Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1849-03-17
GoIo Diseourrp.
tFrom the London Globe, Feb. o.l y
fNTEREsT1NG ACCOUNT OF HOW THE
GOLD WAS DISCOyEREDI IN CALIFORNIA

INTERESTING ACCOUNT OF HOW THE
GOLD WAS DTSCOvERE ED IN CALIFORNIA
"Four months among the Gold Finders in
Alta-California being the Diary of an Expe-
diion from San Francisco 10 the Gold Dis
trict." By j. Tyrwhtt Brooks, M. D., Bogue.
We extract the account they received from
Capt. Sutter, the owner of the mill, Of the in
cidents Of the discovery:
III was sitting one afternoon" said the
captain, Gust after my sesta engaged, by
the by, in writing a letter TO relation of
mine at Lucerne, when was interrupted by
MIR. Marshall gentleman with whom
had frequent business misunderstanding
huriedly into the room. From the unusual
agitation in his manner, imagined that some
thing serious had occurred, and, as we invol-
UNFAIRLY do in this part of the world at once
glanced to see if my rifle was in its proper |
place. You should know that the mere ap-
pearance Of Mr. Marshall at that moment in
the fort, was quite enough 10 surprise me, as
he had but two days before left the place 10
make some alterations in mill for saving
pine plank, which he had just run up for me
some miles higher up the Americanos. When
he had recovered himself little, he told me
that however great my surprise might be at
his unexpected appearance it would be much
greater when heard the intelligence he had
come TO bring me. Intelligence" he added
"which, if properly pro6ted by, would put
both Of us in possession OF unheard of wealth
millions and millions of dollars, in fact"
+ frankly own, when | heard this, that
thought something had touched Marshall's
brain, when, suddenly, all my misgivings
were put to an end by his hinging on the la
bic a handful Of scales Of pure virgin gold.
Twas fairly ,hunderstruck, and asked him
to explain what all this meant, when he went
on to say that, according to my instructions,
he had thrown the mil-wheel out Of gear TO
let the whole body OF water in she dam find
passage through the tailrace, (which was
was previously too narrow to allowtihe water
to run off in sufficient quantity, whereby the
wheel was prevented from sufficiently per.
forming its work BY this alteration the mar
channel was considerably enlarged, anc
ass Of sand and gravel carried off by the
rce of the torrent. Early in the morning
after this took place, he (Mr. Marshall) wa.
walking along the left bank of the stream
when he perceived something which he a
first took for piece Of opal-a clear, trans
parent stone, very common here, glittering oil
one Of the spots laid bare by the suddel
crumbling away of the bank. He paid IL
attention TO this, but while he was giving di
rections 10 the workmen, having observer
several similar glittering fragments, his curl
osiiy was so far excited that he stopped dow
and picked one of them up. ''Do you know
said MIR. Marshall, Il positively debated wit
myself two or three times whether shoul
take the trouble 10 bend my back to pick u
one of the pieces, and had decided on ne
doing so, when, further on, another gliiterin
morsel caught my eye 1.-The largest of tn
pieces now before you. condescended
pick it up, and 10 my establishment foun
that it was thin scale of what appears to |
pure gold. He then gathered some twent
or thirty small pieces, which, on examinatic
convinced that his suppositions were Iigh
His first impression was that this gold ha
been lost or buried there by some early Ind
an tribc-perhaps some of those mysteyiol
inhabitants of the West of whom we have ,
account, but who dwelt on this continent ce
turies ago, and built those cities and temple
the ruins of which are scattered about the
solitary wilds. On proceeding, however
examine the neighborng soil he discover,
that it was more or less auriferous. This
once decided him. He mounted his hors
and rode down 10 me as fast as i, would car
him with the news.
The captain and his friend started The ne
morning to make further survey, and spa
day in poking about among the sand be
on the banks Of the river and in the dry be
of one or two tributary streams, finding b
OF gold on all sides ; put though extreme
careful TO keep out of sight of the work pc
pie at the mill, they found them all gold HI
ting on their return. "One OF them, a
Kentuckian, had dogged us about, and lot
ing on the ground TO see if he could disco,
what we were in search of, he had lighted
some fakes of gold himself" The next d
the captain had fifty Indians at work
the news spread like wid-fire Some of
gold sent to San Francisco brought up crow
of people.
DEPOSITION OF THE POPE.
We have from Rome the important int