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Devoted to News, General Intelligence, Miscellany, &c.
15. II. WILSON, E
Vol. XI.
G-eorgetown, S. C, Wednesday, March 19, 1851.
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WHWTASI    ® 13 ^illlB. YMIR o ¦ ""'' '^'""^ mnnajierofliis mines lo sdrvey ,j liebi he KiiHiifecl  biickward nnd lunvard j anti neifjlihoriiig dis^rict.sol'Hua.sco unci
,'anil e.NiiiTiiiie it .TS (o its  probabie   value, |! on ihe "cerro," from   ihe mine   to ihe 1 Ciiquiiribo, nnd nlso to the province   of
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i' and repnri Hccorilingly.    The   rich  nnd ; villn, nnd frnm Copiupt) to  ihe mineral j Cayo, on ihe E.nslern side ofilie Cordil- XA/ATERMAN  St.  TARHOV       (^ plinoriiicr silver  amiilfinm dispersed by j region  ofSan  Anionio.    During these S lera de los Andes,   one of ihe "uniled" T.:rms.-Two dollnrs and fifty cents per nnn»m^^^^^'^''"^^^'•'''^^ of the gun siuck hard and S rapid journevs he nlways Slopped  at  Ihel provinces of Buenos Ayres,   vihere it  is If patd in advance, and 7'/i;-ireDu//an? at the end cf ^ f^st   nmoiig the siones  and   poor ore of ,;" ranch," or hut of an old Iiidi.Tn woman, | Said   in  La  Rioja and   Fumniina,  rich f he  had gone lo  Mexico, or reiurned to the year. |j the   vein, shiniiifj like so much   n.ntive | about hall" way between boih places,  for j silver mineral deposits  have been   met ? "Id  S}iain,   compleltily   disgusted   with
I treble llio ntfiouiil hc had formerly paid foril; and that lie would have advised him sooner to ihal purpose but coliid never asceriuin his whereabouts, or hovv lo addres.>i him, it having been  rcjjortfcd
silver com[ilelely   deceiving  the  Uii^iis- I the puipose of bieathiiij: iiis lior.se, laking i' wilh.
^ mi'iing adveniui-cs.    A   further corres- THE   MINER'S STRATAGEM.     ; peciingmnnnger. u hocon.sequeniiy ga ve ^ his "verba male," and smoking a cigar. |     From 5,000 to 6,000 persons  from the | P"i'doiiCe look place, which vvns sutjcecti-
' a sialement of ihe   mine highly  favora-'^ She never omilled lo  inqiii-'e  how the i| provinces soon hurried lo the s/iot, where f *^'^  '^3'  a" inlerview, al which a mulual
A Tttle nfthe ISniUh Am-rican Stiver Mines,
tile, inl'iiriiiiiii; his " [lairoii"   it   was   in ' work of the mine  proceeded,   and   from " benifico ;" having " plaia iilaiica   a  la ' him plainly underslood he was unhapjiv,
the hill,  which, in the mineral of Chan-i ''•"'"^^""¦'-''^'"<^'>ch Olher during iheir Upper Peiiu form.-* an   extensive   ter- i visla,"and which he considered cheap al J and on  the  very  verge of ruin,   unless    arcilla,   is called  "Las Capas"   to  tfiia i 2^'"^"^*'''•^'"-"f' '^"^''h  agreed to sell iheir
hey lived under ihe tents,  on a p--irt ni\ '''"<' '"^" explaimiion look  place of what
riior\-, silualed soalli i
iii'U hat e.ist .one   hundred   thousand   dollais,   which |; some very exlruoidiiiary good luck turn-
day. Large mnssc* of rich nalive sil- i" "''"e-S •''"'^ ^''''"i "P liieir affair?. Don ver, of anincredablesije, were fiiund by j ''^^'J?"*^' employed thtS most extensive ihese persons in every  direciion  at  ihe i " ^¦'"¦""'"   "•"   an'algnmalion   esiablisli-
fooi, as well as al ihesummii of ihc "cei- bo;   and ihe embarkation of bar silver
ol  Lower Peru,  wiili   wlich   il   assimi* ( sum   was   accrdiiigiy  handed   over to ' ed up. and th.»   mine   became   suddenly
lales   ill   aspeci    and    (inaliiciions.    In ' Don   Mi;:uel.    Willi   a   poriion   of ihe    rich, which yard ai'ler vaid, he had been (
1778 ii was   s^ mra ted  hy  the   Spanish , amounl  he paid off his debis,   and   wilh ¦ an^ious but vainly  expecting.     "Never!
C.ovfriiiiii'iii, and aiiached lo ihi'   Vice-     iln-1, maindri made   a  lia.iiy retreat  lo ', niind, Dmi Miguel," said'he bronzed old
royally o! Li Plata ;  bul in ihe course of    ihe coasl, where he embarked on   bo.-inl    \\-,,iiian, " you shall have a .mine yet thai I (nearly   pure,) from Copiapo lo Valpa-
t!i:  lale  revolulion il w:'s severed   fiom ¦ u vessel on ihe poiot of sailing for Chili. : will make ymx a rich man, notwiihstand- I laiso has, since this  discovery, and oih-
L I Plaia .-ilso. ami cri-ctrd inlo an imK-- ^ Cn llis arrival al ya!p,irai.so he   was un- ; ing all your presenl troubles, and  which
p,-i,ileiil   lepuJilic;,   umier   llie   tianie  of , iJecidt-d u bal line of c-omluci lo   pursue, I -vill not only enalile you  lo  pay all your
Boli.vi :.    Poiiisi   fiijoys   ibe    .yieatesi j or where to go lo, being  mueh   inclined | debis, but leave you a rich man inlo the | es each) annually; and, as some thous- i •'"^'^•*^'^^ ^'"^''''''K; they then delormined
fame of any city ill tins region,    but   re-,'¦ lo relurn   lo   his  naiive   land,   but   nol ,; bargain."    These remarks, so often  re-i ands of persons   are at present actually '*'*''*-''"'"" ^^ "'"^ Spain, and soon after
lains lewtracis  of  the    wealih   which ;| wishing lo do so poorer lhan  he had Kll ' peated, only drew a deep sigh from Don I employed looking for, and finding  new ; ''-^^ '''"  West  Coast for Cadi:   where
g.iineil for if Ibis celebrity     II is. pmbi-P it, brcaiise ibeie was   a siigina  of dis- ; Miguel ; and    allhough   there was   an | mines, ihat amount is gradually increas- M'"^)''"¦'¦'^¦^'' '" ^"^'^'J'-
bly ihc IIIOSI elevated cily in th."   World    frmce   in  old    Sp.iin, atlached    Io any .^ earne^t•less in the  lone   and manner of j ing.    Pmbably no single miiiefal in l*e-I ~   '
b.mg more ihali 13CC0  Ieel  above   Iho i Spaiiiard arriving fi'oiii Me-sico or South ' ihe old wiiman, lillle cir no atlention was | ru or Me.xico, during ihe  present  cen- i AflCcdote of 8 HflVk.
sea. consequi-iiily hiirlier lhan ilie  Peak ' Ainei ica,   undrr   such   circuinsiances I    jmid lo ihem, anrl t'ley  were  no  sooner | tUry, has yielded such an abundance  ofij     An English work on Game Birds and
ol  r.'iieriffe.    Tlu- riiines have been ihe ; and. accidenlally lieai inji ihcre vvas some ; uttered  lhan forgotten.    At lenglh she | rich silver ore in so short a period; much j VVild   Fowls,  recently  published, con-
msnt, in the villa of Copiapo, to extract the silver from some ore remaining in his house in the suburbs of the villa, which took loriy five days to accomplish, ers of a more recent date, amounted to | and which produced him fifteen thous- lillle short of200,000 marks (eight ounc-I ""'1 "''**'^=* of silver pura,  woith about
cause ol   ih.'   unrivaled   v.-ealih   of ihis    probability of succeedi-ig in  mining op-li died   somewhat   suddenly,   and   tin  her
O:' which, it is well known, protluccd 75 ': tains tlie following curious anecdote;
country. TJiese are silualed in the in- ^rations in llu; neiyliboihond of Copiapo, ' de tli-bed charged heronly son (aWood m->sl d,-|iths <,f ih,- Andf.s, appniachi-d he deiermined lo make a Irial in llial culler, who gained his livlihood by only by siejis and pi ril,,!is roads, and in place, wilh llie hopf of beiler success in carrying wood from the "cerio" lo '.he moiiniains whieb reatli ih,- liiiiii of per- j fuiuie. On his arrival at ihe llien drea- i town,) lo inform Don Miguel, what she (leluai snow. The silv, r riiouniaiii of-'ry, desert, and miseiable port of Copi.ipo had aKifays inlended to have done Iier- Polosi lli.s h,d no t-quil in ilk: world. Il he. (iroceeded to the "villa" of ihat j self, (Or from some unknown motive, or rises to lb;- luigli! oi 16 000 feel, is about ,; name, smne twenly leagues in ihe inte- I perhaps lormer kindness, .she was (.rale- eigliieeii iiiiks in ciieum!t'i-eiice, and i rior, in an easterly direciion from the ' ful lo him, and delerinined to save him forme,-! aiiiiosi  ofone entire mass of ore, f coast, toward ihe Cordilleia, and   a   few ] from whal heclearly confessed   was  in-
anrl :ipp,.'ai-sfri,m ihe cilv dvfil all over days afterward lo the mineral district of Ovitable ruin, allhough sbe Weil knew !j ""d S"ve her son what is called a "dol> wilh a varit-iy of meialic liiiis, and is Sin Anionio, where he boughl a silver | her doing so would meet wilh ihe disap-i le" in the mine, that is, penniiling him suj'ipo.npd ii."havt-produced £250,000.000    mine, and comnieneed working it lo ihe ' probation of the  Indian   race,)  that,   in j f work one ol'ihe  richest galleries of
since the. t-oiiqitcsi ; jt-i ii has sunk into , extent his capital permitied. Al that ' ihe "cerro" of Chanarcilla, some eigh- | 'he mine for a given iime, wilh as many [' ed to rake off after a passing sea-gull, or such a stale of tiecay ihal. in ihe len dale, and previously, the Spaniards prin- ' teen or Iwenly leagues ^o the souihward yenrs eiuling 1829 the annual pro,lnce cip.illy worked mines of gold and copper and eastward of ihe town of Copiapo, ha.s not exceeded £50 000. Out oFSOOO , in iliis disirict, as Ihe old mines round , there cxisied a silver Vein, unknown <.o miners there are, probably, not 100 at about and in sight of the cilv of Copiapo anv person except herself and her son. work al ihe presenl dav, and ihe silver, duly lesiity. Some few silver mines and which she had often referred to in for some years [lasi, has been extracied were worked, bul in general were litlle their conversations when hc called lo fromthe large piles of refuse of the for- ^ allended to, so much so, that even llic rest himself at her hut during his nu- mer workings. It has bi'en asserted proceeds, in 1821, are said not to have merous journeys to and from the mine that ihe cily of Polosi,  duiing ils   most    everaged more   lhan   20,000   marks  (of   and ihe villa.
flourishiiij;stait% coiitaiiieil a popu.'aiiim eigin ounces) annuall\ ; but a great j The son, in compliance wilh tile of 150,000. and in its presi-ni decline not change has taken ji'iice since that period, charge ofhis flying moiher, made known more than 10 000 inlialiiianis. , for now mines of gold are almosl eniire- : her wishes on this subject to Don .Miguel,
Somt years afier ihe  comiiK'ncemeiii    ly negli-cti-d.    Some few of copper  are    who immedialely accompanied   him   to of ihe present ceniiuy, bul   previous   lo    slill woi ked, bul allended with anylhing    Chanarcilla, for ihe  purpose  of inspect
the emancipation of Peru from ill," Span-    bul profit, on account gl'lhe   scarcity of ing the lode already meniioned, but wilh
ishyoke. D>in   Jo.-se Ramirez   and Don    wood for smelling ihe <r?es, the dearness liiileexpeciation of seeing anylhing  like
Miguel Giillardo, miners, and  natives  of Of provisions, which have to be  broughl its boasted riches ; but what .aiust have
Aiidalu-iia, le/"i old Spii ,, and arrived at    from A'alparaiso and ihe more   souihern been his asionishmeiii on  his arrival  al
ihe port of Arica, on llieir way lo Polosi, ' parts of Chili, ihe   want   of  water,  and ihe "cumbii;"  or summit of ihe  hill,  lo
for the ihe put pose of working  some of   liifficiiliy. Id say nolhing of the  expense, find a solid mass of silver, standing about
ils    iiuiiieroiis     silver    mines,    having    "Hand carriage over dosei t dislricis.    In two feet above the surlace of ihe   stmiy
brought wilh ihem a  considerable cafii-   one insiance, il is well-kno-vvn some ihou- ground, wilb a cross rudely   carved   on
tal, in cash, goods, quicksilver  nnd   mi-    sand tons of ore   had lain lor some years ihe meial.    Tr dilion says the   knowl-
ning iniplemenls.    Afier a  careful   sur- : al the mouth of a mine, which for   wani edge of Ihis vein had been handed  down
vey of lhefa--fiimi-d "cerro," so justly    of rain, and consequpnily forage I'or the in the fimily from faiher lo son, and from
celebraieil for ils riches in Europe, each    mules, il was found impossible to remove generation to generaiion,   who each in
purchased   sejiaraie    mines,   and  com-    and carry to the pun    for embarkalion. his lurn   vowed,  on   kissing the   cross.
The   working of silver   mines, of late never lo make known or discover ils sit-
years have been more allended   lii,   and uatioii to a while man.    The once   sur-
iiicreased lo more lhan   150.000  marks aiittUHlly.
In ihe meantime, vear after vear rolled
after a succession tif ages, had decom¬ posed and fallen from the silver which stood alone, a beaulilul and splendid sight
per cenl. of silver, the large pieces ofl; "A friend of Colonel Bonham—tho which (some of ihem from three to four | late Coloiul Johnson,of the Rifle Brig- quintals) were so solid as to require bias- ; a.le—was ordered loCanada vvith his bat- ling with })owder to break ihem assun- :1 lallion, in s\hich he was then a captain, der, ami only itieliing and pouring inlo P and being \cry fond ui falconry, to moulds to form ingots—the quaiily of [which he had devoted much lime and ex* which, by assay, w-as nearly puie. I pense, ho Umk  wiih him two of his fa-
Don Miguel much regretted the un^ 1, vtiriie    peiigiincs,   as  his companions timely deaih  of his  old   Iridiaii  friend, '; across the Allantic.
'      It   svas   his constant habit to allow I them  to fly every   day, after 'feeding i them up,' that they might not beinduc- ' ed to rake off after a passing sea-gull, or hands aS  he  could put  there to work, i; wander out of sight of ihc vessel.   Some- wliich ai'ler  the expense of exiraciing, ; times iheir rambles were very wide and cariiage by mules to the  villa Copiapo, ; protracted.    Al others   they  would as- anil, amalgamaiing in  th.it  place,  pro- | ceiid tosuch a lieight as to be almost lost duced him sixty thousand  dollars, clear ' to ihe view ofihe passengers, who soon of those  expenses.    With this amount l found ihem an effectual means of reiiev- in silver he lell Copiapo, and arrived  at j i"g the tedium ofa long sea voyage, and
ihe capita', Santiago do Chili, for ihe purpose oi selling il, and seeing the world, where falling into the hands of some gamblers, he soon lost five or six thousand dollars in one evening, and, lo avoid being entangled iri their mesh¬ es, he left ihe city for ihe port ofVa'pi
naturally took a lively interest in their welfare; but as they vvere in the habit I of returning regularly to the ship, no niieas n'ss was felt during ilieirt^basion- al absence. Al last, one evening, after a longer flight lhan usual,oneof the fal- c ms returned  alone.    The olhcr—tha
menced woiliin;; ilieiii on an exlensive scale. Afier ihe expiraiioii ol" several years he former became immcnselv rich ihe expoi talion of Ihat mi-tal has now lounding "caxa" or walls of the lode, by liie resuli of his labi-is ; but the latter, on ihe coiitriiry, hicame wretchedly poor, having sunk all his capilal in his mines, and beimi also deeply embMrriis,sid on, but Don Jliguel mei wiih no belter tothe astonished. i,v.;hanpy and almost withouisiandingdebt.-i In a considerable success than he had prcvi-;-,yj;jy done in ¦moiiiii the will kinirs haviiitr been un- lh<* "cerro" of P'-^-', . vaid after vard pr,i;iuclive. In conaequeiice of this, he ' was excavv,ted, producing some " mni> 'resolved upon a siralai;t-m lo increase ihosy i>l.;|,-_„,jj" „f gjiver, siifticieiii to in¬ the value or his mine in appearance, ail'',    ,',uce him lo proceed, but   insufficieni   to
then sell il I" Don Jose   for  il-^.   hii.|iest    pav iRe necessarv expenses ; and as  his    time, giving him a legal riiiht t"  ''i«  A'la- piice he could oblain for   i|_   ^^^^j   | ^.   ^^^    capital was   diminishing,  and  his debts    coveiy, and  calling the mine " ^     '^
raiso, to which place three of ihem fol-} prime favorite—wasmissing. Day after lowed. Knowing the amount lie hiid .day passed away, and fiowever much ho brought wilh him from Copiapo, and be- j may have continued io regret his loss, iiig on ihe lookout, ihey mel hill!, as Ihey ! C ipiain Johnson had al lenglh fully preieiided, accidently in the slreel, and m de up his mind that it was irrcirieva- iiisisled on his dining wiih ihem, when !: ble, and that he should never see her he was inductd to drink wine loo free- j again. Soon aller ihe arrival of the. reg- ly ; and cards being aftervvaids iniro- i, imoni iv. America, on casting his eyes duced, he was fleeced ofevery reinain- over a Halifax newspaper, he was struck ing dollar before daylight nexl moriiing. { by a paragraph announcing ihtit the cap- Borrowiiig two or thee doubloons from hain of ihe American schooner had at a friend who knew his circuinsiances, he I that  moment in his   pesssession a fine
h iwk wliic)i had suddenly made its ap¬ pearance on board his ship during his folly of his conduct in being so easily | la'e passage trom Liverpool. The idea duped. Don Miguel did not forget his ' at once occurred lo Captain Johnson former friend, Don Juse Ramirez, and, ! thai ihis could be no <iiher lhan his much- as soon as his circumslanco p.-rmilted, !! pi ized falcon, s i having obtained imme- wrote lo him, n-quesiing he wnuld draw [ ciaie leave of absence, heset off for Hal-
reiurned Io Huasco, where he soon alter died of mortification and vexation al llie
Di'ojien hearled old miner, who gazed on ill silence on the while meialic mass. He returned immedialely to ihe town of Copiapo, where he look out a " pedi- meiiio"   or  tlocument without  loss  of
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doing exli'icale bin..,.;; j',.,,^  all his difli eultitjs.    \*J,jli ihis intent, h-,' loaded   his 'J.on wilh silver amalgam, (v\hieh by  se-
upon him at siglil, for lOO.OOOdollars and inleresl received from him for the sale of the mine he previously sold him in ihe "cerro" of Poiosi; at the same lime explaining ihal he knew ihe mine was of no value at the lime he bought it,  an I
ifax, a journey of some days. On arri* ' ving there he lost no time in waiting on the commander of the schooner, an¬ nouncing the object ofhis journev', and requesled that ho be allowed to se« %\m '. bird; bu:   Jonathan  had no idea of re--"•'
Ihai now, having tho means to refund pinquisbing his prize so easily, and Stout- the money, he was ready and anxious to \ ly refused lo admit the interview, 'gues- do so as soon as possible. His friend |, sing'that it was very easy for an Eng- was much suiprised at ihe naiure ol i li-her to lay claim lo anoiher nnan's prop- such a communiiiaiion, and replied ihal ', eriy, but ' caltilaied' that itwas a 'tar- he must have been much   mistaken, for ' na ion sight' harder for hinn|||p get pos-
incieasiiig, heclearly saw himself again ciibiidora." by which name it has   been
fasl sinking lo luin.    He   was also  un- known   in Chanarcilla,   and up  to  the
haiipv r,'r  ihe rieceil  he  had   practiced present day retains its fame for the abun-
„re pr;;"sut'e" becomes v;.'y  hard,  and    "P-n his coun.rymtin and friend, which dance of^lver ore ''  P;"^";;' . J^ I \;^ ^;,7„,,   .^^eeded more than a vard || session of it; an.^  concluded by assert-
ctm.aini.m about one-fi;.h of ils weighl    he deeply regreued and sincerely repent- ,his dale D-n Miguel became a rich and .  ^^ ^J        [        ^             ^,^|.„,.^. ^^ -„,,^ j i„g. ;„ unqualified terms his entire disbe-
of .he precious ,ne,..l.)   antl, descending    ed, preyed upon his mind and  spirils so, „n altered man, and the nervous debility    '"  J^^!:^-^' ™ J..   ,^,.   „,„,, ,    ,,ef in the story.    Captain Johnson's ob-
,oih. lowest pan of hisniine. in  ihe ab-    that impending rui. slaved   bm,   in   ihe of boih body and  ""nd  w.ih  ^^';;;»^  ^^ L^'';       .. ^^ ^^^ ,;,,,,_ ,,', ,ha, he had f jeC, however, being rather ^o  tpim^X
ience ofhis men.  .iischirged   .he   con-    face, he determined never to   atiopt   the had been some years afSiced, caused by , la v^^^^^^                                               .,re ' hi. falcon liian to  picK a  quarrel  witU
tenri in.., the deepest part of i.s   work-    same s.ra.agem again. poveriy, distress and anxiely of mind, left    3" "" ' .^^   ^.^^^^ ^^J „„,   .,f u.e i the Iruculan. Yankee, he had forlunatc-
incs     The s6ai4ertd particles eave Ihe        The poverty of don   Miguel by  this himentnely.                                       • i.        !           ^        , '.i...ViU in all ihe miner-' lv sufficient aelf-command to curb hit in-
It. I. .,,.e„: :,p,L,.„e, -'... n„„    ,i„,. U-c..,, .„,„i,.„,. .„,l „..,alked „l T.e H.o,,.c,y "f;-   ^-^ ^l'    ^1'?^^ ,:^^^   l^ ^'^^ \ ^'^^^ "'"' ""^'-^ "- ''' ="- '»