Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1860-09-07
Returning from Pixies Peak.

souri, hepuGac0a gives the following ac-
count of the migrants returning from
Pixies Peak: -.-a z.r-- =....
Net an hour in the day passes, but we
meet or overtake large freight trains and
incoming and outgoing emigrants. The
returning emigrants are generally those
who have left their farms and trades in the
States with the expectation of finding sur
face or wash diggings, which do not exist
IN the Rocky Mountains only where lodes
cross gullies and gulches. Disappointed in
amassing fortune in short time, they
become discouraged, home-sick and faint
hearted. Some of these people may, when
at home, be considered, and doubtless are,
quite energetic, but the majority have
hang-dog look that plainly indicates their
trip to the gold mines of the Rocky Noun
tain has been anything but fattering. 1t
is amusing to see the signs painted on some
of the wagons. One has on the wagon
cover, "Pike's Peak or bust, and the same
on returning, adds, ''Busted, by Cd"
Another, Hit or miss - coming back,
''Missed, by h-ll" ga fortune for Bet
and Baby Another, Going gone"
&c, &c. ....' A1 .55'
This class would not make decent
living at home and much as may be said
by persons in the States, the number com
ing in does not exceed the number going
out. -
Evidences of an unmistakable character
show that the question of reliability in the
resources of the Pixies Peak country are
such that its destiny is already sealed for
a great and populous State in q very short
time, and statesmen of every political hue
may as we'll dry up" their opposition to
the admission Of this new State .For
still onward the Western Star of Empire
sweeps till the broad Pacific FLASHING
wave shall kiss the iron band that unites
its peaceful waters to the surging billows
of the Atlantic.
The WHEEL OF FoRTUNE.-Only twenty
years ago last November, Louis Napoleon
(the present Emperor of France) left the
St, Charles Hotel without paying his board
bill. In the New Orleans Bee of Novem-
ber Goth, 1886, appeared the following
account of the ''noble Counts departure
from that city a| -'gs
Count Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, whose
arrival in this city was announced in several
of the papers, has left New Orleans in high
dudgeon, and for just reason. He was yes
terday morning informed by the proprietor
of the St. Charles Hotel, that it was Gus
tomary for gentlemen travelling without
baggage (the Count was splendidly provi-
ded in that way for a man Of his titular
dimensions, } to pay for their board in ad-
vance, whereupon the following dialogue
transpired: U..,
Count-'My name is sufficient guaran-
tee for my bill % s.a .--
Publican-''Your name, Count, is a
very good name, but won't buy mark
citing" .., a.s II .srEs.... tr.
Count" Make out your bill" -t.....
Publcan-''It shall be done .-r,-
The clerk thereupon presented the bill,
made out in the name of Count L. N. Bo-
naparte.
My name" SAID the Count, ''is Louis
Napoleon Bonaparte-I wish it so stated
IN full in the account. .s..- s. r'.a
A second bill was made out, and the en-
tire name written out in fair legible let
| ters. -.-- "
my name is Count Louis Napoleon Bo-
naparte, Prince of Segoria Kamscatka,
and other independencies, say so in the
bill" responded the sprg of nobility.
Il will not make out third bill," said
the clerk " 9d
s'Then I'll be id if pay it - said
his Excellency, and forthwith absquatula
ted. -.,--. .....,..
A FAIR OPPONENT. AT a Bell Everett
meeting at Brunswick, n. j., OF the 18th
inst, Hon. J. Morrison Harris, NJ. c., of
Maryland, spoke as follows = '..'..
When Abraham Lincoln is elected, what
practical thing is he to do in connection
with slavery? | believe the first act of his
administration will be to mationalize the
party. He will endeavor to strengthen it
South, and make it acceptable thcre.-
Great applause from the Republicans. I
Is there Republican who would vote for
him if he didn't believe he would make his
administration a National one )? Why, then.
don't you make it the party of the country
before the election? | have no fears of the
Republican party. have mingled in Con-
gress for years with Republicans, and ]
haven't heard the first man of them say
that they were going to interfere with the
institution of Slavery.
An unfortunate married man was
very iH-uscd by his Xantippe--he was
even treated to an occasional tbrashiug
His friends rallied him upon this, and at
last spurred him to7dcclare that he would
make an effort to be master. One day,
not long after, his bettcr-half was so furi-
Gus that he found himself obliged to seek
shelter under a table. Just at this mo-
ment the voices of his friends were heard
| in the passage "Come outcome out ~
cried the husband, in triumph, ''coIne out
indeed-not |. I'll show for once that [
am master.
The Washington corr spondent of the
Cincinnati Gazette telegraphs that "exag-
geratel reports are being circulated about
an II surrectioa in Texas, in which large
numbers of Abclition:sts are said to be cl :
gaged. II canards have no foundation
in fact, are gotten up for political ef-
feet, to damage the Republican cause with
/ the conservative masses,