Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1859-05-21
THE TRUTH AT LAST FROM PIXIES
PEAK.

= the following letter from the prom
ised land in Western Kansas, which
bears on its*face the evidence of the
good filth and verac.ty OF the wri-
ter:
PROMISE REMEMBERrD.-Pake's
Peak, March l, .1S59-My dear
Brother: | promised to write you
a good, long letter as soon as | ar
rived here and | take my pen in
hand to let you know that we are
all we'll, and that these few ]in-s
will find YOU enjoying the same
blessing. You know we left Hori-
con tor the land OF gold about the
1st Of February, and we arrived
here yesterday. My wife stood the
journey first rate, but my five eld-
est boys were nearl y tired outwhen:
we reached here. Jane, the little
sis, is happy as a. lark, and says,
Hiss Uucle George for me- God
| OleSS uer SWEEP nearC.
Hare2ships.-tWe had all the
hardships in the world before we
got here. We lost our horses at
Dubuque-they were stolen from
US. We got some extra oxen, and
lost them one hundred miles from
Omaha. We then tried Wheel bar
rows, my wife andI wheeling by
turns, till the Indians stole our bar
rows. Then we walked, till the |
Indians stole our provisions, and
my family got sick, so had to car
ry them all on my back. Our mon
ey gave out long before, and for 2
weeks we Travelled through a Wild
erness where the foot of a human
being had never trod, in this condi-
ton. seeing no living being, and /
without money to purchase even a
cracker at any Of the groceries al
onY the, line, we lived on roots till !
my children all looked like pigs
from 70 ting so long.
Queer Back B8md-" I have
carried my family on my back till
I am SO round shouldered that
eao only see the blue sky and the
bright sun by looking between my J
legs, and u. to heavens canopyse
that way. l lost 2 hundred pounds
Of fesh-lorse meat-when | star
ted from Dubuque, or we should
have got along better.
No Humbug! -" T read in the
Milwaukee News that Pixies Peak
was humbug But it amt, and
the News knows it as we'll as [ do.
We got here in the morning after
walking all night, and though we
are now twenty -fours in the coun-
try, we are not well off, but have a
good prospect.
GoM!-"There is lots Of gold
he: e-lots Of it. The gophers dig
it out Of the ground by the bushel,
and in. the moonlight the whole
earth for miles around looks like {
heaven with its myriad Of stars, or (
Ikea pretty girl with yellow freck-
les. The woodchucks9dig out bush t
els and bushels of it, and the snakes :
in this country look like solid gold t
ones, fro m crawling among gold /
chunks It is found in all sized pla- {
ces, from the size Of a hens egg up +
to the bigness ola large stone, and {
Of the finest q7ality.
Indians and Fine Tooth Combs. l
& Last night two hundred Indians {
came to rob Us of a set Of silver
spoons and fine tooth comb that n
NY wife had to use on the children, {
and we barricaded our house with l
rocks of gold until they could not |
gain adlnittance,, and we're forced {
% beg to make friends with us {
The chief laid down his weapons I
and came into our camp, when my t
wife used the. fine comb on his head I
ill his gratitude was as lively as his x
head was, and he was so tickled $
that he offered to marry my wife, t
and show me where gold was in '
'lenty. l loved my wife-you know !
hat, George; but thinking that !
might die before I got rich, and feel
ing that I must make some proper
ty to leave my children, I consent {
ed to the match, and she has gone {
off with the Indian. who is q GREAT