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Show Discovered Oold, Yet Died In Foverty. First, as to the men at Coloma in January, Janu-ary, 1S4H, Marshall was not enriched. Iiis lumlier was soon in demand at f-MW a tlioti-annd tlioti-annd feet of board measure, or twenty-fold more than he had expected when he commenced; com-menced; but not many months elapsed be- j fore all the good timber trees near Colomit had been cut down by the miners, and tlmn ; the mill had to stop. 1 le turned His attention atten-tion to mining, but was not successful. AS'hen he had money he did not know hovr to keep it. When he had a good claim he did nut stick to it. When friends tried to help him he fren,uently refused their offers with a snarl. He imagined offenses where nono were intended. Ho complained of plots against his life in a community where nearly everybody uckuowledged obligation to 111111. He was irritated by the superior popularity popu-larity aud prosperity of Kulter, by the fact that to Sutter the main credit of the gold discovery was given by many newspapers news-papers and influential citizens, and that, partly under the influence of that idea, a pension of $250 a month was fiiven to Sutter Sut-ter in 1H70, while tlie true discoverer received re-ceived nothing. After tho publication of Marshall's biography in 1870, the legislature legisla-ture perceived the injtisticeof its exclusive favor to Sutter, and in the course of six years it gave tli,fkxi as pension to Marshall, but left him to spend tlie last eight years of his life in poverty and privation, lu 1SS5, nt the age of 73, he died while alono i in a solitary cubiu which he occupied in j company with another aged and indigent i pioneer miner. Ho was buried at Coloma, iu sight ot the place where he discovered the gold. His ligure, iu colossal bronze, stands over his grave. John S. ilittell in C'eutury, |