The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1876-04-13
The Block Hills Fraud.

The Block Hills Fraud.
A letter to the New York Times saws that
the reports of profitable god-digging in
the Black hills is a fraud 1t seems thai
one man at least who has been induced tc
leave home in pursuit of a humbug has
had the boldness to defy ridicule and tel
the truth 10 hundreds who have left 8
small certainty for glittering false hope
this will be a fearful blow 10 those who
have expended their all in an outfit anG
borrowed from those who could i'll afford
to lend, the disappointment will be crush
lug. How far the statement is true which
declares the gold excitement to be BULL
upon a stupendous system of lying and
cheating remains to be seen, but it is GER
tainly made with such an attempt at cir,
cunlstantial exactness as to demand from
every respectable Journal in the land AT
least the publication of a warning.
The correspondent asserts that Chey-
enne, Omaha, Sioux City, Yanlston and
other frontier towns are responsible foi
the delusion, by which they have richly
profited, in the sale of everything pertain
ing to the outfit Of a miner, from an OK
team to frying pan. While each town
has been perfectly willing TO pay cut
throat game against the others to secure
the popularity Of jumping off place, all
have kept up the hurrah cry Of gold in
the hills" According to this statement
sellers, clothing men and wagon-makers
mule men and hash-iHmpers, railroad and
steamboat companies-all uniting to swear
that the Black hills is a second edition OIL
California lorty-nine, and that the nearest
road TO big nuggets and fortune s thro
Omaha, or Sioux City, or somewhere else
as the case may be The excitement car
scarcely be stopped now. 1t is too late tC
convince the moving thousands, even i
there We're not an ounce of the auriferons
in the Sioux lands. The only safety fol
those who are already in and have badly
burnt their fingers is to lure others into
the same fire-trap. First on the grount
they have all the advantages, and in the
troubles of those WHO come after them cal
alone see the hope of getting a part o
their own losses back again.
A BOOB on SrILTs. The address OF Monroe Youns
i'll his capacity OF Mayor, Is precisely what NIGH
have been expected from such source. 1t is vul
gar partisan TRADE, unredeemed by a ke o
good and utterly disgracefl to the position il
which its author has been placed. Bangor Wing.
Mayor Young has not had those grea
advantages of polished education which
permit the valiant Captain Of the Wing tC
shine 50 consplcuously-bu his hat cover!
more brains and energy and capacity thar
conld be found in an acre Of fellows like
that editor. The Wings allusion to the
Mayor reminds US OF llotspurs account o
the fop after fight like that at Ellsworth
We copy it below, partly because it de-
scribes the class of prudish fools to which
the editor belongs, and partly because the
Wing is fond of Shakespeare:
remember, when the fight was done,
When was dry with rage, and extreme toll,
Breathless and FAINT leaning upon my sword,
Came there certain lord, neat, trinity dressed,
Fresh bridegroom and his chin, new reap'd
Shew'd like a stubbe land at harvest home;
He perfumed like milliner
And 'twiXt his finger and his thumb he held
pouncet-box, which ever and anon
He gave his nose, and took't away again -
Took it in snuff and still he smil'd and talk'd,
And, as the soldiers bore dead bodies by,
He calPd them-untaught knaves, unmannerly,
70 bring sloveny unhandsome cOrSe
BetWiXt the wind and his nobility.
The Bangor Wing replies to the Republican j our
nails attacks and small witticisms, and administers
Il castigation so severe that it will not probably
need to be repeated Prog. Age
So tar as our object is concerned it certainly will
not need to be repeated, the paper referred to ha
hastened to abundantly confirm our estimate of it:
character by a resort 10 personal blaCkguardiSm il
viii It, Whig. = - : =
1t will occur to most readers that the
extract which we last week made from
the Wing contains little else than personal
black guardism We are sorry that the
Captain has got mortal hurt so early in
the fight His suggestions remind us Of
the remarks Of Mercutio, in one of Shak-
speare's plays That swordsman in little
street affair with Tybalt, got hurt, and tc
some one who said his wound was neither
deep nor wide, replied
"'Ti9 not so deep we'll nor so wide is
church door; but It's enough; twill serve"
Being fond of Shakespeare, the Captain
will appreciate this illustration
Looking at the cut OF the journal we think the
Ellsworth wags have been playing Il joke upon our
neighbor. Instead of returning the rooster, they
sent him Shanghai hen with false spurs. rooster
does he call that fowl! 1t has no more comb than
woman has d beard. Prog. Age.
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