New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-04-21
Later from The Kan.as MINES.
We find 10 the Council Bluffs Nonpareil Of the 9th
Inst letters which that paper pronounces reliable,
from which We extract the following

= We find In the Council Bluffs Nonpareil Of the Of
inst letters which that paper pronouncea reliable
from which We extract the following
The weather is very fine and II look
Ike spring, and everything is going on well-gol
y getting 70 be more plenty--men have got out Q
their shanties and gone to digging. The other da
/ man created quite stir on the south side of th
town site Of Anraria, and in about an hours time
dug out IS; in two hours time there were so claim
!, taken, and preparing for the morrow. Three mile
! above here there are several at work. Allen, th,
postmaster at work there. Here [enclosedl is tel
dollars worth Of the precious metal, which was dul
!, ont BY him in one day; and be says there is mai
there working claim which pays Is cents to III,
bucket. Allen s positive that when they get thei
sluices to work, six or eight men can make upward
Of $1,000 per day. am satisfied that gold abound
here in sufficient quantities to make fortune in
!, short time, If he uses economy with industry.
have been forty-fve miles up Cherry Creek ant
it Is beautiful country, fine farming land and any
amount Of pine groves, from two to fifty acres toge
ther, and plenty of water. saw pan Of dirt washed
that came out Of . canon, which had forty specks
Of gold in it-supposed to be worth about IS cents
Inere Y company going to start for the Parks
them, for some men started town five miles above
kusseville and got out logs to build in the mean.
time part OF them went through to the Parks they
come back, sold out. and all hands packed up and
something that must pay very well, for they left a
place which paid man well-some IS to SO Der day
i with pan and rocker,
BoulD1R clrr, s., vrai s.. county IL. ss,r.2
- You requested me to tell you whether
there was gold in this country or not Well, as to
one hundred miles up and down the mountains and
have found gold In most all the streams running into
tne Platte river but at this place there seems TO be
| TIE best paying digsings. At this place gold has
been discovered for distance Of thirty miles back in
the mountains that will pay from ten to thirty dol
lars per day to the man. Al the express starts in
few minutes I must draw this letter to close.
| The Nonpareil says also:
Mr.. Richard COPYRIGHT who left this CITY for the
gold mines in September last returned on the first
day Of April. We have conversed with him freely
on the subject OF mining prospects in the new Ell Do
rado and can assure readers that bis reports do
not materially vary from the tenor of the greater Dor.
ton OF the letters that have been received in The
States from that section As Mr.. COPYRIGHT is man
OF intelligence. veracty and probty and has spoken
With such degree Of confidence respecting the rich.
aess O. the gold mnes that the last shade Of doubt
ne has cOnversed. We will not recaptuate his state
ment; but to show that he has faith, we will state
tnat we have been informed that he made the follow.
ng proposition TO one Of our artisans to-wt If he
would 60 out with him. be (Courtright) would nav
his expenses out there and give him 500 per month
and board him while there just to superintend the
construction of sluices, etc. Mr. COPYRIGHT showed
Us twenty i've dollars worth Of the dust that was
made by man in just three days, with rocker. He
gives It as his belief that those who have been work.
ing during the winter, even with their very indier.
en-. tools have been making from three to FIVE dol
.aLs per gay We would advise those Of our citizens
who incline TO the opinion that there is large meas
are OF "humbng', mixed up with the gold stories
from Cherry creek to have confab with Mr. Court
ngnt ne came back to settle up his business, and
will return to the mines as soon as he thinks the
roads ate in passable state.
The " REIGN OF TERROR IN HAYr1,-We have
already mentioned the discovery of the dnneeon and
the l500 skeletons of the victims Of Sonlououes tyr
amy The Haytien Monitor says in the fort was i'm
Violated the unfortunate Decimus Greyer The story
- that the Duke de Ia vande du Noir having beaten
Madame Nicholas Grevier and her daughters with a
riding whip, was called to account by Decmus Gre |
ver for the outrage committed on his mother and sis
Eers. duel. with swords, followed, in which the
baron TELL Decimus was arrested, and through the
Intervention of the minister sent to Fort Labouc /
where he was assassinated Immediately after bis arri
7al Here, also, was murdered brave man named |
patrice, who was arrested at Aux Cages imprisoned
md put in irons at Port Prince without trial Of
my sort. He was then condemned to seven wears in
rons in the dungeons Of Mole st. Nicholas; and to
Jury forever the true of his wrongs and conceal
hem eternally Lobouc secretly put an end to bis
offerings The prison Of this fort is subteranean
lungeon, damp and infected-a tomb, in short, in
which, even with the mildest treatment, those who
re inferred there cannot live more than fifteen da vs.
But the commandment of the place, a person named
tichard was in the habit OF abridging the suierings
t those who were sent to him without formal order
determination, by causing hundreds of blows to be
administered to them with stick twice day He
7as it is said the direct heir of all his inmates As
DON as he received aprsoner he had him stripped and
asst naked into the dungeon He retained for his own
enet the provisions which the relatives of the con-
emned, as well as the charitably disposed of Fort
liberty, sent to the unfortnnates.
Gen. Gefrard had issued several DEGREES, among
hem one that all the property belonging to the ex
mperor, bis wife, and his daughters, Olive and Ce.
a, are and remain Professionally sequestered
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outhern lights. must here mention that did meet
18th few extraordinarily mean men in Sidney.
here was one, merchant prince, who made it a
cast that he had never given away shilling in his
'eme selfshness on one occasion, and the circum-
ances are worth relating. One morning poor Irish.
IAN stepped into his countnghouse and locking the
cry picture Of misery, said, oh may it please yer
,ress -, the soyerness, has given me pound,
nd sent me to you for another. She says you have
nough gold to build sly wild, and will be sure to
i've me little.r At first old hardist refused upon
hich Paddy threw himself on stool, and raised
lch piteous wall that the merchant, thinking he
as mad about the death Of his pig, gave him the
ound to get quit Of him. Next day the proprietor
the defanct porker was passing the warehouse, and
seing his benefactor at the door pulled his hat to him.
Well, did you get drunk with that pound or buy
mother pig ~ asked the rich man grufay. Bought
pig yer honor.a darling little thing, wild twist in
is tail like iady's curl?" We'll, it is to be hoped
W .ahe uet.eI Care Vi nia tndn you 0iu the olner
THAT did he die OFF, " Die Of? Did you say die of
ow? Why get out wild ye, be was so fat killed
im!"
ALEGIsLATIvE EPIsoDE.-The most eloquent speech
+ the season, decidedly was delivered in the House
o-day, by Mr.. Stephens, of Wayne county. The en-.
husasm became great during its delivery that the
speaker found it necessary to station all the Sergeant
It. Arms, and posse constables besides, in various
,ais Of the hail. to preserve order and decorum. Mr.
stephens entertained certain politcaideas peculiarly
It's own and Independent Of all party platforms, and
hese ideas produced the speech in question. 1.-THE
stares and Stripes The Genius of Liberty," "The
Pilgrim Fathers" :" The American Eagle" !" The
Forefathers Of 76, Constitutional Liberty" ETC.,
we're remarkably familiar to the speaker 1t was not
known what subject the speech was intended to
each.
Mr.. Thorn next obtained the floor and stated that
he speech reminded him OF poetica production he
,nce heard on the history of lat-boat calamity on
he Mississippi. something like the following.