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Show CCNERAL SUTTER IN OLD ! ACE. To-day, says a Washington correspondent, corres-pondent, I saw oid Genera! Satier. on j I w nose land cold was rirst discovered in California, stepping on a car on tue avenue. A more pitiabie instance of great okl age, uncompensated and neglected, I never knew. It was in !his mid-race near Sacramento the precious gold was hrst seen by Americans. He is a native ot Switzerland, Switz-erland, but went to the Sandwich Js-iands Js-iands to cultivate oranges, and thence to tue racitio coat of America, where tie took a large trad ot laud under a Mexican grant, witu tho hope that the I'm ted states, would some day streteo. cut to him. tfut U came, hiie Jupiter to Danae. iu go .den shower. a:i tue rusn ot miners tram pied over i us tieUs. silled :11s herds, and made desontiou in place of the fair esiate tuey had ,'ound. From this discovery came the most enormous tribute nature ever paid to man. Tno 0 resent year's yieid of gold in Calilornia cannot be , ess than SlOO.iV'd.iAV iu specie, and wane tnis immense tunuei of weaiti. I nas been flowing for more than a quarter of a century, and great merchants ar.d bankers have , ivai nude by its possession, poor old Sutter, on the brink of the ! rave, is unable to find aa ear 111 w:r.ch ho can ted hi story. He is now more t-iau eighty years of age. I and I;vt.s in a iiu.e cottage at Lita. ! I ti. , where he is educating uis grand- j c:i.dren at a German scuool. Tne j wc.o.e world has bee a exercised by I lls;ou'a fate aud Flxi ano. , O'Brien's fortunes; yet here is a man! at tne source ot t.r.? m:; hiy nvnance ! v.tn scarcely a pla-e io iay his head. tie is a kindly, gentle o.d person. Dut ie has passed uis age. Svme morning morn-ing during t::e ses.-ion tuere w:.i be j m anuounoeiiieat of his death, a no -oen peraaps congress wi.i give the lardy stint ot its generosity to ihe go.den rarmer.' Hetuas a ciaiai tci damage here. |