The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1859-05-27

TIIEHumBUG ExPOsED,
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EDs. TRmUNr:-Thc game Is played
out; the bubble has burst, and the fools
are returning home, and II their eyes have
been opened 80 have their pockets; there
foro, all things considered, the balance
sheet Is about on the level.
Well, TO particuiarize si.gitudRy (as
Phoenix has it) I will inform you and your
readers that Pixies Peak is the most un-
mitigated humbug that was ever invented;
and il was conducted in this wise;
A few men went there with goods, and
laid out town sites, got a few honest men
there, who finding themselves taken in,
wrote true statements 20 their friends, but
the expressmon, TO whom the letters we're
entrusted for transmission 20 ihe states,
wns in the employ Of the proprietors Of
Denver and Aurafia cities, and he made Il
his business TO open all letters, thereby
acquainting himself with the hand writing,
the address, and 70 some extent the histo-
" Of said families, thus enabling himself
10 send Favorable accounts Of the Gold
Mines 10 different parts Of the United
States, all Of which were the basest for
geries The originals were never sent
You will ask how know'these things, as
did not go through to the Mines, and
will give you a moiety Of the testimony
on that subject.
In the first place, / have met several
men, with whom was acquainted, and in
whom have the most implicit confidence,
wen who are experienced in the CalifoT-
MIA Mines, and have been and prospected
at every place where II was said gold
could be found--I have met these men re-
turning and they soy there is not gold e.
nough to pay ten cents Per day to the man
and in consequence there is suffering
enough at and near the Peak to cause hu-
mOnity to shudder; and in fact all along
the road; and those who got through were
80 much incensed at the fabricstors Of the
humbug, that they shot one dead, Sndhung
two more TO the first tree, which, although
illegal, was a just fate, for men are starv-
ing and dying all along the road, and they
are the murderers.
Report has just come in that four men
now lie dead within thirty miles Of thi,
place notwithstanding the ofFicers at IN,
Fort are doing oil they can to umelior rate
the condition of the destitute.
No papers or letters have been carrie,
TO Cherry Greek or the Peak, consequent
ly the only persons who are Ostonished a
the immense emigration are those few
persons at the Peak to whom all the ia
vorable correspondence was imputed
some Of whom in consequence Of the i'm
mense emigration, started for home to pre-
vent their friends from coming. hav,
seen one Of them meet his brother an,
heard him ask where no was going; tn,
brother then pulled out about dozen let
ters in which he was urged by oil mean
to come to the mines at any sacrifice, al
, of which were forgeries. They both wen
! Immediately home. Icould multiply case
; of similar character but il is useless;
what have written will not deter mel
: from coming, they must be mad indeed
and II has been said "whom the Gods wisI
TO destroy they first make mad" Th
has been literally fulfilled in many case
, this spring.
Now, in conclusion, will add a wort
, about myself which is, that after seeing
little more Of the territory Of Kansas;
am coming home, and probably shall b
more contented to pull teeth than wal
; two months Ogo--for have found bettei
: gold diggins in Tiiiu than there is q
E Pixies Peak.
= The other Tifin boys will probably turn
back before reaching this point.
I Respectfully yours F. FRANKLIN.
p. s. All ofOur boys are in good heSltl
4 and may say spirits, notwithstanding W,
have been most glOriOusly hum6ugged.