, 1859-06-03
Drcas 4 TrihttttE,
PIXIES PKAK-AUTNENT IN.
TEkLIGENCE.

We print, this morning, in another column.
letter from CLARENDON DAWSON, dated at
Arapahoc, in tile Pixies peak country, May I'd,
which will bc generally read. Mr. Davisson
IL known to most Of our city readers as the
former Commercial Reporter Of the Chicago
z1Iua. and reliable and judicious man.
We have implicit faith III whnt he has related
from Ills personal knowledge, though he differs
somewhat in lis opinions from the crowds Of
emigrants who are returning from the rcputed
gold fields.
Without doubt, since the gold fever first set
in, vast amount Of exaggeration has been in
du1ged in By spectators and others interested,
for tic purpose Of inducing emigration; and 1t
il now kept up by disappointed gold-hunters
to hold emigration in check. The truth un'
questionab]y lies between the two extremes;
and cur correspondent, now on the ground,
knowing that whereof he writes, seems to
have hit it, The public will not be compelled
to whit much longer for intelligence that will
settle the matter definitely, or at least to the
satisfaction Of all who intend visit to the
country about which such conflicting stories nre
aaoat. In advance, We may say this much:
the reasons given for the outrageous deception
that it is alleged has been practised are insult.
cicslt If the favorable reports with which
1he newspapers have been filled for months,
prove TO be fabricatiors, the motives Of
those who are responsible for them must
receive some other explanation than that
with which We are now acquainted Men
capable Of compelling the movement Of
$4,000 to ioo, 900 men toward distant point.
through savage country, needed not to be
told that unless tho cmigrants found good Pc
cuuiary rcasons for remaining in the plnces to
which they lad been a]iused, the spectators
in claims and tow ,-sitcs, would derive no pos
sble advantage from their presence. They
knew that the country was not needed nor de-
sired for agricultural or commercial purposes;
that nothing but the belief in the existence OF
gold therein would induce emigration to it,
and that nothing but d rcmuncratiye yield Of
gold for given amount Of labor would keep
cmigrants there after they had arrived Ne
do not see, tl1cn when the the speculation was
10 come into whom the corner lots and val"
uelcss claims were to be sold. Hence, VIC dis.
trust as pure tabrications, OF an accumulation
Of q; ';hcarsayR" all the stories that have been
told Of the forged letters by which sons have
hcen dragged away from home to join their
prosperous fathers, and wives encouraged to
make journey Of seven hundred miles over
tho plains for the purpose Of sharing wealth
with Cruesus.like husbands. They are not
natural or probable, and they mnst be exag-
gerations We are not believers, either, in
that kind Of total depravity that would amuse
itself at Arapal'oe, Denver City or Aurarla
with chuckling over the weariness, starvatior'
namelsss misery and death which causeless
and lruitlcss emigration Of IN army Of persons
to those distant places would be sure to bring
in its train. We wait then with anxiety for
the intelligence which will end the dispute,
and establish the worth or the worthlcssness
Of the diggings 10 which tens Of thousands
laYc rushed