Weekly Mountain Democrat (Newspaper) - April 13, 1861, Placerville, California THE WEEKLY MOUNTAIN ALWAYS JIT Oil O EL DORADO 1O, 1861. Etc. THE CART Hotel It W rx ill which J thr It of everything to be had In the Cary U depot knd fron tbe city anel kepi a taw Proj wf Pa I Inform c j e the popula Ui re It to with ft of Strict attention win paW bU wl Ich ha wil lied the choice of the m of of all California But tor for 1 U ID of ONE to and IB nil TO CARET air tit AIM In my awn More pot up In and In n t ten baring mj label at J MIT a e thro jth or by n will pro pt At c c Corner J 6 Urn D ft retard c Joor 40E rl 1 II late I t. Id irn I and tl e public in tl c pol trat notice with w with up llr I e I rior with Hup Ii RICHARD HOTEL In heart I I of I du t. and c II T r II with tl r brtt the ti rd. ind I he I O DOING U ST. 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PI QW OCR FOKT March 8th IbbI J IVAH DAV Before leaving Sun Fran I purchased a book and Tor tho of taking notes of but when once on the road I found it utterly impossible to do for tho reason I could not write while the coach was the stoppages for changing did not afford the time Aa a I am destitute of the for the letters I had promised myself to you concerning the trip and country through I have and must needs content myself with giving you the few vague impressions which have bten retained by tenacious memory We left San at a few minutes past 12 o'clock on Monday tho 18th of in a Concord drawn bv a spanking team of four horses and with three on n of except Mr A Roman of San t ran were way passengers but among them I was to find our townsman Mr T C Nugent and hn young H ho traveled ith aa far aa San Jose We left San hy the San Bruno by our friend Mr F A splendidly constructed roud but somewhat in uf late heavy rams arrived at 1 hoi p s 14 miles from the at a little after 2 where we dined and chang cd Here my troubles commenced The dinner was and stop the as they called bearing no resemblance in flavor or color to the delicious beverage you and I arc so fond of sod always have at home I drank dUh but am convinced that the fluid tn question belonged tion estly to that class of and that to call tt was a vile on that delicious beverage I 3 ou will not think tm over fastidious or particular in regard to my for I am but on the contrary can fled on the plainest grub with ss much relish as any one and grow tat on what a squeamish appetite would but I feel indignant when I see good the fat of tho land in the and were I an Au I would punish bad cookery as a capital offense the in tire distance from Thorp H to San our road passed through of the beautiful and productive val leys that I ever most of is under cultivation by wo found the bridges the little streams washed and the road impassable on ace mnt of tbe black mod in which the n of the coach often sank to the and we consequently did not travel at rail road Thirty miles from San Francisco we ie to where we chanted Redwood a This delectable collection of should U called Black Mud tor there la nothing to be seen within iu limits In the bad to walk through tbe City so heavy were the We passed Santa Clara after and ar rived at San Jose between 8 and 0 o clock that I can smj nothing of either of these Hera we lost the of Mr exchanged our 5 haung on Ifr Roman Mr t A Cox of Santa and myself through passengers Mr of bound to ban 150 the the road conductor and driver Our team was good and wo the splendid road at Ihe rate of beven or eight miles an hour through a dotted with large herds of and hordes the spot where the Oatman family were I murdered and buried where the mail company s blacksmith bad been mur and the b of two Apaches who bad been killed by white men and hanged to trees by the Ghastly and not much calculated to our of meeting with on oppor to bhow our prowess in an Indian extended little interruption to the Colorado a distance of near 170 miles About Angeles we came to a settlement of Puebla who have made consid progress in the arts of cm They tho toil and hove herds of and entile They are said to bo a and prosperous community and seemed to me to come nearly up to tho Mexican rot their agricultural and social pr Their ly prosperous and huppy condition gave me much pleasure when I compared it with tho idle and dissolute life of our LI lo county aborigine ere they f would only n little Americanize which I not proved might not offer e all de However we arrived ot Tucson where noth ing was talked of but the Indian ties ot Apache Wo dined at the hotel of this adobe and w ith the addition of two more passengers Gen Jones and Mr Charles both of and bound home we in two-seated for the ucene of war which laid in the direct line of our journey all armed to the teeth and fright ened within an inch of our 1 scarcely had six shooter out of my hand for tho next thirty and the rest of the party were equally on the alert We arrive I at the head of the Pass near noon the next day when oil dismounted from the coach exam med our irons and prepared for the n orst expecting to be com pelle 1 to fight our w ay through A short in the we to where the bodies of six Apaches homd in their stork were hang ing to a tree near the roadt over the grave of two white men their tribe had mur a little further the grave where was interred the remains of eleven whom they had robbed and murdered yet B little further we came to the spot at which had attacked the stage and mortally wounded the All these things were to shake the nerves of an older soldier than and I candidly confess that I felt weak in tho when we reached the but with tome I ed my courage to the sticking point really believe I would have made a pretty light had we been attacked through the and saw nary gloomy and barren enough to in the I Indian There is a detachment of troops traveler feel the of stationed in the of whom the at ing fields and grassy laches of tho mail company speak with of the desert di close nothing for miles the utmost contempt They attribute the John D sutler ai for many and it me a pleasure to return to my and grateful thanks therefor The overland trip in by no means a pleasure it would not be were it performed by when the passengers have to sleep in the three on a and run the gauntlet of hostile Apaches and Comanches for ral hundred it IK in the language of our bald headed friend Ihe route is well and I have re every attention from the attaches of tht Company during tbc entire trip I have not paid more than one dollar far meals since I left and nt the sta tions of the Company we have never paid more than for meals But traveling by stage is with and hereafter I shall prefer to to the mercy of the winds and rather than rink my scalp among the Apaches and or subject mj limbs to the and of a two thousand miles trip stage than a Our in which be Wat from a at Port St be hsd Uw ter but left hta pn bottom of tbo on boarding it hta UM of a mg it to te had it of What I A {n linen head to foot I No doubt jy nn enviable i in comparison with many races of human aru better knoun ti the world Here we took dinner at a trading post kept one km to our friend bam We here nn hour rnd after our arrival a brought in from the herd slaughtered 1, an 1 a portion of his Inn served up for Quick that Mageo gave us a most excellent mutton stewed good biscuits and the best coffee we had found on the road We re turned our thanks paid him a dollar and voted bun a benefactor of his race Great hearted prince of may you live to entertain famished and weary I he Colorado 150 miles in width where wo a ex of bleak and disjointed hills and sterile though n so desert like as 1 had expected to ti The of Nu 227, un Jcr the jurisdiction of Ihe Lodge of 1, vinb attached by a traveling wanant which had 1703 to the 46th of the while in during the war of tho lulion tho London fill mto Ihe hands of tho they re ported the circumstance to who embraced the opportunity of testifying hia estimation of Masonry in tbo roost marked and gratifying by that a guard of under a should take charge ed victim strangled by cr a grasping heir be of lice iras instantly tent and flanked by two ax as In archaeology Tho was a report anade of and the body transported to the that the friends might dune and identify it It IK presumed that none of them made their appearance Our in taking en uf his effects the himself of lua greatest curiosity JJp flew to tile n nin the learned com and three minions of the larr M hi n and him before the trate fine cried the we have got W ill your honor favor me with the reason of this extraordinary proceeding ft remains for you to circumstances of the murder you have committed but fields and lulls of other portions are covered with blunted grease the They oay that of with many of to the 40th. and return them to the The of both and may bo when they perceived the flog of truce that announced this elegant compliment from their noble but still more noble brother The guard bf with their flutes playing a containing the Constitution and imple menU of the borne like an other of tho equally by Bng and lately en gaged to the strife of marched through the ranks of the gallant with presented srms and the act by which the rendered sacred UK by aW One nod O J t CO Heal door to Block ASSAY OI D received for Amy Id returned in Ui fi aoun D Inf. l C J K But of en COURT HOUSE e Mala MBT or i Mil. 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TO KT mam THB 8TATI, AVD TO AND portion or Culled rf the of I hid Mater UM of trail Mid wy thut I have tu A U KALES IN AND 1. all fron till any Bert filO CUy MM K SWEEP row New York fatt that a lady ing one of the muddy of the Metropolitan encountered a tle German girl sweeping the very in tront of and mid Don't sweep for little I havn t got a single pinny The little girl turned up a beaming radiant with health and and the air of one meant all she replied Oh I we sweep for body So it is with newspaper for sometimes receiving kicks and sometimes coppers for their keep sweeping quite content Tith the relative position between kicks and blame and solacing themselves all the hilu with the thought that they had made some one's path more and that now and then a even if without single will the kindness to say have made me happier and given me new courage and strength to be myself and just towards my A GUILD'S WIT a Sunday school dear that uod is The words had scarcely escaped hia when a roguish Miking little fellow me up and did yon aay God la etery where ray everywhere Is he in my pocket he in In your I got you was the triumphant cause I balnt got any I. In aaa a I I we m boy in to spend every u noon uhe KeU it is sign he will WhM 1 M bay lita Md tO Mrt Witk for au Mod I U U I 1 boy wl I think it L U U A oAM and Nugent for and with five pas inside and tho conductor road and drirer on the at 9 o'clock wm left San JOM at fiill gallop on our long and tiresome journey Wo took supper midnight II miles from San and on starting wrapped in our blan keta ta woo aa best we could the gentle god of sleep The proved coy and deigned as little attention that I could feel his approach and would flatter that soon I would be locked In his soft when the wheels of the coach coma into sharp collision with a atone or and away he'd leaving me to rub my eyes and bruised limbs till morning wan no such thing as sleep for me that in the I felt SB fresh and hearty SB if I bad reposed on the best patent spring and wished only for a substantial breakfast to render me corporeally perfect ly Much of the until we reached and Kings River was little better than arid which in the summer time would not sustenance for a grass and for which six bits per square league aid be an enormous Yet there wan occasional with large of Utter being Uken to dia tant valleys for summer grazing The and King's River valleys contain but u yet they are com wild and and to fcr behind our hillsides in old Bl Dorado In agricultural worth and We passed through tho King's River country and after and I Bay but about it. except that the were ex we were all bumped to content Wo arrived at LOB Angeles at 4T o'clock on Thursday tha Alst I had prom ised to write from this place to my wife her ef my health and as to now I atood man proposes and even trees which pro duce large crops of fiod for and large heaps of galli creel by the may be seen at the stations of the Mail Company Ihe stations on the desert arc fiom runt to sit teen miles and the teams be ing the desert is no great feat fur the though stocking it is an immense one for tlie Mail Company At Indian the stations on tho we found a very pretty young the wife of the station keeper I could not help comparing her situation with that of some of the pampered but discontented surrounded with even hambs the life of their strug gling lords with while this young beautiful aa the seemed entirely happy to share the pri rations of her husband in the no by a few years of pn to accumulate a sufficient fortune to purchase a pleasant home ID some spot on the glorious On the second day after striking tun just as the glorious sun waa bursting from the Eastern wo reached the t ort Yuma on tho banks of the Colorado This stream is about 200 yards here This IB the head uf steamboat one of which craft was hourly expected to arrive from tho Gulf of We crossed it in a ferry and drove eight een miles to Gila where HO break fasted Among other we had for Colorado and earne pepper and dried beef stewed cr in about equal Having eaten nothing since noon of the day 1 our appetites were sharp and we on tho rich Our Mexican host looked after his rapidly dis appearing dainties in utter astonishment I took aboard enough pepper at that meal to grub for a and shall need none in my soup for a quarter of a should I live so long Gila City is a miserable adobe inhabited ul most exclusively by who work m the gold which yield about 00 per day to the man They dry their dirt Our driver found an old ac qua in lance in an Indian who complained that the last two scalps he had taken had by the hair com ing out I sympathized with him in his bad and he assured me that ing and scalping red devils was the chief pleasure of bU Our from Fort Yuma Tucson wu mostly up tho valley of the a distance of over 950 Tho road was tho officer in command came to the sta lion and tbc Chief and six warriors ng him in his he demanded the of somo stock and a Mexican loy they had recently captured The agreed to doliver up the but to the where upon the officer ordered his men to seize and bind the The six ero captured afterwards hut the chief drew his ripped a iok through tho and made hia es cape say tho the We changed teams at and proceeded to Sin eighteen miles where c di lid Ho traveled nine or en to Doubtful where we arrived after but three of the pas and the driver here aaw signal fins in tho and insisted that the Indians were telegraphing our ap and that if we attempted to go through the Pans that night we would all be They refused to and w e were compelled to return to San and trait till when we passed the dreaded spot without molesta and breathed freer and for we were out of danger We arrived at Mesilla on Saturday af and found the whole Mexican population of the valley there congregated to celebrate a flata The to last several during which no- thing but bull cock waa to be done Here Roman and Cox ried for the and with three new proceeded We crossed the Rio Grande dil Norte by it being about one and ot more three and pro down its valley to El or where w o arrived at two A u of the next day Since H e eft El Paso 1 have seen nothing worthy f and conclude this a speedily as may be I armed at this post at half past on Monday having made the something over 1700 in the hallelujahs flf A similar court an angel song waa extended to this lodge on another and subsequent occasion In the year 1905. while in the of regiment was Attacked by French at that ex- between the governments ol France and Great and again tha lodge had the which was carried on board the French iU captors having had no opportunity of du covering the nature of its three years when the tir oi the prize had the French at of the officers who had tbe the with eral complimentary a tribute from an enlightened nation to the excel fence and mend character of masonic In 1894, tbe warrant of constitution of Una was renewed by the Grand Lodge of on which occasion these Incidents in history were elicited from tbe Of the ultimate fate of a lodge whose in war form so Interesting a portion of the annals of it is fortunate that we can furnish the his tory The lodge again but was revived on the 28th of 1848, and established permanently in Lodge of Social and That is the sir The murder that I hare committed T cried the Or at least the crime in which you were an accomplice Good your worship is T i No. mv vigilant your and shot Up To a Here is the report duly signed and I Is that all the a hearty ruffian crM Do you indulge in levity or a go look and answer tha whom was that young box in which she waa i said tha magistrate swathed her with linen I head to I your honor Write Hr that ha ad- mits his horrid 11 The expression Is Tha dead la About nineteen Faacy a to thia i how am as Tho Lodge Military Virtues No 2ST that he will to I aly and CM I obtained ink OQ tmA ft. M MU i Ou UH I tMak R a aiM from hia Anat lake place iai ike aa oral do not and and what would have ft but mj fingers were by the cold wind through we bean tiding all that 1 U to and had to with a few lines on a I enclosed in an envelop a by addressed H far my Ant waa We left Los Angelea at mainly though there was some heavy sand to paua and tho dust was almost was abundant a of that I had seen before It up in a singlo stem often to the height of 00 and 40 terminating In a and is beau fluted from top to and cov ered the long sharp prickles peculiar to all of tta Sometimes these covered the plain as far as tho eye could reminding one of a city of every grave marked with a column erected to the virtues of IU tenant The Apaches inhabit tho mountains o this and wo wore here first to look out for and found all tin station keepers more or less of attacks from them In one day ant on the wo the spot o which parly encamped tho nigh before entering the territory of 8} laying by on the road or one night The regular lime for the mall to leave ere for San Antonio miles is r. v unfortunately for Hr man connected with I 0 Woods In hia happened here with his on their toad ta Saat and not liking to day In ao dull a ba made some ar- rangement by which the and and wero dispatched on baring aaa four hours In the con- have to remain ben one to be la not much In a and is absolutely nothing when a Pillow geta used to it. Fort Stockton ia situated at of tho St. Louis and San Antonio on Camanche a handsome little stream formed by bursting from the bosom of the earth In Ita H consists of twenty adobe which are occupied as quartan by tlw officers and soldiers hare U la hold by Company C of Eighth under the of Arthur T I who has seen and U every Inch a anda martnaM Read and IV DM other now at the are At INCIDENT a pine in an alley scattering moonbeams flitted through a row of tottering chim and an aw ning torn and drooping back and with drawn muscle and peculiar a cat His name was on yonder neigh boring shed bis father fought the cats that came in squads from streets in of food and strange adventure Grim war be courted and his twisted tall and spine upheaving in fantastic cui and and cars flatly press cd against a thrown back told of impending strife eyes and screeching blast of and stops an the falling young Norval crept along the ed und a through the darkness with tail a wng triumphantly Ihen with an imprecation and a growl an in direct vengeance started and crooked in body liko a or rather like a U in stood fierce expectancy Twas well 1 With eyeballs glaring and ears and open m which tu o rows of fangs stood forth in sharp and dread slow up a from out the dark a head A tocsin of determined young Norval than with face un and mustache standing straight before bin and tail flung wildly to the ill cau Ihe Approached the with each cat tha van of the Around the tails In tne w tMr In dropped brief ben awful aaai the deceased lived in ih the I'll piit the tins pleasantry has keen And let ma am marvellously Ignorant mm upon the judicial you brought that you suspected that for two been hoWing an inquest on murder of an A mummy and iTyoo I ducted your i would know that jou an add member of i at but ho beard last A k upon his w by the laws of iho in the laws of civilized the rightful and the the land which be ta by lution of our nature i accomplished and to all of aa well 1 an in- to Capt nut easily imbibed more strongly than character of a man who HI inanimate world Of tUa which la hand of and is rolling through the from lha is a apace on wbich Iba J ih Ita ble link with to whom be U to bis An hew thar than m tht roof want in each with Us eya upon fea In then air U y wd the battle wagons l or else kW te Ha
