The Republican journal., 1871-06-29

The DIGGER INDIAN. The condition
of the Digger Indian, indigenous to
Tuolumne, has been rather improved by
the white occupation. lie has more horse
meat ami mole stale beef; he lives in
framed cabins instead Of wigwams he
carries a rifle or shot gun in place of bow
and arrow; the bucks effect in their dress
a sort of Mexico America and Indian
dandyisin the squaws, in hoops and cali
co, approximate dimly to The fashion. In
many cases, his house is furnished with
stove, chairs and bclstead he pays no
taxes; society imposes on him no burdens
or duties he has no Legitimate husincse
his faithful squaw pans ont Il few bits per
day from some crevicc in the lodge, or
totters from the market With an immense
iunne-shaped basket full of abandoned
beef and shin bones while he, unburden-
ed, in lordly fashion follows atter no in
fection of woman's rights has YET reached
his tribe. Occasionally he murders a
| friend, but American law does not descend
to his sphere, and looks on such trans
actions in the same light as when one
mule kicks another to death. The largest
settlement is near jamestown. consisting
of some twenty or thirty houses and wig
vans, in an irregular huddle on y mound.
shaped elevation near the road. Here,
on the plaza, in front of the town, during
the hottest Of tie day may be seen the
bare-headed squaws, sitting in semi-rrclcs,
gossipping over the last circus. A circus
is a Dig2er's chiet glory. 1t is for this he
blesses the advent Of the Americans Be
| fore they came, there was no circus, and
far less mule, horse meat and whiskey.
He ilocks in to the Fourth Of July and
other celcbrat ions he luXuriates in them;
contributes nothing to the expense; he
has no idea what they are for, neither
does he care, but the cream of their en-
ioyment is his. Unnoticed and uncared
for by the superior race, laboring under
no ban like the negro or Chinaman, he is
the happiest healthiest, treest, most indie
pendent man in America. His head, un-
covered TO the sun, bears a name thicker
than that of horse; he lives and lives,
and becomes more and more shrivelled
and drier and drier but still he lives,
until hundred and Il hundred and ten or
q hundred and twenty or hundred and
fifty no one knows how long, for his un-
doctored vitals are so tough and strong
that they keep to their work until the last
drop Of blood is fairly dried out Of his
mummlied carcass. San Francisco Call.
A new mystery has recently been added
to those which occupy the London police.
A few nights since u young fellow was
found stabbed to the heart in a house in
Westbourne Grove. He had been dining
tete-a-tete with married lady there, who
was found in state of much excitement,
and with her dress soaked with blood.
The young man, (who proved to be the
son of Sir Francis Moon, a former Lord
MayorD died few minutes after doctor
had been called in, and there was no doubt
that he had been stabbed with carving
knife. The question is whether, as the
lady asserts, he did it himself by accident
when struggling with her, or whether she
struck the blow. She was arrested, then
released, on her husband finding ball. and
has been again apprehended
The population of England and Wales
is about % 900, 900, and of Ireland, about
5,400,O00 by the census just taken.