Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-07-18
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Of the region around about them, &c. his
opinion that, should the Gold Mines justify
their present promise, farming, insthe rightHlo=
calities at the base these Mountains, n5by
the help of irrigation, will yield. to those who
bring to it the requisite sagacitY, knowledge
and capital, richer rewards thanselse@heres on
earth. Everything that can.=6e grown there
will command treble or quadruple prices for
years.
Concerning the mountains and their gold, he
says:
And the Rocky Mountains, with their grand,
aromatic forests, their grassy glades, their ire.
Eonent springs and dancing streams OF the
brightest, sweetest water, their pure, elastic Mt
tmosphere and their nneqpaled game ana shsh,5
are destined to be favoTite resort and home OF
civilized man. never visited azreglon where
lphySical life could be more surely prolonged OF
!. fully enjoyed. Thousands who rush hlther for
cold 5willrush away again disappointed and dis
s.sTnsted MS thousands have already done; and
vet the gold is in these Mountains, and the right
/ men will gradually unearth it. L shall be mis-
takensif Two or Three Millions are not taken
out thisgycar, and some Ten Millions in $780,
though all the time there will! be, rs now,
stream of rash adventures heading away from
the diggings, declaring that there is no gold
there 5or.next tonone.s Soitzwas in California,
land#in Australia; so it must be here, where the
obstacles to be overcome are greater and the
| facilities for getting home decidedly better.-
t All men are not fitted By Nature for gold-dig-
gers; yet thousands will not realize this until
I.they have been convinced of it by sore expert
lence. Anyzgood phrenologist. should have been
able to tell half the people who rushed hith-
er so madly during the last two months that,
tif these Mountains had been half made of gold,
they never. would get any of it except by mind
ling their own proper business, which was quite
iother than mining And still the long process
sion is crossing the Platte and Clear Greek, and
pressing up the "Hill Difficult" in mad pursuit
lof Gold, of which not one.fith will carry back
Ito the States so much as they brought away
New leads will doubtless be discovered, new
Veins betopened, new stdiggings" or districts be-
come the rage-for it were absurd TO suppose
that little ravine known as Gregorys running
Ito Clear Greek, the sole depository of gold worth
working in all this region-and in time the
Rocky Mountains will swarm with a hardy, in
IdustriouS, energetic, white population. Not
Gold alone, but Lead Iron and q think) Silver
Tor Cobalt, have already been discovered here,
and other valuable Minerals doubtless will be rs
the mountains are more thoroughly explored
for as yet they have not been even run over.
Those who arc now intent on the immediate or.
ganiZation and admission Of new State may be
too fast, vet L believe the Rocky Mountains and
their immediate vicnty-say uctweeM Fort
: Laramie on the north, and Taos on the suuth-
: Twill within three years have n white population
n
of men in the full vigor Of their prime, separa-
< tied by deserts and waste places from the present
States-obliged to rely on their own resources
s in any emergency, and fully able to protect and
govern themselves. Why not let them be a
State so soon as reasonably may be.
TnE= Boston 1fareler comes to the rescue of
handled. Butt that lie always comes out Of tie ire
unscathcd That it was the same writer who
got up this Marlborough whitewaShing that
attempted TO whitewosh The Yiscount Of Dun
dee, ten years ago, just after the appearance of
: Macaulay's first two volumes. That he made a
nice mess of that business and was distinctly
proved to be as wilful fasiifer Of facts as Dun
dee was barbarousy cruel And that the event
; will show that lie is as wrong now as he was
then.
The TrGpeler asks Americans to remember a
fact, which it relates thus
Among the liberal-minded Englishmen who
have travelled in this country was Colonel
Maxwell, distinguished in letters and in arms
lie was here i'll $40, and on his return home he
wrote pleasant book on his tour, in course Of
which he spoke of our Revolutionary chief as
the immortal Washington On this express
sion Btac6'WoOd, reviewing the Coloners book.
commented in the following liberal style:-.tlYe
SS NJ AAaEESt With an man Tor
sing his sentiments, if he has taken any trouble
to form them. But the cpithct immortal ap
Piled to Washington is not put any other
sense than rs it may be applied TO any other
@uccesfut culprit. If ever man was i. rebel
that man was George Washington we are
not going TO light that controversy now; but if
n.oatht OF allegiance was ever worth straw. it
as impossible to reconcile 1Pas1ia9t0A's conduct
,0eth A0nor He was, undoubtedly, a very able
man, and n very successful one; but, that he
had right on his side, that he was justified in
his revolt, or that he was anything beyond the
Stare OF an unc0nscientiou8 ambition in his own
person, and The instrument Of a. coyYUDtM and
un0rinciloleG regolt in that Of others facts pive
the most unanswerable testimony lie was i'm.
mortal in no other sense than any lucky trans
/ to Know - 9 -
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The London Neres glorifes Louis Napoleon
and uses up Francis Joseph like an '.or'nary in
diyidoal," The writer says he,-F.=J.-may
well return. to Vienna, and put his house in or
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