The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1850-03-13

| Californian Letters.-The last variety OF
this new and many sided vein of literature,
is the following, from the Bos,oi Post
quite too good not to bc repeated II" Mister
! ditor-Marrdgeable females is Hemarka-
ble scarce OIL the Sarah Nevady, but the feI-
lers heinz continually atw Ork with their cras
dies has no time to think Of the psttycots
Gold is very plenty, and is the occashun of
much gilt, the fortynit miners bein' shot and
rifed. am diggin', myself, in the bed Of
Feather river, which is as full Of gold as a
quilt of cotton. Society is mixed. The
Sandwiches has mustered strong, and so has
the Polly Neshuns. Also the Chinese is
beginnin' to come in; but the boys don't like
their long tails, nor the way their eyes is sot
in their heads. They're a proud. lazy,
sheepish- looking set, and unless they mind
their peas and queus they'll get lamin'.-
Why can't they use tobacco and work for
their betters and wushup God like christians,
insted of chawin' their infarnal opium and
loafin' and wushupn' idIes? There's quite
a number here, too, from the Society Islands.
Nice society they have there, guess
There isn't pettycot nor pair o. breech-
es in the hull crowd, and they're all lied up
as if they was afraid o. rustin'. Soap-fat
and stale goose-grease is parfume to the
sniff one gifts on the leeward side '.one on
'em. Then there's Irish and Scotch and
John Bulls AMI niggers and ynller-btlles-
SO, as stated aforesaid, the society is a mix
ture and no mistake. The material featers
of the soil is sand and rocks. In the sand
the gold is generally sought for near the cur
rent, and in the rocks We look for il in vein.
There is one kind Of deposit they;cail
pocket. The pocket is generally foSnd in
the material breeches Of the mountain, and
can only be dug into with pick. 1he mi
ners who work these deposits are kn swn as
the pickpocket gangs. In the satd the
preshus mette in found in grains and gobs.
Some say that the gobs is not the real stuff,
and that nobody can tell what's wha; until
the essayer has cruciied it; others sly that
proosic acid will tell the story. Not bein'
kirnmist or an essayist, cannot deaide.-
The principal quadrupeds is prairia-dogs,
urkey-buzzards and cen,ipedes. Tie eli
we suffer with agur in the wilderness. Gold
is procured IN various ways. Some tpecy-
laters has done well by hiring gangs Of in
juns to dig, and shootin' 'ern as sopn as
they've got enough to make it worth while.
I've got purity smart chance that way and
intend to boat il down the SackrymeA,o to
San Francisco, where you can always find
sale for your oar. Prgging and murder
is punished with death whenever any Of the
boys is sufferers, but we don't take no COM
plants from furrlners, Mexicans and Injuns
grape vine halter and maple limb is the
usual method Of exekushun. The turkey
buzzard, which is bird Of wonderful in
stink, and is parshal to cold vittals, sks on
the adjining trees until the vital sparf has
fed, when they come in a body rounp the
corpse, and carry off the carrion With their
great talents. Funerals is done up squite
rough here. When digger dies, hsimate
takes his close, (Which Is generally e.led,)
his pick and shovel and his gold. and; then
holes him. A few of the deceased leaves
wills behind 'em. but they mostly da. de-
tested"