Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1849-06-27
from Noah's Sunday Times.l
A LETTER FROM THE "DIGGINS."

Eddyturs Of the Sandy Iimes-When
l wrote before spades was trumps-now
it's dimunds. These preshus stuns is found
in hri!yant perfusion on the brow of the
Sarah Nevady, and several as large as
fenix eggs has been seen in a mounting of
gold, diskivered last week, near the Sam
Jokin; and when the snow melts it is sup
posed that many of the first water will
come down with the current. Seed di-
munds is remarkabuI plenty, but a law
has been made agen getherin 'em, because
it spoils the futer crop. None is aloud to
be gathered under the size of a piece of
chauk. EmruIds abounds, but nobody is
green enough to pick 'em up when they
can get dimunds. Other jooils is a drug.
Beyant the pains, on what tina call a plato
of the mountings, bushels of little peaces
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 but
recently been diskivered by a German
kumpany, and they have skewered the
joint onership by the threatening to knife
any one they catch poaching on their fork.
In honor of some o%ut!andish Ouch water
privilege, they call it the River Rhine-o.
Some of the xpIorin 'sociation which has
gone far into the interyur sends word that
the si|e there is all solid gold sot with
rooebes, but nobody bleves these out Iy-
ing parties.
The depth of the odoriferous sands on
the Sacrymento is forty-eight 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
tarnation heavy it puts the mustangs to
their metal, | tell you; but Their S no help
for 'em +; they must hang on with all their
might and mane, or down they go, and
then it s all up with 'em.
Mems quantities of gold. at the very
least, has been sent to San Francisco for
some time back, and as it is got it is turn
ed to ingots. Thieves cannot egzist at the
diggins-bein hung on the slightest sus-
pishun. Grub is moderate; floods of a
spiritus mater very dear. All kinds Of.
salt provisions is sold for a song; the ia
vern keepers most givin 'em away in Or
der to permote thirst. Salt pork is five
dollars a hogshead, and brandy len dol-
lars 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 Californy, that a ship load of
young wimmen was a coming out on a
m~arryin' spekelashun, with one Mrs.
as shoopercargo. W. look for
the same anxshusly. What is gold-what
is preshus stuns-withont wimmen?-I
but vanity and vexashnn of spirit.
Solomon says-I red it t'other day on a
page of Proverbs l was agoin to use for
waddin-Solomon says a wurtshus 900
man is more Fseshus than roobies, and
a kuntry without a pettycoat one feels
the force ofthe remark. When a man has
wealth he wants hares to leave it to; and
in course--no wives no hares. You
couldn't send me out one, could you? |
a wife, not a hare. fishes sum
with the small pox even, l woodent
,are. The ordinariest goods are valu-
able when there is nom in the market
There's duzzens | woodent a looked at
the States, that 'ud now be thankfully
'eceived and no questions axed. You can
lay, and truly, that I'm worth more
an my weight in gold, for I've got quar-
er of a tun oft in store at San Francisco,
BESIDES a sprinkIing of dimunds.
We have a sort of make-shift govern
nent here, mo allushun to the paragraph
'bove,) got up extruppery as one may
ay, that ansers purity wei for a nu kun
ry. Gen. Smith amt nobody. He's a
lever chap and a spunky, no doub o.
hat; but he haint got no more athority
han a child in arms, if thar was sich a
in the settlement. He ishoos gen.
al orders and proclamashuns and SIGH
ruck, and the people read 'em, perIite :
taratoor bein scarce; but wen they We
ed 'em, they larf, and shet one eye, and
o and do Just as they d-n please
is allus SO in nu kuntries. ,
Agricultul in Californy is purity much
1T to natur. 1t sticks in folks crop to
e seeing corn when they can dig gold, I