The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-12-15

on weeks and two days, Sundays excepted, on Feather
river; they employed an average htIy Indians, and
got out in these seven weeks and two days two hundred
and seyenty-fve pounds OF pure gold know the men
and have the god and know what they state 10 be
a fact: so stick pin there know ten other men who
worked ten days IN company employed no Indians, and
averaged in these ten days fifteen hundred dollars each
so stick another pin there | know another man who
got out OF a basin in rock, not larger than wash
bowl two pounds and hall OF gold IN fifteen minutes
so stick another pin there Not OF these statements
would believe did not know the men personally, and
know them TO be plain matter of-iact men-men who
omen a vein OF gold Just as cooly as you would potato
hill
The gold is obtained in variety OF ways wash II
ont of The sand with bowls, with machine made
like cradle only longer and open at the other end; m
stead of a squallng infant, there grazing upon which
the earth thrown and then water; both pass through
The gratng-the cradle rocked, and being on an IN
ned PLAIN the water carries off the earth and the gold
i deposited in the bottom of the cradle So the two
things most priced in this world gold and infant beauty,
are both rocked of their primitive state; one TO pam
ner pride and the other TO pamper the worm. Some
torego cradles and bowls too tame occupation, and,
mounted ON horses half wild, dash up the mountain
roues and the steep hills, picking the gold from the
cefs of the rocks with their bowie knivesa much bet
Ter to make of these instruments than picking the NE
out OF mems bodies for what is man with that article
picked out Of him
A larger party, well mounted, are following up the
channel Of the Sacramento to discover where this gold
found in lis banks, comes from; and imagine that near
The rivers font they will find the great yellow mass
itself But they might well hunt the leehng rainbow
The gold thrown up from the bed OF the ocean with
the rocks and sands in which is found and still bears,
where IL has escaped the action OF the elements, VIVID
traces of volcanic FIRE. IL often encases crystal OF
quartz in which the pebble lies as if IT had slumbered
there from eternity its beautiful reposc sets human ar
fee at defiance How strange that tins ore should have
lain here scattered about in all directions peepng every
where out of the earth, and sparkling in the sun, and
been trod upon for ages by white and sayages and
by the ernssares OF every scientific association in the
world and never till now have been discovered What
nm ass man is, with all his learning He stupidity STUN
bes over hills OF gold 10 reach the pepper pod, or ride
birds nest
The whole country is now moving on the mines Mon
terey San Francisco SOnoma San Jose and Santa Cruz,
are empted of their male population. stranger coming
here would suppose he had arrived among of
women, who, by anomalous provision OF nature,
multiplied their images without the presence of the other
sex But not few of the women have gone too. espe-
caly those who had got out OF tea-or'what IS woman
without her pot "a pyhoness without her shaking
uipod-an angel that has lost his Tyre Every bowl,
ay warming pan, and p 1gln, has gone TO the mines
sand aud All the iron has been worked up into
crowbars pick ayes and spades And all these roll back
upon the shape OF gold We have therefore plenty
OF gold but little to eat and still less to wear Our sup
plies must from Oregon Chill, and the United States
Our grain gold, exchange for coin, sells Tor nine and
ten dollars the ounce though II is well known 10 be
worth al the mint in Philadelphia SIS the at least
Such the scarcity OF coin here.
We want mint Let Congress send us at once
over 10 the isthmus else this grain gold goes to Maza
Lam to Chill and Peru-where it is lost 10 national
currency Over a million OF gold al the lowest compu
tlton, is taken from these mines every month and this
quantity will be than doubled when the emigration
from the States from Oregon, The Sandwich Islands, and
the southern republics, arrives Send us mint, | could
give YOU forty more illustrations of the and pro-
haze said whou, my name, and perhaps but few with