This, by "Percy Vere," is considered one of the best and most correct of anagrams. The answer is, "The discovery of gold in California by Marshall." This author is also the writer of the following:
O! all in ban. March!
Answer: Abraham Lincoln.
Sirs, 'tis alone.
Answer: Solitariness.
The following two are so good that I am sure my readers will excuse me for the additional time I take from their play to present them. They are both by the same author, a gentleman of Ohio:
Often noisy I when I enable aching wives to hem.
Answer: Invention of the sewing-machine by Elias Howe.
Pooh! we can find ten errors; they never hit.
Answer: The weather predictions of Henry Vennor.