The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-05-05

The public will bear us witness. that
we have never been very great believ-
ers in the stories, which have from
time to time reached us, and been pub
lished, of extraordinarily rich and ex-
tensive gold mines IN the Pixies Peak
regions. We have published, such ac-
counts as seemed to us well authenti-
Gated, giving the names, in many cases
OF the authors, and leaving the rest to
time to determine. That there is gold
in all that region of country, as there
is in New Mexico, no one disputes but
whether it will pay for the labor and
exposure, and the outlay of the adven-
ture, is to be proven, and that within
the present year. We hardly err when
we say, that by the first of June, fifty
thousand persons will be congregated
in the Pixies Peak region, and although
many of them have gone there from
the love of adventure, and with no very
well defined intention of doing much
work = Hving By their scits, as the
phrase is-there will be enough to find
out the extent and profit of the gold
deposit. The end of this year will
settle the question.
Those who observed the character of
this emigration this spring, must have
noticed the vast number who were to-
tally unprepared for an expedition of
this kind. A black carpet-bag, an extra
pair. of boots, and a substantial suit of
clothes, with, in every case almost, a
rifle or a gun, and perhaps six-shooters
generally constituted their outfit for a
trip of one thousand miles. Of mining
implements, or anything to aid in separ-
ating the particles of gold from the
earth, the exhibition was scanty one
1t is not probable that they were in
better supply on leaving Kansas City,
Leavenworth City, St. Joseph, Atchi-
son, or any other point on the Missouri
river. But thousands have gone, how
ever, and it will not be long until we
shall see to what extent they have i'm
proved their fortunes.
Recently, we have understood that,
while many of these emigrants have
the gold fever we'll developed, there
are hundreds, perhaps thousands-these
carpet sack and devil-may-care boys
who have an entirely different object
in view. They start with the intention
of bringing-up at Pixies Peak, or
whereabouts, but they don't intend to
stay there. 1t is now said that, being
once there, they can readily drop down
upon Sonora and chihuahua, not exact
ly as filibusters, but with the intention
of taking possession of-or at least
getting foothold in-those Mexican
States. Certain it is that meetings
have been held by them at St. Joseph,
if not other places, with a view to con-
situations about the movement If
they do not find the gold diggings to
their liking, then the thousands of idle
and disappointed persons about Pixies
Peak will be rife for anything, and moth
ing will be easier than to engage in
this predatory incursion into the States
of Chihuahua and Sonora. Even
granting that their inclinations, in many
cases, might not lead them to engage
in such an enterprise, yet starvation is
a provocative of many wrong doings,
and it will be so with them, That
there are many men on the road who
seriously contemplate this EXPEDITION
against the Mexican States, we are well
assured.