The Madisonian. (Canton, Miss.) 1850-1855, 1850-09-05


We say, send them alOng-we welcome
the world if they will only behave them
selves and be good citizens.
The Stockton Times Of July 4 SAYS:
In the second number of the Stockton
Times it was stated that evidences of
large quantities of silver in a%morphous
masses and rich veins had come to light.
The great secret of their localities is now
about to transpire. DR.. Shepherd, Of So
nora, has shown TO US a rare specimen Of
the matriV Of silver, containing at least 40
per cent. Of the metal. The specimen
weighs several pounds, and others are re-
ported varying in weight from ten to ninety
pounds. The vein is somewhere in the
vicinity of Sonora. Mr.. Peter Mehan, of
Sonora, has in his possession a few fine
specimens Of silver, in nearly a pure state,
which were dag from a gulch in the town
of Sonora.
Extraordinary reports have reached us,
and although we listen to them with won
derlng ears, w are compelled to give ere.
dence 10 them. Too much importance
cannot be attached to these discoveries.
There is nc doubt that no a 1.-THE of the
mineral wealth in the Southern mines has
yet been discovered.
We take the following from the San
Francisco Herald of the 18th July:
In Sacramento and MarysvilIe, the chief
towns Of the Northern mines, a considera-
Bile amount of business has been done du-
ring the last month; but in Stockton and
Sonora, the principal towns Of the South
ern mines, business operations have been
considerably depressed.
The gold discoveries that have been
made in Carson valley and other places on
the eastern slopes of the Sierra Nevada,
have given a new impulse to mining ope-
%rations, The newly arrived overland m
igrants represent that on crossing these
slopes they found gold in abundance, but
in consequence of their provisions failing
them they were obliged to come on for sup
plies. From their representations it would
appear that gold is found as abundantly
and over as extensive a surface Oh the east.
ern slopes of the Sierra Nevada as on
those towards the Pacific. There could
be no doubt Of the truth of these represen-
t%ations, for many of the newly arrived EN-
igrants retraCed their steps and crowds of
others were focking to the new scene Of
enterprise. On Tuesday last a train OF
sixty mules, and on Wednesday a train OF
a hundred mules, all heavily laden, left Sac
ramento for these ultra montane diggings;
and others were preparing for the same
direction.
The squatter excitement, which at one
time threatened the most disastrous results,
in Sacramento and other places, has died
away-the good sense Of the people put
ting down everything like anarchy or strife.
In a portion Of the Southern mines we
are sorry to say that life and property have
been some what insecure of late, from the
attacks of m%arauding parties of Mexicans,
Chillians, and other foreigners. This hos
tility appears to have been occasioned by
carrying into effect the law imposing a mi
ming tax on foreigners. Rather than pay
this tax many of them prefer to leave the
mines altogether. 4
New diggings have been discovered
lately on the upper waters Of Yuba and
Feather rivers, which promise to yield a
rich harvest to the adventurous miner.
Counterfeit United States gold coin is
circulating extensively in San francisco.