided the disastrous effects of that excitement are vivid to the minds of all particularly to those practically interested in those effects the lesson is is ineffaceable and it is hoped while it must ever stand out in bold relief before their view a sad monument of the evils entailed by over credulity that a remembrance rembrance mem brance thereof will prove beneficial in in the end by being a living warning against hereafter attempting enterprises upon uncertain and untried grounds it nay may not be uninteresting nor unprofitable to the reader to refer back to the origin 0 f the excitement and speculate upon the it in fluentes fluen ces which brought it about the motives which led men to create arid and up uphold I 1 id b by Y it dint n of the must most groundless falsen falsehoods sand and at t ahe the sacrifice of the happiness and prosperity oi of thousands of their fellow men baseless fabrics of a vision vi slon in the light of reality th erf act that all that country ext extending erding from the ley icy regions of the north down doun to the sil regions of tte ito tt e south lying along jhb eastern slope of the rocky mountains m which is s of volcanic vole anic origin is auriferous int ita nature jigs aas been known and spoken of by scientific mth ance the first topographical pt cical observations of the regions of nebraska and kansas passed through the patent office in in the shape of a public ic report t at the time of these discoveries little or not nothing ling was said relative thereto in the corn com men conversation circles of the U united states because the discoverers themselves had treated the matter lightly to those acquainted with the general physical history of the earths surface the existence of gold I 1 in innumerable nn parts parta thereof is is nothing extraordinary but its lt abundant existence at any point Is indeed a wonder many heavy centuries celli passed away ere a california ind and an n A australia wr were and overfills over ove rills alie greater pr portion tion of 0 siberia a dominion covering as large an area as nebraska and kansas kangas combined gold mines are now being arid and for two scores of years have been worked i aich but illy repay tile the capitalists engaged in in them anti and who possess the heap cheap facilities of peasant labor to prosecute the work while in the guinea mines of the african coast where the finest gold yet di covered ered is is produced cil i borri an and australian fortunes are neier ne er made the same may be said of tile the mines of north and south carolina now quite abandoned but the brilliant successes of california and australia had bad dazzled the e ets es and be bewildered x aldere d the minds of the people to such an extent that they were unable to view the new fleda ed pikes peak hobby with prudent coolness and caution to consider it in th the light of philosophy as emitted emitta from the history of the past arid and mard fead d in in the proneness of human credulity to wildly rush to the first sound of excitement like bees swarming to the rattling and clattering clatte of hollow ollow li sounds as is exhibited in every dav ay life around us in short the peo people pie were rapey ripe cut and dried for the sell then the depressed condition in in the business of the states at the opening of the humbug making money hard to get h hold old of and men uneasy in their situations aud and anxious to better their conditions gave a new impetus to the progress of the ruse for ruse it was as will shortly appear I 1 the origin of the whole hole A affair to the best beat of our information which we believe to be authentic was as follows A few mountaineers in the locality of cherry creek gathered together a few scales of light gold and exhibited them to a broken down land speculator of eastern nebraska Nf braska this gave new hopes to this collapsed shylock hylock fc to retrieve the fortune which he had lost in the late I 1 panic which reduced to mere blanks what before had been extensive valuations in in the un to lands of the west the first steps to be taken in the scheme must be to have some brother wire pullers bullers A few scratches 0 of f the pen and postage stamps effected this end in the fall of 1858 from three to five hundred professional speculators collected upon the banks of cherry creek Cree creekman kmen men who had been accustomed in former days to carry purses which they could never see the bottoms of and who llad struck a blow oil of manual labor towards making an honest hones t livelihood and ana began the a inhuman plot A little gold enough to send specimens to the east could be gotten hold of at the rate of perhaps twenty five cents per day town lots were hurriedly staked ot off and letter after letter crowded into the mail bags destined for every part of the united states containing glowing accounts of new discoveries and additional fields for oper operation V some of the heartless fiends hesitated not to allure their nearest friends into the destructive snare early this spring while hile the ground was yet mantled with snow the mighty column of expectant emigrants containing thousands be began an to move dov farms farm were mortgaged and money arr borrowed ed for outfitting outwitting out fitting at cent per cent fa families milles were eleft left behind scantily provided for young oung nien men left their distant homes with their ba baggage age upon their backs and their pockets filled f with parched corn for their sole bole subsistence across across the harr assing plains the people were wild mild with excitement their hopes were rendered brighter by all favorable rumors and the few who were sincere enough to speak the truth were met with the sobriquet 0 of cru croakers akers and derided for want of energy and perseverance what the finality of all this is is our readers are cognizant of A few have fallen victims of gaunt starvation many have suffered for want of food and thousands have so deeply encumbered themselves that years of toll toil will 11 be required to place them in in as prosperous circumstances as atey adey were five months ago the curtain has now closed upon the scene and we hope it may never be reen re en acted may the deceiver and the deceived receive their just dues the former bear bearn in 1 delilly as aa did cain of old the brand bran d ot of infamy and disgrace and the latter win and always know how to appreciate the sweet charms of a life of contentment ever remembering mem bering that enough eno ugh is embittered by increase and that all that glitters is not gold ap pp M |
