Oroville daily Butte record., 1857-06-13
Prospecting.
BY DoINGS.

Did you ever go a prospecting We
do not mean, did you ever take a pick
and shovel and scratch gravel half Il
nile f,om Your cabin. But did you
vyer pack a mu'c, and take yonr chanc"
in the mountains for a season lfyon
eyer dil, you have seen hard times,
and ye.'y many peasant ones It yoN
never did, you'lI never know what you
have lost
Please 20 back with us to the sum-
mer of 30. AID now we will, by a
process altogether unknown t. leger-
demain or jacobs, save you the weA-
ry toll of weeks, and pl'ce you at "ncc
IN lttle valley amid the mount"in
peaks. Although mou, 1T IS y dark
but We can distinguish the ferns Of
men moving about, and the campfire
uurns cheertuIly. The mn III st be
miners, for here lay picks, pans and
shoves, and there cradle; and al
though SO early, the camp kettle bois
right merIily, and tne pnk IN the try
pan hioSe> a9d s,,intter, away III good
earnest 5 me of the men are driving
mules into camp, others rolling up
blankets and getting things toge ther,
road, for a start; this morning they
leave the old camping ground on their
nay tor-they k ow no where But
here who's that down OH his knees
stirring batter in such spitetul kind
of way; Shall | describe hlm aud
MS dress My extreme modesty al
most tnrnids it, but having thus found
him, and in such picturesque posi-
ton, 'twouId be unfa,r I" abandon hun
and 50 IIl 20 on and describe those
pants, = pans which have been 'den-
tilted with him since his earliest pllgrl-
mage to the mines. OriglnalIy they
were of good, frn, ribbed satinrt, AMI
boasted of their color, VIII ch was q
bright blue, but II w, from long ser
vice tney have turned to groylsh hue,
and ,o,e ribs which once dld show SO
bold "a front, have nearly worn away.
AS he is there upon his knees, the ii st
attraction is huge patch OF bed-t X,
faded anl torn; beneath lis tatiered
shreds appea another pa ch OF what
was once white, and occui iieu the Dig
mded pos tion Of the family hour bag.
The bat ef Is now of the night Consist
encs, and as h has CHANGED his posi-
ton, we have u talr, view of his knees,
which present IA similar appearance.
The exreni,lrs If the Il mbs. are much
rn aud worn aw~ y. Bu', for those
o d pants, torn, ragged, and bad "s
tney are, lie has an atiec ion, and would
be 10th to pat WI. h taem, for they atc
to him lax an o.d tried friend, they
n We stood by him in far weather and
in ioul, and VIII n TIA lime cones that
he and they must part, he will feel that
h is partln9 w,'h good and true old
FREUD, AID twill b. IN sorrow. Tho
re ainder Of lis dress is in keeping
with tie pants His hat round felt,
~, Il sloucaed, his boots, beyond d -
or ptlon, but we will maze affidavit that
ne has 1--WE lOtS upoti cdch W hiS
hair long and curly. and his t ce well
brow ned. We have plctu. ed ourself,
and it was sure that our wa drobe ex-
ceeded all tue oilers, in .-much as we
I eioiced i'll the ownership OF an extra
shirt.
Breakfast Is over. the mules are
nnckad and "a i'm one last look at the
old camping ground, tn tram moVrs
on. Shall we 20 on with them, up and
down those rugg d IN ,unt ins and
climb around those overhanging cliffs,
DO daring upon preclpices trlghtiul to
only look at We have not time, we
will let them travel on. for With these
seven league bouts of ours, We can
easily overtake them.
Ii rs now several DAYS since we part
ed with those rough friends Of ours,
and many IA weary mile have they
since then, up and down Ste
sides, thtnu5h deep gavin >,
and Immense patches Of cnappareI, and
through glorious forests of majestic
pines, whose tapering trunk, sre'oh
Tar towards the sky. And if Ahen we
lefta Them, they presented sorry ap-
CONTINUED IN OUR NEXT.