New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-04-01

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=. - h.d ore-one 70 save ;hs Sodorn Of ours II
eless 10 talk religion Will lot be really tssaioaGbis
, rs un,il We &c, that usu ard there s notelling
bsv much good he would effect. Blu, anything to be
,rece.sfol must be done up right" Those pioss
veurg men whose perceptions never permitted them
h Lrow, dee that they only 6,ed for good fair
,,rcul,urslnts or mechanics. most aacctiona'eiy
,5mopished ON grinding through their theological mills
,hs, /, Is fair presumption that if they come here
the, will learn something Of humn natur II not
"softsswder.'
New schemes for pilfering in city extension water
lots etc present themselves. and right and left the
elements are in commoton, and the leeches become
stronger with better suction their proficiency N
crosses.
W.shinctons Birthday wss celebrated With much
pemp and show, and many great and small children
were as delighted as usual.
The -four operators have very sour stomach,
quite an epidemic among them. The thing has lat
tened down upon them too strong altogether. You
would imagine that the bilious colo was very pecu'
liar 10 them. Serves 'em right" Prices will re-
cover after possible further slight decline, there
must be vas, deal more -four in rdasiis than opine
Last winters operation the most barefaced fraud
upon people ever prscced and should send its per
petratOrs beyond the pale of those whom they plum
dered starved robbed.
heavy cargo Of Ice arrived from Boston few days
since and here are We next door neighbours to Rus
star. America as wellas $40 10, or fght'
The Salmon fishery en- the Sacramento River has
commenced and will continue many months. This
fish is remarkably fine, and many others taken
in these waters for those who addicted TO animal
food
sutterve ia going ahead, while Sacramento lookson
with sulky growl city built where there are no
soundings in the mud and subject to several inunds-
tons every year, has something 70 do TO keep pace
with ahigh and dry competitor, young
Let not the bighting blasts of your rude March rem
der you insensibe to our more favored cline, where
we are now realizing the most delightful, brscng
heabful atmosphere. But we will not ask you to visit
US until better is opened or the Nicaragua
aweekly, with feet steamers-through in twenty or
twenty one days. Your obedient, GEO NJ. B.
Condition and Prospects of the Miners.
Correspondence Of The y. Y. Trbuse
SONORA, TUoLME Co., CAL. Sat, Feb. H. lS53.
Enclosed send you an extract from The
Sonora Herald of October, before the rainy season
set in.
Having witnessed the advent of this prosperous
era" well some other things, will say word
TO those who read extracts from California papers,
&C. who may have the California fever have
able bodied stout industrious men, within month
past, able and willing to work, living on bread and
coffee for the want of credit or to buy better
food | do not state this the generally but
when there hundreds OF barely making subsst
ence to one that Is doing well would say TO any in
the States stay home IL IL difficult TO hire. Few
will give than $50 month and found. To read
papers from the northern mines or correspondence
OF the Sacramento and San Francisco papers from
there, we here would suppose every body was doing
well there, but such statements scarcely glanced
at You zee statements In The Columbia Ga.ene or
Sonora Herald that are calculated to make leave
a good business and comfortable home in the States,
and these statements are true TO my own personal
knowledge But will venture the assertion that there
arc not seventy five out Of hundred of miners,
| mean) in their neighborhood who have money
enough to pay their passage home.
! An acquaintance of mine informed me to-day, he
had taken pound lump OF gold out OF his claim few
dayssso.
Iasked him joculsrly why he did not report to the
papers 1t would have the effect of bringing some poor
fellow from the States" This occurred near Column
bia and within a short distance Of claims that wont
Psy for water
saw an Is or 20 pound lump containing about Is
or 10 quartz at the house of Rothschlds in this town,
yesterday which was dug out at Yankee Hill, few
days since. The claim in which this found was
sold afew weeks since for claim that will
bring but s considered almost worthless for
the tools tom and sluices &C. are worth more unless
worn out
Men are working to my knowledge, at Yankee Hill
claims that pay but 60 day. Say 81 day for pro
visions, (t was SO lately leaves them So.
In The Columbia Gazette Of the 5h inst, the editor
makes an acknowledgment that has before sp-
peared in California paper. viz The Australian
papers do the hundreds and thousands of
ergetic persevering and industrious who not
masking than expenses and that he could cite &c
The object in publishing these glowing accounts and
Withholding the other side OF the picture is obvious.
The merchants traders &c, in the different parts are
all striving to attract the immigration.
l9thSo 1t IA The Sonora Herald and C0lgrbia Gazette,
in this sense are hostile to each other. The Sonora
Herald of the 10Th inst mentions twice the Yankee Hill
Lump, before mentioned-lst as 297 OF. and I'd, as
2e6-bu does not say Yankee Hill is the other side of
I and near Columbia.
The California papers, in complaining when roguss
fall OUT that the Australian papers suppress the thou.
sand instances of prvston &C. to the Of success
say that the wages of hirengs is the proper test
do not know what they are in Australia. MaHy here
would be glad to hire to bersl miner for 80 month
and found A stout, hearty man, or Cornish miner
probably might get more
But men here dislike TO hire at any ordinary price
for the hardest work in the mud and water IS put on
them The Hydraulic Co here give s7j month and
board and lodging you finding your own blankets.
sleep-On the floor, catch as catch can" Diet
Coffee made Of parchei peas, &c, Chat cones neatly
enveloped and marked odd Java , and tastes Ike
anything else but coffee and beet for dinner of course
invariably boiled.) secondhand pOtasoes-cheapest
vegetable in market, and for which, thankful to get
them OF Of his hands, the merchant feels grateful.
Few men will stand this diet-none do bat from ps
ces.iy This s7j paid in Company scrip, at 90 days
This scrip is necessarily at dscount AMI to poor
fellow compelled to sell a. riinous one.
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