The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1859-06-01
Pixies Peak...The stampede.


DEPARTURE TRAINS.
500 o'clock, A. NJ, Passenger Train.
e loo o'clock, ?. NJ. Freight Train.
Pixies Peak.-.The stampede.
Steamboats,, Railroads and plains are
crowded now with dissatisfied and disap-
pointed emigrants from the western Kansas
Gold Fields" and if we were to judge by
newspaper reports and universal rumor,
there will not be man left ito claim" the
country from IT. kearney to the mountains.
The same spirit of haste which sent so or
10000 enthusiasts across the country in
search Of gold, has (probably) started them
back again with equal celebrity, and distresses
and outrases innumerablc are reported as
marking their fight on tn, homcward track
Nearly all Of the McGrcgor delegation are
expected home in few days; some young
men who are as well situated on the frontier
as anywhere, will remain on the Platte or the
Missouri or proceed to California, Arazonia
cr spend the summer prospecting in the
mountains. .....
In the reports that reach us from the
plains, are many statements of an extremely
contradictory character. 1t is said that the
Government trains were robbed of proyis-
ions and their conductors killed, that 20, 600
ii'cn were rushing eastward with the inten-
ton of burning and destroying all the FROM
tier towns that have profited by this ''hum-
bug-that many of the leading letter
writer's Of the west have been murdered by
the enraged ''dupes," that all who have
written favorable accounts from there arc
doomed, that 1000 persons were SO miles
from Omaha, STARRING to death, and thous-
ands Of other reports which 60 to swell the
throat Of Rumor. Many of these stories
are made up to appeasc the demand for ex-
citing incidents-some of them may be we'll
mixed with truth, but the idea of 1000 men
starving, 80 miles from Omaha, when the
country is quite well settled from that city
to Fl. kearney and when ''hour is being
sacrificed by emigrants at this latter place
for cents pound and bacon at 10 ccnts,''
is little absurd.
Telegraphic communication is now had
with Leavenworth and by this means we
are enabled to hear from Denver city in IL
days-the stage company making the dis
lance (625 miles, in that time The Cherry
Creek Pioneer has been received at Leayen.
worth and by that We learn that the talk OF
there being mo gold there is false The
last advices by telegraph also state the ex-
element had subsidized at Denver, that quartz
had been discovered and that the business
Of washing was expected to be good when
the SHOWS had left the face of that elevated
country.
We believe with the Saint Louis
.Nens and the Milwaukee Sentinel, that
however scarce the gold may ultimately
prove to be, there has yet been no fair test Of
it made, and until that test is made and a
failure is demonstrated We shall reserve a
condemnation of it as lone of the most
stupcndous humbugs of the age" We
never advised anybody to go who had any
business to employ him here, and those who
had no employment might just as well be
hunting up homes on the frontier as setting
examples Of idlencss at home; this last
class of persons are Of little use anywhere,
and perhaps the hard knocks incident to a
campaign Of this kind may teach them the
importance Of action. With good many
men Of families in our own town VIC expos
tulatcd personally on the improperly Of
leaving, until midsummer at least, but the
fever was uncomfortable the current news
(Which we shall always publish while a
printing Office is ours) was decidedly favor
able and as well authenticated as any news
of the day. MONEY is the American god,
times had been very disheartening for a year
past, they "wanted to sec the west anyhow y
and 30 they would. Very well; they have
paid for experience little too high perhaps
but the loss of the Spring and 5000 in
money can soon be recovered by each dis.
appointed one and the lesson will not only
add to his stock Of knowledge but to his
stock of contentmcnt. The worship Of
Gold may possibly be less in fashion for a
few years, the west will have received q
large accession Of settlers, forced toward
sun-down by this excitement, times bid fan
tobe magnificent and the world will probably
survive this terrible shock of Gisappoint
ment even if the worst reports are true.
Some newspapers are behaving very
smart over the exploded bubble" telling
their readers how wisely they predicted this
result and indulging in bull-head satire to.
wards al papers and persons who were
more or less convinced Of the existence Of
the general facts reported by letter writers
from the Missouri and the head-watcrs Of
the Platte. The conductors Of these pro-
phecying journals only remind one Of the
brilliant old lady who told her husband she
knew 1.-THE COW would eat the grindstonc y
In this world there are two kinds of unior
tunates-one believes everything he hears
and is often deccived-the other believes
nothing and never learns. The first evinccs
confidence in others which is creditable al
least to his own honesty, and he may be i'm.
proved by disappointInents till he attains q
fair share Of discriminating sense TIL.
othr exhibits native dishonesty by doubt
ine4sery statement he hears, lives life o
mnliah stolidity and when . result trans
pirss which it has bafasd tho reasoning
capacity Of mental batteries Of the highest
order to reach, he brays out his wisdom in
that standard claim to pre-knowledge ~
told you SOL