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Show Frcm Irerleli Gaiana. Mr. Waller McKay arrived in this city from French Guiana last evening, even-ing, in excellent health and fine spirits. So far from having died in that country, as was reported here, he suffered no sickness whatever while alsent, until a few days before he started from Cayenne, when he was attacked with chills and fever. "Ale" left Cayenne on the 1st of August, but was obliged to spend some time a! the West Indies, the Spanish steamer on which he em. barked anchoring for days at a time 1 at different points there. Of the gold 6e!ds of Guiana Mr. McKay gives a more favorable account ac-count than either of the other Utah ' gentlemen who visited that country and returned. He says the gold is there in abundance, and to verify his words brings with him a quantity of dust and a brick, the color and weight of which do one good to ex-j ex-j amine in these days of greenbacks, j At some diggings he has panned out 'as much as To cents to the pan. The i Utah boys who are now at Guiana i are doing well in the mines, and some of them are making money jvery last. W. B. Smith, Spaf. Ely, , Clark, Beard, Murphy and others are , still there; but Xiel Howie, with three 'or Jour of those who left here last ( winter, have gone to Venezuela, a gold excitement having broken out , in that vicinity. Altogether Mr. Mc- i Kay is well pleased with Guiana as a gold producing country, and pro- poses to return and work his claims .again within a few months. |