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Satting.--A new and unprecedented scheme of knaYery has been invented in the gold regions of the South. which bears of the palm of triekery from the far famed vendors of horn gun fints and wooden nutmegs. 1t consists in sprlnk- ling jodIciously a few penny weights of gold in places which have aHother signs containing the precious metal. except the gold itself. When the lucky spot is pointed out to the gold hunter, and II is .spanaed,' as the term goes. par tieles of gold salted in q proper way, of eourse are discovered, and the iaild t bid for accordingly. i gentleman rot long since bid several hundred dollars for il small tract, and after putting twelve hands 10 work for thirty dafs. extracted about ttirteen dellars worth. being. we suppose, about as much as the seller of the land thought necessary for bait. It being impossible to prove the deception, there is no remedy, but to be less free h tasting the 'ssaltn of the earth.