| Show from our humboldt correspondent HUMBOLDT river july luly EDITOR NEWS DEAR SIR perhaps a few items from this uncivilized portion of the territory may not be alto aito 0 eth er r devoid of interest to some of your readers there has been a good deal of emigration this season by the northern north rn route blit but I 1 should think from what I 1 have hare seen aud aid heard beard a poorer adorer set of people never passed this way before many are entirely without money and almost naked some have begged their way from rom station to station along the mail route by the way one of the finest herds berds of cattle that has ever passed through this country has ps just t arrived here by the salt lake and california nia mail route the drove numbered over one thousand bead besides some mules it belonged to mr B holliday of your city in charge of capt D M yates howard egan superintendent of the mail line from here to tha he city has piloted them through they arrived at gravelly ford in the remarkably short time of seventeen daya days from camp floyd including two iwo days they laid by to rest without losing a single head ead the cattle appear and feel remarkably mar kably well presenting a marked contrast to most of the stock that has come the northern route this has demonstrated demon stated the practicability of the mail route bouteas rou teas as abroad aro adfor for large cattle droves as well as for emigrants generally mr egan returns with this maiato pilot out some duleal inalea for the same party this river is said to be higher now than it I 1 was ever known to be before at this season of t the h y year ea r the be tr troops opa who left your city to protect emigrants to california were obliged to leave the river and take the road along the foot of the mountains made by capt egan some years ago the mosquitoes are also aleo Wor worse than ever felt on this river before neither asar man ban nor ani aul mal mai can get any rest they make the animals uearl nearly y crazy the there Is I 1 la a very strong probability that the mail route will soon avoid avold avold avoid the humboldt altogether when that la is accomplished no nornan man mah who has ever tasted the sweets of mosquito Mos guito quitu bend will ever want to travel the humboldt road again while in possession of bib bis senses major lynde and most of hrs bis command have gone pone down the fiver river about miles milea below beloy gravelly ford A email small portion of his ruest men are waiting near the latter place till his bis tv re turn by which road they will ledurn to camp floyd rloyd I 1 am not informed but their presence alone along the mail route would certainly exert a beneficial influence as the indians are rather troublesome and impudent here I 1 have bave just learned of the murder of three men inell miles below gravelly ford supposed to have beer been done by a party of emigrants with whom they were traveling two passengers in the mail coach saw their bodies an indian informed me the other day that he be saw a white man blow his bis own brains out ont with A t pistol on the river somewhere above gravelly ford ile he said his companions cry many of the emigrants are perfectly re cri leas as to nhat they do or say the other duy etly some passed pas sed along and in the course of conversation inform d us that they had a lot let of 0 strychnine with them on purpose to give to indians I 1 thought it would only serve them right to make them take it themselves should hey they carry out their benevolent intentions and innocent men and women be waga wava cred by the enraged savages in consequence out our impartial im P artia I 1 and penetrating judges may p es rh ap discover mormon influence at the bottom of it by a telegram to mr geo F jones anent agent of the western division of the C and S I 1 L mall mail ma line we learn that attorney general black has decided anat griat the C and S L mail maii cannot be reduced to semiweekly semi aemi weekly meekly ser act service rice nice so I 1 pre pree presume ume sume we shall still enjoy leehy beekly communication withe gherst the th erst rest of mankind by california it not by the east I 1 doubt not riot this is 19 due to major energetic perseverance pros pent to the mail mall route and may the railroad soon follow II 11 |
