Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-02-27
California;.

Bv the arrival of the Crescent City at Norfolk,
we have adyices from California up to the 10Th OF
January. The Crescent City brings 100000 IN
gold, and 2l9 passengers. The United States
Mail steamer, Unicorn, which left San Francisco
on the 18th of January, with the mails and $780,
900 in gold dust ON freight had not arrived at Pa
mama when the Crescent city left.
The Legislature had assembled and were pro-
ceeding with the Business of the State. Governor
Burnett had resigned and Luitenant Gov. McDou-
gal had been inaugurated. No election of United
States Senator had been held. Business through
out the cities of California was extremely dull
goods selling for less than the original cost In New
York. Hon. T. Butler king, the collector of San
Francisco, had arrived and entered upon the duties
of his office. The Alto California has the follow
ing account of new discovery ofgold, far surpas-
ing anything of the kind yet heard of, and which, if
one half be true, caps the climax of stories IN re-
gard to this wonderful country
1t is well known that the steamer Chesapeake,
with about thirty adventurers left this port the
21st ult., for the Klamath, and in yesterdays pa
per we gave some cccount of her progress. Scar
cely was our paper issued when the Chesapeake
came into port, bringing back five or six of the
prospectors," Gen. John Wilson and John A.
Collins, Esq, among the number A meeting Of
the stockholdes called to hear the result ofthe
expenditures, which meeting we attended and If
we can bring our ideas down to anything like rea-
son, after hearing those wonderful details, we Will
let the public into the secret.
Twenty-seven miles beyond the Trinity, there
is beach several miles in extent, and bounded by
q high bluff The sands of this beach are mixed
with gold to an extent almost beyond belief The
sand is of two kinds-a fine black sand and grey
sand The grey sand can be separated very easily
from the black sand, and this seems to be desira-
BILE object The gold is mixed with the black sand
in proportions Of from ten cents to ten dollars the
pound. At times when the surf is high, the gold
is not easily discovered, but in the spring of the
year. after a succession of calms, the entire beach
is covered with bright and yeew gold. Mr.. Col
Inns, the Secretary of the Pacific Minining Com
pany, measured patch of gold and sand, and es-
Inmates it will yield to each member of the Compa-
ny the snug little sum of $43 1000, ,000-and this
estimate is formed upon circulation that the sands
holds out to be one-tenth as rich as observation
warrants them In supposing.
The Pacific Mining Company 1.-THE adventures of
the Chesapeake have banded themselves under this
tittlel found some ninetween men at these diggns.
The men had no disposition to dig, for the gold
was all ready for them whenever they felt disposed
to take it. Beside, such is the character Of the
roads that they could not take away more than 70
or 100 pounds apiecG-an amount too trltfilng Tor
their consideration. They had erected comfor-
table log cabin and designed watching this claim
until Spring, and then take ship load of gold and
travel to some country where the metal was not SO
abundant. Mr. Collins saw man who had accu-
mulated fifty thousand pounds, or fifty thousand
tons-he did not recollect which-of the richest
kind of black sand.
! Gen. Wilson says that Thousands of men cannot
exhaust this gold thousands of years, and he gives
all who doubt his statements the liberty of going
and ascertaining these facts for themselves.