Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1858 — Important from Utah, the Pike’s Peak Gold Mines and Sanrta Fe. [ARTICLE]

Important from Utah, the Pike’s Peak Gold Mines and Santa Fe.

LEAVENWORTH, K. T. Nov. 9. Favorable accounts continue to arrive from the gold region. Seven men of the Georgia Company took out $500 in five days. Upwards of 600 wagons, bound for the mines, were met last week, between Kearney and the crossing of the Platte River. Arrivals from Utah report six inches of snow on the Sweetwater, and ice an inch thick. Twelve hundred Indian lodges have been erected in the vicinity of the military road, between this point and Fort Laramie. The Indians were peaceable. Judge Eckle and several Mormon families were passed on the way. | The Santa Fe mail, with dates to the 18th Uii.. was r<-c e.; ■-d at Imlependeiice on the , B<h. The mail w.-s somewhat delayed in conj sequence of high water and bad road.-. D ma Maria Narcissa Galloges was murdered at Los Veo-.is, Oct. Ist. j Col..Liles bad another encounter with i the Na; aj-.is, w hitm resulted in ten Indians , killed ami several wounded'. Willi im Nuj gent and Muritz. Palman are missing supposed to have been killed. Serjeant j J dm Thonipsui) waswou.nded. , Kit Car-on, w ith a band of Utah Indians. 1 P''*-.-'’' 1 ibr High Sai.ta l‘e. on tiieir wav to figiit th'* Xaxajo-. with whom the Utahs | w ere at war. A letter jo Liute’iantAVilkins.Df Sept. 22d s ys the Mohave Indians attacked an eruij grant train at the crossing of the Colorado, j killing . titro-e im-ii., two women and four ; chi'dron* and wounded sixteen. .The emigrants then retreated, and -ent to Aibu-jim-r-pie :m- supplies; which wa- furnished j-by M 'jyr Backus. 1 he mail lor Stocton, ( le t Indenen-dem-c on th-* I -•.