The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1859-01-29

Ho for Pixies Peak There is soon TO be
an immense migration, especially from our
Western States, to the new FL Dorado. The
extensive failure of crops in 1858, the uni
vcrsal pressure Of debt, the low prices real
lied or promised for the fruits of the hus-
Landmarks labors, the deafness of enter
prise, the absence Of thrift, render such
migration inevitable. There is searcc y a
village west Of Ohio in which some arc not
fttin. for and impaticntIy awating the day
when n start may be prudently made for the
ncighhorhood of Pixies Peak. We shall be
disappointed if less than Fifty thousand per-
sons start for the new gold dggings within
the current year. Many 60 to dig. perhaps
quite as many to speculate on the presumed
necessities, or fancicd. or vices, of the dig
gers. Liquors, tobacco, implements Of
gambling, &c., &C., will be sent along in
profusion, while food, clothing, animals
metals, &C., &C., will be dispatched in equal
quantities. If The Pacl!jc Railroad were
this day completed on the central route, W.
are confident that the eastern third of it
would pay y fair in'crcs; onits necdful cost
during the year 1859.
OF course, there is gold in Western Kan
famous basin which divides the waters of
tie Atlantic from those of the Pacific, MS
well as on the western. We hold it, indeed,
highly probable that the western or Caltfor-
mia slope, being far the abruptcr, sleeper,
is richer in gold, on or near its surface,
than The eastern. There will probably be
big strikes" or rich pockets of the yellow
dross found on this side, as there have been
on the other but VIC think they will be less
abundant or less considerable than those Of
the Pacific slope. But the general result Of
these as OF the other digglngs will be that
very few operators therein will rapidly
amass wealth; somewhat larger number
will return with something more than they
carried away while the great body OF the
gold seekers will return moro empty in
purse, ragged in wardrobe and bankrupsin
morals, then when they set off. Nineteen
twente,hs Of those who will go to Pixies
Peak might do better at far less cost and
risk, and with infinitely less privation and
suffering, by simply staying where they are,
and devoting their energies to tho growth
Of Indian corn and potatoes.
Let none imagine that we mako these re-
marks with any hope of arrestipg the Pixies
cth CApuNS. Ne p'tSSlOu lol
the insatiate thirst for gold, will not thus be
allayed. Not the needy, the bankrupt, the
thriftess only, but thousands who have
good homes, loving families, fair prospects,
and everything essential to human comfort,
will set the current that sets SO strongly
toward the new Land of Gold. The ac-
counts likely to reach US Of the starving Of
cattle and freezing of men around and this
side Pixies Peak will not arrest this migra-
ton; why should we hope that our rcmon-
stranccs, were we inclined to make any,
would prove more effectiveo But no-let
every man follow the bent of his own
genius, though that lead him to some
point within the shadow of Pixies Peak
Repentance is wholesome though not a
fascinating exercise, and to know ones self
a fool is often the beginning of wisdom.-
Many man who has spent his little all in a
wild goose chase for gold, has returned to
the shelter of the roof tree that covered his
cradle, SO ripcncd in cxpcricnc, and so re-.
pIe:e with the wisdom that is taught by SUI
ferins, that the evening Of his days passed
far more con.cntcdly, happily, on the wages
of day labor, than they would have done on
a modest ratrimony had he never learned by
prlvatcn to appreciate the b!essedncss of a
civilized home. SO, friends who are tired
Of the tame ways of plodding every day in
dustry, lilo for Pixies Peak !-New York
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