Washington telegraph., 1850-08-07

Wien you are used to this, try -four and
water, and jerked beef for food, 01lce a
day: then 90 without until you get so
hungry that you can eat mouldy bread
and say that il is good. When you get
used to this, work in the water up 20
your middle, and say gold will compeu-
safe you for it. If you can endure all
this / advise you to come-but not till
then.
LATE FROM THE PLAcERs.-We are
enabled to lay before our readers this
morning, twelve days later news from
California, of very pleasing and insplr-
ting character. so far as relates to mining
prospects, which at no period since the
acquisition of that extraordinary country
have been half so brilliant as at the pres
ent moment.
If the statement which we publish this
morning be not greatly exaggerated, the
yield OF dust from the Sierra Nevada
alone, will exceed all that has been hith-
erto gathered at immense expenditure OF
labor, waste of time, and teavy outlay
of means OH the river courses For the
whole length Of these mountains, this
account states, vein of gold has been
discovered, Oh width of about twenty
feet and yielding, on an average. one
dollar per ounce Of mineral earth. A
fra gment of rock detached on the
spot, and melted in rude and waste
full manner, gave, on separation, gold
equal to swo and quarter doubloous
to the pound weight of the rock. As If
this were not enough to crafty the wild
est and most eXtravagaut cupldiiy, our
California contemporaries affect to regard
this discovery as merely superficial, aIleg-
ing that the mother mines are yet to be
found! Should this supposition be correct
we shall be perplexed in reality to know
what to do with the quantities of the yell
low metal that will deluge the land.
Reports of the massacre of a dozen of
American citizens or the Colorado was
sufficient to attract the attention of Gen.
Smith, who, with most commendable
alacrity, sent two companies of U. S.
troops to that region with instructions to
take all the necessary posts by which they
would be likly to check any further incur
sions, as well as to protect the emigrants
THE OvERRULING HAND OF PRovI-
DENCE.-In his address to company of
miners emigrating to California, the Rev.
E. n. KIRK, of Boston, thus strikinely
illustrates the Divine superintendent in
reference TO the disclosures of the GOLD
on the Pacific coast:
CAB ritish merchant discovered it more
than a century ago, and was carrying
specimen, box of gold dust. to England,
by way Of China. The box was los: in
an affray with some Chinameu. Had he
carried it to England. the whole condi-
tion of the world might have been pre-
nlaturely changed. Had Great Britain
found gold mine of such value on this
continent, we may readily believe the
whole current of political events would
have been totally changed by it. But
God, who works by small instruments as
well as by great, did not suffer that box
to reach England, and induce her to
plant a strong colony or the Western
outlet of North America. He reserved
it for this age and this people,
IIamartine, on the question of raising
the French Presidents salary, spoke as
follows:
II would wish that the Governments.
the majority, the conversative party, and
the journals which are supported by
them. instead of continually fixing their
eyes on the Tuilleries, might turn them
more frequently to that modest DWELLING
of Washington. that Mt Vernon, where
the first President of the American Re-
public repealed all the offers of increase
of power. of defamation of the peo-
pie, or of an illegal prolongation of his
own, with which imprudent friends, like
you, were constantly tempting him; and
where, instead of precarious power. he
obtained liberty for a whole world and
Immortality for his own name"
The example of Washington, here re.
ferred TO, is one to be cherished by his
own couutrymen, and can never be for
gotten without danger to the republic.