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Show A FORTY - MNKK N IOK- X L a ft. at. The I'pa and Dowim l a lAie uu tbe toant. Mad. but Uoman .c hiory ul u CMlIlorutta I'Muccr. Ntw York, 21. lbc World pub lialu-tt u long uccotitil ut au jiitt-rview wtlu Jtbo Kd, who wm h '4ycr, and now a putiptr io tui-i-u'r1 uouniy pixjr bouse, lit w.vi tice mi iiLLiowr of tho Caliluniia Beu.te. Fur tbw lust ueveu year hn liH livcJ iu Jamaica, Long ioland. He came one I to conical ui latner'a will, autl tpeot all of ins money in utiauccttuiui liliatiou. For the uael twci years lie liaa buDaictta mainly upon llio chanty ot Irieudi, ui.lil abuui a nioiiin no be waa luductd to enter tbe poor iioubtj. He is 52 yeaia old, and baa oulloreJ greally from rheuniatiuuj. During toe iutttrview he said: "California ) tlie ouly BtiUe worth Jiviug in, and I'm goiDg there again, yuii bet. I struck there in 'IU, resb from Ober-lio Ober-lio college. I muat have been rather a wild youngster. I, with thirty other young IcIIowb, nailed lor the Facitic coant on the bark Lanark, in Jaouary, 184y. We were nearly Bhipwreckud several times, and were lorced to put into Rio Janeiro to refit. We found that several other ships io dietruaa had put ioto that port, and the town waa full ol young Yankeea. Dom Pedro Uwi list been crowned, and those being tilibualer tiuiee government conceived the notion that the young-Hern mid a hotitilo purpose. An edict forDidding Htrangera to carry even pocket knivea reaulted in the arreat ot many of our fellows, although all got ofl an aoou as iheir ehip3 were ready to sail. Wheu we reached Ban I'raucijco, alter eix months, we fouud it a mere collection olahautitB. I started for tbe diggings, but found when I got as far as Sacramento Sacra-mento that i could make $50 a night tiddliug, bo 1 atopped to take that in. ti,o fliuro w nnt an larpe aa it sounds. Tolerable board cost $100 per week, and other expomea were m proportion. I apent nearly year in baoramento. During tbe autumn cholera broke out among the half starving emigrants who had crotBed the plains, and they died oh" like sheep. I waa one of a committee of citizens who caied tor the sick and buried the dead, who numbered 1 eighty io one day. In 1850 1 wml lo Stockton and became director t. f the Corinthian theatre. Money just flowed in, and after four months there L went back lo San Franciaco quite a capitalist. I took a ahare in and became musical director of Pell Brothera'circtia. Nicholas aud Peoples, since big men in the circus business, were bareback riders. There were loo many partnera in the concern to make a big divide, so I went next to Sierra county, where the placer diggings dig-gings were then paying big. I hud a notion that Dowmeville, Sierra county was going to make a big . city And 1 had my accumulations swept away Jour times in fires there. Three ir leur limes during Ibe niue yearn that I was in Downieville I wan worth from $30,000 to $50,000 nut lost il every time that way. In I860 I fought the Indians at what is uow Virginia city, and was wouuded four times. Afterwards I bought out the Sierra Democrat, and cotr.ucitfd it several yeara. The paper gave me political influence, and iu 1862 L was made enrolling cioik uf the stale aenate. I was reappointed to that position in 1S61, but ilmi year trie lourtn nreuevaaiaitu.uuhiJitviiiH, swept away my paper and about everything every-thing dse I had. After my mistur-mne mistur-mne I was made deputy recorder ol Dowuieville, and might huvo ;held ttw-L-ar oLhsr .paiiticiii p'wiiion, aa long aB I cboao had not the trouble over my lather's will called mu t.-jst. I knew Dave Broderick inliumttly and sided with him when he made a aplit in tbe democratic party. I was .iway at the diggings when the en counter took place. If 1 hud Oeen near enough to coach him, I have always fell that tho duel would have resulted dihYrently. Seualors Sharuu, Jones and Stewart, Flood, O'Brien and many of the prominent Pacific coaat men, I know more or lets miinirttely. If I get aoiong tbetn apain I know that I'm youtig enough aud energetic enough lo wipe out the remembrance of these, . eaid lie, pjint-ing pjint-ing sadly at his pauper uniform. |