The New York herald., 1868-12-06
DUTCnEsS COUNTY GOLD DISCOVERIES.

perts arc Made to SEQ Golden Visions
Hungry and Thirsty BOhemians, in
Trance of GOldon Dreams, Write Golden
PeriOds-How to Sell Worthless Land.
The plainly apocryphal story going the rounds OF
the creduous country papers OF the throwing up OF
an island OF diamonds in an indefinite latitude and
longitude and an indefinite distance or the westerly
coast of South America by the late earthquakes agi
tang that section has found It's parallel in menda-
cious sensational fabrication Six miles from
Rhinebeck, in Duchess county, important
gold discoveries are said to have been
made. Detailed descriptions OF the alleged
gold-bearlng veins have been published in the New
York papers during the past week. with most cru
dite geological revelations of extraordinary results
OF discoveries by coterie OF scientific gentlemen
and mining experts, and last, and most important Of
all the astonishing developments OF assays.
There Is no excitement like o gold excitement.
The resstless force with which the tidal OF the
first California gold excitement swept across this
country still remembered aud so, too that OF the
recent discoveries Of the same precious metal
at Pixies Peak and elsewhere in Colorado
and in Montana. Montana Farms We're left un,
empty IN the eager rush to delve for hidden gold.
Ministers fed their pupits lawyers abandoned their
briefs, physicians left their patients, artists threw
away their easels brushes and paints; newspaper
men flung to the winds their pens and pages OF
written fooscaP poets exchanged their dreamlands
gions OF the upper for the crowded steerage OF
slow sailing steamers. all intent to dig gold
Dug from the bowels Of the earth,
Which men fall down before and worship
And call God
California has given US millions OF dollars In gold
and Colorado and Montana have yielded rich pro-
ducts of the auriferous metal. But Tall is not gold
who went to Nicaragua to ennobe their career under
the intrepid leadership OF the "grey-eyed man Of
deStinyn brought back stories OF deposits OF fabu
ous colossal golden images In the tumui OF the an
ctent Indian chiefs OF Chirqui. sailing vessel, the
Nautilus. was fitted out here, and young and old
men, filled with golden dreams OF future wealth,
spolaton - of these ancient, sacred iombs
golden treasures The Nautilus came back with q
WISER and sadGer and poorer crew. In virginia.
from time to time alleged gold discoveries; but those
who sunk shafts ut the cropping out places mva-
riaby sunk capital and hope with them. Owners Of
gold mint in selling their land, pocketing the pro-
cceds and leaving to try perhaps the same expert
We have complimented Colorado for It's gold produc
tiveness but most OF the gold came from Pixies Peak
The real fact is although there Is goidDearng quart
there In considerable quantities. has never paid u
work the mines Take, for instance, the Consolidated
Gregory mine and the Swift and Parmalee mines, the
worked to profit. Their stock in the New Yorl
| market has been kicked around like footballs from
two dollars TO twenty dollars per share TO suit TIN
fancy and purposes OF the regular stock board ans
| curb brokers. And this where gold unquestlonaDlJ
exists. But gold mines do not exist III the manner
found there as glarngy set forth before the public
1t would not pay to work them. The whole thing Is
tear away the almsy ven. to unfold to
the wheel within wheel OF the whole affair to ex-
pose the trickery ana sham BY which lew unscru.
pulous seek TO swindlc the public. In the first
place. this land Is too rugged and rocky for agricu
tural purposes. In the second place. there are no
streams Of water o sufficient capacity to be turned
to manufacturing account. Thirdly, 1t Ia too lar
from the Hudson river and railway or steamboat
communication to be made marketable AZ villa plots
Fourthly, certain New York spectators own the
land Fifthy, they got sold in buying II, and now
they want to sell somebody else No ordinary sale
approximates their LOFTY speculative ambition
sixtnly the ground is rocky and hence the god-dls
covering dod"e. The Quod erGt demo,tstrdhd,,1n IS
as clear as any proposition Ia Euclid.
The ingenuity with which the effort 10 get up this
gold excitement and raise to fabulous prices value
less land has aoyrinthian weaving of sublime
audacity. The wool has splendid array OF bright,
dazzling colors but the warp Is rotten, with no sort
OF textile tenacity in IL. or course, the woven fabric
now presented so temptingy 70 tns pablic WI prove
worth while 10 show up now something OF this in
genuity. on the principle "nothing venture nothing
win" steamer was chartered to convey certain
parties to the grand head centre Of these alleged
aurlierous discoveries. There was dinner on
board and there were wines and brandies and
rum and gin--all the varieties Of modern
stomachical bibulauts, IN fact ad n6ttu,n, and cl
gars equally free. IL was great thing for the pro-
played with; they shutied To suit themselves; they
played their game well. II was great thing for the
had the power OF double sight. TO their duplicated
vision argillaceous slate would have looked
golden. The more they dipped into the whskey
the more the dip ut tue bottom OF the ex-
cayation had an aurlerous hue The more
the exciting beverages tinglei through their
veins the more palpaby visible became the
goll bearing veins. 10 was good time for the
miners. The mine Of fluids gold mine to them.
They saw groupings out OF Lhe precious metal In
the meek OF every newly opened bottle. They reyced
in golden visions, and would swear To anything,
as backward turning the steamer that took them
up the river brought them back again. u was a
good time for the reporters-the valture Bohemians
OF the city press--who went along as chronclcrs OF
the results OF the expedition. Results were nothing
to them; carpe die7a was their motto then, "a -
always IL. They seized the daY and the golden OF
portunitcs IL afforded for square meal aud grandy
glorious sequences OF drinks and unintermtted
indulgence IN p qnwontea cigars u was golden
rcyced In golden luXuries. They wrote IN go,4an
periods. The public are now reading lhrr golden
accounts. The iand owners,
Sustained and sco,hei
BY an unfsltefing tros.
that these golden accounts will De believed, are
waiting 20 reap the golden harvest 10 make more
periccf the blind II Il said that not a foot OF the
land ~ for sale and cannot be bought for any
price. The reason IL no one VIII buy y.
fhe public have not been so easily gulled AZ II was
imagined they would be. The voraclty OF BOhcm!ans
~ unquesoned: but their yeracity on an expedition
Ike THIS - most decidedly questioned New Workers
cannot ~ caught by any sucn chan. Inc asttte
to some other dodge 10 dispose or thhlr unstable
and worthless lands. our people have not forgotten
the seductive swindies perpetracd by spectators III
oil lands. Columns cOnid be iel rccounting those
swndles but IL unnecessary for our present pur-
pose. We have exposed this last sensational at
tempt al swiniling We can ouly say II any persons
believe tho published narratOns they are fools ana
that f any buy these alleged goldbearins lands they
VIII come 10 their senses
AT LAST,
and, from troubled dream awakening, IND they
have been most unscrupuio15y, egregousy stuck.
wee 10 huabHg!