The Democratic pioneer. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1845-1853, 1849-07-13
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been iynched or had died suddenly sc
some other disease common to newly sets
tied Countries; but VIC were pleasantly
disaPpoiated last week BY lhs reception
Of the following letter, under his own hand
and seal. We had some difficulty in des
cyphering the original. which appears to
have been writtea With tobacco juice,
and had it not been for the gold dust used
| BY the writer instead Of COMMON sand,
aad which 10 some measure iliuminates
the dlngy manuscript, the communica~
tioA woaid have been wholly illegible--
Ii will be seen by the statements Of our
correap apondent, upon whom the most ims
| piicit reliance may be placed, more than
confirm the most favorable accuonts hsres
toiore received.--SuRday Times.
VALLEY OF THE SACRAMETo,
Aptil 90, lS49,
| MEssRs. EEDDIru rs: When l wrote
before, spades was trumps--nuw it's di.
munds. The preshus stems is found in
| brlhyapt prousion on the brow of the
Sarah Navady, and several as large as
fenix eggs has been In mounting Of gold,
diskiyered last week, near the Sam Jo.
king; and when the snow melis ii is sup
posed that many Of the first water wlt
come down with the CURRENT. Seed die
munds is remarkabul plenty, but law
has been made ageu getherIn 'em, be.
cause ii spolls futer crop. None is a.
lowed to be gethered uuder the size of
piece of chalk. Emrulds, but nobody is
green enoughto pick 'en up when they
can get dimunds. Other jooils is a drug.
Beyand the plains, on what they call
plato of the mountiugs. bushels of little
pieces of silver has been dug up, which 10
very convenyant for small change. A
stream runnininto Feather River. and
fpartickarly rich in gold has reonlly been
diskiv by German kumpany, aud
they have skewered the joint onership by
Threatening to knife any one they catch
poaching on their fork. 10 honor some
outlandish Dutch water privilege they
call it the river Rhine-o Some of the
| p!orin 'sociatlons which has gone far
into the intereur, that the sile there is
all gold sot with roobees, but nobody
bleave these out ing parties.
The depth OF the oderferorous sands on
the Sacrymento is forty yseight feet, eev-
Ell inches and three quarters. Wherever
~
we find traces Of gold we sink shafts and
draw ii up with horses. The sand is so
tarnation heavy, 1t puts the mustangs to
their metal, tell you; but theer's no
help for EN-: they must hang onsxslaA-all-. :
their might and name, or down they 60,
and then it's all up with 'em.
Msnse 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 is turned into ingots. Thieves caa-
not egzist at the dggins-bein hung on
the slightest suspisenn. Cruz is moder.
ate: foods of spiriIus natur very dear.
All kinds of salt provisions is sold for
song; the tavern keepers most givein EN-
a" y III oidci " pfuHIUle tHHFSl.
Salt pork is Ave dollars hogshead and
brandy ten dollars half pint. Hows'evs
er as gold is plenty, every Jack has his
gill;
This puts me in mind of the moose BY
TIE steamer California, that ship load
Of young wimmin was comming ont on
ia
Fafnham as shoopercarg,. We look for
tie same anxushly. What is gola--what
is preshns stuns without wimmini Nuth-
IN but vanity aud vexashun of SPIRIT
Saiomen say--l red ii 'tother day on a
page OF proverbs was a gon to use for
waddin--Solomon saysa wurtshus 700.
men is more preshus than roobies, aud in
kuntry without peuycort one feels
the force of the remark. When man
has wealth be wants hares to leave IT to;
aud IN course--no wives no harss. You
oouIdn send me out one, could you! |
mean wife, not an hare. she's some
Pltted with the small pox even, WOULD
nj care. The ordinariest good is valua-
BILE when there ia none 10 Market
There's duzzensI wouldent look al in
the States, 'ud now be thankfully receiv.
ed and no custom axei. You can say,
aud truly, that Pm worth more 'un my
weight 10 gold, for I've quarter of ton
of it in San Francisco, beside sprinks
ling of dimunds.
We have sort of make-shift goveru.
ment here, (no allusbu1 to the parragraf
ubove) got purity well for new kuntry.
Gen. Smith aint no body. He's cle-
var chap, aud spunky no doubt of that,
but he haint got no more authority than
child In arms, if there was such thing
In the sett lement. He ishoos orders aud
prockiamashns, and such truck. aud the