The Lambertville press. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1858-1???, 1860-10-03


Of interest have arisen during the
past year. says the Philadelphia Bal
tetln, that the chroniclers Of cunent
events ? have almost forgotten to no
tice the fact that Pixies Peak is not a /
complete humbng It is said that
missionaries are the advanced guard !
of civilization but surely the gold
diggers are ahead of them even. The
other side of the mountain was long
sitce snbdued by the white man; bnt
no human being save the wandering
Arapahoe ever thought of pitching his
tent in the gulches of the higher side,
till the glitter of the rocks drew them
thither.
For so many months reports from
the Peak were contradictory, that pub
lie curiosity gradually turned away
from it ard sought other pabuIum.
But recent letters from there give very
substantial figures as the result of the
search for treasuretroye !" in those
regions. AS the coach leaves Denver
City, it carries no little gold with it.
Here viii be o rough miner from Cali
fornia gu'ch, starting home with his
500 900, and there another from the
same digging, with his $4,000 al
though others who are returning to
the States, Pilgrims for America
as they are called, viii tell you that
they have prospected for months with
ont making cent. Potatoes are ff-
teen cents a pound, and melons at
doller and quarter, have exhausted
their small capital.
The world for long time amused
itself over the strange following
which poverty and love of grain pro-
duced in California and Australia. It
has chance for a new sensation of
this sort in studying the state of things
at the Peak. AS the coach stands
ready to depart, motely crew sur
round it. Here is Beckwortb, the
half-breed, the most famous Of Indian
fighters He invites YOU to visit,
Lady Beckworth," his ninth wife.
Here is q dark man who has been a
border ru6ian, a flibuster, Mexican
prisoner, a Panama surveyor, slave
trader. Here is an elderly gentleman,
q pioneer in the region. Ten-years
ago he was rich Pennsylvania banker
and lacking five votes of getting the
Wing nomination for Governor. An
on he was cooking aapjacks for him
sllf in Pixies Peak cabin, arrayed in
buckskin' and corduroys He is now
a candidate for Congress. Here, too,
is another candidate for the same Of
tice no less parsonage than the wheel
barrow man, the brave printer, who
trundled his barrow from Kansas CITY.
Here is a young Boston merchant,
who left the city soon after he became
notorious as party to thrilling
scandal case and here quondam
Wisconsin merchant, who owed one
house in Buffalo $40, 900 when he sus-
pended Here is Count Murat, who
claims to be relative of King Joa-
chin He is now Spectator, though
last year he shaved HoraceGreely pro-
fessionally, and his wife washed the
philosophic clothes.
The inevitable gambling saloon is
already in its glory in spite of the lee
ture Horace Greedy delivered there
last year, standing between the bar
and the gaming tables. The scene
has greatly changed since the time
when a picture came out portraying
the Getty as group of tents, each
of which bore grocery sign. Besides
ordinary dwellings,, they have their
Denver Hall" and auction stores.
The ladies, too, have arrived, and the
lucky ones drive around merrily in
their carriages.