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sixth great power, the revolution.” A striking instance of the disarray spreading all over official Austria! * For, what countsy iu Europe has more (o foar from revolution—revo- i+ AFTEG THE WAR—EXPECTED Fis- | [ution political, national, social, than Austria? Never- ardsn ook | theless'there are sowe slgns of an intention to sot that —RITURN OP THE TANDWHER—R¥LA: | strange alliance into practical operation. Somo time be- ITil FRANCE—THE SODTH GERMAY STATES | fore the war, in fact as long as two years ago, a pub- —HE R | lisher at Vienna applied for permission to publish s | o kind of iuternational review and mot with a re- From Qur Sp fusal. Suddenly the first montbly number of the | “International ‘Review” appears, *dated July 1, but Oar itreets | given to the public considerably later, bearing on the title page 10 cditor's name, contrary to Cierman custom, but on the cover a long list of contributors, including mes of almost every country and of every shade of 1ib- opinion, 10 a proposed leader of the nist school. of the articles, pointed against Pro written and . sigued by a journalist who lnm{ fled from Berlin to evade , | 8 penalty inflicted upon Lim for slanering the Govern- * | meut. Simultancously and in obvions connections with '+ | that engine of war, another Vienua newspaper pledges its " | word to show to the world before long that the scat and nce. 2 the pop ;, .,r,’ ¥ “,‘ is ¢ 4 fountain head of true German learning, true German of el tnd 10.1160.5 w This won | literature, true German civilization, is nowhere but in A R el : tais worst plagne. o | Austria, "The plan is not altogether novel of gather- tace ookt o frunds, whichisto tiko | ing light from abroad in some kind of Archimedean ) el N TRa Swbe R vy Bill [pu mind yo' wellouly ‘with revolution abroad] mirror e oo o6 of shast 40,008 mp or the double purpose of shedding a luster and setting AR Pt by . 31 men of | G150 the house of an enemy or a rival. Katharme IL of e oot Tnssia tried it in her days, but then she bad rather less o : saltpeter and petroleum in lier house than Austria hias at | present. ¢ dimier to'be’l o Order not to be Minded for ever so short a time by inner to be | g6 standard of true German civilization, which is going to S Of the troons | bo erected at Vienna, it will be usoful to collect a fow of T {hy | those specimens of Austrian civilization that are pouring sed that they | i it the reports of the returning Prussian ermy. You s | romember that first proclamation of Benedek's giving up s ey prospectively tho might-be conquered provinces of Prussia " e qo; | 1o indiseriminate pluiider,and the tardy disavowal, followed roldiers under | e “apother more deccut proclamition. Yet there is The Pt | 15w the follest evidence that the first proclamation was genvine, bas been extensively circulated among the Rustrinn soldiers, but by u very clever dodge, printed only in the Bohemian, Ruthenian, Slavonian, Croatian, and such like languuges, hizhly interesting to the comparative philologist, but gibberish fo all the world beside. ~Quite in harmony withi the spi it that dictated that proclamation “ | Lias been the conduct of Austrian officers in attle, savage- = | like, spurning the established cnstom of international law, without the faith ich Knights to knighthood bore, and whatever else to chivalry belongs 1if some hand-to-hand encounter between horsemen near Skalitz a Prussian officer is felled to the ground and taken for dead. After a while he moves convulsively. An Aus- trian officer riding up to him cries ont, Is that d yet | done for? and gives him a finishing stroke, Numerous ances of that kind aro anthenticated. A Prussian half- Major von Hirschfoid, while quietly travelinz arrested, given up to the Austriuns on sus- der m dvocate. some 7 prope hey 1 cre Jet out, th campanies in_their midst, ihe artist, The i 1 becomes alre: value our ari | picion of being « spy, and handsd over to the t | ciesof one Rheil, a captain acting as Judge: He was kept in a kind of black hole with 50 fel rons, for weeks without getting a change of linen. and dneed to liveupon three kreuzer, something like three ¢ o day, while his tormentor appropriated the sword and ‘ !"'nvmnmmn of his vietim. Atlast he was released, there 3 them. the retn 0 an evidence; ¢ when he t ! to rise c m \cing no shadow of an evidence; but when he tri [ divra ace proud of ¢ <, but still mor the bare boneds on_which ho had 13id so loug, he saom. Ihere will 1 his legs paralyzed, There were mno hospitals, no . pces provided for the Austrians; their wounds d for than beasts. The Prussian Los- thronged with Austrian prisoncrs. t would scem, for such neglect 01 the , Austrian soldicrs did not I 5 to cut off the fiugers of their wounded officers to fi taid to have undergones | ¢ pristion of their wedding rings. Some of the Iy since the remoral of | it in fagranti by the Prussians, have b part of their superid field. lations to Frauce & I Our very fuvorable chi Drougr de Luby 72 | kept in chaius to be eiven up to the Justico of theic own duced by the e d E& . Theo is no surplus of civihization to be cx- s readiness to let Fro 2 and that ihis | octod from Austria! jdea hud now found & beiter hearing at the Tuileries than fori igs are so far advanced. Tie pot without the compre- ymwpensation onee admitted, Theserumors of Prussian THE WEST INDIES, HISTORIC GROUND—THE SP. I SETTLERS AND THE i froi Bl ) article of é‘:,“fn:‘,f‘ o INDIANS—OUR NAVY IN TER SOUTH AMILICAN the "Belgiag State SEAS—TIE DOMINICAN RIPUBLIC—=NATUKE 4 bitterly of “the g ed the Belgian-Fre right to talk about o ITS GOVERNMENT—VALUABLE RESULTS OF 4 ’ JCAN RECOGNITIO] Correspandence of The K lie | Iy veatila- 0 118 natio; » United States stcemer Nackivaw, ca of Santo Domin e river, just wider the sloje to Domingo was aiger bis was y much as it did when Coln ains to the water's edge to be embtarked like a cre pover pe Ter prow ( !lett her in u bad tix, bec: r. 8 they say, tia, Wurtemberg apd-Hesse Badon. The v NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1866. desolated State to the uctions and manufac- 4 Datnrally 8 ’ succeedsd 1o sot An agaizst each other by [ the trawsactions had Ly it with Aus their officials. T sepaately before, during and after the war, saw no reeson to blash for their own tho L , indeed, eazicr for 1t to produce disux ien unity in the people. iuclined to adopt an ope id 500n show that 14 eacique of Ozams 15 frioud, t hangod by th 1" to 4 nt we it we . But ) nary party at t vt is daily in- Mur 100, the liberal turn, o 1 about by ite fricnds, makes still wait, Even lio had we oir ail with th Young Ametiea of 1 ereasing, a ofton spol such an ample opport inity the peace with the Chaiber seems 10 become of #hort du- | United States these firs: fo ration. The demands fort cxeoed 80 nt, and they ar mush Peal Lecessity :l; 1l g oppoeition. | While one p o this must be adde? t stry asks the money | the old cave temple pnditi 3 s own dieposal, that, even with the | others are conducted to the si ents of ciliatory feeli wiling, the measure will hardly | kuown American history ; othe o # tasts i Lis should be, the inger conflict | for rough mountain trips, have gone to the & with the triumphal entrance of | Hil's,” thirty miles to the northwerd, Texpeet to be cal mar make pood its g t00 ted under the carn o know the influence of the I believe the Ministry would by a secret election in the face 00, and it might sce that the who so lioniy fonglt ts battle at Land st it at the pclls. the Ministry shou! the track of tnese “ geol & them—and, if 1 report the story of their fati out and back, among the o pastime. ‘The whole impression of the late visit of Ame of war to this thie chicf port and politi Dominican Republic is valuable to Am there is one little and needless drawb: A wohrmen, should deck: ——— VERLIN. MILITARY CONNECTION RENOUNCED BY AUS THE VENETIAN DBST—AUSTRIA AND REVOLUTION—AUSTRIAN CIVILIZATION. From Our Special Correspondents MONORARY athaic, (hen no evening b Step Waseves ought 10 be & y ed’ by the wut, that our steam 1 sra patrol ; that it should be ince a certain number of swift ste Benyrs, Sept ‘Whother it be the pracks of ill-humor played by Aus- tria, whether it be some scheme of her protector, the late mystery-man of Europe, LouisNapoleon, there is no gain- payivg that the strais is visibly mcreasirg, The Austrian Minister of L A an order, according to which, the regiments of the an army bearing the names of the Kine of Prussie, tc Prassian Princes and the Grand- Prukes of Meckle ally of Prussia, and of Baden, sou- fulaw of the Kinx of Prussia, will no longer be po dogignated, At the same time, three Austrian Arche o8, whose names are borne by Prussian regimeuts, ve addressed letters 1o the King depreciating for the Suture that honorary cozuection with the Pruseian army, ou the ground that the “ events of the late war had gone far beyond the rales of ordinary warfare "—which, if @ny- 13, 1566, should patrol the Auwerican scas in’particular, in ‘regu Leats, and at certain intorvals, looking in and excliungiog letter bags at all the Consulates, and thus bring the minor and_half-forgotten, but not unimpo poits of the Antilles, the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico, into stated communication, and enable our merchauts and manutacturers to understand and profit by the currents of trade ulong this whole cirele of action. Sound and ad- mirable arguments were offered iu favor of this definite organization of the naval force of the Union, and the late circle of steamer visits alung the Antilles seem regulated by this principle, and at avy rate are producing good 1o- sults, Among other hunaniziog eficcts the whire in- habitants of the Autilles are unlearning a_deep, despond- ing belief that the ruling party in the United States is oyt 53 thiog, se*ms to mean that the writers have been thrashed | working for their destruction, as a ra that it has n very ectraordinery manner. Now, any resonuble | becn, aod is, the settled policy of certaiu paities snan will rejoice t the'alolition of that silly custom be- | to reduce these rich, fruitial and wnml‘.uluy beautitul Antilles, to & cluster of unproduetive anarchics on the Haytien platform of the exelusion of the white race from citizen rights. s that your doctrine? or is the doetrine of THE TRIBUNE the Domin principle of per- feet *equality of all races before the law” -&m a fair chance for white people if they behave themsclyes? Presidest Johnson indorsed the doct of equal righis when he recognized the Dominican Republic and asked Cougress to provide for permanent diplomatic relatious os it kad done for Hayti, aud ®hat simple act silenced in tie West Indies tany unjust fears that the domination, not the cqual rights, of the negroos in these islands wis the sctiled desire of the rulers of the United Stater. Tiris brings e to the error—as 1 consider it—which some one in authority committed when the Mackinaw omittcd to salute thé Domivican flag as it does that of Hayti. The omssion was commentc] on in all the European consul- ates as an_evidence that the United States Government had withdrawn its mogmwn of the Dominican Kepub- lie. The Dominican Itepublic has an independeat Na- tional existence as an American Republic, and the excuse that it bas not yet settled ita uternal maclincry of Government has not vitiated the right of its flag—the symbol of its nationality, and not of any one Presiaent or be recognized and saluted by fhe U. 8. men-of- ps are the only ones that have failed to treat the young Republie that lougal ont the Monroe Doctrine #0 brave'y, and was the first State in America to cstablish #8 & pational principle the equal rights of all races. The Em?-u men-of-war eome in salute the white cross ::n ‘ard of the Republic with scrupnlous formality, while 08¢ alliance, but Austrian urchdukes, ot being distineuiskied for reasonallencss, but great) addicted to trifles and pazeantry, the fact is very signit- eant; 8 loud disavowa) of Art. 1 of the recently concluded , that there siall be apd amity between the igh contracting parties. The Emperor Francis Josepk, onorary chief of a regiment of Prussian grenades, hs not yotaven in his Lation. iese thinge, however, are mere symptoms; but there is & sorions quarrel be i Austria and Italy which may any day affect Prassin too, ‘The matter in dispute is the ropartition of the public debt of Venice axd the revelua- tion of certain State property. Of the previous state of the qnlyr‘xlfl 1 nfm not awa: < but oflci:'l people here talk of » passibility of stopping the release of prisoncers, evacua~ tion of Bohemis, and demobilization of the Prussian srmy. Certain it is that the disbarding of the Hun- arian legion has been suddeply countermanded. This [ogion, stationed in the utmost corncr of Silesia, almost thin hail of tbe Austrian froutier, is obviously & naaty thorn in the side of Austrie, and may remain so oven after it has disappeared from view. Also in this b\l:lelnilmrk left the beaten path. He did spply to Kosauth; he even evoded the man who, with all bis won- derfal talents, has tle misfortune of ruining sy cause. Ong fue day geveral geutiemen from the d of Hun- ‘well oolgmul witlin and without, their entry nlo'l‘uufl‘i‘n and m:kd down fei muln in -’ manner in some garvi. course o . z'- days they bad selocted and eulisted 2,000 men from among the jrisomers of war After a fow more deys ove battalion, two squadrons and n battery were equipped, in such such an admirable wanncr that all the officers of the army queathed from the hol of the Union omit the civility. Let 8o mueh for international this be amen mlrl les and civilities; and now ml.h‘:' simple n;‘m ;_ n‘t e Dominican Govern ive in New-York papers curious cotmposi- tions of truth and falschood, copied from the Havana yma:bmn the wretched disorganization of the Pomini- can Republic, its poverty and its incessant revolutions. The country was ruined aud desolated by the revengeful £ on their retreat, beyond all deseription; cattle, Ionm:r“unlm "l: I;inghln': o ;nd g ::r con| roy, were Jaid low by t #eal of hatred, that no food or crops should be r the “stubborn Do mimean robels,” and fearful destitntion, almost famine, has been the result, ‘The war of deliverance was fonght thie Latives Serdpemby ‘who have bad an oppoituvity of observing, in spite of the wsual decline of volunteers and free , have fallen i uite in love with the legion. A feoling Lins pnn‘:nz'on both sides, and as smple fands sro ready to il mon avd officers when the dissolution will ve taken pluce, the men will carry home with them- solves a ploasant recollection which may be fortified on some futuro day. Of course there aro a few grurpblers among the officers, who cannot be brought to understand Ahat their game wio o hazardous one, and that there was Boss a8 well s gain oo the eards, Locking out for aliios with a view to o coming struge'e, G0 0f the ulliciylp i of Viewna by Laed wgon i Wbt ar wad Wbt e man, Gos | e Pokialle Lty of sillos, - 1 voliey will { d assure the speedy elevation of this rank of a rich castomer for the prod tures of thoe United States. But enough for to-day. 1 shall remain two their generals downward, had to support himeelf, Since the restoration, these men are mnemfldd against cach otlicr on questious of foreign aid and domestic polic , and a8 each chief has b sans, they * promounce” and counter-pronounce to & t extent ;” but these aro blood- Yess fermentations which will finally settle of themselves. The present and merely provisional Government i3 o lrlumrrmtn composed of Pimental, _an able and_public- spiritad white gentleman from the n libao; Superon, a brave, active and aspiring young th an African tinge, who represents the Northern, as ental does the Central District of tho Republie, and of “@arcia the Houest,” who in like way sustains tho intercst of the Southiern coast and population in this triple cxecutive. Meanwhile local law and order prevail in all the Com- munes. Withall this nuflvflng the roads through the whole country are safe, and foreign property is as secure and is respecied with as much legality and good faith as itisin the United States. Is not “this honorable fact worth n word from 4o press of the Unioa for this friend- less Dominican Republic? THE COPPER HILLS—A JOURNEY OX TIIE BANKS OF THE NIGUA—CHARACTER OF THE COUNTRY—AMERICAN MINES—LIBERALITY OF THE DOMINICAN GOVERN- MENT TO AMERICAN COMPANIES. Conespondence of The N. Y. Tribune, T Corper MoUNTATY, Aug. 18, 1866, 1 had engaged Simon Bradley—a native born American of pure African descent, buta jewel of a guide—to find horses and help me overtake tho “ goological marines" of the U. 8. 8. Mackinaw, before they should leave the Cop- por Hills., There are two roals to that immensely rich ¢ rough region; oo by tke Jaina River fer- ry—which 1 had tried beforo and considered hard—and one by the Savannas, which—well, we won't anticipate. Simon bad me up in the saddle, outside of the West Gate and ha't way through the wide and strazaling streets of the San Carlos suburb of Santo Domingo City, before elther the sun or myself fairly knew we were Alter that for 15 miles through a green and fertile, but terribly devastated country, wo were both wide awake. Up 0 then the country had been level or beautifully undulating, but it suddenly became hilly and soon painfully diffieuit. At 0 sinall cabin without floor, almost no roof and but a piece of & oor, we heard that & party of * grand”’ Ameri- cans hud stopped there, and that the * handsome officer had dropped @ fanious piceo of money whilo bauding the work. A TRIP TO COLORADO. —— XIV.—FINAL ADVENTURES 1N THE MIDDLE PARK. Frowm Our Syecial Correspondent. Buckskis Jog, South Park, Jaly 3, 1865, the water remaining in our tin cups was turned to ice. the uncertain portion of our journey was nearly over. down through a wild gap in the mountains on our left. At this place the Blue reccives a considerable affluent on tho opposide side—a circumstance which told us precisely where we were. The stream where wo had encamped is still nameless; it was the Snake which we had now reached. We forded it with some diffi- cnlty, the water rushing over our saddles, and followed a barely discernible trail along the foot of the moun- tains. Thevalley of the Blue became narrow, hemmed in by the fect of epurs from the main chain. The bottom-land was marshy and full of pools, and we were gometimes foreed to climb around quagmires aud fallen timber, at points of threatening steepness, Sometimes, also, a slide of rocks had come down from above, leaving piles over which the animals must Woman | some silver —change. This picee of moue- | slowly and cautiously be led. The little gray coneys da fowosa was o bright new mickel cont, and | sat on the stones above, and barked at us as we the 1 j¢ in this way iuformed where he | passed. con find bis missing peony and his brevet of beauty, Weo piessed on, over roads torn aud gullied by the lato severo freshets, into all sorts of slippery until we were brought' up about a1 above Nan Cristobal by an ac- cident to Siuion's horse, It slipped on a boulder in cross- ing the ) and we had 1o turn to the nearest cottage for rest and Lelp, instead of following up the explonng party. We were now at the southern ¢ of the singular Ll 1t is rather difficult to measure distance during travel of this kind; but I suppose we had made about three miles after fording Snake River, when the trail— or, rather, what was left of it—termivated at the Blue. There were signs that the stream had been crossed here, ond as we had been looking with longir at the pleasant open bottoms on the other side, ;;fl 1;(‘r\“lnurel\'l'"lmrtl her . ’L’ m; W ul:lof‘nu] our troubles at anend, Mr. McCandless 0 the ses 0 , but abead | plunged in, bis mule b ing the i C - Ak R At ut aead | plunged in, his mule hreusting the impetuous current, and to th and left for mile after tehes an | ang “after being carried down some yards, succeeded seamed with steep rers follc in getting out on the other bank, M = serfes of sbary 1 everywhere on Ul t other she 1 avd copper-wise ¢ wre 1 conld aston nco of tha center of the stream both were carried away. I was hose to disp e, madly endeavoring to swim the variety and | watching the hor nee day's aequ ost,” Don | against the current, when there was a sudden call for C., is niched in ‘the very g opper region. | help, he drift-timber had made a raft just below, Coming np ther from San Domingo or Palenque—its | tiie force of the stream set directly toward it, and two seaports, 50 railes apart on the coast, and cach about i e wate: ok i i sems distance lrnmllln'(inlf‘f’!umgh the latter route | borse nd ri were being drawn, 1 it appeared, to is less intersected by deep river beds—this pass must inevitable destruetion. Mr. Sumner sprang into the be taken to reach the Heuneken” mi to | water and caught Mr. Byers's hand; but the next or the new group of cs | moment bo was ot of his depth, and barely succeeded in swimming ashore, now opening on the westorn afiluents of the N Jor has lived balf r among thiese Bills since bo | All thix secued to take place in a second. The was ol eno plorc thew, with an Engli<h traveler | river made a short curve, around a little tor f owuer at home, and ho is a living oceurred with rezard to them. He who wi record of all knew sud b® land, neross which we sprang, in time to see Mr. By- ers cateh at and hold the branch of a diifted tree, in passing. In another moment he had extricated him- self from the saddle. White rushed into the water Horse and o in the hills sy ed to make me under # domain was 1 with a lariat, and the T WAS over, promises, and Spanish inter- | rider got out separatel hout much trouble, al- ronfusing w cations, tired out | though the latter was already chilled to the bones and ud 1 settled hing as 1sat down | pearly benambed. The pack-mule, with all our Jug. 0 1)'.l ln‘v” i, aad ple fin i F that with | gage, was ¢ and we should . STORITIION 95 118 SPORL, B SE02 3 probab! rthing, had not White grasped yearscf mental toil over aiyl aout D l'e oLF a¢ the ot oF e Pequeathed 20 law : S tob beast Lo recover his footir ad been wrung d, compe Jue, with no trail. and fallen iding stones, Thus we worked our waj nyh ur or istol wet pi he eact iy da v 1 iocepted wall, d roared i @ river foa we had ¢ mountain- hal I asper ) 1’ havo more ( ¢ of stecpness v fmposeible, The erumbled rock slid fi¢ az feet and rattled in showess from the brink of t el best on foot, we per ,- ) the water below; and but for the, Lelp lay which the bushes gave ns in the w places, we shiould probably have followed. M e nd Davis, wk 1t times to L to let himeell down to the ttained, but d pecross the river o score ope of ge ot; but the animal was safe of times in some hole exclamation, * Here While reeting among the roots of o pine-tree, which “, steep, and # enghled me also to support my pony, I descried Mr. a deiise forest, interia % of vines and undel p the meadows berond the river, an on each gide of him. I noticed, Candless riding with & mounted I greo trace of it T us. N an_ car 4 | 6 work was visible. Don José relieved the Dlank | Mmoreover, that th atter kept pace with him and took surprise of the momeut by proposing to show | pains to keep him between them. As they were N the mines, explaimupg, as we clambered up the rogzed tes, th was no trouble to be feared, and we sup- all this distriet bad ored by the were guiding him toward Breckenridge. te of cortain New-York compa 1o bad s perilous corner of the monntain we found of better travel ahead. X d and W were in the rear, and it was asing to wateh them follow clinging for life to the bushes and roots, while their animals, with more than human cunning, ¢ way step by step, through the sliding fra A mileor two wmore, and & broad valley ope | our left. A very muddy stream—which co none other than Swan River—came down it to joi inseribido en iglerin il dusey had enough of it. Jloress from the Mackinaw churged op breast we of pature with more resolutior no u than I need for a prudent dail 1 Vs 1 ¢ afl 1 N e il the Bine, Mr. McC. aud one of the Ind from these over- down to the opposite bank with sueh immen | was the famous Ute chief, Colorados b rocks above, that " y | Bow either ford the Blue, or take a good trail to of tie can hold Breckenridge on our side of the river. We chose the when these huge mases elo path and foree | Tatter, and presently came in sight of De e Flats into the bed of the stream. We had turned one of collection of I bins, across the open valley. ot a eharp curve in the nver bed and saw o ! ving them to the left, we_struck toward another sparkling rapide daneing round jt ¢ mountain walls and the uoisy rapids we but with Don José on oue side and Simon o; settlement called Buffalo Flats; both places are in- babited by mivers engaged in guleh washi The the oiher 1 unmistake ol a vs of savage N S ! ealled 1y attention | wint at the upper end of this tronbleson ch of | ¢ fellow, heiding mules on borscback, with a Round the point and right down upon us rushed | very superfin ling of friendship; for he made a train of donkeys. Stragzling, sto ringand almost | gk surly answepand rode away. swimming at times nider their loads they fairly took us up ¥ 4 4 3 F in their meddey of wen and animals and carried us s e now but four miles from Breckenridge, we ] ed our weary ammals forward, taking a trail which led for a loig distance through a burned forest. It was scenery of the most hideous character. ‘Tens of thousands of charred black poles,. striped with white where the bark bad sprang o a wilder- ness of desolation which was worse than a desert. The boughs had been almost entirely consumed: the ine and the blue of the sky were sflil into a myr- 7 1 asked | iad of parallel slices, w and distracted the for | eve, until one almost became giddy in riding through, perfect In “Yes, all"—he stopped in his cordial | T'cannot recall any of mundane scenery so disa- grectings to l|{”h|~( (‘n’mu;_ to mlk«l m”l‘telr. “‘m (' mo | grecable as thic. [y 1y o imon explained that this tmin | Y v the wood came to d, an 0 end- wo miles further on, and the first of the Santo Dommgo | 1o J o i 3 o milesfurlher on, uad U frat o 1 Sento, Doming? | ditches heaps of sions aud gravel, and i tho usual Sl 14 added that the only man in this erowd who debris of gulch-mining, w rode toward some cabins could speak English was, like hiumelf, the son of an Ameri- which beckoned to us through u-m_.-ml clumps of man frecdman. Both their fathers were liberated and pine. A flag-staff, with something white at balf-mast; sent to the Island 30 {wnu az0 by a gentleman of | canyags-covercd wagons in the shade; a long street of Richmond, Virgin This man and a fow native laborers | log-houses: signs of ** Boarding,” * Miner's Home,” were then with the doukey train to break up and remove | and “Saloon,” and a motley group of rough individu. 'I"E“’i """r:;"v-,m‘;n m: n»mlllv‘:{'ll Illf;lfinn"" lw'fl"r' ";- als, among whom we detecied the beard of our parted 'icks, crowbars, &e., were qu unslung from the ani- 4 e B capied 7 mal Inp]-nvlm‘m--nll( to the nrrvr!c:‘,,.uy? '..,:], lxmd’i‘,"" ing 2::;:};::3(' and the blauket of the chief—such was Breck: wholesome Yaukee music ou the intruding rocks when 3 Dun Joté tejin «d me to say that his parlEnh' (relativey, | The place dates from 1560—yet, of the fivo thousand Justo, would turn back if 1'wished to go on and see the | miners who flocked to this part of the Middle Park in ew Auwcrican wines, There was temptation iu the very | that year, probably not more thau five hundred remain, A At present there is o slight increase of life. Some new eabins are going up, and for so me distancs be- Dame, and 1 eagerly embraced the offor. «PThe road before is somewhat diffienlt,” said our new yond the limits of bilding one sces lots staked out, and sigos displayed: * Preémpted by — —_—" Al friend, spologetically, us we rctintered the rapids. “The the first house we reached, we found a long table set part of it you bave pessed over with José has been im- proved by the ’Am:r‘opm‘, mb‘;;;‘l‘::' ;nry g(;ml.‘l' 'u he ood what is e, 1 woudered my- r ) ol "Flediued the diflerenco 18 we scruubied ‘Ovor the | for dinner, and o barrel of beer on tap, which had “ unimproved” road, bat the thought of ffl(lngl'hoh\ come over the suowy range from Montgomery the sith previous day. The host, Mr. Sutherlaud, suspected our impatient bunger, and only delayed the meal long enough to add the unexpected delicacy of oyster sonp. day ahead of the geologieal marines in visiting the site of this great first u-nu?fln of our gitizens made mo careless Then, taking the bnfile with which he blew the signal for the immortal Light Brigade to charge at Balaclava, of fatigue and reckless of torn apparel. T am now in the very heart_of the mining region, but T will not attempt lie made the notes of ** Peas upon the trencher ™ rinj over the shanties of Breckenridge. Kince that splendi details to-day, thougl T have the authoritics all before me. T will state in brief that citizens of New-York have seven Crimean eriwdo, M. Sutherland and his bugle have doue loyal service in a Colorado regiment. 1 was clusters of copper veins, each set forming s distinef and corded glad of the chance which made s almost the first legally-red mine, and each re| nted by a distinet nvestment of Northern capital. re regularly out- nests of his new establishment-~especially as his gonn y in providing equals his galluntry in fighting. ¢ brought up in the center of th r rond we had left behind twenty mi n instant we were uncertain whetlier w longed to the donkeys or the donkeys to us, It must have the latter, for o tall apd fine, though Indian looking- leman rode gallantly down the rapids in rear of the whole train, und after hoping, with & polite bow, that we bed suffered no juconvenience, assured us that all we saw Ame s and ut our disposal. Are all thos Iru{- and donkeys Americ Don José—for wy ideas had beei too much stirred up lining their work, and all this is the swigt outgrowth of one little message from President Johnsou. I have noth- ing to do with the man orhis pnnz, but Amencan interests llls historic truth demand the public assertion of the fact. President Johnsou's Message to Congress recog- nizing the Dominican Republic was but a tardy act of iuuiw, for which 1 should not have died bf gratitude bad been President here: but this measure of friepdliness was instantly responded to here by giuating liberal mining concessions to ul! the Ameriean applicants then before the Dominican Government, and liberal laws were enacted to enlarge and secure the interests of American enterprise in general, A gentleman, whose long official acquaintance ere had qualified him for the duty, was invited to assume Le eharge ing these several g erstand the breadth and liberality of the Dowini 1 policy, and already £0,000 of Northiern gold s opei ¢ the way for | Tegret, 1 ing One wou Ia strolling up the street, after dinner, 1 discovered that the apparent flag of truce at half-mast was in reality a_national ensign, out of which the mountain rains had washed every particle of color. The stars and stripes were only to be distinguished by the seams, "There was comical cause of mourning: the bully of Breckenrid ge—a German grocer—had been whipped, the day before, by the bully of Buffalo Flats! The flag-stafl is planted in front of a log court-honse, | While 1 was gazing upon the eniblem of defeat and joed two iudividuals cntering the b middle-aged, and carried g book under —TRIPLE SHEET. days here in orler to see the engineers from the United States steamer, aund then visit the other points at which our Yaukeo ploncers are at When we awoke in our camp, on the banks of the river which we supposed to be Snake, yesterday morn- ing, the ground was covered with a white frost, and To bathe a sun-blistered face on such a morning, is a torture rather than a luxury; yet the air was at once a tonic, & stimulant, and & flavor. The peaks across the valley—not much less than 15,000 feet in hight— flashed in rosy splendor; the dew sprinkled with dia- monds the silver of the sage-fields; the meadow-larks sang joyously, and our spirits rose with the belief that Aride of three miles up the valley brought us to another river—a fuller stream than the last, foaming : d T r oy | aud then the pack-mule, Peter; but, on reaching ”‘fiettcd that I was unable to comply with their request {uring on the grassy bottoms were o welcome | & A 3 e —— his arm: he wore “ store clothes.” The other, alively | arise. Servant girls shares, which oftes young fellow, with a mustacbe, sported a flannel a hundred pi‘r] cent in one week. In the interior shirt. The latter re-appeared on the balcony, ina the mania raged; towns enough for a population moment, and proclaimed in & loud voice: of 30,000,000 were begun, and a legislative wag intro- ill reserving certain lands for farming before Tho Honorable Probate Court is | duced a the entire Territory should be taken for city lots ¢ Now, of the 14 river cities, all but Leavenworth, Atchi- son and Wyandotte are dead as the Pharaobs, “Oyes! Oyes! now in session!” Thereupon he withdrew. The aunouncement pro- du;edfl:(dz efect, for he immediately came forth again, and cried: ‘We passed Weston, Missouri. Fifteen years ago il “0yest O :'-'n! The Honorable Probate Court is | had u\?::nl lhomlfi people and a rich ontfilnun: now adjourned ! trade. But the erratic river began to deposit soil im 1 waited, to see the Honorable Probate Court come | front, and now runs half a mile from the town. H forth, with the book under his arm; but, instead of | brick warehouses, which were upon the 3 that, the lively young man made bis appearance for | out hopelessly on the long stretch of land, and cattle the third tiwe, With a new announecment: ze where steamers used to ply. Iremember s Co‘:ug i{ex:ziwoi n’:.n;it’f;h'n" Honorable Commissionors’ ‘o':u.-:ng an acre of land above which one day slid e [} nto 1] ver, il How many other Courts were represented by these | up from I.h: ;h“lgl;glh“l: nbn.::{o?m ur.l .75 two individuals, T am unable to say: but the rapidity sf. Joseph, still further up, the river has eut into the and ease with which the sessions wera held ?IVI me a | town and carried away a mile of it. An early cheerful impression of the primitive simplicity and | settler, who bought river lots, has sscertained by sur- peace of the population. To be sure, the flag at half- | vey that they aro now iuKausas, on the opgclm bank mast hinted of other customs; yet these may not be | of ‘the Missouri! In Nebraska, at a sharp bend of the incompatible with an idyllic state of society. river, a thriving town was v, aud the prophetia We discovered a hotel—or its equivalent—kept by | souls of the owners looked forward to a Mr. and Mrs, Silverthorn, who we comed us like old | commercial city. But during frechet the river friends. The walls of their lnrfie cabin were covered | abandoned its nel, making a *“cut off,” and leav~ with newspapers, and presented a variety of adver- ::fl their embryo Nebraska Babylon a ;Aflnge live tisements and local news, from New-Hampshire to es inland, in the State of Town! Only b ) Salt Lake. If the colore lithofi;nphn on the wall | license can such land bo termed ra! emh’* Itis were doubtful specimens of art, there werc good indi- | portablo property. One t sell ié’in mm and cations of literature on the table. The kind hostess | contract to mcr it in 8t. Louis. X promised us beds—real beds, with sheets aud pillows | T 1857 Leavensworth bad 2,600 people. Now it —and the good host would Lave taken me to any num- | has 22,000, with three railwa; conucetions, thres Der of lodes and gulch-washings, if Ihad not been al- daily news, apers, printed in Englich. and two in most too sore to bend a joint. I barely succeeded in | German, Itis lighted with gas, well built of brick, going far enough to inspect a patch of timothy grass, | and has the air of a metropoli grown from the wild seed of the mountains, Itisa | The fare to Topeka—58 miles—is $4 75. As & elight experiment, but enough to show what may be [ curiosity, the ride i3 worth eight cents .vmile, fo:h made of those portions of the Middle Park which are | Lawrence the railroad is the worst in the United 100 cold for grain. The residents of the glace profess { States, It climbs ridges like saw-teeth. jolts one like to be delighted wuh‘(hu climate, although there is no | corduro, s, and rocks bim like a ro 'h cradle. It month in the year without frost, and the Winter snow | Jeads tbrough an old. Indian rescrvation, not la is fmigwn!lyvlhrcc or four fect in depth. They bave | gpen to settlement, but great corn-fields and Lerds very little sickness of any kind, and recover from | cattle alread: appear. Mere are no levels; the riok wounds or hardships with' a rapidity unknown else- | prairie rolls {jkc the swelling sea. Here the once where, I was informed that the Honorable Probate | powerful Delawares, who dominated other nations, and Commissioners’ Court once tumbled down a fear- | who treated with William Penn upon the present site ful precipice and was picked up, a mass of fractures | of Philadelphia, made their last stand against advane- and_dislocations—yet here he was, good for several | ing civilization. Thirty years ago, the Rev. Jobn G. sessions a day ! Pratt, from Massachusetts, establi , . . ished a mission and Our friends, Byers and Sumner, were 3o chilled to | school, which, of late years, has heen supported by the marrow by their adventure in the Bluc River, that | Government. The sehool contains 90 Dupls. | Undes neither the subsequent ride, nor dinser, nor the hot | the influence of peace and education, the Delawares noonday sun, could warm their benumbed bodies. [ here increased from 8500 to 1,200 ug Mr. Pratt’s They thereforebuilt a fire in the adjoining wood, aud | residence among them. Now the railway surrounds lay beside it nearly all the afternoon. I would gladly | them, A few will remain and become citizens, the have joined them, but for the duty of recording our | ros¢ migrate to the Cherokee country, South of journéy, and the task which awaited me in the even- | Kansas, k ing. The Court-Tlouse, to my surprise, was filled Thirty-three miles out we reach the bank of the h au sttentive and intelligent audience, and I re- | Kaw River, opposite Lawrence. Here North Law- rence has suddenly sprung up, ciaiming a population of 1,500 and boastin, nreeglly newspaper, Here iy ific Railway, from St. Louis, in Kausas to Manhattan, e hat 1 should recite Mrs, Norton's poem of ** Bingen.” “There had been some doubt concerning the practice- | the junction with she bility of the pass aeross the main chain to Montgow- | glyeady completed 117 miles ery, which is in the South Park, on the head-waters of | and pushing up the Smoky Hill valley toward Den- the South Platte; but in the afternoon Mr. Matthews | yor,* We followed it 25 miles up the Valley, arrived, having ridden from Buckskin Joe to pilot us | then debarked and crosscd the river, R r. Thisis called, I believe, the Hoosier Pass: a | * Eight years ago Topekn was a stragg!ng prairie little to the east of it is the Tarryall Pass, from Ham- b-mlzt of 20 buildings. I first saw it while attending iiton to Breckenridge, which is traversed by vehicle, | 4 J'ree State Territorial Convention. It was du even during the Winter. There is also a direct trail | yorder ruffian rule. Robert J. Walker, Buchnum from Breckenridge to Georgetown, near the head of newly-appointed Governor, had just issued an cight- Snake River. Without doubt other aud probably bet | column inaugaral, assuring Kansas of enormous rail ter poits for crossing the mountains will be found, | wug Jand grants, and sceking recognition for the when they are more thoroughly explored. i ozislati i 1 invaders, wi M. Silverthorn kept her promise. When the artist fl:;“,{;;fkr,“',}l‘fi,’:’fi:’r..N};":’,‘:fi',,"mi,’:,. Al and wyself found ourselyes streiched outin a broad | (o pro-Slavery party that Kansas was & smoldering feather-bed, with somethiug softer than boots nnder | voleano waich, it they opened the erater, would make our bieads, we lay awake for a loug time in delicious | pany o new Herelanenm and Pompeii. Walker's proposition reminded him of another distin, nished personage, who once upon a bigh wmountain asked the Savior of the world to fall down and worship him. “He offered him,” said Lane, “*all the kiogdoms of the glohe, thousands ef acres of the best bottom land, whole tos 3 the richest rolling prairie, when, as we all know, the old secoundre! didn’t own a siugle foot of it."” The delegates to that Convention | faces, wore slouched bats, Dlu their trow but they spoke with susprising flu- and_point. Then, a3 now, the ayerage intelli- e and culture of Kansas weio not exceeded by any ate in the Upi Arriving hore 1ast Wednesday T State Convention in s 1 upon the came The war has left great gaps ainong the Old ! ent limped on eriiehes; some had d faces, but I found scores of rest, unable to sicep from the luxury of knowing what bt leep awaited us, Every jarred bone and bruised musele claimed its own particular sensation of relief, and 1 doubted, at least, whetier unconscions- was better than such wide-awake filllness of rest. hal nt recollection of its nau BT, eckenr! hithe loyal di e e ine, vot the traitor politician wit 'd sun-hrowned nd boots over ON THE BORDER—IL —— A FRUOAL LIVELIIIOOD—ILLINOIS PRAIRIES—MISSOURT ND RESOURCES—FOUR HOURS IN EDEN— ER—REAL ESTATE INSANITY— VREAKS THE MISSOURI— | ILWAY UPs AND DOWNs— | INDIANS=—NORTI{ LAWRENC onc [ or DELAWAR p | The death of Lane Teft politivians and pe PACIFIC RAILROAD—TOPEKA=—REMINI LANE — REPUDLICAN STATE CONVENTION—Con- | little bowildered and surpri i Do longer con- 7 oy i el trolled by a sinele man. Lane was an anomaly of RIETDE, A0E | SUFFRAGE QUENTION-= | o cigilization. . No other conntry couid Lave pro- KANSAS POLLEICS. | duced never saw 3 1. With ¥rom Our Special Cafrespondcnt. but _narow on, very little readivg, and Toreka, Katsas, Satur g, 3 utterly uncoutli iu masuer, he was Just as n:nl.lfi A new line of sleeping-cars on the rou adiating | a born orator as Clay, or I or Wendel lived 10,600 per month to its chief tz miner from the Rocky Monn- ! tains, ns a frugal livelihood until Colo- rado mining shall become an established suce The cars have cach cost from $28,000 to $40,000, Ileft Chicago upon one well ventilated, richly fur- nished, aud running like a pair of skates upon even The passenger pays $2 for & double Bed, un- dresses, and sleops soundly, unless on very bad terms with his conscience or his nerves. Morning found us on a vest ocean of prairie, with slands of corn rising from its depths, and white f s, neat clippers of country churches and snowy sehooners of farm-houses resting upon its bosow. The Ilini Indians greeted old Father Mar- “ How beautiful is the sun, O Frenchman, thou comest ameng us ! The scene is fair to- y; and no man can measure the richness of the Prairie State. The southern half is almost as level asa floor. I bave personal prejudices in favor. of jes where water will run one way or the other; ndless sweeps, mellowed by laughing sun rippling grass aud tasseled corn, are the gran- ary of the world. At Quiney a wheezy engine ferried ns over the great aud “then the' locomotive bore us across Mis- from Chicago ps owner-—an old qu %08 e swayed these men of the rly days, without mneh fondness tor obtained extravagant military repute tended to the remotest cabing of 3 B A seemingly transparent den; cr betrayiog every cause and cvei riably claimed to embody some great p made the sincere, the honest and the eames thusiastic supporters, Notoriously profligate in do. mestic life, notorions!y dishopest in pecnuiary trans- actions, when penuiless, he carried his messures against the influence, labor and money of his united enemies. His personal magnetism was wonderful. Through many dark years be did stand true to the Free State cause, and he organized the fi i of negro troops in our great war, [ find tenderness for his memory, and the feel all no other man accomplished so much His defects were of organization; thing left out when be was u; B was very turbulent; now he sleeps quietly in the young State which wiil never forget his name Thus he e great dical and wrang ling, amusing and carnest, %, N. Wood, a regnlarly- eleoted delegate, was charged with Jobmeonisin. He defended himself for an hour and a hall, in a pungeat, witty gpeech, denying the allegation, but claiming that even if it were true, the tepublican souri, Again, horizon bounding prairies: thousands | officiuls had misled him. e road from an old lettor of cattle, white, black and syvm'h. grazing unfenced of Sanator Pomeroy God Jive: and Andy Johusom fields; forests more frequent and dense; streaws more | i8 a plucky man. Stay and sce the salvation nnder sluggish and muddy: log-houses increasing; white his chosen le lorship.” 3 villages fower and further between;: at the bridges, *Now,” continued Wood, “if the Almighty bas empty log forts, with grass growing in their deserted | changed his chosen Jeader, a5 the duty of my camps, and flowers springing from their precious frieud Pomeroy to write again and notify gie of it graves, Missouri is richest of all our States. Her | The Convention beard him with cheers sud rours of langhter, and then voted him out. Representative Clark and Gov. Crawfoid were re- nominated. The eharge of recent Johnsonism endan- gered the Governor, but common belief in his integ- rity. and especially that he ref or ol 50,000 to appoint Gen. J. G, Blunt ssorin the United States Senate, gav hatic majority. teeming soil yields hemp and tobacco, besido all Northern produets, Her forests furnish every necded wood but the pive: whole farms are fenced with rails of black walnut, Her wines could supply the conti- t with ivon and coal, lead and marble. The train left s at Winthrop. It was three o'clock in the morning; min pelting the slippery platform; k 4 phantom-like men irting baggage, by dim lan- | Kausas has witnessed shamel in publie terns. Atchison has tight roofs and clean beds, but | fairs, and means to stop it. Col. George H. Hoyt was enthusiastically nominated for Attorney-General, on the statement that he was a volunteer connsel for old John Brown. ‘Ihe singing platform you bave by tel- By oune majority the Convention defeated & ion to strike “*white " ontof the State Consti- the Missouri rolled hotween, aud the sluggish steam- ferry loved light rather than darkoess, so 1invaded the unswept depot, and with plavk for a bed and earpet- sack for a pillow, blessed the man who invented sleep. At last, reluctant daylight opened its bleared and | resc ' ons vos npon the flat, strugeline, swampy forest | tution, and sul ed a recommendation submittin “Here indeed was Eden—not Adam's, but the sulfrage question to a popular vote. We Repabli- Chuzzlewit's, o, silent, ague-saggesting | cans bave inhierited all tho -cowardice and shulling men erept out of buildiuzs, vawned, axd sat down | of the old Whig Patty, and learned no lesson from its upon platforms and thresholds, staring at nothing, or fate. . Tho Democracy at least dusexves credit for be- listlesely resting chins upon their hands and elbows | 2 frank, bold and aggressive. But we shall carry upon their knees. ¢ any speculator wants to invest Kangas overwhelmiagly. There are not euough Johne in minsma, let Lin come here and buy it by the cubie | 0w Republicans to fill the ofticos. A D B vard. Finally, two sorry horses were bitched to & - huge omnibus, the ferry-Captain was resuscitated, and the hungry ppscengers were landed in Kansas, thankful for thoir great deliverauce. When I first saw Atchison, in June, 1857, it had fow rude shanties, two or three hundred inbabitants, and was spedially unhealthy for Free State men. It was the earliest and strougest of Border Ruffian for- tresses. Now it is a well-built city; the busivess blocks of brick and stone, with 6,000 people; cars EMIGRATION. . —— & | To the Bditor of The X. Y. Tribune. Sir: My attention bas heen ealled to & eard in your paper of to-day froe John Williaws of the American Emigrang Company. The American Emigrant Aid asd Homostowl Company was k k chartered by the Legislature of 13e State of New-York, Aj mnning 22 wiles westward, on the Atchison and | 14 1557, Tho eeiginal Corporatars were, as per Section r.': s s Peak llmlrnfi. oand two uum‘lh Ifh- ublican | jho gct—Krastus Corning. Jumes S Wadsworth, Rollin newspapers. The recent removal of the OVer- | cuudford. Charies A. Stetson, Jobn A. C. Grav. Trima land coaches o Waumego, near Fort Riley, injures Tichand M. Bachoid, Jnm‘;ll‘"l( i %'.-ll':} o, Williae A, Ial its trade; but it remains & growing, prosperous town, | ward W. Kiske, Henrs Morggn, Joln L. Schoalcraft, Palmer o i tssouri. | V- Kellogg, Alesandor V. Williams, . i Thence I took a little steamer cown the Missouri. | oo ‘;w e | e B Ttsdolph Martin, Sumner, two miles below, bad 500 people in 1358, | (onoy ‘are poncen 54 : “ e ebout 25 ALl Toa buldings savo. five o | e syieet - Tre Smeriotn Eniphar A st Honated six bave been torn down and taken away. XYoung | Cowpanr. . ' oaks and cottonwoods choke its deserted streets. To h’fl'_‘:l‘m"‘hfi“' ) Aidond Hasotebel Qmpday sever me, it looks peculiarly desolate, for it was my howe | “rucin Scandinavian e grd s N B o e for two years. Of its then residents, many huve goue | steawer Ottawa, were ander the muspicon of the Aumncrican Fruigrant Aid and Hotestead Company, and are the 1o the last, untroubled sleep; and the living are scat- i o tered all over the world, Its bistory is typieal. Wild | 9,8 immenso lumigustion to be contioled by this Company. real estate excitements visit all new countries, just as &fl,‘fi'fi,fl :}'m‘:wfi ‘,,';;':’":E':f."::,.*;m the mensles visit children. ‘The Missouri River | Aid wnd Homestead Company, a3 ars lafe tructs of baml in i Souther S ad BrraGgements are i bounds Kansas for about 100 miles. Upon its bank w;}.‘fl :u:“\:’mr: Saim | fi‘m o et | i et 14 cities were founded. Each bad its superb lithro- | 8 Wt o ot e ritain and ! parts of w""_*‘" graphed map, showing thousands of town lots, public | the wuy =3 of (‘hll":;lpn 3 \ squares, parks, and fature railroads; its newspaper, | The American Kmlmnl{‘mplnv Bave nothisg to do with which every week demonstrated ruathematically that e agincy of the South West Piciilc 1ailvond, neither were the it was certain to be the New-York of the Westy its | heandinavian cmtersaty e s e s et represented by Mr. Wil 3 ry lliams, enthnsiastic buyers, who put in their money m_kkwlg‘;’ ‘As you have given publicity to Mr. Williams's card, to proveat its confident awners, who thought they were rich, wistakes may L ask you to give publicigy to this statement. they were if they had sold out, but not ene did, Men | . Your “'I";?" . CiasE AL Steeese, unable ta pag theiv board and washing Wils, conntel | G AR el Homestged Cun thoir yosscesions By tous of theusands, aud waited Lor |