The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-12-17

SONG OF THE GOLD DIGGER.
Dig-dig-dig-
To pierce for the golden ore;
Dig-dig-d dig
Till you sweat at every pore.
Dig-dig- dig
To root in the deep black sand
And this Is to be a citizen
Ola free and Christian land
And it's oh! to be a slave
To the Heather and the Turk,
To rid the hands of Christian man
From such dirty and toilsome work
Wssh-wash-w .sn-
III the bacs IS almost broke;
wash- wash-wssh-
With your legs and your thighs in soak;
Wash-wash-wash-
Revolving old tin pan,
And wabbling about with q shake and splash,
Till you doubt you're Christian man.
Soul and body and mind
Mind nd body and soul,
Oh. can 1t be right when they IRE all confined
To the basin anG the bowl?
Pile pile-pile-
when It's only little heap
Pile-pe-pile-
Till it "sraderly,' grows more deep
Pile pile pile
And stow it away in bag,
Till you gazs with eyes Of wild surprise
Or the contentIot that rag!
on, can IL be here stand!
And can it be gold see!
Ho! no. Fam OF for a Christian land
To spend it so merriy!
[From the New Orleans Bee, Dec. ST.
We are indebted to Mr Joseph II. CatU n.y. for some
interesting information in relation to II gold region
of Califorr;. Mr. Cutting left San F ancisco on
lOmeWarQ9
by way Of the city of Mexico and Yer Cruz Though
detained days at Vera Cruz, his ltre journey from
San Francisco to New Orleans ocov pied but AZ days
MIR Cutting one year in Ca .itornia and nearly
six weeks in the gold dggings uring his stay the
latter place without mining mat assistance Of
any hind, and aided only by such implements
butcher knife pick.axe shove and pan to wash tho
dirt he succeeded in coectp upwards OF 500 of the
pure metal. He has with him number Of samples,
consisting pieces Of gold IN its virgin state Of
value Of from $50 to S35 ach The metal is obtained
entirely by Washing Few excavations have vet been
adj nd no ad mo faat
below the surface.
The extent of country which MIR. Cutting knows to
long and l25 broad His opinion however, is that the
tract is much longer, aud possibly thousand
miles The gold IL procured with slight labor AS it
is the staple commodity Of California; and obtained in
such quantities and at such little cost of time and
toll everything else is Of course measured by this
per Dbl boots s25 pair shoes from Sc to IS pair;
brandy frem to So bottle cards So pack; board
| and lodging in the gold region, Sl5 per week.
MIR. Cutting has allowed US to examine several num-
be-, Of the Californian. The paper of the 22d Septem
Der has long and interesting article on the subject of
the gold mines. During the first six weeks Of the
"golden times the receipts at San Francisco of gold
dust, s25o,ooO. For the eight weeks, ending on
the 22d September, they reached s6O0OOo. The mum
Der OF persons engaged in gold hunting exceeds $780,
and one ounce per gay Is the lowest sversse for each
| days in succession. The gold producing region is
sufficiently extensive to give profitable employment to
found in virgin state disseminated in small parti.
cles and is found in three distinct depoits-sand and
| with Kind Of slate.
From the New Orleans Times, Dec 81
We have files OF the Californian, from San Francisco,
to the eth Of October.
In reference to the slave question: the editor says
We believe echo the Of the country when assert
o a nor sessrd i and that Their
would be- as the voice Of rather than this bghtng
upon u.s. let US m'n' we are unA'An0"lda un
Gold has been lately found on the American fork as
we'll as near the Ciudad de los Angeles The sickiv
season the Sacramento. but WOuld he
by the raining season, about the beginning of
In California, now, the capitalist is the least indie.
pendent person there the aborng man being the most
The editor Of the Californian announces the stop
page of the Oregon papers cause the gold fever emil
grafton is flowing thence to the Sacramento.
From the st. Josephe, mo. } Gazette
The St Josephs Gazette, of the oath, announces the
arrival there Of email party from California Plunging
INTO h Inc G9ld aueston ths first thing the
titles Of the Feather river gold dust which forth
with analysed and pronounced pure gold This
pany state that the gold fever had not abaed but
raging to considerable exten AM that large parties
were daily arriving from Oregon and other quarters
yield, the ranging from the smallest particles to
pieces of two six, and ten ounces in weight. One
piece has been found, Weighing upwards Of one pound
and q half Several ounces have been purchased in
this place ana examined by who profess to be
judges and all in the opinion that it is the "pule
stuff II the specimen VIC have is from Feather
river, we have hesitation in saying that Feather
river gold mine is no humbug One of our jewellers
which he to the proper tests and found them
to be the real grt-one, however of more value than
the other
From the New Orleans Delta Decs
Weyesterdsy had the pleasure of meeting MIR Joseph
H Cutting, who comes directly from the gold mines
in California, and has in his possession Quantity of
the precious metal just dug il from the bowels
Of the earth in its native state Mr. Cutting left San
Francisco on the nth Of October He very prudenty
In Maxatlap, fearing too much the cupidity of the
Mexican robbers, to trust his person. Everything
ct N han NJ r.rk
was thought Of or talked Of but the gold region and
AIN ost all other bushess than the lucrative one of
this state of things is that the prices of all The mecca
earies Of life are enormously high Flour for nstance
at 500 ba,rel bad brandy from So to SIS bottle: and
for ordinary board from $12 to SIC week were paid
So far as explorations have been made it had been
ascertantd that gold exists sides of the Sierra
Nevada from latitude al NORTH to 80 far south as
the head waters Of the San joaquin river distance of
four hundred miles in length and one hundred miles
in breadth The gold region already discovered Il ia
estimated, Is sufficiently extensive to give profitable
employment to 100000 persons for generations to
come The is in a virgin state, disseminated in
email PARTICLES and is found in three distinct demo.
,its-sand and gravel beds, or decompo,ed pre.
mite and ntermixed with kind Of slate II T. ospa.
ally found from Immediately beneath the surface to a
offour feet and ts position and the pure state
in which 1t is found is believed to be the resuIt o
general volcanic eruption The gold region lies within
about one hundred two hundred and forty miles of
Monterey and the great msjory of the population Of
these two places, mere ns MICS
ap.rert soioiers eenen de erters, Americana,
iards Mexcaps Indians all have cleared out and are
as busy as avarce and ambition can make them en-
gaged in the pleasant labor Of gold.fnding From
November till March, embracing the interval of the
rainy season but little progress be made in dig
gipg !" so that any .enterprisng young man. who |
would start now, would be all good time for the COM
mencement Of next years operations Mr. Cutting is
rather an old and not very strong man. He worked
AZ the gold finding for fortytwo day. Being reeardfn
OF his health he chose the dry dagngsu to operarate
in In this time he got fifteen hundred dollars
worth Of ere 1t Is found easier and in larger ouanti
ties in the wet dggings % but working in the latter
is more unhealthy. His implements were pick.axe
a spade, butchers knife, and a tin pan Tbe cli, |
mate of California Mr. Cutting describes as
salubrious and healthy, except on the Sacramen to
rver where fever and sgue, to some extent prevail
CURIosITIEs. the curosltIes belonoino
to government brought home In the U. s. store