New-York daily tribune., 1865-11-10

mense Force Of she Wnier-The Miners
at thsir Work--A Novel sccne-Caii-
fornim Politics Us Curious study-Ciot.
Low-Tbe EepFesen'ativrs--Scna'
Csnuess-Uow He was Eiected-The
Wardrobe Witnesses-PrcscEt scnnto-
rial Contest" Long Hairs" and shors
Hairs',-Candidafes- Railroad.
From Our Special Correspondent.
SACRAMENTO, Cal. Thursday Sept T. 1865.
They all are gone, the old familiar faces. The
firm is dissolved The three senior members have with
drawn, seeded. coutrabanded When last seen"
they were grouped on hurricane deck. :" Hip. hip,
hurra + cEeered the crowd. Boom I" Numbered the
gun, groaaed the engines, wheezed tie steam.ppes
creaked the paddle.wbeels. Slowly tho great steamer
rounded from the wharf, deity wended out from tie
forest of nass then moved like astrong swimmer past
the Of shipping, past tho wonderful city with
history like Aaddns palace, past Alcatraz through
the Golden 0ate and they were Homeward Bound.
An Overland trip is q sort Of limited matrimony.
One is bound to his companions for better or for worse
IL lie selected them In haste be will repent at leisure
The Atchsonians warned US IN advance that no party
crossed The continent without quarreing that tor
tie first week 9e should ask each other: " Has any
gentleman my notebook But thereafter the in.
qury would be: "what d-d scoundrel has stolen my
tooth brushi" False prophets they. For fifteen weeks
and 900 miles have teen TIE Happy Family. even
when every day was "Moying Day. The lines have
fallen TO US 10 pleasant places tic trip has been full Of
interest ard Of profit
For Mr. Colfax 1t he's proved one continuous spon'
tancous ovation. Ho looks back through long per.
ueeye Of brass bands and banquets private welcomes
and pub.c receptions. II was deserved. tor nc came
ey to study these great interests which are Natoiai
as well rs local. and he has always been their liberal,
s,cadfast friend stu 1t 10 some coupensa'ion Tor tho
cm tincss and thanklessncss Of public life TO be thus
loved and honored by personal strangers in the rem,
scattered homes OF half continent.
/ lave heard lin make fully seventy speeches-ail
differing yet all crcditab ali ahoanding in that kind
OF sense most uncommon the world over: common
sense. 1cnuyson's praise 10 the memory oi Weuing
ton, IL the highest. at least Of the highest;
"Forcmo.t Captain Of his time,
Rhh IA sariag common sense,
And ss the gFvsest ouly sIe,
IL bis simplicity fu6Liae.p
How perfectly it applies to our own LIVING General ana
our dead Pfpsidenti Men of ability, bfaney genus
are eherp ard plenty: but men who unite integrity with
balance, clear Judgment practical visdom-who talk
1921 sense anu aet I'm ld r.rs saa SabuTep
Colgsx Is one OF them. ] have heard hin address
dozen audiences in direct ank opposition to their own
earnest yieWs-upon taxing gold and sveT me oregon
Pacific Railroad. specie currency. war with Maxi,
milan etc.yet be pleased them better while differing
tlan most speakers could while agreeing In private
Intercourse Nc seems to steal the heart Of every man
woman and cild-by 10 demagoguely or eiori, but ny
simplicity. batnralness aad oscraowing Kindness MI
Coiisx Is ehildless widower OF A. VITA single ex'
cepton be has been longer continuously III the uOuSe
than any other present member
Gov. Bross Is 20 by the Almtnac. but IN vgor ana
freshness Of fce.lgg 80 years younger. Lake od tir
cuia he never tires In the last Illinois canpaSn he
made 100 speeches tho air of the rostrnn Is hs naive
element. Here, Pory.niner Is the pioneer of plo-
necrsene who came Over va "a% ne ta
ire: "Why, could have sworn that Gov. Bross was
Forty uinsri II he lived here we should send him at
oUco 10 tie United States Senate" Of Eastern blith,
Massschusetts educaton, and long, successful expert
ence IN Chicago Journalism, he combines keen hunof
and mellow geniaty with ripe Judgment and most
sierng worth. Mr.. Bowes. by nearly twenty years q
that hard. patient work. without vhieh comes no sue
worth the having. hBe broken bis henth but made
his Springfield tMassl RfP.olean the bt,t provincial m
Is only wiltya most compaDionable gentleman OF -
a close observer. n pointed. suRypsiive, "neaty
writer lie has travelled over all Europe and learned
our own po,i,ics society and nptabtes with unusual
tloroughnoss aud mnuteness temptation. however
seductive can induce him to make speech. There
&c. one oher American Of whom this was true-one
whose wife calls him Mr.. Grout'-bat he, alas is
falling from grace.
50 my friends have gone. Simple yet profound is the
Truth of EnOch Arden that d" "Ihirgs greater
than things heard" These long and sometimes weary
ouneyings will add incomparaby 10 their largo hefal
ness. They 20 back more Intelligent appreeIa'Ve en-.
thusinstc friends Of the already BupendOus Interests of
our new Territories and Pacific Coast than they have
ever been IN tie past May smooth seas encompass
and fGvorirg breezes van them to their waiting homes
have been 10 look at hydraulic mining Placer
vile. Coon Hn." originally mound Of many acres
bearing settlement OF 500 houses. Is almost washed
away BY the miners. little. ragged section OF earth
100 feet hghits brown. dirt walls broken by stra' nm
of yelowish marl-is all that remains Of the hill, Ock
ribbed and ancient as the sun Ono workman stards
at the tor directing tny tii TAiea comes pTnrins
saoes. The iost 10 the bottom. Water is brought
down to them through castron pipe from sneighbor-
ing summit Al hc top the stream - two feet sq9arei
inch hose The condensation and the fall OF more than
100 feet give il tremendous force. These ihree-inch
streams directed against the upright bank 100 feet
away send vast clouds OF eartL and powders flying in
all directions boro into the compact grayei IKE huge
augurs and even penetrate nafrowest crelees o Iho
rock oosening IL aud bringing II uo"H III raS'
ments twice ss large as flour barrels
AT the bottom two aborers In ludia rubber coats ana
leggiugs stand IN water up TO the thighs clearing away
H.. d.Iris The stream carries of the dirt ana stones
with great rapdity. but they toll with rcks ana crow
bars TO assist the heaviest Iocks into the Iue lbs H
wooden trough three feet In diameter; VITA VITA snaI
descent where all the waters gather IN boiling rnsh
ing torrent which washes away tpe earIh ana OoWiuei
lille the sinking gold is caught by Stats on the bottom
Once In the fumc arock when Utmost ns y Is uV,ho ny
pick che workmen glance up uleasiy ut the qu'erns
earth wal, which sometimes tumoies uht Apes'euy'
causing fatal accidents When IL Is about 70 ia W.:
shout Look out T. and they spring bacs while great
masses OF earth and rock come crashing down. 1hey
wok IN tho water "sS shr aSo,s s,S@ 2 never dry
they arc said to remain healthy though growing pre-
maturely old. ... 80,
Tho force OF tho water is wonderful One OF these
ihrceinch streams would cxtinguish confagraton,
dwelling and all in the brefcst period Knocking down
brick bnlding like childs cob-housc AT Ten leet
from the nozzle il would cut through man as II he
wero tissue paper, ut forty feet 1t would crush him TO
Jelly The proprietor that with these three
little streams he can cut down and crush away section
of hin 10 feet long. 20 wdo and 20 bighs0C0 coo cubic
fect--in twelve hours The water costs him $50 per
day No gold is found for the first hundred feet below
the surface but between that depth and the bedrock
the dirt ofton proves very rich Nearly IS 600 have
been taken out in tho vicinity Of this bin since lsi9