“As with _lotteries_, the _few_ who draw large prizes become subjects of conversation; but nothing is heard of the _many_ who draw blanks, or prizes too small to pay the cost of the tickets. * * * “Divesting the newspaper accounts from California of certain expressions bordering rather too much upon the hyperbolic order, they amount to the fact that the outcrops of certain veins”--of gold-bearing quartz--“have been removed. Such expressions might have materially increased _the fever_ but for the frequency of similar causes, which at length but slightly affect the body politic, because, like the body corporate in certain cases, it is becoming _acclimated_. Some of the expressions alluded to, and copied from California papers into our own, about ‘_gold-bearing quartz said to be found in inexhaustible masses or quarries through the whole mountainous region which forms the western slope of the Sierra Nevada_,’ and ‘_these quartz mountain quarries_, and divers others, are indicative of a state of aurimania. Accounts are also given of the yield of gold said to be averages of these great _gold_ ‘_quarries_.’ That the specimens from which the gold was extracted contained the stated proportions is most likely, but that is a very different affair from the _average_ rate of productions of a vein.” THE END. * * * * * LIGHT READING FOR TRAVELERS, PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, 82 CLIFF STREET, N. Y. Harper’s Library of Select Novels. No. 1. PELHAM. By Bulwer. 25 cents. 2. THE DISOWNED. By Bulwer. 25 cents. 3. DEVEREUX. By Bulwer. 25 cents. 4. PAUL CLIFFORD. By Bulwer. 25 cents. 5. EUGENE ARAM. By Bulwer. 25 cents. 6. THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII. By Bulwer. 25 cents. 7. THE CZARINA. By Mrs. Hofland. 25 cents. 8. RIENZI. By Bulwer. 25 cents. 9. SELF-DEVOTION. By Miss Campbell. 25 cents. 10. THE NABOB AT HOME. 25 cents. 11. ERNEST MALTRAVERS. By Sir E. Bulwer Lytton. 25 cents. 12. ALICE, OR THE MYSTERIES. By Sir E. Bulwer Lytton. 25 cents. 13. THE LAST OF THE BARONS. By Sir E. Bulwer Lytton. 25 cents. 14. FOREST DAYS. By James. 12½ cents. 15. ADAM BROWN, the Merchant. By Horace Smith. 12½ cents. 16. THE PILGRIMS OF THE RHINE. By Sir E. Bulwer Lytton. 12½ cents. 17. THE HOME. By Miss Bremer. 12½ cents. 18. THE LOST SHIP. By Capt. Neale. 25 cts. 19. THE FALSE HEIR. By James. 12½ cts. 20. THE NEIGHBORS. By Miss Fredrika Bremer. 12½ cents. 21. NINA. By Miss Bremer. 12½ cents. 22. THE PRESIDENT’S DAUGHTERS. By Miss Fredrika Bremer. 12½ cents. 23. THE BANKER’S WIFE. By Mrs. Gore. 12½ cents. 24. THE BIRTHRIGHT. By Mrs. Gore. 12½ cents. 25. NEW SKETCHES OF EVERY-DAY LIFE. By Miss Bremer. 12½ cents. 26. ARABELLA STUART. By G. P. R. James, Esq. 12½ cents. 27. THE GRUMBLER. By Miss Ellen Pickering. 12½ cents. 28. THE UNLOVED ONE. By Mrs. Hofland. 12½ cents. 29. JACK OF THE MILL. By William Howitt. 12½ cents. 30. THE HERETIC. By Lajetchnikoff. 12½ cents. 31. THE JEW. By Spindler. 12½ cents.