The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-06-26

knees This is one of the prime Of here
we haS nohns pa adoaa Bread our and WAITER
mixed and baked In the ashes and Coffee and not always
state Of the roads Flour was selling al from 81 to Ss the
pound sugar So coffee 81 jerked beef if to be had at
So you viii see by taking prvatons account that
ps his gold although the labor will be quite
nI do ,o no Hs oonsidsS man more
Than pal, he can make sio9 Per day herr which Is not
separation from every thing civilized weighs largely against
H. Rather lie. me work TOR competence and live hap
ably TO die among strangers but have now len the mines
81 am about to connect myself with large commission
house in this city, with the proceeds of my ~nlsrs labor
have been offered various places with salaries as high
Another letter from San Francisco to the New Or
leans Crescent dated April 8, says:
~ fear that by the winter there viii be in the city
BILE accommodating 5000 What is to become them
Heaven only knows. Probably numbers will perish OF
.As Tor myself in such fix Had iors,een
what now see, California would not have beheld me
quite speedily. / would recommend come
here until he shall hear the result OF winter and not
to arrive before April at the earliest
the mines in July and August the weather is so hot that no
work except the risk of being sun struck
"NothDg is required here now but common ready made
clothing, provisions, and building materials Many per-
merchandise here. They have been compelled to send
'order prevails in the gold regions and every thief
punished by ynch-law. Five persons were hung last
week.
to work at the hardest kind OF labor"
| LARGE PIECE OF GoLD.-We were shown a few days
SINCE the largest piece of gold we have yet seen 1t was
procured on the Stanisaus river and brought here by
Mr.. Weber, of Stockton. 1t is about six inches in
LENGTH two and half in width and from quarter TO
fve-eghhs of an inch in thickness To all appearances
it pure gold, and weighs seventy ounces, six
and half pounds troy Its value al $40 the ounce is
sI,a4s. A glorious days work With this piece we
were shown two smaller pieces: weighing about one
pound each.-1ltd Californian, March 80.
LIFE AT THE MINEs-God Inerhausibie, Sc-The
following is an extract from letter in the New York
Tribune, dated May |.
'The population the mines com posed of American
emigranls, runaway sailors, (from the vessels which
have visited ana are IN TINS port at PRESENT. Chians Pc
bs nayes of ALI cSirsd con"r n aa he Oh %
their habits and manner Of living there great need of re-
p e dsnosed sa and dho 10 hoss "
nbooud to ~as de~ss than nj anv other paca h
face of the earth it being apparently the aim and ambition
Of numhsr 10 nv nd excel each o,ber in ali which
degradss and makes man miserable ~ " ~ '''
eThe expenses at the mines are about So day for lv-
noIk sugar coffee and hard bread nj 70 her H. ali
oaeT articles Of p19v,sa"s and Liquors IN
SEEN Judge Inc xhanstbe for the next twenty years by
Won have TO perform TO get IL and the Won have
to undergo to reach here and continue to undergo while
getting it, do not repay any industrious or business man in
m in accumuians as much as sny one person has up to
work Tor DAYS and weeks adjacent 10 those who are xeny
from one to Two ounces daily and sink holes ten feet
and omrteen feel deen hroush mud water and rock aud
yet be unable to get enough pay your exposed
the 6"s v OF sS sum- ana ] fro" the al"
| ~ - W.. $500, - $50, , .u - ro, -
Their letter In the New York Tribune, we extract the fol-
lowing:
"on the s'anislaus the chilenos and Peuanos
They keep together and they find rich deposit they
assist each other in digging il While the more
keep their secret as long as possible
feared will Stanlslaus during
IL,