The Shasta courier., 1859-04-30
A Baron munchausen at pixies Peak.

About the tallest specimen Of lying that has
lately come under our observation, we copy from
an exchange. 1t is as follows:
Young gentlemen afflicted with the Pixies
Peak fever will be interested in the following
statement from gentleman in the new FL Do
| rado, of the manner of gathering gold in the
diggings. A man takes frame work of heavy
timbers built like stone boat the bottom of
which is composed of heavy iron rasns. This
frame work is hoisted up to the top of the Peak,
| and man gets On and slides down on the side
| of the mountain. As he goes swiftly down, the
rasps on the frame work scrapes off the gold in
immense shayings, which curl up on the ma
chine, and by the time the man gets to the bot
tom, nearly ton of gold is following him.
Another plan is to bore hole in the side of
the mountain, and fill it with coal and bitumen,
rousing fire is then built and the proprietors
sit around and blow it." Shortly the gold be-
gins to soften and melt, when quickly stream
of gold, as thick as your leg, runs out through
the fire, and is caught in moulds of sand made
for the purpose, from whence the gold comes in
sheets eight or ten feet square, of thickness of
first class boiler iron. Gold is too plenty here,
in fact. A paper CT tobacco will buy two tons
of it.
am turning my attention to something diff
ferent. / have found in the Gulch from which
date this letter, Jumps of gold nearly as large
as II Ht.iu-SlCQ talrIy encfuSted With diamonds,
have dropped the gold business since, and
have been steadily laboring in the diamond de-
! partment. You will not believe me, perhaps,
| but 1t IS solemn fact that have collected a
BIN full of splendid diamonds, nearly as large as
| your fist-more or less among them are a hum
/ dred, much larger than piece of head cheese.
THE CHINESE PRoBLEM-After alluding to the
Report of the Assembly committee on the Chi
nese question, the San Juan Hydraultc Press
says that it is useless to appeal to Congress for
| legislation on the subject, as it would doubtless
be deemed impolitic by that body, in view of
international treaties to interfere in the matter
The Press then suggests:
" There is but one feasible plan fer abatng
this Asiatic nuisance-we use the popular term
and that is, to increase the mining license to
such high figure that it will virtually drive the
Chinese from the diggings, where their presence
seems most Objectionable, to other portions of
the State where their labor in other pursuits may
render their presence desirable. The gold mines
being the great attraction, Cinnamon, if thus ex-
cluded from them, would not be apt to come to
the country at all, or only in small numbers
Those already in the diggings would be allowed
to work out their claims upon paying monthly
license at the old rates. This plan we proposed
long ago, and it has been advocated by many of
tho mountain papers. Something like it should
bo tried, and that speedily, five do not wish to
see the State disgraced by 2 succession of riot
Gus outrages, upon feeble race for whose pro-
tectiea the authorities are certain to prove pow
erless.
A PRETTY TALL WEEKS WoRK.-The Kansas
Herald Of Freedom, thus sums up one weeks
work in the career of the notorious Jim Lane.
The Herald, be it known, is decided free State
paper;
Gen. James II. Lane, the Kansas hero, came