Southern shield., 1850-08-03
CAMP SNoRY, CAuroRNy, ]

LAMP SNoRY,, CAMToRNy,
 April 8, 1850.
 Eddf1res 2enday Times:-As no gold and notisss9 at, didp't aoot my constitoo- 5hun, leif tIie banks of the Marc Poser soon arter my last epistol, and made strait trail for these diggins. And just look at my luck! warn't too days tramp from the spot when darned grene miner pred up a fifty pound lumpl Idessay they'll make an all-tired fuss about it in the San Fransiskv papers. But that aint all. The day afore arrove here, fifteen pound was taken out oi pocket in Wun of the upper lifts by a deVilishrun convick from Van Demons Land, who was diggin in kumpany with a Preest from the city of Angis. In coarse, the convlck was transported darn him. The papers say the best diggin is into the flats, but they've mostly been clened out in these parts Sosety here is not very se- leck. Babe is a-rockin his cradle in site of my shanty in kumpany with wun Doctor hoolidge, who says another man was berried by mistake instead of him some- wharS in Maine. Richard P. Robinson is also here and doin well. He ses he's ntirely innicent of the murder of Helin Joott, having taEen her preshus life in comply unce with her own reckwest. He spekes in high tems of the New York Herald, as troo friend 10 crimnuls in distress. Babe is goin to leve us to prospeck by himself. He ses toe many cooks spile the broth.
 TrlnnitY River has not ben diskivered yet; but the rowt is clerey Jade down. Y np hny apl "A C+o L>,r tell you wether Cape SPeckylashun, and then shuterite throo the straits of Baffleman, whar you carnt squar the yards for mum keys, and thar you ar. The kuntry is full Of gold, and you're shure 10 find 1t if you stick to the Earrings
 heern tell that things is orful bad in San Fransisky. Reddy made housen sell at dolara cord for frewood and lumber sPeckilator who arrove out last month with w55alking the plank as s66R as dt' e 5d ee5Td that yaller pine was drug. Reel estate is runnin down, and the big rents is all torn to pieces. Thars gold in the sile, but when its dug it don't seam to stay in Caiforny. It runs rite throo the kuntry aperiently, like a dose of salts, and is carried of by the oners as soon as they can obtain a passdge. Kurnel Fremont's mines is said 10 be the most pIoductiv. They dror the gold out thar by he hundred wate, and if old Bull yum wants to try whether itul run up the MissysiPpy, young BuIlyun can furnish him with enay amount of current funds for the apartment. He is reckind to be wuth about three tun.
 Emmygrunts from all parts of the terra queous globe, includn the Ann Tipponees and other distent tribes, continues 10 arrive in innoomerable numbers. The emperor of Chny has forbidden his subjecks to visit Californy, bekase the Texas teamstears sometimes take it into thare heads to cut off thare tales for Whip-lashes; but the pig eyed raskils don't mind being sissered so thay gitsthar shears of the preshus metal.
 Ime better kontented here than was on the Mary poser, as game and gold is rather plentier, to say nuthin of a little cockfitin and pharoah and other rayshunal amuse- ments. The dickshunary, however, is my principal wreckreashun. wish you could hear me repete the deafnishuns At fust found the long words pesky hard, but now Ime equil to five syllybulls.
 My pile don't grow as fast as lde wish il to do, but maybee He strike an adorferous vane wun of these days, and rase the wind on a student.
 Thars an Injun settlement near by, and the women bring mellins and cetery to our camp to sell; so wee doc see pettycot now and then, though it's cut rather high in the skirt and low in the buzzum. But, artel all, waller wimmin don't seem like the fail sect to me. As the French say, thars 8 jenny see squaw about their appearance which is perfectly ojus. 1 think its the ile.
 Yours, A DIsBANDED VOLUNTEER.
 
 Bonnet Carre Crevasse.
 This sweeping and resistless rush of Mis- sissippi water out of the usual channel is