New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-11-26
From the Gold 0Iinss--RerrabIe information.

From The St. Joseph Gazette, l6thI
The following letter, though not Of very recent date
will be read with interest, because relating to sub
ject uppermost in the minds Of thousands. This in
formation here given is from intelligent aud relia
bic source, and is worthy the credence OF all We
say this to strangers and others abroad in this city
Mr. 6. P. Beauvais II known to hundreds. The letter
is written to Mr.. a. Beauvais of this city:
LosE STAR, n. T.. Oct. 10, 1858.
Dear Broiher-Herewith send you specimen
Of gold dust from the South Platte mines, by Mr.
Giddngs from Ohio, who has just arrived from the
mines.
From him gather the following facts, which are
mostly in contradiction OF the various publications
circulated in the papers. He states that there have
been about thirty men at work on the Platte, and
thinks that the whole amount Of gold taken at the
various places which have been worked will not ex
coed $500, and also that the various stories about
taking it out in large or heavy nuggets base abri
cations, circulated by ignorant persons He also
states that he is acquainted with the principal part
of the miners who have prospected the country the
past season. and thinks that ninetenths Of all the
miners who LETT the mines tor the States, either had
to buy beg specimens to take with them else to
go without any. He also states that the largest piece
that has been taken anywhere between the Spanish
Peaks and the Medicine Bow Mountains, weighed
lust eleven grains, and was taken to st. Lous by
Mr. Pierce and that the best mines found as yet are
on the South Platte and Cherry Creek, about eighty
miles northeast of Pixies Peak. With very hard
labor men have been making from one to four dollars
per day. with rude pools constructed on the ground.
| One party OF Georgians, (Green Russells partly
whom he thinks are the only party of experienced
miners, who have been prospecting the country, have
| made the best wages Of any who have worked-they
making from four to sixteen dollars per day with the
use of proper tools and quicksilver, aud he thr. Rus
selD thinks that good wages can be made by those
| who wish to work hard.
/ The mountains have not yet been prospected, and
! the more experienced miners are of the opinion that
more extensive deposits will be discovered next
son. The gold at present discovered is extensively
scattered over the country but very fine, and In To-
vbnra Df dor
it impossible to work it until the spring rains come
on. The country aside from the gold, is valuable,
and desirable for agricultural purposes, well as for
raising and feeding stock.
| A MEAN AND HEARTLEss HoAx.-0n ThanksgiV-
| ing morning in New York some mscreant published
in the Herald an announcement that gratis distri-
button Of bread and meat to the poor would be made
in Union Square. The Times thus states the result
Earlier than 10 o'clock large crowd Of the poorest
classes, some 800 900 in number had assembled IN
Union Square, each carrying basket in which to re-
ceive the individual portion of bread and meat All
ages from the child that could scarcely be trusted to
walk alone, to the old grandame OF so, were there.
All degrees of poverty were represented and all COM
playons from the whest Irish to the deepest negro.
The baskets which they carried were OF all sizes-the
clothes baskets of laundresses being numerous and
remarkable, while some were 50 large that the spectl-
tor was reminded OF Fdstutt bnck.basket Patently
these poor people remained in the Square, the mayor
ity stationed at the base of WashngtOns statue,
while the slow hours wore on. The whole thing was
a hoax. If the heartess scoundre who devised 1T
was present, he might have taken great delight IN
his most miserable success and have regarded u as
mere practical joke but it exhibited degree OF de.
pravity to which our city, with all its faults, has
hitherto been stranger.
/ BoNAPARrE in BOYHooD.-It was the 31st Deem.
Der, 1880. had gone to pass day at Elysee Mar
baf with my invalid friend the Marquis de Marb1nf,
and was sitting tetf atete with that dear woman, who
/ upp
/ but coughs and colds tuberces and lniammatlons,
until was wearied to death with her conversation.
The servant announced some lady, who was waiting
| in the ante chamber, and had come to wish her q
| happy new year.
!. May heaven bless her, and deliver me from her
visit! Tel her have come out to Eysee on pur-
pose to avoid company, because 10 nothing put
cough from morning to night. Why should she thus
pursue me to EIysee2 Have never spoken TO you Of
! this Madame BOnneOu Maaparte r.
hfalaparte you call herr rather think it is
Bonaparte.7 And then Madame de Marb@nf began
telling me how her husband had become acquainted
! with this family while he was Governor OF Corsica
and that he Ind procured for the husband situation
in the customs MS they were very poor, although per
sons of good family.
| proposed that Mad. Bonaparte should be admitted
and accordingly there ushered in fine looking
woman, with legion Of addressed children Annie
this covey of unfedged Corscans there was little
boy whose red eye betrayed some recent VeXation
and who was making strong effort to gulp down hi
tears BY way Of being civil, inquired in a kim
tone, what was the matter with her son. madonna,
she replied, with loud provincial voice, q GUN pit
,aoastT0 p Che is little monster y
Madame de Marnmt looked quite distressed at tht
argon of her visitor; but as it was rather am4sihe
to me, continued my inquiries until Madame Bona
parte related how she had taken her children TO see
the Bishop of Autun, and how this proud sehooboy
had refused to kiss my Lord Bishops mana, ana no"
she had soundy boxed his ears as soon az they were
outside the Episcopal Palace by way of teaching HIM
better manaers for the future. Ma una teSta az
fer, madam4 n (He has an iron head, madam .
nf the citizen Bonaparte now that the " pitt mon
str0n is become the hero 81, Roche and the Font
tournaut' Mad. de Creepy