Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1859 — Pike's Pcak Gold Hine. [ARTICLE]

Pike's Peak Gold Mines.

LEAVENWORTH, Feb. 10. Mr. Lawrence, an old Californian, has just returned from Cherry Creek, and brings the most cheering accounts of the prospects at the mines. He estimates the amount of dust in the hands of the miners at Denver City from fifteen to twenty thousand dollars. No sales are made at less than twenty dollars an ounce. The organization of Arrapahoe county was perfected, and public buildings were being erected. Perfect harmony and good order prevailed among the miners. The population distributed along Cherry Creek had amounted to three thousand, of which Denver City contains six hundred. The greatest fall of snow occurred just previous to the departure of Mr. Lawrence, which fell to the depth of six inches. The trip to the Missouri river via Fort Kearney, occupied only twenty-three days. Mr. Lawrence recommends emigrants to take either Fort Riley or Fort Kearney route, from Leavenworth, as preferable to any other. ———<>——— "A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand.’'—The Washington <States>, a Democratic organ, (edited by Roger A. Pryor,) has an important article, declaring that there is no longer a Democratic party, and cites in proof of its assertion the discensions [sic] between President Buchanan and Secretary Cass on the question of squatter sovereignty, between Buchanan and Floyd on the question of the Pacific Railroad, and between Buchanan and Cobb on the tariff question. It says that on no single issue is there concord in the party, and asserts that the confusion of Babel was not equal to the present discords of the Democracy. ———<>——— From Utah.—-The <Republican> publishes a letter from Salt Lake, of the 14th, stating that Judges Sinclair and Cradbaugh [sic] will leave the territory in the spring, satisfied that their presence, as Federal officers, in administering the law, is merely farcial [sic]. The letter also adds that there is no loyalty to the Government among the Mormons, and that while, to a certain extent, they respect the forms of law, they neither recognize nor respect its spirit, and that neither murder or any other crime has be, or can be, punished.