others forestall them. Where were the diggings of these Ohioans?

Early in the spring of this year, three Mexicans had struck it rich on Vanfleet creek, a little stream near to, and running parallel with Antoine creek. Between these two streams James Williams kept a store, where the lucky miners made deposits for safe- keeping. Williams, wishing to retire, notified all per- sons to romove their deposits. With the rest, the Mexicans came and took away their gold, which by this time amounted to seventy-five pounds in weight. Greedy eyes watched them as they went, and murder- ous feet followed them.

In the last party that set out from Antoine creek in search of the Ohio digghigs was James W. Mar- shall. They had spent over a fortnight climbing rug- ged mountains, and stumbling through dark ravines; their food was almost gone, and they had turned their faces homeward, when, by an abrupt bend in the aboriginal trail which they had found, they entered a cool, grassy glen. So shaded was it, and so suddenly went they into it from the sunhght, that at first they did not see the horrors it contained — here a ghastly skeleton with a round hole in the skull ; there another with a bullet through the heart ; yonder a third whose feet had cauo;ht in the vines as the swift messenjj-er of death had overtaken him from behind. The car- cases of four horses, their packs and saddles unre- moved, were found near by. One after another of these dismal objects Marshall's observant eye took in; then after a moment's pause, while a dark cloud gathered about his brow, he said, Boys, we have found the Ohio dio-Qjingrs  !"

Upon the discovery of gold within the domain re- cently acquired, the question arose, Shall foreigners be allowed equal privileges with American citizens in abstracting the precious metal  ?

It should be borne in mind that both the Spanish