Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1858 — Gold Rumors. [ARTICLE]

Gold Rumors.

Mr. John Huston arrived in Kansas City on the 28th ult. He is direct from the minds [mines], and brings the latest and most reliable news. All the Indian traders are stampeding for the mines. He saw a Mr. Jackson at Fort Laramie, with several hundred dollars of dust. The mines were almost destitute of breadstuff's, and mining-tools are not to be bought for any price. There are now about two hundred and eighty men in the mines. Seven men took out $500 in one week. Mr. Clement, a cousin of Mr. Huston, will be in in a few days with $500 which he dug out in twelve or fourteen days. Some of the men with Mr. Clement took out from $20 to $105 per day. Mr. Jackson, spoken of above, had in his possession a nugget from the mines weighing twentythree ounces. The richest mines are high up in the mountains; but those who had been working and prospecting there, had been driven to the valleys by a snow-storm, which fell nearly three feet deep on the 5th of August. We take the above items from the Kansas City papers. This reliable andcheering intelligence will raise a perfect <furore> of excitement, and add thousands to the numbers who are rushing to the mines. Those who do not fear the sufferings of a winter campaign will push on, while thousands will come to the frontier and wait until spring. <Leavenworth Herald>. ----- ----->It has been a joke against the Irish brick-layer, who, in his anxiety to gain a' wager he had laid with a fellow-workman that he could not carry him on his head to ■ the top of a high building, confessed he -‘ha,d hopes when his bearer's foot slipped near the fifth story;” but, in Mrs Gaskell's Life of the Bronte Girls, there is an anecdote of' a Yorkshire farmer, which throws Pat quite ! in the shade. It appears he hat!-. insured his !' life, and the payment of the premium Avas a■ great grief to the-money-loving Yorkshireman, who was, in the language of Clfarlottb Bronte, “a sleuth hound in the pursuit of' money.” Just before the second payment, of the annual premium came round, a mortal sickness seized the unfortunate, who, when the doctor and parson conjointly announced his approaching fate, lifted himself in bed, and, with a chuckle which rose in grinning triumph over the dead rattle, cried: “Ecod! yoti don’t say so. Going to diet Zounds! then I shall do the insurance chaps, after all, out of their money. Ecod! 1 Was always a lucky dog.” rjO”Jefferson Davis’ summer sojourn in Maine has been of benefit to -bis physical and mental health, lie has stopped hinting or threatening disunion, and saves t he Union as regularly.now. in every speech as'Choate; ■■ and, besides, on every occasion: he express-| es unwonted admiration of the skill and enterprise resulting from the frqe labor system of New England. laws and prohibition do not , seem to have improved the morals of Boston, for the Traveller admits that, “in order to see the comet in its full glory, take a good glass. If this fails, take two glasses. Should this prove insufficient, take more glasses, and you will in time be able to See not only one, but two comets —and perhaps more.” • £py"Millard Filmore, in his letter to the .Committee of Invitation of the Kentucky State Fair, says he has withdrawn entirely from all political strife.