The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-06-01
HORACE GREELEY ON PIXIES PEAK

Ednoriat Correspondence Of the ". Y. TribUne.l
LEAyENwoRTH, Kansas, May 90, 1851 am here
in the very focus of the Pike'sPeak excite
ment. of the great celebration, Yesterday, in hon.
or of the arrival of the first return stages from
Cherry Creek, you will have had tidings before
this reaches you, probably; also Of the summers es +
en- that account, if not of the CONSEQUENT head.
aches this morning. Let me briefly sum up the con-
clusions | have drawn from all the information
can gather here, viz:
|. There is gold at Pixies Peak
2. Very little has as yet been dug.
.. considerable though very inadequate amount
prospecting had been done up to the 10th instant
which is the date of our latest advices.
4. great deal more will soon be done as the
snow only begins to be fairly melted out of the
gorges of the Rocky Mountains, where the rich
mines or placers must be found if anywhere
.. As yet this prospecting has not yielded enough
to pay the board of those employed in it.
6. Yet a few, who have had extra luck, would
seem to have done pretty well, and some of them
(unless they lie outrageously) are now making So
! to SS per day to the hand. The board of rugged
hard working miner in that region ought to cost 81
per day.
T. 1t is not known to this hour that any extensive
| placer has been found, and nearly every miner is
| still prospecting for better diggings.
s. Hundreds of those who rushed mady off on
| gold hunt across five hundred miles of uninhabted,
ioodless country, in February or March, have Ell
ther died outright of starvation, or have suffered
and been tamished to the last limit of mortal en-
| durance And all who have started in their
|
ly any other but the clothes on their back
have probably suffered, or will suffer- everything
| short of death, and some of them will probably
| die.
g. There is as much uncertainty and distrust in
the Gold Region as here, and many who have
reached Denver City or Auraria have turned back
in disgust, which others would do ifthey could do
| 1t with safety.
10. Many who had gone part way have been dis
couraged by the reports of those they met and are
heading towards the States again.
II. There is no demand for labor in any part
OF the alleged Gold Regions, and many are there
idle, who would gladly be hired and set to work.
u. 1t is not yet decided whether any considera-
BILE amount of gold can be mined with profit in
the new Gold Region. Months more of patient
and well directed labor may be required to settle
that point.
Is. As yet less than $4,000 in all, has been re-
ceived on this frontier in gold, the product OF the
Pixies Peak region.
II. it is highly desirable and proper that the ca
paclty of the new Gold Region should be tested and
ascertaned. Those who nationally employed
in this work deserve well of the country But there
are people enough now in or near the new Gold
Region for all reasonable purposes-far too MANY
for the amount of food that is or soon can be
placed there
Is. 1t is not merely folly-it is criminal mad
ness-to rush off to Pixies Peak Gold-Huntng
without ample provision in the shape of food cloth.
ing, blankets, mining implements and money. He
who goes without, rushes on a suicides fate
Such is the substance of all | can learn from
the vicinity of Pixies Peak. leave for that region
on Tuesday. HG
WHAT PRESENTER breaches AGAINsr.-Cook
Richmond, presbyter, of Milwaukee having been
recently asked by of his parishioners preach
against slavery, he replies to the request through
the Milwaukee Ne'cs. He says that minister has
no right, being called on, and sustained by both or
all parties, to advocate any of political doctrines
in the pulpit. He atirms that true wise. brave
man, will not preach against slavery in the non
slave States, but will go where that institution pre-
walls. We quote from Mr.. Richmond's letter:-In
Milwaukee preach against lying, adultery, cheat
ing, drunkenness, debauchery, lnasquerades, i'm
moral theatres, dance houses, lager beer saloons,
brothes, profane swearing, Sabbath breaking,
Ariansm, Tom Paneism, gambling, backbiting,,
gossiping, busy bodying, corruption, bonds, bribe-
! ry, Sunday wine dinners, Especially during the
hours of divine service,) deaconocracy, pulpit
shows that make believe preach Christ, indel meet
ing houses named after Christ, heather schools
without Bible, Christ prayers, or God; municipal
stealing, and civic and national ungodliness.
equivocation, hatred, family feuds, covetousness'
money greed, and grab in general the universal in
difference, the general impiety, ignorance of the
of Christianity, negligence, mammon worship
in reality.