The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1859-03-31
Pixies Peak.

Scarcely paper comes to our Office, but
chronicles the formation of a company oi
adventurers, for Pixies Peak. From cities,
villages, hsmlets and from the farm, hun.
dreds are preparing to 60 in the spring
Private letters from Illinois and from Wis.
cOnsin speak of Pixies Peak as The place to
get rich, and many families, now doing we'll
on their bought and paid for farms in the
Badger State, are selling ont, to remove bag
and baggage, chick and child. to the gold
regions. In half the farm houses in the
State, every paper with news from Pixies
Peak, is read and re-rsad, till half the old
and all the young men are crazy with the
fever. Accounts Of rich diggings-of huge
nuggets-of mammoth lumps-=of little caves
full of gold-of men returning with their
thousands, are read and cut out for the
neighbors to read, till by day and by night,
Pixies Peak looms up, more magnificent in
the distance than ever did the plains and
gorges Of California.
Two thirds Of these reports are got up by
interested men. Three. fourths of these
wonderful letters are written to the papers by
men who never have seen Pixies Peak, and
who expect to make money by selling out
fits to class of disContents to be found the
world over.
Did it but affect q class OF idlers-of loaf
ers-of habitual gamblers-of deeperadoes
of thieves-of cut.throats-of sharpers
and spectators, we would say "amen" to
the Pixies Peak fever, and laugh it on. But
it affects another cless also. II takes away
from our farms young men, who will find
more wealth in Wisconsin than there, at
half the cost. 1t takes away hard working,
honest men from each neghborhood, when
such men can lily be spared. 1t takes away
labor that always here reaps reward, to
where labor will not receive cents for the
dollars invested. Men who have just placed
themselves in good po ,iton-who own farms
and stock-who have families depending on
them, will sell out all they have-pack up
and off for gold. They will arrive, broken
in health and fortune, and must live the lst
half dozen years of their life over again, SUBJ
ject to all tho privutiohs and mono Of the
comforts of life.
Pixies Peak is o humbuy. Pixies Peak
is pinchback map that glitters with false
corors. One halfthat go there are shnrpers,
and the other half will be their Victims
But people will go>-people will believe oil
the wonderful stories they read, aud start
many of them never to reach the golden
land. There will be thousands and thou.
sands Of little hilIocks BY the wayside--
thousands Of bones bleaching in the weather
sole remains of the hopes and high ombi-
tions Of deluded victims. Solitary graves by
the hundred, already serve as preface to
large vo lume, which will be filled with tears
and heart.broken prayers of those j,urneying
onward toward on ignis .tatuus, never to be
overtaken. Mothers will weep for sons
wives for husbands-sisters for brothers, nnd
sweethearts for lovers, whose bones will he
kicked and jostled as they strew the road to-
Pixies Peak. Better remain at home Bet
ter live among friends, where hearts beat
with other than self emotions, und lei the
gli'tering falsehood 90 unexplorcd, and save
yourselves from bitter appointment.-
Pixies Peak is humbug. Mi,Oautce
Ncws.