Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1849-06-23
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NEWS EXTRAORDINARY FROM CALrFoR.
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We find the following letter in New York
paper. 1t must be read to be appreciated
Whatever doubts may be entertained of the
other accounts we have had from Sacramento,
it will hardly do for any one to doubt this
Some may laugh at il; but their laughing
cannot but be good.
"A Letter from the Digcins.o
VALLEY OF THE SAcRYMrNro, April 20, 1890
Eddyturs Of the Sundy Times When
wrote before spades was trumps-now it's
dimunds These preshus suns is found in
brlyant perfusion on the brow Of the Sarah
Nevady, and several as large as fenix eggs
has been seen in a mountain Of gold, diski.
vered last week, near the Sam Joking, and
when the snow melts, it is supposed that
many OF the first water will come down with
the current Seed dimunds is remarkabul
! plenty, but a law has been made agen ga.
thelin 'em, because it spoils the fu,ur crop
None is aloud TO be gathered under the size
of a piece of chauk. Enruds abounds, but
nobody is green enough 10 pick 'em up when
they can get dimunds. Oher jools is a
drug. Beyond The plains, on what they call
plato of the mountains, bushels OF little
pieces of silver has been dug up, which is
very convenient for small change.
A stream runnin' into Feather River, and
partikarly rich in gold, has recently been dis
kivered by German kumpany, and they
have skewered the Joint onership by the
threatening 10 knife any one they catch
poaching on their fork. In honor of some
oulandish Dutch water privilege, they call
it the River Rhine-o. Some of the xplorin
'sociaiion which has gone far into the inte.
reyur, sends word that the sile there is all
solid sot with roobees, but nobody beves
these out lying parties.
The depth of the odiferous sands on the
| Sacrymenio is forty feet eleven inches and
three quarters. Wherever we find traces Of
gold, we sink shafts and draw it up with
horses The sand is so tarnaton heavy it
puts the mustangs 10 their metal. ! tell you;
but iher's no help for 'em; they must hang
on with all their might and name, or down
they go, and then lis all up with en-.
'Mensc quantities Of gold, at The very least,
has been sent TO San Francisco for some time
back, and as fast as it is got in it i. turned into
ingots Thieves cannot egzst al the digens-
being hung on the slightest suspishun, Grub is
moderate; floods Of a spiritus naiur very
dear. All kinds Of salt provisions is sold for
song; the tavern keepers most given 'em
away in order 10 promote thirst. Salt pork
is SIS hogshead, and brandy $40 a half pint.
Hows'ever, as gold is plenty, every Jack has
his gill.
This puts me in mind OF the moose by the
steamer Cailorny that ship load of young
wimmen was coming out on marryin'
spekelashun, with one Mrs. Farnham as
! shoopercargo. We look for the same anx-
shusly. What is gold-what is preshus suns
wiihou, wimmen Nuthin but vanity and
vexsashun of spirit. Solomon says-I red it
| 'tother day on page Of Proverbs was aooin
10 use for waddin-So.omon says n wurlshus
'ooman is more preshus than roobics, and in
"A kun,ry without pettycoas one feels the
| force of the remark When a man has
wealth he wants hares 10 leave it to; and in
conrse- no wives no hares. You couldn't
! send me out one. could you mean wife,
not hare. If she's sum pi,ed with the
small pox even, woodent care. The ordina.
/ riest goods are valuable when there is none
in the market There's duzzens | woodent
thankfully received and no questions axed.-.
You can say, and truly, that Pm worth more
IAN my weight in gold, for I've got quarter
Of a tun Of it in store at San Francisco, be-
sides sprinkling of dimunds.
We have a sort of make shift government
here, (no allusion TO the paragraph above,
got up eXtruperry, as one may say, that an.
sers purity well for nu kuntry. Gen. Smith
ain, nobody. He is clever chap and a
spunky, no doubt that but he hainst got
no more authority than child in arms, il
thar war sich thing in the settlement. He
ishoos general orders and proclamashuns and
sch truck, and the people read 'em, perlte
literatoor being scarce; but wen they've rec
'em they larf, and shet one eye, and go anc
do jus, as they d--n pleese. lt's alus so i.
; nu kuntries.
Agriculture in Calforney is purity inucl
left 10 naiur. 1t sticks in folks crop TO b,
: sning corn when they can dig gold, and 81
they all 90 to the placers TO make hay Will,
I. the sun shines. This is the monster deposi
h bank of the uneversal world, and we're al
e cashiers and directors. Bring yer 'tater
\ here if you want em dug, we can't take ih'
l. trouble to raise 'em. The only wegetabl
ID we cultivate is the root of all evil, and
u you'll send US the frules of the earth, yo
4. can have that exchange.
s. The rainy season being over, the weathe
is settled, bleeve the heat hasn't been be
: low 80 for week, which, with bad rum, ha
proved fatal to some constitooshuns, Emf
c. grants OF all kinds and kuntres keeps pouri
Mt in BY land and water, and the populashun