The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1830-06-23
From The Richmond (Ta.) Enquirer.
SPOTTSYLVANIA GOLD.

Mine OF capt. william r. VINE, ana his
brother Doctor E. White, of Spottsylvania
county, the author of this was induced,
through curiosity, to visit their establish
ment short time since, and, to his utter
establishment, found them crowned with q
degree of success, which was incredible.
He first visited the washing machine, Il
simple and neat little establishment, whiek
cost about twenty dollars, situated at one of
the finest waterfalls in the whole country.
During his stay, he saw abont sixty bushels
of blue clay and slate washed out, which
yielded the considerable sum of four hum
dred dollars Of the precious metal the gold
was entirely pure and smooth and mostly
in grains. His curiosity led him to visit the
spot from which was taken such valuable
clay. He found the diggers in the bottom
of a small rivulet, about four hundred Yards
from the machine, taking out the clay in
decomposed state and pehbly quality, be-
tween or feet from the surface, and
sending it off to be washed. He stayed
about three quarters of an hour at that
point, and while there, saw twenty or thirty
pieces OF value dug up by the hoe he caus-
ed one quart Of the mud and gravel to be
washed, which yielded $24. 1t had been
but few days that it was ascertained that
the branch was SO valuable. 1t is now
!
| is rich for half mile in length as also sew
eral others on the farm. The proprietors
had been engaged from the commencement
OF their mining, in operating on the high
lands. and had made about SIS to the hand
per day on an average. The surface on
which the gold is found, independent of the
streams, is very extensive, which makes this
as deposit mine, Unprecedented in this or
any other country. In addition to the min
ing just spoken of, they have several veins
in the ncighborhood of high promise, which
they are about to work on the mining prin-
ciple. The author was much pleased TO
find that it was the regulation of this estab-
llshment no: to use any ardent spirits, or
suffer any profane language TO be uttered.
Obstructive STORM. The Nashville
(Fenn.) Banner of the Sd inst. states that a
dreadful storm of wind and rain visited that
place and neighborhood on the Monday
night before. The most serious calamity
betcll the town of Charlotte, in Dickinson
county, where the principal force of the
gale, so far as we have learnt, was expe-
rlenced. A great proportion Of the build
lngs IN that village were Frustrated. The
, court House, substantial brick edifice,
two stories high, was nearly levelled with
the ground, and Mr.. Collier, who lodged in
the upper story. was so much injured, that
his life was despaired of.
We understand from a traveller. who
passed the night in the hotel in that place
that the scene of distress and alarm was
heart-rending and indescIibablv awful. So
soon was it ascertained that the hotel wns
uninlured, persons rushed in from every di.
rectlon, in their night clothes and most of
them bloody from their own wounds or those
OF their friends. Several had their limbs
! hroken,-most of them had received some
bodily injury and all were excessively dis
= tevssru ana alarmed.
4 The town of Shelbyville, in Bedford coun-
~, mas likewise experienced the destructive
innnence OF the storm. Nearly half the
3 buildings are said to have been demolished.
c including the Cour; House and Methodist
). Church. Several lives were lost.
! zen JACKSON AND THE INDIANS The Now
r York Commercial Advertiser gives the follow
ing statement for fact:
o During the last week of the session. after
the passage of the Indian Bill. the Dele0a-
ton from the Cherokee nation which had
been watching over the interests of their
! ceuntrymen at Washington, called on the
4 President as an act of courtesy previouslv
to their departure homewards. In The
i course of the conversation. the chiefs hav.
< ing said something about claiming the pro-
! lection of the executive, the President drew
himself up with dignity, and addressed them
: as follows: Yes, you may go home Sc
. cure. You shall be protected. Yes Trais-
ing his ami the arm of Andrew Jackson
Will protect you. But you must submit 10
the laws of Georgia, though. I'll tell Won
} what it is: You should go west of the Mis-
' sissippi. That's the place for YOU. And aa
: for them people in the Eastern States who
a are making so much noise about vour case
, you may depend upon it they don't care anv
more about you than the devil does about
an honest doctos!"
In this energetic and classical yaledicto-
,, ry, 1.-THE essential correctness of which our
readers may depend upon,) the Executive
expressed all the inconsistencies in which
the foul cnpidity of few spectators has
, involved the government and the national
, character ofthe people of the United States.
The Cherokee Phoenix, speaking of the act
OF Georgia by which the laws of that State.
were to be extended over the Indian nation, aE.
ter the LIST OF June, and the conduct of the Cen
eral Government towards them, says:
when tho time comes that state laws are 10
be executcd with rigor, as they no doubt will
be backed by the executive of the United States
and the late decision of the Senate, upon the
reprobnte Cherokees, we are unable 10 saw what
The effects will be To us, the future is but
darkness One thing we know, there 1ciH be
suffering. The Cherokees will be a prev 10
the eupidity of white men-evsry indgnity and
every oppression will be hoaped upon them.
ihey have already undergone much, when tho
time is merely in anticipaton,- how will il be
when the full license is given to their opnress.
ors' The laws which are the result of this leo.
islation, are framed expressly against us. and
not clause in our favor. We cannot be mar.
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