The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1855-12-12

The following items are from the san
Francisco correspondence of the New York
Times, Nov 9Th:
sew GOLD DISCOVERIES.
A4sw gold fever has broken out. Ihay
Lave Iouud a mountain of ore-thc richest
>eatchincs ever vet heard of-at Table
Mountain. If the stories are half true, and
there seems to be some grounds for them.
there is plenty Of it. They get out thou
sand or two before breakfast TO give them an
appetite. What do You think Of a pound Of
Gu.d ID d bucket Of Garth, ell Mines Of C4l-
Homia are giving out, are they We like
10 see them giving out-the iucre, in such
quantities.
Il il well authenticated ;hat tons Of gold
have been and are being taken out Of Table
Mountain.
\ mining company in Columbia have found
vein of 'blue mass" the papers say. They
probably mean the material for making it,
for, if we remember right, blue mass is a
composition Of mercury, Sc If blue mass
is found already prepared so accommodating
", We may expect soon 10 dig cut sugar
coated pills by the bushel.
In Ell Dorado County they have found the
cheney dew" and gathered it from the
er il paid or not. We have all sorts of dues
here that don't pay, Or the people don't
Going down town the morning after read
ing the account, we saw several boxes in
front Of Horns cigar and tobacco ware
house, labelled ''Honey Dew" Whether it
was the new crop from III Dorado County,
we did not ascertain.
INTERESTING ABOUT THE CHINESE.
all ~,
they are treated so badly they can't stand it.
They are robbed and murdered, and nothing
is thought of it, 1t is impossible to "eom-
nit IA man for any wrong or damage done
"a foreigner, and especially Chinaman. The
old native Californians don't fare any bet
ter.
Victor Castro, who owns large tract of
land in ''Contra Costa was a rich man be-
fore gold was discovered. He had five thou
sand head Of CATTLE and fifteen hundred
horses. The squattera about him have driy-
en- off his cattle, and stolen every horse bat
two. that are not worth stealing.
He has caught the thieves several times
and taken them before a justice, proved the
theft. and the men were released and he had
% fork over three or four hundred dollars
cost. He caught man stealing COWS, ar
rested him, and put him in the hands of the
sheriff, who insisted on taking the cows pris-
oners also. The man escaped from the sher-
1T with the cows. Fast cows those. or n slow
sheriff. Castro is now reduced almost To
beegary. The people about him are squat
ters the sheriff is a squatter--the Judge is
squatter if justice is any where in
that part of the country, she would be found
-4natting on FIVE acre lot.
TIRE GADsDpS pt-RrnAcF
| noticed in back number Of the Times
some editorial spccul~tsons rs to the miner
al wealth OF the Gud8den purchase. Ii is
Wei known here that there is more mineral
wealth in the purchase than would buy up
MI Mexico at ten times the ratio the Gads-
den tract cost. In some future letter ] viii
give YOU some items | have myself piece
OF copper ore, picked up from the surface
where the veins are visible above the ground,
that nettei per cent. Several companies
ne forming TO work various veins within
reach of the coast. The copper above allud-
ed @ contains gold III greater or less quaint
ties
EXTRAORDINARY FiGHT BETWEEN ELEVEN
HoRsHs.-Southcy, in his history Of
the Peninsular war, relates the following:
Two Of the Spanish regiments which had
boon quartercd in Funen, were cavalry,
mounted on fine, black, long tailed Andalu-
slau horses. 1t was impracticable to bring
of these horses-about 100 ia number
aud Romano was not a man who could order
them 10 be destroyed; he was fond Of hors es
himself, and knew that every man was at-
taehed to the beast which had carried him so
far anu so faithfully. Their brides were.
therefore, taken off, and they were looscd
upon the beach. A scene ensued such as
never before was witnessed. They
were sensible that they were no longer under
any restraint of human power. A general
coniiict ensued, IN which, retaining the dis
ciPline they had learned, they charged each
other in squadrons of ten or twelve together,
then, closely engaged, striving with their
fore feet and biting and tearing each other
with the most ferocious rage, and trampling
over those who were beaten down, till the
shore. IN the course Of an hour was strewn
with the dead and disabled. Part of them
had been set free on rising ground at dis
lance; they no sooner heard the roar of bat
tie than they came laundering down over the
hedges, and catching the conta-
glous madness, plunged into the fight with
equal fury. Sublime as the scene was. it
was too horrible to be long contemplated !;
"hi isOniaho. III HeIcJ phFe OFueFs 10 ucs-
troy them. But it was found too dangerous
10 attempt this, and after the last boat had
Quilted the beach, the few horses that re-
manned were seen still engaged III the dread
fal work of mutual destruction.
PRIScE MURAT AT BoRDENTowN.- This is pre-
eminently the age Of political vicissitudes. -
few years ago there was an obese loafer at
NJ j., who used TO drink with
fellows about town, and borrow two shillings
III II time from the gentlemen of the place.
white has wife kept most respectable school
and his MISUNDERSTANDING daughter was
exposure of all eyes mt church. Now this
same free and easy idler, whose scores at the
hordentown shops were unpaid few months