The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-03-30
NEW ORLEANS:
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FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 40. 1axo
Another California Letter.

AuotneI Oan1oTn1a Letter.
The Boston Traveller publishes letter signed
George W. MorrelI, and dated San Francisco, Jan.
20. We quote the greater portion of the letter,
which the Traveller pronounces genuine, it having
been received by mail, postmarked ST. Louis.
Now, in order to have reached ST. Louis in time to
be at Boston on the 18th inst, the letter must have
made the overland journey to the former city in As
days, which is next to impossible The messenger
who carried the letter must have travelled at a
speed OF so miles day, through the passes of
the Sierra Nevada and Rocky Mountains, blocked
up with snow, and over deserts where his remark
able horses could find neither water nor pasture.
Such SURPRISING feat could scarcely have been
performed without notice through other sources
than the following letter:
SAN Francisco. Jan. 20, 1sls
let know that am in the land of the living and that
hs SOd dssas my health was bad for month S o. son
cr tnere we nad no houses and for the most part had to
PLACE never SAW M%s'f half If the Ssp Hardship
while Ess II the that have e god dig
could be comfortable. even at the diggings W.
sg sY s bss s got ssonf
was IN ne aIggmgs three months and half and if had
As much again or we can get nothing all of out.
nave number oil pretty large pieces-one piece Weighing
want You come out here; you can get lust as much
g0id as you want know where there a ledge that
ALMOST sod gold but shall not tell any body work
Indian Chiefs whose life saved when he was about to be
about it. =.
The excitement great that erybody has been dig
gng gold and every here has plenty of gold Living
mere now two dollars day. 1t has been ten dollars
miles mp the country and the further CO. the thicker the
god think on the river where was the fountain head
the FOUNTAINS; but it awful travelling get up my
eaee. Know where there plenty Of sUer in the
tans we found that when was with the Indians They
TOOK me pnsoner and with them nine months. At
and ne az once set me free. find that great many of
indian Chfts are Free naasons. was made mason by
the recommendaton of aged friend before left Mich.
gan elt there when the first began and and
!oned Colonel fremonts regiment We crossed the
tains and got taken BY the Indians. was released in
consequence of being Mason; and would advise all that
ntend g come out to this wild country to be Masons
Leey oM md true friends among the Indians The In.
dams hold masonry to be sacred-which it is.
you was here could make money at your trade Just
Their trades because they get rich much faster the gold
diggins
are people OF all nations and co0s. If Congress does
make some laws and strict too, do not know what
we shall do 1t will be the hardest fend off, The p0pu.
that curse Of the ear Rum If that had been kept out
there would have been trouble here 1t weather
here now. No snow. There snow at the dig
gins, not much.
If you come out, come with number The more til at
come togsther the better they do understood yester
an nexhausbe gold mns about go miles from there and
also some silver mines but zoe take notice Of the suer
MINES, which be half the trouble of the gold
Quicksilver is here in abundance, in all the hills.