Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1849-03-26
From the Boston Tlayelcr, Of the 10Th
THE LAVEsTeFROM CALIFORNIA.

We stated Ill fridays Traveller. that we lad
seen private letter rem San Francisco. Gated
Jan. 20il, which contant d statements illr srect
to the gold mines txceediur il anythilg the
maryelorsntss OF former accounts. 1t is rest
marked at st. Louis. and came overland 1o
doubt but by What particular rcute we are not
informed. There is no impossibiIity OF ilnrrob-
ability in q letter reaching Us i'll IS days trcm
San Francisco. We are informed that a rtlson
was in this city on Saturday; W he left San Fran
cisco OIL the 23d of january
| San FRANcIsco. Jan. go. 1919.
Dear Cnclc-l set myself down to write few
lines to let you know thaM am in The land Of
the living, and that alaiiow ENJOYING toltra-
bly, good health. While | was in the gold Dig
gings; my health was bad for month or so; tor
there we had no houses, and for the NEST Iart
had to sleep onthe ground OF under rocks, W here
we could get place. Talk of the arnl,-I me-
versaw half the hardship while was III the SER
vice, that have seen i'll the gold diggines.--
Could we have houses, or good tents, however,
we could be comfortable tven at the diegings
AS for gold, l haze { OF plenty oft have a.
bout 1913 pounds. 1t sells here tor tlcm 12 10 Is
dollars the ounce. / was in the diggil es three
months and a half, and If had had something
to wash out the dirt clean, | should lave got as
much again for we can get nothing like half
ces-one piece areighing fee pounds.
| want you to come out here YOU can Get lust
as much gold as you want. | know where there
Is ledge, that is almost solid gold; hut | shah
not tell anybody, nor work at it ill MY friends
come out l found it cut by one of the Indian
chiefs, whose life saved, whenh he was about to
be murdered. "A great many are killtd and no.
thing is, said about it.
The gold country as immense. | have been
five hundred miles up the country, and the fur
Their we go the thicker the gold is. | think on
the river where was, the 1ountain-htad is in
the mountains but tits awful trayt ling to Get
mp tony ledge. know WI here there is plenty
OF silver in the mountains. We found that hen
was among the Indians. They took me pris-
oner, and Twas withthem nine months. AT last
discovered that one of the chiefs was free
mason; and he at once set me free. / find that
great many Of the Indiaa Chiefs are jreemosons
| was made a mason by the recommendation Of
an aged friend, before left Michigan. I left
there when the war first began and went and
joined Col, Fremont's regiment. We crossed
the mountains, and got taken bv the Indians
was released in consequence OF being lnason,
~
You never saw such a set as there is in this
place. There are people of all nations aud Of
all colors. 1t Congress does not make some
laws, and strict ones, too, do not know whac
we shall do. 1t will be, ''the hardest fend off,
The population here are getting to be awful bad,
aad ii IS caused by that curse of The earth, runs
II that had been kept cut, there would have
been no trouble here. 1t is VAIN weather here
now. No snow. There was spnie SLOW at the
I diegings, but not much
Yours, GEO. w. MORRILL,,