New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-10-15
FROM THE PIXIES PEAK GOLD REGIONS
WAS MR. GREELEY REALLY IMPOSED
UPON

WAS Dir. GREELEY REALLY IMPOSED
UPON
Correspondence Of Tie n. Tribune.
DENVER CITY, Sept. %, 1889.
The universal Yankee nation is distinguished IN
many respects 1t enjoys the just reputation of
beng the most sensible, happy, and enterPrslng
congregation Of human beings on the globe IL
has however slso the less enyable renOwn of fairly
abounding with anomalies, idiOsyncracies, illusions,
and delusons. Its political, social, religious, and
scientific spheres are replete with eccentrlcties
IL msIifests a constant tendency to make OF at
tangent IL reoices in eItremes-and, as these are
aid 70 meet il is not 10 be wondered 10 ndAnglo
Americanism, in lis various revelations, at times
tie object of universal admiration and PRIDE aud
seain productive Of universal sheer, and tie SIN
core conviction that the race Of fools has as yet
failed 10 become entirely extinct.
Tie latest and most striking Illustration OF this
peculiarly of the intellectual constitution oil tue
Anglo. American people is probably furnished by
the depoufment Of the grand drama-mads up of
both comcAl and trsgical elements-that is com
pIised under the popular or rather notorious, alht-
Grafton, Pixies Peak"
Was there, indeed, from the times of Peter Stuy-
yes.Dt TO the day on which James Buchanan fore
svore HE Presidential aspirations ever anything
that could be fairly hkened unto the divers phases
OF the above subject Was there ever Like alter
nSton Of ups and downs of the barometer OF puoLc
opiaion-s ike succession of dismetricay opposite
popular notOHs-a ike luctuation of Judgement
Ike sequel ce OF praise and denunciaton, Lies and
truths hopes and dl.appointments
The writer bas plunged headODg into the depth
of the past be hss stretched his cerebral nerves 10
tie utmost and yet failed to secure perfect
smlle. An approximately correct one was all he
was able 10 squeeze out. The Stock Exchange,
with lis human pecuiarties, alone affords some
thing Ike cCrtium c0mpardtiOnes. The " Peak
that majestic monument OF human folly and ayidity
has Ike the former. its d" Bulls" and Bears.
One day the former have occasion TO indulge in
triumphant roar: the next the latter think them.
selves justified in bursting forth in derogstory
erowl Tod y Plies Peak commands premium
as hiah as the United States Treasury notes; to-
morrow it is treated " it'll contempt radical as
that bestowed in Wall street on Erie. Now its
brow appears to shine in golden refugence, aud TO
radate hopes of intense brightness 10 the suscepti
bic behoder; presently the apparent spleDdor cub
sides into uDmitigated dimness-hOpe is superseded
by disappointment, and the frgd forms OF the Peak
appear 10 encrcle but vale Of the bltterest woe;
10 be short under the caption of /" Pixies Peak
concen tration of public hckeness and freakshness,
of private want Of forethought reckessness of ac-
ton, and failacy of conclusion is embraced, that
has perhaps never had lis counterpart and Is not
Likely TO have.
The early scenes Of the Pixies Peak drama are
vet fresh in the memory OF the readers OF HE
TRIBUNE. They viii remember how an excitement
was gradually created, arIlfcally and otherwise,
with regard 10 the alleged discoveries of extensive
deposits of gold in and about Cherry Creek aud
other tributaries Of the South Platte; how thou
sands and tens Of thousands became stricken with
the gold fever and abandoned their homes and ev-
erythiDg else 10 join IN the eager rush for tue sup
posed Dorado; how, up to the ides Of May, hard.
ships and priyatons, physical and moral depres-
sion and in many instances. outright misery, were
the only lot of the gold hunters. They will further
remember that the disastrous news that reached
the States from the scene of tie sad experience Of
60 many. produced panic among those that were
already on the way to the supposed land of gold or
about embaIking for II, aud premature but pro-
found and rather excusabe disbelief IN everything
pertaining 10 the greatest humbug OF the age
the pricAed Pixies Peak bubble.
These reco.lectio VIII also enable them 10 re-
call the event with which the second act Of the
Pixies Peak drams opened, VIZ, the lucky strike of
tie man Gregory, by which the hopeless crestfslen,
.tsIyDg uyriads That sWarned over the South
Platte Valley were suddenly electrified and Induced
10 make sn iDvssra of 10. mountains en- n,dsse.
They nay discern, perhaps, furthermore, in the
midst of The psst the effect produced by Gregory's
discovery upon the mind Of the Eastern public.
They nay remember the lusthsble Struggling OF
shoulders, shaking OF heacs and skeptcal contrac-
ton Of brows with which the news Of the certainty
OF the richness of at lesst portion OF the noun
tsins was received by majority of the former.
They may yet bear in mind, how welcome amid the
many and grieyous doubts entertained by the bulk
of tie people Of the East, came the announcement
of Nj Greeey intention to pay persoral visit 70 the
probeInatcsl gold fields, an subject the matter AZ
issue 20 thorough sitting. The senior OF toe w
YORK TRIBUNE wes universally recognized a. iuIIy
competent TO lit il judgment over the controyerted
oueliior ard willingness 70 abide by MS declson was
e1r1es>ed in every direction lie had entered upon
tie fu MIN M o. bis mission.
Berg accustomed Lot 10 withhold anything the way
Of variable Information from the public, he In can
urcion wiki two other representatives. of the Press,
prepared signed AMI caused TO De published what was
Considered truthful and entirely impartial exposition
Of the condition of the Gregory mines q. the time Of
MS ard their personal Inspection. And here Jour
respondent has sIysd ., the s9eci, suffice: Of this
cVnarI.esnsn.