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It is known that with greaffa vor the past two month and parti ! r t i c 111 a r 1 y t h a 11 > i- a 11 e 11 o f i t g e n - known as the North Fork. ■ gen erally Known as the North Fork. We learn from a gentleman just doww-from Bidwell’s Bar, some'in- tei estinig facts relative to recently' discovered digging along the North Turk. 1 he road to these digging i in excellent condition for fifty mile above Marysville, to a place know., as Berry Creek. This is the first point on the road where the packers and miners encounter snow. From this up to the Rich Bar, there is a depth of snow of from four to fifteen feet, rendering the passage very danger ous 1^ distance being about eighty miles. Provisions are reported as being very scarce, particularly barley, which readily commands one dollar per pound. Large numbers of mules have perished along the route in con sequence of the want of food, and ex posure to the snow. The road is li ned with their dead bodies for some distance. In consequence ofthe scarcity and high rate of provisions, board has rapidly advanced at the Rich Bar.— Eight dollars aday is demanded for board, and theft the very poorest fare is, served up. • The Barjs covered with snow, a- bout four feet in depth. Some ofthe miners are only making sufficient to pay their board, while others are av- * eraging from 50 to 100 dollars per day. The gold is represented as be ing quite coarse. Those who had good locations staked off before the snow, are realizing by far the most. There are from two to three hun dred persons located on Smith’s and the Rich Bar. In consequence of the heavy fall of snow, the travel from Berry Creek up, has been closed, but it will be reopened in t he course of a week, unless there is a fresh fall of snow. There are now at Berry Creek about fifty mules packed with provisions, waiting' to go through.— Placer Times. TenAIiles of Rieu Diggins,—The Sacramento Transcript gives the fol lowing late and interesting intelli gence from one of the tributaries of Feather River: Ttsays: “Sir. Small informs us that whilst there, the rumor was prevalent that ten miles of rich bank diggins had been discovered, but that he did not visit the point, as he was otherwise engaged. Those who went relied on the report, and general credence was given to the statement. It was rep resented that during the entire ten miles along the river bank, miners were averaging two ounces, whilst many others were doing far better.” North Fork or the Yuba.—A gen tleman just in from Downieville, up on the Yulia River, informs us, that miners were doing very well in that vicinity, when he left to come to this city. . A good many companies bad constructed dams and put in flumes, auu’were making large average wa ges. in fact, companies have been doing well in the location named, since some time jn August last, and there,-is but little doubt that they will continue to do so, during the coming season.—Pacific News. The Sacramento Index has the fol lowing: friend E. Mills, Esq., of Nevada, has shown us some specimens of decom posed quartz rock, very rich in gold, which had recently been discovered at the Coyote Diggins in the neigh borhood of that city. It seems that the workmen engaged in digging the new tunnel, struck accidentally up on a. stratum of decomposed quartz, varying from eight to twenty-four inches in thickness, and which, upon examination, was found to contain to the extent of about 50 dollars to the. pan. The lead thus discovered, is on the North side of Deer Creek-, abouta quarter of a mile below the city. How far it extends has not. been ascertained, but its exceeding richness has created a great excite ment among the miners in the vicin ity. Part ofthe formation is a fria ble earth of a snuff 1 color, which crum ble under the pressure of the fingers, and part still retains the character of chryslalized, quartz,,although the chrystals are very small. Some of the gold can be washed in the ordin ary pan, but in most instances it is so tine as to require tlie action of a ma chine. 'I lie specimen shown us, was pronvscubusly taken from the lead, and though comprising but two hand fuls of earth and- stone, contains a- bout 1 ozi ofgold. Truly, the riches of the Ne vada country arc inexhaus tible. GM hearing Quartz.—The Placer Times says: We saw yesterday some six or seven hundred pounds of quartz rock, which had been sent to this . city fortlie purpose of making a thor ough examination, as to the quantity of gold it contained. Pieces of gold could be seen in various places all through the body of the rock; and we are free tp. admit that an examina tion of tins mass of quartz, pretty con clusively satisfied us that tiic work ing of rock of this kind by machinery for the gold it contains, will soon be an important branch of business.— We had been of the opinion, from what we had previously seen, that this species -of mining would not pay in California until a very great re duction should take place in labor, but if veins of quartz can be found as rich in gold as the samples exam ined, it must pay a large profit, even at the present time. Mining i>l Si cMla Citi/.—A party of miners in sinking.a shaft into a hill for the purpose of obtaining gold from Coyota diggins, struck a v e i n ot' q q a r 1:■. w h i c h they have p c n - o'r.”>A. ‘ .pi], o p some twelve or fourteen feet. This quartz we are told is extremely rich in gold, and the further the company has penetrated, the better it pays. Two crushing machines have b^i Sent to Nevada city within the Vast few days, and the excitement has become so great, that others are to be taken there. Quartz Gold.—There, is little doubt of the accuracy of the supposition ihat the gold now found in the rich est mines in California, were once combined with quartz, or some other gold bearing rock. \Ve are inform ed by Mr. E. Budd, says the Trans cript, that, the strata of earth at Ne vada, found after sinking shafts from twenty to one hundred feet in depth, is composed almost entirelv of nul- cesperfect chrystal formations can be found where the miners are wash ing. The two facts, that we find large amounts of the two materials —gold and quartz, now combined in the solid rock, and large quantities of like materials in the same strata of earth, in small particles, form strong evidence that the gold of California has, by an irruption, been taken from Dividend.—The Bank of Cape Fear has declared a dividend of4 per cent. Died. In this City, on Wednesday night, the 9th insty alter a lingering illness, Rufiin Tucker, Esq., aged 50 years. I he deceased was long known in this community as a Merchant, and an enterprising business man. He had been-, for many years, an exem- piary Mid devoted member of, the Methodist Episcopal Church. He died in the faith of the Gospel, and with bright prospects of a blissful hereafter. “Death is another life.” Raleigh Standard! Asheville 11 . ieiger. ^e Just and feas 9 ^HU^ W EDNESDA ¥, AhiL a, 1851, “ flVit/i such powerful and. obvious mo tives to Union, affecting all parts of our country, there '.will always be reason to distrust the patriotism of those who in any quarter mail endeavor to weaken its bands.” Washington. ’’ PT hen my eyes shall be turned, for the last time, to behold the Sun in the Heavens, may I not see him shining upon the broken ami dishonoreel frag ments of a once Glorious Union.”^ ASHEVILLE NEWS’: doWii upoii; us with an article of three and ordd defy all the he saycrs, witch- the San Jose Balance says: A great many person who have left t he mines and come here, have turned their at' tention to agricultural pursuits. A. large pumber of farms, from 10 to 150 acres, have been put under culti vation. Barley, onions and potatoes are thestaple productions, while the raising of poultry is beginning to at tract the attention of those who take pride in seeing and lasting the wing of a duck or chichen. The dry weath er has, in some respects, checked the growth of grass and other herbage, but has been decidedly favorable to plowing. It is quite warm and pleas ant here during the day, yet the nights are rather cold and frosly. Ice was observable the other morning on the surface ol the water nearly as thick as a window pane. Messrs. Stillwell, Prentice and E- comes our painful duty to record a most heart-rending tragedy that was enacted in our village on yesteiday. 'Hie parties engaged in it, were Mr. Elisha W. Harris, Dr. Platt Croom and Mr. Pleasant May, Mr. Harris was killed. Dr. Croom was shot, we learn, in both arms, and one shoulder; his wounds, however, ,are not consi dered dangerous. Mr. May was al so badly, though not dangerously wounded.-- Greensboro, Al. Communications. FOR THE ASHEVILLE MESSENGER. Modern OraSoB’y. Mr. Editor:—There is in these days, among young speakers both in the pulpit and at the bar, a very re markable fondness for oratorical flourishes, and eloquent flights of thoughts, by which they are induced to indulge in a strain of high sound ing words and empty declamation, and render themselves objects of rid ¬ Clay. Messenger. To swam most's The subscriber expects to leave Asheville in the latter part of May, and will be several days in Charles-! ton. Washin.oTnn i Wur i ton, Washington, Philadelphia, New York and Boston. Persons wishing noble Institution calling us a ‘Hyena,’ knife in the WESTERN C AROLINA FEMALE COLLEGE. Inch, him an insult or an injury in any way, and all men who assert to the contrary are liars, add dis- Auother Scientific Wonder! Pep- 1, the true digestive fluid, or Gastric deed A great Dyspepsia Curer, prd- vans, of Sacramento City, -have in their possession a lump of pure gold, of unique shape, ■weighing upward of 51 ounces. It was dug up in the town of Sonora. One of the firm in tends to visit England on the occa- icule and laughter Suppose 1 give a this “transcend a nt have taken place town. A minister, to their healers, few specimens of nonsense,” which recently in dur some time ago, when describing the blessed stale of the Christian after death, after sav- sion o s Fair, and exhibit it in the Crystal Palace. A man who had just arrived at San Francisco from the mines, was robbed on the 4th -of March of six thousand dollars. A man was lately fined one hun dred dollars for being drunk and dis orderly in the streets of San Francis co. The Courier says: A good “smart murder might have been committed last week for that money.” The Recorder of San Francisco lately sentenced a Mexican to ten dayshard labor in the chain gang.— When the Umbra began to under stand the sentence, he asked to be let off on the payment of ten dillars in cash. It had been so long since a ten dollar piece had jingled in the city treasury, that t he magistrate commu ted the punishment at once, for the coin. A beautiful California Lyon was killed by Capt. Martin, near Sance- fito. It is a whitish color, over two feet in height, and measuring be tween seven and eight feet from tip to tip. The SacramentoCPy index, s x ing of a chain gang which has latel been organized in that place, calls it “an Institution.’ 5 The marshes between Sacramento city and Marysville are covered with the finest duck and wild geese. The miner unstraps his rifle from his shoulder as he passes, and soon bags a sufficient number to make a hearty meal lor his party. The interest on her bonds, paid by Sacramento City, amounts to nine thousand dollars, weekly. The bond of Gen. Vallejo has been passed by the Legislature, so nothing remains but to fitful it to secure the future seat of Government for the ci ty, yet to be of Vallejo. During the eight months that lion. Lerie Parsons has been Dist. Judge, he has disposed of 1,800 civil cases, beside over 100 criminal. The busi ness has been faithfully attended to, and with as much punctuality as the nature of the case would admit. It is said that the growing of rice on the low lands of the San Joaquin is about to be fried. illiscellann The painful duly devolves upon us this morning of announcing the death of Mr. George Schley, one of our old est and most highly respected citi zens, who departed this life at his residence in this city yesterday mor ning, at half past seven o’clock in the sixtieth year of his age.— Georgian. Life Insurance.—We are informed by the Plymouth News, that Joseph Alexander, i ty,insured 1 late of Tyrell coun e in the N. C. Mutual Insurance Company for 85,000. Mr. A. has recently died, and the amount insured been promptly paid over — This instance illustrates, at once, the benefits oflife insurance, and the a- bility and willingness of this compa ny to meet all its just requirements Great Fire--$70,000 Worth of Property Destroyed.—The village of Palmer despot, (near Springfield, Mass.)was almost entirely destroyed by fire on Wednesday night last. Loss $70,000. Insurance about $35-' 000. James Caldwell, Esq., the,proprie tor of the White Sulphur Springs, Va., and formerly for many years a merchant in Baltimore, died sudden ly in Greenbrier county, Va., a few days ago. The Southern Repertory and Col lege Review, is the. name of a new Quarterly Journal proposed to be published at Emory and Henry Col lege. to procure any thing whatever, from any of 1 hose places, may have it at tended to with the utmost fidelity and the articles immediately forwarded, or if small, brought, by himself. JAMES M. EDNEY. 555 tf (join answer to inquiries, we can say that we. t’ ready -at all .! and tbeoth- Wiil right to u'se his name. ministi ing many glowing things, remarked: “Yea, my brethren, we shall be part ners of (here he paused a while, as ifhis mind was sinking under the weight of its own mighty thoughts, but finallysaid) the Universe!” There now “Gemes,” take that and hold your jaws with both hands, till you can pronounce these big words. Can you beat that Mr. Editor/* Partner moans “one who partakes or shares with another, an associate.” Then the universe is to be one party, and we are to be the oilier; what then is to be enjoyed! Partners of the uni verse—mirabile dicta. How utterly dustingit is, to see young Ministers, losing sight of the simplicity of the gospel, and endeavor to make a dis play of learning and genius, while they arc almost entirely destitute of both. Some of our Ministers seem to think, that the only way to become great, is to imitate some men who. have Some eminence a?: speaker.?, hence the prevailing practice of a. ping among a majority of onr “Di. vinify sprouts.” I have now in my mind, a minister of some considera ble talents and popularity, who is the most consummate ape my eyes ever beheld, lie has gotten the idea into his head, that the. Rev. Mr. ——, is a great man; and all that is requisite' for him to be a great man too, is just to make himself a second edition, if hot “revised and improved,” yet at least equal to the original; hence he pi'e.V'CS his chosen texts, treats them in the same peculiar manner, speaks in the same tone g voice, clears his throat, combs his hair, Y^hs, talks, eats and sleeps like this same- . u2v - . He also fixes himself in the same attitude when seated around the fireside, adopts his peculiar man ner of working his lips in conversa tion, &c. &c. Is not this a shame to the name of a man? Now 1 have no objections to one man imitating the virtues ol another, but this has noth ing to do with the things above enu merated. The specimen of oratory under consideration, was the result of an attempt upon the part of a “weaker brother”.to imitate a man of talents. I do not say these things from a want of regard for ministers, for iff were not too modest, 1 would say that I am one of that profession myself; but I say them because they arc facts. But I must give you a lawyer case. A man who has a nominal practice among us as a lawyer, remarked the other day in the court house as fol- counsel on the' opposite side would have you to believe that-, the defend- ant is as that Oucl are as the pearly streams ■from your mountain rills.”-- mercy!! don't be frightened ” I have’nt any more “sich.” This I know is horribile auditu, but I thought it ought to come, in justice to this jack leg lawyer. Now, sir, if you can exceed this in the way of ecclesiastical or legal men, just try your hand. Ihad a thought I would write a little poetry on these cases, but from the s Per, ' imens I have seen in your pa- can’t shine among so many distinguished sons of the muses,j and must just “gin it up.” ' CLOANTHUS. fFor instance, Billy Pickens. ■ Yes, a preacher here once said: “II ell seaie the walls of Jericho, and land Hi the arms of Rce/wbub.” I'OR THE ASHEVILLE MESSENGER. The following are the Officers of of High Brighton Division,. No. 122, Sons of Temperance, for the present Quarter: J. C. Norwood, W. P.; J. A. Bal- lew, W. A.; It B. Bogl Boon, A. 11. 8.: S. Dei Sherrill, A. (A O. Coaly. O. S. sight. We published it, mailed and handed out NOTICES. ith J. N. Wakefield; (A J. R. done in the best style at short notice, and cheaper than ever. Try us. ^/jQ at this office, at $1 25 per hundred, 8 pages, handsomely printed and fol- ded. 555 m^w^, Structure, and Statistics of Plank ROADS. This is the best work we have ever seen on this subject, compiled by Kingsford, Skinner & Clark. Illus trated by diagrams, plates, questions, answers, &c. &c. It is neatly gotten up, covered and title paged, and con tains 40 pages. For sale.at this of fice. Brice 62 1-2 cents. Only a. few copiesTeft. tf. - ’p-T® mvssmw.^ We feel proud to state to Divisions all overthe State, that We have been honored with, and shall put to press in a'few days, one ofthe ablest and most admirably written treatises on the social organization oftheSonsof Temperance, title paged that, has yet appeared from auv souree; and out of the multitude of popular essays wrhi.nhy that dist.in- guished gentleman, ■■H i.: ■ S. Wiutb, there is, perhaps not one that will rank higher, or merit a more general circulation than this. It is written and revised by his own hand, and is a most masterly and finished produc tic?’ To this will be added a brief, but pertevJiv accurate biographical sketch of bis paiC-Jb'SE birth, educa- lion, family, travels, pM' sl! AS eve., including his labors and succesJ t n this State, down to his date visit to this place, which will be highly in- teresiing of itself. The whole will be printed on good type, fine paper, handsomely stitched, covered and ti tle paged, and forwarded to Divis ions on the following exceedingly low terms: 100 copies will be deliver ed in Raleigh or any where this side, free of charge, for $4 50, and to all adjacent. Divisions in E. Tennessee, S. Carolina, Arc., on the same terms, and to all who take or order it from our office, at 81. Single copies 6 1-4 dents. Every Division in the coun try ought to order a sufficient num- copy- ry member with a d we hope irnmedi- ate action will be taken, and orders forwarded us for the number wanted, so that we may know ’what amount to issue. Divisions can make no bet ter a use of their funds, than by ap propriating a small amount to this object. Let every one supply them selves with 50 or 100 copies. Those wanting, must order immediately, if they wish to procure this little treas ury of knowledge, and the. biography of one of America’s most distinguish ed and gifted orators. Address JAMES M. EDNEY, Asheville, N. C. to Greenville, S. C., ■ JOB. 3 Well, we would itirely new to us that the ‘News’ conc- We had then 107! and suppose ibolitionist, and P u Ppy> an d to kill. Father Mathew is at Nashville, Tenn. IIc is Mr. Webster’s friends were refused Fanncuil ith monthly is at hand. Contents: Southey, part 11: It is a most valuable This truly philanthropic, talented, and di.Ai. He has given them #261. Ilia effort Philip. A Convention meeting was held in Burnsville on the lth5 irist., & resolu tions passed similar to those of Hen derson and Buncombe. Messrs. Woodfin, Fleming, -and Erwin, ad dressed the meeting. The following persons were ap pointed Delegates to the convention at Morganton: Col. Tilman Blalock, John Keener, Isaau Pearson, Col. A. F.Keith Sam uel Byrd, Col. 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