Show 1 I 11 mil it lie N new orl orleans orla a picayune the isthmus boll discoveries 01 0 1 to taic Hig glus an all IS 18 1853 1859 our gold excitement still continues since my last llavina and merritt two gentlemen v u ho went down to have returned turned le and confirm the previous accounts that laige amounts osgold of gold have been taken eakett out of 11 las huit cales 11 mr hawes thinks not less thin than one cemetery of forty acres in extent has hag been completely dug out arid and the few people who ho are able to stand staid the continual rains ot of this season are hopeni opening n new graves in other localities u here they nag fi find 01 gold ol but how rich these other oher places may I 1 be e I 1 is yet unknown and will be until december ce he evidences are plentiful that exist in in all the district of Ch iriqui a and d even from it towards COX coata fanea rica and southward to veraguas Ver aguas there are riot not more than persons who reside out of the district at present in the gold region and rd mr air hawes echoes his bis advice for none to come into it until the rainy season is over mr ff brings several pounds of beautiful agod od images and a plentiful amount of potte ry yv ases vases ac in which it appears the aborigines placed chica and other fluids as well as eata eatables b es tor for the dead on their journey to the new hunting fields in in ebeo the other th er world there is no evidence in the appearance of the he cemetery that has been exhausted that it t contained the bodies of the kings or chiefs but ut it is generally believed by the best informed who v ho have examined it that it was simply a common burial ground of an aboriginal village nearer the mountains some larger arger vaults have been opened but no gold ila las let t been taken froni from them as the diggers are are believed eli evea not to have gone deep enough as yet many are sanguine that they will ill find tile the cemetery of the kings when they expect rich times the graves are all running from north to south sometimes a single one and sometimes four or five together as in our cemeteries s in the little graves little images for children are found and the tha large ones only in full I 1 length eng th graves gaves and generally in those which are made ma e into a sort of vault by flat stones set on the edges and round stones piled against them the vases are of earth baked in the sun or by fire some gome of them handsomely pointed and some with legs lega split open as it were into which earthen balls have been ingeniously placed and then partly closed so eo that the balls can be seen and rattled ra the gold images have also many of them belle bella in the eyes ears and legs ac mr hawes saw one human figure of fin fine gold weighing three pounds wm win owney of southampton county va died a few days since aged years and 5 months ile he was engaged at the battle of brandywine Brandy vine and also it at petersburg va when he arnold paid that town own a visit the old soldier had bad never taken medicine in bis big ife if a |