Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-01-28

PIXIES PEAK.-A LICK BAcK.-The New
York Tribune, in commenting on the recent
gold stories from the western mines, talks as
follows: "Wc must again take liberty to
caution our sanguine and enterprising young
men against giving too implicit credit to the
reports circulated about the gold placers of
Kansas. 1t appears that there are already a
thousand gold-hunters, or thereabout, now
encamped for the winter in that vicinity and
as they can dig no gold for five or six months
to come, they will probably spend a great part
of that time in repeating to each other, and,
by way of letters, to their friends in the East,
marvellous stories of what they saw, heard,
guessed or imagined, during the brief period
of the explorations of some of them previous
to the setting in of the cold weather And
these stories, as everybody knows, never lose
anything by repetition, not to mention the
great probability anything can be Judged
from the experience Of California--that the
amount of truth in them, originally, is just
about on par with the quantity of grains Of
gold dust contained in painful Of that same
auriferous earth which forms the subject
matter Of those Stories"
FRENCH SPoLIArIoN BILL.-This bill, which
Mr.. Crittenden has at last succeeded in getting
through the Senate, has been before Congress
about half a century. 1t is now fifty years
since it was brought before Congress, and, in
that period, has passed either House several
times. Mr.. Polk once vetoed it because it
was proposed to pay off the amount in public
land sales, which he deemed improper, and
because it had been before Congress two or
three times previously, when there was q
large surplus in the Treasury, with which it
might have been paid without any inconveni-
ence. Mr.. Crittenden supported himself with
the opinions of many of the soundest states
men and jurists the country ever produced
Washington, Webster, Clay, Crawford, Judge
Marshall, and many others. The amount is
about $5,ooo,OOO, and it is proposed that the
claims shall be adjusted by Board of Com
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the House are dubious.
The PURCHASE OF CuBA.-It begins to look
as if the whole body Of the Democrats in
Congress are prepared to act in conformity
with the Presidents views In regard to a
negotiation for the purchase Of Cuba. MI.
Slidel's bill, making an appropriation of
100000 for the purpose, or some bill like
it, may pass the Senate, and possibly the
House. 1t is thought that it will do no harm,
and may be popular. As the negotiations
will never be made, the money will be neither
raised nor expended. But an important con-
sequence upon the passage of such bill
would be the inference that, the effort for a
peaceful acquisition failing, Cuba must be
acquired by force. The argument of the
President is generally understood to be that
Cuba is necessary to our safety, and that it
must DC acquired by purchase or force. The
offer to buy is therefore to be considered
merely as grsteSt f9S future agesa to ae
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'est kinds of shipping Furs.
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