The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1859-02-02
Gold News.

Gold News.
By the politeness of Mr.. E. T. Bond of the
McGregor House, We are enabled in another
column to lay before the public an extract from
a letter just received from friend and we are
assured ga reliable man" at Omaha. We by
no means advise everybody to run away from
his business here in the hope of securing an
immediate fortune at Cherry Creek, but We
shall keep our readers posted up in the current
news and then they can follow their own judg-
ments Some eastern and few western jour.
nails throw cold-water on the reports and charge
most of them the manufacture OF the press,
and of specializing parties. There is doubtless
q great deal Of exaggeration as to the richness
xnd territorial extent Of the deposits, and
sharpers arc awake to the sale of bogus claims,
but we insist that no fact was ever better prov |
ed by letters and returned travellers than the |
existence of paying diggings in large portion
of the country about the head-waters Of the
Platte and inasmuch new county is the !
proper place for young men, we do not feel {
rad = hit when va ses o,,r s,,ovs' ti,ronohn,s =
the country resolving to Ego into this new land
70 possess it," There is living in the soil :;
there az we'll az here--the American Eagle 10
there, thousands will be there by next August
and it will sprins into Statehood almost before
We are aware. We would prefer TO see all our
friends and acauan ances settle comfortably !
around us in Iowa, bit as that cannot be the
next best thing is to know they are com'orta-
BILE some,rhere. II is the wish to improve their
situations that drives people from the old worn
out East to the new and fertile West and
though Eastern journals oppose the emigration
and publish all manner Of discouragng ac-
counts Of the west, yet necessity drives them
to the Mississippi and across it, and when once
here there is scarcely one in a thousand who
would take New England Stete as gift ant
20 back to it for alife-residence. Young me,
have q right TO fair show and We will neye
tell them it is better to remain east in stat,
of semi.slavery to capital than it il to take
walk towards shutdown and find land and
home for themselves. If there were twent,
printers at McCregor and but one office lik'
our own, We could probably get work done OF
very low terms, but We certainly would no
advise them to bang round our sanctum wait
ing for a two-slling job when the world o
land, Of enterprise, of independence, Of wealth
and of fame laid before them at the base Of III
Rocky Mountains We respect Labor to-
much and Cal ital too little TO preach any stui
Of the kind. Give the 'loys' chance to ex
panc and if they have the requisite nerve ant
prudence they III conquer all difficulties and b.
as well off as their daddics-if they have no
the PROPER stamina, il they expect to rest OF
''downy beds Of ease or the frontier, if the,
calculate to drink to drown disappointment
I'D, l,,%1 hi, AZ.
growing rich merely to visit gambling saloon
aud become rrofiigate, they had better sta.
with their Mas in steady old country, &c
married at 20 and settle down on one cornc
Of the old mans farm there to vcgetate witt
the cabbage and onions which they would an
nually exchange With the nearest merchant 70
pins and diaper. Such fellows are not WORT
another line, and we drop them.
In considering the propriety Of a move t.
the mines it should be remembered that grea
success cannot attach to all who go, and it dc
rends much upon yourself whether You win
Toll and privation are before you. Iyou lcay
wife and children, many days of sadness viii
come to yourself and the loved ones at homo
This reflection should teach you to weigh wei
the consequences. Good times there will b
sure to find their way back here in the a,ivanc
ed price Of land. and Of labor, and in extensiv
improvements (our own sections Of country
yet young) Perhaps the property You sacri
fee to-day, to enable you to go. may be wort
more when you get back than the Who'll
amount you cal. return with at the end Of tw
years. This should be carefully considered be
fore you "break up.' Our advice would b
take the wife along or resolve 70 make imme
date efforts to send for her, provided the coun
try was such % you expected to find it. w
confess to warm admiration for the bonnete
portion Of maakind and under no circumstance
would we be content to pass year in the soc
ely Of men alone. Men have no right matr
monially or morally TO leave their wives with
cut their consent, and not then unless tn
woman il comfortably provided for and tn
prospect Of great gain by the absence is afn,oa
certainty. The judgment Of man is. O
ought to be superior to that Of his wife in suc
matters and the mere love of adventure or boy
ish whims should not carry him away from he
whom he has sworn 10 cherish.
Enough Cor the present