White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-03-24
Tnr GoLD Mnrs QuEsrIOs.-Tbe gold

grantS-sOme with teams, some ioollnS
it, some pushing wheelbarows, and some
harnessed like mules to hand-carts-all
bound for the mines-and most OF them
to be disappointed. But they are bound
to go-there is no stopping them. A
person who has recently returned from
the mines, satisfied with the humbug,
says that every squad be met on the road
inquired concerning the gold. He at first
told them the truth, and advised them to
turn back but they took it as an insult,
and looked upon him as an impostor
and he several times barely escaped .
sound thrashing for his news A new
idea suddenly seized him, and afterwards
he gave glowing accounts to all whom he
met, and manufactured large stories
TheytOok glorionsly, the crowds cheered
him, and called him a capital fellow.
The bigger The lies he told. he says, the
better his listeners were pleased with him.
On our first page will be found letter
written to the St. Louis Democrat, which
no doubt is strictly the truth. Itexposes
the gold excitement, and gives true
version Of the matter. 1t shows up in
his true colors, one Gen. Larimer, who
is engaged in humbug specializing towns
at the mines. and sends favorable gold
reports to the East. Il Is one of the
grandest swindles of the age. and viii
shortly be found to be such. Too many
people, of different characters, are going
there. Many cannot be silenced, and in
duced to send home lies. to entrap others
into the same box with themselves, as has
heretofore been done, when but few per-
sons were at the mines. In our in inside
columns. will likewise be found letter,
from the Falls City Broad giving a
true statement of facts. The writer was
duped into going to the mines, but will not
help to dupe others. He came home with
Captain Yount, whose return we men,
toned last week. They induced all they
met, to turn back, when they could pos
sibly prevail upon them to do so.
a young man, named Farleigh. has,
we learn, Just returned to Forest City,
Mo. lie brings the same story brought
by all the Holt County boys, who have
returned-that there is little gold there.
but it will not begin to pay. Some of
the members of the company from Brown
vile, Nebraska, have also come home,
disappointed. If there is so much gold
there, why is it, that just as Spring is
opening, and good weather for mining is
approaching, hundreds are coming home?
1t is not only SO here. but all along the
river. But they cannot make themselves
heard-the facts they bring are suppressed
by the papers. If the papers do conde-
scend to mention the fact, we have noticed
that they almost invariably endeavor to
make mystery out of it. Their princi-
pal method is to say that the persons who
bring the bad reports, keep rather shady,
and are around buying up cattle, to return
to the mines.
A friend of ours, who had dangerous
attack of the gold fever, visited Marys-
vile, on the Big Blue, few days ago,
and Came home completely cured He
saw hundreds of people there, and heard
a great deal of exceedingly good news,
and much that was bad. But he says be
noticed that the good news all came from
those who were going to the mines, and
knew nothing about them while the bad
news came from those who had been there
to see. He says he saw large number Of
persons returning homeland more dis
appointed and sick looking set of mortals
be never saw. 1t cured him completely.
Our influence may be limited, and our
advice needed by few or none; but we
shall continue to raise our voice against
this imposition. until we are convinced
that it is not such. But we do think and
say, that it is one of the grandest, deep
est-laid, widely-extended, unprincipled,
robbing. thieving. systematical, rascally
swindles ever concocted