Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-04-25
An Expedition 90 sonora and Chi

The st. Louis Republican, of yesterday has
the following:
PIXIES PEAK GOLD MIsEs-The public will
bear Us witness that we have never been very
great believers in the stories that have from
time to time reached us and been published
OF extraordinary rich and extensive gold
mines in the Pixies Peak region. We have
published such accounts as seemed 70 us well
authenticated, giving the names, in many
cases, OF the authors. aud leaving the rest to
time to determine. THAT there is gold in all
that region OF coutry, as there is in New Mex
leo, no one disputes; but whether it will pay
for the labor and Exposure and outlay of the
adventure is TO be proven. and that within
the present year We hardly err when We
say that by the first OF June fifty thousand
persons will be congregated in the Pixies
Peak region, and although many of them
have gone there from the love of adventure,
and with no very well defined intention of do
+ ing much work living by their wits. as the
phrase is-tbere will be enough TO find out
I the extent and profit of the gold deposit. The
end of this year will settle this question.
Those who observed the character of this
emigration this spring must have noticed the
Z vast number who were totally unprPparod for
an expedition of this kind. A black carpet
bag. an extra pair of boots, and a subsian-
tial suit of clothes, with, in every case al
most, rife or gun and perhaps six-shooters,
generally constituted their outfit for a trip OF
one thousand miles. OF mining implements,
or anything to aid in separating the partic les
OF gold from the earth, the exhibition was a
. scanty one. 1t is not probable that they
were in better supply on leaving Kansas City,
LeavenwOrth City, st. Joseph. Atchison. or
any other point on the Missouri river But
thousands have gone. however. and it will not
be long until we shall see to Wfat extent they
have improved their fortunes.
Recently, we have understood that while
many of these emigrants have had the gold
fever well developed. there were hundreds,
perhaps thOusands-the carpet-sack and dew
il-may-care boys-who have an entirely diff
ferent object in view. They start with the
intention of bringing up at Pixies Peak. or
thereabouts, but they don't intend to stay
there. 1t is now said that, being once there.
they can readily drop down upon Sonora ard
chihuahua, not exactly as fllibusters, hut
with the Intention Of taking possession Of
or at least foothold in-thOse Mexican
States. Certain it il that meetings have been
held by them at St. Joseph, il not Other pla-
ces, with a view to consultation about the
movement. If they do not find the gold
diggings to their liking. then the thousands of
idle and disappointed persons about Pixies
Peak will be rife for anything, and nothing
will be easier than to engage in this predat0-
ry incursion into the States of chihuahua and
Sonora. Even granting that their inclina-
tons, in many cases, might not lead them to
engage In such an enterprise yet starvation
is provOcation of many wrong doings, and
it will be so with them.
That there are many men on the road who
seriously contemplate this expedition against
the Mexican States, we are well assured.