Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-02-12

Dull1lug, Will Ue nullC Ill an adjacent ana
smaller house, where the noise and insaluhri-
GUS exhaations may not disturb the respect
able and orderly Inmates of the institution.
Reporter.
Mr.. Seward, in his recent speech in the Sen
ate, gave happy illustration Of the folly Of
this Cuban business under present circums,an-
ces =
"Ihe proposition seems to be an empty
one, an idle one, a ludicrOuS one and if it
were not for violating tie respect due to
the President of the United States aud the
majority Of the committee who sanction it,
| should say ridiculous one. There is IA
play which we have sometimes seen at the
lheuter. in which the heroine is an honest
housewife who has propensity for buying
everything ut auction, aud she is always
able TO assign at least one reason for it,
namely that though the article bought is
not wanted at the lime, yet it is cheap, and
it will be so handy to have if it should ever
be wanted. So, one day she bought huge
door plate sold at an auction Of II neigh
boris furniture, on which was inscribed Ill
large letters the name Of "rhompSon,"
spelled wish "p," although her Uwn name,
as well us her husbands was T1ode. When
! the indignant Mr.. Tood!e called her to nc
count for the expense, why she said, how
do you know, my dear, that we shall not
one day have a child aud that that child
may rot be daughter, L that that daugh-
ter may be married to somebody aud Just
as likely as not that somebody will be II
man named Thompson aud his name may
be spelled with ii p,' (Iaughter,) 50 it will
then just fit exactly, | could not help
huying it, because it was so cheap, and Il
will b" 50 handy, you know, to have it in
the house, That, sir, is exactly The value
of his great presidential demonstration,
made, / think, 10 retrieve the sinking and
wasting fortunes of an administration that
has disappointed its own immoderae de-
sircS not more than the less sanguine eX-
pcctations of the American people"
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Kansas Gold Mines, How to Get to Them.
writer from Davenport, Iowa, Jan.
22d says "rhe gold at Pixies Peak is the
topic of interest here aud in all the west,
and the best means of emigratng there in
the spring is much discussed. The gold it,
self is a reliable fact; | have seen some OF
it, 1t is what miners call scale gold, not
shot gold, which latter pays the best to
mine; bul where the scale gold is abundant
the Jumps are pretty certain not to be far
of The outfit for Il party of six emigrants,
obtained at this point, may be put down Il.
folIows-ouiside prices
Two pair mules, 5000
Provisions for six months, 720
One wagon, 85
One extra pair axlcs, 10
Picks and shoves, ID
From this, deduct the first cost of the
mules, which are worth more at the mines thar
here las all transpoI tation must be done a
the mines 10y packing, aud you have as tht
cost OF six men after arrival, $500, or SIP
each The route in view, is from this poin
via Iowa City, Des Moines aud Connci
Bluffs, to Fort Kearney, and the mines.-
, TO this must be added the cost of mule feeC
to Fort Kearney, which will be trling, will
corn at 20 cents per bnshe From For
Kearney the teams must be fed from tht
prairie. Time occupied in making the trip
5 35 days. | have not enumerated in til,
3 above the cost of clothing or firearms.
$ As place to fit out there is none bette
+ than this city west Of the seabOard. Mule
are plenty, and wagons expressly for tn,
trip are manufactured here, which cauno
> be beat for service, aud the cost is $S5, com
pete. A word as to routes Every litIl
= 4 by sheet on the western Missouri bcr
. der has raised its puny cry in favor of tn
/. thousand and one cattle paths, leading ives
from Missouri. But the only best route i
via Mississippi river bridge, through cen
tral iowa TO Council Bluffs, and up tn
T. north side of the Platte. This was tn
D route taken by the last three divisions o
+ of the 2, 100 MOrmons, who preferred it L
d all others; and The elders had certainly sen
trains enough to satisfy themselves as L
which was the best trail.