The Kansas herald of freedom. [volume] (Wakarusa, Kan. Territory) 1854-1860, 1859-07-09

the ensuing fall, when he will have crops
coming in and more than hundred acres
Of his land broken and subdued for future
cultivation. / see no reason why reso-
lutte, good manager should not be COM
Portable after his first year or two, and
thenceforth take the world as easily as
need be. He who comes in with but
$1,000, $1,000 or $500 must, of course,
be much longer in working his way to a
position of comfort and independence !;
but if he will work right ahead, wasting
neither days nor dollars, and keeping clear
of speculation and office-seeking, he can
hardly fail to succeed"
Perhaps he forgets that the weather,
which is so Indictment as to forbid the ex-
posure of cattle to the winds of winter,
will also sadly interfere with framing,
weather. boarding, shingling and plaster
ing house, where the mechanics cannot
help being exposed to their full inclem-
ency. But Greeley has his plan of work
marked out, and don't allow anything to
interfere. Perhaps, if he were to build a
house in mid winter, with the terrible
driving north-wester whistling about his
ears, he would realize, somewhat, the con-
dition of pioneers. He would find that
the golden future which he pictures out
for good managers, will be realized by but
few, if any, in the short time and at the
light cost which he estimates. The ma
jority of even good managers would find
5000 soon exhausted in improving a
farm.
Greeley, in his short stay in Kansas,
observant as he is supposed to be, did moi
learn enough Of pioneer life to enable him
to give correct advice to emigrants. His
ideas are based too much on his personal
experience at the East, and his ideal no.
tons formed in his sanctum as to what
can be done. Evidently he is out of hi:
element in advising pioneers as to what
they can and should do. The preference
he gives to Sunday barn. building ovel
Sunday worship, has given fearful shock
to his very conscientious and religious
friends in Kansas, and will be sufficien,
cause for striking his name from the cal.
ender of saints who have saved Kansas
unless he retracts.
The fact is, he cannot allow that truth
can be seen from any other point of view
than his own. Yet he is not over-nice
and critical as to the character of his facts
He reaches Pixies Peak, is carried along
by the tide of gold seekers to Gregory.
diggings, and takes the word of miners
who have $4,000 claims to sell, as cor.
rect, and thence pens a manifesto to the
public. What guaranty is there that Hor
ace Greeley has not been deceived ? He
takes hearsay and interested testimony
and indorses it as correct, and the publ,
swallows it down because "Greeley say
so;" because "he would not be hum
bugged." In his peculiar element as
political statistician and writer, he has
reputation, but this gives him no immu
nifty from imposition. His Geographic
tells with gusto, that Greeley's fellow
printers would impose on him in referenc
to his meals, telling him that he hac
eaten when he had not, and had not beel
to his meals when he had eaten, and h
Invariably took their word for it, an,
g. acted accordingly. This is one of hi
idiosyncracies, and the fact that politics i
so uppermost in his mind, as evinced b,
his speech making at the mines, togethe
with this habit of his of taking as tru
what people tell him, requires caution
reception of his gold reports. People VIII
intend to go to the mines had better wal
till the dust is brought into the States b
hundreds of thousands of dollars, befor
they perpetrate another hasty and insan
rush to Pixies Peak. The last news fror
that region confirms us in the propriety {
giving this caution. Greeley says:
"There is no doubt about the existepc
of gold in paying quantities. have, i
addition to the facts embodied in our re
port written at the Gregory diggings, a
account of the last three days. working
the company, called in that report Sofri
, Henderson & Co., but better entitled d.
} frees, Barber & Stowell.
1--WE left on Thursday morning, an
their product for that and t,co tollowi,l
days. was as follows:
Thursday, June 9th, two sluices, fl
pwts.; Friday, June 10th, two sluice
: 476 pwts.; Saturday, June IL, three sluice
1909 pwts. Total, 1895 pwts., which, {
SIS per ounce, (Which l think the ia
J value of this gold when quicksilverized
gives net value of over $1,700 for tire
days work on a single claim, so by 10
feet, with all the fixtures not costing owe
$1,000, and all the labor costing less tina
S1OO-Qour hands to each sluice.)
~ have other returns showing good rs
suits for these three days." thus proving b
his own statement that he was depender
upon the accounts of others for his infol
nation.
Again We woald say to all, couu
well the cost before undertaking the tri
to Pixies Peak to make fortune, 70
Greeley himself says: II do not wish t
be quoted as authority for the estimate"